The Imagine Podcast

How do you make time for yourself when everyone else always comes first? For Daniela Troconis, the answer started with Kundalini Yoga, and with admitting that "I don't have time" was a lie she had lived by for years. In this episode of The Imagine Podcast, Daniela talks about how putting yourself last starts as an emergency and ends up becoming the way you live. She shares what Kunda...

Why do you feel so different after a Kundalini Yoga class, without being able to explain why? Why do you feel so different after a Kundalini Yoga class, without being able to explain why? Part of it starts in the posture itself, in what happens when it gets hard. This episode looks at the five elements at work in every class: asana, pranayama, meditation, mantra, and mudra, and gets specific about...

You know the job that looks perfect on paper, the one everyone says you're lucky to have, and still leaves you running on empty. Daniela used to run to make her eight o'clock Kundalini Yoga class after long days at a design job like that. In this episode, she talks about the year that class was the one thing that made sense, and about a disconnection from herself she didn't have a name...

Most of us know what it feels like to be somewhere and not really be there, at dinner while thinking about work, listening to someone while already planning what to say next. In this episode, Pedro closes out the series on Patanjali's eight limbs of yoga with the final three: Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, attention, meditation, and the quiet dissolving of the sense of "me watching this hap...

"How do I find peace when I feel overwhelmed?" It's one of the questions Daniela's students ask her most in one way or another in the Kundalini Yoga Trainings. In this episode of The Imagine Podcast, she answers it through Pratyahara, the fifth limb of yoga, often translated as withdrawal of the senses. Using the image of a tree, where all the visible beauty above ground depends...

This episode is about Pranayama, the fourth step on Patanjali's eightfold path, and why it's less about breathing technique and more about where your energy actually goes all day. Pedro Misle walks through why exhaustion is rarely about the work itself, why you have to know what's relevant in your life before you can manage your energy at all, and why honesty might be the cheapest thin...

Most people come to yoga through a posture. A class at a gym, a video, a friend who dragged them along. They show up thinking asana is yoga — and in a way, that's a perfect place to start. In this episode we explore Asana, the third limb of Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga. Not as a set of shapes to copy, but as an energetic invitation — a practice ground for learning how to meet yourself with stea...

There's a phrase that came to Pedro in Amritsar and hasn't left him since: I need a place to rest my head. Not the body. The head, where the ego lives, plans, calculates, and tries to control everything. Ishvara Pranidhana is the fifth and final Niyama in Patanjali's system. It asks you to act fully, show up completely, and then release your grip on the result. Not passivity. Not blind...

What does a crisis reveal about who you really are? This week, Daniela reflects on Svadhyaya — the fourth niyama and the yoga practice of honest self-observation — from a deeply personal place. Days after two major earthquakes struck Venezuela, she sits with the grief, the impotence, and the question that surfaces for so many people carrying a country inside them: why us, why again? Svadhyaya isn&...

Tapas is the third Niyama in Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga. It is commonly translated as discipline. But the teachers left us something deeper than that. In this episode, Pedro Misle explores Tapas as the inner fire that makes you want to be here. Not motivated in the productivity sense. Not disciplined in the punishing sense. Alive in the fullest sense. Engaged with the journey. Curious abo...

We spend a lot of time waiting for the right conditions before allowing ourselves to feel at peace. I'll relax when. I'll be happy when. I'll feel complete when. But the finish line keeps moving. And before we know it, our peace becomes entirely dependent on circumstances we can't control. In this episode, we explore Santosha — the second of the five Niyamas in Patanjali's Eigh...

Every morning you clean your body. You tidy the house. You wipe the phone screen on your sleeve without thinking. What almost no one realizes is that these small acts already belong to one of yoga's oldest practices. Saucha — the first of the five Niyamas — means purity. Not in any moral sense, but as plain cleanliness: the body, the space around you, the words that come out of your mouth, and...

Aparigraha is the last of the Yamas, the ethical foundations of yoga, and it's interesting that minimalism points in the same direction, the hidden cost of the things you own. Aparigraha translates as "not taking more than you need," but it runs much deeper than what's in your cupboards. In this episode, Daniela explores it as a practice of trust: trusting that you're already...

