Love & Liberation: Recent Episodes
Olivia Clementine
A podcast about relationship and consciousness: exploring wisdom in relating with ourselves, each other and our greater world. Listen to conversations and philosophical musings on spirituality, intimacy and the many pathways to becoming more connected, curious, and fulfilled. Hosted by Olivia Clementine
Kunzang Choden is one of Bhutan’s most legendary authors. We meet in Bhutan in the Tang Valley, where Kunzang’s family has lived since the 15th century, land that is tied to the Tibetan yogic master Longchenpa and treasure revealer Dorji Linga.
This is part one of two.
To watch the video version, you can visit the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql8T0ZqtrBM
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Time notes:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:41 Lineage land and Kings
00:03:47 Treasure revealer Dorji Lingpa
00:10:18 Intense childhood recollections
00:15:00 Intergenerational homelife
00:19:50 Seasonality
00:28:42 Kunzang’s way of writing
00:30:00 Recording dreams
00:32:00 Kuzang’s new memoir
Ogyen Choling
https://www.oling.bt
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Todays conversation takes place at Rinpoche's residence in Bhutan, where she shares advice as well as her experiences being an emanation of Vajravarahi, a treasure revealer, diviner, and a manifester of miracles. Rinpoche spends most of her time in the Zhemgang District at her monastery for nuns and monks that is also a home to orphans, elders, physically unable and terminally ill people who want to devote their life to the dharma.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:59 Being the Incarnation of Vajravarahi
00:03:45 Intention and Action
00:05:56 Being a female tulku
00:06:38 No shortcuts
00:11:40 Revealing treasures
00:16:47 Why Rinpoche stopped teaching
00:22:00 Pure dharma
00:22:00 Manifesting miracles
00:25:49 Obstacles and karma
00:32:00 Divination through Dreams
00:34:00 Practicing carefully and properly
00:37:00 A message to great masters
Thank you to both Karma Lhazom, who you'll hear offering the English translation of Rinpoche as well as to Tshering Tashi who offered the initial translation during our meeting.
Links
Rinpoche and her foundation:
https://dorjephagmofoundation.org/about/khandro-dorje-phagmo/
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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo is a bhikṣuṇī, author and founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India. She also spent twelve years living and practicing in a remote cave in the Himalayas.
Today's timenotes:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:17 8th Khamtrul Rinpoche
00:06:45 Togden and togdenma (yogi and yogini) lineage and history
00:8:05 16th Karmapa and Khampagar
00:09:30 Requests leading to the Togdenma revival
00:10:36 Jetsunma's cave retreat in Lahaul
00:14:15 Finding proper Togdenma mentors
00:21:22 Togden Acho
00:24:24 Becoming officially Togdenma
00:28:31 Khampagar lineage in Tibet
00:31:00 Practice group system
00:33:00 Togdenma practice path and contemporary additions
00:40:00 Full bhikkhunī ordination with HH Je Khenpo.
00:44:35 The four fold sangha
Links:
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
https://tenzinpalmo.com/
Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery
https://dglnunnery.com/
Podcast website & transcripts
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Today’s episode is the final part of three parts
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:49 Signs, visions, dreams
00:12:00 Protector land spirits
00:16:00 Tests, conceptual collapse and faith
00:20:00 Meditation boxes
0023:30 Sky burial
00:28:00 Sri Lanka vipassana reform
00:29:30 Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok and Larung Gar
00:32:00 Modernity, realization and tacit knowledge
00:39:00 Old world preservation
00:43:50 Yidam neuroscience and dilution
00:46:00 Changes in education system
00:49:00 Yogini tulkus and titles
00:57:00 The Gebchak way, peer-pressure and self-responsibility
01:03:00 Becoming a translator
01:07:00 Disrobing
01:10:00 Historical rarity of terms Rigpa and dzogchen
01:12:00 Character of yoginis and aspirations
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Listen to Part One here:
On Gebchak's History & Yogic Activity in the Realm of the Meditators https://oliviaclementine.com/elizabet...
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Listen to Part Two here:
On Embodied Practitioners of Tsa-lung Inner Fire & Dzogchen
https://oliviaclementine.com/elizabeth-mcdougal-gebchak-yoginis-part-two/
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About Elizabeth
Elizabeth McDougal, known also as Tenzin Chozom, grew up in Western Canada and then trained as a Buddhist nun in India and on the Tibetan Plateau for seventeen years. Towards the end of her time as a nun – she studied a Masters of Indian philosophy at Banaras Hindu University and then a PhD (2021) at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the modernisation of Tibetan Buddhist practice lineages and on pedagogy as a crucial bridge in translating pre-modern wisdom traditions to the modern world. Elizabeth currently lives in Australia with her human and animal family where she lectures at Nan Tien Institute in applied Buddhist studies. She continues to serve as a Tibetan-to-English translator for Gebchak Wangdrak Rinpoche and other practice lineage lamas. Elizabeth published a book in 2024 called “The Words and World of Gebchak Nunnery: Tantric Meditation in Context.”
Images included:
1: Of two Gebchak yoginis by Jerome Raphalen
2: Yoginis looking out in ceremony to a sacred feminine vulva form in the landscape
Today’s episode is part two of three parts.
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Time notes:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:15 Subtle body, mind and prana
00:11:30 Yidam and reflections of the universe
00:13:40 Tsa-lung and trulkhor
00:18:51 Modernization influence on dedication, asceticism and health.
00:24:00 Chu Rey, wet sheet ceremony
00:31:00 Tsa-lung lama Jamtsen Chodron
00:33:40 Chudlen retreats
00:37:00 Mundane and sacred, collective and individual
00:39:00 Togal and trekchod 100 day winter practice
00:46:00 On memorization and reading as a means of realization
00:50:00 Tantric practice form of learning
01:00:00 Yogin Pema Dorje and a song of devotion
01:06:00 Yogin Pema Drimed
01:13:00 Sherab Zangmo and Urgyen Chodron
01:16:00 Sky burial
01:21:00 Recognizing signs
01:24:00 Cultivating a whole person
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Listen to Part One here:
On Gebchak's History & Yogic Activity in the Realm of the Meditators
https://oliviaclementine.com/elizabeth-mcdougal-the-gebchak-yoginis-part-one/
About Elizabeth:
Elizabeth McDougal, known also as Tenzin Chozom, grew up in Western Canada and then trained as a Buddhist nun in India and on the Tibetan Plateau for seventeen years. Towards the end of her time as a nun – she studied a Masters of Indian philosophy at Banaras Hindu University and then a PhD (2021) at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the modernisation of Tibetan Buddhist practice lineages and on pedagogy as a crucial bridge in translating pre-modern wisdom traditions to the modern world. Elizabeth currently lives in Australia with her human and animal family where she lectures at Nan Tien Institute in applied Buddhist studies. She continues to serve as a Tibetan-to-English translator for Gebchak Wangdrak Rinpoche and other practice lineage lamas. Elizabeth published a book in 2024 called “The Words and World of Gebchak Nunnery: Tantric Meditation in Context.”
Today's episode is part one of three parts that will be shared over the coming weeks.
Time notes:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:51 Elizabeth’s early years at Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo’s retreat place, and about the Togdens and Togdenmas
00:07:14 What led Elizabeth to Gebchak gonpa.
00:09:00 The initial meeting between Wandrak Rinpoche and the Gebchak yoginis
00:15:00 How Elizabeth spent her time at Gebchak gonpa
00:18:40 Nangchen as a fertile ground for yogis
00:23:00 Gebchak founder Tsang-Yang Gyamtso & the Rime period
00:29:37 The way of the yogin scholar
00:37:00 The first Tsokyni Rinpoche's, vision
00:44:00 Karma mudra and the early years at Gebchak with yogins and yoginis
00:55:00 Origin and preservation of practice texts at Gebchak
00:56:00 The yogini Sherab Zangmo
00:59:00 Rebuilding Gebchak
01:05:00 The Royal Family
01:08:00 Gebchak practice path
01:15:00 16 retreat divisions and yidam accomplishment
01:28:00 Typical day during drubchen periods
01:34:00 Typical day outside drubchen
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About Elizabeth:
Elizabeth McDougal, known also as Tenzin Chozom, grew up in Western Canada and then trained as a Buddhist nun in India and on the Tibetan Plateau for seventeen years. Towards the end of her time as a nun – she studied a Masters of Indian philosophy at Banaras Hindu University and then a PhD (2021) at the University of Sydney.
Her research focuses on the modernisation of Tibetan Buddhist practice lineages and on pedagogy as a crucial bridge in translating pre-modern wisdom traditions to the modern world.
Elizabeth currently lives in Australia with her human and animal family where she lectures at Nan Tien Institute in applied Buddhist studies. She continues to serve as a Tibetan-to-English translator for Gebchak Wangdrak Rinpoche and other practice lineage lamas.
Elizabeth published a book in 2024 called "The Words and World of Gebchak Nunnery: Tantric Meditation in Context."
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Podcast website & transcripts
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This is a visual episode that is meant to be watched.
You can watch it here: https://oliviaclementine.com/tibetan-handicraft-society-master-carpet-weavers/
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Today’s episode takes place at the Tibetan Handicraft Society in McCleoud Ganj, in northern India. This Handicraft Society was founded in 1963 to support Tibetan refugees, and Tibetans who have grown up in exile and Tibetan arts and culture.
Today we learn about this member run society and see some of these master weavers as they bring these traditional Tibetan carpets to form.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:58 Tenzin Rigsang on the Handicraft Society’s origin and purpose
00:04:10 On material sourcing and design
00:06:33 How the cooperative is organized and the influence of modern times on this traditional art.
00:8:35 Dawa Dolma on how long it takes to weave a carpet
00:09:27 Tsering Dolkar on her path to becoming a weaver
00:11:02 Tsetan as she completes a carpet.
Glimpses of weavers and carpet makers Yangchen Galmo, Tenzin Worser, Tsetan, Tseyang, Tala, Kelsang Tsokey and Daju.
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The Tibetan Handicraft Society
https://tibetan-handicraft-society.site123.me/
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Maya Khosla is a biologist and writer. She has spent thousands of hours hiking, backpacking, and documenting forests, including post-fire regeneration.
Time notes:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:07 The message of fire
00:02:00 3 types of traditional fire practice in India.
00:03:22 Rebirth after fires
00:08:00 Intimacy and the effect of hand burning versus machine work on land
00:15:00 Main causes of fires in California
00:18:00 Misunderstandings on preparing one's home in a fire-prone area. Thinking like an ember
00:19:00 Keeping a house safe in a fire and Dr. Jack Cohen
00:21:00 “The Sierra, A History” poem read by Maya Khosla
00:24:00 Decaying forests and close associations
00:29:00 What you see in a newborn forest
00:30:00 Healthy mature forests
00:324:00 Symbiotic elemental collaboration
00:36:00 Wild Elders
00:39:50 Seed places
00:41:04 “The Oak” Poem read by Maya Khosla
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Maya Khosla
https://www.mayakhosla.com/
Podcast website & transcripts
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Watch our conversation and see images of Jetsunma’s path here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Mu1fPYtik
Today our guest is Her Eminence Sakya Jetsunma Kunga Trinley Palter. Jetsunma is the granddaughter of His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizin and the eldest daughter of the 42nd Sakya Trizin and Dagmo Kalden Dunkyi. Jetsunma is also a tulku, the reincarnation of the Nyingma practitioner and treasure revealer, Khandro Tare Lhamo.
We sit down and talk about her life thus far, being raised as a Jetsunma in the Sakya lineage, how she spends her time, and what she aspires for in the future.
