SĀDHAKA Podcast

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Join Mary as she explores bhakti yoga. Taking an interdisciplinary and interspiritual approach to the topic, Mary's style is to integrate the perspectives of many different traditions of knowledge, from science to ancient contemplative traditions. The result is a life-affirming picture of modern spiritual life. At the close of the episode, Mary leads the listener through a short practice to ground the material. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Mary as she explores karma yoga. She integrates scientific knowledge about the nervous system into a comprehensive look at this practice, and offers a breath practice at the end to help ground the material. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the final episode of this series, Isa Gucciardi explores Deity Meditation as entering a field of experience that the deity represents. She discusses the image of Green Tara as an example of a deity used in Buddhist communities. She closes with a guided meditation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the second episode, Isa Gucciardi explores Vipassana (Insight) Meditation, which is helpful for gaining insight about things. She discusses the different types of Vipassana Meditation and closes with a guided practice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Isa explores Shamatha meditation as a way of knowing the mind. She discusses how Buddhism is at once a religion and a technology of understanding the mind in a new and transformative way. Isa closes the episode with a guided meditation practice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A trailer for a 3-part mini-training on Buddhist meditation techniques with Isa Gucciardi, founder of the Foundation for the Sacred Stream. Check back for the first episode, released on Friday, March 26th, 2022. New episodes released every friday.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the fourth part of this Shakti mini-training, Laura discusses Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity. Laura explores how, although she is popularly understood as a goddess of material wealth, we can also encounter her as the wealth of spiritual knowledge and the blessings of experiencing beauty, love, coherence, balance and harmony. As in the other episodes, she discusses her symbolism, iconography and closes the session with a guided practice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In part 3 of this series of Sādhaka on 4 Expressions of the Divine Feminine, Laura Amazzone explores the goddess Kali. She begins by discussing how in the West Kali is often misunderstood as a merely wrathful deity. Instead, Laura discusses how Kali is a mother goddess. As well as being a goddess of death and transformation, she is a goddess of birth and life. Laura further explains the iconography, philosophy, and symbolism of Kali. At the end of the episode, Laura leads the listeners through a short contemplative practice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Laura Amazzone explores the philosophy, iconography, and symbolism of goddess Durga. Durga means "invincible one", the "unassailable one", or "fortress". She is a goddess of protection, who protects the heart and that part of us that can never be abused or exploited. She is the divine mother. Laura explains the iconography, philosophy and symbolism of Durga. At the end of the episode, she offers a short practice of mantra recitation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In part 1 of this series of Sādhaka on 4 Expressions of the Divine Feminine, Laura Amazzone explores the goddess Sarasvati. She begins by discussing why all four goddesses she teaches about in this series can be seen as different expressions of śakti, the creative power that animates all of existence. All the gods and goddesses hold śakti. The goddesses, as Laura explores them, are expressions of the Absolute Consciousness.  Sarasvati is a goddess of wisdom, music, learning, teaching and the arts. Laura speaks about her colors, her iconography, her symbolism and ends with a Sarasvati mantra. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Laura Amazzone explores four emanations of the Divine Mother in this mini-training, looking at goddesses Sarasvati, Durga, Kali, and Lakshmi. In each episode, she will discuss the symbolism, philosophy, and iconography of each deity, connecting these individual forms to the teachings of the śakta tradition. At the end of each of the four episodes, Laura offers a short mantra practice to help integrate the teachings of each aspect of the divine feminine.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Mary as she explores the "four yogas": bhakti yoga, jñana yoga, karma yoga and raja yoga. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.