Life Illuminated

What if instead of listening to your internal narrative about an experience you've had you instead challenge it?  Explore a simple practice led by Spiritual Life Coach Maggie Kelly that will leave you with simple tools to first begin to notice that internal narrative but also take note of the dialog that you add to it.   

Join us as we chat with Miriam Taham, an expert in Pranayama breath work and meditation. Breath practice came to her at a very pivotal moment in her life and helped her navigate some rough waters. It also led her to herself, the real best self that continues to evolve today.  In this episode of the Life Illuminated podcast, explore the ways in which we can update our inherited patterns of behavior on the wings of a breath practice. Practice with the least effort and the greatest benefit.  www.maggiekelly.com

Sidelined from his first love of baseball due to injury, Mindset Coach and Fitness Trainer Damon Moshetto had to reevaluate his life. He uncovered the driving force behind his success and our in his study and practice of changing his mindset.  Join us for this provocative and insightful conversation about how if we can change our mindset, we can discover the driving force to our own lives.  www.maggiekelly.com

Known as a Law of Attraction Expert, Victoria Gallagher has dedicated her life to empowering people all over the world to successfully live life aligned with their dreams through her huge library of self-hypnosis recordings, online coaching courses, and live seminars and workshops. Join Maggie Kelly as she chats with Victoria to learn more about the power of Hypnosis.    www.maggiekelly.com

Spiritual Counselor Maggie Kelly connects with Carrie Hummingbird, soul guide and healer. Carrie mentors women to rewrite the story of their lives wide awake with authenticity, passion and purpose. She has a particular commitment to help us reconnect with Mother Earth through the practice of Shamanism.  Join us for this inspiring and uplifting episode. www.maggiekelly.com

Join Spiritual Life and Business coach Maggie Kelly for an intriguing conversation about Chinese medicine, Shiatsu and Qigong. Jessica Van Antwerp explains the healing power of Qigong and how its effects teach us how to reconnect with nature to rebalance our bodies, minds and spirits.     Connect with Maggie at www.maggiekelly.com 

Wait a minute! I thought I was compassionate? Of course, we all have the seed of compassion stored in our consciousness. But we can strengthen and expand our compassion with practice.  Find out how as Spiritual Life Coach Maggie Kelly guides you though first finding self-compassion so you can impart compassion on others.  www.maggiekelly.com    

Ever wondered just what it means or what it looks like to "wake up"? Some of us believe it's this bolt out of the sky type event that we experience and then our lives are never the same. Instead, it's more like little droplets of awakening throughout your life. Using all of life's "obstacles" and circumstances as our teachers, that is the only way to live your life conscious, awake, aware, enlightened.  www.maggiekelly.com

Self-compassion isn't indulging in our laziness or choosing to stay home from work because we don't feel like going. Join contemplative psychotherapist Maggie Kelly as she takes you on a deep dive into what Self-Compassion is and is not.  www.maggiekelly.com

Ever wondered how to begin your spiritual journey? What does that look like? Is it hard? Where do I begin? Let spiritual friend, mentor and coach chat with you about what it looks like to step onto the spiritual path.  Settle in.  www.maggiekelly.com

Join Spiritual Teacher and Meditaton Instructor Maggie Kelly as she chats about how the emotional pain and disruption is part of the process toward awakening.  In this episode, Maggie reminds us not to skirt around the uncomfortable emotions that surface but rather to face them head on as we travel the path of awareness and purpose.  Subscribe, rate, review.  Find Maggie Kelly at www.Satsanghouse.net 

Maggie Kelly interviews Shea Leonard a Physicians Assistant, Functional Medicine practitioner, gut, hormone and mental health coach.  The discovery at sixteen of her own hormonal and physical health challenges led Shea to become an investigator of her own health and well-being giving her the insight into the interplay between body, mind and spirit and their affect on overall health.  Shea shares her advice on what we should maximize, minimize and prioritize our health. visit Maggie Kelly at www.Satsanghouse.com Subscribe to the Life Illuminated podcast. 

