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Susanne Marie offers a space of meeting in the open nature of the heart where our own humanity is celebrated as the divine and where nothing is excluded. Her work is transformational and empowering as she points to the guide within each of us. She specializes in helping others deconstruct their beli…

Susanne Marie


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    4th Spiritual Practice Support 4 of 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2022 83:20


    This is the fourth audio meeting of the 4th Spiritual Practice Support Group of 2022 (a 4-part series), whereby Susanne met with a group of sincere spiritual travelers, answering questions in-depth on a wide range of topics regarding spiritual practice. Topics in this meeting: Trauma & Healing Difference between psychological techniques & being self-led. The power of being direct. The elemental energy of anger. Healthy boundaries. The full 4-meeting series is offered for sale under …

    Guided Meditation By Susanne Marie: Alchemy

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2022 18:30


    The rise and fall of the sense of you emerges out of the vast ocean of Self. Dropping below labels and becoming the dancing molecules of vibration, allows you to become more diffused with your sense of self, opening you up to inner harmonization and liberation. The true meaning of alchemy is going from the gross to the subtle, and the transformational process that ensues. Recorded live at Susanne's Taos Retreat, September 2022.

    There is No Center to Me

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2022 11:57


    The first step in non-dual realization is discovering that there is no center to the sense of ‘me'. This understanding grows the more we let go into the unknown. Video clip taken from an online meeting titled: Living Non Duality. Available for purchase on Susanne's website under Premium Audio. www.susannemarie.org

    A Period of Deconstruction

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2022 5:53


    For many there is a transitional time between feeling like a ‘doer' and living life without having a sense of self. This is a period of deconstruction where what we have taken to be falsely true about ourselves and the world goes through a filtering process, so that what is real can emerge and be lived. Video clip taken from an online meeting titled: Living Non-Duality. Available for sale under Premium Audio on Susanne's website. …

    What was Awakening like as a parent? Part 6 of 6 Interview Series

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2022 9:49


    In this final conversation with CLJ, Susanne speaks about parenting during the time of her awakening period as the deconstructing of her personal self was taking place. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au

    Guided Meditation by Susanne Marie: Light of Awareness

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2022 23:26


    A guided meditation pointing out the fact that awareness is always here. Recorded live at Susanne's Taos Retreat, September 2022. www.susannemarie.org

    What is different about your expereince post Awakening: Part 5 of 6 Interview Series

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2022 11:50


    In this interview segment, Susanne speaks about the various dimensional and tranformative shifts in her spiritual journey. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au

    Objectifying Self & Spirit

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2022 9:18


    In this video clip, Susanne speaks on the process of how the feeling of separation arises within, creating a sense of being a person. She also touches on how forgetting our intrinsic oneness is a collective pain that we all share, leading to feeling disconnected from life, and that pain can be a doorway to exploring what is true. Video clip taken from an online meeting titled: Living Non Duality. Available for purchase on Susanne's …

    Remembering Comes From Within

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2022 9:48


    In this video clip Susanne breaks down non-duality and how the feeling of being separate arises. She points out that the remedy for self-forgetfulness lives within each person. Taken from a recent online meeting titled: Living Non-Duality. ~ Available for purchase on Susanne's website under Premium Audio. www.susannemarie.org

    What is Embodiment: Part 4 of 6 Interview Series

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2022 7:39


    One's mind, body, and heart have the capacity to realize that everything is undivided (one with all things), as well as empty in nature. Embodiment is realization taking root throughout one's whole being as works its way through your system, and transforms your humanity. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au

    What is Spiritual Bypassing: Part 3 of 6 an Interview Series

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2022 11:05


    An unconscious coping strategy used to avoid one's life as it is, and what we contain inside which is uncomfortable. Opening to what is free inside is a beautiful thing, but we are not meant to live in the transcendence, but rather, the calling is to embody realization and integrate it into our lives. From Conscious Living Jewel ww.consciouslivingjewel.com.au

