Yoga of Resilience Podcast

In this the final episode of season 4, the Yoga of Resilience podcast reflects on Hurricane Helene. Our podcast is recorded in Western North Carolina, in the heart of the impacted areas of Helene, and many of our Vira Bhava Yoga graduates are located in the 6 state region that was hit the hardest by one of the largest geographical events in recent history. For this episode, I, Kelly, talked with 3 Vira Bhava Yoga teachers and WNC community members about their lived experiences, as well as ways they engaged with the community in the days and weeks directly after the storm and continue to move with the grief and connection now 3 months later. Please know that there are still thousands of people who are in direct need due to the impacts of Helene in the WNC area and beyond. If you feel compelled to help, you can check out organizations like Beloved Asheville, and check out Bounty and Soul. We will make sure to include links to these organizations in the show notes. Additionally, if you are in an impacted area outside of Asheville/Buncombe county and want to request support, please comment on this podcast episode with your organization's name and contact information so our listeners can reach out. 2024 has been an unforgettable year for so many, I hope that these stories help us all remember that amidst hardship, resilience is rising and taking form and shape. Please enjoy the episode, and stay tuned for more Yoga of Resilience in 2025. www.belovedasheville.com www.bountyandsoul.org

In this episode, we interview DJ Scott Nice, and discuss the intersections of creativity, Yoga and resilience. The conversation covers a lot of ground including: Scott's background in Ayurveda and healing and how it weaves into his creative and musical life. Scott's healing journey and how it influenced his musical process. How Scott maintain's balance and vitality while DJing, traveling, and performing. The opening music to the Yoga of Resilience podcast is a collaboration between Scott and previous guest Maitreya Wolf! Follow Scott on IG @scottnice and Spotify and get ready to dance! Check out his music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1RvsCdAQoizcHBGTyYjkQA?si=vPMN0lLoTteUJlKta6KphA

This podcast episode discusses the concept of shared power and leadership, particularly in the context of the current chaotic state of the world and the United States' political landscape. The hosts, Kelly Golden and Leanne Horvath, explore the challenges and opportunities of moving away from traditional hierarchical models of leadership towards a more collaborative and inclusive approach. They delve into the importance of recognizing individual Dharma, or purpose, and empowering people to contribute in their unique ways, rather than striving for homogeneity or a singular vision. The discussion also touches on the need to balance individual expression with the greater good, and the potential pitfalls of trying to force consensus. Overall, the podcast emphasizes the revolutionary potential of shared leadership and power as a means of addressing the chaos and division in the world.

In this episode, hosts Kelly Golden and Leanne Horvath explore the intersection of creativity and resilience with standup comedian and content creator Toni Nagy. Known for her viral videos and thought-provoking performances, Toni shares her unique perspective on using creativity as a tool for resilience. Through personal anecdotes and deep reflections, she discusses how creativity intertwines with spiritual practice, the role of imagination, and the power of non-attachment. Toni also touches on her experiences with meditation, yoga, and the challenges of maintaining a creative career in a capitalist society. Key Topics Covered: ● Introduction to Toni Nagy and her creative journey ● The role of creativity in personal meaning and spiritual practice ● Using creativity to navigate and transform challenging times ● The importance of imagination and creativity in envisioning a better world ● The impact of satire and irony on social consciousness and activism ● Tony's personal practices for connecting to source and spontaneous movement ● The therapeutic and healing aspects of somatic work ● Meditation and yoga as tools for resilience ● Overcoming performance anxiety and finding joy in performance ● The maturation process of non-attachment in creative careers ● Integrating healing and personal practice into daily life Quotes: ● "My creativity is deeply entwined with my sense of meaning in life, which I think also speaks to a spiritual practice." ● "Creativity is the external manifestation of imagination." ● "Meditation is everything to me. Yoga also was a huge lifesaver." ● "Attachment to art is a weapon we use on the self to self-abuse." Guest Information: Toni Nagy ● Instagram: @toninagy ● TikTok: @toni.nagy ● Website: toninagy.com Hosts Information: Kelly Golden ● Website: kellygoldenyoga.com, Yoga Of Resilience book Leanne Horvath ● Website: virabhavayoga.com If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review and share it with a friend who might benefit from this conversation. For more information on upcoming yoga teacher trainings, lifestyle courses, and workshops, visit virabhavayoga.com.

