The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

Today's episode is another behind-the-scenes look, this time inside my Somatic Yoga Training and Embodied Yoga Life Coaching Certification.
This teaching explores how we move energy through the body using breath, movement, sound, and visualization. Inside EYLC, we work with different maps of the subtle body, including the doshas, polarity, Shiva and Shakti, and the relationship between movement and stillness.
In this clip, I explore why movement is not just something we do before meditation. Movement can help us express, discharge, and release what may be stuck in the body so we can access a deeper sense of presence, authenticity, and self-trust.
Inside this episode, I explore:
🔹 How vata, pitta, and kapha can help us understand different energetic textures
🔹 Why Shiva and Shakti represent the dance between stillness and movement
🔹 The three core ways we move energy: breath, movement, and sound
🔹 How somatic coaching helps clients move from talking about emotions to experiencing and shifting them in the body
The goal is not just to move so you can become still. It's to move what is blocking your truth, so you can sit more deeply in who you really are.
💗 Learn more about Embodied Yoga Life Coaching: https://www.brettlarkin.com/somatic-yoga-training-certification/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=eylc 
💎 Experience somatic yoga in this Embodied Yoga Workshop: https://www.brettlarkin.com/embodiedyoga?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=embodiedyoga
 
FREE Practice: Yoga for Women for MORE ENERGY | Release Emotions
Relevant Blog: How To Incorporate Somatic Coaching Into Your Yoga Practice
 
Relevant to Today's Episode:
🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery
🌀 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching 
💫 Somatic Certification
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#385 – The 5 Vayus: How Energy Moves Through Your Body (Part 1)
#391 – Vyana + Udana Vayu: Energetic Expression, Circulation + Embodiment
 
© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

When was the last time you memorized something on purpose?
Not a password, grocery list, or directions, but a piece of poetry, a prayer, a mantra, a sutra, or a verse that you carried with you in your mind.
In this episode, I'm exploring why memorization was once the original way ancient wisdom was passed down, and why it still matters now. We'll look at how memorizing meaningful words can train your attention, support your nervous system, strengthen your brain, and help wisdom become something you can actually return to in real life.
Inside this episode, I explore:
🔹 Why ancient texts like the Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, Vedas, Psalms, and Torah were designed to be remembered
🔹 How memorization turns passive reading into active spiritual practice
🔹 Why sacred words can become tools for nervous system regulation
🔹 How memorization becomes a countercultural act in the age of scrolling and endless information
This is part one of a two-part conversation. For now, I'm planting the seed: What words, prayer, poem, mantra, or verse might you want to carry in your heart?
💖 Want to shift what you're practicing and paying attention to? Join the Uplifted Membership: https://www.brettlarkin.com/uplifted/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=uplifted  
 
FREE Practice: Anti-Anxiety "Get Grounded FAST" Yoga Sequence (8-Min) - ALL LEVELS - Quick Yoga (10 Minute Yoga)
Relevant Blog: 15 Life-Changing Yoga Books To Deepen Your Yoga Practice
 
Relevant to Today's Episode:
🔮 History of Yoga
📖 Yoga Life Book
🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery
💖 Uplifted Membership
💫 Somatic Certification
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#370 – Yoga's Messy Origins: Understanding Yoga's Historical Context
#401 – Who Has Your Attention? Attention Economy vs the Ancient Path
#425 – How the Divine Speaks: Sacred Symbolism in the Gita, Bible & Upanishads Part 1
 
© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

So many of us think the next certification will finally make us feel clear, confident, or ready. But more information is not always the answer. Sometimes the real missing piece is integration.
In this restream episode, I'm talking about the certification trap, why your nervous system may be keeping you in "learn more" mode, and how to begin organizing your existing tools into a clear, repeatable method that actually supports your clients and your business.
We'll also look at why movement, somatic awareness, and embodied coaching can create a deeper kind of transformation than talking or mindset work alone.
If you're a yoga teacher, coach, healer, or wellness practitioner who has taken multiple trainings but still feels scattered, this episode is for you. Let's explore:
🔹 Why collecting more tools can sometimes become a freeze response
🔹 How embodied self-awareness differs from conceptual self-awareness
🔹 Why movement is essential for emotional release and somatic integration
🔹 The three pillars healers need to move forward
You don't need to do more. You need to do less, better. With structure, support, and a nervous system that feels safe enough to take action.
💗 Learn more about Embodied Yoga Life Coaching: https://www.brettlarkin.com/somatic-yoga-training-certification/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=eylc 
💎 Experience somatic yoga in this Embodied Yoga Workshop: https://www.brettlarkin.com/embodiedyoga?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=embodiedyoga
 
FREE Practice: MORNING YOGA FOR TIGHT HIPS & LOWER BACK | Stretches for Flexibility - Unleash Your Creative Energy✨
Relevant Blog: Top Somatic Coaching Programs And How To Choose One
 
