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Walking Dharma
by Kristen Coyle
Walking Dharma focuses on helping you live your best life. This podcast dives into a wide variety of yogic and tantric texts with a non-dogmatic, courageous attitude. We candidly break down the central concepts within them to make them as digestible and delicious as possible in application to modern day living. Topics covered range from activating intention and the power of manifestation, awakening inner strength, emotional freedom, and spiritual awakening through the power of being here now. Your host, Kristen Coyle is a yoga teacher, writer, therapeutic bodyworker and energy healer. She integrates all that she has learned into her teachings and continues to seek deeper awareness, overflowing kindness, and adventure in all she does.
Episodes
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Episode 35: How to Use Your Voice
Speaking our truth is integral in healing ancestral trauma and allows us to cultivate the ability to express what we feel within our hearts and intuion. This episode explores how to effectively use your voice through the lense of yogic philosophy. We explore how to balance ahimsa, non-violence…
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Episode 34: Do It Anyway: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
This week's podcast is called,"Do It Anyway: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome." Imposter syndrome comes from trying to mold yourself after someone else's vision, ideals, standards and definitions of what you should do, act like, look like, express and create. It often arises when we put ourselves out...
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Episode 33: Transmuting Anger Into Insight
This week's podcast is called,"Transmuting Anger into Insight." We dive into anger and how it manifests, how to work with it, how to clear it and how to use it as fuel for motivation. Several Buddhist mind training slogans are explored in relationship with how to utilize anger as a catalyst for...
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Episode 32: How to (Actually) Surrender.
This week's episode is called "How to (Actually) Surrender." We dive into the yogic principle of Isvara Pranidhana (surrender to God) through the lense of seeing God in all of life. Yoga Sutra 2:45 says,"By total surrender to God samahdi is attained." Surrender is often seen as resignation or...
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Episode 31: Face Yourself
This week's episode is called,"Face Yourself," and it dives deep into the yogic philosophy of svadhyaya, self study. "By study of spiritual books comes communion with one's chosen deity." - Yoga Sutras 2:44 Translated literally, svadhyaya means spiritual study as well as self study. At first...
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Episode 30: You Deserve to Take Up Space
This week's podcast is called,'You Deserve to Take Up Space.' It dives into what it really takes to be out in the world living our truth, pursuing our dreams and thinking big in a way that is alignment with our highest truths and authentic self. This episode is guided by several entries in the...
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Episode 29: Accepting Pain as Help for Purification
Accepting Pain as Help for Purification. This podcast episode dives into the yogic niyama (ethical observance) of tapas. 'Tapas' translates as 'to burn,' or 'to heat,' and it is the concept of accepting pain/discomfort as help for purification. Yoga Sutra 2:43 says, "By austerity (tapas),...
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Episode 28: You are Stronger Than You Think.
You are Stronger Than You Think... This week's episode dives into the 'Five Strengths' as highlighted by Pema Chodron in her book The Places that Scare You. The Five Strengths are rooted in Buddhist philosophy and are powerful life changing concepts when we allow them to help guide our day to day...
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Episode 27: Happiness is a Big Cosmic Joke (Contentment is where it's at).
Happiness is a Big Cosmic Joke (Contentment is where it's at). "By contentment Supreme joy is gained." - Yoga Sutra 2:42 Happiness is fleeting and can easily be 'taken away' by a small shift in our external circumstances. Contentment is based on a soul level understanding that there is beauty in...
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Episode 26: The Art of Purification
The Art of Purfication. This week's episode explores the concept of saucha (cleanliness; purification). Saucha is the first niyama (ethical observance) as highlighted by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. Purification and cleanliness are an essential component in day to day life. At face value,...
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Episode 25: What is Intuition and What is Fear?
What is Intuition and What is Fear? This week's podcast examines two central concepts: how to differentiate between fear based thinking and intuitive guidance and the concept of pratipaksha bhavanam (do the opposite of the initial thought) as a means to help overcome fear based patterning that...
