The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

In this final installment of Bhagavad Gita Chapter 11, Arjuna has just experienced one of the most extraordinary mystical visions in the entire text. He's seen Krishna as the infinite creator, destroyer, and force behind all of reality, and his response is surprising: Please become ordinary again.

Because what happens after the spiritual high?

After the retreat, the awakening, the incredible meditation, or the moment where everything suddenly makes sense, you still have to come back down the mountain and live your life.

In this episode:

🔹 Why Arjuna asks Krishna to return to his familiar human form and what this reveals about our capacity to experience the divine

🔹 The striking parallel between Arjuna's vision and Jesus' Transfiguration, including what happens immediately after both spiritual highs

🔹 Why mystical experiences rarely remove our problems, but can change the person who returns to them

🔹 How to stop chasing your next revelation and start embodying the truth you've already received

Chapter 11 doesn't end with fireworks. It ends with practice, devotion, and a return to ordinary life.

So this week, I want you to consider: What truth do you already know that you haven't started living yet?

Because spiritual experiences don't change our lives on their own. What changes our lives are the choices we make after them.

💖 If you love exploring yoga this way,not just understanding the philosophy, but actually applying it to your real life, that's exactly what we do inside Uplifted → https://www.brettlarkin.com/uplifted/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=uplifted

📖 Different translations explored:

Barbara Stoler Miller: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-Krishnas-Counsel-Bantam-Classics/dp/0553213652

Godsong by Amit Majmudar: https://www.amazon.com/Godsong-Verse-Translation-Bhagavad-Gita-Commentary/dp/1524733474

Eknath Easwaran: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-2nd-Eknath-Easwaran/dp/1586380192

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is by Swami Prabhupada: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-As-Bhaktivedanta-Swami-Prabhupada/dp/0892131233

FREE Practice: Feminine Kundalini Flow w/ Music | Lower Chakras Yoga + Grounding Chakras with Yoni Mudra Meditation

Relevant Blog: How to Resolve Kundalini Awakening

Relevant to Today's Episode:

🌀 History of Yoga

📖 Yoga Life Book

🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery

💖 Uplifted Membership

🎧 Also Listen to:

#427 – What Is Bhakti Yoga? Krishna's Most Confidential Teaching (Bhagavad Gita Chapter 9)

#441– Why Can't You See God Yet? (Bhagavad Gita Chapter 11, Part 1)

#442 – "I Am Time": The Most Famous Verse in the Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Part 2)

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"I am Time, destroyer of worlds."

This is the most quoted verse in the Bhagavad Gita, but it's also one of the most misunderstood.

In Part 2 of our exploration of Chapter 11, Krishna reveals his universal form to Arjuna in one of the most awe-inspiring visions in all of sacred literature. Yet instead of feeling enlightened or peaceful, Arjuna is overwhelmed with fear.

Together, we'll unpack what Krishna really means by "I am Time," compare this unforgettable moment with Jesus' Transfiguration, and explore why encounters with the Divine often leave us speechless rather than comfortable.

Let's explore:

🔹The meaning behind Krishna's universal form (Vishvarupa)

🔹Why Arjuna responds with fear instead of bliss

🔹What "I am Time" really means and why it isn't celebrating destruction

🔹Surprising parallels between the Bhagavad Gita and Jesus' Transfiguration

🔹Why mystical experiences often expand us before they comfort us

👉 Dive deeper into yoga's origins with my History of Yoga Course → https://www.brettlarkin.com/history-of-yoga-course/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=hoy

📖 Different translations explored:

Barbara Stoler Miller: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-Krishnas-Counsel-Bantam-Classics/dp/0553213652

Godsong by Amit Majmudar: https://www.amazon.com/Godsong-Verse-Translation-Bhagavad-Gita-Commentary/dp/1524733474

Eknath Easwaran: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-2nd-Eknath-Easwaran/dp/1586380192

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is by Swami Prabhupada: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-As-Bhaktivedanta-Swami-Prabhupada/dp/0892131233

FREE Practice: Kundalini Meditation for Focus | AWAKEN YOUR HEART AND THIRD EYE

Relevant Blog: Kundalini Awakening: What Is It and How To Awaken It

Relevant to Today's Episode:

🌀 History of Yoga

📖 Yoga Life Book

🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery

💖 Uplifted Membership

🎧 Also Listen to:

#406 – Vedanta vs. Christianity: Bliss, Grace & the Divine in Two Spiritual Paths

#413 – Yoga Doesn't Have a Devil. So What's the Enemy? (Part 1)

#425 – How the Divine Speaks: Sacred Symbolism in the Gita, Bible & Upanishads Part 1

© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

Why does Krishna wait until Chapter 11 to reveal his universal form?

