Yogi's Heart

Yogi's Heart

14 Episodes

Start the Yogi’s Heart guide to learn the foundations for living with an open heart through heart-opening yoga and meditation practices.

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Yogi's Heart
  • Day 1: Open

    Episode 1

    A fast-paced class to open your heart and help you find trust in yourself.

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  • Day 2: Compassion

    Episode 2

    Meditation Practice: Developing Compassion for Oneself.

    Why is it so hard to develop loving kindness toward ourselves? Our hearts are sensitive. They get wounded, bruised, broken. Today, you’ll learn how to love yourself back into an open heart by developing compassion for yourself. For if you h...

  • Day 3: Happy

    Episode 3

    Abundance begins with gratitude. When we’re cultivating a spacious heart, we can feel the connection between each and every element within our lives — we are, in every way — connected, not separate. A healthy body is actually an offering to the universe, one that brings forth a heart filled with ...

  • Day 4: Positive

    Episode 4

    Meditation Practice: Growing and Sustaining Positive Feelings.

    It’s time to dissolve perceived boundaries. As we all know, sometimes it’s difficult to stay vulnerable with challenging people or situations – our heart seems to close and then we lose our power. This meditation develops our ability...

  • Day 5: Healing Heartbreak

    Episode 5

    Concentrate on the intricacies of opening the heart in the midst of intensity. As we’re physically “scrubbing out” resistance to an open heart, we’ll focus on the back side of the heart through backbends — creating physical space in this region may even break loose old patterns for which we’ve lo...

  • Day 6: Loving Kindness

    Episode 6

    Meditation Practice: Extending Loving Kindness Universally.

    How do we move past our belief that we’re separate from others and from everything that is? This is an ancient and beloved practice called Metta Meditation. This meditation takes courage, dropping the armor of separation and opening our...

  • Day 7: Heartbeat

    Episode 7

    Yoga Practice: In a Heartbeat Vinyasa Yoga.

    Remember to allow one practice to inform the next. As you learn about loving kindness with Greg, try to bring this insight into your physical practice. By working with generosity and gratitude in meditation and in yoga, we’re able to integrate and expr...

  • Day 8: Calm

    Episode 8

    Yoga Practice: Calm Down.

    As we’re learning in our meditations, relaxing into the heart through joy, gratitude, and compassion is a powerful tool for staying open. Such practice helps us reduce our resistance and encourages us to confidently keep our emotions open to whatever life brings.

  • Day 9: Deepen

    Episode 9

    Meditation Practice: Developing Compassion for Oneself.

    Pay special attention to the sensations in your heart when you settle down and invite the image of loving kindness, your 5-year-old self. Really connect and let go into this gentle presence and feel the love, generosity, and joy that surrou...

  • Day 10: Ganesha

    Episode 10

    Yoga Practice: Ganesha the Gatekeeper.

    Today’s practice is a special story and a powerful hip-opening series that teaches us how to liberate emotions to flow through our bodies. By remaining dedicated to our open heart — to feeling and relaxing into anything that arises — we strengthen our abili...

  • Day 11: Grow

    Episode 11

    Meditation Practice: Growing and Sustaining Positive Feelings.

    Let’s practice the “Art of Goodwill” today and extend our open heart to the beings who surround us. Once again, closely attend to the sensations in your heart as you expand to include those whom you may not ordinarily invite in.

  • Day 12: Soak In

    Episode 12

    Yoga Practice: Taste the Nectar.

    As we’ve learned in our meditations with Greg, we often have a difficult time being gentle with ourselves. But gentle doesn’t mean weak. We need a little extra support as we train our bodies, minds, and hearts to remain vulnerable and soft; this self-nourishment ...

  • Day 13: Extend

    Episode 13

    Meditation Practice: Extending Loving Kindness Universally.

    Today we’ll expand once again to include all the universe within the vastness of our heart. From this place, move into the world. As Greg suggests in his meditation, walk with an open heart and bring this to each and every person you i...

  • Day 14: Love

    Episode 14

    Yoga Practice: I Am Love.

    Today’s practice closes our journey together. Remember that it’s important to extend our open heart outward, ultimately to universal love, compassion, joy, and gratitude. It’s also important to remember what love feels like physically in our bodies, as a tool to return ...