The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

Emotional processing is essential for humans, but our society doesn't value or provide time for it. This is why when you finally have some space, like on a vacation perhaps, you may get hit with a trauma response seemingly out of nowhere. Just like it did for me on my recent trip to Paris. I’m not just talking about the ones we all know, fight, flight, and freeze. There are three more “F”s that belong to that system! Today I want to share with you the DENT(Dynamic Experiential Narrative Theory) model of trauma. 

Let’s discuss:

🔹Your body’s different responses to trauma, stress, and anxiety, including flight, fight, freeze, fawn, flood, and fatigue.

🔹How somatic or embodied yoga practices can be helpful for emotional processing and regulation.

🔹Why listening to your body and practicing self-care is crucial for maintaining balance and well-being.

💖 Now is the time to register for the fall cohort of my Somatic Yoga Life Coaching program. Find more information and book a call here =>https://www.brettlarkin.com/somatic-yoga-training-certification/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=eylc 

FREE Practice: GENTLE SOMATIC YOGA | Emotional Release for Stored Trauma & Anxiety 💜 Yoga for Vagus Nerve Health

Relevant Blog: Somatic Yoga for Trauma: Techniques to Reclaim Your Body

Relevant to Today’s Episode:

📖 Yoga Life Book 

💖Somatic Yoga Life Coaching 

🎧 Also Listen to:

#318 – What Is Somatic Yoga?

#314 – Stop Abandoning Yourself By Leveraging Yoga & Meditation

#288 – Burnout, Loss & the Yoga of Parenting with Sarah Ezrin

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Yogi Bryan is arguably one of the most successful online yoga teachers. And today, he shares his journey of creating a niche brand as a yoga teacher and the success he has achieved on Instagram with me! It all started with a parody yoga Instagram account that led to actually falling in love with yoga, becoming a certified teacher and creating meditation audios and podcasts, which gained popularity and led to wild online growth. We’re talking going from 100,000 to 700,000 followers in just two months 🤯! 

Listen in as we discuss how to:

🔹Blend your passions and unique skills with yoga to create a niche brand.

🔹Embrace authenticity and be prepared for both love and hate.

🔹Experiment with different types of content and platforms to reach a wider audience.

 ⚠️WARNING⚠️: This episode is EXPLICIT. So if you are around your kids you may want to hit the save button and come back to it later. 

📘 Get your free yoga business plan and checklist https://www.brettlarkin.com/businessplan?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=businessplan 

GUEST EXPERT: Bryan Holub  |  https://yogibryan.com/

Yogi Bryan’s goal is to help the world release 100 billion f*cks. He is a Neuro Linguistic Programmer (NLP), E-RYT 200 Hour Yoga Instructor, and YACEP-Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider. His Relax with Yogi Bryan Meditation podcast has over 4M plays. Author of It's Just F*cking Meditation, Bryan helps people just like you find their truth, gain confidence, and release f*cks.

SLEEP with Yogi Bryan app: Google | Apple

Yogi Bryan’s Book: It’s Just Fucking Meditation: How to Find Yourself, Calm Your Anxiety and Manifest the Life of Your Dreams

Book mentioned: How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind by Pema Chodron

Find Us: @larkinyogatv and @yogi_bryan

FREE Practice: Easy 5 Minute Meditation to Calm Down & Relax

Relevant Blog: How To Find Your Yoga Niche (And Make $5K/mo)

Relevant to Today’s Episode:

📚 Uplifted Business Launchpad

🐍 Kundalini 200-hour YTT

✅ 200-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training

🔮 300-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training

🎧 Also Listen to:

#313 – Social Media as a Vehicle for Your Awakening with Amanda Bucci

#299 – Strategies to Slay Imposter Syndrome and Share Your Gifts

© 2024 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

Let’s continue the discussion with my Kundalini University partner Guru Singh on the origins of kundalini yoga and the Yogi Bhajan scandal. PAUSE!! If you haven’t listened to Part 1 of this conversation, go back a few episodes and make sure you listen to that first. 

No stone is left unturned in this juicy conversation. In part two we discuss:

🔹Is 3HO actually a cult?

🔹How these teachings can move forward free of Yogi Bhajan?

🔹Kundalini masters outside of Yogi Bhajan…

Still have questions about kundalini yoga and loved this conversation? 

