JBYF Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jai Bhakti Yoga Foundation
Let's begin with the four key principles that kickstart our year or mid-year goal setting. Be patient, be kind, be strong, and be free. These are the keys to success in reaching your goals. In this episode, we discuss this in-depth and go over tips and tools on how to get started to reach our first goal in one week! Visit jbyfnola.org for freebies.
Moving meditation is a combination of linking breath to movement within a conscious effort. It is a state of being rather than a state of doing. In this episode, we explore the method in which moving in alignment with breath nurtures a state of transcendence which prepares the mind and body to enter into meditation through yoga. This is the place where one connects to oneself. Listen in, and see how.Visit jbyfnola.org for freebies.
Learning the importance of mental health and how it impacts the physical strength of an individual along with the reverberation of said energy into that around you. How does the Law of attraction work? Is it true that what we think is also what we become? We dive into this and more in this episode. Visit jbyfnola.org for freebies.
Cognitive functioning is based on the well-being of your brain health. If you are overworking the engine without caring for it, it will die on you. Like, if we are not resting our minds, we will experience the dreaded "burnout." In this episode, we chat about the importance of sleep and what happens as we sleep. Give a listen and start to make sleep a priority in your life. I share some tips on how to get to sleep and stay asleep throughout the night.Visit jbyfnola.org for freebies.
Sama, Vishama, Tikshna, and Manda Agni play a significant role in your digestive health. They also rely a lot on your surroundings. How do you sustain a balanced Agni with so much going on? Listen in, and let's discuss. Be sure to head over to the website and get your free Dosha quiz and take the Ama assessment to see where you need to come back to balance and how to do just that. Visit jbyfnola.org for freebies.
We discuss indigestion and its causes along with the “why” behind having a proper diet is so vital.Head over to the JBYF Blog and read through the “Diet According to Your Dosha” BLOG along with the “The Fire of Life, Agni" Blogs. Be sure to download the free resource library and Ayurveda Diet and Nutrition workbook to use as a guide.I’ll be sharing recipes this week to stabilize the Doshas. Our resource library and membership are full of recipes to support your Ayurvedic Diet and Nutritional journey. Visit jbyfnola.org for freebies.
This week we are focusing on dosha balancing yoga asanas. Vata: grounding poses; Pitta: cooling poses; Kapha: motivating posesFeel free to combine any of these poses to establish balance for yourselves as you integrate them into your daily routine. Remember to do one percent at a time and one day at a time. Head over to our YouTube channel to see the full flows and sequences. Join our memberships to get access to all the resources to help you establish or begin your Ayurvedic Daily Routine and Yoga journey.Visit jbyfnola.org for freebies.
In this episode, we integrate meditation into our daily routine practice. In our last episode, you chose one thing to add or begin for a daily routine. As we grow together over the next 7 weeks, we will expand on our daily routine to add or refine another area or the same area of our life. If you slip back, no worries, just keep going. It all falls into place as intended. Follow along over the next 21 days to begin and sustain your new healthy Ayurvedic-inspired habits.Visit jbyfnola.org for freebies.
What does a "daily routine" look like? We have so much going on throughout the day that the thought of establishing and committing to a daily routine does not seem to "fit in" to the daily routine that we already have. Instead of looking at it as a "daily routine," let's change the vocabulary to Lifestyle Enhancement. In this episode, we go over what an Ayurvedic daily routine looks like and the importance of establishing and maintaining one. Honoring this aspect in your life will improve your overall outlook on the relationship you have with yourself, and the relationship you will nurture with other. "Once can only give to others, to the extent one can give to themselves only." Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. We go over some tips to help you get started. 21 days is all you need to formulate a new habit and integrate a new routine. Visit jbyfnola.org for freebies.
