DC yoga Podcast
Chris Parkison is the Group Program Manager at VIDA Fitness (Yards) in Washington DC. He teaches Yoga, Pilates, and Group Fitness classes. He is Director of the Yoga Alliance RYS-200 school at VIDA Fitness The DC yoga Podcast is offered as an additional resource for yoga students and teachers who want to expand their studio experience. A place for yogis all over the DMV to find out more about their local studios and favorite teachers. IG: @chrisparkison
Episodes
August 16, 2020 • 50 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 41- Nancy Talley "You need to go to Yoga!"
- Working and teaching in Occoquan VA- "mouth of the river."
- History of Soaring Spirit Yoga
- Falling into owning a yoga studio
- The nuts and bolts of running a yoga studio
- Working in the fashion industry...and then leaving the fashion industry
- Finding Kundalini yoga in California
- Yoga classes out West- pranayama, meditation, mantra. Not just Asana
- Mov...
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July 28, 2020 • 48 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 40- "Even if the body doesn't move like we want, there's an elegance there and maybe something better."
- The cycle of being a AAA type person
- Karate and Yoga to help deal with the sleeplessness accompanying the Type A
- The obvious logic of movement to Karate but not always of asana practice at first glance
- Discovering yoga at the Fairfax rec center and then in Reston at Health Advantage
- Learning th...
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July 19, 2020 • 58 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 39b- "Spiritual growth is expansion of consciousness not a contraction out of fear."
-Writing books about yoga
- Recent research into history of yoga philosophy
- Karma and reincarnation
- Cross pollinatization of ideas between cultures of the Indian sub continent
- Tracing the path and change of yoga as concentration and yoga as union
- Hatha as a simplified democratized response to the Tantric tradition ...
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June 18, 2020 • 53 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 39a- Participating in the World instead of Renouncing it
- Studying Philosophy at Georgetown and Fordham
- Meditation as the introduction to yoga
- Learning from Swami Muktananda
- The connection between flexible hamstrings and spirituality
- Unlocking prana through asana
- Living in an Ashram in India for 7 years...starting in the kitchen
- Ego stretching and getting out of the intellectual mind
- Relation...
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June 9, 2020 • 52 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 38 - Catching up
- Welcome back
- Effects of Quarantine
- Yoga Alliance Webinar on Yoga and Anxiety
- Surviving the Quarantine
- Stress showing up on the mat
- The reorganizing of every aspect of life
- Recognizing emotions and thoughts associated with each day being the same and yet different
- Re-establishing a Pranayama practice
- Discipline in a time of chaos
- Creating boundaries for your mind
- Teac...
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March 18, 2020 • 71 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 37b- John Schumacher "Deep relaxation without force."
- "I do yoga and people have come to call it Iyengar Yoga."
- Bringing Iyengar yoga to the DMV area
- Opening Unity Woods in 1979 on 40 acres in MD
- Letting the Universe decide
- The parallels between music and yoga
- Opening Unity Woods Bethesda in 1985- the first yoga studio in the area
- Apprenticeship instead of Yoga Teacher Training
- The traits of...
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February 25, 2020 • 50 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 37a- John Schumacher "The body as a vehicle to awaken our true nature."
- Looking for health in the early 1970s
- Swami Vishnudevananda
- An hour a day asana for health straight from the book
- Working as a musician
- Yoga Institute of Washington
- Teaching for $8 a class
- Yoga classes at the DC Rec department in the 1970s
- Learning yoga from your elders
- Hustling as a yoga teacher
- Finding Light on Yo...
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February 11, 2020 • 56 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 36- Siohban Troy-Carranza
- Tranquil Space
- Yoga in the church (with mosquitos!)
- Kim Wilson
- Teacher Training
- The Art of Sequencing
- Yoga for Tots and Tykes
- The Art of Touch
- Seeing bodies
- Always remembering your first down dog
- Owning a studio versus not owning a studio
- Managing Teachers
- Vinyasa Yoga
- Practicing yoga/doing anything other than working and raising your kids/motherhood
- Y...
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January 27, 2020 • 68 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 35- Willow Street Yoga Director Joe Miller "yoga is how to die well"."
- Anusara
- Iyengar
- Kung Fu
- Kripalu
- Amrit Desai
- Depression and Demons
- Rags to Riches
- Potatoes and Pot
- Self-esteem
- Masculinity
- Anger
- New Mexico
- John Friend
- The teaching voice
- Yoga sutras
- The Trantric Tradition
- Regardless of if you come to a yoga class for peace or for a tight ass, you get more than you barg...
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January 14, 2020 • 59 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 34- Annie and Amir "Paying fierce attention to whatever arises in the moment."
- Yoga Studios as community centers
- Asana to help alleviate back pain and correct body imbalances
- Alignment based yoga classes
- Economics of Yoga Studios
- Psychoemotional benefits of yoga
- Learning to weave philosophy into asana practice
- Yoga in the DMV in the mid to late 1990s (the outfits definitely were not as nice)
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December 19, 2019 • 68 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 33- Catherine Marquette "Elevating voices instead of owning the conversation."
