Om Som Yoga + Ayurveda Podcast

Aaron Petty + Paige Taylah
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Welcome to the Om Som Yoga and Ayurveda Podcast with Aaron Petty and Paige Taylah. Our goal with this podcast is to dive into how we as humans can live more intentional, ethical & sustainable lives. And also how we can come into harmony with, ourselves, others & the earth in the process.

  1. 1d ago

    You Don't Have to Quit Your Job to Be Free | Karma Yoga

    PRACTICE WITH US ✦ Practice Online Sadhana Sangha: 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques & Yoga Sūtra translation https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join ✦ OmSom App (free) Yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study & our online community Search OmSom in the App Store ✦ 100 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Already 200 Hr trained? This is our Asana Sadhana Dharma bridging course https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto ✦ 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Sri Lanka Immersion 2027 https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka ✦ 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Online & India Immersion 2026/2027 https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training ✦ 50 Hr Online Yin Yoga Teacher Training Online https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto ✦ Practice in Person Classes, workshops & community events in Berwick, Victoria https://omsom.yoga/book-a-class IN THIS EPISODE In July we learned that action doesn't bind us - attachment to the outcome does. But the tradition doesn't stop there: it builds an entire path out of it. This month we begin the four paths of yoga - karma, jñāna, bhakti, rāja - opening with KARMA YOGA: a life of offering up our actions, where the cooking, the teaching, the sweeping becomes the practice itself. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✦ The Vyādha Gītā: why the renunciate was out-yogied by a housewife and a butcher - "it's not the work that binds or frees us, it's only the one performing it" ✦ What karma yoga is: any mundane action used to connect us to the universal ✦ The Gītā's three movements: niṣkāma karma (action without craving the result), yajña bhāva (action as offering), īśvara arpaṇa (dedicating every act and its fruit to the divine) ✦ Why the cave fantasy fails: removing the crows doesn't remove the anger - your life is the best environment for practice ✦ Aaron on the monk with the cigarette, the Coke backlash, and why purity culture is the commodification of yoga, not yoga ✦ Paige's medicine for action by doṣa: commitment and consistency for vāta, anonymous seva for pitta, fresh new action for kapha ✦ Eating as karma yoga: plating up whatever you eat and offering it to the digestive fire ✦ Idaṁ na mama - "this is not mine" - offering up the fruits of your practice TEXTUAL REFERENCES ✦ Vyādha Gītā, Mahābhārata: the monk, the housewife, and the butcher of Mithilā ✦ Bhagavad Gītā 3.9: action performed as sacrifice does not bind - all other action binds us to this world ✦ Bhagavad Gītā 3.20: "it was by action alone that Janaka and the others reached perfection" - even a king reached liberation this way ✦ Bhagavad Gītā 5.10: one who acts placing all actions in Brahman, abandoning attachment, is untouched by fault as a lotus leaf is untouched by water TRY THIS IN YOUR PRACTICE ✦ Pick one daily action - dishes, walking, mowing - and do it with no distraction: no phone, no podcast, just presence ✦ Go to work this week to make your workplace better for everyone in it - the same job, performed as offering ✦ Plate up whatever you eat (yes, even the chocolate), sit down, and offer it to your digestive fire ✦ End your practice with hands together: idaṁ na mama - whatever I've gained, it is not mine; I offer it up ✦ Leave us a comment: what's the one daily action you're turning into practice this week? SHARE & CONNECT Website: https://omsomyoga.com OmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App Store Instagram: @omsomyoga If this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it. We run a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. Wherever you are on your journey, we’d love to connect with you. HARI OM

