Empowered Connection Podcast

Slowing Down, The Benefits of Becoming Present with Ourselves + Our Loved Ones, & Deep Intimate Connection with Damodar Cordua

On this solo episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua speaks on the need to slow down in our lives and become more present with ourselves and our loved ones.  This is the real root He provides the listener with two practices that they can bring back into their own individual life and their relationship.

Key Topics Covered:

Relationship as a path of self-understanding and self growth

We need to do self work in order to be in best relationship with others

But, we also can’t just heal ourselves on our own and then expect a perfect relationship… we also heal ourselves IN relationship

The difficulty of slowing down & being present with ourselves in our current age

The need to slow down our body + nervous system through the lens of neurobiology, yoga, ayurveda & more

A guided meditation for slowing down and becoming present with ourselves as an individual

What happens when we slow down?  What are our physical sensations?  What are our thoughts and stories around slowing down?  What comes up for us?

Why our ability to be present with ourselves on a regular basis is the only way we will be able to be fully present with our loved ones

My personal story of how not finding presence & not slowing down became a real threat & liability to my own partnership’s health and connection

A guided exercise for becoming present with our loved ones in a beautiful way

Tuning into the nervous system of another through slowing down, breath, eye-gazing and touch as a powerful way to rebuild connection & intimacy

Being flexible, creative and adaptive as to how we can create various contexts to best slow down, become present, and connect to different loved ones in our life

Making these practices of presence, connection & slowing down a daily presence in our life and our relationship’s life

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Is it finally time to dedicate some time to explore + grow your own ability to connection better to yourself and your loved ones?  Are you ready to build better potential and integrity in your life and your relationships?

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Running as an Act of Devotion, Surrender, Healing & Processing Grief with Eddie Gieda

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode #14 with Eddie Gieda and Damodar Cordua

In one of the most powerful, heart-opening, and inspiring episodes to date, Damodar takes some time talking with vegan long distance runner Eddie Gieda - hearing his story of losing his life partner & most loved one in a sudden car accident.  

Eddie gives the listener an inspirational journey of survival and moving through grief… and powerful path to surrender, devotion and deep healing through the process and practice of long distance running.

An episode not to be missed, as we discuss very touching and transformational themes:

• The impact of sudden loss in our life 
• The grieving process 
• Long distance running as a practice of presence, healing, and spiritual connection
• Transformative moments of divine awakening amidst tragedy
• Intentional living and intentional grieving
• Messages + communication from those who have left us
• Long distance running in the sacred places of India
• Veganism

And so much more…

In memory of Amanda Medina

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Empowered Connection Podcast Episode 13: A Dynamic Way To Envision + Practice  Boundaries that Empower Our Lives with Damodar Cordua

Do you have a difficulty envisioning, creating, and sticking to boundaries that bring you deeper into your integrity + empowerment?

Are you looking for a framework to allow healthy boundary-making to become a practice - one that can adapt to the changes of life, yet continually bring you back to center?

Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua for this solo podcast episode and open up to a process that will help you successfully start your journey into cultivating better boundaries.

Using an analogy from the Bhakti Yoga spiritual tradition, Damodar gives the listeners an inspiring metaphor and a practical strategy within which to begin their boundary practice.  

- one that is dynamic, able to adapt to the vicissitudes of life and - at the same time -one that is about continual refinement and a continual re-centering of us back into our essence.. back into our integrity 

Integrity in our life, in our relationships, in our love, in our purpose, in our health,  in our spirituality, and more

With this inspiring episode, Damodar outlines a powerful practice of becoming a boundary bad-ass that will help you learn to live more in-touch with your true self - in all areas of your life!

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Tattooing as a Spiritual Practice with Mike Gary

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode #12  with Mike Gary and Damodar Cordua

In this fascinating interview with talented tattooer Mike Gary, we dive deep into these subjects:

- Having spiritual experiences & lessons outside of the perimeters of organized religion

- Spiritually transformative experience of witnessing death in an intimate way

- Presence of dead ones in our life after their death

- The Akashic Records

- Self-growth journey of: needing to be comfortable & secure and at the same time pushing our edges of comfortability - the practice of becoming comfortable in our uncomfortability

- Tattooing as a practice of compassion, presence,  and positive boundaries of holding space for others and one's self

- Getting tattooed & giving tattoos as a space of real vulnerability... & real vulnerability being the space within with we are truly alive and connected to ourselves and others

- Tattooing as a metaphor for being in a relationship with others

- Getting tattooed as a rite of passage in our modern world

- Meeting people where they are at, instead of meeting people where you are at

And much more...

