Finding Harmony is your guide to spiritual awakening, consciousness expansion, and energy healing. Host Harmony Slater, certified Ashtanga yoga teacher turned spiritual wellness expert, brings you honest conversations about spinal energetics, spiritual growth, and creating an authentic life aligned with your soul's purpose.
Each episode combines practical wisdom with deep spiritual insight, featuring experts in consciousness work, energy healing, somatic practices, and holistic transformation. Whether you're experiencing a spiritual awakening, exploring alternative healing modalities like spinal energetics, or navigating the evolution beyond traditional yoga practice, this podcast offers grounded guidance for your journey.
From the yoga mat to spiritual entrepreneurship, from energy work to emotional healing, discover actionable tools and authentic conversations that support your transformation.
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Discovering the Self: From Alberta to an Ashram in India
Episode 228
Tuesday, September 3, 2024 • Duration 58:22
Harmony Slater and Bobbi Paidel, host of the Curious Yogi podcast, dive deep into a compelling journey of self-discovery and transformation. From a remote town in Alberta to an ashram in India, Bobbi shares how yoga helped her overcome scoliosis, addiction, and mental health struggles. Her story is a testament to the power of dedicated practice, spiritual teachings, and a life-altering shift toward meditation, pranayama, and asana.
They discuss finding balance between Eastern and Western practices, navigating spiritual awakening, and living with grace amidst life's chaos. Bobbi's insights reveal how even the simplest routines, like creating a "Toilet Temple," can anchor us in moments of stillness and clarity. Whether you're a seasoned yogi or a curious seeker, this conversation offers a refreshing perspective on embracing life's challenges with an open heart.
Key Topics Discussed:
Bobbi's journey from Alberta to India and her life-changing experiences at the ashram.
The role of yoga and meditation in overcoming addiction and mental health issues.
Integrating Eastern spiritual practices into a Western lifestyle.
The spiritual significance of scoliosis and how it can shape one’s journey.
The importance of daily practices such as meditation, pranayama, and asana for mental clarity and spiritual growth.
The concept of the "Toilet Temple" as a metaphor for finding peace and stillness in everyday life.
Navigating spiritual awakening in a modern, interconnected world.
Originally from western Canada, Bobbi is a yogi with more than 20 years of in-depth experience. She has devoted her life to living and sharing the spiritual principles of yoga sadhana as taught by her Guru in the Advait Vedant tradition. Bobbi has spent more than ten years living primarily in northern India, where she has immersed herself in the yogic lifestyle.
Along with being a registered yoga teacher (Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Meditation), Bobbi is also a certified Ayurvedic Yoga Massage practitioner and experienced in pilates (mat) and alignment-based bodywork. She shares extensive knowledge of body mechanics from a lifetime of competitive dance training and a bachelor’s degree in dance.
Bobbi is a space holder for Y12SR (Yoga of the 12 Step addiction recovery), the host of a Curious Yogi Podcast, and the co-founder of Positive Lamb Foundation - a registered charity supporting children affected by HIV in India. Bobbi teaches with authenticity and respect to the yogic traditions, while adding her light-hearted flair, making her classes joyful and accessible for all.
In this episode of the Finding Harmony Podcast, Harmony Slater and Russell Case sit down with Shane Scaglione, an eclectic and passionate yogi, beat poet, and world traveler. Shane shares his fascinating journey from his early days in New York, through his experiences living in India, and his deep dive into yoga and beat poetry. Shane's story is filled with unique encounters—from his time with beat poets and karate experts to his immersion in Ashtanga Yoga and his transformative years studying with Richard Freeman. Join us as we explore the confluence of cultures, disciplines, and philosophies that have shaped Shane's path and discover how the principles of yoga continue to guide his eclectic life.
Key Topics Discussed:
Introduction to Shane Scaglione:
Shane's early life in New York and his introduction to karate and beat poetry.
His journey across various disciplines, including his studies at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
Shane's Adventures and Encounters:
Stories of meeting iconic figures like Allen Ginsberg, Wayne Kramer, and Ken Kesey.
Shane's unique experiences living in New York, Los Angeles, and India, highlighting the cultural and philosophical diversity he encountered.
Yoga as a Pathway:
How Shane discovered yoga through his love of basketball and martial arts.
His transition into the practice of Sivananda and Ashtanga Yoga and his eventual deep study under Richard Freeman.
