RamDev shares his thoughts on approaching subtle grief and feelings of separateness through a Tantric lens.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev holds a talk on:Dealing with the subtle grief of being in the bodyThe illusion of selfDirectly experiencing emptinessRelaxing into perfection and the boundless nature of the heartTantra and seeing the beloved in everythingFinding opportunities in neutral momentsThe Tantric 3-step and nakedly contacting anger and difficult emotionsRepression and creating space for what must be releasedA guided meditation“We’re going from this grief because we’re feeling separate to compassion for this grief. This compassion reveals the empty nature of the heart, and then this Tantric understanding begins to awaken. Maybe that sounds like a lot of words, but it’s a very somatic, immediate, intimate process that can be experienced right now.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RamDev offers wisdom on receiving the body as an energetic entity we can utilize to enter into non-dual awareness.This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev offers some wisdom on:The challenge of making our life a practiceExperiencing this in the body for full presenceEmbodiment perceived as emptinessHow unresolved trauma can get locked in the bodyRelaxation as a way to surrenderRegular stress versus mindful stressSamskaras and psychological imprints on the bodyA somatic angle to the tantric-three-stepThe inherent wakefulness within the bodyReceiving the body as an energetic entityWays that we can be in a flow state with our bodyA guided practice to enter into beingness“Resting in the body is difficult because unresolved trauma is locked in the body. There are sensations in the body, painful sensations. Relaxation is really an act of faith. Relaxation is about trust and surrender and trust and surrender are difficult as long as there’s trauma there.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Whether it is Christ, a guru, a loved one, or neighbor, RamDev helps us find the object of our devotion in each passing moment.In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:The inner and outer guruLetting go of identification with sufferingSeeing the forest versus getting lost in the treesThe grace within devotionHow our psychological integration determines what level of intimacy we will have with GodInhabiting the body and opening the heartWorshiping God in every formConscious grieving and deepening devotionSpaciousness and non-grasping as an antidote to fear“The guru isn’t just something outside that we’re in relationship with. Its everything, it’s the whole universe. And, it’s the practitioner. It’s you, it’s me. It’s not something that’s only there when we’re feeling holy and sacred. Suppose you’re saying a mantra, you’re saying ram ram ram. From the standpoint of tantra, each time you say ram, it is ram. Each time you look in the mirror, it is ram. Each time you look at your partner or your child or your neighbor, it is ram. It is the mother.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RamDev analyzes how distraction prevents us from experiencing boundless awareness and the ways we can develop qualities of spaciousness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowThis time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:How to deal with distractionThe ways that war and politics can consume our mindsShifting between boredom and distraction/entertainmentWhat is behind our ongoing restlessnessThe fear of spaciousness and emptinessNoticing the impulse to fill up spaceHow compassion comes from having a heart that is spaciousDoing Mantras as a vehicle for emptinessAlternative ways to experience openness“The path of the dharma really requires that we develop the courage to look beyond our distractedness, to find what lies behind it, and to not necessarily feed ourselves with ongoing entertainment.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sharing her personal story with loss, yoga therapist Wendy Stern joins RamDev to talk about somatic grieving through yoga and mindfulness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this moving episode, RamDev and Wendy Stern converse about:Wendy’s journey with yoga therapyHow the loss of her first born child, Noah, propelled Wendy into working with griefTurning to yoga as a sanctuary for exploring difficult emotionsHow visiting Bali and Thailand showed Wendy that death is just a part of lifeThe way that grief can open our heartsA new appreciation for life after lossWhat blocks westerners from enlightenmentThe split between the intellectual body and the emotional bodyThe tantric 3-step and mindful breathing curriculumThe profound changes that come from grieving in communityEvolving our cultural understanding of griefAccepting and acknowledging griefHow retreats can accelerate healingYoga postures for griefAbout Wendy Stern:Wendy dedicates her life’s work to supporting people to heal and transform through the process of grief. Wendy has devoted the last 20 years to being a student and teacher of yoga. