The Yogi's Roadmap: Off the beaten path to breakthrough experiences

Summary: In this episode Bhāvani talks about Yoga as a process of radical self-effacement, the lost art of decorum, and raising the bar for ourselves which is part of being a grownup. She talks about the importance of gathering and community community, true intimacy, and how Yoga is a crucible for creativity: it’s living science. Show Notes: Bhāvani Maki: https://www.bhavanimaki.com Online Yoga Sū...

Summary: In this session Bhāvani and Shinay talk about what it means to have true intimacy with self, about working with the many-layered beings that we are, and how this process and practice takes time. They discuss what it might take to have the courage to loosen up, the trust it takes to relax, and that we don’t need to have it all figured out—“I don’t know” as fertile ground for our true unfol...

Summary: In this episode Bhāvani shares from her 40 plus years of study and practice on the path of yoga. Bhāvani talks about using the template of the kosha to work from the narrow scope of a technique oriented practice in yoga to a more felt sense in and through the body. Bhāvani shares her thoughts on perfectionism versus excellence, and together Shinay and Bhāvani talk about how the yoga pract...

This potent conversation touches upon working with Yoga through childhood, and at what age it might be appropriate for one to start to develop an appropriate relationship with powerful, potent energy within. They discuss yoga through pregnancy, menopause, very old age, and injury. “The project of Yoga is to develop capacity for insight and transmission,” says Bhavani, “there is going to be a shift...

In this episode, Bhāvani talks about the process of Yoga being one that squeezes us—ultimately an alchemical process. She poses this question to listeners, “Am I going to live in the wound because it’s familiar, or tune into that part of me that wants to heal and reclaim my wholeness?” This interview includes the why behind studying Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra, the importance of having teachers who hav...

Yoga is practical when one talks about putting the body into shapes for the purpose of healing. There's a technology that’s useful and important to learn for optimal alignment. Then there is a deeper, broader, and more complex arena of healing which includes relationships with other people and the natural world. In this conversation Bhāvani and Shinay talk about Yoga as the necessary soul work to...

Summary: “Life experience is the ultimate experience of yoga.” In this episode Bhavani discusses Yoga as the union of opposites. How the yogi-in-training works with the body because the human body is the vehicle through which to do the work of experience. Yoga is life. It is only in human incarnation that we can find that sense of freedom that comes from working with inner tensions and outer tensi...

Summary: In this episode Bhavani gives us her recommended reading list—a place to start for those looking to take their learning of Yoga beyond āsana. Listeners get to hear what questions Bhavani would ask her teachers given the chance. Bhavani visions her “ideal school of yoga” and elucidates the responsibility of teacher and student both. This episode is about living the questions. Show Notes: B...

Summary: In this episode Bhavani talks about her second book, which is in progress. We talk about love, devotion and surrender on the path of yoga. We talk about functional practice, which is connecting to breath and to life with a sense of purpose. We discuss investing ourselves with conviction and consistency and magic! for an on-going romance with the practices of yoga. And Bhavani gives encour...

Summary: Can we even talk about Yoga and not talk about God? Bhāvani speaks about the dynamic response between divinity and humanity; the journey of discovering divinity through our own process of going into the underworld and unearthing, in ourselves, the frictions which are potent forms for creating a fertile field in which we realize that opposites are held within the oneness. She employs us to...

Not only is Bhāvani an internationally recognized teacher of yoga, she is also a life-long student of astrology. She delves into the big questions of “What are these times asking of us as citizens of our locale and as practitioners of yoga?” Bhāvani takes the “woo” out of yoga, and the study of astrology, and provides listeners with a pragmatic approach to anchor ourselves in the study and practic...

Welcome to the “Householder” Lineage Summary: Yoga as Self Care. The necessary discomfort that is inherent when we make efforts to foster our growth and our own creativity. Bhavani emphasizes, “It’s taking time to invest in the things that really matter to us.” We are learning to integrate our humanity into the spiritual experience. This conversation touches on bringing our spiritual practices to...

