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Mantras in the Modern Postural Yoga Studio
Jan 16, 2026
19m 12s
Starting a Personal Practice
Jan 26, 2022
1h 01m 12s
Farewell to 21 (part 2)
Dec 31, 2021
47m 01s
A Farewell to 21 (part 1)
Dec 25, 2021
56m 53s
Yoga Stories: Michael
Dec 16, 2021
58m 05s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 1/16/26 | ![]() Mantras in the Modern Postural Yoga Studio✨ | mantrasyoga+3 | Monica | Masters Degree in Yoga Studies | — | mantrasyoga studies+3 | — | 19m 12s | |
| 1/26/22 | ![]() Starting a Personal Practice | OK, so January is almost over, but that doesn't mean we cannot still develop some new habits and work on those resolutions we made at the beginning of the year! Monica tells us it only takes 21 days to develop a new habit - so why not use that power to achieve something wonderful? Our idea (and we don't claim it's original!) is to encourage you to start a personal (yoga) practice. Something simple. Something sustainable. Something you will do every day, and will see and feel a benefit from. ... | 1h 01m 12s | ||||||
| 12/31/21 | ![]() Farewell to 21 (part 2) | How quickly and dramatically can things change? In a global pandemic, the answer is "VERY"! In the last episode Monica was looking forward to Christmas in Slovakia and her birthday (and New Year) in Sicily. However, Monica is now in splendid isolation at home after testing positive before trying to take the flight to Sicily. Matt was busy preparing for a Christmas for seven family members, but in the end it was three people and one dog - everyone else at home also having caught Covid... We c... | 47m 01s | ||||||
| 12/25/21 | ![]() A Farewell to 21 (part 1) | We decided to celebrate the end of the year by listening back to the guests we had over the last year; to share the impressions we had, the lessons we learned, the beautiful stories shared. However, we were really only half way through when time was up (a booster vaccination appointment was calling!). So this is just part 1. We will talk about everyone before the year is out... (hopefully!) What have we learned? CHANGE. Everything changes, and we are certainly not the people we were at... | 56m 53s | ||||||
| 12/16/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories: Michael | Born in the US Pacific Northwest, Michael was a bookish child, not so comfortable in his body. He grew up in a loving family, but one that had no specific religious or spiritual practice. Realising he was good at school work, he decided to be really good at school. This eventually led to a full ride scholarship to University. It was while at college that he discovered dance, and took his first yoga class. Soon he was a regular at the local Bikram studio, as well as adding dance to his degree... | 58m 05s | ||||||
| 11/29/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories: Shannon | Born in South Africa, Shannon had an idyllic childhood including time at a catholic boarding school. Sensing the world was bigger than what she saw of it in her home country, she moved to London and enjoyed all the big city can offer. Along the way she became acquainted with yoga and meditation, but it wasn't until she went on a month long Buddhist meditation retreat that her life turned a corner and she set out in a different direction. Eventually she ended up working in France at a meditat... | 50m 20s | ||||||
| 10/11/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories: Tessa | Tessa is half-Belgian, half-American and is a teacher at Yyoga in Brussels. Monica and Matt chat to Tessa about when and how she discovered yoga - as a student in Florida. Tessa seems to have taken a very different course through life after her introduction to yoga than the one she had envisaged when she went to the USA to complete post-graduate studies. Tessa found yoga (or yoga found Tessa) after she had already instigated a spiritual practice. Her yoga practice helps to put her in a place... | 47m 55s | ||||||
| 9/22/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories: Tara | This episode introduces us to Tara - who studied with Monica in Mysore. Tara is based in India but has also lived in Europe. She is a student and teacher of yoga, as well as an artist and mindful cook. Tara's introduction to yoga came from two sources - a grandmother (who instilled the Yamas and Niyamas in her), and later family friends. That introduction was significant - not only did Tara start to learn yoga asanas, but her eyes were opened to the vastness of artistic expression once relea... | 55m 09s | ||||||
| 9/15/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories: September catch up with Monica and Matt | Summer is almost over - but you wouldn’t know that from Monica’s regular comment on the weather! This summer has been one of growth for both Matt and Monica. With yoga studios in Belgium allowed to reopen, and with Matt having completed a teacher training course, things have, inevitably, changed. Have we been able to embrace this change, as yogis do? As the young people would say “it’s complicated”. Or maybe it isn’t. So will Matt teach, Monica wants to know… we discuss callings, gurus, “inn... | 49m 11s | ||||||
