The Yoga Trade Podcast: Recent Episodes
Yoga Trade, The Nomadic Filmmaker
The Yoga Trade Podcast explores spirituality, wellness and sustainability in all different corners of this Earth. Yoga Trade is an online platform and community that connects you with job opportunities and work exchanges around the world. Our host, Audrey Billups, is Yoga Trade’s vagabond filmmaker who captures the inspiring stories of wellness professionals and change makers she meets along her travels.
In the final episode of Season 1 of The Yoga Trade Podcast, we sit down with Yoga Trade co-founder, Erica Hartnick. Eight years after a creative spark between founders, Erica and Pat, over dragonfruit smoothies in Bali, ‘Yoga Trade’ blossomed into an online platform serving wellness practitioners around the world.
Today, we discus the power of collaboration, the importance of a regenerative mindset, along with how technology has changed our global yoga community. With the launch of the new website, we wrap up our conversation exploring the ways Yoga Trade is adapting and looking toward the future.
Connect with Erica:
www.ericahartnick.com
IG @tahoeoutdooryoga
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
“Yoga is a feeling, not just a shape.” So goes the mantra of Eoin Finn, founder of the yoga system Blissology. Today, we sit down with Eoin and his partner, Insiya Rasiwala-Finn, a Yoga, Ayurveda, and wellness expert. Here, we explore vital themes such as cultivating the habit of happiness, adopting a slower pace as a means to reconnect, and how to tackle our society's overwhelming trend towards disconnection.
In this episode, Insiya illustrates the healing power of Ayurveda, a means to live life in tune with nature. This ancient science teaches us that true freedom is only found through our limitations. We close this invigorating conversation with a look into how and why we continue to innovate the practice of yoga.
Connect with Insiya:
www.yogue.ca
IG @yogue8
Connect with Eoin:
www.blissology.com
IG @blissology
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
Drastic environmental changes and the lingering pandemic push us to reimagine a new normal. On that quest, we sit down with wellness entrepreneur, Jeff Krasno - founder of Wanderlust, CEO & Founder of Commune Media, and the host of the Commune Podcast. Through these mindful endeavors, Jeff strives to share the impact of like-minded community and hopes to enable others to take wellness into their own hands. In today’s conversation, we discuss how to discern between fact and fiction in a “post-truth” world, the importance of putting yourself on your own priority list, and the power of living an integrated life.
Connect with Jeff:
www.jeffkrasno.com
IG @jeffkrasno
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
“Life begins when we wake up to the sacredness,” when we are called to “live like an awake person.” In these introductory lines, international yoga teacher and founder of Radiant Body Yoga, Kia Miller, shakes us to recognize the luminous possibilities held within the vastness of our inner worlds. We discuss how to approach meditation from a place of open curiosity, why we must take radical responsibility for ourselves and our own actions, and the fundamentals of both Kundalini and Kriya yoga. By intimately sharing with us her path to yoga, Kia helps us understand that continually showing up on our mats is one of the purest forms of activism.
Connect with Kia:
www.kiamiller.com
IG @kiamilleryoga
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
“Sound goes where no other medicine can.” It is with this truth that LA-based sound healer, reiki master, Kundalini yoga teacher, and sobriety coach, Susy Markoe Schieffelin, enlightens us on the undeniable restoring power of sound healing. Through an intimate revelation of her personal struggle with Alopecia and addiction, Susy shares with us her personal transformation from a place of darkness to one of pure self-love and acceptance. Further uplifting us with her endurant spirit, Susy shows us how following your bliss and taking the next right step allows us to align with our purpose and break free from the limiting beliefs of abundance.
Connect with Susy:
www.thecoppervessel.com
IG @thecoppervessel
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
As the Black Lives Matter movement continues to gain momentum, diversity and inclusion have rightfully pushed to the forefront of our minds. Collectively, we're beginning to recognize the need for a narrative shift, and the wellness space is no exception. In today’s episode, Youmie Jean Francois, CEO and Founder of travel wellness startup Flex-N-Fly, champions a new definition of wellness and advocates that we must focus on diversifying our every day and leading a more colorful life. We round out our talk with a discussion of the benefits of yin and restorative yoga and the power of affirmations in self-creating our lives.
Connect with Youmie:
www.flexnfly.com
IG @flexnflyofficial
Podcast: Live in your power | Affirmations &Affirmations with Flex-N-Fly
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker.com
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
Yogini, sage, and adventurer, Deborah Koehn, unveils the foundations from which she crafted her guiding mantra, ‘Nature as Teacher’- a derivative of a lifetime spent traveling throughout the remote landscapes of our world, from the high Andes to the Himalayas. In our conversation, we discuss the conflux of neuroscience and yoga and the reasons that movement has such an ability to heal. We also reflect on the pivotal questions that Mother Earth asks of us during today's turbulent times. In closing, Deborah guides us through a chakra-flow meditation practice that leaves us with a needed sense of grounding peace.
Connect with Deborah:
www.yogaadventure.com
IG @yoga_adventure
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
As social unrest and Covid-19 cases continue to rise, we recognize the need to build a new paradigm. To do so, we must start the revolution from within and own our personal responsibility. In today's conversation with yoga teacher, social activist, and SoulWork™ founder, Adi Shakti, we explore the ways in which the global yoga community can come together to serve as a vehicle for social change.