Relevant to Today's Episode:
🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery
🌀 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching 
💫 Somatic Certification
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#299 – Strategies to Slay Imposter Syndrome and Share Your Gifts
#363 – How to Become a Magnet for Loyal Students & Own the Room with Confidence with Taylor Lorenz
#386 – Stop Selling Products—Start Selling YOU: Human Design for Visibility & Flow with Juliette Stapleton
 
© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

What happens when healing becomes another thing you're trying to achieve?
In this episode, I'm joined by my friend Bailee for a tender conversation about grief, the feminine, Shuniya, and the power of not fixing yourself.
We explore grief not as something you "get over," but as a living process to be felt, held, and slowly alchemized. Bailee shares how her journey led her into deeper stillness, sensory awareness, sound, archetype, and the feminine mystery.
This conversation asks: What if there is nothing to fix? What if the next step is learning how to listen differently?
Inside this episode, we explore:
🔹 Why grief is not something we complete, but something we learn to live with and honor
🔹 How Shuniya, or zero-point stillness, can create space for healing to land
🔹 Why "am I doing this to avoid a feeling?" and "am I doing this because I think I'm not enough?" are powerful questions
🔹 How simple rituals, sound, sensory awareness, and intentional contemplation can support integration
My hope is that this episode gives you permission to stop treating healing like a race.
You do not have to prove your worth through how much you process, achieve, fix, or overcome.
Sometimes the most sacred shift begins when you pause, listen, and let what has already been planted finally land.
🐍 If this conversation stirred something in you: Download your FREE Feminine Kundalini Starter Pack: https://www.brettlarkin.com/online-kundalini-yoga-teacher-training/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ku 
 
GUEST EXPERT: Bailee Buckendorf | @rebuilding.roots 
Bailee Buckendorf is a grief integration guide, contemplative writer, and founder of Sunia Shift. Her work weaves Kundalini yoga, archetypal practice, sacred ceremony, sound, somatics, and matriarchal wisdom to help people relate to grief not as something to fix, but as a source of knowing. Shaped by her own lived initiations as a widowed mother, ultra runner, and lifelong student of loss, Bailee supports individuals and groups through one-on-one containers, digital offerings, and seasonal experiences.
Book Mentioned: Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés https://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Run-Wolves-Archetype/dp/0345409876 
 
FREE Practice: KUNDALINI YOGA FOR EMOTIONAL RELEASE with Music 💜 Trauma Informed Yoga for Beginners 💜
Relevant Blog: The Best Somatic Exercises for Grief: Find Healing Through Movement
 
Relevant to Today's Episode:
🐍 Kundalini 200-hour YTT
💫 Yoga for Self Mastery
💖 Uplifted Membership
🌀 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching 
🎧 Also Listen to:
#281 – Grief as a Potent Healer with Kris Carr
#324 – The Importance of Emotional Processing and Regulation: DENT Model Trauma
#332 – 7 Ways to Release Anger & Grief Through Your Yoga Practice
 
© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com

Today's episode is another behind-the-scenes look, this time inside my 200-hour Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training.
This teaching comes from the Feminine Form Kundalini module, where we unpack what we mean by feminine energy. In yoga, tantra, and Kundalini, feminine energy isn't about gender or identity. It's archetypal energy, the Shakti current within all of us.
In this clip, I explore Shiva and Shakti, the light and dark feminine, and why both matter. I'll also look at how feminine energy becomes blocked, through over-control, disconnection from desire, difficulty receiving, and lack of boundaries.
Inside this episode, I explore:
🔹 Why feminine and masculine energy are archetypal forces, not gender roles
🔹 How Shakti and Shiva represent movement and stillness, life force and consciousness
🔹 The difference between light feminine and dark feminine energy
🔹 How feminine archetypes can deepen your Kundalini yoga practice
The feminine is not just softness. She is movement, desire, creation, destruction, renewal, and the living intelligence of the body itself.
🐍 Grab my FREE Feminine Form Kundalini Starter. It's a beautiful place to begin exploring feminine energy, Shakti, archetypes, and Kundalini practice in your own body: https://www.brettlarkin.com/online-kundalini-yoga-teacher-training/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ku 
 
FREE Practice: FEMININE KUNDALINI | Yoga for Women with Overwhelm & Fatigue 🥱 | ACTIVATE ADRENALS & KIDNEYS
Relevant Blog: Harnessing the Power of Kundalini Divine Feminine for Transformation
 
Relevant to Today's Episode:
🐍 Kundalini 200-hour YTT
🔮 Kundalini Demystified
✨ Yoga for Self Mastery
💖 Uplifted Membership
🎧 Also Listen to:
#305 – Female Archetypes of Leadership with Anodea Judith Ph.D
#312 – Is Your Masculine/Feminine Energy Balanced? Shiva, Shakti & Polarity Within You
#352 – Redefining Feminine Energy in Yoga & Ayurveda with Katie Silcox
 
© 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com