Latest Stickler Podcast Episodes
Podcast #81 - Someone to Talk to
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - December 14, 2016 17:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsCommunication is nourishment. We have to choose what kind of food we nourish our relationships with. This is a challenging twisting sequence, and its helpful if you have a yoga belt to work with (though you can certainly improvise without!)
Podcast #81 - Someone to Talk to
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - December 14, 2016 17:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsCommunication is nourishment. We have to choose what kind of food we nourish our relationships with. This is a challenging twisting sequence, and its helpful if you have a yoga belt to work with (though you can certainly improvise without!)
Podcast #80 - SPECIAL RETREAT CLASS: What is Freedom?
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - November 28, 2016 17:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThis class was recorded at Ananda Ashram in Monroe NY. Ananda is the spiritual home of Sharon Gannon and David Life's teacher, Shri Brahmananda Saraswati. The class is part workshop, part open class with a mix of some anatomy, some yoga asana, and some thoughts on freedom. I donated my pay from t...
Podcast #80 - SPECIAL RETREAT CLASS: What is Freedom?
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - November 28, 2016 17:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThis class was recorded at Ananda Ashram in Monroe NY. Ananda is the spiritual home of Sharon Gannon and David Life's teacher, Shri Brahmananda Saraswati. The class is part workshop, part open class with a mix of some anatomy, some yoga asana, and some thoughts on freedom. I donated my pay from t...
Podcast #79 - Behind the Facade
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - October 17, 2016 22:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThe yogi seeks to uncover the truth, to see beneath the layers of reality -- we can look to the many depictions of the goddess to reveal to us the uncovering of truth to get to our nature and our connection with the universe. More: yogastickler.com
Podcast #78 - What's the use?
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - September 27, 2016 19:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThis podcast is about gratitude and humility, focus and perseverance..... and turtles!! Music by Bryan Hayslett: Support his music bryanhayslett.com This is a deep hip opening class, leading to kurmasana, tortoise
Podcast #78 - What’s the use?
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - September 27, 2016 19:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThis podcast is about gratitude and humility, focus and perseverance..... and turtles!! Music by Bryan Hayslett: Support his music bryanhayslett.com This is a deep hip opening class, leading to kurmasana, tortoise
Podcast #77 - Sri Krsna Sharanam Mama
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - August 11, 2016 16:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThis podcast is recorded live at Jivamukti Yoga School in NYC. The music for this class is by Max ZT, check his band out at houseofwaters.com Also, check out this short companion video for the weird (perhaps incoherent) part of the sequence. https://youtu.be/7q33L4dhp2k Two blocks for this pra...
Podcast #76 - Guru Mantra
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - July 21, 2016 15:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThe guru is the energy that leads to awakening, when we mistake the proximal guru for the ultimate truth, we can run into problems. Live Music by Lisa Apatini and Tiago Ribera. Sequence is very twisty, leading up to rotated bound triangle using a belt. Youtube video for visual instruction: https:...
Podcast #75 - Why Asana?
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - June 20, 2016 16:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsWhy do we practice physical postures? There are so many forms of yoga, and the most common form in the west is the physical yoga.
Podcast #74 - A Mother's Love
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - May 26, 2016 13:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThis is the story of an Octopus, read from "The Soul of the Octopus." This story takes place in an aquarium, which ultimately I believe all animals should be free from their cages -- perhaps the more we know about these amazing animals the less we will be inclined to keep them in captivity. In th...
Podcast #74 - A Mother’s Love
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - May 26, 2016 13:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThis is the story of an Octopus, read from "The Soul of the Octopus." This story takes place in an aquarium, which ultimately I believe all animals should be free from their cages -- perhaps the more we know about these amazing animals the less we will be inclined to keep them in captivity. In th...
Podcast #73 - Creative Action (Part 2)
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - May 03, 2016 13:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsOur creative development is interdependent and interconnected to all various factors in our lives and especially to our teachers. Music by Bryan Hayslett: bryanhayslett.com
Podcast #72 - Creative Action
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - April 11, 2016 00:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsAre we bound by our conditioning, or does the possibility of freedom, spontaneity, creativity exist? Where does true spontaneity come from and what is its relationship to practice?
Podcast #71 - The Potential of Relationships
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - March 10, 2016 21:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsWe bring our own assumptions, viewpoints, prejudices, predispositions to each relationship and encounter with another. Yoga primes us to see the potential for more than just one viewpoint, and opens up the potential for limitless possibility and and expansion of sense of self through compassion f...