Life in India and Spiritual Practices:
Shane's multiple trips to India, totaling three years, where he immersed himself in yoga practice, philosophy, and spirituality.
The Hidden Truths of Yoga: Beyond the Mat and Into the Mind
Episode 218
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 • Duration 01:19:01
Introduction: In this episode of the Finding Harmony Podcast, Harmony Slater and Russell Case engage in a profound conversation with Daniel Simpson, a renowned author and yoga scholar. Daniel, known for his book "The Truth of Yoga," brings decades of scholarly study and practical experience to the table. Together, they delve into the rich history and evolving interpretations of yoga, exploring its relevance and application in the modern world.
Episode Highlights:
Introduction and Background:
Harmony introduces Daniel Simpson, highlighting his extensive background in yoga studies and his work as an author and podcast host.
Discussion about Daniel's academic journey and professional experiences, including his studies at Cambridge and his time as a journalist.
Celebrating International Yoga Day:
Harmony mentions the significance of International Yoga Day and encourages listeners to support Yoga Gives Back, a fundraising initiative helping women and girls in India through microloans and scholarships.
The Essence of Authenticity in Yoga:
Exploration of what constitutes authenticity in yoga and how modern interpretations align or diverge from ancient practices.
Daniel shares insights on how yoga's ancient texts can be applied in contemporary settings without losing their essence.
The Kumbh Mela Experience:
Daniel recounts his transformative experiences at the Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of people on the planet, and its impact on his understanding of yoga.
Discussion on the historical and cultural significance of the Kumbh Mela and its role in shaping yoga practices.
Yoga's Evolution and Modern Misconceptions:
Examination of how yoga has evolved, particularly in the 20th century, to include more physical practices and its alignment with health and wellness trends.
Daniel addresses common misconceptions about yoga being solely a physical practice and emphasizes its deeper philosophical and spiritual aspects.
Kaitlyn rose: Somatic Alchemy & Healing Trauma
Episode 35
Sunday, September 4, 2022 • Duration 01:32:13
Kaitlyn Rose Holsapple believes that the body is our most sacred guide. Her work now is focused on helping others integrate their past pains so these hidden shadows no longer subconsciously drive the choices in life. As a Somatic Yoga Therapist, she helps clients connect with the innate, intuitive wisdom of the body. This wisdom is present in “every” body, and helps up to organically move stages of healing.
Our guest today, Kaitlyn, is someone who recovered from PTSD as a result of being victimized by sexual assault. Prior to this she had always felt disassociated from her body, due to experiencing sexual abuse as a young child, which surfaced through her healing journey through yoga and somatic therapy. The steps she took on her own healing journey has informed her understanding that the path of personal integration can often feel confusing and dark. As a teacher of somatic yoga therapy, she knows intimately how we need experienced guides to help us shine light onto the painful shadow side of ourselves and many of those experiences we would rather not look at.
We’re talking about sexuality, pleasure, intimacy, plant medicines, trauma, healing, and what it takes to become whole.
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Miranda Mitchell: Human Design
Episode 34
Sunday, August 28, 2022 • Duration 01:17:53
Miranda Mitchell is an Energetic Alignment Coach and Traditional and Quantum Human Design™ Specialist who helps thought leaders align energetically so that they step into creating more impact with sustainability and ease. Before becoming a Human Design Coach, Miranda was a personal trainer and Ashtanga yoga professional, assisting with Krista Shirley in Orlando Florida!
In today’s episode you’ll learn about Human Design and how it can help you in your life. We’re also talking about injuries, recovery, and knowing when it’s time to let go.
Miranda followed a jagged path to personal freedom. Eventually escaping an abusive relationship with her two young boys in tow, she found strength in weight-training and emotional healing through her Ashtanga yoga practice.
It wasn’t an easy road that guided her into leadership coaching and Human Design, but it was exactly the path she needed to develop an internal sense of ease and love for herself, which she now so skilfully offers to others.
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John & Julia Scott: Stand Fast Together in Love
Episode 33
Sunday, August 21, 2022 • Duration 01:40:01
If you thought you knew John and Julia Scott, you’re going to get a whole new look into their personalities here on our podcast today. You’ll hear about John Scott’s roots growing up in New Zealand and the similarities between clans, even from different parts of the world. Our conversation looks at how ancient rituals from different cultures effect us still to this day.
