Heart Song Yoga

The Eight Limbs of Yoga: Pratyahara

Sarah and Kelly explore the process of Pratyahara, or withdrawal of the senses, and discuss the vast inner landscape that opens up when we go deep within.

Challenges to Personal Practice

Do you want to do more yoga and meditation in between classes, but find it never happens? Are you unable to get to a class and would like to create a personal practice? Sarah and Kelly talk about some of the common blocks to creating a personal practice and suggest ways to explore this not as barriers, but part of the practice.

The Eight Limbs of Yoga: Pranayama

Sarah and Kelly continue exploring the eight-fold path with that most ubiquitous skill – breathing. It's something we all do, and yet there is an invitation to take it deeper and open ourselves to grander experiences.

The Eight Limbs of Yoga: Asana

Asana seems like a simple thing: finding steadiness and support in your pose. But there are layers of experience to explore in all practice. Sarah and Kelly discuss how asana can help us deepen our connection to our bodies and use movement to unblock emotions.

The Thing that Supports Us the Most

Why is it that when life gets busy or difficult, we stop doing the very thing that would support us through trying times? Sarah and Kelly discuss how we need to rethink yoga and make it a foundational practice, not a solution to a problem.

The Eight Limbs of Yoga: Niyamas – Iswara Pranidhana

Our discussion of the Niyamas concludes with Iswara Pranidhana: surrender to a higher power. What does this mean in everyday life? Sarah and Kelly unpack the concept of connecting to your higher self.

The Eight Limbs of Yoga: Niyamas – Svadhyaya

Sarah and Kelly return to discuss the fourth Niyama, Svadhyaya, or 'self-learning'. Join in our discussion on the many ways of exploring this concept for self improvement.

The Eight Limbs of Yoga: Niyamas – Tapas

What lights the fire of your passion and purpose? How do you find the discipline to stay the path? Sarah and Kelly discuss a modern interpretation of Tapas and suggest that the universe is throwing firestarters our way all the time, if only we would stop to light them.

The Eight Limbs of Yoga: Niyamas – Santosha

Sarah and Kelly continue the Niyamas with Santosha, or 'contentment'. What does it mean to be content? How do we bring together all the parts of us, including our regrets and wishes and desires – all of which may be valid – and find true contentment?

The Eight Limbs of Yoga: Niyamas – Saucha

We continue our exploration of the eight limbs of yoga with Saucha, the first of the Niyamas. Saucha concerns purity or cleanliness. How does this apply to your life?