The Unqualified Yogi

This week we sit down with Kelly Sims, a Navy veteran, CPA, and one of the OG Bikram yoga practitioners who's been showing up on the mat since around 2000—back when the rooms were hotter, the discipline was stricter, and people wore Speedos unironically. Kelly came to yoga the way a lot of people do: something was broken. In her case, it was her knee. She was a runner who loved the high, loved...

Anna Welsh has lived about nine yoga lives. She started as a high school basketball player who got dragged to her first Bikram class by her mom and thought she was witnessing a cult—sweaty adults in various states of undress, doing synchronized breathing on disgusting carpet, doors locked so nobody could escape. She didn't touch yoga again for a year. Classic origin story. Fast forward through...

New yoga teacher Nichole Carpenter joins Gary and Roxanne to talk about what teacher training doesn't prepare you for: standing in front of a room, blanking out, and learning to be okay with not being perfect. This is a real conversation about the first year of teaching yoga—the nerves, the imposter syndrome, the obsession with class numbers, and why "sucking" might actually be the b...

Regan Tucker discovered yoga at 17, grieving her mother's death, dragged to a class by her mom's friend in Vegas. It was instant. She didn't choose yoga—yoga chose her. Two decades later, she's one of St. Louis's most beloved teachers, running Soulful Sundays at True Fusion Clayton, where she's taught 250+ uniquely themed classes without repeating herself. All handwritten i...

In this episode of The Unqualified Yogi Podcast, hosts Gary Martin and Roxanne Quinn sit down with yoga teacher and women's coach Keri Kugler for an honest conversation about transformation, control, and what it actually means to find yourself through yoga practice—without the wellness industry bullshit. FROM ONE CLASS TO TEACHER TRAINING Keri shares her unconventional entry into yoga: she took on...

This week we sit down with Siriatmakaur—Kundalini yoga teacher, sound healer, and someone who watched her entire spiritual practice implode when the Netflix documentary "Breath of Fire" dropped. SiriAtma started practicing yoga from a Baron Baptiste book in her backyard while her toddler did better arm balances than she could. She fell hard for Kundalini yoga (the kind with the white tur...

What happens when you try to teach yoga in a small town that's convinced you're recruiting for a devil cult? This week on The Unqualified Yogi Podcast, we sit down with Jenna Goble—founder of Flow Yoga and Fly Yoga in St. Louis—to find out. Jenna shares her journey from stay-at-home mom in West Plains, Missouri, to accidental yoga entrepreneur in a town where rumors spread that she was lit...

Welcome to Season 1 of The Unqualified Yogi, where we talk about the path nobody talks about—struggles, failures, and actual practice. This is wellness content for people who think most wellness content is garbage. Our first guest is Angie Maniscalco, a real estate agent in St. Louis who Roxanne met in yoga class. Roxanne knew within two meetings they'd be friends because Angie is authentic, f...

Episode 0: The Beginning (Or, How a VHS Tape Changed Everything) So here's the thing about starting a podcast: You can plan it, script it, make it perfect—or you can just hit record and see what happens. Welcome to Episode 0 of The Unqualified Yogi, where hosts Gary Martin and Roxanne Quinn chose option two. What follows is 90 minutes of honest conversation about yoga, bodies, practice, and wh...