Timenotes:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:39 Growing up in a dharma lineage from the 12th Century
00:03:25 Becoming a nun
00:04:09 A day in Jetsunma’s life
00:06:58 Who inspires Jetsunma t
00:09:00 About her family
00:10:40 On being the reincarnation of Khandro Tare Llamo
00:12:43 Her first retreat at 14 years old
00:14:25 Being the first Jetsunma to do the Phurba Cham
00:15:50 Qualities of a meaningful life
00:17:52 Advice for taking care of one’s mind
00:19:45 Jetsunma’s life aspirations
00:20:20 Closing images and Tara’s Song at Dawn
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Tara’s Song at Dawn
by Dechen Wangmo
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https://youtu.be/Yuwtnf8JtrA
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Today we have a brief conversation at a cafe in Kathmandu about some of the common obstacles and questions that Jetsunma’s students often share with her. Jetsunma then shares clarification on meeting these challenges and curiosities.
This is part of our new weekly season schedule of publishing shorter conversations in between our more extended episodes.
Time notes:
00:01:30 How to perceive ngondro practice
00:04:20 Knowing where you are on the path and blending life with practice
00:08:00 On shamatha, vipassana and dzogchen.
00:12:45 The four noble truths as a universal method
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Jetsunma Jamyang Yeshe Palmo is a Buddhist teacher and retreat master. She spent nine years in a monastic university studying all of the major subjects of Buddhism. Following her studies she spent nine years in a closed practice retreat. She also spent two years studying psychology and Western philosophy. Jetsunma is the vajra master of the study and practice centers of Kusum Khandro Ling retreat and nunneries and teaches worldwide.
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00:01:30 The mandala principle
00:04:32 Enlightened organizing principle of the universe
00:09:45 Mandalas for practice
00:16:12 Vajrakilaya mandala
00:19:25 Field of blessing
00:21:22 Lama Dawa and Guru Rinpoche Prophecies
00:24:18 Lama Dawa mirror divining the locations for Vajrakilaya mandalas.
00:27:16 Elements as vehicles for blessings
00:31:00 Subtle and physical aspects of elements
00:35:00 Disrupting and repairing subtle realms of existence
00:46:00 Building and empowering the Vajrakilaya mandalas
00:51:00 Working up to practicing Vajrakilaya
00:56:00 Qualities of the phurba
00:57:28 When to begin wrathful practices
01:04:00 Not making plans
01:06:00 The story of Guru Rinpoche and Vajrakilaya in Yanglesho
01:08:00 On Yeshe Tsogyal using Vajrakilaya practice
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Khandro Kunzang:
https://www.phurbathinleyling.org/khandro-kunzang/
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Previous episodes with Khandro Kunzang:
Cultivating Siddhis, Tukdam, Lineage Protection & Consortship
https://oliviaclementine.com/khandro-kunzang-cultivating-siddhis-tukdam-lineage-protection-consortship/
Lineage of Oral Instruction, Real Teachers & Himalayan Yogas of Tsa lung and Tummo
https://oliviaclementine.com/khandro-kunzang-the-oral-instruction-lineage-ngagpas-himalayan-yogas-of-tsa-lung-and-tummo/
Elemental Spirits, Vajra Armor & Dharma Marriage
https://oliviaclementine.com/khandro-kunzang-elemental-spirits-vajra-armor-dharma-marriage/
Podcast website & transcripts
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Watch the tour here:
https://youtu.be/YX8jJ5-sOzQ
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Today we meet at the Tibetan Medical & Astro Institute Museum and receive a brief tour from Dr. Kalsang Youdon and Kelsang Chodon.
Time notes:
00:00:46 Tibetan medicines and instruments
00:06:17 Tibetan medicine paintings
00:09:16 History of the re-established Men-Tsee-Khang Institute
00:11:23 Astrology: Indigenous Tibetan, elemental, and Kala Chakra astrology.
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Men-Tsee-Khang Institute
https://mentseekhang.org/
Podcast website & transcripts
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Watch on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSDGe4xRfA
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Today we meet at the headquarters of Men-Tsee-Khang in Dharamshala, India with Dr. Tsering Norbu, who has worked here for over 30 years and is the director of both the Culture and Materia Medica departments.
00:01:00 Dr. Tsering’s medicine heritage and path
00:01:49 Born into a lineage of Sowa Ripga doctors, how it has changed.
00:05:00 About Men-Tsee-Khang Institute Tibetan Medical and Astro Institute
00:07:50 Bringing together tradition and science
00:10:30 Changing landscapes affecting medicinal plants
00:11:00 Medicinal plant cultivation methods and challenges.
00:20:00 Making precious pills
00:22:00 Life-span and storage of medicine.
00:24:00 4 Medical Tantras (Gyushi) and medicinal species variation.
00:27:00 Farmers resistance to growing medicinal varieties
00:29:00 Medical research field trips in Sikkim, Ladakh, Arunachel Pradesh and other areas.
00:32:00 How imbalances have changed over the decades and what is most needed for modern times.
00:34:00 Painting plant thangkas and their purpose
00:40:00 Closing thoughts about the future
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Men-Tsee-Khang Tibetan Medical & Astro Institute https://mentseekhang.org/
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Jetsunma Jamyang Yeshe Palmo is a Buddhist teacher and retreat master. She spent nine years in a monastic university studying all of the major subjects of Buddhism. Following her studies she spent nine years in a closed practice retreat. She also spent two years studying psychology and Western philosophy at Harvard University. Jetsunma is the vajra master of the study and practice centers of Kusum Khandro Ling retreat and nunneries and teaches in the US, Japan, Nepal, Hong Kong, and India.
Some of what Jetsunma shares includes:
00:03:00 The hinayana, four truths and exhausting negative emotions.
00:9:00 Bodhisattva yana, two truths, four immeasurables and six perfections
00:12:00 Tantrayana path, generation practice and embracing existence as pure.
00:14:00 Completion stage and using the body for realization.
00:18:00 Great completion uncontrived stage
00:19:00 Ngondro
00:21:00 Essentials for realization
00:24:00 Two text recommended
00:25:00 Quality over quantity
00:28:00 Retreat advice
00:31:00 Benefits to solitary and collective practice
00:32:00 Non-exclusive Buddhism, the universal perspective
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This is a re-release of a conversation with Tenzin Norbu in his home studio in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Today's conversation is solely available in a video format.
Here is the link to watch today's episode:
https://youtu.be/bBkNuHZSN38
Tenzin Norbu was born in Dolpo, Nepal, into a family of thangka painters from a lineage that dates back atleast 400 years. His work has appeared in museums and private collections around the world, as well as, several international publications, including Caravans of the Himalaya, National Geographic, and the feature film Himalaya. He is also the illustrator for children’s books, including Himalaya, and Clear Sky, Red Earth.
Vision version of today's conversation:
https://youtu.be/gXWcorUoTnc
00:01:40 Introduction to the retreat place and intentions
00:05:56 Visions in dark retreat
00:15:00 Fear, trust, confidence and endless potential
00:21:00 Not being the only doing the work in one’s practice
00:29:00 Having the correct context of deconditioning the mind
00:32:00 Chogyam Trungpa, Dilgo Khyentse and tummo practice
00:36:00 Being a Buddha and distraction of science
00:40:00 Gaining confidence through felt experience and mastering a practice
00:50:00 Following death, experiencing the bardo
00:56:00 Bardo practice suggestion
01:00:00 Justin’s dharma path from age 3 including Egyptian funerary practice, alchemy and wanting to be a monk
01:13:00 Not getting attached to the technique
01:15:00 Togyal and Sowa Rigpa typology
01:19:00 Letting the heart choose your practice
01:21:00 Emerging towards spaciousness as the throughline for Justin’s path
01:25:00 Touring the retreat cabins
01:32:00 The body in dark retreat and practice
01:37:00 Closing intentions for this retreat place
Yangti Yoga retreat place
https://www.yangtiyoga.com/
Previous conversations:
Dark Retreat, Formlessness & Returning to Completion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoo0DeU6D8o&list=PLbj5FAGzDx9WhJ7N5iJhGkZ_tY9ZnJL4m&index=13
Resting into the Mind Beyond Time & Being Consumed by Dharma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0RvHW6fOMQ&list=PLbj5FAGzDx9WhJ7N5iJhGkZ_tY9ZnJL4m&index=21
Ati Yoga, the Becoming of Indigenous Western Tantra & the Ministry of Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LAi9RnjcA0&list=PLbj5FAGzDx9WhJ7N5iJhGkZ_tY9ZnJL4m&index=26
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00:00:00 Elisabeth’s Introduction to Buddhism and the Sakya Lineage
00:06:00 Origin of Sakya lineage and on Lamdre
00:12:00 Jetsunma title and what makes the Sakya Jetsunmas so unusual
00:20:00 Residence or labrangs of Jetsunmas and 00:24:00 Jetsunma versus Sakya Lama roles
00:26:00 Jetsunma Chime Tenpai Nyima (b. 1756)
00:33:00 Kyabgon or Jetsunma Tamdrin Wangmo (1936-96)
00:39:00 Kyabgon Pema Trinlei (1874 - 1950)
00:47:00 Dagmo Trinlei Paljor (1906-1975), and Dagyum Sonam Dolkar.
01:04:00 Jetsunma Chungwa
01:07:00 Jetsun Kushok (1938) & 41st Sakya Trizin (1945)
01:19:00 Jetsun Kushok & Sakya Trizin 41st, leaving Tibet
01:34:00 Jetsunma Kunga Trinley Palter (2007)
01:38:00 New System of Sakya Succession and photos in the book
01:39:00 Sakya Jetsunma lineage
The photograph shared is of Jetsunma Tsegen Wangmo and Jetsunma Chime Wangmo in the Phuntsok Palace in Sakya, Tibet. Courtesy of the Phuntsok Palace.
The book on the Sakya Jetsunmas by Elisabeth Benard
https://www.shambhala.com/the-sakya-jetsunmas-9781645470915.html
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Tiokasin Ghosthorse is of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota and has a long history with Indigenous activism and advocacy. He has been the Founder, Host, and Executive Producer of “First Voices Radio'' for over 30 years.
Some of what Tiokasin shares today includes:
00:00:00 Land raising children, Lakota language and trusting the future
00:06:00 Male and female energies, intuition and ceremony
00:10:00 No teaching and traditional education as a giving
00:13:00 Burying diplomas to return to Self.
00:15:00 Land ownership, colonial coma and defined by Earth
00:21:00 Dualistic psychology, premeditated ignorance and the ultimate philosopher.
00:24:00 Deathsong, innocence and grief
00:26:00 Adapting to Nature and the language of Earth
00:28:00 Grief, freedom and containment
00:34:00 Dreams, the 5th world,
and ancestors going into the future
Our previous conversation on Lakota, Elders & Evolutionary Understanding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBbpRlnV2_8
Tiokasin and First Voices Radio:
https://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/about
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Carroll Dunham: The Path of a Householder Practitioner, Rites of Place & Taking Risks
Carroll Dunham is a medical anthropologist, storyteller, Buddhist practitioner, and chaplain, who has devoted her life to exploring human entanglement between other species. She was based in Nepal for over 30 years and has lived and traveled amongst nomadic communities including in China, Mongolia, and India.
Some of what Carroll shares today includes:
00:00:00 From New Jersey to Nepal, a nunnery, her future husband, and the 1985 Kalachakra gathering.
00:08:00 Stories of meeting her teachers, great meditation masters, including Dilgo Khyentse, Bakha Tulku, Trulshik Rinpoche, and Lama Wangdu.