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Episode 24: Rebellion is your Birthright
This week's podcast joins us on the road driving West to Los Angeles. It is raw and real and dives into the idea that we must rebel against the ready-made societal recipes for life and take a look at our deepest longings with an open mind and heart. From our heart prompts, we then create our own...
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Episode 23: Embracing the Unknown
This week's podcast focuses on embracing the unknown by becoming deeply present with simply being as we are in every moment. "Sweet hearted one, meditate on knowing and not knowing, existing and not existing. Then leave both aside that you may be." - Vigyan Bhairav Tantra via The Book of Secrets…
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Episode 22: Finding Emotional Freedom
This week's podcast explores what it takes to move from a reactive state to a response-able state of being. When we are reactive we are triggered and allow strong emotions to overtake our awareness. When strong emotions such as anger, guilt, sadness, or fear arise we are thrown off center and act...
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Episode 21: Awakening Authentic Self Confidence
This week's podcast explores what it takes to cultivate authentic self confidence. Authentic self confidence is something that arises when we learn to fully trust ourselves, our abilities, and our ability to learn and grow accordingly. When we live life from an ego-based construct, we will always...
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Episode 20: Let Go or Be Dragged
This week's podcast dives into the concept of unattachment. "Attachment is that which follows identification with pleasurable experiences." -Yoga Sutras "Aversion is that which follows identification with painful experiences." - Yoga Sutras Attachment and aversion are both rooted in fear of pain...
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Episode 19: Love Everyone
This week's podcast dives into the concept of how to truly love everyone, even those we don't see eye to eye with. "He who sees the Supreme Lord abiding alike in all beings, and not perishing when they perish- verily he alone sees." Bhagavad Gita 13:27 When we realize that the same Divine essence...
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Episode 18: The Beauty of Letting Go
This week's podcast dives into the yama (abstinence) of aparigraha (non-greed; non-covetousness). "When non-greed is confirmed, a thorough illumination of the how and why of one's birth comes."- Yoga Sutras 2:39 When we stop striving to achieve certain experiences, states of being, or material...
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Episode 17: The Art of Moderation
This week's podcast dives into the yama (abstinence) of brahmacharya (continence). "To one established in brahmacharya, vigor is gained." Yoga Sutras 2:38 Brahma: Creation; God. Charya: To follow. Brahmacharya: To follow Creation; continence. Brahmacharya (continence) is the ability to remain...
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Episode 16: The Art of Receptivity
This week's podcast dives into the yama (abstinence) of asteya (non-stealing). "To one established in non-stealing, all wealth comes." Yoga Sutras 2:37 Non-stealing is the art of cultivating a gracious, generous, abundance-based attitude towards life and others. The opposite of stealing/taking is...
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Episode 15: Find Your Truth
This week's podcast dives into the yama (abstinence) of satya (truthfulness). "To one established in truthfulness, actions and their results become subservient." Yoga Sutras 2:36 Whatever lense of awareness we put on determines what we receive from the world. Instead of trying to find your truth...
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Episode 14: Be Love
This week's podcast dives into the yama (abstinence) of ahimsa (non-violence). "In the presence of one firmly established in non-violence, all hostilities cease." Yoga Sutras 2:35 When we open our hearts and live from a place of loving kindness and reverence for all of life, non-violence is a...
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Episode 13: Trust Yourself
This week's podcast addresses the modern psychological phenomenon of lack of self worth. We dive into some of the root causes of lack of self worth and examine simple mindfulness-based solutions to help listeners discover a heightened sense of emotional well-being through self acceptance, present...
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Episode 12: How to Truly Give Thanks
How to (truly) give thanks? True gratitude arises from within and is not based on any external circumstances. It requires the abilty to become fully present, cultivate acceptance for what is (and isn't), let go when necessary and allow life to flow through you without confinement. Gratitude that...
