{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Shuniya Shift: Stop Using Kundalini Yoga to Fix Yourself with Bailee Buckendorf","description":"What happens when healing becomes another thing you\u2019re trying to achieve? In this episode, I\u2019m joined by my friend Bailee for a tender conversation about grief, the feminine, Shuniya, and the power of not fixing yourself. We explore grief not as something you \u201cget over,\u201d but as a living process to be felt, held, and slowly alchemized. Bailee shares how her journey led her into deeper stillness, sensory awareness, sound, archetype, and the feminine mystery. This conversation asks: What if there is nothing to fix? What if the next step is learning how to listen differently? Inside this episode, we explore: \ud83d\udd39 Why grief is not something we complete, but something we learn to live with and honor \ud83d\udd39 How Shuniya, or zero-point stillness, can create space for healing to land \ud83d\udd39 Why \u201cam I doing this to avoid a feeling?\u201d and \u201cam I doing this because I think I\u2019m not enough?\u201d are powerful questions \ud83d\udd39 How simple rituals, sound, sensory awareness, and intentional contemplation can support integration My hope is that this episode gives you permission to stop treating healing like a race. You do not have to prove your worth through how much you process, achieve, fix, or overcome. Sometimes the most sacred shift begins when you pause, listen, and let what has already been planted finally land. \ud83d\udc0d If this conversation stirred something in you: Download your FREE Feminine Kundalini Starter Pack: https:\/\/www.brettlarkin.com\/online-kundalini-yoga-teacher-training\/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=podcast&utm_campaign=ku    GUEST EXPERT: Bailee Buckendorf | @rebuilding.roots  Bailee Buckendorf is a grief integration guide, contemplative writer, and founder of Sunia Shift. Her work weaves Kundalini yoga, archetypal practice, sacred ceremony, sound, somatics, and matriarchal wisdom to help people relate to grief not as something to fix, but as a source of knowing. Shaped by her own lived initiations as a widowed mother, ultra runner, and lifelong student of loss, Bailee supports individuals and groups through one-on-one containers, digital offerings, and seasonal experiences. Book Mentioned: Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Est\u00e9s https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Women-Who-Run-Wolves-Archetype\/dp\/0345409876    FREE Practice: KUNDALINI YOGA FOR EMOTIONAL RELEASE with Music \ud83d\udc9c Trauma Informed Yoga for Beginners \ud83d\udc9c Relevant Blog: The Best Somatic Exercises for Grief: Find Healing Through Movement   Relevant to Today\u2019s Episode: \ud83d\udc0d Kundalini 200-hour YTT \ud83d\udcab Yoga for Self Mastery \ud83d\udc96 Uplifted Membership \ud83c\udf00 Somatic Yoga Life Coaching  \ud83c\udfa7 Also Listen to: #281 \u2013 Grief as a Potent Healer with Kris Carr #324 \u2013 The Importance of Emotional Processing and Regulation: DENT Model Trauma #332 \u2013 7 Ways to Release Anger & Grief Through Your Yoga Practice   \u00a9 2026 Uplifted Yoga | BrettLarkin.com ","author_name":"The Uplifted Yoga Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.brettlarkin.com\/","html":"