The Mountain Mystic Podcast
Welcome to a new form of ascension path: an embodied spirituality that unfolds as we deepen into our present, lived experience for all that it is in these wild, often chaotic, often painful and challenging, yet infinitely beautiful lives lived as human beings. An embodied spirituality: one that demands that we know our very real, very alive world here on planet earth as we simultaneously learn to go within, know ourselves ever-more-deeply, and learn the discerning path of healing, of transformation, and of wild & deep fulfillment.
When I left my life as a Biomedical Researcher in pursuit of a path that could truly help heal the world, I didn't expect my greatest teacher to come in the form of Earth, herself. But that's what happened! Along with guidance from a diverse set of ancient wisdom traditions and some phenomenal modern teachers, I've been able to carve out my own path out of a modern industrial complex and, moment by moment, learn to choose what is healing and nurturing and joyful and fulfilling!
As a trail runner and rock climber, it is my bond with the great outdoors that taught me deep truths about our misalignment with Nature and our own selves. Here, may we step into conversation focused on re-alignment with our true nature. Through it, may we find a better path forward as we heal the deep wounds cut into all living systems.
Systems thinking meets Embodied Living & Holistic Healing: Brought to you by the mind of a Biomedical Engineer turned Yoga & Meditation Teacher.
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How to be present with life's challenging experiences
Presence is a powerful term, but what we don't often understand is how much we are asked when it comes to the path that is becoming ever-more present to reality. In this way, I see presence less as a state and more as a process: an art and skill that is cultivated over time as we become more and more able to sense/feel/perceive and otherwise hold our consciousness with that which is arising in each moment.
Today we continue to speak to presence by looking at those challenging times that life asks us to stay here, sensing/perceiving/feeling/knowing that which is challenging in the moment.
Again, recognizing that this is a path/process as we move out of the modern way of things (a way of being that has us ever-reaching towards distraction, numbing, etc.) as we learn to feel into self. Knowing that it is in feeling into self that we become fully attuned to this world we are all part of.
Listen to the related episode mentioned in today's podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2047846/episodes/16079777
Listen to last season's episode on being present with those dark/painful/unpleasant aspects of reality:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2047846/episodes/14082246
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