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.
Om Som Yoga + Ayurveda Podcast
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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.
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July 5, 2026
The Bhagavad Gītā's Real Teaching on Karma & Here's How to Use It
<p>PRACTICE WITH US</p><p><br></p><p>✦ Sadhana Sangha - 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques, Yoga Sūtra translation</p><p>https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join</p><p>✦ OmSom App (free) - yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study + online community</p><p>Search OmSom in the App Store</p><p>✦ 100 Hr Asana Sadhana Dharma</p><p>https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto</p><p>✦ 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Online & India Immersion 2026</p><p>https://omsom.yoga/300-hour-advanced-hatha-yoga-training</p><p>✦ 50 Hr Online Yin Yoga Teacher Training</p><p>https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto</p><p><br></p><p>IN THIS EPISODE</p><p><br></p><p>This month the theme turns to Mokṣa: liberation. We begin where the tradition begins, with Karma. Karma means action and the simple, radical truth that everything you do (your breath, your cooking, your driving, your conversations, even your thoughts) is karma. And most of it is learned behaviour, ingrained by repetition, running on autopilot.</p><p><br></p><p>Drawing on the Bhagavad Gītā, we explore the moment Arjuna melts down on the battlefield and asks Kṛṣṇa: if wisdom is greater than action, why must I act? Kṛṣṇa's answer reframes everything - freedom is not the absence of action, but action without grasping for its fruit. That shift, from unconscious doing to intentional doing, is where karma becomes Karma Yoga.</p><p><br></p><p>WHAT YOU'LL LEARN</p><p><br></p><p>✦ Karma means action - from the root kṛ, "to do" or "to make." Your daily actions, words, and even your thoughts are all karma.</p><p>✦ Karma vs Karma Yoga - the moment you become conscious of what you're doing, why, and where it's leading, ordinary karma becomes yoga.</p><p>✦ The four paths - Jñāna (study), Bhakti (devotion), Rāja (meditation), and Karma (intentional action). You can bring yoga into brushing your teeth, if you intend it.</p><p>✦ The three types of karma (the bow and arrow) - Sañcita (the arrows in your quiver: infinite potential actions), Kriyamāṇa (the arrow you're shooting now: present-moment action), and Prārabdha (arrows already loosed: past actions you can't take back, still shaping your experience).</p><p>✦ The karmāśaya - the "storehouse" of karma. Seeds accumulate until a big experience arrives and offers you the chance to choose again — and uproot the karma so you don't have to play it out once more.</p><p>✦ Cause and effect - "the effect is hidden in the cause." Once you understand the qualities of nature (Sāṃkhya, the guṇas), you can see where an action will take you and take radical responsibility for your choices.</p><p>✦ The kleśas - Patañjali roots the reservoir of karma in the five afflictions: avidyā (ignorance), asmitā (ego / the story of "I"), rāga (attachment), dveṣa (aversion), and abhiniveśa (fear of death).</p><p><br></p><p>TEXTUAL REFERENCES</p><p><br></p><p>✦ Bhagavad Gītā - Arjuna's crisis on the battlefield; "No one can remain even for a moment without performing actions… everyone is helplessly driven to act by the forces of nature"</p><p>✦ Patañjali's Yoga Sūtra, Chapter 2 - the karmāśaya (reservoir of karma) is rooted in the kleśas and experienced in seen and unseen births; the five kleśas</p><p>✦ Patañjali's Yoga Sūtra - "The yogi's karma is neither black nor white; for others it is of three kinds" - bound by the three guṇas (sattva, rajas, tamas)</p><p>✦ Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad - "As is your desire, so is your resolve. As is your resolve, so is your action. As is the action, so is your destiny."</p><p>✦ Sāṃkhya philosophy - prakṛti and the guṇas underpinning the teaching on cause and effect.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>SHARE & CONNECT</p><p><br></p><p>Website: https://omsomyoga.com</p><p>OmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App Store</p><p>Instagram: @omsomyoga</p><p><br></p><p>If this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it.</p><p><br></p><p>We operate a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, Australia, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. We'd love to connect with you wherever you are on your journey.</p><p><br></p><p>HARI OM</p>
June 28, 2026
The Most Confusing Mantra in Yoga | Pūrṇa, The Mantra of Wholeness Explained