  2. Sep 27

    Bindu in Practice: A 40-Minute Lunar Haṭha Class

    PRACTICE WITH US ✦ Practice Online - Sadhana Sangha: 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques & Yoga Sūtra translation https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join ✦ OmSom App (free) - Yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study & our online community. Search OmSom in the App Store ✦ 100 Hr Yoga Teacher Training - Asana Sadhana Dharma bridging course https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto ✦ 200 Hr YTT - Sri Lanka Immersion 2027 https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka ✦ 300 Hr YTT - Online & India Immersion 2026/2027 https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training ✦ 50 Hr Yin YTT - Online https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto ✦ Practice in Person - Classes, workshops & community in Berwick, Victoria https://omsom.yoga/book-a-class Something different this week: a bonus episode, and a gift. This is a complete 40-minute lunar haṭha class from inside Sadhana Sangha, our online practice community - free, in full, as a preview of how we practise together every month. The bhav (the feeling-state the whole class is built around) is BINDU - the point, the drop - the same teaching we explored all September. In haṭha yoga the moon is said to rest at the bindu, dripping the nectar of vitality; a lunar practice is how we slow down enough to stop spilling it. So this class is the month made physical: everything we spoke about, now felt in the body. Roll out your mat, press play, and practice with Aaron. ABOUT SADHANA SANGHA This class is one of five practices we release every month inside Sadhana Sangha - each month built around a single bhav, with asana classes, an asana workshop, a subtle body technique, and a few lines of the Yoga Sūtra translated together. It's the home of our practice community inside the free OmSom app. If this class lands for you, this is what every month feels like: ⁠⁠https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join⁠.⁠ SHARE & CONNECT Website: https://omsom.yoga OmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App Store Instagram: @omsomyoga If this practice landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it. We run a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. Wherever you are on your journey, we'd love to connect with you. HARI OM

  3. Sep 20

    The Point Where Everything Begins: Why Yoga Requires The Bindu

    PRACTICE WITH US ✦ Practice Online — Sadhana Sangha: 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques & Yoga Sūtra translation https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join ✦ OmSom App (free) — Yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study & our online community. Search OmSom in the App Store ✦ 100 Hr Yoga Teacher Training — Asana Sadhana Dharma bridging course https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto ✦ 200 Hr YTT — Sri Lanka Immersion 2027 https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka ✦ 300 Hr YTT — Online & India Immersion 2026/2027 https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training ✦ 50 Hr Yin YTT — Online https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto ✦ Practice in Person — Classes, workshops & community in Berwick, Victoria https://omsom.yoga/book-a-class IN THIS EPISODE Every yantra we've looked at this month ends at the same place: the centre. The dot. The tradition says that dot is not decoration - it's the source. The entire universe, before it becomes anything, condensed to a single point. We close our tantra month with BINDU: the point, the drop, the source of all things - and the claim that awareness can do the same thing, moving from scattered to one point, the gateway that leads us to yoga. We open with Śvetaketu and the banyan seed: break it open, find nothing - and from that nothing, the vast tree stands. Tat tvam asi. That, you are. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✦ What bindu is: "drop, point, dot" - the dot above Aum, the centre of every yantra, the bindī at the brow ✦ The source of all things: nāda (vibration) → bindu (point) → form ✦ Bindu's two registers: the cosmic point of origin, and the haṭha yogi's vital drop that holds soma ✦ Awareness condensed to a single point: dhāraṇā as bindu-making, ekāgratā as attention gathered back to a seed ✦ The tantric completion: when awareness fully condenses, the point opens - what remains is the witness. Bindu is the door; Śiva walks through ✦ The month arrives home: mantra ends in the dot, yantra radiates from it, bindu is the centre all three were pointing to TEXTUAL REFERENCES ✦ Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6.12–6.13: the banyan seed - the invisible essence from which the vast tree stands, closing in "tat tvam asi" ✦ Yoga Sūtra 3.1–3: dhāraṇā, dhyāna, samādhi - one point, one stream, then the point alone ✦ Nāda Bindu Upaniṣad: bindu as the first station of sound's inward journey after the M of Aum ✦ Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā ch. 3: the vital drop - gather what is scattered, and raise it ✦ Caraka Saṁhitā, Sūtrasthāna 17: ojas - Āyurveda's own drop, the refined essence of all seven tissues TRY THIS IN YOUR PRACTICE ✦ A bindu meditation to close the month: gaze at the centre of a yantra, close the eyes, rest in the after-image until even that dissolves - notice what remains watching ✦ Chant Aum and follow the M into the nasal resonance - ride the sound all the way to the dot ✦ In asana, collect to one point: breath at the nostrils, weight in the heels - one posture, one point, one mind ✦ Guard your ojas like a full cup - it leaks through screens, speech, stimulation, late nights ✦ Do one thing at a time as spiritual discipline ✦ Leave us a comment: if your scattered awareness were gathered to a single point tonight, what would be left watching? SHARE & CONNECT Website: https://omsom.yoga OmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App Store Instagram: @omsomyoga If this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it. We run a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. Wherever you are on your journey, we'd love to connect with you. HARI OM

