Empowered Connection Podcast

Themes:  Relationship Goals, Self Empowerment, Life Goals, Roadblocks, Do the Work, Positive Change, Human Potential, Self Transformation

We listen to the podcast, we read the book or go to the class or retreat or ceremony, but we STILL feel stuck in our lives, in our limiting beliefs + patterns, and in our relationships.

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua explores one of the major roadblocks in our ability to move through the stuck areas in our self that are limiting our lives + relationships.

Through a powerful perspective and a call to action, Damodar encourages - and hopefully inspires - the listener to push forward with empowerment and radical self accountability in this episode!

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Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your FREE Discovery Session - and start your 2023 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

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Emotional Awareness + Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia on April 29th, 2023 AND more at Palo Santo Yoga 

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Follow Damodar on Instagram (and, gulp, TickTok) for Daily Self Growth & Relationship Tips + Tools:
@empoweredconnection.me

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Themes: Plant Medicine, Psychedelics, Neurodivergence, Community Activism, Healing, Self Regulation, Empowerment, Spirituality, Indigenous Peoples, Psychology

Colette Condorcita is a Transformational Coach, Psychedelic Facilitator, Activist,  Entrepreneur, Integrative Hypnotist, Psychedelic Consultant, and Regenerative Designer. She describes to her clients and in interviews that her brain “works like how psychedelics do” and considers herself neurodivergent, having what she calls a shamanic neurotype. Colette does not identify as a shaman as she was not born into a traditional shamanic culture, but she neurologically and psychologically identifies with the ways shaman’s and traditional healers’ nervous systems function.

This brought her to work with the traditional ayahuasca cultures, where she had her first experiences with ayahuasca thirteen years ago. Colette finally felt the confirmation of her own neurological experience and framework after these experiences, directly connecting with traditional curanderos and shamanic entheogenic medicines.

Colette is the founder and the Board Chair of Decriminalize Nature Philadelphia, a registered 501-C4 working to decriminalize entheogens in Philadelphia by passing a resolution at the city level. She works at the premier 5-MeO-DMT retreat center as a guest facilitator, Tandava Retreat Center, and supports retreat clients with psychedelic integration work. Colette is currently a consultant on psychedelic education, safety, and Indigenous advocacy for two different psychedelic startups.

In this fascinating podcast, Damodar & Colette talk about:
- Why decriminalizing of, & grass roots community advocacy for, entheogenic (psychedelic) plants is so important 
- Having a "Shamanic Neurotype" and it's connection to Neurodivergence
- How to best undertake a plant medicine journey as an individual 
- Honoring & understanding the traditional use of plant ceremony and spirituality
- Eagle + Condor Prophecty: Bridging western ideas of medicine + healing (the "eagle") with the global south's indigenous traditions of plant ceremony (the "condor")
- Collette's own transformational and inspiring journey
and much more!

Connect with Colette:
www.condormedicine.com
Philly Ayahuasca Church
Decriminalize Nature Philadelphia

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Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your FREE Discovery Sessionand start springtime of 2023 with journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore the tools & practices that will illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

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Themes: Repair, Apology, Relationships, Validation, Empathy, Conflict, Forgiveness,  Self Empowerment, Self Accountability, Connection

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua breaks down our common use - and abuse - of "the apology" in our relationships... and gives an empowering reframe that will bring your self awareness, self accountability, self growth, and relationships to the next level when repairing with + apologizing to others.

A great podcast for those who want to learn how to navigate conflict better, create deeper self accountability + better repair & connection with ourselves and our loved ones, and grow self worth and self empowerment in their lives.

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Follow Damodar on Instagram for Daily Self Growth & Relationship Tips + Tools:
@empoweredconnection.me


Upcoming workshops with Damodar in-person, in Philadelphia, including Emotional Awareness + Conscious Communication Immersion

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Attention Yoga Teachers in the Philadelphia/NJ/Delaware areas:
Empower & Uplevel your yoga teaching with this special
50 hr Advance Your Teaching Training at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia

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AND: Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your FREE Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 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

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. 