Find out more about Mike's beautiful tattooing and artwork here:

https://truehandsociety.com/tattoo

Instagram: @mike_gary

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Have you ever felt like you had to “hide” who you are in order to be accepted by others?  By family, friends, communities?

Have you developed patterns in life based on this self betrayal?  Ones that you may still be stuck in to this very day?

In this solo podcast Damodar talks about one of the core human splits: our need to connect & be accepted and our need for self expression and authenticity

During times in our journey, many of us experience self-betrayal - hiding parts of our true self - in order to be accepted by our family of origin, a partner, a community, or even a country.

We may do this for love - we may do this, frankly, to survive.

But, if we never reckon with that part of us we betrayed - or are still betraying - we will maintain a low ceiling on our potential… 

and we will repeat those same patterns of betrayal in our relationships and in our communities.

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Conscious Parenting, Conscious Communication + Empowerment with Kelly Whitaker

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode #8 with Kelly Whitaker & Damodar Cordua

- How do we empower our children, see and reveal their greatness?

- How do we create conscious communication habits with our kids?  And with the world?

- How do we heal our own childhood hurt via our role as parents?

- What are our unique gifts to this world?

In this episode Damodar talks with Conscious Parenting Coach + Women’s Empowerment Coach Kelly Whitaker 

In this inspiring episode for both parents and the rest of us we cover these topics + more:

• The power and healing that being in nature has over our nervous system and our children’s nervous system

• What is conscious coaching for parents + children?

• Parenting as a practice 

• Using the energy of anger & other emotions instead of letting them use you

• Seeing a child in their greatness 

• Allowing for the messiness of the human experience  but the powerful resource of learning to repair and clean up that messiness in the moment 

• Children’s brain function VS the adult brain function

• Learning how we were parented in order to heal ourselves... and potentially heal how we deal with our children… to not pass down our trauma… and to empower the next generation

• Our children choose us

• Tapping into kid’s curiosity & potential through simple, powerful practices 

• The transformative conscious partnering practice of asking our children: “honor what I ask” 

• Fighting imposter syndrome & Becoming empowered to share our own gifts on our own terms  & being in service to yourself by being of service to the world 

• Women’s circle, Men’s circles & “circling “ work

• When we are heard, we show up in our greatness 

Learn more about Kelly's inspiring work with parents, children and women and all her healing offerings  HERE

Empower your own ability to connect with yourself, with others, with your highest potential, and with something greater...  Transform your life and your relationships.  Schedule a FREE  relationship coaching or life coaching session with Damodar HERE

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Three Things You Can Do As An Individual To Create More Success, Resilience, & Awareness in Your Relationships with Damodar Cordua - Empowered Connection Podcast Episode #9

⁃Are you an individual and looking to work on your ability in relationships - especially primary partnerships?

⁃Are you single & ready to take on some transformative practices that can give you much better mastery - & ultimately, success - over how you do relationships?

⁃Do you continue to keep getting stuck in confusing, negative or disempowered patterns with your partner or partners over the years?

Then  join Damodar in this solo podcast as he shares three perspectives that will help individuals improve their relational awareness, capacity, health & wellness now & far into the future !


AND, if you are an INDIVIDUAL looking to go even DEEPER into these transformative strategies, tools & perspectives reach out for your FREE coaching discovery session with Damodar

If you are a COUPLE looking to learn + practice tools that will empower the potential of your partnership, join him for his live, in real-time (& recorded) online workshop EMPOWERED PARTNERSHIPS. Use the code EMPOWEREDCONNECTION at checkout & receive 20% off !

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode #8:

Catholic All Boys School, Punk Rock, Psychedelics, Spiritual Awakenings, & Bhakti Yoga: Soul Journeying with Liam Wilson

This episode is like a origin story, a little biopic of two old friends on the path of seeking...

