Escaping Saṃsāra Podcast Posts

Explore the profound teachings of Chogyam Trungpa’s ‘Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism’ in our latest Yoga and Buddhism Podcast episode. Join us and our guest, esteemed yoga teacher Ty Landrum, as we delve into how these timeless teachings intersect with modern yoga and mindfulness. Ty

It’s easy to get caught up in the intellectual debates of spirituality, or spending hours creating exalted states of consciousness, but the actual effects of all this practice are borne…

David Garrigues has been practicing Hatha Yoga, specializing in advanced Ashtanga Vinyasa for about 30 years. Few people understand the rigors and challenges of long-term asanas practices as deeply. As…

I don’t appreciate the term “extreme” to describe advanced yoga āsanas because it’s often used in a pejorative sense by people who don’t have any personal experience doing them. And…

This is a companion episode to our “Ashtanga and Fatherhood” episode. We’re talking about how yoga practice changes for women after pregnancy and in the years of child-rearing.

We talk about the challenges of physical recovery and the requirements of emotional labor. How time is the essential factor, and how we witness time can change everything.

Today, we sit down with Rich Ray, a seasoned practitioner of meditation and director of Ashtanga Yoga Portland Maine (and also creator of some dope Instagram visuals @richrayyoga) With over…

In this episode, we try to find out if the yogis and the Buddhists are describing the same thing when they talk about Samadhi. Are the paths aiming at the…

MC Owens is a Buddhist teacher, translator, and author who uses a sutra-based curriculum to teach the history, philosophy, and practices of Buddhism. He has taught in universities, colleges, monasteries,…

Hello Escaping Samsara listeners! The Escaping Samsara Podcast is back. It’s time to start season two!  After a long hiatus of about a year we are re-booting our podcast, which…