Empowered Connection Podcast

Themes: Shame, Guilt, Self Compassion, Self Empowerment, Self Love, Self Awareness, Self Exploration

What exactly is "shame" and how does it differ from "guilt?"
How do I move through shame and not become disempowered by it?
How does guilt help me grow and when does it hinder my self growth?

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua explores and explains the key differences in our emotional experience of shame VERSUS guilt.

This exploration is key in our ability to understand the patterns behind our feelings and thinking that might be keeping us stuck.

Most of us aren't able to discern between these two emotional states.  Listen to today's episode and not only learn how to do so, but also learn how to use your awareness to empower your life and your relationships... and act with more love, acceptance, empowerment and self compassion towards yourself & others...

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UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA !! For Philadelphia area yogis & seekers looking to dive deep into their yoga, this is a transformative journey of Self & connection in inspiring community

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Themes: Healing, Spirituality, Spiritual Bypassing, Shame, Self Empowerment, Shadow Work, Self Growth, Guilt 

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Daniel Cordua rounds out the last month's themes of spirituality, self empowerment, spiritual bypassing, and religious trauma with a talk on the tension between being inherently already whole and taking on a practices to make one whole.

There is a sigh of self compassionate relief in the profound spiritual understanding that we don't need to" fix "ourselves, but are already whole.

And it begs the classic question: if we are already love and loved, why must we take on paths, ideas, communities, or practices that prove or find that we are?

This irony is both beautiful and dangerous.

It shows that we are not better or worse than anyone, for we are all equal on a fundamental level of the Self (the beautiful)... yet that same understanding is leveraged by others to have power over others - or us to have shame towards ourselves - by stating you must "earn" that wholeness and equality by being part of a group, guru, or specific path (the dangerous or ugly) and proving your worth.

In this episode Daniel explores the beautiful sides of this paradox and the shadow sides, allowing the listener to have more empowered awareness of their own self and their self growth and/or spiritual practices and longings.  

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UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA !! For Philadelphia area yogis & seekers looking to dive deep into their yoga, this is a transformative journey of Self & connection in inspiring community

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Themes: Spirituality, Yoga, Religion, Psychology, Social Activism, Personal Empowerment, Religious Trauma, Karma, Connection

Attention yoga teachers, yoga students, spiritual enthusiasts, those wounded by religious experience and those would like to reconceptualize their relationship with god, and fans of human psychology, spiritual leadership and activism:

Hari-kirtana das is an author, yoga teacher, and mentor who guides people on journeys of self-discovery, spiritual reconstruction, and personal transformation. He's been practicing various forms of yoga and meditation for more than 40 years, has lived in yoga ashrams and intentional communities, worked for Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley start-ups, and brings a wide range of spiritual knowledge and life experience to his books, talks, workshops, and courses.

His talent for making complex ideas easy to understand, keen sense of humor, enthusiasm for meaningful dialogue, and passion for critical thinking have made him a sought-after yoga teacher training instructor and public speaker. Hari's articles and essays about the enduring relevance of yoga's ancient wisdom appear in various forums and journals. His latest book is called Journey Into the Bhagavad Gita: A Guide to Exploring Timeless Principles of Transcendental Knowledge and Integrating Them Into Your Life.

In this inspiring podcast Hari Kirtana & podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua cover these personally empowering & spiritually inspiring topics:

- Why The Bhagavad Gita?  What is so important about this spiritual text?
- How The Bhagavad Gita can help us reclaim our spirituality after religious trauma or abuse
- A fresh conception of “God” and our relationship to Spirit
- How to be an eternal being while having a temporary human experience
- Understanding the law of karma & transmigration of soul
- The 4 primary metaphysical principles of The Bhagavad Gita
- What is “dharma” from the yoga perspective?
- Who is the Bhagavad Gita for?

And so much more!

Buy Journey into the Bhagavad Gita

Learn more about Hari Kirtana and find him on Instagram and Youtube

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

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Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA !! For Philadelphia area yogis & seekers looking to dive deep into their yoga, this is a transformative journey of Self & connection in inspiring community
 
Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Themes: Religious Trauma, Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality, Religion, Trauma, Healing, Relationships, Self Empowerment, Inner Wisdom, Patriarchy,

Kayla Felten, MSW, LICSW  has been an advocate for religious trauma and spiritual abuse survivors throughout her career, as the co-founder of the Reclamation Collective and as a Psychedelic Therapist in her clinical work.  Kayla has been able to support those in the process of reclaiming their inner peace, relational harmony, autonomy, pleasure, and authentic self.  She was initially invited to facilitate support groups for survivors of spiritual abuse due to abuses of power taking place in plant medicine and yogi contexts within Minnesota. This experience helped expand her understanding of spiritual abuse both within and outside of religious contexts, and has allowed her to become a voice of advocacy within the psychedelic and therapeutic communities she shows up in.

