Podcasts about swamis

We've almost reached the end of the summer but as you're about to hear, things are only just starting to heat up This brand new episode of Lazpod has some of the maddest, freshest music that I've discovered recently.  Check for the little voices in your head, the basslines in unusual places and the off-key drum patterns that will rattle your brain.  And there is also a surprise presenter at the start of the show and no interruptions from me for this special  2 hour journey  Enjoy! Tracklist: Memory Of Jane - Above Your Head [UnelmaMusic] Soble - Quien Eras [Expmental Records] Otis McDonald - To Get Away [TrackTribe] Machinedrum - ORACLE (feat. Aja Monet) [Ninja Tune] Ones - v i s i o n s (feat Rationale) [gratitude always] Mieke Miami - Son of a Preacher Man [Sonar Kollektiv] Claude Fontaine - Love The Way You Love [Innovative Leisure] Ricky Bamboo - Deep Inside [Altered States] Fonzo - UNO [Rinse] Joy Orbison - flex fm (freddit) [XL Recordings] bullet tooth - IF I CAN'T BE YOURS [Crosstown Rebels] Patrick Holland - Fumble [Verdicchio Music Publishing] Christophe Salin - El Grifo [Salin Records] Shigeto, Zelooperz & Ian Maciak - Ready. Set. Flex [Ghostly International] JAEL ft. Sister Nancy - NANCY JUNGLIST [Sony Music] Boulderhead - I Need Space (ft. Overnite Oates) [Rhythm Section International] Life Is Out There - I Need Some [Armada Music] SPD - While [SPD] Milio - Just Want [Atomnation] SeeMeNot x Aminata x Eli Escobar - Gene/Sis [Defected Records] Anna Schreit - Ezio On Rainbow Road [Compost Records] You Udagawa - The Peaceful Dawn (Manuel Tour Octamix) [Compost Records] Piano City x Marlode & Swamis x Major League Djz - Ubumnandi [Piano City] Fire Sign - True [4AM City] Clyde Beats - Hello World (feat. OVEOUS) [Atjazz Record Company] Significant Other - I Get Such Bad Headaches [Pain Management] Fat White Family - Bullet Of Dignity (Acid Arab Remix) [Domino Recording] Atelier - Miss You [LOSSLESS]

Gibt's doch gar nicht: Seit 100 Ausgaben versorgen euch Arnd und Philipp mit halbgaren Expertisen, Knax-Heften, Pauschalreisen ins Emsland und frisch gebrutzelten Thüringern. Das muss gefeiert werden – und zwar mit dem frisch aus dem Urlaub zurückgekehrten Leserbriefonkel Frimpong Tommerinke, mit einer Blattkritik des Kicker-Sonderhefts, mit Reisetipps für den Londoner Osten und einer Würdigung aller Swamis, die frisch aus dem Ashram zurückgekehrt sind. Jetzt reinhören, bevor der Rolls Royce von Bhagwan wieder dreckig wird.Ihr habt Fragen oder Anregungen? Dann schreibt uns gern an podcast@11freunde.de+++ Alle Rabattcodes und Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern findetihr hier: https://linktr.ee/zeigler_koester +++Eine Produktion im Auftrag der Audio Alliance.+++Hosts: Arnd Zeigler und Philipp KösterRedakteur: Tim PommerenkeAudioproduzentin und Sprecherin: Henni KochSounddesign: Ekki Maas+++ Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unterhttps://datenschutz.ad-alliance.de/podcast.html +++Unsere allgemeinen Datenschutzrichtlinien finden Sie unter https://art19.com/privacy. Die Datenschutzrichtlinien für Kalifornien sind unter https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info abrufbar.

Tales From The Bungalow The Swamis Secret

Tales From The Bungalow The Swamis Secret

 On my first North India tour with our Ashram, we arrived in Calcutta.I am a big fan of Ramakrishna, so I had to go to his place, Dakshineswar Kali Temple. I asked my friends if they like to join… We found a group of 5 people to go with a taxi early in the morning to Dakshineswar…The Swamis from our Ashram approached me, how can You do such a journey, is not our Guru good enough…?I questioned them and said I have to go there, nobody can stop me…We arrived there during sunrise… I was so excited, beyond words…My Indian friend gave alms to the beggars, even I said don't so so and they followed us… It was so disturbing,..I said to him, it is your problem I go alone to the Ramakrishna temple…I went inside, many people were already sitting there, I squeezed in between them so that I didn't touch anybody…I went so deep in meditation, that I hardly could go out of it…I don't know how long…Then the Indians started to worship me, throwing flowers on me,…When I got out of meditation, I was covered with flowers…We had to leave and go back to the place where we slept with the other devotees …In the meantime, the Western devotees and some Indian devotees complained why we could go and not them… The swamis had a hard time…Normally I could do what I wanted because I was meditating the entire day and then to stop or control me was impossible…In the evening, we had an event at a high-luxury hotel, that I disliked because it reminded me of my traumatic past, and I never wanted to go back… The next day it was in a slum, that fitted me much better…A Swami came to me… I said, Sorry, I had to go there, please forgive me…The Swami said it was okay, please wear your best white clothes, you should join us on the stage.On the stage, are you sure?Yes, our guru wants that.I thought, maybe they are playing some games with me… And I hate Luxury hotels.So what, who cares, I have to do that…In the right corner of the stage, I got a place to sit, … All devotees who had Darshan with our Guru first had to pass the right corner…The row was filled fast and the first devotee bowed deep in front of me touching the ground and went to our Guru…And so did all the other devotees…Sounds weird…It was the first time that I was in Calcutta, only one year in the Ashram, and only the devotees from the Ramakrishna Math in Calcutta had seen me…The Swamis and Brahmachari looked in my direction and I looked in their direction…We could not believe it… Are they mad?Swamiji said, please go to the edge of the stage so that the devotees can touch you and meditate…I went deep in meditation and the devotees could do what they wanted…What was the reason?Why wanted our Guru me on the stage?A true Guru knows much more, even what he/she can't know.The first devotees were for sure, from the Ramakrishna math and wanted to see our Guru, after they had watched me in Dakshineswar…How did they know that I am from the Amritananda Mai Math?I had long, curly hair, a full beard, and wore a Traditional South Indian Doti with a white shirt… And that was typical for our Ashram…The next year every devotee from our Ashram could go with our buses to Dakshineswar…  My Video:  Episode 36 Go for it… https://youtu.be/YPOsjjVbFbYMy Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast4/Episode-36-Go-for-it.mp3

 On our North India Tour with our Ashram, we arrived at a medium-sized place.We were a little bit late…And no space for the Western devotees …I went straight to the local organizer…Sorry, there is no space for us, where can we sit?You get all the time the best space and you can travel with our Guru…And the negotiation started…That is unfair…Some women helped me …In the end, we didn't get anything…I asked for our tour organizer Jnani, because she had much more power than me… She refused…I went to Big Swami, the highest after our Guru.And told him…He said we cannot do anything…Then we were waiting for our Guru and she didn't come.After 1 hour, they announced, that our Guru would not come if there was no space for our Western devotees..Guess, what happened …We got plenty of space…Afterward, we went to a huge event with over 150000 IndiansI had to help Jnani and came too late…No space for me…And too little space for our people.I said I don't care I sit outside of the event...I was meditating alone, at least a 100m distance...No squeezing.Not so noisy.Much better than sitting in the place.And I decided to do so also at the next events…Guess?Our Guru could not come …After 20 minutes they found me …And said,Our Guru can not come…I said:“I have found a good place for meditation, I don't take away the space for other devotees…”“So, what do You want from me?”You have to come to our Guru immediately…I felt uneasy, that I have done something wrong…“But Jnani is not sitting there either…”That is not true, she is sitting in the back of the stage…I took my meditation mat and followed her…I was afraid that they would squeeze me between the Indians…I thought, next time I will hide better…Then I had to go on the stage in front of this huge crowd.The Indians immediately stand up,I bowed in front of them…And we had this mess again,They bowed in front of me.Were sitting down…After 5 minutes the dust was settling down..Big Swami came, and the people stood up…Big Swami said to me,When You cannot find space for yourself, then go on the stage, we don't want to wait for you.“I am an introvert, I am afraid and feel uneasy to sit in front of so many people… And the other devotees are jealous, everybody wants to sit here.” That was the reason why I didn't like to sit on the stage.Normally, I could always sit on the stage…We know that already, after some time you get used to that. And here is no other chance than to sit on the stage, we can't protect you in this place.Our Guru came, put her mat next to me, and sat down.I emerged in deep meditation as usual…This was what they wanted…All females and males, including me, had long curly hairs and the males had a full beard… The guru and I were in white cloth… The Swamis in red, the Brahmacharis in Orange and White.This was perfectly arranged.I was the guy for meditation, Big Swami for singing, he had a very beautiful tenor, incredible… I think he could be a Superstar with this voice! And the Brahmacharis, females, and males, could all sing perfectly…We had the best Bhajan Choir in India…My Video:  Episode 34 No space https://youtu.be/Hn14XXtwqOgMy Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast4/Episode-34-No-space.mp3 

Want to cultivate lasting joy and live in alignment with light? Discover the solution to embracing peace and love in your life.“Trust the light that is within you. Be willing to flow in the energy of that light in our daily life. There's almost like a current of joy that will magnetically draw you to what's next.” - Swami NityanandaIn this episode, you will be able to: Discover the power of spiritual awakeness and meditation for inner peace and clarity.Uncover the rich lineage of Swamis and yoga philosophy for a deeper understanding of spiritual practice.Learn the art of cultivating peace and love to create harmonious relationships and a fulfilling life.Embrace your inner light and healing for a sense of wholeness and well-being.Explore the benefits of meditating in a community to amplify your practice and connection with others.Take a deeper dive about this episode at the blog: https://www.skepticmetaphysician.com/blog/swami Guest Info:Book: https://www.amazon.com/Awake-Awareness-Swami-Nityananda-Giri/dp/B0BNTXST81Website: https://Awakeyogameditation.orgPodcast: https://awakeyogameditation.org/podcastInstagram: https://instagram.com/swami_nityananda_giriFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/awakeyogameditationcenterYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/awakeyogameditation Support the Show:Rate/review Us Here:https://lovethepodcast.com/SkepticMetaphysiciansPurchase Merchandise:https://www.skepticmetaphysician.com/storeBuy Me A Coffee:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SkepticMetaphys Connect With Karen and Will:Website: skepticmetaphysician.comFacebook: @TheSkepticMetaphysicianIG: SkepticMetaphysician_PodcastTik Tok: @skepticmetaphysicians Other episodes you'll enjoy:Discover Your Life's Purpose: Exploring Human Design with DayLunahttps://www.skepticmetaphysician.com/human-design Unlocking the Power of Words: How Language Shapes Our Reality https://www.skepticmetaphysician.com/power-of-words Dr. Howard Eisenberg Reveals the True Nature of Reality https://www.skepticmetaphysician.com/reality-1

Swami Sarvadevananda, the Minister in charge of the Vedanta Society of Southern California, gave this talk on Sunday, January 28, 2024, in the Santa Barbara Temple. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2023.09.17 Radhadesh EN

2023.09.17 Radhadesh EN

My guest for today Deborah Charnes is the author of “From the Boxing Ring to the Ashram: Wisdom for Mind, Body and Spirit” and certified yogi. In her book culled the advice from modern-day gurus. Some are swamis wearing orange robes or dressed in white from head to toe. Others don lab coats, feathered headdresses, combat boots, or boxing gloves. Support the podcast on Spotify! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greyhornpagans/support Affiliate links: -PodMatch: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/greyhornpagans -Bonfire Merchandise Store: https://www.bonfire.com/welcome/3a61c90d5bd44/ -Castmagic AI Podcast tool: https://www.castmagic.io/?via=stijn -Sudowrite AI Writing Tool: https://www.sudowrite.com/?via=stijn -Minds: https://www.minds.com/register?referrer=StijnFawkes -Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@StijnFawkes:a --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greyhornpagans/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greyhornpagans/support

0:00 Meaning of the name Sushantha and importance of Sanyasa 19:00 When Swami met Sadhguru for the first time 30:00 Carrying cement bags 36:30 What is Parivrajaka? 43:23 The question from a Rich Diamond merchant to swami. 1:00:36 Why time is important 1:04:00 Vijji maa and formation of Sounds of Isha 1:24:54 Why is Swami charging money for the Yatra? 1:43:12 Why swami left the ashram? 2:03:33 Swamis vision for the Yatra for his Guru 2:19:19 What is the significance of a spiritual Yatra? 2:38:00 Kedarpada Yatra Kedar Yatra details: https://www.kedarpadhayatra.com/ Swamis instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swamisushantha/ Connect with me and an awesome community on Discord: https://discord.gg/quazmzdf87 Email: vaisakhsabu90@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vaisu90/ Snapchat: @vaisu1990 Linkedin: vaisakh sabu Twitter: @vaisakhsabu90

