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Featured Articles and Podcast Interviews by ISFYT Founder Grace Tempany

Article from Yoga Magazine, December 2021

Podcast Interviews

  • Misconceptions in Yin

    Recorded in February 2020, Grace Tempany chats with Denis Jackson-Wade about all things yin and its misconceptions, the role yin can play in the yoga world, and how it can help the practitioner in developing more discernment and self-inquiry.

  • Shadow-Work & Inner Wisdom

    Recorded in December 2020, Grace Tempany chats to Lisa Hughes and Joseph Devlin about the teaching world, the importance of shadow-work, and teaching as the “the skill to elicit inner wisdom”.

  • Inquiry & Reflection

    Recorded in November 2021, Part 1 of this 2-part episode. Grace Tempany chats to Jeanie and Kelly about the perils of self-employment, prioritising inquiry and reflection over knowing the answers, and how yin yoga might just be the missing ingredient in trauma work.

  • Somatic Trauma Practices

    Recorded in 2021, Part 2 of this 2-part episode continues the conversation around yin & somatic trauma practices, and refer to Gabor Maté’s input in this area. You won’t find too many answers, but some really great questions.

  • Education & Yoga

    Recorded 5 years ago in June 2018, Grace Tempany chats with Maureen Bakis on her Landscapes for Learning podcast about navigating formal education and yoga worlds - seeing how much they can learn from each other.

  • Unlearning

    Recorded in June 2022, Grace Tempany chats with Maureen Bakis & Pierre Ratte about learning via unlearning, her journey through the yin and yang of yoga, moving from education through yoga to psychotherapy, and the importance of leaning into "reluctant conversations".

  • Edge of Discomfort

    Recorded in June 2022, Grace Tempany chats with Carla Doherty about yin yoga and shadow work.

    “If the body keeps the score, it is Yin that helps us not only know, but feel this to be true. No other practice in the world invites people to their edge of discomfort, asks them to stay there in stillness, and then further invites them to integrate their experience.”

  • Vulnerability as Courage

    Recorded in June 2022, Grace Tempany chats with Máire about vulnerability as courage, changing & evolving and staying humble, managing the tendency to overwork, imposing our will on the world, crafting our life and destiny, the back and forth, the yin and yang when it comes to making things happen and stepping back to see what unfolds.

Media Kit

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Interview topics include:

  • Yin Yoga and ‘Meeting Your Edge’

  • Teaching as a Self-Inquiry Journey First, Pedagogy Second

  • Education for the Soul

  • The Art of Training Teachers

  • Shadow-Work, The Unconscious

  • Functional Yoga as Therapy - The ‘Big Picture’ Vision & ISFYT Dream

  • Where Yoga & Psychotherapy Marriage: Merging the physical, the energetic, and the psycho-emotional

  • Taking the Path Less Travelled, albeit reluctantly