I'm sooooo excited for you to meet my yoga teacher and friend, Leigh!

Nine years ago, I walked into Leigh's yoga class and felt my body for the first time. Without her, I genuinely don't think I would be sitting here, doing this podcast, living the life I'm living now.

Leigh Khoo is a yoga teacher, retreat leader, and the very first person who showed me that a path of uncertainty could be beautiful. Before I met her, I had only ever seen one kind of life: stable, structured, certain. Leigh changed everything for me.

"Oftentimes we think of the worst-case scenario with our conditioning and fear shaping it. If we sat with it and distilled our answer a couple of times over, then maybe what's the worst is just all in your head." — Leigh

IN THIS EPISODE

• How a yoga class in 2017 changed my relationship with my own body, and eventually, my whole life
• Why Leigh was the first person to make an uncertain, non-traditional path feel not just possible, but worth wanting and building
• How being in a space you have outgrown feels like wearing ill-fitting clothes and taking it off is a such a relief
• Leigh's teaching philosophy: what yoga actually is, why the philosophy gets lost in studios, and what it means to live it off the mat
• The 'brushing your teeth' metaphor for daily practice, and why you can't only show up when things are hard
• How Leigh plans her year with financial clarity but total flexibility, and why she's 'set up for things falling apart'
• What her husband's early observation — 'you're so proper with students, but so different with me' — taught her about alignment
• Building community without trying to: why like-mindedness is the foundation, and organic is the only way
• 'What's the worst that can happen?' — a real conversation with a friend stuck in an unhappy job for years
• On holding space vs. giving unsolicited advice, and why offering solutions too early makes it about you, not them

FIND LEIGH

• Instagram: @livingyogawithleigh
• Patreon: patreon.com/livingyogawithleigh — audio yoga practices, ~4 per month. (also Jasmine’s personal source of yoga practice!)
• Website: living-yoga.co
• Upcoming: Hatha Yoga & Vedanta Immersion in Bali (June), 200hr Teacher Training (June–August, Singapore weekends), Ladakh Retreat 20–26 September — one last spot in female twin sharing. DM Leigh to book.

CONNECT WITH JASMINE

• Instagram: @jasmineteo.jiamin
• Coaching: Presence, a 4-month 1:1 coaching programme. For people who live for something greater than themselves and want to build the inner life to match. May and June intakes are sold out. Waitlist open for July. Apply here.

• 1:1 Therapy. Free 15-min consultation to start.