Sivana Podcast: Eastern Spirituality, Yoga Philosophy, And Conscious Living

Often teachers ask us to "set an intention" when coming to our yoga mat -- but what does that actually mean? And how do we do this? What if having to set an agenda for our practice triggers us or feels like extra work? In this episode, I cover 3 key methods of "intention setting," how you can use intentions to get key questions about your life answered, and even how to heal yourself (and loved ones) with the power of your practice. --- Brett is the founder of Uplifted Yoga, an online yoga and meditation community empowering students to personalize their practice and ignite their best life - on and off the mat. She’s instructed at top studios, companies like Google and Pinterest, and leads the world’s most interactive Online Yoga Teacher Training program. She teaches to a social media following of over 300K people. Her content on Youtube is streamed for 2 million minutes each month. Learn more at BrettLarkin.com   Creator & Host: Brett Larkin http://www.brettlarkin.com/   Sound Engineer: Zach Cooper www.zm

Let’s talk about thinking – HOW to think positive thoughts! In this episode, I explain “passive thinking” and detail the POWER your thoughts have to shape your reality. Learn my techniques for ""blowing the whistle" and “policing” my own thoughts. You can practice these techniques too! --- Brett is the founder of Uplifted Yoga, an online yoga and meditation community empowering students to personalize their practice and ignite their best life - on and off the mat. She’s instructed at top studios, companies like Google and Pinterest, and leads the world’s most interactive Online Yoga Teacher Training program. She teaches to a social media following of over 300K people. Her content on Youtube is streamed for 2 million minutes each month. Learn more at BrettLarkin.com   Creator & Host: Brett Larkin http://www.brettlarkin.com/   Sound Engineer: Zach Cooper www.zmcmusic.tumblr.com   Producer: Benn Mendelson www.sivanaspirit.com www.sivanapodcast.com   Please consider leaving us a rating or review on iTunes! No

Learn about all the things I’ve done “wrong” in business and my key takeaways. Inspired by my conversation with Dave Ursillo in which we talked about his “failed” book launch, I open up and talk about two whole companies that I launched, which didn’t quite work out quite as planned... Enjoy my post-mortem on my experiences, including the lessons I took away. These learnings helped me form the successful yoga business that I love running today.    --- Brett is the founder of Uplifted Yoga, an online yoga and meditation community empowering students to personalize their practice and ignite their best life - on and off the mat. She’s instructed at top studios, companies like Google and Pinterest, and leads the world’s most interactive Online Yoga Teacher Training program. She teaches to a social media following of over 300K people. Her content on Youtube is streamed for 2 million minutes each month. Learn more at BrettLarkin.com   Creator & Host: Brett Larkin http://www.brettlarkin.com/   Sound Engineer: Zac

Let’s talk about failure - Woohoo! Social media tends to showcase all the highs. But every successful author and entrepreneur has battle wounds and failures that helped shape who they are today. In this episode, successful author Dave Ursillo takes us deep into the story of his failed first book. Together, we reverse engineer all the things that went TERRIBLY wrong with this first book and extract gold nuggets of wisdom and insight for YOU. This post-mortem of a failed book launch contains both practical and spiritual wisdom that’s relevant to everyone. Thank you Dave for being so humble, amazing, and speaking so honestly about this on the show! --- Dave has self-published 7 books spanning spiritual poetry, nonfiction and memoir. He has published over 500 articles at his online home, DaveUrsillo.com, and has been published in 6 more books including the international Chicken Soup for the Soul series and in independent projects like End Sex Trafficking alongside Seth Godin and Danielle LaPorte. His work as a t

How to the five koshas correspond to the chakra system? How can we balance the five koshas? What can we do (beyond yoga asana), to live a truly yogic life? What do the Vedic scriptures advise? If you’ve wondered about any of these things (I know I have!), you’ll love today’s interview with Ayurveda/Yoga Lifestyle Consultant, Akshata Sheelvant. We go deep into some very complex concepts. Ready to discuss the astral body? Causal body? Let’s do this! --- Akshata Sheelvant is an Ayurveda/Yoga Lifestyle Consultant. Her passion is to help women balance lifestyle disorders with an Ayurveda and Yoga lifestyle. She specializes in crafting food medicine for Hormone Balance, Thyroid Health, Digestive Issues, Blood-Sugar Management, Preventative Lifestyle. She offers 1-1 consultations and workshops/classes.   Special Guest: Akshata Sheelvant https://www.jeevalifestyle.com Rishikesh Conscious Living YTT: https://akhandayoga.com/retreats-workshops/149/ayurveda-a-conscious-living-yoga-teacher-training/   Creator & Host

