Ashtanga Dispatch Podcast

May 29 2024 80 ep. 50 mins 494
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The Ashtanga Dispatch Yoga Podcast explores the 8-limbed path of yoga through conversations and interviews with individuals who inspire and support our practice - on and off a yoga mat. Whether you are new to the practice or someone who's been practicing by years, we hope you enjoy these thoughtful and often impassioned dialogues around topics that include the teacher/student relationship, juggling practice and family life, injury and pain, aging, and lots more. This podcast is a mother/daughter collaboration with episode, produced, edited, and hosted by mum, Peg Mulqueen along with her daughter, Meghan Powell. We are clearly a very small team. If you would like to support our mission, please consider making a donation by visiting www.ashtangadispatch.com/donate. Thanks - and enjoy!

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Dr. Shyam Ranganathan: 'Going Against the Grain' of Western Colonialism

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In today's episode, Dr. Shyam Ranganathan, a scholar and teacher of Yoga Philosophy, discusses how to preserve one's autonomy through the practice and philosophy of Yoga. Learn more about Dr. Ranganathan by visiting his website at www.yogaphilosophy.com and check out his new book, Yoga -- Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action-Focused Guide to Practice. Also, we are currently accep

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The Descent of Inanna: A Journey into the Great Below

Mar 24 2024 15 mins  
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Patty Ivey: Suffering as Opportunity

Mar 20 2024 37 mins  
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Jan 17 2024 59 mins  
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Ashtanga Yoga Podcast Ep. 68: Dr. Jean Byrne || The Upside of Crisis

Nov 26 2023 56 mins  
Dr. Jean Byrne, the co-founder of The Yoga Space www.yogaspace.com.au in Perth, Australia, talks with me about changes she's made personally and within her teaching after a momentous crisis of faith -- a turning point that would help liberate her own intuition, personal power, and truth. We hope this conversation inspires more just like this. Btw, we learned about Jean through on

Yoga Podcast Ep. 67: Ty Landrum || Calling all Rule Breakers

Dec 18 2022 60 mins  
"For spiritual expats and philosophical refugees, somatic explorers, soul hunters, star gazers, rule breakers and other mystical miscreants who have had enough of the ruses of religion, and want to set down dogma..." These were the words that Ty Landrum, our guest on today's Ashtanga Dispatch Yoga Podcast, used in describing his Into the Depths course, which Meghan had the pleasur

Yoga Podcast Ep. 66: Prasad Rangnekar || Today's Yoga Teacher

Dec 02 2022 62 mins  
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Yoga Podcast Ep. 65: Lea Perfetti || Breaking the Code of Silence

Nov 12 2022 44 mins  
Meet Lea Perfetti, an Ashtanga yoga teacher I discovered on Instagram after a series of posts that were so raw and real, I knew there had to be a pretty powerful story behind. Hers is not just one woman's story, but one that many of us have lived, but often too ashamed to tell. It's a story of vulnerability and courage, of breaking open and breaking free - from cultural norms and s

Yoga Podcast Ep. 64: Mark Bint || CODA: The Heart of Listening

May 08 2022 45 mins  
Mark Bint grew up with two parents who cannot hear; Mark is known as a CODA, a child of deaf adults. And in today’s episode, Mark tells his story and how growing up in a non-hearing home taught him what it truly means to listen. Today’s transcript can be found on the website. Visit www.ashtangadispatch.com Join Peg Mulqueen and Meghan Powell in Bozeman, Montana July 31 - Aug