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Finding Harmony Podcast Episodes

July 9, 2023

When Love Beckons You with Delara Tiv

"Come, come, whoever you are, a pagan, an idol worshiper or an infidel. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come." - Rumi Delara Tiv grew up with Sufi traditions throug…
July 1, 2023

Waiting For Grace with Nina Rao

It is with great pleasure that we introduce our esteemed and most honorable guest: the beautiful, humble, and one might say, divinely inspired human, Nina Rao! What Nina enchants us with is an opportunity to reflect more dee…
June 25, 2023

All of You is Welcome

Spiritual practice is about welcoming all of you. It's touching life exactly where life is touching you. It is allowing everything and everyone to be exactly as they are in this moment, without trying to change or manipulate…
June 18, 2023

¡Hala Madrid! ...y nada más

"¡Hala Madrid! ...y nada más" means "Go Madrid and nothing more!" During the course of this interview a smile started to slowly etch itself into our very souls. Some people are built different. Some people hide themselves aw…
June 11, 2023

Journey to Mysore Tenerife with Viviane Simon

Our guest today was born in Germany, growing up on her family’s farm in Bavaria. *side note BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke or Bavarian Auto Works... and that's where Harmony will be teaching this week, in Munich! Wh…
June 3, 2023

Being, Nothingness & Suchness with Jivana Heyman

What a beautiful podcast to kick off Pride month! This is an important month to celebrate our common humanity, diversity, and unconditional love and acceptance of one another. Jivana coined the phrase, “Accessible Yoga,” ove…
May 28, 2023

Sally Parkes Yoga School For Life

We start off this episode with a cautionary tale about what happens when you experience debilitating back pain and don’t listen to your body, but try to work through the pain. Our guest Sally Parkes, began her journey in the…
May 21, 2023

Spiritual Emergence with Dr. Emma Bragdon

We have an incredible conversation to share with you today! Introducing our new friend, the eminent Dr. Emma Bragdon. Emma has been a pioneer in body-mind-spirit wellness for 50 years. She has written 7 books and co-produced…
May 8, 2023

Lady Lucinda on Solsbury Hill

Well… we certainly didn’t expect that. We didn’t expect to be talking to Peter Gabriel’s niece. We didn’t expect her to actually be living beside Solsbury Hill. We didn’t think we’d be talking about all that much about Ben F…
April 30, 2023

Kyra Weinberger: The Burlesque Queen of Kansas City

Kyra tells us, “All good things in my life are because of my parents.” Her parents were dancers, they’re liberal, kind-hearted humans, who found Ashtanga yoga first. They brought Kyra to her first class. However, at that tim…
April 23, 2023

Life after Death with Nadia Stinga Rihani

Nadia Stinga Rihani is a mother of two, a yoga teacher (ashtanga level 2 authorised in 2014), a former gymnast, and a qualified strategic psychotherapist and clinical hypnotherapist. In 2019 Nadia was hit by a car, which lef…
April 16, 2023

Spiral Journey of Spirit

What is the spiritual path and how does it change us? This is a solo episode with some thoughts and reflections on what it means to have a spiritual practice and discipline. I offer a reading from the book: "Ritual As Remedy…
April 9, 2023

Paloma: No Woman, No Cry

“I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”— Frida Kahlo Youthfulness. What a beautiful blessing. Here we are met today by such openness to life, and all that her future has to offer,…
April 2, 2023

Anita Cunha: Vegan Chef Extraordinaire!

May the universe never abuse food. Breath is food; the body eats food, this body rests on breath. Breath rests on the body; Food is resting on food. The one who knows this becomes rich in food and great in fame." - Taittiriy…
March 26, 2023

Life and Death with Ty Landrum

Eros is the drive of life, love, creativity, and sexuality, self-satisfaction, and species preservation. Thanatos, from the Greek word for "death" is the drive of aggression, sadism, destruction, violence, and death.” - Sigm…
March 19, 2023

Rachel White’s Tapestry Of Creation

What a fun episode we have today! As many already know, I loooooove astrology, both Western and Vedic, as well as some of the more “woo-woo” esoteric studies, like Human Design. That said, my favorite personality typing tool…
March 12, 2023

Erik Jacobsen: Yoga, Philosophy, and Art

Mind–body dualism is a philosophical view which holds that mental phenomena are, at least in certain respects, not physical phenomena, meaning that the mind and the body are distinct and separable from one another. Of course…
March 11, 2023

Turning It All Upside Down with Lotta Sebzda

We have such a joyous person to share with you today! We have the Handstanding Grandma!! Surprised to find out she’s almost the same age as us tho. Weird. Seeing a lot of guys out there OUR AGE just dying off. Having hear…
Feb. 26, 2023

Honouring The Wisdom of The Divine Feminine with Mariela Cruz

It is with great pleasure that I got to sit down and connect with my dear friend Mariela Cruz. Mariela is one of those phenomenal human who’s devotion and dedication is palpable. She’s heart-centered and gifted with supreme …
Feb. 19, 2023

Connect & Protect with Marque Garaux

Halfway through this episode Russell exclaims, “Goodness, you are just a really nice, wholesome person, Marque!” And, our guest today well and truly is! You’ll find him somewhere in the woods, far away from the hustle of cit…
Feb. 12, 2023

How To Become Trauma Informed with Lara Land

Today, we’re talking about how we can best serve and hold space within our classrooms, yoga spaces, and with our clients. It’s with great joy that we welcome back our dearest friend Lara Land. Lara speaks today about some of…
Feb. 5, 2023

A Helluva Lotta Fun with Ellie Smith

Right in the middle of this episode Harmony said to Russell “We need to get to the yoga part!” He said “Everybody does the yoga part! Ellie is a Cultural Studies professor. Lets ask about that! Deconstruct Orientalism or Jap…
Jan. 29, 2023

Bella’s Little Sanctuary, Come Find Refuge

A meta critique came up in our conversation about the mythic “Hero’s Journey.” The Hero, which so often gendered male, is larger than life ( think Brad Pitt—super cut with deliciously sumptuous lips .) The Hero symbolizes an…
Jan. 22, 2023

Mara Branscombe: Ritual as Remedy

We had the sense today that we were speaking with a soul who has a transcendent sense of confidence in herself. Not in any way an arrogant sense of entitlement, nor in a narcissistic way. But, someone who has the confidence…