Most people hear the word Brahmacharya and think celibacy. Repression. Some ancient rule designed to make life smaller. But Brahmacharya is the fourth of the Yamas, the personal disciplines at the foundation of yoga philosophy, and it's pointing at something far more relevant than celibacy. It's pointing at energy. All of it. Where your life force is going, and whether you're actually...

What does it mean to truly not steal? Asteya — the third Yama in yoga's ethical framework, starts with the obvious: don't take what isn't yours. But the deeper layers are where things get interesting. In this episode, Daniela explores the subtler forms of stealing we rarely talk about: copying someone else's way of being until we lose our own, and the one that stops us completely: stealing from ou...

There's a kind of tiredness that has nothing to do with how much you slept. It shows up after a day of being slightly off from yourself, saying yes when you meant no, smiling when you didn't agree, managing your way through conversations instead of being in them. By evening you're exhausted, and you can't quite explain why. In this episode, Pedro goes deep into S atya , the second yama, and pushes...

Have you ever snapped at someone you love and spent the rest of the day carrying that weight? Or pushed your body past its limits and called it discipline? Today we explore ahimsa, non-violence, the first of the five yamas and the first ethical commitment on the eight-limbed path of yoga. This episode is not about the obvious stuff. It's about the more quiet ways we cause harm, in our words, o...

Most people think yoga starts on the mat. It doesn't. In this episode, Pedro introduces the Eight Limbs of yoga, the ancient map from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras that has been quietly organizing this practice for thousands of years. Not as philosophy, not as theory, but as a living checkpoint system you can actually use when life gets blurry. This is the opening episode of a new series. You'll get a c...

When life gets heavy, the first thing we do is start removing things. We cancel the dinner. We drop the hobby. We say no to the trip. We tell ourselves we're simplifying. And sometimes that's exactly right. But there's a moment when removing becomes shrinking, when we're not making life lighter, we're making it smaller so we don't have to feel as much. When the world we&#39...

It arrives without warning. You are in a meeting. You are in your home. You are walking back to your apartment after another evening that looked, from the outside, like a perfectly good evening. And something in you, very clearly, says: I can't keep living like this. This episode is for that moment. A deep and soft realization. The one that arrives when exhaustion, disconnection, or a silent u...

Why is it so hard to stay consistent… even with the things we know make us feel better? We often think consistency means doing more, doing it perfectly, or doing it every day. But what if that’s not what truly sustains us? In this episode, Daniela explores a different perspective on consistency, one that moves away from intensity and perfection, and into something more real, more sustainable, and...

How do you know if it’s your soul guiding you… or your ego protecting you? In this episode of The Imagine Podcast , we explore one of the most important inner distinctions you can learn: the difference between the voice of the ego and the voice of the soul. Most of us have experienced it. A quiet inner knowing… followed by a louder voice full of doubt, fear, and logic. But here’s the truth: you’re...

In this final episode of the series on the Five Sutras of the Aquarian Age , we explore the fifth and last sutra: “Vibrate the Cosmos. The Cosmos Shall Clear the Path.” What does it mean to “vibrate the cosmos”? And how does our inner state shape the way we move through life? In this conversation, Daniela reflects on the idea that everything is vibration — our thoughts, our emotions, our words, an...

In this episode, we continue our journey through the Sutras of the Aquarian Age, arriving at the fourth: “Understand through compassion, or you will misunderstand the times.” After exploring relationship, resilience in difficulty, and courage in action, we now turn to perception itself, how we interpret a world moving faster than our nervous systems can easily process. This conversation unpacks wh...

We continue our series on the Five Sutras of Kundalini Yoga for the Aquarian Age with the Third Sutra: When the time is on you, start and the pressure will be off. In a world that constantly demands more from us, overwhelm has become almost normal. Deadlines, expectations, unfinished tasks, and the silent weight of what we know we should be doing can build intense internal pressure. But what if th...