The Imagine Podcast
Kundalini Yoga,honest conversations.
Weekly episodes on Kundalini Yoga philosophy, practice, and life. Deep and transformative ideas to inspire you to unleash your inner truth!
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Saucha: Why Purity in Yoga Isn't About Being Good (The First Niyama)
Every morning you clean your body. Tidy the house. Wipe the phone screen on your sleeve without thinking. What almost no one realizes is that these small acts already belong to one of yoga's oldest practices. Pedro traces Saucha — the first Niyama — from the outside in, including a personal practice that started with something as simple as dropping the swearing.
Aparigraha and the hidden cost of everything you own
Aparigraha — the last of the Yamas — goes much deeper than what's in your cupboards. Daniela explores it as a practice of trust: trusting you're already complete, with no missing piece to buy. Includes a simple practice: one drawer, one honest question.
Brahmacharya: The Art of Directing Your Energy
Most people hear Brahmacharya and think celibacy. Pedro explores what it actually points at: energy. Where your life force is going, and whether you're truly choosing that. The difference between discipline and suppression — and what it looks like to practice energy conservation without becoming rigid.
What We Steal From Ourselves — Asteya
Asteya — the third Yama — starts with the obvious: don't take what isn't yours. But the deeper layers are about copying someone else's way of being until we lose our own, and stealing from ourselves by living anywhere but the present moment.
Truth Sets You Free — Satya
There's a tiredness that has nothing to do with how much you slept — it's the cost of being slightly off from yourself all day. Pedro reframes Satya as the practice of becoming a coherent wave: closing the gap between what you perceive, feel, say, and do.
Non-Violence in Real Life: The Harm You Don't See — Ahimsa
Not the obvious kind. The quieter ways we cause harm — in our words, thoughts, and bodies. Daniela shares her personal practice of non-violence and three journaling questions to explore where ahimsa might take root in your own life.
A Living Map Back to Yourself: The 8 Limbs of Yoga
Most people think yoga starts on the mat. It doesn't. Pedro introduces the Eight Limbs from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras as a living checkpoint system you can use when life gets blurry. Opening episode of a new series.
Don't Make Your Life Smaller
When life gets heavy, the first thing we do is start removing things. But there's a moment when simplifying becomes shrinking. Daniela shares her realization: the answer wasn't to keep taking things away — it was to expand her capacity to hold them.
The Moment You Realize
The moment when life no longer fits the person you've become. Through Patanjali's first sutra — "And now, the discipline of yoga" — this episode explores change not as something to fear, but as an invitation to begin again with honesty and presence.
Consistency Is Not What You Think
Why is it so hard to stay consistent with the things we know make us feel better? Blending neuroscience with yogic wisdom, Daniela explores what's really happening when we feel stuck — and why it's not about discipline.
Is It Your Soul or Your Ego Speaking?
A quiet inner knowing, followed by a louder voice full of doubt and logic. This episode unpacks the distinction between ego and soul — not to eliminate fear, but to understand it so it no longer runs your life.
Align Your Vibration: The Fifth Sutra of the Aquarian Age
The final episode of the Five Sutras series: "Vibrate the Cosmos. The Cosmos Shall Clear the Path." Daniela explores how our inner state shapes the way we move through life — and how aligning our frequency shifts our perception of what's possible.
Understand Through Compassion
The fourth Sutra of the Aquarian Age: "Understand through compassion, or you will misunderstand the times." Compassion is not merely kindness — it's a form of expanded awareness that interrupts judgment and allows us to see the deeper forces shaping behavior.
When the Time Is on You, Start, and the Pressure Will Be Off
The Third Sutra of the Aquarian Age. Overwhelm grows when we stay in analysis. This episode explores why we cannot think ourselves into right action — and how the simple act of beginning shifts our energy and softens the pressure almost immediately.
There Is a Way Through Every Block
This is not optimism. It is training. Drawing from Kundalini Yoga and Stoic philosophy, Pedro examines how obstacles become the material of transformation — by shifting from "Why is this happening?" to "What is this asking of me?"
Softening Rigidity Through the First Sutra of the Aquarian Age
The first Sutra: "Recognize that the other person is you." What does it mean to recognize ourselves in the other without losing our boundaries? A grounded exploration of connection, discernment, and what it means to practice yoga in a polarized world.
Agency
What do we do when things don't change, even after we've tried again and again? Pedro reflects on our capacity to respond — the part of us that remains available even when circumstances feel fixed, when we're tired, disappointed, or stuck in familiar patterns.
From Exhausted to Nourished
What if the difference between feeling nourished and feeling exhausted had less to do with what you're doing — and more to do with how present you are while doing it? Daniela explores the difference between habits and rituals, and why presence transforms ordinary actions.
