Bright Fierce Hearts: Recent Episodes
Kylie Bertuch Haynes & Emily Rose of Bright Yoga Space
Welcome to Bright Fierce Hearts! A podcast sharing ALL the tools of Yoga (and more) for living your brightest, fiercest, most heartful life.
We are your hosts, Kylie and Emily, and we share this podcast from the unceded lands of our First Peoples, in the beautiful Alpine valleys in Victoria, Australia.
Expect juicy convos about how Yoga & Meditation practices meets us in our lives as mums, biz owners, teachers, students, women, and humans in the wild experience of life.
There will be joyful belly laughs, as well as leaning right into the challenges of this journey of humanness. Oh and a whole lot of Bright Fierce Heartedness!
Welcome!
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Welcome to the Bright Fierce Hearts podcast.
This week’s episode is an opportunity to reflect on and practice meditation around the theme of Giving and Receiving.
Emily provides some embodied mindfulness techniques, inquiry prompts and Metta meditation practice to explore the ways in which we give and receive energy and find balance.
Find a comfortable place to practice and perhaps have a journal handy for this one.
Enjoy!
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Welcome to the Bright Fierce Hearts podcast. This month's practice focuses on cultivating Gratitude for your body, breath, mind and others and the world around you.
This practice helps us to see the gifts we have within us and to be content with everything that we have, to shift our perspective to seeing where our lives are fruitful.
Emily talks a little about how this practice relates to the theme of “Dreams really do come True” - learning to cultivate a quality of attention that sees where our life is fulfilling, miraculous or simply enough.
You are then guided through a meditation practice to bring this quality of attention to your body, breath, mind and the world around.
Find a comfortable place to practice and perhaps have a journal handy for this one.
Enjoy!
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Welcome to Episode 27 of Bright Fierce Hearts where we are joined by Jeannette McGill, mountaineer, corporate executive and leadership facilitator. We talk about the highs and lows of following passions and dreams, as a woman, in mining and mountain climbing.
Jeannette is also a local to the Bright area in Australia, but she has climbed mountains and led groups all over the world, including USA, New Zealand, South Africa, Peru, Bolivia, China-Tibet and Kyrgyzstan. She has been to Kilimanjaro/Meru five times, in 2018 was the first South African female to summit Manaslu and in 2019 became the first South African to climb Dhaulagiri reaching 7400m before bad weather turned her around. Coming from a corporate executive background in mining, Jeannette has never been a stranger to challenging herself whether in the workplace or in the natural environment and she now leads and supports individuals and groups to achieve their own mountain adventures through her coaching and guiding.
In this episode we hear her story of exploring the mountains and studying science in South Africa, which led her into a career in the mines. Jeannette takes us from tunnels 4 km underground to 8km high peaks where she tested her physical and mental limits even more.
Our chat navigates the topics of what it is like to be a woman in industries that have been typically very male-dominated (both mining and mountaineering), how to approach big goals like climbing an 8000 metre mountain, what inspires her to guide others to achieve their mountain climbing goals (however large or small) and how we might find the delicate balance of masculine and feminine energies in our lives.
Mountains, dreams, life! These are all part of our spiritual practice and we really hope you enjoy this conversation.
You can find out more about Jeannette McGIll here:
Website: https://www.mcgillsmountains.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mcgillsmountains
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcgills_mountains/
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
In a world dominated by patriarchal notions of stoicism, ‘properness’, gentleness and softness as sought after human qualities, we explore what it means to embrace the full spectrum of emotions as a fierce woman in the world. Today, Kylie and Em threw away their notes and allowed themselves to feel their way through this powerful topic.
We investigate the big feelings like anger, rage, grief, disappointment and desire and look at how we have been socialised and taught to process them (or not as the case may be) and perhaps how we could better embrace these natural emotions and hold them as a community.
We talk about the mind, body connection and the issues that can occur (in our very tissues) when we hold these emotions in. We look at how these big emotions are playing out at the moment in this super globalised, but in many senses disconnected, world.
How much have we been programmed to, and wounded by, the teaching to show up and suppress our emotions (as both men and women in different ways) and to unlearn ? Why is it so important and healing for us to have the safety to honour and feel the full spectrum of our feelings?