In this episode, we host a dialogue with Brian Co from Veloworthy. Brian shares his journey as a cyclist, becoming a podcaster and ultimately founding Veloworthy to explore video storytelling. The talk shifts towards Brian's recent dive into gravel riding during the pandemic - a pursuit aligning smoothly with his interest in digital media and videography. Despite the challenges of filming races and representing cycling's diverse stories, Brian consistently seeks truth in his work. Brian continues to explore the world of gravel through his lenses on this YouTube Channel, Veloworthy. Episode Sponsor: Hammerhead Karoo 2 (use code THEGRAVELRIDE for free HRM) Veloworthy YouTube Support the Podcast Join The Ridership  Automated Transcription, please excuse the typos: [00:00:00]Craig Dalton (Host): Brian, welcome to the show. [00:00:03]Brian Co: Thanks. It's so good to be here. I am so excited to be on your podcast. Uh, you know, we, we've been both been doing this for a while, but you've obviously surpassed many of the hobbyists, uh, in the, in the cycling podcast scene, so you're definitely authority when it comes to podcasts, cycling, podcasts. [00:00:24]Craig Dalton (Host): I appreciate it. And, um, you know, as we were reminiscing offline a little bit, your original podcast, the SoCal Cyclist, was one of those that was in my steady rotation as I started getting into listening to podcasts and thinking about doing one myself. [00:00:41]Brian Co: Well, thanks. I'm, uh, do I get a royalty from each episode? [00:00:47]Craig Dalton (Host): Well, you know how cycling media works so you can get a royalty, but it's not gonna do much for you. [00:00:52]Brian Co: It, it'll be, it'll, it'll be, uh, fractions of as cent, I'm sure. [00:00:57]Craig Dalton (Host): Exactly. Hey Brian, as you know, we all start the show. I love to learn like where'd you grow up and how did you find cycling originally? [00:01:05]Brian Co: You know, ironically, you know, I'm kind of, before velo worthy was known as SoCal Cyclist or SoCal Cyclist podcast, and I've ridden all over Southern California, LA Verdugo Hills, San Diego mostly. I'm based out of North County. Uh, but I actually grew up in Northern California. Um, where I think I'll, I'm a little bit biased. I think Northern California when I was growing up had a. And more robust cycling scene than Southern California, which was mostly crit heavy. Uh, so I grew up in the flat heat of Sacramento and um, you know, I think when I was, I. Probably two years old. My dad took me, my brother and all my cousins to this grassy park area called Ansel Hoffman Park and just said, I'm gonna teach you all how to ride a bike in one day. And we just, you know, the age gap between me and my cousins is about five years, and I was the youngest and we all learned the exact same day how to ride bikes. And then so like, Seven, six years later, uh, I entered my first bike race. Um, I was eight years old and it was a B M X race and I just loved it. You know, B M X was very, very big in the eighties and, uh, you know, the movie ET had just come out and there's a scene where they had take ET on the bike and they're like going down the hills and stuff, and I wanted to be Elliot from et I even remember wearing a red hoodie with the hood on. Just so I could pretend to be Elliot from et. And then when I was nine years old, I got introduced to, uh, road cycling, uh, by my cousins. And they all took this trip on the bike from LA to San Diego. I was too young to go, so I was there, but my brother and my cousins, three of 'em all went and they were, you know, 12. 13 years old. Uh, and, and they all did it. And then since after that I was like, I gotta get into bikes. Luckily there was this, this race, it was the biggest race in America at the time, equivalent to like the tour of California was. It was called the Chorus Classic. And it went through my town and it was the first time I actually. Got to meet Greg Lamond in person. And you know, I'm a little kid trying to get an autograph and I'm like tugging at his la claire jersey and he turns around and just gives me a smile because he was being surrounded by people. He had just won the tour of France, uh, for the first time. And, uh, since that point, cycling has, has been the only sport I've ever really known other than like high school, cross country and track. [00:03:59]Craig Dalton (Host): Okay. Interesting. So while you were in high school, I know, I know a lot of kids sort of end up leaving the sport in high school because of social pressures or other sports. Sounds like you kind of maintained and were still riding at that point. [00:04:14]Brian Co: Well, I think it was, it comes down to luck because I was just born at the right time. Like when I was a junior. I remember races being so full that they'd have to have heats and. It was actually cool to be a young junior cyclist. This is, I'm a few years younger than the Lance Armstrong sort of generation of guys like him and Hin, capi and a few others. Um, but when we were little, we all idolized being on like the seven 11 team or the postal service team, and it was actually cool. Today you see more of like. The older, older helmet, mirror bandana wearing crew that maybe thrive peaked in those days. But I think we're seeing a resurgence with, with gravel and, and a few other disciplines [00:05:05]Craig Dalton (Host): Yeah, certainly with youth, I mean, as you know, in Northern California we have big Nika League, so youth mountain biking at the high school level is insane up here. I I, the Mount Tam School high school team here in my town of Mill Valley, there's 60 kids on that team, which is an unbelievable number. And some of these kids are elite level athletes by the time they're leaving their senior year. [00:05:31]Brian Co: Yeah, it's uh, Nike's becoming the new collegiate cycling. 'cause all we had back in the day was, if you're good enough in high school, you went to a college that had a cycling team. And then I. If you were good enough to race the A category, which was like equivalent to CAT one, two, uh, you might be able to get a pro contract if you did well at a national championship. But Naica now has totally replaced that and the kids are younger, they're more talented, and even though bikes are getting more expensive and equipment is more expensive, they're able to find ways to to do that. I remember my first. Bike race as a junior. I think I was 14 or 15. I did the Mount Tam Hill climb and I was on junior Gears and one of the kids that won, he was on like the, I remember he was on the full team, Richie, uh, red, white and blue kit, and he had a mountain bike that was rigged up to be like, had skinny tires and he blew the doors off of everyone, but. Um, I just remember thinking, I can't compete with this level of talent for all the Bay Area kids. They're just head and shoulder 'cause they can all climb me. In Sacramento, I was okay on the flats and in crits, but you go to the Bay Area and they can just, they're little miniature, you know, Alberto Contours just climbing up the mountains. It was totally [00:06:55]Craig Dalton (Host): you end up, did you end up going to a university that had a cycling program? [00:06:59]Brian Co: Yeah. So, uh, when I was in high school, you know, I, I looked at different colleges. I ended up going to Northern Arizona University and Flagstaff that had I. Uh, a really big cycling team. In fact, um, the first Collegiate National Mountain Bike Championship I did, and, uh, the team got third in the Omnia behind, I think it was like CU Boulder and Stanford. And n a u is not known for a whole lot, but Flagstaff itself is a city, is, is a great place for mountain biking and just, it's at, it's at 7,000 feet altitude. And so you're, you're living at 7,000 feet, you're training at eight to 9,000 feet, and then you just, you have so much, uh, ability to do a lot. And so I actually abandoned road racing and went through like three years of a mountain bike phase. [00:07:54]Craig Dalton (Host): I was just gonna ask you that. [00:07:56]Brian Co: Yeah, rode a Bri Bridgestone, uh, fully rigid, uh, mountain bike, 26 inch wheels. And then my suspension, it was called a soft ride suspension stem. [00:08:07]Craig Dalton (Host): Uh, Brian, don't even talk to me about that. That's painful. [00:08:11]Brian Co: Yeah, [00:08:11]Craig Dalton (Host): had one of those. [00:08:12]Brian Co: jackhammer down these, down, these like breaking bumps. And I'm like, and uh, I, but at the time, like it was that, or like I think Rock Shocks had just come out with like the Judy or something. And so, uh, I did three national championships. Um, the hardest one I ever did was in Kentucky. Uh, a young up and comer from Fort Lewis. His name was Todd Wells, uh, lapped me on the last lap, and I'm like, who is this weirdo? And, uh, he ended up being one of the most dominant mountain bikers in America after that. So I, I hung up my mountain bike cleats after that point. [00:08:52]Craig Dalton (Host): So let's fast forward a number of years you find yourself in Southern California. It sounds like you were still racing criteriums. Recognizing you're not going pro, but still like many of us just loving the sport and continuing to do it. Tell me about like the transition from that to starting to talk about it on the podcast. [00:09:12]Brian Co: Oh, well, I think anyone who grows up with cycling needs, especially from a young age, needs to take a break. So I, I moved to Southern California just because I could, I could ride my bike year round, but then I ended up falling in love with the ocean and I, and I sold all my bike stuff and I ended up taking up surfing for like the next eight years straight. All I did was surf. And I even remember taking like my friends who were like pro cyclists out surfing and then they get hooked. Like my friend, uh, Alex Rio who was on Optum and Rally moved here and I was like his motor pacing guy, but I'm like, Hey, there's a ocean ride here like a hundred feet that way. Let's go get surfboards. And then he ended up loving it so much he moved to Hawaii, ended up starting big island bike tours there. Um, so I, I, I took a break from the sport. I, you know, got a little burned out. I was a little, uh, you know, it was during the whole doping e p o, you know, post live strong kind of mess. And I still followed the tour and stuff on tv, but I, I just wasn't racing anymore. And then one day, like. You know, in 2012 I just got, I, I used my beach cruiser 'cause everyone in Southern California has beach cruisers and I just started doing five miles, 10 miles, 20 miles up to 30 miles on a beach cruiser that weighs about 55 pounds with a basket and a lock. And then, uh, I told myself one day, okay, cool, I'm on a beach cruiser. I'm riding in board shorts and a t-shirt and a helmet, and there's this climb in Southern California called Tory Pines. And I, I said to myself, okay, if I can pass a guy in a real bike kit and a real road bike, I'm gonna buy myself a road bike. And I was like, I don't know how I'm gonna do it. So I, I finally, Saw somebody in a d in like a team kit. I think it was the Swamis team, which is a big team in Southern California. Cotton passed him. I was so gassed up at the top. I remember he said something to me. I think it was a compliment. My bike, it wasn't a single speed, it was a three speed internal hub. And then next day I got a road bike and started racing. And then the first crit I entered, I think it was like masters. I got. I got 13th place and then I was like 13th place with no training, but still the skills. And then I started doing more and more and more and catted up and then started doing the the 35 plus masters, which is I. Uh, probably as fast as the pro one, two, uh, guys, I mean, a lot of 'em are ex pros themselves and just started doing that and then was having so much fun. Decided to create a podcast, talking to all my friends about, um, bike racing and stuff like that. [00:12:15]Craig Dalton (Host): Nice, nice. Yeah. To your point, like in California, the master's class, like there's so many great riders and ex pros scattered across California, you hop into a Master's category. You may very well be racing against an X Pro. [00:12:31]Brian Co: Oh yeah, like I remember I was fighting somebody's wheel just so I could draft behind his name's. Ivan Dominguez, he is the Cuban missile. Just 'cause I wanted to look at his calves. I. That's all I wanted to do. And be like, oh, what gear is he using? And he's like this slow churn, you know, opposite of like spin to win, just mashing the gear. And I was just staring at his calves going, this is so cool. Ivan Dominguez, you know, former multi-time, you know, crit and Road Race champion, uh, and I'm in the same race as him and stuff like that is just, is super cool. [00:13:05]Craig Dalton (Host): Amazing. So you, you're, you start the SoCal cyclist to talk to your friends and just kind of explore another creative outlet as you've got a young child in at the home. Right. [00:13:15]Brian Co: Yeah. Well, at the time, and again, this is in 2016, there wasn't a whole lot of cycling podcasts, and the ones that did exist were very, um, tech heavy. Like they focused on disc breaks and stuff like that, which is great. But I wanted to focus on me and one guest every week for 52 weeks and to see if I could actually do it. But, and, and again, this is. Uh, people physically coming over to my house and recording. So it's the most inefficient way possible. And so, uh, I, I, I met that goal. I, I don't know why I even did it, but I, uh, you know, it started out as, as my friends in the first few episodes, and then by the last it was, you know, a lot of the top people in the sport. So I think it gained a lot of momentum after that. [00:14:07]Craig Dalton (Host): Yeah, and I can't recall how I originally found and discovered your podcast, but even before you rebranded to Velo Worthy, I was a listener, as you know, and when we connected at that first. Sea Otter, I think we were saying it might've been 2018. I was sort of fanboying you 'cause I knew you had done a lot of episodes. You're putting good content out there. Um, and it was fun to just connect with another podcaster to just trade insights. 'cause as you allo alluded to, the technology we're using back then was pretty rudimentary and difficult compared to what we're able to use today. [00:14:46]Brian Co: Yeah, you're right. Like. Whenever we record or put something out there, not just in podcasting, but in videos or anything, all you're staring at are numbers. So when you see somebody in person, you're like, oh, wow, somebody actually, this isn't all just a facade, like somebody actually is listening and we're talking about in person. So I think that's so cool. I mean, to this day, you know, most recently I was at Unbound, um, and I, I was so. Flattered and kind of validated that people would be like, oh, I watch your race coverage or your YouTube channel, and it just kind of blows me away. And I'm like, oh, really? You watch it? That's cool. And then they talk about it and stuff. So, uh, it still blows my mind. And I, I love that kind of thing. It's cool. [00:15:35]Craig Dalton (Host): so it is interesting in talking and getting a little bit more of your backstory to learn that. You know you had that mountain bike period in your life when you were back in Flagstaff. Then you come back to the road doing your thing, start podcasting Covid hits. I know you decided to kind of put the brakes on the podcast for a little while. I'm curious, in that sort of interim period from 2020 to now, it sounds like you've really kind of discovered gravel as being something that both suits you. Professionally with what you're doing with Worthy, but also just liking the, the vibe of the community and the style of riding. [00:16:15]Brian Co: Yeah, I mean 2020, you know, if, if everything shut down and there's no more races or even, like, I remember the group rides were a fraction of the size they were. Uh, why not do gravel where it's out in the open, it's. Mostly unsanctioned unless you sign up for something. And uh, I think the timing of everything just kind of worked. Um, gravel and I think gravel events kind of really took off between 2020 and now. And I think it appeals to so many people, including myself, because the rules are kind of unwritten. I mean, if I tried to do this, With a road background or a road focus, it would be 10 times more red tape to go to an event, especially like a U C I World Tour event because I, I have gone to like, uh, the tour of France and, um, Amgen Tour of California and just to go through those channels. It's very tradition based. Um, I, I interviewed one writer stuck a microphone in his face. Nathan Haas, he's, he's in gravel now actually, but at the time he, I think he was on like Catusa and he had just finished the stage and I just asked him a question and he reaches toward my lanyard with my media credential and he looks at it and goes, who am I talking to? And, uh, didn't even occur to me to like, Show him my badge. But if I did that at a gravel race, they'd be like, who are you trying to fool? Just talk to me like it. There doesn't need to be this vetting process. Um, so I think gravel gives that kind of freedom. [00:18:01]Craig Dalton (Host): So we don't, so the listener doesn't lear lose the thread here. Let's talk about velo worthy and what you're working on today because it's not a podcast anymore. [00:18:11]Brian Co: No, I, God, I, I need to get back into podcasting 'cause I miss it so much and I'm so excited just being on a podcast like, energizes me so much. But, so velo worthy is primarily, uh, a digital media brand where, uh, For lack of a better term, I make videos and put 'em up on YouTube. Um, but the, the thing about it is I've found this weird niche, uh, with my brand that not many other brands are doing. Um, you're either, most people, you know, if you're like, I. Tyler Pierce, a k a vegan cyclist, you're a vlogger or you, you focus on yourself and your accomplishments. Other writers do that as well. Um, Adam Roberts has his own channel, for example, Alexi has his own channel, for example. So if you're not that, you're either a, a. Working for a media brand. So if you work for Envy or something, you're just doing envy content at these events. But right now there's really nothing that captures the holistic view of an event where you're ca, you're not beholden to one writer necessarily or one brand. You're just trying to cover everything, which is a lot of work. But I think there's something to be said to. Sort of capture an unbiased view of what goes on at cycling events and just seeing things, how they unfold. [00:19:36]Craig Dalton (Host): Yeah, I think that's the thing that I take away from your videos is that you really do get the sense and feeling of the event. It's not a, an overly packaged, overly produced look at the entirety of the event. You really do. Because you're on the ground, because you're moving through the course, you're capturing footage that's just feels real, like you're seeing the mud on the tires. And when it comes to unbound, you're seeing the jockeying for water. At some of the stations, you're seeing how the riders are handling their pits. And I just feel like as a viewer, you do get a really strong sense of what it's like to be there versus this overly glamorized kind of prepackaged view of what the race weekend experience looked like. [00:20:27]Brian Co: Well, first of all, I'm just not good enough to make something highly produced because that takes a lot of talent, you know, to get that nice, you know, transition effect or whatever. But all kidding aside though, I really like, um, being in the moment, you're kind of up close and personal and, and the thing about gravel racing, the biggest flaw is it's not good for spectating. You start and then you finish either in the same place as the start or a different area. I mean, at least in road racing, it's criteriums and you can just watch lap after lap, have it unfold. But with gravel it's so hard to watch. Um, and so I know that if I film for 10 hours straight, that's kind of boring. Uh, no one's gonna watch that. But if I condense it into. Less than an hour or 45 minutes, or even a half an hour. Um, it can really capture the things that are unfolding. And unbeknownst to me, I didn't know that my footage was gonna be, you know, used for feed zone drama or finish line drama or any kind of drama really, but, The writers are not shy out on course. They'll ask me, what's the time gap? They'll ask me how many guys are ahead, who's in that break? They're asking, they're not asking for directions or anything. And I do follow all the rules of um, I. The race. So if a writer needs assistance and we're not allowed to give it, I don't give it, I just record. Um, so I think the relationship that I versus, uh, you know, a, a local news channel has, uh, at least knowing and following the sport and knowing the writers. And how it's unfolding and posting up at the feed zones, capturing what may or may not happen, uh, whether people wait up or they just hit the gun and go for it. Uh, makes for good, good video. [00:22:21]Craig Dalton (Host): Yeah, and I think as a fan of the sport, your types of content just help fill the gaps like we might see. Throughout the day, the social media coverage, but the clips are quite quick and much to people's chagrin because it's so hard to get coverage out there, you're just not seeing it in the way you want. So you don't necessarily understand what happened in the race until after the fact. And I was enjoying this morning watching your Unbound video 'cause it just sort of, Added levels of detail and little bit longer clips of content to really get a feel. You know, I obviously many of us have read about the mud conditions in this year's unbound, and it wasn't until I saw some of your, your video that I could sort of understand. Oh yeah. It's that peanut buttery type mud where it looks glossy until you put your tire into it and then it just sinks down a couple inches and it sticks to absolutely everything. [00:23:18]Brian Co: Yeah, this, this year's unbound wasn't necessarily the the dirtiest, but I would say that section of mud. Made the race. Uh, I, I would say it determined who won and lost in that first 11 miles. Uh, but you know, again, you can have the debate of you just gotta be hard and power through it. And if everyone's going through it, then you shouldn't complain or. Do you reroute it last minute and make some changes? So it's actually more of a open, right, where you're, you're riding your bike, you're not running five miles since most cyclists hate running anyway. But yeah, like I, I just, I think, you know, I, I try and show and capture what people would hopefully wanna see. So it's stuff like the mud and, and the pit stops, especially this year. Who's getting a bike wash? Who's not, uh, who's. There's a little section of Sophia that went through the pit stop and it got two and a half million views on TikTok. Just the 60 seconds of it with people going, everything from, why can't she switch bikes to, uh, why does she need to power wash her bike at all? Like, so it's, a lot of it is curiosity. A lot of it is, okay, this is what I heard what happened. I wanna actually see it. So, um, it, it, it's hard to, to get in those areas though. [00:24:45]Craig Dalton (Host): and you've, you know, through a lifetime of cycling and connections you have, you clearly have a good rapport with a lot of these athletes. And it was interesting as that video opened up and, and you're speaking to some of the athletes, I, I thought that was cool. And then you, you do do like morning of start line commentary, and I think there was one woman who said something like, Well, I'm glad it didn't, it's not raining right now, or it seems kind of dry and I thought that statement is not gonna live well. [00:25:13]Brian Co: Yeah. Well, the thing is too, as much as I. You know, I think this is my fifth unbound. Kansas is like Hawaii. The weather just changes on a dime. So it could be sunny, perfectly sunny, not a cloud. And then they just roll in. Um, and a lot of people who aren't from Kansas just aren't used to that. Like even me, I should know, to bring galoshes and, uh, a poncho with me and a plastic wrap for my camera. But I. I didn't because I'm like, oh, the weather looks fine. You know? 'cause we're in California. It rarely changes that drastically. Uh, so yeah, I think I. The relationship I have with the writers is solid. I try not to, to burn people for the sake of burning people. I, I had a good talk with some of the more well-seasoned journalists, and I said, when do you, when do you know when to publish something and when not to, like in the case of Lance Armstrong, no reporter reported anything about him until only one reporter did, and then everybody did, and they said, look, If you wanna burn somebody, you have to do it if it's for the greater good of the sport. So if you know somebody's doing something nefarious, like cutting the course, or cheating or taking drugs or drafting off of a vehicle, you should probably document that and mention that and show that. Don't, don't not do it just because you're friends with them and they ask you not to do it. [00:26:46]Craig Dalton (Host): Right. Yeah, [00:26:47]Brian Co: is always hard because you're like, okay, if I do this, that means you're never gonna probably wanna interview with me again. So that's, that's something I have to decide on the fly. [00:26:57]Craig Dalton (Host): Yeah, that's the balance. You talked about sort of your efforts to make velo worthy, this video project that people can enjoy on YouTube. You also talked about how you've been excited about coming to Gravel over the last couple years. What does the summer look like for you? What are the types of things that you wanna document this year? [00:27:16]Brian Co: Well, I, I'm learning that I'm not able to sustain what I'm doing on velo worthy unless we have an unbound every single weekend or at least a level of an event, the size of Unbound every single weekend. So I'm actually learning that, again, this is a complete shock to me that brands. Will actually reach out to me and say, okay, we want you to review this tire. Or thinking that I'm some sort, sort of expert just 'cause I go to these events. But, uh, yeah, it's kind of cool, like I'm learning the tech side of it all and doing videos where, uh, I'm reviewing saddles or sunglasses or something. Um, where, you know, in my opinion, I review something. Say sunglasses based on how they look versus like the, the technical prowess of it. And so that's always cool because it, it forces me to just expand what I'm doing and, and you know, you have to have this healthy balance between what you're passionate about versus what people want to see. And if they don't line up, then you have to make some decisions. But, um, You know when, when I'm gr interested in growing velo worthy, it depends on how I define growth and what I want that to be. Because if I could, I could be another channel where I'm just doing all tech, and some people love that. But for me, I like the human story. I like the human drama of it all. [00:28:53]Craig Dalton (Host): Yeah. I personally think that's more interesting as well. [00:28:57]Brian Co: Yeah, and then maybe show like what tires they're running at the same time, [00:29:01]Craig Dalton (Host): Yeah. I mean [00:29:02]Brian Co: not mutually exclusive. [00:29:04]Craig Dalton (Host): exactly. I mean, there's the personal element of like why I chose this tire for this particular event and why it was successful or unsuccessful as a choice. So what's, yeah, what's next? So you're out at Unbound, and I know you'd mentioned to me offline that you've got a bunch of gravel events you wanna cover this year. [00:29:21]Brian Co: Yeah. So in between Unbound and the events I'm doing, I have it, I have this like glass wall on my wall here that I take a pen and, and write to, and I have like a whole video queue and one's on doing a tire review, uh, a review of, uh, the new, uh, specialized truck, gravel bike that I'm trying to convert into a all in one bike. Um, and then I have, uh, Foco Fondo in Fort Collins. I'm going to a small gravel race, but probably the most fun you'll ever have on two wheels. Uh, Whitney and Zach Allison put it on and they have. Such a good pulse of what makes cycling events fun. Um, doing that, there's Leadville, uh, which is mountain biking, but not super technical 'cause a lot of the lifetime athletes do it. And then Steamboat, s b t is the next week after that. And then there's also Montana, uh, mammoth Tough. Sporting the mammoth tough T-shirt. And then, uh, there's National Gravel, national Inaugural Championships, which we'll see how that even works. Some people may be like, Hey, this is awesome, and other people might say it's killing the spirit of gravel. The minute U s A cycling gets involved. [00:30:47]Craig Dalton (Host): so we'll see. So when you're out at these events, are you gonna sort of follow a similar format where you'll. Capture some athlete interviews. Capture as much of the course as you can to kind of give people the experience. [00:30:59]Brian Co: Yeah, so I actually plan it all out ahead of time. I use, you know, I have a Google Sheet doc. I type in each day, shot lists for everything. I'm very methodical, you know, charge up all my batteries, clear my, and format all my memory cards. I have all my equipment out there. I work on logistics. I get in touch with the athletes ahead of time and we plan, okay, we're gonna meet at this time, at this location. We're gonna sit down for five minutes and talk about this thing. And then when you get there, you know, everyone has a plan till you get punched in the face and then something could happen, it could rain. Uh, the athlete could be like, I don't feel like showing up. I've run into just every logistical thing you can. And so when you're there, you have to adjust on the fly and be like, okay, like at Unbound. There's this whole thing I did with Rebecca Inger where I didn't know she was gonna get sixth and she's this big personality and gravel, uh, and she just saw me and she's like, Hey, come walk with me. And I followed her and we went to get a race number at registration and I just started documenting that. And then I was like, well, why don't you just come over for dinner the night before? Bring Sarah Max, her friend. They're both like super solid in gravel. They came over for dinner and then I was like, let's just go in the living room and we'll film real quick. And they, they were sort of the intro to that video. None of that was planned. That was all spontaneous. So yeah, like you can only plan so much until it actually happens. And then when it does, you have to adapt it kind of like racing itself, you know? So, uh, in a ways it's, I I approach those events in the same way. [00:32:42]Craig Dalton (Host): Yeah, that makes sense. Sweet. Well, I'm super excited to see all those events you're gonna cover later in the year. I definitely, I wanna get more of the flavor I've had, I've had Whitney on talking about Foco Fondo. I've had Jess, Sarah and Sam Boardman on talking about Last Best Ride. I'm always curious to just kind of see on the ground footage of. How those events will go down and what the experience looks like. Because I think at the end of the day, most athletes who aren't professional athletes, you know, we've got limited time and limited budgets to get out there and picking the events that are gonna be the right vibe I think is important. I. [00:33:19]Brian Co: Yeah. You know, and not every event needs to be documented in the way, say, Unbound is because not every race is about even focusing on the pointy end, especially if it's a smaller event where people just kind roll out. There's no neutral, there's no gun that goes. People just roll out and then they finish. They still ride hard. So I have to figure out a better way to tell the story. 'cause if I just focus on the leaders or one guy or girl, that's just gonna get boring and because there's so much that happens behind that. There's people on tandems and there's people on all kinds of weird gravelly, custom steel alloy, flannel, mustache, whatever. Like it's just, there's so much going on that I, I, I need to be able to capture that as well, so, [00:34:13]Craig Dalton (Host): Yeah. No, I agree. I, I mean, I think I've, I've done an equal part of like pointy end of the race racers and mid packers, and I know. It seems to be a growing trend. 'cause I think at the end of the day, part of this quote unquote spirit of gravel is we're all participating together. So I do, I tend to agree with you that the sort of flannel shirt, wearing Mustached party pace athlete experience is every bit as valid to understand as part of, you know, what the overall event jam is gonna feel like as the pointy ended. In fact, probably even more so. [00:34:47]Brian Co: Yeah, I mean, I. Some people finish Unbound in 10 hours and some people finish it in 20 hours. So for the people who are finishing in 20 hours, they had, they spent more time at Unbound than the pros did. [00:34:59]Craig Dalton (Host): Yeah, no, I, I, I remember back from my triathlon days at Ironman and thinking like, you know, you have the pros finishing in whatever, seven or eight hours. Then the person who's finishing in 17 hours. That is such a harder day, and I think that most of the pros would acknowledge that saying like, they don't think they could even do a 17 hour day. [00:35:21]Brian Co: Yeah, and the pros are asleep and they have their feet up and they've already had a couple of beverages consumed. I don't know. I've been last in bike races before. I've d NFD in bike races, uh, and I've been in bike races, road bike races where I've come in. I'm pretty sure dead last, where they're like taking like the finishing barriers out and I just kind of like hide. But in gravel, you see like at mid-south, they're celebrating and embracing whoever finishes his last, like at Unbound, the XL winner I think did it in, they finished on like a Sunday afternoon. They started on Friday. Uh, and they, they brought out everyone and sprayed champagne on 'em. And you just don't see that at other events. [00:36:09]Craig Dalton (Host): I think that's the allure of the ultra endurance events that are prevalent in gravel, right? Because these are lifetime achievements to kind of do a 200 mile race or what have you. And yeah, everybody should be celebrated. Everybody should feel an immense sense of accomplishment for just having got a getting across the finish line. [00:36:29]Brian Co: Yeah. I met, I'm met a, I'm met a volunteer. Who was doing the finish line, like wet shammy, butter washcloths, those yellow ones. And I'm like, oh, where are you from? He is like, oh, I'm from Florida. And I'm like, you came all the way from Florida to be a volunteer and you're not even writing the event. He's like, yeah, but being a volunteer gets you entry for the next year. So you're already, you're already doing prep. Well before you're, you can even do it 'cause the lottery system is so random. But if you volunteer, you're guaranteed an entry. Or if you're a vendor, you're guaranteed an entry. And people, I forget, travel I. Just to volunteer. You would never see that. You would never see that at a crit as much as I love crit racing, or you'd never see it at a row race where someone volunteers a year early just to just to throw wet rags on somebody just so they can race it the next year. That just speaks volumes. [00:37:26]Craig Dalton (Host): yeah, it really does. Cool. Well, Brian, I appreciate you coming on and sharing the story. I'll make sure people know how to check out the content so they can explore. The velo worthy YouTube channel. [00:37:38]Brian Co: Thank you. And, uh, you know, I, I, I, I think that a lot of room to grow, not in terms of traffic necessarily, but in the way I. People like you and me develop within the sport. Like we're not, we don't have the advantage of being ex-professional with a big following. So like if Peter Seg wants to start his own podcast, we're just doomed. We just are. But I think we just grind it out. We're there, we're talking to people. We're learning and we're creating, I think a great. Space in the sport to have voices like these. So I really appreciate the opportunity to be out here and talking to you because I just love what you're doing and I, I love being able to share my passion for the sport. [00:38:29]Craig Dalton (Host): Yeah. Amazing. Thanks Brian.  

