The Continuous Transformation Podcast: Recent Episodes
Advaitananda Stoian
Being alive is Continuous Transformation. This is the podcast that gives a spin on your understanding of yourself and the world around you. Join and discover the right perspectives that can transform any life situation into an opportunity to grow.
Topics like leadership, time management, relationships, health, eroticism, mental focus and vigilant citizenship are discussed weekly by guests who want to get a clearer vision in this challenging and surprising world.
Your host Advaitananda Stoian has a scientific background as a researcher in AI and quantum physics. For the past 30 years he has been practicing and teaching yoga, meditation and tantra. He is co-author of the most extensive course on esoteric tantra yoga and a 3-year meditation course. Over the years he has counselled thousands of people on matters including couple relationship, spiritual practice, mental focus, heart-centred leadership, and much more.
This is a bridge between the past and future that is so much needed today! With the hope of making the high spiritual principles more accessible to people the world over, Advaitananda started this work of sharing his deep experience in many areas of life with his guests, in this podcast format. May it be transformative for many!
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Masculinity is a gift to the world when it is present in its superior aspect. There is a lot of talk today about 'toxic masculinity', but I dare say that it is the rhetoric and opinions about this topic which are much more toxic. To understand the extent of the bias in the discourse on masculinity, you can start by imagining the social media storms that would be triggered if the word “man” in their stories would be replaced with any other category of people. It makes me wonder, where is the superior response to this bias from the strong, moral and virile men?
Masculinity obviously IS in a crisis today, but it is not facing the kind of problems claimed by the 'woke' culture or the ones who are calling themselves 'feminists'.
The problems that masculinity face today need a true masculine attention - one full of responsibility, discernment and accompanied by action. In this talk I am joined by Tantra teacher Foca Yariv, who has been guiding men’s groups and workshops, and raises the questions from the men he has met and from the challenges he has experienced.
What is more mysterious than the future? The future is a vast unknown, and in these times the emergence of new technologies makes life change at a rate we’ve never seen before. Are we ready?
How can we prepare for this unprecedented acceleration? How to safely glide on the current and not crash-land in a sci-fi dystopia? How to navigate through life when everything is unpredictable?
Tantric aspirant Kalas poses these questions in this episode. Questions that can only be answered if we dare to look into our relationship with transformation; a sensitive topic nowadays when most people are longing to hold on to the status quo. Continuous transformation, however, is one of the life's defining conditions and we will explore what it means in this episode. Welcome to this journey of self discovery!
Today we are told to trust science completely - but true science never asked us to believe in it. On the contrary, true science always asked to be scrutinised because that is how science reaches perfection. In this episode I chose to take a boldly direct approach on the obvious signs of degradation of science simultaneously with the weakening of spirituality when they both refuse each other. Coming from an academic background, I have seen the best and worst of science from the inside. As a practitioner and teacher of yoga, tantra and meditation for more than 30 years, I have also seen and experienced spirituality from its very core. I aim to offer a perspective of how we can bridge the gap between science and spirituality, between logical reasoning and higher heart values. Considering that today science claims to be the owner of the absolute truth and religion tries to fight back, we need to reflect more on these topics.
One of the most important lessons for us personally and as a society.
Some say Tantra is a path of spiritualised sex, ignoring the fact that the Tantric system actually considers sex to be nothing more than an inferior instinct. Others, out of ignorance, blame Tantra for all decadence. Yet, there are also many hopes attributed to the Tantric system which is said to re-emerge in times of crisis to save humanity from its perilous decadence. Out of all these false hopes and damnation, Tantra appears to be a spiritual Frankenstein: a mix of sexual perversions solved with incense sticks and candles. But what is tantra? And why is it so often misunderstood?
Having walked this path for 30 years myself, I picked up these questions brought by Tantra teacher Foca Yariv for this talk, where we aim to debunk some myths and inspire some people to try out this path for themselves. A path which, in our experience, is the most efficient methodology for those who dare to leave behind all preconceived ideas and truly want to accelerate their evolution!
Widely used today (and the bread and butter of creating overnight gurus in human development), the “carrot and stick” schemes are said to be today's key to achievements and success. For this episode I invited Greg Garrett, co-founder of The Quantum Questions, to bring the voice of inquiry for all those who are caught on the treadmill of motivational schemes. He is one of those brave souls who started to question the control and empowerment that motivational schemes apparently give. Does it really bring the promised freedom? Or is it just a larger prison? We will look into the severe side effects of the deeply embedded “carrot and stick” motivation, the illusory pressure of “not having enough time” and how to transition from “burned out” to continuously burning.
This is a warm invitation to take a step out of the hamster wheel and discover what happens when you give 100% to life.
A friendly talk about the major phenomena arising in the world today with Advaitananda and Sahajananda J. Porslund. There is a battle between ’The Great Reset’ and ‘The Great Awakening’. Is there a real choice between these two alternatives? One of them, a social and political Frankenstein pushed forward by the elite, the other a whisper from the rising masses, conveniently labelled as conspiracy theory by social engineers. Maybe now is the time to look more closely into these issues before it’s too late and the frog is already boiled.