In this podcast Damodar talks with one of his oldest, long-standing friends, Liam Wilson.  Liam is a musician and is most well-known known for his work as the bass player for the now defunct progressive metal band The Dillinger Escape Plan, as well as for his writing and performances with his current projects Azusa and John Frum. As a long-standing proponent of yoga and meditation, Liam believes these are essential parts of his lifestyle and creative process. 

Some of the great topics covered in this episode:

- Soul journeying: what it means to have someone on the path of seeking weave in and out of your life for decades, as an inspiration to your spirituality, self-growth & empowerment

- Growing up going to Jesuit Catholic All Boy School and what it gave spiritually, morally and relationally… and what was rebelled against

- Being a "Man for Others" through the idea of a life dedicated to service through the Jesuit order and Bhakti Yoga

- The pros of being an outsider & anti-authoritarian  in a variety of ways, Liam shares some of his own person story growing up, including being part of the lesbian community in the 1980s

- Spiritual seeds planted while growing up in religious community/school and the possible need for a new context for those spiritual seeds to fully take root and grow

- It's “Punk to be a priest!”

- Teen-age and young adult rebellion through punk rock, art, music, and counter-culture… to explore and help ask the bigger questions

- Psychedelics in our contemporary experience as a gateway or peek into sincere spiritual awakening & experience

- The logic of atheism in the face of mind-blowing moments of spiritual awakening

- The Eastern practices of yoga, meditation, and Bhakti as paths & lifestyles to stay on the course of spiritual awakening in a grounded, real day-to-day way

- A God that is right with us, right by our side, not against us: relationship with the divine that is loving - that is “flirty” - rather than repressive or judgmental

- Are science & religion at odds or complementary paradigms?

- Spirituality: a way of life that promotes wonder, mystery, humility and awe

And much more...

Learn more about Liam, his offerings and music projects here:

IG -  @Liam_Wilson
Twitter -  @LiamWilson

https://linktr.ee/Liam_Wilson

Azusa

John Frum

The Dillinger Escape Plan

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On this solo podcast I dive into the realm of relationships...

highlighting how relationships are actually a mirror into our own self-healing & self-growth... 

And highlighting the transformative  relationship practice of listening until our loved ones feel fully heard, fully felt, and fully understood.

Are you ready to see that reflection?
Are you ready to find you own self-growth & empowerment through what you see?
Are you able to listen fully to your loved ones and notice what that process nurtures & empowers in yourself, the other, and your relationship?

On this episode we cover:

• Relationships as a mirror reflecting our own hurt, trauma, and the places we are being called forward to grow, heal and become empowered
• Even if we change our relationship, the same mirror will pop up, still reflecting what we need to see and where we need to heal + grow 
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• The powerful practice of listening to others until they feel held, heard, loved - until they feel fully understood
• Listening deeply in such a way can beautifully change a person’s - and a relationship’s - trajectory
• Resisting the urge to fix someone, react to what your are hearing, push away what you are hearing, hide it, distance from it or distract it
• Postponing your own agenda to be fully present for another person, even for one moment
• Breaking down the negative patterns of assuming how are partner will always be and placing them in a box of our preconceived notions 
• "Always" & "Never" as red flags
• Diving deeper into the mystery and unlimited potential of our loved ones 
• What such a powerful listening practice creates in ourselves, our loved one, and our relationship 
• Deep listening as a spiritual practice 

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How can we expand our nervous system’s capacity?  

How can we create more space in our body and therefore in our emotional & relational self?  

What is trauma?

How does all this relate to our spiritual life?

What is a way we spiritually bypass?

In this wonderful, illuminating episode host Damodar talks with Somatic Experiencing practitioner Samantha Jo of the Puja Collective and covers these engaging topics of nervous system regulation, trauma, self healing, relationship capacity, empowerment and spiritual growth: 

• When something actually feels good, how do you know?

•  What is “trauma”?  How it is defined, & how it is experienced

• How animals process trauma VS how we process trauma 

• How many response options do you have currently within your life?

• Shifting our nervous system’s pattern and the ideas of polyvagal theory

• We are wired for connection - “co-regulation” and relationship potential

• Boundaries and the health of the nervous system

• Taking our healing journey step by step, day by day, celebrating the small victories

• Having more spaciousness within the home of our own self

• Spiritual bypassing 

• PLUS: Samantha Jo leads the listener through a short Somatic Experiencing session!

Learn more about Samantha Jo’s and the Puja Collective’s work here

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