With many 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 episode and conversation between Kayla & Empowered Connection host Damodar Cordua - important 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, this is a needed listen.

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 here:
https://www.reclamationcollective.com/
Upcoming Events:
Reclamation 101 Workshop: https://www.reclamationcollective.com/reclamation-101
Spiritual Abuse Recognition & Recovery Workshop: https://www.reclamationcollective.com/spiritual-abuse-recognition-and-recovery
and much more...

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Upcoming workshops with Damodar in-person, in Philadelphia, including Emotional Awareness + Conscious Communication Immersion

AND: Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your FREE Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

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Themes: Somatic Meditation, Empowerment, Breathwork, Clarity, Self Awareness, Self Love, Connection, Self Regulation, Authentic Self, Integrity, Relationships

In this solo episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua leads listeners through a beautiful meditation that combines somatics, breathwork, and self-reflection in order to see, hear, hold + validate the truth of our present moment.

When our nervous system is strained and tightened, we will inevitability default to the strategies that steer us away from "what is..." strategies rooted in the past or overly desirous of the future.  During these moments, we often become maladaptive, push down our truth, and our work, our integrity, our relationships to others, and our relationship to our own self suffers. 

In this meditation, find a simple, practical & potent reset amidst the busyness of life in order to move into more spaciousness of the body, nervous system and mind.  This spaciousness allows the truth of our most present self to rise to the surface of our awareness.  And a self reflection exercise then allows that truth to be integrated into our life in meaningful & needed ways.

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Upcoming workshops with Damodar in-person, in Philadelphia, including Emotional Awareness + Conscious Communication Immersion

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Attention Yoga Teachers in the Philadelphia/NJ/Delaware areas:
Empower & Uplevel your yoga teaching with this special
50 hr Advance Your Teaching Training at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia

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AND: Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your FREE Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 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

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


Sponsored by wellness apothecary and all natural healing products for the body, mind & spirt  Bhava Wellness

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Themes: Astrology, Relationships, Self Awareness, Partnership, Love, Dating, Spirituality, Yoga, Jyotish, Ayurveda

Christine Rodriguez is a Vedic Astrologer, coach, and host of the Astrology Now Podcast.  She has been studying Jyotish, or Vedic Astrology, for over 10 years.  Her mission is to combine coaching, Vedic astrology, and other Vedantic studies to support others in living in alignment with their personal constitution, karmic makeup, astrological imprint - and how to use this information to their advantage, creating a life of meaning and purpose.

Christine believes that relationships and intimacy act as powerful mirrors for personal development and our partners can be some of our greatest teachers. She views relationships as sacred… and also really, fascinating & challenging!  She combines personal inquiry, self-discovery, and Vedic Astrology to work with couples & individuals in relationship.

Christine’s background also includes an undergraduate & graduate degrees in Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin.

In this fascinating podcast episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua talks with guest Christine Rodriguez about the intersection of vedic astrology, love, relationships, dating, self growth, spirituality and more - including these topics:

- What is Vedic Astrology?
- Learning more about our karmic blueprints & how they can help us be & become ourselves in the fullest way
- Using birth charts to understand more about ourselves & our partner
- How Vedic Astrology give us powerful resources & perspectives for navigating relationship with clarity, awareness + potential
- Greater tools for dating & new relationships
- Karmic perspectives that can empower how we traverse the seasons of our life both individually & when in relationship with others
- Employing our karmic blueprints to help us surrender into our spiritual path, as opposed to trying to over-control our lives
 
Connect with Christine here
Christine's upcoming Vedic Astrology Foundational Course
Mentioned in the episode, Astrology Now podcast on the difference between Western & Eastern Astrology

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Upcoming workshops with Damodar in-person, in Philadelphia, including Emotional Awareness + Conscious Communication Immersion
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Attention Yoga Teachers in the Philadelphia/NJ/Delaware areas:
Empower & Uplevel your yoga teaching with this special
50 hr Advance Your Teaching Training at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia

