12 episodes
Inner Explorations with Angela and Victor: A Yoga Podcast Blake Tedder
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- Health & Fitness
This is a new podcast featuring conversations with legendary yoga teachers Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten who teach us to do yoga from the inside out and point us to radically creative and alive ways to inhabit and move in our bodies. These conversations and occasional other special treats are for anyone exploring yoga, embodiment, healing, creativity, or deepening a connection to the natural world. Learn more about host and yoga teacher Blake Tedder at blaketedder.com. Learn more about Angela and Victor at angela-victor.com. Email questions to angelavictorpodcast@gmail.com.
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In and Out of Form
This episode is a true exploration, with no pre-selected topic, we were free to consider what was fresh. We journey through our tendencies to see, follow, and repeat forms, living in these body, digesting what we are learning rather than grasping a "take away" meal, making yoga (or anything) your own, receptivity, the masculine's most important work of supporting the feminine, an attitudes about practice at different stages of life. I hope you find nuggets of wisdom that you can take in and digest to fuel your own inner explorations.
Please feel free to email us and let us know how you're working with what you've learned from these episodes. Better yet, send us a brief audio file describing your experiences after listening. We may play them in the podcast. Contact us at angelavictorpodcast@gmail.com.
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Links:
Recordings of Angela's recent Zoom series (amazing) may be available for download soon here.
Victor's Christmas card mentioned early on.
A&V's interview on the J. Brown Yoga Talks podcast can be found here.
Contribute to the production of the podcast here.
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Find out more about Angela and Victor at angela-victor.com
Find out more about Blake at blaketedder.com | blake@blaketedder.com | @nohighwaycowboy on Twitter
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Inevitably, Eftalou
This episode is all about Greece, the island of Lesvos, and the valley of Eftalou and how in the world Angela and Victor landed there in the first place. As many students of A&V know, the duo has been teaching workshops from Greece for decades, but the winding story about how that dream became a reality is full of mystery, a castle, a very particular light, roman coins, eroding olive groves, earthquake architecture, and a called-off wedding. It's a great story.
Visiting A&V in Greece hasn't been possible through the global pandemic, but they have announced fall workshops. See the links below for details.
Please feel free to email us and let us know how you're working with what you've learned from these episodes. Better yet, send us a brief audio file describing your experiences after listening. We may play them in the podcast. Contact us at angelavictorpodcast@gmail.com.
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Links:
Info about Fall Workshops in Greece is available on the main page and schedule pages on A&V's website.
A&V's interview on the J. Brown Yoga Talks podcast can be found here.
Contribute to the production of the podcast here.
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Find out more about Angela and Victor at angela-victor.com
Find out more about Blake at blaketedder.com | blake@blaketedder.com | @nohighwaycowboy on Twitter
Music: Siddartha Corsus "Ta Da!" from freemusicarchive.org -
Taking the body to its limits... or not
In this episode we talk about sports, Olympic athletes, and embodiment for achievement at high levels, the limits of our anatomy, whether or not a structured practice is useful, and so much more. This conversation was something different entirely than what I had planned, and it is one of my favorite conversations with A&V yet.
Please feel free to email us and let us know how you're working with what you've learned from these episodes. Better yet, send us a brief audio file describing your experiences after listening. We may play them in the podcast. Contact us at angelavictorpodcast@gmail.com.
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Links:
Info about Angela’s March Zoom series is available on the ‘Products’ page of their website or directly here.
A&V's interview on the J. Brown Yoga Talks podcast can be found here.
Contribute to the production of the podcast here.
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Find out more about Angela and Victor at angela-victor.com
Find out more about Blake at blaketedder.com | blake@blaketedder.com | @nohighwaycowboy on Twitter
Music: Siddartha Corsus "Ta Da!" from freemusicarchive.org -
Announcements: Breath, the Beloved & The Garden of Earthly Delights
This is a short announcements episodes to let you know what Angela and Victor are up to. Angela's new Zoom class series begins today (Nov. 25). Called "Breath, the Beloved" (links below). Blake also mentions the new video series he and Victor recorded about 16th century painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights" (links also below). Thank you all so much for your time and attention. We are glad you are enjoying the podcast. Please email us and let us know how you're working with it. Better yet, send us a brief audio file describing your experiences after listening. We may play them in the podcast. Contact angelavictorpodcast@gmail.com.
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Links:
Info about Angela’s Zoom series from Nov. 25 - Dec 19 is available on the ‘Products’ page of their website or directly here.
Victor's and Blake's conversation about Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" can be found here: PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3
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Find out more about Angela and Victor at angela-victor.com
Find out more about Blake at blaketedder.com | blake@blaketedder.com | @nohighwaycowboy on Twitter
Music: Siddartha Corsus "Ta Da!" from freemusicarchive.org -
Space is the Place
In another episode full of deep wisdom worthy of a relisten, Angela and Victor talk about the importance of finding space in our bodies and in our lives and learning to fill that space with more resourceful and alive parts of ourselves. Jumping off directly from our last conversation about Healing, feeling interior space is a central aspect to the healing journey and a friend for our preparations for death.
*Pardon the squeaky fan and it's interaction with Zoom technology.
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Links:
Info about Angela’s Zoom series in September/October 2021 is available on the ‘Products’ page of their website or directly here.
The title of this episode comes from a signature line and song title of legendary intergalactic jazz musician Sun Ra. Here's one of my favorite clips of music where he completely deconstructs Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington's "Take the A Train". It's wild. Talk about space!
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Find out more about Angela and Victor at angela-victor.com
Find out more about Blake at blaketedder.com | blake@blaketedder.com | @nohighwaycowboy on Twitter
Music: Siddartha Corsus "Ta Da!" from freemusicarchive.org -
Our Own Power to Heal
In this rich episode I ask Angela and Victor to help me understand what we have to heal and what healing is anyways. If you have found yoga to be a healing practice for you, if you've had trauma(s) in your life, or if you're just curious about a deeply gentle and personally empowered healing practice looks like, you will enjoy this episode. You may want to listen to this one a few times. I know I will.
*Pardon the squeaky fan and it's interaction with Zoom technology.
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Links:
Info about Angela’s Zoom series in September 2021 is available on the ‘Products’ page of their website or directly here.
Information about the movie My Left Foot that Angela discusses at the end can be found here.
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Find out more about Angela and Victor at angela-victor.com
Find out more about Blake at blaketedder.com | blake@blaketedder.com | @nohighwaycowboy on Twitter
Music: Siddartha Corsus "Ta Da!" from freemusicarchive.org