Be Still And Notice: A Yoga Podcast

Send us Fan Mail I did a thing earlier this week. I booked my place on a trip walking part of The Camino from Portugal to Spain, a journey of 156km. This trip is happening next year with the amazing Tamara (Cuchira) Levinson. She walked this same walk only a few weeks ago and I was glued to her stories as she made her pilgrimage. I couldn’t wait to have her back on the podcast to hear all about he...

Send us Fan Mail Hi everyone and welcome to Season 3, episode 10 of the podcast. This episode is FULL. Full of a lot of wisdom, learning and lived experience. Daniel Zavrel is one of those immediately likeable, kind and warm people with a kind of non-egoic intelligence that blows my mind. I loved talking to him and I really hope you enjoy our conversation. Daniel Zavrel is the founder of Consciouz...

Send us Fan Mail Hello my friends, and welcome back to the podcast. In this episode I tell the story of the yoga class in California that really missed the mark for me, and how we can make our classes, and our personal practices more soulful.  This episode is proudly brought to you by Shakti. Shakti make weird and wonderful spiky accupressure mats that I LOVE. I use mine every night to help ease t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I talk all about my baby, not an ACTUAL baby but my Yoga Programme, Hold Yourself, a 12 week 1:1 online programme designed to help women who suffer from chronic anxiety, feelings of unworthiness, over thinking, anxious attachment and so much more. The first round of Hold Yourself is nearly over and I've been blown away by some of the incredible results these w...

Send us Fan Mail This is a conversation FULL of healing modalities. This is a conversation that shows just how exploring one practice can lead to many, many more.  Lara J. Day is an author, movement educator, and someone who has spent more than three decades helping people reconnect with the intelligence of the body, the rhythms of nature, and the deeper meaning beneath ritual. Her primary focus,...

Send us Fan Mail Hi everyone, Its been a few weeks since I've released an episode, I've been soo busy behind the scenes, and life is beautiful and full. This is a little personal episode from me, recorded on a sunday evening fresh from a lovely sauna by the lake with a friend, and still buzzing from our beautiful community Kirtan last night. Its a few thoughts about turning 45, about bea...

Send us Fan Mail I am so happy to have recently connected with Caroline on a business course we are both enrolled in. Caroline has a gentle yet strong presence and is an Adaptive and Restorative Yoga Teacher, a Physical Therapist Assistant and a Thai Massage Therapist. She specialises in working with people with severe disabilities such as quadraplegics, people recovering from strokes and seniors...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I get a little spicy, contentious even. This one is all about were we can begin to take radical responsibility for how we live, the energy we bring, the interactions we have, the choices we make. You might not like what I have to say, but its true-in the end it starts and finishes with us. I hope you enjoy the episode. Shakti make weird and wonderful spiky accupres...

Send us Fan Mail This is one of my top converstaions so far.  Tamara aka Cuchira is a one of a kind person who's work is so original and so NEEDED at this time. Our conversation begins with her childhood as an olympic gymnast, her career as a professional dancer and choreographer working with the likes of Madonna, to what she really values the most which is her work helping bring people back...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I'm sharing with you my top yoga books. These are the books I come back and refer to, time and time again. Books that enlighten me, comfort me, inspire me, make me think and stir my soul. These are the main books that have helped me along the path find deeper meaning and understanding, although it was super difficult to choose just these alone! There are so ma...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I am taking a pause to celebrate 3o episodes and 3 seasons of be Still & Notice. Its a great acheivement and we're gonna keep going. I talk about how far weve come, subjects weve explored, and some of the topics that are top of my mind right now, my current read on plant consciousness, my yoga programme, and whats coming next on the podcast. Thank you for...

Send us Fan Mail In this epiosde Im talking about why we shouldnt out our yoga mentors and teachers on pedestals, the importance of critical thinking and individuation, and how we often need to umlearn what weve learned to really embody that knowledge. For students and teachers alike. I hope you enjoy :) If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this p...

