YOKED
YOKED is a collection of conversations hosted by Kelly Sunrose about the practice of yoga, applied to real life. These conversations drop into the heart of living your yoga practice. Learn more at yokedpodcast.com/.
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Meditation for Transitions
10/23/2021
Meditation for Transitions
LOVE TO ALL+++ In this episode, I share a guided meditation inspired by a cohort of planets stationing direct & the shift to Scorpio season. Let what is supporting you truly support you. A FREE way to support this show is to share it with a friend and rate & review us in Apple Podcasts. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. Join the , an online space for practice, study & connection.
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Practice Protocol
10/07/2021
Practice Protocol
Om tat sat! Happy to be here together today! This episode features a process for creating a practice and care protocol using 1) the kosha system to consider all aspects of self and 2) the lens of curiosity and reverence to both accept ourselves and continue to encourage growth. I made a special workbook for you for this episode. . My main teaching home is the , an online community for practice, study and connection. New members are always welcome. Support the show by leaving me a tip in . To learn more about my practice and my offerings, please visit . Thank you for being here.
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Centering Seasonal Rhythms
12/20/2020
Centering Seasonal Rhythms
Sweet Listeners, hello! And love to all. This episode features an elemental, astrological, practice-focused review of the season we are just departing and a process for calling in what is next. >>> To support this work, I invite you to join our practice community at +++ UPCOMING/incoming: BEGIN where you are: 1/9 FROM the void into the COLLECTIVE: 1/18 KARMA circle: 1/19 LOVE. complete show-notes at yokedpodcast.com
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Pada// Finding Your Feet
10/12/2020
Pada// Finding Your Feet
Hi Sweet Sangha, Today's episode is a mini-workshop all about the feet. In this workshop, I share a process for engaging with the feet in ways that are experiential, non-hierarchical and evolving. I made us a workbook in support of this exploration, it's in the full show-notes over at If this show means something to you, please consider supporting the mission by leaving a rating and review in Apple podcasts, sharing with a buddy or contributing financially via . THANK YOU. love to all+++
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Harvest Blessing & Yoga Sutra 1.33
10/02/2020
Harvest Blessing & Yoga Sutra 1.33
Sweet Doves, Thank you for listening to this Blessing that emerged from the FULL MOON IN ARIES and a discussion of Yoga Sutra 1.33. LOVE TO ALL+++ kelly COMPLETE SHOW-notes at
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Seasonal Check-in// A Process for Centering
09/10/2020
Seasonal Check-in// A Process for Centering
In this episode of YOKED, we drop into a practice for noticing tiny shifts in ourselves, our communities and our environment to create rituals for honoring the seasons and cycles of our lives. Thank you so much for being here. For complete show-notes, visit: This month, we're supporting fire recovery efforts, local mutual aid funds and movements for Black lives. To learn more about our community support efforts, please head over to Next yoga immersion begins on 9/14/2020. Learn more and & register here: Join my online practice community: LOVE TO ALL+++++
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Summer Reading List
07/06/2020
Summer Reading List
HELLO dearest, sweetest listeners. Thank you so very much for being here. In today's episode, I'm sharing what is on my bedside reading table for this season. I'd love to hear what you're reading. ALSO, I've been envisioning a new way to engage with Patreon and would love to hear your feedback. LOVE TO ALL, kelly yokedpodcast.com sunroseyoga.com
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Brahmacharya: To Dwell in Vastness
06/22/2020
Brahmacharya: To Dwell in Vastness
In today's episode, I respond to a listener question about Brahmacharya with a discussion about this Yama in the context of the greater purpose of the path and with specific ways to integrate this teaching into your everyday life. Like the show? Please share us with a friend. THANK YOU FOR BEING.
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CEDAR meditation
06/08/2020
CEDAR meditation
Beloved listeners, A medicinal meditation for your revolutionary spirit. We are in the midst of the uprising! My family is fully committed to our practice of unlearning white supremacy and dismantling the structures that perpetuate the oppression of Black people. Black LIFE Matters. To that end, we're demonstrating, protesting, writing, calling, learning, donating and loving on our neighbors. Most of you know, I already donate 15% of my income to causes that align with my stated values-- -- and this month, we supported the Minnesota Freedom Fund and Movement Generation. Thanks for supporting my work so that I can make those donations happen. SUPPORT THE WORK! You can support me by subscribing, reviewing, sharing this podcast far & wide. You can support by becoming a or just sending some financial support to me via . You can support by joining our online practice community . You can support by attending my class at North Portland Yoga (via ZOOM from anywhere!) or by registering for a , or training. THANK YOU. SO MUCH. LOVE YOU!
