Podcasts

Spiritual podcasts for lovers of mindfulness, meditation, relaxation, spiritual awakening, enlightenment, nonduality and healing. Try them for reducing stress or anxiety, or for calm while falling asleep!

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  • Let *It* Let Go

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    The one who wants to be free is incapable of letting go.  But eventually, as the space of awareness grows, it loses its power to control.  So as you’re able now, rest in awareness. Whatever might still be holding on, whatever might be resisting, or whatever might be grasping — just be the space of awareness that lets *it* let go.

    Recorded 1/14/2017 at Jon Bernie’s Santa Cruz meditation gathering. www.jonbernie.org

  • Everything is New

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    Awakening is when you’re just here. Nothing coming or going. Everything is new, everything is fresh. When all our filters drop away and there’s just this presence, we can come to a deeper, centered alignment in our being.

    And when you feel that presence emerging, that’s what you want to give your attention to. Words can only point to that possibility. It’s your job to find the truth. No one can give that to you, because it is you. It’s your nature.

    Recorded 1/2/2017 at San Francisco meditation gathering with Jon Bernie. Embodied Awareness podcasts for spiritual awakening, mindfulness, relaxation & healing.

  • Healing Social Trauma

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    It’s in times of darkness that we most need the light. That’s when we’re really challenged to either run and hide and avoid, or face what’s right here. So thank you for showing up for yourself. As hard as it is right now, to cultivate consciousness is to drop knowing; to drop, at least for a while, the past and the future, and the whole story, so that we can allow the healing of our burdened hearts and bodies and minds, and not get completely dragged away in our fears and aggressions. We’re here for healing — healing and recovery, and some nourishment of peace.

  • Every Taste is Delicious

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    “Have you found out yet what a relief it is to not think? It becomes effortless as you learn to relax into openness. It feels nurturing and comforting and healing.”

    When you’re no longer caught in meaning, or in trying to orchestrate or manage your experience, then you’re just here. You’re just open, vulnerable, available. Now it’s like every taste is delicious. You actually feel who you’re looking at. You’re willing to be touched, and to touch — to give and to receive. When you’re open, you’re no longer blocked in this container called “me.” That’s always the best time you can have — when you’re not in the way. There’s just this natural radiance, pure presence. It’s not even a big deal, really. It’s totally ordinary, and totally available to you right now. Recorded at San Francisco satsang July 11, 2016.

  • The Only Truth is Freedom

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    What does it mean to arrive here fully? What *is* freedom? And what does it mean to truly take care of yourself?

  • Intimacy of the Heart

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    Intimacy is the union of being with another without the filter of “me”. It’s a closeness, a heartfulness, an empathetic sensitivity. Even though we may not have conversed, we know each other profoundly. That’s really the depth of relationship that we seek. www.jonbernie.org

  • A Little More Joy

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    The draw to become spiritually free is often just have a little more joy, a little more enjoyment, a little less angst. Can you find that moment, even right now, where you’re not seeking, not trying, not resisting? Can you let go, just for a moment? It feels good, doesn’t it? Recorded 3/7/2016 in San Francisco. www.jonbernie.org  Embodied Awareness podcast

  • The Essential Energy of Transformation

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    Every moment is the beginning of the journey. When you wake up, there is not endpoint called “enlightenment”. There’s just this closeness, this intimacy of connection. No one to defend.

    Opening is a natural, mysterious movement; and what we learn from a human perspective, is how to let it move in the direction it’s moving. How to step out of the way and let go of control — the control of knowing, the control of believing.

    Recorded 2/28/2016 in San Francisco. www.jonbernie.org

  • Wake Up Right Now

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    “The fundamental teaching — the guiding principle, the guiding light — is your own true nature. Whether you’re aware of that or not, it is, always has been, and always will be what you are. Belief has nothing to do with it. Trying to achieve has nothing to do with it. It is already what you are. All you have to do today is be here — right now.” Recorded 2/13/2016 in El Cerrito.

  • Ask Into Vastness

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    Are you able to surrender? Are you able to just be here? Whatever way works for you in this moment, it will open you, and it will bring you back into a harmonious presence. Maybe just being here, sensing this energy or presence in the room, if you can sense, see or tune into that.

    Whatever allows you to, in a sense, be out of the way, is what’s working for you; is your guidance system, your teacher, your path. The fuel for that guidance system is what we call presence, awareness, energy, or awakened consciousness. It’s a vastness of perception.

    Recorded 2/22/16 in San Francisco. www.jonbernie.org