The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

Get ready for part two of explaining the chakra yantras. If you didn’t listen to part one, go back a few episodes and listen to that first. I previously discussed the geometric shapes associated with chakras 1, 2, & 3. Today I’m going to talk about the shapes that correspond to chakras 4 through 7. Let’s go over the unique symbols, associated elements, and the energies represented in each. Visualize or draw your own yantra as you listen to: 🔹A breakdown of the upper chakra yantras 🔹How the heart chakra integrates the upper and lower energy centers 🔹Why visualizing yantras can enhance your meditation or spiritual practice   💖Join the Uplifted Membership!  🌈  Discover your dominant chakra with my FREE dominant chakra test => https://www.brettlarkin.com/chakra-test/    FREE Practice: Kundalini Yoga For Morning: Kundalini Vinyasa For Upper Chakras Relevant Blog: The 7 Chakra Symbols Explained: Their Meaning & Shapes   Relevant to Today’s Episode: 🐍 Kundalini 200-hour YTT ✅ 200-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training 🔮 300-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training 🎧 Also Listen to: #275 – What Is a Kundalini Awakening - 3 Big Takeaways #341 – How To Balance Your 3rd Eye with Guru Singh #351 – Unlocking the Secrets of Chakras: Lower Chakra Symbols Explained   © 2025 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com  

Today I have the pleasure of talking to boss babe, Uplifted alumni & trainer, Carla Cline Thomas. Carla is a brilliant business strategist and one of the few business coaches I recommend to everyone. I love picking her brain on what trends she’s seeing in the industry and the future of marketing; and today is no exception. Carla and I discuss what marketing yourself in the wellness industry will look like for 2025. SPOILER: It’s not posting everyday. Take notes as Carla and I talk about: 🔹Why you need to niche down even further 🔹How there is plenty of room in the marketplace for new voices 🔹Being your authentic self leading to growth and sales 📘 Get your free yoga business plan and checklist: https://www.brettlarkin.com/businessplan?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=businessplan   GUEST EXPERT: Carla Cline Thomas | @carlaclinethomas Carla Cline Thomas is an experienced Performance, Mindset and Business Coach with 22 years of working in management, real estate, marketing, and sales. After years of leading teams, designing marketing campaigns, and creating trainings for corporate America, she became the branding strategist, business mentor, lead trainer, and go-to coach for new yoga teachers and wellness leaders. Carla helps visionary entrepreneurs and light workers turn their passion into profit to get what is in your head and heart out into the world in the most authentic way possible. Book with Carla: https://calendly.com/carlaclinethomas/yoga-biz-breakthrough-call FREE Practice: Somatic Yoga Workout for Beginners with Music 🎉 | Reduce Low Back Pain, Stress & Body Tension 💪🏽 Relevant Blog: How To Find Your Yoga Niche   Relevant to Today’s Episode: 📚 Uplifted Business Launchpad ✅ 200-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training 🔮 300-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training 🎧 Also Listen to: #299 – Strategies to Slay Imposter Syndrome and Share Your Gifts #313 – Social Media as a Vehicle for Your Awakening with Amanda Bucci #323 – Creating a Niche Brand as a Yoga Teacher with Yogi Bryan   © 2025 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com  

In honor of Heart Chakra Day(a.k.a. Valentine’s Day), I want to talk about gratitude. No matter where you’re at in your wellness journey I’m sure you’ve heard all about the benefits of a gratitude practice. But where did gratitude practices originate? Let’s look at how gratitude has shown up in texts like The Vedas and The Bhagavad Gita AND how you can approach your gratitude practice from a somatic lens. I’m going to answer questions like: 🔹How does a gratitude practice relate to your yoga practice? 🔹Is there more we can be doing than just writing things down? 🔹How can we actually cultivate the feeling of gratitude? PLUS I’m going to give you a new kind of gratitude practice to try at home!   🎁 Get my FREE $67 Somatic Self Healing Workshop => https://www.brettlarkin.com/ffy?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ffy    FREE Practice: Gratitude Meditation: How To Develop a Practice of Being Thankful (15-min) Relevant Blog: Progressive Muscle Relaxation Meets Yoga for Deep Sleep   Relevant to Today’s Episode: ✅ 200-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training 📚 Uplifted Abundance Journal & Guidebook ✨ Uplifted Chakra Journal 💖 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching  🎧 Also Listen to: #311 – Embodiment, Expression & Femininity with Alexandra Roxo #314 – Stop Abandoning Yourself By Leveraging Yoga & Meditation #351 – Unlocking the Secrets of Chakras: Lower Chakra Symbols Explained   © 2025 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com  

