Chakrology®️: Making Yoga Make Sense

Jackie Quayle

Chakrology is a podcast for yoga teachers, seekers, and curious humans who want practical, meaningful yoga without the fluff. Join Jackie Quayle - yoga educator, mythology lover, and creator of Chakrology®️ - for conversations on yoga philosophy, nervous system education, mythology, the senses, teaching, modern life, and what it actually means to practice yoga off the mat. Expect humour, honesty, depth and the occasional rant!

Episodes

  1. Jun 30

    Making Yoga Make Sense

    Why did I create Chakrology? It wasn't because I wanted to reinvent yoga. It was because, after more than twenty years of teaching, I found myself asking the same question over and over again: "How can one answer possibly fit every human being?" In this final episode of Season One, I reflect on the assumptions I had to unlearn - about myself, about yoga, and about what it really means to teach people rather than postures. It's also the story behind the phrase "Making Yoga Make Sense," and the perfect bridge into Season Two, where we'll begin exploring the mythology that shaped so much yoga in the first place.

  2. Jun 22

    Mosquitos, Murderers and Loincloths

    Mosquitos. Murderers. Loincloths. Just another day in yogaland. In this episode I explore the gap between yoga and the culture that has grown up around it. From freezing workshops with a lovely man from Manchester practicing in a loincloth, to being taught how to use the toilet properly, I've spent over twenty years wondering whether I really did fit into yoga. Or maybe I just didn't fit into yoga culture. Along the way we'll visit Arjuna on the battlefield, ahimsa, vegetarianism and the 1960's counterculture movement. Most importantly, we'll ask the bigger question: Have we accidentally created a version of yoga that puts people off? Because if yoga was never meant to help us escape life, but to help us live it, then perhaps its time to ask who we're really speaking to when we talk about yoga today. As always, no incense was harmed in the making of this podcast.

  3. Jun 11

    What is Regular Yoga? Krishna, Goat Yoga & The Five Languages of Yoga

    The Five Languages of Yoga What do the Bhagavad Gita, football chants, Goat Yoga, and poor Arjuna have in common? More than you might think. After seeing a question in a yoga group asking, "what if I just want to do regular yoga?", I started wondering whether we're asking the wrong question altogether. Maybe there isn't a regular yoga. Maybe there are simply different yoga languages. In this episode I explore the traditional paths of yoga through a modern lens, looking at why some people connect through movement, some through study, some through service, some through community, and some through reflection. We'll also talk about modern yoga styles, clarity, confusion, nervous systems, and why Krishna might have spent eighteen chapters trying to answer a question that beginners are till asking today. Poor Arjuna!

  4. Jun 3

    Where Are All The Elders? Wisdom, Yoga & The Lost Art of Study

    What is a yoga elder? Is it age?Knowledge?Experience?Followers? In this episode I reflect on the teachers who shaped my understanding of yoga, the difference between information and wisdom, and why I believe study—svādhyāya—remains one of the most important responsibilities of any yoga teacher. A thoughtful conversation about lineage, humility, curiosity, and the teachers who never stopped being students. Information can be downloaded instantly. Wisdom still takes time.

  5. May 22

    The Sacred Horlicks Ceremony, Big Dave Clogging the Toilet, and is Real Yoga Boring?

    Welcome to Episode 2: The Sacred Horlicks Ceremony, Big Dave Clogging the Toilet, and Is Real Yoga Boring? This week I dive into modern yoga culture, cacao ceremonies, sound baths, sacred rituals, social media wellness...and why I've started to wonder whether we're accidentally leaving the yoga bit behind. There are stories about: an unfortunate "Eat Shit & Die" mug at a sacred cacao ceremony,Big Dave clogging the loo during yin yoga,chocolate buttons in Downward Dog,underwire bra's as a path to enlightenment,Shiva carrying his grief across the universe,and why philosophy and mythology might actually be the most relatable parts of yoga.But underneath the humour is a genuine question: Why do so many teachers feel overwhelmed, fragmented, and under-supported? This isn't an attack on teachers, rituals, retreats or sound baths. Humans need ritual, meaning, and ways to connect. But if we keep adding these things in, what are we leaving out? This is simply a conversation about what yoga is becoming... and whether we've forgotten how profound yoga already is. If this episode inspires even one person to pick up the Bhagavad Gita, explore a mythology story, or become curious about where yoga came from, then it's done its job. (And yes.... Big Dave, if you're listening - the underwire bra advice still stands.)

  6. May 14

    Shadow Yoga, Cults and Chakrology

    Welcome to Chakrology - a podcast where yoga, philosophy, mythology, nervous system education, and real life collide. In this first episode, Jackie shares a little about her own yoga journey, from early training and Shadow Yoga to cultish experiences, Kundalini in Widnes, and why she eventually created Chakrology and Indriya Yoga. Expect humour, honesty, practical wisdom, mythology, and the occasional rant about yoga nonsense. Because yoga should make sense - on and off the mat.

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Chakrology is a podcast for yoga teachers, seekers, and curious humans who want practical, meaningful yoga without the fluff. Join Jackie Quayle - yoga educator, mythology lover, and creator of Chakrology®️ - for conversations on yoga philosophy, nervous system education, mythology, the senses, teaching, modern life, and what it actually means to practice yoga off the mat. Expect humour, honesty, depth and the occasional rant!

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