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They Will Not Take This From Me by Audra Carmine

An Easter Sunday talk about the cycle of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction.

Spit and Dust by Audra Carmine

Desire by Audra Carmine

Peace: To Fasten or to Bind Together by Audra Carmine

A good one to listen to over the holidays where we can tend to move from indulgence to aestheticism, from over doing it to trying to give everything up in the New Year.

The Wisdom of Suffering by Audra Carmine

Our second week of Metta meditation practice focuses on a neutral person in our lives. Audra shares a miracle story and some tools for dissolving our protective suits.

Loving Kindness as a Radical Practice by Audra Carmine

We live in a time where there is emphasis on division. On anger. On conspiracy -- on believing in a time of uncertainty that we have an answer that others don’t, that we see something that others cannot. We live in a time that is riddled with fear. We live in a time that is highlighting separation--highlighting the very essence of the experience of the material world--that we have been separated, that we have been kicked out of the garden. To practice, is to participate in a remembering. A re-membering of our togetherness. Of our own wholeness. To practice is to remember our own belonging. It is to cultivate a particular kind of love that is beyond attachment, beyond preference.

This episode explores the question of whether or not practice supports living an awakened life or not? You get to find out for yourself. What a miracle! Audra uses the five precepts as a tool to discuss what an inquiry like this might look like.

People pleasing, judgment and how to work with it. An exploration of the anatomy of judgment, perfectionism and the promise of our inner genius. Please excuse me, there is a part where I have to yell at my kid for using the internet while I am making live tv and podcasting. This is just life right now:) living and working at home with kids right there. We are in it together. Love you!

In the yoga/wellness industrial complex there can exist a stuckness around acceptance, self-acceptance, acceptance of truth, and acceptance of what is. The next step in the evolution of awakening is to honor our truth, AND to engage with life from a place of integrity, passion, & purpose. Audra offers a few questions to help guide you toward your intuition, integrity, and love so that you might be peaceful, awake, and free.

This interview led us to a realization that blew both of our minds and made me, Audra, cry a little. Wait for it, it's at the endish, but you have to listen to the whole banana to really understand the revelation. This interview was deep, vulnerable, and rooted in truth. We hope it helps you on your journey to compassionate, embodied freedom.

A real vulnerable share from Audra and from the community. It's so hard to be with what's here that many times we protect ourselves with limiting belief systems, and intellectualized meaning making. Practice helps us to come back to our own intuition, to trusing ourselves and one another, and identifying with our soul, our own largeness, and expansive capacity to love.

An Interview with Anna Mitra by Audra Carmine

The Tap Root by Audra Carmine

When we get tied to the idea of things needing to be a certain way, a perfect way, we miss the expansive possibility of what's here. The universe is always waiting, right here, to rise up and meet us, even if things aren't going the way we would have imagined or prefered. In Mark Nepo's words, "Now when things don't go the way I want, I try to kiss what waits beneath all want." What waits beneath all want?

The energy of mother is so big that it contains both life and death simultaneously. As one thing begins another ends. As one thing ends another begins. What is more personal than living and dying? What is more personal than creating something? What is more personal than being able to hold the tension between life and death in one body? In Mother we have both the archetype of rejection and the archetype of nurture, The mother lives in all of us. It is light and dark, yin and yang simultaneously. The mother holds the key to the eternal challenge of unconditional love because of it's capacity to hold the complexity of both. It is here that we experience directly the very key to liberation. We see this mirrored in nature. The forest is alive and dying together all at once all the time. The sea is alive and dead. The site where a whale dies becomes a prolific source of food and life. It is all entangled and mysterious and real. Even a mountain top gives us the grace of a widened perspective, and yet reminds us how perilous our life is simultaneously.

The more time we spend cultivating the expansive space within us, the more the score keeper becomes a caricature. The more the score keeper becomes someone who we realize is not actually us, but a projection of processes we are living out based on systems, genetics, lineage, and ancestors. And that there is even room for them too. Oh hi scorekeeper, welcome, I see you trying so hard to try. I love you too.