
Healing At The Edge with RamDev Dale Borglum
RamDev Dale Borglum founded and directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first residential facility in the United States to support conscious dying. He has been the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project in Santa Fe and since 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the coauthor with Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman and Dwarka Bonner of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation since 1974. Dale lectures and gives workshops on the topics of meditation, healing, spiritual support for those with life threatening illness, and on caregiving as spiritual practice. He has a doctorate degree from Stanford University. Dale’s passion is the healing of our individual and collective fear of death so that we may be free. Learn more about Ram Dev’s work via the Living/Dying Project
Latest episodes

Jan 20, 2022 • 38min
Ep. 75 – Embodied Love
Helping us past discursive thought and separation, Ram Dev lays the bridgework to the path of Embodied Love and Devotional Vipassana.Find out more about Dale's work at the Living/Dying Project: livingdying.orgSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dec 31, 2021 • 53min
Ep. 74 – Grief as Healing
Exploring both acute and chronic grief, Ram Dev shares perspectives and practices for consciously bearing our grief and opening our hearts.Find out more about Dale’s work at the Living/Dying Project: livingdying.orgThis podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dec 8, 2021 • 45min
Ep. 73 – Digesting Emotion, Devouring Life
Devour or Be Devoured—Ram Dev illuminates ancient Tantric approaches for digesting emotion, stress, suffering & trauma in the modern world.This podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowTying together previous topics around working with stress, dancing the Tantric 3-Step, and Devouring The Mother, Ram Dev outlines foundational Tantric wisdom around dissolving samskaras, transmuting energy, and digesting emotion rather than being devoured by life."There's an attitude that makes this total devouring of energy much more possible: an attitude of amazement or wonder, 'Wow, my mind is really angry right now!" You can cultivate being fascinated in your emotional reactions without believing or disbelieving them, but being curious about where it's coming from." – Ram Dev (Dale Borglum)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Nov 17, 2021 • 34min
Ep. 72 – Boredom & Nonduality
Offering wisdom at the spiritually potent merging point of boredom and nonduality, Ram Dev explores how we can become aware of subtle feelings to 'mind the gap' and rest in the wholeness of nature of mind.In this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev illuminates the deep connection and opportunity of awakening encased within the spiritual overlay of boredom and nonduality. Teaching us how to 'mind the gap,' trust our subtle emotions, and rest in the true nature of mind, Ram Dev invites us into the 'abyss of radical surrender' to remember who we are as consciousness, awareness, and love itself."Right now you're sitting in your body, your butt's on the chair, cushion, or sofa. What does that feel like? Can that be the portal to resting in nature of mind? Can we use boring sensation to take us directly to that place?" – Ram Dev (Dale Borglum)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Oct 27, 2021 • 40min
Ep. 71 – Inhabiting the Body as a Path to Awakening w/Chris Britt
Chris Britt returns to Healing at the Edge for a conversation with Ram Dev about inhabiting the body as a path to spiritual awakening, and why the body channel of healing is so important. Chris Britt combines stories, humor, magic, mindfulness and embodiment techniques to help us navigate through these difficult times. Learn more about him at chrisbritt.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sep 25, 2021 • 35min
Ep. 70 – Going Beyond
Ram Dev explores how mantras can be practiced at different stages of development, and how they help us in going beyond just being lost in the content of our lives.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sep 3, 2021 • 59min
Ep. 69 – Devotion & Faith
In this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev dives deeply into the subjects of devotion and faith, plus leads a guided meditation that incorporates a practice called guru yoga.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Aug 11, 2021 • 47min
Ep. 68 – The Art of Spiritual Healing
In this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev explores the art of spiritual healing, which is all about resting in non-duality and connecting to wholeness.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 21, 2021 • 1h 1min
Ep. 67 – From Separation to Connection
Building a bridge from separation to connection, Ram Dev offers practices for staying grounded, working with emotions like grief, and transmuting fear into love.Can the chaos, fear, and separation we feel in our incarnations be the fueling motivation for deepening practice? Ram Dev explores the very pertinent spiritual through-line of how we can move from separation to connectedness. Diving into the grief, fear, politics, and tribalism that promote feelings of separation, Ram Dev offers grounded and embodied practices and solutions for working with emotions and mindfully transmuting fear into love.This episode is part of an ongoing conversation between Dale and his students around liberating ourselves from fear and healing ourselves through presence and practice. Learn more about Dale's workshops at livingdying.org. "One could say that a lot of spiritual work is about transmuting feelings of separation into feelings of connectedness." – Ram Dev (Dale Borglum)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jul 1, 2021 • 44min
Ep. 66 – Compassion for All Suffering
Exploring how to keep an open heart in difficult times, Ram Dev shares a Tibetan Tonglen guided meditation for cultivating compassion for all suffering beings.Frightened of Finishing Netflix...Opening the podcast by sharing a list of short coronavirus memoirs written by people during the height of the pandemic, Ram Dev invites us to feel the poignancy of the suffering people are going through. Pointing to spiritual practice as a true anchor of wellbeing during difficult times, he speaks to the potency of global practices, like Tonglen and Loving Kindness, which compassionately encompass all sentient beings."You have to have a deep enough connection with self, with God, with practice, that you can realize that your heart is boundless and you can take in all that suffering." – Ram Dev (Dale Borglum)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.