Episodes
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In this episode Harriet is joined by Ashleigh Clarke, travel photographer and founder of Pallion Point. As a travel photographer, Ashleigh has managed to niche herself down into photographing luxury experiences in Australia with her partner, James. Building her career through social media, Ashleigh started her career as a yoga teacher and studio owner but moved away from the online yoga world finding herself now with multiple businesses and a change to her relationship with yoga practice.
Harriet and Ashleigh talked about finding work they enjoy, their shared time at university in Australia, and the imporance of connection.
Connect with Ashleigh:
Website: pallionpoint.com
Instagram: @ashleighbridget
TikTok: @ashleighbridgetConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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In this episode Harriet is joined by Tom McAtee, Harriet's Dad, and founder of PeopleMix. Tom is a versatile, highly experienced Human Resources leader with a real focus on planning and organising, workforce design and problem solving, and is passionate about faciliting change in businesses.
Harriet and Tom talked about valuing people’s contribution, finding balance and unionisation.
Connect with Tom:
Website: peoplemix.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.comConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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In this episode Harriet is joined by Kate Ryan, a holistic physiotherapist, clinical data scientist, and yoga therapist, based in Oxford. She started out in academia doing alternative energy research and has a PhD in Chemistry. However, she left in 2014 to retrain as a yoga teacher and later as a physio. While academia gave her some fantastic life experiences, Kate wanted a career where she was able to help people more directly and share her love of movement.
Harriet and Kate talked about scope of practice as yoga teachers, how yoga is not a complete form of exercise, and the journey we go on with practice.
Connect with Kate:
Website: kateryan.biz
Instagram: @kateryan_physioga
Facebook: @KateRyanPhysiogaConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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In this episode Harriet is joined by Carrie Reed, a yoga teacher based in beautiful Falmouth, Cornwall. She hopes to inspire students to bring their attention out of the mind and into their bodies, so they can get to know themselves a little better. She also offers bookkeeper services specifically for yoga teachers - including being Nourish's wonderful bookkeeper!
Harriet and Carrie talked about taking risks, finding ease and knowing your values as a yoga teacher.
Connect with Carrie:
Website: carrieonyoga.co.uk
Instagram: @carrie_on_yoga_Connect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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In this episode Harriet is joined by Chelsea Roff Founder and Director of Eat Breathe Thrive. Chelsea is an author, researcher, and educator, and has spent nearly a decade pioneering integrative health programs for people with mental health challenges. In 2011, Roff offered the first Yoga for Eating Disorders program to clients at a treatment center where she had once been treated for anorexia.
This later became the heart of Eat Breathe Thrive: a seven-week intervention that combines yoga, meditation, and psychoeducation to help people recover from eating disorders. Two years later, she raised $50,000 in fifty days to kickstart Eat Breathe Thrive. Since its inception, she has brought the program to scale in thirty-two U.S states and seven countries. Prior to her work in the charitable sector, Chelsea worked as a researcher and grant writer in a psychoneuroimmunology laboratory.
Her early research focused on how yoga affects the immune systems of people with HIV/AIDs and cancer. She is currently overseeing a research initiative on the Eat Breathe Thrive program, which will be the largest ever study on a yoga programme for eating disorders. This year, Chelsea took on an additional role as UK Operations Director for The Give Back Yoga Foundation.
She is currently spearheading the initiative to bring The Give Back Yoga Foundation programs to scale in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe.
Harriet and Chelsea talked about yoga for eating disorders, starting our mornings with word puzzles and practising agency.
Connect with Chelsea:
Website: www.eatbreathethrive.org
Website: givebackyoga.orgConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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In this episode Harriet is joined by Beverley Nolan. Beverley is a yoga practitioner with more than 30 year's experience of class teaching and more than 10 year's experience of teacher training and CPD/IST provision. Her practice and teaching has shifted from its origins in the Iyengar tradition to embrace an explorative approach that draws on her love and unfaltering interest in experiential anatomy, infant movement development, somatic psychology and the discipline of Authentic Movement.