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and is certified as a yoga therapist, teacher, reiki practitioner and facilitator of yoga therapy groups for grief support and self-empowerment. Wendy offers a unique fusion of prana flow yoga and Phoenix Rising, interweaving deep, personal reflection into a vinyasa style class. Through Wendy’s own personal journey with loss, she found herself deepened in her commitment to support others and birthed the Center for Somatic Grieving and the Grief Support Network.“Until you really have felt loss, until you’ve really inhabited your humanity in that way, for most people there is a place in the heart that hasn’t broken open yet. It’s in those broken places that God can come into each of us.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ram Dass joins RamDev for a moving conversation about their work with the dying and the importance of practice in the living/dying process that each of us will go through.In this revamped episode, RamDev and Ram Dass connect on:The formation of the living dying centerThe four Tibetan mind-turning truthsHow all fear can be tracked to a fear of deathEgo and the importance of faith in life and deathSpiritual bypassing and moving to a more centered place of beingHow the practices Ram Dass was given by Maharaj-ji helped him find his true selfA story about letting go and a mushroom trip in IndiaWhy we don’t have to wait until we are dying to be honestThe interface between living and dyingThe practice of Bhakti“I find that light is your guru. Your guru meets you as you die.” – Ram Dass See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Using mindful awareness and compassion, RamDev walks listeners through the pathways to emotional freedom.Check out Ram Dev’s new online course, A Practical Guide to Freedom: The Stages of Awakening, where you will come away with the wisdom and practices to integrate and embody the stages of the spiritual path so you can begin to surrender into the boundless nature of the heart.This time on Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev looks into:Using emotions to dive into deeper parts of ourselvesPeeling through the layers of emotionsWays to be with our emotionsBeing with our sensations without getting lost in the storyLove and the ability to forgiveI am afraid versus I have fearCreating space between the emotion and the one who observesThe superego (our inner judge, jury, and executioner)Embodied mindfulness and compassionHaving compassion for our emotional demonsTantra and all emotions as awakened energyTurning obstacles into practice and presenceThe benefits of anxiety, anger, and sadnessThe sacred nature of all experiences“With attention, with being centered, we move from being reactive to a place where we can be with an emotion without either automatically pushing it away or automatically getting lost in that.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Concentrating on devotion, RamDev describes healing feelings of inadequacy and holding a deep compassion for the self and others.This week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev teaches us about:- Devotion as the easiest way to open the heart- Self-worth and offering Compassion to ourselves- Trusting that everything is the Dharma unfolding- Becoming attached to God and Surrendering the false self- Intimacy with our teachings and guru via devotion- The relative deity versus the absolute deity- An evolution into Tantric devotion- Receiving grace in every moment- The four heavenly abodes in Buddhism and their enemies- Our tendency to be bothered and taking responsibility- A brief self-compassion and mindfulness practice- Imperfection as a part of the shared human experience- A quick Q and A with listeners on keeping an open heart and more“The far enemy of love is hatred, but the near enemy of love is attachment. It looks like love, it smells like love, but it causes suffering. Very often our love, which we can extend here to our devotion, is a mixture of true love and attachment.” – RamDev-----Discover the transformative practice of teaching mindfulness in a new FREE 30-page ebook by Senior Buddhist teacher and Emmy award-winning musician, David Nichtern. With its blend of humor, wisdom, and accessible approach, The Art of Teaching Mindfulness ebook is a must-read for anyone interested in sharing the life-changing practices of mindfulness with others.Already downloaded by over 15k people, visit dharmamoon.com/ebook to get YOUR free copy of The Art of Teaching Mindfulness!