We discuss mindfulness techniques and how these practices don’t teach us to turn away from these feelings but actually to embrace them and invite them in. Yes, they might transform you, but to try to stop them is when we see disease in mind and body.
Where we find wisdom is learning to not let those powerful emotions take us over and cause harm but to let them run their course and to be able to harness and channel their energy for powerful change.
We just loved having this conversation and hope that you enjoy coming along for this journey with us.
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
In today’s episode, Kylie talks about this month’s theme around bliss, harmony and alignment and contentment - where we see that our dreams have come true.
Whether it is within our relationships or family or work, our connection to the natural world, abundance of love and resources, happiness and joy - this theme gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the things that we have in our life and to cultivate deep gratitude for them.
We can also reflect on the ways in which we have created these things through the visions we had and the seeds that we planted as conscious creators in this life. This concept reminds us to take the wheel and drive.
We hope you have a dream-filled, wondrous day!
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
In today’s episode, Emily shares a short breathing exercise to invite in a sense of presence and relaxation.
When we connect with a full diaphragmatic breath, we enable our nervous system's relaxation response. This practice quickly allows us to create a deeper, fuller breath and invites a deep and conscious awareness of that breath so bring us into a relaxed and centred state.
When our nervous system is balanced and supported we can better find a sense of resilience as we face life’s challenges.
We hope that you enjoy the practice this week!
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
In today’s episode Em and Kylie chat about stress and burnout and how we might use Yoga techniques to better listen to our body’s stress signals and then how we might help to support ourselves and others through periods of stress.
This is a topic that has been on many folks’ minds during and as we emerge from the global pandemic.
We talk about what stress is and how it plays out in our body and nervous system - using science-based mindfulness research.
We explore the impact of the world around us, including the media and our incredibly busy Western culture, and our propensity to want to constantly achieve and to fix things! Yet, we also talk about the impact of our own mindsets and ways of responding to external challenges as well. How often do we celebrate and prioritise asking for help and taking time to rest in our society?
And, of course, true to our podcast vision we offer some practical tools and tips to help you manage stress and burnout in your own life using the philosophy and practice of Yoga and Mindfulness.
Enjoy the episode today and may it serve you well.
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Welcome to Bright Fierce Hearts podcast. In this episode, Kylie and Em chat to The Adaptive Yogi, Jennie Jackson, about practicing and teaching adaptive and inclusive Yoga and coming to fiercely and unconditionally love your body.
Jennie Jackson’s vision and purpose is, as a ‘peaceful warrior’, to help her students achieve body peace and acceptance through her Hatha Yoga classes that focus on accessibility, inclusivity and body positivity. We met Jen in a coaching group and absolutely fell in love with her infectious kindness and humour and loved having this beautiful conversation with her.
We hear Jen’s journey to become a Yoga teacher and the milestones of acceptance of living in a curvy body, with a disability, along the way. We dive into the pitfalls of Western Yoga’s body focused, goal oriented culture. We talk about the philosophy that underpins Yoga, especially around non-harming and non-attachment.
Jen tells us about the barriers that she has faced along the way and shares some of the powerful stories of her students that are living with disabilities, who have benefited from Yoga practices. She also shares some beautiful practices that we can take into our lives to find ways to be more accepting of the bodies we are in and to offer ourselves fierce love.
Enjoy the conversation this week. We certainly did!
NOTES:
Jennie Jackson – The Adaptive Yogi
Jen is a yoga teacher from New Zealand and is a passionate advocate for the powerful practice of Yoga, including mindfulness, breathing and meditation. She has experienced how profoundly life changing these practices have been for herself and her students.
Jen found her self-confidence, self-worth and a desire to help others grow through Yoga. She was gifted a new lease on life after living with a degenerative disability and through a challenging journey of immobility and pain, was lucky to end up with a prosthesis device that helps her walk and do yoga pain free – amazing! Jen has been a certified yoga teacher since 2016 and a yoga practitioner since 1998. She specializes in restorative and accessible Yoga for ALL, breathing, mindfulness and meditation. Offering group and private classes, courses and retreats in New Zealand and Bali.
Her ‘Yoga for ALL’ philosophy attracts those that previously thought they ‘couldn’t’ take part, advocating diversity and inclusion, no matter what ability, size, age or state you are in, you are welcomed and catered for!