Send us Fan Mail Hi everyone, I hope youre all well. This is a candid and personal episode where I explain why I've been taking a bit of an unintended pause recently. I thank you for your support and understanding as always. With love, Helen xxx If you have any comments, questions or anything you would like to hear about related to this podcast, I'd love to hear from you. Please feel fre...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I get to have a lovely chat with my friend, and incredible yoga teacher Vic Quilliam. Vic lives in Spain with her husband and toddler and she is a Yin, Hatha Vinyasa, Pregnancy and Post Natal and Yoga Nidra teacher. Our converstaion flows around these different practices, embracing femininity and how becoming a Mum changed Vic's practice and teaching completel...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I first have to apologise as I get on my soapbox and a little fired up talking about this. This episode might resonate more with the women in this audience but its definitely for the guys too. I talk about how yoga in the west has been seriously sexualised, through fashion, pop-culture, branding and marketing, morphing it into something with far less than the respe...

Send us Fan Mail In this epiosde I'm exploring how yoga practices can help us feel both psychologically and somatically "safe." I explore some of my own personal experiences such as realising that I had been anxious my entire life at 40, and how yoga has been and continues to be a powerful tool for learning to feel safe in your own body, and mind and how to hold yourself in love. If...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I'm talking about Burnout-physical, emotional and mental. At the moment I'm seeing a lot of it around me and its becoming more and more common in our crazy, over busy digital age. I talk through simple things you can look at to help you combat and prevent burnout, including of course lots of lovely yoga.  If you have any comments, questions or anything yo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I get to have a lovely conversation with my friend and Ayurvedic Doctor Garima Pandey, all about Ayurveda and functional medicine and how a blend of the two is such a powerful combination in terms of holistic health.  Garima was recommended to me by a friend on my first trip to India in 2020. I was struggling hard in an abusive relationship and my IBS on that trip...

Send us Fan Mail Hi everyone, in this episode I share my musings around the brilliant 2022 Michelle Yeoh film: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. It ties in so beautifully with the yogic concepts of self, ego, buddhi and divine love, and brilliantly and weirdly! shows how we can all be trapped by our limiting thoughts, behaviours and self concepts, and how if we are not careful this can turn to...

Send us Fan Mail This is the final installment in the amazing conversation I had with one of my teachers the lovely Katja Patel. In this last part we look at the final three limbs: Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi. These final 4 limbs (incluidng Pratyahara) are all concerned with the mind and stages of meditation withinn your practice. They guide us in how to train the mind to focus, develop our medita...

Send us Fan Mail In this second part of my lovely conversation with Katja, we continue looking at the Eight Limbs of Yoga. We continue to discuss our interpretations of what they mean and how we can  apply them to our practice and modern, everyday life. We begin our conversation with a brief look at Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, and I reference my copy which is translated and commentaried by Swami...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I'm joined again by my lovely Yoga teacher Katja Patel to begin exploring The Eight Limbs of Yoga. We thought we might be able to summarise each of the limbs within one episode but we definitely bit off more than we could chew here, and once we got going we found ourselves diving deeply into the many layers, meanings, practical applications and interpretations...

Send us Fan Mail In this sensitive epiosde I talk about a subject that I feel is still pretty taboo in our western culture. With or without the framework of religion, many people in our society are afraid to talk about death and will go out of their way to avoid it. Whilst other cultures around the world openly accept death as an integral part of lifes miraculous cycle, and in so doing create more...

Send us Fan Mail Having just been on a recent Shamanic retreat, and thinking about what that really means to go on retreat, I spend this episode exploring what a retreat is and what it can offer us in terms of experience and introspection, community and self expression. I also ask the question: "Do we really need to spend thousands of pounds flying half way around the world to retreat or can...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I look at one of the 8 limbs or integral parts of a yoga practice that is often overlooked: The Yamas and Niyamas. These beautiful codes of conduct were talked about by Patanjali some 5 or 6 thousand years ago and are as relevant today as they have ever been. I love how practical and accessible they are and how all of us can start implementing them straight away. T...