We’re asking some difficult questions, like can anyone ever really teach you anything? And how can you claim your own sovereignty and self-responsibility?
John talks about how when we’re in alignment with our natural selves we coexist with nature, but when we live from a place of ego we can’t help but destroy the planet. We need to stop ‘the doing’ and start ‘the being.’
We’re all programmed to be something, or do something, but this creates a sense of separateness. Like actors lost in playing a part and creating a separate reality we’ve lost site of who we truly are.
What is the key to connecting back with our true self?
The sound.
If we can listen on a pure level, we will understand that everything is already perfect.
Come sit with us by the proverbial campfire, as we tell stories and discuss philosophy, there is always something new to share… And we’re still learning. ❤
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The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case.
Sophia French: Sanātana Yoga
Episode 32
Sunday, August 14, 2022 • Duration 01:10:45
Born in India, growing up in Dubai, and then returning to India for college, our guest today might have a name that sounds like she’s from Europe, but she deeply connected in mind, body, and spirit to her native roots as a Christian-Muslim Indian.
Some of our questions today are centered around how we can honour the roots and history of yoga while it’s become a global movement being absorbed into many different cultures and contexts. How do we keep yoga authentic, without becoming fanatical?
We look at how different cultures make monuments (or not) to themselves and how as “Westerners” we approach things quite differently from the attitudes found in the East.
Giving up her prestigious position as managing editor of Elle India, Sophia French left the modern city of Mumbai to go live in Mysore. Although she’s made it her mission to elevate and uplift traditional Indian culture, it’s people and voices, she, herself, is throwing off many of the cultural expectations that no longer support her feminist sensibilities, like making a conscious choice not to have children, or to live in common-law, unmarried for the past eleven years. These choices could be considered quite radical from a more orthodox cultural context; but as you’ll discover, Sophia is an embodiment of many divergent parts coming together in perfect harmony.
Sophia is deeply devoted to the philosophy of Sanātana Dharma, translated as “the natural and eternal way to live" referring to universal and axiomatic laws that are beyond our limited, transient sectarian belief systems. It’s no wonder that she was drawn to Ashtanga yoga and Vipassana meditation and is passionate about preserving the authentic yoga teachings, while being inclusive and diverse, so that the practice and philosophy can belong to anyone who has a genuine interest in transformation.
She tells us Dharma is a faith and it’s a way of life. But the deeper question is: Where does spirituality start and religion end?
The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case.
Un-Layering with Philippa Asher
Episode 31
Sunday, August 7, 2022 • Duration 01:27:48
Yoga is a journey of un-layering that we embark on again and again, each time we peel back another covering of our inner light the process of transformation takes place. It’s shedding the masks we wear to navigate our way in the world and place down the “airs and graces” we often take up to make ourselves feel superior to others. It is becoming who we truly are. More natural. More simple. More real.
In this episode you’ll hear Philippa Asher and I peel back the layers of the Ashtanga yoga practice. As two of twenty Certified women who teach this method, we’re talking about unique issues that relate to female practitioners. We explore what it takes to become a Certified teacher? And what are some of the pitfalls, obstacles, and challenges you may encounter along the way.
We touch upon the similarities between ballet and Ashtanga yoga, as well as what Philippa’s first trip to Mysore was like. You’ll find out what it was that continued to pull her back again and again, year after year, until she finally moved to India permanently, building a retreat centre in the jungle to host students of her own.
After going through eight rounds of IVF and tragically miscarrying twins, Philippa has learned a lot about letting go, as well as when it’s most important to hold on.
Philippa reminds listeners that Ashtanga yoga is actually a life choice. A state of being and a state of mind to help guide how you live your life. The practice is about so much more than simply collecting asanas, it includes the integration of all eight limbs into your day-to-day experience.
Two years back, Philippa returned to London, England, and you can find her teaching students in person as well as in online classes, workshops, and retreats around the world.
“If you want to speed up the process of yoga, slow down.” - Philippa Asher
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From Norway to Nepal with Ellen Johannesen
Episode 30
Sunday, July 31, 2022 • Duration 01:49:18
Our guest today is a lovely Elvish woman, who could’ve easily descended from a family of Wood Nymphs. Ellen Johannesen was born in Norway but has spent many years living abroad, mainly in India and Nepal. She was first introduced to yoga during her career as a professional dancer and has been teaching now for over 20 years.
