A lumen is the basic unit for measuring brightness. It is a measure of the total quantity of visible light emitted by a source. In biology, a lumen (plural lumina) is the inside space of a tubular structure, such as an artery or intestine. It comes from Latin lumen, meaning ‘an opening.’ Kendra is dedicated to each individual’s personal process of living a life in service to their greatest Lumen. Her work is an experiential inquiry into limitation and freedom in our bodies and our lives. She ...
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WHAT IS A SHIATSU TREATMENT WITH KENDRA RENZONI LIKE? In this episode I share about what a shiatsu treatment with me is like! With all the training, studying and ongoing discovery that I have through my experiences with my own healing and through sessions with others, my shiatsu treatments have been undergoing some change. This is currently what sh…
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PRACTICES FOR SELF REGULATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
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This is a recording of a class I taught as an opening class to the winter Foundation Training series of 2024. I talk about why I have decided to start the 2024 winter courses with a class purely on self-regulation tools before getting into any of the physical practices. I share personal stories of self-regulation in some heated moments, all about e…
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This is a recording of a class I taught as an opening class to the winter Foundation Training series of 2024. This episode starts with the class settling in and getting all the comfy blankets and supplies out to really sink in together. Then I talk about why I have decided to start the 2024 winter courses with a class purely on self-regulation tool…
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WHAT IS A SHIATSU TREATMENT WITH KENDRA RENZONI LIKE?
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In this episode I talk about what the structure of a Shiatsu treatment is currently like when you come to see me! Check in - What's alive in life right now? Coming into the "Felt Sense" Resourcing Reflecting back: What I hear from an elemental perspective What organs / channels I think I may treat and why Getting comfortable Guided meditation to se…
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In this podcast I link our ability to let go with our relationship to uncertainty and our sense of self worth. Where we are in the cycle of 5 elements Uncertainty The nightmare Bringing consciousness to the unconscious Worry Fear and anxiety Becoming present Opening up to possibility Letting go Past Failures, rejections, abandonment Value Good enou…
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TRANSFORMING RESISTANCE TO STABILITY
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TRANSFORMING RESISTANCE TO STABILITY: In this podcast I talk about the opportunity inside of feeling resistance. How resistance can be a door opening instead of a door closing. The role of the nervous system The breath Creating a bullet-proof nervous system The process of training ourselves to allow and to relax into discomfort Working with fear. T…
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IN THIS PODCAST I TALK ABOUT: – Our difficulties are our best teachers, but only if we know how to learn from them. – Wounding in Childhood, being disliked – Conscious engagement with our pain – The heart and the mind – How to use experience as fodder for the work – Taking the lessons from our practice out into life – Resistance, preferences, accep…
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DISEASE: IT'S AN INSIDE JOB. In this podcast I talk about realizing that the locus of control is on the inside and how we can affect our health and life through emotions / internal conditions. I explore how we can affect things like cancer, disease, and sickness through emotional processes by linking emotions to cellular health. I explore the impor…
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In this Podcast: Feelings have a beginning, middle, and an end. Exhaustion can come from a feeling that hasn't been fully felt. Our body is our unconscious, any good practice will reveal what is there. When the unconscious comes up to the surface it is an opportunity for healing. We often experience resistance to feeling this stuff and develop stra…
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CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY: In this episode I talk about working with resistance in a way that can put us in touch with the feelings that keep us stuck and feeling dead in our lives. These feelings can keep us stuck in suffering or they can be a flood gate into coming alive. Learning to feel things we "don't want to feel" can put us in touch with our tr…
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PAIN AS A BRIDGE: WAKING UP Reacting and responding What's under the story Inside and outside Experiencing the pain Becoming sensative Resistance and Acceptance Pema Chodron on Warrior Slogans Ezra Bayda on the "Substitute Life" Sealskin / Soulskin Using pain to bring ourselves back homeBy Kendra Renzoni
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IN THIS PODCAST: Prep talk for my Fall Series The Tao Spacial Imagination Facilitating Healing Working with emotions during practice Equanimity Breath work as part of the warm up Warm-ups... and whyBy Kendra Renzoni
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SPRING BIRTH / RE-BIRTH: FALL / METAL WINTER DREAM SPRING RE-BIRTH THE ALCHEMIST COURSE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED WITHIN ARMS REACH TURNING BASE METALS TO GOLD TRANSFORMATION - WEAVE TOGETHER TO CREATE SOMETHING NEW THE PHOENIX RISING OLD WOMAN PORCUPINE GARMET MYTH RESILIENCE WITH PROCESS OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION FOUNDATION TRAINING THE SUPP…
