The Awareness Podcast

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.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 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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This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

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.

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 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.

Support the show

Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

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. 

✨ Another way to go deeper…
 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. Doors close 12.31.25.

Support the show

Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

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This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

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.

Support the show

Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

Sometimes, when life feels like it’s falling apart, it’s really just rearranging itself for truth to be seen.

In this gentle non-dual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest in the simplicity of Being — beyond all labels, roles, and stories of “me.” Together, you’ll rest in what remains when everything false is released: the effortless peace of Pure Presence.

There’s nothing to fix, nothing to become — only the quiet recognition of what’s always been here.

A remembering of the healing simplicity of I Am.

✨ 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.

Support the show

Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

True meditation isn’t something we do — it’s what we are.

In this gentle nondual healing meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest in the simplicity of being itself — beyond effort, beyond thought, beyond the idea of a separate self.

You’ll be guided to notice the awareness that’s already here before any breath, sensation, or story of “me.” Through quiet recognition, the peace you’ve been seeking reveals itself as what’s never left.

This is a soft returning — not to a new state, but to the natural presence that holds all states.

✨ 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.
***EARLY BIRD BONUS! (through December 14th): With an annual membership registration, you get on-demand access to ​The Infinite I Am Conference​ — an epic 3 days of clear nondual teachings, captured live on November 14-16, 2025. Includes the entire collection of 24+ sessions. And, the annual membership allows you to receive a full suite of offerings at a fraction of what you’d pay individually.  Learn more & join us inside Evolve.

Support the show

Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

There are seasons in life that feel full — of emotion, expectation, or quiet heaviness.

In this gentle non-dual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest beneath the stories of “me in this season,” and return to the stillness that never comes or goes.

Whatever this moment holds — joy, fatigue, grief, or gratitude — you’ll be guided to rest as the sky itself: open, unchanging, and free.

✨ 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.
***EARLY BIRD BONUS! (through December 14th): With an annual membership registration, you get on-demand access to ​The Infinite I Am Conference​ — an epic 3 days of clear nondual teachings, captured live on November 14-16, 2025. Includes the entire collection of 24+ sessions. And, the annual membership allows you to receive a full suite of offerings at a fraction of what you’d pay individually.  Learn more & join us inside Evolve.

Support the show

Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

Beneath every role we play lies something deeper — the quiet awareness that never comes or goes.

In this meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest beyond the mind’s labels and rediscover the peace that remains when every “I am this” falls away.

A simple practice of noticing, allowing, and resting as the presence that contains it all.

✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…
The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.
Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer).
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Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

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This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

When the mind tries to understand or control life, it’s only doing what it knows — searching for safety through thought. But true peace isn’t found in figuring things out.

In this gentle non-dual meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest beyond the analyzing mind and return to what’s always here — the still, open awareness that never changes.

Through simple guidance and reflection, you’ll rediscover what true letting go really means: the effortless dissolving of the imagined “me”, who’s trying to manage life.

✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…
The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.
Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer).
 👉 Access Now.

Support the show

Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org 

As life changes, so do the roles we play — parent, partner, friend, or professional. In this gentle non-dual meditation with Jody Agard, experience what happens when you stop identifying with the roles and stories and rest as the awareness that witnesses them all. This is a space to release control, soften into change, and remember the peace that’s always been here.

✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…
The Infinite I Am Conference: Awakening Beyond Identity in a World on Fire is now available on-demand — an epic global gathering with 3 days of clear nondual teachings offered by 24 trusted teachers, captured live on November 14-16, 2025.
Choose from the "Pick 6 Session Bundle" a flexible, lower-priced option offering your choice of six sessions chosen from the complete collection of 24. It’s a more personalized way to receive the teachings that speak directly to where you are right now. Or, get 30% off the complete collection of conference sessions (limited-time offer).
👉 Access now.

Support the show

Continue your spiritual awakening journey with ongoing live teachings! Free to join. Find out more here. 

Listen + Subscribe
Stay up to date and tune in at centerforawakening.org/podcast ... You can also access the Awareness Podcast on your favorite podcast app and on the CFA YouTube Channel.

This podcast is brought to you by the Center for Awakening, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the journey of awakening to our true nature — and the natural peace and happiness that is always present. Explore courses, events, and resources at: centerforawakening.org