Chicagoland Yoga Teachers Podcast
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -Please enjoy a series of interviews that Paul Fowler has with Chicagoland based yoga teachers, studio owners and thought leaders. In these wide ranging conversations, we learn about what brought them to yoga, their secrets on how to build a life around teaching yoga, their connections to their teachers, as well as connecting asana to all aspects of yoga and life.
Paul has been practicing yoga, Thai massage and Buddhadharma for more than two decades. He is the owner and director of Blue Lotus Thai Healing Studies, a 200 hour immersive experience in the Thai healing arts. Currently he sees Thai bodywork clients privately, teaches Blue Lotus trainings, and has a thriving Health Coaching practice based in Functional Medicine. He has lived in Chicago his whole life and feels blessed to have met so many amazing people along the way.
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Episodes
Suddha Weixler
August 14, 2020 22:02 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBFrom his initial hippie magic bus adventure to India in the 60's to the meeting of his great teacher Swami Narayanananda to his landing in Chicago and starting one of the first yoga studios, Suddha regales us with stories of his colorful life.
Debi Buzil
July 24, 2020 18:23 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBIn this episode we speak with Debi Buzil, founder of the Kirtan musical collective known as Devi 2000 on the heels of the release of their new album called "Planet Love, Vol. 1". We talk about the album, about the tradition of Kirtan music, and about her journey with through the colorful world of this form of Bhakti yoga.
Paula Bui
July 03, 2020 17:34 - 36 minutes - 33 MB"My job is to remind people how to play!" Much of our conversation revolved around acroyoga. We get into the different styles of practice, how the practice of acroyoga is way more than a physical practice as it teaches people how to be in compassionate relationship with each other, and how acroyoga can still have a place in our lives even in the time of the corona virus.
Mia Park
June 28, 2020 16:46 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBMia Park, as it says on her website, is a multidimensional, Chicago-based artist powered by hopeful engagement through acting, teaching yoga, producing events, interviewing and volunteering. We speak in depth about her practice and teaching of yoga nidra, its history, evolution and benefits.
Sharon Steffensen
June 12, 2020 18:54 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBSharon Steffensen is the founder, publisher and editor of Yoga Chicago, a bi monthly yoga magazine that has been in circulation since it's founding in 1994. Sharon talks about what makes Chicago unique and special in the larger yoga world and how she's seen the community change and grow since beginning her personal yoga practice in the late 1960's.
Gabriel Halpern
June 05, 2020 17:51 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MB"The Dog Barks and The Caravan Passes" This is just one of the many little catch phrases that Gabriel uses to capture a sentiment, a notion, or a teaching (I had to look that one up!). Anyone who knows Gabriel or have been taught by him, knows that there are few people who can describe the complexities and nuances of yoga as clearly as thoughtfully as he can by mining mythology, tradition, history, and modern culture in such an interesting, joyful and sometimes irreverent way. In this inte...
Lourdes Paredes
May 29, 2020 22:11 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MB"I just want to live in a city where people are nice." From her Catholic upbringing on the west coast to discovering yoga in New York to her realization that Chicago is just a friendlier place to settle, Lourdes and I talk about her decision to start a health and wellness magazine in order to build community amongst wellness professionals and the people who might benefit from their gifts. In addition, we discuss the importance of her regular practice of dreaming big and how she manages and...
Quinn Kearney
May 23, 2020 00:21 - 48 minutes - 44 MBQuinn Kearney, co-owner of Yogaview in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, is one of the most popular teachers in the city. In this interview we discuss how he and Tom Quinn, the other Yogaview owner, have managed their successful partnership, we talk about music during yoga classes, his evolution of thinking regarding the king and queen of asana (headstand and shoulder stand), as well as his experience in his 20's with a popular teacher who took advantage of his power.
Carly Carney
May 15, 2020 19:20 - 39 minutes - 36 MBCarly Carney is the owner / director of the Beverly Yoga Center located in the Beverly neighborhood on the southside of Chicago. A student of Suddha Weixler, Carly opened her studio 14 years ago. We talk about why she doesn't have any pictures of people on her website, her choice to write deeply personal posts in her public blog and the importance of Buddhism in her journey.
Paul Weitz
May 08, 2020 18:01 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBFrom an ecstatic experience at a Grateful Dead concert to finding a community of young and soon to be influential yoga teachers such as Seane Corn, Eric Schiffman, and Saul David Raye at YogaWorks in Santa Monica, to his current practice and thoughts about Sivananda yoga, this wide ranging conversation delves into the nature of yoga lineage and tradition.