The Mind Bod Adventure Pod

Today we’re joined by Sharon Salzberg, one of the pioneers of Western Buddhism. She’s the author of a new book: Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World.

This episode is all about what’s possible when we bring a little (or a lot) more love into our lives.  We explore her take on loving kindness, and learn in real-time how loving kindness can be an antidote to fear. We explore how the practice both synchronizes and conflicts with activism, and how to avoid the "Disney-ification" of loving kindness, among many other topics.

To go straight to Sharon’s 10 minute loving kindness practice, it begins at 06:26, and ends at 16:22. 

Links:
• Sharon’s website: https://www.sharonsalzberg.com
• Sharon’s book, Real Change: https://www.sharonsalzberg.com/realchange/ 

In today’s episode: psychotherapist and meditation teacher John Prendergast.

John is the author of The Deep Heart: Our Portal to Presence, a book that explores “the convergence of psychological healing and spiritual awakening.” For John, this happens most clearly and powerfully in the depths of the heart. How do we sensitize ourselves to this subtle space?  This is our guide's expertise. John shows us how to rest in the heart as a way to appreciate and embody a different way of knowing and relating. We ask our hearts about our core limiting beliefs, and what it might mean to no longer believe them.

It’s an emotional journey – sincere and raw and often quite beautiful.

To go straight to John’s 11 minute heart practice, it begins at 8:42 and ends at 20:03. 

Links:
• John’s website: http://listeningfromsilence.com

Today’s episode: Sebene Selassie.

Sebene is a meditation teacher, integral coach, Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy (IFOT) practitioner and author of You Belong: A Call for Connection. She’s also one of the most popular teachers on the Ten Percent Happier meditation app.

Sebene guides us through the four elements of earth, fire, water, and air. This practice is both powerful and practical. Sebene shows us how to harness the elements to balance our minds and bodies, and how the elements help us understand different aspects of who we are and how we connect to the world around us. A grounding journey into, in Sebene's words, "our own indigeneity."

To go straight to Sebene's (12 minute) four elements practice, it starts at 3:00 and ends at 15:22. 

Links:
• Sebene’s Website
• Sebene’s book: You Belong: A Call for Connection 

Meet Jennifer Dumpert. Jennifer is a San Francisco-based dreamer and lecturer, author of Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edge of Sleep.

And the edge of sleep is where we go today! We drop like stones into the weird space between dreams and ordinary waking consciousness, and then attempt to recombobulate afterwards into coherent human beings.

We find out what liminal dreaming is, why it’s such a good practice, and how it can be used to great effect at the opera and with the in-laws. We also get a taste of Jennifer’s boundary-mixing personal practice of embedding dreams into the urban landscape, threading the liminal into the lived.

To go straight to the 14 minute liminal dreaming practice, it starts at 04:45 and ends at 18:21.

Enjoy!

Links:
• Jennifer’s Website: https://jenniferdumpert.com
• Jennifer's Liminal Dreaming Website: https://www.liminaldreaming.com and guided Yoga Nidra practices https://www.liminaldreaming.com/practices/ 
• Join her community and cultivate the wild and visionary experience of the dream: https://urbandreamscape.com

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The Consciousness Explorers Podcast (CEP) is an experiential sandbox for mind and body hosted by Tasha Schumann and Jeff Warren. Each episode is a real-time adventure, where a different guide takes us through a short meditation or personal growth practice. (That means you’re coming too!)

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