In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga Training
29 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -Join Harriet McAtee, founder of Nourish Yoga Training, as she speaks with insightful guests on a range of topics including yoga, personal growth, and more.
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Finding Work that We Enjoy and the Importance of Connection with Ashleigh Clarke
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBIn this episode Harriet is joined by Ashleigh Clarke, travel photographer and founder of Pallion Point. As a travel photographer, Ashleigh has managed to niche herself down into photographing luxury experiences in Australia with her partner, James. Building her career through social media, Ashleigh started her career as a yoga teacher and studio owner but moved away from the online yoga world finding herself now with multiple businesses and a change to her relationship with yoga pra...
Valuing People's Contributions and Finding Balance with Tom McAtee (Harriet's Dad)
June 14, 2022 00:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBIn this episode Harriet is joined by Tom McAtee, Harriet's Dad, and founder of PeopleMix. Tom is a versatile, highly experienced Human Resources leader with a real focus on planning and organising, workforce design and problem solving, and is passionate about faciliting change in businesses. Harriet and Tom talked about valuing people’s contribution, finding balance and unionisation. Connect with Tom: Website: peoplemix.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com Connect with Harriet: Website: n...
Why Yoga is Not a Complete Form of Exercise with Kate Ryan
June 07, 2022 00:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBIn this episode Harriet is joined by Kate Ryan, a holistic physiotherapist, clinical data scientist, and yoga therapist, based in Oxford. She started out in academia doing alternative energy research and has a PhD in Chemistry. However, she left in 2014 to retrain as a yoga teacher and later as a physio. While academia gave her some fantastic life experiences, Kate wanted a career where she was able to help people more directly and share her love of movement. Harriet and Kate talk...
Taking Risks and Finding Ease with Carrie Reed
May 31, 2022 00:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MBIn this episode Harriet is joined by Carrie Reed, a yoga teacher based in beautiful Falmouth, Cornwall. She hopes to inspire students to bring their attention out of the mind and into their bodies, so they can get to know themselves a little better. She also offers bookkeeper services specifically for yoga teachers - including being Nourish's wonderful bookkeeper! Harriet and Carrie talked about taking risks, finding ease and knowing your values as a yoga teacher. Connect with Ca...
Agency, Healing and Recovery with Chelsea Roff
May 24, 2022 00:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBIn this episode Harriet is joined by Chelsea Roff Founder and Director of Eat Breathe Thrive. Chelsea is an author, researcher, and educator, and has spent nearly a decade pioneering integrative health programs for people with mental health challenges. In 2011, Roff offered the first Yoga for Eating Disorders program to clients at a treatment center where she had once been treated for anorexia. This later became the heart of Eat Breathe Thrive: a seven-week intervention that combi...
Performance or Practice and the Nature of Rest with Beverley Nolan
May 17, 2022 00:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBIn this episode Harriet is joined by Beverley Nolan. Beverley is a yoga practitioner with more than 30 year's experience of class teaching and more than 10 year's experience of teacher training and CPD/IST provision. Her practice and teaching has shifted from its origins in the Iyengar tradition to embrace an explorative approach that draws on her love and unfaltering interest in experiential anatomy, infant movement development, somatic psychology and the discipline of Authentic Mo...
Finding Your Way as New Yoga Teacher with Katie McNeil
May 10, 2022 00:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBIn this episode Harriet is joined by Katie McNeil. Katie is a woman of many hats, based in Oxford, she is a yoga teacher, admin enthusiast and community builder with people at the heart of everything she does. Her teaching vision is to offer a space for people to practice yoga and learn together as a community. She loves to empower students to feel comfortable to be themselves in class, the opportunity to find a sense of agency within their yoga practice, and their own set of tool...
Cultivating a Welcoming Space and the Joys of Reading with Katie Gordon
May 03, 2022 00:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBWelcome to Season 3 of In Our Experience! In the first episode of this season, Harriet is joined by Katie Gordon, coach, yoga teacher, founder of Every Body Studio and parent. She has previously worked as an associate literary agent and a fiction editor in the publishing industry. She brings a corporate background to her work in creating new business models for the yoga and wellness industry. Katie has a special interest in mental health and trauma and outside of work at the studio...
In Our Experience Season 3 Trailer
April 26, 2022 00:00 - 1 minute - 1.56 MBWelcome to In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga Training, a weekly podcast hosted by Harriet McAtee, founder of Nourish Yoga. We're very excited to announce that Season 3 of In Our Experience will be released on the 3rd of May 2022. We can't wait to share with you even more amazing conversations! In Season 3 Harriet will be speaking to Katie Gordon, Katie McNeil, Beverley Nolan, Carrie Reed, Tom McAtee, Chelsea Roff, Kate Ryan, and Ashleigh Clarke about what's nourishing them, thei...
