The Awareness Podcast

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati was born in the USA and her spiritual journey took her to India, where she has lived for many years in the Parmarth Niketan Ashram ashram.In this edition of the Awareness Podcast, Bill Free chats to Sadhviji about her recently published memoir, Hollywood to the Himalayas: A Journey of Healing and Transformation.Sadhviji speaks about her very conventional American life that was turned upside down by a vacation to India when she was 25 years old and in the middle of a PhD at Stanford.It was there that she met her guru, HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji and her life changed forever.For more on Sadhviji, visit her website: https://sadhviji.org/Support the showDid you take Lisa Natoli's 40 Day Program for Transformation? Then you won't want to miss Center for Awakening's new free program: The 40 Day Everyday. Over the course of 7 Days you will learn how to use some of the teachings from A Course in Miracles to give you a new way to interact with your day to day life. Sign up here: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/the-40-day-everyday Find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/podcastLearn more about Center for Awakening (formerly known as The Teachers of God Foundation) at: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/ Original music by Omashar

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Susan Telford sat down with Heena Vasani to discuss Heena’s life and work using Dr Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry.Heena had a kidney transplant 27 years ago, a topic she discussed with Jenny Beal here: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/blog/episode87In this conversation with Susan, Heena shared how she almost refused the transplant,because of a deep seated sense of unworthiness.In finally accepting the donated kidney as a priceless gift, only made possible the deathof another young woman she never met, Heena stepped onto a path of nurturingherself on all levels.Heena talks about divine motherhood and how motherhood became her primary spiritual path and led her to examine all her previously undigested childhood trauma and the effects such trauma has on the body and mind.Heena also speaks passionately about her work using Compassionate Inquiry and describes what happens in a session.Finally, Heena describes the 4-part workshop she is facilitating for Center forAwakening in May, entitled Self Inquiry: A Meditative Approach. For full details of this series of live workshops with Heena and to register, visit:https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/heena-vasaniSupport the showDid you take Lisa Natoli's 40 Day Program for Transformation? Then you won't want to miss Center for Awakening's new free program: The 40 Day Everyday. Over the course of 7 Days you will learn how to use some of the teachings from A Course in Miracles to give you a new way to interact with your day to day life. Sign up here: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/the-40-day-everyday Find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/podcastLearn more about Center for Awakening (formerly known as The Teachers of God Foundation) at: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/ Original music by Omashar

In this new episode of The Awareness Podcast, Susan Telford sits down with award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Awaken the World Initiative, Daniel Schmidt to discuss spiritual awakening. Learn about what Dan describes as a "pattern interrupt" and how that has played out in his own life.Susan and Dan discuss what is meant by the term "spiritual ego" and how effort on the spiritual path can take us further from the Truth of who we are. Dan speaks eloquently about the importance of what he calls "the conditions of  no escape" and "the surrender paradox".Dan also describes what he will be teaching in his 4 part series, Letting Stillness Reveal Itself, exclusively available in Center for Awakening's Evolve Community in March. To learn more and to register for Dan's classes, visit: https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/daniel-schmidtABOUT DANDaniel is the creator of the award winning film “Inner Worlds Outer Worlds” the “Samadhi” film series and is also one of the creators and speakers in the Awakening Mind series. It is Daniel’s intention to convey the one perennial teaching that is inherent within all of the spiritual traditions. Daniel created the Samadhi Center in Ontario Canada and the Awaken the World Initiative as an outer reflection of his inner world. His approach combines self-inquiry with traditional forms of meditation so that participants have the opportunity to simultaneously realize their transcendent nature, and to purify themselves of conditioned patterns so that the human vessel becomes permeable to their true nature. Daniel emphasizes that Samadhi can be experienced not merely as a temporary “state” but as a “stage” of development. Check out this interview with Daniel from the Awakening Mind film.The “pathless path” is to realize an ever-deepening development process within the self-structure, and to simultaneously realize the emptiness of the self-structure. When these are realized as one, it is Samadhi.Support the showDid you take Lisa Natoli's 40 Day Program for Transformation? Then you won't want to miss Center for Awakening's new free program: The 40 Day Everyday. Over the course of 7 Days you will learn how to use some of the teachings from A Course in Miracles to give you a new way to interact with your day to day life. Sign up here: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/the-40-day-everyday Find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/podcastLearn more about Center for Awakening (formerly known as The Teachers of God Foundation) at: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/ Original music by Omashar

In this final episode of Living an Awakened Life, Susan Telford sits down with Angelo DiLullo to discuss:What is really meant by “awakening”.The importance of shadow work How to tell if you have made spiritual awakening into a hobbyWhy it is important to have a teacher The practical way to approach teachings such as there is no choice and there is no doer. The meeting of the relative and the absolute that occurs in deep stage realizationAngelo also describes the 4 classes he will be teaching for the Journey of Awakening Teaching Series in January, entitled The Four Major Movements on the Awakening Journey. These classes will point out the pitfalls along the way as well as the important insights at each stage of awakening. To learn more and to join Angelo live for his 4-Part series exclusively in our Evolve Community  CLICK HERE Support the showDid you take Lisa Natoli's 40 Day Program for Transformation? Then you won't want to miss Center for Awakening's new free program: The 40 Day Everyday. Over the course of 7 Days you will learn how to use some of the teachings from A Course in Miracles to give you a new way to interact with your day to day life. Sign up here: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/the-40-day-everyday Find every episode of The Awareness Podcast at: https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/podcastLearn more about Center for Awakening (formerly known as The Teachers of God Foundation) at: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/ Original music by Omashar