In this episode: We dive into Ayurvedic/ Yoga or Sattvic lifestyle by exploring the various lifestyle changes and why they are important. This is a gentle reminder to commit to yourself.Day 1: Any yoga style for 5-30mins a day for 7 days and take a moment to jot down how you feel before and how you feel after.Day 2, Meditate for 30 secs - 20mins a day for 7 days (2x daily for max results)
In this episode, I go over why knowing your Doshas and understanding how we get “imbalanced” can effect how we process foods. I break down the Doshas in a high-level overview and give some quick “hacks” at the end to nurture yourself back to health.Use the free Ayurvedic Diet Workbook in our free resource library to learn about what foods to integrate into your diet, what to remove, and how to create meals to help you get and stay healthy.Visit jbyfnola.org for freebies.
Mental, emotional, physical, and economic well-being has skyrocketed over the last few years, and recently, it seems the weight of the world is falling on many more shoulders. Some are still stuck within their own mind like a twisted fun house at a carnival without knowing the way out.
A sensitive topic but one of great growth. I open up about my journey of Christianity and how it led me to the awakening to the Higher States of Consciousness through the liberation of breaking the “Christian” paradigm. God-consciousness is a union of how we come to live without conditions. This is the first part of this particular journey and next week we dive even deeper.
We are attached to the role, therefore confining ourselves in a cage with the gate wide open. Driving ourselves into silent suffering to remain a representative of what we thought we needed to be and not allowing ourselves to evolve into what we are becoming…
These are not four separate entities. They are simply four levels of functioning of the mind. Hence, we may refer to them altogether as the mind, as the mind-intellect, the mind-intellect-ego, or the mind-intellect-Chitta-ego. They all refer to the same thing. (Mukundananda, 2014) In order to be able to use it as a friend, it is important to understand the mind’s nature. Our mind operates at four levels. In this episode, we dive into what those are.
We have all heard the term, “the truth will set you free,” however, you may not like it. Hence the reason why it is followed by the phrase, “the truth hurts.” It makes me laugh when I hear the words, “I got you,” or “I have you figured out,” because, the only thing they “got” is their interpretation of what they think they know to be true for their own validation. One can really not figure anyone out, like people, places, and environments are always changing. Just like the waves in the ocean, they can not be predicted.
The words that follow are my human attempt to put words to what entering transcendence may feel like…
These are the words that express the journey that my beloved mother and possibly all who have fallen and entered into the ancestral realm, along with those who enter into transcendental states during meditations may be experiencing, as this is a reflection of what a glimpse of this experience feels like….
What are you attached to? Is it progressing you to live in your wholeness? In this episode, we dive into a modern approach to Ayurveda along with the subtle body experiences that we face our fears and we begin to overcome them through the layers of the Koshas. When we can do this, we open to grace. Head over to our Jai Bhakti Blog and join our Free Membership or Free Resource Library, for tools to support your internal evolution.
What are you attached to? Is it progressing you to live in your wholeness? In this episode, we dive into a modern approach to Ayurveda along with the subtle body experiences that we face our fears and we begin to overcome them through the layers of the Koshas. When we can do this, we open to grace. Head over to our Jai Bhakti Blog and join our Free Membership or Free Resource Library, for tools to support your internal evolution.
Being called a liar is a low blow. But when you come to understand the reason behind the word, that's when the question becomes truly powerful. Am I a Liar and why have I lied to myself? We become more clear when we can fully face our true selves. Join our Free Membership and get guided meditations to support you on your yoga and mental health journey.
So many hidden gems in India. Chintu reveals a few secrets about India and what an experience in India is like. Visit our website for more info about our Yoga retreats and how you can participate.
Indian culture and the influence it has brought to the west through its multi-modalities. How Ayurveda has become a part of our daily western lives, how we are inspired by the culture, customs, and traditions of yoga and Ayurveda. Join us weekly and subscribe to our Podcast, YouTube, and Blog. Reach out to Chintu at Shores of Ganges Tour on Instagram.
Utilizing the eight limbs of yoga for managing and operating a yoga and wellness business. Growing through each part? Tools to nourish your business to sustainable health and wealth. How to breathe life into your business goals. Take the Business of Yoga mini-course for 5 CEUs and grow your business.