Today’s special episode is a guided, energetic clearing exercise with Art Giser. Let’s deprogram what’s not serving us! For the first fifteen minutes of this episode, Art explains how the exercise works, what to expect and how we can see the negative energy of others as a gift. I ask him about INTUITION and what role it plays in NLP. According to Art, oftentimes what we think is our intuition could be subconscious programming we’ve inherited. The second fifteen minutes of this episode is a powerful, guided, energy clearing visualization with Art. Sit or lie down. Get comfy. I had incredible insights doing this one! Enjoy! --- Art Giser is the creator of Energetic NLP. He is an internationally renowned NLP trainer, intuitive, and healer. Art's unique and diverse background includes NLP, spirituality, coaching, transformative and healing energy work, and intuition development. He also managed a medical research lab for the University of California, San Francisco, and works with Fortune 100 companies to develop

What if you want to clear a particular negative energy, habit or pattern, but you can’t? According to today’s guest, it could be karma and past spiritual contracts that aren’t allowing you to move forward. Today’s guest, Art Giser, is the founder of creator of Energetic NLP, which stands for Neurolinguistic Programming. He’s an internationally renowned NLP trainer, intuitive, and healer. If you’re feeling a negative emotional state too frequently, Art teaches that our inner wisdom and spirit are incongruent. Art explains how to unite these different facets of our being into what he calls “Your Miraculous Self.” He also tells us about his personal journey from scientist to energy healer. Listen to learn more!     --- Art Giser is the creator of Energetic NLP. He is an internationally renowned NLP trainer, intuitive, and healer. Art's unique and diverse background includes NLP, spirituality, coaching, transformative and healing energy work, and intuition development. He also managed a medical research lab for t

Our guest, yoga teacher Kelly Smith, was a Savasana-skipper before discovering the subtler aspects of yoga. Now, she teaches meditation and Yoga Nidra almost exclusively! Today she shares her personal story as well as tons of fantastic tips. We cover: What to do if your mind is racing during Savasana or meditation. The pros and cons of guided versus non-guided meditations. Are “guided” meditations a crutch? We end with her shortlist on how to create (and teach fantastic!) guided meditations for your students, family or friends. If you want to create meditations or start meditating, this episode will inspire you! --- Kelly Smith is an E-RYT 500, YACEP, founder of Yoga For You, and host of the iTunes chart topping podcast, Mindful in Minutes. Kelly believes that there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to yoga and meditation and cultivates an environment that empowers her students to listen to their bodies, explore their personal practice through more than just yoga poses, and to find joy and gratitude for the

Our guest, yoga teacher Kelly Smith, was a Savasana-skipper before discovering the subtler aspects of yoga. Now, she teaches meditation and Yoga Nidra almost exclusively! Today she shares her personal story as well as tons of fantastic tips. We cover: What to do if your mind is racing during Savasana or meditation. The pros and cons of guided versus non-guided meditations. Are “guided” meditations a crutch? We end with her shortlist on how to create (and teach fantastic!) guided meditations for your students, family or friends. If you want to create meditations or start meditating, this episode will inspire you! --- Kelly Smith is an E-RYT 500, YACEP, founder of Yoga For You, and host of the iTunes chart topping podcast, Mindful in Minutes. Kelly believes that there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to yoga and meditation and cultivates an environment that empowers her students to listen to their bodies, explore their personal practice through more than just yoga poses, and to find joy and gratitude for the

How do we breakthrough and face what we’re avoiding in 2019? Why is focusing on avoidance so valuable? Author Dave Ursillo provides us with a six-word journaling prompt he believes can radically transform our lives this year. We talk about SHAME, FEAR, and UNCERTAINTY – the vortex of emotions that might be holding you back. This episode is raw and filled with tons of personal tips. Make sure to listen to the very end!  --- Dave has self-published 7 books spanning spiritual poetry, nonfiction and memoir. He has published over 500 articles at his online home, DaveUrsillo.com, and has been published in 6 more books including the international Chicken Soup for the Soul series and in independent projects like End Sex Trafficking alongside Seth Godin and Danielle LaPorte. His work as a traveling teacher of writing, creative self-expression, storytelling and yoga has led him to work with over 4,000 students from 30 countries. Dave has been seen on CBS News Sunday Morning, Psychology Today, INC.com, Zenhabits and Cr

