The Imagine Podcast

Kundalini Yoga, philosophy, and honest conversations for people asking what comes next. Hosted by Pedro and Daniela, co-founders of Imagine Yoga Academy. 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 and the search for something deeper. For anyone wanting to learn about themselves, or considering a Kundalini Yoga Training.

The Imagine Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Imagine Yoga Academy, with 41 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #39

  Pranayama: The Fourth Limb of Patanjali a way to increase your energy

  Jul 25, 202616 minS1

  This episode is about Pranayama, the fourth step on Patanjali's eightfold path, and why it's less about breathing technique and more about where your energy actually goes all day. Pedro Misle walks through why exhaustion is rarely about the work itself, why you have to know what's relevant in your life before you can manage your energy at all, and why honesty might be the cheapest thing you can spend all week. There's also a look at what the research actually says about slow breathing and your nervous system, and a short practice for the next time your mind is somewhere else while your body is sitting right in front of someone you love. Part of an ongoing series on Kundalini Yoga philosophy from Imagine Yoga Academy, home of Kundalini Yoga teacher training since 2012. :::::: About Imagine Yoga Academy We are Pedro and Daniela, co-founders of Imagine Yoga Academy. Since 2012, we've trained over 900 Kundalini Yoga teachers across Switzerland (Geneva, Zurich, Lugano), Spain (Madrid, Málaga), India, and online, always free of dogma, taught as a method of self-knowledge rather than a system of rules. Our 200h Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in Zürich, Geneva and Lugano from October 2026 to July 2027 Nine months. Fifteen people. One way through. For people asking what comes next. https://www.imagineyogaacademy.com/200h-kundalini-yoga-training-geneva-lugano-zurich/ Imagine Sangat — our online membership in English A community where your practice can live, even in the busy seasons. Your first step into the Imagine path. https://www.imagineyogaacademy.com/sangat-kundalini-yoga-online-practice/ Free gift — Come Back to Yourself: Three guided audios. 5 minutes each. Find us: Web: www.imagineyogaacademy.com Instagram: @imagineyogaacademy.eng YouTube: Imagine Yoga Academy LinkedIn: Imagine Yoga Academy Love & strength, Daniela and Pedro.

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  Episode #40

  The Yoga Mat as Home: Asana and the Art of Coming Back to Yourself

  Jul 14, 202612 minS1

  Most people come to yoga through a posture. A class at a gym, a video, a friend who dragged them along. They show up thinking asana is yoga — and in a way, that's a perfect place to start. In this episode we explore Asana, the third limb of Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga. Not as a set of shapes to copy, but as an energetic invitation — a practice ground for learning how to meet yourself with steadiness and ease. We talk about the Sanskrit roots of the word, the sutra Sthira Sukham Asanam, what the mat reveals about how we handle challenge and change, and why in Kundalini Yoga we practice with eyes closed. The posture is the direction. You find your own way there. :::::: About Imagine Yoga Academy We are Pedro and Daniela, co-founders of Imagine Yoga Academy. Since 2012, we've trained over 900 Kundalini Yoga teachers across Switzerland (Geneva, Zurich, Lugano), Spain (Madrid, Málaga), India, and online, always free of dogma, taught as a method of self-knowledge rather than a system of rules. 🌿 Our 200h Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in Zürich, Geneva and Lugano from October 2026 to July 2027 Nine months. Fifteen people. One way through. For people asking what comes next. 👉 https://www.imagineyogaacademy.com/200h-kundalini-yoga-training-geneva-lugano-zurich/ 🌀 Imagine Sangat — our online membership in English A community where your practice can live, even in the busy seasons. Your first step into the Imagine path. 👉 https://www.imagineyogaacademy.com/sangat-kundalini-yoga-online-practice/ 🎁 Free gift — Come Back to Yourself: Three guided audios. 5 minutes each. 👉 Find us: Web: www.imagineyogaacademy.com Instagram: @imagineyogaacademy.eng YouTube: Imagine Yoga Academy LinkedIn: Imagine Yoga Academy Love & strength, Daniela and Pedro.