00:17:00 Advice from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
00:19:33 Taksang (Tiger’s Nest), the Nechung Oracle & receiving Dilgo Khyentse full terma.
00:23:00 Innovation, monasteries, and keeping the dharma meaningful and safe.
00:25:00 Stories and memories of Trulshik Rinpoche
00:30:00 Learning Himalayan languages
00:33:00 Humla and how it is unique
00:35:00 Dragon Brides; on polyandry, women with many husbands
00:40:00 On her meeting and marriage with her husband Thomas Kelly
00:43:00 Fostering children and non-dual gifts of Nepal.
00:49:00 The market economy’s impact on relationships, Earth, and family structure.
00:56:00 Notions of modernity disguised as freedom.
00:57:00 Raising children in a seasonal manner, rituals, healing, and rites of passage
01:09:00 Best place to give birth and to die.
01:10:00 Relationships, healing, mistakes and safety in anthropological work
01:20:00 Nepal’s ethnic diversity and environmental challenges
01:27:00 Longevity, biomimicry, meditation and aging
01:30:00 The origins and journey of clothing.
01:38:00 Innovations of waste and creative change agents in the textile industry
01:45:00 Risk, collaboration, and the unexpected amazing.
About Carroll Dunham:
Carroll is a medical anthropologist whose work explores human entanglement with other species, from microbes to yaks. Based in Nepal for 30 years, she has lived and traveled extensively amongst nomadic communities, including those in India, Mongolia, and China.
A lifelong student of Buddhism, Tibetan medicine, and Himalayan medicinal plants, she is committed to amplifying Indigenous voices and advocating stewardship of fragile ecosystems. She is currently the co-founder of Around the World in 80 Fabrics. Revitalizing vanishing textile traditions to reduce petroleum-fueled fast fashion.
A storyteller at heart, Carroll has authored five books and produced over a dozen documentaries for National Geographic, PBS, and BBC. As a Buddhist chaplain, she is passionate about resiliency and the human ability to thrive post disasters.
www.wildearthjourneys.com
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00:00:00 Song Dzomba Yakmo Beautiful Abundance & Introduction
00:01:00 Growing up in a Ngakpa family in Amdo Tibet.
00:03:40 Importance of life
00:07:00 Drukmo’s ngakpa grandfather
00:12:00 Slowing down and taking advice from her grandfather
00:15:00 Most important dharma principles
00:17:00 Tibetan medicine helping come out of religious dogma
00:22:00 Creating community and working with miscommunication
00:26:00 Not needing to have a great relationship with everyone
00:30:00 Feeling discomfort as light
00:30:20 Song: 福泽善报 Full of blessings
00:33:00 Ngakmas versus Ngakpas and how Drukmo engages as a ngakma.
00:39:00 Organizing her life
00:41:00 The importance of community acceptance
00:46:00 Drukmo’s beginning in chanting and singing.
00:51:00 Original conflict in sharing dharma music
00:52:23 Experience sharing her music in Amdo
00:54:00 Possible influence of male dominance in her area in Amdo
00:56:00 Female Tibetan practitioners growing up
00:58:00 Shame free sex education with her grandmother
01:01:00 Gifting culture, love, less jealousy and nomad society
01:05:00 Harmonious divorce and raising a family
01:08:00 Sowa Rigpa, the wisdom of nourishment and 5 Healing Methods
01:10:00 Tibetan spiritual healing
01:15:40 Song: Purification Mantra of the Five Elements
All Songs today are from Drukmo Gyal:
Dzomba Yakmo Beautiful Abundance
福泽善报 Full of blessings
Purification Mantra of the Five Elements
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00:00:00 A life re-directing pilgrimage
00:03:00 Earth treasure vases and the terma, treasure tradition.
00:13:00 Liberian women ending the 14 year Civil War
00:18:00 Christian Bethelson, Thich Nhat Hanh and engaged Buddhism
00:23:00 The timing of forgiveness and healing the earth and our bodies.
00:27:00 The fine line of letting go and holding people accountable
00:28:00 Love Letter to the Earth from Thich Nhat Hanh and the path of enlightenment.
00:32:00 The old story of urgency and pressure
00:33:00 Becoming a holy vessel and skillful action
00:38:00 Right timing, intention and aligning with something larger than ourselves
00:40:00 Gaia Mantra
00:42:00 Collective awakening and a fall that brought Cynthia on a new path
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Previous episode with Cynthia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMbIRHLPGYQ
About Cynthia Cynthia became a dharma teacher (Dharmacharya) in the Order of Interbeing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in 1994 and in recognition of her dedication in carrying out the Earth Treasure Vase practice, she was made an honorary lama in the Vajrayana tradition of Tibetan Buddhism in 2018. Inspired by thirty years of pilgrimage into diverse communities and ecosystems, today Cynthia is forging a new path of dharma in service to Gaia—a path deeply rooted in the feminine, honoring indigenous cultures, and devoted to collective awakening.
https://www.summonedbytheearth.org
https://gaiamandala.net
https://www.amazon.com/Summoned-Earth-Becoming-Vessel-Healing/dp/1632261324
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Link to Watch this Episode:
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Today's conversation is with Lama Sonam Tsering at his retreat place in the Hyolmo region of Nepal.
Some of what Sonam shares includes:
00:01:00 Growing up in Hyolmo and the societal shifts
00:08:00 Sonam’s spiritual upbringing raised with a village Lama 00:10:00 Meeting and studying with a wandering yogi, astrologer and amchi from around the age of ten.
00:18:00 Learning dharma art
00:25:00 Experiences with impermanence
00:28:00 Retreat periods, Lama work and what motivated him to build a retreat center
00:37:00 Rebuilding after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal
00:40:00 Sonam shows us the inside and outside of the temple
00:44:00 About the three year retreat space
00:46:00 Building 108 stupas and carving manis
00:48:00 The Guru Rinpoche statue and concluding words his teacher shared on not worrying.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:00 Deep forgetting
00:06:00 Moving at geologic speed and Men of Spirit project
00:12:38 Symptoms and the soul’s deepest desires
00:15:33 Elderhood through grief
00:21:24 Kalahari desert grief maintenance rituals
00:25:00 Belonging as the premise and remembering the medicine you carry
00:29:00 Fiction and emptiness of progress
00:32:00 Preparing a community for a grief ritual
00:37:00 Grief ritual training and therapeutic communities for Palestine
00:38:00 Grief and beauty
00:45:00 Cultivating village mind
00:54:00 Finding your masculine and feminine soul expression
00:59:00 Being spiritually employed
01:01:00 The long dark and facing the world with soul
01:02:00 A metaphor for our species: Qarrtsiluni
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Francis Weller
https://www.francisweller.net/
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Khandro Kunzang is a Buddhist practitioner and teacher and holder of the Khandro T'hug-t'hig path, the Dudjom Tersar, and the Rigdzin Sogdrub yogic practices of the Northern Treasures lineages.
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From today's conversation:
00:02:00 Spirits of the Six Realms
00:07:00 Offerings to non-human, non-physical beings
00:13:00 Receiving protection from Nagas
00:14:00 How spirits influence illness
00:23:00 How to know spirits are affecting your well-being or life
00:25:00 On the four forces, lungta, wang tang, sog and lu.
00:30:00 Lha-Mo Gyed-Tsi, Astrological Mo of the 8 Dakinis
00:32:00 Old tradition of ransom offerings, or lud.
00:38:00 Astrology living systems and the forgotten magic of math
00:42:00 Vajra Armor Mantra
00:46:00 Practicing according to signs
00:51:00 Lama Dawa growing up in a dharma family and perpetual retreat
00:54:00 Dharma marriage and ngakpa traditiona versus householder tradition.
00:57:00 How to deal with tax collectors as practitioners
00:59:00 Vajrakilaya Peace Mandala Project
Previous Episodes with Khandro Kunzang:
Lineage of Oral Instruction, Real Teachers & Himalayan Yogas of Tsa lung and Tummo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olIKvZQSXCI&list=PLbj5FAGzDx9WhJ7N5iJhGkZ_tY9ZnJL4m&index=18
Cultivating Siddhis, Tukdam, Lineage Protection & Consortship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7isrHtJNrJ4&list=PLbj5FAGzDx9WhJ7N5iJhGkZ_tY9ZnJL4m&index=13
Khandro Kunzang
https://www.phurbathinleyling.org/
Vajrakilaya Peace Mandala Project
https://www.phurbathinleyling.org/the-peace-mandala-project/
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00:02:57 Social Presencing Theatre
00:06:40 Dharma art
00:09:00 True activity, non-manipulation and non-aggression.
00:12:00 Listening to the moment and nothing being toxic to its core
00:14:00 Attending to the larger beauty, humor and natural kindness in the world
00:19:00 Using the body to find words and suspending meaning-making
00:21:00 Arts and direct knowing
00:22:00 Japanese principle Ma and not projecting what you think you already know
00:25:00 Unconditional well-being.
00:31:00 Resting with experiences and building trust
00:37:00 Noticing what you love
00:41:00 Origins of Bugaku, 7th C Japanese court dance, excruciatingly leisurely, breath time.
00:46:00 Form and freedom
00:51:00 A practice to nourish your spacious self
Links:
Arawana:
https://arawanahayashi.com/
Arawana's Book: Social Presencing Theatre: The Art of Making a True Move
https://www.amazon.com/Social-Presencing-Theater-Making-True/dp/0999717979/ref=sr_1_1
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Erik Pema Kunsang is a dharma teacher, practitioner, and one of the most prolific translators of Buddhist texts and teachings.
Some of what Erik shares:
00:01:00 On serving and translating for Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, clairvoyance and what is needed for liberation.
00:04:00 Dzogchen person versus a dzogchen teaching from Trulshik Rinpoche
00:08:00 Styles of teachers and busy not doing anything.
00:11:00 Misunderstanding the nature of superficial reality and dharma bums
00:14:00 Bodhi Training
00:16:00 Describing reality
00:17:00 Using the mind as the tool. Moving towards certainty and out of vagueness. The benefits buddhist meditation rather than science.
00:19:00 About fruitful intimate relationships as part of the path of being a decent human being, not breaking trust and learning to live together.
00:23:00 The yanas including Manushayana and Devayana
00:28:00 Split between real world and spiritual world
00:29:00 Using our meditation and spiritual practice time well. Changing karmic patterns
00:32:00 What it really means to be civilized
00:34:00 Essentials for translating genuinely
00:35:00 Leaving nature to itself and no-dig gardening.
00:37:00 Closing statements on landing timeless value systems of the Buddhas
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Erik Pema Kunsang has studied and practiced the Buddha dharma and especially the teachings of Padmasambhava. He has been trained by many masters. including the Dzogchen master, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, as well as his son, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. Erik helped bring about Rangjung Yeshe Institute and publications for both study and translation of Dharma. He has translated and published over 60 volumes, including his freely available Tibetan English dictionary. Erik is also the founder of Bodhi Training and is currently the resident teacher at Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Retreat Center.
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Bodhi Training
https://bodhitraining.com/
Gomde Denmark
https://gomde.dk/
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Rinzin Phunjok Lama is an internationally acclaimed wildlife biologist and conservationist from Nepal.
Watch this Episode on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIZyLwua1x8&feature=youtu.be
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:00 Growing up in Humla, Nepal
00:09:30 Changes in the landscape and culture
00:14:00 Supporting the future of this remote region
00:16:28 Snow leopards folklore and significance for the Himalayas
00:20:00 Living in the field for seasons at a time
00:23:00 Rinzin’s aspirations
Thank you to Tashi R. Ghale for many wildlife photos included in this interview. Thank you to Karma Lhazom for filming.