In this episode, we explore one of the most dramatic turning points in the Bhagavad Gita. After ten chapters of spiritual teaching, Arjuna is finally granted "divine sight."

But why now?

In this episode, I'll compare Krishna's revelation with Jesus' Transfiguration, explore the yogic concept of avidya (ignorance), and explain why spiritual practice doesn't create God. It removes the veil that keeps us from recognizing what has always been there.

In this episode:

🔹Why Arjuna couldn't recognize Krishna's divinity until now

🔹The difference between belief and direct spiritual experience

🔹How yoga removes avidya, the veil of ignorance

🔹What Jesus' Transfiguration reveals about spiritual readiness

🔹Why mystical experiences are received as grace—not earned

👉 Dive deeper into yoga's origins with my History of Yoga Course → https://www.brettlarkin.com/history-of-yoga-course/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=hoy

Want to go deeper between episodes? Subscribe to my new Uplifted Substack for yoga philosophy, reflections, teachings, and conversations delivered straight to your inbox: https://substack.com/@upliftedtrainings

📖 Different translations explored:

Barbara Stoler Miller: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-Krishnas-Counsel-Bantam-Classics/dp/0553213652

Godsong by Amit Majmudar: https://www.amazon.com/Godsong-Verse-Translation-Bhagavad-Gita-Commentary/dp/1524733474

Eknath Easwaran: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-2nd-Eknath-Easwaran/dp/1586380192

Bhagavad-Gita As It Is by Swami Prabhupada: https://www.amazon.com/Bhagavad-Gita-As-Bhaktivedanta-Swami-Prabhupada/dp/0892131233

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Relevant Blog: Third Eye Chakra Opening Symptoms And How To Open Your Sixth Chakra

Relevant to Today's Episode:

🌀 History of Yoga

📖 Yoga Life Book

🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery

💖 Uplifted Membership

🎧 Also Listen to:

#358 – Intro to The Bhagavad Gita: How Do You Navigate Moral Dilemmas?

#433 – Vibhuti Yoga – See the Sacred Everywhere: Bhagavad Gita Chapter 10

© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

We live in a world obsessed with consuming more information. More podcasts. More reels. More quotes. More content.

But what if transformation doesn't come from learning something new, but from deeply remembering something ancient?

In this episode, we explore how to intentionally choose a mantra, sutra, psalm, poem, or sacred line to memorize and why this practice can become a powerful anchor for anxiety, overwhelm, distraction, and nervous system regulation.

You'll learn:

🔹 How to choose a verse or mantra that speaks directly to your current season of life

🔹 Why memorization changes your relationship to wisdom itself

🔹 Somatic and creative techniques for memorizing sacred text

🔹 Why repetition, rhythm, sound, and poetry regulate the nervous system

🔹 How to turn ancient wisdom into a living daily companion

💖 Want to shift what you're practicing and paying attention to? Join the Uplifted Membership: https://www.brettlarkin.com/uplifted/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=uplifted

✨ Get The Uplifted Journals:

Uplifted Abundance Journal & Guidebook

Uplifted Chakra Journal

FREE Practice: Guided Meditation For Intentions: A Grounding Visualization Meditation

Relevant Blog: What are Patanjali's Yoga Sutras?

Relevant to Today's Episode:

🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery

💖 Uplifted Membership

🌀 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching

💫 Somatic Certification

🎧 Also Listen to:

#401 – Who Has Your Attention? Attention Economy vs the Ancient Path

#415 – From Self-Improvement to Reverence (Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7)

#437 – The Forgotten Way to Learn Yoga Philosophy: Ancient Memory Practices (Part 1)

© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

Hatha and Kundalini are both yoga, but they can feel completely different in your body.

In this episode, I break down some of the biggest differences between these two styles: how they use movement, breath, meditation, mantra, repetition, and the subtle body. Plus, why one style may resonate with you very differently than another.

If you've been Kundalini-curious, love a traditional Hatha or Vinyasa practice, or simply want to understand what all these different yoga "styles" are actually doing, this is a great place to start.

I'll explore:

🔹 How Hatha/Vinyasa and Kundalini approach movement, breath, and meditation differently

🔹 Why Kundalini often feels more repetitive, energetic, and meditative than a traditional flow class

🔹 How different yoga styles can reveal different patterns in your body and nervous system

🔹 Why there's no single "best" yoga style and how experimenting helps you discover what your system actually responds to

The most important takeaway? You don't have to choose your yoga style intellectually. Experience it in your body.

🌈 Join my FREE Find Your Style Challenge starting tomorrow, September 17th!

Practice different styles of yoga with me and discover what genuinely fits your body, energy, and life → https://www.brettlarkin.com/style

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Relevant Blog: What Is Kundalini Syndrome? (And Can It Happen To You?)