  4. Sep 13

    The Travelling Temple: Why Tantra Made the Body Its Maṇḍala

    PRACTICE WITH US✦ Practice Online — Sadhana Sangha: 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques & Yoga Sūtra translation https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join✦ OmSom App (free) — Yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study & our online community. Search OmSom in the App Store✦ 100 Hr Yoga Teacher Training — Asana Sadhana Dharma bridging course https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto✦ 200 Hr YTT — Sri Lanka Immersion 2027 https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka✦ 300 Hr YTT — Online & India Immersion 2026/2027 https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training✦ 50 Hr Yin YTT — Online https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto✦ Practice in Person — Classes, workshops & community in Berwick, Victoria https://omsom.yoga/book-a-class IN THIS EPISODEWhere do you go to worship? Tantra's answer is the most radical in the tradition: nowhere — you're already inside. Week three of our tantra month brings mantra (sound) and yantra (geometry) home to the MAṆḌALA: the sacred circle, tantra's principal temple of worship, and the claim that the true maṇḍala is the body itself. We begin under the floor — with the vāstu-puruṣa, the cosmic being pinned beneath every temple in India. If every temple is secretly a body, every body is secretly a temple: keeping it healthy is keeping the temple clean, and no institution holds the keys. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN✦ What a maṇḍala is: maṇḍa (essence) + la (container) — the container of essence; a yantra is gazed at, a maṇḍala is entered ✦ Maṇḍala as the form of the body: gates for senses, walls for skin, the garbha-gṛha (womb-chamber) at the heart ✦ The cakras as a column of maṇḍalas — each circle with its bīja (week one) and geometry (week two) ✦ Tantra's main temple of worship — and nyāsa, installing the deities limb by limb in the body ✦ The vāstu-puruṣa grid: 64 or 81 padas, the open Brahmasthan at the centre ✦ Keeping the body healthy as keeping the temple clean: śauca, and daily life as pūjā ✦ The travelling temple: every place the body sits becomes consecrated ground ✦ Autonomy back in spirituality: no membership, no gatekeeper — teachers as gardeners, not landlords TEXTUAL REFERENCES✦ "Taṁ jāḍyāt tārayet yastu saḥ tantraḥ parikīrtitaḥ" — tantra is that which liberates from the bondage of staticity ✦ Kulārṇava Tantra ch. 9: "deho devālayo devi jīvo devaḥ sadāśivaḥ" — the body is the temple of God; the indwelling life is God, the eternal Śiva ✦ Bṛhat Saṁhitā ch. 53 & Matsya Purāṇa: the vāstu-puruṣa-maṇḍala — every sacred building drawn on the diagram of a body ✦ Yoga Sūtra 2.40–41: from purity, fitness for the vision of the Self ✦ Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdayam, Sūtrasthāna 2: dinacaryā TRY THIS IN YOUR PRACTICE✦ Open practice by drawing the circle: a breath, a bell, a line of mantra before you enter ✦ Simple nyāsa: touch attention to crown, brow, throat, heart, navel, base — room by room ✦ Treat one daily act — tongue-scraping, oiling, bathing — as consecration, not a chore ✦ Guard the gates: what enters through eyes and ears is also food ✦ Close practice deliberately — dissolve the maṇḍala rather than letting it leak into the scroll ✦ Leave us a comment: if your body were the inner sanctum, what would you stop bringing through its gates? SHARE & CONNECTWebsite: https://omsom.yogaOmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App StoreInstagram: @omsomyogaIf this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it. We run a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. Wherever you are on your journey, we'd love to connect with you. HARI OM