Yoga Nidra with Theo Wildcoft
April 19, 2022 00:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBThis bonus episode of In Our Experience features a Yoga Nidra with previous In Our Experience guest, Theo Wildcoft. Theo Wildcroft is a yoga teacher, post-doctoral researcher, and Nourish Yoga Training faculty member. Theo is based in north Wiltshire working for a more sustainable relationship between our many selves, the communities that hold us, and the world that nourishes us. Connect with Theo: Website - wildyoga.co.uk Instagram - @theodorawildcroft Connect with Harriet: Web...
Communication, Grace & Creativity with Sarah Leyla Puello
March 22, 2022 01:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this episode, Harriet is joined by Sarah Leyla Puello, a recovering academic who was born in the Dominican Republic and has been living in the UK since 2003. These days, Sarah most likes to describe herself as a movement lover, a creative writer and a grace seeker. She works as a project manager, yoga teacher, teacher trainer (for Nourish!) and has recently co-started a new venture called Our Sparkle Club, a virtual space that blends together Yoga, Meditation and Creative Practic...
Learning in Spirals and the Power of Practice with Sooz Hammond
March 15, 2022 01:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBIn this episode Harriet is joined by Suzette "Sooz" Hammond, an award-winning tea educator, professional tea skills trainer, and tea contemplative and spiritual practitioner. Sooz uses they and she pronouns, and is based in Chicago, USA. She is the founder of Being Tea - an education-focused business offering interactive online learning and a first of its kind professional teacher training program. Their teaching style centers on sensory-supportive pedagogy, addressing financial a...
The Roles We Inhabit in Relationships with Sarah Walsh
March 08, 2022 01:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBIn this episode Harriet is joined by Sarah Walsh, an experienced mental health practitioner, specialising in working with children and families. Sarah has worked in the NHS and social care alongside children and families with complex needs supporting their mental health and relationships. Throughout Sarah's career, she have observed the transformational impact of bringing creativity, yoga and mindfulness into spaces to promote children and young people's wellbeing. She is passiona...
Yoga's Liberatory Potential and How We Can Access It with Sheena Sood
March 01, 2022 01:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBIn this episode, Harriet is joined by Sheena Sood PhD, a Philadelphia-based activist, educator, sociologist, and healing justice visionary of South Asian descent and southern roots. Sheena enjoys teaching gentle vinyasa or hatha practices infused with embodied liberatory philosophy. She is also the founder of Yoga Warrior Tales, an adventure-based yoga program that teaches children mindfulness and yoga skills through educational and interactive social justice narratives. Currently...
Earth-Centered Living, Holding Space and Self-Care with Elise Tassell
February 22, 2022 01:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this episode, Harriet is joined by Elise Tassell. Elise is a hair stylist and yoga teacher based in Oxford, she is part of Nourish’s teaching faculty and from Spring 2022, you’ll be able to find her new home, Sun Moon & Scissors, within Every Body Studio in East Oxford. Harriet and Elise talk about the similarities between yoga and hair dressing, living in an earth-centred way, and explored the eternal question of whether an Aries can ever chill. Connect with Elise: Website : s...
Kate Bush, Power Dynamics and a Person-Centred Approach with Amelia Wood
February 15, 2022 01:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBIn this episode, Harriet is joined by Amelia Wood, a yoga teacher and academic. Her yoga teaching is inclusive, therapeutic and centre’s the student’s individual needs, includes embodied mindful movement, breath awareness and deep relaxation. She is currently a PhD candidate researching spiritual abuse in modern transnational yoga at SOAS. This project aims to centre survivor’s testimonies and is a specifically feminist endeavor. Harriet and Amelia talk about pretending to be Kate...
Social Business, the Importance of Values, and Tea with James Thirlwall
February 08, 2022 01:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBHarriet is joined by James Thirlwall, founder of Animalltea and fellow boat-owner. James founded Animalltea afer his four-year-old son asked him if any of the animals in his bedtime book were left in the wild. He decided it was time to do something. Animalltea are a UK speciality tea company that uses 100% of our net profit to fund wildlife conservation. Their teas are all pesticide-free, organic or biodynamic. Animalltea exists to protect wildlife, to support sustainable farming...
Trusting our Personal Experience and the Joy of the Outdoors with Barbora Sojková
February 01, 2022 01:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBHarriet is joined by Barbora Sojková, a yoga teacher and academic originally from Prague in the Czech Republic. She's currently finishing her DPhil in Sanskrit at the University of Oxford with research focused on animals, plants and human-animal relationships in Vedic India. Barbora is deeply interested in nature, environmental activism, and climate crisis. Harriet and Barbora talk about the value of a great teacher, trusting our personal experiences and the joy of being outdoors. ...
In Our Experience Season 2 Trailer
January 25, 2022 01:00 - 1 minute - 1.79 MBWelcome to In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga Training, a weekly podcast hosted by Harriet McAtee, founder of Nourish Yoga. We're very excitied to announce that Season 2 of In Our Experience will be released on February 1st 2022. After such a fantastic first season, we can't wait to share with you even more amazing conversations. In each episode, our founder, Harriet, will talk to a guest about what's nourishing them, their values, and their ideas about living well. Each episode...
