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The Yoga Hour

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This hour of keen insight into spiritual principles touches upon the most practical aspects of our lives and speaks to our deepest yearnings for awakening. Find inspiration, insights, and time-tested practices from the ancient system of Kriya Yoga, a philosophy and practice for fulfilled living in today’s world.
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Episodes

Mudras for Healing and Transformation

Discover the positive qualities that mudras evoke in us! Join yoga therapist and author, Joseph Le Page, as he shares the ancient yogic science of mudra, yogic hand gestures for healing the physical body, balancing the mind and awakening spirit. If your body can’t do yoga, your hands can.

Aug 08, 20241 hr 2 min

Heal Trauma in Your Body and Mind with Yoga

Through our lives we experience physical and mental stressors that cause trauma to our bodies and minds. Author and yoga teacher Beth Spindler offers practices to help manage common conditions so that we can age with grace and ease. It is never too late to begin our healing journey.

Jul 11, 20241 hr

Enlightenment in Every Day Life

Enlightenment in this lifetime may seem like a lofty and unattainable goal. Author and spiritual teacher Susan Kaiser Greenland finds enlightenment anytime in life’s highs and lows, offering insightful tools and strategies for awakening in this real everyday world.

Jul 03, 202459 min

Explore the Spiritual Heritage of Yoga

How can the timeless wisdom of The Bhagavad Gita expand your yoga practice to be more spiritually fulfilling? Acharya Shunya, lineage holder, spiritual teacher, and author, presents the radical unity teachings of this text as a bridge between the ancient roots and modern practice of yoga.

Jun 27, 202458 min

Live with Greater Ease and Integrity

How can we face the nitty-gritty of life while keeping a clear mind and making wise choices? Join nico and devon hase, authors of How Not to be a Hot Mess, as they offer humor and insight into surviving and thriving in modern life with ease and integrity.

Jun 06, 202459 min

Deepen Your Yoga Practice

Join us as we dive more deeply into yoga practice with Cindy Lusk, author of Align and Refine. We will explore the foundational principles of Yoga, the importance of meditation, and how to make these practices our own.

May 23, 20241 hr 1 min

Delicious Vegan Food Made Easy

Do things seem too hectic to eat healthy vegan food regularly? Veganism has ecological, health, and spiritual benefits. Gena Hamshaw, certified nutritionist and author of The Vegan Week, discusses smart, practical, and delicious vegan meal planning for a simple way to embrace the joy of eating homemade, nutritious food every day.

May 09, 20241 hr

Living in Divine Love

Do you long for healthy happy relationships? Listen as Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian reveals how “Love Loves Love!” The discussion includes insights for living in divine Love beginning by acknowledging the One in all and lighting up your mind with divine remembrance.

Apr 25, 202455 min

Optimal Health and Wellness for Women Through Ayurveda

How can we use Ayurveda’s ancient principles to recognize and correct imbalance in our bodies? Kate O’Donnell, author, and Ayurveda practitioner will share some insights on how to balance the body and mind for women of all ages based on her new book: Everyday Ayurveda for Women’s Health.

Apr 18, 20241 hr

Awaken Your Healing Energy

Our bodies have an amazing capacity to heal and thrive due to our life force, or prana. Shivani Lucki, internationally known Kriya Yoga meditation teacher and author of Healing with Life Force, shares Paramahansa Yogananda’s teachings for vitality, healing and Self-realization.

Apr 11, 202458 min

Stress Less and Improve Your Heart Health

How can the ancient science of yoga help us to improve our overall well-being and especially our heart health? Author and teacher Susi Amendola shares how these practical and research-proven tools can improve our cardiovascular health and quality of life.

Mar 28, 20241 hr 1 min

The Yogic Path of Recovery

How can the deep philosophical teachings of yoga support addiction recovery? Join guest Bryan Hyman RYT, author of Recovery with Yoga, as he offers inspiration and practical tools to help cultivate a powerful and purposeful life in recovery and to create a new design for living.

Mar 22, 20241 hr 1 min

Reclaim Your Wholeness

Are you aligned with who you KNOW yourself to be? Tracee Stanley and Dr. Laurel Trujillo discuss the sacred path to transformation and Self-remembrance. They will share yoga-based practices, meditations, and self-inquiry questions to help guide the inward journey.