Relevant to Today's Episode:

🐍 Kundalini 200-hour YTT

🔮 Kundalini Demystified

📖 Yoga Life Book

💖 Uplifted Membership

🎧 Also Listen to:

#277 – Trauma Conscious Kundalini Yoga with Katrina Marie

#318 – What Is Somatic Yoga?

#412 – How the Chakras Relate to Polyvagal Theory + Your FAQ

© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

Today's episode is another behind-the-scenes look, this time inside my Somatic Yoga Training and Embodied Yoga Life Coaching Certification.

This teaching explores how we move energy through the body using breath, movement, sound, and visualization. Inside EYLC, we work with different maps of the subtle body, including the doshas, polarity, Shiva and Shakti, and the relationship between movement and stillness.

In this clip, I explore why movement is not just something we do before meditation. Movement can help us express, discharge, and release what may be stuck in the body so we can access a deeper sense of presence, authenticity, and self-trust.

Inside this episode, I explore:

🔹 How vata, pitta, and kapha can help us understand different energetic textures

🔹 Why Shiva and Shakti represent the dance between stillness and movement

🔹 The three core ways we move energy: breath, movement, and sound

🔹 How somatic coaching helps clients move from talking about emotions to experiencing and shifting them in the body

The goal is not just to move so you can become still. It's to move what is blocking your truth, so you can sit more deeply in who you really are.

💗 Learn more about Embodied Yoga Life Coaching: https://www.brettlarkin.com/somatic-yoga-training-certification/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=eylc

💎 Experience somatic yoga in this Embodied Yoga Workshop: https://www.brettlarkin.com/embodiedyoga?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=embodiedyoga

FREE Practice: Yoga for Women for MORE ENERGY | Release Emotions

Relevant Blog: How To Incorporate Somatic Coaching Into Your Yoga Practice

Relevant to Today's Episode:

🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery

🌀 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching

💫 Somatic Certification

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#384 – Do Less, Heal More: 7 Invitations to Resolve Trauma from Organic Intelligence

#385 – The 5 Vayus: How Energy Moves Through Your Body (Part 1)

#391 – Vyana + Udana Vayu: Energetic Expression, Circulation + Embodiment

© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

When was the last time you memorized something on purpose?

Not a password, grocery list, or directions, but a piece of poetry, a prayer, a mantra, a sutra, or a verse that you carried with you in your mind.

In this episode, I'm exploring why memorization was once the original way ancient wisdom was passed down, and why it still matters now. We'll look at how memorizing meaningful words can train your attention, support your nervous system, strengthen your brain, and help wisdom become something you can actually return to in real life.

Inside this episode, I explore:

🔹 Why ancient texts like the Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, Vedas, Psalms, and Torah were designed to be remembered

🔹 How memorization turns passive reading into active spiritual practice

🔹 Why sacred words can become tools for nervous system regulation

🔹 How memorization becomes a countercultural act in the age of scrolling and endless information

This is part one of a two-part conversation. For now, I'm planting the seed: What words, prayer, poem, mantra, or verse might you want to carry in your heart?

💖 Want to shift what you're practicing and paying attention to? Join the Uplifted Membership: https://www.brettlarkin.com/uplifted/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=uplifted

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Relevant Blog: 15 Life-Changing Yoga Books To Deepen Your Yoga Practice

Relevant to Today's Episode:

🔮 History of Yoga

📖 Yoga Life Book

🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery

💖 Uplifted Membership

💫 Somatic Certification

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#370 – Yoga's Messy Origins: Understanding Yoga's Historical Context

#401 – Who Has Your Attention? Attention Economy vs the Ancient Path

#425 – How the Divine Speaks: Sacred Symbolism in the Gita, Bible & Upanishads Part 1

© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

So many of us think the next certification will finally make us feel clear, confident, or ready. But more information is not always the answer. Sometimes the real missing piece is integration.

In this restream episode, I'm talking about the certification trap, why your nervous system may be keeping you in "learn more" mode, and how to begin organizing your existing tools into a clear, repeatable method that actually supports your clients and your business.

We'll also look at why movement, somatic awareness, and embodied coaching can create a deeper kind of transformation than talking or mindset work alone.

If you're a yoga teacher, coach, healer, or wellness practitioner who has taken multiple trainings but still feels scattered, this episode is for you. Let's explore:

🔹 Why collecting more tools can sometimes become a freeze response

🔹 How embodied self-awareness differs from conceptual self-awareness

🔹 Why movement is essential for emotional release and somatic integration

🔹 The three pillars healers need to move forward

You don't need to do more. You need to do less, better. With structure, support, and a nervous system that feels safe enough to take action.

