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Harmony Slater

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Finding Harmony Host / Coach / Spiritual Wellness Teacher

Harmony Slater is a Spiritual Wellness Coach whose mission is to support spiritually-curious entrepreneurs with “science-backed woo” to create a deeply fulfilling life and a business they love.

She's a National Board Certified Health Coach, Certified in both Quantum Coaching and in the Mastery Coaching Methods. She's also Certified Ashtanga Yoga Teacher, one of less than 20 women in the world to hold this honour, after training in India for 15 years.

She began travelling to East Asia in 2002 to study Buddhism, after completing two degrees in Philosophy and Eastern Religious Studies. In 2004, I began a life-long love affair with India, spending the next 15 years living there for extended periods of time immerse in Yoga practice, Vipassana meditation, Ayurveda, and Philosophy.

For the past 20+ years Harmony's been focused on sharing these deeper teachings + practices of multidimensional wellness to support women around the world in eliminating midlife burnout + restoring joy, to create a life and wellness business that nourishes both their soul and bank account. She's taught workshops and retreats in over 30 different countries.

She’s the host of the Finding Harmony Podcast, an active Board Member for the non-profit organization Yoga Gives Back, and has been featured in two anthologies on yoga, pregnancy, and motherhood in: ‘Yoga Sadhana for Mothers’ and ‘Strength and Grace: A collection of Essays by Women of Ashtanga Yoga.’

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April 28, 2026

Yoga and Buddhism: How to Build a Practice That Actually Frees You

What does it really mean to build a life around practice — not just on the mat, but in how you love, how you work, and how you show up for your community? In this rich and wide-ranging conversation, Harmony Slater welcomes Sonia and Luis, the founders of Agora Lisboa — a space in Portugal dedicated to yoga, meditation, and the deep study of Buddhist philosophy. This is a couple who left careers in international development and high finance, followed the thread of practice across continents, a...
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Feb. 24, 2026

Ancient Greek Magic, Egyptian Mysteries & Shamanic Healing

Have you ever experienced a physical symptom that doctors couldn't explain — and it vanished in a single spiritual session? That's exactly what happened to Harmony Slater after five years of unexplained hip pain. In this episode, Harmony speaks with Fotoula Adrimi — shamanic teacher, founder of the Isis School of Holistic Health, and author of The Sacred Mysticism of Egypt: The Ancient Path of Heka Initiation — about how soul retrieval works, what ancient shamanism can heal that modern med...
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Feb. 17, 2026

3 Ways Your Thoughts Are Aging Your Face (And What to Do Instead)

What if the way you age isn’t just about time and genetics—but about your beliefs? What if your face, your energy, your vitality are shaped not only by biology but by what we might call your belief biology? In this episode, Harmony Slater sits down with Angelika Anagnostou, a practitioner of the Life Alignment methodology, to explore a radically different perspective on rejuvenation—one that blends the science of consciousness with the body’s innate intelligence. Disclaimer: The informa...
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Feb. 10, 2026

Becoming More Human in the Age of AI

What happens when a tech executive building AI infrastructure has a profound spiritual awakening? Pete Sacco went from 368 pounds and type 2 diabetes to complete transformation—discovering that consciousness is eternal while designing the data centers powering the AI revolution. Pete shares his "Commit, Learn, Do" framework, why AI will force humanity to become MORE human, his mystical experiences with plant medicine, and what his 7-year-old daughter taught him about Zen. ABOUT PETE SACCO ...
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Feb. 3, 2026

Evidence, Experience & Energy: A Physician’s Perspective on Healing

What happens when a board-certified medical doctor discovers energy healing—and realizes science and spirituality have been saying the same thing all along? Medical doctor Ana Baptista, MD (hematologist, 18 years experience) bridges Western medicine and energy healing. Discover the neuroscience behind spinal energetics, why your heart is a second brain, real healing stories (chronic pain resolved in one session), and the emotional roots of disease. Learn about co-regulation, alignment, and why s...
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Jan. 27, 2026

How to Decode Your Body's Secret Language & Heal Yourself

What if your body has been trying to tell you something all along—and you just didn't know how to listen? Twenty-five years ago, Inna was trapped in chronic pain. Psoriasis covered her body. She could barely walk due to back issues. She struggled with anxiety, depression, and digestive problems. She was stuck in the medical system, being told her conditions were genetic and permanent, taking medications that didn't work. Then, at age 20, she lost her baby. And in the depths of that grief and p...
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Jan. 20, 2026

