BONUS If You Are Not Your Thoughts Then Who Are You With Rebel Tucker | Ep 34

In honour of the 2026 International Day of Yoga. Please note: Real life doesn't always come with studio-quality sound! This recording has a few audio imperfections, but the content was too good not to share. Thanks for listening with an open mind—we hope you find the conversation helpful and inspiring.A bonus episode on self inquiry (Atma Vicharya). This is vedanta. But in the opinion of Liz Albanis and Rebel Tucker's, yoga doesn't exist without vedanta and vice versa. Grief can distort time, memory, and even what feels real. We sit down with Rebel to talk about the moment yoga stopped being exercise and became a way to survive a mind in pain after the devastating loss of a brother to suicide. Rebel shares, with honesty and care, how practice creates a bridge back to the present: sensing the body, steadying attention, and learning to recognise when the mind is replaying a memory rather than living what’s here.From there we widen out into yoga philosophy and Vedanta, where the question “Who am I?” becomes a practical form of self-inquiry, not an abstract idea. We explore why “Why me?” can trap us in unanswerable loops, while “Who am I really?” opens a bigger lens on identity, consciousness, and meaning. Along the way we unpack a deceptively simple tool for mental health and emotional resilience: cultivating the opposite, meeting sadness with one small uplift, fear with a deliberate step towards courage, and self-destructive spirals with a health-giving choice.We also talk about service, and the subtle difference between wanting to help and feeling responsible for fixing people. Rebel reflects on how yoga matures that impulse into something steadier: guiding others towards their own insight, and remembering that real change comes from practice, not just theory. If you’re drawn to yoga for mental health, mindfulness, trauma-informed grounding, Vedanta, or the “witness” behind your thoughts, this conversation will give you language and direction you can actually use. Subscribe, share with someone who needs it, and leave us a review with your biggest takeaway.We talk with Rebel about how yoga becomes a mental lifeline after the shock of a brother’s suicide, bringing the mind back from painful memories to what’s real. We follow the thread from Vedanta self-inquiry to service, and why the real shift happens when the philosophy becomes lived experience. • yoga as a grounding skill after trauma and grief • separating memory from the present moment through practice • cultivating the opposite as a tool for hard emotions • choosing a health-creating mindset rather than chasing pathology • “Who am I?” as a better question than “Why me?” • Vedanta, mahavakyas, and asking the big questions out loud • service as helping others help themselves • theory versus experience and meeting the inner witnessAbout Rebel Tucker:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love the show? We’d love a review!Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.Want to make video and audio editing quicker and simpler? Get 50% off the first 2 months of the Descript Creator Monthly Plan. Instagram:  Youtube