Episode Summary: In this episode, hosts Kelly and Leanne welcome special guest Maitreya Wolf, a soul evolution mentor and musician. Maitreya shares her compelling journey with yoga, detailing how it transformed her from a high-energy, intense lifestyle to a more grounded and reflective existence. This episode dives deep into the concepts of resilience as intrinsic to the yoga practice, the integration of trauma into personal growth,and the sacredness of yoga in Maitreya's life. Key Topics Covered: ● Introduction to Maitreya Wolf ● Background as a soul evolution mentor, tarot reader, and musician. ● Her work's focus on the spiritual power of beauty and living the path of the soul. ● Maitreya's Personal Journey with Yoga ● First encounters with yoga during a turbulent period of her life. ● The transformative impact of yoga on her life's direction. ● Yoga as a Path of Resilience ● Discussion on how yoga inherently embodies resilience. ● Insights into how yoga practices helped Maitreya manage and transform her intense energy and past traumas. ● Spiritual and Healing Aspects of Yoga ● How yoga serves as a sanctuary and a point of stability. ● The concept of yoga as one of the "old powers" that aligns with nature and profound personal healing. ● The Role of Yoga in Today's World ● Reflections on the commodification of yoga and its deeper, undiluted essence. ● The ongoing relevance and adaptability of yoga in modern contexts. ● Q&A with Maitreya Wolf Guest Contact Information: Website: https://www.soulpowermentoring.com/ Social Media: @maitreyawolfmentor www.facebook.com/maitreya.wolf/ www.youtube.com/channel/UCqaltoxtDEBgib6j94dthjg How to Connect with Us: Email: kelly@kellygoldenyoga.com Instagram: @YogaOfResilience www.amazon.com/Yoga-Resilience-Embodying-Practice-Hardship/dp/1476687226 https://www.virabhavayoga.com/ Acknowledgments: Special thanks to Maitreya Wolf for sharing her profound insights and experiences. Gratitude to the listeners for their continued support and engagement.

In this episode, we ride the highs and lows of the path of yoga and tantra. We explore how the tools we cultivate in our practice can help us find ourselves and cultivate a reference point for inner stability during difficult times.Join us as we welcome the renowned yogi, Rod Stryker, who shares his profound journey in yoga, beginning from his early days of discovery, leading to his evolution as a revered teacher.

Leanne and Kelly talk about Scarcity, Abundance and Empowerment as Resilience right in the heart of the season of generosity and giving. They both share a little bit of the stories that led them to formation and continuing foundation of Vira Bhava Yoga's approach, and grapple with the complexities of scarcity and how everyone can forge a path to abundance. This conversation dives into the depths of some personal experiences, and helps clarify the purpose of VBY as a path and process to empower ourselves by understanding where we are disempowered.

Kelly is joined by her friend and longtime Vira Bhava Yogi, Swathy Madhukar to talk about Bhakti Yoga and the practices of Devotion in the days leading up to Navratri 2023. This episode is super charged with Shakta Tantric philosophy and embodied devotion, and they share some details about the 10 day Sadhana they will be sharing with you with Vira Bhava Yoga. When Swathy and Kelly get together and talk about the Goddess, the conversation almost always turns to the power of India and pilgrimage, and this episode is no exception. If you want to join the upcoming 10 day practice of devotion for Navratri 2023, go to Virabhavayoga.com to register, and be sure and stay tuned to the end to hear a big special announcement!

Join me and the NEW OWNER of Vira Bhava Yoga in a conversation about the sometimes uncomfortable CHANGE and Transition that Growth requires. We dive into some uncomfortable and yummy places alike, and open with a brief discussion about my new book, The Yoga of Resilience. This is a lovely and lively conversation that pokes at the sharp edges of our human desire for constancy and security, and lifts up the challenge of making the effort to arrive in an unfamiliar place and learn new ways of being with ourselves and others.

In this episode, we get real, real quick by debunking the myth that resilience feels the same as a happy ending. Instead, we explore resilience as a Yogic Practice that is life affirming, even if it affirms the pain and difficulty of life. Resilience invites us to join with what IS and allows IT to be just that in real time. Like Tantra, the practice of the Yoga of Resilience dares to remove the dichotomous labels of good or bad, or right or wrong, and gives space for the truth of the moment to be one of coexistence of all of the opposites. Resilience is the shakti of our rebound, and though it isn't transactional, it is a path to being fully alive. This episode challenges our disappointment with life, and invites us to expand our capacity for finding the JOY in the process.

This episode is focused on self awareness and taking action, so if you are feeling stuck in habits, patterns, and choices, this one is for you.