Jen has her own home boutique studio and is online with an impressive class library! Also, she teaches chair Yoga at a Senior Citizens Hall and a very special wheelchair adaptive class at a university with 4th year students to assist, and contributes to a popular American based adapted Yoga platform.
Jen’s drive is to make Yoga more inclusive for all bodies, showing up as a Yoga teacher with a disability and a Curvylicious physique – she’s not your ‘normal’ Yogi! Loving helping women on the journey towards body peace and celebrating the joy of movement!
Find Jen here:
Instagram: @theadaptiveyogi
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theadaptiveyogi
Website: https://www.theadaptiveyogi.co.nz/
And here is the link to the prime time ‘TV appearance’! https://fb.watch/ewJUKAfhx9/
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Welcome to Bright Fierce Hearts podcast. Today’s episode, Emily explores the different ways we can use our Yoga and meditation practice to build inner resilience.
Resilience can be defined as our capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, or in nature it is the capacity for something to spring back into shape! It can also be that ability to weather a storm and to thrive, rather than just survive, in difficult conditions. The image of the tree growing on the side of a wind beaten mountainside, or a flower poking through the cracks in the concrete. Life blooming.
Yoga offers wonderful tools and techniques to help us to listen in to our inner state. To know when we need to find more support - perhaps noticing when we are not bouncing back, but falling apart or breaking or burning out. We can call on practices that support, balance and calm our nervous system such as Pranayama, Nidra and Restorative shapes.
We can also use Yogic techniques such as mindfulness, san kalpa (intentions and affirmations) and maitri/metta (self love), as well as gratitude practice, to bring a positive mind-set to our life (without bypassing the difficulties that might be going on - just not adding the extra layer of judgment and self-criticism).
And, while we are building resilience within, we are never truly alone in this journey. Part of learning how to listen in to ourselves is also knowing when to reach out and call in external support, whether that is from your family, friends, a practitioner, mentor or the wider community.
Listen in to this week’s Bright Fierce Hearts podcast for a dive into this theme.
NOTES:
Tara Brach’s RAIN practice: https://www.tarabrach.com/rain/
Emily’s RAIN meditation: www.brightyogaspace.com//bright-fierce-hearts-podcast/stepping-into-fire
Sharon Salzberg (Metta Practice): https://www.sharonsalzberg.com/
Helpful resources to call for mental health crises.
Beyond Blue aims to increase awareness of depression and anxiety and reduce stigma. Call 1300 22 4636, 24 hours/7 days a week, chat online or email.
FriendLine supports anyone who's feeling lonely, needs to reconnect or just wants a chat. You can call them 7 days a week on 1800 424 287, or chat online with one of their trained volunteers. All conversations with FriendLine are anonymous.
Kids Helpline is Australia’s only free 24/7 confidential and private counseling service specifically for children and young people aged 5 – 25. Call 1800 55 1800.
Lifeline provides 24-hour crisis counselling, support groups and suicide prevention services. Call 13 11 14, text on 0477 13 11 14 (12pm to midnight AEST) or chat online.
MensLine Australia is a professional telephone and online counselling service offering support to Australian men. Call 1300 78 99 78, 24 hours/7 days a week, chat online or organise a video chat.
MindSpot is a free telephone and online service for people with anxiety, stress, low mood or depression. It provides online assessment and treatment for anxiety and depression. MindSpot is not an emergency or instant response service. Call 1800 61 44 34.
QLife provides nationwide telephone and web-based services for lesbian peer support and referral for people wanting to talk about a range of issues including sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings or relationships. Call 1800 184 527, 3pm – 12am (midnight) AEST/7 days a week.
PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia) supports women, men and families across Australia affected by anxiety and depression during pregnancy and in the first year of parenthood. Call 1300 726 306, 9am – 7:30pm AEST (Mon-Fri).
SANE Australia provides support to anyone in Australia affected by complex mental health issues, as well as their friends, family members and health professionals. Call 1800 18 7263, 10am – 10pm AEST (Mon – Fri), or chat online.
[Source: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/mental-health-helplines]
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Welcome to Bright Fierce Hearts podcast. In today’s episode, Kylie shares a beautiful Sister Circle Heart meditation in line with the Virgo New Moon on 27th August 2022.