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Rinzin
https://rinzinlama.com/
UKALI
https://ukali.org/
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00:02:00 Emotions versus feelings
00:06:00 Indicators to know you are emotional
00:09:00 5 steps to transform emotion
00:13:00 Full blown versus leaking low grade emotion.
00:15:00 Feelings, and body awareness
00:17:00 Relating with anger
00:18:00 3 Golden Rules
00:21:00 Conventional sex and the impacts of emotional overcharge
00:24:00 Effect of sex on women's health
00:25:00 Emotions affecting a lineage, parents, children and onwards.
00:26:00 Love as a state
00:29:00 Nurturing the seeds of love within you
Links:
Listen to previous episode together on Relaxation, Awareness & Sex
https://youtu.be/FIC8QegiMd4?si=sEhmfMCRIs4a9WvY
Diana Richardson
www.livinglove.com
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00:00:00 Anne's early days coming onto her spiritual journey
00:09:00 Her time in India with HHDL, Rabten Rinpoche and others.
00:14:00 Longchen Nyingtig pilgrimage in Tibet and meeting Adzom Rinpoche reincarnation of Jigme Lingpa.
00:20:00 Terton and visionary capacities and spontaneous song
00:29:00 The importance of heartfelt confidence
00:39:00 Doubtless of our awakenment, buddhas masquerading as humans
00:42:00 Karmic and wisdom narratives and the ground of Dzogchen
00:46:00 Trained imagination, permission, and realization
00:54:00 Geshe Ngawang Wangyal, “America’s first lama”
Links:
Dawn Mountain www.dawnmountain.org
Dzogchen Cycles https://www.dawnmountain.org/dzogchen-cycles/
Online Course, Longchenpa Training: https://wisdomexperience.org/courses/longchenpa-training/
Her recent book: Being Human and a Buddha Too
https://wisdomexperience.org/product/being-human-and-a-buddha-too/
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00:03:00 True self and imposture syndrome
00:09:00 On misperception and ignorance
00:14:00 Ego, loss and instability
00:18:00 On the two parts of us during grief
00:20:00 Nature as guru
00:23:00 Influences on our relationship with nature
00:28:00 Tantra and inner and outer universes
00:31:00 Neither this, nor that
00:35:00 A major crossroads for Tracee
00:43:00 Ancestors and benevolent beings have your back
00:48:00 Timeline practice
00:50:00 Tracee’s personal practice day
Links:
Tracee
https://www.traceestanley.com/
Tracee's new book: The Luminous Self
https://www.traceestanley.com/luminous-self/#preorder
Our Previous Episode Together
Yoga Nidra, Non-Doing & Life Transitions as Practice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ8BuQeh-6M
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00:03:00 Mistakes driven learning
00:07:00 Awe and mystery
00:11:00 Crisis and choice
00:15:00 Giving away your best stuff, wisdom and dying
00:19:00 Leaving room for others
00:22:00 Suffering and being a burden
00:28:00 Grief, practice and love
00:36:00 Regrets and beliefs
Links:
Stephen Jenkinson:
https://orphanwisdom.com/about/
Nights of Grief & Mystery Tour:
https://orphanwisdom.com/nights-of-grief-and-mystery/
Link to 1st Interview with Stephen: Understanding How Things Have Become as They Are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7JnwNg0xLg
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00:00:00 Relating with the passing of her spiritual partner Gyatrul Rinpoche
00:04:00 Humility and dharma before material phenomena.
00:11:00 Dudjom Rinpoche and Sangyum Wangmo.
00:15:00 16th Karmapa
00:19:00 3 Kayas and wisdom aspects
00:37:00 Reading recommendations
00:38:00 On faith, degenerate age and different kinds of practitioners.
00:42:00 Daily meditation practice
00:44:00 What to think about when emerging from practice.
Links:
Sangye Khandro
https://www.berotsana.org/
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00:01:19 The 4 Circles of Support
00:09:00 Healthful dependency in friendships
00:12:00 Supporting yourself and receiving support
00:18:00 Busyness, pushing and stressing
00:25:00 Going beyond western culture to influence your healing needs
00:30:00 Self-love as ground
00:34:00 Staying in relationships too long or choosing unhealthy relationships
00:41:00 Ambiguous loss when single and wanting a relationship
00:54:00 Essentials to support vital long term partnership
00:56:00 Healing as a means for connection
Links
Minaa B
https://www.minaab.com/
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00:00:00 Who and what is Dakini including the play of the outer, inner and secret aspects
00:07:25 - Directly experiencing these sky goers.
00:13:40 Five elements and five dakinis and how they support each other.
00:17:42 On the charnel ground as the home of the Dakini.
00:27:00 Working with difficult times with the help of the Dakini.
00:29:00 Three confidence that tantric practitioners need to have.
00:31:00 The subtle body and working with energy/
00:37:00. Experience the non duality of the sacred and ordinary and paradox through Dakini.
00:48:00 Upcoming Vajrayogini Empowerment and Dakini Path of Vajrayogini
00:55:00 Final Thoughts
LINKS
Listen to Previous Episode with Khandro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttf6GirMRwo
New Offerings & Events with Khandro
https://www.dakiniswhisper.com/new-dakini-journey
https://www.dakiniswhisper.com/
Khandro's book
https://www.amazon.com/DAKINI-JOURNEY-CONTEMPORARY-WORLD-HEART/dp/B0C5241RX2/
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00:01:04 Himalayan languages origin, overlap and geographical influences
00:11:00 Self-sufficiency, socioeconomic development, education and the impact on languages.
00:17:00 Becoming interested in ‘Monyul’ borderland region
00:22:00 Karmic link in Bhutan
00:28:00 Becoming more a part of these Himalayan communities.
00:43:00 Duhumbi language and culture
00:53:00 Specific kinds of homemade alcohol
00:58:00 Nomadic Kusunda community, language and culture
01:08:00 Connection between health and speaking one’s indigenous language
01:16:00 The future
01:21:00 Learning a language
LINKS:
Tim Bodt
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/tim-bodt
https://brill.com/display/title/55767?language=en
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:00 On translating Sera Khandro’s autobiography and what makes her particular autobiography so unique.
00:05:00 Human creativity coming out of interdependence and inter-relationality.
00:13:00 Prophetic visions with dakinis, khandro-ma and non-human consorts, and significance of tendrel in terma, treasure revelation.
00:18:00 More on earth and mind treasure including an example from Sera Khandro’s autobiography.
00:25:00 Climate crisis and relating with the earth.
00:28:00 Metaphors in Sera Khandro’s writing on joy and grief, and great love.
00:38:00 Linguistic universes of Tibetan and English, and how that affects the interpretations of translations, including words like enlightenment, lord, sin, inseparability and equality.
00:45:00 A story Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche told about his first hand experience with his teacher Sera Khandro.
LINKS
Previous conversation with Dr. Jacoby on Love & Liberation, Writings of Sera Khandro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUmr0pBJd70
Lecture with Dr. Jacoby through Boston University on Interdependent Personhood and Relational Ethics: A Tibetan Perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg745EOXzcQ
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Today's episode, due to it being a visual episode, is published solely on YouTube.
Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSILLfTMLLo
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:00 On growing up in Dolpo, Nepal and finding his path in art, energy and happiness.
00:06:00 Growing up in a Ngagpa family.
00:07:45 Opening a school in Dolpo
00:9:20 Finding your own way.
00:11:00 Being born into a lineage of 5 generations of painters
00:14:00 Seasonal activities in Dolpo, salt caravan and changes now
00:20:00 We see some of Tenzin’s finished paintings and pieces in process
Contact:
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:00 Productivity and ecology of love
00:09:21 Rules of erotic exchange
00:13:00 Looking out to confirm our realness as an obstacles for relationship
00:17:00 Narcissism and success 00:24:00 Meaning of love from Erich Fromm and the risk of acting in accord with reality.
00:28:00 Non-duality, shared pool of aliveness and emotion
00:36:00 Serving others and self-enlightenment.
00:40:00 Hitting rock bottom and receiving gifts through existing
00:44:00 Being the circle of the gift and the difficulty of trusting our existence as being enough.
00:53:00 Surrounding and helping each other becoming real.
LINKS:
Andreas
https://biologyofwonder.org
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Rev. Nóirín Ní Riain PhD is an Interfaith Minister, an internationally acclaimed spiritual singer, theologian, writer, musicologist, and Celtic Spirituality expert.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:31 As a singer coming out of stage fright
00:06:00 Living for years at Glenstal Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Ireland
00:06:56 Blessing a separation or a divorce
00:12:45 Noirin sings her favorite Psalm.
00:14:00 Gregorian chanting and healing power
00:16:00 Theosony, listening to the divine, the ear of the heart and listening all around.
00:21:00 Stories of her friendship and time with Irish poet and Hegelian philosopher John O’Donohue
00:24:00 Learning patience and trust
00:27:00 On choices and mistakes
00:30:00 Qualities of loving
00:36:00 Rituals and being with people during times of transition
LINKS:
Norin
https://www.noirin.love
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:28 Background to Dark Retreat
00:05:44 Some experiences that Justin has had in dark retreat and what he learned about himself.
00:13:00 Freeing oneself of narrative of a dharma practitioner looking a certain way
00:16:00 The essentiality of giving oneself to space and formlessness and the fear of space.
00:20:44 How to know if one is qualified to do dark retreat.
00:27:14 Dream yoga in dark retreat
00:31:00 Visionary experiences and tögal in dark retreat and technology of dark retreat.
00:40:00 Manifestation of elements in dark retreat, destabilization and losing one’s mind.
00:44:00 What Justin finds particularly interesting about Ati Yoga for this time
00:47:00 Lived Ati Yoga
Links:
Justin
https://justinvonbujdoss.com/
Past conversations:
Resting in the Mind Beyond Time & Being Consumed by Dharma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0RvHW6fOMQ&list=PLbj5FAGzDx9WhJ7N5iJhGkZ_tY9ZnJL4m&index=8
Ati Yoga, the Becoming of Indigenous Western Tantra & the Ministry of Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LAi9RnjcA0&list=PLbj5FAGzDx9WhJ7N5iJhGkZ_tY9ZnJL4m&index=14
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Some of what Andrea shares:
00:00:00 Meeting her teacher 16th Karmapa
00:22:00 Bone Relics and losing a skull that impacted her life
00:27:00 Proper care of ritual objects
00:30:00 Legendary snow lion expedition
00:36:00 How monastic institutions changed tantric rituals
00:44:00 Dalai Lama on the most important legacy for Buddhism
00:47:00 Benefits and uses of different malas based on their materials
00:50:00 Learning Chöd Practice with Chatral Rinpoche
00:53:55 Things to note when using a bone trumpet
00:56:00 What to do when snakes and scorpions are close to you
00:58:56 What Andrea practices right now
01:02:34 Cremation ground practice
01:06:00 Women in the charnel ground
01:18:00 Andrea’s charnel ground practice and special rituals
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Today Dr. Rick Hanson offers a guided meditation.
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00:01:00 Rick’s sabbatical
00:03:00 The difference between mind, the brain and consciousness.
00:13:09 Why change and interconnection can be difficult to recognize and how to find the benevolence in endings.
00:19:00 The influence of the breath on the mind
00:22:56 On empathy and boundaries
00:29:00 Healing from being excluded or bullied
00:32:00 Working with resentment and anger
00:36:00 Two kinds of forgiveness
00:38:12 Four types of awareness for yogic practice
00:43:39 Different kinds of timelessness
00:48:17 Rick’s current focus in spiritual practice
00:42:00 Reseting the fundamental foundations of human society
Rick Hanson
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:42 Intimacy Essentials
00:02:51 Working with resistance to the journey of intimacy
00:05:07 When a relationship is workable and when it is not.