<p>PRACTICE WITH US</p><p><br></p><p>✦ Sadhana Sangha - 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques, Yoga Sūtra translation</p><p>https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join</p><p>✦ OmSom App (free) - yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study + online community</p><p>Search OmSom in the App Store</p><p>✦ 100 Hr Asana Sadhana Dharma</p><p>https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto</p><p>✦ 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Sri Lanka 2026</p><p>https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka</p><p>✦ 50 Hr Online Yin Yoga Teacher Training</p><p>https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto</p><p><br></p><p>IN THIS EPISODE</p><p><br></p><p>To close out Mantra June, Aaron and Paige sit with what Aaron calls "maybe the most confusing of all the mantras" - the Pūrṇa mantra. At its heart is one quiet, radical idea: wholeness cannot be subtracted from wholeness. Light a thousand lamps from a single flame and the original flame never shrinks. Give your time, your love, your attention and the source remains undiminished.</p><p>From there the conversation opens out in every direction: a word-by-word breakdown of the mantra, the non-dual Vedānta teaching of "everything is one" and how yoga holds it alongside Sāṃkhya's duality, a line from the Bhagavad Gītā that took Aaron years to sit with, what Ayurveda says about pūrṇatva through the three subtle essences, and how the whole teaching lands in something as ordinary as how we give our time, energy, and money.</p><p>The mantra:</p><p><strong>Oṃ Pūrṇamadaḥ Pūrṇamidaṃ</strong></p><p><strong>Pūrṇāt Pūrṇamudacyate</strong></p><p><strong>Pūrṇasya Pūrṇamādāya</strong></p><p><strong>Pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate</strong></p><p><strong>Oṃ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ</strong></p><p><br></p><p>That is whole. This is whole.</p><p>From the whole, the whole arises.</p><p>Take the whole from the whole, and the whole alone remains.</p><p><br></p><p>WHAT YOU’LL LEARN</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>What </strong><strong>pūrṇa</strong><strong> actually means</strong> - fullness, wholeness, completeness; the same word we use for the full moon (pūrṇimā, as in Guru Pūrṇimā).</li><li><strong>The mantra, word by word</strong> - adaḥ (that / the unmanifest), idam (this / the manifest world), udacyate (arises), ādāya (having taken), avaśiṣyate (what remains).</li><li><strong>Why this is a non-dual teaching</strong> - Vedānta means "beyond knowledge" (veda-anta, the end of knowledge). The moment we label a thing, we separate it from the whole; this mantra points to what can't be labelled.</li><li><strong>How yoga holds two opposite truths at once</strong> - Sāṃkhya's non-negotiable duality (Puruṣa and Prakṛti) alongside Vedānta's "everything is one," and why holding both is itself the practice.</li><li><strong>The Gītā connection</strong> - Krishna's teaching that all beings rest in the infinite, but the infinite rests only in itself.</li><li><strong>Ayurveda and the three subtle essences</strong> - Ojas, Prāṇa and Tejas as the purest forms of the doshas, why they must rise together, and how chasing Tejas alone (study, awakening, psychedelics) burns us dry.</li><li><strong>The mantra as medicine for the mind</strong> - not one to meditate on so much as to contemplate; an invocation to create the bhāvana of fullness.</li><li><strong>Relational vs transactional</strong> - applying pūrṇa to how we give time, attention, love and money, and why "I give, you take" is a lack mindset the teaching dissolves.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>TEXTUAL REFERENCES</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>The Pūrṇa Mantra</strong> - a śānti (peace) invocation from the Upaniṣads.</li></ul><ul><li><strong>Bhagavad Gītā</strong> — "By me, in my unmanifest form, all this universe is pervaded. All beings rest in me, but I do not rest in them." </li><li><strong>Key Sanskrit terms:</strong> pūrṇa (fullness), pūrṇatva (the state of fullness), jñāna (knowledge), vedānta (beyond knowledge), sāṃkhya, puruṣa / prakṛti, ojas, prāṇa, tejas, bhāvana, snigdha (oil; also "love"), ahaṃkāra.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>SHARE & CONNECT</p><p><br></p><p>Website: https://omsomyoga.com</p><p>OmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App Store</p><p>Instagram: @omsomyoga</p><p><br></p><p>If this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it.</p><p><br></p><p>We operate a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, Australia, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. We'd love to connect with you wherever you are on your journey.</p><p><br></p><p>HARI OM</p>
June 21, 2026
Chant This Mantra & Watch What Unfolds | Asato Mā
