#53 - Keen on Yoga Podcast with Alexander Medin

This is my second interview with Alexander Medin.  Alex has
had many incarnations, many lives. However, the common thread I
feel running through his history has always been the striving for
self-understanding - nothing less than yoga.

I would suggest, this was evident in his younger, unsettled years
getting into trouble with the police, becoming Norwegian champion
boxer, the professional ballet dancer, actor and finally a
Certified Ashtanga yoga teacher.


But, this episode focuses particularly on his most recent work;
setting up “Back in the Ring”, a foundation teaching yoga to
Norwegian prisoners; many of whom are serving long-term
sentences.


Even by Alex’s standards, what he has achieved with this is
remarkable, leading to government funding to provide yoga
teaching across the board in Norwegian prisons.


In this podcast we discuss the practicalities of this, the
difficulties and the achievements. Many of the prisoners have
gone on to become yoga teachers in their own right. Some are
employed in the running of Alex’s yoga hotel ‘Nosen’ high up in
the Norwegian fjords.