    How do we forget who we are: Part 2 of 6 an Interview Series

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2022 9:49


    The ability to self-reflect creates the sense of being a ‘me'. In this interview, Susanne breaks down how this occurs, and why it is important to look at oneself and life without the filter of a ‘self'. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au

    What is Spiritual Awakening: Part 1 of 6 an Interview Series

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2022 10:30


    In this interview, Susanne breaks down what spiritual realization is, touching on the different levels of awakening and the organic unfoldment that takes place. From Conscious Living Jewel www.consciouslivingjewel.com.au

    The Wisdom of Boundaries

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2022 16:57


    Audio clip (Part 1 of 4) taken from Susanne's 3rd Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life. The entire course is available for sale on the Premium Audio page. Susanne Marie

    Beyond Ordinary

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2022 25:41


    The more we deepen within ourselves, the less we naturally hold back from living as a simple expression of ordinariness. Remaining on the edge of curiosity, helps keep things fresh and full of nuance, within one's everyday routines of life. Audio clip taken from a Spiritual Practice Support Group session. Susanne Marie

    Truth’s Guiding Light

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2022 24:00


    Audio clip taken from Susanne's 3rd Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life. The entire course is available for sale on the Premium Audio page. Susanne Marie

    Radiantly Sovereign

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2022 14:57


    Audio clip taken from Susanne's 3rd Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life. The entire course is available for sale on the Premium Audio page Susanne Marie

    Malevolent & Benevolent Energies

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2022 16:29


    Audio clip taken from an online Spiritual Practice Support Group meeting. Susanne Marie

    Guided Meditation: Entering into the Embodied Fullness of this Moment

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2022 29:23


    A subtle meditation walking one through feeling into sensation and the energetic signature of what we contain inside. This helps break down the solid sense of self, opening one up to the emptiness contained within form. Susanne Marie

    Don’t Know Mind

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2022 16:18


    Something magical takes place when mind rests in the gap created by ‘don't know mind'. Within this gap lies the unconditioned. Audio clip taken from the online meeting: Befriending the Unknown Available for sale under Premium Audio. Susanne Marie  

    3rd Spiritual Practice Support 3 of 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2022 79:12


    This is the third audio meeting of the 3rd Spiritual Practice Support Group of 2022 (a 4-part series), whereby Susanne met with a group of sincere spiritual travelers, answering questions in-depth on a wide range of topics regarding spiritual practice. The full 4-meeting series is offered for sale under Premium Audio. For more information on current online events, visit: https://susannemarie.org/events

    The Nuance of Awakening

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2022 22:29


    Dropping Labels, and opening up to the vastness of what we contain, allows for an open-hearted acceptance of all that arises. In this way, the psuh/pull of indentification falls away, including the separate self-sense. Audio clip taken from Susanne's recent Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life.

    Sincerity is Key

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2022 16:55


    Life is an uncompromising teacher, and she only wants the highest level of truth. We get what we most want when it comes to living in an aithentic way, and aligining with our true nature, is how we progress forward. Audio clip taken from Susanne's recent Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship with Life.

    Maya is Our Teacher

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2022 9:17


    Ultimate fulfilment is not to be found outside of ourselves. It is up to each person to break the trance of being outwardly focused to the point of self-forgetfulness. the wrold of form (Maya), is a beautiful aspect of God. But we are not meant to become lost in it. Rather we are meant to dance with her from a place of integrated wholeness. Audio clip taken from Susanne's recent Evolution Course: Healing Your Relationship …

    Including all of Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2022 51:16


    I very much enjoyed my podcast conversation with Amba. She is very perceptive, and has an authentic voice. We touch on a lot of topics, such as the sense of Self, and how the mind turns itself into an object in awareness. But the main theme is about the evolutionary drive of life (through awakening), to embrace all the aspects of life into its never-ending field of understanding, so that we can know all as …

