Spiritually Fit Yoga with Amelia Andaleon

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon!   In Day 12 of our 30-day mini-meditation series, it is December 12th, and 12/12 is often associated with alignment, spiritual clarity, and light. The 1212 angel number signifies divine messages about new beginnings, spiritual growth, balance, and manifesting goals, urging you to stay positive, trust your intuition. It's a call...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon!   In Day 11 of our 30-day mini-meditations, we explore sankalpa —a heart-led intention that arises from truth, not pressure. Through gentle breath and inner listening, you’ll connect with the quiet longing beneath the mind and uncover an intention that feels authentic, compassionate, and aligned. Your sankalpa doesn’t need to be per...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon!   If you’ve been moving through life on autopilot, this meditation helps you reconnect with the inner spark yoga calls tapas — the warm, steady fire that awakens when you turn toward yourself. In Day 10 of our 30-day mini-meditations, you’ll breathe into the quiet pulse of aliveness within you, sense what’s ready to wake up, and gen...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon!    In a world that constantly pulls at your attention, it’s easy to lose sight of your own inner wisdom. In Episode 9 of our 30-day mini-meditation series, you’ll be guided back to your inner lighthouse —the quiet, steady light within that helps you navigate uncertainty, emotion, and change.  You’ll practice being in a state of equa...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon!  In Day 8 of our 30-day mini-meditation series, our theme is “Purpose and Light” this week.  Amelia invites you to explore dharma —your soul’s purpose—not as a job title, but as the feeling of coming home to your true nature. You’ll be guided to remember what lit you up as a child and notice where that same spark lives in your life...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon!  In a world that pulls us in a thousand directions, your breath is the one place you can always come home to. In today’s mini-meditation, we explore the breath as your steady anchor—something you can return to in moments of stress, overwhelm, anxiety, or emotional turbulence. Your breath doesn’t ask you to fix anything. It simply in...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! It’s Day 6 of our 30 day mini-meditations, and today we explore what it truly means to protect your inner peace in a noisy, demanding world . This episode is especially nourishing for sensitive souls, empaths, feelers, and anyone who absorbs the emotional energy of their surroundings . Through gentle awareness, breath, and grounding...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! In episode five of my 30-day December mini meditations, we explore the question "Can yoga really help you lose weight?" And, we touch on what science actually says about the connection between stress, the nervous system, metabolism, and meditation . You’ll learn how practices like yoga and breathwork influence cortisol, di...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! In episode four of my 30-day December mini meditations, I guide you in a full moon release meditation. Tonight’s Full Cold Moon — the final supermoon of 2025 — appears brighter and larger in the winter sky, inviting us into reflection, release, and renewal. In this mini meditation, you’ll settle your body, soften your breath, and vi...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! In episode three of my 30-day December mini meditations, we explore Aparigraha, a Sanskrit word meaning "non-possessiveness," "non-attachment," or "non-greed," and is the fifth of the ⁠five Yamas⁠ (ethical restraints) in ⁠Patanjali's Yoga Sutras⁠ . It involves taking only what you need, letting go of excessive material possessions,...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! In episode two of my 30-day December mini meditations, we explore samskara — the subtle impressions, habits, and emotional grooves that shape how we move through the world. Samskaras can limit us or liberate us. In this episode, you'll be invited to notice the patterns that repeat in your body, mind, and breath, and to gently create...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with Amelia Andaleon! In this first episode of my 30-day December daily series, we explore the soft power of beginning again. No matter where you’ve been, how long it’s been, or how messy life feels, you can always return to yourself. This is your invitation to breathe, reset, and step into the moment with presence and compassion. -----------------------...

Welcome to Spiritually Fit Yoga with Amelia Andaleon! I recorded this episode for you on Thanksgiving Eve to offer some perspective and a reset if you find yourself needing to destress or take a break. Let me know if my suggestions and this time to move and relax helped relieve stress. My hope is to offer you some peace and permission to slow down and maybe reframe your mindset as needed. If you f...

