Yoga For Life

Wisdom Speed Round with Reverend angel Kyodo williams : 10 reflections and action points to uncover joy and realize that you are enough from the last 9 podcasts.

In this episode, we will talk to Roshi Joan Halifax about her years of serving the dying. Death and grieving are often subjects that we shy away from or are desperately afraid of. Roshi Joan will speak to us about the complexity of grief and the relief of service. We will talk about tenderness and compassion. Joan has a unique and powerful way of conversing about a heavy subject in a lighthearted and profound way.

The Yoga of Cleaning Clearing and OrganizingIn this episode, we will be discovering how cleaning out your closet and tidying up your life can reduce stress and lead you to pranayama and meditation.

Intimacy to Productivity – A conversation with Kate Northrup. Kate will talk to us about how being intimate with the body and it’s cycles can make us more productive in the world.

Conversation with Rodney Yee. This conversation is a reflection of the journey of Colleen and Rodney, which is based on sex, love and a spiritual journey. How have things stayed hot and passionate while interweaving spirituality into their daily lives. They talk about how love and commitment is the backdrop through the struggles, irritations, and tenderness.

Quite often we feel like revenge is necessary or that one is not deserving of forgiveness – even if it’s yourself. This is like ingesting poison. We will learn tools to clear and purify the body from the toxicity of lack of forgiveness.

–“Addiction Has Many Forms” – a conversation like none that you have ever heard from 2 Buddhist Monks about addiction. Sensei’s Chodo and Koshin bring humor and depth and experience to the subject that effects us all – addiction in an attempt to find comfort.

Not all fear is created equal. Thank God we have fear as a primal response when in danger. But, how do we turn it off because 99% of our fear is exhausting and not necessary.

This episode will take you on a ride of how we beat ourselves up and how to notice and shift. Judge Toler talks about her unrelenting anxiety and how she has found a way to find balance and not let it run her life.

This episode will give you a run through of my life from being a child that tried to be perfect, to an accident that left me with a traumatic brain injury, to drugs for relief, to modeling to yoga to the realization that I am enough and perfection doesn’t exist. I will give you tools to realize that you too are enough.

There is an underlying belief that somehow, we aren’t enough, that we are unworthy frauds and losers. In Yoga for Life, Colleen Saidman Yee will uncover these self imposed limitations that are keeping us from contentment and freedom. We will talk about caring too much about what others think, fear of not adding up, seeking comfort, divorce, aging, relationships, grief, power, and of course, sex—one of Colleen’s favorite topics. In this podcast, you can expect open, real, and raw dialogue about what keeps our hearts heavy, spirit hidden, and potential limited. Colleen will give you yoga tools to peel back the layers, to find compassion and love for the person that is living in your body, and to live the present moment fully with all of its glory and pain. You can find Yoga for Life’s conversations and reflections anywhere you listen to podcasts, but be sure to download the Himalaya App in your app store for special yoga sequences that go along with each podcast episode.