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Episode 11: How to Keep Going
This week's podcast explores the idea of how to 'keep going' and continue to walk our spiritual path no matter what. Determination to keep going no matter the external circumstances requires even-mindedness, action in conjunction with surrender, deep trust in our own abilities, and the ability to...
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Episode 10: Make No Assumptions
This week's podcast explores the idea of being consistently inconsistent. Anytime we assume that people or things should be a certain way we are living based on what we have experienced in the past. If we are only seeing life from how things 'always are,' we are unavailable to embrace the present...
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Episode 9: Embracing the Shadow
This week's podcast explores the idea of embracing the shadow. The shadow is the 'darkside' of both our emotional realm and the darker aspects of the outer physical realm. It is the aspects of ourselves that we would rather not show the world. Journeying into the shadow realm takes courage and...
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Episode 8: Get Out of Your Own Way
This week's podcast dives into the idea of "I am not the doer." The Bhagavad Gita says,"I do nothing at all," thinks the Yogi, the knower of Truth; for in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and in tasting; in walking, breathing, and sleeping; In speaking, emitting, and seizing; in opening and...
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Episode 7: Overcoming the Obstacles
This week's podcast dives into the Yoga Sutras and the five 'kleshas' (obstacles) that hinder us from Self realization. The five kleshas are: ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion and clinging to life. By understanding the kleshas and the ways they manifest in our day to day life we become more...
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Episode 6: Live Your Truth
This week's podcast dives into the yogic concept of 'dharma.' Dharma translates literally as: 'That which holds together.' A broader definition of dharma is 'spiritual path.' Dharma is our highest, deepest truth and once realized, acts as an internal compass guiding us in all aspects of life. We...
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Episode 5: Embodying Love: The Four Limitless Qualities
This week's podcast dives into the Four Limitless Qualities of being as taught by Pema Chodron in 'The Places that Scare You.' The four limitless qualities are: loving kindness, compassion, joyfulness and equanimity. We explore how to fully step into emobodying these virtues using real life...
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Episode 4: Be One-Pointed
This week's podcast breaks down the five different states of awareness one is capable of experiencing at any given moment. The five states of awareness are: Restlessness, Delusional, Distracted, One-Pointed and Restricted. Qualities of the different states of awareness are broken down and…
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Episode 3: Think Good Thoughts
This week's podcast is focused on Yoga Sutra II:33, "When disturbed by negative thoughts, opposite (positive) ones should be thought of. This is pratipaksha bhavana." Pratipaksha bhavana translates as: 'opposite thoughts should be thought of.' It is the art of identifying where we are blocking…
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Episode 2: Every Moment is a Synchronicity
This week's podcast is focused on The Book of Secrets by OSHO. The Book of Secrets is OSHO's translation of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra. The Vigyan Bhairav Tantra is a text from the Tantra Yoga tradition that consists of 112 meditation techniques all aimed at the ultimate goal-self realization.…
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Episode 1: Finding Freedom through Equanimity
This week's podcast is focused on applying sutra 1:33 from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras to our day to day actions and thought patterns. The sutra states, "By cultivating attitudes of friendliness towards the happy, compassion towards the unhappy, delight in the virtuous and disregard (equanimity)...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Walking Dharma focuses on helping you live your best life. This podcast dives into a wide variety of yogic and tantric texts with a non-dogmatic, courageous attitude. We candidly break down the central concepts within them to make them as digestible and delicious as possible in application to modern day living. Topics covered range from activating intention and the power of manifestation, awakening inner strength, emotional freedom, and spiritual awakening through the power of being here now. Your host, Kristen Coyle is a yoga teacher, writer, therapeutic bodyworker and energy healer. She integrates all that she has learned into her teachings and continues to seek deeper awareness, overflowing kindness, and adventure in all she does.
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Walking Dharma focuses on helping you live your best life. This podcast dives into a wide variety of yogic and tantric texts with a non-dogmatic, courageous attitude. We candidly break down the central concepts within them to make them as digestible and delicious as possible in application to...
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