Healing At The Edge with RamDev Dale Borglum

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.

Topics discussed include using emotions to dive into deeper parts of ourselves, ways to be with our emotions, the superego as our inner judge, the benefits of anxiety, anger, and sadness, and exploring the concept of doubt and its various manifestations.

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.