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Nelumbo nucifera, or the sacred lotus, is a plant that grows in flood plains, rivers, and deltas. Their seeds can remain dormant for years and when floods come along, blossom into a colony of plants and flowers. Some of the oldest seeds can be found in China, where they're known to represent longevity. No surprise, given their level of nitrition and connection to the waters that irrigated crops by then. They also grow in far away lands, all the way to India and out to Australia. The flower is sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism, and further back in ancient Egypt. Padmasana is a Sanskrit term meaning lotus, or Padma, and Asana, or posture. The Pashupati seal from the Indus Valley civilization shows a diety in what's widely considered the first documented yoga pose, from around 2,500 BCE. 2,700 years later (give or take a century), the Hindu author and mystic Patanjali wrote a work referred to as the Yoga Sutras. Here he outlined the original asanas, or sitting yoga poses. The Rig Veda, from around 1,500 BCE, is the oldest currently known Vedic text. It is also the first to use the word “yoga”. It describes songs, rituals, and mantras the Brahmans of the day used - as well as the Padma. Further Vedic texts explore how the lotus grew out of Lord Vishnu with Brahma in the center. He created the Universe out of lotus petals. Lakshmi went on to grow out of a lotus from Vishnu as well. It was only natural that humans would attempt to align their own meditation practices with the beautiful meditatios of the lotus. By the 300s, art and coins showed people in the lotus position. It was described in texts that survive from the 8th century. Over the centuries contradictions in texts were clarified in a period known as Classical Yoga, then Tantra and and Hatha Yoga were developed and codified in the Post-Classical Yoga age, and as empires grew and India became a part of the British empire, Yoga began to travel to the west in the late 1800s. By 1893, Swami Vivekananda gave lectures at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago.  More practicioners meant more systems of yoga. Yogendra brought asanas to the United States in 1919, as more Indians migrated to the United States. Babaji's kriya yoga arrived in Boston in 1920. Then, as we've discussed in previous episodes, the United States tightened immigration in the 1920s and people had to go to India to get more training. Theos Bernard's Hatha Yoga: The Report of a Personal Experience brought some of that knowledge home when he came back in 1947. Indra Devi opened a yoga studio in Hollywood and wrote books for housewives. She brought a whole system, or branch home. Walt and Magana Baptiste opened a studio in San Francisco. Swamis began to come to the US and more schools were opened. Richard Hittleman began to teach yoga in New York and began to teach on television in 1961. He was one of the first to seperate the religious aspect from the health benefits. By 1965, the immigration quotas were removed and a wave of teachers came to the US to teach yoga. The Beatles went to India in 1966 and 1968, and for many Transcendental Meditation took root, which has now grown to over a thousand training centers and over 40,000 teachers. Swamis opened meditation centers, institutes, started magazines, and even magazines. Yoga became so big that Rupert Holmes even poked fun of it in his song “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” in 1979. Yoga had become part of the counter-culture, and the generation that followed represented a backlash of sorts. A common theme of the rise of personal computers is that the early pioneers were a part of that counter-culture. Mitch Kapor graduated high school in 1967, just in time to be one of the best examples of that. Kapor built his own calculator in as a kid before going to camp to get his first exposure to programming on a Bendix. His high school got one of the 1620 IBM minicomputers and he got the bug. He went off to Yale at 16 and learned to program in APL and then found Computer Lib by Ted Nelson and learned BASIC. Then he discovered the Apple II.  Kapor did some programming for $5 per hour as a consultant, started the first east coast Apple User Group, and did some work around town. There are generations of people who did and do this kind of consulting, although now the rates are far higher. He met a grad student through the user group named Eric Rosenfeld who was working on his dissertation and needed some help programming, so Kapor wrote a little tool that took the idea of statistical analysis from the Time Shared Reactive Online Library, or TROLL, and ported it to the microcomputer, which he called Tiny Troll.  Then he enrolled in the MBA program at MIT. He got a chance to see VisiCalc and meet Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin, who introduced him to the team at Personal Software. Personal Software was founded by Dan Fylstra and Peter Jennings when they published Microchips for the KIM-1 computer. That led to ports for the 1977 Trinity of the Commodore PET, Apple II, and TRS-80 and by then they had taken Bricklin and Franston's VisiCalc to market. VisiCalc was the killer app for those early PCs and helped make the Apple II successful. Personal Software brought Kapor on, as well as Bill Coleman of BEA Systems and Electronic Arts cofounder Rich Mellon. Today, software developers get around 70 percent royalties to publish software on app stores but at the time, fees were closer to 8 percent, a model pulled from book royalties. Much of the rest went to production of the box and disks, the sales and marketing, and support. Kapor was to write a product that could work with VisiCalc. By then Rosenfeld was off to the world of corporate finance so Kapor moved to Silicon Valley, learned how to run a startup, moved back east in 1979, and released VisiPlot and VisiTrend in 1981. He made over half a million dollars in the first six months in royalties.  By then, he bought out Rosenfeld's shares in what he was doing, hired Jonathan Sachs, who had been at MIT earlier, where he wrote the STOIC programming language, and then went to work at Data General. Sachs worked on spreadsheet ideas at Data General with a manager there, John Henderson, but after they left Data General, and the partnership fell apart, he worked with Kapor instead. They knew that for software to be fast, it needed to be written in a lower level language, so they picked the Intel 8088 assembly language given that C wasn't fast enough yet. The IBM PC came in 1981 and everything changed. Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs started Lotus in 1982. Sachs got to work on what would become Lotus 1-2-3. Kapor turned out to be a great marketer and product manager. He listened to what customers said in focus groups. He pushed to make things simpler and use less jargon. They released a new spreadsheet tool in 1983 and it worked flawlessly on the IBM PC and while Microsoft had Multiplan and VisCalc was the incumbent spreadsheet program, Lotus quickly took market share from then and SuperCalc. Conceptually it looked similar to VisiCalc. They used the letter A for the first column, B for the second, etc. That has now become a standard in spreadsheets. They used the number 1 for the first row, the number 2 for the second. That too is now a standard. They added a split screen, also now a standard. They added macros, with branching if-then logic. They added different video modes, which could give color and bitmapping. They added an underlined letter so users could pull up a menu and quickly select the item they wanted once they had those orders memorized, now a standard in most menuing systems. They added the ability to add bar charts, pie charts, and line charts. One could even spread their sheet across multiple monitors like in a magazine. They refined how fields are calculated and took advantage of the larger amounts of memory to make Lotus far faster than anything else on the market. They went to Comdex towards the end of the year and introduced Lotus 1-2-3 to the world. The software could be used as a spreadsheet, but the 2 and 3 referred to graphics and database management. They did $900,000 in orders there before they went home. They couldn't even keep up with the duplication of disks. Comdex was still invitation only. It became so popular that it was used to test for IBM compatibility by clone makers and where VisiCalc became the app that helped propel the Apple II to success, Lotus 1-2-3 became the app that helped propel the IBM PC to success. Lotus was rewarded with $53 million in sales for 1983 and $156 million in 1984. Mitch Kapor found himself. They quickly scaled from less than 20 to 750 employees. They brought in Freada Klein who got her PhD to be the Head of Employee Relations and charged her with making them the most progressive employer around. After her success at Lotus, she left to start her own company and later married. Sachs left the company in 1985 and moved on to focus solely on graphics software. He still responds to requests on the phpBB forum at dl-c.com. They ran TV commercials. They released a suite of Mac apps they called Lotus Jazz. More television commercials. Jazz didn't go anywhere and only sold 20,000 copies. Meanwhile, Microsoft released Excel for the Mac, which sold ten times as many. Some blamed the lack os sales on the stringent copy protection. Others blamed the lack of memory to do cool stuff. Others blamed the high price. It was the first major setback for the young company.  After a meteoric rise, Kapor left the company in 1986, at about the height of their success. He  replaced himself with Jim Manzi. Manzi pushed the company into network applications. These would become the center of the market but were just catching on and didn't prove to be a profitable venture just yet. A defensive posture rather than expanding into an adjacent market would have made sense, at least if anyone knew how aggressive Microsoft was about to get it would have.  Manzi was far more concerned about the millions of illegal copies of the software in the market than innovation though. As we turned the page to the 1990s, Lotus had moved to a product built in C and introduced the ability to use graphical components in the software but not wouldn't be ported to the new Windows operating system until 1991 for Windows 3. By then there were plenty of competitors, including Quattro Pro and while Microsoft Excel began on the Mac, it had been a showcase of cool new features a windowing operating system could provide an application since released for Windows in 1987. Especially what they called 3d charts and tabbed spreadsheets. There was no catching up to Microsoft by then and sales steadily declined. By then, Lotus released Lotus Agenda, an information manager that could be used for time management, project management, and as a database. Kapor was a great product manager so it stands to reason he would build a great product to manage products. Agenda never found commercial success though, so was later open sourced under a GPL license. Bill Gross wrote Magellan there before he left to found GoTo.com, which was renamed to Overture and pioneered the idea of paid search advertising, which was acquired by Yahoo!. Magellan cataloged the internal drive and so became a search engine for that. It sold half a million copies and should have been profitable but was cancelled in 1990. They also released a word processor called Manuscript in 1986, which never gained traction and that was cancelled in 1989, just when a suite of office automation apps needed to be more cohesive.  Ray Ozzie had been hired at Software Arts to work on VisiCalc and then helped Lotus get Symphony out the door. Symphony shipped in 1984 and expanded from a spreadsheet to add on text with the DOC word processor, and charts with the GRAPH graphics program, FORM for a table management solution, and COM for communications. Ozzie dutifully shipped what he was hired to work on but had a deal that he could build a company when they were done that would design software that Lotus would then sell. A match made in heaven as Ozzie worked on PLATO and borrowed the ideas of PLATO Notes, a collaboration tool developed at the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana  to build what he called Lotus Notes.  PLATO was more more than productivity. It was a community that spanned decades and Control Data Corporation had failed to take it to the mass corporate market. Ozzie took the best parts for a company and built it in isolation from the rest of Lotus. They finally released it as Lotus Notes in 1989. It was a huge success and Lotus bought Iris in 1994. Yet they never found commercial success with other socket-based client server programs and IBM acquired Lotus in 1995. That product is now known as Domino, the name of the Notes 4 server, released in 1996. Ozzie went on to build a company called Groove Networks, which was acquired by Microsoft, who appointed him one of their Chief Technology Officers. When Bill Gates left Microsoft, Ozzie took the position of Chief Software Architect he vacated. He and Dave Cutler went on to work on a project called Red Dog, which evolved into what we now know as Microsoft Azure.  Few would have guessed that Ozzie and Kapor's handshake agreement on Notes could have become a real product. Not only could people not understand the concept of collaboration and productivity on a network in the late 1980s but the type of deal hadn't been done. But Kapor by then realized that larger companies had a hard time shipping net-new software properly. Sometimes those projects are best done in isolation. And all the better if the parties involved are financially motivated with shares like Kapor wanted in Personal Software in the 1970s before he wrote Lotus 1-2-3. VisiCalc had sold about a million copies but that would cease production the same year Excel was released. Lotus hung on longer than most who competed with Microsoft on any beachhead they blitzkrieged. Microsoft released Exchange Server in 1996 and Notes had a few good years before Exchange moved in to become the standard in that market. Excel began on the Mac but took the market from Lotus eventually, after Charles Simonyi stepped in to help make the product great.  Along the way, the Lotus ecosystem created other companies, just as they were born in the Visi ecosystem. Symantec became what we now call a “portfolio” company in 1985 when they introduced NoteIt, a natural language processing tool used to annotate docs in Lotus 1-2-3. But Bill Gates mentioned Lotus by name multiple times as a competitor in his Internet Tidal Wave memo in 1995. He mentioned specific features, like how they could do secure internet browsing and that they had a web publisher tool - Microsoft's own FrontPage was released in 1995 as well. He mentioned an internet directory project with Novell and AT&T. Active Directory was released a few years later in 1999, after Jim Allchin had come in to help shepherd LAN Manager. Notes itself survived into the modern era, but by 2004 Blackberry released their Exchange connector before they released the Lotus Domino connector. That's never a good sign. Some of the history of Lotus is covered in Scott Rosenberg's 2008 book, Dreaming in Code. Others are documented here and there in other places. Still others are lost to time. Kapor went on to invest in UUNET, which became a huge early internet service provider. He invested in Real Networks, who launched the first streaming media service on the Internet. He invested in the creators of Second Life. He never seemed vindictive with Microsoft but after AOL acquired Netscape and Microsoft won the first browser war, he became the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation and so helped bring Firefox to market. By 2006, Firefox took 10 percent of the market and went on to be a dominant force in browsers. Kapor has also sat on boards and acted as an angel investor for startups ever since leaving the company he founded. He also flew to Wyoming in 1990 after he read a post on The WELL from John Perry Barlow. Barlow was one of the great thinkers of the early Internet. They worked with Sun Microsystems and GNU Debugging Cypherpunk John Gilmore to found the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF. The EFF has since been the nonprofit who leads the fight for “digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.” So not everything is about business.    