  5. Sep 6

    When Sound Becomes Form: The Sacred Geometry of Yantra

    PRACTICE WITH US ✦ Practice Online — Sadhana Sangha: 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques & Yoga Sūtra translation https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join✦ OmSom App (free) — Yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study & our online community. Search OmSom in the App Store✦ 100 Hr Yoga Teacher Training — Asana Sadhana Dharma bridging course https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto✦ 200 Hr YTT — Sri Lanka Immersion 2027 https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka✦ 300 Hr YTT — Online & India Immersion 2026/2027 https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training✦ 50 Hr Yin YTT — Online https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto✦ Practice in Person — Classes, workshops & community in Berwick, Victoria https://omsom.yoga/book-a-class IN THIS EPISODELast week we said mantra is the deity in sound. This week: what happens when that sound takes shape? The tradition makes a claim that sounds almost like physics — form is frozen vibration, and geometry is what sound looks like. A yantra is not a picture of the divine; it is the divine's architecture. We begin in Kāñcīpuram, where Ādi Śaṅkara met a Goddess too fierce to approach — and instead of appeasing her, he drew her: the Śrī Cakra that gave her fire a hearth. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN✦ What a yantra actually is: yam (to hold) + tra (instrument) — a machine for holding the divine, and equally the mind ✦ Sound becoming matter: nāda (vibration) → bindu (point) → kalā (form) — and its modern echo in cymatics, where sound arranges sand into geometry ✦ Geometry as the foundation of matter: what the bindu, triangle, circle, petals and square each encode ✦ The Śrī Yantra: four Śiva triangles interlocking with five Śakti triangles around a central point ✦ Yantra in tantra: the geometry as the deity's body — installed, bathed and worshipped ✦ Yantra in yoga: trāṭaka and dṛṣṭi — where the eye is bound, the mind follows ✦ Yantra for meditation: journeying from the outer square to the centre, layer by layer ✦ Yantra as numerology: 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 43, 108 — philosophy written in number TEXTUAL REFERENCES✦ Kulārṇava Tantra ch. 6: "yantraṁ mantramayaṁ proktam" — the yantra is declared to be made of mantra; deity, sound and form as one reality ✦ Saundaryalaharī v. 11: the Śrī Cakra described as pure geometry — the Goddess's dwelling ✦ Gheraṇḍa Saṁhitā 1.53–54 & Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā 2.31–32: trāṭaka, gazing until tears come — "the door to śāmbhavī mudrā" ✦ Yoga Sūtra 3.1: "deśa-bandhaś cittasya dhāraṇā" — concentration is binding the mind to one place TRY THIS IN YOUR PRACTICE✦ Five minutes of trāṭaka on a candle flame or Śrī Yantra before meditation — outer gaze, then the inner after-image ✦ Journey a yantra from bhūpura to bindu as a complete meditation — enter the temple layer by layer ✦ Use one dṛṣṭi per posture in your next asana practice — the eye as anchor, the mind following ✦ Draw a simple yantra by hand — slowly; the drawing is the meditation ✦ Make your practice space a yantra: one focal point, symmetry, nothing else ✦ Screens are yantras too — machines that hold the mind. Leave us a comment: what geometry is your attention resting in? SHARE & CONNECTWebsite: https://omsom.yogaInstagram: @omsomyoga If this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it. We run a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. Wherever you are on your journey, we'd love to connect with you. HARI OM

  6. Aug 30

    The Sound That Protects the Mind: What Mantra Actually Is

    Mantra: The Sound That Protects the Mind PRACTICE WITH US✦ Practice Online — Sadhana Sangha: 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques & Yoga Sūtra translation https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join✦ OmSom App (free) — Yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study & our online community. Search OmSom in the App Store✦ 100 Hr Yoga Teacher Training — Asana Sadhana Dharma bridging course https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto✦ 200 Hr YTT — Sri Lanka Immersion 2027 https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka✦ 300 Hr YTT — Online & India Immersion 2026/2027 https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training✦ 50 Hr Yin YTT — Online https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto✦ Practice in Person — Classes, workshops & community in Berwick, Victoria https://omsom.yoga/book-a-class IN THIS EPISODEMost of us think a mantra is a positive affirmation — something you say to feel better. The tradition says something stranger: a mantra isn't about anything. It's an instrument. A tool made of sound, used on the mind, to protect the mind: manas — mind, tra — instrument, protection. We open September with the first of tantra's three great instruments, beginning with the robber who couldn't pronounce the holy name, was given the word backwards, and repeated it until the sound turned itself around — and turned him into the sage Vālmīki. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN✦ What a mantra actually is: "mananāt trāyate iti mantraḥ" — that which protects through being held in the mind ✦ Why a mantra is not an affirmation: affirmations work on meaning, mantra works on vibration ✦ Why mantras are received, not invented — the ṛṣis as "seers" of sound ✦ The three levels of japa: aloud, whispered, silent ✦ Why yoga uses mantra: the mind can't be stopped by force, but it can be given one thing to hold ✦ The history of mantra: Vedic ritual → Upaniṣads → Patañjali → tantra → haṭha yoga's inner sound ✦ How to use mantra during asana: yoking repetition to breath, silent japa in held postures, So'haṁ ✦ The bīja mantras for the five elements: LAṀ (earth), VAṀ (water), RAṀ (fire), YAṀ (air), HAṀ (space) — and how to choose the seed your system is missing TEXTUAL REFERENCES✦ Yoga Sūtra 1.27–29: repetition of Praṇava with contemplation of its meaning — inward-turning awareness, obstacles fall away ✦ Bhagavad Gītā 10.25: "among sacrifices I am the sacrifice of japa" ✦ Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad: the meditation on Aum (see our June episode) ✦ Ṣaṭcakranirūpaṇa: the five element bījas at the cakras ✦ Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā ch. 4: nāda, the inner sound ✦ The Vālmīki legend, Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa tradition TRY THIS IN YOUR PRACTICE✦ Choose one mantra for the season and stay with it — repetition is the method, novelty is the obstacle ✦ 108 repetitions on mālā beads: aloud → whispered → silent ✦ Yoke mantra to breath in slow practice: one repetition per inhale, one per exhale ✦ Try one bīja at its seat for the element your week is missing ✦ Notice what your mind already repeats — worry is japa without protection. What are you repeating, and what is it building? ✦ Leave us a comment: what mantra are you working with right now? SHARE & CONNECTWebsite: https://omsom.yoga OmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App StoreInstagram: @omsom.yogaIf this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it. We run a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. Wherever you are on your journey, we'd love to connect with you.HARI OM