00:05:58 Projections
00:07:24 Conditioning, erotic wounding and sexual habits.
00:13:10 Vulnerability and safety for trust
00:14:59 Reactivity and deep listening.
00:22:33 Our inner critic and self-worth.
00:26:13 Hoping and potential, fear of aloneness
00:29:00 Connection as the aphrodisiac
00:30:23 Radical subjectivity
00:33:00 Men and the need to work with shame.
00:39:19 Healthful anger and freeing one’s expressive capacities.
00:45:51 On reflecting on death, enlivenment of death
00:47:22 When Robert nearly died in 2016.
00:49:21 Robert reads a poem, “Which of us will die first?”
00:51:59 Ease and connection over spark
00:54:16 On gratitude and faith
Links:
Robert Augustus Masters
https://www.robertmasters.com/
Free music from Robert’s wife, Diane Bardwell
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:15 Being a zen priest at Daihonzan Chozen-ji and taking away fear.
00:03:38 Being a good leader from the perspective of Rinzai Zen
00:07:54 Rinzai Zen’s perspective of leaders and followers
00:09:31 Zen arts as a path of awakenment, on Omori Sogen and blending martial arts and zazen meditation.
00:14:42 Breaking through self-imposed limits through martial arts
00:17:00 On kendo, “the way of the sword,” historically and prior to WWII.
00:20:27 Unified action and intention
00:25:41 Martial arts fundamentals and flavors
00:29:42 Supporting someone through silence
00:35:36 Asian Buddhism in America in the 19th century.
00:43:55 Engaging in Asian culture today
Links:
Cristina Moon
www.cristinamoon.com
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:00 Charles experience of gaslighting into greater self-trust through the corona pandemic days.
00:12:00 Shadow versus light side of spirituality, health and self-improvement.
00:18:36 Being an agent of change through friendship and self-knowing.
00:23:28 Different causes for the desire to control society and each other.
0027:00 Blame as a trap rather than a key
0029.55 What is it about our society that is goes against life and our natural instincts?
00:33:18 Meaning of growth economy and it’s impact on our intimate lives.
00:39:17 Parenting, belonging, community
00:44:00 Trusting the principle of the gift and how Charles engages in gifting his work.
00:50:34 Tuning into forgotten questions, rather than living in habit and filters of reality.
00:55:59 Conclusion
Links:
Charles:
https://charleseisenstein.org/
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Christina Monson is a Buddhist practitioner and teacher and Tibetan language translator, and interpreter with over 30 years of study, translation and practice experience in Buddhism.
Some of what Christina shares today:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:42 Meeting self-made Buddha Chatral Rinpoche
00:09:15 Recounting moments with Rinpoche.
00:13:00 Realization energy
00:17:44 Mountain retreat
00:21:00 Guru Yoga and releasing hope and fear
00:27:00 Retreat schedule
00:36:00 Illness, grief and this year being the most transformational for Christina
00:50:00 A reading and elaboration on "A Song of Amazement Inspired by Practice Experience" by Uza Khandro (Sera Khandro).
01:00:00 Uniqueness of Sera Khandro as a human and realized being.
01:02:00 Reading and reflections on “Spontaneous Advice, Connected with a Prayer,” by Chatral Rinpoche
01:07:00 Challenges in translation and specifically this prayer.
01:12:00 Conclusion
Links:
Spontaneous Advice Connected with a Prayer
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/chatral-rinpoche/spontaneous-advice-connected-with-prayer
A Song of Amazement Inspired by Practice Experience
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/sera-khandro/song-of-amazement
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Guided Somatic Meditation Practice: 12 Fold Lower Belly Breathing with Dr. Reggie Ray To listen to our full conversation visit here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-liberation-with-olivia-clementine/id1393858607 Links Reggie Ray: https://www.dharmaocean.org/dr-regina... Podcast/Olivia: https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts Enjoy these episodes? Please leave a review here. Scroll down to Review & Ratings. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-liberation/id1393858607
Dr. Reginald “Reggie” Ray is the co-founder and Spiritual Director of the Dharma Ocean Foundation, dedicated to the evolution and flowering of the somatic teachings of Tibetan Buddhism and was a founding member and University Professor at Naropa University, prior to his retirement.
Some of what Reggie shares includes:
00:00 Vajrayana tradition and working from the inside out and problems as expressions of own deepest nature.
05:33 The power of being genuine and attracting the right people
09:24 On suffering, mistakes and the universe as sacred totality.
12:12 Somatic meditation to inhabit more of your experience
13:56 Reggie’s spiritual entry through suicidal depression.
20:48 The impact of inviting reality and the ungluing of the limited small ego.
24:00 The impact of releasing tension and relaxation on realization.
29:00 Differentiating habit body from wisdom body
36:00 Three yana answer on time and Chogyam Trungpa’s advice on regular practice.
41:00 Suggestions on maintaining and improving one’s meditation practice over time, daily and longer retreats.
48:00 Relationship, the sacred other and love being born through letting go.
55:00 Reggie’s journey of marriage
57:00 Tools to support challenging relational moments.
59:00 Reggie’s motivation for his new book in process.
Links:
Reggie Ray: https://www.dharmaocean.org/dr-reginald-ray/
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Some of what intimacy teachers Londin and Justin share includes:
0:00 Sexual yoga and sacred intimacy in the context of modern life
8:00 How their intimacy intensifying practice of Alpha and Omega differs from common masculine feminine polarity teachings
18:00 The power of connecting through the body and what it means to relate with unconditional love.
23:00 Example of a daily embodiment practice to deepen in unconditional love and intimacy.
28:00 Qualities of a healthy relationship
34:00 Training the body and heart to be available to intimacy.
39:00 Becoming parents and the need to prioritize intimacy to benefit all other aspects of one’s life.
45:00 Pleasure as gateway for deep listening to the divine and allowing there to be a fresh beginning.
48:00 Justin’s shift out into wanting to be in a committed relationship and his homecoming through that.
53:00 Enjoy sharing your radiance, while knowing you do not need to earn love. Being love and being freedom. Reclaiming the natural forces of duality.
LINKS:
Londin: http://www.londinangelwinters.com/about/
Justin: https://www.justinpatrickpierce.com/
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Some of what Adele shares includes:
- Realization through relationship in everyday living
- Challenges of the path
- Being a mother as a path to liberation
- Ordinary Love versus love from a buddhist tantra perspective.
- Meaning of bliss and love
- Bliss emptiness union vs ordinary union
- Danger of tantra in relationships
- Misunderstanding of non-attachment
- Vinaya monastic code and tantra
- Purpose of celibacy
- Cleaning out Inner Channels
- Misunderstanding of ripeness in teachings
- Vajrayana contradictory examples
- Subtle energetic union.
- Direct translation of tibetan Renunciation and Buddhist to offer clarification on both
- Inner Level as antidote to spiritual materialism
- Karma and Merit"Why good things happen to bad people"
- Meaning of mature person
- Why it’s important to have female practitioners, translators and lineage holders.
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Adele: https://dakinitranslations.com
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Today Oceana Sawyer offers a short guided practice to invite pleasure in any moment.
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Oceana: https://www.oceanaendoflifedoula.com
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Oceana Sawyer is an End of Life Doula, writes and speaks on the liminal space of active dying and grief.
Note: Oceana explores some unconventional perspectives in this episode, which come from mid-stream in longer conversations in which she is embedded. They presume an understanding that on the level of social reality, horrific atrocities have been committed against large and specific groups of people and more-than-human beings that cannot be underestimated in terms of their ongoing impact and must be acknowledged and held with the respect and consideration they deserve. Her comments are not intended to diminish or bypass the impact of historic, intergenerational, persistent, and personal trauma. She honors the deep work many are doing to recover and repair such trauma and grief. Her comments are an offering of her emergent viewpoints which are always open for debate and evolution.
Some of what Oceana shares includes:
- Meaning of pleasure
- Why pleasure is important in a dying process
- Responsible hedonism
- Pleasure for caregivers
- Removing binary of living and dying
- What to do in a grief spiral
- Universal rightness versus Moral rightness
- The longer arc of your life
- Diamond like quality of humanity and aliveness through horrific circumstance including the middle passage.
- Navigating destruction in the fractal generative existence
- The significance of our self-reflective nature
- This isn’t the time for unity and what this time is for
- Expansive impact of two spirited trans community
- Owning your center and recognizing other centers.
- Why its important to practice pleasure to make the most of your dying process.
- The conversation in the sacred portal at the end of life
- Living more fully
- Finding places that fit you rather than fitting in.
Links:
Oceana: https://www.oceanaendoflifedoula.com
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Tseyang has spent the last 12 years, all seasons but winter, retreating in the mountains of Bhutan.
Some of what Tseyang shares today includes:
- Why she was drawn to practice in the mountains
- Obstacles arising when we make meaningful choices
- Why age does not matter when it comes to practice
- Meaning of discipline
- Practicing without a goal
- Her schedule, daily activities
- Choosing the right place to retreat
- Influenced devotion versus natural devotion
- Advice for beginners starting practice
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In todays's episode Khandro shares about:
- Cultivating and training in relative siddhis to benefit others
- Enacting the four activities
- Signs and Tests for siddhis
- Story with Garchen Rinpoche
- Activities for subduing warfare and suffering
- Dudjom Rinpoche, the coldwar and a ten year Vajrakilaya retreat
- If not working, do it more!
- Prosperity rituals
- Landscape effecting practice and realization
- Khandro’s first retreat in Nepal
- Phenomena and blessings of tukdam
- On method and wisdom, masculine and feminine
- Being tested by her teacher
- Choosing to no longer be a nun and to marry Lama Dawa
- Dealing with gossip on her choices
- Samaya and lineage protection
- Having a polyamorous marriage
- Becoming a prophesied activity consort
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Some of what Bayo shares includes on:
The relational universe
Caught up in the modern
Process vs Things
Slave ship of our times
Listening and fugitivity
Necessity of suffering, failure and pain
Power of vocality
On the sacredness of language
Ecstasy of becoming
Parenting as spiritual vocation and their pathway of doing education
A Yoruba fable
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Links:
Dr. Bayo Akomolafe:
https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/
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Some of what Justin shares includes:
- Transference of Buddhism from Indian to Tibetan and Nepali culture
- Maitripa as muse
- Practitioners needing to go deeper
- Shamatha, vipassana, ati yoga and dzogchen, comparisons
- Impact of pedagogic systems on meditation styles
- Realistic notion of what is needed for realization
- Potential problem caused by lamrim literature
- One of the first things his teacher told him to do
- Relaxing around relationship to time
- Becoming useless
- Yidam practice
- Working with afflictive emotions
- Vajrayana, intimacy and our culture
- Narcissist crazy wisdom
- America’s lack of faith.
- Tantra and the capitalist market place
- Tantric alchemy and practice being personal
- Post-meditation guidance
Links:
Lama Justin website
Previous episode with Justin
Olivia/Podcast
Some of what Jeanine shares includes:
- Racism being linked to our economic system
- Witch burning, slave ships, paganism and the global market place
- Organized religion and its impact on globalization.