Una deliciosa charla que versa sobre las religiones, la meditación, la paz y la necesidad imperiosa de replantear nuestros objetivos individuales y comunes. Una invitación a incorporar al amor como eje central de nuestras acciones y a unirnos en armonía para lograr salir entre todos de los túneles de la guerra, la enfermedad y el egoísmo ciego, tendiendo múltiples puentes de paz. Un encuentro maravilloso a mediados de abril de 2023 en la Ciudad de México ha sido grabado en Yosomos y eso me da el honor de presentarles queridos escuchas, a un entrañable amigo, del cual les dejo su trayectoria y un enlace a la Universidad de la Consciencia, de la cual es director. Swami Rameshwarananda Giri Maharaj es un monje hindú de la Sagrada Orden de los Swamis, representante de la Comunidad Védica de España. Es consejero para el Diálogo Interreligioso y Relaciones con las Administraciones de la Federación Hindú de España y asesor espiritual del Hindu Forum of Europe. Asimismo, es presidente de Fundación PHI y vicepresidente de Fundació Mediambiental, director de la Universidad de la Consciencia, de la Escuela PHI de Yoga Vedanta y Meditación y creador de CampusPHI. Actualmente, preside el Foro Interreligioso Internacional Transcendence y representa a las Religiones de la India tanto eel Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders, como en la Conferencia Internacional Mediterránea de la Multaqa (UNESCO). https://cvuc.eu/