Welcome to Spiritually Fit Yoga with Amelia Andaleon! Lay down, make yourself comfortable, and let me guide you into a relaxing state of yoga nidra. This meditation can give you 30 minutes of deep rest or listen to it as you get into bed and invite a deep sleep. Yoga Nidra can lead you into a profound state of relaxation or sleep. 30 minutes of yoga nidra can be the equivalent of 2-4 hours of slee...

Welcome to Spiritually Fit Yoga! Today's episode is a zoom recording from Amelia's "Calm Clarity, and Connection" meditation session on withinmeditation.com. Watch this video on Spotify or listen on your favorite podcast platform ⁠⁠⁠ . Amelia teaches online zoom meditation classes on the withinmeditation.com platform. Your feedback, reviews and 5-star ratings are always appreciated! Namaste, Ameli...

Welcome to Spiritually Fit Yoga! Today's episode is a reminder to take care of yourself. Watch this video on Spotify or listen on your favorite podcast platform ⁠ . Amelia offers an oracle card reading from Rebecca Campbell's "Work Your Light" oracle card deck. Comment below if you resonated with today's card reading. Your feedback, reviews and 5-star ratings are always appreciated! Fill your cup,...

Welcome to Spiritually Fit Yoga! Watch this episode on Spotify or my youtube channel . Take a hike, drive in your car, sit back, and listen to wisdom imparted by your podcast host, Amelia Andaleon, after a recent backpacking trip with her young-at-heart, badass girlfriends in their 50s-70s. You'll learn some important backpacking tips as well as life lessons. In particular, Amelia shares the physi...

Welcome to Spiritually Fit Yoga with Amelia Andaleon? How to respond to life when it feels heavy and life just feels sucky? Take a listen. Let me know what you think, share how you feel, I want to hear from you! In remembrance for September 11. Never forget. Honor and remember. Praying for peace and unity. "Violence should never be the solution. Full stop." - Amelia Andaleon Let's be peacekeepers...

Welcome to Spiritually Fit Yoga! Today I lead you through a gentle yin yoga practice for all-levels. This yin class can be practiced any time day, whether you want to start your day, enjoy it before bed, or anytime in between. Props you might want are: ​ a bolster or firm "pillow" (like a couch pillow or cushion) ​two blocks ​blanket or beach towel This is a gentle slow practice holding poses for...

Welcome to Spiritually Fit Yoga! This is Part 2 of my Lion's Gate Portal series which guides you to meditate, journal, and repeat affirmations. August 8, 2025 is the peak of when the Lion's Gate Portal is open and it is also a full moon. This potent combination makes it an especially powerful time to release what no longer serves you and set your intentions when the manifesting energies are amplif...

Podcast Ep. 242: What is the Lion's Gate Portal? August 8, 2025 Friday 8/8 is when the Lion's Gate Portal is at its peak and manifesting energies are amplified. This episode introduces the meditation I will be posting on August 8th. Listen/watch this episode then come meditate and journal with me here on Friday. If you're in the Bay Area join me a popup class on August 8th to set intentions and re...

Welcome to Spiritually Fit Yoga with Amelia Andaleon! Today's episode is a meditation to help you feel grounded, calm, and energized to take on your day with vitality, clarity, and focus. I created this for you after needing motivation to get back to work myself after summer vacation and the long July 4th weekend. This episode ends inviting you to awaken your body, breath, and mind, ready to take...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast with your host, yoga and meditation teacher, Amelia Andaleon. Enjoy this episode to welcome the longest day of the year, Summer Solstice. Listen to this episode for reflection, to journal, to meditate seated, lying down, or even walking. Here are the affirmations mentioned in this recording: I welcome the light of the sun into my heart. I am radiant, gro...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast! This episode is a recording of a Metta meditation, Loving Kindness meditation, taught live on World Meditation Day, observed on May 21st to honor people around the world sharing the practice of meditation, to promote global mental health and peace. May you be healthy, happy and safe. May you be free of suffering. May all beings be healthy, happy, and sa...

Welcome to the Spiritually Fit Yoga podcast! This episode is part two of learning how to teach the VITALITY section of the Baptiste Journey into Power practice. This 30-minute class is a basic example of how to sequence Journey into Power (JIP) which includes a the Integration, Awakening, and Vitality sections of JIP. At the end of the class you will be led into hip openings, hamstring stretches,...