- Impact of living in one place and policing forces
- Marginalized communities and environmental issues
- Brokenness and not remaking indigenous history while honoring it
- Walking between worlds
- Attending to place and home and everyone's indigeneity
- Narcissism paradigm roots and impact
- Our polarized world state and crisis as a means
- Inhabiting a multicultural self
- Relational currency and shared knowledge
- Elder Malidoma Patrice Somé on modern day rites of passage
- Engaging in conflict
Links:
- Jeanine’s new book: Returning the Self to Nature
- Olivia/Podcast
Some of what Sri Dharma Mittra shares includes:
- What brought Dharma Mittra to yoga
- Meeting his guru
- Finding answers
- Renunciation and being a full time yogi
- The place of purification based on one’s conditions
- Highest of all knowledge
- Who God is
- Meaning of self-realization
- Minimum amount of time to devote to practice
- Asanas he recommends
- Nauli Kriya
- Practice for clearing out the colon and inhibiting disease
- Methods for easeful lotus posture
- Supportive body if have a sedentary lifestyle
- What to do if in pain, sick or dying
- Laws of karma.
- Meditation for self-realization
- Meditation based on if devotional or intellectual
- Guided Meditation
Links:
Sri Dharma Mittra
Podcast/Olivia Clementine
Some of what Tracee shares includes:
- What is Yoga Nidra?
- Rest, bliss and refuge
- Being held, being worthy without doing anything
- Withdrawal of senses so we can connect with true nature.
- Swami Rama meeting his Yoga Nidra teacher
- Yoga Nidra as a feminine practice
- Radiance
- Time and effort in regards to realization
- Shifting from discipline to devotion
- Transitions as the practice
- A practice to engage in yoga Nidra right now.
- Story of the goddess Yoga Nidra
Tracee: https://traceeyoga.com/#intro
Podcast/Olivia: https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts/
Some of what Dr. Nida shares includes:
- His recent 8 month retreat
- Cultivating inner qualities of retreat
- Dream yoga
- Post-retreat syndromes
- Karmamudra, couples practice
- Karmic partner
- Channels and emotional connection
- How karmamudra speeds up realization
- Dr. Nida’s favorite Mahamudra teaching
- Working with desire and alchemizing poisons
- What makes a long lasting partnership
- Karmamudra and tummo
- No specialness
- Biodiversity of Anuttarayogatantra
- HH Dalai Lama, and why he said the Buddha did not teach Tantra or Vajrayana
- Origins of Chudlen medicine
- Diet, Rainbow body and Chudlen connection
- On tögal and the 5 elements explaining everything
- Sleep for the general public and yogis
- Pathway for inviting spiritual qualities
- Medicine, emotion and mantras to increase sexual vitality and healing
- Spiritual bypassing
- Awareness with speech
- Knowing the ordinary self
Links:
Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
Podcast/Olivia
Some of what Zenju Earthly shares includes:
- Nakedness and the beginning of zen practice.
- On not promoting anything or ‘how to’ …
- Trusting in oneself and dealing with ones chaos
- Witches, magic, spells and chanting
- Going deep with simple offerings
- On ancestors and acknowledging past.
- Oppression from a spiritual perspective
- Her awakening on the relative as the gateway to the absolute.
- To be a seer and clairsentience
- Ritual and Ceremony as a way to see and transform
- How her experience of suffering has changed
- The miracle and journey of being able to express herself
- Trauma, wounds and interconnection
- Dream practice, prophesy and her future book
- Dharani mantras
- Stillness and silence in the midst
- Pathways that support focus and create vastness
Some of what Tenzin shares includes:
- His Tibetan nomad heritage
- Becoming a refugee and orphan in the Tibetan Children’s Village School in India
- Karmic imprint of hearing
- His father’s passing
- Nomadic Tibetan folk music, formless and form and metaphor
- Thin line of contemporary and traditional music
- Song maintaining the essence of tsampa
- Death essential part of his practice
- Advice from Namkai Norbu to relate to the passing of his parents
- Passage from “Liberation through Hearing”
- Translating helping his dharma understanding.
- Interweaving of music and practice
- Celebrating oneself and emotion
- Making his new album Yeshi Dolma
- The invitation of not knowing
- Chinese occupation of Tibet
- Dalai Lama and the Middle Path
- Jataka story about a bodhissatva parrot
Music in today’s episode from Tenzin Choegyal’s recent album Yeshi Dolma. Songs included: Heart Strings & Snow Lion
Tenzin's website
Olivia/Podcast website
Some of what Diana shares includes:
- Her path to becoming a teacher
- Conventional vs. tantric sex
- Loss of tension vs relaxation
- Tantra for all sexual orientations
- Seeking sensitivity vs sensation
- Generating love
- Keeping cool
- Ejaculation control vs non-ejaculation
- Myth of the tight vagina
- Purpose of genitals to transmit and receive
- The Love Keys
- Parents and supporting child body awareness
- Pain during lovemaking
- Communication and touch
- Kissing and the nervous system
- Magnetic bodies, breasts and perineum
- Catching indicators of emotional disconnection.
- Importance of expressed feelings for love
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Diana: www.livinglove.com
Diana's Tedx Talk: Power of Mindful Sex
Podcast: https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts
- Sitting with ancestors, elders.
- Child story rather than ancestor story.
- Nature defining what humanity is.
- The intuition of the heart.
- Hospicing this modernity.
- Separating from our spiritual umbilical cord.
- What it means to be evolutionary.
- Ceremony and no agenda.
- Medicine people.
- Time and Perception from a Lakota perspective.
- Innocence.
- Language of grief.
- Energy and age that can’t be taken.
- Using energy properly.
Song of Tiokasin: Butterfly Against the Wind
Album: From the Continuum
Tiokasin: https://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/node/7
Podcast: https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts/
Some of what Khandro shares includes:
- Khandro’s path to finding the buddhist dharma .
- The karmic process and past lives.
- Lama Dawa and his lineage and role as a Ngagpa.
- Examples of how Ngagpas worked with elements.
- Meeting Lama Dawa and what it was like to be married to him.
- Finding relevance and language of old teachings
- Meeting and personal connection with Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche.
- Kunzang Rinpoche’s capacities and style as a teacher.
- Khandro’s in secret 3 year retreat and practices under Rinpoche’s guidance.
- Outer, Inner & Secret levels of Tummo and the path of effort.
- Tsa lung subtle body channels, auric systems and winds for metabolic support and spiritual experiences.
- Realization through body and bliss, or emptiness and mind (tummo, tsa lung, Ati yoga, shamatha-vipassana)
- The Oral Instruction Lineage.
- Yogic masters, and finding a real teacher.
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Khandro Kunzang: https://www.phurbathinleyling.org
Podcast: https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts/
Some of what Rune shares includes:
- Rune’s studies in Afro-Brazilian religion.
- Meaning of Animism and Nordic
- The technology of giving and receiving
- Masks to manifest other than human person
- Participating in the life cycles of agriculture
- Mystical eroticism in animism
- Animism rituals on shifting your subjectivity and individuality
- Traditional worldviews around chaos and order
- National Identitarian Age
- On Traditional vs Indigenous
- Viking washing and attraction
- Dysfunction of modern epistemology
- How animism moves
- Knowledge hierarchies and domination
- Pathways of engagement with nordic animism
Rune: https://nordicanimism.com
Podcast: https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts/
Some of what Betty shares includes:
- Her realizations around erotism
- The wheel of consent practice
- Vulnerability of directness
- How simple things make you not be able to hide
- How to ask for what you want, and taking the risk yourself
- Creating agreements, choice and changing your mind
- Relating with intensity
- Myth of technique and notions of what you are supposed to like
- Play in our relationships
- Betty’s focus right now
- Wheel of consent for those in isolation, without playmates or online
- Being different.
Betty: https://wheelofconsentbook.com/
Olivia/Podcast: https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts/
Episode highlights:
- Sarah and Olivia sharing why both this podcast and Sarah’s book are called Love & Liberation
- Sera Khandro’s autobiography (namtar) as a pathway of correcting our view around dharma, enlightenment and relationship
- Sera's transparency on her humanity
- Motherhood and Vajrayana Buddhism
- Female body denigration
- Meaning and purpose of khandromas
- Consortship
- 5 attributes for a successful revelation
- Issues with consortship and sex abuse in Buddhism
- Chatral Rinpoche about his connection and parallels with Sera Khandro
- Sarah Jacoby’s experience with Chatral Rinpoche
- Passage from Sera Khandro on love and liberation.
Some of what Sharon shares includes:
A turning point from her time in the outer hebrides in Scotland
Why we don’t want to belong
On one’s relationship to birth place
Boundaries being porous.
Exercise to connect with landscape archetypes
Old bone mother, old crone woman
The practice of genuine mythic imagination
Recognizing the soul in all of life
Human versus place relationships
Sovereignty in Gaelic tradition
Purpose of the otherworld
About her next book …
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Sharon: https://sharonblackie.net/
Podcast: https://oliviaclementine.com/podcast
Some of what Michael shares includes:
- Meaning of myth
- Pandemic polarization and changing the collective situation
- Genius, wounds and giftedness
- Rites of passage and becoming authentic
- Natural form of education
- Ascension, darkness and the deep Self
- What it means to be a real storyteller
- Eros and Erotic Fluidity
- Your calling
- Fear, the original purpose
- Re-education of the Ego
- The Beloved, the ecstatic, the lover
- The 3 places
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Michael: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/
Podcast: https://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts/
Some of what Deborah shares includes
- Ancient view on female fluids, sacredness, and nourishment
- Difference between orgasm and ejaculation
- Difference between clitoral, cervical and g-spot orgasms
- 3 essentials for g-spot orgasm
- Homework for vagina baring listeners to acquaint yourself with your g-spot
- Returning into relationship with your sexual being
- How to locate your g-spot/prostate
- How to experience g-spot self-arousal and with another
- Orgasms as you age
Deborah: https://deborahsundahl.com/
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Some of what Helena shares includes:
- Ancient economies and how we came to the current economic system we have today.
- Ladakh as a case study of the impacts of globalization
- Globalized food system
- Nonsensical view of climate change, and Issues of focusing on carbon vs fossil fuels and new green deal
- Her entry into Ladakh
- Suspicions of Helena being a spy
- Peace talks between Buddhist and Muslims
- Local knowledge and cultural identity. Including building, agriculture, raising children in a natural way.
- World Localization Day
- Local Economy and Internet Currency
https://www.localfutures.org/
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Some of what Justin shares includes:
- His personal retreat this last year
- Benefits of Ati Yoga in working with anything arising including helping Justin be available to 13,000 people at the NYC Department of Correction
- How Justin works with crisis situations
- Bearing witness to pain and suffering
- Justin’s main practice with those who are dying
- His experience with his teachers when they were dying and afterwards
- The ministry of death, heartbreak and loss
- Compassion in action and speaking up to injustice as dharma practice
- Modern mahasiddhas and indigenous western varjayana buddhism
- Tibetan refugee trauma impacting how teachings are shared
- Everyday practices to get comfortable with death
Links for Justin:
https://justinvonbujdoss.com/
https://www.bhumisparsha.org/
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Jan is one of Europe’s leading storytellers who specializes in myths and folktales from pathways that were followed during the slave trade, including Africa, the Caribbean and Arabia.
Some of what Jan shares today includes:
- how she got into storytelling, her roots, her stories
- the rhythm of a story
- essentials for story telling
- 3 riddles for you to ponder …
- domination of oralcy
- unnecessary modernizing of stories to fit the world
- having a sense of what the world needs and being able to find it within yourself.