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  Episode #37

  Tapas — The Third Niyama: Fire, Discipline, and the Will to Live Fully

  Jun 22, 202614 minS1

  Tapas is the third Niyama in Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga. It is commonly translated as discipline. But the teachers left us something deeper than that. In this episode, Pedro Misle explores Tapas as the inner fire that makes you want to be here. Not motivated in the productivity sense. Not disciplined in the punishing sense. Alive in the fullest sense. Engaged with the journey. Curious about what's possible. Unwilling to let the days pass without really being in them. What you'll explore in this episode: • Why Tapas may be the epicenter of the entire Eight Limbs path, and what falls apart without it • The difference between happiness, gratitude, and genuine engagement with your own life • Why the absence of excitement, not sadness or burnout, is the real warning sign • Three honest, practical ways to tend your inner fire starting today • How the Niyamas build on each other: from Saucha and Santosha to Tapas This episode is part of an ongoing series on the Eight Limbs of Yoga, exploring how Patanjali's ancient framework applies to modern life — attention fragmentation, compulsive productivity, emotional avoidance, and the quiet human need to feel genuinely alive.Tapas in Kundalini Yoga is not about intensity for its own sake. It is about the willingness to show up for your own life, repeatedly, honestly, and with full presence. One question runs through this entire episode: Are you excited to be alive? Not happy. Not grateful in a performative sense. Engaged. Curious about how deep the rabbit hole goes. Press play and sit with that question. :::::: About Imagine Yoga Academy Imagine Yoga Academy is a Kundalini Yoga school founded by Daniela Troconis and Pedro Misle, training teachers internationally since 2012. The Level I 200h Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training runs in Zürich, Geneva, and Lugano. Yoga Alliance certified. Taught in English. The hybrid format combines monthly in-person weekend seminars with weekly live online sessions, lifetime access to the full online curriculum, and a four-day closing retreat in the Swiss Alps. We teach Kundalini Yoga as a method of self-knowledge, free of dogma, with no affiliation to 3HO. Since 2012, over 900 practitioners have trained with us across Switzerland (Geneva, Zürich, Lugano), Spain (Madrid, Málaga), India, and online. 🌿 Our 200h Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in Zürich, Geneva and Lugano from October 2026 to July 2027 Nine months. Fifteen people. One way through. For people asking what comes next. 👉 ⁠https://www.imagineyogaacademy.com/200h-kundalini-yoga-training-geneva-lugano-zurich/⁠ 🌀 ⁠Imagine Sangat⁠ — our online membership in English A community where your practice can live, even in the busy seasons. Your first step into the Imagine path. 👉 ⁠https://www.imagineyogaacademy.com/sangat-kundalini-yoga-online-practice/⁠ 🎁 ⁠Free gift — Come Back to Yourself:⁠ Three guided audios. 5 minutes each. 👉 Find us: Web: ⁠www.imagineyogaacademy.com⁠ Instagram: @imagineyogaacademy.eng YouTube: Imagine Yoga Academy LinkedIn: Imagine Yoga Academy Love & strength, Daniela and Pedro

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  What is Santosha? The Yoga of Inner Contentment and Lasting Peace