| 8/31/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories: Klara and Sigrid | In a recording made during the heady days of summer, Monica and Matt talk to Klara and Sigrid, teacher and student at Reykjavik Yoga in Iceland. Why Iceland? We noticed that after Brussels, Reykjavik is the city in which we had the most listeners. So we wanted to meet some of them! Klara was born in the Czech Republic but has traveled the world since then. Yoga was seeping into her life from an early age with an interest in rocks and crystals and wondering what chakras were... in Ireland she... | 1h 05m 46s | ||||||
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| 6/25/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories: Shilpi | Shilpi is originally from India but now lives in New Jersey, USA, with her husband, daughter, son and enormous dog (Cosmo). Shilpi was introduced to yoga by her Dad when she was a youngster. It was a very physical practice with very little theory but she continued to practise up until moving to the USA. She has recently taken up yoga again, but perhaps this time with more emphasis on yoga's philosophy and theory. Shilpi's most common practice is the Vipassana form of meditation. And mindfuln... | 50m 47s | ||||||
| 6/5/21 | ![]() Kleshas - part 2 | In this second episode on the Kleshas, we look at Asmita - ego, and Avidya, the mother and father of all Kleshas. We spend quite some time examining our own lives to see how much we have identified with different roles - professional, family, social. Identifying too much with any of these roles - motherhood included - is going to involve some suffering at some point. We also look at the idea that egoism can be negative as well as positive - thinking you're not good enough is just as damaging... | 59m 37s | ||||||
| 5/17/21 | ![]() Kleshas: Part 1 | In this episode we begin a discussion on the Kleshas - impediments, obstacles of inflictions that inhibit our spiritual growth. We decided to discuss them backwards - starting with abhiniveśāḥ, the fear of death. And after observing that we don't talk a lot about death in our cultures, we spend a considerable time talking about death... dveṣa is aversion - or attachment to past pain. Not letting go of pain from the past can lead to a lot of unhappiness. Attachment is most ofte... | 54m 13s | ||||||
| 5/7/21 | ![]() Sanyama: Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi | We're back! In this week's episode, before talking about the last three limbs of yoga from Patanjali's sutras: Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. But before we get to concentration and meditation we have to confess that we're not going to be able to share much about Samadhi. There's a very honest discussion about "Why do we do this?" "This" being yoga rather than the podcast 😁. And why do we talk about that? Well, Matt has a confession to make. Don't worry, it's not too shocking. We discuss... | 1h 02m 02s | ||||||
| 4/23/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories Episode 12: Pratyahara | How do you talk about withdrawal of the senses? (Or indeed how do you present that in a photo?) That's how pratyahara is most often translated. The fifth limb of yoga is perhaps something that happens to you when you practice consistently, rather than a recognisable practice or tradition that you can follow. After our discussion about Prana, however, it makes more sense in that context: by making the mind the master of the "sense organs" you can learn to put them under your control, allowing ... | 54m 06s | ||||||
| 4/17/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories Episode 11: Pranayama | This week, after a week off, Matt has baked diabetic cookies for Monica. They turn out to be not so bad in the end... Our discussion focuses on Pranayama. More than breathing exercises, it's a way to expand and control Prana, the energy that animates not only us, our minds and bodies, but the whole Universe. Matt gets very excited about the reading he's been doing on Prana, from Vivekananda's lecture series. Intensifying, concentrating and controlling Prana are ways to "put more coal i... | 55m 21s | ||||||
| 4/2/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories: Daša | This week Monica and Matt chat with Daša Lakner, founder of agniyoga studios in Ljubljana, Slovenia and the teacher with whom Monica completed her first teacher training. Recently a mother for the second time, Daša manages to have an in-depth conversation with us while pushing her new-born son to a local castle to help him sleep! (This does mean you will occasionally hear the joyful sounds of children playing and birds singing.) Daša was exposed to yoga from an early age, but also was induct... | 44m 59s | ||||||