Where Gothic Literature Meets Ashtanga Yoga

What happens when a scholar who studies death for a living discovers she must learn to truly live in her body? This haunting conversation explores literature, yoga, and the long road to embodiment. IN THIS EPISODE: Introduction to Finding Harmony Podcast Meet Jessica Murphy: Gothic Literature Scholar & Ashtanga Practitioner Teaching English Literature at the University of Iceland Jessica's Literary Works: Wishbone, Ossa Vivi, Moss & Rose Poetry, Novellas, and the Gothic Genre ...
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Jan. 13, 2026

How to Navigate 2026's Biggest Astrological Shifts

Are you feeling like you're standing on the edge of something new as we enter 2026? Maybe you're uncertain about what's ahead or how to step forward with confidence. This episode is your cosmic guide to the year ahead. Join host Harmony Slater and spiritual astrologer Monica Lorraine for a deep dive into the major astrological shifts happening in 2026 and what they mean for your emotional healing, relationships, and personal growth. Unlike predictive astrology that focuses on fear and fate...
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Jan. 6, 2026

From Yin to Yang: Transitioning from Wood Snake to Fire Horse Energy in 2026

Welcome to 2026! In this solo episode, Harmony Slater guides you through the powerful liminal space between the yin energy of the Wood Snake year and the dynamic yang energy of the Fire Horse year beginning February 17th. In This Episode, You'll Discover: Why January through mid-February is a crucial threshold period for spiritual and energetic preparation How to avoid burnout by working with your nervous system instead of against it The difference between false urgency and true intuit...
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Dec. 30, 2025

Balancing Life and Health: Practical Tips for Sustainable Change (Replay)

As we step into 2026, many of us feel the pull to create meaningful change—to eat better, move more, and build habits that truly support our wellbeing. Yet so often, these intentions don't stick. Why do most New Year's resolutions fail by mid-January? In this timely replay episode, host Harmony Slater reconnects with health and nutrition coach Layne Stowell for an honest, practical conversation about sustainable habit change. Together, they explore why the all-or-nothing approach sets us up f...
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Dec. 23, 2025

AI, Consciousness & the Quantum Field: A Christmas Episode on Transformation

This Christmas, we did something completely different. Instead of planning our usual year-end reflection, we handed control to AI—specifically ChatGPT—and asked it to curate 15 topics based on who we are, what we've experienced this year, and what needs to be said. The result? Well, you’re just gonna have to give it a listen! Join Harmony Slater and Russell Case as they explore the intersection of ancient wisdom and cutting-edge technology through discussions that span quantum consciousness, ...
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Dec. 16, 2025

Sacred Rage: Using Anger as a Catalyst for Spiritual Growth

What happens when you love a practice but recognize the harm within its structures? In this raw and revelatory conversation, Harmony sits down with Zoe Ward—long-time Ashtanga practitioner, authorized teacher, and the voice behind @unrulyascetic—to explore what it means to dismantle a tradition from within. Zoe spent years immersed in Mysore, studying with lineage teachers, and fully embodying the discipline that defines Ashtanga yoga. But somewhere along the way, she began to see the cracks:...
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Dec. 9, 2025

When Your Body Says No: Listening To The Wisdom In Your Practice

After more than 25 years of practice and 20 years of teaching, Harmony has found herself in a very different relationship with yoga than the one she started with. In this conversation, she sits down with her friend and co-facilitator, Lindsay Johnson, to talk honestly about what happens when a highly structured, discipline heavy practice stops feeling like home to your body. They trace the arc from Ashtanga and power vinyasa into somatic yoga, nervous system literacy, trauma sensitivity, and ...
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Dec. 2, 2025

Spiritual Awakening Through the Enneagram and Expanded States of Consciousness

In this mind-bending, heart-opening conversation, Harmony and Russell welcome back author, former Benedictine monk, financial advisor, and Enneagram educator Doug Lynam. What begins as a discussion about money and spirituality quickly expands into psychedelics, ego structures, ancient Christian history, mystical experiences, and why our deepest personal wounds shape both our financial lives and our spiritual paths. Doug unpacks how his monastic vows, his monastery’s bankruptcy, and years of g...
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Nov. 25, 2025

