Episode 53: Show Them Your Love. Show Them Your Joy. - Victoria Austin

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to On the Light. I'm your host, Susan Johnson.If you enjoy On the Light, please consider liking, sharing, or subscribing. And if you’re able, a small monthly donation helps support the continued production of this podcast.My guest today is Victoria Austin—an Iyengar Yoga teacher, Zen priest, and longtime student of B.K.S. Iyengar and Geeta Iyengar. For more than four decades of study, Victoria has explored the profound relationship between yoga, meditation, and the human experience, bringing the teachings of Iyengar Yoga into dialogue with Buddhist practice, chaplaincy, and the care of those facing illness, trauma, and death.In this conversation, Victoria shares extraordinary stories of her time with Guruji and Geetaji—stories filled with humor, compassion, challenge, and unwavering precision. She reflects on how the teachings carried her through serious accidents and surgeries, how practice became a means of meeting fear rather than avoiding it, and why yoga remains available to us at every stage of life.This episode is ultimately about what it means to truly receive a teaching—not simply to hear it, but to allow it to transform us over time.Please enjoy my conversation with Victoria Austin.Support the show