Embodied Practice Podcast

A podcast for anyone who has ever thought, “Yoga is not for me.”

The Embodied Practice is a podcast from Tula Yoga Studio about being human, living in a body, and finding a different doorway into yoga.

This is not a podcast for yoga teachers, wellness experts, or people who already feel at home in the yoga world.

This podcast is especially for regular people. People with real lives, real bodies, real stress, real pain, real grief, real questions, and real reasons they may have felt that yoga was not for them.

Each episode begins with an honest conversation about the human experience. Through these stories, we explore yoga as something much deeper than poses, flexibility, or performance. We look at yoga as a way of understanding suffering, the body, the mind, the nervous system, and the possibility of living with more awareness, compassion, and freedom.

Because yoga may not be what you thought it was.

And being human is the practice.

Would you like to be a guest?

We are currently looking for guests for The Embodied Practice Podcast.

You do not need to practice yoga.

You do not need to be flexible.

You do not need to have a dramatic story.

You do not need to have everything figured out.

You do not need to have healed, transformed, or reached some perfect conclusion.

You only need to be willing to have an honest conversation about what it means to be human.

This podcast is a place for real stories about the things many of us carry quietly: stress, anxiety, grief, chronic pain, illness, injury, trauma, burnout, body image, aging, caregiving, loneliness, uncertainty, and the feeling that we are somehow supposed to be holding it all together.

We are especially interested in speaking with people who have never tried yoga, people who are skeptical of yoga, people who have tried yoga and did not like it, and people who have felt intimidated, excluded, uncomfortable, or unseen in yoga spaces.

You might be a good guest if...

You might be a good fit for the podcast if you are open to talking about one of these experiences:

Living with chronic pain
Receiving a diagnosis or navigating illness
Recovering from injury
Moving through grief or loss
Living with anxiety or overwhelm
Experiencing burnout from work, parenting, or caregiving
Feeling disconnected from your body
Struggling with body image
Aging and relating to your body in a new way
Feeling intimidated by yoga studios
Trying yoga and feeling like you did not belong
Feeling like you are “not flexible enough” for yoga
Feeling too anxious to relax
Going through a major life transition
Living with stress that feels hard to turn off
Carrying trauma or difficult life experiences
Trying to understand what healing means for you
Wondering how to be more at home in your own body

Your story does not have to fit neatly into one category. Most human stories do not.

If something in your life has made you ask deeper questions about your body, your mind, your pain, your grief, your stress, or your capacity to keep going, it may belong here.

Possible conversation themes

These are some of the kinds of conversations we hope to have on the podcast:

I’m too anxious to relax
For people who feel like stillness is difficult, meditation feels impossible, or the mind never stops.

My body hurts all the time
For people living with chronic pain, recurring tension, injury, illness, or body patterns that feel hard to understand.

I tried yoga and hated it
For people who tried a class and felt uncomfortable, confused, judged, bored, embarrassed, or like they did not belong.

I don’t feel at home in my body
For people navigating body image, aging, illness, trauma, weight changes, gender, identity, or disconnection from the body.

Grief changed me
For people moving through loss, heartbreak, death, divorce, estrangement, or any experience that changed their relationship to life.

I’m burned out from caring for everyone else
For parents, caregivers, teachers, healthcare workers, therapists, service workers, and anyone who feels depleted from holding too much.

I’m not a yoga person
For people who are skeptical of yoga, uncomfortable with yoga culture, unsure about the spiritual language, or convinced they are too stiff, too old, too injured, too anxious, or too ordinary to practice.

I’m learning how to live with this body now
For people navigating aging, menopause, injury, diagnosis, disability, chronic illness, or a body that no longer feels the way it used to.

I thought healing would look different
For people who are living inside a process that does not have a neat ending.

What the conversation is like

Each episode is a thoughtful conversation, not an interrogation and not a therapy session.

We begin with your story. We talk about what you have lived, what has felt difficult, how it has shown up in your body or daily life, and what you wish other people understood.

At some point, we will also talk about yoga.

Not necessarily yoga poses. Not yoga as exercise. Not yoga as something you have to be good at.

We will talk about what the word “yoga” brings up for you. We may explore why yoga has felt inaccessible, intimidating, irrelevant, uncomfortable, or simply not interesting.

Then Maile will gently connect parts of the conversation to yoga therapy, mindfulness, somatics, nervous system regulation, and the deeper teachings of yoga and dharma.

The purpose is not to fix your story.

The purpose is to listen, to learn, and to explore how the practices of yoga might help us understand the human experience in a more compassionate and embodied way.

You are allowed to have boundaries

You do not have to share anything you do not want to share.

You can choose to use your full name, first name only, or remain anonymous.

Before recording, we will have a short conversation to make sure the topic feels clear and comfortable. We can talk about what you are open to discussing and what you would prefer to leave private.

This podcast is not about performing pain.

It is not about telling the most dramatic version of your story.

It is not about presenting yourself as healed or inspirational.

It is about making space for honest human experience and exploring what it means to live inside a body, a mind, a nervous system, and a life.

Guest Interest Form

If you are interested in being considered as a guest for The Embodied Practice Podcast, please fill out the form below.

We will review submissions and reach out if your story feels like a good fit for an upcoming episode.