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Chats Over Coffee With My Yoga Teacher

by Peter Brush & Kayla McCormack

Comedian Peter Brush meets up with his yoga teacher, Kayla McCormack, over a hot drink for light-hearted discussions about meditation, yoga, mindfulness, happiness and how to live a well balanced life, stuff like that.

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Episodes

Episode 51 - A Wristy Business

41m · Published 01 Jun 04:32

Here we are again with yet another episode of the world's best comedian and yoga teacher podcast (to our knowledge). In this one Peter (comedian) and Kayla (yoga teacher) discuss wrist anatomy and health, RSI, carpal tunnel syndrome, the best oils, GM foods and the evolution of agriculture, dinosaurs in the bible, a very good looking rat, and whether we could use technology to wipe out all of the mosquitos (and if we could, should we do it?).


Also, please forgive the bit where longitude and latitude get mixed-up, there's no need for emails!


Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/


Subscribe to Peter's Substack: peterbrush.substack.com


Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/


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Episode 50 - Let's Talk About Necks, Baby

38m · Published 02 May 05:15

After discussing the threat to their jobs from ChatGPT, Peter and Kayla (a comedian and a yoga teacher respectively) chat over a hot drink about disgust and ethics, whether athletes are actually healthy, the idea of taking 10,000 hours to master a skill and the neck, including common neck issues and health, how we're not owls, a magic yoga trick that can make you turn your head further and 2 pillow people vs 1 pillow people.


Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/


Peter's brand new exciting Substack peterbrush.substack.com


Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/



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Episode 49 - The Upside Down Episode

32m · Published 01 Apr 05:15

Peter and Kayla (the comedian and the yoga teacher) chat about why it is good to be upside down sometimes, how it may help blood flow, mean potentially fewer night-time bathroom trips and the other benefits of inversions. Other topics include if ghosts exist and what they might be, whether all of western civilisation is linked to Christianity, debunking The Da Vinci Code, the secret of 'coffee naps' and if April Fools day should be rebranded as a day of boring sober analysis in the current climate.


Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.com

Peter's Website: https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/


Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/



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Episode 48 - Let's Get Metaphysical

36m · Published 01 Mar 05:01

A yoga teacher and a comedian (Peter and Kayla) tell some dad jokes before a big chat about metaphysics, philosophy and morals after Peter finally finishes reading an Iris Murdoch book. Topics include altruism, morality in a secular world, what on earth metaphysics is, Hobbes vs Rousseau, ethics in the rules of yoga philosophy and religious texts, widening the circle of empathy to include more than just humans, and being stuck with capitalism.


Kayla's Website (includes all Kayla related info/courses etc): www.kaylamccormack.com

Peter's Website (includes live dates): https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/


Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/


Thanks for all your support as ever.


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Episode 47 - Marshalling Matter

41m · Published 01 Feb 05:00

In this one Kayla (yoga teacher) and Peter (Comedian) chat about matter, anti-matter and dark matter, they discuss what all these things are, where we find them, and if we can learn any lessons from their mysteries. Other topics include whether the moon affects human behaviour, long sleeve t-shirt anxieties, plus Peter's possibly dreadful analogy where the composition of the universe is compared to a cappuccino.


Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.com

Peter's Website (includes live dates): https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/


Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/


Enjoy!


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Episode 46 - Consciousness, AI, Yoga Nidra FYI

41m · Published 03 Jan 06:59

Kayla and Peter (our yoga teacher and comedian duo) chat about 'the hard problem' of consciousness, theories and definitions of what consciousness is, AI, how much more complicated Facebook would be if Buddhism was real, sex robots, what the song 'we didn't start the fire' tells us about the nature of memory and then Kayla explains what exactly a Yoga Nidra is.


There may be a free 'Yoga Nidra' related gift with this episode if you happen to listen to it before the end of January 2023, but if you've missed that you should still enjoy the timeless relevance of the discussion, and you can always get in touch via the links below with your questions/praise:


Kayla's Website: www.kaylamccormack.com

Peter's Website (includes live dates): https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/


Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/


Enjoy!


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Episode 45 - In the Pocket of Big Karma

38m · Published 01 Dec 06:21

In this one Peter (the comedian) and Kayla (the yoga teacher) chat about energy. They discuss the ideas surrounding karma, energy levels, charisma, crystals and the comfort/horror of being comprised of stardust from the Big Bang, plus there's a joke about an American rock band of dubious quality.


Kayla's Website: http://kaylamccormackyoga.com/

Peter's Website (includes live dates): https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/


Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/


We're now monthly with some info up top about what we're both up to each month, so get in touch if you want to get involved. If you're not listening in real time don't worry, after the festive greetings in the intro the episode itself shouldn't date (not as quickly anyway).


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Episode 44 - Detox-ville and Democracy

36m · Published 01 Nov 06:15

Our comedian and yoga teacher combo chat over a hot drink about detoxing, they discuss pollutants, the psychology of dealing with immediate dangers vs long term ones, regulation, and democracies vs benevolent dictators. If that sounds too heavy, don't worry, other topics include bouncy castles, how we got notification dopamine hits before mobile phones, and whether Peter has trained himself to be negative because it's funnier.


Take Kayla's Universal Life Assessment Quiz: https://kaylamccormackyoga.involve.me/your-universal-life-assessment


Kayla's Website: http://kaylamccormackyoga.com/

Peter's Website (includes live dates): https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/


Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/


We're now monthly with some info up top about what we're both up to each month, so get in touch if you want to get involved. If you're not listening in real time don't worry, the episode itself won't date (not as quickly anyway).


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Episode 43 - The Brain Event

40m · Published 01 Oct 06:08

After a brief public service announcement up top, Kayla (our yoga teacher) and Peter (our comedian) chat about the brain. Topics include how to maintain good brain health, the myths and mysteries of the mirror neuron, free will, whether consciousness is located in the brain or elsewhere, phantom limb syndromes, and some other stuff about whether using local honey is being a bit 'in your face' to the local bees.


Take Kayla's Universal Life Assessment Quiz: https://kaylamccormackyoga.involve.me/your-universal-life-assessment


Kayla's Website: http://kaylamccormackyoga.com/

Peter's Website (includes live dates): https://www.peterbrushcomedy.com/


Kayla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/

Peter's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/


We're going monthly now with a message at the start of each show to tell you what we're doing each month, the vast majority of episodes have evergreen content so you can listen whenever, but we wanted to let you listeners know you can get more involved, so please get in touch with topics, suggestions, whatever you like. Enjoy the show.


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Episode 42 - Attention Seekers

36m · Published 15 Aug 05:36

Our yoga teacher and comedian duo briefly chat about alternative names for the show before diving into the topic of attention. They discuss dealing with distractions and the struggle to become engrossed in a task, the natural or unnatural attention spans of humans, the old days when they used to think novels would rot your brain and whether fiction is potentially more expanding than non-fiction, shavasana, and a joke of questionable quality regarding some orange juice.

Follow us on Instagram if you like at https://www.instagram.com/kaylamccormackyoga/ or https://www.instagram.com/peterbrush_/

We don't have a Patreon but if you do enjoy the show so much that you would like to 'buy us a coffee' you can do so via Peter's Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/peterbrush but PLEASE put a comment mentioning the podcast (even just the word 'podcast') to make sure it goes toward funding the show.


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Chats Over Coffee With My Yoga Teacher has 62 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 35:48:31. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 21st 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 15th, 2024 10:12.

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