It's All Yoga with Jacqui

Do you taste the grapes in the supermarket before you buy them? Guess what, that's stealing! This episode is all about asteya, non-stealing, the 3rd Yama in the 8 limbed path of Yoga. You might be suprised to see where stealing shows up in our lives.

Truthfulness, satya. The second Yama (moral restraint) deals with lies and truth telling. To lie is exhausting, the truth shall set you free.

Ahimsa, the first Yama (moral restraint) of the 8 fold path of Yoga, is defined as non-harming. Listen to your thoughts, are they hurtful, derogatory, bullying? Most likely they can be at times. The practice of recognizing when our thoughts, words & actions are harmful and shifting to a place of kindness and compassion leads us to love ourselves and others more fully. This is Yoga.

Let's climb the Tree of Yoga together! The Eight Fold Path of Yoga consists of Yamas, Niyamas, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana & Samadhi. What the heck does that all mean?! In this episode we will explore the 8 limbs of Yoga as a tool for harnessing the mind and being able to calm the fluctuations. This is an overview of Ashtanga Yoga as put forth by Patanjali in the Yoga Sut...

Part 2 of my Yoga Journey. In this episode I share my first big T trauma and how that led me to Yoga. My experience with Yoga teacher training and the opening of the first Yoga studio in Massapequa, Om Tara Yoga Studio.

I have been a seeker since a very young age. In this episode I share a bit of my story and talk about the importance of embracing our past in order to help heal the present. I also mention some books that were very influential to me at the start of my journey: Are you there god, it's me Margaret by Judy Blume; You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay; My Mother/My Self by Nancy Friday; The Path Not Ch...

You can Meditate! This episode is about the practice of meditation and how we can demystify it and bring it into our daily lives. Meditation is about being mindful, noticing when our minds become distracted and honing the skills of concentration. You can do this when you are washing dishes, waiting on line at a store or hearing your phone ring. Peace is in every moment once we learn how to still o...

Lovingkindness meditation is a powerful practice of placing our focus on phrases that are blessings or offerings to ourselves and others. This form of meditation practice is a wonderful tool for stilling the mind and calming anxiety.

In this episode we look a little deeper at what causes us to be reactive and experience emotional highs and lows (vrittis). 

In this episode we explore a brief history of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and discuss sutras 1.1 & 1.2.

In this first episode we explore the question, What is Yoga. We will look at traditional definitions and how Yoga shows up in our day to day. Readings from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by BKS Iyengar and Meditations From the Mat by Rolf Gates will help to round out our unpacking of our understanding of Yoga. 

Welcome to It's All Yoga with Jacqui!

In this episode I share an excerpt from The Path of the Yoga Sutras by Nicolai Bachman and talk about the unconscious patterns that keep us from experiencing a happy life.