A brilliant delve into Soisci's experience with Ido Portal, Martial Arts, Fighting Monkey, Meditation and rediscovering Joy in life. We talk about her journey from external to internal practices and what she thinks her success mindset was to become a Muay Thai World Champion and when love for training turns into an addiction. We cover a lot of ground in this episode and I want to thank Soisci again for her time to sit down and do this podcast with me. Enjoy the episode
You can find Soisci here;
https://www.humanpatterns.net/
https://praksis.com.au/bios/soisci
https://www.instagram.com/soisci_human_patterns/
Welcome back to the 8th episode of the Physical Being. Today we have our guest Marko Trkulja.
Marko is a movement teacher and practitioner, as well as a full-time student of the fine arts. He transitioned into movement after nearly a decade of playing rugby union, weightlifting and athletic training. He was trained under John Sapinoso through Ido Portal’s online coaching system for 5 years, he now teaches movement through his own online coaching system and holds group practice in Sydney’s northern beaches.
It truly was a pleasure speaking to him and I hope you enjoy the episode as much as I did.
Thank you for listening to the podcast! I would like to extend a huge thank you to Marko for joining. All of his socials and links will be in the show notes in case you want to get in touch with him.
The next episode we will be interviewing Soisci Porchetta, I’m looking forward to it. I’ll see you there.
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Today we have a spiritual mentor, meditation teacher, and student of Kriya Yoga and Advaita Vedanta Master Rajivji Kapur, Ryan Altman.
Ryan devoted his life to the spiritual path for the last 14 years, ever since he was 22 years old.
In that time he’s practiced thousands of hours of meditation and other spiritual practices, studied hundreds of spiritual texts and scriptures from different traditions, lived abroad in Thailand, Abu Dhabi and Australia, and traveled around the world including dozens of trips to India to personally study with Rajivji.
Ryan offers content, workshops, mentoring, and courses using the time-tested paths of yoga as a means to help people develop an inner practice for awakening.
Ryan’s teaching approach blends the traditional with the progressive, the ancient with the modern, the metaphysical with the scientific, and the divine with the daily grind — in short a teaching designed for authentic spiritual awakening in the modern world.
I’m going to share a bit directly from Ryan’s website thesupremeyoga.com. about his purpose.
I share what yoga is really about.
Not the consumerist form of yoga as exercise in popular culture, or the superficial spiritual materialism of influencers on social media, but the transcendent path of union with higher consciousness that yoga really is, adapted for the minds and attitudes of our modern age.
I believe that the ancient and time-tested spiritual teachings of yoga are the solution to many of the problems of the modern world. We are overloaded with stress and stimulation, and have lost our connection to inner fulfilment. We need connection to our divine nature now more than ever.
Through the power of yogic knowledge and practices, you can awaken to your divinity and cast out the darkness of division caused by misidentification and attachment with the body and mind.
Yoga is traditionally divided into four main paths, with each one directed at evolving one of our human qualities into its highest potential.
Each yogic path is a harmonious method of inner practice depending on the inclinations of the person, and eventually combines together to create your unique spiritual journey. All spiritual and religious practices can fall within one or more of these ancient paths of yoga.
As you can see from just this small reading his website. Ryan has a deep understanding of yoga, spirituality and meditation. Please enjoy the wisdom he gracefully shares on this podcast
Thank you Ryan for time and knowledge. It was truly something being able to talk to you about my very basic understanding of these topics. If you’d like to find out more about Ryan, head to his website thesupremeyoga.com (link in the show notes) he offers mentoring and workshops there. Also check him out on Instagram @thesupremeyoga
Thank you for listening and I’ll see you next episode.
Welcome! Thanks for joining the 6th episode of The Physical Being. I apologise for taking such an extended break between episodes, but we are back now.
Today we have Chris Bacchus a Physiotherapist of 25 years. I asked Chris to join me on the podcast because he was my teacher last year for Advanced Functional Anatomy, and I worked as a receptionist in the clinic he works at. I then started seeing him as my physiotherapist and consequently have referred many people to him.
This conversation was about 2 months in the making and I knew I wanted to speak to Chris about all things physiotherapy and I have many technical questions about conditions about injuries and treatments, but I thought that to start with I would actually love to talk to him about movement and how he perceives it after being involved in restoring it for so long.
