Finding Harmony Podcast

The Ever Ebullient Yan Ong

Yan, like a good champagne, has a sparkling personality. We very much enjoyed chatting with her in Portugal about her life, Injuries with the practice, and learning to thrive despite suffering from an autoimmune disorder.
Keeping in mind that the vast majority of yoga practitioners are female, we asked Yan what it’s like to be a female teacher in the Mysore room, and her personal experience with the unconscious bias towards women (or against women) that we all seem to continue to carry.
Yan has a fun and interesting story, being invited to join Mensa as a young teen, her time as a Viagra saleswoman, and finally spending 80 months practicing in Mysore, India, with Sharath. You’ll love hearing about how she invited him and his family out for Christmas mimosas on her first trip to Mysore! And her journey of becoming his student all the way to having him perform her marriage ceremony in Portugal.
Yan is ebullient. And, this bubbly effervescence does define her well. We sincerely hope you enjoy spending time with her as much as we did!
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Sat Inder Khalsa The Kwisatz Haderach

In this week’s Finding Harmony Podcast episode, you’ll come to the confluence where Kundalini and Ashtanga yoga meet…
In the heart of Sat Inder Khalsa: the Kwisatz Haderach.
In this episode, we learn that in Frank Herbert’s Dune Universe, a Kwisatz Haderach would be a male Bene Gesserit, who would have access to the memories of both his male and female ancestors, as well as an ability to bridge space and time with prescient ability... In other words, He would be Bene Gesserit, Reverend Mother, Mentat, and Guild Navigator, all in one.
Our beloved Sat Inder is a devotee of the Divine Mother and shishya to her servant Yogavidananda. Sat Inder is an Authorized Ashtanga Yoga teacher, lover of mythology, a great storyteller, and a retired “Kundaloonie” (as he likes to say).
No podcast historiography of Ashtanga Yoga would be complete without him as a guest!
Enjoy this spectacularly irreverent take on what also happens to be a most sincere interest in spiritual paths and practices.
Sat Inder tells us of his days as a Kundalini Yoga Teacher, leaving the practice of Ashtanga yoga behind, only to have it come back to him again, calling him to Mysore, India. We talk about the Law of Attraction, his visit to the Kamakhya Temple in Assam, where he reset his energy and altered his understanding of devotion forever.
Interestingly, he often contemplates death and mortality. And has found that this morbid obsession with impermanence has become a doorway to liberation and a constant reminder to live more fully.
We hear of Sat Inder sitting on the Manikarnika ghat, (one of the two cremation sites in Varanasi), where visits with Aghoris, members of the mystical Hindu sect known for extreme rituals, devotees of Shiva manifested as Bhairava, as they illuminate his mind.
Finally, we talk about the paradox inherent within the Ashtanga system: The attachment to the body, and yet the goal of becoming non-attached to the body.
This episode may be triggering for some listeners, as we also asked Sat Inder about his personal experience of receiving the “mulabandha adjustment” from Pattabhi Jois on tour in 2000.
This episode is a pot boiler, a bodice ripper, and a barn burner all in one!! Enjoy!
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On Tour with Jens Bache

Jens Bache is not your ordinary Ashtanga yoga practitioner or teacher. He came to yoga as a highly celebrated Engineer, in the middle of a very normal career trajectory, yet he was looking for more…
Life had to have more meaning. He felt isolated and stressed. Then in 1997, on a work-study trip in Berkeley California, Jens Bache experienced yoga for the first time.
“A daily yoga practice at home gave me the peace of mind I was looking for.”
When he returned to Copenhagen he participated in his first workshop in 1999, and quite unexpectedly, he became the main instigator in creating an Ashtanga Yoga grassroots community in Copenhagen. As Jens said, he had a unique set of ‘process oriented skills’ from his Business degree in Project Management, which were badly needed in the yoga community. And so, this kind of self reliance in Jens grew into the first Mysore-style school that he nurtured along with Susanna Finocchi for 18 years.
In 2003, Jens traveled to Mysore to learn from Guruji at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute and continued returning annually since this first visit. He enjoyed expanding his knowledge about Indian philosophy, culture, and all things yoga. And, quickly, yet not surprisingly, Jens was soon relied upon by the Jois family themselves to run their European Tour stops!
So, luckily for you, in this episode, you’ll find out exactly what it might be like to host a tour stop with Sharath Jois and his family!
Jens has been the primary catalyst in bringing Sharath Jois to Copenhagen 6 times now, the first tour being in 2006 with the whole family, including Guruji (Sri K. Pattabhi Jois) and Saraswathi.
He has risen to the occasion again and again and hopes to have the honour once again this summer, in conjunction with his partner Lisa Lalér, co-owner of the Yoga Shala Stockholm, to host Sharathji on tour.
Jens translated Sri K. Pattabhi Jois’ book ”Yoga Mala” into Danish and is one of the masterminds behind the documentaries ”Guruji in Copenhagen” and ”Sharath in Copenhagen.”
Jens obtained a Masters degree in Indology – the study of Indian history, literature, philosophy and culture – from the Copenhagen University, and now acts as a “Cultural Broker” mediating between companies in Denmark and India to facilitate a greater understanding between organizations, through cultural translation.
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Electric Man : Stan Woodman

