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Dec 2024
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Ep. 572 – Yoga, Sex and Death with Susan...

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About this episode

Sharing stories from her world travels, yoga teacher Susan Maruffo explores healing and self-discovery through yoga, Tantra, and meditation.

This time on Mindrolling, Susan and Raghu journey through:  

  • Unhappiness within Western cultural conditioning
  • How getting out of the United States transformed Susan’s life
  • Being alone while doing yoga versus in a group setting
  • How suffocating our ‘roles’ in life can be
  • Recognizing our universal connection via a trip to India
  • Coming back into the body through yoga practice
  • Susan’s experience at a Tantric school in Thailand
  • Neo-Tantra versus classical Tantra
  • Healing through yoga and sexual exploration
  • Dying to the old versions of ourselves
  • How the heart reveals itself during meditation
  • The ways we run away from intimacy

About Susan Marrufo:

Susan left the United States and a job in advertising in 2008 to travel internationally and experience life beyond the confines of her cultural conditioning. She received her first 500-hr yoga certification in Thailand in 2009, where she began her studies of the classical yogic scriptures and delved deeply into esoteric tantric philosophy. After 2 years of teaching month-long tantric-based courses on the banks of the Ganges in India and the Pacific coastal towns of Mexico, Susan returned to the US to begin a residential internship with the Kripalu School of Yoga, where she taught in and project-managed several Kripalu yoga teacher trainings as well as received her 2nd 500-hr teacher training certification from the Kripalu School of Yoga. Susan facilitates group courses in the inquiry of yoga and meditation and dives increasingly deeper into her yogic studies. She is the founder of Samarasa Center.

It was the first time that I started practicing yoga alone. Not in groups of classes with other people. That was transformational for me. That was the game changer, just being alone, having time, not feeling stressed, not feeling the pressure to be anybody. To be a wife, to be a boss, to be a daughter.” – Susan Marrufo

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