YINtentions

What happens when the practice that taught you to trust your body turns out to be the one thing your body takes away? Before most of her friends had bled, Ruby May was already fascinated by the thing nobody in her house would name. That thread ran for decades. A yoga teacher in her twenties who did not yet know how far she lived from her own body. Then seven years of charting a single cycle, day b...

A voice follows the body onto the dance floor and keeps score. Too slow. Too angry. Too deep. Years of practice do not quiet it. It came along to a 5Rhythms class in Budapest, in a room full of strangers, and it is still there in Kraków three years later, on the other side of a camera. This solo travels from a few lines I wrote by the sea in 2020 to ten days of recording the rhythmic movements, an...

What happens when the part of you the world taught you not to speak of turns out to be the one that was always telling the truth? At a school reunion, someone asked Silvija Tomčik what she does now. She said she teaches a movement practice most of the room had never heard of. Her old schoolmate said: I always knew you would do something that doesn't exist yet. Two things her mother and grandmo...

What happens when a woman who set out to change the world finds that the world most in need of attention is the one inside her? Tiffany Chan had done everything right, and somewhere along the way she had gone hollow, the colour of her grey sweater. Then a stolen passport in a city far from home, a prayer she had never said before, a white car coming through the air, and nothing was arranged the wa...

We are handed one intelligence and told that it is the intelligence. The mind. The reasoning. The part that can show its working. And then we spend a life wondering why the answers we are given about our own lives don't fit. There is not one. There are many, and they are already speaking - in the body, in emotion, in timing, in need, in relationship, in the land, in the ones who came before. E...

There is an image of the practitioner: the one who has fully arrived in her own body. Who holds what she teaches not as theory but as lived truth, every day, without fail. The woman recording this episode forgets to stretch. Skips meals. Lays down, every once in a while and sobs at having been disengaged from herself. This episode is about that gap and what becomes available when you say it aloud....

The world looks at a woman in her forties and sees someone who has arrived. The woman herself is often somewhere else entirely. We have been handed the story of the peak: the good age, the clarity, the knowing who you are. But no one speaks to what lives underneath: the exhaustion that won't stop, the race with no visible finish line, the distance between what is seen and what is felt. This ep...

What does it mean to be the first person in your genetic line - in both directions - to do something? Anything at all? Cynthia Hansen carries her home in her body. A Korean woman adopted by white American parents, she has lived everywhere and belonged to no fixed geography and she has spent her career building systems that leave no human being at the edges. In this conversation, we move through th...

What happens when a woman refuses to dim her light even when she doesn't yet know who she's becoming? Robyn Davie wears color in a grayscale world. Not as aesthetics. As practice. After years of making herself smaller, of being told to be less, she chose more. We move through the women who came before her: a grandmother who had a hysterectomy at 32, complete hormone shutdown, devastating s...

What happens when a woman who has spent her career mapping the most complex systems in the world realizes she is now learning to read her own ? Anca Damerell opens a conversation about what gets lost when women move from the farm to the institution, from the freedom of climbing trees and reaching for fruit to a life organized around productivity, caregiving, and the quiet suppression of what the b...

We were handed one word = menopause = and asked to make sense of a decade or more with it. That word arrives wrapped in very limited stories. That we should be celebrating. That something has gone wrong. That we are no longer useful or seen. Most women I know are living somewhere between those scripts, without a name for where they actually are. This episode names the terrain. In this episode: the...

What happens when a thirteen-year-old girl receives a purity ring from her father and learns that her body belongs to everyone except herself? Jenny McGrath opens doors into the places where purity culture, sexual trauma, and religious shame live in women's bodies. In this conversation, we move through modesty checks and closets of shame. Through sexual assault and the confusion of pleasure an...

We travel the world fascinated by landscapes and terrains covered by sand, by forests, by history and stories that came before us. But there is a landscape we rarely discover. Not because it isn't remarkable, precious and filled with gifts. Quite the opposite. We don't discover it because we've been told to stay away from it. No one said - this territory exists, and it belongs to you,...

Stories women were told not to tell. Unresolved. Unpolished. True. We don't fix anything here. We simply are with. Hosted by Anna Teresa. New episodes biweekly from Spring Equinox 2026.