The Awareness Podcast

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-week 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 poi...

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.

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 m...

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 willin...

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...

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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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:

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 expe...

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

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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 st...

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.

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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 presenc...

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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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...

In this episode of The Awareness Podcast, Susan Telford sat down with Heena Vasani to discuss Heena’s life and work using Dr Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry.

Heena had a kidney transplant 27 years ago, a topic she discussed with Jenny Beal here: https://hub.centerforawakening.org/blog/episode87

In this conversation with Susan, Heena shared how she almost refused the transplant,
because of a deep seated sense of unworthiness.

In finally accepting the donated kidney as a priceless gift, only made possible the death
of another young woman she never met...

In this new episode of The Awareness Podcast, Susan Telford sits down with award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Awaken the World Initiative, Daniel Schmidt to discuss spiritual awakening.

Learn about what Dan describes as a "pattern interrupt" and how that has played out in his own life.

Susan and Dan discuss what is meant by the term "spiritual ego" and how effort on the spiritual path can take us further from the Truth of who we are. Dan speaks eloquently about the importance of what he calls "the conditions of  no escape" and "the s...

In this final episode of Living an Awakened Life, Susan Telford sits down with Angelo DiLullo to discuss:

Angelo also describes the 4 classes he will be teaching for the Journey of Awakening Teaching Series in January, entitle...

What does using the Tools for Awakening look like in day to day life?

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In her final episode for the Awareness Podcast, Jenny talks with Joost Vanhove about his spiritual journey which involved exploration of a very wide range of ideas, methods and teachings. His keen interest in spirituality was initiated by repeated childhood experiences of expansion and oneness. It wasn’t until his teens that by chance he discovered the writings of a 14th Century Belgian mystic which confirmed for him the reality of what he had experienced.

Joost describes and gives examples of the way language influences our thought processes. Jenny and Joost discuss the role of language in th...

In this episode of Conversations in Truth, Bill and his guest Amy Haible come together for a lively discussion of A Course in Miracles and how Advaita integration can be so helpful to students of ACIM and nonduality.

Amy shares what A Course in Miracles has meant to her and gives us more details about her weekly, live sessions in our Evolve Community exploring this enlightening subject.

And, if you'd like to join Amy Haible to explore the text on A Course in Miracles with an emphasis on non dual teachings? Then check out her...

Join guest host Rona Marren as she turns the tables and interviews Susan Telford.

Listen in as Rona and Susan discuss:

Susan also shares a bit about her upcoming Masterclass in our Evolve Community this December titled: Enter the Stillness: Live from the Silent Heart, when she will guide participants to a direct experience of the profound...

In this episode, Jenny and her guest Ellen Emmet explore the interplay between the vertical, here-and-now dimension of the spiritual path, and our human experience in space and time.

They discuss:

The role of exploration of the body in the spiritual pathWhether freedom, truth and authenticity are prerequisites for happinessBody-mind conditioning as universal patterns of the mental realm, analogous to the patterns of the physical realm that are the subject of scienceDealing with traumaWhen shadow-work is neededHow to protect ourselves from developing ‘spiritual ego’The importance of spiritual friendshipsThe podcast ends with Ellen describing how difficult circ...

What does it mean to be Open Minded?

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In this episode of Conversations in Truth, Bill and his guest Rosalyn Rourke discuss Rosalyn’s new book, When Wisdom Arrives:  From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom. Tune in to hear...

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A great working definition for patience is being here Now without focusing on outward future goals.

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In this episode, Jenny's guest, Heena Vasani describes how her mother abandoned her at a very young age, and Jenny and Heena discuss how the trauma from that experience led to inner work over many years to find resolution and healing.

Heena describes how her spiritual journey started in her early 20’s with a profound glimpse of her true nature that occurred when she was about to undergo a kidney transplant.

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In this second conversation on The Awareness Podcast, Susan and Tom begin by discussing the profound opening that occurred live on the first episode together that was the end of seeking for Susan.

If you have not listened to that podcast, you can hear it here.

Susan and Tom also discuss 

Tom also discusses what to expect in his 4-Part LIVE Masterclass series “Many Ways To Freedom” beginning in October.

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The world’s definition of generosity is different than truth’s.

Do you know the difference?

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Join Cyndi and Rona for this invitation to embrace generosity and let go of fear.



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