Mindfulness and Meditation Instructor, Spiritual Life Coach Maggie Kelly shares how without mindfulness, we slowly die. How can that be? Sounds pretty dramatic, doesn't it?  Listen as she explains how mindfulness is the water for a dying plant - literally and figuratively.  Download and subscribe. Visit Maggie at www.satsanghouse.net

Maggie explores this idea of "spiritual materialism" where we mistakenly believe that Enlightenment is something we can obtain if we work hard enough, attend enough retreats, read enough spiritual texts or meditate for long enough.  But Awakening isn't a one shot deal; it's more of a slow and steady path. It's as if while on the path you receive a few sprinkles of awakening here and there as you go. Then perhaps you fall back into your habitual ways of being or patterns of behavior until you awaken again.  Join Maggie Kelly, spiritual life coach, meditation instructor and owner of Satsang House Meditation and Spiritual Center.  www.satsanghouse.com

Join Certified Meditation Instructor and Life Coach Maggie Kelly as she walks you through how we allow our thoughts to drive the show. We believe everything we think without little question as to whether or not it is real or even true.  You'll be left with tips on what to do with your endless internal dialog.  Rate, review and subscribe. Visit www.satsanghouse.net for more details and information. 

Professor/Author/Speaker Dr. Betty Kovacs shares Western culture's lost spiritual history of altered states of consciousness and what that means for us today. In this insightful and thought-provoking chat with spiritual teacher and mentor Maggie Kelly, Dr. Kovacs explores what it means to synchronize your heart with the core of creation. Contact Dr. Betty Kovacs at www.kamlak.com. Subscribe, rate and review. You can connect with Maggie Kelly at www.maggiekelly.com

Join Spiritual Teacher and Life Coach Maggie Kelly as she offers her commentary on one of the oldest Buddhist teachings; the Fourth Mindfulness Training. Start to grapple with this idea of deep listening and compassionate speech as your path to liberation.  Please feel free to connect with Maggie at maggie@maggiekelly.com.  Download, subscribe and rate this podcast and join us each week for a new episode.

Join Renee Jones, as she discusses the decades spent on yo-yo diets trying to find ways to curb her emotional eating. Renee's mission is to help others who struggle with their weight, who look to food for stress relief and to soothe themselves. Her motto is" When we face our stuff, we no longer need to stuff our faces". Subscribe to the Life Illuminated podcast. Visit Maggie Kelly at www.satsanghouse.net

Join Life, Business and Spiritual Coach, Meditation teacher and spiritual mentor Maggie Kelly as she gives us a little Dharma Talk on how to recognize the old habitual patterns of behavior and limiting beliefs that might be the residual we need to "brush off" in an effort to reconnect with our inner spark.  Join us and walk away with a few new practices to catch yourself before going down the rabbit hole! Rate, review subscribe to Life Illuminated. Feel free to visit www.maggiekelly.com or click here  https://SatsangHouseScheduling.as.me/30MIN-ZOOMCOACH for a complimentary 30-minute coaching session with Maggie.

This episode is a little different in that it is a rebroadcast of an interview conducted by Alexandra Babayan, LAc and Maggie Kelly for Alexandra's "Transformational Healing Summit."  Alexandra is a licensed acupuncturist, medical herbalist, qigong instructor, and lifestyle coach. She loves treating all patients with a focus on digestive disorders, mental-emotional health, and women's health. Her website www.beewellpdx.com. You can find Maggie Kelly at www.maggiekelly.com

Settle in to this in-depth conversation with Maggie Kelly. In a little role-reversal, Hypnotherapist and host of the "Power of Your Mind" podcast Victoria Gallagher interviews Life, Business, Meditation and Spiritual Coach Maggie Kelly. Join us as Maggie guides us toward the practice of meditation and "returning to your Self". Visit Maggie at www.maggiekelly.com and sign up for a complimentary coaching session via Zoom or phone. 

Corporate life coach Kim Ades shares her "Frame of Mind Coaching" methodology for helping clients identify their blindspots, change their mindset and yield extraordinary results. Kim helps her clients connect to their own emotional resilience to help them navigate these difficult times.  Join host Maggie Kelly for a thought-provoking chat with Kim Ades.  Rate, Review, Subscribe. You can find Maggie at www.maggiekelly.com.   

Former monk, Pandit Dasa is a Mindful Leadership Expert, author and motivational keynote speaker. His inspirational speeches aim to create a more mindful workplace culture which increases productivity and improves retention. He emphasizes the importance of leading without ego and highlights the importance of cultivating self-awareness and personal growth and development. His story is chronicled in his book, Urban Monk.  Subscribe to the Life Illuminated podcast for new weekly episodes. Contact Maggie Kelly at www.maggiekelly.com

George Tsiattalos, author of One with Life: Insights into Spiritual Enlightenment joins Spiritual Life Coach, Meditation Instructor and mentor Maggie Kelly for an insightful dialog about what it means to awaken.  Reach George at: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorGeorgeTsiattalos/ Contact Maggie Kelly at www.maggiekelly.com Please rate, review and subscribe to the Life Illuminated podcast.     

