Lumen

The hilarious journey of being a yoga teacher and navigating "spiritual-new-age" jargon!

Here's to being unprofessional, not knowing, not being the expert... letting go of assumptions, fixed views, perceptions, judgements and ideas in favor of....going on a pilgrimage! in China, there was a teacher named Dizang who had a student named Fayan. Dizang saw Fayan all dressed in his traveling clothes, with his straw sandals and his staff, and a pack on his back, and Dizang said, "Where are you going?" Fayan answered, "Around on a pilgrimage." Dizang said, "What is the purpose of pilgrimage?" Fayan said, "I don't know." Dizang said, "Not knowing is nearest.".... translated as not knowing is most intimate...not knowing is nearest and most intimate. Here's to getting off the plateau of stagnancy in the known and jumping into the galaxy of darkness as vast as outer space. So much for right or wrong.

This podcast is about living according to our core values and a lot of the challenges that come with that, as well as making a life out of the life we have been given. Core Values Alignment Being Fully Ourselves Fear Obstacles On The Way Taking Risks Falling In Love Exhaustion Being OK With Whatever Life Gives Us Making Lemonade from Lemons Finding Treasure in the Trash Clarifying

A dharma talk about commitment and holding that gateway of hope open in the face of disappointment, failure, shame, fear, and doubt.

This Track Hits On: Home Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)/ Seperate-ness Equanimity with desire, aversion, and neutral The Monarch butterfly journey Staying true to what's most important within all the emotional ups and downs The mantra: The opening invocation of the Isha Upanishad, a Sanskrit text that delves into the knowledge of the Self Pronunciation: purnam adah purnam idam purnat purnam udachyate | purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavashishyate || Translation: That is Whole. This is Whole. The Whole arises from the Whole. Having taken the Whole from the Whole, Only the Whole remains. (Translation by Zoë Slatoff-Ponté)

IN THIS TRACK: History of yoga About the first yoga sutra Using the philosophy to create presence with difficult emotions Emotional landscape Equanimity Compassion Developing the capacity to "be with"

This Podcast Covers: Sutra 1.2: Yoga Citta Vrtti Nirodah The meaning of each individual sanskrit word in Sutra 1.2 The meaning of them all together The definition of Yoga The difference between Purusa and Prakriti What the Citta is What is Suffering What is Acceptance Reading from Nisargadatta on Pain Reading from Adyashanti on Depth Learning to work with pain instead of running from it Learning to identify with freedom instead of the story of our pain Equanimity: staying present with changes Will, Willpower & Willingness What it means to apply this to our lives Quotes from Nelson Mandela, Freiderich Neitzche, Martha Graham, Nini Melvin, and poetry from Antonio Machado.

This Podcast Covers: The goals of Yoga The distinction between Purusa and Prakriti Readings from BKS Iyengar on Patanjali Readings from Adyashanti on letting go of our ego structure Sutra 1.3 on resting as awareness, as "being-ness" Reading from Pema Chodron on Learning to Stay Letting go of structures that create suffering The Ego Cacoon Getting Present