- discovering and sharing stories
- Jan sharing the story called: Leopard Woman
Connect with Jan including her masterclasses and story telling community:
https://akua-storytelling-project.mn.co
https://www.janblakestories.co.uk/
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Some of what Nicole shares includes:
- Pleasure from a neurological point of view
- Emotions relationship with sexual arousal experience
- Studying early phases of arousal
- Libido and depression
- Sexual addiction misdiagnosis and mistreatment
- Sex drive
- Impact on libido from masturbation, mother fatigue, communication, menopause
- Sexual behavior and trends with age
- What is an orgasm?
- Rapid ejaculation and erectile “dysfunction” misperceptions and solutions
- Impact of vibratory stimulation on genitals
- Pornography pros and cons
- Sex to improve general health, including sleep, partner factors, connected and versus disconnected.
- Hostile environment in the US for doing sexual research
- Barrier of what sex is supposed to be used for, and what it is not supposed to be used for
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Some of what Amelia shares includes:
- Hidden lands, outer and inner meaning
- Sacred landscapes, tantric paradise, land to help you wake up
- Qualities embedded in the landscapes itself.
- Treasure teachings, time traveling
- How these hidden lands are chosen, Sa Che, geomancy
- Land aiding in sadhana visualization practice
- Features of Mechuka landscape that connects with 4 enlightened activities,
- Longchenpa, “Spontaneous Song of the Wild Woods”
- Diety practice in Buddhist practice, the purpose, how the these hidden land supports them
- Liberation in one lifetime through the difficulty of pilgrimage on these lands
- Yogi’s understanding a view that is a highly evolved view of reality that many indigenous cultures have.
- Her research in the hidden land of Mechuka, Arunachal Pradesh, India
- Right relationship as a researcher
- Recovery and reclamation with non-human beings and spirits in her own British Isle homeland of fairies, leprechauns, elves
- Pragmatic purposes of having right relationship with the land.
- Appropriation of indigenous cultures, as a way to fill the longing for relationship with the landscape.
- Bhutan and Sikkim as examples of right relationship with land and conversation policy
- Sacred places and landscapes that are sacralized by the practice of yogis in the past and the present.
- A reading from Jamgön Kongtrül 19th C, on sacred places and pilgrimage, and different levels of seeing the land
- The invitation fo more scholar-practitioners
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-Nina's background and the influence of her south Indian roots -Chanting the divine names, nam kirtan - The story of when Nina found her teacher Sri Siddhi Ma -Meditation arising through practice and being together -How Sri Neem Karoli Baba communicated his coming samādhi, conscious departing of his physical body, to Sri Siddhi Ma through mantra - Practices Sri Siddhi Ma often suggested - What Sri Siddhi Ma would sing to Maharaji - Nina's experience of her teacher leaving the body - The great mother Ma - Nina offers through song the prayer: Devi Prenam ~ To follow Nina's offerings: http://www.ninaraochant.com/ Olivia's site: http://oliviaclementine.com/podcasts
Some of what Kendra shares includes:
Decoupling self-truth from what we choose to do
Choice as freedom
Interdependence and Sacred Sovereignty
Right relationship with reality.
“Live as to never be ashamed”
Owning our need for validation
Play as an indicator of processing and a tool
Conflict as a means for curiosity
Resonance and differences in intimacy
Metabolizing pure expression
Expression through the body
Bringing what you want to your relationship
Small points of beauty
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Kendra's site: https://www.kendracunov.com/
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- Her beginnings in Non-dual Shaiva Tantra, about the lineage and studying with Swami Muktananda
- How realized beings function and benefit others
- Subtle influences
- Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
- Pleasure as an intrinsic part of the universe and one of the qualities of the divine.
- Karmic debt paying it off through relationship
- The love story of Sati and Shiva
- Divine aspects of our negative qualities
- Divine feminine, Shakti
- Difference between Gods and Goddesses and subtle beings from a relative and absolute level.
- Essential ways to deepen meditation practice
- Path of devotion
Sally's site: https://www.sallykempton.com/
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What brought Cynthia on her spiritual path Tara Visions Studying and Teaching with Thich Nhat Hanh A life-determining pilgrimage in Nepal Earth treasure vases Stories from her work in different parts of the world Sacred activism Peace huts and wells in Liberia Revealing a new practice: Tara Gaia practice Choosing truth over tradition Related Links: https://gaiamandala.net https://mailchi.mp/earthtreasurevase/full-moon-global-healing-meditation
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Some of what Nicole shares includes: Attachment styles Autonomic nervous system Trauma's impact on our nervous system responsiveness Belonging Most common way we avoid ourselves Shifting out of a triggered state Trauma and healing around connection Daily nervous system tending Nicole's personal work shifting out of distancing from connection to allowing for it To learn more about nervous system healing, here is the link to Nicole's free webinar
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Some of what Lama Tsering shares includes: Stories of Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche throughout How she fell into the dharma The purpose of life Non-stylized kindness Impermanence in helping our mind be free Relating with sickness and death Rehabituating the mind to absolute truth Everything as the path Great masters becoming your marrow Compassion rather than anger Lord of the Dance: Autobiography of Chagdud Rinpoche https://www.odsalling.org/en/ https://www.oliviaclementine.com
Some of what Stephen shares includes:
Working with dying people
Human Freedom
Merciless Precision
Village Mindedness
Heartbroken Cues for Life
Ability to have Catastrophe
Etymology of Crisis, Angels & Demons
Radical Gratitude, Gods & Fate
New music with Nights of Grief & Mystery
Dark Roads songs: Regrets, Dark Dear Heart
Rough Gods songs: Fate
https://orphanwisdom.com
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Some of what Miten shares includes: Playing in color and mantras Deva's spiritual roots and path Miten & Deva at Osho's ashram Music as the living guru Taking the riskiest path Before Osho, After Osho Making mistakes No dogma Guru disciple relationship Friendship + Spiritual path as the commitment Working with jealousy and anger Dynamic meditation with Osho Singing as tantra practice Welcoming death and aging together ~ www.devapremalmiten.com
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Bayo's Nigerian upbringing and homecoming back to earth God as the invitation to fall apart and new Gods beckoning us Grieving as a form of worship, the world in performance of grief Modernity: the myth of wholeness Our insistence on full righteousness Post activist space and the Emergence Network. Unschooling his children Real not as final truth Thickness of devotion with his wife Bayo's process of writing Fugitivity, sanctuary and monsters Processing failures, offering vulnerably to his children * http://bayoakomolafe.net https://www.oliviaclementine.com
Some of what Elena shares include: compatibility sexiness knowing and expressing sexual desires phases of intimacy sexual boredom dating orgasms for women sex toys, masturbation desire subtext of sexual fantasies anal pleasure * Elena's website: https://theyoniempire.com Use Code: " loveandliberation " for a discount on Elena's ebook: 500 Revealing Questions for Lovers to Deepen Sexual Desire Onna sex toys: https://www.onnalifestyle.com/collections/shop
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In this episode Dechen shares about her father Lama Naldjorpa, her mother Tshering Drolkar, and step-father Drubpön Lama Karma. She shares about their yogic paths including stories they have shared and as well as memories. We close the episode hearing about Dechen's journey as a singer, details about the evolution of Bhutanese music (including Dechen offering a song praising Yeshe Tsogyal) as well as her own dharmic aspirations.
Intuitive emotional vs. Factual data for creating change 4 distinct categories of diseases in Tibetan Medicine Döns and Viral epidemic and ecosystem spirits Mamos/Atmospheric environment correlation with viruses Our species largely formed by viruses and the unseen Ways pathogenic forces are provoked What makes us susceptible? Supporting our particular system & 3 humors Preventative pathways 3 levels of working with pandemic Relating with natural protector and provocative energies Buddhist practices to support pandemic shrimala.com oliviaclementine.com
Some of what Chöying Khandro shares: Sudden loss of her son Hearbreak as possibility Committing to feeling her son's death fully Fierce vajrayana tonglen as a path of working with grief Body awareness practice for emotional healing and health Death & the Bodhisattva path Absolute truth needed in the world of conflict Her teacher Khalkha Jetsun Dampa Rinpoche 3 Dimensions of Chöd: Outer, inner and sacred 7 evening wandering retreat 100 spring 4 month wandering retreat in Mongolia Subtle body training to keep sanity Working with Coronavirus Healing through relationship ~ https://www.dakiniswhisper.com/
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Some of what Steve shares includes:
The influence of his Scottish upbringing including legends of trolls and selkies and folk tunes Impermanence of love His draw to relational work Health wealth and relationship Knowing why we are in relationship Partners as value metrics Keys to long lasting relationship The blinded ways we journey in relationship Why relationships thrive Relationships ending not being equated with failure Risk assessment in relationships The gift of not chasing fantasy Sexual Yoga & Meditation in Motion Movement Koan Method Skillfully navigating confusion and ignorance Boundary function Significance of exploring through the body Dialogue & Critical thinking Praise + Blame Arctic survival methods + William Wallacing it Hallucination, Stubborness & All night meditation Significance of being challenged Your chance to win a book token! Tension & Resolution Connoisseur of weakness Simmering in confusion for wisdom Wisdom and practices of opening and closing our heart Caring deeply for others ~ https://www.guruviking.com/ movement koan dvd: http://www.michaelaboehm.com/product/movement-koan-method/ www.oliviaclementine.com
Srimati's undeniable expressive capacity for truth Disempowered cultural programming for women Revealing and naming Natural instability of relationships Reinventing and honesty around age and silver hair Eternalizing David Deida on Masculine & Feminine Creating the world we want in a polarized political world Multi-dimensional life form healing Dedicating your life to know who you are Overcoming fear of death The privilege to be alive Not imposing our view on others www.juliepiatt.com/ plant based not cheese: https://srimu.com/ Plant based meal planner: https://meals.richroll.com/ www.oliviaclementine.com
Dr. Alexandra Solomon: www.dralexandrasolomon.com/ The book: indiebound Taking Sexy Back | via amazon Finding the right balance between predictability and the unknown Conflict around Sex Sexual Shame and Blame Excessive focus on ejaculations and orgasms Shifting gender roles in a partner dynamic Consciously creating fresh moments vs knee jerk reactions Infidelity as a way to not hurt one's partner The shift from role to soul relationships How sexual desire changes over time Clarity vs Self-abandonment in casual hook ups 3 false beliefs put on men The function of the clitoris Intimate Justice, LGBT and marginalized communities ~ Love & Liberation w: www.oliviaclementine.com
Eduardo Bettencourt is a sexual healing practitioner and educator. Some of what is explored today includes:
- Sexological bodywork
- Changing behavior
- Accessing feelings in the body
- Full self-expression
- How we think we are showing up may be different than how we are actually showing up
- Witnessing rather than fixing emotion
- Knowing and expressing what we want
- Choosing pleasure
- Releasing Blocks in the Body
Eduardo's website
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Today's episode is with Andrea & Matthias Reisen. Some of what they share includes: How they met Peacecorp supporting the foundation of their marriage Adopting Children Sharing core values Acknowledging and respecting other people's information and culture Being active members for change Starting their herb farm Keeping a relationship loving and alive over the long term Supporting our self and eachother through bodywork Men & Women Circles Conscious conversation Plants supporting our spiritual nature Intention for plant medicine and ceremony Local economy + more visit healingspiritsherbfarm.com to explore their offerings. visit oliviaclementine.com to support the podcast
Today our guest is Jetsunma Jamyang Palmo.
Some of what she shares include:
- Jetsunma's yogic path including her spiritual life as a child
- Preparing oneself for retreat and how to benefit most from meditation practice.
- Having faith in beliefs that support a positive life
- The drama of taking illusions as real
- Challenges and resistance of taking time for inner work
- What we must know so we will never be alone
Today's guest Dr. Katy Jane, sanskrit scholar and vedic astrology shares about the kindness and ingenuity of vedic astrology to help us understand the gifts we offer in this lifetime through shifting our self-perception.