Resources to help you manage and operate your studio and wellness businesses and how to effortlessly integrate your operations efficiently. Create more time for what you truly love. Grow your email list, manage automation, cultivate ease of mind and save more. Take the Business of Yoga mini-course for 5 CEUs and grow your business.
A breakdown of the Key business principles all start-up businesses need to know when creating their business plans, goals, and strategies through a holistic lens. Details on how to break even and how to sustain the business after paying investors and loans back. Know to grow, and get info in our resources library.
Now we dive into the logistics of managing the operations of your Yoga and Wellness business. Use these guidelines to help you plan out the logistics and get yourself organized when thinking of how to structure your business. Down to the nitty gritty of your financials. Join the free membership to have access to worksheets and templates to strategize your operations and management strategies.
Understanding your Niche and creating strategic marketing and advertising plans to grow your business and create the appropriate strategies to market to your tribe. How will you foster this and where are they hanging out? This episode goes into the strategies to integrate to get you on your way. Join the free membership and get more freebies to help you plan and strategize.
The basics of beginning your Yoga or Wellness business. Use the Spreadsheet I have provided for you in the Freebies Resource Library in the Free Membership. This episode is a Step by step guide as to what to include in creating your business plan, learning about your numbers, and understanding your what to determine your why. Join the free membership to grab your free checklist spreadsheet and get going!
Here we go through the 4 Spices used in Ayurveda that are staples to have in your kitchen to nurture your own roots. These 4 spices enhance the individual Prakriti and restore balance within moderate use for each dosha. Use each of them how you need to, in order to enliven the vitality of your life. Head over to the JBY Blog and take a peak at some recipes we have for you. Join our Free Resource Library and Membership for more info.
Balancing our digestion through Ayurvedic practices based on the seasons throughout the years, understanding our daily routines, our personal time, and how we enliven our inner intelligence. Learning how to establish balance throughout your day for proper digestion. Join our Free Membership to take the Free Dohsa quiz to know what dosha you are and learn more about Ayurveda.
We get so caught up in the cycle of doing that we forget the importance of just being. Pulling ourselves away from the computer because of working remotely, teaching remotely, attending school remotely, although is meant to simplify our lives, has also become an incredibly powerful addiction.
Healing Your Heart and what’s most important is understanding how to sustain our boundaries and invite times to pause, rest, and explore, while being comfortable alone. loneliness is the fear of looking in the mirror and being comfortable with all your perfect imperfections. It is facing the truth of who you are and finding acceptance within awakening into your wholeness.
Have you ever wondered why every time you misplace something and you are going nuts looking for it you can never find it, and then, when you aren’t looking for it, it shows up? Join us in today's episode to discover the art of embracing loneliness.
Waves of grief that come large and small. Moments of stillness, joy, and despair. Memories that plague the mind and the cycles of the shadow that is cast with no face. Grief is each person's way of processing deep loss, and also a season, a personal winter of hurt that never truly goes away. It is what we “grow” through and how we slowly take moments to heal. No one outside can provide that for you, it is the time of human purification through such loss that burns. It impacts every aspect of our health.
Discover what it means to understand the true nature of Self Love. There are times when one may get caught up in the mirage of our thoughts. The elusive mystery of how to maintain a relationship with another knowing that what is shared is not good for our well-being. Only adding to the hallowed space in the mind and spirit that can at times be indescribable. In this episode, I open up about my personal journey and how the methods I used to work through Pragya Apardh the ignorance of the intellect.
Sensory perception is key to discovering one's equilibrium. The culmination of mind-body-spirit consciousness is the embodiment of Atman or the highest self. In this journey, we discuss the methods that inspire these experiences and ways how to manage growth through them. What we see on the outside, deeply affects what is happening on the inside. Discover how in this episode.
We partner together on this special guest podcast to discuss the importance of how yoga nourishes the mind-body system and share some quick tips on how to get started no matter where you are on your yoga or soon-to-be, yoga journey. We answer audience questions and enjoy a truly interactive and consciousness-based approach to our experiences with the yoga asana practice.