Mar 14, 202455 min

The Power of Tai Chi

Are you ready to reconnect with the power of your life energy? Join Master Waysun Liao, T’ai Chi master and author of T’ai Chi Classics, as he shares how to feel, restore, and strengthen your inner power (c’hi) through the practice of T’ai Chi.

Mar 07, 202455 min

Spiritual Transformation, Consciousness and the Brain

What is the relationship between consciousness, the brain and the teachings of Kriya Yoga? A.Martin Wuttke, neurotherapist, yogacharya and author of The Brain Sutras: Keys to the Revealed Consciousness, shares how understanding these connections can guide us to living a spiritually awakened, fulfilled life.

Feb 28, 20241 hr

Awaken to Your Divine Life

The spiritual teachings of yoga tell us that our ultimate goal in life, our dharma, is to awaken fully to our divine nature and to express it. Yogacharya O’Brian shares how these ancient teachings give us tools to live in a way that brings joy to our heart, peace to others and to the world.

Feb 23, 20241 hr

Discover Inner Resilience and Strength

How do we face life’s inevitable dance of falling down and getting up? Join Mark Nepo as he extends an invitation for listeners to view adversity from a new perspective - facing the challenges of life by choosing to embrace every experience as an opportunity for positive change.

Jan 25, 202459 min

Ayurveda Secrets for Healthy Aging

How can Ayurveda help us to slow down the aging process? Ayurvedic scholar, clinician, and educator Dr. Jayarajan Kodikannath (Dr. J) shares Ayurvedic approaches to prevent premature aging, sustain health, and ensure longevity.

Jan 12, 20241 hr 3 min

Ever New Joy: Meditate for Calm and Clarity

Beginning or returning to a regular meditation practice is one of the most powerful things you can do to transform your life. Host Dr. Laurel Trujillo discusses the benefits of meditation as well as the nuts and bolts of how to establish or re-establish a meditation practice.

Dec 30, 202348 minEp. 4

Reconnect to the Power of Silence

We all have a near-constant interior dialogue but we can discover the quiet place of peace and joy that lies beyond. Join author Sarah Anderson as she shares how we can fan the flame of silence so that we can be transformed and inspired by its power.

Dec 15, 20231 hr 3 min

Find Joy and Healing Through Connection

How can we heal and find joy in times of isolation, grief, sadness, and fear? Michelle Cassandra Johnson shares spiritual teachings drawn from the Bhagavad Gita, mindfulness practices and rituals to show how to build community, summon support, connect with nature, and thrive.

Nov 02, 20231 hr 2 min

Reconnect With Our Planet and Each Other

LaUra Schmidt shares practical steps that allow us to build momentum for healing and action in this time of climate crisis. She shares how we can embrace ‘Good Grief’ and embody the necessary actions to cool the rising temperatures in our politics, in our families, and within ourselves.

Oct 19, 202359 min

Meditation: It’s Simple and Natural

How can we have a successful and enjoyable meditation experience? Yogacharya O'Brian shares what a successful practice is as well as easy and practical techniques to prepare our minds, our bodies and consciousness to create the conditions for meditation to occur.

Oct 12, 20231 hr 1 min

Rumi and the Essence of Being Human

What is the secret that connects the individual soul to spiritual Reality? Author, esteemed spiritual teacher and longtime translator of Rumi, Kabir Helminski, shares how the sacred poetry of Rumi can be viewed through a contemporary lens to illuminate universal truths.

Oct 05, 202359 min

Autobiography of a Yogi for the 21st Century

What lessons can a modern seeker draw from Autobiography of a Yogi? Rizwan Virk discusses how universal principles such as karma, meditation, and yoga can be used to address issues and challenges of the present, such as the diversions of social media and the quick pace of contemporary life.

Sep 14, 20231 hr 2 min

Our Quest for Wholeness

How can we remove filters--thoughts, feelings, and other reactions—that keep us weaving the same old patterns? Physicist and author Sky Nelson-Isaacs shares how we can open ourselves up to endless possibilities by aligning with life circumstances rather than fighting them.

Sep 07, 20231 hr 1 min

Stay Healthy in the Fall with Ayurveda

How can we use Ayurveda’s ancient principles to stay resilient and healthy as we move from the heat of summer into fall and prepare for winter? Kate O’Donnell, author of The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook, shares the importance of shifting our diet and routines with the seasons.

Aug 31, 202359 min
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