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EARTH: GIVING, RECEIVING, AND GETTING ENOUGH NOURISHMENT

Lumen - December 06, 2017 02:14 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
More on being centered and grounded! Giving and receiving and getting enough nourishment. Summer 2015

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EARTH: YOUR NEEDS ARE YOUR TRUTH

Lumen - December 06, 2017 02:08 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In this class we talk about being grounded and centered. Getting our needs met even when it's inconvenient for everyone else. Late Summer 2015

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DREAMS

Lumen - December 06, 2017 01:33 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In this class we talk about the decent of the winter time and how scary that can feel do those of us who get depressed. We talk about the balance of life... of thinking and intellectualizing it all... then we move into just feeling and being. We do backbends to get that inner fire and relationsh...

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THE CONDITIONS ARE ALWAYS IMPOSSIBLE

Lumen - December 06, 2017 01:24 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
"Whatever you are meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible." - Doris Lessing In this class we talk about authority, discipline, shame and guilt... and what it's like to just give yourself what you really want. What is possible if you stop denying yourself what you really wa...

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COMPOSTING AND FERMENTING EGO

Lumen - December 06, 2017 01:18 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In this class we talk about the Buddha's comparison between the banana tree and the ego, comparison to others, perception of reality, and of the ego's swings from high-and-mighty to low and fermenting. Then we move to just being mystery... meeting mystery to mystery.

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KINDNESS

Lumen - December 02, 2017 17:06 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Class on Tuesday April 19! Inspired by Sutra 1.5 We looked at pain and our relationship to it. Then moved through our practice with kindness, the kind of kindness to oneself that comes from an understanding of impermanence, from the pain of losing the things we love, and of deep understanding a...

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THE OBSTACLES

Lumen - December 02, 2017 17:01 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In this class we talk about the obstacles to: -living aligned with truth -connected to the heart -presence Game on!

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LETTING ALL OF LIFE IN

Lumen - December 02, 2017 16:56 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In this class I talk about letting all of life in... creating the conditions for wisdom to arise. Inspired by Sutras 1.30 - 1.32 in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. "The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.  You must understand the whole of life, not just o...

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LOVE LIBERATES

Lumen - December 02, 2017 16:54 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Last public class at Karoun yoga... The perfection of Asana and the discipline of practice are not done so that we may hold on better, but rather so that we may learn to let go better. The purpose of discipline is to liberate ourselves, not to rigidly and exhaustingly grip onto form, structure o...

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SO YOURSELF

Lumen - December 02, 2017 16:50 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In this class we explore self-worth and value and our tendency to seek outside of ourselves for affirmation of our "goodness" or "bad-ness." I share a story about the Buddha, the first 4 yoga sutras, a reading, some self inquiry / a practice, and some sing'in!

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DHARMA AND PASSION

Lumen - December 02, 2017 16:47 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In this dharma talk, I talk about receiving THIS life, living in alignment with the heart. How earth --centered, grounded, integrated -- gives us ease in transition and in letting go. I talk about transitioning out of old patterns of beliefs and thoughts that put us in conflict within ourselves....

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BREAKING PATTERNS

Lumen - December 02, 2017 16:38 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Intro to Backbends - Playing With Fire Learning to use pain as a pivot point into freedom emotionally and physically. Breaking Patterns of Suffering - Opening up to Freedom - How are we using our power? To create more suffering? OR are we using it in really nourishing ways? Ways that are abou...

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GOING DOWN

Lumen - December 02, 2017 16:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
A guided relaxation for learning to take yourself out of Fight or Flight and into Rest and Digest. At first, learning to pull yourself out of fear and aversion takes awhile, both with learning to relax but also with letting go of our attachment to being afraid. However, with practice, one can d...

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THE HEART

Lumen - December 02, 2017 15:42 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
A class on backbends and heart openers! All about the heart! -Philosophy -Auspicious Place -Individual Expression -Universal Expression -Purusa and Prakriti -Development of the Heart Chakra -Depression -Chemical Changes from BackBending -The Meridians in the Arms

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SPIRITUAL SEAWEED ARMS

Lumen - December 02, 2017 15:37 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
The hilarious journey of being a yoga teacher and navigating "spiritual-new-age" jargon!

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PILGRIMAGE

Lumen - December 02, 2017 15:16 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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 tra...

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MAKING A LIFE A LIFE

Lumen - December 02, 2017 15:11 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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 B...

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COMMITTMENT & DISAPPOINTMENT

Lumen - December 02, 2017 15:04 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
A dharma talk about commitment and holding that gateway of hope open in the face of disappointment, failure, shame, fear, and doubt.

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FOMO AND EQUANIMITY

Lumen - November 26, 2017 20:10 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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 Sanskr...

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ATHA: PRESENCE

Lumen - November 26, 2017 19:57 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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"

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IDENTIFY WITH FREEDOM

Lumen - November 26, 2017 19:50 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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 fr...

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LEARNING TO STAY & YOGA SUTRA 1.3

Lumen - November 26, 2017 19:25 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
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 Lett...

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