One of my dearest friends, and founder of Shakti School, Katie Silcox is back!! Today Katie and I are talking all things feminine. What is feminine energy? How does it appear and how do we embody it in yoga and ayurveda? Get all of these questions answered and learn more about feminine form kundalini, feminine ayurveda, and somatic movement. We’re having a heart to heart about: 🔹Why we need to access our feminine energy 🔹Working with the current of manifestation as opposed to the current of liberation 🔹Honoring the feminine in order to clear pathways for prana to flow more freely   💗Get Brett’s Free Somatic Yoga Workshop =>  https://www.brettlarkin.com/embodiedyoga   GUEST EXPERT: Katie Silcox | @theshaktischool | Podcast listeners get $100 off Ayurveda School Level 1 with discount code pod100 at registration checkout   Order Glow-Worthy by Katie Silcox here   Katie Silcox, M.A. is the New York Times Best-Selling author of the book Healthy, Happy, Sexy - Ayurveda Wisdom for Modern Women and the new book - Glow-Worthy. She is the founder of The Shakti School, a premier online certification school for women-centered holistic wellness that bridges functional medicine and eastern traditions. She holds a Masters degree in Ayurvedic Medicine and is a member of the National Ayurvedic Medicine Association. In her former life, she has been a researcher in Artificial Intelligence, a cover model for Yoga Journal magazine in Russia and the owner of a beach bar in Spain.    Sign up here for The Shakti School's Divine Feminine Ayurveda Mini-Course - a free 4 hour workshop! FREE Practice: FEMININE KUNDALINI | Yoga for Women with Overwhelm & Fatigue 🥱 | ACTIVATE ADRENALS & KIDNEYS Relevant Blog: How To Increase Feminine Energy And Reclaim Your Power   Relevant to Today’s Episode: 📖 Yoga Life Book  🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery 💖 Uplifted Membership 🔮 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching  🎧 Also Listen to: #284 – How to Love Your [Broken, Dark and Angry] Self with Katie Silcox #311 – Embodiment, Expression & Femininity with Alexandra Roxo #312 – Is Your Masculine/Feminine Energy Balanced? Shiva, Shakti & Polarity Within You   © 2025 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com  

You know the chakra colors, and probably what poses to do to activate them. But do you know each one’s yantra? Each chakra has a unique geometric symbol attached to it. Today I want to give you a detailed examination of the first three chakras yantras: the root chakra, sacral chakra, and solar plexus chakra and discuss their unique symbols, associated elements, and the energies they represent. Have some colorful pens and paper ready as we explore: 🔹The geometric shapes of chakras 1, 2, & 3 🔹Using mandalas as tools for meditation and self-exploration. 🔹The specific elements and energies of the lower three chakras   🌈  Discover your dominant chakra with my FREE dominant chakra test => https://www.brettlarkin.com/chakra-test/  FREE Practice: Get Grounded Meditation for Anxiety: Lower 3 Chakras Meditation (15-min) Relevant Blog: The 7 Chakra Symbols Explained: Their Meaning & Shapes   Relevant to Today’s Episode: 🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery 💖 Uplifted Membership 🎧 Also Listen to: #143 – Chakras, Archetypes & Your Spiritual Identity - Conversation with Erica Jago #297 – What is Samkhya Philosophy and How is it Different from Yoga? #303 – The 7 Chakras as a Tool for Personal Growth   © 2025 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com  

