In this 8 minute talk Jennifer describes freedom as our natural state of being and how yoga sheds the layers of limitation that keep us from feeling our freedom live as we choose.  She talks of the eight limbs and how each limb is designed to support our return to freedom.  As we free ourselves from the drama of unethical behavior we are free to focus on what we want.  As we free ourselves from weakness and pain in the body we are more free to create effectively.  When we free ourselves of negative thinking we are are free to be inspired with new ideas.  As we free ourselves from the spin of the outer world through meditation, we are free to tap into the energy that all new creation rises from.  And as our mind clear and sharpen we can focus that energy very specifically.  And finally as we free ourselves from attachment to the details of outcome we open to receive the manifestation in a way that serves our highest and makes an offering to those around us.  Its all about freedom.  Yoga is freedom time.  It’s freedom time y’all.  Freedom.

In this 12-minute podcast, Jennifer describes the relationship between the sahasrara chakra, the brain, the pituitary gland and the flow of Universal Mind.  Did you know that the brain is not a storage unit?  Rather it is a transmitter that receives and interprets streams from the grand flow of Universal Mind.  We can only receive new unknown aspects of Universal Mind when we set the intention to tune into something outside of our currently established beliefs.  Setting this intention is the first step in opening the seventh chakra.  In a sense it is like the Jodi Foster movie “Contact”; we’re not sure what might be out there, and it is beyond our current concepts but we are going to open our receptors and allow Source to surprise and inspire us.

The vortex is another way of thinking about the susumna nadi – the central axis of energy within each of us where our pure positive energy resides.  Is it a place we can travel to?  Absolutely.  It is also the place where all solution and new creation resides before we see it in our manifested world.  Our vortex is constantly calling us towards it and when we let go of resistance through meditation, laughter, trust, ease, etc. we are taken into this place of power and we align with the solutions and expansions we are wanting.  This 10-minute talk followed by 10-minute meditation teaches us to power of the vortex and how to coax ourselves into this place of peace and power often.

Like the Tibetan Bardo state, the Sacred Garden is a mental/energetic place of empowerment.  It is a home for our consciousness to travel to, settle into, and create from.  As we develop and refine this “home-base” we more easily and effectively direct our meditation time.  It is from the Sacred Garden that we can journey to our future selves and pre-pave their experience.  It is from the Sacred Garden that we can call out to our ancestors and guides asking for support, clarity, or healing.  In this 20-minute meditation you are guided to create the journey to your Sacred Garden and build or refine the details of this inner space.  With repetition, this place of empowerment becomes your refuge and your launching pad for all inner journeys.

Enjoy a trip to your vortex where all problems resolve all obstacles transform and the relief and satisfaction of having transmuted contrast into new creation is waiting for you.  Everything we experience we must feel energetically before we can receive physically.  In this fifteen minute meditation, Jennifer leads you to a place a detailed visioning and clear feeling of the expanded version of you.  This expanded version already exists and is calling to you always.  We know we are following the call when we feel eager and hopeful.  We are holding ourselves from the call when we feel worried or cynical.  This meditation helps us practice answering the call and will increase the speed at which you turn your challenges into new creations.  Enjoy!

In Hank Wesselman’s revelatory book The Bowl of Light revered Hawaiian elder Hale Makua shares powerful wisdom that beautifully compliments the Yoga philosophy and lifestyle.  In this 30-munte talk Jennifer shares excerpts on the soul cluster – the three soul aspects that blend to create our human experience.  In understanding these aspects we can consciously listen more clearly to and trust more deeply the guidance they provide.  In relating Shiva Shakti Tantra and the Hawaiian way, the underlying matrix of indigenous wisdom is revealed and the web of connection is strengthened without loosing the beauty of its diversity.

In this 15-minute talk Jennifer describes the story and symbolism of the sage Patanjali.  Like Jesus, Patanjali had a “miracle birth” of sorts and brought us timeless bodies of wisdom such as Ayurveda, the Sutras, the Asanas and the Yoga Pradipika.   The invocation to Patanjali is sung at the beginning and end of the talk.  This lecture is filled with juicy tidbits that teachers can share with students in yoga class.

In this 45-minute podcast, Jennifer leads you through a simple 15-minute flow to settle the body-energy before meditation.  The meditation takes you on a tour of the chakras as aspects of your life experience.  For example, the root chakra represents our tribe and the fundamental principles we stand for.  How is your tribe right now?  Are you feeling connected, supported, rooted by common ethics and ideals?  Or are you feeling a fundamental discord with the people you spend most of your time with?  If there is discomfort around ideas of tribe and family, this indicates that the broader part of you has evolved to something new and is calling to you to “catch up”.  For each chakra, we feel for an active calling and allow space to receive the calling and any clear inspiration that may rise.  The end of the meditation invites you to choose the strongest calling and give it five minutes of creative exploration.

In this 12-minute talk we consider how the mixing up of diverse elements is what draws us into new clarity and actively calls us towards betterment or expansion.  So without contrast the flow of life would cease to be.  As we make peace with the messy contrast of our lives and allow it to clarify who we are becoming we relax more.  We trust that divine chaos is the order of the world and the pulse of challenges becoming opportunities and opportunities creating new challenges is meant to be an endless and joyful ride.  And as we sit to meditate we can come away from the idea that we need to fix our lives and soften into the flow and pulse that is natural.   As we understand that all creation rises from pure still energy we feel the power of our meditation as a time to align with the energy of the active calling that our contrast has created.  As we align with that energy and trust E=mc2 we know that inspired action and manifestation will rise from the focus of our new energy.

The central axis of our energetic essence is available to us always.  And yet it is rare to find a human being who travels consistently to this place of power.  By developing a clear vision of our vortex and deep understanding of its purpose we encourage ourselves to sit for meditation and visit this place of empowerment.  In this 12-minute talk Jennifer gives a clear description of the susumna nadi and the sun and moon channels that wind around it like the double helix of the DNA molecule.  She talks of contrast being the ignition of desire and therefore expansion.  The susumna is the place where all solutions arise and reside calling to us as we wrestle with the problems.  Through meditation we are seduced away from the nit picking of the problem and drawn into the energy of solution – the emotion of relief and satisfaction.  In this expansive energy the details needed to manifest the solution are offered freely and clearly.