Naomi Watson | This Is What Over 1,000 Hours of Teaching Yoga Taught Me | F&T#17

Naomi Watson is a yoga teacher with over one thousand hours of teaching practice across the world. She’s currently based in Edinburgh and has recently qualified as a yoga therapist.I probably would have gotten into yoga at some point but it definitely helped that my first experience was when I was studying for my masters, signed up to the free yoga class as a way to work on my fitness outside of the weights room, and Naomi opened the session with her Scottish brogue and asked if I was walking back into town at the end of the class. Just as Niell (#6) became my inspiration for all things calisthenics, Naomi did for yoga and its real-world applications, as we go on to discuss.Naomi’s work as a yoga therapist brings together her study of psychology and a yoga practice that potentially predates her memory. In this conversation you can expect to find out what non-attachment is and why, practiced properly, it’s a good thing, if there are differences between yoga practice in India and in the UK – particularly around performativity, why LLMs and chatbots might be better avoided and what irks Naomi about social media representations of yoga.Catch Naomi here: https://www.instagram.com/vara_wellness/Fitness & ThinkingForget six packs, we’re looking at six pillars to gauge fitness: F&T is interested in the physical, mental, social, spiritual, emotional and financial aspects of being. What do you think about that?Never miss an episode! Subscribe onApple podcasts (audio only): https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/fitness-thinking/id1840384710 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fitnessandthinking and catch the newsletter on Substack: https://fitnessandthinking.substack.com/ Get in touchInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/fitnessandthinking/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fitnessandthinkingEmail: [email protected]