The Shuniya Shift: Stop Using Kundalini Yoga to Fix Yourself with Bailee Buckendorf
Release Date: 08/19/2026
Why Can’t You See God Yet? (Bhagavad Gita Chapter 11, Part 1)
The Uplifted Yoga Podcast
Why does Krishna wait until Chapter 11 to reveal his universal form? In this episode, we explore one of the most dramatic turning points in the Bhagavad Gita. After ten chapters of spiritual teaching, Arjuna is finally granted “divine sight.” But why now? In this episode, I’ll compare Krishna’s revelation with Jesus’ Transfiguration, explore the yogic concept of avidya (ignorance), and explain why spiritual practice doesn’t create God. It removes the veil that keeps us from recognizing what has always been there. In this episode: 🔹Why Arjuna couldn’t recognize...
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The Forgotten Way to Learn Yoga Philosophy: Ancient Memory Practices (Part 2)
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We live in a world obsessed with consuming more information. More podcasts. More reels. More quotes. More content. But what if transformation doesn’t come from learning something new, but from deeply remembering something ancient? In this episode, we explore how to intentionally choose a mantra, sutra, psalm, poem, or sacred line to memorize and why this practice can become a powerful anchor for anxiety, overwhelm, distraction, and nervous system regulation. You’ll learn: 🔹 How to choose a verse or mantra that speaks directly to your current season of life 🔹 Why memorization changes...
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Hatha or Kundalini Yoga? How to Find the Style That Fits You
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Hatha and Kundalini are both yoga, but they can feel completely different in your body. In this episode, I break down some of the biggest differences between these two styles: how they use movement, breath, meditation, mantra, repetition, and the subtle body. Plus, why one style may resonate with you very differently than another. If you’ve been Kundalini-curious, love a traditional Hatha or Vinyasa practice, or simply want to understand what all these different yoga “styles” are actually doing, this is a great place to start. I’ll explore: 🔹 How Hatha/Vinyasa and Kundalini approach...
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Inside Somatic Coaching: How to Release Stuck Energy
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Today’s episode is another behind-the-scenes look, this time inside my Somatic Yoga Training and Embodied Yoga Life Coaching Certification. This teaching explores how we move energy through the body using breath, movement, sound, and visualization. Inside EYLC, we work with different maps of the subtle body, including the doshas, polarity, Shiva and Shakti, and the relationship between movement and stillness. In this clip, I explore why movement is not just something we do before meditation. Movement can help us express, discharge, and release what may be stuck in the body so we can access a...
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The Forgotten Way to Learn Yoga Philosophy: Ancient Memory Practices (Part 1)
The Uplifted Yoga Podcast
When was the last time you memorized something on purpose? Not a password, grocery list, or directions, but a piece of poetry, a prayer, a mantra, a sutra, or a verse that you carried with you in your mind. In this episode, I’m exploring why memorization was once the original way ancient wisdom was passed down, and why it still matters now. We’ll look at how memorizing meaningful words can train your attention, support your nervous system, strengthen your brain, and help wisdom become something you can actually return to in real life. Inside this episode, I explore: 🔹 Why ancient texts...
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Stop Stacking Certifications: How to Integrate Your Gifts and Finally Use What You Know
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So many of us think the next certification will finally make us feel clear, confident, or ready. But more information is not always the answer. Sometimes the real missing piece is integration. In this restream episode, I’m talking about the certification trap, why your nervous system may be keeping you in “learn more” mode, and how to begin organizing your existing tools into a clear, repeatable method that actually supports your clients and your business. We’ll also look at why movement, somatic awareness, and embodied coaching can create a deeper kind of transformation than talking...
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The Shuniya Shift: Stop Using Kundalini Yoga to Fix Yourself with Bailee Buckendorf
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What happens when healing becomes another thing you’re trying to achieve? In this episode, I’m joined by my friend Bailee for a tender conversation about grief, the feminine, Shuniya, and the power of not fixing yourself. We explore grief not as something you “get over,” but as a living process to be felt, held, and slowly alchemized. Bailee shares how her journey led her into deeper stillness, sensory awareness, sound, archetype, and the feminine mystery. This conversation asks: What if there is nothing to fix? What if the next step is learning how to listen differently? Inside this...
