Finding Harmony Podcast
Finding Harmony Podcast
Harmony Slater
What 9 Trips to Mysore Teach You About Devotion, Discipline & Real Life | with Tina Bock
57 minutes Posted May 19, 2026 at 8:05 am.
Welcome to Finding Harmony
Meet Tina Bach
Braids and Shala Banter
Life in Abu Dhabi
Early Dubai Yoga Scene
Jersey Roots and Montreal Love
From Dance to India Training
Discovering Ashtanga in Montreal
Mysore Trip and Motorbike Crash
Self Practice in the Middle East
Marriage and Long Distance Years
Motherhood and Advanced Practice
Kids and Ice Plans
Motherhood and Practice Shifts
Third Series Standards
Sharath Stories and Potatoes
Teaching at the Gym
Ashtanga Police Gossip
Finding Community Outside Mysore
Mysore vs Hot Yoga
Gentrification and Studio Economics
Fitting In Self Practice
Active Series and Next Gen
Legacy and Life Paths
Trunks Drugs and Mysore Tales
Helmets and India Mishaps
Where to Find Tina
Final Thanks and Workshops
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What if the most devoted yoga practice isn't happening at 5am in a Mysore shala — but in stolen afternoon hours between school pickups, on the floor of a LifeTime gym, to whatever music felt right that morning?
Harmony and Russell sit down with Tina Bock — Authorized Level 2 Ashtanga yoga teacher, mother of two, eight-year Abu Dhabi expat, and lifelong New Jersey girl — for exactly the kind of conversation Ashtangis have been having since the first Western students sat outside the shala gates with instant coffee and nowhere else to be.
Warm, funny, philosophical, and completely real.Tina received her Level 2 authorization from the K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute in Mysore, India under the late R. Sharath Jois. She has been teaching since 2012, has taught workshops and teacher trainings in more than 14 countries, made nine trips to India for ongoing study, and is currently practicing what she calls the "Seventh" and final series: parenting.
Her path was not a straight line. From a 200-hour training in Goa at 22 (chosen because it was a thousand dollars for the whole month), to years of private lessons in Abu Dhabi palaces, to nine Mysore pilgrimages, to learning Third Series after her first baby was born — this is a portrait of what it looks like when practice truly lives inside a life, rather than sitting apart from it
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