  7. Aug 23

    Śrī: The Goddess Who Arrives When the Three Powers Align

    PRACTICE WITH US ✦ Practice Online Sadhana Sangha: 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques & Yoga Sūtra translation https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join ✦ OmSom App (free) Yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study & our online community Search OmSom in the App Store ✦ 100 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Already 200 Hr trained? This is our Asana Sadhana Dharma bridging course https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto ✦ 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Sri Lanka Immersion 2027 https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka ✦ 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Online & India Immersion 2026/2027 https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training ✦ 50 Hr Online Yin Yoga Teacher Training Online https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto ✦ Practice in Person Classes, workshops & community events in Berwick, Victoria https://omsom.yoga/book-a-class IN THIS EPISODE What if grace isn't something you earn? We've sat with three powers this month - the power of will (icchā), the power of knowing (jñāna), the power to act (kriyā). But the tradition reveres something beyond all three: Śrī - auspiciousness, radiance, grace, one of the oldest names for the Divine Feminine in the Vedic tradition. And here's the teaching that turns modern spirituality on its head: Śrī is not a power to be cultivated. She is a presence to be received. The texts describe no practice that produces her - only a way of living that welcomes her. In this closing episode of our month on Śakti, we explore what arrives when your wanting, your knowing, and your doing finally align - and why grace is not separate from daily life, but the quality of daily life when daily life is whole. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✦ What Śrī means - auspiciousness, radiance, beauty, wealth as overflowing fullness, grace, and the Divine Feminine herself ✦ Why Śrī is not a fourth śakti - in the Trika system of Kashmir Śaivism she is the fullness that emerges when icchā, jñāna, and kriyā are held together in dynamic harmony ✦ Why the Śrī Sūkta's cattle, gold, horses and children aren't about wealth - they're the visible signs of a life lived in alignment: nourishment, stability, vitality, continuity ✦ Paige on the Āyurvedic mirror: Śrī as the visible expression of ojas - the subtle essence of vitality - including what builds ojas and what quietly depletes it ✦ How each doṣa invites śrī differently - grounding for Vāta, softening for Pitta, brightening for Kapha ✦ The daily śrī rituals: tending the threshold, offering a small flame at the turning of the day, speaking well of others in their absence, eating one slow meal at the table TEXTUAL REFERENCES ✦ Śrī Sūkta (Ṛg Veda Khila 2.6) - the primary Vedic hymn to Śrī, fifteen verses still chanted daily across India, calling her hiraṇya-varṇām, the one of golden hue, and asking her to make her home with the singer ✦ Liṅga Purāṇa & Padma Purāṇa - the story of Lakṣmī and Alakṣmī (Jyeṣṭhā, the elder one), the two inseparable sisters who divide the houses between them ✦ Lalitā Sahasranāma (Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa) - the Thousand Names of the Goddess, many carrying Śrī as prefix or name: Śrī Vidyā, Śrī Mātā, Śrī Cakra-rājñī ✦ Saundaryalaharī (attributed to Śaṅkara) - verse 1: "Śiva, joined with Śakti, becomes capable of manifestation" (śivaḥ śaktyā yukto yadi bhavati śaktaḥ prabhavitum) ✦ Pratyabhijñā tradition - Kṣemarāja and Abhinavagupta on śrī as the integrating principle: the recognised luminosity that arises when the three śaktis are no longer experienced as separate SHARE & CONNECT Website: https://omsomyoga.com OmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App Store Instagram: @omsomyoga If this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it. We run a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. Wherever you are on your journey, we’d love to connect with you. HARI OM

