In this guided nondual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest as the peace that doesn’t come and go.

Many of us experience moments of clarity, stillness, or deep relief, only to feel like we’ve “lost” it when thoughts, emotions, or life circumstances shift. 

But what if peace isn’t something that appears and disappears? What if it’s what you are, even when the mind is busy or the body feels unsettled?

Rather than trying to create a spiritual state, this practice invites you to notice the quiet presence that has always been here, the stillness that remains unchanged through every thought, sensation, and life circumstance.

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Freedom from Suffering in a World on Fire🔥 with Tom Das — a 4-part live series starting in March. If you’ve ever wondered how freedom from suffering is truly possible — even in the midst of chaos, we hope you’ll join us.
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Life can feel full — conversations, responsibilities, decisions, and constant movement pulling attention in every direction. In the midst of it all, the quiet stillness beneath experience can seem distant or forgotten.

Yet the awareness you truly are never leaves.

In this gentle guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to pause in the middle of daily life and notice the simple sense of being that is already here. Through effortless noticing and quiet inquiry, we explore the presence that remains untouched by thoughts, emotions, and changing circumstances.

This session is simply an invitation to rest as the I AM presence that has always been here — before effort, before identity, and before any story about who you are.

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 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's upcoming brand new offering:
Freedom from Suffering in a World on Fire🔥 with Tom Das — a 4-part live series starting in March. If you’ve ever wondered how freedom from suffering is truly possible — even in the midst of chaos, we hope you’ll join us.
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In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard is joined by spiritual teacher Tom Das for a spacious and deeply relevant conversation about suffering, resistance, and what true freedom actually means in today’s world.

If you’ve ever wondered how peace is possible when life feels overwhelming, this episode will meet you right where you are.

Tom’s upcoming 4-part teaching series with the Center for Awakening is titled Freedom from Suffering in a World on Fire🔥 and this conversation offers a beautiful introduction to his gentle, clear, and compassionate way of pointing to our true nature.

His teachings illuminate what truly matters: being happy, being free, and recognizing the truth of what we are — not as ideas, but as a living experience here and now. So if you’ve ever wondered how freedom from suffering is truly possible — even in the midst of chaos, we hope you’ll join us.

Tom Das’s 4-Part Teaching Series begins March 2nd, brought to you the Center for Awakening.
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About Tom Das:
Whilst Tom has explored many teachings traditions including Advaita (Nondual) Vedanta, Buddhism, Zen, Christian Mysticism, Dzogchen and Taoism as well as more “New Age” teachings such as the Law of Attraction, his love is to share the teachings of his Beloved Guru, Sri Ramana Maharshi, as well as his devotion for Sri Ramana. That said, irrespective of your own seeking background, Tom has an uncanny knack of being able to meet you where you are and facilitate a greater clarity in those who approach him for guidance.  Tom lives with his wife and children in London UK. 
To learn more about Tom & his teachings: tomdas.com

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In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard offers a gentle, grounding non-dual meditation for anyone feeling caught in busyness, effort, or the constant pressure to do more.

In a culture that equates busyness with worth, success, and importance, stillness can feel uncomfortable — even threatening. Yet stillness isn’t something we need to create or earn. It’s what we are.

Through personal reflection and spacious guided meditation, Jody invites you to notice the quiet Presence that’s always been here — silently aware of every thought, task, and movement, yet never caught in any of it.

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 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's upcoming brand new offering:
Stillness Wars: Awakening, Clarity, Forgiveness & Embodiment with Keith Kavanagh — a 4-part live series for those who’ve had glimpses of truth but feel caught between awakening and the mind’s management. If you’re tired of efforting, fixing, or trying to “hold” awakening, this series is an invitation to let truth live you instead.

✨ Click here for more details & registration for Keith's 4-part series. 

About Keith Kavanagh:
Though Keith first started reading A Course in Miracles thirty years ago, it was only after eight long years of a severe generalized anxiety disorder that he threw himself into the Course’s process of unbinding identity from thoughts and the meeting of the shadow of sin, guilt and fear in the mind with the Course’s forgiveness practice: undoing projections and bringing the unprotected shadow to non-judgmental Awareness, meeting emotion without story. The anxiety disorder fell away and, unexpectedly, there was an awakening from thought identification to a nondual, rather vaporous, world of incredible beauty.
To learn more about Keith & his teachings:  acimwithkeith.com

As always, thank you for listening — and for taking this moment to come back to what’s true.