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AND: Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your Free Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 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

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


Sponsored by wellness apothecary and all natural healing products for the body, mind & spirt  Bhava Wellness
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Themes: Grief, Loss, Love, Meaning, Healing, Self Love, Self Empowerment, Emotional Intelligence, Conscious Communication

In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua brings a deeper awareness into navigating loss in our life.  If we are in a human body, we will experience loss.  If we love, we experience loss.  If we live, we experience loss. This loss is not limited to losing a loved one because of death, but includes losing a relationship due to breakup or divorce, losing a pet, losing a job, losing a home, losing at time in our life, losing a physical ability, and/or losing a dream.

Damodar presents the key aspects of grief, the process and practice of grief, the stages of grief and empowering tools for navigating grief - such as finding meaning - this podcast gifts the listener tools + perspectives in traversing loss.

If you or a loved one are navigating love, loss, and grief now, in the past or in the future, this will be a powerful and helpful episode for you.

For more on grief, check out episodes #14 and #36 of the Empowered Connection podcast

Referenced on this episode: works of David Kessler & Elisabeth Kubler Ross

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Connect with podcast host Damodar for his upcoming online immersion starting March 19th!

Do you desire supportive community & relationships that are aligned with your path of self growth, healing, emotional intelligence, relationship work, and empowerment?

Would you like to continually learn, & bring into the weave & weft of your life, the tools, practices, ideas, coaching, relationships & self work that can transform your life and your relationships?

Empowered Connection Monthly Group Coaching 6 Month Immersion - one Sunday a month starting March 19th, 4:30pm PST via Zoom - empower your life & your relationships with this special online community and coaching experience!

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Attention Yoga Teachers in the Philadelphia/NJ/Delaware areas:
Empower & Uplevel your yoga teaching with this special
50 hr Advance Your Teaching Training at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia 

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And: Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your Free Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 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

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


Sponsored by wellness apothecary and all natural healing products for the body, mind & spirt  Bhava Wellness

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Themes: Masculinity, Manhood, Relationships,  Somatic Therapy,  Partnership, Community, Family, Love, Divine Masculine, Divine Feminine, Self Love, Self Compassion, Ayurveda, Spirituality, Heart Wisdom, Empowerment

Richie Parrella is a Somatic Therapist, Certified Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master and Sound Healer trained in Prana yoga, based in the lineages of Kundalini and Tantra yoga and Ayurveda in the lineage of Dr. Vasant Lad. He facilitates sessions, classes, and groups with the intention to create a safe space for others to explore their inner experience, create transformation, as well as reduce stress, anxiety, and support the allowing of the body, mind, and spirit’s natural ability to heal. His teachings are rich in yogic philosophy, breath work and mindfulness.

Richie currently sees clients over zoom, as well as in person in Princeton NJ, Philadelphia, and Langhorne, PA. He leads yoga classes, meditations, tantra workshops, Men's circles, and Sound Healings. He is one of the co-creators of the Celebrate All People Organization which host conscious events that support cultural diversity. Additionally, he is an organizer with the non-profit organization Dance Medicine Philly which is Philadelphia's first ecstatic dance community.

In this beautiful conversation, Empowered Connection Podcast Damodar Cordua talks with Richie Parrella and dives into these inspiring & life-giving topics:

- What is the Divine Masculine (& Feminine) and how do we all access both?
- Embodiment as a Tool for Creating a Healthier Masculinity
- The Importance of Men's Work, Men's Circles, & Containers of Heart Deepening Space
- Reclaiming Our Wholeness
- How Softening and Slowing Creates More Possibility & Depth of Connection
- Somatic Therapy & the Gifts of being both Grounded & Expansive
- Building Conscious Relationships + Conscious Community
- Empowering & Reshaping Our Contemporary Patterns of Masculinity
- Moving Through Our Shame & Creating Self Compassion   

and much more..

Connect with Richie Parrella and learn more about his work & his events:
richieparrella.com

Men's Divine Higher Self Day Retreat, March 18th
in Philadelphia, PA:
palosantowellnessboutique.com/workshops

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Connect with podcast host Damodar for his upcoming online 6 month immersion!

