Posts in Mindfulness pause
Episode 19: Power Abuse through Spiritual Teachers

What does it look like when mega-celebrity spiritual teachers misuse their power and authority? And, when do these teachers' blindspots recapitulate the student's trauma - especially when the teacher doesn't understand the student's trauma response and instead blames the student for not doing the practices "right"?

This conversation with Nicola Amadora brings light to the reality that students of spiritual teachers can slip into being the recipient of dominating power dynamics of power-over with their teacher. This can cause the student to lose faith in their own inner authority and self-authoring trust.

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Episode 13: Healing Toxic Masculinity

What happens when stoicism and the learned behavior of compartmentalizing one's emotions and vulnerability stifle the individual who embodies them?

This phenomenon is called toxic masculinity — an exalted archetype of what it means “to be a man”, which is reinforced through socialization and conditioning.

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Episode 12: The Radical Shift from Isolated Exile to Holy Exile

Hualani from Canada and Marie from South Africa and I focus on what it’s been like to feel both exiled and exalted in confusing and painful ways since childhood.

We explored how we’ve each navigated through the process of shifting from being an isolated exile to a Holy one.

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Episode 11: Navigating Foreign Energy & Mind Control

Listen to qigong master, Damaris Jarboux, as she describes the framework for foreign energy and how it impacts our mental body (thoughts), emotional body, physical body and eventually our spiritual connection.

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Episode 10: How to Activate Your Inner Jedi — the Vagus Nerve

How does the Vagal Nerve serve as one of our greatest inner allies, helping us to recover from activated states of threat, anxiety, fear, and helplessness? Patricia shares about this inner Jedi along with simple practices we can do to wield this power, and calm our triggers while driving or in the middle of a business meeting.

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Episode 9: Re-Scripting "Soul Purpose" in a Paradigm of Striving and Fear

Many of us are taught we have to find the one core purpose for our expression in the world and if we can’t do that then somehow it means we’ve failed. That is NOT true. You’ll hear Sajit debunk this outdated paradigm and offer a new way to explore soul purpose.

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Episode 8: The Power of Engaging the Natural World as Spiritual Practice

Mark shares about his relationship with the natural world as his teacher, beloved, ally, and sacred mirror. He is devoted to serving as a meditation teacher who guides others to engage directly with the natural world as a form of spiritual practice and remembering.

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Episode 7: Freeing Your Inner Fire

Jen candidly shares with us about the vulnerability and liberation of living a life through radical self-honesty. She shares about her book and women’s program on Midlife Emergence, which she describes as "the process of coming into view or being exposed after previously being concealed."

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Episode 6: Sacred Sisterhood & Healing Sisterhood Shadows

Hualani, Marie, and I cover a number of topics on Sacred Sisterhood and the need to heal the collective shadows of feminine power out of balance and the power of when it’s balanced and serving healing for the whole.

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Episode 5. Breaking Free from the Confining Boxes of Fear & Conditioning

Holadia speaks about the art of pausing. Of taking time to turn inward and listen, clarify and ask for guidance, which is counter-intuitive to the mind’s need to race, fix, solve and go until exhaustion.

She guides others to break out of boxes through offering customized personal retreats at her home in Boulder, Colorado.

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