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Defining the meaning of fully conscious dying, RamDev shares the practices that can help all of us meet death with acceptance and awareness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode, RamDev elucidates:The stages of becoming fully consciousApproaching death as openly as possibleHow noticing our sensations around death can lead us to acceptanceSoftening our ability to be with difficult emotionsPreparatory practices for the ultimate surrenderThe false-self and an over-reliance on our identityGuru Yoga, Forgiveness Practice, and The Dissolving into Space MeditationBeing with the beloved and recognizing our oneness with all thingsMantra practice as a technique to go beyond dualityThe importance of devotion and compassionUsing Maharaj-ji and Christ as examples of being in love with GodRamDev and The  Living/Dying Project are beyond thrilled to have Jon “Vasu” Seskevich present a 3-week series on navigating pain and uncertainty. In this series, attendees will learn strategies to navigate their own short and long-term uncertainties, including recovering from the pandemic, illness, aging and death. Learn more: Navigating Uncertainty“What we’re exploring here is the possibility of tuning the string on the instrument of your life so that it is resonating in a beautiful way; noticing when it’s too tight, noticing when it’s too loose, coming back again and again to this balance of surrender from the heart.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Analyzing the roots of anxiety, RamDev explains the spiritual and emotional benefits of having a direct experience of emptiness.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowThis week on Healing at the Edge, RamDev explains:The fundamental misperception of who we areReality versus delusionForm, solidness, and sense of selfDirectly experiencing emptinessAnxiety produced from separatenessAppreciating the dream-like nature of thingsReadings from The Heart SutraLetting go of the urge to control our livesThe simplicity and complexity of surrendering / trusting GodDifferent types of anxietyEmptiness versus nothingness“Anxiety is telling us that we’re lost in the fundamental delusion of solidness and separateness, that we don’t really get the Buddhist notion of emptiness. A direct experience of emptiness, and then being able to stabilize emptiness, can be a way of working with anxiety.” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How can we bring awareness and compassion to our emotions? This week, RamDev looks at how we can grow by forming a close relationship with our emotions.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowOn this episode of the Healing at the Edge Podcast, we explore:Opening to the emptiness of emotionsBeing the lens that frames our experiencesTurning towards the raw energy of our emotions, rather than resisting themThe “egg-laying” breathing method Building the foundation for an open heart through grounding and centering“We liberate our emotions by seeing their empty nature.” – RamDev Dale BorglumSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into cultivating qualities to respond to the artificial intelligence disruption.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowReflecting on the increase in collective fear that comes with moving into uncertain times, RamDev explores:- The qualities we can cultivate in response to the disruption caused by artificial intelligence- Our interconnected nature and how doing the inner work benefits all beings- The potential benefits and dangers of AI- The balance of wisdom and compassion- Discerning uncertainty from anxiety and working with those emotions- Dharma talks scripted by Chat GPT“By you working with your uncertainty, you’re realizing that so many people are feeling the same poisonous emotion. By you having compassion for that, you’re helping other beings because of our interconnected nature. You’re doing this for all beings.” - RamDev (Dale Borglum)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on surrendering into suffering and how right effort unfolds in our lives.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev reflects on:The motivations for our spiritual practiceLooking at how suffering is caused by how we are relating to our environmentSitting with discomfortThe different kinds of lazinessAlleviating suffering for other beingsThe path of working with Kali Remembering our connectedness to God“Right effort is the effort to surrender. It’s not the effort to change, or fix, or do anything. It’s the effort to keep remembering that our true nature is already whole.” – RamDev (Dale Borglum)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Fresh from a trip to Guatemala, RamDev guides us on letting go of separateness and surrendering into wholeness.This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow“Right now we can begin to rest in the wisdom that we are not the body and the personality. To the extent that we really get that, our true nature becomes revealed.” – RamDev (Dale Borglum)Back from his Guatemalan adventure, RamDev returns to answer questions and discuss:Near-death experiences and how he answers the question, “What happens when you die?” Non-duality from the lens of Sri Nisargadatta Trusting the spaciousness of the open, compassionate heart  The friction between grasping and surrendering Compassion as the stepping stone to non-duality and the nature of the open heart-mind Aloneness bringing us closer to onenessSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Exploring practices for embodied mindful awareness, RamDev shines light on the five stages of the journey of awakening. