conversations
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ogawoman director and writer Kate Clere McIntyre is passionate, among
other things, about film-making and yoga. “I love the art of movie-making; the whole journey
from research, planning, interviewing to editing, writing and working with the composer, and
finally supporting the film as it makes its own way into the world,” she says.
She co-produced Yogawoman—a film about yoga and its impact to women practitioners around the
globe—with husband Michael McIntyre and Saraswati Clere. The documentary, voiced-over by the Academy
Award nominee and yoga practitioner Annette Bening, was officially released in September, with film screenings at the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival and at the Los Angeles’ A Femme Film Festival
In this issue’s Conversations, the film-maker talks about how this journey to document the power of yoga
has changed her views towards its far-reaching impact.
wisdom a nd find out how and why yoga works for women.
Every time we interviewed one of the women in this film, we
were captivated by their insights, intelligence, compassion, commitment and ambition to serve other women. The experts we
interviewed represent some of the greatest minds from across
the world. Weaving together their stories, we created
Yogawoman, an extraordinary testament of this time.
Yogawoman director, writer and producer Kate Clere McIntyre (middle) with
co-producers Saraswati Clere and Michael McIntyre.
KATE CLERE McINTYRE
DIRECTOR • Yogawoman
PULSE: What inspired you to do a documentary on
yoga?
McIntyre: We were inspired by the large number of women
who have become leaders in the yoga movement worldwide. As
in most professions, they are working hard in their own communities but very few times were coming together to share their
findings and experiences. We wanted to capture their collective
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P: This film, in many respects, goes beyond the practice
of yoga. It is about empowerment. How has yoga empowered women across the globe?
M: There is a revolution happening within neighborhoods
across the world as women step onto mats and reconnect with
their inner wisdom, and then take that wisdom into the world.
This groundswell has the capacity to change the entire landscape of women’s lives and our society as a whole. The tools of
yoga create a conscious life: Conscious breathing, conscious
movement, conscious state of mind, conscious thoughts, conscious eating and conscious actions. When women collectively
start making changes, we can change our families, our communities, our diet, our consumption choices, our responses and
start to influence change on national and global levels.