Join Maggie Kelly as she hosts Christiane Michelberger, former physician and psychoanalyst as they discuss the path the awakening.  Christiane is a mentor, or as she puts it, Travel Guide, to those dedicated to awakening using the Buddhist Ten Fetters assumptions as her guide. Christiane won't teach you anything or give you anything. Instead, she prefers to keep you in an inquiry into your own spiritual awakening and path.  Find Christiane at www.findingawakening.com. Maggie Kelly can be found at www.satsanghouse.com.  Please rate, review and subscribe to the Life Illuminated podcast. 

Along the spiritual path you may encounter times when you aren't feeling like you're on solid ground. You might feel like the ground beneath your feet has given way. Join Spiritual Mentor and Contemplative Life Coach Maggie Kelly as she provides you with reassurance that Freaking Out is GOOD News on your spiritual journey.  Subscribe, download and rate. Visit Maggie at www.maggiekelly.com or www.satsanghouse.net

Did you know our brains take in more than three times the amount of negative input than positive? This bias then becomes part of our internal narrative so much so that we have difficulty accepting the positive in either our interactions, relationships or conversations. Tune in to gather some insight into how you can practice challenging your negativity bias.  Subscribe, rate and review the Life Illuminated Podcast. www.maggiekelly.com

Join Contemplative Psychotherapist, Meditation and Spiritual Mentor and founder of Satsang House Meditation and Spiritual Center Maggie Kelly as she imparts beautiful guidance on how to survive the disruption and upheaval of the Coronavirus. How can we stay centered with a healthy dose of concern versus panic over our current state? NOTE:  All in-person classes, coaching sessions and meditation sessions are now held online via Zoom. Please visit www.satsanghouse.com for details and information on registering for one of our classes and the link will be sent to you. 

In this episode, Spiritual and Meditation Teacher and Life Coach Maggie Kelly asks a fundamental question: Why do we check out of our lives? What are your ways of checking out? Talking? Eating, scrolling, gambling, binge-watching TV?  Every experience we ever have in our lives only happens once. If we aren’t there to experience it, it’s as if it never happened. Tune in for Maggie’s insight and a practice you might incorporate into your daily life to help you show up to and check in to your own life.  www.maggiekelly.com

Pain is the final pathway, the body screaming that something has gone terribly wrong. Dr. Gurpreet Padda and his team treat at the intersection of the pain epidemic, opioid epidemic, and the diabetes epidemic. Tune in for an informative conversation between Maggie Kelly and  Dr. Gurpreet Padda as he discusses these interrelated pathologies and the clinical manifestations of systemic meta inflammation. Subscribe, rate and review. Connect with Maggie at www.maggiekelly.com

Under undue stress? Want to get off the proverbial treadmill of your chaotic life but can't find time for a vacation? Take a trip into the silence every day from the comfort of your own home! Join Spiritual and Meditation Teacher and Life Coach Maggie Kelly in a discussion of how incorporating this ancient practice into your daily life will settle your physiology and quiet your stress response allowing you to slip into the silence.    Download, rate and review! Contact Maggie at www.satsanghouse.com

Wouldn't it be nice to touch that space in between all o your noisy thoughts? Join Spiritual and Meditation Teacher and Life Coach Maggie Kelly as she discusses how meditation can help you quiet your internal dialog. Why meditate?    Please download, subscribe and rate our broadcast. Visit www.satsanghouse.com or find Maggie at www.maggiekelly.com.

Join Spiritual and Meditation Teacher and life coach Maggie Kelly as she gives you a sense of what the expression "Loving-kindness" actually means. In the ancient language of Sanskrit, loving-kindness is called "Metta." Literally, is means that we will accept ourselves warts and all with self-compassion and understanding. Listen in for a more meaty understanding.  Subscribe, rate and download this episode and stay tuned for a new teaching or interview conducted by Maggie every week.  www.satsanghouse.com

Join Spiritual Mentor and Life Coach Maggie Kelly as she engages on an inspiring interview with Jeff Gargas. Jeff Gargas is the COO and co-founder of the Teach Better Team (Creators of www.teachbetter.com, The Grid Method, and Teach Further) and co-author of the book, “Teach  Better.” He works with educators to increase student engagement and improve student success. He also offers 1-on-1 coaching for teachers who have a product or idea they want to share with others to better education. You can reach Maggie at www.maggiekelly.com Reach Jeff by: 

