The Awareness Podcast

In this week’s meditation, Jody Agard invites you to experience the deeper meaning of surrender — beyond effort, beyond letting go of circumstances, and into the effortless resting as what you already are.

Most of us think of surrender as something we do — releasing control, accepting what is, or yielding to life’s challenges. But true surrender isn’t an act of the separate self. It’s the dissolution of the illusion that there ever was a separate self to begin with.

This meditation is an invitation to stop trying to surrender to something, and instead experience the surrender of the one who tries.

✨ Another way to go deeper, beyond this podcast…
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We’ve been taught to believe that peace is something we have to chase — through practices, routines, or fixing what feels broken. But what if peace doesn’t come later? What if it’s already here, beneath every thought, every sensation, every moment of striving?

In this guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to soften the body, meet what arises with gentle awareness, and rest as the wholeness that never leaves. Together, you’ll experience peace that asks nothing of you — not a perfect body, not quiet emotions, not more effort. Just Presence, as it is

Take this time to remember: you are not the seeker of peace. You are the peace.

✨ 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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In this guided meditation with Jody Agard, you’re invited to set down the weight of what you’ve been carrying and rest in the vast presence that holds it all.

Instead of trying to fix, control, or perfect this moment, you’ll be guided to gently notice the play of thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they arise — without judgment and without effort. Together, we’ll return to the boundless awareness that remains untouched by it all.

This practice is an invitation to remember: you are not the heaviness, the story, or the struggle. You are the stillness that holds it all.

Take this time for yourself, and let yourself be held.

✨ 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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When life feels heavy — whether from pain in the body, emotional weight, or the stress of the world — you don’t have to carry it all yourself. In this guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to soften the body, release effort, and rest in the Pure Presence that holds every experience without judgment. Discover the peace that’s already here, beyond pain and beyond the stories of the mind.

✨ 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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In this week’s episode of The Awareness Podcast, join Jody Agard for a guided meditation that invites you to release the mind’s search for peace and simply rest in awareness itself.

Instead of waiting for life to change, the body to heal, or the mind to quiet down, this meditation points you back to what is always here — the stillness that holds every thought, sensation, and experience.

In this session, you’ll experience:
• Letting go of striving and future expectations
• Meeting the body and mind exactly as they are
• Resting in the presence that is untouched by circumstances
• Remembering that true peace is not found — it’s what you already are

This is an invitation to step beyond seeking, and discover the effortless wholeness of simply being.

✨ 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.

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So often the mind believes it has to “do” more to find peace — to relax better, to meditate properly, to fix the body or control time. But true rest begins when the doer falls away. In this guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to soften, release striving, and rest in the effortless presence of the eternal now. Here you’ll discover that peace is not something you create — it’s what you already are.

✨ 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.

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The body is always changing — sometimes tired, sometimes energized, sometimes full of aches or ease. But who you are is not limited to the body’s story. In this guided meditation, Jody Agard invites you to rest as the awareness in which every sensation, thought, and feeling appears. Instead of striving to fix or heal the body, discover the freedom of resting in what is already whole, spacious, and untouched.

✨ 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.

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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 

True healing isn’t about effort — it’s about allowing. In this episode, Jody Agard guides you to relax the body, release striving, and notice the awareness that is untouched by pain or problems. Rest here, and remember: you are already whole.

✨ 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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In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Susan Telford welcomes transpersonal psychologist, best-selling author, lecturer and spiritual poet, Steve Taylor, PhD.

Steve shares his own personal awakening experiences that began at a young age and that ultimately led him to devote his life to the study, investigation and process of spiritual awakening.

In his newest book, The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Steve explains, through his research of hundreds of people who had a profound spiritual awakening, that these experiences are not mystical or extraordinary, but rather they are more common than we realize. Many people may not even know that they are living their lives in a natural state of awakening or enlightenment.

Steve explains what he believes are the eight essential aspects of spiritual awakening that anyone can cultivate, and he discusses how guided meditations, contemplative exercises, and other practices can bring about spiritual transformation in our everyday lives.

Steve also shares a bit about his upcoming four-part live series for Center for Awakening beginning on July 8th entitled Four Steps to Awakening: Cultivating the Qualities of Spiritual Enlightenment.

For details on how you can join Steve for this interactive and experiential series visit: https://center-for-awakening.mykajabi.com/steve-taylor 

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Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati was born in the USA and her spiritual journey took her to India, where she has lived for many years in the Parmarth Niketan Ashram ashram.

In this edition of the Awareness Podcast, Bill Free chats to Sadhviji about her recently published memoir, Hollywood to the Himalayas: A Journey of Healing and Transformation.

Sadhviji speaks about her very conventional American life that was turned upside down by a vacation to India when she was 25 years old and in the middle of a PhD at Stanford.

It was there that she met her guru, HH Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji and her life changed forever.

For more on Sadhviji, visit her website: https://sadhviji.org/

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