In 2002, she co-founded the first Ashtanga studio in Oslo, Norway, where she headed up the Mysore program. However, her time in India led to a growing interest in Buddhism, which brought her back to live and study for three years in Bylakuppe, at a Tibetan Monastery and Tibetan refugee settlement. She subsequently moved to Kathmandu where she became a Tibetan translator and earned a Masters degree in Buddhist studies and Himalayan Languages from Kathmandu University. During this time she founded the first Mysore program in the center of Kathmandu where she lived and taught for seven years.
Ellen also studied Sanskrit, which was traditionally widely used among the Nepali Brahmin population and the Newar Buddhists. More recently, she has returned to Norway, but continues to take students on transformational retreats, where you can practice Ashtanga yoga and go trekking in the spiritual hub of the Himalayas. She loves sharing some of her favourite places around and beyond the Kathmandu valley, while introducing students to the sacred sites and natural beauty that is Nepal.
The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case.
A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations.
Your contributions have allowed us to keep our podcast ad and sponsor free. Creating, editing and producing each episode takes a lot of time. It is a labor of love. And would not be possible without your kind support.
Dominic Corigliano Part 2: The Trance State
Episode 29
Sunday, July 24, 2022 • Duration 01:03:37
PART 2 with Dominic Corigliano
A "Trance State" is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli. It is also a state of mind that we can enter into through Yoga Practice. We're talking about Trance States with Dominic Corigliano in this Part 2 continuation of our Part 1 (Episode 65 - Listen on iTunes) conversation.
Whether you call it an auto-hypnotic state or a trance state, yoga can be used as a technique that we use to change the mind's ability to filter information, which can result in a more efficient use of the mind's resources. This form of self-hypnosis, or "Trance-like" experiences, is probably a state you're familiar with if you've ever been so absorbed in an activity, like yoga, that it actually takes a moment or two to reorient yourself back into the existing time-space continuum.
This is a beautifully deep and honest conversation had between old friends, who love and admire one another, and here we are inviting you into this intimate setting to sit with us.
Spending time with Dominic will transform your understanding of the practice of Ashtanga yoga. His perspective is absolutely unique and spans many generations.
We feel this conversation is also relevant to shifting sands in culture right now in the context of empowering women to continue speaking out, using their voice, claiming their power, and not standing down in the face of oppression or abuse.
The Finding Harmony Podcast is hosted, edited and produced by Harmony Slater and co-hosted by Russell Case.
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His time spent with various spiritual teachers, including a significant stay at Amma's ashram in Kerala.
Beat Poetry and Writing:
Shane's passion for writing and beat poetry, influenced by Jim Carroll and other prominent poets.
Readings from his books, "A Way in India, Volumes 1-3," that reflect his spiritual and poetic journey.
Current Yoga Practices and Teaching:
Shane's current role teaching at a yoga ashram in San Francisco and running yoga programs at tech companies like Asana.
His thoughts on yoga as a lifestyle and its potential to transform lives beyond physical practice.
Philosophical Reflections:
Discussions on the teachings of Swami Bharati and their impact on Shane’s understanding of yoga and spirituality.
Insights into the deeper practices of yoga, including meditation, mantra chanting, and fire ceremonies (Homa).
Closing Thoughts:
Harmony reflects on the importance of integrating yoga into daily life and how listeners can deepen their practice by joining her Inner Circle Mentorship.
Resources and Links:
Learn more about Shane Scaglione and his teachings: 8 Limbed Yoga
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A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations.
Your contributions have allowed us to keep our podcast ad and sponsor free. Creating, editing and producing each episode takes a lot of time. It is a labor of love. And would not be possible without your kind support.
If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support. Make A Donation - harmonyslater.com/donate
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A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.
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A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.
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A big heart of thanks to our friends, family, and students from around the world, who’ve generously supported this podcast through your comments, sharing, and financial donations. If you’ve enjoyed today’s podcast, please consider supporting our future episodes by making a donation. Every little bit goes a long way and we are immensely grateful for any and all of your support.
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Opening and closing music compliments of my dear friend teaching Ashtanga yoga in Eindhoven, Nick Evans, with his band “dawnSong” from the album “for Morgan.” Listen to the entire album on Spotify - Click Here.
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