    Invoking Heart Wisdom

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2022 13:16


    In this audio clip, Susanne speaks directly to the unconditional heart, asking for its loving support. The heart is a center of intelligence, and it contains a very clear guidance system. One can learn how to engage the heart energetically, and have heart co-arise with whatever we are encountering, both within as well as with life situations. This assists one in dropping the experience of inner division, as the heart arises from wholeness. Audio clip …

    Demystifying Spirituality

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2022 90:50


    We are a seamless part of the wholeness of life, and remembering this timeless truth, is our birthright. Underneath layers of imagination, fear, and doubt, lies our true heart, clarity of vision, and authentic self. Awakening is the invitation to return home to the natural state. It is an undoing of beliefs, rather than an accumulation. In this meeting, Susanne deconstructs how we get in our own way, helping to uncover the simplicity of our …

    Prajnaparamita Sutra

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2022 115:49


    Love, Serve and Remember

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2022 114:10


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    Dance of Two

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2022 16:09


    In this spring 2022 public meeting clip held in Sebastopol, California, Susanne speaks about the beauty of longing and its place in one's spiritual journey back to wholeness. She also touches on how to view ego as a movement in consciousness, something that one can feel into and help dissolve, and not as an actual entity, (which entrenches separation).

    Keeping Center in an Off-Centered World

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2022 108:54


    In the midst of information overload, and the real pain of the world, it is easy to forget how to consciously inhabit ourselves. In order to retain equilibrium during a massive collective imbalance, one has to make an effort to give attention to the inner life. It is a matter of what one ultimately values: being identified with the outer world, or the beauty of your own center. Your inner center is a welcoming place …

    Spiritual Practice Support 1 of 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 80:49


    This is the first audio meeting of the Spiritual Practice Support Group of 2022 (a 4-part series), whereby Susanne met with a group of sincere spiritual travelers, answering questions in-depth on a wide range of topics regarding spiritual practice. The full 4-meeting series is offered for sale under Premium Audio. For more information on current online events, visit: https://susannemarie.org/events

    Hold Onto Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2021 106:42


    Choosing to remain present to the alive moment is a vital spiritual practice. As a collective we are experiencing ongoing waves of fear and information overload, which makes it increasingly challenging to remain present and connected to one another. Making an inner decision to open to everyday reality, helps in maintaining sanity in the midst of increasing mass hypnosis. Resisting the impulse to go into inner division (expressing itself as judgement), helps to maintain inner …

    The Importance of Being Present

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2021 117:34


    The habit of looking outside of oneself is a collective trance that has to be broken, in order to be free. As long as we are in imagination about the future or constantly recycling the past, we are not able to access eternal truth that is always here. Making an inner decision in choosing to be present, and then practicing bringing ones attention back to Now, is vitally important. It takes courage and strength as …

    Spiritual Practice Support Part 1 (of 5)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2021 77:06


    This is the first meeting of a 5-part series, whereby Susanne met with a group of sincere spiritual travellers, answering questions in depth on a wide range of topics regarding spiritual practice. The full 5-meeting series is offered for sale under Premium Audio. For more information on current online events, visit: https://susannemarie.org/events

    The Journey of Awakening from Self-Centered Consciousness to No-Self

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2021 9:16


    Using Bernadette Roberts' map as a way to understand the spiritual journey, Susanne Marie describes the evolution from self-centered consciousness to No-self.

    The Journey of Awakening: Integrating the Mind, the Heart & the Body

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2021 58:33


    Realization has many stages. With the awakening of mind, the Self is clearly cognized as separate from relative experience. This brings the ability for the mind to rest in and as awareness. As the heart awakens, it sees the world and itself as united and undivided, birthing compassion for all of life. With the awakening of the body, form knows itself to be God, and that “all this is That.” Recorded with Awakening Together in …

    A Map of the Spiritual Journey Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2021 118:26


    While each person’s spiritual journey is unique, there are common themes and landscapes that we share. In this meeting I share my personal understanding of the evolution that takes place as we evolve out of being a self-centered individual, to being divinely centered (unity), and finally beyond to No-Self. In Part 2, I fill in some gaps left out of the first meeting, and focus on people’s questions and inquiries.