Virgo looks for meaning, wants to be of service and to contribute to the greater good in some way, whether big or small. Virgo energy invites you to be uniquely and fearlessly you in the ways that you serve in the world.
Enjoy this meditation before journaling about your new moon intention. Find a safe and quiet space, sit comfortably in a chair or on the floor with grounded sit bones and a tall spine.
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
This episode is a conversation between Kylie, Em and their good friend and colleague, Kirstie.
Kirstie May is a local to Bright, she is an inspirational educator and creator. Kirstie studied to become an environmental scientist and has a deep connection to nature and has evolved over the last few years to become a trained Doula and birth worker. She continues to nurture the land as a sustainable gardener and walks with women through her pre and postal natal support work with birthing families. Today we are talking to Kirstie about Fierce Motherhood and all its stages.
This convo goes deep into the reclaiming of women’s power through the process of birth itself, how we can better honour the transition of maiden to mother as a rite of passage and walk with each other through the journey. We also speak to an acknowledgement of the challenges that come with choosing to become a mother. Through these themes we also navigate the different ways that we create and birth as women, not always limited to the physical birth of children.
This was such a juicy conversation. We hope that you enjoy!
You can find Kirstie and get in contact with her via Instagram: @kirstie_may_
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Life is full of challenge and discomfort. In today’s episode, Emily shares a practice based on RAIN mindfulness technique to support you to lean in to challenge.
Utilising visualisation and mindfulness this practice is all about opening to and embracing our challenges and leaning into their transformative power. Listen to and be guided by your body's wisdom today. Go gently and kindly with yourself.
Make sure you are in a safe space to turn inwards. Not driving your car!
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
In today’s episode, Kylie and Em have a deep conversation around the inquiry “what is ‘women’s work’”? The result is a search for what it means to reclaim the sacred feminine and find balance.
The discussion starts with an explanation of how we might do the ‘work’ of becoming more aware of our femininity, setting the scene with the history of our patriarchal culture and unpacking what feminine and masculine qualities might be (acknowledging that they are fluid and relative).
Reclaiming the feminine is not about tipping the scales towards a situation that might mold women into a power over men relationship. It is about bringing balance and allowing all to acknowledge and celebrate the feminine qualities of receptivity, embracing cycles and sustainability.
This work is also challenging and requires us to look into the deepest layers of ourselves and also to hold space for others. Femininity is also fierce and wild too. There is dark and light on both sides of the polarities.
We talk about practical ideas of how to bring in more of the sacred feminine into your life.
Tune in to hear more about this journey of reclamation and what happens in women’s circles.
Enjoy!
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Today’s episode is a bit of a deep dive with Emily into the theme of how we meet obstacles or challenges in our practice and life.
This journey of life has one thing for sure. There will be obstacles to meet on our path.
How do we view challenge in life, how do we challenge ourselves, how do we meet that challenge?
Yoga traditions have many stories, philosophical ideas and tools we can use to better understand all of this and more. In this podcast, Emily explores the Yogic myths and characters (including seeing our journey as non-linear), the ways we can approach our practice, and aspects of energetic anatomy (such as Chakras and Granthis).
These ideas are always traversed in a way that [hopefully] is useful for our lived experience in the world so we hope you at least get a fresh perspective on how obstacles can show up in your life and how you might view them.
Enjoy!
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Join Emily for today’s short practice of meditation.
This is a very simple meditation practice to help build focused attention on the breath. By counting each breath as we feel it enter and leave the body we can train the mind to stay present. This class includes instruction and a little guidance and then space to practice the technique yourself.
This is a wonderful tool to learn if you are a beginner to meditation or you find that your mind is especially busy.
Make sure you are in a safe place to practice meditation. Not one for the long drive!
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Today’s episode, is a conversation with Amy McDonald where we talk about the power of myth and story telling and how we can work with the ancient stories of the Yogic tradition to support our practice and life!
Amy McDonald is a spiritual business coach and yoga teacher from Australia. She’s also the host of the Abundant Yoga Teachers Podcast. Amy has been teaching yoga since 2009 and has taught freelance classes, corporate yoga, and yoga classes in studios— she’s even taught yoga classes in a men’s prison! She has led workshops and retreats in Australia, Bali, Singapore, Thailand, the UK, Europe, and the USA. And she doesn’t just teach yoga classes, she also teaches yoga teachers how to succeed in their careers. She offers business coaching, Yoga mythology courses, and more. Amy is dedicated to helping yoga teachers grow in their businesses to create abundance.