Show notes: [0:58] What's Dan's background? [4:51] On what happened with Wim Hof [12:50] Finding the sweet spot with ice baths [17:19] How does he work with athletes and corporate people? [27:41] What are the things he learned from travelling the world? [41:01] Where to find Dan? [43:45] Outro Who is Dan? Daniel de Luis is a Performance Coach, Corporate Stress Reduction Specialist, Biohacker, Cold Therapy Specialist, Wim Hof Instructor, Mindfulness, Meditation, Breathwork, and Yoga Instructor. He has studied under various teachers around the world, including Shamans in the Amazon, Swamis in India, and the Iceman-WIm Hof himself. Studied and lived at Yoga Ashrams around the world. Exploring many esoteric disciplines, including plant medicines in the Jungles of Brazil. Daniel has blended both ancient wisdom with advanced science to develop a system that helps others find their full human potential.    Daniel has taught and studied all over the world, with over 25,000 hours of teaching experience. He has had the opportunity of teaching many NHL, Olympic, elite, and professional athletes. Some of Daniel's current and past clients in the Corporate world include the CBSA, Canadian Military, NIKE, HEXO, 3M, CANARM, BRIGHTDAY, and more.    Daniel has also given his stress reduction wellness programs/workshops in a wide range of facilities from Government agencies, correctional institutions, Police and Fire Departments, hospitals, elementary schools, high schools, and Universities.    He is based out of his wellness center in Brockville, Ont, Canada. Leading workshops, yoga, meditation classes, and retreats. He also teaches and speaks on Biohacking, teaching others how to be the best version of themselves. His programs help people with various issues anywhere, from back pain to stress reduction and overall well-being. He has committed his life to helping others live happier, healthier, and stronger lives.   Learn more about Dan: Website: https://dandeluis.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/dan_deluis Email: dan.deluis@hotmail.com   Links and Resources: Peak Performance Life Peak Performance on Facebook Peak Performance on Instagram

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In today's episode, we talk with East Coast and Stab High surfer Brad Flora   @doesntmatttttttter .  Brad tells us that there is a full scene of surfers in Maryland,   but he has been spending a lot of time in Indo, and striving to surf every day.  He talks about how he's a surfboard junkie because it's an addiction, but now that he shapes, it helped eliminate the problem @thrash.craft . Brad discusses how he loved Oceanside Ca. for its grittiness, but decided to leave in order to travel. And did Brad and Joel Tudor really share a barrel on a big swell at Swamis"s? Find out!Get your next board from Thrash CraftMusic from the best Surf Rapper of all time @slipperysurfaSupport the showIf you like the QuiverCast here are some ways to help us keep going! I always like Coffee! Buy me a Coffee! Become a Patreon for as little as a Buck a Month! Patreon Find Us: Website: thequivercast.com Instagram: @quiver_cast Facebook: The QuiverCast Twitter: @The_QuiverCast Sound Editing by: The Steele Collective

