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Finding Harmony Podcast Episodes

Eddie Stern: I'll Be Your Mirror
March 20, 2022

Eddie Stern: I'll Be Your Mirror

Oi ga vay and Jesus Christ! Happy Purim and Passover! Oh boy, do we have a special interview for you today! We have someone we have wanted to speak to ever since we first initiated this Podcast: The Inimitable Eddie Stern! B...
The Hidden Gem that is Kathy Cooper
March 13, 2022

The Hidden Gem that is Kathy Cooper

We had such a good time talking to an old friend in Kathy Cooper. For Russell it reminded him of Anne Rice’s vampire Lestat’s recounting of his origins in New Orleans. Lestat wrote that at every corner he was continuously sur...
Manuel Ferreira: The Brazen Bull
March 6, 2022

Manuel Ferreira: The Brazen Bull

Today we have the infamous Bull Fighting Manuel Ferreira on the show for you. We are delighted that such an old friend would agree to come on to tell us about his life and family growing up in Portugal. It’s literally true th...
Niki Baratta: Earth Angel
Feb. 27, 2022

Niki Baratta: Earth Angel

We are delighted to share with you this beautiful conversation with Niki Baratta, who may potentially qualify as one of the most interesting people alive! Niki comes from the U.K. (quite coincidentally, like many of our recen...
Alexandra South: No Pelvis Left Behind
Feb. 20, 2022

Alexandra South: No Pelvis Left Behind

“From menstruation, pregnancy, miscarriage, pelvic pain, endometriosis and fibroids, every pelvis has a story, and more often than not, we’re quite disconnected from it.” - Leslie Howard - Have you ever heard someone say som...
Jeanette Keane: Dance Me to the End of Love
Feb. 13, 2022

Jeanette Keane: Dance Me to the End of Love

The Finding Harmony Podcast has always been a play on words. How to find harmony in your life? Uncovering that point when one hits rock bottom and discovers yoga as the secret key to ending suffering… Sometime after everythin...
The Ever Ebullient Yan Ong
Feb. 6, 2022

The Ever Ebullient Yan Ong

Yan, like a good champagne, has a sparkling personality. We very much enjoyed chatting with her in Portugal about her life, Injuries with the practice, and learning to thrive despite suffering from an autoimmune disorder. Kee...
Sat Inder Khalsa The Kwisatz Haderach
Jan. 30, 2022

Sat Inder Khalsa The Kwisatz Haderach

In this week’s Finding Harmony Podcast episode, you’ll come to the confluence where Kundalini and Ashtanga yoga meet… In the heart of Sat Inder Khalsa: the Kwisatz Haderach. In this episode, we learn that in Frank Herbert’s D...
On Tour with Jens Bache
Jan. 23, 2022

On Tour with Jens Bache

Jens Bache is not your ordinary Ashtanga yoga practitioner or teacher. He came to yoga as a highly celebrated Engineer, in the middle of a very normal career trajectory, yet he was looking for more… Life had to have more mean...
Electric Man : Stan Woodman
Jan. 16, 2022

Electric Man : Stan Woodman

What makes someone electric? In today’s episode we’re going to find out. Stan Woodman joins us in conversation. He has that beautiful esprit de corps that comes from overcoming adversity with a team in fellowship, even in the...
Elizabeth Ball: Science & Yoga
Jan. 9, 2022

Elizabeth Ball: Science & Yoga

Dr. Elizabeth Ball is a unique teacher within our community. She's akin to the Neuroscientist Meditator or the Warrior Poet… A person uniquely situated to watch reality, as the seer residing in herself. She observes with awar...
Rebirth, Restart, and the New Year with Guy Donahaye
Jan. 2, 2022

Rebirth, Restart, and the New Year with Guy Donahaye

Happy New Year, Thundercats! (That’s the name Russell’s come up with for “the Finding Harmony fanclub.” Shout out to Valerie Swift for setting this up! hint hint…. lol!) To start your year, here’s wonderful interview, with t...
Magic and the Mysore Yoga Tradition with Andrew Eppler
Dec. 26, 2021

Magic and the Mysore Yoga Tradition with Andrew Eppler

Merry Christmas! For this year-end special we have a little present for you all. Some Magic! We would like to introduce you to an incredibly interesting practitioner and teacher, Andrew Eppler. At one time, he was a kind of y...
Saraswati the Goddess of Learning with Tara Mitra
Dec. 19, 2021

Saraswati the Goddess of Learning with Tara Mitra

What does cooking, painting and yoga all have in common? Listen to this week’s episode of Finding Harmony with Tara Mitra to find out. Tara is a life long lover of learning, discovering new ideas, people, and places. It seems...
Coming Full Circle with Nea Ferrier
Dec. 12, 2021

Coming Full Circle with Nea Ferrier

The truly bizarre thing about living in an intentional ‘spiritually aspirant’ community (for decades) is that you share profound memories with a select group of folks who you know only incidentally. Yet, those shared memorie...
A Trip Towards the Self with Barry Silver
Dec. 2, 2021

A Trip Towards the Self with Barry Silver

New York, New York. If you can make it there you can make it anywhere. Today we interview Barry Silver, traveling artist, explorer of the mystic and esoteric realms. Although Barry is currently based in Mexico, we met him bac...
IKEA, ABBA and Lisa Lalér
Nov. 28, 2021

IKEA, ABBA and Lisa Lalér

Sweden is famous for IKEA, ABBA, Minecraft… and Spotify! Today we speak with the lovely Lisa Lalér, who was born and raised in Stockholm in Sweden. We’re extremely grateful that Lisa opened up to us about her turbulent childh...
Karyn Grenfell: A Hero's Journey
Nov. 21, 2021

Karyn Grenfell: A Hero's Journey

We were engrossed in conversation with our dear friend, Certified teacher Karyn Grenfell, Founder of Ashtanga Yoga Melbourne, when she mentioned a hilarious old trick... Karyn recounted, while backpacking (back in the day, be...
Joey Solano: Accountant to the Bollywood Stars
Nov. 14, 2021

Joey Solano: Accountant to the Bollywood Stars

Grab a coffee, brew your tea, crack a coconut, because this is a real “chai-stand” conversation! In today’s episode you’ll hear story after story about different people and events within our global yoga community, including c...
Susanna Finocchi: Transitions Through Time and Space
Nov. 7, 2021

Susanna Finocchi: Transitions Through Time and Space

Similar to Ganesha the elephant-headed deity in India, Janus is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings in ancient Roman mythology. He is usually depicted as having tw...
Emma O'Neill on this Samhain
Oct. 31, 2021

Emma O'Neill on this Samhain

Samhain or All Hollow’s Eve is an ancient festival of the northern Gaelic islands. It’s a celebration meant to honor the beginning of winter when the demarcation between this world the other is thinned. On this day the Aos Si...
Lu Duong: The Western Wing
Oct. 24, 2021

Lu Duong: The Western Wing

It is probably no secret to you all that we (Harmony & Russell) enjoy watching television together (shhh…!). After finishing over 21 seasons of Hell’s Kitchen, we moved on to prestige dramas like The Handmaid’s Tale and Mrs. ...
Michael Baidoo: The Beginner's Mind
Oct. 17, 2021

Michael Baidoo: The Beginner's Mind

We can not wait to introduce you to our guest this week: Michael Baidoo. Michael is very unique in that he’s what we might call a “CoVid phenomenon.” He is completely self taught through online resources, social media, and Zo...
The Undersea World of Daniela Ceccarelli
Oct. 10, 2021

The Undersea World of Daniela Ceccarelli

Observe this seeming contradiction: The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. - Jacques Coust...