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Stop Stacking Certifications: How to Integrate Your Gifts and Finally Use What You Know

Release Date: 08/26/2026

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...

Stop Stacking Certifications: How to Integrate Your Gifts and Finally Use What You Know

The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

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...

The Shuniya Shift: Stop Using Kundalini Yoga to Fix Yourself with Bailee Buckendorf

The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

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...

Feminine Kundalini Energy: Light, Dark & Tantric Archetypes

The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

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...

Vibhuti Yoga - See the Sacred Everywhere: Bhagavad Gita Chapter 10

The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

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,...

Perimenopause, Cravings & Hormones: Your Body Isn’t Broken, It’s Speaking w/ Sema Özpekmezci

The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

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...

Nervous System Science Every Yoga Teacher Should Know

The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

What’s actually happening in the body when yoga helps you “calm down”? In this behind-the-scenes lesson pulled directly from the Uplifted 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, we explore the nervous system science behind yoga, and why practices like breathwork, inversions, mantra, repetition, and Savasana can profoundly shift your stress response. You’ll learn why yoga isn’t just about relaxing, but about building awareness, resilience, and the ability to move skillfully between stress and recovery. We explore: 🔹 How yoga activates the parasympathetic nervous system 🔹 Why slow...

How the Divine Speaks: The Neuroscience of Sacred Storytelling (Part 2)

The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

Why do the world’s great spiritual traditions teach through stories, imagery, and metaphor instead of simple instructions? In this episode, I’ll explore why metaphor changes us in a way facts alone cannot and how imagery bypasses the analytical mind to speak directly to the nervous system, imagination, memory, and body. Building on Part 1, we’ll dive deeper into Tantra’s vision of awakening as a love story between Shiva and Shakti: awareness and energy, stillness and sensation, consciousness and embodiment. I’ll explore: 🔹 Why metaphor activates the nervous system differently than...

My Yogic Decision-Making Framework: How to Find Real Clarity

The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

How do you make a big decision… yogically? In this episode, I explore what happens when you deeply desire something — a new job, a baby, a retreat, a training, a relationship — but don’t actually have the capacity to hold it right now. This is a conversation about desire, capacity, and the real conditions for clarity. Because so often we think we’re confused, when really what’s happening is that one part of us wants something badly, and another part of us knows we don’t have the bandwidth. In this episode, I explore: 🔹 The difference between desire and capacity and why both...

Somatic Coaching to Break Family Patterns with Amy Hunter

The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

What if the patterns running your life didn’t start with you? In this conversation, I sit down with Uplifted alum Amy Hunter to talk about the deeper work of somatic coaching, recovery, and healing family-of-origin patterns. Amy has taken multiple trainings inside the Uplifted ecosystem — including 200-hour, 300-hour, Kundalini, Embodied Yoga Life Coaching, and most recently the AI course — and now brings all of that into her own coaching practice. Together, we explore what it looks like to move from self-awareness into real change. In this episode, we cover: 🔹 How somatic coaching...

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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 or mindset work alone.

If you’re a yoga teacher, coach, healer, or wellness practitioner who has taken multiple trainings but still feels scattered, this episode is for you. Let’s explore:

🔹 Why collecting more tools can sometimes become a freeze response

🔹 How embodied self-awareness differs from conceptual self-awareness

🔹 Why movement is essential for emotional release and somatic integration

🔹 The three pillars healers need to move forward

You don’t need to do more. You need to do less, better. With structure, support, and a nervous system that feels safe enough to take action.

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