MC Yogi: 'Yoga Made Me Resilient and Strong'

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

MC Yogi is a well-known performing artist -- and perhaps one of the only rappers to write lyrics about Hanuman and Ganesha? -- and is married to artist Amanda Giacomini who I interviewed on episode 45. Together, they've owned and been the primary teachers at the Point Reyes Yoga Studio in Point Reyes, CA. On this episode, we talk about MC Yogi's his new book, Spiritual Graffiti, which tells the story of how discovering yoga helped him overcome his troubled youth and brought his artistry to life. Thanks to MC Yogi for allowing us to use his music for this episode. For shownotes and a link to order his book: yogalandpodcast.com/episode67

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0:30.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 67 of Yoga Land.
0:34.6	Today I talk to MC Yogi. He is someone who I feel kind of needs no introduction but I'll do one anyway.
0:48.0	He's a well-known performing artist and yoga
0:55.0	He and his wife Amanda who was on episode 45 of the podcast
0:56.0	Our owners of Point Reyes Yoga in Point Reyes California,
1:00.0	which is just about an hour north of San Francisco.
1:03.6	Last year, MC Yogi was on tour,
1:05.2	headlining wanderlust and 108 events,
1:07.6	and he performed in front of more than 200,000 people.
1:11.4	In August of 2016 his collaboration Ritual Mystical made it to number one on the iTunes electronic charts and
1:21.2	his latest project is his memoir Spiritual Graffiti which comes out on
1:24.8	September 19th but you can pre-order it on Amazon right now and that's what we talk
1:29.2	about today. The book traces his history all the way back from his childhood and the difficulties he went through.
1:36.0	He ended up in high school living in a group home for a time.
1:39.0	And even when he graduated from high school, he went through a period of you know aimlessness it was
1:44.9	his dad's friend Larry Schultz who we mentioned in the podcast and many of you may
1:49.6	remember Larry as the owner of its yoga in San Francisco. Sadly Larry passed away a few years ago.
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