On this episode, guest Elizabete Gomes shares her experience studying Buddhist philosophy over the past 15 years and how she invokes the power of refuge in navigating every day life.  If you're curious about Buddhism, Elizabete breaks down how the teachings and her teachers from her family, partner, and friends to more formal practitioners have helped her to understand this experience we call, life.  And how regardless your belief system or spiritual penchant, the concept of refuge is more relevant today than ever!

Elizabete brings her wonderfully rich and informative Buddhism 101 course to Mind Oasis, starting in 2021 with the mooring teaching of refuge.  

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On this episode, Karuna's guest Ashley Sapir-Lathrop dismantle misperceptions of witches and deep dive into the potency of herbalism, ritual, the moon, and more in this short but powerful interview.  Learn how you too can come out of the "broom closet."  

Interested in returning or understanding your draw to nature? Curious about teas, herbs, and other rituals based on the seasons? Ready to shed linear thinking and feel into the spiral of life? Ashley brings her "Herbalism Around the Wheel of the Year" immersion to life on Mind Oasis in 2021 starting in mid-January. 

This episode gives you a great sneak peek you don't want to miss.  

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In this short first episode of 2021, guest and yogini Karlie Lemos and Karuna discuss what it means to move from a place of love.

Whether it's heart openers on the mat or finding an opportunity in every moment to open your heart again and again to life just as it is, when you can remember to move from love and openheartedness there is the possibility to transform every moment into a reminder that what really matters is love.

They also deep dive into the fact that whether you are looking for it or not, by studying the asana limb of yoga, the other seven limbs will eventually whisper into your ear as well!

Karlie brings her 3-week series to Mind Oasis, starting Saturday, 9 January 2021.  You can learn more about her series: From Snakes to Wheels by visiting MindOasis.org and looking under Learn - Yoga.

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”― Rumi

On this special edition of Meditation Happy Hour, Karuna shares with us a short Dharma talk and a guided meditation designed to bring a message of light during these dark and often difficult times of 2020.  

Using the combination of what to throw into the fire and connecting with your heartfelt desire, she weaves the teachings of joy and rebirth in each moment as a salve for the aching heart. 

Happy Holidays from Mind Oasis!  

Calling all yogis, teachers, therapists, and anyone working on their "stuff."  On this episode, guest and author Livia Shapiro talks about somatic therapy and her newly released book, The Somatic Therapy Workbook: stress-relieving exercises for strengthening the mind-body connection and sparking emotional and physical healing.  Learn some of the nuance of somatics, embodiment, and more.  

Livia is a mama, long time yoga practitioner and teacher, somatic psychotherapist and author.  She concurrently writes prolific and vivid prose and free verse on topics including; feminism, dismantling and healing misogyny, narcissistic abuse, and the vast array of motherhood experiences. She has been featured on a variety of podcasts speaking elegantly to all of these topics with nuance, sanity, complexity, and courageous humanity.   

On 16 December 2020, Mind Oasis is hosting Livia's worldwide book premiere. Join her as she reads and discusses her book and offers a sample practice.    

Learn more and register (free).

On this episode of Meditation Happy Hour: Tea, Talk, and Truth with Karuna, Autumn Righino shares how what we put into our bodies from food, to beliefs, emotions, and more all comprise our spiritual nutrition. Karuna and Autumn take a deep dive into food, relationships, meditation, and how it all has the potential to wake us up to our highest version of ourselves.  Even Pirate's Booty (a Karuna fav).  

Autumn's upcoming workshop on spiritual nutrition is a supportive and confidential group experience where you can expect to discuss the most important aspects of nutrition, the factors that influence your food choices to determine what is right for your body, and the achievable steps you can take to implement in your life.   

Explore what nutrition truly means in today’s society when fad diets dominate the media and how you can take small steps in implementing small changes to feel better in your body and improve your health. Dive deep into the lifestyle factors that influence mental, physical and emotional wellbeing through the lens of a scientific nutritional foundation.  

Learn more (it's happening on 12 Dec 2020): https://mindoasis.thinkific.com/courses/spiritual-nutrition

On this episode, iRest Yoga Nidra practitioner and trainer, Karen Soltes explains the power of Yoga Nidra. From exploring your inner resource, to being blissfully guided. Yoga Nidra is an evidence-based practice used widely in the VA system to help with PTSD and chronic pain. 

Whether you just are looking for extra rest and rejuvenation or are looking for new ways to deal with the epic challenges of 2020, this modality is right for you.  Karen offers a two-hour workshop on Mind Oasis (6 Dec 2020) that is designed to reset your resiliency just in time for the holidays.  It will be a wonderful introduction or reconnection to iRest Yoga Nidra.

Learn More: MindOasis.org

In 2020, emotions run strong, fast, and hard. In this episode, sisters Shannon Bronson and Allison Zamani of the Share Your Heart Project (https://www.shareyourheartproject.com/) explain to the listener the benefit of understanding the yogic lens of the 5 vayus and harnessing our somatic experience to respond from a potent and caring place.  They take the listener on a cursory view of how the wisdom can actually come from the challenge!  

Plus learn about Cosmic Hearts in your everyday life...  

In their series on Mind Oasis, Shannon and Allison will educate practitioners to care for difficult emotions and help transform them to inform wise action in our lives. With intention, emotions can become empowering rather than disabling. We reclaim our power when we care for all layers of our being:  our body, breath, energy, and thoughts.  This course will help harness emotions to take wise action in our lives through healing movement, somatic meditation, visualization of the 5 Vayus, and creative expression.  

Learn More: https://mindoasis.org/classes/workshops-and-series/

On this episode of Meditation Happy Hour, guest Noga Shefi discusses these times in 2020 when our breath feels as if it is being shut down. From the pandemic and masks to the wildfires raging across the West, it can feel as if our very life line is being threatened. How do we meet this edge and connect instead to the possibility of our body and breath?  

Noga explains how the Breath as Bridge, her series on Mind Oasis, will focus on practices anyone can use to do so.  

Breath as a Bridge is an opportunity to go deeper into the ancient yogic breathing practices and meditations which are now backed by science in their incredible effects on our wellbeing and all areas of our lives.  

You'll learn about Noga as a musician, Israeli, and heartfelt yogi all along the way!  

Learn More: MindOasis.org

"The mind can't end the conflict. Only the heart and soul. So what can we do with embodied practices is to open up the heart enough so that people can change their minds." - Kenneth Strickland  

In this week's episode, Karuna gets straight to the heart of the matter, confessing she gets triggered by folks who act and think differently than she does and wants to know where the wisdom lives for moving beyond the unfriend button and into compassionate action? Kenneth's response is stellar, he suggests that most of us are just asking the wrong question at that moment and that when we lean into wanting to understand that other person's experience we can find the real gold that is just waiting for us to find!  

You don't want to miss this short journey around the heart and mind and communications in this challenging time (especially with the upcoming election!).   

Love them as much as Karuna? Amalia and Kenneth have an upcoming series on Mind Oasis, entitled "Communicating Through Differences" and it is going to be STELLAR.  

Learn More and Register: https://mindoasis.thinkific.com/courses/communicating-through-difference