This is where Fierce Calm comes in. A charity, set up by Lee and his team, the organisation works to deliver and fund free yoga classes in shelters and community spaces to refugees, survivors of domestic violence, survivors of violence and conflict, and people facing systemic bias due to sexual orientation, income, age, racial or cultural identity. They provide trauma informed yoga teacher training scholarships for marginalised and / or minoritised ethnicity students. And, they lead the delivery of the OURMALA studio, community and online beneficiary yoga programme for refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.

SEN1 - George - is one of the original street artists of NYC. He was there at the beginning; a foundational member of groups of kids who started the various artistic facets of the hip-hop movement; lyrics, music, dance, art. Often overlooked in favour of the 'big money stories' and heavily branded fashionable reiterations of hip-hop that bought out and colonised the culture, people like George and his crew keep the flame alive within the community - it's true purpose. Making a living from his still graffiti-focused art, George has a real presence in the area he grew up in, using his skills to teach kids the economics and respect of the hip-hop culture. With a price on his head as a teenager, George watched the communities of NYC be taken over by Jewish money, violent gangs, and developers. This was such a great chat with him!

What is normal anyway......?

This month's guest is just a regular guy who loves working out, practicing martial arts, getting tattoos and climbing hills. All of it, with somewhat of a twist. Gary has Osteogenesis Imperfecta - or brittle bones - which means he's spent his life working through the various obstacles placed in front of him, quite literally sometimes, by this 'normal world'. It's all had a huge impact on his mental health too, especially as a kid. But it isn't all seriousness and sad faces - he's got some pretty neat tech ideas on how to enable the disabled, and he's going to be the World's first Space Hopper Superhero...... Stay tuned.

As always, this chat has a few eye-openers, some really neat little gems of information, and new ways of thinking about using these traditional practices in modern life.

Sounds un-yoga, right, because yoga is for women in lycra in gyms using powerful music and playing with their chakras....? Speaking from her own learning and her own experiences, Meesha clears that up for us, discussing the many deities and genders in Hinduism, decolonising yoga and ridding it of whitewashing, and (controversial) how yoga practice existed hundreds of years ago outside of India....

In the first episode of Dharma Things, breathwork facilitator, licensed bodywork therapist and shamanic practitioner Steph Magenta talks through the importance of breathing, how it is completely life changing (more than just breathing to live!), the integration and integrity of breathwork, and that not so far-flung world of shamanism.

After growing through obstacles of addiction and abuse in her life, over many years Steph realised what the things were that were helping her heal, allowing her to look at her life with a greater degree of positivity, and reach for greater experiences. In this half hour chat, she discusses her journey, her love of the work, the depth of responsible shamanic and ancestral healing, and how we can all start to heal just through taking conscious inhales and exhales.