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Making & Taking Care
05/19/2020
Making & Taking Care
Thank you for being here. TRULY. This episode is a mini-workshop on how we make & take care: during COVID & always.
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SATYA: truth in the time of COVID
05/05/2020
SATYA: truth in the time of COVID
beloved listeners, sat nam! thank you for listening. today's episode gives the context of Satya in the lineage of yoga and offers several questions as a spring-board for your own practice. i'd love to hear from you. with all love + appreciation, kelly yokedpodcast.com
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Kavita Kat Macmillan// Bhakti + SOUND
10/14/2019
Kavita Kat Macmillan// Bhakti + SOUND
Thank you for listening! Our guest today is Kavita Kat Macmillan: learn more about her .
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Lydia Zamorano// Yogini
10/07/2019
Lydia Zamorano// Yogini
Thank you so very much for being here. Today I'm sharing a very special conversation with my friend, magical and mystical Lydia Zamorano. Lydia is a yogini, wife, mother and friend living in British Columbia with her family. Learn all about her and her work right here. What's coming up in your practice? What questions are weighing on your heart? Do share. Practice with me in the . Anchor your breath and meditation practice in the upcoming LOVE TO ALL>>>>> kelly Complete show-notes over at
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Seasonal Practice Svadhyaya// Self-Study
09/17/2019
Seasonal Practice Svadhyaya// Self-Study
Pranams, dear Sangha! In today's episode, we talk about seasonal shifts and how to incorporate the seasons and the Koshas into your personal practice. Thank you, always, for being here. LOVE to all, kelly For complete show-notes, visit .
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How & Why to Keep a Practice Notebook
09/09/2019
How & Why to Keep a Practice Notebook
In this episode, we'll delve into the magic of keeping a yoga journal. Do you keep a practice journal? I'd love to hear from you. As always, thanks for listening. immersion last call! Rate & Review Us in Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. LOVE, kelly [email protected]
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The Yoga of Online Learning
08/23/2019
The Yoga of Online Learning
In this episode, I share tips & tricks for being a successful student online: from getting clear on your goals for the class to fully embracing the role of student and stepping into skillful studentship. I'm curious about your experience with online learning-- what classes or experiences have you had? How did it go? What worked? What didn't? What advice would you give a new online student? Send me an email with your thoughts-- Please support the show on ! Join us for our next online ! We begin September 6. Keep up-to-date on all of my offerings by signing up for my weekly . Love to all. Thanks for being here.
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A Process for Getting to Know Plants
08/19/2019
A Process for Getting to Know Plants
Beloved Listeners, Thanks so very much for being here today. In today's episode, I'm sharing a process for becoming more familiar with the plants in your life: from culinary herbs to the flowers at the market to the "weeds" in your backyard. Thank you for being here. This episode is a great complement to our last episode with . Definitely have a listen! News// Please show your support for the show on ! THANK YOU. Join us for our next online immersion-- . We begin on September 6. enrollment period for 2019 is closing on September 30. Join before then to lock in the current price and to deepen your practice with a sweet community of yogis.
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Brooke Sullivan / Plant Wisdom & Yoga
08/04/2019
Brooke Sullivan / Plant Wisdom & Yoga
Thank you for listening to the show! I am so happy to share this conversation with yogini, vitalist herbalist extraordinaire ! Complete show-notes over at I hope you'll join us for our next online immersion! We're circling up around the text The Ramayana and infusing our work with the beautiful, liberation work of adrienne maree brown, bell hooks, Grace Lee Boggs and more. To learn more about this 8-week class, please head on over to this page >>> Thanks for listening & supporting the show! Please visit our page to contribute, please share us with a friend! Please rate & review us in apple podcasts. ((THANK YOU. LOVE ya!))
