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Apr 25, 2025•26 min•Season 3Ep. 4
The Abdi Assadi Podcast
The Abdi Assadi Podcast is an investigation into the nature of our unconscious and its myriad of effects on our personal lives as well as culture at large. This podcast is an invitation into a deeper dialogue with ourselves - to offer a healing of our internal split and the resulting strife in our minds and hearts. You are invited to hear, so that you can fully be here.
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Awareness in the Body - Awareness in Life
Awareness in the Body - Awareness in Life" is the third episode in the Posture series of Tools of Awakening, Abdi Assadi and Pernilla Burke, explore the simple yet powerful practice of body awareness and posture as a way to cultivate presence. We look at what happens when we shift our awareness from the mind into the body—specifically, grounding into the feet—and how this shift can change the way we respond to life. Abdi shares insights from Chinese medicine and martial arts on how posture direc...
Mar 13, 2025•17 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Posture For Awareness
This episode of Tools of Awakening explores the subtle but powerful connection between posture and presence. Pernilla and Abdi discuss how something as simple as aligning the back of the head and chin can profoundly shift our state of being—bringing calm, clarity, and a sense of ease to both the body and mind. Posture, often overlooked, becomes a gateway to grounding and greater awareness. The conversation is practical and real, offering small adjustments that can ripple into big transformations...
Jan 15, 2025•22 min•Season 3Ep. 2
The Power Of Postural Alignment
This Tools of Awakening class is the first class in series highlighting posture as a practical way to reconnect with the body and support the nervous system. Simple practices, like aligning the chin or bringing awareness to the feet, can help shift from a reactive state into calm presence. Building on previous breathwork teachings, these accessible techniques fit effortlessly into daily life—whether during conversations or a commute—providing effective tools to stay grounded and deeply connected...
Jan 15, 2025•19 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Nostril Awareness: 3 Minute Practice
A brief meditation practice to help bring conscious awareness into your daily life.
Nov 15, 2024•3 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Nostril And Abdominal Awareness: 4 MINUTE PRACTICE
A brief meditation practice to help bring conscious awareness into your daily life.
Nov 15, 2024•4 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Abdominal Awareness and Grounding Through Breath: 3 Minute Practice
A brief meditation practice to help bring conscious awareness into your daily life.
Nov 15, 2024•2 min•Season 2Ep. 16
EPISODE 5: MASTERING THE BREATH: SIMPLE PRACTICES FOR GREATER AWARENESS
Please join us in exploring the breath and its power. This 20 minute Breath Class: "Mastering the Breath: Simple Practices for Greater Awareness" features Pernilla Burke, the founder of Awakening 101, and Abdi Assadi, an acupuncturist, healer, and spiritual counselor. This class is part of the "Tools of Awakening" series and focuses on simple, everyday practices to increase awareness and reduce reactive behavior. They discuss the importance of using simple breathing exercises to bring calm and p...
Nov 02, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 13
EPISODE 4: GROUNDING YOURSELF THROUGH THE BREATH
Please join us in exploring the breath and its power. This 20 minute Breath Class: "Grounding ourselves through the Breath" features Pernilla Burke, the founder of Awakening 101, and Abdi Assadi, an acupuncturist, healer, and spiritual counselor. This class is part of the "Tools of Awakening" series and focuses on simple, everyday practices to increase awareness and reduce reactive behavior. They discuss the importance of using simple breathing exercises to bring calm and presence to everyday si...
Oct 13, 2024•19 min•Season 2Ep. 12
EPISODE 3: How much is shallow breathing costing your overall well-being?
Please join us in exploring the breath and its power. This 20 minute Breath Class: "How much is shallow breathing costing your overall well-being?" features Pernilla Burke, the founder of Awakening 101, and Abdi Assadi, an acupuncturist, healer, and spiritual counselor. This class is part of the "Tools of Awakening" series and focuses on simple, everyday practices to increase awareness and reduce reactive behavior. They discuss the importance of using simple breathing exercises to bring calm and...