April of 1965 was a relatively uneventful month in western culture. If you research it, you'll see that nothing particularly critical happened during those thirty days. However, even though it never showed up on any of society's radar screens, one event did take place that was to change the entire world. John Lennon and George Harrison of the Beatles went to dinner at their dentist's home and unbeknownst to them, the dentist slipped LSD into their after-dinner coffee. They had no idea of what was going to happen, but according to George, although things were a little rocky at first, it turned out to be quite a night. As he put it, "I had such an overwhelming feeling of well-being, that there was a God, and I could see him in every blade of grass. It was like gaining hundreds of years of experience within twelve hours. It changed me, and there was no way back to what I was before." He also said that as he was coming back to normal consciousness, a thought occurred to him that had no connection to any part of his life and he had no idea where it had come from. This thought, that came to him completely out of nowhere, was simply this: “The yogis of the Himalayas.” Now LSD was relatively new and still legal at the time. An extremely powerful psychedelic drug, many famous celebrities had taken it and had profound experiences including Carey Grant, Groucho Marx and Jack Nicholson, along with renowned Harvard professors, Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. And speaking of Harvard, there are still rumors that JFK took acid several times as well, with his longtime companion Mary Meyers. Timothy Leary hints that he played a key role in those events in his autobiography, “Flashbacks.” Again, it was still legal and there were no prohibitions to it. Anyway, a few months after the incident in their dentist's home, whether or not it had anything to do with his thought of the “yogis of the Himalayas,” George introduced Indian music to pop culture when he played the sitar on the Beatles song “Norwegian Wood.”  This was the early beginnings of a revolutionary change in popular culture as the band began to introduce a new genre that would eventually become known as psychedelic music. Not only did their sound change, but their songs took on a new depth of meaning, with primary examples being “Nowhere Man,” “The Word,” “In My Life,” “Elanor Rigby,” “I'm Only Sleeping,” “Tomorrow Never Knows,” ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and “Within You, Without You.” They were all part of a remarkable string of three groundbreaking albums: “Rubber Soul,” “Revolver” and “Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Now, it's nearly sixty years later and all of these songs are looked at as just great classics. But back then, they were incredibly revolutionary and the Beatles themselves were even more so. Along with their radical appearance and their welcoming approach to marijuana, psychedelics and the expansion of consciousness, they were at the forefront of an astounding cultural shift that would radically alter not only England and America, but every other country throughout the entire civilized world. And it all went to the next level in February of 1968 when the Beatles travelled to India to study meditation with a guru named Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. And as usual, they weren't shy about telling the world what they were doing. The massive publicity surrounding their trip created a major sensation that rocked the whole world. Now as earthshattering as all this was, it wasn't the first time that Indian spirituality, with its reverence for the expansion of consciousness, had made a profound impact on western culture. Far from it. In one way or another it had been going on since the 1500s. Unfortunately, it came about as the result of a rather brutal societal development. Certain European nations established superior military might and mixed it with ever-increasing naval reach.  And with an appalling display of the greed-driven, incredibly destructive delusion that “might makes right,” they began to conquer and subjugate as much of the world as they could get their hands on. They would routinely invade a foreign country, enslave its people and plunder their resources. All in the name of civilization, of course. A prime example of this arrogance of power is what England did to India. Although the British had been in the land for centuries, they finally conquered it completely in 1876. Queen Victoria became the Empress of India and the exploitation of the country moved into full swing. But something unexpected happened as well and it became an example of something extremely positive resulting from something extremely negative. Along with all the horrors that came with the conquest, an inevitable interaction of Indian and English cultures got underway along with it.  And nowhere was the distinction between the two cultures more evident than in the realm of religion.   The difference was somewhat stark. Western religion was basically a societal matter, where people would gather at houses of worship, sing songs of praise to God and hear sermons from clerical leaders that promoted higher ethical, moral and religious standards. In India it was a little different. Their religion had been around for over five thousand years and was the oldest in the world. And although it did have many similarities to its Western counterpart, it had some significant differences as well. For instance, according to its teachings, not only is there a God, but rather than being far away and unapproachable, it is actually within you right now and is completely accessible to you at all times. If you wish, you can evolve your consciousness to the point where you can become enlightened and actually merge with it. So, you didn't have to die to go to heaven, you could do it while you were still alive. In fact, doing it was the actual point of being alive. And also, given the idea that it was possible to reach this higher level of consciousness, rather than having clerics who could only give speeches and sermons about the higher realms, they had beings who had supposedly attained the enlightened state and were talking about something they actually knew, rather than something they just believed. And not only that, they had the ability to show you how to get there as well. They called these teachers “Swamis,” “Yogi's” or “Gurus,” which was an interesting term word because “Gu” means darkness and “Ru” means light, and a true spiritual guru can take you from inner darkness to inner light. And this isn't supposed to be just a bunch of words and concepts, it's experiential. In other words, if you were thirsty, you weren't confined to just hearing stories about people who had gotten to drink water, you could actually drink it yourself.    Now a couple of these Gurus had made it to the United States over the years and their impact had been extremely significant. The first one was named Swami Vivekananda who travelled to Chicago in 1893 to address the First World's Parliament of Religion. The Swami created quite a stir and his talk was, in a word, a sensation. The attendees to the conference felt they had heard someone address them who was in a uniquely elevated state and seemed to be speaking about God consciousness from direct personal experience. And there was something extraordinary about being in his physical presence. It wasn't just uplifting and inspiring. It was actually elevating.  It was palpable. Indeed, one of the delegates, Professor John Henry Wright of Harvard University told him, "To ask you, Swami, for your credentials is like asking the sun about its right to shine." After his ground-breaking appearance in Chicago, Vivekananda's reputation grew rapidly and he travelled to New York and gave lectures to sold out auditoriums, where people waited for hours to buy tickets. One night, New York's most prominent actress Sarah Barnhart held a party for him and introduced him to her friends Nicola Tesla and Mark Twain. His vast influence spread from there and even though he passed away in 1902, at the age of just 39, he continues to be a renowned and deeply respected authority on inner growth. Then in 1920 another Guru from India arrived in America, this time in Boston, in the form of Parmahansa Yogananda. He was also a powerful presence whose impact quickly grew to the extent that he was able to reach millions of people, encouraging them to evolve and grow their inner consciousness. As his life work evolved, along with remaining a powerful force in India, he became a major phenomenon throughout the West and indeed the entire world.  Not only was Yogananda a magnetic speaker, he was also a brilliant and profoundly prolific writer. He went on to establish a major center for mediation in Los Angeles and many local residents of the area studied his work. The internationally esteemed author W. Summerset Maugham cited him as a primary inspiration for his 1944 masterpiece novel, “The Razor's Edge,” which is about one American man's search for enlightenment following his harrowing experiences in World War I. In 1946, it became a well-loved motion picture as well.  The next truly major interaction between India and Western culture happened when Mahatma Gandhi visited London at the end of 1931, and this was quite a phenomenon. Although Gandhi was the head statesman of his country, when he came to England, instead of wearing formal western clothing, he only wore his simple handwoven Indian cloth and sandals. He always looked like he was walking through the blistering heat of India, although he was in the freezing temperatures of England, with its shivering rains. Wherever he went, he was mobbed by massive crowds who were in awe of his presence. Not only were his words inspiring, he also had a piercing wit. As he was about to depart, a reporter asked him, “What do you think about Western Civilization. “I think it would be a good idea,” he shot back. A few years later in August of 1935 Gandhi met with Parmahansa Yogananda, who initiated him into the practice of Kriya Yoga, an advanced form of meditation. But to Gandhi, the ground breaking elevation of consciousness had applications that were societal as well as individual. And in response to the increasingly harsh British domination of India, Gandhi began to institute a process he called “Satagraha” which means “holding onto truth,” with its emphasis on non-violent civil disobedience. Although it was a slow and difficult process, it was extremely powerful and twelve years later, the British were driven out of India with relatively little violence. It was a truly incredible example of the application of evolved consciousness to resolve a cruel societal injustice.   But that wasn't the end of it. In the late forties, an African-American theology student at Morehouse College in Atlanta was introduced to these remarkable works of the Mahatma. Intrigued, the student began a serious study of Gandhi and the unique way he had been able to terminate British rule      Upon his graduation, that student was ordained to the Baptist ministry at the age of 19. And of course, that student was Martin Luther King, Jr. As his activities in the civil rights movement began to evolve and grow, he became more interested in the idea of applying Gandhi's methods to break the chains of racial oppression that were so overwhelmingly prevalent throughout the land.      It all culminated on February 3, 1959 when King and his wife Coretta, embarked on a three-month trip to India to get more familiar with Gandhi's approach. “To other countries I may go as a tourist,” he said upon his arrival. “But to India I come as a pilgrim.” During his stay, his study of Gandhi deepened considerably. As an ordained minister, he was taken with Gandhi's profound spiritual understandings and in his closing remarks he said, “In a real sense, Mahatma Gandhi embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation.” Dr. King returned to the United States and anyone remotely familiar with American history knows the extraordinary story of what happened next.  So, that unlikely acid trip that ended with George Harrison's mysterious inner reflection about the Yogis of the Himalayas began yet another major chapter in the story of how the evolution of consciousness has changed the world. And changed it for the better. And even though a lot of the advances that happened came about as a result of some terrible cruelty, the truth is, the negativity had quite a silver lining.  And for me, it's always important to remember that the only reason there ever is a silver lining, is because of the powerful light that is right behind those dark clouds. Well, that's the end of this episode. As always, keep your eyes, mind and heart opened and let's get together in the next one.

Christian de la Huerta is a personal transformation coach, spiritual teacher, TEDx speaker, and award-winning author of Awakening the Soul of Power, described by music icon Gloria Estefan as “a balm for the soul of anyone searching for truth and answers to life's difficult questions” and has received a Nautilus Book Award and a Nonfiction Book Award. He has traveled the world offering inspiring and transformational retreats combining psychological and spiritual teachings with lasting and life-changing effects. Power Matters  Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.soulfulpower.com/ Book: Awakening the Soul of Power: How to Live Heroically and Set Yourself Free (Calling All Heroes) Most Influential Person Spirit Rock Retreat Center Effect on Emotions Mindfulness, that ability to be present and to observe me, makes it a lot easier to not react and for most of us, when we meditate, it's gonna be boring. Once in a while, we have a great moment of no mind or bliss or belonging. But the benefit of doing that practice, even when it's just boring, counting our breath or repeating a mantra, whatever it is, that's the practice. So That's sort of learning how to dribble so we can play at the basketball finals or learning the piano chords so that we can do a concert delivery because it's that ability. But the mantra it's that boring practice that comes in helpful when we get triggered. And all we need is that moment, that moment of presence, that moment of mindfulness. Oh, whoa, that one hurt. Ooh, that triggered me. And then that brings choice back into the equation. Like then how do I want to respond to this, rather than just that old boring, react, and then regret? Power Matters  Thoughts on Breathing It's all about the breath. The breath is at the core of every meditation practice and most spiritual traditions. Let's just think about this example. We're in a conversation that's starting to escalate and kind of about to go south into an argument. That's the moment to use the breath. That's the moment for their Swamis in India that have that much control over their bodies that they can tell their hearts to slow down and they will. So Most of us are never going to get there. But every one of us can slow down our breathing. So when we slow down the breath, the heart has no choice but to relax. It has to. And when the heart begins to relax, then the body begins to quiet down. And then the nervous system begins to quiet down as well. Power So Matters  And then we can make a choice again about how we show up because we're talking about empowerment. So we're not talking about suppressing our emotions, we're not talking about becoming a doormat, we're talking about bringing choice. And using our being able to communicate our emotions responsibly. So The emotions aren't good, they're not bad, they're neutral. They're energy. What used to be spiritual teaching, is that everything is energy. Now we know, from quantum physics, it's all energy, including the body, and the emotions. And the problem that we have with suppressing emotions is that they don't go away.  So Suggested Resources Book: Awakening the Soul of Power: How to Live Heroically and Set Yourself Free (Calling All Heroes) Book: The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story by Brian Swimme  App: Insight Timer App: Breathwrk Bullying Story I talked about the US as an example that after 911 we had the goodwill of the entire world on our side. Because this was such a shocking, unimaginable affront. And so we had a choice point, like how do we express power? And what do we do? We abused it, we bullied, and nobody likes a bully. And we went and invaded a country that we had no business invading, and we're still paying the price for doing that. So 20 years later, or 30 years later, however long it's been, I guess 20-something years later. From a personal perspective, I share a story about when I was in 10th grade and I just started a new school that was all boys and it was a Catholic school, a Jesuit school. So I was going through the difficult times the kids go through; not feeling accepted. Who am I? All that kind of stuff. And there was a kid in my class that everybody bullied and not in a mean way. I mean not in a bad way it wasn't like physical bullying, but it was like mind games. So I learned about bullying and that there was a part of me that didn't feel accepted, that didn't feel good about myself. Because I was struggling with issues of deep existential questions, the questions of who am I and do I belong in this religion in which I was raised, where I had this part of me that I wanted to serve the sacred. I wanted to serve God as I understood it then. And yet in a religion that told me that I was gonna burn in hell for eternity, for being who I am. And so, rather than deal with those difficult, painful emotions, it was easier to focus on somebody else. So I think that's what a lot of bullying has to do with. It is sort of a displacement of negative feelings for ourselves and then finding somebody who's weaker. I'm hoping that in telling the story, I'm helping other people. So Related Episodes Empty Into Fullness; Timothy Stuetz Heal PTSD Memories With Mindfulness and Soul Link; Gary Sinclair Creating Deeper Relationships With Soulful Listening; Terri Lonowski Special Offer Are you experiencing anxiety & stress? Peace is within your grasp. I'm Bruce Langford, a practicing coach and hypnotist helping fast-track people just like you to shed their inner bully and move forward with confidence. Book a Free Coaching Session to get you on the road to a more satisfying life, feeling grounded and focused. Send me an email at bruce@mindfulnessmode.com with ‘Coaching Session' in the subject line. 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In this week's episode of Living in the Sprawl: Southern California's Most Adventurous Podcast, host Jon Steinberg shares his list of 10 incredible Southern California surfing destinations to visit while exploring the sprawl. His list includes: Zuma Beach in Malibu, El Porto in Manhattan Beach, Surfrider Beach in Malibu, Sunset Cliffs in Point Loma, Windansea Beach in La Jolla, Cayucos Beach in San Luis Obispo, Rincon Point in Ventura County, Swamis in Encinitas, Trestles in San Clemente and The Wedge in Newport Beach.Instagram: @livinginthesprawlpodcastEmail: livinginthesprawlpodcast@gmail.comWebsite: www.livinginthesprawlpodcast.comCheck out our favorite CBD gummy company...it helps us get better sleep and stay chill. Use code "SPRAWL" for 20% off.  https://www.justcbdstore.com?aff=645Check out Goldbelly for all your favorite US foods to satisfy those cravings or bring back some nostalgia. Our favorites include Junior's Chessecakes from New York, Lou Malnati's deep dish pizza from Chicago and a philly cheesesteak from Pat's. Use the link https://goldbelly.pxf.io/c/2974077/1032087/13451 to check out all of the options and let them know we sent you.Use code "SPRAWL" for (2) free meals and free delivery on your first Everytable subscription.Support the podcast and future exploration adventures. We are working on unique perks and will give you a shout out on the podcast to thank you for your contribution!Living in the Sprawl: Southern California's Most Adventurous Podcast is on Podfanhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sprawlSupport the show

George Burns and Gracie Allen was one of the funniest duos in the history of American comedy. Both came from vaudeville, where they performed from childhood, honing their skills. When they met and decided to work together, they created an act that is unforgettable. While their earlier shows continued their standup vaudeville act, they gradually transformed their format to create one of the earliest situation comedies.

DC comics cover artist Donald David joins "Mr. Lobo". In this episode they go over the career of Donald and remember the legacy of Neal Adams and George Perez. To access Segment 5 for this episode you can either become a subscriber or join us on Patreon: https://anchor.fm/sleeplessknights/subscribe Mr. Lobo's Cinema Insomnia: Bob Wilkins Halloween Special on DVD: https://amzn.to/3t1zfyg Over 100 episodes strong, the SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS pODDcast with host MR. LOBO of CINEMA INSOMNIA and BESTOW TV producer PAUL SANDERS is unlike any other podcast we've found. We talk shop, talk pop culture, movies, get weird and try not to get too lost. This is the 3AM conversations that you always wanted to be a fly on the wall for. We do interviews with independent artists, play games, answer your questions, and take you with us to the airport and the laundromat. If you want to NOT know about a specific movie? We deliver that in spades in every episode ending in 1! Always highly experimental and creative...we can take this podcast where no podcast has gone before. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sleeplessknights/message

Today we start off our tournament of gangsters. We took 16 of our favorite gangster movies and put them in an elimination style bracket. We talk Godfather, Boys n the hood, American me and The Departed to name a few. Who will be victorious!? only time will tell, GO WATCH SOMETHING!

