#65 – Keen on Yoga Podcast with Simon Borg-Olivier (part 2)

Simon Borg-Olivier is a polymath of the movement world. A
forerunner of yoga in Australia and a teachers' teacher. He also
holds two BSC's an lectures regularly for a number of University
science departments. 


This is his second time on our podcast, expressly this time to
talk about the impact of breath upon movement in preparation for
an upcoming workshop on breath at Keen On Yoga to accompany this
podcast.


In this conversation Simon gets quite technical as to how to
utilise the diaphragm for the sake of connecting breath to the
inner functioning of the body. Not exclusively referring to the
yoga-model he synthesises modern science with the
yoga-perspective in a way unique to him.


Equally, he explodes yoga myths - such as bandha with a
hard abdomen and how this actually freezes the diaphragm and
hence the prana in the body.  All this is done with
characteristic energy and lucidity and Simon himself in his early
sixties is a living example of the power of a breath-based
practice.