In this episode Amy talks about how she came to blend her skills as a creative writer, yoga teacher and coach to be mentoring Yoga teachers in small business utilising the philosophy and mythology of Yoga as tools. Amy speaks about the key elements of myth and how we can bring the teachings of these stories into our lives in a practical way.
Even though Amy doesn’t have ‘favourites’ she does share with us some of her most loved stories and gives us some ideas of where to start delving into myth yourself, including exploring the Indian epics, and how to tell these stories in a way that is unique to you while still honouring the culture and tradition they are a part of.
We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did!
You can find more information about Amy McDonald at:
www.amymcdonald.com.au
@amyyogabizcoach on Instagram
The Abundant Yoga Teacher Podcast
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Join Emily and Kylie for today’s juicy convo about the power of immersive practice. The discussion is mainly around Yoga or Meditation, but can also be applied to anything that you ‘practice’ such as art or music.
When we choose to practice in a dedicated way within a container of time and/or space the results can be nothing short of transformational. We see this on retreats and when we are students or teachers on courses and trainings. Yet you can also see big changes through a personal Sadhana such as a 21 or 30 day practice.
This is all about shifting your habits and experimenting with something. You might not have an expectations about what the results will be and this container allows you to be held, to dive in a swim around!
Listen in to this week’s episode if you are interested in taking your practice deeper in an immersive way.
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Today we hear from Kylie as she expands on our Sanctuary (our online yoga studio) theme for the month of July: “Staying The Course”.
As we come to create intentions or goals, it is important that we are able to use the tools of our practice, to build discipline (tapas) and empower our sense of will to stay the course and take actions to ensure we are manifesting our intentions.
As we journey along the road, we will be tempted by the pretty lights or pulled at by the shadowy uprisings, but the more we practice, the more we fortify our sense of determination, strength of will, our resilience and ability to stay on course despite these shadow and light forces trying to pull us off track.
Join Kylie Bertuch for this exploration of what it means to stay the course and see your intentions come into reality.
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Our theme this month, New Moon in Cancer:
~ Ancestral Healing: I Heal The Past, Present, And Future ~
By maintaining a relationship with our ancestral wisdom, we open to receive the infinite love that is flowing to us from our millions of ancestors through time. We are filled with their strength, compassion, resilience, and blessings. With these qualities reclaimed, and with ancestral remembrance pulsing through our blood, we know where we come from — and we are better able to know where we are going. Only then can we build a truly peaceful world for future generations
Join Kylie Bertuch for this Heart Meditation to connect you to your ancestors and to the roots of your own heart.
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
In today's episode of Bright Fierce Hearts your hosts, Kylie and Em, have a beautiful conversation with their friend and teacher Lee Couch.
Lee Couch is a Wellbeing Facilitator and Educator with over 15 years of experience in Health and Wellness. She is an Aboriginal woman from the Gamilaroi Tribe NSW Australia, now living on the traditional lands of Taungurung / Dhudhuroa Country in the Alpine Shire, Victoria. Lee is inspired to allow her culture to be visible again, and has uniquely created a world that welcomes people to connect.
In this first conversation (there will be more chats with Lee later in the year!) they talk about Lee's work with schools, Aboriginal women and the whole community, through movement, meditation, art and connection to land and culture. She talks about the power of immersive retreats and ongoing education programs. Plus we dive into the ongoing work we all need to do in leaning in to the discomfort that is the result of living on this land, Australia and the traumas that have been experienced. The most important take away being that we all need to work together, walk together, on this journey of reconciliation and healing.
Find out more about Lee by visiting her website:
www.leecouch.com
Follow Lee on Instagram @_leecouch
Find Lee on Facebook where she will be sharing yarns with Aboriginal leaders and elders: https://www.facebook.com/LeeA.Couch/
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Want to join The Sanctuary with guided practices and community connection to explore this more - head to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary and enter the code BFHPOD10 to get your first month for only $10!