Bonus Episode: Guided Meditation with Harriet
January 11, 2022 01:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBGet comfortable because in this bonus episode Harriet will take you on a 15-minute guided meditation. Connect with Harriet: Website - nourishyogatraining.com Instagram - @nourishyogatraining Twitter - @nourishyogatt Facebook - @nourishyogatraining Produced by Story Ninety-Four in Oxford.
Absence, Whitney Houston and Permission to Feel with Najia Bagi
December 14, 2021 01:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBHarriet is joined by Najia Bagi, mum, Whitney Houston super fan, artist, musician, yoga teacher and creative learning curator. She has a special interest in how breath work and improvisation can inform our self defined identity, especially when considering the challenges faced by the global majority. The intention of her work is to create and nurture space for creativity conversation and self care. She has worked with organisations including Tate, Arts Council England, South Londo...
Pleasure, Intimacy and Weaving our Pattern with Simran Uppal
December 07, 2021 01:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBHarriet is joined by Simran Uppal (they/them), yoga teacher, writer and organiser based in East London. They focus on critical approaches to the philosophical and social contexts of modern yoga, experiential and embodied forms of education, and creative, expressive movement and rest practices rooted in their own experiences of devotion, bliss, and joy in the body. Harriet and Simran talk about the fetishisation of yoga teaching, the relationship between activism and practice, being...
Making Friends with Failure & Supporting Others with Ajaye Hunn-Phillips
November 30, 2021 01:00 - 37 minutes - 34 MBHarriet is joined by Ajaye Hunn-Phillips, co-Founder of The Project PT. The Project PT is a personal training studio based in central Oxford offering private and semi-private personal training sessions. Ajaye believes that exercise can empower people to make positive life choices. Harriet and Ajaye talk about overcoming obstacles, not being afraid of failure, the importance of supporting others, and favouring community over competition. Connect with Ajaye: Website - theprojectpt....
Yoga as Religion and a Whimsical Tangent with Theo Wildcroft
November 23, 2021 01:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBHarriet is joined by Theo Wildcroft, yoga teacher, post-doctoral researcher, and Nourish Yoga Training faculty member. Theo is based in north Wiltshire working for a more sustainable relationship between our many selves, the communities that hold us, and the world that nourishes us. Theo is also a post-doctoral researcher, investigating the democratization of physical practice, how it evolves, and why it matters. Harriet and Theo talk discuss whether yoga is a religion, different ...
Retreats, Boundaries & Wild Swimming with Venetia Adamson
November 16, 2021 01:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBHarriet is joined by Venetia Adamson, yoga teacher, work-wife to Harriet, and Nourish Yoga Training faculty member. Venetia started pracricing yoga whilst studying Univesity in London. Soon she started to incorporate the lessons learnt on the mat into her everyday life. After a couple of years of travelling, working and training, she I decided to take the leap and make my yoga practice her work. Harriet and Venetia talk candidly about imposter syndrome, authenticity online, boundri...
Neurodivergence and Finding a Home on the Mat with Aisha Nash
November 09, 2021 01:00 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBHarriet is joined virtually by Aisha Nash from London, who, after burning out of her career, decided to retrain as a yoga teacher after getting off a bus at the wrong stop and spotting an advert for a yoga studio on a notice board. In this episode they talk about what's nourishing them this week, neurodivergence, questioning the expectations of how yoga teachers should look, the affect of COVID on yoga training, and finding home on the mat. Connect with Aisha: Instagram - @theais...
Authenticity, Play & the Magic of Disney with Becky Varey
November 02, 2021 02:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBHarriet is joined by Becky Varey, actor turned yoga teacher and faculty member at Nourish Yoga. In this episode they talk about Becky's journey, authenticity, working with kids, the seriousness of practice, the the importance of play - oh, and what vegetable would you be and the magic of Disney. Links: Maggie's Connect with Becky: Instagram - @beckyvarey Connect with Harriet: Website - nourishyogatraining.com Instagram - @nourishyogatraining Twitter - @nourishyogatt Facebook - @...
Creativity, Personal Practice & Anastasia with Georgie Davies
November 02, 2021 01:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBHarriet is joined by Georgie Davies, yoga teacher and founder of Yogipod, a home for finding comfort in your practice through yoga props and practices. In this episode they talk about creativity, the relationship between beauty and unqiueness, finding time for personal practice, and the wonders of the Disney animated film, Anastasia. Links: Anastasia Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Connect with Georgie: Website - yogipod.co.uk Instagram - ...
Season 1 Trailer
October 27, 2021 11:13 - 1 minute - 1.79 MBWelcome to In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga Training, a weekly podcast hosted by Harriet McAtee, founder of Nourish Yoga. We know some great people, and we love talking to them! In Our Experience...was born from the realisation that we were having some amazing conversations and we wanted to share those conversations with our community. In each episode, our founder, Harriet, will talk to a guest about what's nourishing them, their values, and their ideas about living well. Each...