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow“Enlightenment is not something that is achieved. It is the revealing of what has always been here.” – RamDev (Dale Borglum)In this episode of Healing at the Edge, RamDev dives into:The 5 different stages of the path of awakening: motivation, trust, compassion, tantra, and wholenessGrounding as the antidote to fear and anxiety, and a practice for integrating embodied mindfulness Centering as the antidote to guilt and shame, as well as judging and grandiosityBeing with feelings exactly as they are in the body, mind, and heartSeveral practices for playing with non-dualitySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Focusing on truth and awareness, RamDev teaches us how to see the guru in everything and everyone.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:The formlessness of the GuruThe Guru within the self and othersMaharaj-jiNon-dualistic self-realizationDevotion to truth and awarenessFinding the Guru in all aspects of reality"When we're talking about God or guru or self, it's such a small unimposing word compared to what the self is, compared to what the guru is. God is a nickname for reality. God is a nickname for everything." – RamDev Dale Borglum See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Describing three levels of surrender, RamDev shows us how to receive the blessings of an open heart.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"The first level of surrender that allows us to receive is giving up a wish that things be different." – RamDev In this episode we hear RamDev Dale Borglum discuss:Transforming pain into cosmic joy Openheartedness and grace Global catastrophe and sufferingAbsolute Goodness and our intrinsic natureEnlightenment and Vulnerability Surrender in the various stages of practiceSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RamDev dives into the Tantra of delight, wonder, and astonishment to help us surrender with love into our sacred fundamental nature.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"In this crazy 21st century in which we're living, for me, the most available and exciting practice is this notion of Tantra—of being able to be with anything and immediately go to its fundamental nature." – RamDev Dale BorglumIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:Wisdom from classic books Zen Flesh Zen Bones by Paul Reps, and The Yoga of Delight, Wonder, and Astonishment, translated by Jai Deva Singh, both on ancient Vijñāna Bhairava—the 112 instructions from Shiva to the Goddess on how to immediately awakenThe connection within Tantra between love, emptiness, self, devotion, and compassionMaharajji's statement that "the best form to worship God is every from" and how everything is graceTantra, the Divine Mother, and devouring and digesting emotionsYoga versus TantraEmbodied mindfulness for transmuting emotion into the sacredGuru Yoga and identifying oneself with God/Deity and mantraSurrendering into love through non-graspingSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Exploring how to open the heartmind, RamDev, offers insight into love, devotion, suffering, boundaries, resistance, and equanimity.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow"In Sanskrit there's not two words for heart and mind, there's one word. The heart is really the depth of the mind; the mind is the surface of the heart." – RamDev Dale BorglumIn this episode RamDev Dale Borglum explores:The inherent connection between heart and mindLoss, grief, embodied mindfulness, trust, and boundariesDevotion and the qualities of an open heartSuffering, resistance, presence, and healingLove, attachment, equanimity, and compassionSpiritual practices for opening the heartA guided meditation on opening the heartmindSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Soften devotion and open to the idea of life as meditation with RamDev as he teaches us about seeing God in everything.In this episode of the Healing at the Edge podcast, RamDev helps us discover being less rigid with meditation, loving like Christ, and embodying awareness in daily life. NEW Meditation Series: Pause, Breathe, Be Here Now with Ram Dass, Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Joseph Goldstein, John Lockley, Ram Dev, Trudy Goodman, Lama Tsultrim Allione—FREE January 16 to 25. Sit in true peace, love, and tranquility. Join thousands of people around the world for this collective meditation experience: onecommune.com/ramdass “Instead of using meditation as a duty, something we are using to try and fix things, can it be this much softer accepting way of moving into innate tenderness?” – RamDevSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.