We KNOW we feel better after yoga, yet it’s still so crazy hard to make it to the mat consistently at the same time, every single day. Beyond “wake up earlier” and “budget more time in your schedule,” what big energetic shifts and practices to do we to pursue to make daily yoga a reality in 2019? I go deep in this podcast. Listen to how I did it and my advice for you! Resources Mentioned: 40 Day Kriya at UpliftedYoga.com FREE 14 Day Chakra Challenge with Sivana Spirit happening now: http://www.brettlarkin.com/elemental --- Brett is the founder of Uplifted Yoga, an online yoga and meditation community empowering students to personalize their practice and ignite their best life - on and off the mat. She’s instructed at top studios, companies like Google and Pinterest, and leads the world’s most interactive Online Yoga Teacher Training program. She teaches to a social media following of over 300K people. Her content on Youtube is streamed for 2 million minutes each month. Learn more at BrettLarkin.com   Creator

Let’s go a layer deeper than we normally do when talking about the chakra system. Sure, we know the Root Chakra is about “safety” and “security,” but what does that mean at an energetic, soul level? Why is mastery of the lower 4 chakras so essential to our success in the world? Sharing examples from my own life, I discuss how you can unpack and decode these energy centers to figure out what energetic patterns are blocking you. Let’s do this! Join me for a special New Year’s Eve workshop to go deeper at: www.brettlarkin.com/nye --- Brett is the founder of Uplifted Yoga, an online yoga and meditation community empowering students to personalize their practice and ignite their best life - on and off the mat. She’s instructed at top studios, companies like Google and Pinterest, and leads the world’s most interactive Online Yoga Teacher Training program. She teaches to a social media following of over 300K people. Her content on Youtube is streamed for 2 million minutes each month. Learn more at BrettLarkin.com  

Today, we continue our conversation with Elizabeth Bishop, creator of the Conscious Service Approach. We talk about service-based relationships as a container for self-discovery and enlightenment. We discuss why you don’t need to “protect yourself” from the negative energy of others and what you can do instead. Elizabeth shares with us her methodology for how each of us can create a personal philosophy to integrate who we are with how we serve. Anyone who has ever been a teacher, healer, service professional or cared for an ailing love one, will love this heartfelt episode. --- Elizabeth Bishop is the creator of the Conscious Service Approach designed to support helping professionals to reconnect with and fulfill their desire to make a difference in the lives of those they support. Following the completion of a diploma in Developmental Services and a degree in Psychology and Religious Studies, Elizabeth completed a Masters in Adult Education through St. Francis Xavier University, providing the opportunity to

Empaths, teachers and healing professionals often experience burnout, exhaustion, and compassion fatigue. Today we tackle the question: How can we passionately serve others without sacrificing our own personal wellbeing? I interview Elizabeth Bishop, creator of the Conscious Service Approach, designed to support healing professionals to reconnect with and fulfill their desire to make a difference in the lives of those they support. We discuss: caring for students, clients or a loved-one with an injury or chronic illness, tips for self-compassion, and how to avoid overextending yourself. --- Elizabeth Bishop is the creator of the Conscious Service Approach designed to support helping professionals to reconnect with and fulfill their desire to make a difference in the lives of those they support. Following the completion of a diploma in Developmental Services and a degree in Psychology and Religious Studies, Elizabeth completed a Masters in Adult Education through St. Francis Xavier University, providing the op

Today, we continue our conversation with Lee McCormick about how to best let go of our expectations and need to control.  Lee explains how we need to hold a vision for what we desire, but also hold space for a broader awareness of the mystery of life. Lee shares with us the tradition of sweat lodges as a way to heal and restore faith in the unknown. We cover: what sweat lodges are, the tools, elements and traditions involved, as well as their potency for healing. If you’re ever been curious about this tradition, listen to learn more.  --- Born into a tribe of movers and shakers, Lee McCormick has always lived out loud. He is the founder of The Integrative Life Center in Nashville, The Ranch Recovery Center in Tennessee, and The Canyon Treatment Center in Malibu, California and has been a creative force in the Mental Health and Recovery scene for over 20 years.  He founded Spirit Recovery Inc. to produce Healing and Recovery conferences and Spiritual Journeys around the world. Lee is also a co-founder of Fron