In this the first episode of Season 3, we wade into the waters of Tantra and dare to wonder about the power of our quiet yearnings. We spend some time in the dreamy waters of our imagination, and talk about the generative power of giving ourselves space to stretch and shape our unspoken desires.

In this, the last episode of Season 2, we get edgy. We poke around at the obsession with Self Improvement and how it collapses our world into self importance causing us to forget the bigger picture of relationship, time, and culture. This episode gets pokey, challenging us to consider how our practices of Yoga & resilience impact our community, the society, and our planet. This final episode of the season reframes Yoga to be the thing that we serve, rather than the thing that serves us. I hope this episode has something to offer, and will inspire your continued practice until we return for Season 3 in 2023. Also, keep an eye out for the forthcoming book called Yoga of Resilience, which will be out soon! If you want to make sure it shows up at your door when it's hot off the presses, be sure and preorder now. The title is currently available at Amazon.com and directly from the publisher, https://mcfarlandbooks.com.

In this episode, we explore the process of evolution as one of resonance. We share the possibility that to really affect lasting change in life, we must be willing to experience the BIG PAIN OF CHANGE, or else we become stagnant in a low level but persistent discomfort. We talk about resilience as an experience of self knowledge, and invite you all to explore what truly resonates with YOU and dare to do the work to align with and in that resonance. This episode is on FIRE with Shakti and challenges you to step into the crossroads of YOUR choices awake and alive to your own potential. This Episode was recorded live on June 23, 2022. To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, check out www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast and kellygoldenyoga.com/podcast and stay tuned for the upcoming book, Yoga of Resilience. Click to kellygoldenyoga.com/book-yoga-of-resilience for more info and to pre-order.

Season 2 | Episode 7 In this episode I dig into the reality that resilience is a journey, not a destination. On the path of resilience, we are called to be the heroes in our own story, a story which is always changing, evolving, and shifting beneath our feet. We explore the path of the Hero as one of forgetting and remembering, and unpack the possibility that real resilience comes from recognizing and reclaiming our POWER. In this episode, we imagine we are the heroes of our own story of Resilience turning our complications and complexities into explorations bringing us to the crossroads of potential. This podcast was recorded live in April 2022. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2022 to take 15% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga & Meditation Trainings. www.virabhavayoga.com

Season 2 | Episode 6 In this episode, we open the treasure box of Yoga and Tantra. We begin by exploring the map of a Yoga practice, and how the journey of Yoga and Resilience is a long game, rather than one of short term gains. We talk about how our Yoga practice works over time, and as an added bonus, we work with the myth of the Tantric goddess Kali to understand the power of our relationship with time. This one is short but super juicy, with lots of hidden gems about the practice and lifestyle of Tantra. I hope it serves! Enjoy. This podcast was recorded live on March 24th, 2022. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2022 to take 15% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga & Meditation Trainings. www.virabhavayoga.com/

Season 2 | Episode 5 In this episode we are tipping the scales on resilience to explore what Resilience is NOT. We will talk about the uncomfortable truth that resilience does not fix, soothe, or solve your problems, but is instead an experience of feeling, accepting, opening, and allowing that is supported and resourced by the tools of Yoga and Tantra. We poke into the idea of control as a coping strategy, and unfold the awareness that our modern strategies of analyzing and psychologizing might be contributing to our difficulties in experiencing a resilient life. This episode introduces the possibility for growing our capacity by identifying our misunderstandings regarding resilience and making space for a new story to emerge. I hope you enjoy the listen! This podcast was recorded live on October 21st, 2022. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2022 to take 15% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga & Meditation Trainings. www.virabhavayoga.com/

Season 2 | Episode 4 In this episode of the Yoga of Resilience podcast, we will explore the power of our own personal narrative and how it relates to our experience of resilience. We will talk about how our individual perspectives shape our practice of Resilience in the world, and how our Yoga can support us in revising our perspective. The episode drops just as my book, The Yoga of Resilience, is submitted to the publisher, so it has a lot of feels for me! I hope that you benefit from pondering how powerful our story is on our journey of Resilience. Enjoy! This podcast was recorded live on February 17th, 2022. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2022 to take 15% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga & Meditation Trainings. https://www.virabhavayoga.com/

