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Yoga for livet
The Nøsen podcast: conversations about yoga, life, recovery and finding your way, with teachers, guests and people from the Back in the Ring community. The conversations are in Norwegian.
Met his guru at twelve
Lars Christian Ims was twelve when his parents took him to a guru in India. He still has the same guru.
Chanting, the language of the gods
In this episode the listeners are invited to chant along with yoga teacher Karina Kibsgård.
Yoga and the church, a scary combination?
Composer and church organist Morten Bollerud wonders why some in the church still fear yoga.
Pain breeds pain
After serious injuries, Trine Tschudi trains to keep the pain at bay, without ever training into it.
Meditation has rewired my brain
Author and meditation teacher Magnus Fridh on restlessness, a seriously ill daughter, and a Tibetan friend called Karma.
I must live to bear dying
Actor Heidi Gjermundsen Broch on a role that needs boxing, and on holding life's opposites.
Pain, vulnerability and joy
When you can hold pain, almost make friends with it, something new can open.
Yoga does not automatically make you a better person
Ellen Johannesen on the myths of the yoga world, and why achievement must not become your identity.
Back in the Ring in India
Ingeborg is home from India with Back in the Ring, and will not gloss over the trip.
As long as you can breathe, you can do yoga
Breath and state of mind are closely linked: calmer breath, calmer mind.
The drugs were to follow me to the grave
Ingeborg (28) once wished the drugs would follow her to the grave. Today she is clean, and in India with Back in the Ring.
Risk sport in slow motion
Yoga teacher Mikkel Dahl Lund calls working life a risk sport in slow motion, and knows the fast kind too.
Nobody escapes anxiety
Anxiety is part of life, says Viggo Johansen, but it does not have to stop you.
When I came to India, it made me stop
Karolina Zakrzewska stayed in India for 22 years, ran Purple Valley Yoga Centre, and works with body, food and recovery.
Yoga off the mat
Yoga philosophy teacher Daniel Simpson on why insight into good relationships matters more than getting onto a mat.
Helping others can be good self-help
Musician Luke Elliot, who has played in Norwegian prisons with Back in the Ring, on helping others while you struggle yourself.
Jivamukti yoga
Yoga can be song, dance and laughter too: Karina Kibsgaard on Jivamukti yoga.
It can be scary to choose love
Ellen Marie and Alexander Medin on marriage, falling flat on your face and getting up again.
Yoga, the body and trauma
Psychomotor physiotherapist Susanne Backofen on the body's wisdom in preventing trauma.Yoga for livetDad in prison
Silje and her father, who was in prison and is now part of Back in the Ring at Nøsen, talk about anger, shame and finding each other.
Politics and yoga
Green Party politician Sirin Hellvin Stav on non-violence, solidarity and the link between yoga and politics.
War, trauma and yoga
War veteran Kjell Lamo meets other veterans for yoga, for rest and for a sense of mastery.
Easter peace, or no peace?
Alexander Medin on ahimsa, non-violence in words, thoughts and actions, even when the sun shines.
From darkness to light
Pernille Bønkan came to yoga to understand her own darkness. Twenty years on, she still calls herself a student.
Anyone can lose their way
Alexander Medin on giving others hope, yoga as no quick fix, and volunteering without being used.
Yoga is not Instagram
Ellen Johannesen on ahimsa, compassion, and yoga beyond pictures of women who never sweat.
From the stage to yoga
Actor Heidi Gjermundsen Broch on stage fright, and how yoga and the breath help her on stage.
Yoga is softness inside ourselves
Climber, skier and yoga teacher Ellen Marie Medin found a deeper strength in softness and in letting go.
A good leader must be able to show vulnerability
Save the Children Norway's secretary general Birgitte Lange, newly trained as a yoga teacher, on leadership and child poverty.
Loneliness does not really exist
Viggo Johansen on anxiety, leaving the monastery, and mindfulness without the mystery.
Two world champions
Biathlon world champion Tiril Eckhoff and May-Rita Sætervoll, once selling a street paper in Oslo: world champions, each in her own way.Yoga for livetFrom drugs and unrest to peace of mind
The first episode: Alexander Medin on his road from drugs and crime to peace of mind and good relationships.