Spiritual Grit

This episode is the first of a 3-part series that explores finding joy in healing. // Healing is hard when you try to go it alone, when you don’t have support. // Most people think that healing is difficult because subconsciously, we feel comfortable with the pain and suffering of trauma. We tolerate it because it’s familiar. // It is important for us to approach ourselves with gentleness, kindness and compassion. // Our egos are not our enemies, but a neglected piece of ourselves that we’ve allowed to take over our lives. We need to show it our love. // Our body can heal itself - with the proper knowledge of its natural processes, proper support, care and love. // Hug your trauma. Embrace it. Accept it. Acknowledge it. It will then transmute all those wounds of hurt and trauma into something that will help you flourish. // Today's poems: “That tree we planted” by Hafiz, "Maganda begins" by Eileen Tabios (from the anthology, The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit) // Visit https://suryagian.com for more insight on healing, offerings to learn how to heal, and invitations to practice.

Some folks might be new to the podcast, so I thought it'd be a good idea to go way back to the very first episode where I set my intention for this show. It's also an invitation for regular listeners to remember the power of meditation, poetry as we own our choices. And to keep this essential question at the forefront: Who are you BE-ing? // In this podcast, we combine the idea of flow, the current love of the universe and using poetry as a tool in which to access the flow of our innermost selves. // Meditation goes hand in hand with poetry which can help us create awareness about ourselves and how we interact with others. // Often we forget that we have the power to take charge of our lives, to change the decisions that we make, how we view certain circumstances, we have choices.// With the help of this podcast, we can get quiet to check in with ourselves, to get curious of what lies beneath this physical body. // Poem: Hafiz's "God just came near" // Visit suryagian.com for more delightfulness!

Often our habits are so automatic, we become unconscious about them. Once you bring awareness and consciousness around a habit, you'll find your power or choose to continue it, or choose to change it.// Choosing is where the power lies - choose which habits or patterns you'd like to drop. // I invite you to examine your spiritual beliefs, practices and habits and wonder what might happen if you choose to change it.// We cannot change the past; we can't undo our experience but we can let go of the emotions attached to it - anger, fear.// The decision comes from within your inner knowing - may it be called gut instinct, your heart, your intuition but they are all aligned for your highest good.// Today's poems: “In a circus booth” by Hafiz and "I will just say this" by St. Teresa of Avila.//

In this episode I talk about creating a healing blueprint. // Everyone is an individual - very specific, very different. In this idea of your own healing blueprint, you can design your healing path. // When it comes to healing trauma, everyone's experience of trauma is varied, thus, the healing approaches are going to be varied. // We might not want to heal because we are comfortable where we are. We learn to live with pain, with being triggered, with being sensitive. // We don’t know how good life can be until we experience a moment without the pain we’ve grown accustomed to. // The idea of being able to live in your life fully! Unbounded and untethered. // Today's poems: Hafiz’s "Turn Left a Thousand Feet from Here" by Hafiz and Kabir’s "Where the Shopkeeper Would Say"

People tend to come to poetry when they're at their lowest points, but it’s possible for poetry to become more than that. // Poetry is always a perfect place to notice the highs and lows more acutely rather than just moving through grief, loss, and deprivation unconsciously. // Art happens in our lives as a way of being in ourselves. Everyone's feeling that they're in darkness and struggling so they end up returning to poetry to look for the light. // Let go and trust. You have to acknowledge that there is something supernatural or something unseen that is more powerful than us. // Our right to pass through this place, this planet has everything to do with how properly we are regarding and treating these spaces well. // The importance of awareness of being in a relationship with nature, with the Land and being in a relationship with the things that are unseen that instead of dominating one over the other, it’s about being in collaboration with them.In considering Barbara Jane’s new poetry collection, how do we frame our experiences as active resistance? How can poetry mirror what is happening so that we can find another way to witness it? // Consider the roles of our elders and our ancestors and our relationships with them when thinking about how we are being in the world. // We also talk a bit about superstitions, ghosts, and our ancestral inheritance. // Today's poems: “Unanimous” by Hafiz , "Acquainted with lightning" by Marjorie Evasco

