LYFE - The Consciousness and Connection Podcast: Recent Episodes
LYFE - The Consciousness and Connection Podcast
Why LYFE? Living Yoga For Everyone. We are coming to you from the beautiful Ishtadev Niwas Ashram in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia, Canada within the unceded territory of the Ktunaxa Nation. We will be offering discussions and down-to-earth practical tools to inspire you to live and embody your fullest potential. If you are sincerely seeking to bring greater meaning to your life and the world around you, elevate your consciousness and build connection, this podcast is for you. Website: www.ishtadevniwas.ca Ishtadev Online Community: https://ishtadev-niwas-online-community.mn.co/
In this lecture from the 2021 Karma to Dharma Program, Sn. Shivani offers us a revolutionary way of manifesting the future that we are all currently dreaming.
Do you know those moments while you are getting some time in Nature, those moments that make you stop and revel in the beauty? The moments that feel exquisitely pure, fresh, clean. Can you imagine living in THAT feeling every day?
Ultimately, this is the resonance that will become the North Star that we will orient towards. The invitation, from Sn. Shivani, is to say “I am here. I am willing. I am listening. I am watching. I am softening my skin. I am recognizing the beauty, the resonance, the love, the light. And I open to embodying this and propagating this”
After listening to this podcast while I was out grazing my goat herd and I had finally absorbed it into my heart, the sky got bluer, the leaves on the Trembling Aspens became brilliant yellow, the clouds were speaking a different language in the sky…everything was more beautiful and I felt the resonance and presence of love. I got a glimpse of the future we are all dreaming and desiring in our hearts as we open to recognizing we are this resonance because we are part of Gaia. It is our true nature. Enjoy.
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What if, we could experience this Earth as the animals do. Totally in the moment. And what if, we could experience this Earth totally in the moment, from a place of trust and unconditional love? Feeling completely supported. What if there is a whole perceptions out there of living in the moment, feeling fully supported, fully in trust and fully in love, what would be the possibilities? Perhaps a heaven on earth? I think so. I have seen glimpses, and it’s all in our minds. The more I do my work and take responsibility for my karmic patterns, the more I slow down, the more love comes in and I get glimpses of that innate joy we have all heard of. Innate joy that we as spirits are here, experiencing body, exploring this earth, drinking in our breath, immersing ourselves in the environment around us. It is good, good reason to do our work. Some moments are not easy to digest, but when we do the work and breath through the tough moments, allow ourselves to heal, it’s worth it, because life gets wider and softer and more beautiful than we could have ever imagined. Enjoy, this beautiful Karma to Dharma lecture from 2020. You may want to listen to this episode a couple of times. Website: www.ishtadevniwas.ca Ishtadev Niwas Online Community: https://ishtadev-niwas-online-community.mn.co/
This episode is another timeless lecture from the 2021 Karma to Dharma program. Sannyasi Shivani explains depression through the lens of the chakras and offers us a way out as in she helps us understand what makes up the mechanics of depression. She also explains why as a society we are experiencing higher rates of anxiety and depression and how the symptoms of covid were an individual and a collective purification to help us step into something more, something beyond the mind, something more in heart mind connection. Her invitation is to see depression as a message of our soul telling us that we can no longer step forward from the foundation we are currently operating from and that we need to shift into a foundation of trust, so we can come into the foundation of the heart. If you are currently experiencing depression, please remember what Sannyasi Shivani said, “even if it is cloudy, the sun is shining, the light is there, even if you cannot see it, faith is there, even if the only thing you experience is fear, if you are listening to this, it is because you are ready, so doubting yourself and start trusting the path and trusting the work and do the work and grace will prevail.” Lastly she reminds us that we need not rush this process, on the contrary, we need to slow down and do the work that will help us expand our capacity to feel the interconnectivity with all. Website: www.ishtadevniwas.ca Ishtadev Niwas Online Community: https://ishtadev-niwas-online-community.mn.co/
Yoga Ecology: its Yoga like you’ve never practiced before. It will help you develop your connection and your own language and communication with nature. Nature, she’s always talking to us, and when we quiet our minds we are able to listen, to really listen and feel to nature speak to us. She is comforting and reminding us that we are never alone. When you participate in activities of a Yoga Ecology Retreat, it will open up a world that has been waiting for you to come back to. Birds speaking, wind wafting smells up to you, sun shining on you or hiding from you, clouds, water, landscapes, flowers. In this episode Sannyasi Shivani interviews several people that have attended yoga ecology retreats,and she asks them about what it is, and what they have learned from it. We hope you get inspired and excited and join us for one of our Yoga Ecology Retreats - the link to the retreat is below! Enjoy! Website: www.ishtadevniwas.ca Ishtadev Niwas Online Community: https://ishtadev-niwas-online-community.mn.co/ Yoga Ecology: http://www.ishtadevniwas.ca/yoga-ecology-foundations-retreat.html