<p>PRACTICE WITH US</p><p><br /></p><p>✦ Sadhana Sangha - 5 practices per month, asana workshops, subtle body techniques, Yoga Sūtra translation</p><p>https://practice.omsom.yoga/365-sadhana-sandha/join</p><p>✦ OmSom App (free) - yoga philosophy, Sanskrit study + online community</p><p>Search OmSom in the App Store</p><p>✦ 100 Hr Asana Sadhana Dharma</p><p>https://practice.omsom.yoga/asana-sadhana-dharma-oto</p><p>✦ 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training Sri Lanka 2026</p><p>https://omsom.yoga/200-hour-yoga-teacher-training-sri-lanka</p><p>✦ 50 Hr Online Yin Yoga Teacher Training</p><p>https://practice.omsom.yoga/yin-yoga-and-prana-vayus-oto</p><p><br /></p><p>IN THIS EPISODE</p><p><br /></p><p>Mantra June continues. After Praṇava (Auṃ), Gāyatrī, and Mahā Mṛtyuñjaya, we arrive at one of the most beloved and most widely chanted prayers in the tradition - <strong>Asato Mā</strong>, also known as the <strong>Pavamāna Mantra</strong>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oṃ Asato mā sad gamaya Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya Mṛtyor mā amṛtaṃ gamaya Oṃ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ</p><p>Lead me from the unreal to the real. Lead me from darkness to light. Lead me from death to immortality.</p><p><br /></p><p>We trace this prayer back to a fire ceremony in the <strong>Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad</strong>, where the ṛṣis prepare a metaphorical offering of the entire cosmos to the fire of awareness. At the peak of the ritual, three sages speak three lines and what makes their prayer so radical is what they don't ask for. No superpower. No riches. No outcome. Only to be <strong>led,</strong> pointed in the right direction, and left to walk the path themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is simple. We let it stay simple.</p><p><br /></p><p>WHAT YOU'LL LEARN</p><p><br /></p><ul><li>Why Asato Mā is an <strong>invocation</strong>, not a request - a prayer for guidance rather than a specific outcome (and how that contrasts with the Gāyatrī)</li><li>The story behind the mantra: the cosmic horse, the metaphorical fire, and the offering of totality to awareness itself</li><li>A clear, line-by-line translation: <strong>asat → sat</strong>, <strong>tamas → jyotir</strong>, <strong>mṛtyu → amṛta</strong>, and the meaning of gamaya</li><li>Why amṛta, the "nectar of immortality", is the nectar of <strong>self-knowledge</strong>, not a deathless body</li><li>How <strong>abhyāsa</strong> and <strong>vairāgya</strong> (practice and surrender) live inside this single prayer</li><li>The Ayurvedic lens: how disease arises from the mind, and how cultivating a <strong>sattvic</strong> mind becomes the healer through diet, <strong>brahmacarya</strong>, and <strong>pratyāhāra</strong></li><li>The journey through the three guṇas, tamas → rajas → sattva, and why you can't leap straight to stillness</li><li>How to weave the mantra into daily life as <strong>bhāvana</strong>, an opening to practice or a quiet companion when you feel lost</li></ul><p><br /></p><p>TEXTUAL REFERENCES</p><p><br /></p><ul><li><strong>Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad</strong> - source of the Asato Mā / Pavamāna mantra (1.3.28), and of the horse-as-cosmos imagery (1.1.1)</li><li><strong>Pavamāna Sūkta</strong> - Ṛg Veda, 9th Maṇḍala (Soma Pavamāna)</li><li><strong>Gāyatrī Mantra</strong> & <strong>Mahā Mṛtyuñjaya Mantra</strong> - earlier Mantra June episodes, referenced for contrast</li><li><strong>Praṇava (Auṃ)</strong> - the Mantra June opener</li><li>Concepts drawn on: <strong>śraddhā</strong>, <strong>abhyāsa & vairāgya</strong>, <strong>Īśvara praṇidhāna</strong>, the three <strong>guṇas</strong> (sattva, rajas, tamas), <strong>brahmacarya</strong>, <strong>pratyāhāra</strong></li></ul><p><br /></p><p>TRY THIS IN YOUR PRACTICE</p><p>Use Asato Mā the way the tradition does, as an <strong>opening</strong>, not as japa. Before your next practice, chant it three times:</p><p><br /></p><p>Oṃ Asato mā sad gamaya</p><p>Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya</p><p>Mṛtyor mā amṛtaṃ gamaya</p><p>Oṃ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ Śāntiḥ</p><p><br /></p><p>Let it be an invocation: I'm doing this practice, I don't fully know where it leads - please, lead me there in time. Notice that the mantra never says "I will go." It says <strong>lead me</strong>. So this week, where life feels foggy, practise being led: trust the path, trust the tradition, and let "I don't know yet" be enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>SHARE & CONNECT</p><p><br /></p><p>Website: https://omsomyoga.com</p><p>OmSom App (free): search OmSom in the App Store</p><p>Instagram: @omsomyoga</p><p><br /></p><p>If this episode landed, the best way to support the show is to share it with one person who might need it.</p><p><br /></p><p>We operate a yoga studio in Berwick, Victoria, Australia, offering classes, workshops, and Yoga Teacher Training programs. We'd love to connect with you wherever you are on your journey.</p><p><br /></p><p>HARI OM</p>
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