What makes someone electric?
In today’s episode we’re going to find out.
Stan Woodman joins us in conversation. He has that beautiful esprit de corps that comes from overcoming adversity with a team in fellowship, even in the face of great tragedy there's still Love in the group.
Good parenting does that.
Stan has a confidence in him that he is loved and will always be loved. Not in an arrogant way whatsoever, but as a man who loves all beings and naturally sees Love within them.
Not many men grow up saying that what they want most from the world is to be a dad.
This is a testament to his gentle and kind nature.
As a very young man, Stan conceived a daughter, who was given up for adoption. His story is so inspiring, in that, over the years that followed, a relationship developed between them and she became very much a part of his life.
Stan was once Beryl Bender Birch’s apprentice and he assisted her as a travelling teacher. This was his introduction to the world of yoga. A beginning only imagined by most of us!
Some people say that we, as Westerners, will never grow to be more than gym teachers in the field of yoga; But, even with that, this practice somehow does work, in a spiritual way, to make us more compassionate and integrated. If we do the work.
“I want to be a kinder, more loving, compassionate human, so this is why I do and will continue to practice and teach Ashtanga Yoga. I have great respect for all the teachers of this lineage who have come before me, stand alongside me, and have yet to come."
- Stan Woodman
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Elizabeth Ball: Science & Yoga

Dr. Elizabeth Ball is a unique teacher within our community. She's akin to the Neuroscientist Meditator or the Warrior Poet… A person uniquely situated to watch reality, as the seer residing in herself. She observes with awareness. As water gives life to the ten thousand things; yet does not strive to do so. She simply does. And so, with her PhD in immunology, Liz is uniquely situated to observe the physiological process of becoming whole as she dips her toe into the water of serenity.
Come sit with us and dear Liz, as we chat over a "cuppa" in full "hygge" coziness, and giggled with mirth over all things "Elizabeth." explains, the way to interrupt the problems caused by chronic stress is not to lessen stress, but build more resilience. One way to do so is to engage with discomfort—to practice.
Our bodies are actually hardwired to adapt, we have a natural ability to utilize low doses of stress to generate a favorable response. Typically this refers to a bundle of biological responses, such as the way we react to vaccines—receiving a small sample of a toxin, mounting a defense, and thereby building up an immunity. Or the way our muscles respond to the stress of lifting weights by growing stronger.
Putting ourselves in conditions where we prime the immune system to help make it stronger is paramount to building greater levels of health and resiliency, the ability to bounce back after a stressful situation. We'll discover why the practice of yoga is the perfect way to do this!
Elizabeth first began practicing Yoga at aged 16 in her home town of Derby, England. Elizabeth’s dedication to practising Yoga was a constant companion in all her years of school and university. Upon moving to Lisbon, Portugal in 2008 to study for her Ph.D., Elizabeth continued her Yoga path, practicing at the traditional Ashtanga Yoga Shala, Casa Vinyasa, under her mentor and teacher Isa Guitana Wong.
Finally fulfilling her dream trip to Mysore, India in 2015, Elizabeth became a devoted student to her dear teacher Paramaguru R. Sharath Jois. In 2018 Elizabeth was given the Authorisation to teach the Primary Series.
Elizabeth is now focused primarily on rejoining the circle of Medical Science with the Traditional Science of Yoga.
Elizabeth’s research into Immunology influences her teachings and workshops, as she unifies her background and strengths in science with her ever present exploration of the body through Ashtanga Yoga.
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Rebirth, Restart, and the New Year with Guy Donahaye