Ways of working with the mind. In this episode, Bhāvani speaks about cultivating true intimacy with oneself and grappling with the practice of yoga. She dialogues about ways of working with the mind, cultivating discernment and embracing the unknown. She describes what she means by “breakthrough experience.” We travel off the beaten path with practical tools for engaging with the whole human compl...

In this episode we speak about Grace, family ties, healthy individuation and commitment phobia. Bhavani gives her perspective about the work we do as practitioners of yoga to align our bodies through asana as well as the necessary work we each must engage in in order to get clear in our most intimate relationships. One of the ways to do this is to make distinctions for ourselves about what and how...

In this episode Bhāvani expounds upon her work with navigating strong emotions productively. This is the nuanced path of learning about energy management. Show Notes: Bhāvani Maki: https://www.bhavanimaki.com/ Online Yoga Sūtra Mentorship Program & Sūtra Wisdom School: https://www.bhavanimaki.com/yoga-sutra Get your copy of The Yogi’s Roadmap: The Patañjali Yoga Sūtra as a Journey to Self Real...

In this episode we walk about pain: What pain, physical and psychological, can teach us about ourselves; sitting with our pain; learning from our pain; and how to reclaim health and wholeness.   I:4 Vṛtti sārūpyam itaratra At other times, the Seer conforms with the distortions of fragmented consciousness which are like of the night. I.47 Nirvicāra vaiśāradye’dhyātma prasādaḥ On achieving...

The virtual age and the yogik path. Living a “simple life” in the ever-changing and dynamic world that is the twenty-first century. Bhāvani speaks about Yoga as a path of involution and provides insight that goes directly to the heart of those of us who want to “save the world.” Show Notes: Bhāvani Maki: https://www.bhavanimaki.com/ Online Yoga Sūtra Mentorship Program & Sūtra Wisdom School: h...

Bhāvani reveals key teachings from Rama Jyoti Vernon that she received in a visitation after Rama had left her body. This Conversation from the Heart goes into exploring the Yoga Sutra through a more feminine reframing and the importance of curiosity in studentship, teachership, and in life. Bhāvani touches on the connectedness of all parts of creation—this is Yoga. Bhāvani gives insight into her...

In this episode, Bhāvani and Shinay talk about Patañjali, the renegade, the human, the myth, the legend. Bhāvani clarifies, once again, the distinction between Patañjali’s eight-limbed yoga known as Ashtanga Yoga, (also known as Raja Yoga and Vidya Yoga), and that of the Astanga yoga method borrowed by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. Shinay and Bhāvani go into depth about how the study of Patañjali’s Yoga S...

Bhāvani responds to the questions, “As a business owner, wife, mother, and now a growing elder who has passed the threshold into climacteric (more commonly known as menopause), how has your sādhana, yoga practice, spiritual practice changed over the years?” She gives practical tools on where to start your prāṇāyāma practice; and elucidates further on what Yoga is, what it is not and guides the see...

Bhāvani & Shinay explore the Yoga tradition as a multi-layered experience that starts with a gestational period from which we emerge as something never-before-seen grounded in tradition. Bhavani Maki:   https://www.bhavanimaki.com/ Live Online Yoga Sūtra Mentorship Wisdom Series:  Purchase   The Yogi’s Roadmap: The Patañjali Yoga Sūtra as a Journey to Self Realization: &nbs...

Bhāvani shares her personal journey and the adventure of Yoga as coming home to Self, in the indigenous tradition of heart-to-heart transmission. Bhavani Maki: https://www.bhavanimaki.com/ Live Online Yoga Sūtra Mentorship Wisdom Series:  Purchase The Yogi’s Roadmap: The Patañjali Yoga Sūtra as a Journey to Self Realization: https://www.bhavanimaki.com/offers/iS6E2ioL/checkout Rama Jyoti...