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Deb Flashhenberg // Prenatal Yoga
06/28/2019
Deb Flashhenberg // Prenatal Yoga
Thanks so much for listening today. Please show your support of the show by rating & reviewing us wherever you listen to podcasts AND by becoming a subscriber on PATREON-- check us out right . Complete show-notes for this and all past episodes are available . Today's episode features a conversation with Deb Flashenberg. Deb is a prenatal yoga teacher, Lamaze childbirth educator, labor support doula and self proclaimed "birth and anatomy geek." Drawing on her experience as a prenatal yoga teacher, labor support doula, childbirth educator and mother, she supports the pregnant person with functional yoga asana to create a functional birth and ease into parenthood feeling empowered and honored on this sacred journey of birth and beyond. Learn more about Deb at her website:
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Shifting Seasons Practice
06/14/2019
Shifting Seasons Practice
Thanks for being here for this seasonal practice. This is a practice for looking back in reflection and looking forward with vision. I appreciate your presence. Announcements: LOVE to all. Stay in touch. kelly If you appreciate the show, please rate & review us in wherever you listen and share the show with a friend. Thanks so much.
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Where & How to Give/ Methods for Centering Around Your Vision
05/24/2019
Where & How to Give/ Methods for Centering Around Your Vision
Hello! Thanks so much for listening to this episode of Yoked. In today's episode, I'm sharing a few processes related to a question I've received a number of times over the past few years: How do I decide which organizations or movements to support? First, thank you to everyone who has asked me this question! I am happy it is in our minds and hearts. Second, this is a question that leads to another set of questions. What are my heart-codes? ( an episode alllll about Heart-codes. ALSO, Day 10 of my on Yoga Anytime centers around Heart Codes as an expression of Ishvara Pranidhana-- definitely check it out if you are interested in diving deep!) How do I want to feel? (This comes from Danielle LaPorte's Desire Map framework. I definitely use this framework in my daily life. Highly recommend!) How can I show up? What movements align with all of that? NEWS: This podcast is brought to you by the . Support the show by practicing with us there. I have a few new goodies in my ! Missed my last workshop? . Need a third chakra practice? . Also, every month I donate 15% of my income to organizations and funds that align with the mission & values of my work (read more here). For May, any purchases made in the and all other classes will support Stay in the loop by . UPCOMING EVENTS: Linger in LOVE (meditation workshop) at Yoga Refuge// July 13 IMMERSION:: RAMAYANA: R/EVOLUTION, online, September-October, 2019.
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Cultivating Skillful Studentship
04/27/2019
Cultivating Skillful Studentship
What is skillful studentship? In this week's episode, we begin a conversation about what qualities assist in truly committing to learning, in yoga or any discipline. In this episode, Kelly shares a framework of agreements that support skillful studentship. We're curious about what you would add to this list? Please connect with your thoughts: via tweet @kellysunrose via email or by emailing a voice memo to the same address. Thanks so much for sharing your voice. Additionally, we're putting together a future episode on Yoga teacher burnout (physical, emotional, financial, etc.) and would love to share your experience. If you have experienced burnout of any sort, we'd love to hear from you. You can share your experience (and suggestions for surviving burnout) via tweet, voice or email as mentioned above. We're also looking for voices to include in a live panel discussion on this topic. If you are open to sharing your experience in this way, please let us know. Thanks so very much. All love, kelly This show is made possible by the . Join us there in practice, study and connection. Sign up for Kelly's . Check out Kelly's and s.
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Keeping It Simple While Stretching Yourself
04/18/2019
Keeping It Simple While Stretching Yourself
Thanks for being here, dear listener. Thanks for being, really. In this week's episode of YOKED, I'm sharing one of our monthly Q&A sessions (Satsang, in the yoga tradition) from the Wildcat Yoga Club. Tracy asked an amazing question, and I'm wrestling with it in this episode. Curious about our online community? We have a complimentary My semi-sabbatical is nearing its end, and I am practically bursting with joy to share space (virtual, physical, BEYOND) with you in the coming year. I'll be opening up the next season of immersive practices with a few experimental workshops, with priority given to and to SUPER EXCITED. LOVE TO ALL>>>>> kel p.s. Yoga Teachers, I'm preparing an upcoming episode on burnout. Would you like to share your thoughts on the show? Please reach out by emailing me or through the comment form on . LOVE.
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Seasonal Check-In
04/03/2019
Seasonal Check-In
In this episode, listeners receive a process for mapping the next season through a series of questions for contemplation.
