The wider yogic toolkit: pranayama and breathwork, mantra, and energy practices that support, deepen, and sometimes ignite meditation.
Openness Energy Awake April 16, 2026 - Who's even trying to meditate? Who is meditating? Just look—see if you can find that individual. All you find is vast spacious awakeness with no friction, no impedance, no constriction… Read More »Openness Energy Awake
Nondual Awakening on the Waking Up App January 20, 2026 - Michael Taft talks with Nate Green of the Waking Up app about Michael's new series, entitled Nondual Awakening. Read More »Nondual Awakening on the Waking Up App
Nondual Energy in the Central Channel January 3, 2026 - From this place of awake space, uninvolved in thought, breathe in and feel the energy coming into the belly, and making the belly quite energized on the in-breath. And then,… Read More »Nondual Energy in the Central Channel
Chasing the Serpent’s Tail with Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Anya Foxen December 2, 2025 - Join host Michael Taft as he talks with Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Anya Foxen about the wild history of Kundalini—from it’s ancient Tantric roots to modern global yoga culture—including subtle-body maps,… Read More »Chasing the Serpent’s Tail with Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Anya Foxen
Your Awakened Nature Is Right There October 15, 2025 - Good. Now notice what's underneath the stillness or inside the stillness. There is no ground there at all. It's not that it's nothing, because it's not nothing, but there's no… Read More »Your Awakened Nature Is Right There
Talking about Dark Retreat, Part 2 with Andrew Holecek August 1, 2025 - Host Michael Taft continues his conversation with with Andrew Holecek about the transformative practice of Dark Retreat; the reasons behind the recent surge of interest in darkness practices; its relationship… Read More »Talking about Dark Retreat, Part 2 with Andrew Holecek
Ease and Spaciousness in Body and Mind March 20, 2025 - Simply rest as fast spacious wakefulness, allowing everything to be just the way it is, exactly the way it is, a shining miracle of purity and joy, and a foul… Read More »Ease and Spaciousness in Body and Mind
Effortlessly Being the Welcoming Openness February 10, 2025 - Now ask yourself, and don't answer from thinking, or memory, or reasoning, or rationalization, or the mind in any way, simply look for the answer. Where is the center of… Read More »Effortlessly Being the Welcoming Openness
Wide open, Wide awake January 22, 2025 - See if you can find that subtle energy behind the breathing, that subtle energy behind the breathing will be moving up and down in the core of the body, but… Read More »Wide open, Wide awake
Touching the Stillness December 9, 2024 - Now, from this space of still, silent, wide awakeness, notice the flavors of sensation and movement in the body. They're not still—the feelings of energy, the feelings of regular sensations,… Read More »Touching the Stillness
Practicing Tummo with Peter McEwen June 25, 2024 - Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation coach Peter McEwen about the traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice of tummo, deity yoga, the subtle body, ways that tummo practice can go wrong, bliss… Read More »Practicing Tummo with Peter McEwen
Vibrating Awake Space and Freedom April 5, 2024 - reathing right between the eyebrows, breathing in through a hole in the third eye. But this time, instead of relaxation or heart opening, we're feeling wisdom and clarity in the… Read More »Vibrating Awake Space and Freedom
Resource for All the World’s Sorrows January 23, 2024 - Tuning into this spaciousness that's available, not only is it primordially pure, fresh and clean, notice that it is welcoming. It doesn't say no to anything. It has this tremendous… Read More »Resource for All the World’s Sorrows
Nondual Freedom within Flow and Openness November 27, 2023 - You can say that awakeness itself, space itself, is breathing; space itself is thinking; space itself is becoming somebody who feels like they are doing something. But never fixating there.… Read More »Nondual Freedom within Flow and Openness
Central Channel Mandala Visualization June 22, 2022 - In this place there's nothing to do, there's nothing to change, everything is just right. Just rest into, rest as, vast, spacious awareness. Already awake, totally clear, utterly complete. Nothing… Read More »Central Channel Mandala Visualization
The Power of Non-sleep Deep Rest with Kelly Boys May 3, 2022 - Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher and author Kelly Boys on the practice of non-sleep, deep rest—a modern name for the ancient practice of yoga nidra, using liminal states… Read More »The Power of Non-sleep Deep Rest with Kelly Boys
Soulmaking Dharma with Catherine McGee December 8, 2020 - Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher Catherine McGee about Soulmaking Dharma; her journey into meditation practice; using the word “soul” in a Buddhist context; working with the energy body;… Read More »Soulmaking Dharma with Catherine McGee
What Does Dreaming Have to Do with Meditation? with Andrew Holecek October 23, 2019 - Host Michael Taft speaks with Dream Yoga expert Andrew Holecek about how the dream state (and dreamless sleep) can effect meditation practice. Topics include: the fantasy-filling model of lucid dreaming… Read More »What Does Dreaming Have to Do with Meditation? with Andrew Holecek
Four Ways that Mindfulness Can Enhance Your Yoga to Make You Feel Awesome March 6, 2013 - by Michael W. Taft Does anything in the world feel as good as yoga class? Think about the slow, deliberate way you get worked into a posture, adjustment by adjustment,… Read More »Four Ways that Mindfulness Can Enhance Your Yoga to Make You Feel Awesome