Sep 30, 2024•17 min•Season 2Ep. 11
EPISODE 2: An Appointment with yourself
Please join us in exploring the breath and its power. This 20 minute Breath Class: "An Appointment With Yourself" features Pernilla Burke, the founder of Awakening 101, and Abdi Assadi, an acupuncturist, healer, and spiritual counselor. This class is part of the "Tools of Awakening" series and focuses on simple, everyday practices to increase awareness and reduce reactive behavior. They discuss the importance of using simple breathing exercises to bring calm and presence to everyday situations. ...
Sep 15, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 10
EPISODE 1: UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF BREATH
Please join us in exploring the breath and its power. This 20 minute Breath Class: "Understanding the Power of Breath" features Pernilla Burke, the founder of Awakening 101, and Abdi Assadi, an acupuncturist, healer, and spiritual counselor. This class is part of the "Tools of Awakening" series and focuses on simple, everyday practices to increase awareness and reduce reactive behavior. They discuss the importance of using simple breathing exercises to bring calm and presence to everyday situati...
Aug 25, 2024•20 min•Season 2Ep. 9
EPISODE 8: ADDICTION
This is the eighth episode in a series of conversations between Abdi and Ian Ritter in Italy. Ian is a Brennan Counselor and healer with 18 years of experience. Ian has been on the spiritual path for the past 35 years. Join us as we discuss addiction as being the inability to tolerate the moment as a survival response to trauma. The nuances of addiction as well as its cultural and personal manifestation are investigated. Lastly we explore the definition of sobriety as being present in the moment...
Aug 18, 2024•54 min•Season 2Ep. 8
EPISODE 7: LIVING LIFE WITH DEATH AS YOUR ADVISOR
This is the seventh episode in a series of conversations between Abdi and Ian Ritter in Italy. Ian is a Brennan Counselor and healer with 18 years experience and has been on a spiritual path for the last 35 years. Join us as we discuss facing our mortality as a path to enriching our daily lives. The powerful cultural and hence personal denial of this fact has many unexamined consequences. This podcast was recorded days after Ian had heart surgery. Freshly baked for your nourishment from the othe...
Aug 16, 2024•50 min•Season 2Ep. 7
EPISODE 6: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CARETAKING AND CAREGIVING
This is the sixth episode in a series of conversations between Abdi and Ian Ritter in Italy. Ian is a Brennan Counselor and healer with 18 years experience and has been on a spiritual path for the last 35 years. Join us in our follow up session as we discuss the difference between the unhealthy pattern of caretaking, its healthy counter part, caregiving and the nuances between the two.
Aug 16, 2024•47 min•Season 2Ep. 6
EPISODE 5: TAKING ON OTHER PEOPLE’S EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE
This is the fifth episode in a series of conversations between Abdi and Ian Ritter in Italy. Ian is a Brennan Counselor and healer with 18 years experience and has been on a spiritual path for the last 35 years. Join us as we discuss the roots of unhealthy emotional entanglements, feeling responsible for the emotional welfare of others, its destructive patterns in our lives and how to keep healthy boundaries.
Aug 16, 2024•49 min•Season 2Ep. 5
EPISODE 4: HEALING OUR ANCESTRAL LINEAGE
This is the fourth episode in a series of conversations between Abdi and Ian Ritter in Italy. Ian is a Brennan Counselor and healer with 18 years experience and has been on a spiritual path for the last 35 years. Join us as we discuss the etheric topic of ancestral lineage healing and its effects in our daily lives. We investigate ways to interact with this mysterious invisible force that courses through our veins and informs our bones.
Aug 16, 2024•52 min•Season 2Ep. 4
EPISODE 3: SUPEREGO: THE INNER CRITIC
This is the third episode in a series of conversations between Abdi and Ian Ritter in Italy. Ian is a Brennan Counselor and healer with 18 years experience and has been on a spiritual path for the last 35 years. Join us as we discuss the concept of the Superego and how this inner critic can run aspects of our lives. The awareness of this phenomenon can free us from its shackles and give us the room to lead a more honest, truthful and joyous life.
