Stillpoints: A Podcast with Scott Johnson

Scott has an open, honest and heartfelt conversation with colleague and international yoga teacher Kino Macgregor about Covid-19 and the year of the pandemic. _______________ We'd like to invite you to join our growing Stillpoint Online Ashtanga Yoga and Mindfulness community. You can sign up for a free yoga and meditation course and a free week on our online platform here.  We live stream beginne...

Scott talks to colleague and yoga teacher Petri Räisänen about his life as a yoga teacher and as one of the most respected names in Ashtanga yoga. Petri is deeply open and honest about his relationship to Mysore over the years and Petri and Scott talk about how we can move on from the abuses of Pattabhi Jois.  _______________ We'd like to invite you to join our growing Stillpoint Online Ashtanga Y...

Scott talks to yoga teacher and educator Eddie Stern about his early life as a seeker of yoga and how the deeply spiritual aspects of his life evolved through his impact with India and hindu temples. Scott has known Eddie since 2014 and has co-hosted him in the UK twice. Both times Eddie performed Puja's at the workshops and these were deeply moving rituals. Scott talks to Eddie about the evolutio...

#024: Daniel Simpson Scott talks to Daniel Simpson, on his life as a yoga philosophy teacher and practitioner. Daniel presents ancient texts for modern times. He is the author of The Truth of Yoga , a comprehensive guide to the historic tradition and texts of yoga for contemporary practitioners.   We'd like to invite you to join our growing Stillpoint Online Ashtanga Yoga and Mindfulness community...

#023: Kia Naddermier Scott talks to his dear friend and colleague Kia Naddermier on their friendship and her life as a renowned yoga and pranayama teacher. They talk about the ability to pause being a key component in the evolution of yoga in your life.   We'd like to invite you to join our growing Stillpoint Online Ashtanga Yoga and Mindfulness community . We live stream beginner classes, Ashtang...

Scott talks to dear friend and colleague Josefin Wikström  about how yoga changed her life and how she now shares yoga and Bollywood dancing to people in prisons and to those who suffer from complex trauma.  We'd like to invite you to join our growing Stillpoint Online Ashtanga Yoga and Mindfulness community . We live stream beginner classes, Ashtanga Yoga assisted self practice and guided classes...

#020: Prem & Radha Carlisi   Scott talks to Prem and Radha Carlisi (and their lovely dogs)  about their friendship since 2008 and how they've evolved over an incredibly close, and tender, twelve years of knowing each other. --- We'd like to invite you to join our growing Stillpoint Online Ashtanga Yoga and Mindfulness community . We live stream Ashtanga Yoga assisted self practice and guided class...

#019: Laruga Glaser Scott talks to Laruga Glaser on her life as a yoga student and teacher of Ashtanga yoga. She also shares her experience as a woman of colour in the yoga industry.     On 3rd June Laruga shared a 52:39 face to camera Instagram post on her experience as a POC in Ashtanga yoga . The majority of her conversation (with Scott) references Laruga's post. It would be highly beneficial t...

#018: Simon Borg-Olivier Scott talks to Simon Borg-Olivier on his 50 years as a teacher and practitioner of yoga. Simon Borg-Olivier is a maverick and someone who has truly done his own research into how yoga works for him. Simon Borg-Olivier has been studying traditional forms of posture, movement and breathing for over 50 years. He has worked as a research-based scientist, exercise-based physiot...

#017: Greg Nardi Scott talks to close friend and colleague Greg Nardi on his life as an Ashtanga yoga practitioner and teacher.  --- In this podcast we talk about the sexual abuse commited by Pattabhi Jois on a number of his students over the years. While this conversation centers Greg's experience, it is not meant to detract from the victim's experience. We acknowledge the sexual abuses and other...

Scott talks to Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen on her life in yoga.  An up and coming wellness advocate, Wambui has a blend of formal Ashtanga yoga training, Chavutti Thirumal (massage by foot press) and life experience that gives her a unique ability to see and hear those around her in a way that is tender, gentle and real. Wambui started practicing Ashtanga yoga in 2008 and began assisting Petri Räisäne...

Scott talks to his good friend and fellow yoga teacher Zephyr Wildman... Originally from Idaho, Zephyr Wildman is one of London's most well loved and highly regarded yoga teachers. Yoga and the Twelve Step recovery programme have supported her during difficult times, and Zephyr now works closely with treatment centres for addiction, depression and other dependency problems, sharing therapeutic pra...