One of the most profound things that I took away from our conversation was that becoming a better practitioner, isn’t just about learning new things and trying to keep up to date with all of the new techniques and evidence, which is very important, but more importantly reflecting on what you have done and what you need to know in order to be or do better next time. Reflecting on the practice is just as important as the practice itself.
I learnt an amazing amount from this interview and I hope that you do too, and I would love to get Chris back on at some time to expand on the topics that we covered and the ones that we could have explored.
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Welcome! Thanks for joining the 5th episode of The Physical Being, today we have our guest Abbey Rose. She is a coach at Aequus Movement as well as offering online coaching, and is a 3rd year Physiotherapy student. We sat down to talk about health and fitness, and even about our thoughts on finding meaning in life. It was a great chat and I hope you all enjoy it too.
Here’s a little more about Abbey:
Abbey-Rose has over 12 years experience in the fitness industry and is passionate about helping individuals reach their health and fitness goals. Abbey holds a Bachelor of Exercise Science and is completing a Bachelor of Physiotherapy.
Abbey’s focus is educating individuals to improve their quality of life by moving better, changing habits and having a healthy relationship with food for long term success. Abbey-Rose understands the importance of exercise in disease prevention and management, mindset, and improving confidence in their bodies and themselves. Abbey offers a variety of services including face to face, online, and nutrition coaching. Each service is individually tailored with a specific focus on improving movement quality and education, nutrition, sleep, stress management and improved body composition.
That’s it for the episode, I just wanted to extend a huge thank you to Abbey for sitting down and chatting about all things great and small. If you didn’t realise already she has a contagious laugh, and I hope it made your day a little better too.
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https://www.instagram.com/__abbeyrose_/
https://www.instagram.com/johnrainerii/
See you in the next episode!
Welcome! Thanks for joining the 4th episode of The Physical Being. Today we have our guest Shannon Breen, the founder of Aequus Movement, a gym and wellness hub in Canberra. If you get the chance to pop in to Aequus I highly recommend it. It’s a gorgeous facility and has a great sauna and pool too.
In this episode Shannon and I talk about holistic health practices and how a proper approach to training is a very important aspect of life, and more importantly one key to getting out of pain. We talk about how Shannon got to where she is today, what practices she learned along the way and how those experiences have shaped the way that she trains clients today.
Thank you Shannon for sitting down with me to do this podcast and now a little bit about Shannon.
Shannon’s unique approach to training and movement has been strongly shaped by her own experiences within high-level sport, rehabbing her own injuries and her experiences with clients over the last 10 years. The challenges these experiences provided are what drove Shannon’s passion for healing and strengthening the body. Her holistic approach to training acknowledges that everything within the body and the person is connected. Shannon has formed a necessary extremely high attention to detail in movement observation, anatomy and understanding the impact of life outside the gym. Most importantly, she has developed sensory acuity in receiving the body’s feedback. Shannon works with the individual and uses this feedback to map out a case by case plan of action. She is passionate about assisting people as they move closer to strength, balance and awareness within their body. The goal; optimisation for each individual through achieving a state of balance, in the body and in life.
If you’d like to find more about Aequus then you can go to https://aequusmovement.com.au/ and the same name for their instagram @aequusmovement.
Welcome! Thanks for joining the 3rd episode of The Physical Being. Today we have our guest Tomas Emerson, the founder of Praksis, a movement studio in Canberra. If you haven’t been to Praksis I hope you get to visit it soon, as it’s a beautiful space, and the people who go there are awesome.
This episode was recorded in the studio, and we talk about what is his Life Practice, how we experience new things, practicing being a better human, creativity and discipline and much more. I just wanted to thank Tom for his time and energy in doing this podcast. It was great speaking with you!
Tom is the founder of Praksis. He played rugby, cricket and several other sports throughout his youth. During his high school and university years, Tom took his studies seriously and his body paid a price for it, becoming compromised by endless hours spent sitting at a desk. The deficiencies in his structure revealed themselves on the sporting field, resulting in repeated subluxations of the left shoulder, bone spurs and labral tears in both hips, and stress fractures in the lumbar spine. Tom had little success with conventional therapeutic approaches and would ultimately experience chronic hip, back and shoulder pain for seven years.