  Jun 13, 202614 min

  We spend a lot of time waiting for the right conditions before allowing ourselves to feel at peace. I'll relax when. I'll be happy when. I'll feel complete when. But the finish line keeps moving. And before we know it, our peace becomes entirely dependent on circumstances we can't control. In this episode, we explore Santosha — the second of the five Niyamas in Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga — often translated as contentment. Not complacency. Not passivity. But the practice of returning to the part of you that remains whole regardless of what life brings. We also look at what Santosha is not: it doesn't ask us to approve of suffering, ignore loss, or stop acting in the face of injustice. It simply points us back to something beneath all of that. Something that cannot be touched by success or failure, by praise or criticism, by what we gain or what we lose. Santoṣād anuttamaḥ sukha-lābhaḥ — through Santosha comes unsurpassed happiness. Not because life becomes perfect. But because we stop searching for lasting peace in what is constantly changing. This episode is part of our ongoing series on the Eight Limbs of Yoga — a practical exploration of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras through the lens of Kundalini Yoga and modern life. In this episode: What Santosha really means — and what it doesn't Why contentment is not the same as resignation How the mantras Sat Nam and Sa Ta Na Ma connect to this teaching The difference between circumstantial peace and inner stability How Kundalini Yoga practice supports the cultivation of Santosha :::::: About Imagine Yoga Academy We are Pedro and Daniela, co-founders of Imagine Yoga Academy. Since 2012, we've trained over 900 Kundalini Yoga teachers across Switzerland (Geneva, Zurich, Lugano), Spain (Madrid, Málaga), India, and online, always free of dogma, taught as a method of self-knowledge rather than a system of rules. 🌿 Our 200h Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in Zürich, Geneva and Lugano from October 2026 to July 2027 Nine months. Fifteen people. One way through. For people asking what comes next. 👉 ⁠https://www.imagineyogaacademy.com/200h-kundalini-yoga-training-geneva-lugano-zurich/⁠ 🌀 ⁠Imagine Sangat⁠ — our online membership in English A community where your practice can live, even in the busy seasons. Your first step into the Imagine path. 👉 ⁠https://www.imagineyogaacademy.com/sangat-kundalini-yoga-online-practice/⁠ 🎁 ⁠Free gift — Come Back to Yourself:⁠ Three guided audios. 5 minutes each. 👉 Find us: Web: ⁠www.imagineyogaacademy.com⁠ Instagram: @imagineyogaacademy.eng YouTube: Imagine Yoga Academy LinkedIn: Imagine Yoga Academy Love & strength, Daniela and Pedro

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  Saucha: Why Purity in Yoga Isn't About Being Good (The First Niyama

  Jun 7, 202617 min

  Every morning you clean your body. You tidy the house. You 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. Saucha — the first of the five Niyamas — means purity. Not in any moral sense, but as plain cleanliness: the body, the space around you, the words that come out of your mouth, and the mind itself. In this episode, Pedro traces that path from the outside in, including a personal practice that started with something as simple as dropping the swearing. The episode also explores digital noise as the modern form of inner clutter, and offers three concrete ways to practice Saucha this week. If you're drawn to the depth of these teachings, our Level I 200h Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training runs in Zürich, Geneva, and Lugano — open to anyone ready to deepen this path. :::::: About Imagine Yoga Academy We are Pedro and Daniela, co-founders of Imagine Yoga Academy. Since 2012, we've trained over 900 Kundalini Yoga teachers across Switzerland (Geneva, Zurich, Lugano), Spain (Madrid, Málaga), India, and online, always free of dogma, taught as a method of self-knowledge rather than a system of rules. 🌿 Our 200h Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in Zürich, Geneva and Lugano from October 2026 to July 2027 Nine months. Fifteen people. One way through. For people asking what comes next. 👉 https://www.imagineyogaacademy.com/200h-kundalini-yoga-training-geneva-lugano-zurich/ 🌀 Imagine Sangat — our online membership in English A community where your practice can live, even in the busy seasons. Your first step into the Imagine path. 👉 https://www.imagineyogaacademy.com/sangat-kundalini-yoga-online-practice/ 🎁 Free gift — Come Back to Yourself: Three guided audios. 5 minutes each. 👉 Find us: Web: www.imagineyogaacademy.com Instagram: @imagineyogaacademy.eng YouTube: Imagine Yoga Academy LinkedIn: Imagine Yoga Academy Love & strength, Daniela and Pedro

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