Happy New Year, Thundercats!
(That’s the name Russell’s come up with for “the Finding Harmony fanclub.” Shout out to Valerie Swift for setting this up! hint hint…. lol!)
To start your year, here’s wonderful interview, with the one person who made Russell the most nervous to talk to!
Yet, like all things, the experience of actually sitting down with Guy Donahaye was an absolute delight.
Guy Donahaye was Russell’s first Mysore style Ashtanga teacher in NYC, his mentor, and the last man certified by Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois — and possibly the first Certified teacher to publicly reject him as “Guruji.”
Guy has a very natural and shy reticence about him. It’s one of his strongest characteristics and is something his students would all immediately ascribe to him. So we were absolutely thrilled to have him join us and talk so much! He was loving, humble and engaged with our conversation in a sincere way, with the intention of cultivating a deeper understanding around why we do the things we do, what’s the true purpose for practicing yoga, and how this might be approached in different ways.
We believe that he very much appreciated our work and we are honored to add his voice and point of view to our collection of esteemed perspectives from practitioners and teachers all over the world.
With Guy, we spoke about regret a great deal, and whether regret and learning are both possible.
For example, can you regret getting into a bad marriage and subsequently a divorce, if you, as a person, learned so much from the experience?
Isn’t this what the Dalai Lama teaches us when he says that China’s treatment of Tibet is and was his greatest teacher?
Still, Guy seems to regret his treatment of Russell in his Mysore room 20 years ago. Whereas Russell was deeply grateful for his experience, and regrets ever leaving him.
So here we are. Now. Where we are.
And really, what regrets can we truly carry when we look deeply into the turbulent stillness of our hearts with kindness, humour, and compassion?
All our love to you, with the dawning of new days, in 2022!
Thunder, Thunder, Thundercats Ho!
Fire up your sword of Omens!
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Magic and the Mysore Yoga Tradition with Andrew Eppler

Merry Christmas! For this year-end special we have a little present for you all. Some Magic!
We would like to introduce you to an incredibly interesting practitioner and teacher, Andrew Eppler. At one time, he was a kind of young-prince in the Ashtanga Yoga culture. Introduced to the practice by the late Cliff Barber as a 14 year old. He was Guy Donahaye’s first Ashtanga teacher in Oxford when he was assisting Danny Paradise, as a 19 year old.
Andrew has given us all an incredible gift. He has made and produced the documentary film: The Mysore Yoga Traditions. This film is a deep dive into the myriad practices and teachers, who are alive, available, and relevant in Mysore today.
“Tradition” is a funny word. It comes from the Latin Tradere: to hold on to. And so, quite literally means attachment.
But it begs the question: How can we have a system to reproduce enlightenment without being attached to certain things?
Does enlightenment arise spontaneously? Or do we need to cultivate and nurture the conditions to support this arousal?
Andrew Eppler began practicing yoga with his father, Ray Eppler, at age 14. Cliff Barber was their first teacher. Three years later, Andrew began travelling the world, studying with many teachers including Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Mr. BNS Iyengar, Cliff Barber, David Williams and Danny Paradise.
In 1992, Andrew lived with David Williams for several weeks, and continued to visit and practice with him over the next 18 years. Enjoying a friendship forged in yoga, trust and admiration. David's views on yoga were very influential for Andrew.
Andrew continued to journey to Mysore to study pranayama, philosophy, and mudras with Sri BNS Iyengar. The ascetic lifestyle and unconventional views of Cliff Barber, which included living outdoors, going barefoot, practising in nature, and cooking on an open fire, have also been one of the main influences in Andrew’s understanding of yoga.
And then there was Danny Paradise, who convinced Andrew to travel to India for the first time at the age of 18, opening Andrew's eyes to a new way of seeing the world. He stoked the fire of Andrew’s strong nomadic tendencies: "I think through his guidance, perhaps more than anyone else, I came to see myself as a citizen of the world."
Andrew also studied magic and enjoys diving into anything that seems to be impossible. He is well known as The Yogi Magician. He’s the owner and director of Ashtanga Yoga Studio in Oklahoma, founded in 1999.
Join the Mysore Yoga Conference with Andrew and many other teachers online: February 8-18, 2022
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Saraswati the Goddess of Learning with Tara Mitra