Over time it becomes a natural part of our day to incorporate these modalities into our morning and evening rituals. It is important to know that Dinacharya and Ritucharya are practiced based on the seasons and the dosha imbalance. Utilizing Ayurveda gives you the proper clarity to discover your purpose (dharma) and guide yourself on the journey that you are created for while removing or eliminating blockages. Head over to the jbyfnola.org site to take the dosha quiz and receive your balancing yoga sequences, suggestions, and techniques to get you back on track.
Responsible for the digestion, metabolism, and conversion of food from the outside in. The 4 Aginis we go over are Manda, Vishama, Tikshna, and Sama Agnis. We explore each of these in our educational talks of Ayurveda via the podcast this week and over on the website go and take the dosha quiz, grab the ama assessment off the blog, use the digestive teas, and grab the Ayurveda Diet workbook to track your digestion and wellness journey. Lots to share, so come with a pen, paper, and ready to learn!
All diets are welcome as everyone has their unique compositions and needs different methods to support their immunity. In this episode, I share information and resources, along with a Diet and Nutrition Ayurvedic Workbook for you to sustain optimal health during a season of illness and disease. The tools, insights, and methods I provide will help you establish remedies to support you along your healing journey. Visit the Jbyfnola.org website to download your own workbook and toolkit.
Tips, tricks, and techniques along with resources and remedies to help you combat the COVID-19 and Flu seasons. I had COVID-19 and used the remedies I share in this podcast to heal myself. Be sure to visit the jbyfnola.org website for the DIet and Nutrition Ayurveda workbook I created when you join the email list and take your dosha quiz. The Jai Bhakti Blog also has the workbook accessible so you can begin your wellness journey straight away.
The 20 gunas are the 20 coupled qualities that balance each other out. They utilize the practice of Samana and Vishesh (the principles of Like increases like and opposite my increase or decrease the other). This is a best practice for all constitutions to understand as you are on your journey through Ayurveda, and possibly Nadi Vigyan also known as Reading the Pulse. Let's start small and grow into our greatness.
Now lets nurture the understanding of the imbalances of the doshas, and how to re-establish balance and self-awareness through a consciousness-based approach through Ayurveda. Understanding the imbalances provides insight into the areas of our lives that are seeking attention to nurture and develop. If you have taken the Dosha Quiz and assessment on our website (jbyfnola.org), then you are a step ahead of the game and have an understanding of how the doshas function, operate, and where you stand. Keep in mind, this is purely superficial, as there are many layers to reveal within yourself. Let's discuss restoring balance in your life.
As you expand your knowledge of Ayurveda, it is important to understand each Dosha in their wholeness. Learning about their qualities (gunas) is essential to one's evolution of health and well-being. Simply learning the principles provides insight into how we react and respond to the changing season of life. Let's explore the Doshas on a deeper level and apply how maintaining balance will attribute to improved health and well-being. If you haven't done so already, take the Free Dosha Quiz and assessment on the jbyfnola.org website to get a headstart.
Understanding Who We Are may be an abstract statement. However, with the knowledge of Ayurveda, we are able to come full circle and learn the qualities of the doshas that break down the various aspects of oneself. Use this knowledge, along with the Free Dosha Quiz and assessment on the JBYFNOLA.ORG website, to better understand who you are and why you are the way you are. By ascertaining this knowledge, you begin to embody what Ayurveda calls the enlivening the inner intelligence. Listen and learn more.
Here we educate you on what Ayurveda is and why it has begun to come to the forefront of modern medicine. We discuss the doshas and educate on the basics of how knowing your dosha can genuinely save your life. Use this next series of podcasts, as a resource on how to empower yourself to take control of your health and well-being.
