The Vajrasati Yoga Podcast

The Vajrasati Yoga Podcast - Ep 12 Thinking about thinking - with Jim, Khadine, Jeremy & Sophie Download

The Vajrasati Yoga Podcast - Ep 11: If you can do a handstand, does that mean you're happy? Download

Whose Yoga Is It Anyway? is an honest and nuanced conversation between Sophie Allen and Shazia Ginai, centring Shazia’s personal experience of practising and teaching yoga as a woman of Pakistani heritage. Together they explore what it means to move through predominantly white yoga spaces as a brown person, and how culture, lineage, and power quietly shape who feels they belong. Shazia reflects on identity, visibility, and the emotional labour of navigating yoga worlds that weren’t built with her in mind. The episode questions easy narratives of universality and “yoga for everyone,” inviting deeper listening and accountability. It’s a grounded, personal reflection on reclaiming space, voice, and agency within modern yoga.

The Vajrasati Yoga PodcastA space for yoga practitioners to explore their honest journey through yoga, its practices, and its deeper implications.Special Edition EpisodeIn this episode, Jim Tarran and Khadine Morcom sit down with Tiffany Mendel to explore her personal journey into yoga, her transition into somatic therapies, and her deep understanding of what Yoga Therapy truly means.Topics discussed include:Tiffany’s introduction to yogaHow somatic therapies informed her pathThe essence and depth of Yoga TherapyThe integration of body, mind, and presence in healingLearn more about Tiffany’s work:https://www.sacredstory.co.uk/about-tiffany Enjoying the podcast?Subscribe, leave us a review, or share this episode with your yoga community.

The Vajrasati Yoga Podcast Ep 8 - Cults and Communities with Natasha Dahlberg Sophie Allen Download

The Vajrasati Yoga Podcast - Ep 7 Impostor syndrome with Sarah Pailthorpe Sophie Allen Download Permalink

The Vajrasati Podcast - Ep 6. Online yoga - with Jo Shaw, Leo Taylor & Donna Raftery Sophie Allen Download

Sophie Allen interviews fellow teacher Zoe Witchell about her relationship with substance abuse, how she first discovered yoga, and offers insights to how we as yoga teachers may be able to make inclusive spaces for people in addiction and/or recovery.

The Vajrasati Yoga Podcast - Ep 4 Patanjali with Pablo Wilson Sophie Allen Download By en:Rpba - en:Image:Patanjali.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3225694

In this episode, I am joined by Vajrasati Yoga founder Jim Tarran, Senior teacher Khadine Morcom, and recent graduate of the school Jeremy Arnold. We delve in to discussing why and how social media effects us in the yoga tradition, what the point is of posting/consuming the images and posts, and how we might approach social media as a tool for teaching.