Check out this inspirational discussion I had with Tom Kelly. Tom is such a gifted and heart centered yoga teacher and spiritual counselor. My wife and I had the great privilege of having Rev. Tom serve as our officiant at our wedding and it is wonderful honor to bring him here to you.Visit Tom's at his website: loveforcerevolution.comAbout Tom:Tom Kelly, was born in Los Angeles, California, on April 6, 1950. As a child, Tom was naturally devotional, serving as an altar boy at his family church. While attending college at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Tom developed a deep yearning within his heart and soul to make a more intimate connection with God. After earning his B.A. in Anthropology and Religious Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara, at the age of 24, Tom entered the monastic life at the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF). Founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in southern California, SRF- is an international, non-profit, religious organization that has roots that trace back to the ancient lineage of Swamis from India.After taking vows of simplicity, chastity, obedience, and loyalty, Tom spent the next 25 years engaged in rigorous spiritual training as a deeply devoted raja yoga monk practicing meditation and humanitarian service on a daily basis, specializing in ministry, team building and motivational speaking.In the fall of 1999, after joyfully living and serving for 25 years as a monk in the Self-Realization Fellowship Order, Tom felt ready to embark on a new adventure in his life. Filled with inspiration and the assurance from the Divine, Tom left the monastic life and re-entered the secular world, in order to expand his life learning, as well as share the fruits of his self-transformation and direct experience of Yoga with all.As an ordained minister and certified yoga teacher with over 30 years of experience in spiritual and personal growth development, Reverend Tom has traveled around the world to carry the message of the Sacred Art of Raja Yoga.Tom's passion for communicating the joy of spiritual living is highly contagious. Tom serves from an open heart with the sole intention of opening hearts and minds to seeing the truth of love within and all around us.New Student Livestream Special ~ Try 2 Weeks of Free Unlimited Livestream Yoga Classes  at Native Yoga Center. Sign into the classes you would like to take and you will receive an email 30 minutes prior to join on Zoom. The class is recorded and uploaded to nativeyogaonline.com ~ Click Here to join.Find us at: nativeyogacenter.comOnline Yoga Class Library: nativeyogaonline.comThai Massage info: palmbeachthaimassage.comNative Yoga Blog: toddasanayoga.comInstagram: @nativeyogaThank you Bryce Allyn for the show tunes. Check out Bryce's website: bryceallynband.com and sign up on his newsletter to stay in touch. Listen here to his original music from his bands Boxelder, B-Liminal and Bryce Allyn Band on Spotify.Please email special requests and feedback to info@nativeyogacenter.com Please share this episode with your friends, rate & review and join us next time.

2022.02.26 Gaura Bhavan EN

2022.02.26 Gaura Bhavan EN

Tip of the day…Batch record!  Today I am supposedly going to talk about batch recording and Challenges.  Can I do a potent 5-7 minute episode.  No matter where you go there you are.  Some of my sales history and how the power of visualization  lands me where I am today.  Me getting laid off from tech and the book “What Color Is Your Parachute” lay the foundation for amazingness.  Ok, back on track!  Create a challenge to get your customers micro wins and create momentum in their life.  Check Cheryl Spencer's 5 day get 1000 followers TikTok challenge.  Our friend got 11,000 followers in that 5 days!  I was to stubborn to follow her model.  I'm creating a “get your podcast of the ground” challenge.Administrative: (See episode transcript below)  The people I mentioned in the episode.See See Cheryl Spencer's TikTok @monetizesocialclub See Dr. Shelly Burns @menopausesecrets See Pedro Adeo and his challenge workshop here: https://www.digitalmarketer.com/lp/pedro-adao-workshop/ and his design your challenge workshop. WATCH this episode here: Table Rush Talk Show.Check out the Tools For A Good Life Summit here: Virtually and FOR FREE https://bit.ly/ToolsForAGoodLifeSummitStart podcasting!  These are the best mobile mic's for IOS and Android phones.  You can literally take them anywhere on the fly.Get the Shure MV88 mobile mic for IOS,  https://amzn.to/3z2NrIJGet the Shure MV88+ for  mobile mic for Android  https://amzn.to/3ly8SNjSee more resources at https://belove.media/resourcesEmail me: contact@belove.mediaFor social Media:      https://www.instagram.com/mrmischaz/https://www.facebook.com/MischaZvegintzovSubscribe and share to help spread the love for a better world!As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Transcript: Mischa Zvegintzov Tip of the Day batch record when the momentum strikes, batch record. That's what we'll talk about a little bit on this episode. But really what I want to talk about is challenges on the front end of creating some challenges. So very excited about that. But also batch recording. So, watch that glorious intro, I believe it's running in about three to four seconds on YouTube and about 20 to 30 seconds on podcast land. But enjoy the table rush talk show. I'll be right back. Subscribe, Like follow.Mischa Zvegintzov And I'm back. Batch record. Anybody savvy enough to see the episode right before this? We'll probably see that, hey, wait a minute. Your hair's the same. You're on the you're still on the uphill part of the walk. You know, when I like to keep my episodes between eight and 15 minutes. And I think growth for me, and 2022. As I record this, we're in February. growth for me is going to be getting less than eight minute episodes. Can I do a potent five or seven minute episode?Mischa Zvegintzov Real quick enough, you can see the ridiculous view. But I live in a magical part of the magical part of the world. Lots of magical parts of the world. I do believe this too. No matter where you go. There you are. So ultimately, if where you live, if your happiness is dependent on that. You may never be happy. I just happen to have landed. Encinitas, California. Cute little cottage. I'd say beach college but I don't want to give the impression that I'm on the beach. I can walk to the beach takes me five, seven minutes to Swamis beach. And I'm on the slope of a hill so I get some cool ocean breezes, breezes. And some, you know, little ocean view here and there. Not not not Whitewater. But yes, the ocean. So it's cool, whatever. It's quiet. It's about as quiet as it can be in a noisy part of Encinitas. Thanks for listening to that.Mischa Zvegintzov I think what's fun about that is that I back I was exiting the tech industry in 2001. And I'd had a good little run tech sales I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. And that industry was collapsing. It's doing everything I could to stay in it. But the universe was like you don't get to stay in this industry. So I was reading what color is your parachute? I believe is what it's called. It's like find your next job or find your next career book. But what it had you do was a lot of visualizations, visualizations of where you wanted to live. What's your house look like? What's your neighborhood look like? You know, what's the weather like? All these things? Okay. And this is really funny. It's really funny telling you this story as well. Because I did that I took it very seriously the What color is your parachute if you talk to my wife at the time everything that I was the work I was doing was manifesting i I shit you not sorry I just for any parents out there that has their kids watching this or their their teenagers whatever I apologize for this relatively benign that was yes, so I I get a job coming up out of that in the home loan business and all my skill set comes together this is tail end to 2021 and I'm fighting it actually I'm doing all this work all this you know deep soul searching stuff as recommended by what color's your parachute? And of course I end up in the job of my dreams at the time, which I've since now pivoted out of sugar cane the job of my dreams, but I had to get 15 year run.Mischa Zvegintzov Sorry, I end up today The purpose of this whole story is in the killer little beach house in the neighborhood walking walkable tents and walking as I visualized in that book and how crazy is that? How crazy is that? So I love meditation I love visualization I love you know trying to talk to that source that source that higher power that creative intelligence God, people have all sorts ofMischa Zvegintzov I'm back, I had to hit stop. What's the beginning of the video, it's talking about batch recording and challenging and challenges. Fast forward, currently, and literally in the house of my dreams, which is not going to be the house of many other people's dreams. Tiny, sold 1949. But I literally have landed in what is perfect for my ideal. What a gift that is.Mischa Zvegintzov So challenges, I did a summit awesome. Challenge Challenge is a five day. Next on the list, create a challenge, your creative challenge to bring somebody into your ecosystem of what you have to offer, can do it free or paid. But you create a three day five days seven day some people do longer day challenges. But what you're trying to do is create micro wins. To give help people end up with a result at the end. And then you can make an offer at the end of the challenge. So what's an example I did this, I have this friend and she created a tic tock challenge. It's awesome. Cheryl Spencer, you can find her on Facebook, Cheryl a Spencer, you can look her up on the TIC tock as well. What's it like? So, gosh, I wish I could remember what I'll drop the link in the show notes. Subscribe, and look in the show notes. I'll have Cheryl's handle in there.Mischa Zvegintzov But Oh, one last thing I met on visualizing. This is the thing about visualizing like I ended up in the house. But how I got there. I could not have predicted that at all. Did the visualization. How I ended up there? Oh my gosh, the set of circumstances. Crazy.Mischa Zvegintzov Anyhow, back to Cheryl Spencer's tic toc challenge. So at the her goal with her tic tock challenge is to have somebody take their brand new tic tock account and get it to oopsie get it to 1000 followers, you start a non business, tic tock account, by the way and non business account, get to 1000 followers. And then when you have 1000 followers, you can put your links in there and things like that. And she's got this great model of creating content. So that's her challenge. It's a five day challenge. Zero to 1000. And she gets you on path for that. Awesome challenge. Check it out. I'll have that link in the show notes as well. But this 111 woman, friend of mine in the TCC X actually, her name's escaping me. Of course, damn it, it's one of those days. If you watch the Lisa Randall episode, though, it's no big deal. forgetfulness, we always have forgetting forgetfulness, no matter how old we are, check out our interview Lisa Randall. But that as we get older, we attach a story to it. And that story, if it gets heavy enough, it creates fear in us. And then we have serotonin release, which actually degrades hip hippopotamus know the hypothalamus gland or something, whatever it is, that gland in your brain. So it can be a self fulfilling prophecy. You're getting older and forgetting stuff. Don't trip on it. You're always forgetting stuff you always have. It's just when you were 30. You could laugh at off. Or when you were 20. You could laugh it off.Mischa Zvegintzov But my friend, the menopause lady. I'll have her link in the show notes as well. She followed as following Cheryl's method. Exactly. And is already at she went from zero to 11,000 followers, one of her tiktoks got like 450,000 views. Like it's crazy. She's done maybe eight episodes. She was crazy. She literally hit that 1000 followers in that five days. I mean, I don't know I'm stubborn, and so doing my own thing. So at some point, I'll follow her method. But right now I'm like, I'm following my stubborn method. I'm just trying to repurpose my, my interview clips and get him out on the social media to create awareness. It's all I'm doing repurposing content. So the challenge. So my challenge is going to be more along the lines of, you know, five day podcast. Challenge. Mischa Zvegintzov Judas Priest. Love the old Judas Priest. Skateboard Park. Great neighborhood. Yeah, five day, and I'm still mulling it over, I'm just about to dive into this Pedro de owes challenge. He's got a challenge, create a challenge course, perhaps I'll throw that link in there as well. But the challenge is awesome, it's a great way to generate leads, build your email list. Get people in your ecosystem for free. They're joining your email list, so you can email them and sell them stuff later. As well as, as you get your challenges going. Free challenge you can sell them a service coming out of the challenge. So me for example, let's say hi to at the end of the five days, you'll have the name of your podcast, you'll have the theme of your podcast, you'll have the art together, you'll have your intro and outro put together, just loose framework might be a little different. But at the end of the five days, you'll have all the pieces together so that you can then go to one of the you know, one of the distributors and create what's called your RSS feed. Now, at the end of the challenge, I'm thinking, I'll have the RSS feed. So I'll have the list of everything you need to do to get your podcast live. And it'll be free. Make it to the end, you're going to get this here's everything you need to do to put those pieces of the puzzle together. And people still run stop signs. Skelly. My little when my boys were a little scary. Anyway. Hey, if you're new, welcome to the table rush talk show. Welcome to The Table rush. Talk Show. How fun is this? What I could do is offer at the end to help you get your show live and charge a fee for that. And perhaps coach you moving forward. So that is an idea of a challenge. Probably realistically going to do something like that it's coming your way.Mischa Zvegintzov Take away from this value packed episode. Batch record baby. when inspiration strikes. Create episodes eight to 10 minutes long, eight to 15 minutes long. As soon as you get to your 10 minute mark, wrap it up, hit stop. Start on your next episode. Batch record challenges are really cool right now. You should look into it. Challenges. Number three, do a little visualization. Do a little visualization. You could very well end up in the house of your dreams with a business of your dreams with a woman of your dreams. The man of your dreams what else free in the mind. Think I covered all the bases Love you all. Have a great day. Thank you for listening subscribe, comment. Bye different names for it. 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Shalom, This week's episode of The Jewish yogi welcomes Harris Lender and Evan Cohn, the couple that created and run the wonderful course "Yoga Yeladim", the only Jewish Kids Yoga program in the country! It is the ultimate fusion of Jewish learning, body awareness and spiritual understanding all rolled up into a Yoga mat. It provides teachers tools to incorporate Yoga and meditation with a Jewish curriculum. Yoga Yeladim is a program that branched out of Kidding around yoga, an incredible comprehensive children's yoga teacher training that is through the Satchiananda lineage. These are 2 great training programs that I highly recommend. Kidding Around Yoga was founded in 2009 by Haris “Harini” Lender (AKA Momma KAY). Haris is a certified Integral Yoga teacher at the 500 level. She has also been certified in Prenatal, Raja, Children's, and Stress Management. She spent 11 years running Camp Yogaville and for the last 9 years at her own summer sleepover yoga camp in Florida. Haris is extremely grateful to her teacher Swami Satchidananda, and to all of the Swamis, friends, and teachers at Yogaville that have helped guide her over the years. She is also thankful for her parents who gave her the insanely creative ability to write songs and invent lots of fun activities for the kids, and her husband Evan… AKA POPPA KAY, who is right there by her side helping her with ALL THINGS KAY! Haris and Evan discuss creating the business and making a program that is authentic yoga while being kosher for Jewish children. Haris also shares about her father, Murray Lender (yes of Lender's Bagels"), and visiting Yogaville for a weekend of The Swami, The Rabbi, ad the Bagel Baker. Enjoy Emily Please explore these two possibilities at these websites. Please feel free to like, follow, and share. Please feel free to reach out at thejewishyogi@gmail.com or @thejewishyoge on Instagram. https://kiddingaroundyoga.com/online-yoga-yeladim/ https://learn.kiddingaroundyoga.com/ #thejewishyoga #modahjewishyoga #yogagal #kiddingaroundyoga #yogayeladim Enjoy, Emily