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IN THIS PODCAST: I cover the story of the 5 elements, what each element is associated with psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually, and how that relates to life. I also cover traits of each element as they are found in ourselves and the people we know. This is very storyteller style with personal experience of living the elements. Yay! Water …
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CHANGE AND COMMITMENT: GOING BEYOND GOOD ENOUGH, VALUE, WORTH, RIGHT & WRONG IN THIS PODCAST: GIVING YOURSELF THE SPACE TO GO THROUGH CHANGE INTROVERSION & EXTROVERSION IT GETS SO BAD WE OPEN UP TO MAKING A CHANGE CLINGING TO SAFETY BUT BEING DEAD INSIDE VULNERABILITY INITIAL STAGES OF MAKING A CHANGE COMMITTMENT WHY MAKE A COMMITMENT THE ISSUES TH…
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IN THIS PODCAST: Water Element Wood Element Comparison & Measuring Sticks Monkey Experiment Giving Others Power Inner Critic Alignment with our Heart Shame Sharing our story Healing is Strength / Power Developing Equanimity Faith Money Abandonment & Existential Loneliness Inadequacy and Unavailability Oneness Willingness to take risk Opening up…
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This podcast covers: Knee Dislocation The ways we get stuck Getting clear on intention Working with pain Trusting yourself more than "experts" Working with Despair Recovery capacity greatly increases when moving forward with heart "Demon Voices" Recognizing it in ourself Gaining capacity to work with bigger and bigger traumas Trauma Letting Go Atta…
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LIFE TAKES PRACTICE: SUTRA 1.5 THIS PODCAST COVERS: Sutra 1.5: vrtayah pancatayya klistaklishta There are 5 states of mind, some create suffering and some are born of insight and they culminate in liberation Definitions of each sanskrit word Specific feelings that tell us we are either using detrimental or liberating thought patterns The Five Klesa…
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MASTERY IN THE PLACES THAT SCARE YOU
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This Track Covers: - Getting to the Roots of Beliefs - Equanimity - Faith - Shenpa, Getting Hooked and Our Ego - Samskaras - "Wrong" Mind Frame - Leaning In, Instead of Avoiding Pain - Using Triggers as a Doorway / An Opening - Yoga Sutra 1.4 - Understanding Yoga Philosophy on how the mind works - Beingness - Identifying as Awareness or Identifying…
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Talking about Impermanence before class last night PLUS beautiful John O'Donohue Poem.By Lumen
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This is an excerpt from classes this week on both the water element, fear, letting go into the unknown, and loneliness, as well as the role of the heart, connection, boundaries, and being held by the universal group heart. "Your heart has a great connection to the universal group heart, way bigger than the small personal circles of humans. Letting …
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In classes this week we explore the how getting your needs met makes it easy to let go of attachments that don't serve your heart as well as looking at ourselves through our hearts and not through judgment and how doing this helps us digest our lives. In class we are doing twists to help the body digest and move through things too!…
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In class today we talked about how beliefs change how we see reality... then on conditional love, insecurity, judgements, and THEN on what is most important and aligning with that.By Lumen
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Savasana on reality and being with what is.... just being. Inspiration: Sutra 1.16 tatparam purusakhyateh gunavaitrsnyam "The ultimate renunciation is when one transcends the qualities of nature and perceives the soul." - BKS IyengarBy Lumen
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Dharma talk today on reality and being with what is.... just being. Inspiration: Sutra 1.16 tatparam purusakhyateh gunavaitrsnyam "The ultimate renunciation is when one transcends the qualities of nature and perceives the soul." - BKS IyengarBy Lumen
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In this class we explore "being," coming from this place of wanting the life that we have. We look at the feeling of the "grass is greener" somewhere else, wanting a different life, different body, different situation, the fear of missing out, and the belief that happiness could be here if only this "______" wasn't here. Then we explore the ideas o…
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EARTH: YOU CANNOT BE CENTERED UNLESS YOU GET YOUR NEEDS MET
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In this class we talk about getting grounded! Summer 2015By Lumen
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EARTH: GIVING, RECEIVING, AND GETTING ENOUGH NOURISHMENT
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More on being centered and grounded! Giving and receiving and getting enough nourishment. Summer 2015By Lumen
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In this class we talk about being grounded and centered. Getting our needs met even when it's inconvenient for everyone else. Late Summer 2015By Lumen
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In this class we talk about the decent of the winter time and how scary that can feel do those of us who get depressed. We talk about the balance of life... of thinking and intellectualizing it all... then we move into just feeling and being. We do backbends to get that inner fire and relationship to ourselves, our passion, and connection to the wa…