Season 2 | Episode 3 This episode wonders about one of the prime tenets of TANTRA, the idea of MORE. ln a culture and time where we never seem to be satisfied, and are exhaustively driven to acquire, achieve and experience more, how is the idea of more an approach to contentment? We explore the possibility that recognizing what you have is a powerful tool to unfolding MORE, and learning how to live anchored in what IS generates a connection to the experience of ENOUGH. And it's from that place of enough that MORE emerges. This talk is an appreciation of the fluidity of the ever-changing present, and a celebration of what is possible when we allow our moments of enough to unfold what more is possible. Enjoy! This podcast was recorded live on December 16th, 2021. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2022 to take 15% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga & Meditation Trainings. https://www.virabhavayoga.com/200hr-mini-course https://www.virabhavayoga.com/300hr-mini-course

Season 2 | Episode 2 In this episode, I reflect on the ways that we struggle with finding the safety to grow and change. Recognizing the many ways that I have “changed my mind” and my approach as a person, practitioner, and teacher in the last 20 years in the Yoga industry, I get curious about how these changes require a lot of space to be WRONG in order to learn. I poke at the idea that our beliefs and ideas are fixed and wonder about how we can bring our lessons forward so that we may grow and mature, creating more space for evolution and understanding. This one will stretch your comfort zone around failing, disappointment, and perfection. I hope you enjoy! This podcast was recorded live on November 11th, 2021. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2022 to take 15% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga & Meditation Trainings.

Season 2 | Episode 1 In this episode of Yoga of Resilience Podcast, we jump into season 2 with some BIG questions and contemplations about how we need each other to be resilient. Host Kelly Golden wonders whether we can really be resilient alone, if we can feel buoyant when we are disconnected from each other, and ultimately if resilience is possible if we focus only on serving ourselves. We unpack some big questions that challenge our modern paradigm of deserving and self care. This wondering moves us into the space where resilience is NOT avoidance of each other or other's problems, but is instead an engagement with whomever and wherever we find ourselves, and offers some suggestions about how we can invite more care into our lives. Enjoy listening. This podcast was recorded live on January 20th, 2022. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2022 to take 15% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga & Meditation Trainings.

Season 1 | Episode 12 In this, the last episode of Season 1, we delve into the skill and art of thinking critically. We discuss the markers of critical thought avoidance, and explore the ways that critical thinking can actually expand and grow our relationship with ourselves and the world. As always, I dare you to expand your ideas of what you thought you knew, and challenge you to allow your questions to stretch your boundaries. Enjoy, and be sure to subscribe to the Yoga of Resilience Podcast wherever you find your podcasts so you don't miss out on Season 2! You can also follow us @yogaofresilience_pod and @virabhavayoga on Instagram, and join our mailing list at virabhavayoga.com/podcast so you don't miss out on any of our upcoming episodes, classes, workshops, and more! This podcast was recorded live on July 22nd, 2021. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2021 to take 20% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga Teacher Trainings, beginning in January & July.

Season 1 | Episode 11 In this episode I get personal in my talk about how the highs and lows and ups and downs of life is how we learn how to be buoyant. We talk about meeting the truth where it's at rather than trying to change and control our circumstances to give us what we want to feel good as a Yogic practice. We review our willingness to meet the hard stuff without denying the beauty, and wrestle with the process of unraveling our attachment to things being only one way. This episode challenges you to feel, open, and even to be broken. I hope it resonates with you. This podcast was recorded live on June 24th, 2021. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2021 to take 20% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga Teacher Trainings, beginning in January & July.

Season 1 | Episode 10 In this episode I do my best to unravel the understanding of complexity, a difficult challenge to say the least. I weave together some ideas about the nature of the complex and our engagement with it, and take a practical stance on how we can work with it in our lives. I challenge the approach of reducing and managing complexity, and instead invite you directly into the possibility that it holds. I hope you enjoy, and I hope that rather than making things more clear, this episode leaves you with curiosities and questions that inspire you to explore further. This podcast was recorded live on May 20th, 2021. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com Use discount code PODCAST2021 to take 20% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga Teacher Trainings, beginning in January & July.

Season 1 | Episode 9 In this episode, I am talking about Tantra, an often misrepresented and misunderstood system and practice. I will be talking generally about the definitions of Tantra and how they can be applied to our everyday lives, and hopefully dispel some of the common myths about the practice. There is a brief meditation included at the beginning of this talk that provides a tiny taste of the experience of Tantra. Enjoy the listen! This podcast was recorded live on September 6th, 2020. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2021 to take 20% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga Teacher Trainings, with sessions beginning in January & July.