In today's episode, Kylie and Emily, your hosts, are in conversation about the concept "Fierce Hearts". Why they come back to this quality in aspects of their business and life. And why it's so important to them that they named their podcast Bright Fierce Hearts.
Love, kindness, inclusivity and compassion are key foundations of Em & Kylie's practice and teaching. Yet, love isn't a mushy, 'walk-all-over-me" thing. We can be fierce with love when we stand up for ourselves or for causes that we believe in.
In this episode we explore how to find that delicate balance of fierceness and care.
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Want to join The Sanctuary with guided practices and community connection to explore this more - head to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary and enter the code BFHPOD10 to get your first month for only $10!
Join Emily Rose today for a little dive into the tools and the process of "San Kalpa" - setting intentions the Yogic way.
Emily talks a little about using inquiry, meditation and Tarot to get to your deepest reasons for setting yourself resolutions and goals, and then the power of framing them using positive and present language.
She also clarifies, when it comes to manifesting your dreams, it is important to see the words of your intention as a guidepost for how you share your vision, make wise choices and take empowered actions in your life to stay true to them.
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Want to join The Sanctuary with guided practices and community connection to explore this more - head to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary and enter the code BFHPOD10 to get your first month for only $10!
Yoga is an ancient system of philosophy, tools and practices. It has also been morphed into narrow definitions by our perceptions, social media or society in general.
In this episode we chat about some of the myths and barriers that might prevent people from practicing Yoga, and we also delve into the myriad of avenues into a Yoga practice (everything from the physical body, the breath, our voices and our mind) and creating our own unique sadhana (personal practice) that nurtures AND challenges us and supports our deepest needs.
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Join Yoga & Meditation Teacher, Emily Rose, for this practice to release tension from your body.
A Yoga Nidra style practice to encourage deep relaxation throughout all of the layers of your being. This is guided relaxation meditation which can be done sitting or lying down. Get as comfortable as you can for this practice and enjoy!
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Want to join The Sanctuary with guided practices and community connection to explore this more - head to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary and enter the code BFHPOD10 to get your first month for only $10!
How can we see ourselves as custodians? What is it that lights up our Bright Fierce Hearts and inspires us to protect it or them. It could be our family. It could be a part of us that needs to be nurtured. It could be a cause that we want to fight for.
Join Kylie Bertuch today for a dive into this theme this week on Bright Fierce Hearts.
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Join this short practice to creating calming and grounding energy. Starting with a simple counted 3-part breath to expand your lungs and focus your mind (perhaps letting thoughts fade into the background) and integrating with some Ujjayi breath. You'll then finish up with Bramhari pranayama (using sound to extend your exhalation and de-excite the nervous system).
Practice with Emily in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
This 30 minute Chakra tuning practice is a brilliant way to reconnect with yourself, your inner landscape and rebalance your energy anatomy. This is also a powerful form of pranayama (breath work) practice along with vibration altering mantra (mind tool for expansion). Enjoy!
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
For our launch week we are continuing to share the stories of the co-creators of Bright Yoga Space.
Today Emily shares her own journey with Yoga and Meditation. She talks about the moment she realised the power of these practices to help find that sense of peace she felt in Savasana (relaxation at the end of class) in times outside of the Yoga class!!
Emily also hares her passion for social justice, music and sharing her teachings in an inclusive and accessible way.
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Emily in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
Story has and continues to be a powerful way to share ideas and teachings. This can be through elaborate ancient myths or as simple as hearing a personal journey through difficulty.
For our very FIRST Bright Fierce Hearts episode you will have the honour to hear from Bright Yoga Space co-founder, Kylie Bertuch Haynes, as she shares her own personal story to find Yoga and the big healing moments that occurred along the way.
You’ll also hear about the ways that Kylie is passionate about sharing Yoga and Women’s Work and hopefully pick up some tips for your own journey of life!
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course
Practice with Kylie in The Sanctuary by heading to www.brightyogaspace.com/the-sanctuary
If you’re enjoying the podcast and would like to deepen your yoga practice with us, sign up now for our ‘Fierce Heart’ mini-course.
It’s packed with tools, inspiration and practices to bring more love, strength and compassion into your life. Sign up here:
https://www.brightyogaspace.com/living-from-fierce-heart-mini-course