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Have you ever felt the quiet heaviness of being a “me” — the effort of holding together roles, stories, and identities that seem to define who you are?

In this deeply gentle nondual meditation, Jody Agard invites you into a simple yet profound exploration: what remains when the structure of “me” is no longer held in place.

Guided by a powerful inner image of a box — representing the personal self, its roles, labels, and memories — this meditation allows the walls of identity to soften and collapse naturally. There’s no force, no fixing, and no attempt to silence the mind. Thoughts may still arise. Sensations may still move. And yet, something vast, still, and untouched remains.

Through long, open pauses and effortless inquiry, you’re invited to:

• Notice the weight of personal identity without judgment
• Rest as the awareness in which thoughts and sensations appear
• Allow the story of “me” to quiet without resisting it
• Sense what remains when identity loosens
• Discover the stillness that cannot be moved by life’s motion

This is not about becoming someone new.
It’s about recognizing what was here before the box.
Before the stories.
Before the effort of being “someone.”
Let the box fall away.
And rest as what remains.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's upcoming brand new offering:
Stillness Wars: Awakening, Clarity, Forgiveness & Embodiment with Keith Kavanagh — a 4-part live series for those who’ve had glimpses of truth but feel caught between awakening and the mind’s management. If you’re tired of efforting, fixing, or trying to “hold” awakening, this series is an invitation to let truth live you instead.

✨ Click here for full details and registration for Keith's 4-part series. 

About Keith Kavanagh:
Though Keith first started reading A Course in Miracles thirty years ago, it was only after eight long years of a severe generalized anxiety disorder that he threw himself into the Course’s process of unbinding identity from thoughts and the meeting of the shadow of sin, guilt and fear in the mind with the Course’s forgiveness practice: undoing projections and bringing the unprotected shadow to non-judgmental Awareness, meeting emotion without story. The anxiety disorder fell away and, unexpectedly, there was an awakening from thought identification to a nondual, rather vaporous, world of incredible beauty.
To learn more about Keith & his teachings:  acimwithkeith.com

As always, thank you for listening — and for taking this moment to come back to what’s true.

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In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard is joined by Keith Kavanagh, known for his uncompromising clarity and direct approach to A Course in Miracles and nondual awakening.

This isn’t a traditional interview. It’s a space to slow down, listen deeply, and let insight land — not as theory, but as lived recognition.

Together, Jody and Keith explore one of the most misunderstood teachings in spirituality: forgiveness.

Not forgiveness as something moral or personal — but forgiveness as ACIM points to it: a shift in purpose, a release of misidentification, and a willingness to stop fixing the dream and let truth reinterpret everything.

In this conversation, you’ll hear about:

• Why forgiveness has nothing to do with other people
• How to apply forgiveness to money stress, health issues, and relationship conflict
• Why awakening can feel clear… then seem “lost”
• How the mind quietly reasserts control through effort and identity
• What embodiment actually looks like in ordinary life

Keith also shares about his upcoming teaching series at Center for Awakening:
Stillness Wars: Awakening, Clarity, Forgiveness & Embodiment — a 4-part live series for those who’ve had glimpses of truth but feel caught between awakening and the mind’s management.

If you’re tired of efforting, fixing, or trying to “hold” awakening, this series is an invitation to let truth live you instead.

✨ Click here for full details and registration for Keith's teaching series. 

About Keith Kavanagh:
Though Keith first started reading A Course in Miracles thirty years ago, it was only after eight long years of a severe generalized anxiety disorder that he threw himself into the Course’s process of unbinding identity from thoughts and the meeting of the shadow of sin, guilt and fear in the mind with the Course’s forgiveness practice: undoing projections and bringing the unprotected shadow to non-judgmental Awareness, meeting emotion without story. The anxiety disorder fell away and, unexpectedly, there was an awakening from thought identification to a nondual, rather vaporous, world of incredible beauty. 
To learn more about Keith & his teachings:  acimwithkeith.com

As always, thank you for listening — and for taking this moment to come back to what’s true.

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For years, many of us have poured energy into “healing” ourselves — the inner child, the trauma, the thoughts, the beliefs. It feels noble and empowering at first… until it begins to feel endless. Like there’s always another wound to fix or another version of ourselves that isn’t quite enough yet.

In this episode, Jody Agard explores the deeper invitation of non-dual healing — as the remembrance of wholeness. You’ll be guided through a deeply spacious meditation that reveals the peace that’s already here, beneath all effort and self-fixing.