In this episode, I talk about why healing is so important, especially for women writers of color. // Change is inevitable. It is the only thing constant. We change even when we don't want to, even when we resist it, even when we think we're staying in place. // A few people may not know what their life purpose is that's why they take the part of discovering what their purpose is and what is not. // Action is information. Action can help you start to uncover the thing that you want to understand. // Each person is different. Some can adapt to their environment easily. But some are not. They prefer small steps to emerge their life purpose. // Nobody knows what the future holds. No one knows how the future is going to unfold. Nobody does. The only thing we should do is, Be Present right now. // Most women, particularly women of color, face challenges from sexism to racism. Their effort is most likely being rejected, unshared, unpublicized, unheard, and unseen. They are discouraged to share whatever story they have. // As you go along with this journey, start to build your trust in yourself. The trust that is within you. The trust that has been lost, that has been covered with several layers of illusion. // The Heal to Power Blueprint, a tool designed for healing specifically for women writers of color. It is a tool to access our own inner knowing, our own modes of healing. The world will be so much better with it. // You don't have to play the victim. The people who have power over us are there because we gave them our power. if we can strengthen our nervous system, if we can build resilience, if we can heal from our traumas, we can stop giving our power away, we can step into our own power, and share our voices and stories. // Today's poems: "All the talents of God" by Hafiz and "Patience" by Ross Gay // Sign up for my free workshop for women writers of color, Healing Magic, Saturday, 9/26 @ 12pm ET at https://surygian.com/healing-trauma-for-wocs-free-workshop

In this episode, I explore a few questions that come up for those of us on a healing jounery. Are we being our true selves or are we playing roles that people expect us to take on? Who are we? Who are we really? And who are we being? Why is it important to we heal our traumas? And how can we do this when talk therapy doesn’t quite complete the job? // Meditation isn’t always the answer. (gasp! Don’t worry, Ani Pema said it, so it’s okay! Haha!) // Can you create warmth for yourself? Can you be gentle with yourself? // Get to the root of the things holding you back, the things no longer serving you. // Today’s poems: Hafiz’s “Two Bears” and Barbara Jane Reyes’s “Track: ‘My Life,’ Mary J. Blige (1994).” // Join me on IG Live Tues 9/22-Thurs 9/24 for a free 3-day pop-up training on healing from the inside out. This will culminate into a free workshop on Saturday, 9/26, where you’ll get to learn about my new course offering, Heal to Power. Follow me on IG @suryagianyogi Visit my website to register and get more info: https://suryagian.com/heal-to-power-interest -list Your best life starts now!

In this episode, you’ll learn about: how trauma shows up for us in our bodies and in our daily lives / what the 4 F responses are / strengthen your nervous system, strengthen your whole being / healing is an individual journey (as we draw from different modalities in varying combinations) but can be walked in community with others / writing is healing / regular practices are not only healing but can bring you closer to your true essence / when you heal, you remember your own power, your own divinity / Today’s poems: Haifz’s Muhammad’s Twin and Ross Gay’s “Ending The Estrangement” / Next week I’m offering a free 3-day mini-training on Instagram Live on Sept 22-24 at 1pm ET where I’ll talk more about how our bodies hold trauma, how to identify those spots, and what to do to being healing. If you can’t make it live, the recordings will be available on IGTV. Follow me @suryagianyogi or get more info at suryagian.com / Start healing so that you can live your best live now!

This is not your ordinary podcast chat about spirituality, meditation practices, and self-awareness. This is a rowdy, fiery, real conversation (complete with some bleeped out expletives! Haha!) where Karen Kenney, a spiritual mentor, memoirist, and all around badass, and I dive into who we are as humans on this planet –both as individuals and as a collective. We talk about how we choose everything in our lives, whether we know it or not, and what we can do to remember this innate power, to remember who we are, how to strip away the BS, how to heal our wounds, and remember that WE ARE LOVE made manifest. So many great teachings here! And fantastic analogies (“sitting in a sh--ty diaper”!)! Karen also answers the burning questions we all have: who am I and what is my purpose? Omg – you HAVE to listen to this one! * Today’s poems: Hafiz’s “The Earth Braces Itself” and Rudy Francisco’s “Mercy, after Nikki Giovanni” * You can find Karen Kenney here: karenkenney.com and her podcast is The Karen Kenney Show, which can be found on all the podcast platforms. Follow me on IG here: @suryagianyogi and my website: https://suryagian.com / Are you an empath? Get on the waitlist for my membership community, Empowered Empaths, where we come together to support and empower each other as we practice yoga & meditation, hear from guest speakers, and engage in pop-up events, like tarot card readings. Sign up here: https://suryagian.com/membership-waitlist

How we read things is informed by who we are being in that moment in time. / In this age of zoom interactions, don’t forget we have bodies! / The earth nourishes and supports us. / How do we respond to the external events of our lives. / How our internal state informs how we choose (consciously or subconsciously) to act externally. / Overwhelm is a choice (whut??) / Bonus! At the end, I give you a six-day experience: a practice that will help you deal with overwhelm. Let me know how it goes my DMing me on IG or dropping a comment on the IG post about this episode! I’ve love to hear what happens for you! / Today’s poems: Hafiz’s “The Body a Tree” and Kabir’s “Professional Counseling”/ Follow me on IG here: @suryagianyogi and my website: https://suryagian.com / Are you an empath? Get on the waitlist for my membership community, Empowered Empaths, where we come together to support and empower each other as we practice yoga & meditation, hear from guest speakers, and engage in pop-up events, like tarot card readings. Sign up here: https://suryagian.com/membership-waitlist