Walking the Path of Love© Podcast
Walking the Path of Love © is a space for those who want to live with more presence, awareness, trust, joy, and connection. The podcast is a forum to connect deeply with others through sharing of stories and discussions on practices, insights, and experiences.
Living from a place of love can change our lives and change the world.
New Episode is launched 2x per month.
In each episode, I am joined by inspiring guests who share their stories, challenges, aha moments, and insights. Guests devoted to living from a place of love and compassion and truth and connection. This space is inspired by the teachings of Swami Kripalu.
The conversation is not only about one lineage, but holds space and honors teachings and practices with a foundation in consciousness, life force, and Love.
Together we explore how ancient teachings , science, and modern practices can support us in living fully today. Living with grace and ease, connected to our deep knowing. Through our accessible conversations, things begin to open and become clear - we connect through our shared human-ness and our one-ness.
Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, you are welcome here as we walk together.
Opening to Love: Where It All Begins
What does it mean to return to your heart? To shift from a life driven by shoulds and external expectations into one rooted in presence, awareness, and love?
In this first step on the path of love, we explore how returning to your heart and listening to your inner wisdom can transform every aspect of your life, and why the stories we share become the bridge that connects us all.
You’ll hear my personal journey of hitting bottom and returning to love, and learn why this podcast is dedicated to the power of stories and connection. You will also be introduced to Swami Kripalu, the beloved teacher whose lineage and teachings have shaped my life and continue to inspire this sacred work.
Wherever you are on your journey, you are welcome here. Whether you are searching, healing, questioning, or simply curious about what it means to walk the path of love, this podcast invites you into a space of deep connection and authentic sharing. Let's begin together.
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Being Guided on the Path of Love
What if the right guide could help you remember who you truly are and deepen your spiritual practice? How does receiving mentorship shape not just our own journey, but how we show up for others?
In this episode of Walking the Path of Love, Charlyn sits down with Grace MacLeod, a pillar in the Kripalu lineage with direct experience learning from Swami Kripalu during his transformational time in the States. Grace is a mentor, guide, and devoted practitioner who works with others on relationships, creative expression, and spiritual remembrance. Her work is deeply rooted in the practices and teachings she received from the lineage, and she brings a gentle, compassionate approach to helping others remember their soul's purpose and walk their path with confidence.
In this conversation, Grace opens our time together with a beautiful centering practice and blessing, guiding us into a place of remembrance and presence. She shares her profound experiences meeting Swami Kripalu and the wisdom she gained during those pivotal moments. Together with Charlyn, they explore how receiving guidance transforms not just our personal practice but also how we expand and deepen our ability to serve and teach.
Sometimes the moments that shake us most are the very moments inviting us back to ourselves. Grace reminds us that when a wave rises inside, when fear, emotion, tension, or uncertainty seem to take over nearly all of our being, there is still a steady place within us capable of observing with compassion and breathing through the experience. The practice is not to fight the wave or pretend it is not there, but to soften, stay present, and trust that what arises can move through us and return us to peace. As you move through your days, perhaps the invitation is simply to notice: Where can you create a little more space, a little more breath, a little more love for what is happening inside of you right now?
How 50 Years of Yoga Taught Connie Miller to Trust What She Cannot Explain
What happens when you stop forcing answers and learn to pause long enough to actually receive them? And what does it look like to build a life, a family, and a teaching practice rooted not in doctrine but in direct, lived experience?
In this episode of Walking the Path of Love, Charlyn sits down with Connie Miller, a yoga practitioner since 1970 and the creator of Yoga Rhythmics, the dancing path of yoga. Connie was part of the original Kripalu community in Summertown, Pennsylvania, where she raised four children while keeping one foot at home and one foot in the ashram. Over five decades, she has taught thousands of people across every kind of setting, and today she also works as an intuitive energy healer, weaving together Eastern wisdom, modern neuroscience, and a lifetime of embodied practice.
Connie opens the conversation with a grounding centering practice, inviting everyone present to arrive fully, feel the beating of their heart, and rest in the extraordinary electromagnetic frequency of love that lives there. From there, she and Charlyn move into a rich exploration of what it really means to walk a householder path and how a weeklong fever at 106 degrees became one of Connie's most profound encounters with Swami Kripalu's presence, a story she has rarely shared with anyone.
One of the threads that runs through this whole conversation is the practice of pausing, not as a passive waiting, but as an active opening. Connie shares the now-legendary cellar window story, about how standing with her frustration and breathing instead of forcing led to a solution appearing in a way she still cannot fully explain. That moment, small and domestic as it was, became a living demonstration of everything Babaji taught about trust, receptivity, and inner guidance. And it is the same thread that moved through the vision she received in the meditation room, giving birth to Yoga Rhythmics entirely. The pause is when something beyond what we already know can come through.