What is love, really? And what does it mean to engage with our world, our people, ourselves with love? These are a few of the questions that will guide us in this immersive experience. Immersions with Kelly Sunrose are an opportunity to deepen your connection…
Continue reading PREMA Svarupa: Love is Your Essence
Let’s check-in: How are your summer practice goals and intentions going? What self-care systems have you been leaning into? I have a confession: my plans for summer have taken a completely different turn, but it is turning out to be a huge learning and growing…
Continue reading Self-Care Tune-Up/ Learning from a Summer Cold
THRILLED to be here with you today, sweethearts! Episode 159 of Samadhi Rush is a sweet, spacious conversation I had with yogini Roseanne Harvey. Roseanne is a writer, yoga teacher and community organizer in Victoria, BC, Canada. She writes about yoga and culture at It’s…
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Hello Dearest Sweets, Episode 123 of Sunrose Yoga is a conversation with Andrea Sanders. I have known Andrea for years, since we were both living in Seattle, and it was really fun to talk about practice and projects together. Andrea calls herself a “self-taught soul…
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Beloveds, I write to you on the precipice of so much movement: a trip to Minnesota this week to lead a delicious retreat in the North Woods followed by a month-long adventure in Southeast Asia. Amid the movement is a center of stillness and receptivity…
Continue reading Heartbeats// Holding Space for Each Other
OM. All of life’s smells met me as I pedaled home. Twilight smells of coolness and dish-washing, ordinarily. But tonight, I smelled all the last-suppers, my grandparents’ country club, rose perfume, and a pail of dirty diapers. And this conglomeration of life somehow spoke…
Continue reading A collection of thoughts on the barely-waxing moon// An Ode to Shiva
To me, right now, the point of practice is kindness compassion forgiveness (minor and profound) wide-open spacious togetherness love love love tenderness divine moments of truth-presence That’s my story. What’s yours? Why do you keep coming back to the practice?
Things are simple. Things are complicated. Things are simple again. Yoga is much like a Mobius, I think. It has a way of turning back in on itself over and over again. Sometimes the body itself informs be about life. And sometimes life informs me…
Continue reading Liminal Space// Finding Meaning in Movements
Feeling the swing of the pendulum. Much like my career paths, my practice has transitioned over the past sixteen years. I began with a quite vigorous physical practice (Ashtanga) accompanied by a cerebral interest in yogic philosophy. I wanted to *get* it. At the time I…
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{This is the beginning of a series of posts distilling a conversation I have been having with and listening to in the contemplative community.} When I’m giving answers rather than asking questions, my opportunity to grow diminishes. I just scrapped a post I was…
Continue reading Dogma is Boring