She studies regularly outside the yoga tradition enjoying other movement modalities including BodyMind Centering®, Feldenkrais Method®, Continuum® and 5 Rhythms®. Her most recent studies and experiences have channeled her energies into understanding how embodiment practices including yoga can be made more accessible through integrating Trauma-Informed protocols and how they can successfully migrate into Outreach settings.
Harriet and Beverley talked about finding our way with asana, the coincidental nature of rest and performance within practice.
Connect with Beverley:
Website: beverleynolan.com
Website: barefootbodytraining.co.ukConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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In this episode Harriet is joined by Katie McNeil. Katie is a woman of many hats, based in Oxford, she is a yoga teacher, admin enthusiast and community builder with people at the heart of everything she does. Her teaching vision is to offer a space for people to practice yoga and learn together as a community.
She loves to empower students to feel comfortable to be themselves in class, the opportunity to find a sense of agency within their yoga practice, and their own set of tools they can take with them throughout their life. Outside of teaching Katie supports both Nourish Yoga Training and Every Body Studio with admin, she loves supporting businesses that are working towards similar goals as her own and gets a kick out of smoothly running systems.
Think spreadsheets and tick lists. In her personal life, she has set up a housing cooperative with a group of friends where together they foster the wider community, grow food, and share the highs and lows of life with each other.
Harriet and Katie talked about their morning routines, finding the joy in admin, becoming a yoga teacher and their shared love of baked beans.
Connect with Katie:
Website: katiemcneilyoga.org
Instagram: @katiemcneilyogaConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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Welcome to Season 3 of In Our Experience! In the first episode of this season, Harriet is joined by Katie Gordon, coach, yoga teacher, founder of Every Body Studio and parent. She has previously worked as an associate literary agent and a fiction editor in the publishing industry. She brings a corporate background to her work in creating new business models for the yoga and wellness industry.
Katie has a special interest in mental health and trauma and outside of work at the studio, she works with corporates and individuals as a coach, mindfulness practitioner and movement teacher. Her approach is collaborative and empathetic, combining evidence-based tools from yoga, mindfulness and breathwork with psychology.
Harriet and Katie talk about the joys of reading, Married at First Sight Australia, cultivating a welcome space and making friends with procrastination.
Links:
Girl A, by Abigail Dean
The Searcher,by Tana French
Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell
Here Again Now, by Okechukwu NzeluConnect with Katie:
Website : everybodystudio.co.uk
Website: helmcollective.co.uk
Instagram: @everybody_studio
Facebook: @EverybodyStudioOxfordConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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Welcome to In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga Training, a weekly podcast hosted by Harriet McAtee, founder of Nourish Yoga.
We're very excited to announce that Season 3 of In Our Experience will be released on the 3rd of May 2022. We can't wait to share with you even more amazing conversations!
In Season 3 Harriet will be speaking to Katie Gordon, Katie McNeil, Beverley Nolan, Carrie Reed, Tom McAtee, Chelsea Roff, Kate Ryan, and Ashleigh Clarke about what's nourishing them, their values, and their ideas about living well.
Each episode is around 35 minutes long. We'll provide show notes and a full transcript of each episode for you to enjoy as well. Of course, we're bring Nourish's values of inclusion, joy and being person-centred to every episode being a mixture of the silly and serious, playful and profound.
Connect with Harriet:
Website - nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram - instagram.com/nourishyogatraining
Twitter - twitter.com/nourishyogatt
Facebook - facebook.com/nourishyogatraining -
This bonus episode of In Our Experience features a Yoga Nidra with previous In Our Experience guest, Theo Wildcoft.
Theo Wildcroft is a yoga teacher, post-doctoral researcher, and Nourish Yoga Training faculty member. Theo is based in north Wiltshire working for a more sustainable relationship between our many selves, the communities that hold us, and the world that nourishes us.
Connect with Theo:
Website - wildyoga.co.uk
Instagram - @theodorawildcroftConnect with Harriet:
Website - nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram - @nourishyogatraining
Twitter - @nourishyogatt
Facebook - @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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In this episode, Harriet is joined by Sarah Leyla Puello, a recovering academic who was born in the Dominican Republic and has been living in the UK since 2003. These days, Sarah most likes to describe herself as a movement lover, a creative writer and a grace seeker. She works as a project manager, yoga teacher, teacher trainer (for Nourish!) and has recently co-started a new venture called Our Sparkle Club, a virtual space that blends together Yoga, Meditation and Creative Practices like journaling and doodling to help people find and keep their sparkle.