Do you desire supportive community & relationships that are aligned with your path of self growth, healing, emotional intelligence, relationship work, and empowerment?

Would you like to continually learn, & bring into the weave & weft of your life, the tools, practices, ideas, coaching, relationships & self work that can transform your life and your relationships?

Starts March 19th, 2023 - Empowered Connection Monthly Group Coaching 6 Month Immersion - one Sunday a month starting March 19th, 4:30pm PST via Zoom - empower your life & your relationships with this special online community and coaching experience!

Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your Free Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to empower their lives & their relationships

AND
Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

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

Themes: Codependency, Relationships, Partnership, Family Systems, Mutual Interdependence, Healthy Relationships, Love, Overfunctioner

We have all experienced codependency in our relationships and most of us are living with a little bit of it.  Yet, if a relationship is largely rooted in codependency this could lead to unhealthy patterns and disempowerment for everyone involved.

In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast Host Damodar Cordua gives a short history of "codependency," the signs and symptoms of living in a codependent relationship or relationships, the "stability" of codependency, how codependent patterns disempower us and our loved ones, and empowering tools to break the cycle of codependency and move into a stronger version of relationship - mutual interdependence - and a stronger version of our own selves.

That - and much more!


Connect with podcast host Damodar for his upcoming online immersion!

Do you desire supportive community & relationships that are aligned with your path of self growth, healing, emotional intelligence, relationship work, and empowerment?

Would you like to continually learn, & bring into the weave & weft of your life, the tools, practices, ideas, coaching, relationships & self work that can transform your life and your relationships?

Empowered Connection Monthly Group Coaching 6 Month Immersion - one Sunday a month starting March 19th, 4:30pm PST via Zoom - empower your life & your relationships with this special online community and coaching experience!


Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your Free Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 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

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


Sponsored by wellness apothecary and all natural healing products for the body, mind & spirt  Bhava Wellness

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Themes: Freedom, Spirituality, Dharma, Yoga Wisdom, Relationships, Purpose, Crisis, Suffering, Transformation, Human Potential

Hari-kirtana Das is a yoga teacher, spiritual mentor, and public speaker. He's been practicing devotional yoga and other yogic disciplines for almost 50 years, has lived in yoga ashrams and intentional spiritual 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. Hari-kirtana began teaching yoga classes in 2009 and has been creating in-person and online yoga philosophy courses since 2016. He's on the faculty of numerous Yoga Teacher Training programs and his articles about the enduring relevance of yoga’s ancient wisdom frequently appear in various forums and journals. He currently lives in Washington DC with his wife, Elizabeth.

In this spiritually inspiring episode Hari Kirtana Das shares with Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua some of the key transformational truths of the Bhagavad Gita, one of the world's perennial wisdom classics. 

In this interview, we discuss:
- Correlation of physics and spiritual truth of the Gita
- How the Bhagavad Gita can deeply inform other spiritual traditions
- Radical freedom, Radical Awareness, Radical Potential
- The state of the soul, our true Self
- Relationship between faith & knowledge
- The Divine as our best friend
- The “Science” of Yoga - Self Realization by Direct Perception
- The yoga of existential crisis: crisis as a gateway into more possibility + awareness
- Bridging our material identity & our spiritual identity
- What is "dharma" - our deepest sense of who we are?

and so much more!

Connect with guest Hari Kirtana Das here:

hari-kirtana.com

Find his workshops, events and learning opportunities on the Bhagavad Gita:
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Connect with podcast host Damodar for these upcoming workshops:

Empowered Connection Monthly Group Coaching 6 Month Immersion - one Sunday a month starting March 19th, 4:30pm PST via Zoom

Bhagavad Gita Immersion: the 4 Paths of Yoga - in-person in Tucson, AZ and online via Zoom from anywhere in the world


Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your Free Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 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

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


Sponsored by wellness apothecary and all natural healing products for the body, mind & spirt  Bhava Wellness

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