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.
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