Spiritually Fit Yoga with Amelia Andaleon

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon. In this video episode, I'll guide you through a 30-minute yoga practice designed specifically for hikers and backpackers. Whether you've just finished a day hike, completed a backpacking trip, or simply want to relieve tight muscles, we'll focus on yoga poses that stretch the hips, hamstrings, calves, glutes, lower back,...

Welcome to Spiritually Fit Yoga with Amelia Andaleon! It's been raining in the San Francisco Bay so I recorded this on a cozy, stormy afternoon. The powerful rain metaphor invites you to rinse away mental clutter, release what no longer serves you, and reset your mind and body. In this practice, the steady rhythm of rain becomes your anchor — guiding you back to the present moment, softening the n...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon ! If we're feeling stressed or overwhelmed, we could use support to calm our minds, relax our bodies and soothe our nervous systems.  Make yourself comfortable for this Yoga Nidra for Deep Rest meditation. This is a recording of a live Yoga Nidra zoom session on withinmeditation.com WARNING: This meditation may put you to sleep!...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon. This episode is a recording from a live yoga class on the Insight Timer app. It begins with a short meditation and pranayama called nadi shodhana, or alternate nostril breathing. To set up you might want a blanket, blocks, or any props as needed to support your practice. At the end of the class I end it in savasana in silence. You a...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon. Today’s episode is a recording of a live yoga class I taught on the Insight Timer app. In this full-length practice, you’ll be guided through: A grounding meditation An all-levels slow flow yoga practice Time for deep rest in savasana or sit quietly in meditation. This class can be followed with the audio but, if you'd like see...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon and my first episode of 2026! Make yourself comfortable for this Yoga Nidra for Deep Rest meditation. Lay down. It's a relaxing episode so you may not want to drive while you're listening. If you're driving, please commit to staying awake and alert...or change the channel! I swear ONCE during the introduction, to acknowle...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon. It’s the final day of the year — December 31, 2025 — and whew… we made it. Today’s episode is a recording of a live class I taught this morning, designed to help you slow down, tune inward, and consciously close out the year. In this full-length practice, you’ll be guided through: A grounding meditation An all-levels slow flow yoga...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! It’s Day 30 of our 30-day of our Mini-Meditation series!  Congratulations to those of you who have completed these 30 daily mini-meditations!  And, congratulations to all of you for making it to the end of 2025.  Wow what a ride!  In this final episode of this mini-meditation series, you’ll be invited to set your sankalpa, your hear...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! In Day 29 of our 30-day Mini-Meditation series, you are gently invited to call your energy back home . In this short meditation, we honor your year of wisdom — everything 2025 has taught you, shaped in you, softened in you, strengthened in you.  Wisdom isn’t about perfection or getting everything right.  Wisdom is what you gather fr...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! In Day 28 of our 30-days Mini-Meditation series, you are gently invited to call your energy back home . In this short meditation, we explore how our energy can become scattered—through over-giving, unresolved emotions, lingering worries, or attention pulled in too many directions. You’ll be guided to release what no longer needs you...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! In Day 27 of our 30-day Mini-Meditation series, we explore aparigraha , the yogic practice of non-grasping, through the lens of releasing anger and resentment. In this short meditation, you’re invited to notice where holding on—to past hurts, unspoken grievances, or lingering stories—may be creating unnecessary pain, often directed...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! It’s Day 26 of our 30-day mini-meditation series, and we’re wrapping up our finals days of the year in self-reflection.   Today we’re exploring svadhyaya — self-study — one of the most beautiful and compassionate yogic practices. And it’s perfect for this time of year.  Svadhyaya includes the study of spiritual texts.  In this episo...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! It’s Day 25 of our 30-day mini-meditation series, on Christmas Day 2025.   Today — regardless of what this day means to you — we’ll practice something universal: presence.  A moment to pause in the middle of whatever is happening around you. Holidays can be beautiful, emotional, joyful, tender, overwhelming, or all of the above.  Pr...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! It’s Day 24 of our 30-day mini-meditation series, on Christmas Eve 2025.  Today we’ll observe the sacred in the simple, the spectacular in the ordinary.   Spirituality doesn’t just live in temples, yoga studios, or meditation cushions.  It lives in your everyday moments. —————————— I'd love to hear what you are experiencing practici...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! It’s Day 23 of our 30-day mini-meditation series Today we’re exploring loving boundaries — arguably one of the most important practices during the holidays. Mini Practice — The Boundary Breath Inhale: I honor my needs.  Exhale: I speak with clarity. —————————— I'd love to hear what you are experiencing practicing these mini-meditati...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! It’s Day 22 of our 30-day mini-meditation series Today’s topic is gratitude, but specifically — gratitude that honors your humanity, not toxic positivity. —————————— I'd love to hear what you are experiencing practicing these mini-meditation episodes. Connect with me by leaving a comment or DM me on Instagram @spirituallyfityoga. If...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! It’s Day 21 of our 30-day mini-meditation series and we honoring the winter solstice on December 21st.  Today’s short, simple meditation invites you to notice the darkness all around you, on this longest night of the year, while imagining the flame that burns within you, reminding you of your eternal inner light. 🕯️Embrace this long...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! It’s Day 20 of our 30-day mini-meditation series.  In this episode, you’re invited to experience silence not as the absence of sound, but as a wise and compassionate teacher. Beyond words and effort, silence offers a direct pathway back to presence, clarity, and inner truth. This gentle meditation guides you to rest in the quiet bet...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! It’s Day 19 of our 30-day mini-meditation series and we'll practice a loving-kindness meditation, a Buddhist meditation called Metta Bhavana. Metta can be translated as 'loving-kindness' while 'Bhavana' means 'development'. So the Metta Bhavana is the ' Development of Loving Kindness '. This gentl...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! It’s Day 18 of our 30-day mini-meditation series and our theme is Forgiveness as a path to freedom.  Forgiveness is not about excusing what happened or forgetting the pain—it’s about freeing yourself from carrying it any longer. In this gentle mini-meditation, Amelia guides you through forgiveness as an inner release, a softening th...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! Today is Day 17 of  our 30-day mini-meditation series , and we’re doing a gentle subtle body check-in , inspired by the chakra system — not as a rigid map, but as a way to sense what’s happening beneath the surface.  The subtle body is the energetic layer of your being.  It’s where emotions, intuition, memories, and patterns live.  ...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! Today is Day 16 of  our 30-day mini-meditation series , and we’re exploring one of the most foundational principles in yoga: sthira and sukha — effort and ease. Ask yourself: “Where in your life do you crave more ease?  Where do you need more steadiness?” You can ask yourself throughout the day: “ Do I need to soften or strengthen r...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! Today is Day 15 our 30-day mini-meditation series , and our week 3 theme is Rest and Reflect. This episode invites you to winter, to rest, reflect, and soften your pace. Ask yourself: "Where in your life are you resisting rest? What would wintering look like for you today?" Give yourself permission to slow down and rest to...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! On this Sacred Sunday, on December 14th, 2025 are wrapping up the Day 14 our 30-day mini-meditation series with one more episode focused on this week’s theme of purpose and light by exploring bhakti , which is love in action . Ask yourself: “What am I truly devoted to, in this season of my life?”   Listen to your inner wisdom; seek...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon!   In Day 13 of our 30-day mini-meditation series, we’re exploring compassion — not as an abstract ideal, but as a daily, embodied practice.  Compassion begins with seeing clearly.  Seeing your own humanity.  Seeing your own suffering.  Seeing your own effort. And then extending that same tenderness to others. Where can you bring mor...