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 ...
Nov 12, 2025•35 min•Season 4Ep. 9
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 invitat...
Nov 05, 2025•31 min•Season 4Ep. 8
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...
Oct 29, 2025•31 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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 heav...
Oct 22, 2025•30 min•Season 4Ep. 6
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...
Oct 15, 2025•31 min•Season 4Ep. 5
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 mi...
Oct 08, 2025•33 min•Season 4Ep. 4
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 Beyon...
Oct 01, 2025•32 min•Season 4Ep. 3
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...
Oct 01, 2025•32 min•Season 4Ep. 2
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...
Oct 01, 2025•32 min•Season 4Ep. 1
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 pr...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr
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...
Jun 03, 2024•1 hr 4 min
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 ma...
Apr 17, 2024•59 min
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 ...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 6 min
In this final episode of Living an Awakened Life, Susan Telford sits down with Angelo DiLullo to discuss: What is really meant by “awakening”. The importance of shadow work How to tell if you have made spiritual awakening into a hobby Why it is important to have a teacher The practical way to approach teachings such as there is no choice and there is no doer. The meeting of the relative and the absolute that occurs in deep stage realization Angelo also describes the 4 classes he will be teaching...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 97
What does using the Tools for Awakening look like in day to day life? Join Rona and Cyndi as they: Summarize the tools discussed over the past 11 episodes Describe real life examples of how these tools can be used Experience the peace and joy that comes from fully committing to this work. Join Cyndi and Rona as they put it all together. Would you like to join Cyndi and Rona live each week and explore spiritual awakening in the company of like-minded men and women? We invite you to join our onlin...
Dec 15, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 96
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 t...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 95
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...
Dec 01, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 94
Join guest host Rona Marren as she turns the tables and interviews Susan Telford. Listen in as Rona and Susan discuss: Why Susan calls the burnout that ended her career as a high school teacher “Fierce Grace” Susan’s journey of awakening through different spiritual traditions What Susan means by 'The Seventh Sense' The unexpected arrival of poetry in Susan’s life Susan also shares a bit about her upcoming Masterclass in our Evolve Community this December titled: Enter the Stillness: Live from th...
Nov 24, 2023•49 min•Season 2Ep. 93
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 path Whether freedom, truth and authenticity are prerequisites for happiness Body-mind conditioning as universal patterns of the mental realm, analogous to the patterns of the physical realm that are the subject of science Dealing with trauma When sh...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 91
What does it mean to be Open Minded? During this conversation with Rona and Cyndi you will learn… The Open Mind is an empty mind How the Open Mind is an effect – it is never a “cause” and it can never be forced. How the Open Mind is the gift received from willingness and intention Join Cyndi and Rona for this discussion and set the intention to empty the mind. Would you like to join Cyndi and Rona live each week and explore spiritual awakening in the company of like-minded men and women? We invi...
Nov 09, 2023•27 min•Season 2Ep. 92
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... How Rosalyn felt when her daughter died unexpectedly at the age of 39 What prompted Rosalyn to write this book Rosalyn explains her favorite sentence in the book: "If thoughts and feelings were truth, they would be called facts.” What Rosalyn means by “okayness” and how you can live there always Learn more about Bi...
Nov 03, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 90
Join Susan and Jac O'Keeffe for a wide-ranging conversation about what it really means to live an awakened life. Susan and Jac discuss What it means ( and what it doesn’t mean) to be awakened The importance of dealing with our humanness How to wake up and grow up spiritually How there is no final destination in awakening That even after awakening, there is still work to be done How Jac’s own journey has been all about finding out the truth for herself What attachment to non duality is and what i...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 13 min
A great working definition for patience is being here Now without focusing on outward future goals. When you join Rona and Cyndi you will discover… The gift in being OK with the present moment just as it is. How natural patience becomes when you Trust. An invitation to watch for the subtle signs you are believing something has to change for you to be okay. Instruction on how to bring the “wanting things to change” to present moment awareness and what once may expect as a result. Join Cyndi and R...
Oct 20, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 88
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. Jenny and Heena also discuss: The importance of fully facing the feelings that are a resi...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 87
Join Bill Free for this episode of Conversations in Truth, as he welcomes Justin Gold to hear: What Justin learned from Christianity, Islam, and Judaism What he learned about meditation from a 3 year old child. His multi-dimensional answer to Bill’s question, without the use of memory, who are you? The importance of “supervision” on the spiritual path. About Justin’s spiritual community and the social and aid work they do. Learn more about Bill's One Year Masterclass for Awakening here. Support ...
Oct 06, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 86
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 How when Tom meets somebody and they share something with him, a teaching emerges that is appropriate for them. Tom also discusses what to expect in his 4-Part LIVE Masterclass series “Many Ways To Freedom” begin...
Sep 22, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 85
The world’s definition of generosity is different than truth’s. Do you know the difference? Join Rona and Cyndi as they … Look at what generosity means as a Tool for Awakening The importance of trusting truth as we put this work to the test. Invite the listener to “get a little dirty” and honest in looking at how belief in their story limits generosity. Discuss how inner guidance is always available. Join Cyndi and Rona for this invitation to embrace generosity and let go of fear. About Rona Mar...
Sep 15, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 84
In this episode, Jenny's guest, Elizabeth Reninger describes how when she was very young, the birth of her sister and the death of a young child in a farming accident sparked an early curiosity about the nature of human existence. The death of her father a few years later led to the recognition that we are not the body. Her childhood curiosity persisted into adulthood and led to a path of exploring the deepest truth. Initially this was through academic studies, but later through a variety of spi...
Sep 08, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 83
In this episode of Conversation in Truth, Bill Free talks to his guest Chris Beckett about what Chris calls Wisdom Freed. Wisdom Freed is about pointing your spirituality towards the most important part of your life - the everyday when you're working, going to the supermarket or catching up with a good friend. Chris discusses his own unexpected spiritual awakening and how through a series of Micro Meditations - simple, quick moments of presence done throughout the day, he allowed the natural pro...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 82
We have all heard the phrase “spiritual awakening”, but do you really know what it means, especially for those of us who are living an “ordinary” life in the world? Perhaps you have an image of what you think it should look like, feel like, be like. In this episode of Living an Awakened Life, Susan and Helen go right back to first principles to discuss what spiritually awakening really is, how it shows up in our lives and the changes it brings. Helen shares her own experience of awakening; what ...
Aug 25, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 81
