I Am... With Jonny Wilkinson

This week’s guest on the I Am podcast is Gurmukh, a world renown Kundalini Yoga and Meditation exponent and teacher. Kundalini Yoga is a form of yoga that aims to activate your energy through chanting, singing, breathing exercises and postural exercises and asanas. Gurmukh has an incredible 52 years’ experience all over the globe, impacting beautifully the lives of thousands.Together Jonny and Gurmukh discuss her amazing journey and share ideas around the vastness of human potential. Thank you to Gurmukh for a great conversation and for sharing your passion and special gift.As ever Jonny is always keen to hear from anyone listening - so if you have questions that you’d like explored, please email hello@Iampodcast.co.uk or comment in the reviews section. To keep up with Gurmukh you can check out her instagram @gurmukh108 or see what’s going on on her website:https://www.goldenbridgeyoga.com/gurmukhs-story/ Twitter: @jonnywilkinsonInstagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

How can we connect to our true selves and transcend pressure, self-doubt and fear of failure?  In today’s episode, in responding to excellent listener questions, Jonny delves into some ideas around how to surrender to the now and tune in to our joy and passion in order to find that confidence and undefeatable sense of self-worth and belonging. Drawing on stories of personal experience, Jonny also uses today's episode to introduce Thursday’s guest, the amazing Kundalini yoga teacher and all round powerful presence that is Gurmukh. Listen in to discover more.As ever, Jonny is always keen to hear from anyone listening - so if you have questions you would like explored or ideas put forward, please email hello@Iampodcast.co.uk or comment in the reviews section.Twitter: @jonnywilkinsonInstagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial 

This week’s guest on the I Am podcast is Matt Selway, a lecturer at the university of York Saint John, his speciality is all around the topics of cinema and media. Matt’s main area of research concerns the relationship between media and mental ill health and also how mental disorders are represented in the media. Matt has a great way about him and a really interesting take on it all and the way it shapes our worlds. Together Jonny and Matt indulge in some ideas about how, as agents for great change, we individually and collectively can have a say in what the future looks like in this space, which is a really exciting concept and definitely worth delving into our potential for.Thank you to Matt for a great conversation and for sharing your passions and understandings. As ever Jonny is always keen to hear from anyone listening - so if you have questions that you’d like answered, please email hello@Iampodcast.co.uk or comment in the reviews section.Twitter: @JonnyWilkinsonInstagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

How do we let go of expectations, judgements and constraints when our entire society appears to be built upon them? Today on I Am, Jonny responds to several powerful questions that we have received on this subject. Drawing on personal experience of fear of failure and pressure, Jonny looks into the suffocating effect of allowing what others think and how things turn out around us to decide our worth. He then goes on to offer up some more inspiring perspectives. Hopefully you will find this to be a nice introduction to Thursdays episode with the excellent Matt Selway who is a media expert and whom also researches the relationship between media and mental health. Listen in to hear how the two episodes are linked.As ever Jonny is always keen to hear from anyone listening - so if you have questions that you’d like answered, please email hello@Iampodcast.co.uk or comment in the reviews section.Twitter: @JonnyWilkinsonInstagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

Alice is a qualified Sophrologist who specialises in dealing with stress, overcoming depression and anxiety, sleep management and preparing for major events. Having worked with corporate teams and professional athletes, Alice has a powerful understanding of the pressures and demands of peak performance. Her passion for helping people enhance their own well being comes from overcoming personal health issues in the past and finding a new way to connect with her mind and body through Sophrology, enhancing her own way of living. Listen in to hear more.To keep up with Alice, follow her on twitter at @alicebull33 or go to her Sophrology site https://www.myhurdles.com for more information on her practice.Twitter: @JonnyWilkinsonInstagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

