Hari-kirtana das

Inspiration and Resources for Yoga Teachers

Hari-kirtana das on

Podcasts

Hari-kirtana das on

Podcasts

Want to book Hari-kirtana as a guest on your podcast?

CLICK HERE

Nov. 6, 2019

With Chris Parkison on DC Yoga Podcast

In Part One of this two-part interview, Hari-kirtana das speaks with Chris about finding yoga as a teenager, yoga and the counter culture of the 1960's, seeing reality as a person, learning yoga as spiritual philosophy rather than as a physical practice, living in the Hare Krishna Temple in NYC, yoga as spiritual technology and science, Jivamukti yoga, travels in India, getting started as a yoga teacher in DC, weaving philosophy into the asana practice, and how to practice different forms of meditation.

Nov. 20, 2019

With Chris Parkison on DC Yoga Podcast

In Part Two, Hari speaks with Chris about Yoga Teacher Training Programs, learning to develop your unique gift as a yoga teacher, practical tips and tricks of yoga teaching trade craft, active listening as Yoga, cultural appropriation, how attachment to identity leads to the insistence of ownership, the origins of yoga in transcendence not culture, the mistake of reinventing yoga to fit our desires, yoga as religion or science or both, teaching yoga in public schools and the separation of church and state, and the meaning of dharma.

Nov. 20, 2017

The Values of Bhakti Yoga (Vaisnava Values)

Unlike yoga systems that encourage absolute renunciation of the world, Bhakti-yoga considers engagement with the world to be an essential component of our personal spiritual development. This is why, in the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna encourages Arjuna to engage with his enemies rather than leave the battlefield. In this talk, Hari-kirtana das describes six principal values of Bhakti-yoga and demonstrate how we can translate these values into clearly defined strategies for spiritually uplifting social engagement.

September 9, 2017

With Jacob Kyle on CHITHEADS Podcast

In this conversation with Jacob Kyle, Hari-kirtana speaks about Bhakti-yoga as the process of awakening the relationship between the self (atma)and the Supreme Self (Paramatma), the differences and similarities between the teachings of Krishna and those of Jesus, why the practice of Yoga is not post-modern, the relationship between faith and knowledge, the five functions of Yoga Philosophy, and the four Pillars of Dharma.

August 17, 2016

With Shivani Howe on The Living Yoga Show

Part One of a two-part conversation: Hari and Shivani talk about the taboos of the yoga world, gurus, cults, love, language, seeking, yoga, living a spiritual life, and lots more.

August 25, 2016

With Shivani Howe on The Living Yoga Show

In Part Two of a wonderful conversation, Hari and Shivani continue to talk about the taboos of the yoga world, gurus, cults, love, language, seeking, yoga, living a spiritual life, and lots more.

August 31, 2016

With Michelle Linane on the Love Teaching Yoga Podcast

In this episode, Michelle speaks to Hari-kirtana about how yoga teachers can integrate yoga philosophy into classes and workshops. Topics include Hari’s seamless structure for introducing a philosophical theme, how to format your class around that theme, the difference between your personal truth and personal realization (and why your personal truth is not yoga wisdom), what makes a teacher qualified to teach yoga philosophy, how to overcome imposter syndrome, two easy tips to feel more comfortable speaking in public, things to avoid when integrating philosophy into your teaching, and why humility is a mandatory pre-requisite for knowledge and the first symptom of wisdom.

August 31, 2016

With Michelle Linane

on the Love Teaching Yoga Podcast

In this episode, Michelle speaks to Hari-kirtana about how yoga teachers can integrate yoga philosophy into classes and workshops. Topics include Hari’s seamless structure for introducing a philosophical theme, how to format your class around that theme, the difference between your personal truth and personal realization (and why your personal truth is not yoga wisdom), what makes a teacher qualified to teach yoga philosophy, how to overcome imposter syndrome, two easy tips to feel more comfortable speaking in public, things to avoid when integrating philosophy into your teaching, and why humility is a mandatory pre-requisite for knowledge and the first symptom of wisdom.

Want to book Hari-kirtana as a guest on your podcast?

CLICK HERE