How do we shake off the programming we inherit from our parents and our culture? How do we notice when we’re living in a particular energetic pattern, and break free? How do we learn to cherish or own unique, innate value? To get in touch with our own soul? These are the questions I explore today with Lee McCormick, author of the The Heart Reconnection Guidebook: A Guided Journey of Personal Discovery and Self-Awareness. Behind the roles you play in life – mother, father, wife, husband, employee – who ARE you, really? Listen to this deep, contemplative interview with Lee to get your wheels turning. --- Born into a tribe of movers and shakers, Lee McCormick has always lived out loud. He is the founder of The Integrative Life Center in Nashville, The Ranch Recovery Center in Tennessee, and The Canyon Treatment Center in Malibu, California and has been a creative force in the Mental Health and Recovery scene for over 20 years.  He founded Spirit Recovery Inc. to produce Healing and Recovery conferences and Spir

Stressed out by the rapidly approaching holiday season? Today, we continue our conversation with Martina Fink about how can stay grounded, blissful and balanced during this important time of year. We discuss which chakras are best to focus on during this holiday period, how to best schedule our time, give and receive gifts, and make time for self-care. Martina also shares with us her ultimate mindset hack for a happy holiday season. Listen for inspiration on how to stay balanced this December!   ---   Martina Fink is the go-to girl for all things Glow. Her mission is to help others by sharing her love of natural beauty products, sustainable living, maintaining a healthy body and mindset and promoting self-love and confidence. She offers a couple of different glow inspired coaching programs, hosts luxury retreats around the world, and travels with her clients. Martina is a certified Health Coach by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and thrives on helping others live a sustainable and glowing life.   Spec

The Throat Chakra is often overlooked. Today, we deep dive into how you can heal this important energy center. Together with yoga teacher and health coach, Martina Fink, we cover: How to know if you have an imbalance in this area, tips and tricks to bring balance to Vishuddha chakra, and how to speak up for yourself. Martina shares with us her personal experience working with this area as part of her own personal development. Listen to learn more! --- Martina Fink is the go-to girl for all things Glow. Her mission is to help others by sharing her love of natural beauty products, sustainable living, maintaining a healthy body and mindset and promoting self-love and confidence. She offers a couple of different glow inspired coaching programs, hosts luxury retreats around the world, and travels with her clients. Martina is a certified Health Coach by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and thrives on helping others live a sustainable and glowing life.   Special Guest: martinafink.com www.instagram.com/martin

The past three weeks, I’ve been experiencing the best sleep of my life. Find out why and how you can do this too in today’s new episode. I cover: Side sleeping versus lying on your back. Special pillow arrangements for your head (and knees). Restless eye syndrome and how you might not know you have it. Retraining your spine to sleep in anatomical neutral, and more! Mentioned in this episode:   Episode 205: Why You Can’t Skip Savasana with Judith Hanson Lasater Brett’s Zen Morning Routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7U5n-My1Eo    ---   Brett is the founder of Uplifted Yoga, an online yoga and meditation community empowering students to personalize their practice and ignite their best life - on and off the mat. She’s instructed at top studios, companies like Google and Pinterest, and leads the world’s most interactive Online Yoga Teacher Training program. She teaches to a social media following of over 300K people. Her content on Youtube is streamed for 2 million minutes each month. Learn more at BrettLar

In this podcast, I share how journaling can compliment your yoga practice. Listen to my exact steps on how to journal to improve your life and channel your deep inner wisdom. I also share details about the new 2019 Uplifted Yoga Journal. Download sample pages at UpliftedJournal.com --- Brett is the founder of Uplifted Yoga, an online yoga and meditation community empowering students to personalize their practice and ignite their best life - on and off the mat. She’s instructed at top studios, companies like Google and Pinterest, and leads the world’s most interactive Online Yoga Teacher Training program. She teaches to a social media following of over 300K people. Her content on Youtube is streamed for 2 million minutes each month. Learn more at BrettLarkin.com   Creator & Host: Brett Larkin http://www.brettlarkin.com/   Sound Engineer: Zach Cooper www.zmcmusic.tumblr.com   Producer: Benn Mendelson www.sivanaspirit.com www.sivanapodcast.com   Please consider leaving us a rating or review on iTunes! Not su