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Feminine Kundalini Energy: Light, Dark & Tantric Archetypes
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Today’s episode is another behind-the-scenes look, this time inside my 200-hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training. This teaching comes from the Feminine Form Kundalini module, where we unpack what we mean by feminine energy. In yoga, tantra, and Kundalini, feminine energy isn’t about gender or identity. It’s archetypal energy, the Shakti current within all of us. In this clip, I explore Shiva and Shakti, the light and dark feminine, and why both matter. I’ll also look at how feminine energy becomes blocked, through over-control, disconnection from desire, difficulty receiving, and lack...
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Vibhuti Yoga - See the Sacred Everywhere: Bhagavad Gita Chapter 10
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What if the world itself could become your meditation object? In this episode, we explore Chapter 10 of the Bhagavad Gita, known as Vibhuti Yoga — the yoga of divine manifestation and sacred seeing. This chapter explores how to train our perception and helps us stop dividing life into “spiritual” and “not spiritual.” The sunset, the breath, the body, the mountain, even impermanence, all can become doorways back to the sacred. It also marks a turning point in Arjuna’s relationship with Krishna. Until now, Arjuna has known Krishna as his friend, cousin, mentor, and charioteer. Here,...
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Perimenopause, Cravings & Hormones: Your Body Isn’t Broken, It’s Speaking w/ Sema Özpekmezci
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Do cravings, fatigue, or hormonal shifts have you feeling like a stranger in your body? In this episode, I’m joined by Sema Özpekmezci for a grounded, compassionate conversation about chronic illness, women’s health, perimenopause, hormones, and what it really means to listen to your body. We explore how midlife changes can feel confusing and how symptoms like cravings, energy dips, mood shifts, and inflammation can become invitations into deeper self-understanding. Sema also shares a powerful way to think about your hormones as the “CEO” of your body and why food, stress, blood...
info_outlineWhat happens when healing becomes another thing you’re trying to achieve?
In this episode, I’m joined by my friend Bailee for a tender conversation about grief, the feminine, Shuniya, and the power of not fixing yourself.
We explore grief not as something you “get over,” but as a living process to be felt, held, and slowly alchemized. Bailee shares how her journey led her into deeper stillness, sensory awareness, sound, archetype, and the feminine mystery.
This conversation asks: What if there is nothing to fix? What if the next step is learning how to listen differently?
Inside this episode, we explore:
🔹 Why grief is not something we complete, but something we learn to live with and honor
🔹 How Shuniya, or zero-point stillness, can create space for healing to land
🔹 Why “am I doing this to avoid a feeling?” and “am I doing this because I think I’m not enough?” are powerful questions
🔹 How simple rituals, sound, sensory awareness, and intentional contemplation can support integration
My hope is that this episode gives you permission to stop treating healing like a race.
You do not have to prove your worth through how much you process, achieve, fix, or overcome.
Sometimes the most sacred shift begins when you pause, listen, and let what has already been planted finally land.
🐍 If this conversation stirred something in you: Download your FREE Feminine Kundalini Starter Pack: https://www.brettlarkin.com/online-kundalini-yoga-teacher-training/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ku
GUEST EXPERT: Bailee Buckendorf | @rebuilding.roots
Bailee Buckendorf is a grief integration guide, contemplative writer, and founder of Sunia Shift. Her work weaves Kundalini yoga, archetypal practice, sacred ceremony, sound, somatics, and matriarchal wisdom to help people relate to grief not as something to fix, but as a source of knowing. Shaped by her own lived initiations as a widowed mother, ultra runner, and lifelong student of loss, Bailee supports individuals and groups through one-on-one containers, digital offerings, and seasonal experiences.
Book Mentioned: Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés https://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Run-Wolves-Archetype/dp/0345409876
FREE Practice: KUNDALINI YOGA FOR EMOTIONAL RELEASE with Music 💜 Trauma Informed Yoga for Beginners 💜
Relevant Blog: The Best Somatic Exercises for Grief: Find Healing Through Movement
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