See 3 free videos and get the brochure or book a clarity call for our kundalini certification program => https://www.brettlarkin.com/online-kundalini-yoga-teacher-training/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ku 

Relevant to Today’s Episode:

✅ Kundalini Demystified 

🔮 Kundalini 200-hour YTT

🎧 Also Listen to:

#316 Origins of Kundalini & the Yogi Bhajan Scandal - Part 1

#275 What Is a Kundalini Awakening - 3 Big Takeaways

#308 Kriyanology: The Inside Science of Kundalini Sequencing

© 2024 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

As relaxing as your practice can be, it’s also about building that strength and that willpower to keep coming back. But what gives you the motivation to be consistent? In this episode you’ll discover:

🔹How to find your deepest why to help you be consistent with your practice

🔹My top tips to make sure you always get to your mat

🔹Why your practice is “magic”

💫 Interested in my beginner yoga jumpstart program mentioned in today’s episode? Experience the newer version of this course, FREE here => https://www.brettlarkin.com/masterthebasics/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=byj 

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Yoga Transformational Portal (How to make your yoga practice 2x more potent in 1/2 the time) for free as a gift. 🎁

Relevant to Today’s Episode:

💖 Uplifted Membership

📖 Yoga Life Book 

✅ 200-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training

🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery

FREE PRACTICE: Solar Plexus Chakra Yoga Class 🔥 Energizing Yoga For Willpower & Motivation 🔥 | Chakra Challenge

🎧 Also Listen to:

Success Before 8am: The Miracle Morning Book Synopsis & Key Yoga Takeaways

#287 Redefining “Sadhana” - 3 Key Tips

#314 Stop Abandoning Yourself By Leveraging Yoga & Meditation

© 2024 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

Today, I interview one of my biggest mentors, Elena Brower. I ask her about the tension many of us feel as yoga teachers: How do we honor our own personal practice (which may be morphing away from the style of yoga we’re known for), while still meeting our students' where they are? How do we not feel pigeon-holed by a certain technique or style? And trust our own voice? Listen in as we discuss:

🔹 How Elena’s teaching reached me in the most unexpected of places, changing the trajectory of my life and career

🔹 Where yoga and buddhism differ, overlap and compliment one another 

🔹Workaholism and how to craft your time to honor your own needs

We also discuss our favorite books, and ways to open up space for creativity in your life. Thank you, Elena, for your energy in this conversation. 

GUEST EXPERT: Elena Brower | https://elenabrower.com/ 

Mother, mentor, poet, artist, volunteer, bestselling author and host of the Practice You Podcast, Elena Brower has taught yoga and meditation since 1999. Her first book, Art of Attention, has been translated into seven languages; her second, Practice You, is a bestseller. Elena's first collection of poetry, Softening Time, was released in May 2023. 

Her yoga classes and meditations are featured on Glo. She has an Engaged Mentorship program and Perceptive Parenting audio course and she's commencing Buddhist Chaplaincy training in 2024.

Elena’s events mentioned:

Simplify Course

Menopause Event

Book & Website Mentioned: On Our Best Behavior by Elise Loehnen & bookshop.org

@larkinyogatv and @elenabrower

💖 There’s still time to grab my Yoga For Self Mastery course before live calls begin. Start your yogic makeover today => https://www.brettlarkin.com/yoga-for-self-mastery/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ysm 

🎧 Also Listen to:

#314 Stop Abandoning Yourself By Leveraging Yoga & Meditation

#311 Embodiment, Expression & Femininity with Alexandra Roxo

© 2024 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

It's that time of year again. The time to work with the BEST goddess to liberate you from guilt, shame, doubt, fear - KALI! Our  Kali Yoga Challenge starts in just a few days. Let's refresh your memory of this FIERCE goddess of death and rebirth. 

She’s profoundly misunderstood.

🔥 Despite how she looks, Kali is not evil - she’s the DESTROYER of evil

🔥 Kali’s entering your life NOW to strip away your illusions, fears and self-destructive tendencies

🔥 She WANTS to plunge you -- deep! -- into your innermost power and potential

So I ask…Do you want to accept this invitation to explore this ferocious goddess on the yoga mat with me for 5 powerful days?

💮Sign Up Free: KALI YOGA CHALLENGE Get my Kali Guidebook as an instant download.

Instagram: @larkinyogatv

Relevant Blog: Mother Kali: Goddess of Death, or an Inspiration?

© 2024 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

Somatic practices have become increasingly popular in recent months. You’ve probably seen something on social media about using somatics to release stored trauma and heal your body. Today we are talking about Somatic Yoga - or what I like to call Embodied Yoga. This amazing practice is all about unlocking your body’s natural intelligence and creating a self guided solution to healing habitual bracing patterns. Listen to learn the difference between traditional and somatic/embodied yoga in addition to:

🔹The origins of somatic practices

🔹How habitual bracing patterns can lead to Sensory Motor Amnesia (SMA) and chronic issues

🔹Practical tips to make your yoga practice more somatic NOW!

💗Get My Free Somatic Yoga Workshop  https://www.brettlarkin.com/embodiedyoga?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=embodiedyoga 

FREE Practice: Gentle Somatic Yoga for Emotional Release (10-min) - Nervous System Reset

Relevant Blog: What Is Somatic Yoga? & Somatic Coaching

Relevant to Today’s Episode:

💫Somatic Yoga Certification

📖 Yoga Life Book 

✅ 200-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training

🔮 300-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training

🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery

💖 Uplifted Membership

🎧 Also Listen to:

#300 Unraveling the Mystery of Chronic Pain for Yoga Teachers & Practitioners with Kim Patel

#296 How Ancient Primal Habits Help You Thrive with Cate Stillman

#285 Is Yoga Enough…? with Dr. Jen Fraboni

© 2024 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

As a yogi, you may consider yourself a breathwork expert. But my BFF Samantha Skelly wants you to experience the power of breathwork as its own vital modality that’s distinct and separate from your yoga or movement practice. Sam educates us on the difference between integrative and meditative breathwork, the four main breathing patterns she teaches at Pause Breathwork and how to increase our breathing stamina. 

