Angie Tiwari Yoga

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Episode 29: Yoga unpacked with

We often think that moving away from props is a linear marker of progress. In reality though, rejecting tools in practice like I did for YEARS is just a symptom of ahaṃkāra, the ego!!!

I had to confront my own ego regarding blocks, and what we rarely talk about is how sometimes props make your practice harder, sometimes they make it easier.

They stop you from dumping weight into your joints, they help you with true muscular engagement and alignment. They take a pose out of the ego’s desire to look a certain way and place it back into the body’s actual anatomical reality. They also allow you to be kinder to yourself when you need more space or to bring the ground closer to you.

If you are teaching, introducing props strategically can completely change how your students experience a shape. My fave poses to cue blocks in are:

1. Mālāsana (yogi squat)
2. Ardha candrāsana (half moon pose)
3. Matsyāsana (fish pose)

Have the awareness to give your body exactly what it needs to practice sustainably.

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GO FIND ME IN REGENT STREET BABY🤎💃🏽

When I started teaching yoga, I squeezed myself into the Westernised mold of what the “yoga girl” is supposed to look like. I not only diluted my power as a strong brown woman, but I also culturally appropriated my own culture.

I have experienced years of being told by yoga teachers, studio owners, and meditation apps to remove Sanskrit, stop chanting mantras, using mudrās and all the “weird” Indian wellness rituals that people didn’t wanna get on board with (until the West proved this 5000 year old ancient knowledge with peer reviewed studies and renamed the ancient traditions to make them sound “more credible” 🫠)

It took years of unlearning. I never saw myself or any brown women in wellness or fitness roles. I still barely do. The big brands never championed us. So I set out on a mission that people actively told me was “really big”, showing obvious signs of doubt, and you know what?! I kept it moving!!! Limitations in other people’s consciousness never made me change my plan.

It is not my job to make people comfortable with a watered down version of yogic culture. I’m here and incredibly proud to share the full, transformative depth of the spiritual science from the neuroscience of visualisation, breath work and chanting. The rituals I grew up with.

Lineage over trends. Always. To all of you and our community, this wouldn’t happen without you and I LOVE YOU❤️

My Mum taught me and I teach him cos it’s for real in our blood 🇮🇳🪷🤎

The most accessible ritual 🧘🏽‍♀️

Episode 28: Yoga unpacked with

We often think of mudrās as simple, passive hand gestures to end a yoga class. In reality, the yogis had designed these to map intention directly onto your physical and subtle body.

They are deliberate electromagnetic circuit for your nervous system. They stop your vital energy from leaking out, they alter your brain chemistry, and shift your internal physiology.

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Linga mudrā (upright pillar) carries a lineage dating back over a thousand years within ancient Ta***ic texts. Sitting up tall creates an alignment to open up and the central channel, ensuring that the cool lunar (iḍā*) and hot solar (piṅgalā) currents can flow and merge without resistance.

Classical texts guide us to interlace the hands and extend the left thumb vertically to ignite Agni (internal fire) and clear congestion. When we unpack biocentric polarities, such as the flipped electromagnetic circuits taught in Kundalini lineages, pointing the right thumb upward is a way to consciously activate solar vitality, focus, and inner strength.

When you teach or practice, introducing mudrās as a ritual changes everything. It decolonises the practice and it takes you out of the thinking mind and into the body’s energetic reality.

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Disgustingly guilty x

My parents are immigrants.

They moved here when they were in the 30s and
40s. My Mum started teaching me yoga when I was 3 years old. My baby boy is now 2 years old and I’ve been teaching him yoga since he was just months old. It is impossible to explain how much this means to my family and how wild it is.

For too long in the west, we’ve seen a dire lack of Indian representation by huge activewear brands. Now, that changes. I’ve been talking about this and the importance of cultural appreciation in the yoga industry for years. Putting in the hard graft of what inclusion and diversity is really about with and way before they became buzz words. There are FAR more people saying those words than actually doing the work, trust me.

Working closely with big brands is vital to protect a sacred, thousands of years old spiritual science from being erased by commercial fitness trends, and it ensures the authentic heritage is actively respected when it is platformed on the world’s biggest stages.

The daughter of immigrants, a 34 year old toddler Mum, and now the first British Indian yoga teacher to be the European flagship ambassador, with my face up on the walls in one of the most iconic retailers on Regent Street, one of the most iconic streets in London.

To all of you who have been here from the start championing the vision, thank you endlessly, we really are just getting started 🤎🇮🇳

Extreme overheating, get to know Śītalī prāṇāyama

Thousands of years old, this Vedic technique was found in the 15th century Haṭhayogapradīpikā. Sages used it to survive intense summer heat without shelter.

P.s follow for decolonised yoga on and off the mat.

THE SCIENCE
Inhaling through a rolled tongue creates an evaporative cooling effect, instantly lowering the temperature of the blood vessels in the throat to cool your core. It activates the parasympathetic nervous system, lowering heart rate and reducing metabolic heat. Perfect for heatwaves, hot flushes, if you’re pregnant and trying to cope with hot weather, and for stress.

HOW TO PRACTICE
1. Roll the sides of your tongue into a tube.
2. Inhale deeply and smoothly through the tongue, feeling the cold air.
3. Close your mouth and exhale slowly through your nostrils. Repeat for 5-10 rounds.

CAN’T ROLL YOUR TONGUE?
Practice Sītkārī prāṇāyama instead. Press your teeth together, flatten your tongue behind them, part your lips, and inhale through your teeth. Exhale through your nose. It provides the exact same biological cooling benefits.

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KEY THINGS TO NOTE
Pregnancy - it’s safe and highly beneficial, but do NOT hold your breath. Keep the cycle of inhalation and exhalation completely continuous.

Avoid if you have low blood pressure, chronic constipation, asthma, or bronchitis.

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