Yoga Is Dharma Talks

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  Duration: 12 minutes, 56 seconds

  Commitment

  Yoga is Commitment— How to commit to yoga, whether you’re beginner or advanced. With the best intentions, you may dec... More
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  Duration: 13 minutes, 20 seconds

  Strength

  This is the story about a girl who wanted to lift up. When she first started trying the impossible lift-ups in yoga, ... More
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  Duration: 11 minutes, 46 seconds

  Santosha, Acceptance, Contentment

  We live in a mindset of accumulation. The idea that more is better in any circumstance fuels the endless cycles of co... More
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  Duration: 6 minutes, 37 seconds

  Balance

  Falling is the best way to learn balance. No one likes to hear that. We would all prefer if we could just decide to b... More
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  Duration: 13 minutes, 44 seconds

  Healing

  It’s hard to explain how a series of physical poses that bend, twist, and lift the body bring about deep healing and ... More
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  Duration: 12 minutes, 45 seconds

  The Breath

  There is perhaps no greater mystery than the breath. Ask yourself this—by what force were you empowered to take your ... More
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  Duration: 18 minutes, 44 seconds

  Awareness

  Awareness is a faculty of mind that you can cultivate. Defined as the ability to perceive, feel, know, or cognizant o... More
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  Duration: 16 minutes, 48 seconds

  Harmony

  No more war. But, also, then, no more fighting for peace. Just peace. The Buddha says in the Dhammapada, “Hatred is n... More
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  Duration: 8 minutes, 23 seconds

  Kindness

  We are friends. We are kind and forgiving to one another. We support one another. We love, honor, cherish and respect... More
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  Duration: 12 minutes, 9 seconds

  Happiness

  Be happy where you, as you are, right now. Or, even when you achieve the soaring heights of your dreams, it won’t mak... More
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  Duration: 18 minutes, 48 seconds

  Compassion

  Compassion = empathy + action. The practice of yoga cracks your heart open so that you are strong enough to feel and ... More
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  Duration: 13 minutes, 40 seconds

  Gratitude

  Yoga is a process of training the mind, as much or more so, than it is training the body. Thoughts, emotions, and oth... More
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  Duration: 8 minutes, 21 seconds

  Patience

  I am not a naturally patient person. In fact, I would say that my resting state of mind is rather impatient. In Sansk... More
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  Duration: 12 minutes, 11 seconds

  Joy

  Think of a time in your life when you felt pure joy. It may take you a moment to remember, but I guarantee that you’l... More
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  Duration: 15 minutes, 49 seconds

  Mindfulness

  Mindfulness seems to be the latest trend in wellness. Some have even branded the current obsession with the benefits ... More
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  Duration: 9 minutes, 3 seconds

  Tapas

  Tapas is essential to the deep work of the yoga practice. Often translated as austerities, discipline, acceptance of ... More
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  Duration: 7 minutes, 55 seconds

  Practice, Abhyasa, Sadhana

  What you practice improves. What you don’t practice doesn’t usually improve. The concept of a practice implies that w... More
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  Duration: 11 minutes, 53 seconds

  Awakening

  If you spend your life engrossed with worries, troubles and stress, you will sleepwalk through the splendor that surr... More
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  Duration: 13 minutes, 1 second

  Viveka

  There seems to be a war on truth these days. Whether it’s alternative facts or simply radically different interpretat... More
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  Duration: 18 minutes, 12 seconds

  Equanimity

  The Sanskrit term upeksha means equanimity and it is used to refer to a state of mind that is neither for nor against... More
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  Duration: 18 minutes, 11 seconds

  Unity

  The origin of the word yoga in Sanskrit comes from the Sanskrit word “yuj” which means to yoke, join, unite, or add. ... More
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  Duration: 8 minutes, 10 seconds

  Energy, Prana

  The body, and truly all that exists, is not as it seems. The solid state is an illusion created by the mind. The true... More
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  Duration: 18 minutes, 37 seconds

  Refuge, Sanctuary

  The entry to the spiritual path is the necessary suffering that the world brings. Without the frustrations and irrita... More
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  Duration: 11 minutes, 15 seconds

  Forgiveness

  Forgiveness is easy to understand as a concept and hard to apply in reality. We all get it in theory, that holding on... More
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  Duration: 18 minutes, 59 seconds

  Prayer

  Everyone prays. Just like everyone worships something. Even the atheists. Just think about the last time you were abo... More
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  Duration: 8 minutes, 58 seconds

  Stillness

  When a storm sets in, the surface of the ocean rolls with waves and visibility lessens. The mind, the seat of conscio... More
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  Duration: 7 minutes, 46 seconds

  Shantih

  You have probably heard Sanskrit chants that end with Om Shantih Shantih Shantih. These are appropriately called the ... More
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  Duration: 12 minutes, 46 seconds

  Spirit

  There is, as far as I can surmise, a vast benevolence that guides all things. There are, as far as I see, universal t... More
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  Duration: 10 minutes, 41 seconds

  Freedom

  I live in the U.S.A.—land of the free and home of the brave. We think we are free, but everywhere we are in chains. O... More
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  Duration: 10 minutes, 8 seconds

  Home

  Home is where the heart is, or at least that’s what they say. But, really, what does home really represent, to you, t... More
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  Duration: 14 minutes, 15 seconds

  Love

  Love is both pervasive, spiritual, essential and sometime also utterly cliche. Emblazoned on tank tops and spouted as... More