What does cooking, painting and yoga all have in common?
Listen to this week’s episode of Finding Harmony with Tara Mitra to find out.
Tara is a life long lover of learning, discovering new ideas, people, and places. It seems no accident that her mentor, Guru, and main teacher was named after the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, speech, wisdom, and learning: Saraswati.
Growing up in an abusive situation, she searched for different therapies to help heal from the past trauma. She found herself in cooking. After spending years in the food and beverage industry, becoming a distinguished sommelier, Tara Mitra started searching for a difference kind of solace.
She made her way to Mysore, India, where she found immediate resonance with Sri Saraswathi Jois, the daughter of Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois, and mother of Sharath Jois, who soon became her main teacher, and mentor in the art of teaching yoga.
Tara is also a dedicated student of traditional Yoga Therapy, studying within the lineage of Krishnamacharya, with his son T. K. V. Desikachar’s longest standing students in Chennai, India. Her interest in yoga therapy is a focus to help heal others from injury and imbalances within the body. She has helped many students return back to health and stability through yoga therapy.
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Coming Full Circle with Nea Ferrier

The truly bizarre thing about living in an intentional ‘spiritually aspirant’ community (for decades) is that you share profound memories with a select group of folks who you know only incidentally. Yet, those shared memories are quite intense and emotional for both of you.
You can imagine a professional athlete might feel the same or a developer in Silicon Valley. You watch from afar sometimes as friends you’ve known for 20 or 30 years develop “Google” or win an NBA championship; and yet, understand exactly what they are going through.
With our guest today Nea Ferrier, Harmony and Russell also share this very personal history. For example, it came out that Nea had stayed in Russell’s apartment in Taiwan for a weekend and they had climbed a sacred Buddhist mountain together, prostrating each length of the journey. Russell had only a dim memory of this event, but remembered it in color as Nea described it.
Accessing the deepest, most personal parts of herself, and bringing them into the light is at the heart of Nea’s practice.
Like Bhuvaneshwari, the great cosmic mother of the universe, who represents space and who creates space for all things. Nea herself, has become a cosmic womb. She creates space within her own consciousness for beautiful experiences to grow and flourish, and is focused on giving birth to her very own divine nature.
This goddess become her guide in the creation of Nilaya House and through her metaphysical womb she embraced her role as a mother to many.
Listening to Nea now, you’ll be fascinated to hear she was once a wild child. In early adult life, she came face to face with some pretty self-destructive tendencies, which brought her to the practice of yoga. Over the years, she has deepened her connection to the goddess energy and intimately observe how the female cycle can become profoundly transformative, not only to one’s practice, but to one’s whole personality.
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A Trip Towards the Self with Barry Silver

New York, New York. If you can make it there you can make it anywhere.
Today we interview Barry Silver, traveling artist, explorer of the mystic and esoteric realms.
Although Barry is currently based in Mexico, we met him back in Mysore, India, as one of the “Cool Kids” from a thriving New York Ashtanga scene. At the time he was assistant to the revered Eddie Stern. And intimidatingly self-composed.
Looking back at those times in the quiet suburb of Gokulum, Barry has shared with us new insights into the trap of the “Super Cool.”
Now, with time and distance, he’s able to see his participation in it for what it was: A giant ego trip of self flattery and self flagellation, and opportunity to self masticate his own gloss.
Barry is astonishingly self aware of his own pursuit of cool, and seeking to be cool in the myriad communities he merged with.
Whether it was Disco, Kundalini Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, or the “Burner Community,” he has come back to being himself again and again, finding comfort in acknowledging who he is.
Like the Alchemist’s journey, he’s realized that there was nothing to strive for or become, and he oozed cool all along.
From altar building to cathartic scrapbook journaling, Barry Silver has traveled an interesting path to becoming a full-time artist.
It’s always super interesting to figure out who an audience is for a particular kind of art. How do you want them to react? What do you want them to perceive?
Do you want them to scrunch their eyes and stoop their shoulders as they peer closely at your surfaces?
Or do you want them to dance ecstatically, yoked in the embrace of a loving community?
Barry’s work seems to tie together the inter-connectedness of all the dynamic individuals and experiences he’s had within in his life. He is fascinated with these weird dudes and seeks to share his fascination with you.
His work is comic, genius, and generous in this wondrously mysterious way.
His dharma has led him to find the “Barry-ness” in all things. Whatever he creates, he does so with intention and spirit, drawing from his history, and a wide variety of very personal, spiritual experiences in different modalities.
His newest project is called: Nuestro Tarot. A Trip Towards the Self.
Pledge, support, participate, and take the trip.
“Like much of my art, I used this project as a vehicle to express and integrate the various aspects of myself. It has been an extremely healing and cathartic process.” - Barry Silver
LEARN MORE ABOUT BARRY SILVERINSTAGRAM I WEBSITE I Nuestro Tarot Kickstarter I GBSK SHOP - barrysilverstudio.com
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