Whole Life Yoga Podcast
Bringing the ancient, timeless, perennial teachings of yoga to vivid life. Unscripted talks on whole life yoga. Considering life through a yogic lens. Exploring the yoga of the whole human being with reference to the classic Sanskṛt texts of the yoga tradition, mythology, poetry, literature and music, and to movement, meditation, kīrtan and the yoga of sound and song, language and communciation. www.jamesboagyoga.com
Episodes
21 episodes
On the Bhagavad Gītā - All the cows - sarvo'paniṣado gāvaḥ...
This episode considers some of the rich layers of meaning encoded in one of the Sanskṛt verses that is traditionally sung before study of the Bhagavad Gītā:Sarvo’paniṣado gāvaḥ dogdhā gopālanandanaḥ |Partho vatsaḥ sudhīrbhoktāḥ dugd...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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30:09
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Love Story: On intuition, fear and learning with William S Whorton
In this fifth conversation with William S Whorton, I ask him about his success in avoiding some of the ways human beings sabotage their own lives that he became keenly aware of as a teenager. I also asked Bill about his marriage. When I worked ...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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52:14
Heed Your Conscience - Thanking the Teachers 1 - Mrs Eggleston
In this first 'thanking the teachers/thoughts on the guru' episode, I give thanks to my third year junior school class teacher, Mrs Eggleston. During my schooling I was fortunate to have some wonderful teachers. I also encountered and survi...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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18:42
On Enchantment & the Transcendent: the only white boy in the 2nd Baptist Church w/ William S Whorton
In this fourth conversation with William S Whorton, I ask him about one of the formative experiences of his life that I have had the privilege of reading about, Bill's first encounter with the TRANSCENDENT through the music that came into his l...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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49:31
On initiation and transformation: The Marine Corps and the Bhagavad Gītā with William S Whorton
I enjoyed this third conversation with William S Whorton, co-translator with Acharn Tassanee Sinsakul of The Bhagavad Gītā published last year by Uppsala Books: https://uppsalabooks.com/bg on the 65th anniversary of Bill's first day of training...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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45:21
EVERY DAY... the dawn brings a blessing
Yoga practice is EVERY DAYAs Rabindranath Tagore, translated by William Radice said it:Every day, the dawn Brings a blessingTo whatever is still growingTowards the SunRabindranath Tagore - Sparks/ Sphuli...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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23:31
On Intensity - Tīvra
Sometimes people have the misperception that yoga is about 'chillaxing' or 'going with the flow'. Yoga is about balance. Sometimes of course, taking things easy and going with the flow is the optimal way of being, but if we just go with the flo...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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23:21
On mastery and apprenticeship
A fairly freewheeling episode in which I share thoughts on mastery and apprenticeship. In recent weeks I have had the privilege and joy to share in person with several long term colleagues whom I had not seen for some time. More than once this ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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21:58
Yoga āsana - what's the story?
Āsana literally means 'seat', the seat not just of our physical body, but of our whole psychic reality. Yoga techniques seek to cultivate a seat of awareness that is steady and clear, so we can move through the rich opportunities of life with g...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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26:02
Satya ṛta bṛhat - yoga and the mountains - conversation with Clare Nicholls
This May 8-12 2024 I will be collaborating with Clare Nicholls on a living the yoga sūtra-s immersive retreat during which we'll explore how we can embody the practical, whole life teachings of yoga. In this conversation, Clare and I share some...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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27:06
Italian edition - Bella Ciao
This week I'm going to be collaborating with Rosa Tagliafierro of ashtanga yoga italia in Milano, giving a weekend immersion in Italian. Here is an Italian themed podcast episode in which I share a yogic perspective on the Italian folk song Bel...
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On the battlefield for life with Bill Whorton - on confronting evil
In this episode I continue the conversation around the practical teachings of the Bhagavad Gītā with my friend and former colleague from Chulalongkorn University, Acharn Captain William S Whorton. As a combat veteran who has experienced and par...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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39:30
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Living the yoga sūtra-s conversation with Clare Nicholls
In this conversation with Clare Nicholls, we consider:- what does it mean to 'live the yoga sūtra-s'?- why might a person might want to do that?How can these teachings help us weave greater harmony into the fabric of our being. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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45:03
Prague edition 2 - Jakob and the golden hearth
Praha edition 2 - Jakob and the golden hearthAs I’m still in Prague, I’m continuing on the Prague theme, here sharing another of my favourite yoga stories from beyond the Indic tradition. This one is of Jakob and the golden hearth. It f...
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22:03
Prague edition 1 - Princess Kolobiska and la contadina furba - Yoga happens in the junction
I am in the beautiful capital of Bohemia, not far from the Vltava river. In this episode I share a story of Princess Kolobiska, the young woman who knows how to find the sure way through even seemingly impossible situations by finding the middl...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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19:28
On the battlefield for life - Conversation with Acharn Captain William S Whorton - 1
In this episode I am in conversation with my friend and former colleague from Chulalongkorn University, Acharn Captain William S Whorton.Over the last twenty-four years, together with our great Sanskṛt teacher Acharn Tassanee Sinsakul, Bill...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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49:25
Let us not get lost in lamentation! With reference to 'jai perdu mon eurydice'
Let us not get lost in lamentation! As Kṛṣṇa urges us in the Bhagavad Gītā, life will involve gain and loss, joy and sorrow, hot and cold, pleasure and pain. The coming and going of these pairs of opposites is inevitable. Once we have felt and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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18:03
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Freedom and La Vie en Rose
Yoga wants to set us free, but in what sense?
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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19:56
Why Yoga Matters
Why does yoga matter? Why is it so helpful and relevant today? This episode considers some of the timeless principles of yoga and how we can work with them to help foster deeper harmony in our lives today.
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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27:23
On Kīrtan - Yoga of Sound and Song
On Kīrtan - Yoga of Sound and SongThere are so many ways to practice yoga. Yet from a certain perspective, most yoga techniques are in some way about sound, vibration and harmonisation. Kīrtan is one of the techniques I especially enjoy...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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