Insights at the intersection of yoga, neuroscience, mental health and integrative therapy. Explore episodes featuring Heather Mason, TMI faculty and our wider community, along with guest appearances on leading mental health podcasts.
Podcast conversations offer a powerful way to explore how yoga, breathwork, neuroscience and psychotherapy shape mental health and wellbeing. The Minded Institute regularly hosts and features in podcasts that bring together evidence-based insight, lived experience and practical tools for regulation, resilience and healing.
On this page, you’ll find a curated selection of episodes on mental health, trauma, anxiety, the nervous system, PTSD, integrative yoga therapy, and the science of breath, along with broader conversations on yoga philosophy, practice and community.
The Yoga4Health Podcast explores how yoga is shaping the future of mental health, community wellbeing and healthcare delivery. It is produced by the Yoga in Healthcare Alliance (YIHA) and co-hosted by Heather Mason and Paul Fox,
Building on the NHS-backed Yoga4Health social prescribing programme, the series brings evidence, experience, and policy insight together in one accessible space.
Each episode investigates how yoga influences brain, body and behaviour through a lens grounded in research and real-world clinical practice. Conversations highlight the role of breathwork, trauma-sensitive approaches, nervous system regulation and contemplative practice in supporting sustainable health.
Listeners will hear from clinicians, researchers, public health leaders and practitioners who are redefining how yoga sits alongside modern medicine.
Whether you work in healthcare, teach yoga, deliver mental health support or are simply curious about whole-person wellbeing, the podcast offers an in-depth look at how evidence-based yoga can enhance care across communities.
Listen to the Yoga4Health Podcast to join a growing dialogue on prevention, integrative care and the future of health.
In this thoughtful and wide-ranging interview, Rachel Bilski explores the multilayered landscape of trauma, healing and self-understanding through the lens of yoga therapy. As a lecturer at The Minded Institute and the Operations & Business Development Manager at PTSD UK, Rachel brings a rare combination of professional expertise, research literacy and lived experience to the discussion.
The conversation begins with an examination of yoga therapy as a clinical and contemplative discipline, outlining how breathwork, interoception, embodiment and autonomic regulation support recovery from complex trauma. Rachel offers a clear account of why body-based approaches are essential alongside psychotherapeutic work, particularly for individuals living with C-PTSD whose nervous systems have adapted to prolonged threat.
In the second half of the interview, she delves into concepts central to The Minded Institute’s CPD on C-PTSD – including parts-oriented perspectives, trauma-related identity shifts and the cultivation of self-energy. The discussion provides a grounded introduction to ideas that practitioners will encounter more deeply in the CPD programme. You can join Rachel’s CPD here.
You can listen to Beyond Trauma: Self, Parts and Healing, Complex PTSD a conversation with Rachel Bilski on YouTube Apple & Spotify
In this episode of Yoga With Jake, Heather Mason offers a clear and grounded exploration of what yoga therapy is and how it works. Drawing on decades at the intersection of neuroscience, mental health and contemplative practice, she discusses how structured, evidence-informed yoga interventions can support psychological resilience, autonomic regulation and whole-person care.
The conversation traces the evolution of yoga therapy as a clinical discipline, highlighting its applications in mental health, trauma recovery, chronic stress and long-term wellbeing. With her characteristic clarity, Heather explains how breathwork, mindful movement and interoceptive training influence brain–body communication, and why person-centred, collaboratively delivered practices matter in therapeutic settings.
For practitioners, clinicians, yoga teachers and those curious about the mechanisms that underpin integrative care, this episode offers an accessible entry point into how yoga therapy can complement existing models of support while strengthening agency, coherence and self-understanding.
Listen to the ‘Yoga With Jake’ Podcast “Heather Mason: What is Yoga Therapy and How it Works…” on Apple Podcasts and all major podcast platforms
In this in-depth conversation on the Yoga Therapy Hour, Heather Mason speaks with Amy Wheeler about the neuroscientific foundations of yoga therapy. The discussion explores how contemplative practices influence neural pathways involved in stress, attention, emotional regulation and interoception, and why these mechanisms matter for therapeutic change.
Heather outlines emerging research on autonomic function, neuroplasticity and breath-mediated modulation of brain–body networks, offering a clear account of how yoga therapy can be integrated into mental-health and healthcare settings. The episode also highlights the importance of trauma-sensitive adaptation, practitioner training and evidence-informed sequencing when working with complex presentations.
For yoga therapists, clinicians, educators and anyone interested in the science underpinning embodied approaches to wellbeing, this interview provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to the physiological and psychological frameworks that guide modern yoga therapy. For anyone seeking focused yoga & mental health podcasts, this is essential listening (or viewing!).
Listen to ‘Interview with Heather Mason on Neuroscience & Yoga Therapy‘ on Youtube.