    A Map of the Spiritual Journey Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2021 116:24


    While each person’s spiritual journey is unique, there are common themes and landscapes that we share. In this meeting I share my personal understanding of the evolution that takes place as we evolve out of being a self-centered individual, to being divinely centered (unity), and finally beyond to No-Self.

    A Meditation Practice: Resting Attention On That Which Is Aware

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2020 20:58


    Being present means resting your awareness (your ability to notice), upon that which it is noticing. In this way, you are aware of something, as well as simultaneously being aware that you are aware. Allow your awareness to meet (and join), whatever you are experiencing. This will be felt as well as sensed, and is not meant to be an intellectual exercise (although mind does play a part). This practice helps bring two things together: Our inherent emptiness …

    Guided Meditation: To help you open your heart

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2019 9:02


    A guided meditation from Susanne Marie to help open your heart. Excerpted from Awareness Explorers podcast Edpisode 46 “Susanne Marie, Guest Explorer” Awareness Explorers youtube station: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTP832SavwlNmBkhiNI9fVA

    Brian O’Connor and Jonathan Robinson with Awareness Explorers interview Susanne Marie

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2019 58:56


    ‘In this episode we talk to Suanne Marie about the experiences of unity and of “no self”, and the role that the heart and softening have in awakening. Includes a guided meditation from Susanne Marie to help open your heart’ Awareness Explorers youtube station: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQq2p0UJO3QC-pU9LMIoAiw

    Emptiness and Fullness: A Guided Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2019 36:20


    A guided meditation with techniques on how to live a balanced life. By opening to the emptiness contained within all experience, as well as learning how to feel into form, we are able to learn how to live in harmony within ourselves and with life.  

    The Wisdom of No Escape

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2019 110:58


    Sometimes the only way to be free of something is to allow yourself to be fully trapped. Our desire to escape suffering creates it’s own bondage. Most of us are intially drawn to spirituality with the understandable desire to feel better and in general to be released from suffering. But …

    The Heart of Compassion

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2019 111:14


    The journey of opening to the suffering of others begins with ourselves. Compassion blossoms with the realization that we are the one responsible for allowing our own hearts to open, and that turning towards our pain rather than away is the key. Once we have the strength to embrace ourselves …

    The Path of Devotion.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2019 114:56


    Without the engagement of our hearts our spiritual and life journey is dry and barren. Devotion is the ability to reach outside of ourselves with trust that something greater exists than what we ourselves know or understand. This something is the mystery of existence itself. It is divinty inherent within …

    What is Realization?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2018 113:01


    Beyond descriptions of enlightenment or realization lies the lived experience of what we are in truth, right now. And right Now there is the immediate accessibility to be present, open, and aware. Together we will explore what is the direct experience of being awake: Here and Now.

    Being Awake Now

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2018 102:30


    Beyond descriptions of enlightenment or awakening lies the lived experience of what we are in truth, right now. And right now there is the immediate accessibility to be present, open, and aware. Together we will explore what is the direct experience of being awake: Here and Now.

    From Fear to Love

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2018 121:07


    Our surivival as a species requires us to make a leap from fear to love. Making things that are ignorant within ourselves, conscious, is an act of love and courage, and is the greatest transformative unifying power on Earth.

    Questions & Answers in Budapest

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2018 20:00


    When the inquiry ‘who am I’ naturally arises. The difference between being ‘Being led’ and mind led.

    The Truth About Awakening

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2018 69:14


    A candid conversation with Gabor Harsanyi and Nurit Oren and their guests – Susanne Marie and Pierre Richard – about the various pitfalls and misconceptions surrounding awakening. They clarify what awakening really is, as opposed to what we imagine or expect it to be, and expound on the peace that …

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