If you are listening to this episode there is a high chance that you have heard of the 3rd and 5th dimensional realities. Sannyasi Shivani offers us a brief introduction of a road map that can be used to understand what this means. I find it fascinating that two different dimensional realities are actually inside us already, living within our spinal cord. And as the frequencies inside us arise, we start to resonate with a perception of reality beyond the 3rd dimension. Sannyasi Shivani said “It’s all right here, we just have to be able to dissolve, get a little mucky and take a leap of faith”. In the episode, Sannyasi Shivani describes how to actually draw a dimensional map and we have also provided one our Ishtadev Niwas Instagram Account; the link is below. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did. This one, I will certainly listen to more than once! And if you would like to access more in-depth teachings regarding dimensional mapping, Ishtadev Niwas offers an in person 7 day Chakra Immersion. I have taken the chakra immersion and it changed my life. The link is below. It was recorded on a cool Canadian spring morning and you can hear the fire crackling in the background. I hope gets you excited and warms your heart to know the beautiful direction that consciousness is evolving towards. Website: www.ishtadevniwas.ca Ishtadev Niwas Online Community: https://ishtadev-niwas-online-community.mn.co/ Ishtadev Niwas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ishtadevniwas/ Chakra Immersion: http://www.ishtadevniwas.ca/advanced-chakra.html
In this episode we learn about the 5 stages of the human stories that create our experiences. Sannyasi Shivani explains the importance of speaking our emotions, she explores the loops and patterns we get into, then she shares a tool of how to consciously shift our language choices to keep the momentum of the E-motions moving forward and preventing stagnation. Ultimately, being able to use the wisdom of conscious languaging to empower ourselves to create a reality in this moment that is full of life, beauty and joy. Website: www.ishtadevniwas.ca Ishtadev Niwas Online Community: https://ishtadev-niwas-online-community.mn.co/
Welcome to the beauty that is Episode 6 - The Kleshas. These little suckers or afflictions are the root cause of our pain and suffering. They are forms of ignorance that keep us mired in the muddy confusion of an ego centred life. Our old life, the one we are evolving from. The beauty in this 2020 Karma to Dharma lecture comes when Sannyasi Shivani starts speaking about the cure to our kleshas: Ashram life. Your body will actually experience relief listening to her words because what she is speaking, is the truth of what is called Atmabauv, One with All. Also known as one for all and all for one! When we orientate our ego to the greater good, you know it’s right because it feels good: you can feel it in your bones as they say. Once you realize the pain we are causing ourselves it’s becomes quite easy to step out and around the shadow of our ego and into the light of our natural evolution. Like I said, you can feel it. With this realization, you can stop taking everything so seriously and become part of the bigger picture and that is when Ashram Life becomes a joy and something that you will seek out. It’s an incredible feeling. Website: www.ishtadevniwas.ca Ishtadev Niwas Online Community: https://ishtadev-niwas-online-community.mn.co/
Welcome to Episode 2 in our first Season! This one, is called Vak It! Or in other words; Speak Impeccably. This is a powerful podcast, really powerful! You might be a changed person after listening to this one! Enjoy as Sannyasi Shivani explains the power we hold in our speech and how to consciously choose our words and consciously affect our reality and experience of life. Website: www.ishtadevniwas.ca Ishtadev Online Community: https://ishtadev-niwas-online-community.mn.co/
Remember how confused we all were at the beginning of the pandemic? It rocked and continues to rock our foundations, doesn’t it?! Well, here are some absolutely anchoring and boot filling answers and knowledge of how to flow gracefully in these new times within the dualism that makes our world. In this timeless lecture from ‘Niwas Karma to Dharma series, Sannyasi Shivani gives us an explanation of why this virus has come to purify and help us in our evolution. She explains how to navigate and utilize our emotions, hold our equanimity and make decisions from the seat of the witness. Once you listen to this lecture, you’re going to want to get out there and practice it right away! It makes living in this mystery called life intriguing and will put a smile in your heart, even in times that are challenging your beliefs of how you think things should be. A lot of our pain that we experience in this life is caused by our own ignorance and identification with the dualism. So, get ready to shed the layers of ignorance and dualism like a boss and practice living like the lotus. Website: www.ishtadevniwas.ca Ishtadev Niwas Online Community: https://ishtadev-niwas-online-community.mn.co/
Welcome to episode 3 of our first season! This is a story that I have had the privilege to hear in person and I have also read it in Sannyasi Shivani’s first book, The Yoga of Remembrance. Every time I hear it, I still get teary eyed and inspired at the same spots. It still grabs my heart. It is called Finding the Blessing - the Story of the Bees. Enjoy Sannyasi Shivani’s telling of this incredible experience and the teaching of looking for the blessing in all that life gives to us. Website: www.ishtadevniwas.ca Ishtadev Niwas Online Community: https://ishtadev-niwas-online-community.mn.co/
Welcome to the first episode of our first season and get ready to have your mind blown! If you are seeking understanding of how consciousness works, dive deep with us in this episode. From dictionary definitions to Sanskrit wisdom, Sannyasi Shivani offers clear knowledge of how human consciousness is starting to make a shift to where we have the opportunity and the support to live in a fully embodied state of interconnectivity and oneness with all; a state where the heart can lead the way. We are fortunate to have teachers and the ancient light bearers to guide us in this pivotal moment of human consciousness of the shift from Me to We, our natural evolution. Website: www.ishtadevniwas.ca Ishtadev Online Community: https://ishtadev-niwas-online-community.mn.co/