Through years experience facilitating support groups, integration circles, retreats, and teaching workshops for folks navigating themes of religious trauma, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, and reclamation through the Reclamation Collective, Kayla aspires to curate expanded offerings for survivors on their healing trajectories that prioritize personal autonomy and pursue radical authenticity.

This is powerful conversation between Kayla & host Daniel Cordua - an important listen for those who have felt religious trauma in their lives, who are part of spiritual and/or religious communities and/or take on teachers from those circles, who are leaders in those communities, or who have experience spiritual abuse.

We talk about:
- What is trauma?  How do we know we are experiencing it?
- What exactly is religious trauma?  How do we experience it?
- Kayla’s own experience experiencing and then navigating her religious trauma
- Gaining distance, perspective, clarity and a life-giving deconstruction of our religious experiences
- Religious trauma for women, trans-communities, queer folk, and all gender identifications
- What is spiritual abuse?  How do we experience - and/or perpetrate it consciously and unconsciously
- Power dynamics in religious communities, spiritual communities, healing spaces, therapy, and plant medicine circles
- The amazing “Spiritual Power Inventory” tool that I think all religious, spiritual, & healing communities, members and leaders should employ
and much more!

Connect with Kayla & the Reclamation Collective: reclamationcollective.com

Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

SUMMER SALE ! Get 25% OFF by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Themes: Conscious Communication, Conflict, Relationship Tips, Self Regulation, Emotional Intelligence,  Compassion, Relationship Problems

- Looking to empower your relationships?
- Looking to connect more deeply and compassionately to others?
- Ready to do conflict with more success, potential, and growth?
- Tired of compromising both yourself and your relationships to others?

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection host & relationship coach Daniel Cordua explores some key roadblocks in our ability to consciously connect and communicate with others.

Noticing these roadblocks - and then moving through them - within our own life and relationships will improve the quality of our connection and communication with others.

Listen to this podcast episode and learn how!

Other helpful episodes to listen to in relation to this theme:
#119
#118
#107
#99

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

SUMMER SALE ! Get 25% OFF by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA

*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA
*Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024


Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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EMPOWERED CONNECTION

Themes: Spirituality, Self Empowerment, Spiritual Abuse, Spiritual Bypassing, Spiritual Connection, Religious Trauma, Spiritual Community, Healing Journey, Yoga

If you are interested in healing, self empowerment, spiritual paths, and spiritual connection, this episode is a must listen!

In this solo podcast episode, Daniel Damodar Cordua brings the listener into important reflections he gained spending many years in yoga, spiritual paths and various spiritual communities.

Expressing both the deep, profound benefits AND the possible drawbacks and disempowering snares of spiritual paths + communities, Daniel paints a more comprehensive portrait of what it means to be "spiritual."

This guidance and these reflections will help the listener inspire their own journey of healing + connection in healthy, safe, conscious, and integrated ways.

Listen now to:
- leverage your life through the inspiration of spirituality
- become more conscious of spiritual + religious trauma
- learn of the importance of like-minded communities of healing & connection
- save yourself from falling into abusive patterns found in spiritual communities & spiritual hierarchies
- become well-rounded, both open-hearted and discerning your own internal compass,  in your awareness of spiritual paths
- create better boundaries in your healing and buy-in into spiritual teachers and teachings

Important related episodes mentioned in the podcast:
#94 Narcissism, Spiritual Perspectives on Narcissism, & Narcissism in Spiritual + Healing Communities with Chaitanya Lila Pankhania
#62 Navigating Spiritual Abuse & Religious Trauma with Kayla Felten
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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
Get 10% OFF by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA

*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA
*Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024


Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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EMPOWERED CONNECTION

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Couples, Conflict, Triggers, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence,  Connection, Self Regulation, Co-regulation, Healthy Relationships, Love

In this solo episode - part 2 of a series on navigating conflict in relationship - Damodar focuses on how we can be with & navigate another's triggers when in conflict...  AND throughout other moments of our relational life with others.

An important episode full of practical, transformative & helpful perspectives and tools that will bring you to a better place in successfully managing another person's triggered state and emotional intensity - not only when in conflict with your loved ones, but during lots of life's other relational situations.

