Om Som Yoga + Ayurveda Podcast
Aaron Petty + Paige Taylah
4.9from 120 ratings
- 146
- Episodes
- 120
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Om Som Yoga + Ayurveda Podcast
Welcome to the Om Som Yoga and Ayurveda Podcast with Aaron Petty and Paige Taylah. Our goal with this podcast is to dive into how we as humans can live more intentional, ethical & sustainable lives. And also how we can come into harmony with, ourselves, others & the earth in the process.
- Publisher
- Aaron Petty + Paige Taylah
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Jul 2020
- Latest episode
- 18 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
146 episodes in the feed.
18 Oct 2026
Bhakti Yoga: The Mind Becomes What It Loves
PRACTICE WITH US✦ Practice Online — Sadhana Sangha: 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques & Yoga Sūtra translation https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join (https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join)✦ OmSom App (free) — Yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study & our online community. Search OmSom in the App Store✦ 100 Hr Yoga Teacher Training — Asana Sadhana Dharma bridging course https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto (https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto)✦ 200 Hr YTT — Sri Lanka Immersion 2027 https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka (https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka)✦ 300 Hr YTT — Online & India Immersion 2026/2027 https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training (https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training)✦ 50 Hr Yin YTT — Online https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto (https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto)✦ Practice in Person — Classes, workshops & community in Berwick, Victoria https://omsom.yoga/book-a-class (https://omsom.yoga/book-a-class) IN THIS EPISODEWhat's the fastest way to steady a restless mind? Most would say discipline. Patañjali offers a shortcut in his very first chapter: īśvara-praṇidhānād vā — "or, by devotion." The mind doesn't need to be forced; it takes the shape of whatever it dwells upon. Week three of THE PATHS OF YOGA is BHAKTI YOGA, the path of devotion — where love itself is the vehicle, and emotion, the most unruly force in human life, becomes the most direct road home. We open with Hanumān breaking open Sītā's priceless pearls one by one — "if Rāma is not inside it, it has no value to me" — and what the court saw when he tore open his own chest. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN✦ Bhakti from the root bhaj — "to share, to partake, to belong to": not worship at something distant, but participation in the beloved ✦ The mind becomes what it loves — worry is just devotion pointed at fear ✦ Aparā and parā bhakti: love with a face as the practice; lover, loving and beloved dissolving into one as the fruit ✦ Why Patañjali makes devotion a valid technique — and YS 1.39's quiet generosity: meditate on whatever you love ✦ The nine limbs of bhakti: hearing, chanting, remembering, serving, worshipping, bowing, servitude, friendship, self-offering ✦ The democratic path: no qualification, no Sanskrit — a leaf, a flower, water, offered with love, is enough ✦ Paige's doṣa medicine TEXTUAL REFERENCES✦ Nārada Bhakti Sūtra 1–2: "bhakti is of the nature of supreme love directed toward this" ✦ Bhagavad Gītā 9.26: a leaf, a flower, a fruit, water — offered with devotion, accepted ✦ Bhagavad Gītā 12.2: those whose minds have entered the beloved are the most established in yoga ✦ Yoga Sūtra 1.23 & 1.39: by devotion to Īśvara; by meditation on whatever is dearly desired ✦ Bhāgavata Purāṇa 7.5.23: Prahlāda's nine limbs ✦ The Hanumān pearl-necklace story, Rāmāyaṇa devotional tradition TRY THIS IN YOUR PRACTICE✦ Open practice by dedicating it to something you love — and notice how the quality of attention changes ✦ Japa with feeling: the mantra practised not as technique but as address — someone is being spoken to ✦ Take one of the nine limbs as your whole practice this week: just hearing, or just remembering ✦ Offer the first portion of one meal a day ✦ Notice what your mind already worships — what it returns to when no one is directing it — and choose deliberately ✦ Leave us a comment: if the mind becomes what it loves, what is your mind becoming? SHARE & CONNECTWebsite: https://omsom.yoga (https://omsom.yoga)OmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App StoreInstagram: @omsomyogaIf this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it. We run a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. Wherever you are on your journey, we'd love to connect with you.HARI OM
11 Oct 2026
You Are Not What You Can Observe - Jñāna Yoga & The Path of Knowledge Explained
PRACTICE WITH US ✦ Practice Online Sadhana Sangha: 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques & Yoga Sūtra translation https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join ✦ OmSom App (free) Yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study & our online community Search OmSom in the App Store ✦ 100 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Already 200 Hr trained? This is our Asana Sadhana Dharma bridging course https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto ✦ 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Sri Lanka Immersion 2027 https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka ✦ 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Online & India Immersion 2026/2027 https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training ✦ 50 Hr Online Yin Yoga Teacher Training Online https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto ✦ Practice in Person Classes, workshops & community events in Berwick, Victoria https://omsom.yoga/book-a-class IN THIS EPISODE Week two of the four paths of yoga is JÑĀNA YOGA, the path of knowledge: not a philosophy to learn, but one long question asked with total honesty - who is the one watching? We open with Maitreyī, offered half a fortune, who asked the greatest question in the Upaniṣads instead: would it make me