WISDOM NOW Rose Lamont & Ritual Studios

In this episode Ritual's founder, Rose Lamont, talks with Mitch Hunter, a physiotherapist, lecturer at Griffith University, and yoga and meditation teacher about his personal journey into meditation and its profound effect on his work and life.



Key Conversation Points:

- How meditation techniques help with physiotherapy

- Developing an internal stability

- The mind-body connection 

- Seeking out a genuine, ethical teacher

- Being present in the moment



Mitch is a university lecturer and yoga and meditation teacher. He has witnessed a profound self development over his 20 years of practice and is passionate about sharing the gifts of self enquiry with others. He focuses on somatosensory retraining in order to explore the cognitive and emotional links between the brain and the body, identify miscommunications, and restore a healthy relationship between the two.

In this episode Ritual's founder, Rose Lamont, talks with Jonathan MacDonald, an award-winning, bestselling author and keynote speaker on the topics of change, digital transformation, and mindset.

Key Conversation Points:

- Jonathan’s books: Powered By Change and The Rise of Advanced Thought

- The paradox of constant change

- Finding a safe haven in public speaking

- Physics, shifting paradigms, neurology

- SELF: personal, ethical, AI

Jonathan MacDonald is one of the world's most in-demand and internationally renowned strategic change-makers, unlocking success for individuals and businesses who are shaping the future. He is an entrepreneur, investor, though-leader, author, and black belt martial artist.

In this episode Chasca and I spoke about the daily rituals of Ayurveda (Dinacharya) and how to get the most of your day and life using Ayurvedic rituals and routines.

Chasca shares some tips for transforming your daily life from her book Ayurvedic Rituals. 

We also spoke about the different kinds of pressures women face with respect to beauty standards and how we can learn to approach beauty beyond the framework of capitalism and through the lens of Ayurveda.Chasca also touched on some of her own struggles with self-acceptance and how she uses Ayurveda to thrive in her body.  

 

In this interview Rose Lamont chats with Chasca Summerville about her new book - Ayurvedic Daily Rituals and how she discovered Ayurveda.  Chasca goes on to share how we can all begin to utilise some of the fundamental principles of Ayurveda to support and nourish our daily life through the transformation of some of our usual habits around our sleep, food and use of energy. 

In this episode Rituals founder Rose Lamont talks with Mark Whitwell, a world renowned teacher, author and direct student of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989), a man revered around the world as the ‘teacher of the teachers’ and ‘the father of modern Yoga.’

Mark shares his profound and embodied wisdom on how we can stop seeking for answers outside of ourselves and how we can all begin to participate more deeply in our own lives and existence. And as Mark so  eloquently and compassionately sates: 

"life is not a dedication to working on oneself toward some future ideal" .. "you are the power the cosmos". 

Key Conversation Points: 

- Mark's journey to India in the 70's and his experience meeting his teachers. 

- Yoga -   'a social dynamic of disempowerment' ? 

- 'A teacher is no more or no less than a friend' 

- Yoga - 'a struggle towards a future attainment' a creation of male orthodoxy 

- The sickness of spiritual seeking and the cure to constant seeking. 

- The origins, current state and trajectory of modern yoga in the west. 

- What it means to have an authentic yoga practice.

- Marks connection with U.G Krishnamurti, T.K.V Desikachar and T. Krishnamacharya

- Mark's relationship with T.K.V Desikachar and the origins of his book - The Heart of Yoga 

- The lineage and principles of T. Krishnamacharya 

- How to stop seeking and start participating in your yoga and life. 

- The seamless process of asana, pranayama and meditation 

- Mark's illuminating conversation one of his teachers and subsequent student - the spiritual teacher Ram Dass

About Mark: 

Mark Whitwell has taught yoga for over four decades throughout the Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, Fiji, and Aotearoa-New Zealand, and is the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar's book The Heart of Yoga.

First ‘dropping out’ of New Zealand society and travelling to India in his teens, this was the beginning of a lifelong love affair that took him into the orbits of many of the great masters of our time, known and unknown, including falling in love with Swami Muktananda in the early seventies and accompanying him around Australia. But it wasn’t until Mark met Krishnamacharya and Desikachar in Chennai (then Madras) in 1973 that he discovered a practice that could make his inspirational experiences stable and comprehensible: Yoga. Desikachar and his father were living as ordinary humble people, sharing their meals on the floor of their home, not posturing as superior beings or powertripping. Mark fell in love with this and with the Yoga he received.

In this episode Ritual's founder Rose Lamont talks with Mark Whitwell, a world renowned teacher, author and direct student of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888–1989), a man revered around the world as the ‘teacher of the teachers’ and ‘the father of modern Yoga.’

Mark shares his profound and embodied wisdom on how we can stop seeking for answers outside of ourselves and how we can all begin to participate more deeply in our own yoga and existence. And as Mark so  eloquently and compassionately sates: 

"life is not a dedication to working on oneself toward some future ideal" .. "you are the power the cosmos". 

Key Conversation Points: 

- Mark's journey to India in the 70's and his experience meeting his teachers. 

- Yoga - 'a social dynamic of disempowerment' ? 

- 'A teacher is no more or no less than a friend' 

- Yoga - 'a struggle towards a future attainment' a creation of male orthodoxy 

- The sickness of spiritual seeking and the cure to constant seeking. 

- The origins, current state and trajectory of modern yoga in the west. 

- What it means to have an authentic yoga practice.

- Marks connection with U.G Krishnamurti, T.K.V Desikachar and T. Krishnamacharya

- Mark's relationship with T.K.V Desikachar and the origins of his book - The Heart of Yoga 

- The lineage and principles of T. Krishnamacharya 

- How to stop seeking and start participating in your yoga and life. 

- The seamless process of asana, pranayama and meditation 

- Mark's illuminating conversation one of his teachers and subsequent student - the spiritual teacher Ram Dass

About Mark: 

Mark Whitwell has taught yoga for over four decades throughout the Americas, Asia, Europe, Australia, Fiji, and Aotearoa-New Zealand, and is the editor and contributor to TKV Desikachar's book The Heart of Yoga.

First ‘dropping out’ of New Zealand society and travelling to India in his teens, this was the beginning of a lifelong love affair that took him into the orbits of many of the great masters of our time, known and unknown, including falling in love with Swami Muktananda in the early seventies and accompanying him around Australia. But it wasn’t until Mark met Krishnamacharya and Desikachar in Chennai (then Madras) in 1973 that he discovered a practice that could make his inspirational experiences stable and comprehensible: Yoga. Desikachar and his father were living as ordinary humble people, sharing their meals on the floor of their home, not posturing as superior beings or powertripping. Mark fell in love with this and with the Yoga he received.