Audra speaks about identifying with our thoughts and how to move toward our own loving awareness as a source of our identity.

How is community a refuge for us when we feel lost from ourselves and the truth of who we really are? It takes courage to reach out from our small selves and connect, but the promise of community is the expansion of our love and our capacity to transform.

Dharma--that which supports us is resting in the truth of what is. Not resisting,accepting. This moment is perfectly designed to wake us up, call us to presence, to soften our hearts, so that we can remember the truth of who we really are, which is love.

Audra speaks about living from a place a container of our highest truth. It is better to live our own dharma poorly than another's dharma well.

Audra tells the story of Ganesha, the moon, a mouse and snake.

When things weren't what they once were and aren't yet what they are going to be--Audra speaks about Veda coming home from college. Here's to the death of what was and the creation of space for new growth.

Audra tells a story about a coffee spill and speaks about the importance and effects of rushing toward kindness in our lives.

Audra discusses the steps to softening the inner critic in times of anxiety and confusion, and how sometimes we are the least qualified person to nurture and love yourself. We need one another to widen the net of kindness and compassion by inviting intimacy into our lives.

The teachings of yoga help us remember that we are not the sum of our cummulative human, ever-changeable, parts, rather we are something larger. We are love. Audra speaks about the power of this understanding as she moves through a relapse in her disordered eating, and how knowing that you are not diminished by your struggles lends itself to a healing process that is not driven by or rooted in shame or feeling less than.

How can we accept the invitation pain offers us to grow? Audra begins with a recounting of an episode of Rythmn and Flow and ends discussing why it is important to allow pain to transform us rather than becoming attached to it, or averse to it, by identifying with it or pushing is away, respectively.