The Artistic Yoga Podcast

What is the basis of all creation? How is this question to be investigated? Or how is any other puzzling question to be investigated? To find the answer, one must become the question and life provides the answers. Like a good investigator, when studying and seeking answers, one will need to embrace duality. Accepting one state (the good) and rejecting the other (the bad), will constrain the path o...

 Vayu is the vehicle of intimacy with the body, mind and spirit. Breath is Vayu in its gross form. The natural characteristic of breath is movement and yoga is the process of ceasing of the breath. During pranayama, when breath ceases, the mind ceases. This moment of the ceasing of the breath and the mind is called Kewal Kumbhak. The point of Kewal Kumbhak can be experienced in moments of wonderme...

In this episode, Bharat takes a closer look at Prana, the life force, the all pervasive unit of energy, that which is omnipresent. Bharat examines weather it is possible to experience everything that is spoken in theory. What are we supposed to experience through the practice of pranayama? Do we experience pranayama as we experience asanas? How do we experience Prana in the same way as we experien...

In this episode, Bharat explains how the stringing together of different sequences of asanas, pranayamas, bandhas, mudras and kriyas create structural, behavioural and gene level changes. How this must be recognised as a creative process; one in which we create a world in which each of us uniquely belongs. How mind body interventions affect gene expression. Yoga is a  science of evolution that has...

“When the mind and heart are together, the whole world reveals itself” In this podcast, Bharat explores seeing. He explores what lies beyond what we see with our eyes. He compares the seeing with the eyes with the seeing with the heart; manifested in moments when we close our eyes while enjoying something with our heart. Through poignant poetry and regaling stories he takes us on a tour of the hea...

In this episode, Bharat examines the relationship between the mind and the brain. He references research to highlight how meditation can slow, stall and potentially reverse changes to the brain brought on by aeging. He explains how meditation is not about being thoughtlessness but to be and to quietly witness thoughts.  In part 2, he examines the impact of stress and unhappiness affect the brain. ...

In this podcast, Bharat shares the most compelling reason for moving from a regime of several meals a day to one meal a day. The most compelling reason being cell rejuvenation and therefore longevity. He compares the benefits of diet and exercise with those of one meal a day. He highlights the impact of diet and exercise on the body and how moving to to one meal a day, extends the benefits to deep...