- Coming to yoga from athletic injuries
- Thinking about opening yoga studio
- Leading 200 hour Yoga Teacher Trainings (YTT)
- Working in professional sports
- The beginning of Yoga Alliance (YA)
- Broad overview of YA
- Commodification of yoga
- Yoga Alliance as the credentialing body for yoga teachers
- How does a Yoga Allian...
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December 3, 2019 • 61 mins
DC Yoga Podcast episode 32- Halli Jastaran Faulkner "The Power of Subtlety"
- Yoga in High School
- Becoming a yoga practitioner instead of just practicing yoga
- 40 day sadhana
- Creating Healthy habits
- Processing Trauma
- Yoga and spirituality together
- Training with Krishna Kaur
- The physical demands of Kundalini yoga
- Trauma and coping mechanisms
- Providing a space for trauma survivors
- Teaching with awareness
- Sett...
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November 19, 2019 • 61 mins
DC Yoga Podcast episode 32- Hari-kirtana das Part 2 "Yoga and Transcendence."
- Yoga Teacher Training Programs
- 300 hour YTT as continuing education
- Learning to develop your unique gift as a yoga teacher
- Practical tips and tricks of yoga teaching trade craft
- Active listening as Yoga
- The purpose of Drishti
- Expanding consciousness through body awareness
- Cultural Appropriation
- The mistake of reinventing yoga to fit our...
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November 5, 2019 • 56 mins
DC Yoga Podcast episode 31- Hari-kirtana das. "A reciprocal relationship of love with God."
-What's in a name?
- Living in Yoga communities
- Finding yoga as a teenager
- Yoga and the counter culture of the 1960's
- Seeing Reality as a person
- Learning Yoga as spiritual philosophy instead of asana
-Living in the Hare Krishna Temple in NYC
- Jivanmukti yoga
- Teaching asana as a platform for devotional practice
- A day in the lif...
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October 22, 2019 • 55 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 30-Whitney Paterson
- Making a living teaching one on one yoga instead of classes
- Working on one one with students
- Leading a Mysore yoga program
- Letting go of your inner yoga teacher when taking yoga classes
- The definition of yoga
- Yoga as awakening
- "doing less" in your practice
- Sivananda Yoga
- Living and working at Kripalu
- Being good at something before you start doing it- the Type A curse...
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October 4, 2019 • 61 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 29- Kim Weeks
- Yogaville and Satchidananda
- Finding yoga in the Yellow Pages
- Working on Wall Street
- Ingegral yoga
- Miracles at Tryst
- 9/11
- Opening Boundless Yoga Studio
- The business of owning a yoga studio then and now
- The Groupon craze
- Devaluing yoga
- The Iyengar tradition
- Small businesses in DC
- The Yoga Journal experience
- Attachment to your yoga teacher
- Falling in and out of lov...
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September 19, 2019 • 62 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 28- Maelis Mittig "surround yourself in Yellow."
- Touring with Sting (maybe we just stop there?)
- Yoga instead of gym class in High School
- Studying yoga in College
- Developing a personal Religion
- Going to church without being Religious
- Epiphanies and breakdowns (the difference is in how you react)
- Talking to your body (and listening to it)
- Leaving the Corporate world
- Succulents
- Becoming an...
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September 5, 2019 • 66 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 27- Dr. Monea Abdul-Majeed "Yoga as a tool of resilience."
- Growing up in DC during the Crack Era
- Being confronted with racism for the first time at college
- Dealing with the anxiety and depression away from home in a hostile environment
- How yoga found her and she found yoga on campus
- Sleepless nights and being able to sleep in Savasana
- Inspired yoga studio
- Yoga as a place to get away from every...
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August 23, 2019 • 56 mins
DC Yoga Podcast Episode 26- Julie Eisenberg. "Creating Teachers, not Disciples"
- The creation of Lighthouse Yoga
- Being an awful yoga student
- An exercise junkie finds yoga (but not in the way you might think)
- The first taste os Spirituality
- Iyengar and geeking out on alignment
- Kundalini Yoga
- Sadhana
- Yoga Teacher Training Transformations
- A short history of Kundalini yoga in the US and Yogi Bhajan
- Kundalini mantr...
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August 8, 2019 • 59 mins
DC Yoga Podcast episode 25- Gopi Kinnikutt "mantra clenses the mirror of the Heart"
- Moving to the USA
- Yoga, spiritual practice and depression
- Living in an Ashram
- Intense physical practice as gateway to feeling the body and living meditation
- The body as a vehicle to express truth but also to cover up truth
- Bhakti Vinyasa
- The purpose of Asana practice
- Giving back
- Jainism
- Mantra Meditation
- Dualism and the exc...
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