What Changes With a 40-Day Practice
A 40-day practice is a core structure in Kundalini Yoga and appears across many traditions as a container for real transformation. Pedro explores why 40 days aligns with how the nervous system, habits, and identity actually change — and how repetition reshapes the brain.
The Willingness to Live
What if this year you didn't start by trying to be better, but by being more present? Daniela explores the Willingness to Live: a way of meeting life with openness, commitment, and presence — even when there are no guarantees. Through Kundalini Yoga and Patañjali's teachings.
Give Life to Freedom
Inspired by María Corina Machado's emergence from hiding to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Daniela reflects from her perspective as a Venezuelan and a Kundalini Yoga teacher: freedom is not something we wait for — it is something we practice, every day, with every breath.
The Truth About Holiday Stress — Part 2
After exploring why family gatherings feel overwhelming, this episode focuses on the how: practical tools, psychological insight, and Kundalini practices to transform the stress and emotional activation that often arise during the holiday season.
The Truth About Holiday Stress — Part 1
The holidays often bring more complexity than magic. Pedro explores the three core reasons family gatherings feel overwhelming: the pressure to perform emotions, the old relational roles that return the moment we walk in the room, and the exhaustion of logistical overload.
The Courage to Begin Again
Most renewals happen quietly, in subtle shifts and small choices. Pedro explores the kind of beginning that doesn't ask you to change your entire life — but to see your life with new eyes. Beginnings that are gentle, honest, and already available.
The Discipline of Joy
What if joy wasn't something we wait for, but something we cultivate? Daniela shares a personal story — going water skiing again after thirty years — and how that moment became a reminder of what yoga calls Ānanda: the bliss that already lives within us.
The Trick of Optional
What if the very things that sustain us — rest, meditation, connection, joy — are the first ones we treat as optional? Pedro reflects on the surprising pattern he's seen in years of guiding students: the same reason people say yes to their practice is often the reason others say no.
The Power of Self-Worth
Daniela invites you to explore the space where true self-worth begins: within. We move through life searching for validation, looking for proof that we belong. But what if belonging has never been something to earn — only something to remember?
The Wisdom You Can Only Feel
There's a kind of wisdom that can't be studied, read, or reasoned. It lives in your body. Pedro explores embodied wisdom — the heart of Kundalini Yoga — and how asana, pranayama, and mantra reveal what the mind alone cannot: how we meet life's challenges, how we trust, how we allow truth to move through us.
The Space Between You and You
There are moments when you're no longer who you were, but not yet who you're becoming. That in-between can feel uncertain, uncomfortable, even lonely. And yet, it's one of the most sacred spaces we'll ever walk through. Daniela explores the art of the pause.
The 3 Stages of Change
There's a moment in every life when something inside says: this needs to change. Pedro walks through the three stages of transformation — recognition, first steps, and immersion — and how each one differs in what it asks of you.
Where Attention Goes, Energy Follows
What you focus on shapes the reality you live in — often without you realizing it. Through science, storytelling, and Kundalini wisdom, Daniela explores how your attention might be feeding the very things you want to move beyond, and how a conscious shift changes everything.
Signs: When Life Speaks to You
Have you ever felt like the universe was sending you a message? Pedro shares a story from Imagine's Zürich Teacher Training, where nearly 40% of students said they felt "called" by a message that kept reappearing. What began as publicity became something much deeper: a sign that it was time.
Moving Beyond Fear: Toward Love and Strength
Fear is part of life, but it doesn't have to control it. Daniela shares a personal story of childhood fear, the phrase that has guided her — "Do what you would do if you were not afraid" — and how Kundalini Yoga offers tools to listen beyond fear and reconnect with love.
The Power of Radiance
What makes someone truly radiant? Not the clothes or the words — the unseen power that shines when they live in truth. This episode explores the three pillars that unlock radiance: integrity, authenticity, and belief. And why living in alignment restores energy.
Listening to the Quiet That Knows
Burnout isn't just an individual problem — it's a growing crisis. Inspired by a conversation with a close friend who, by all traditional measures, has it all, this episode explores what happens when we stop listening to the quiet intelligence that already knows the way.
About the podcast
Kundalini Yoga as a method of self-knowledge.
Not a system of rules. A practical tool for people navigating life transitions, identity shifts, and the search for something deeper.
Kundalini Yoga, philosophy, and honest conversations for people asking what comes next. Hosted by Daniela Troconis and Pedro Misle, co-founders of Imagine Yoga Academy — one of the oldest Kundalini Yoga Teacher Trainings in Switzerland. Since 2012, we've trained +900 teachers across Switzerland, Spain, India, and online. Always free of dogma, taught as a method of self-knowledge rather than a system of rules.
Weekly 11–14 minute episodes blend yogic teachings, science, and lived experience for those navigating life transitions, identity shifts, and the search for something deeper. For anyone wanting to learn about themselves, or considering a Kundalini Yoga Training.