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Dana Smith - YES! Yoga Has Curves
03/13/2019
Dana Smith - YES! Yoga Has Curves
Interview with yogini Dana Smith of Spiritual Essence and Yes! Yoga Has Curves
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Dionne // YOU BELONG
06/26/2017
Dionne // YOU BELONG
In today's show, Kelly talks with the AMAZING Dionne Elizabeth. Based between the UK and Norway, Dionne is a creative coach, yoga and meditation teacher, dj, writer, spacemaking event maker, but above all, a human being that loves life, good vibes and feelings. She also loves movement, memes, music, food, words, self care, colour, creating spaces that didnt exist before, cultivating community, collecting inspiration, explorations and adventures. Dionne runs community events, retreats and experiences in both countries and beyond (thanks, internet!) as well as working one to one with creative coaching clients all over the world. You can find out more about her work via: dionne.space NEWS: Most of the archived practice podcasts have migrated to our online community, the . Want to practice together? Head over there. Registration is now open for our next immersion. Cosmic Breath: A pranayama immersion, will run from November 1-December 21, 2017. Early-bird pricing runs through 8/8. Learn more . Our 150-hour, Advanced Teacher Training will run from March 2018-June 2019. Registration and more details are up on my main site >> << check it out. Also, every month I donate 15% of my income to organizations and funds that align with the mission & values of my work (read more here). For June, any purchases made in the , Wildcat Yoga Club and all other classes will support these two organizations: One Girl Can Global Justice Ecology Project Learn more in the show-notes at Thank you for being here. LOVE. kelly
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JAIMAL YOGIS / All Our Waves Are Water
06/19/2017
JAIMAL YOGIS / All Our Waves Are Water
Thank you for listening! Today's episode features a conversation with author, surfer, husband & father (of 3 boys!) s. We talk about the evolution of his practice and writing and about his latest book, All Our Waves Are Water. Pre-order Jaimal's new book right . (He's donating 100% of his pre-sale proceeds to the UN Refugee Agency's fund for South Sudan.) NEWS Would love for you to contribute to our community project by answering the questions 1. why do you practice yoga? and 2. what are your most potent practices? Email your answers (in any medium) to me at Thank you! Registration is open for our next immersion! COSMIC BREATH is a pranayama immersion which will take place online November 1-December 21. Early-bird pricing until 8/8. Learn more . Thank you so much for being here. LOVE, kelly
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Devon Riley / Embodiment & Self-Trust
06/12/2017
Devon Riley / Embodiment & Self-Trust
Kelly and Devon Riley talk about the Yoga of REAL LIFE. Thank you so much for listening. Devon practices and teaches yoga, writes, parents, reads books, makes photographs, grows food and flowers, and cooks dinner daily. She is a modern Buddhist, an intersectional feminist, and a talker. Stay in touch: yokedpodcast.com Let's practice together: wildcatyogaclub.com All of the links are found in today's show-notes: https://yokedpodcast.com/2017/06/12/devon-riley/
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Summer Yoga Reading List
05/24/2017
Summer Yoga Reading List
In this episode of YOKED, Kelly shares a list of books she is excited to read this summer as well as a short sampling of her favorite yoga and ayurveda books. For the list and links, check the show-notes at Thank you for listening. Remember our community sound project! In a voice memo via email, please send the following: Your name & home base, Why you practice yoga, What your MOST POTENT practices are. These will be compiled for an awesome community project! Thank you. Stay in touch. LOVE, Kelly [email protected]
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The Yoga of NOW// Fawn Williams interviews Kelly Sunrose
05/15/2017
The Yoga of NOW// Fawn Williams interviews Kelly Sunrose
For today's show, fawn williams (my friend, colleague and past guest of the show) interviewed me! We talk about everything from gardening to pregnancy to adventures in teaching. It was fun! I hope you enjoy. If you have a question or a topic you'd like covered on the show, send an email to me at [email protected] ALSO, community project in the works. I would LOVE it if you would answer the following questions (which will be shared on a future episode): 1. why do you practice yoga? 2. what are your most potent practices? You can send your answer (along with your name and global location) to me at [email protected]. You can do this in written form, but it would be super amazing if you created a voice memo on your smart phone and send it via email. Please introduce yourself "I'm Kelly from Portland, Oregon" at the beginning of your clip. THANK YOU. Couple of reminders, even though I'm going on a 2 month maternity leave from in-person public classes and all privates in July and August, there are lots of ways we stay connected: you can join me in the (where fresh classes will continue to be released during that time), practice with me on (code SUNROSE gets you 30 days free) or purchase a meditation or course for download in . 15% of all proceeds for the month of may will go to Oceana and Families for Children. Thank you. Read all the details in the show-notes over at
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