immortal? WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✦ Yājñavalkya & Maitreyī: everything you've ever loved, you loved because the Self was shining through it ✦ The path's three stages: śravaṇa (hearing), manana (reasoning it through), nididhyāsana (meditating until it becomes your resting state) ✦ Neti neti - "not this, not this": whatever can be observed is not the observer ✦ Why the breath is the path's perfect laboratory - intimate enough to feel, observable enough to prove you are not it ✦ Jñāna śakti vs jñāna yoga: August gave us the capacity for knowing; this is the discipline that clears what obscures it ✦ The qualifications: discernment, non-grasping, steadiness, and burning desire for freedom - not brilliance ✦ Paige's doṣa medicine for inquirers: staying-power for vāta, the bow for pitta, the fresh question for kapha TEXTUAL REFERENCES ✦ Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 2.4.5: "the Self is to be seen - heard of, reflected on, meditated upon" - the founding instruction of the path ✦ Bhagavad Gītā 4.38: "nothing in this world purifies like knowledge" ✦ Bhagavad Gītā 4.34: know this by prostration, inquiry, and service — the head bowed, not inflated ✦ Dṛg-Dṛśya-Viveka v.1: the form is seen, the eye its seer; the eye is seen, the mind its seer - but the witness is seen by none ✦ Kena Upaniṣad 1.2: by whom is the breath sent forth? - the breath-inquiry in its oldest form TRY THIS IN YOUR PRACTICE ✦ After each round of prāṇāyāma, rest in the question: the breath was watched - who watched it? ✦ Neti neti in śavāsana: release identification layer by layer - body, breath, thought - and rest as what remains ✦ Weekly rhythm: hear a teaching, journal it through, then sit with it in silence ✦ Catch "I am exhausted" and amend it: there is exhaustion, and I am the one aware of it ✦ Read fewer things, more deeply - one verse walked beats one hundred scrolled ✦ Leave us a comment: watch one breath tonight, turn around, and tell us - who was watching? SHARE & CONNECT Website: https://omsomyoga.com OmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App Store Instagram: @omsomyoga If this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it. We run a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. Wherever you are on your journey, we’d love to connect with you. HARI OM
4 Oct 2026
You Don't Have to Quit Your Job to Be Free | Karma Yoga
PRACTICE WITH US ✦ Practice Online Sadhana Sangha: 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques & Yoga Sūtra translation https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join ✦ OmSom App (free) Yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study & our online community Search OmSom in the App Store ✦ 100 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Already 200 Hr trained? This is our Asana Sadhana Dharma bridging course https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto ✦ 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Sri Lanka Immersion 2027 https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka ✦ 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Online & India Immersion 2026/2027 https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training ✦ 50 Hr Online Yin Yoga Teacher Training Online https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto ✦ Practice in Person Classes, workshops & community events in Berwick, Victoria https://omsom.yoga/book-a-class IN THIS EPISODE In July we learned that action doesn't bind us - attachment to the outcome does. But the tradition doesn't stop there: it builds an entire path out of it. This month we begin the four paths of yoga - karma, jñāna, bhakti, rāja - opening with KARMA YOGA: a life of offering up our actions, where the cooking, the teaching, the sweeping becomes the practice itself. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ✦ The Vyādha Gītā: why the renunciate was out-yogied by a housewife and a butcher - "it's not the work that binds or frees us, it's only the one performing it" ✦ What karma yoga is: any mundane action used to connect us to the universal ✦ The Gītā's three movements: niṣkāma karma (action without craving the result), yajña bhāva (action as offering), īśvara arpaṇa (dedicating every act and its fruit to the divine) ✦ Why the cave fantasy fails: removing the crows doesn't remove the anger - your life is the best environment for practice ✦ Aaron on the monk with the cigarette, the Coke backlash, and why purity culture is the commodification of yoga, not yoga ✦ Paige's medicine for action by doṣa: commitment and consistency for vāta, anonymous seva for pitta, fresh new action for kapha ✦ Eating as karma yoga: plating up whatever you eat and offering it to the digestive fire ✦ Idaṁ na mama - "this is not mine" - offering up the fruits of your practice TEXTUAL REFERENCES ✦ Vyādha Gītā, Mahābhārata: the monk, the housewife, and the butcher of Mithilā ✦ Bhagavad Gītā 3.9: action performed as sacrifice does not bind - all other action binds us to this world ✦ Bhagavad Gītā 3.20: "it was by action alone that Janaka and the others reached perfection" - even a king reached liberation this way ✦ Bhagavad Gītā 5.10: one who acts placing all actions in Brahman, abandoning attachment, is untouched by fault as a lotus leaf is untouched by water TRY THIS IN YOUR PRACTICE ✦ Pick one daily action - dishes, walking, mowing - and do it with no distraction: no phone, no podcast, just presence ✦ Go to work this week to make your workplace better for everyone in it - the same job, performed as offering ✦ Plate up whatever you eat (yes, even the chocolate), sit down, and offer it to your digestive fire ✦ End your practice with hands together: idaṁ na mama - whatever I've gained, it is not mine; I offer it up ✦ Leave us a comment: what's the one daily action you're turning into practice this week? SHARE & CONNECT Website: https://omsomyoga.com OmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App Store Instagram: @omsomyoga If this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it. We run a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. Wherever you are on your journey, we’d love to connect with you. HARI OM
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