“What do we cancel when we cancel culture?” This question can easily get your fingers (and sometimes also your books!) burned in today’s environment of Political Correctness. In this episode, Maria Porsfelt, lead teacher at Tara Yoga Center with a degree in philosophy, dares to raise the question and Advaitananda demolishes the usual perspective drawing parallels between modern-day censorship in areas ranging from Social Media to children’s books, and the cultural revolutions in the USSR, China and Nazi Germany. Get prepared for one of the strongest moral tests of our generation!
Thomas Egebøl, an independent adviser and chairman, is a voice for many who are searching for ways to turn the apparent crisis into growth, on many levels, by courageously looking the storm straight in the eye. He joins me in this episode to get insights on the invisible enemy that the whole world seems to be united around - not ‘the virus’, but fear.
We fear that everything will be different. We try to hold on to what we know, waiting for things to go back to ‘normal’, or at least, a ‘new normal’. But to make room for progress it seems that we need to take a hammer to the old and tear it down.
Transformation and learning are always triggered by aspiration or, the other strong incentive, fear. In this talk we look into the amazing perspectives that are revealed to us if we remove fear along with the inner programming that makes us robotically react to it.
In this episode, my guest Sahajananda J. Porslund, founder of Copenhagen Conscious Talks, joins me again to continue our talk on a subject that seems to become more and more important by the hour.
History repeats itself when the lessons are not learned. And if we hide the lessons we definitely don’t have a chance to learn them. I was out on the streets when the revolution happened in Romania in 1989 and witnessed firsthand many things that did not go down in the history books.
Now it is more important than ever to speak up and help others wake up. Despite talk about unity, democracy and science, what we see now is a totalitarian regime in progressive sheep’s clothing.
Today, many of us put power and hope in creating a true society that is shaped from the inside out. We can do this by turning our attention inwards and facing our inner challenges - where we have no-one to blame and no place to hide from our responsibility.
Who else to invite on this topic than my life-long lover and wife, Adina. Continuing our talk on crisis mentality in “Episode 2: How to Thrive in Times of Crisis?“, in this episode we look closer at crisis in the couple relationship.
The lockdown has forced many couples to spend more time together. We used to complain about not having enough time together, then we were suddenly given more time than we could handle, and in the condition that society as a whole doesn’t even know how relationships work!
Being together can bring problems to the surface, but where to find the solutions?
There is a way forward, but it is not always the straight road. However, on the other hand, relationships are subject to very precise laws and principles, and can be transformed into what we aspire them to be. Not knowing how a relationship works, too often we quit at the first signs of trouble. Even though trouble is meant to be part of the next improvements.
Is history repeating itself - again? I was a first-hand witness of the stolen revolution that took place on the streets of Romania in 1989. The striking similarities to what happens today with the rise of the ‘thought police’, ‘woke’ brigades running wild in the new “streets” of the Internet, and censorship in the name of free speech, are difficult to ignore.
Can we afford to be ignorant in the face of such evidence?
In today’s episode, I am joined by Sahajananda J. Porslund, freelance investigative journalist with a MA in Comparative Literature. United in the moral duty to lift our perspective and look much more closely at the events of society, we discuss the reality that faces us now.
From the seemingly innocent comfort eating to compulsive eating, in this episode we explore the unknown ride of desires.
In one way or another we all have some feelings about desires and this often affects our life much more than we care to admit. The first step to a state of freedom from these “dungeons” of our consciousness is to openly talk about it.
Today I am speaking with Lucy Pattinson, co-founder of The Quantum Questions: a platform for courses and seminars that also hosts a wonderful podcast. She courageously asks the questions that few dare to.
In this episode we talk about the way we can turn guilty desires and pleasures into real fulfilment, exploring the amazing shift of perception that appears when treating your desires with the right attitude.
Experience the feeling of freedom when you stop the tiring swing between fighting a desire out of guilt and giving into it.
Today I am speaking with Adina Stoian - founder of Women of Spirituality, teacher of esoteric Tantra Yoga, writer and my wife - to launch her questions on the burning hot topic: Crisis and Transformation!
A crisis of global proportions is upon us - one that affects many aspects of human life, but that also brings plenty of opportunities to grow as individuals and as a collective. If we understand what I call our “crisis mentality”, I dare say we will understand a lot of what is going on in the world today. So tune in and discover how to thrive in a crisis!
In this first episode of Continuous Transformation, we take a look at the lessons from 2020 and what to look forward to in 2021. Did we learn the lessons, or did we just skip class? This important question is asked by today’s guest Elodia Thallon, and in our conversation we discover how infection, censorship and weak leadership come from a lack of immunity of consciousness and how it can be trained so we don’t need to sterilise our environment and isolate ourselves - physically and mentally. We talk about the trap of indifference, taking responsibility for our own garbage, reconnecting with ourselves, and lockdown as an extraordinary gift for humanity. You might laugh, be shocked or shaken, but remember: being alive is continuous transformation!