Energy Before Strategy: Rewiring Your Frequency For Abundance

This special Black Friday solo episode of the Finding Harmony Podcast invites you to step out of the frenzy of sales and into a much quieter revolution: transforming your relationship with money from the inside out. Host Harmony Slater reframes money as energy, a living current that wants to circulate, not stagnate. Drawing on her own history of growing up in a household marked by financial fear and scarcity, she shares three key insights that can help you reset your money frequency as the ho...
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Nov. 4, 2025

Small Moves, Big Relief: A Practical Guide To Returning To Yoga

Harmony and Russell sit down with long-time friend and teacher Krista Shirley to explore what it truly means to feel at home in your body. Krista recounts a devastating shoulder surgery complication that severed her suprascapular nerve, the long journey through pain and medical dead ends, and the mind-body tools that helped her rebuild function and joy. She shares how meditation, mental rehearsal, pranayama, and small, precise movements became a bridge back to daily practice, and why her Body Me...
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Oct. 28, 2025

Where Science Meets Soul: Psychedelics, Healing, and Integration

Harmony and Russell talk with researcher and author Matt Zemon about psychedelics as catalysts for change, not cures. They explore what current studies suggest about anxiety, PTSD, repetitive thinking, and addiction, then ground the conversation in practical guidance: source, set, and setting, medical intake, and the role of preparation and integration. The trio also contrasts medical and ceremonial lanes, the spiritual significance of entheogens, and how community transforms the healing arc—esp...
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Oct. 21, 2025

From Hot Rooms to Healing: Leaving Harmful Lineages and Finding Real Practice

What happens when devotion slips into blind obedience? Harmony opens this episode with a frank reflection on power, consent, and autonomy in yoga. She then welcomes Tamara Cole, a yoga teacher and former boat captain whose journey took her from Bikram’s hot rooms to a life of freedom and integrity in the Galápagos Islands. Together, they unpack how groupthink, hierarchy, and manipulation take root in spiritual spaces — and what it looks like to rebuild a practice grounded in awareness, consen...
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Oct. 14, 2025

Creating Inclusive Spaces: How Queer Yoga Club Is Changing the Practice

Harmony and Russell talk with teacher and studio co-leader Joseph Armstrong about recovery, identity, the discipline that actually changes lives, and building inclusive community through the Queer Yoga Club at Miami Life Center. Joseph shares how a strong recovery container and a steady Mysore practice worked together, why expectations and boundaries matter, what it is really like to run a studio, and how to expand programs without losing lineage. In this conversation Addiction, relapse, ...
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Sept. 30, 2025

Nourish to Practice: Yoga, Recovery, and Listening to Your Body

This conversation traces what happens when yoga is not just a class but a way of living. Harmony speaks with nutritionist and longtime Ashtanga practitioner Karolina Zakrzewska about two decades in India, managing Purple Valley in Goa, opening the Tenerife sister center, and how dedication to practice intersected with her recovery from disordered eating. They explore the “fire” that fuels Ashtanga, the risk of letting that fire consume us, and practical, compassionate ways to nourish body, mind,...
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Sept. 16, 2025

Quantum Healing in Action: What the Science of Energy Reveals

What does it really mean to live in alignment? In this radiant conversation, Harmony and Russell welcome Shalane Carter, an energetic healer and embodiment guide, to explore the power of living in tune with your body’s frequency. Shalane shares how her early background in massage therapy, esthetics, and competitive fitness evolved into a deep understanding of quantum healing, cyclical living, and feminine energetics. This episode is a call to drop out of logic and into the wisdom of the body, es...
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Sept. 9, 2025

How to Finally Step Into the Strongest Version of Yourself

In this solo episode of the Finding Harmony Podcast, Harmony Slater opens the door on coaching—what it is, why it matters, and how it can change the way you live, work, and relate to yourself. Drawing from her own journey as both coach and client, Harmony explains why coaching is such a powerful tool for breaking patterns, creating habits that stick, and finding clarity when life feels overwhelming. She guides you through reflective exercises that can help you see your blind spots, meet resis...
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Sept. 2, 2025

From Intuition to Energy Healing: Exploring the Psychic Path

What does it mean to be psychic—and how do we learn to trust our intuition without feeling overwhelmed? In this episode of the Finding Harmony Podcast, Harmony Slater sits down with Lisa Campion, a master psychic, medium, and Reiki teacher with over three decades of experience mentoring healers and supporting sensitive souls. Together, they explore how psychic ability develops, the role of trauma and nervous system regulation in spiritual growth, and the difference between vibrational healing...
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Aug. 19, 2025

