Mike B and The Universe
08/30/21 • 65 min
Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'.
Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship.
He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album combines his great love of the American tradition of song and his yoga realization. Here we have a meeting of Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan and the Kinks. It is a very useful work in the world! Highly recommended. Stream or download it here!
In this episode you will hear....
2.30 - The band, meeting Mark and the touring artist years. 9.00 Strength That Is Not Received Destroys Itself. 11.00 The tortured artist syndrome and substance abuse. 15.15 The effect of yoga practice before a big concert is not just for the performer. 25.40 No such thing as ''I am a separate body....a sperate world...'' 27.05 You don't need to try to get into someone else's Mandala. You're sitting in your own. 30.00 Yoga does not require sophisticated language. Just practice. 35.00 Intimacy must come with yourself first before anyone else. '' You can't take heaven by storm''. 37.00 How Heart Of Yoga resonated with Michael with living in the heart of the yoga industry. 43.00 Teaching Yoga to those with special needs and in a downtown L.A. church. Coming from a Catholic background. 48.30 You must teach Yoga with respect with who a person is. Yoga and religion. 55.00 Song writing, Mandalas, inspiration and writing the new album of 108 songs.Follow this podcast for new episodes here: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS/XML
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Mike Bucher is a musician in Los Angeles. His band, Iglu and Hartley have had hit singles around the world — great uplifting rock and roll. He now ventures forth as "Mike B and the Universe" with has solo album just released, 'Bloom Baby Bloom'.
Mike is a yogi and a teacher in the heart of yoga. Mike speaks candidly about staying real in the midst of celebrity and the life of a working musician, and speaks about how Yoga has been a catalyst for his life, music and relationship.
He teaches in Los Angeles and on his new album combines his great love of the American tradition of song and his yoga realization. Here we have a meeting of Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan and the Kinks. It is a very useful work in the world! Highly recommended. Stream or download it here!
In this episode you will hear....
2.30 - The band, meeting Mark and the touring artist years. 9.00 Strength That Is Not Received Destroys Itself. 11.00 The tortured artist syndrome and substance abuse. 15.15 The effect of yoga practice before a big concert is not just for the performer. 25.40 No such thing as ''I am a separate body....a sperate world...'' 27.05 You don't need to try to get into someone else's Mandala. You're sitting in your own. 30.00 Yoga does not require sophisticated language. Just practice. 35.00 Intimacy must come with yourself first before anyone else. '' You can't take heaven by storm''. 37.00 How Heart Of Yoga resonated with Michael with living in the heart of the yoga industry. 43.00 Teaching Yoga to those with special needs and in a downtown L.A. church. Coming from a Catholic background. 48.30 You must teach Yoga with respect with who a person is. Yoga and religion. 55.00 Song writing, Mandalas, inspiration and writing the new album of 108 songs.Follow this podcast for new episodes here: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS/XML
If you feel moved to submit a question for a future episode, you can do so here:
https://www.heartofyoga.com/podcast
You can find more from the Heart of Yoga on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.
Previous Episode
Intimacy with the Living World, with Kelsey Barrett
Kelsey Barrett is a modern-day witch. She is a practicing herbalist and Yogini.
Mark says:
“In previous centuries she would have been burnt at the stake for her strange powers that threatened the knowledge authority of orthodoxy. She would have been shunned to the outskirts of the town, a forest dweller with twigs and moss in her hair and strange garb. These days the public realize she has useful healing powers, so allow her to enter the town or village.”
Kelsey combines medicinal herbs, Yoga and intimacy arts to help her friends navigate the tricky waters of our time.
Mark and Kelsey discuss her craft and realization. Dialogue includes sexuality, intimacy and the necessity for a personal hathayoga to actualize sublime intimacy.
Otherwise sacred sexuality seems to be confined to the poetry and iconography of forgotten cultures. Yet obviously remains the potential of every person today. Actual Yoga makes sacred intimacy real and no longer just fanciful unfulfilled desires.
The mind of the modern West is like a closed box of lidded thought that cannot be pierced or access the obvious mystery dimensions above the crown or go deep into the roots of Mother Earth.
Kelsey recalls her crown opening up to higher dimensions and the state of the Yogini... a flow of life synchronistically ascending and descending, mysteriously became her experience.
In the ancient world after death a Yogi’s crown was ceremonially pierced, symbolizing the ascent of the life force infinitely above, in death as in life. Such sublimity arises as everyone’s potential through Yoga.
Intimacy with all aspects of life, for example Kelsey talks about the power of rose for the heart, and the power of realising illness as visitation of the Goddess.
Follow Kelsey on Instagram here: @heavynettlegathering
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Next Episode
EP 28 - Finding Our Own Authority with Minami Takashima
Minami Takashima was a successful business woman in corporate Japan, and here she tells her story of stepping out of exploitation and corporate hierarchy and stepping into her own power. Minami and Rosalind talk about the role of Yoga in this journey and how it has inspired her to teach across different countries and languages. The key theme is finding the authority of our experience and power. Minami offers private sessions in person in Nelson, New Zealand, and over Zoom in English and Japanese. You can find her on Instagram here : @yogawithminami
In this episode you will hear...
01.53 The Belly Of The Beast : Corporate Japan.
05.00 ''Being a woman you are second class...''
07.00 Getting free from the internal and external structure.
11.15 A little shoot of yoga into corporate life. Mother being the first Guru.
17.40 The process of Yoga learning, synchronicity and Bali.
21.15 Awareness of invisible hierarchies, breaking points and gratitude.
30.00 Stuck in Oz during the pandemic and finding the motivation to keep sharing.
37.00 Bringing teachings back to Japan and meeting Japanese culture and suppressed sexuality.
45.00 Tantra, sex and taboo.
50.45 Finding confidence in teaching, where it comes from and the power of one's own experience. Not needing approval.
54.50 Yoga texts and different relationships with knowledge. Being the authority of your own experience.
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If you feel moved to submit a question for a future episode, you can do so here:
https://www.heartofyoga.com/podcast
You can find more from the Heart of Yoga on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.
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