In 2014, he encountered two teachers – an Israeli named Ido Portal and an Australian named Simon Thakur – who exposed him to the concept of movement practice. He started attending workshops taught by Ido and Simon, as well as following ongoing individualised training programs devised by Ido and his team, using their tools to address and ultimately overcome the pain and injuries in his body. It was a life-changing period that convinced Tom of the transformative power of movement practice.
Tom has now been studying movement for five years, travelling internationally to attend events and to continue deepening his understanding of the body. After graduating from the Australian National University’s PhB (Bachelor of Philosophy) program in 2017, Tom founded Praksis to provide a home for Canberrans interested in repatterning their bodies, overcoming pain and injury, and realising the potential of their embodiment.
Get in Contact with Praksis
https://www.instagram.com/praksiscanberra/
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In episode 2 of The Physical Being, we deepen ourselves with our guest Jeffrey Knowles. Jeff aka Mr Knowles or Knowlsey as many of his students would know him, is an educator, artist, author of his book “Deepen Yourself” and a sustainable energy advocate for well over 30 years.
If you have ever had the good fortune of being taught by Jeff, then you will understand many of the sentiments that we talk about. If not then please enjoy the array of topics such as about integrating the being and the human, or the soul and the ego, what it means to BE an educator and to help in the world. We also touch on spirituality and the difference between being quote on quote, up there and down here, which if you found interesting, you can read Jeff’s book “Deepen Yourself” and Michael Newton’s book “Journey of Souls”.
We talked about the many layers of movement and how this can be a window into being.
All in all Jeff talked brilliantly about a lot of topics. I was just there to listen. It was an honor to sit down with a teacher like Jeff and we are very lucky that there are people in the world like him.
He is in the midst of writing his second book which we can look forward to when it comes out. But in the meantime please enjoy this podcast recorded once again in the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
Thank you Jeff for spending the afternoon with me, I enjoyed every second of it. And I look forward to getting him back on to explore the plethora of topics that we didn’t even touch on today.
If you’d like to get in touch with Jeff you can go to his instagram @jeffreyjsknowles or email him at jeff@jeffreyjsknowles.com.
Thank you for listening and being here and I look forward to seeing you in the next episode.
Hello Everyone, I’m John Raineri, the Host of The Physical Being Thanks for tuning into the first episode in which I had the opportunity to sit down with Thomas Langley, who is currently a movement and nutrition teacher at Praksis. In this episode we talk about training volume, Why Tom does what he does, the importance of creativity in life and what the definition of a good life is, plus much more.
Tom and I have known each other for 3 years now sharing connection through nutrition, movement, expression through creativity and singing. Tom and I got to know each other more through an exchange of my vocal lessons for his nutritional coaching. Since then I have come to call Tom a great friend, teacher and student.
This episode was recorded in the Australian National Botanic Gardens, which is a beautiful setting for this podcast. But the wind picked up about halfway through and the windsheild on my microphone didn’t cope too well with some of the big gusts. So please excuse the overblown microphone noises. I hope it doesn’t detract from the episode too much.
Tom grew up in Forbes, NSW, where he spent most of his free time outside exploring the nearby bush. He played soccer throughout high school but otherwise avoided sport and opted out of physical education as soon as he could. After school was over, he shunned all things physical. His lack of activity, combined with a very poor diet, caused him to gain weight significantly. The connection with the bush remained, however, and he completed a bachelor’s degree in sustainability at the Australian National University, spending much of his 20s working in agricultural research and food production.
In 2011, Tom discovered he couldn’t even lift himself up to sit on his kitchen bench. This pivotal moment spurred him to confront the problem of his weight. He studied nutrition avidly in his spare time and lost 25kg within six months. But the embarrassment about his body remained, so he spent the next few years using smartphone apps to guide his training. He made progress but also noticed that the training exacerbated issues stemming from all the sitting required by his office job, leading to injury. These challenges led him to search for a community of fellow movers.
In 2017, Tom dove headlong into movement practice as a member of our practitioner program. The tools he was exposed to helped him to overcome his embarrassment and address his injuries. He then began teaching at Praksis in 2018 with the goal of helping people connect with their physicality, lose unwanted weight, and move more.
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