Parampara, Paper, and Power: The Politics of Ashtanga Certification After Sharath

In this deeply reflective solo episode, host Harmony Slater addresses a heated debate currently circling the global Ashtanga yoga community: certifications and their legitimacy. Drawing from her own decades of practice and personal memories of studying with Sharath Jois, Harmony offers her perspective on what certification really means — and what it doesn’t. She invites us to step back from the noise of division and instead consider the larger crises happening across our world: climate disast...
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Aug. 12, 2025

Yoga Beyond Performance: Identity, Access, And Ashtanga

This conversation explores the lived experience of practicing and teaching Ashtanga as a visible minority, and what it takes to evolve a lineage without losing its heart. We examine how unspoken norms, lack of clear standards, and performance-driven culture can exclude people, and what a more inclusive, structured, and compassionate approach looks like in real rooms. What You’ll Hear Identity, visibility, and belonging in traditional Ashtanga spaces Why standards matter, and how “no st...
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July 22, 2025

Spiritual Science: How Mantras Work Like Code for the Soul

What happens when you chant a mantra 900,000 times in solitude? Dr. Vigneshwar Bhat knows. This week on the Finding Harmony Podcast, Harmony sits down with one of her beloved teachers to explore the deep wisdom of the Vedas, the science behind mantra, and the importance of ritual precision in spiritual life. Dr. Bhat, a Vedic priest and PhD in Mimamsa Philosophy, shares his journey from a remote village in Karnataka to founding the Rishikulam International Center for Vedic Studies and Research. ...
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July 15, 2025

What If Nothing Is Wrong With You? Understanding Threat, Ease, and the Nervous System

What if your biggest problem… isn’t actually a problem at all? In this enlightening conversation, Harmony and Russell welcome back longtime friend, acupuncturist, and author Dr. Jagdeep Johal. Together, they explore how unresolved threat—not personality flaws or psychological issues—drives our sense of suffering. Dr. Johal discusses his new book, Ease: Unwinding the Biology of Threat, which reframes trauma, burnout, and stress through the lens of the nervous system. From the body's threat-respo...
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July 8, 2025

Why You’re More Intuitive Than You Think (and How to Tap In)

In this multidimensional episode, Harmony Slater sits down with long-time friend and deeply intuitive healer, Angelika Anagnostou. From clearing the evil eye in childhood to becoming a certified Ashtanga yoga teacher and practitioner of Life Alignment Therapy, Angelika shares her incredible journey through spiritual awakening, depression, soul retrieval, and psychic training. Raised in Greece and trained in London at the College of Psychic Studies, Angelika opens up about the real work of reclai...
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Feb. 25, 2025

Following Your Aliveness: The Path to Energy Healing and Spiritual Business

What if the key to success wasn’t about grinding harder but about aligning with what truly lights you up? In this Finding Harmony Podcast solo episode, host Harmony Slater gets raw and real about the unconventional path that led her to energy healing, business coaching, and creating a purpose-driven life. From early transcendental experiences as a child to navigating burnout, business pivots, and deep transformational work, Harmony shares the power of following your aliveness. She unpacks ...
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Jan. 21, 2025

Bathed, Beaten, and Blessed: Making Everyday objects sacred

In this episode of the Finding Harmony Podcast, Harmony and Russell welcome two vibrant and wildly creative guests, Spiros Antonopoulos and Barry Silver. Known for their bold artistic ventures, they join forces to share a remarkable story of blending ancient spiritual traditions with modern conceptual art. Their project, Gently Down: Bathed, Beaten, and Blessed, turns everyday objects like t-shirts into sacred talismans infused with spiritual intention. Discover how Spiros and Barry draw i...
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Feb. 20, 2024

Reflections and Revelations: Celebrating 200 Episodes of Finding Harmony

Join us for a milestone celebration on the Finding Harmony Podcast as we dive into our 200th episode! This episode is filled with reflections, laughter, tears, & the wisdom garnered from 200 episodes of deep conversations with yoga teachers, philosophical thinkers, and change-makers from around the globe. From the transformative power of yoga and personal development to the magic of storytelling and the art of living a balanced life, Harmony and Russell peel back the layers of what makes t...