Tristan Rose (
@tristanrose.com.au
) is the Founder of a Veteran-focused Yoga and Meditation service Blind Tiger Yoga, and a former soldier in The Royal Australian Regiment.
For a long time, I’ve wanted to interview a former Veteran to get a better grasp of how this community perceives itself amongst the general civilian population. War and violence are at times, necessary, and so I wanted to understand how they view that necessity. For quite some time I would continually pitch former and current special forces operators only to have repeated “no’s” come back. After interviewing Tristan, I started to understand why.
The way we treat Veterans in Australia, as a general population, is strange. Whether it’s sticking our head in the sand about suicide post-discharge (through masking statistics), making it hard for veterans to make medical claims, or going along with a culture that doesn’t allow us to celebrate the commitment these individuals make post-career.
I realised that during the research process, and indeed the interview, how important Tristan’s work is. Blind Tiger Yoga - a team focused on complementing health management for Veterans and First Responders - could be the connective tissue that links a multitude of modalities in a Veteran’s life, giving it a wholeness and meaning in a system that has washed people away.
This was an eye-opening conversation, that I thank Tristan for allowing me to be a part of, including:
Teaching Yoga & Meditation to Veterans
Tristan’s life-changing Yoga moment
Compartmentalising as a soldier
Australia vs U.S Veteran treatment
Being a Veteran in Australia
Veteran mental health & suicide
What Blind Tiger Yoga does
SHOW NOTES
01:27 - Introduction
04:30 - Worst health advice from Yoga Teachers
10:45 - Teaching Yoga & Meditation to Veterans
13:57 - Yoga without ego
16:01 - Lifting the lid of Pandora’s Box
20:56 - Tristan’s life-changing Yoga moment
26:42 - Compartmentalising as a soldier
28:18 - Earliest memory of wanting to be in the military
29:36 - Australia vs U.S Veteran treatment
35:03 - Being a Veteran in Australia
44:58 - Veteran mental health & suicide
54:21 - Recovery and accountability
57:21 - Bearing the weight of helping others
01:02:29 - Blind Tiger Yoga
01:06:09 - Yin Yoga & Yoga Nidra
01:15:00 - Relating to your audience
01:16:14 - Practice what you preach
01:20:25 - Most impactful stories
01:24:55 - No silver bullet
01:29:14 - Morning routine
01:32:34 - Book recommendations
01:34:37 - Best purchase under $200
MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST
Tristan on Instagram
Tristanrose.com.au
Blind Tiger Yoga
THINGS MENTIONED (in order of episode)
Similar ep: Manoj Dias
Compartmentalisation
Hypervigilance
Jocko Willink
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
DVA
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Ben Cantwell
Yin Yoga
Yoga Nidra
Paul Grilley
Bernie Clark
Sympathetic nervous system
Parasympathetic nervous system
Ross Walker
The Book of Listening by Jean Klein
The Foundations of Mindfulness by Erin Harrison
Thoughts Are Not the Enemy by Jason Siff
Beyondblue: support for anxiety, depression and suicide prevention
Tristan Rose (@tristanrose.com.au) is the Founder of a Veteran-focused Yoga and Meditation service Blind Tiger Yoga, and a former soldier in The Royal Australian Regiment.
For a long time, I’ve wanted to interview a former Veteran to get a better grasp of how this community perceives itself amongst the general civilian population. War and violence are at times, necessary, and so I wanted to understand how they view that necessity. For quite some time I would continually pitch former and current special forces operators only to have repeated “no’s” come back. After interviewing Tristan, I started to understand why.
The way we treat Veterans in Australia, as a general population, is strange. Whether it’s sticking our head in the sand about suicide post-discharge (through masking statistics), making it hard for veterans to make medical claims, or going along with a culture that doesn’t allow us to celebrate the commitment these individuals make post-career.
I realised that during the research process, and indeed the interview, how important Tristan’s work is. Blind Tiger Yoga - a team focused on complementing health management for Veterans and First Responders - could be the connective tissue that links a multitude of modalities in a Veteran’s life, giving it a wholeness and meaning in a system that has washed people away.
This was an eye-opening conversation, that I thank Tristan for allowing me to be a part of, including:
- Teaching Yoga & Meditation to Veterans
- Tristan’s life-changing Yoga moment
- Compartmentalising as a soldier
- Australia vs U.S Veteran treatment
- Being a Veteran in Australia
- Veteran mental health & suicide
- What Blind Tiger Yoga does
SHOW NOTES
01:27 - Introduction
04:30 - Worst health advice from Yoga Teachers
10:45 - Teaching Yoga & Meditation to Veterans
13:57 - Yoga without ego
16:01 - Lifting the lid of Pandora’s Box
20:56 - Tristan’s life-changing Yoga moment
26:42 - Compartmentalising as a soldier
28:18 - Earliest memory of wanting to be in the military
29:36 - Australia vs U.S Veteran treatment
35:03 - Being a Veteran in Australia
44:58 - Veteran mental health & suicide
54:21 - Recovery and accountability
57:21 - Bearing the weight of helping others
01:02:29 - Blind Tiger Yoga
01:06:09 - Yin Yoga & Yoga Nidra
01:15:00 - Relating to your audience
01:16:14 - Practice what you preach
01:20:25 - Most impactful stories
01:24:55 - No silver bullet
01:29:14 - Morning routine
01:32:34 - Book recommendations
01:34:37 - Best purchase under $200
MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST
Tristan on Instagram
Tristanrose.com.au
Blind Tiger Yoga
THINGS MENTIONED (in order of episode)
Similar ep: Manoj Dias
Compartmentalisation
Hypervigilance
Jocko Willink
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
DVA
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Ben Cantwell
Yin Yoga
Yoga Nidra
Paul Grilley
Bernie Clark
Sympathetic nervous system
Parasympathetic nervous system
Ross Walker
The Book of Listening by Jean Klein
The Foundations of Mindfulness by Erin Harrison
Thoughts Are Not the Enemy by Jason Siff
Beyondblue: support for anxiety, depression and suicide prevention
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