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Why your willpower runs out by Thursday (tapas in yoga)
Monday you were all in. By Thursday the wine's poured, the chocolate's open, and you're wondering where your willpower went.
This week Kristina teaches tapas, the third niyama. Tapas means to burn. It's the fiery...
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Aparigraha explained: the yoga practice of letting go
How many pairs of jeans are sitting on your wardrobe shelf right now? And how many do you actually wear?
This week we reach the fifth and final yama, aparigraha. It translates as non-grasping, non-greed or...
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Brahmacharya: the yoga practice of not eating the whole packet
We're up to the fourth yama, and this one gets a rewrite for anyone who isn't a monk or a nun.
Brahmacharya used to mean celibacy, a way for renunciates to conserve their energy for the path to enlightenment. For the...
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Why Comparison Is Stealing Your Peace
Most of us hear "non-stealing" and assume we've already got it sorted. We don't take bikes. We don't lift wallets.
But asteya, the third of the yamas, goes a lot further than the obvious. It asks where else we take...
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Satya: the yoga of truth
We're talking truth this week. Not the dinner table kind, the kind yoga philosophy has been pointing to for thousands of years.
Satya, the second Yama, sits right after Ahimsa in the yoga sutras, and that order...
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Ahimsa: the yoga practice of non-violence towards yourself
You judge your body every time you step onto the mat. The wobble in tree pose. The foot that will not reach behind your head. This week on Beyond the Diet, we unpack ahimsa, the first of the yamas in Patanjali's Yoga...
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Santosha: The Yoga Practice of Contentment Explained
We've just started the Niyamas in our Yamas and Niyamas series, and this episode is on the second one: Santosha, contentment. We open with a couple of favourite teachings on contentment, Lao Tzu and the Bhagavad Gita,...
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Yoga, Ayurveda and healing the body from the inside out
You have done the work. The therapy. The books. The self-development. You understand, intellectually, where your patterns come from. And some of them are still there. In this episode I talk about why that happens, and...
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How Yoga Relieves Back Pain: Soften, Strengthen and Move Again
If you've been living with back pain and nothing seems to stick, this episode is for you. Kristina walks you through the exact four-week framework from the Yoga to Transform Back Pain course, sharing the real reasons...
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Removing the barriers to love
Hello lover. Come in.
If you've found your way to this episode, something in you is ready to look at the wall. The one between you and the love you came here for. Audrie and I are so glad you're here. You're three...
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The Power of Forgiveness: Releasing the Past to Return to Love
In this deeply nourishing satsang, we explore one of the most powerful — and often most challenging — spiritual practices:
forgiveness.
Forgiveness can feel tender. Complicated. Even impossible.
And if this is a topic...
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The Truth About Flexibility: It’s Not About Touching Your Toes
In this episode of Beyond the Diet, we explore something many people believe they don’t have enough of: flexibility.
Often, flexibility is misunderstood. We think it means touching our toes… or achieving advanced...
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