Season 1 | Episode 8 This episode is fiery and pokes at some tender edges. In it, we explore the Tantric teaching of how to alchemize the wound into the weapon. Host Kelly Golden challenges the modern attachment to trauma identification, and calls forth the use of the Ego as a tool, rather than something to be transcended or overcome. We go head to head with the idea that we can be anything other than wounded, and then wonder about how we can engage more skillfully through reclaiming the woundedness rather than denying it. We hope it pokes you a little, and inspires you to explore a lot. Enjoy. This podcast was recorded live on April 22nd, 2021. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2021 to take 20% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga Teacher Trainings, beginning in January & July.

Season 1 | Episode 7 In this episode, we get down and dirty with the truth of what Yoga is (and isn't). We explore the original definition of the word in contrast to how its used in the modern industry of Yoga. We talk about how Yoga can be evidenced in our day to day lives as well as applied to our practice on the mat. We challenge the industry assumptions and regulations about the practice and teaching of Yoga and encourage you to explore for yourselves. We hope this conversation provokes you to think more deeply about how you practice and share Yoga. Enjoy! This podcast was recorded live on April 3rd, 2021. ----- To learn more about Kelly & Vira Bhava Yoga, visit www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2021 to take 20% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga Teacher Trainings, beginning in January & July.

Season 1 | Episode 6 In this episode we are talking about change: our resistance to it and how understanding it can lead to greater resilience. We talk about what the impact might be if we choose to willingly enter into change rather than resist or control it and wonder about why constancy seems so safe when it is evidently unattainable. I hope you enjoy episode that invites us to normalize being wrong, and opening to the inevitable. This podcast was recorded live on March 25th, 2021. ----- www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2021 to take 20% off anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga Teacher Trainings.

Season 1 | Episode 5 This episode was recorded in April 2020 at the beginning of the Pandemic. In it, we dare to wonder if the experience of modern Yoga is an experiment that might not have worked. The questions posed and explored are: Can we let go of what we think that we know that Yoga is? Can we turn toward our practice as a bridge to trusting ourselves over external authority, to accessing our resilience in times of difficulty, to accepting the unknown not as an obstacle but as an opportunity? As the world starts to slowly crawl out from under the weight of the Coronavirus pandemic, we find these questions & reflections to be even more potent. We hope you enjoy. ----- www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2021 to take 20% of anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga Teacher Trainings.

Season 1 | Episode 4 In this episode, Kelly explores the practice of self-reflection as a support and sustaining force in Resilience, and describes the primary tools to an effective, reflective practice: patience, courage, silence, and willingness. In this conversation, we discuss reflection as a practice that asks us to dare to be less fragile- not unbroken, not healed- but less avoidant, less anxious, and more willing. These things are the recipe for Resilience. www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2021 to take 20% of anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga Teacher Trainings.

Season 1 | Episode 3 In this episode, Kelly explores the relationship between love & grief, and how deepening our understanding of this relationship can create the capacity for greater resilience. Grief is a natural and true part of our humanness, and in this episode we explore how grief and love can coexist, and how allowing yourself to feel the fullness of your grief might actually give you access to greater love. www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2021 to take 20% of anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga Teacher Trainings. This episode was recorded live on October 1st, 2020.

Season 1 | Episode 2 In this episode, host Kelly Golden leaps headlong into a conversation about Joy as a practice. "I am feeling super inspired by this worldview right now and in recognizing the power of our collective, generative force." We explore the connection between joy and trust and poke at the possibility that the avoidance of Joy is a method of Spiritual Bypassing as much as the Love and Light mentality. As always, we end by offering contemplations to explore in your own life and practice... What kind of requirements do you put around what you celebrate? What demands and expectations do you have around your celebrations? And are they part of the resistance to joy? What draws you in? What magnetizes you into it? What intrigues you? This episode was recorded live on January 21, 2021. www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2021 to take 20% of anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga Teacher Trainings.

Season 1 | Episode 1 In this episode, Kelly explores unlearning as a path to resilience, and pokes around at the possibility that learning and unlearning are really two sides of the same coin that lead us to the experience of resilience. We talk about the Tantric understanding of learning and knowledge, and challenge us to find our knowing from within rather than give our trust away to external systems. This podcast was recorded on 12/3/20, during the turbulent times of the aftermath of the 2020 Presidential election in the US, and addressed the uncertainty that was simmering in the atmosphere. Our exploration here encourages students and listeners to explore new pathways of knowing and certainty. www.virabhavayoga.com/podcast Use discount code PODCAST2021 to take 20% of anything on our website, including registration for our Online Yoga Teacher Trainings.