Welcome To The Pilot of A Yin Yoga Podcast.

In Episode Two. I will introduce myself in a longer format kinda like I’m interviewing myself, which should prove to be interesting.

But we haven’t yet, I’m your host Nyk Danu. I am a Yoga Therapist. A Yin Yoga teacher trainer, and a Yoga business mentor, and I also teach public yoga classes.

So that’s me in brief. 

But I just wanted this one to be a little. Hey?

Here’s the podcast. Here’s what you can expect here.

So, welcome to A Yin Yoga Podcast, I’m your host Nyk Danu – certified Yoga Therapist, mentor of Yoga teachers, Yin Yoga Teacher trainer, and total Yin Yoga Geek. 

Why I Started a Yin Yoga Podcast

For nearly two years, I wrestled with one question:

Does the world really need another Yoga podcast?

There are already so many wonderful podcasts out there. I wasn’t interested in creating something just for the sake of adding more noise.

But the idea kept returning.

To understand why I finally said yes, I have to go back a few years.

After teaching Yoga for thirteen years, I packed up my life in Calgary, Alberta, where I was born and raised, and moved to beautiful Victoria on Vancouver Island. Part of the reason for the move was to attend Chinese medicine school full-time.

It was an exciting chapter, but it also came with an unexpected loss.

Because I wasn’t teaching yet in my new city, I suddenly found myself feeling disconnected from the Yoga community. Teaching had been such a meaningful part of my life for so long that not sharing my love of Yoga, and especially Yin Yoga, left a real hole in my heart.

I missed the conversations.

I missed learning together.

I missed the community that naturally forms when we gather to practice.

I felt, in many ways, a little alone in the Yoga universe.

Then I discovered podcasts.

I started listening to J. Brown’s Yoga Talks, followed shortly after by Mastering the Business of Yoga with my friend Amanda Kingsmith.

Those podcasts became something of a lifeline.

Even though I wasn’t teaching, I still felt connected to the wider Yoga world. I could hear teachers talking honestly about their experiences, their challenges, and their ideas. It reminded me that I was still part of this incredible community, even during a season when I felt disconnected from it.

I’ve loved Yoga podcasts ever since.

Today there are many excellent Yoga podcasts covering a wide range of topics, and I’m grateful for all of them.

But as I looked around, I noticed something missing.

I couldn’t find a podcast dedicated entirely to Yin Yoga.

There were podcasts devoted to other styles of Yoga. There were wonderfully niched conversations happening throughout the Yoga world. But for those of us who could happily spend hours talking about fascia, meridians, Taoist philosophy, anatomy, meditation, or the art of holding space, there wasn’t really a place to gather.

So I decided to create one.

This podcast is for the Yin Yoga geeks.

It’s for the endlessly curious teachers and students who know that the more we learn about Yin Yoga, the more there is to discover.

We’ll explore anatomy, Chinese medicine, channel theory, the Five Elements, Taoist philosophy, meditation, sequencing, teaching skills, and all the fascinating places where these subjects overlap.

Sometimes it will just be you and me.

Other times I’ll invite experienced Yin Yoga teachers and experts to join us for longer conversations.

More than anything, though, I want this podcast to feel like we’re simply sitting around the kitchen table together with a cup of tea.

No performance.

No pretending to have all the answers.

Just thoughtful, honest conversations.

That also means this podcast is intentionally low-fi and delightfully imperfect.

In a world where everything seems heavily edited, polished, and filtered, I wanted to create a space that feels refreshingly human. You’ll hear natural conversations, occasional tangents, laughter, and moments where we’re figuring things out together.

Because that’s what real learning looks like.

When I interview guests, we’ll often begin with their story. Not their list of certifications or accomplishments, but their pre-Yoga story. How did they find Yoga? What were they searching for? What experiences shaped the teacher they became?

Sometimes those conversations touch on difficult or sensitive subjects. Life is rarely neat, and neither are our journeys into Yoga. We hold space for those stories with compassion and honesty.

Ultimately, my hope is that this podcast becomes the kind of companion that other Yoga podcasts once were for me.

Whether you’re driving to class, walking your dog, making dinner, or sitting quietly with a cup of tea, I hope these conversations help you feel inspired, supported, and connected.

Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that none of us have to explore this path alone.

If you have a crush on Yin Yoga and are ready to dive deep you are in the right place. 

Here myself, and my guests, will discuss all things Yin Yoga including, anatomy, philosophy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Meditation, Taoism, teaching tips and so much more. 

You can expect these conversations to be long format, informal, lo-fi and delightfully imperfect.

So whether you are a Yoga teacher or a Yin Yoga student welcome you to the Yinside.

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So why another Yoga podcast? This is the question. I asked myself for 2 years before starting this.

I started listening to Yoga podcasts  at a time in my life when I was feeling really disconnected from the Yoga world

I had just moved From Calgary AB where I was born and raised to The magical city of Victoria, on enchanted Vancouver Island, which is just off the west coast of Canada.

At the time I had been teaching for 13 years and I moved here in part to go back to school full-time and study Chinese medicine.

And since I wasn’t yet teaching here, I felt very disconnected from Yoga and from the Yoga world.

Not being able to share my enthusiasm and my love for Yoga, and in particular, Yin Yoga, with students on a regular basis, was really starting to leave a hole in my heart so I was feeling a little bit lost and disconnected.

 

A little bit alone in the Yoga universe, you could say.

I then stumbled across a Yoga podcast J. Brown’s Yoga Talks. Shout out to Jay. So I started listening to that regularly then quite quickly I discovered MBOM which is hosted by my friend Amanda Kingsmith, Shout out to Amanda.

As I started listening to these two podcasts, regularly they were a bit of a lifeline in time I was kind of grieving a little bit and feeling quite lost without teaching Yoga.

They helped me feel like, even though I wasn’t teaching yet in my new home city, I was still connected to Yoga and to other Yoga teachers.

So that began my love of podcasts.

And I still love Yoga Podcasts. there are a lot of Yoga Podcasts now, and several good ones.

So then why start another Yoga podcast?

I feel like this podcast will fill a hole, although there are a lot of Yoga podcasts out there at the time I was dreaming this up, I didn’t see any Yin-specific Podcasts.

There are podcasts devoted to other specific styles of Yoga.

There are podcasts that are quite niched. But I couldn’t find anything for those like me who are total Yin Yoga Geeks.

So I decided to create it because I love geeking out with other people who are in love with Yin Yoga.

I love learning and studying and growing, and there’s so much under the yin yoga umbrella that can be discussed.

So that’s what we will do here on this podcast.

There will be solo episodes, and longer format interviews with other Yin Yoga teachers, as well as experts in the areas of anatomy and traditional Chinese medicine including meridian or channel theory, of the elements, Taoist philosophy, meditation, teaching tips and a lot more.

My intention for this podcast is for it to feel like I’m sitting down having tea and sharing with you.  And when we have a guest it’s a couple of Yoga teachers sitting around the kitchen table with you, having some tea.

You can expect these episodes to be Low-fi, uncensored and unfiltered this is a conscious choice.

I think we have far too much polish and filter in our world in general, and of course, the Yoga world has fallen prey to that as well.

I tend to be a bit informal and delightfully imperfect, so these episodes will be as well.

You can also expect adult conversations and adult language.

In this podcast when I interview people, they will be sharing their pre-yoga story, their Yoga origin stories, where they have come from and how they came to Yoga, and sometimes in those stories, there can be sensitive and intense subject matter.

 

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