Today I have the pleasure of talking to Uplifted alum Corinne Maples. Corinne has taken ALL of the Uplifted training programs, from 200-hour to Embodied Yoga Life Coaching, and uses the skills she learned not only with her clients but in her everyday life. Corinne and I explore how to live your yoga through “kriya yoga.” We debunk self-care myths and explain how frivolous fun can lead to a more balanced life.  Tune in as we discuss: 🔹The key to maintaining a positive mindset 🔹Healing the nervous system and setting boundaries 🔹How to focus on personal joy rather than societal expectations   💗 Get Yoga for Self Mastery ON SALE NOW => https://www.brettlarkin.com/yoga-for-self-mastery/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ysm  GUEST EXPERT: Corinne Maples (RYT 500)  |  @maplesyoga Corinne has been doing yoga since 2011 and has practiced every style of yoga under the sun, loving them all for different reasons; leading her to go through Uplifted 200 and 300 hr YTT as well as additional training in kundalini, chair, and prenatal yoga. In 2024, Corinne also became a certified Embodied Yoga Life Coach, working one on one with people to help move energy, release stuck patterns and become more embodied.   She loves to help people maximize their yoga practice by giving them access to potent practices that can be done in as little as 15-30 min.   Corinne teaches one on one Embodied Yoga Life Coaching privates, workshops, corporate classes, and retreats.    Book an Intro Session with Corrine: https://bookme.name/Mapleswellness/eylc-session    For more information on her offerings please reach out to maplesyoga@gmail.com   Beverages mentioned: Kroma Wellness Pique The Fullest   FREE Practice: Somatic Yoga Full Body | Healing Somatic Exercises for Lowering Cortisol, Hip, Neck & Shoulder Pain Relevant Blog: How To Fall In Love With Yourself: 7 Daily Practices   Relevant to Today’s Episode: 📖 Yoga Life Book  🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery 🔮 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching  🎧 Also Listen to: #260 – Killing The Self Care Buzzword #271 – What is Kriya Yoga? How Does it Work? #314 – Stop Abandoning Yourself By Leveraging Yoga & Meditation   © 2025 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com  

It’s a new year, and while making resolutions can be a great motivator to utilize this energy and create big shifts; it's easy to fall off the yoga bandwagon. I want to give you seven practical strategies to find a practice that you can rely on. Let's talk about the importance of not just lowering, but evolving expectations, embracing consistency over perfection, and finding personal anchor practices.  Listen and find out why you should…  🔹Evolve your expectations for what your yoga practice looks like. 🔹Start with pleasurable experiences to engage with your practice. 🔹Have ready-to-go classes to eliminate decision fatigue.    📝 Download the Yoga For Self Mastery Syllabus => https://www.brettlarkin.com/yoga-for-self-mastery/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ysm    💗Get my book Yoga Life: Habits, Poses and and Breathwork to Channel Joy Amidst the Chaos => https://brettlarkin.com/yoga-life-book?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=&utm_term=yogalife-book    FREE Practice: Beginner Gentle Yoga for Flexibility That You Can Do Anytime Relevant Blog: Yoga To Connect With Your Body For Mind-Body Harmony Relevant to Today’s Episode: 🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery 💖 Uplifted Membership 📖 Yoga Life Book    🎧 Also Listen to: #264 – How is Kundalini Yoga Different from Hatha/Vinyasa Yoga? #279 – Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Summary – BOOK ONE Explained #282 – Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Summary – BOOK TWO Explained #318 – What Is Somatic Yoga?   © 2025 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com  

