Episodes

Send us Fan Mail Hi everyone, Its been a few weeks since I've released an episode, I've been soo busy behind the scenes, and life is beautiful and full. This is a little personal episode from me, recorded on a sunday evening fresh from a lovely sauna by the lake with a friend, and still buzzing from our beautiful community Kirtan last night. Its a few thoughts about turning 45, about beauty in lifes everyday moments, about home, about devotion. Its a gentle sunday evening muse on life. As awa...

Send us Fan Mail I am so happy to have recently connected with Caroline on a business course we are both enrolled in. Caroline has a gentle yet strong presence and is an Adaptive and Restorative Yoga Teacher, a Physical Therapist Assistant and a Thai Massage Therapist. She specialises in working with people with severe disabilities such as quadraplegics, people recovering from strokes and seniors with mobility issues. Caroline uses a blend of all of her trainings to help make yoga acessible f...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I get a little spicy, contentious even. This one is all about were we can begin to take radical responsibility for how we live, the energy we bring, the interactions we have, the choices we make. You might not like what I have to say, but its true-in the end it starts and finishes with us. I hope you enjoy the episode. If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you. Please feel fr...

Send us Fan Mail This is one of my top converstaions so far. Tamara aka Cuchira is a one of a kind person who's work is so original and so NEEDED at this time. Our conversation begins with her childhood as an olympic gymnast, her career as a professional dancer and choreographer working with the likes of Madonna, to what she really values the most which is her work helping bring people back to the core of who they really are as human beings. We talk about life and death and her husbands...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I'm sharing with you my top yoga books. These are the books I come back and refer to, time and time again. Books that enlighten me, comfort me, inspire me, make me think and stir my soul. These are the main books that have helped me along the path find deeper meaning and understanding, although it was super difficult to choose just these alone! There are so many more I could recommend, but then Id be here for hours! Here are the titles: The Yoga Sutras of Pata...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I am taking a pause to celebrate 3o episodes and 3 seasons of be Still & Notice. Its a great acheivement and we're gonna keep going. I talk about how far weve come, subjects weve explored, and some of the topics that are top of my mind right now, my current read on plant consciousness, my yoga programme, and whats coming next on the podcast. Thank you for being here, you make it possible, I so appreciate you. I hope you enjoy. In the episode I mention this...

Send us Fan Mail In this epiosde Im talking about why we shouldnt out our yoga mentors and teachers on pedestals, the importance of critical thinking and individuation, and how we often need to umlearn what weve learned to really embody that knowledge. For students and teachers alike. I hope you enjoy :) If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you. Please feel free to message me on Instagram or email me here: ...

Send us Fan Mail Hi everyone, I hope youre all well. This is a candid and personal episode where I explain why I've been taking a bit of an unintended pause recently. I thank you for your support and understanding as always. With love, Helen xxx If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you. Please feel free to message me on Instagram or email me here: info@shraddhayayoga.co.uk You can follow me on Instagram her...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I get to have a lovely chat with my friend, and incredible yoga teacher Vic Quilliam. Vic lives in Spain with her husband and toddler and she is a Yin, Hatha Vinyasa, Pregnancy and Post Natal and Yoga Nidra teacher. Our converstaion flows around these different practices, embracing femininity and how becoming a Mum changed Vic's practice and teaching completely. This one is for all you Mums out there. I hope you enjoy. In this epiosde we reference an incredibl...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I first have to apologise as I get on my soapbox and a little fired up talking about this. This episode might resonate more with the women in this audience but its definitely for the guys too. I talk about how yoga in the west has been seriously sexualised, through fashion, pop-culture, branding and marketing, morphing it into something with far less than the respect and gravitas it deserves. I also talk about how vital it is more than EVER for us all to be st...

Send us Fan Mail In this epiosde I'm exploring how yoga practices can help us feel both psychologically and somatically "safe." I explore some of my own personal experiences such as realising that I had been anxious my entire life at 40, and how yoga has been and continues to be a powerful tool for learning to feel safe in your own body, and mind and how to hold yourself in love. If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to ...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I'm talking about Burnout-physical, emotional and mental. At the moment I'm seeing a lot of it around me and its becoming more and more common in our crazy, over busy digital age. I talk through simple things you can look at to help you combat and prevent burnout, including of course lots of lovely yoga. If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you. Please feel free to mes...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I get to have a lovely conversation with my friend and Ayurvedic Doctor Garima Pandey, all about Ayurveda and functional medicine and how a blend of the two is such a powerful combination in terms of holistic health. Garima was recommended to me by a friend on my first trip to India in 2020. I was struggling hard in an abusive relationship and my IBS on that trip hit new levels of debilitation and left me curled up in severe pain in my hotel room with fr...