Sarah loves the potential for creativity, connection and support that yoga offers and she shares the practice in the belief that by giving the body the space, the breath and the time to express itself in an intentional and honest way, practitioners can begin to piece together the stories of who they have been, who they are really, and how to live better in this world.
She loves dancing, naps and the sight of palm trees moving against the breeze. Her dream is to someday publish a book, to go back to live in a country where the sun shines all year round and to turn Our Sparkle Club into a social venture that offers community to people from vulnerable backgrounds.Harriet and Sarah talked about how yoga teachers communicate, grace, and creative practice.
Connect with Sarah:
Website : sarahleyla.com
Facebook: @sarahleylayoga
Instagram: @sarahleylayogaConnect with Our Sparkle Club:
Website : oursparkleclub.com
Instagram: @oursparkleclubConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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In this episode Harriet is joined by Suzette "Sooz" Hammond, an award-winning tea educator, professional tea skills trainer, and tea contemplative and spiritual practitioner. Sooz uses they and she pronouns, and is based in Chicago, USA.
She is the founder of Being Tea - an education-focused business offering interactive online learning and a first of its kind professional teacher training program. Their teaching style centers on sensory-supportive pedagogy, addressing financial and knowledge accessibility issues, and promoting tea as a practice for spiritual connection. Sooz has nearly two decades of teaching experience, across the US and internationally.
Sooz is also a certified trauma-informed yoga and meditation teacher, and has been teaching tea meditation since 2010, bringing together two deeply therapeutic physical studies and philosophical traditions. Suzette was honored for their dedication to tea education with a World Tea Award for Best Educator.
Harriet and Sooz talked about the process of non-linear learning, how we bring together our transferable skills, and the power of practice.
Connect with Sooz:
Website : beingtea.com
Facebook: @beingtea
Instagram: @beingtea
Twitter: @beingteaConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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In this episode Harriet is joined by Sarah Walsh, an experienced mental health practitioner, specialising in working with children and families. Sarah has worked in the NHS and social care alongside children and families with complex needs supporting their mental health and relationships.
Throughout Sarah's career, she have observed the transformational impact of bringing creativity, yoga and mindfulness into spaces to promote children and young people's wellbeing. She is passionate about joining these practices with her mental health training to empower young people to thrive in life.
Harriet and Sarah chatted about the importance of seeking new experiences, the roles we inhabit in relationships and the power of good communication.
Connect with Sarah:
Website : accessiblechildrensyoga.co.ukConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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In this episode, Harriet is joined by Sheena Sood PhD, a Philadelphia-based activist, educator, sociologist, and healing justice visionary of South Asian descent and southern roots. Sheena enjoys teaching gentle vinyasa or hatha practices infused with embodied liberatory philosophy. She is also the founder of Yoga Warrior Tales, an adventure-based yoga program that teaches children mindfulness and yoga skills through educational and interactive social justice narratives.
Currently, Sheena serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Muhlenberg College in the Sociology and Anthropology department, where she teaches introductory and advanced sociology courses covering social and cultural movements. Her current research project Omwashing Yoga: Weaponized Spirituality in India, Israel and the US scrutinizes the application of yoga and mindfulness around the globe, particularly by far-right governments who use yoga to advance their colonial and ethnonationalist agendas. Rather than propagate narratives that glorify yoga’s ancient past, Sheena works to curate healing justice offerings through frameworks that recognize yoga’s oppressive layers and its liberatory potential; she envisions a futuristic yoga that centers collective freedom and embodies political action by centering humanity, all living beings, and Mother Earth.
Harriet and Sheena talk about the liberatory potential of yoga, how governments and organizations use yoga to sanitise their image, and the joy of having delicious treats to hand.
