

Healing At The Edge with RamDev Dale Borglum
Be Here Now Network
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
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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.

Jun 9, 2021 • 50min
The Path of Meditation
In this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev looks at meditation as a spiritual path itself, leads two different guided meditations, and explores the concept of emptiness.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jun 4, 2021 • 3min
The Official Alan Watts Podcast is Coming to the Be Here Now Network!
The Alan Watts Organization and Be Here Now Network have come together to bring you a new podcast series that dives deep into the Alan Watts Archive’s 100-hour collection of talks. This Monday, June 7th, discover for yourself why Alan Watts has continued to inspire generations of seekers with the Alan Watts Being in the Way podcast. This exciting new series is hosted by Mark Watts, Alan's son and archive curator. Mark and his guests share Alan Watts’ inspirational work that poetically interprets the wisdom teachings of the East for Western audiences. Set a reminder for June 7th and subscribe to the Alan Watts Being in the Way podcast wherever you get podcasts to receive regular wisdom from Alan Watts - brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass' Be Here Now Network!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 18, 2021 • 44min
Ep. 64 – Embodied Nonduality
Illuminating the path to resting in embodied nonduality, Ram Dev leads a guided meditation & shares on bhakti devotion, emptiness, mindfulness, non-grasping, Kali, surrender, & unconditional love.Recognizing how disembodied so many of us have become in western culture through our relationship to media, the internet, electronics, and even all-too-heady spiritual practices; Ram Dev highlights a path to liberation and healing through engagement with our human body. Illustrating the steps to resting in nonduality through bhakti devotion, embodied mindfulness, and surrendering into the spacious heart, Ram Dev prepares us for the tantric realization of finding out who we really are. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 4, 2021 • 38min
Ep. 63 – Tantric Devotion
Illuminating the essence Tantric Devotion, Ram Dev leads a guided 'Guru Meditation' before sharing on the Divine Mother, the Unmanifest Absolute, Buddhism, emotions, and nonduality.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 6, 2021 • 55min
Ep. 62 – The Tantra of Emotions
Redefining emotions as healing messages, Ram Dev shares the tantra of emotions, illustrating how spacious mindfulness towards our feelings opens gateways to wholeness.Sharing insights into working with our wide variety and volume of our emotional states, Ram Dev explores, through a tantric lens, how we can begin to open up to our inner feelings, rather than shying away from them and projecting outwardly. Defining our emotions and laying a tiered pathway for working with them, Ram Dev imbibes wisdom of the Divine Mother, inviting us to 'devour, or be devoured,' by this world of dancing form, beckoning us inward past our nuanced gateways of fear, and into the blissful joy of wholeness beyond seperation.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 16, 2021 • 41min
Ep. 61 – Working with the Dying as Spiritual Practice with Charmaine Kachibaia
On this episode of Healing at the Edge, Ram Dev speaks with Charmaine Kachibaia, who is training to be a death doula, about working with the dying as a spiritual practice.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Feb 23, 2021 • 41min
Ep. 60 – Dying Into Love
Dive into the profound journey of love and devotion as the discussion unfolds stories of Maharajji. Explore how non-duality reshapes our views on death, embracing it as a natural transition. Learn the art of 'soft looking' to cultivate universal love and empathy, while deciphering the difference between compassion and pity. Reflect on spiritual teachings that unite various traditions and the relationship between love, grief, and healing. The conversation wraps up with insights on transformative healing and building community connections.