This week’s guest on the I Am podcast is Alice Bull and her speciality is Sophrology, a practise designed for enhancing our engagement in the present moment. As you'll hear Jonny discuss today, Sophrology is an exploration of the relationship we have with ourselves, with our gift and our performance. It is a technique being employed all around the globe in sporting arenas and more and more and in business as well, one which can hold power in any field where people are finding themselves closing down due to stress and pressure, feeling trapped, uninspired or overwhelmed. Each little bit of space we create from dissolving these boundaries contributes to giving us back a bit more of the power to our memory and our imagination and therefore the capacity to remember our power create the kind of life we dream of.Thank you to Alice for a great conversation and for sharing your passions and specialities. As ever Jonny is always keen to hear from anyone listening - so if you have questions that you’d like answered, please email hello@Iampodcast.co.uk or comment in the reviews section.  Twitter: @JonnyWilkinsonInstagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

Dr Ruairi Robertson a scientist studying the human gut microbiome. He, like Jonny, is fascinated by how microbes influence the human body and today Ruairi and Jonny explore how his research in examining the amazing interactions between microbes and human health can impact our potential.Jonny would love to hear from you! If you have any questions that you’d like answered, please email hello@Iampodcast.co.uk or comment in the reviews section.Twitter: @JonnyWilkinsonInstagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

How we grow and how we continue to explore the possibilities of who we are, is becoming a major focus of each episode of I AM. It is not really about becoming or arriving at the ideal version of ourselves, it is more about surrendering to something far greater, tuning into the authentic, original voice of our calling, uncovering our purpose and following our highest passion and excitement along the way.In today’s solo episode, Jonny elaborates on the conversation to come with Dr Ruairi Robertson - a scientist studying the human gut microbiome - looking into how we can transform ourselves from the inside out. As gut health and the knowledge of this diverse ‘ecosystem’ of microbes inside us becomes ever prevalent in health discussion debate, Jonny contemplates how our relationship with our body and the food we consume holds the power to connect us more deeply to opportunities and potential on many levels.As ever Jonny is always keen to hear from anyone listening - so if you have questions that you’d like answered, please email hello@Iampodcast.co.uk or comment in the reviews section.Twitter: @JonnyWilkinsonInstagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial

Justin Langer has had a brilliant sporting career - both as a key member of a legendary Australian national team and as a coach. During Justin’s tenure in charge of the squad, they went on to take back the ashes, win their first ever T20 World Cup and earn their way back to the coveted number 1 World ranking spot.Having just resigned from his coaching post, Jonny caught up with Justin at a great time for a chat about all things potential, performance and helping ourselves and others.Justin is on a healing path that recognises the importance of challenge, humility and of letting go into just being. He has so much to say about how it has come to be and how it is manifesting in his life.Jonny would love to hear from you! If you have any questions that you’d like answered, please email hello@Iampodcast.co.uk or comment in the reviews section. Twitter: @JonnyWilkinsonInstagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial "

In today’s solo episode, Jonny elaborates on the conversation to come with Justin Langer.  Justin Langer had a long and brilliant stint in professional cricket as a key member of a legendary Australian national team and has since gone on to very successfully coach them too.  Justin’s recent resignation from his coaching post leaves him in a great space for reflecting upon big learnings and personal transformations during his career and life. What isn’t missing though is his brilliant intensity and passion. Jonny uses this introductory, personal episode to give his own thoughts on this powerful and impactful type of energy that seems to be behind creative genius and also off the field struggles of isolation. The blessing and the curse as it is known. But does it have to be that way? This is the big question. Can this obsessive type of single minded dedication also be a privileged doorway into a deeper dimension of experience? As Jonny ventures deeper into this exploration he unearths the two possible opportunities we have access to in every moment: the path of greater and the path of least resistance. Inevitably we encounter the topics of trust and self worth here too. Throughout his entire career Justin has been an avid and devoted practitioner of Transcendental meditation so we get to hear how that fits in according to Jonny as well. As ever Jonny is always keen to hear from anyone listening - so if you have questions that you’d like answered, please email hello@Iampodcast.co.uk or comment in the reviews section.  Twitter: @JonnyWilkinsonInstagram: @jonnywilkinsonofficial