Seeing Within is a calm, audio-first podcast by Dawn Blezard, created primarily for people who are blind or visually impaired, and shared with her wider yoga community. Rooted in personal experience and yoga philosophy, the podcast explores living with sight loss, attention, stillness, and learning to orient from within. <br/><br/><a href="https://pathwayyoga.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">pathwayyoga.substack.com</a>
Seeing Within
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Seeing Within is a calm, audio-first podcast by Dawn Blezard, created primarily for people who are blind or visually impaired, and shared with her wider yoga community. Rooted in personal experience and yoga philosophy, the podcast explores living with sight loss, attention, stillness, and learning to orient from within. <br/><br/><a href="https://pathwayyoga.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">pathwayyoga.substack.com</a>
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July 31, 2026
Finding My Voice When I Couldn't See My Way
<p>This month I’m joined by the wonderful Anne Mok, who shares her journey from years of being told she was clumsy, shy, or just not very academic, to finally being diagnosed with cone-rod dystrophy, a rare inherited retinal condition, in adulthood. Anne talks honestly about the years of not being believed, the moment a specialist finally said “I believe you,” and how giving up driving, then learning to use a white cane, changed everything.</p><p>We talk about the fear of being seen with a cane, finding community on Instagram during the pandemic, and how that led to an unexpected new career in voice acting. Anne also shares the story behind her new book, Resilience and Purpose: Discovering Strength and Connection in Life’s Cracks, and why finishing it felt like a hug from her mum.</p><p>This is a conversation about grief, acceptance, and the things nobody tells you when your vision starts to change.</p><p><strong>Find Anne:</strong>Instagram: @PurposeInViewWebsite: PurposeInView.comBook: Resilience and Purpose: Discovering Strength and Connection in Life’s Cracks — available now, audiobook coming this autumn</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://pathwayyoga.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">pathwayyoga.substack.com/subscribe</a>
July 1, 2026
Seeing Within: Fashion Has No Limits
<p><strong>SHOW NOTES</strong></p><p>Seeing Within is hosted by Dawn Blezard, a Jivamukti-trained yoga teacher living with Stargardt’s disease - a progressive condition that is gradually taking her sight. Each episode, Dawn talks with guests who are navigating life, identity, and the world at the edges of what they can see.</p><p>In this episode, Dawn meets Bérénice Magistretti - writer, visually impaired activist, and co-founder of Visible Voices, a platform shifting the narrative on disability through the lens of fashion, beauty, art and design.</p><p>Bérénice was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at 19. Over the past twenty years, her sight has gradually diminished - first in low light, then with increasing blind spots throughout the day. Three years ago, she began using a white cane. Unable to find one that reflected who she was, she designed her own - working with artisans in Tuscany to create a cane that is now touring international museums and forming the basis of an upcoming collection.</p><p>Her work has been featured in British Vogue, Vogue Italia, and AD Italia. She has given a TEDx Talk and has appeared on France Inter. Her co-founder, Ruben, is autistic and narcoleptic — and together they are building Visible Voices into a global platform that tells different stories about disability, through a different lens.</p><p>In this conversation, Bérénice and Dawn explore:</p><p>* The emotional transition of making an invisible disability visible</p><p>* Why the world of fashion has been slow to include disabled people — and why that is beginning to change</p><p>* The work of Hair and Care, a London nonprofit helping low-vision and blind women to feel and look beautiful</p><p>* How Making Fashion Accessible is opening up London Fashion Week to the blind and low-vision community — with live audio description, tactile sample books, and direct access to designers</p><p>* The anxiety, grief, and identity questions that come with progressive sight loss</p><p>* Why sharing is not the same as complaining</p><p>You look with your two eyes, but you see with your third eye.</p><p>Find Bérénice on Instagram: @berenice.magistretti Visible Voices: @visible_voices_ TEDx Talk: youtu.be/7jB6rdUfWIE</p><p>This is not a podcast to rush through. There is no right way to listen. Produced by Anne Gould. Music via Epidemic Sound. With thanks to Sarah Place Accountants, Bury St Edmunds, for supporting the production. To hear more, visit pathwayyoga.substack.com.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://pathwayyoga.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">pathwayyoga.substack.com/subscribe</a>
June 6, 2026
Living your blessed blind life — with Chris, The Blind Man with the Backpack
<p>This week I'm joined by my dear friend Chris, who many of you will know as The Blind Man with the Backpack.</p><p>Chris was diagnosed with cone dystrophy in 2018, and within a couple of years had gone from driving and living what he calls a "normal-ish life" to being severely sight impaired. We talk about the constant adaptation that comes with degenerative sight loss — the moving goalposts, the readjustment family members can find so hard to understand, and the grief of what we could do last month but can't do this month.</p><p>Chris also opens up about the last six weeks since his beloved guide dog Chester retired from work, and what it's been like returning to the white cane after the partnership of a dog. His description of the difference — a bumper car versus a Formula One car — has stayed with me ever since.</p><p>We share what keeps us going. For Chris, it's his local woods and an outdoor pool in Reading where the staff have made every adjustment so he can swim. For me, it's yoga, breath work, and being outdoors.</p><p>And because I'm walking part of the Jurassic Coast in July for RNIB, I asked Chris for his tips. He walked the Pembrokeshire coast with a guide, and what he says about rhythm and trust between walker and guide is something I'll be carrying with me on the cliff paths.</p><p>His advice to his younger self is one I'll be coming back to: live your blessed blind life. Don't fight it. Just go with it.</p><p>You can find Chris on Instagram as @theblindmanwithabackpack and on his blog of the same name.</p><p>Produced by Anne Gould. Music via Epidemic Sound. With thanks to Sarah Place Accountants, Bury St Edmunds, for supporting the production. To hear more, visit <a target="_blank" href="http://pathwayyoga.substack.com">pathwayyoga.substack.com</a>.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://pathwayyoga.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">pathwayyoga.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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