Taking action is the physical aspect of making conscious decisions that will navigate your investments. When you begin to put this action into place with the incredible amount of trust you have in knowing that God is leading you every step of the way, then you don’t believe the “FUD.” (a term we come to learn in the world of the crypto)
Abundance begins with recognizing what you already have and ways in which you are able to generate more of it. Be it love, intellect, friendship, kindness, finances, etc. Once you get yourself into alignment Spiritually, (one of the hardest to accomplish as it brings lots of inner Self Work and growth), your mind begins to Shift into higher states of responses instead of reactions.
The EGO is what edges God out. It’s the part of us that as Dr.Wayne Dyer says “tells us who we are by what we have. The more you have, the more you feel others are trying to take it away from you. So many spend so much time striving that they never get to arrive.” This is illustrated as going against the current of life.
When it comes to mental health our communities often see it as the big elephant in the room, we refused to embrace it due to the stigma amongst all races and nationalities, yet certain groups like the Hispanic and Latin X community further stigmatize mental health in part due to resilient nature and ability to always seek solutions for problems by ourselves instead of leaning or asking for help from others. Substance abuse has become the number one cause of dependency and addiction in the Latin American and specifically Puerto Rican communities. In this episode, we dive into the statistics and solutions on how we can help uplift our Hispanic communities and get them out of substance addiction.
Mental health is a sensitive topic in Latin American culture. Especially when it comes to immigrants seeking support. Tatiana González @tat_gonzalez, Advocacy and State Program Director for @namilouisiana , opens up about her story.
As we enter into another season, we notice the changes in and around us.Tatiana opens up about "checkin in with ourselves." She speaks about how one may be pushing beyond limits, setbacks, and the stigma of success. She mentions how "we thrive within our own Being," and how we advocate for ourselves.
Tatiana opens up to us about her story and explains the need for understanding each other’s differences as a way to celebrate ourselves because of these differences and the liberation that creates harmony within diversity. All these factors contribute to stress and distress which leads to Mental Health Breakdowns within the LatinX communities.
The mystical aspect of you that KNOWS somewhere that we all have a collective mission, to birth the spirit into the world for the evolution of humanity. The things that tell you otherwise are old programs, and some of them outright lies.” - Maria Colleen
Mental illness and where they “originate as the veils that are between two worlds” as Maria Colleen elaborates, tend to lend themselves to paradigm blindness or complex programming. Sometimes we remain where we are because we are afraid of the discomfort. However, that is what gives us the room to grow into our greatness.
Mental Health is at the forefront of importance, now more than ever before. We just never know what someone is going through behind the mask we all wear (figuratively and literally). How are we integrating a consciousness-based approach in supporting mental well-being within ourselves and for our community.
The brain has two roads that lead back to the main path, the high road which is slower to process, more methodical, looks at the big picture, and the low road, highly emotional and reactionary. Together, the low road forms the emotional response consciously with the high road when clarity is presented. In this episode we recall the moments of "being here before" and recognizing the neurons that are shifting us into more awareness.
Yoga is a journey, not a destination. It takes time to find the right teacher, lineage, class, and environment that will support your progression and evolution into the world of energetic healing. Not everyone resonates with everyone, so it is important to connect with the teacher or teachers that will come along side you to nurture this newfound expansion. Be prepared to get out of your comfort zone in order to discover your true self.
Illi Stovall shares his words of insight and wisdom on how yoga and meditation transformed his life and how he hopes to see this inspiration and fire ignite within others. Illi shares his personal story along with his trials and triumphs as he uses the teaching and principles of yoga and meditation to nurture the wholeness within the Self, taking one into higher states of consciousness.
How did you feel the first time you entered a yoga class or studio? What was the expereince like? In this episode, we offer some tough love as well as some key principles to focus on in overcoming limiting beliefs and self-doubt. These 5 tips, will support the evolution of a new outlook on the way YOU practice and receive yoga.
In this Episode we begin by meeting ourselves where we are. Yoga is not about how graceful you look on the mat, it is about showing up for yourself no matter what you are going through, overcoming limiting beliefs, and diving in to your strength. We discuss inclusivity, a pep talk for Yoga teachers and students, and how to give yoga another chance.