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A lumen is the basic unit for measuring brightness. It is a measure of the total quantity of visible light emitted by a source. In biology, a lumen (plural lumina) is the inside space of a tubular structure, such as an artery or intestine. It comes from Latin lumen, meaning 'an opening.' Kendra is dedicated to each individual's personal process of living a life in service to their greatest Lumen. Her work is an experiential inquiry into limitation and freedom in our bodies and our lives. She believes that we can access and discover truth, insight, clarity, and inner guidance through the body. She blends shiatsu, bodywork, and movement practices with philosophy. She uses these practices as to…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Lumen makes yoga philosophy practical by tracing how attention, movement, and bodily sensation can alter habitual responses to pain and distress.
Lumen turns yoga philosophy into a working method for meeting pain, fear, and ingrained thought patterns. Kendra moves between Patanjali's sutras, Buddhist ideas, personal accounts of injury, and the physical detail of movement or bodywork.
Kendra's dislocated knee might change how you hear your own body's complaints.
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A clear account of shiatsu sessions, studio basics, and the move from story to felt sense.
The piece presents shiatsu as a slow, body-centered practice shaped by learning rather than routine. It keeps the practical details clear: sessions run two to two and a half hours, payment can slide, and clients are told what to wear and what to expect at the studio.
A grounded case for staying with discomfort long enough to learn from it.
The piece opens with a knee dislocation and turns it into a study of getting unstuck. It moves from shadow yoga's hard work in the leg, foot, hip, and knee to a broader claim: injury can become a place to start healing, and fear does not need to set every rule.
A grounded talk on how thought patterns feed suffering and how practice loosens them.
A Thursday-morning drive frames a discussion of Yoga Sutra 1.5, where the five vrittis are set out as detrimental or non-detrimental. The piece returns to the same practical idea from several angles, tying the teaching to driving, habit, bodily experience, and the loop of action…
A Dharma talk about Yoga Sutra 1.4, Shenpa, and rerouting old habits and fears.
The talk moves from Yoga Sutra 1.4 and Pema Chodron's Shenpa into a plainspoken look at how limiting beliefs can harden into limiting patterns and results. It keeps circling back to a simple point: mind and life are not fixed, but shifting and fluid, like weather.
Masha Gessen narrates her own cousin's murder-for-hire arrest and custody battle.
Rich Roll interviews recovery and endurance guests, plus 'Roll On' segments with Adam Skolnick.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Rhonda Patrick translates NAD, vitamin D, and coffee research into daily health protocols.
Shawn Stevenson interviews researchers and coaches on nutrition, sleep, hormones, and fitness.
The episode opens by describing what shiatsu work feels like from the inside.
Lumen host leads a first class on three self-regulation tools: orienting, tracking the felt sense of bodily sensations, and resourcing through bodily ease, surroundings, or memory.
It opens on a Thursday morning with a conversation about being stuck and finding a way forward.
The talk opens on a Thursday morning drive to Long Meadow, with the sun coming up and a muffler loud enough to announce the car's every move.
The episode opens with a Dharma talk on Yoga Sutra teachings and Pema Chodron’s teaching on Shenpa.