Connect with Sheena:
Website : sheenashining.com
Instagram: @yogawarriortales
Instagram: @sheena_shiningConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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In this episode, Harriet is joined by Elise Tassell. Elise is a hair stylist and yoga teacher based in Oxford, she is part of Nourish’s teaching faculty and from Spring 2022, you’ll be able to find her new home, Sun Moon & Scissors, within Every Body Studio in East Oxford.
Harriet and Elise talk about the similarities between yoga and hair dressing, living in an earth-centred way, and explored the eternal question of whether an Aries can ever chill.
Connect with Elise:
Website : sunmoonandscissors.com
Instagram: @elise.tassellConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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In this episode, Harriet is joined by Amelia Wood, a yoga teacher and academic. Her yoga teaching is inclusive, therapeutic and centre’s the student’s individual needs, includes embodied mindful movement, breath awareness and deep relaxation. She is currently a PhD candidate researching spiritual abuse in modern transnational yoga at SOAS. This project aims to centre survivor’s testimonies and is a specifically feminist endeavor.
Harriet and Amelia talk about pretending to be Kate Bush, the importance of recognising power dynamics within yoga and having a person-centered approach.
Just a small content note: in this episode we discuss in general terms abuse within yoga, but without detailing any specific instances.
We are linking to OSARCC for anyone who is seeking support around sexual abuse. OSARCC are an Oxford-based charity supporting survivors of sexual abuse, rape, domestic abuse, and harassment. They offer a free and confidential service to survivors who are dealing with the effects of sexual violence, and to anyone who is supporting them.
Links:
Child Abuse Royal Commission: childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au
The Heart of Yoga: goodreads.comConnect with Amelia:
Website : amelialwood.com
Instagram: @amelia_wood_yogaConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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Harriet is joined by James Thirlwall, founder of Animalltea and fellow boat-owner. James founded Animalltea afer his four-year-old son asked him if any of the animals in his bedtime book were left in the wild. He decided it was time to do something.
Animalltea are a UK speciality tea company that uses 100% of our net profit to fund wildlife conservation. Their teas are all pesticide-free, organic or biodynamic. Animalltea exists to protect wildlife, to support sustainable farming and to inspire a love of nature in our community - all through tea.
Harriet and James talk about the importance of values, running a social business, and obviously - tea.
Links:
Charity: sanghalodge.com
Charity: niassalion.org
Charity: lwiroprimates.orgConnect with James:
Website : animalltea.com
Instagram: @animalltea
Facebook: @animallteaConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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Harriet is joined by Barbora Sojková, a yoga teacher and academic originally from Prague in the Czech Republic. She's currently finishing her DPhil in Sanskrit at the University of Oxford with research focused on animals, plants and human-animal relationships in Vedic India. Barbora is deeply interested in nature, environmental activism, and climate crisis.
Harriet and Barbora talk about the value of a great teacher, trusting our personal experiences and the joy of being outdoors.
Links:
Book: The Dawn of Everything
Book: The Mushroom at the End of the WorldConnect with Barbora:
Instagram: @barbo_ra_yogaConnect with Harriet:
Website: nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram: @nourishyogatraining
Twitter: @nourishyogatt
Facebook: @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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Welcome to In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga Training, a weekly podcast hosted by Harriet McAtee, founder of Nourish Yoga.
We're very excitied to announce that Season 2 of In Our Experience will be released on February 1st 2022. After such a fantastic first season, we can't wait to share with you even more amazing conversations.
In each episode, our founder, Harriet, will talk to a guest about what's nourishing them, their values, and their ideas about living well. Each episode is around 35 minutes long. We'll provide show notes and a full transcript of each episode for you to enjoy as well. Of course, we're bring Nourish's values of inclusion, joy and being person-centred to every episode being a mixture of the silly and serious, playful and profound.
Connect with Harriet:
Website - nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram - instagram.com/nourishyogatraining
Twitter - twitter.com/nourishyogatt
Facebook - facebook.com/nourishyogatraining -
Get comfortable because in this bonus episode Harriet will take you on a 15-minute guided meditation.
Connect with Harriet:
Website - nourishyogatraining.com
Instagram - @nourishyogatraining
Twitter - @nourishyogatt
Facebook - @nourishyogatrainingProduced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
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