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"Whatever you are meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible." - Doris Lessing In this class we talk about authority, discipline, shame and guilt... and what it's like to just give yourself what you really want. What is possible if you stop denying yourself what you really want?By Lumen
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In this class we talk about the Buddha's comparison between the banana tree and the ego, comparison to others, perception of reality, and of the ego's swings from high-and-mighty to low and fermenting. Then we move to just being mystery... meeting mystery to mystery.By Lumen
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Class on Tuesday April 19! Inspired by Sutra 1.5 We looked at pain and our relationship to it. Then moved through our practice with kindness, the kind of kindness to oneself that comes from an understanding of impermanence, from the pain of losing the things we love, and of deep understanding and knowing that we all suffer and we share in sorrow; t…
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In this class we talk about the obstacles to: -living aligned with truth -connected to the heart -presence Game on!By Lumen
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In this class I talk about letting all of life in... creating the conditions for wisdom to arise. Inspired by Sutras 1.30 - 1.32 in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. "The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is wh…
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Last public class at Karoun yoga... The perfection of Asana and the discipline of practice are not done so that we may hold on better, but rather so that we may learn to let go better. The purpose of discipline is to liberate ourselves, not to rigidly and exhaustingly grip onto form, structure or belief, but to suddenly find ourselves inhabiting sp…
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In this class we explore self-worth and value and our tendency to seek outside of ourselves for affirmation of our "goodness" or "bad-ness." I share a story about the Buddha, the first 4 yoga sutras, a reading, some self inquiry / a practice, and some sing'in!By Lumen
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In this dharma talk, I talk about receiving THIS life, living in alignment with the heart. How earth --centered, grounded, integrated -- gives us ease in transition and in letting go. I talk about transitioning out of old patterns of beliefs and thoughts that put us in conflict within ourselves. The conflict causes a dissipation of energy... and ab…
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Intro to Backbends - Playing With Fire Learning to use pain as a pivot point into freedom emotionally and physically. Breaking Patterns of Suffering - Opening up to Freedom - How are we using our power? To create more suffering? OR are we using it in really nourishing ways? Ways that are about a life of meaning and purpose that is linked to our tru…
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A guided relaxation for learning to take yourself out of Fight or Flight and into Rest and Digest. At first, learning to pull yourself out of fear and aversion takes awhile, both with learning to relax but also with letting go of our attachment to being afraid. However, with practice, one can do this in seconds and one begins to realize all the cla…
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A class on backbends and heart openers! All about the heart! -Philosophy -Auspicious Place -Individual Expression -Universal Expression -Purusa and Prakriti -Development of the Heart Chakra -Depression -Chemical Changes from BackBending -The Meridians in the ArmsBy LUMEN
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The hilarious journey of being a yoga teacher and navigating "spiritual-new-age" jargon!By LUMEN
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Here's to being unprofessional, not knowing, not being the expert... letting go of assumptions, fixed views, perceptions, judgements and ideas in favor of....going on a pilgrimage! in China, there was a teacher named Dizang who had a student named Fayan. Dizang saw Fayan all dressed in his traveling clothes, with his straw sandals and his staff, an…
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This podcast is about living according to our core values and a lot of the challenges that come with that, as well as making a life out of the life we have been given. Core Values Alignment Being Fully Ourselves Fear Obstacles On The Way Taking Risks Falling In Love Exhaustion Being OK With Whatever Life Gives Us Making Lemonade from Lemons Finding…
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A dharma talk about commitment and holding that gateway of hope open in the face of disappointment, failure, shame, fear, and doubt.By LUMEN
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This Track Hits On: Home Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)/ Seperate-ness Equanimity with desire, aversion, and neutral The Monarch butterfly journey Staying true to what's most important within all the emotional ups and downs The mantra: The opening invocation of the Isha Upanishad, a Sanskrit text that delves into the knowledge of the Self Pronunciation…
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IN THIS TRACK: History of yoga About the first yoga sutra Using the philosophy to create presence with difficult emotions Emotional landscape Equanimity Compassion Developing the capacity to "be with"By LUMEN
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This Podcast Covers: Sutra 1.2: Yoga Citta Vrtti Nirodah The meaning of each individual sanskrit word in Sutra 1.2 The meaning of them all together The definition of Yoga The difference between Purusa and Prakriti What the Citta is What is Suffering What is Acceptance Reading from Nisargadatta on Pain Reading from Adyashanti on Depth Learning to wo…
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