In today's episode our guest is Kylie McBeath.
Some of what she shares includes:
Surrendering and being committed to truth in relationship.
Naming what we need
Financial independence
Not playing small
Integrating all the parts of our self
The motherwound
Post divorce breakdown and revelation
Fighting versus conflict
Aggression versus clean anger
Aloneness and having needs
+ more!
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Today Brea shares about the martial art practices of qigong, taiji and gongfu. She talks about doing our art and opening to the full spectrum of emotions. She speaks on the space underneath the resistance: where the wisdom of silence is known, as well as the path of discipline and movements and medicine for talking with body over mind + more ... website:http://www.kwanyinkungfu.com/ instagram: kwanyinkungfu
Rachel shares about her journey of love, including her process of leaving a relationship and beginning a new relationship, attachment vs. truth, respecting the heart, and teaching people how to love us. Rachel shares pathways for cultivating the feminine, creating community and her reverence for the sacred in this modern age. http://rachelrossitto.com/
In today's episode Asia Suler shares about her path to healing, being supported by nature, chronic pain and illness, historical reverence for all genitalia, limits of feminine and masculine, being a true king, worshipping earth energy and our source of power, the connection between earth stewardship and our sexuality, a practice for lovers, connecting with our ancestry and healing not having to be so hard or take so long. Asia's website: https://onewillowapothecaries.com
In todays episode some of what Erik shares includes: his path into Tibetan medicine and Buddhism, true holistic healthcare, well being in a capitalistic culture, the power of motivation, the 4 conditions to treat 3 mental afflictions, worldly affairs as a part of the spiritual path, where joy comes from, serving others, looking at our shadow, demons and microorganisms that cause disease, conscious forms behind nature's activity, a limitation on modern environmentalism, changing our narrative and perception on an inner and outer level as well as 3 suggestions of how to have better relationships ~ Erik's website: https://www.shrimala.com/
In today's episode we explore Nadine & Andrew's path in supporting their 21 year relationship deepen in intimacy over time. Some of what we talk about:
What do men and women crave. When one partner wants to go deeper and the other one is not ready. The fear to surrender to our beloved fully. The damage of passive aggression in relationship.Intimacy without a goal. Stoking the fire of connection for busy people, for parents and so on. Yoni and lingam massage. Visit here for more info on Nadine & Andrew and their work. Their upcoming retreat mentioned.
Kalani Souza is an anomaly in a time of speed and separation. He is a storyteller, musician, poet, philosopher, priest, political satirist, and peacemaker. His mind works in curiously thoughtful multiplicities and his heart is in service to the sacredness of humanity. Today we receive a taste of his medicine. His capacity to tell stories woven with wisdom, to inspire us to live a more whole honest loving life. To be peacemakers ourselves and stewards for future generations.
connect with Kalani's work: http://mkalani.com/
So many of us live with subtle or obvious anxiety that limits our life. That inhibits love, wisdom and joy from entering. Today Olivia shares some ways we can open to living from a state of trust and love.
Vienna Pharaon, a Marriage & Family Therapist, shares about: why we may settle in love, making choices from an empowered place, opening our belief system beyond what we know, finding our self-worth, maintaining and deepening connection and intimacy in long term relationship including for parents, honoring our expression even if what we want can't be met, Vienna's shift in perspective to have the love she wanted and more ... Find Vienna here www.newyorkcouplescounseling.com + on instagram: @mindfulmft ~
Today our guest is Susan Piver. Susan shares about the four noble truths of love, instability of relationships, what erodes or grows a relationship, whether relationships for everyone, love versus safety, power of giving versus getting love, 3 poisons in relationship, why having our heartbroken may be beneficial, depression versus sadness, non-attachment versus numbing out, why it's terrifying to open our hearts and more ... www.susanpiver.com
Today our guest is Rochelle Schieck, author and founder of Qoya. Some of what she shares includes: about Qoya, pilgrimage, significance of lived experience, how the value of women and embodiment has shifted over time, the deep call for change, what is happening that we don't see, what is sexy?, how to heal, letting go of shame and guilt about experiencing pain, future economy, and wellbeing when on the go.
http://www.qoya.love/
Heidi is an esoteric astrologer, poet, podcaster, and leader of Radiant Life Retreats. Some of what Heidi shares about is her path, astrology basics, living into your potential, unlocking the grip of patterns, the softening and change that understanding can create, life timing and free will, her time in Africa, her healing retreats, poetry, the feeling of urgency, waking up to the now, and transmissions of freedom and love ~ https://www.heidirose.com/
Some of what Lama Tsultrim shares includes: Her path to buddhism, her new book Wisdom Rising, leaving the one ground into dualism, the mandala for bringing the fragmented self back into wholeness, the significance of symbolic imprints, the meaning and importance of dakini in buddhism and in our lives, her natural child birth, holding the masculine and feminine, finding wholeness within ourself, the healing and naturalness of wanting safe intimacy and connection, the whole powerful woman and the purity of our female body, our senses for liberation and a simple practice to support this, relationship as path, working with the darkness, wisdom free of aggression and more.. ~ https://taramandala.org/ + her book: Wisdom Rising: Journey Into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine.
Today our guest is buddhist teacher Scott Tusa. Scott shares about his mother's passing igniting his spiritual path, cherry picking from spiritual traditions, not being a self improvement project, relating to suffering as the first step to healing and awakening, universal compassionate love, seeing flaws in our preferences and seeing others in ourselves, the problem and complexity with wanting to fix or be useful, exhaustion of identify, waffling between the absolute and relative, true failure, lacking genuine self-love, his own leeriness of success, using meditation to transform or to increase self-obsession, the suffering of the body, karma, being a monk to being in relationship, 3 kinds of awareness, the failure of individualism, blowing up our perceptions as real ~ https://scotttusa.com/
Anaiya shares about her home in France, Mary Magdalene, not seeking affirmation from the outside, sacred prostitution and sexual energy as a way to help us heal, grow and awaken, ancient healing in temples for post traumatic stress, the future beyond matriarchy or patriarchy, the great work, habits held in the body to pay attention to, the liberation of sacred sexuality, beloved vs soul mate, becoming more sensual, a sovereign path to awaken, the healing and bondage of archetypes, inner marriage, Anaiya's path to and in marriage, anti-awakening influences, the goodness of things being off and more ... www.anaiyasophia.com
David Elliott is an author, teacher and healer. Today he shares about his roots in farming, the power of paying attention to the signs, being a nature whisperer, collecting + connecting the dots, being in harmony with mother earth, world peace through cup cakes, his acting career as part of his spiritual development, the necessity for humor as a healer, love flowing through the body and more. David's website: http://www.davidelliott.com/
Olivia muses on where and how expectations in relationships are valuable, and where they may create stagnation and turmoil. How do we have desires from another in a way that serves us and frees us, rather than creates pain? How can expectations help us have more fruitful relationships? This is what we explore today including some practical methods to bring our desires into the light so in any relationship context. To offer a future topic, send a note here: http://www.oliviaclementine.com/contact/ ~ To explore Sessions and The Inbetween Course visit here: https://www.oliviaclementine.com/
Some of what Beth shares: her motivation for going into 3 year retreat, spiritual connection as the only source of solace, the usefulness of all of our experiences, wisdom wind, the benefits of collective retreat attunement, obstacles when exiting solitary retreat, using the world to enhance spiritual practice, compassion and devotion as markers of our practice, enlightenment as a journey, forgetting and remembering, buddhism + western psychology, laughter and a Great idea for a television producer ~
Today our guest is Tobin Zivon. Some of what he shares includes: qualities of an amazing lover for both men and women, beyond masculine and feminine, attracting a partner that is in alignment for you, maintaining playfulness and appreciation in long term partnership, when you may be trying to hard to make a relationship work, common obstacles in the intimate realm and moving from division to greater Love, Life. http://tobingiblin.com/
Sarah Drew is the author of Gaia Codex, a poet and mystic mythologist who catalyzes powerful blueprints for the future deeply rooted in the gnosis of the past. In today's episode some of what Sarah shares includes: the death involved in living a life of truth, the wisdom of learning to hold multiple aspects of self, metabolizing grief through the collective, returning home through sacred land, her dark night of the soul, deepening in the feminine through the Goddesses, honoring lineage, guidance on writing a book, and much more ~ To explore Sarah's work and read her incredible book Gaia Codex visit: https://www.gaiacodex.com/
In today's episode Olivia offers practical pathways, including a guided meditation, to help alleviate the suffering of those in our life and beyond. When we notice someone suffering, we want to do anything to help them return to well being. Sometimes the actions we take create further suffering, while other times we support the person we care for, as well as ourselves. In this episode, we mainly focus on the many ways we can relate with someone suffering to help them, and all we can learn from the wisdom that suffering reflects to us. ~ To send along future topics to be explored visit Olivia's website and share what you would like to hear about. Also you can sign up for the newsletter at the top of that page or follow Olivia through instragram ~ May this be of benefit ~
In this episode we have Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, a buddhist author and teacher who brings ancient teachings into a modern context without losing the depth or detail. Today we delve into dependent arising and her book: the Logic of Faith. Some of what Elizabeth shares includes: the natural joy of one's mind, relating to a complex world, how our lack of realness makes us free, becoming limitless and loving in a world we can't fix, realistic activism versus righteous activism, how justice has nothing to do with the nature of reality, and why everything we do matters, plus so much more.
Elizabeth : https://www.elizabethmattisnamgyel.com/ Logic of Faith: https://www.shambhala.com/the-logic-of-faith.html Training in Tenderness: https://www.shambhala.com/training-in-tenderness.html
In this episode we have Adriana Rizzolo, a yoga and meditation teacher, kirtan leader, and facilitator of healing circles and ceremonies.
Some of what she shares includes: what is bhakti and kirtan and her journey, the unconditional welcome of the spiritual path, unleashing your voice, finding love in the body, the healing force of dance especially with our skin exposed, fear of being bad and suppressing our emotions. She also sings and shares a mantra. Find Adriana here: http://artoflovingyou.com/ and on instagram: @artoflovingyou
In this episode we have Shems Heartwell, a relationship and life guide for individuals and couples. Shems offers a wealth of wisdom in this episode.
Including:
- what brought him into the field of relationship
- supporting our nervous system to remain in conscious connection
- what opens the door for intentional connection
- dissolving egoic barriers
- creating bridges between the mind, heart, body and subtle presence
- a simple practice to bring your body into balance and to allow stored emotions to surface
- the potential of strong emotion
- his work with men including the 3 pillars he explores with men
- Shems personal practice on preparing for marriage and a wedding
- subtle co-depedency, independency + intimacy
Shems Heartwell: https://shemsheartwell.com/
Olivia Clementine: https://www.oliviaclementine.com/
Arawana Hayashi has spent her life exploring the path of "making a true move" while being an active change agent in our the world. Invested in fresh thinking and collaboration, gentleness and fearlessness, she brings the world of embodiment, art and meditation into the realm of social change.
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Arawana's pioneering work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply sourced in collaborative improvisation. She currently heads the creation of Social Presencing Theater for the Presencing Institute. Bringing her background in the arts, meditation and social justice to creating “social presencing” that makes visible both current reality and emerging future possibilities.
Arawana is an acharya (senior teacher) in Shambhala – a global network of meditation centers dedicated to applying mindfulness to “creating enlightened society.” She teaches both meditation and art based on bringing out the basic goodness of individuals, of relationships and of society.
Arawana Hayashi website: https://arawanahayashi.com/
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