Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

For my latest Nostalgia Interview it was a huge pleasure to meet up with Theo Wildcroft. Theo has undertaken a PhD with the Open University in the area of practice relationships in Yoga and we find out why Theo misses driving time, and will now walk with her greyhound during lockdown. We talk about the importance of having designated work space and we discuss the role of fieldwork in her PhD, which consisted of looking at festivals and camps to which yoga teachers go, and how it is an intense, entangled type of research, involving telling untold stories. Theo does yoga teacher training and we find out about her background in which she studied languages at Cambridge where she was very impressed by a talk given by Hélène Cixous who prompted her to think of the role of viscerality in language. Theo talks about finding an inaccessibility in academia and how she waited 10 years before doing her Masters. Her school didn’t have a 6th form and she went from a tertiary college to Oxbridge. We find out why she