💗 Learn more about Embodied Yoga Life Coaching: https://www.brettlarkin.com/somatic-yoga-training-certification/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=eylc

💎 Experience somatic yoga in this Embodied Yoga Workshop: https://www.brettlarkin.com/embodiedyoga?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=embodiedyoga

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Relevant to Today's Episode:

🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery

🌀 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching

💫 Somatic Certification

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

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#386 – Stop Selling Products—Start Selling YOU: Human Design for Visibility & Flow with Juliette Stapleton

© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

What happens when healing becomes another thing you're trying to achieve?

In this episode, I'm joined by my friend Bailee for a tender conversation about grief, the feminine, Shuniya, and the power of not fixing yourself.

We explore grief not as something you "get over," but as a living process to be felt, held, and slowly alchemized. Bailee shares how her journey led her into deeper stillness, sensory awareness, sound, archetype, and the feminine mystery.

This conversation asks: What if there is nothing to fix? What if the next step is learning how to listen differently?

Inside this episode, we explore:

🔹 Why grief is not something we complete, but something we learn to live with and honor

🔹 How Shuniya, or zero-point stillness, can create space for healing to land

🔹 Why "am I doing this to avoid a feeling?" and "am I doing this because I think I'm not enough?" are powerful questions

🔹 How simple rituals, sound, sensory awareness, and intentional contemplation can support integration

My hope is that this episode gives you permission to stop treating healing like a race.

You do not have to prove your worth through how much you process, achieve, fix, or overcome.

Sometimes the most sacred shift begins when you pause, listen, and let what has already been planted finally land.

🐍 If this conversation stirred something in you: Download your FREE Feminine Kundalini Starter Pack: https://www.brettlarkin.com/online-kundalini-yoga-teacher-training/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ku

GUEST EXPERT: Bailee Buckendorf | @rebuilding.roots

Bailee Buckendorf is a grief integration guide, contemplative writer, and founder of Sunia Shift. Her work weaves Kundalini yoga, archetypal practice, sacred ceremony, sound, somatics, and matriarchal wisdom to help people relate to grief not as something to fix, but as a source of knowing. Shaped by her own lived initiations as a widowed mother, ultra runner, and lifelong student of loss, Bailee supports individuals and groups through one-on-one containers, digital offerings, and seasonal experiences.

Book Mentioned: Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés https://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Run-Wolves-Archetype/dp/0345409876

FREE Practice: KUNDALINI YOGA FOR EMOTIONAL RELEASE with Music 💜 Trauma Informed Yoga for Beginners 💜

Relevant Blog: The Best Somatic Exercises for Grief: Find Healing Through Movement

Relevant to Today's Episode:

🐍 Kundalini 200-hour YTT

💫 Yoga for Self Mastery

💖 Uplifted Membership

🌀 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching

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#281 – Grief as a Potent Healer with Kris Carr

#324 – The Importance of Emotional Processing and Regulation: DENT Model Trauma

#332 – 7 Ways to Release Anger & Grief Through Your Yoga Practice

© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

Today's episode is another behind-the-scenes look, this time inside my 200-hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training.

This teaching comes from the Feminine Form Kundalini module, where we unpack what we mean by feminine energy. In yoga, tantra, and Kundalini, feminine energy isn't about gender or identity. It's archetypal energy, the Shakti current within all of us.

In this clip, I explore Shiva and Shakti, the light and dark feminine, and why both matter. I'll also look at how feminine energy becomes blocked, through over-control, disconnection from desire, difficulty receiving, and lack of boundaries.

Inside this episode, I explore:

🔹 Why feminine and masculine energy are archetypal forces, not gender roles

🔹 How Shakti and Shiva represent movement and stillness, life force and consciousness

🔹 The difference between light feminine and dark feminine energy

🔹 How feminine archetypes can deepen your Kundalini yoga practice

The feminine is not just softness. She is movement, desire, creation, destruction, renewal, and the living intelligence of the body itself.

🐍 Grab my FREE Feminine Form Kundalini Starter. It's a beautiful place to begin exploring feminine energy, Shakti, archetypes, and Kundalini practice in your own body: https://www.brettlarkin.com/online-kundalini-yoga-teacher-training/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ku

FREE Practice: FEMININE KUNDALINI | Yoga for Women with Overwhelm & Fatigue 🥱 | ACTIVATE ADRENALS & KIDNEYS

Relevant Blog: Harnessing the Power of Kundalini Divine Feminine for Transformation

Relevant to Today's Episode:

🐍 Kundalini 200-hour YTT

🔮 Kundalini Demystified

✨ Yoga for Self Mastery

💖 Uplifted Membership

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#305 – Female Archetypes of Leadership with Anodea Judith Ph.D

#312 – Is Your Masculine/Feminine Energy Balanced? Shiva, Shakti & Polarity Within You

#352 – Redefining Feminine Energy in Yoga & Ayurveda with Katie Silcox

© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com