Tag: Podcasts

In this episode of the Equitable Wellness Podcast, Sheena Sood, PhD — activist scholar, yoga teacher, and co-founder of Yogis for Palestine — unpacks the shadow side of yoga, from its roots in war propaganda to its modern-day appropriation by states and militaries. We discuss Omwashing, a term she coined, and explore how to reclaim yoga for justice, ethics, and collective healing.

—The Equitable Wellness Podcast

Explore equitable practices in holistic health and healing arts: how spas, retreat centers, holistic practitioners, and luxury services incorporate collective liberation. This podcast is perfect for business owners, artists, personal brands, coaches, and service providers destined to find one another in solidarity for justice and healing as one.

—About the Equitable Wellness Podcast

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2025. Guest Presenter. “Decolonizing Yoga: From Representation into Liberation” The Equitable Wellness Podcast. August 9, 2025.

Join us as we speak to Sheena Sood PhD about decolonizing yoga and how yoga has been used in violent institutions.

—World Pulse Podcast

Our goal is to increase the accessibility of international relations to students and listeners. To bring understanding and education on topics without listeners needing IR or formal education prerequisites. We hope that our guests can bring an educational and unique perspective in a creative space.

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2025. Guest Presenter. “Decolonizing Yoga.” World Pulse. January 14, 2025. (https://open.spotify.com/episode/64cFIyjOCtyCQNowPGcfPR)

How can something like yoga, that is meant to be peaceful and focused on meditation and breath, be weaponized? How has it been co-opted by the far-right, colonizer projects, and Zionists? How does this show up in our yoga spaces and what can we do to address it? Dr. Sheena Sood shares her insights.

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Sheena shares her perspective on the situation in Palestine and the reactions in the yoga world after October 7. She explains why this response of “om-washing” is not unexpected, and how we as yoga practitioners, teachers, and studios can counter harmful narratives to support Palestine. Sheena also has some words of encouragement and motivation for those of us doing the work and feeling exhausted, so be sure to tune in for some powerful insights.

—The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast

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2024. Guest Presenter. “386: Weaponization of Yoga with Sheena Sood.” The Connected Yoga Teacher. December 16, 2024. (https://theconnectedyogateacher.libsyn.com/386-weaponization-of-yoga-with-sheena-sood)

Sheena gives incredible insight and uncomfortable facts to direct our attention, contemplation and action towards the “deeply unfree world” that we all participate in. 

We dig into the important topic and difficult reality of the oppressive systems in power along with the responsibility yoga practitioners have to examine and question them if we sincerely wish to shift the collective towards liberation and embodied freedom for all.

—A Curious Yogi Podcast

I’m a curious yogi who went from a depressed addict to living in the Himalayas of India. From fashion stylist to charity founder and from cattle ranchers daughter to happy vegan. Anything is possible!

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2024. Guest Presenter. “Sheena Sood PhD. Yoga Weaponization or Liberatory Potential For All?” S3, Ep 14.” A Curious Yogi Podcast. (https://bobbipaidel.com/podcast-s3-ep14-sheena-sood/

Welcome to In Our Experience, a podcast exploring the many ways of living well with Nourish Yoga Training.

—In Our Experience podcast

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2022. Guest Presenter. “Yoga’s Liberatory Potential and How We Can Access It,” In Our Experience with Nourish Yoga Training. 2022, February 28. (https://nourishyogatraining.com/13-yogas-liberatory-potential-and-how-we-can-access-it-with-sheena-sood/)

Rawlf interviews yoga teacher and independent scholar Sheena Sood about ways to decolonize yoga, embody community-based yoga, and Sheena’s critique of the militarization of yoga and her support for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and the MOVE organization in Philadelphia.

—No Quarter Buffalo Podcast

No Quarter is an anti-fascist podcast created in so-called Buffalo, NY: anti-racist, anti-colonial, feminist, revolutionary, leftist, and egalitarian.

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2021. Guest Presenter. “War and Peace.” No Quarter Buffalo Podcast. May 17, 2021.

In our interview this week, Matthew speaks with sociologist Sheena Sood about the hubris of Hindu nationalism as its yoga-boosting ministers show their pious ineptitude, telling their gasping citizens to stop being crybabies and consider drinking holy cow urine against COVID.

What about when other supposed zealots show their sell-out colors?

—Conspirituality Podcast

Conspirituality is a study of converging right-wing conspiracy theories and faux-progressive wellness utopianism.

Episode 50 of the Conspirituality Podcast

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2021. Guest Presenter. “Sellouts and Zealots (W/ Sheena Sood)” Conspirituality  Podcast. May 6, 2021.

Sheena Sood, PhD, Philly-based healer, writer, educator, and activist scholar of South Asian descent, talks with J about the painful history of caste and politicizing yoga towards healing justice. They discuss Sheena’s writing on Spectacles of Compassion, Decolonizing Yoga, Collective Healing, as well as some of the current politics behind the protests in India, International Yoga Day and the Modi government, and the radical possibility for a liberatory yoga of true compassion, solidarity and equity. This episode is sponsored by Karmasoft.

—J. BROWN YOGA TALKS PODCAST

Candid conversations between J and other independent yoga revolutionists. From yoga philosophy to the business of yoga, J and his esteemed guests always have something interesting to say.

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2021. Guest Presenter. “Caste, Decolonization, and Liberation” J. Brown Yoga Talks Podcast. Feb 22, 2021.