This isn’t about bypassing pain; it’s about discovering the awareness that gently holds all pain, and realizing that this awareness — your true nature — has never needed healing.

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 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's January 2026 teaching series:
👉🏼 The Disappearance of Old Habits: Living the Truth of What You Are, a four-week invitation into self-inquiry, allowing, and the gentle dissolving of the false self — without forcing, fixing, or efforting, featuring beloved teacher Lisa Natoli.

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Everything in life changes — relationships, health, plans, even the thoughts that move through our minds.

For most of us, peace seems tied to those shifting conditions. But when we look closely, we find something deeper — a quiet, changeless awareness that never moves.

In this gentle nondual meditation, Jody Agard guides you to rest in that unmoving stillness, the Divine Presence that remains steady through every rise and fall of life.

No effort, no control — simply noticing what has always been here.

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 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite to check out the CFA's January 2026 teaching series:
👉🏼 The Disappearance of Old Habits: Living the Truth of What You Are, a four-week invitation into self-inquiry, allowing, and the gentle dissolving of the false self — without forcing, fixing, or efforting, featuring beloved teacher Lisa Natoli.

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In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Jody Agard sits down with Lisa Natoli for a grounded, relieving conversation about a common spiritual struggle: you have a real moment of peace or clarity… and then it feels like you “lose it.”

Lisa reframes the whole storyline. Awakening isn’t a Hollywood moment where the mind goes silent forever and life becomes trigger-free. What you are is already constant — but old identity and conditioning can take time to unwind.

Together, they explore:

• Why “backsliding” is often just the natural momentum of old habits
• The unplugged fan / cooling oven metaphor for how patterns wind down
• Why you don’t need to stop thoughts — you can notice thoughts appearing and disappearing in awareness
• How suffering sticks around when we hold a story in place (“I have no money,” “I’m sick,” “I’m guilty”)
• Lisa’s down-to-earth mind-body doorway: feet on the floor, sensations, presence — without judgment
• A practical experiment: what changes when you stop labeling life as “problems” and “difficulties”?

This conversation also highlights Lisa’s upcoming January 2026 teaching series:
✨ The Disappearance of Old Habits: Living the Truth of What You Are, a four-week invitation into self-inquiry, allowing, and the gentle dissolving of the false self — without forcing, fixing, or efforting.

About Lisa Natoli:
Lisa Natoli shares her story of healing and awakening in a way that is down-to-earth and easily understood. She was an alcoholic, cigarette smoker, food addict, type-A personality with roller-coaster mood swings which all got healed with A Course in Miracles. In 2013, she got sick with an incurable autoimmune disease... After trying everything to heal with no success, she began to welcome the pain and symptoms. This practice of welcoming led to an interest in nonduality teachings and practices of self-inquiry, which gradually led to the recognition of Consciousness as the true Self, our real Self which is complete happiness with no suffering or sorrow. She writes on the topics of mind-body healing, transformation, enlightenment, and consciousness. 

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 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite you to join Evolve — Center for Awakening's online member community. Your Evolve membership includes Lisa Natoli’s series "The Disappearance of Old Habits: Living the Truth of What You Are," and much more. In Evolve, you'll find a supportive space for weekly live meditations, book studies, and community sessions, as well as a new in-depth teaching series each month — featuring some of the most respected and beloved nondual wisdom teachers of our time. If you’re ready to deepen your practice and connect with others walking this path, we’d be honored to welcome you. Learn more & join us inside Evolve.

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Every time we identify with the personal story — the “me” who’s hurt, striving, fixing, or defending — suffering begins.

And yet, the moment we notice the identification, awareness is already here — whole, untouched, and free.

In this gentle healing nondual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to explore what happens when attention fuses with the idea of “me,” and how peace naturally returns when you rest as awareness itself.

No fixing. No striving. No self-improvement — only remembering the truth of what you are: Pure Presence.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 If you’d like to continue exploring beyond this podcast, we invite you to become part of Evolve — Center for Awakening's online member community. In Evolve, you'll find a supportive space for weekly live meditations, book studies, and community sessions, as well as a monthly in-depth teaching series featuring some of the most respected and beloved nondual wisdom teachers of our time offering guidance, inspiration, and practices you can return to again and again. If you’re ready to deepen your practice and connect with others walking this path, we’d be honored to welcome you. Membership is open now until December 31st.
Learn more & join us inside Evolve.

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