The Wild Temple

Kitchen Talk - Maha Sri Yaga - Khajuraho, India

brooke shannon sullivan Season 3 Episode 5

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Streaming from a Himalayan Institute campus in India, this intimate “Kitchen Talk” episode of The Wild Temple Podcast unfolds in the midst of a rare six-month Himalayan practice known as Maha Sri Yaga, a devotional immersion of daily mantra, meditation, and fire ceremonies devoted to tending the subtle forces of nature and refining what is nonessential- for a 6 month period of time.

From this sacred container of retreat and rhythm, Brooke gathers around the "kitchen table" with fellow practitioners including ER physician Dr. Adwaita from Guyana/Toronto, animator Hannah from Florida/LA, and yoga teacher Kia Miller for an unscripted, heart-led conversation on living tantra in real time.

Together they explore what it means to bring spiritual knowledge out of philosophy and into lived experience. Themes of ahimsa, humility, surrender, ego, and discernment weave through reflections on relationship, healing, and the courage to feel deeply. Strong emotions like anger are reframed as shakti, or intelligent life force, while trauma is approached not as identity, but as something to meet with elemental gentleness and embodied awareness.

This episode is both grounded and mystical and a reminder that awakening happens not only in ceremony, but in kitchens, conversations, and the daily pauses where we soften, listen, and let ourselves be reshaped.

The temple is not elsewhere. It is here in practice, in presence, in the pulse of being alive.

At the heart of yoga is learning not only how to move and breathe, but how to experience prāṇa as a living intelligence within us. 

August 28–30, Brooke will be teaching 5 Pranic Arrows: The Yoga of Flowers, a three-day immersion offered in person and online through Hidden Yoga Studio in Colorado, for yoga practitioners and teachers, Ayurvedic coaches, and nature lovers.

www.hiddenyogawithkittymoore.com for more information and to register

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