| 3/27/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories Episode 10: Asanas | Monica and Matt examine the third limb of yoga: asanas. The discussion gets perhaps more serious than one would imagine for the topic... and Oréo can be heard begging for Monica's coconut cookies! There's not much to go on in Patanjali or the Gita... so Monica turns to the Hatha Yoga Pradipika (HYP). A marvellous handbook for yoga but it only refers to sitting postures. So where do the standing asana (postures) come from? Of the modern posture styles best known in the west (Hatha, Vinyasa, ... | 55m 07s | ||||||
| 3/20/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories Episode 9: the Niyamas - part 2 | This week we continue our discussion of the Niyamas, the things yogis should be doing to bring their practice into every aspect of life. Tapas, a kind of self-discipline that helps build the fire inside that burns away impurities, is a concept familiar to many people of faith. Svadhyaya is the study of the self - reflection on your actions, characteristics, the direction you are taking and the environment in which you are living. But of course it must be done without too heavy of a cri... | 59m 08s | ||||||
| 3/12/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories Episode 8: The Niyamas - part 1 | In this episode Monica and Matt discuss the first two Niyamas - Saucha (or is it Shaucha?) and Santosha - purity and contentment. Saucha can also mean cleanliness and we discover that what comes out of people can be as "defiling" as what goes in - an idea we look at from the New Testament. We also talk about interdictions on certain foods for observant Jews as well as Muslims. Preparations to commune with the divine, including those related to Saucha can be useful to put you in the right stat... | 1h 02m 21s | ||||||
| 3/5/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories: Ashoka | This week Monica and Matt speak with Ashoka Mody, an economics professor at Princeton. Born and raised in India, Ashoka's first asana practice began between graduating from High School and going to University. The Ashram providing the classes was just opposite his school. A great believer in chance/coincidence/conjuncture, his journey led him to begin transcendental meditation and then on to study with Swami Akhandanandji in Vrindavan, the town where Lord Krishna grew up. After moving to the... | 43m 51s | ||||||
| 2/26/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories Episode 7: The Yamas, part 2 | In the second part of our chat on the Yamas, we open with an observation on body positivity and gender identity which leads us to Brachmacharya. Often translated as some kind of sexual restraint, it can also mean balance. We tackle this topic carefully, indeed "careful" is the watchword of the episode! When history is littered with religion, institutions and society seeking to repress different kinds of sexuality and control the bodies of women, how should we regard the teachings surrounding ... | 43m 40s | ||||||
| 2/20/21 | ![]() Episode 6: The Yamas, part 1 | The Yamas are a limb of the eight limbs of yoga according to Patanjali in the Yoga sutras. We talk about the eight limbs before moving onto the Yamas. Ahimsa - non-violence - is interpreted in many ways, we look at non-violence on social media and discuss vegetarianism. Has RuPaul mastered Ahimsa? Satya is truthfulness, or not lying. Should we tell the truth every time? No little white lies? And how can you be truthful while continuing to demonstrate Ahimsa? Not stealing, Asteya, seem... | 54m 22s | ||||||
| 2/12/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories Episode 5: Savasana, death and purity | Monica and Matt reflect on what they've learned from speaking to Colin and Robbie: yoga as a preparation for death and a lot of discussion about Savasana (including how to make it competitive, if that's your thing...). They discuss the commercialisation of yoga and reflect on the idea of purity in yoga practice. As we mature do we all become less certain about the important things in life and is that a good thing? Being less sure about things perhaps makes you more accepting and understanding... | 57m 39s | ||||||
| 2/5/21 | ![]() Yoga Stories: Robbie | In this episode we talk to Robbie - the other co-owner of the studio where we practice and teach. He shares with us how his spiritual practice is more than yoga and how he contemplates that "something bigger" that inspires you, whether you call it God, the Universe or something else. He thinks yoga practice should be playful, but also have some discipline. We talk about having a calling, or otherwise, and how we're all special, but we're not... Half of the job of yoga is letting go, somethin... | 56m 06s | ||||||
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