Stéphane Grenier shares his vision to ensuring that there no longer be barriers to mental health in this beautiful interview with Spiritual Teacher Maggie Kelly. In his autobiography, After the War: Surviving PTSD and Changing Mental Health Culture, Stéphane tells his story from the day he landed in the midst of the Rwandan genocide, through his journey of changing mental health culture in the Canadian military, developing national Guidelines for Peer Support with the Mental Health Commission of Canada, all the way to creating Mental Health Innovations (MHI); a consultancy that leads innovative and sustainable change in organizations to enhance the mental health of their people. Grenier can be found on his website: https://mhic-cism.com To connect with Maggie Kelly, visit www.satsanghouse.com

Join Spiritual Teacher Maggie Kelly as she chats with Tom Corner for a conversation about how anger and rage woke him up to himself. Tom discusses ways in which we can tame the "mosh pit " of our minds, break away the layers of uncovered unconscious beliefs and hold the focus of our awakening.  Please rate, review and subscribe to the Life Illuminated podcast. Contact Maggie Kelly through maggie@satsanghouse.net Or connect via www.satsanghouse.net

Join Maggie Kelly as she chats with Gin Carter, yoga and meditation teacher. Gin is also the co-founder of the Humanization Project, an organization devoted to humanizing our nation's prison population and creating compassion and understanding.  Please subscribe and rate this podcast and feel free to connect with Maggie Kelly, Spiritual Life Coach and Meditation teacher at www.satsanghouse.net

Misdiagnosed with and treated for Leukemia, Lyn Delmastro Thomson used her unbelievable experience to set out on a path as a Certified Body Talk Practitioner. Join Maggie Kelly, Life Illuminated host, in a conversation about fortitude, strength and the perseverance it takes when your life is turned upside down.  www.Satsanghouse.net You can find Lyn at heartfirehealingllc.com

Spiritual Life Coach, Mentor and Meditation teacher Maggie Kelly chats with former High School teacher and Life Coach Sheila Sutherland.  Sheila Sutherland shares her story of having the rug pulled out from under her as the entire contents of her life went up in flames. As she calls it, this "cosmic kick in the ass" came with huge life lessons and changed the entire trajectory of her life.  Once she felt like she was back on her feet, she was diagnosed with a chronic inflammatory of the brain. Twice in a one year span she was forced to confront her life and her health. Join us for this episode of the Life Illuminated podcast for your weekly shot of inspiration.  You can find Sheila at www.reigniteyourpurpose.com Maggie Kelly at www.satsanghouse.net.  

Join Spiritual and Meditation Teacher Maggie Kelly for a chat with author and coach Matthew Ferry. The two discuss the concept of "enlightened prosperity" as well as some of what might be keeping us from living both and enlightened life as well as a prosperous life.  Mathew is a business coach and author. He has inspired thousands to create the life they envision for themselves by helping them understand that "your mind is not your friend." Please download, subscribe, rate and review the Life Illuminated podcast and join us for inspiring weekly episodes.  www.Satsanghouse.net   

Board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist Dr. Carolle Jen-Murat join Spiritual Teacher Maggie Kelly in an intriguing chat about what it looks like to be a medical intuitive and spiritual healer.  Raised in Haiti and from a family full of healers, Dr. Carolle discovered her gifts of being able to intuitively know what was causing your physical illness. Particularly, Dr. Carrolle is able to connect with adverse childhood experiences, emotional, verbal, physical or sexual trauma and assist you in healing those wounds.  Dr. Carolle centers her practice on the mind-body connection. She also volunteers her medical expertise in Haiti for those less fortunate, is a mentor and teacher at the UCSD School of Medicine in San Diego.  To connect with Dr. Carolle, please visit her website at www.drcarolle.com. If you'd like to connect with Maggie, please visit www.satsanghouse.net 

Join Meditation Instructor and Spiritual Teacher Maggie Kelly as she gives us a little insight into the distinction between being a spiritual seeker and actually staying stuck in survival mode striving to get out.  Spiritual Awakening means you have to give up something of yourself, it's not about working toward or striving toward attaining anything. The peace and freedom you seek will fall out of you giving up the limiting beliefs, automatic behaviors and perceptions.  Download, Subscribe, review and join us each week for a new episode of the Life Illuminated podcast.  www.satsanghouse.net www.maggiekelly.com

Internal knots are the old conversations and limiting beliefs we've adopted and internalized over the years. The moments when someone has been unkind, abusive, or we've experienced some kind of emotional pain. Most of us run from the pain and search for the good. What about if we reverse it? What about if we were to turn around and face the pain, sorrow, abandonment, rejection head-on? Join Spiritual Life Coach and Meditation Teacher Maggie Kelly as she takes us on a journey of how we might do just that.  Please download, subscribe, rate and review.  Visit www.satsanghouse.net or www.maggiekelly.com to connect directly with Maggie. 

