Mysore Yoga Paris – Closer Together
Welcome to Mysore Yoga Paris – Closer Together, a collaboration between yoga- pranayama- and meditation teacher Kia Naddermier and sound artist Yotam Agam. These podcasts are our way of supporting your practice, helping to create an inner Shala where we can always meet and move closer together as a community.
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Episodes
30 episodes
The Other Shore – Musings on the Heart Sutra
Recited daily in Mahayana temples throughout the world, The Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra or The Sutra of the Heart of Transcendent Knowledge is one of the most well known Buddhist teachings and is said to be the view t...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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13:43
Meditation: Balancing Solar & Lunar Swara
This meditation explores bringing our Swara - the flow through our right solar and left lunar streams of consciousness - into balance. In yoga this is traditionally done through harmonising the flow through our left and right...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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27:09
Body Scan for an Attuned Practice
An embodied approach to yoga requires us to learn our body's subtle language so we can attune what and how to practice to care for its changing nature. Opening and closing with a Body Scan is a powerful way to strengthen our capacit...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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14:06
Resonance Breathing
Resonance frequency breathing is a very simple, yet powerful practice for restoring balance in our body, breath, heart and mind. The word resonance is defined as synchronicity or harmony between elements. It’s a way of breathing ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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10:55
Meditation: Listening Deeply
Kia opens our meditation by sharing a quote from electronic music composer Pauline Olivero's work Quantum Listening. It's an invitation to listen with care and attention. Listening deeply in this way sheds light on the invisib...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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12:10
Savasana: A Journey into the Rain Forest
We invite you for a Savasana-Journey: A divine relaxation that takes us to Mother India, the homeland of yogic practices & ancient wisdom teachings. We travel deep into a protected rain forest in Karnataka. In the lush soundscape of the...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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13:01
Meditation: Shamatha Practice
Shamatha means Calm Abiding or Peacefully Remaining and is the foundation of Buddhist Mindfulness Practice. Taking our seat and placing our attention on an anchor such as the breath, offers us a home ground, a saf...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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16:10
Sound Journey: The Retreat
In this episode we are taking you on a sound journey to one of my retreats in the Spanish mountains where you find our Mountain Shala. We go here to retreat and to practice deeply. But also...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:17:10
Meditation: Saṁkalpa
In our previous episode, we shared a talk on Saṁkalpa recorded live in our Borderless Online Shala. The Meditation you are about to hear was recorded during the same session. So we invit...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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13:26
Talk: Saṁkalpa – An Intention Formed by the Heart
This talk on Saṁkalpa is a live recording from our Borderless Online Shala, held only days after the passing of zen master Thich Nhath Hahn. The talk was followed by a meditation on the ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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9:18
Meditation: Breathing Into Wholeness
The tendency of our distracted mind is to be scattered and cut off from the direct, physical sensations of our body. When we are caught in thinking of the future or past, we leave the nowness of our breathing body. Our body and mind separate fr...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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19:23
Soundscape: The Breath Space
The Breath Space opens with Kia taking us through a short breath awareness practice where we awaken to the Pranic & Apanic patterns that cause the shape and pulse of our body to change with each breath. With f...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:19:17
Meditation: The Breath in the Belly
The most direct portal to presence comes through being awake in our body. Many people think of meditation as a practice solely for the mind, reaching some alternative, transcendent state. But mindfulness meditation is above all a fully embodied...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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18:46
Savasana: 108 OM
It´s time to take rest. We prepare our Savasana as if for our most beloved in life. Offering this gift of care and kindness to ourselves. The practice of Savasana is passive, receptive. We allow ourselves to be held unconditionally. Our nest, a...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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22:05
Meditation on Sound
Perhaps the most accessible gateway to begin a meditation practice is through Mindfulness of Sound. Sounds are always happening in the present moment, they arise, change and dissolve. We cultivate a sense of spaciousness for sounds ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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18:59
Talk: One Year in our Borderless Shala
This is a live recording from March 29th 2021, one year since we moved our community to our Borderless Online Shala. ”Personally I feel the Shala and its community h...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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8:13
Soundscape: The Inner Shala
The biggest illusion about the Path of Refuge is that we have to journey somewhere else to find this sacred space. Ultimately our refuge is not outside ourselves or somewhere else, but it is always and already here. We are taking refuge in the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:22:02
Meditation: Pratyahara - The World Open to Us
This is a live recording of a Meditation on Pratyahara the 5th limb of Yoga, following a talk given in our previous episode with the same name. It was held in our
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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23:03
Talk: Pratyahara - The World Opens To Us
This recording is a talk given before one of our Pranayama classes in our Borderless Online Shala 2020. Pranayama, the Yogic breathing practices is the 4th of Patanjali´s 8 limbs of Yoga. It is said to lead the prac...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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6:59
Meditation & Prayer for All Essential Bodhisattvas
In this episode we want to share with you a Prayer for all of the Essential Workers written by zen priest Ando Jaune Evans, gently adapted by Kia. With this prayer we place our practice in the midst of the world we are living in, a...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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24:01
Soundscape: The Mountain Shala
This practice sound scape will transport you to our Shala in the Spanish Mountains where we retreat every summer to deepen our practice. Our outdoor Shala - far from the business of the city, nestles in Olive Groves and overlooks th...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:30:48
Meditation: Awakening The Compassionate Heart
This meditation is directly inspired by the the talk with the same name (in the previous episode), and was recorded live in our Borderless Online Shala on the same occasion. We begin reciting the traditional Buddhist Prayer to Take Refug...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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27:03
Talk: Awakening The Compassionate Heart
This talk is a recording from Kia´s philosophy session in our Borderless Online Shala, June 17th 2020 - less than a month after the murder of George Floyd. It is a talk about suffering, protest, solidarity and compassion. How to...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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9:46
Soundscape: The Borderless Shala
This practice sound scape is born out of Mysore Yoga Paris Borderless Online Shala and many elements are recorded during our practice together in this virtual space. It ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:40:04
Savasana: Under an Open Sky
We invite you to lie down for a ten minute Savasana: a divine relaxation where we allow our body to find complete rest and our mind complete presence. Savasana is typically taken at the end of practice, but for those practicing in the middle of...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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13:13