  8. Aug 16

    Kriyā Śakti: The Power That Moves the Universe Is in Your Breath

    PRACTICE WITH US ✦ Practice Online Sadhana Sangha: 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques & Yoga Sūtra translation https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join ✦ OmSom App (free) Yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study & our online community Search OmSom in the App Store ✦ 100 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Already 200 Hr trained? This is our Asana Sadhana Dharma bridging course https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto ✦ 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Sri Lanka Immersion 2027 https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka ✦ 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Online & India Immersion 2026/2027 https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training ✦ 50 Hr Online Yin Yoga Teacher Training Online https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto ✦ Practice in Person Classes, workshops & community events in Berwick, Victoria https://omsom.yoga/book-a-class IN THIS EPISODE If you watched the universe from the outside for even one moment, all you would see is motion, from stars forming, to cells dividing, the breath rising and falling. Tantra has a name for whatever is doing all of that: Kriyā Śakti, the divine power of action. And here's the teaching that changes how you practise, the force moving the cosmos is the same force moving your breath right now. In the final part of our series on the three śaktis of the Trika system of Kashmir Shaivism, we explore how desire (icchā) and knowledge (jñāna) complete themselves in action, why prāṇāyāma is a way of consciously participating in the creation of reality, and the question this teaching is designed to dissolve: is the spanda inside you, or are you inside the spanda? WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✦ What Kriyā Śakti is - the energy through which consciousness moves from intention into manifestation, the third of the three śaktis alongside Icchā (desire) and Jñāna (knowledge)  ✦ How the three śaktis map onto sankalpa work - the feeling, the words, and the practice that brings intention into form ✦ Why noticing your breath is noticing the universe expressing itself through you - from the cycles of the breath to sunrise and sunset, seasons  ✦ Kevala Kumbhaka - the spontaneous suspension of the breath as the maturity of prāṇāyāma practice, and how it offers a glimpse of the source of action  ✦ Why oxygen levels barely drop in the first minutes of a breath hold (1–2%) - it's the perception of no access to air that creates the stress  ✦ Vāta doṣa as the Kriyā Śakti of Āyurveda - the force governing all movement in body and mind  TEXTUAL REFERENCES ✦ Spanda Kārikā - opening teaching: "We praise that Śakti who is the source of all manifestation, by whose vibration the universe arises, and into whom it dissolves" - spanda, the pulsation that is consciousness in motion (Spanda Kārikā 1.1, where the universe arises and dissolves "by the opening and closing of the eyes")  ✦ Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam, Sūtra 2 - "By her own will, she unfolds the universe upon her own canvas" (svecchayā svabhittau viśvam unmīlayati)  ✦ Yoga Sūtra of Patañjali 2.49–2.51 - when steadiness of posture is achieved, prāṇāyāma becomes the regulation of inhalation and exhalation; the fourth prāṇāyāma "transcends the domain of internal and external" - kevala kumbhaka  ✦ Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (112 meditation techniques), Saundarya Laharī, and the Nārada Bhakti Sūtra - "when the lover and the beloved become one"  TRY THIS IN YOUR PRACTICE ✦ Start where Āyurveda starts: align one daily rhythm with nature this week - wake with the sun, or eat your main meal at midday  SHARE & CONNECT Website: https://omsomyoga.com OmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App Store Instagram: @omsomyoga If this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it. We run a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. Wherever you are on your journey, we’d love to connect with you. HARI OM

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Welcome to the Om Som Yoga and Ayurveda Podcast with Aaron Petty and Paige Taylah. Our goal with this podcast is to dive into how we as humans can live more intentional, ethical & sustainable lives. And also how we can come into harmony with, ourselves, others & the earth in the process.

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    Aaron Petty + Paige Taylah
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