Damodar specifically presents FIVE STEPS to drastically improve your ability to “be with," sooth, and find connection when present with another's triggered state... that will help you improve your relationship's success, rather than damage it.

This is a special rerelease of podcast #52  which is part of our series on navigating conflict in our relationships with more potential, success, and connection.

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
Get 10% OFF by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA
*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA
*Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024
Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic healing product line Bhava Wellness

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness

EMPOWERED CONNECTION

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Couples, Conflict, Triggers, Self Regulation, Healthy Relationships, Love, Emotional Intelligence,

In this solo podcast episode, Damodar dives into part one of a two part (or possibly 3 part!) series on conflict in our relationships.  Difficulty navigating conflict can be one of the major roadblocks in the health & connection within our relationships.

But, where do we start?  First, we start with our own selves.

In this episode, part 1, Damodar focuses on how we can be with & navigate our own triggers when in conflict both externally with another and internally within our own selves.

An important episode full of practical, transformative & helpful perspectives and tools that will bring you to a better place in successfully navigating getting triggered when in conflict with your loved ones.  Damodar specifically presents two great, simple & actionable strategies to drastically improve your ability to “be with” and gain more information from your triggers to improve your relationships success, rather than damage it.

This is a special rerelease of podcast #50 which is part of our series on navigating conflict in our relationships with more potential, success, and connection.

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
Get 10% OFF by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA
*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA
*Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024
Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic healing product line Bhava Wellness

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness

EMPOWERED CONNECTION

Themes: Self Empowerment, Leadership, Pivoting, Mentorship, Yoga, Consciousness, Abundance, Manifestation

Marissa  Rose Nash fell in love with the practices of self-discovery & yoga 11 years ago after taking one yoga class in college. She’s since completed two 200 hour yoga teacher trainings, her 300 hour YTT in Yoga Psychology with Ashley Turner, has studied Jon Kabat Zinn’s mindfulness based stress reduction meditation program, and completed a masters in organizational leadership and executive coaching.

She’s been a certified holistic life coach for 7 years and is being privately mentored under world renowned yoga teacher,  Elena Brower. In 2023 she completed a 60 hour meditation course with global Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Kia Miller.

Marissa has taught over 3,000 hours of yoga, led 11 yoga teacher trainings, traveled and led 3 international retreats, and taught yoga for the Eagles football in 2022. She currently lives in New Mexico and is the founder of The Well Studio, where students tap into their own wellbeing, self-discovery, and body/mind wisdom on their yoga mats in both Philadelphia & New Mexico.

Classes with Marissa are tantric in essence, weaving all layers of being into an experience of self-knowing that will rejuvenate you, awaken you, empower you, & remind you of who you truly are.

In this episode host Daniel Damodar Cordua talks with Marissa on these inspiring topics:

• The need for intimate, sacred healing spaces
• Navigating life pivots with bravery, resource and empowerment 
• Learning to do own our dharma, even as it changes
• The universe’s tendency to reciprocate with our desire
• Mentorship as crucial in our own personal & occupational growth & service to the world
• Why consciously being present in liminal spaces is so important and so generative
• The practice of “doing nothing” as expansion
• Conscious leadership
• Yoga teachers as the world’s new leaders

And so much more

Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session -  for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
Get 10% OFF by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

IG - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:
June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA 
*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA
*Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024
Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic healing product line Bhava Wellness

EMPOWERED CONNECTION

Themes: Relationship Problems, Conflict, Intimacy, Partnership, How to Improve Your Relationships, Love, Marriage, Healthy Relationships, Conscious Partners

Are you looking to do conflict better in your most important relationships?

Is the cycle of conflict, rupture, and fights creating too much stress in your partnership?

Do you have a hard time navigating rupture or disconnect with your most loved ones?

Are you ready to create a more connected, loving partnership or other relationship?

Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua for this special, shorter, solo podcast on the first and most important step in doing conflict more successfully in your relationships: REPAIR.

What is repair?  How do we do it and why is it the most important first step in navigating conflict more successfully and empowering our relationships?

Join Daniel for this solo podcast episode and learn more...

Learn more about RESOLVING CONFLICT in your most important relationships via Empowered Connection Podcast episodes #52, #50, and #28
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Bring the lessons of our episodes into your unique journey!  

Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
AND  Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Find Daily Relationship & Self Growth Tools + Tips on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:

June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA  - more info coming soon!  Mark your calendars

Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA

Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024 
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Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness

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