The FunnYoginI Show: Recent Episodes
Rukus Avenue Radio
As the 2016-17 President of Ventura’s Oceanview Toastmasters Club, award-winning Speaker Rasika Mathur motivated members to organize themselves to write, schedule and deliver speeches and encourage positive, supportive feedback and she helped cultivate an environment that fueled personal growth in overcoming fears in public speaking. Pursuing her second 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training certification has also inspired her to bring in more meditation and grounding techniques into performing, speaking and daily living. She is also exploring her empathic gifts with animals and relies on her intuition and ability to attune to her clients as a Mental Health Facilitator in her work with addiction-recovering patients. She has worked in the Writers Room for Kevin Hart’s Digital Comedy Company, Hartbeat presents LOL, on AMC’s ad agency competition The Pitch, as an Improv comedian on 7 seasons on MTV's Nick Cannon Presents Wild N Out! and appeared on My Name is Earl, Weeds, Crazy Stupid Love, the NBC series Abby’s, and the 2018 revival of Will & Grace. Rasika also has an Award-winning Music Video & Comedy Album, The Sari (W)rap, produced by Rukus Avenue, available on iTunes. She’s also been a Sketch Comedy and Storytelling Festival favorite as 1/3 of Siblings of Doctors, and a Hollywood Fringe 2017 Scholarship Winner for her one woman show My Hustle Has ADHD. She has crafted award-winning copy for Leo Burnett, Burrell Communications and excelled at writing witty dialogue and comedy routines for commercial radio at several agencies. Her story Rising From The Ashes - about surviving the Thomas Fire and believing in miracles - has been heard from Ojai to Ventura College to Santa Monica and all points in between.
Rasika goes on the epic Southwestern Desert Roadtrip of a lifetime. In Sedona, she meets up with her motorcycle-riding buddy, co-star, fellow meditator, model and stuntman Brendan Healy ~ Music by DJ Taz Rashid and Ozzy Osbourne ~ Rasika feels a growing, gnawing anxiety over reuniting with her aging parents ~ Guided Meditation to Overcome Fears (it worked for her!).
Rasika gabs with longtime friend, collaborator, and Co-Founder of both Rukus Avenue and Good Luck Yogi, Anchal Chand. Among the topics discussed are the sacredness of animals and meditation as a tool to interrupt family trauma & drama ~ Music by Aurora and Broods.
Rasika chats with Kalbeliya World founders Christina Gomes and Aakansha Maheshwari ~ Music by Asha Sapera and Gulabo ~ Rasika adjusts surprisingly well to a lack of plumbing ~ Crazy Mummy Attempts 5AM Morning Meditation
Music from Joni Mitchell ~ Radio Play Mummy Doesn’t Know She’s Crazy Pt 3 - Mummy Attempts Forest Therapy Immersion ~ A Reading from Self-Reliance ~ Rasika loses it over perceived animal cruelty.
Rasika sits down with Playwright, Actress & Raw Vegan Synida Fontes, to discuss her hilarious, fiercely femme work “Pussy Power & Power Outages” ~ The ladies speculate over the speculum ~ Fake New Age Expert Susie Austere Subtle reappears with mysterious Sacral Chakra healing stones ~ Featured Music by Rasika Mathur (I Think I’m Gonna Kama Sutra).
Radio Play Mummy Doesn’t Know She’s Crazy Pt 2 - Mummy finds herself attending a 12 Step Group ~ Music from LL Cool J ~ Rasika celebrates her birthday in isolation. How? With Stuffed Animals and Healing Crystals, of course!
Rasika shares tales about her song, The Sari (W)rap, produced by Rukus Avenue ~ Live Storytelling: They Called Me Gandhi On the 5th Grade Playground ~ Music from Kendrick Lamar ~ Fake New Age Expert Susie Austere Subtle breaks down the Root Chakra.
Rasika opens up about her own mother and her love for Burning Man ~ Radio Play Mummy Doesn’t Know She’s Crazy Pt 1 ~ Featuring music from The Rolling Stones and Neil Young ~ Rasika performs at the 2015 Moth StorySLAM in New Orleans on the topic of “Chemistry”
Part 2 of the interview with Rasika’s beloved storytelling coach, Deana Barone ~ Music from Beyonce & CSNY ~ Letter from a Mother of an Angry Teen ~ Rasika beseeches moms to model the behavior they want in their kids
Rasika interviews her guest, Deana Barone - an extraordinary Director, Dramaturg and Mother to a toddler, to discuss how to raise conscious boys in this world ~ Music from John Lennon ~ Letter from a New Mom Listener ~ Children Nannied by Rasika give her important life lessons
Rasika’s pesky A.D.H.D symptoms flare up while trying to produce this podcast ~ Music by Logic (Anziety) and Jhene Aiko (Trigger Protection Mantra) ~ Creating the Ideal Parent Exercise ~ Sponsor: DragonTree Planner
Rasika kicks off her inaugural episode by checking her privilege ~ Music from Nirvana, a Game of Thrones mug and a childhood prayer from her Grandmother all hold special meaning ~ A Guided Meditation For Racists Sponsor: Good Luck Yogi