Hello and welcome back to all the small things with me, Venetia Lamanna.

Angie Tawari is a yoga meditation and breath work coach, specialising in diversity, accessibility and inclusion.

Her teaching show how we can incorporate powerful ancient rituals into our modern day lives.

Angie has been listed as one of eight women breaking the bias in sports, fitness and wellness by Women's Health magazine.

And her retreats have achieved multiple accolades, including being listed as one of the best in UK and Ireland by the Times and the best of a beginners by Condé Nest Traveler.

Angie has collaborated with businesses who want to learn about wellness, diversity and accessibility through corporate coaching sessions, hosting, featuring on panels and speaking with the media on topics across wellness, South Asian culture and trusting your intuition.

And intuition is something we talk about towards the end of today's conversation.

Unearthed is Angie's community platform that I am a proud member of.

Its aim is to connect you with ancient Indian rituals to apply in your modern day life.

Information to the platform will be linked in the show notes.

In this episode, we take a deep dive into the whitewashing of yoga and how we can all learn to appreciate the practice rather than appropriate it.

This way, we can create meaningful change so that it's respectful of its roots and inclusive for all bodies.

There is a lot of information in this episode and it can be an uncomfortable listen at times because we've all participated in the appropriation of yoga.

I know I have, but I encourage you to keep listening, sit with that discomfort and that way we can collectively truly create meaningful change.

I want to say how great fire I am to Angie for being part of this conversation, for pushing for change, and for really being so generous with her time.

Here is Angie Tawari on all the small things.

Angie, welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited to have you here. Let us begin as we always do.

I'd love to hear if you have any kind of morning ritual to help you start your day and feel grounded.

Well, firstly, thank you for having me and I definitely do have rituals in place.

It usually starts with just being aware of my breath, first thing in the morning, just checking in with how I'm breathing and kind of intuitively checking in and taking deeper breaths.

So just trying to settle myself a little bit, I think it's easy in the morning to get up and want to rush on with my day.

So I try and slow things down a little bit before I get started and the second one is lighting some incense.

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