Lumen
A lumen is the basic unit for measuring brightness. It is a measure of the total quantity of visible light emitted by a source. In biology, a lumen (plural lumina) is the inside space of a tubular structure, such as an artery or intestine. It comes from Latin lumen, meaning ‘an opening.’
Kendra is dedicated to each individual’s personal process of living a life in service to their greatest Lumen. Her work is an experiential inquiry into limitation and freedom in our bodies and our lives. She believes that we can access and discover truth, insight, clarity, and inner guidance through the body. She blends shiatsu, bodywork, and movement practices with philosophy. She uses these practices as tools to investigate challenges, emotions, limiting beliefs and thought patterns, our relationship to pain, and suffering so that we can transform that into the strength and freedom of opening and aligning with what is most in service to our hearts.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 49
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2024
LETTING GO
This is an excerpt from classes this week on both the water element, fear, letting go into the unknown, and loneliness, as well as the role of the heart, connection, boundaries, and being held by the…
NEEDS, NON-ATTACHMENT, AND DIGESTION
In classes this week we explore the how getting your needs met makes it easy to let go of attachments that don't serve your heart as well as looking at ourselves through our hearts and not through ju…
IS WHAT IT IS
In class today we talked about how beliefs change how we see reality... then on conditional love, insecurity, judgements, and THEN on what is most important and aligning with that.
YOU ARE SO SO BEAUTIFUL
Savasana on reality and being with what is.... just being. Inspiration: Sutra 1.16
tatparam purusakhyateh gunavaitrsnyam "The ultimate renunciation is when one transcends the qualities of nature and …
YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL
Dharma talk today on reality and being with what is.... just being. Inspiration: Sutra 1.16
tatparam purusakhyateh gunavaitrsnyam "The ultimate renunciation is when one transcends the qualities of na…
ON BEING: WANTING THIS LIFE
In this class we explore "being," coming from this place of wanting the life that we have. We look at the feeling of the "grass is greener" somewhere else, wanting a different life, different body, d…
EARTH: YOU CANNOT BE CENTERED UNLESS YOU GET YOUR NEEDS MET
In this class we talk about getting grounded! Summer 2015
EARTH: GIVING, RECEIVING, AND GETTING ENOUGH NOURISHMENT
More on being centered and grounded! Giving and receiving and getting enough nourishment. Summer 2015
EARTH: YOUR NEEDS ARE YOUR TRUTH
In this class we talk about being grounded and centered. Getting our needs met even when it's inconvenient for everyone else. Late Summer 2015
DREAMS
THE CONDITIONS ARE ALWAYS IMPOSSIBLE
"Whatever you are meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible." - Doris Lessing
In this class we talk about authority, discipline, shame and guilt... and what it's like to just give …
COMPOSTING AND FERMENTING EGO
In this class we talk about the Buddha's comparison between the banana tree and the ego, comparison to others, perception of reality, and of the ego's swings from high-and-mighty to low and fermentin…
KINDNESS
Class on Tuesday April 19! Inspired by Sutra 1.5 We looked at pain and our relationship to it. Then moved through our practice with kindness, the kind of kindness to oneself that comes from an unders…
THE OBSTACLES
In this class we talk about the obstacles to: -living aligned with truth -connected to the heart -presence
Game on!
LETTING ALL OF LIFE IN
In this class I talk about letting all of life in... creating the conditions for wisdom to arise.
Inspired by Sutras 1.30 - 1.32 in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
"The ability to observe without evalu…
LOVE LIBERATES
Last public class at Karoun yoga... The perfection of Asana and the discipline of practice are not done so that we may hold on better, but rather so that we may learn to let go better. The purpose of…
SO YOURSELF
In this class we explore self-worth and value and our tendency to seek outside of ourselves for affirmation of our "goodness" or "bad-ness." I share a story about the Buddha, the first 4 yoga sutras,…
DHARMA AND PASSION
In this dharma talk, I talk about receiving THIS life, living in alignment with the heart. How earth --centered, grounded, integrated -- gives us ease in transition and in letting go. I talk about tr…
BREAKING PATTERNS
Intro to Backbends - Playing With Fire
- Learning to use pain as a pivot point into freedom emotionally and physically.
- Breaking Patterns of Suffering - Opening up to Freedom - How are we using our po…
GOING DOWN
A guided relaxation for learning to take yourself out of Fight or Flight and into Rest and Digest. At first, learning to pull yourself out of fear and aversion takes awhile, both with learning to rel…