Today I chat with author, speaker, coach and modern ambassador for ancient magic, Mia Magik. Mia dives into the historical, cultural, and personal aspects of the witch wound, providing insights on how it affects expression, sexuality, creativity, and business. Mia also shares practical tips for overcoming the witch wound and embracing authenticity and leadership.   Tune in and learn: 🔹The witch wound refers to the historical and cultural suppression of women's wisdom, expression, and power 🔹Overcoming the witch wound involves embracing authenticity, vulnerability, and reclaiming personal power 🔹Reclaiming the sacredness of the moon cycle can lead to a transformative experience and a deeper connection to intuition   🎁 Get my FREE $67 Somatic Self Healing Workshop => https://www.brettlarkin.com/ffy?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ffy  GUEST EXPERT: Mia Banducci | www.miamagik.com  Mia Magik is an author, speaker, and coach, serving as a modern ambassador for ancient magik. On a mission of permission, she ignites the Wisdom of our IntuWitchin, inviting the liberation of your most magikal self through spiritual transfiguration. Purifying the wounds from patriarchal programming so you can attune to the voice of your inner guidance system. Over the past decade, Mia has immersed herself in the study of yoga, meditation, Buddhism, Kabbalah, ceremonial magik, Tarot, and spiritual medicines. Mia has empowered thousands of people to realize, utilize, and reconnect with their infinite spiritual abilities through her Academy of Magikal Artistry, books, retreats, and 1:1 coaching. Find Us: @larkinyogatv | @miamagik Find Mia on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_wts55XbgCLWzNMqbvheVQ    FREE Practice: SACRED FEMININE FLOW YOGA WITH MUSIC | 10 Minute Full Moon Yoga Relevant Blog: Yoga to Connect with Feminine Energy: 5 Transformative Practices   Relevant to Today’s Episode: 🔮 300-hour Online Yoga Teacher Training 🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery 💖 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching  🎧 Also Listen to: #258 – Reclaim Your Period as Sacred with Cassandra Wilder #311 – Embodiment, Expression & Femininity with Alexandra Roxo #312 – Is Your Masculine/Feminine Energy Balanced? Shiva, Shakti & Polarity Within You   © 2025 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com  

Somatic practices are trending, but do you know where this mind-body practice originated? Today I want to explore the history and principles of somatic yoga. How it emphasizes the importance of the mind-body connection and the role of emotional release in your physical practice. From influential figures in the somatic space to common misconceptions.   Learn how to connect with your body on a deeper level as we look at how: 🔹Sensory awareness is crucial for understanding our body and emotions. 🔹Traditional yoga often focuses on transcendence, while somatic yoga emphasizes connection to the body 🔹Pleasure and fun can enhance the healing process in somatic practices   💗Get My Free Somatic Yoga Workshop =>  https://www.brettlarkin.com/embodiedyoga    🎉Join the 2025 Evolve Somatic Challenge and invite a friend => https://www.brettlarkin.com/evolve/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=evolve  FREE Practice: Somatic Yoga Full Body | Healing Somatic Exercises for Lowering Cortisol, Hip, Neck & Shoulder Pain Relevant Blog: What Is Somatic Healing? Healing Techniques And How They Work   Relevant to Today’s Episode: 🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery 💖 Uplifted Membership 🔮 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching  🎧 Also Listen to: #324 – The Importance of Emotional Processing and Regulation: DENT Model Trauma #330 – Somatic Yoga vs. Traditional Yoga: Breaking Down How 5 Poses Differ in your Yoga Practice   © 2025 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com  

🎄 Merry Christmas to those who celebrate!  If you’re like me you’ve had a crazy busy day; watching the kids open gifts, baking and cooking all the yummy things, and then cleaning it all up 🥴. It can be totally exhausting. So today I want you to take 20 minutes for yourself, lie down, get comfortable, and listen to this guided nidra. The benefits of yoga nidra span far beyond stress relief and profound relaxation. It’s one of the most loved styles of yoga and can be beneficial to everyone. So if you’ve never done yoga nidra, today is the perfect day to start. 💖Join the Uplifted Membership! Thank you for your support!   🎉Sign Up for the 2025 Evolve Somatic Challenge => https://www.brettlarkin.com/evolve/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=evolve    Relevant Blog: Try This 30-Minute Yoga Nidra Script for Deep Sleep and Relaxation [+ Video]   Relevant to Today’s Episode: 📖 Yoga Life Book  🐍 Yoga for Self Mastery 🎧 Also Listen to: #336 – Deep Inside Yoga Nidra with Caley Alyssa © 2024 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com