Send us Fan Mail Hi everyone, in this episode I share my musings around the brilliant 2022 Michelle Yeoh film: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. It ties in so beautifully with the yogic concepts of self, ego, buddhi and divine love, and brilliantly and weirdly! shows how we can all be trapped by our limiting thoughts, behaviours and self concepts, and how if we are not careful this can turn to darkness. Our power for expansion if we choose to walk towards increasing self awareness and heal...

Send us Fan Mail This is the final installment in the amazing conversation I had with one of my teachers the lovely Katja Patel. In this last part we look at the final three limbs: Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. These final 4 limbs (incluidng Pratyahara) are all concerned with the mind and stages of meditation withinn your practice. They guide us in how to train the mind to focus, develop our meditation practice and elevate our consciousness to help us move towards Samadhi- oneness, union, enli...

Send us Fan Mail In this second part of my lovely conversation with Katja, we continue looking at the Eight Limbs of Yoga. We continue to discuss our interpretations of what they mean and how we can apply them to our practice and modern, everyday life. We begin our conversation with a brief look at Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, and I reference my copy which is translated and commentaried by Swami Satchidananda. Please see the link below. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yoga-Sutras-Patanjali-Swami-S...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I'm joined again by my lovely Yoga teacher Katja Patel to begin exploring The Eight Limbs of Yoga. We thought we might be able to summarise each of the limbs within one episode but we definitely bit off more than we could chew here, and once we got going we found ourselves diving deeply into the many layers, meanings, practical applications and interpretations of each of the limbs. The Eight Limbs were recorded in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras as a systematise...

Send us Fan Mail In this sensitive epiosde I talk about a subject that I feel is still pretty taboo in our western culture. With or without the framework of religion, many people in our society are afraid to talk about death and will go out of their way to avoid it. Whilst other cultures around the world openly accept death as an integral part of lifes miraculous cycle, and in so doing create more community and support for those that are dying and grieving. I talk all around this issues and e...

Send us Fan Mail Having just been on a recent Shamanic retreat, and thinking about what that really means to go on retreat, I spend this episode exploring what a retreat is and what it can offer us in terms of experience and introspection, community and self expression. I also ask the question: "Do we really need to spend thousands of pounds flying half way around the world to retreat or can we create an effective retreat space right here at home?" I hope you enjoy. If you have any comments, ...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I look at one of the 8 limbs or integral parts of a yoga practice that is often overlooked: The Yamas and Niyamas. These beautiful codes of conduct were talked about by Patanjali some 5 or 6 thousand years ago and are as relevant today as they have ever been. I love how practical and accessible they are and how all of us can start implementing them straight away. They really are a beautiful code to live by and become a better human being. I reference my favour...

Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone, Im super happy to be back with a new season of the podcast. Today Im talking about how ego and ambition can show up for all of us in our practice and how to move away from the ego towards a practice of self acceptance, self love and surrender. This of course is not easy and I talk about how, with time, yoga can really begin to highlight for each of us the nature of our own internal negative narratives and how we can begin to change these through the prac...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I give a little bit of a personal update, and talk a bit about the importance of rest and stillness for integration. This is so important not only for the physical but for the mental and emotional bodies aswell. I talk about the culture of "busy-ness" that we have in the UK and how in my career as a make up artist being exhausted was a toxic badge of honour. I hereby give you permission to be still and take rest my friends! Its vitally important for us t...

Send us Fan Mail In this lovely first conversation with my amazing yoga teacher trainer Katja, we talk about what bought Katja onto the yogic path, being human as a yoga teacher, religion versus spirituality, discipline in our yoga practice and how trust and faith in the practice and process is a vital part of the journey. We also talk about how we are sent the right teachers at the right time, how self-doubt, a lack of self-worth and inertia can limit us all, and how we can use the pra...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I dive into the basics of how the nervous sytsem works in the body. I explain how the fight or flight stress response works and why its there, and how it is an essential part of our bodies innate ancient wisdom and survival system. I look at how when this system is switched on too much, and the body is in a chronic state of stress it can become disastrously detrimental to your health. I also talk about how the opposing parasympathetic or rest and digest sytste...