Be Still And Notice: A Yoga Podcast
Join me your host, Yoga and Meditation instructor Helen Taylor to dive deeply into the vast ancient ocean of wisdom that is Yoga. Explore with me how yoga practices can help heal and elevate us on all levels: physically, emotionally, energetically and spiritually in an ultra-modern world. Together we'll deepen our practice, dispel myths and explore our connection to divinity and our own inner landscapes, with the help of special guests, guided mediations, how to's and so much more. Yoga has the incredible power to change your life on every level, and it all begins with stillness...
Thank You so much for listening, and if you have any comments, questions or ideas for anything related to the podcast please feel free to contact me: helen@feettoearthyoga.co.uk
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Episodes
28 episodes
Episode 13: Embracing The Feminine: Yin, Yoga Nidra & Pregnancy Yoga With Vic Quilliam
In this episode I get to have a lovely chat with my friend, and incredible yoga teacher Vic Quilliam. Vic lives in Spain with her husband and toddler and she is a Yin, Hatha Vinyasa, Pregnancy and Post Natal and Yoga Nidra teacher. Our converst...
Season 2 Episode 12: Sex And the State Of The World
In this episode I first have to apologise as I get on my soapbox and a little fired up talking about this. This episode might resonate more with the women in this audience but its definitely for the guys too.I talk about how yoga in the ...
Season 2 Episode 11 Holding Yourself In Love: How Yoga Can Help Us Create Our Own Sense Of Safety.
In this epiosde I'm exploring how yoga practices can help us feel both psychologically and somatically "safe." I explore some of my own personal experiences such as realising that I had been anxious my entire life at 40, and how yoga has been a...
Season Two Episode 10: Burnout: What It Is and 5 Things You can Do Right Now To Avoid it.
In this episode I'm talking about Burnout-physical, emotional and mental. At the moment I'm seeing a lot of it around me and its becoming more and more common in our crazy, over busy digital age.I talk through simple things you can look ...
Season 2 Episode 9: Explaining The Holistic And Healing powers of Ayurveda & Functional Medicine with Garima Pandey
In this episode I get to have a lovely conversation with my friend and Ayurvedic Doctor Garima Pandey, all about Ayurveda and functional medicine and how a blend of the two is such a powerful combination in terms of holistic health.
Episode 8: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once: The Infinite Possibility Of You
Hi everyone, in this episode I share my musings around the brilliant 2022 Michelle Yeoh film: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. It ties in so beautifully with the yogic concepts of self, ego, buddhi and divine love, and brilliantly and weird...
Season 2 Episode 5 Part 3: Exploring The Eight Limbs Of yoga With Katja Patel
This is the final installment in the amazing conversation I had with one of my teachers the lovely Katja Patel. In this last part we look at the final three limbs: Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi.These final 4 limbs (incluidng Pratyahara) ar...
Episode 5 Part 2: The Eight Limbs Of Yoga With Katja Patel
In this second part of my lovely conversation with Katja, we continue looking at the Eight Limbs of Yoga. We continue to discuss our interpretations of what they mean and how we can apply them to our practice and modern, everyday life.
Episode 5 Part 1: Exploring The Eight limbs of Yoga With Katja Patel
In this episode I'm joined again by my lovely Yoga teacher Katja Patel to begin exploring The Eight Limbs of Yoga. We thought we might be able to summarise each of the limbs within one episode but we definitely bit off more than we could chew h...
Episode 4: A Conversation On Death & Loss
In this sensitive epiosde I talk about a subject that I feel is still pretty taboo in our western culture. With or without the framework of religion, many people in our society are afraid to talk about death and will go out of their way to avoi...
Episode 3: What Does It Mean To Retreat?
Having just been on a recent Shamanic retreat, and thinking about what that really means to go on retreat, I spend this episode exploring what a retreat is and what it can offer us in terms of experience and introspection, community and self ex...