Aug 16, 2024•55 min•Season 2Ep. 3
EPISODE 2: HOW TO GET YOUR NEEDS MET IN RELATIONSHIP
This is the first episode in a series of conversations between Abdi and Ian Ritter, a Brennan Counselor and healer based in Italy. Join us as we discuss the nuances of what our needs are and how they can be met in intimate relationships. Among the topics discussed are the nuances of needs, caretaking as a defense mechanism, behaviors when needs are not met and self care.
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 2
EPISODE 1: THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
This is the first episode in a series of conversations between Abdi and Ian Ritter, a Brennan Counselor and healer based in Italy. This podcast episode is a discussion on the aspect of spiritual awakening known as the “dark night of the soul.” It can be a painful and frightening process as the false self is dismantled to allow the true self to take root. Surrender is the name of the game and serenity is the destination.
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 1
FORK IN THE ROAD (AND WE ARE THE MEAL)
This podcast episode discusses the current state of world affairs and its relations to as well as effects on our spiritual path. www.AbdiAssadi.com
Apr 25, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 56
ASK ABDI: PART 2
This podcast episode is a compilation of " Ask Abdi " questions submitted via www.AbdiAssadi.com
Feb 07, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 55
ASK ABDI: PART 1
This podcast episode is a compilation of " Ask Abdi " questions submitted via www.AbdiAssadi.com
Jul 21, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 54
STABILIZE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS
This podcast episode was recorded in response to the many requests I’ve received on how to deal with the terror and anxiety surrounding the pandemic. We can navigate difficult times by simultaneously acknowledging our feelings of dread while practicing to stabilize our consciousness. www.AbdiAssadi.com
Apr 12, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 53
THE PRICE OF KISSING IS YOUR LIFE
The first part of this podcast episode discusses some of the questions that were recently submitted regarding the difficulties that can arise in the awakening process. The second part covers the emerging communication with our inner voice in the spiritual process. We also delve into the difference between the survival instinct of the personality and the desire to live freely from a soul perspective. www.AbdiAssadi.com
Nov 05, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 52
BEING PRESENT WITH ILLNESS
This podcast episode discusses the issues that can arise when we are faced with serious illness of another person. The importance of truly holding space in the face of such suffering is examined. Some specific do’s and don'ts are offered as well. www.AbdiAssadi.com
Jul 03, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 50
THE NEED TO FIX OTHERS
This podcast episode discusses the issue of "fixing” others. This is a deeper level of unhealthy caretaking that negatively affects both parties. The inability to tolerate uncomfortable feelings in ourselves can lead to projecting those feelings onto others. The consequences of attempting to "fix" another (instead of healing ourselves) are examined. To read the transcription of this episode, please click here . www.AbdiAssadi.com...
Jun 05, 2019•22 min•Season 1Ep. 49
THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE, THE CURSE OF SUCCESS, AND THE GIFT OF SUFFERING
This podcast episode discusses the peddling of spiritual practices to prop up our idealized self-image. These masks that we all wear are tonified by things such as the promise of personal success. The counterpoint to such false paths is the variety of losses that we suffer in life. The gift of suffering is that it tears down the idealized self-image and gives the true self an opportunity to shine through. www.AbdiAssadi.com
May 08, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 48
SOME MISCONCEPTIONS OF THE SPIRITUAL PROCESS AND TEACHERS
This podcast episode discusses some of the misunderstandings that one can have when dealing with the spiritual process as well as the teachers one encounters. As always, we must remember to keep our wits about us and listen internally as we enter into such relationships. www.AbdiAssadi.com
Apr 10, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 47
THE PITFALLS OF TARGET FIXATION
This podcast episode discusses the concept of target fixation - a behavior in which one becomes so focused on an object that they head towards it unconsciously. This phenomenon, which can have dire consequences, is examined through the lens of emotional wounding and negative pleasure, as well as conscious awareness as a salve. www.AbdiAssadi.com
Mar 05, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 46
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