Raised in a religious cult, Michelle Schaffer was close to suicide feeling caught knowing that there had to something bigger to life than the way she was living. Join host Maggie Kelly, Spiritual and Meditation Teacher as she explores Michelle's quest for the answers in her "process to bravery." Michelle speaks about the decade it took her to finally leave the cult behind as she built up her confidence one step at a time. Starting with secretly building her business under an assumed name, Michelle took "extreme ownership" following her purpose knowing it might mean sacrificing her standing in the only community she had ever come to know.  Join us for this inspiring story of bravery, tenacity and the faith to know that you "belong anywhere you are brave enough to go." www.satsanghouse.net  

Do you notice that you sometimes check your phone ten times a day and it's almost an unconscious habit? Or open the fridge because you're feeling bored? Maybe head out to the mall to buy something you really don't need?  There's no need to fill the void. What are we afraid of? We've been conditioned to fill the void in so many ways these days. The dings and pings of our phone distract us constantly throughout our day. What about if we just turn it all off for a full day and just sit in stillness, noticing when we get anxious to fill the silence?  Expert Spiritual, life and meditation coach Maggie Kelly will teach you the beautiful ancient practice of meditation. Visit Satsang House meditation center or connect with Maggie for a complimentary 60-minute coaching session over the phone, FaceTime, Zoom or in person.  Learn to be at home in the void. Like, rate and review the Life Illuminated podcast so you don't. miss new episodes which air every Thursday! 

Not enough time? Too many thoughts to be able to meditate? Meditation is a religious practice? Are these a few of the things you believe about meditation? Join Spiritual, Life and Meditation Coach Maggie Kelly as she helps debunk some of the most common myths about meditation that keep us from even considering it.  Live in the San Diego area and want to learn how to meditate? Connect with Maggie at the stunning Satsang House, San Diego's premier meditation center. Or consider a complimentary 60-minute life coaching session with Maggie either via Skype, Zoom, phone or in person!   

Join Spiritual, Life and Meditation Coach Maggie Kelly as she walks you through what really is the practice of sitting meditation. Maggie will give you practical tips on how to create your own successful sitting meditation practice. Want to learn how to meditate? Visits Satsang House, San Diego's premier meditation center or connect Maggie at maggie@SatsangHouse.net www.maggiekelly.com

Loneliness, isolation, a pile of virtual friends we hope will fill the void. Maggie Kelly discusses what she feels to be an epidemic of loneliness in our society. We need to be connected to be emotionally well. We need to have human interaction with one another to feel "ok." The loneliness and isolation we experience as a society these days also has mental and physical health repercussions - the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes each day.  Spiritual, Life and Meditation Coach Maggie Kelly recommends meditation and mindfulness as a means to reconnect first to yourself and second, to one another. Put the phone down, talk to the guy next to you, to the grocery store clerk, to the woman on the bus. Disconnect to reconnect.  www.maggiekelly.com  

Former filmmaker and actor Josh Cary spent the better part of his 40+ years seeking applause and accolades to hide the deep anxiety and insecurities that drove his life. Josh woke up to realize that he had been hiding every aspect of himself in all areas of his life just to gain the approval of everyone else. Join expert certified life coach and mediation instructor as she takes us along Josh's journey toward discovering his self-worth through his acronym "F That Noise" and how he lives by this each and every day today.  Maggie Kelly is a Certified Spiritual, Life and Mediation Coach who resides in Southern California. Maggie owns Satsang House, San Diego's premier meditation center where she welcomes the community in meditation every day.  To connect with Maggie, you will find her at www.maggiekelly.com or at www.satsanghouse.net. Please rate, review and subscribe to the Life Illuminated podcast and feel free to connect with us!

Join expert Certified Spiritual, Life and Meditation Coach Maggie Kelly for an enlightening discussion about confronting our past to find freedom. Without the difficulties or "suffering" as they say in Buddhism, we would not grow. If we run from our trials, traumas, grief, sadness and anger, it may simply sit and fester inside us preventing us from being able to actually create and live the life we envision.  Life, rate and subscribe to the Life Illuminated podcast so you don't miss a single episode! Connect with Maggie Kelly for your complimentary 60-minute coaching session to explore what might be holding you back from the "freedom on the other side." Click here for details and to book your session either by phone, FaceTime, Zoom or in person.