The Yoga Hour

Connect: How to Love and Serve the One in All

Yogacharya O'Brian and Swami Nirvananda Saraswati, a monk whose music builds schools for children in need, talk about how to let your heart lead you into serving and making a difference.
 

Open Your Heart, Change Your Life

Join host Dr. Laurel Trujillo and Frank Ostaseski, the author of The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully, for a conversation on how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of our mortality can bring us closer to our truest selves. How do we embrace the uncertainty of life and still live with joy, peace, and acceptance?

Stay Healthy by Aligning With Nature’s Cycles

Ayurvedic specialist Dr. Vivek Shanbhag notes that natural cycles, such as the seasons and cycles of the moon, affect our health and consciousness. Shanbhag joins Dr. Laurel Trujillo for a discussion on how to improve our health and expand our consciousness by aligning with the cycles of nature.

What Are You Hungry For? Healing Our Relationship With Food

Sarahjoy Marsh, author of Hunger, Hope, and Healing, joins Dr. Laurel Trujillo to discuss yogic practices that can transform our relationship with food from suffering to compassion and hopefulness. How can yoga help us to heal our relationship with food, eating, and body image?

Yoga for Grief Relief

Antonio Sausy, author of Yoga for Grief Relief, joins cohost Dr. Laurel Trujillo as they discuss how yoga practices support us in times of grief and loss, and provide an opportunity for self-transformation. Yoga can help us move through grief to rediscover our wholeness.

Optimize Your Health

How do we recognize when we are out of balance and make corrections to restore optimal health? Yoga therapist and professor Amy Wheeler, Ph.D., joins Dr. Laurel Trujillo to discuss how we can use self-care practices to reclaim our balance and well-being.

Living Yoga, Living Wholeness

Kriya yoga is described in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras as self-discipline, self-inquiry, and surrender to God. Join Dr. Laurel Trujillo and Paula Whang-Ramos as they discuss how these teachings can bring us back to wholeness—a life filled with peace, joy, and deep contentment.

Be Resilient: Connect With Your Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

How can we feel less stressed and stay calm and centered in the face of adversity? Join Dr. Laurel Trujillo and her special guest Dr. Rick Hanson, author of Resilient, as they explore clear, practical steps to get in touch with our inner strengths of grit, gratitude, and compassion.

Moving Toward Peace

How can we navigate life’s challenging times and find our way to peace? Dean Sluyter, author of Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction, joins cohost Dr. Laurel Trujillo to discuss simple meditative practices to ease body, mind, and soul.

Awaken Your Heart

To awaken our heart is to embody the divine love and joy that is part of our soul nature. Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian, director of The Yoga Hour, joins Dr. Laurel Trujillo to share poetry and practices that open our hearts and deepen our ability for love and compassion.