That Yoga Woman's Podcast

Hello and welcome to Episode 29 of That Yoga Woman’s Podcast. A podcast where yogis, yoga teachers and studio owners share stories of their lives on and off the mat.  I’m Jules Buchanan, a yoga teacher and your host.  This week I’m talking to Peter Eyre. Peter is another of my guests based in the north east - in fact I need to share that I actually work for him at the new Hotpod he’s set up ...

Hello and welcome to Episode 28 of That Yoga Woman’s Podcast. A podcast where yogis, yoga teachers and studio owners share stories of their lives on and off the mat.  I’m Jules Buchanan, a yoga teacher and your host.  This week I’m talking to Sidonie Graham. Sidonie (or Sid as she is known) is born and raised in my new neck of the woods in the North East. We met through working together at o...

Hello and welcome to Episode 27 of That Yoga Woman’s Podcast. A podcast where yogis, yoga teachers and studio owners share stories of their lives on and off the mat.  I’m Jules Buchanan, a yoga teacher and your host.  This week I’m talking to Kirsty Elliot. Kirsty is based down in Dorset and is founder of The Yoga Within. She runs weekly classes in local villages…places like Berwick St John,...

Hello and welcome to Episode 26 of That Yoga Woman’s Podcast. A podcast where yogis, yoga teachers and studio owners share stories of their lives on and off the mat.  I’m Jules Buchanan, a yoga teacher and your host.  So, episode 26! I just want to say before I introduce this my guest that that’s a year of podcasting!Thank you so much to all of my interviewees and of course to you guys for li...

This week I’m talking to Chelsea Haden. Chelsea’s handle (if that’s the right word) on Insta is loving life in wellies and it looks like that’s certainly what she’s doing! Scrolling through her insta there’s loads I want to ask her about…her gorgeous SUPing Labrador for starters. There’s lots of walking, woods, water and of course yoga, all in the fantastic backdrop of the Welsh wilds of north...

This week I’m talking to Caron Lindley. Caron is based in Crick in Northamptonshire and is the founder of Red Hat Yoga and Wellbeing which she started in 2014. (I’ll definitely be finding out where the red hat comes from, don’t worry!)  She’s been teaching 5 classes a week as well as one to ones, hosting courses, events and retreats before the pandemic so I’ll find out whether she has continu...

This week I’m talking to Rachel Wilkinson. Rachel Wilkinson is based down in Dorset and discovered yoga in 2008. In her LBY (Life Before Yoga), she used mental health services for support with her addition to alcohol and drugs. Rachel was introduced to using yoga and talking therapy to aid her recovery (and to help with the grief of losing her Mum). I want to warn you at this point that this i...

This week I’m talking to Rosie Lawson. I was actually introduced to Rosie from a previous interviewee from the podcast, Eva Paterson from Episode 9, so I’m looking forwards to getting to know Rosie during this conversation. She works with Eva and teaches at her studio space, Choose You Yoga and Wellness Hub, in Livingston, Scotland. As well as teaching yoga, Rosie is a coach and has a women’s ...

This week I’m talking to Melissa Campbell. Melissa is based in and around Luton offering classes that fuse together mindful movement influenced by yoga, somatics, and qigong. She also teaches mudra-based meditation, mindfulness, self-care journaling, and culinary nutrition offering her clients a holistic approach for self-care and women’s wellness.  Melissa, like many of us, has taken this pe...

This week I’m talking to Sophie Rey. Sophie is a Birmingham based yoga teacher and illustrator balancing teaching yoga with creating beautiful pieces of art. She especially loves children’s illustration and is really passionate about sharing and creating art for people, as well as helping them to find their own creative expression. I’ll ask Sophie how she does this, (even in the most creativel...

This week I’m talking to Kevin Flee - @diaryofachubbyyogi. Kevin is a yoga teacher based in south east London and as his social handles suggest (I think there’s a love handle joke in there somewhere), Kevin is a larger chap, who is intent on promoting yoga for every body…that is, every one with a body!  Like a few of my other guests Kevin found yoga through being introduced to it by his sport...

This week I’m talking to Anja Torikka. Anja is a Finnish yoga teacher and a creative who now lives in the heart of the welsh countryside. Her businesses are Anja Yoga and Blue Van Lady so as well as teaching yoga, Anja can be found creating things like beautiful journals, pretty eye pillows and fairies…yes, fairies! Growing up in Finland, Anja was always fascinated by spirits in the forests so...

This week I’m talking to Fredee Sardais. Fredee is the founder of Yogi Fredee, is based in Marlow in Buckinghamshire and has been teaching yoga for nearly 20 years. In 2000 she travelled to Australia to complete a 500 Yoga Alliance course and would describe her style as classical Hatha yoga. Fredee went on to study pregnancy and post-natal yoga as well as yoga therapy. In 2012 and 2013 she stu...

This week I’m talking to Amanda Bunton. Amanda is owner of Wild and Free Adventures, a surf and yoga retreat company which runs a variety of yoga based retreats in the UK and abroad. She’s now based in Devon, so on the doorstep of some of the UK’s best surfing, but that certainly wasn’t always the case. In fact, until 2 years ago, Amanda was 5 hours travel from her nearest seaside! We’ll find ...