Podcast #70 - Evolution
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - December 16, 2015 17:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsJivamukti Yoga classes live from the mother ship in New York City's Union Square. Jessica teaches musically infused and philosophically amused classes that aim to inspire, uplift, incite, and ignite! Jivamukti classes combine physical technique with music, spiritual scripture, non-violence, and m...
Podcast #69 - Wildness
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - November 15, 2015 17:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsA yogi cultivates relationships that are mutually beneficial, not only with other beings but with the earth itself. How are our preferences, our comforts, our habits adversely affecting our ability to relate with the earth and with all beings.
Podcast #68 - Spirit Guides
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - October 16, 2015 18:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsWhen we speak of the 'guru' in yoga class, we are speaking of that part of ourselves that we cultivate, an attitude of being humble and open to the possibility that we don't know everything, to the possibility that other people, other experiences, even animals, a piece of music.... these can all ...
Podcast #67 - Life after Life
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - September 19, 2015 18:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThe accumulation of all of our past experiences influences our thoughts, words, and actions in the present moment. Yoga practice helps us to become aware of these subtle causes and conditions which influence our behavior and reactions.
Podcast #67 - Life after Life
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - September 19, 2015 18:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThe accumulation of all of our past experiences influences our thoughts, words, and actions in the present moment. Yoga practice helps us to become aware of these subtle causes and conditions which influence our behavior and reactions.
Podcast #66 - Its Not What you Say, Its How you Say it
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - August 09, 2015 00:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThe practice of "nada yoga" or sound yoga tunes our bodies, hearts, and minds to the harmony of the universe. Live music by Kirsten McCord: http://kirstenmccord.com/
Podcast #65 - Why We Love War
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - July 18, 2015 14:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsUnderstanding the nature of conflict, and the nature of our response to conflict or our perceived enemies (external or internal) is key to learning to stop the war. Watching our response to obstacles or hinderances during practice can give us insight as to how we are waging war with our inner dem...
Podcast #64 - Flesh. Blood. Bones. Empty Space.
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - June 22, 2015 17:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsWe are not the solidly material selves we imagine ourselves to be. Our bodies are energy and space, on a quantum level. We imagine that we are solid bodies, resting on other solid bodies. This is an illusion. What if we identified with the space and energy that comprise our bodies rather than t...
Podcast #63 - What is the meaning of life?
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - May 15, 2015 19:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsWe spend much of our lives searching for meaning, when it is in fact up to each of us to create meaning in our lives. Death awareness can help to re-prioritize so that we can focus our precious energy on those things that give our lives the most meaning. The practice is a hamstring/hanumanasana...
Podcast #63 - What is the meaning of life?
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - May 15, 2015 19:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsWe spend much of our lives searching for meaning, when it is in fact up to each of us to create meaning in our lives. Death awareness can help to re-prioritize so that we can focus our precious energy on those things that give our lives the most meaning. The practice is a hamstring/hanumanasana...
Podcast #62 - Remembering and Forgetting
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - April 21, 2015 20:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsMemory and Forgetting as part of practice, and part of yoga. Memory serves a key role in practice, but we also get caught up in memories as a definition of our individual personality, which can have limiting effects. We have to remember to forget what we think we know sometimes in order to advanc...
Podcast #61 - Untying the Knots that Bind Us
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - March 07, 2015 04:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsSpiritual practice can provide us with the means to overcome our tendencies and habits, unless it becomes another cloak for those very same tendencies. We are challenged to stay alert to the ways in which spiritual practice might provide a convenient justification to avoid our difficult experienc...
Podcast #60 - Kali (recorded in Grand Cayman)
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - March 02, 2015 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThe mother and her tongue. Recorded at Bliss Yoga Studio on a recent teaching trip to Grand Cayman Island.
Podcast #59 - Time
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - January 17, 2015 13:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsYoga is now. Our mental excursions to the future and the past are a distraction from the experience of yoga which is only the present moment.
Podcast #58 - Mantra
Jivamukti Yoga with Jessica Stickler - December 15, 2014 19:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsYogis use mantra and music to connect more deeply with our true self and with the nature of the universe. Music by Kevin Nathaniel: http://mbirasanctuary.com/
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