Stillpoints: A Podcast with Scott Johnson

Mar 07 2025 47 ep. 76 mins 56
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The Stillpoints Podcast with Scott Johnson brings insightful, inspiring and moving conversation into how contemplative practice has evolved in our modern culture. Scott talks to the many people, yoga/dharma teachers, practitioners, authors and creatives who have inspired him, as director of Stillpoint Yoga London, to see how their practices have landed in the world.

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#046 Memories of Sharath - Episode 1

Mar 07 2025 97 mins  
Memories of Sharath Jois (episode 1) | Stillpoints Podcast Join Scott Johnson on a journey through the life and legacy of Sharath Jois, one of the most influential figures in the Ashtanga Yoga community. In this special series of the Stillpoints Podcast, Scott brings together the voices of those who knew Sharath personally—his family, long-time students, and close friends—to sh

#045: Mark Williams on How We Created Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy

Sep 30 2023 76 mins  
In this wide ranging conversation Scott Johnson talks to Dr Mark Williams, professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford and director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, about mindfulness meditation and its ability to treat and prevent depression. Mark was raised in a devout Christian household, and at a young age believed his calling was with the ministry. His path ch

044: Gregor Maehle on Yoga as a Mystical Experience

Apr 23 2023 96 mins  
In this deep and rewarding conversation Scott Johnson talks to author, yoga teacher and mystic Gregor Maehle on his life as a seeker in the contemplative and spiritual traditions. Gregor shares how his childhood created the bedrock for a life of spiritual discovery, the outcome being a life embedded within the mystical limbs of yoga and contemplative practice. ___ We’d like to i

#043: Peter Levitt on How Mindfulness Is Creativity

Apr 08 2023 86 mins  
In this beautiful and enlightening conversation Scott Johnson talks to Zen teacher, poet and author Peter Levitt about his book Fingerpainting On The Moon, his life as a Soto Zen practitioner and poet and how we can all use contemplative practices to find our own unique creative process. --- We’d like to invite you to join our growing monthly Stillpoint Online Yoga community. For

#042: Waylon Lewis on The Story of Elephant Journal

Apr 01 2023 91 mins  
In this deeply inspiring and wide ranging conversation Scott talks to Waylon Lewis on his life as a buddhist and the growth of the world renowned yoga and wellness magazine, Elephant Journal. --- We’d like to invite you to join our growing monthly Stillpoint Online Yoga community. For just £20 per month you can support the podcast and every Monday evening, between 7.30pm - 8.30p

#041: David Swenson on Practicing Yoga Because You Love It

Feb 04 2023 99 mins  
In this deeply inspiring and wide ranging conversation Scott talks to David Swenson, one of the worlds foremost and well loved teachers and practitioners of Ashtanga yoga. --- We’d like to invite you to join our growing monthly Stillpoint Online Yoga community. For just £20 per month you can support the podcast and every Monday evening, between 7.30pm - 8.30pm UK time, join our

Reflections 2022 - What does it mean to live a contemplative life?

Dec 30 2022 23 mins  
Scott shares intimate moments with his guests over the year. Hear beautiful words from his conversations with Ty Landrum, Sarah Powers, Ty Powers, Nadia Gilani, Pamela Weiss, Shyam Ranganathan and Jon Yuen. You can listen to all this years episodes here. Scott also intersperses the guests words with poetry that has inspired him over the year, words that he has shared with his

#040: Jon Yuen | Freedom To Move

Dec 04 2022 71 mins  
In this light hearted, fun and inspiring conversation Scott talks to online trainer, author and entrepreneur Jon Yuen on his life as a movement educator. Jon shares how he sees movement education, how the body can be controlled through time and how we can all find our own unique freedom to move in our bodies. --- We’d like to invite you to join our growing monthly Stillpoint

#039 | Shyam Ranganathan (with Greg Nardi) - Understanding Yoga Philosophy

Nov 20 2022 102 mins  
In this deep conversation Scott Johnson is joined by his good friend Greg Nardi. They talk to Shyam Ranganathan, a field-changing researcher, scholar, author and teacher of philosophy, and an expert in the neglected traditions of Indian moral philosophy. Shyam talks about his life as a philosophy researcher, his work on decolonisation and his translation of the yoga sutra named, Pa

#038: Pamela Weiss | A Fierce Feminine Buddhism

Nov 06 2022 83 mins  
In this heart felt conversation Scott Johnson talks to Pamela Weiss, the first layperson to receive dharma transmission in the Soto Zen tradition. They talk openly about her life of Buddha dharma practice and her book, A Bigger Sky: Awakening A Fierce Feminine Buddhism. --- We’d like to invite you to join our growing monthly Stillpoint Yoga community. We teach in-person in Londo