This week I’m talking to Sarah Holt. Sara is founder of Sarenity Yoga and is based in High Leigh, Lymm and surrounds. She’s been a qualified yoga teacher for 3 years and here’s a little confession…like Emma Manning and Kristina Rhianoff, Sarah and I also did our 200 hour TT together. I haven’t seen her since so I’m keen to catch up with what she’s been doing and how she is managing with being ...

This week I’m talking to Deborah Hill. This is a special podcast as Deborah joins me from the Namkhan Eco Lodge in Luang Prabang in Laos where she is teaching yoga and hosting yoga retreats. (Have a laugh at me pronouncing that one!) Yes, all of this in the middle of a global pandemic!  So, how on earth did she (a fellow Midlander) get there, and more to the point…why? Well, if we rewind a bi...

This week I’m talking to Emma Manning.  Emma is a yoga teacher based in Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey. Immediately after she qualified 3 years ago Em went all out to establish herself as a yoga teacher in her local community. She very quickly found a venue, had started to advertise and set her own classes up, regularly selling out spots. This was quickly followed by securing regular teaching ...

This week I’m talking to Jamie Tyler. Yes, I’m welcoming our first male yoga teacher to the podcast! Jamie teaches different styles of yoga (hot, hatha, vinyasa, rocket and wheel to name a few!) at a number of yoga studios across Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire and lives in a village with his wife, his little girl and baby boy.  He’s relatively newly qualified as a yoga teacher (2 years) but...

This week I’m talking to Paula Tenwick. Paula is a yoga teacher based in Leicester. She teaches Sun Power, Yin, Hot and Pregnancy yoga as well as pop dance sessions in her community at different local studios as well as at local village halls. Her instagram profile describes her as coffee drinking, gin-loving, swears too much and proof it’s never too late…she’s definitely a character! Paula i...

This week I’m talking to Lex Balladon. Lex is a professional wakeboarder having been ranked in the top six female wake boarders in the UK for the duration of her competitive career, and was also crowned the Masters National Champion in 2017. She’s a BWSW (British Water Ski and Wakeboard) Level 3 Wakeboard Coach who coaches privately but has also worked with the BWSW, coaching the GB Squad on t...

This week I’m talking to Eva Paterson. Eva owns the Choose You yoga studio and wellness hub in Livingston, Scotland and in this podcast episode we kick off talking about Eva’s route into teaching yoga (she qualified first as a children’s yoga teacher, then travelled to India to gain her Sivananda teacher training certificate and then qualified as an IYENGAR teacher in October 2016). After bec...

This week I’m talking to Indira Das Gupta. Indira has been teaching yoga for 14 years, is a senior yoga teacher and studio owner based in north London. She was born in London to a Polish Mum and an Indian Dad so is of mixed race heritage. She tells us the story of how her parents met (which is such a chance meeting!), what her childhood was like and her experiences of going to a Catholic Gramm...

This week I’m talking to Julia Hankins. Julia is a fellow Brummie and yoga teacher specialising in delivering yoga and wellbeing classes and courses to children, parents and teachers. As well as being a mum of two, Julia’s an ex-primary school teacher so we talk about how she became a teacher, her wide ranging experiences of teaching in different schools, the highs as well as the lows and what...

This week I’m talking to Christine Blair. So, brace yourselves, this is a long (and fiesty) one…would you expect anything less? If you know Christine you’ll know she has a strong voice so it’s not surprising we cover a lot of ground in this podcast. Christine, a yoga teacher based in Milton Keynes, talks candidly about finding her true passion and turning it into, not only a job, but a lifesty...

This week I’m talking to Kristina Rihanoff. Kristina has had such a full career already and in this conversation I think you get a real insight into her life and work - a little peek behind the celebrity personality, famous for her appearances on Strictly Come Dancing. She speaks openly about her childhood in Russia, her love of dancing (as you’d expect!), but also her deep rooted passion for ...

This week I’m talking to Zoe Rowe. I loved having this conversation with my friend and fellow yoga teacher Zoe. I think she’s taken an unusual route, qualifying as a teacher, working full time at a yoga studio after completing her PhD, then reducing her teaching hours as she embarked on her corporate career. It’s also so interesting to hear about Zoe’s move to London, how she found the competi...

This week I’m talking to Alecs Donovan. I’m really excited to share with you my conversation with Alecs. She is a Swansea born Osprey’s centre and Welsh rugby international and of course, she’s a yoga teacher! I talk to Alecs about her rugby career and the injury that led her to yoga, why she’s established her own style of practice (“Yogability”), her love of coffee and how she’s managing to f...

This week I’m talking to Dawn Wright. Dawn is a senior yoga teacher, based in rural Northamptonshire and works across the UK and abroad teaching, hosting retreats and teacher training. I chat to her about her first yoga class (very wierd), being a “yoga geek” (her words) and how she has become an established yoga business mentor supporting teachers and creating a community. She, like every gue...

This week I’m talking to Aimee Garcia Marshall.  Aimee is a friend and fellow yoga teacher based in Pinner, North London. I chat to Aimee about all sorts of things; her life before yoga, how she started teaching, challenges she has faced setting up her own studio, what it was like to be on the cover of Om Yoga magazine as well as how she’s been coping during the pandemic. She, like every guest...