Nerd out with us on: 

🔹Why breathing through the mouth can be good

🔹How to approach rigorous breathwork if you have high vata and/or trauma

🔹The distinct stages of a 30-min breathwork practice  

In this episode, I share some of my own deep resistance to breathwork as well as how I’ve cheated (yes!) in some of Sam’s breathwork sessions. Experience loving guidance and troubleshooting tips. Listen in!

GUEST EXPERT: Samantha Skelly | https://www.pausebreathwork.com/ 

Samantha Skelly is the founder and CEO of the multi-million dollar Breathwork and Wellness company, Pause Breathwork. She’s a highly sought-after international speaker, best-selling author, and coaching expert with a heart-centered approach to life and business. A leading authority on trauma healing and stress release, Samantha has made it her life’s mission to rid the world of anxiety so people can thrive using the power of their breath. She has trained and certified nearly 1,000 people in 27 countries in the power of breathwork, and thousands more are using the Pause Breathwork Mobile App worldwide.

Curious to know more about yoga’s origins? Grab my History of Yoga course to get all the tea on how this profound practice evolved from its ancient roots into what it is today. Get it here => https://www.brettlarkin.com/history-of-yoga-course/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=hoy 

FREE Practice: 10 Minute Kundalini Breathing Exercises | KUNDALINI YOGA TO BOOST THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

Relevant Blog: 10 Essential Types of Pranayama Breathing Techniques That You MUST Know

Relevant to Today’s Episode:

✅ 200-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training

📚 300-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training

🐍 Kundalini 200-hour YTT

💫 Uplifted Membership

🎧 Also Listen to:

#248 The Art of Guided Meditations with Kelly Smith

#122 Yogic Breathing - What You Think You Know, Might be Wrong w/ Lucas Rockwood

© 2024 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

Even though it’s been years since news broke of the Yogi Bhajan scandal a lot of practitioners still question the integrity of the profound practice that is kundalini yoga. Today’s episode is a conversation between my Kundalini University partner Guru Singh and myself in which we answer all of the community’s questions on this topic. This is a full lecture from within the program so I had to split it into two parts to share with you. In Part One we discuss:

🔹The true origins of kundalini yoga and it’s lineage

🔹The fact that nobody “owns” yoga because it is a science

🔹How to separate the teachings from the teacher

Don’t forget to keep an eye out for Part Two where we’ll start with the question, “Is 3HO a cult?” I’ll see you there!

🐍 Grab my Free Kundalini Workshop “Refine Your Tune In”: https://www.brettlarkin.com/tunein/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=tunein 

Loved this? See 3 free videos and get the brochure for our kundalini certification program: https://www.brettlarkin.com/online-kundalini-yoga-teacher-training/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ku 

FREE Practice: 20-Min Guided Kundalini Kriya Meditation For Inner Truth And Alignment 

Relevant Blog: Who Is Yogi Bhajan? The Guru That The Kundalini Community Rejects

Relevant to Today’s Episode:

✅ Kundalini Demystified 

🔮 Kundalini 200-hour YTT

🎧 Also Listen to:

#264 How is Kundalini Yoga Different from Hatha/Vinyasa Yoga?

#275 What Is a Kundalini Awakening - 3 Big Takeaways

#308 Kriyanology: The Inside Science of Kundalini Sequencing

© 2024 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

Special guest alert! Dr. Micheline Nader is a Health Care Entrepreneur, Best Selling author of “Leap Beyond Success” and “The Dolphin's Dance,” Executive coach, Motivational speaker, Philanthropist and President of Jesra Foundation. Today, we discuss how to:

🔹 Discover your “Emotional Logo”

🔹 Discern what’s your intuition…and what’s not

🔹 Program your emotions

🔹 Align your mindset to accelerate your success

Most yogis are self aware. But according to Micheline, self reflection is a huge part of leadership, and that leadership can tie into our own personal development work. I learned so much in this incredible episode about how our past traumas inform our present-moment decision making. And I know you will too!

GUEST EXPERT: Micheline Nader | www.michelinenader.com

Make your yoga practice 2x more potent in 1/2 the time with my Free Yoga Transformational Portal ✨

Relevant to Today’s Episode:

🔮 300-hour YTT

🐍 Kundalini 200-hour YTT

✨ Yoga for Self Mastery

📚 Uplifted Business Launchpad

Instagram: @larkinyogatv

© 2024 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com