Epiosde 2: The Yamas & Niyamas: A Beautiful Code To Live By
In this episode I look at one of the 8 limbs or integral parts of a yoga practice that is often overlooked: The Yamas and Niyamas. These beautiful codes of conduct were talked about by Patanjali some 5 or 6 thousand years ago and are as relevan...
Season 2 Episode 1: From Ego & Ambition To Acceptance & Surrender
Hello everyone, Im super happy to be back with a new season of the podcast. Today Im talking about how ego and ambition can show up for all of us in our practice and how to move away from the ego towards a practice of self acceptance, self love...
Episode 15: The Importance Of Rest
In this episode I give a little bit of a personal update, and talk a bit about the importance of rest and stillness for integration. This is so important not only for the physical but for the mental and emotional bodies aswell. I talk about the...
Episode 14: A Conversation With My First Guest & Yoga Teacher Trainer Katja Patel
In this lovely first conversation with my amazing yoga teacher trainer Katja, we talk about what bought Katja onto the yogic path, being human as a yoga teacher, religion versus spirituality, discipline in our yoga practice and how trust and fa...
Episode 13: The Basics Of The Nervous System, The Bodies Innate wisdom & How Yoga can Help you Hack it
In this episode I dive into the basics of how the nervous sytsem works in the body. I explain how the fight or flight stress response works and why its there, and how it is an essential part of our bodies innate ancient wisdom and survival syst...
Episode 12: Yoga As A Transformative Energy Tool: How Yoga Helps Shift Your Mood, Release your Emotions & Creates a Sacred Space For Self Reflection
In the west we still think of yoga as being all about stretching the body, but thankfully this paradigm is now beginning to change, as more and more people are recognising the powerful holistic effects a yoga practice can have on us. In this ep...
Episode 11: 10 minute Guided Mantra Meditation: Aham Brahmasmi
In this episode I guide you through a lovely mantra based meditation practice."Aham Brahmasmi" basicaly translates as "I am the universe" " Or I am universal consciousness."This mantra comes from the Advaita Vedanta tradition, and...
Episode 10: "Right Now Just About Anything Could Happen." The Law of Impermanence And How Everything Changes, All The Time.
In this episode I talk about what an important lesson it can be for us to get comfortable with uncertainty. How its a mistake to think that any of us know anything with any real certainty, and how everything is constantly changing all the time....
Episode 9: Meditation As a Portal To The Self: How Meditation is The Ultimate Tool To Get To Know Yourself Better, Begin To Heal and Change Your World
In this episode we take another look at the benefits of meditation, specifically looking at meditation as an incredibly powerful tool to help open the door to self enquiry, which is the first step towards greater self knowledge, self awareness ...
Episode 8: The Power Of Silence
In this short episode I take a brief look at the power of silence, and how practicing being in silence can have a profound effect on our wellbeing.I refer to my own experiences during a 10 day silent Vipassana Meditation retreat, and tal...
Episode 7: Why Meditation Isnt About "Clearing The Mind"
In this episode I look at the most common misconceptions that people hold about meditation and why these are not just holding people back,but even stopping them from beginning. I talk about the main barriers that people can come across and my t...
Episode 6: 10 minute So Hum Mantra Guided Meditation
This episode is the first of a series of guided meditations to try in your personal practice.This beautiful So Hum mantra meditation is a powerful way to ground and calm, body, mind and spirit. So Hum literally means "I Am" a...
Episode 5: Why Being Inflexible Should Never Be A Barrier To Yoga, Dealing with Injury And Adapting Your Asana Practice
In this episode I talk about how being inflexible nearly stopped me from doing my teacher training, how I turned it into a gift and how it should never be a barrier to anyone in their practice. I also talk about my recent hip/back p...
Episode 4: Yoga As An Act Of Courage
In this episode I'm exploring why I think Yoga is a true act of courage: how it strips away anything false and inauthentic and lays bare the truth of who you really are.I talk about my own experiences along the path and practices that ha...