Connect with Adi Shakti:
https://soulwork.com
IG @adi_shakti_rising
Podcast: SoulWork with Adi Shakti
Nonprofit: https://www.shaktiseva.org
Connect with our host, Audrey Billups:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
How can we adapt to create and evolve to sustain? So goes the mantra of movement catalyst, Andrew Sealy. In this episode, Sealy pulls from his own experiences to guide us on how to best thrive as wellness teachers, visionaries and overall human beings in our rapidly changing world. We discuss personal development, internal creative exploration and how to reimagine life through a lens of opportunity.
Connect with Andrew:
www.andrew7sealy.com
IG @andrew7sealy
Connect with Audrey:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges all around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
Now, more than ever, we've had to confront the great 'unknown' head-on. With the nurturing wisdom of a new mother, yoga and Ayurvedic practitioner, Amanda Noga, enlightens us on daily rituals and the endless wisdom of Ayurveda.
Connect with Amanda:
www.yogaalchemy.info
IG @yoga_alchemy
Connect with Audrey:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges around the world.
www.yogatrade.com
IG @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
In this special episode, our global listeners share their unique stories as they face Covid-19 and stay-in-place restrictions. Here, we tackle the challenges of abrupt change, mental wellbeing and individual approaches to looking ahead. At Yoga Trade, we believe we are stronger if we navigate this together.
Connect with Audrey:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges around the world.
www.yogatrade.com
IG @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
Following over a decade spent living on the streets battling addiction, Jeremy found a path to recovery and vowed to become a catalyst for social change. In this inspiring conversation, we discuss Jeremy’s commitment to activism and his unwavering altruistic spirit, even in the face of a recent cancer diagnosis.
Connect with Jeremy Jarvis:
IG @jeremyjarvis808
Connect with Audrey:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges around the world.
www.yogatrade.com
IG @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
As the coronavirus crisis continues to further enshroud our world, Audrey sits down with yoga teacher and studio owner, Nikki Ralston, in Auckland, New Zealand to discuss creative ways to handle quarantine. From cultivating your authentic voice to learning how to maintain a healthy relationship with your yoga practice when faced with disruption, we try to find forms of solace during this time of isolation and a recognition of our newfound norm.
Connect with Nikki:
www.theralstonmethod.com
IG @theralstonmethod
Connect with Audrey:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges around the world.
www.yogatrade.com
IG @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
Lomi Lomi practitioner, Shelby Mossman, takes us deep into the jungles of Maui, Hawaii. With her vivacious energy, Shelby enlightens us on the age-old practice of Hawaiian chanting and the power of bodywork in healing both the mind and soul. Audrey and Shelby also reminisce about meeting during a yoga teacher training on the Big Island and share a local's perspective on the best hikes and hidden valleys of Hawaii.
Connect with Shelby:
IG @nectarmedicinals
Connect with Audrey:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges around the world.
www.yogatrade.com
IG @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
In this intimate and heartfelt conversation, Grammy-nominated and highly talented bluesman, Johnny Nicholas shares with us his love of deep-roots music and the path that led him to discover yoga. We explore life on the road, the power of inserting intention into your work, and the critical importance of teachers and their impact on creation.
Connect with Johnny Nicholas:
http://johnnynicholasblues.com
IG @johnnynicholasblues
Connect with Audrey:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges around the world.
www.yogatrade.com
IG @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
Today, we travel to Ubud, Bali to chat with yoga teacher and mobility specialist Chris Fox. In this practice-focused conversation, we delve into the importance of moving beyond asana, the intricacies of mobility versus flexibility, and the importance of finding FUNctionality in your yoga practice.
Connect with Chris Fox:
IG @thisischrisfox
Connect with Audrey:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges around the world.
www.yogatrade.com
IG @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
Balinese philanthropist and teacher Ibu Sari shares with us her harrowing yet incredibly inspiring story. It is a story that begins with a childhood tinged with oppression, exile, and depression, but transforms beautifully into a tale of unbelievable strength and strong will. Ibu Sari is a woman who chose not to remain hindered by her intense personal hardships. Instead, through founding the Kim Women's Center - a safe haven for ostracized Balinese women - she uses them as vehicles that enable women to shake their burdens and rediscover the strength and independence that was so unfairly stripped from them.
Connect with Ibu Sari:
https://pkpwomenscentre.wordpress.com
IG @pkp.communitycenter.kim
Connect with Audrey:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges around the world.
www.yogatrade.com
IG @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
Audrey sits down in India with Hatha yoga teacher Mark Whitwell. During their conversation, Mark reminisces on his wanderings throughout India in the 70s - an ultimately enlightening journey that leads him to his teacher, Krishnamacharya. Dissecting the problems of modern yoga and the need to return to yoga in its purest form, we are left to wonder what impact this reversion could have on humanity today.
Connect with Mark:
www.heartofyoga.com
IG @markwhitwell
Connect with Audrey:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges around the world.
www.yogatrade.com & @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com
Welcome to The Yoga Trade Podcast! Through the course of each episode, we'll be traveling around the world exploring spirituality, wellness, sustainability, and more. In this introductory episode, our host, Audrey Billups, enlightens us on her own personal discovery of and transformation through yoga and travel. From living in a tent on an organic farm in Hawaii to learning how to successfully work as a traveling filmmaker and yoga teacher, it has been quite a journey! Through this new podcast, we hope to continually share the wisdom of teachers, visionaries, and change-makers around the world.
Book:
The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra
Connect with Audrey:
www.thenomadicfilmmaker.com
IG @audrey_andthewild @thenomadicfilmmaker
Yoga Trade is a platform and growing community that connects yoga teachers and wellness professionals with job opportunities and work exchanges around the world.
www.yogatrade.com
IG @yogatrade
Theme Music and Sound Mixing:
Thomàs Young, www.finecraftedsound.com