#014: Mark Robberds Scott talks to Mark Robberds, a friend, senior Ashtanga yoga teacher and movement educator. Mark Robberds has been practicing yoga since 1997. He is one of the few people to be certified to teach Ashtanga Yoga by KPJAYI. Over the years he has become one of the leading figures of movement in yoga culture, pushing the boundaries around how yoga and movement can interrelate.  Mark...

Scott talks to Deepika Mehta, a friend and fellow long term practitioner and teacher of Ashtanga yoga.  Deepika has been practicing yoga for over 20 years, where she used the tools of yoga to heal from a devastating climbing accident. Since then she has thrived, studying the Sivananda and Ashtanga yoga traditions and becoming an Authorised Level 2 teacher, from her teacher Sharath Jois, in the lat...

#012: Dr Matthew Clark Scott talks to Dr Matthew Clark, a long term yoga practitioner, philosophy teacher and academic. Since 2004, Dr. Matthew Clark has been a Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. He is one of the administrators of the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies in London and is one of the editors of the Journal of Yoga Studies. His publications include: The Daśanāmī-Saṃnyāsīs: The...

#011: Joey Miles 'This book is to help you sit like a mountain, so that when you see the big mountains you'll know what to look for'. Scott talks to Joey Miles, an authorised level 2 and highly inspiring Ashtanga yoga teacher, about how yoga has evolved through his life.    Joey came to yoga in 1998 and since that time  has become one of the most loved and influential Ashtanga yoga teachers teachi...

#010: Ann Weston     Scott talks to Ann Weston , a UK based yoga teacher and teacher trainer, on her 62 years of yoga practice.      Ann began her yoga practice at the age of sixteen in 1957 . She has been a quiet pioneer of yoga in Britain since that time, quietly practicing and sharing to others what she has found to be so beautiful in her life. Yoga.  Ann still teaches classes near her home in...

Scott talks to colleague and fellow yoga practitioner Jess Glenny , a London based yoga teacher and educator, on her lifelong dedication to movement practices.     Those were the days my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day   Jess is a long term and highly skilled yoga/movement teacher, facilitator and therapist specialising in teaching people how to practice wi...

Scott talks to  Danny Paradise, one of the original Ashtanga yoga teachers and pioneers from the 1970s, about his life and practice in a vast and wide ranging conversation.  Danny Paradise is one of the longest practicing western practitioners of Ashtanga yoga,. He began studying with David Williams and Nancy Gilgoff in 1976 and became a pioneer of the method through the late 1970s, 80s and 90s. H...

Scott interviews  David Keil,  a long term SYL friend and collabarator, about his life and evolution into becoming one of Stillpoint's most loved visiting teachers  and a highly sought after yoga anatomy educator. David Keil is a yoga teacher, yoga anatomy educator and entrepreneur who is changing the way we integrate with and learn yoga anatomy. He has written a yoga anatomy book, called Function...

Scott talks to Caroline Taylor , a long term SYL practitioner, about how she has navigated her yoga practice since the time she started in 2012. Caroline has been a practitioner of Ashtanga yoga since 2012 when she first met Scott after walking into Stillpoint Yoga London as a beginner. She joined Stillpoint at the time just after Ozge Karabiyik had passed away and has been an integral part of the...

Scott talks to his friend Ian Cheney about Ian's evolution from an Ashtanga yoga practitioner to a KPJAYI authorised teacher. Ian runs an Ashtanga yoga Mysore programme in  Melbourne, Australia . He has been friends with Scott since 2013 and taught at SYL before his move to Australia. Ian was first introduced to Ashtanga Yoga in 2002 and after many years of evolving his own practice he felt the ur...

Scott talks to Liz Lark about her life. Scott and Liz have been friends and colleagues for nearly 15 years. Liz is one of the foremost and most well loved teachers of yoga in the UK over the last 30 years. She has written 8 books on yoga and brings a sense of creativity, fun and beautiful intelligence to the teaching and sharing of yoga. She continues to teach nationally and internationally and is...

Scott talks to Maria Jose Pantoja who between 2009 and 2013 was one of the most consistent members and teachers at Stillpoint Yoga London. She turned from one of the most beautiful practitioners into one of our loveliest ever teachers. Maria was loved by everyone who was part of our community. She moved back to her native Mexico in 2013   -------   Remembering Precious Times   When do you get the...

Scott and Laura talk deeply about how they're relationship has evolved over 8 years. They share how they met, the shift of their relationship through teaching and Laura apprenticing at Stillpoint Yoga London , how they both navigated the death of SYL co-founder Ozge Karabiyik and then moved into becoming colleagues and dear friends who still goof around together. Laura also talks candidly about ho...