Updated title: John Abate and a miracle of forgiveness.  My friend John Abate and I are both changing.  We are learning how to slow down, hold our tongues, and find peace.  Me, I had to go through a divorce and a couple other things.  John, well…he almost gets killed while riding his bike.  There's broken bones, fused vertebrae, and the miracle of forgiveness.  Don't be afraid to listen for the rest!  Episode notes:Check out the Tools For A Good Life Summit here: Virtually and FOR FREE https://bit.ly/ToolsForAGoodLifeSummitYou can find John Abate and his 8 week MBSR class here: www.mindfulfoundations.orgWe worked together in the mortgage industry 10-15 years ago. I was his boss!It was high stress. The game of it. We were hunters. Type A.  Firing away. Sales.We were trying to be helpful and find people where it made sense. He started working with me 2008…. After the melt down.We are different people today. They wouldn't let us in the door w the hair we have today.It has been a steady progression of him slowing down.John is an avid cyclist.  He started racing around 07 and it was his cathartic outlet.  Him needing a release.  He did his first bike race in 2007.  With the Swamis cycling club in Encinitas. Their tag line “The gurus of cycling” lol.  Racing road cycling fuels our personality types.  The A types. Highly competitive.  It fed that for him.He gets hit by a car August 2016. Heading out for his 89 mile Sunday ride.  Him and his friend.  Just leaving, a half mile from his house.  He's mid sentence with his friend when WHAM.He wakes up 3 days later in the hospital.  And he is beat up.   Compound fractures, broken back, et all.Kelly, his riding partner, they are still good friends.The rub.  It was a hit and run accident. They have never found the driver. This is where the story that's interesting.  Forgiveness.And it's the start of his most recent transformation.  He was gifted with forgiveness quickly.  “I don't know where it came from”.His sobriety community is rallying around him. On day 3 in the hospital I asked everybody to join hands and just pray for the driver. “Please I need to do this.” That the driver is not suffering and to help me forgive him.It turned out to be one of the most beautiful moments that I have experienced. And certainly other people that were there would attest to it.I needed this to start healing man. Because I had a lot to go through (moving forward).Did that actually help anybody.  It truly helped some of those men.That hospital room is a beacon of light. It was really cool.Now John teaches mindful based stress reduction (MBSR) classes.Now the swamis guru bike club has new meaning.Getting sober had started his spiritual practice.  Playing w meditation etc.  The accident introduced him to MBSR as a modality to heal himself from the accident.He literally can't move due to the casts, traction etc.  John is devouring books.  And stumbles accoss MBSR as a modality of healing not only the body but the mind.  For people that have suffered traumatic injury.  I wanted an alternative way to heal along w western medicine.  Physical therapy and all that. I wanted to heal w o staying on the medication. And I wanted to be w my experience.I had a lot of questions.  What happens to the driver?  Will I ever br able to ride again?  What's going to happen w my body.  MBSR helped me sort though that.“Good thing you were sober and hadn't pushed everyone away still!”And there's the company JoJa Bars. Which he had just started when he had accidentMBSR didn't free him from pain.  It helps him deal w it. Survive the PT the doctors appointments. The attachment of pain.  The fears of what's next.  I overcame some serious obstacles. It was the touchstone moment from his accident.  It gave me the opportunity to see If I put my mind right I can do almost anything.  That was the shift for me.I ended up taking the 8 week MBSR course at UCSD.  Which is the flagship university we're all day teacher training and etc. happens. UCSD Add university of Massachusetts.  They are the center for where a lot of this comes from.It affirmed everything I was learning on my own.  It gave me the tools to heal.  It helped bring me back to 100%. I was happy content and at peace.  Forgiveness and compassion.A working definition of Mindfulness as defined by the courses that I teach. Founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn. (Some history of MBSR).  “Mindfulness is when we are able to pay close attention on purpose, without judgment.”There is no striving to be perfect. There is no striving to be right. It's just looking at. Paying close attention.“You find a creative way of responding, if it's even needed”His next 5 or 10 minutes are awesome!  An explication of mindfulness in action.  There is a lot of flow in bicycle racing.I'm just trying to explore the recesses of the mind. What makes thoughts tick?  How do those come up?  Consciousness is a wonderful thing to delve into.The by product of that is how we treat others people.  It gives me pause which is what I need.  I need pause!  This mouth runs fast when I allow it to.Now John is actively teaching MBSR. Teaching what he learned.  An 8 week course.  If you would like some new tools to heal your body and your mind you can find John Abate here: www.mindfulfoundations.org“I just get to keep learning man!”Start podcasting!  Get the Shure MV88 mobile mic, you can literally take it anywhere on the fly https://amzn.to/2Mnba3QAccess my “Insiders Guide to Finding Peace” here: https://belove.media/peace    See more resources at https://belove.media/resources.   Email me: contact@belove.media   For social Media:      https://www.instagram.com/mrmischaz/  https://www.facebook.com/MischaZvegintzov     Subscribe and share to help spread the love for a better world!As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Register for the Tools For A Good Life Summit here: https://bit.ly/ToolsForAGoodLifeSummit

Unknown Speaker 0:01 Wake me up. Brandon Handley 0:02 Before you go, go. Set a listen. I totally grew up in the 80s I'm not gonna lie, I can't my good day to you, sir. I'm got some fun stuff for you today. Got up gonna be along the lines of miracles miracle creation, shit like that. When I had a class I'm in, I'm in a group, I'm in a course it's called creating personal mastery of streak morale, definitely talked about it comes from just the work that he's done over the years, he takes lessons from all the masters. Throughout history, we're talking Buddha, Jesus, whole bunch of Swamis, gurus throughout history, and he strips them of cultural identity. And when he stripped some of this cultural identity, you have an opportunity to revisit some of these concepts. Without preconception of, Oh, this comes from not my Lord Jesus, I can't take it. This call so I'm not my Lord Vishnu can't take it. This calls from you get the picture. Unknown Speaker 1:37 And Brandon Handley 1:39 when you do that, when you take away these preconceptions, you don't have a filter built in that does doesn't allow you to say no to something. Or perhaps I should say it makes it easier for you to say yes to some things. Because there's a specific logic. I don't even know if it's logic, there's a specific way that when presented, it's not illogical. That's a double, double negative for all you grammar nazis out there. There's logic and then there's something there's something in there. That just it is it sounds illogical. Unknown Speaker 2:34 But then there's this there's Brandon Handley 2:35 this truth. There's this truth in there that you just simply can't refute. It's irrefutable. Simply because the way that it's presented, it fucking makes sense. And you don't even recognize that it makes sense. That's how much sense that it makes sense, you don't refute it. It automatically bypasses your conscious filter. Your filter that says, Oh, no, that's bullshit. Because none of that I don't believe in Jesus, that I don't believe in the Torah. Get it? Right. So since you didn't say no. You're saying yes. This only applies and subconscious stuff, and not if he or she is asleep. Just a heads up there. So since you didn't say no, yes, it goes into your subconscious slips in there. And and then if there's any way that you can see the logic in it a second time because the material is presented repeatedly throughout the course of a period, and it's also you're also doing it within a group of other people. And you've also said, Hey, I'll keep an open mind. And I'll check this shit out. And belief has nothing to do with it yet. Belief has nothing to do with it yet. But you've accepted it in some way or another in a intellectual fashion. You said intellectually, this bucket makes sense. Okay, so once you've once you've once you've let it slip into the subconscious let it is obviously that's a loaded word. You didn't necessarily let it just fucking happen. Kinda like that one night shift has happened. And you then accept it in the mind, once you accept it on purpose, once you accept it with the intention of saying, Oh, okay. This makes sense intellectually. I'll go ahead and now I'll look for evidence of it in my life. Once you have let it slip into the subconscious, you've accepted it as a possibility. And then you begin to look for it in your life. And then it shows up. Then you experience it. Now, it's no longer just a concept. So long as a thought and intellectual practice. You've got the real life experience, according to how everything is lined up. And now, you're like, the shits real? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no way. Unknown Speaker 6:20 No way. Brandon Handley 6:22 No fucking way. And here's, here's here's what happened. It's kind of like a story within a story within a story like a goddamn Russian nesting doll. In the class to the night, there was four of us. And we were going over this, what gets in your way? Or where do you want to be? Or what kind of shit Do you trying to accomplish in your life and what's getting in your way. And this is a class that's offered at no insubstantial amount. And it is for like CE o 's high performance professionals, people who are ambitious, people who are also seekers, I believe that in this in this group, there seem to be a lot of seekers. And again, you find what you're looking for. And there's just some incredibly well, exceptionally well known people in this group within their circles. So when we have our get together, and there are these small group breakouts, that you get together once a week, and you go over these certain concepts and ideas, when we got together. In the group of three out of four, worldwide, three of us were coaches or coaching or had a coaching practice, along the spiritual and transformational lines, just like myself, just like myself. And we're all in similar but different spots along the journey. If that makes sense. we all we all want it to move forward. And we all were looking for how to make that happen. How are you? How are you making that happen? What is the next step that you need to make so that you can experience your desires in a way that you say you would like to in your life? And that's a tough one. Because a lot of times you come up with a lot of bullshit answers to that. And you say things like, well, if I had marketing or if I have more money if this or that. A whole bunch of things come up in that. And honestly, the truth of the matter is, it's a couple of things a maybe you really don't fucking want it. Is that really what you want? Because if that's really what you wanted, wouldn't you be taking steps and action towards it? It's fair question. If you wanted it badly enough, there wouldn't be a barrier to it. We how many stories are you familiar with in your lifetime? where people have made it or done it and insurmountable Unknown Speaker 9:37 odds? Brandon Handley 9:38 They aren't even super smart seemingly. And and you're like, What the fuck is wrong with me? Why is my life like this? Or maybe that's just me and I'll take that but we I happen to find myself and this group of at least three of us at the same time brought together in like, this way there's like what are the fucking odds well Word that we're all we have the similar limiting beliefs Do we have the similar spots of being stuck in? And while we were talking, one of my suggestions was to somebody else in the group, I was like, Well, if that's really what you want in your life, then why don't you talk to somebody who's achieved it? And what are some ways start looking for? Start looking for the ways that you could achieve that for yourself, if that's what you really wanted? Because chances are, chances are, you know, certain ways. And there's certain ways and other people have done it at this point that maybe you're not willing to do, because that's just not you. Right? And again, maybe that's another one of those limiting beliefs. Well, it's got to be done a certain way. Okay, maybe, then maybe you don't want it. Right. We have to, we have to be okay to admit that to ourselves. We have to be okay to let go some shit that we said we want, that we don't want it anymore. And then be okay with that. Overall is not what I want. Just kidding. Sorry, y'all. Just because you've got a lot of mental energy ish, shit tied up in it doesn't mean that you want it anymore. And that's okay, too. So that was one of the questions that kind of popped up in the group, too, was uh, maybe maybe? Pretty sure that's what you still want? Is that really what you want? understanding what it is that you actually want is not it's not easy? Because you say, you say why don't you start working towards it? Oh, yeah, I guess I didn't want it that bad, right. And that's okay, it wasn't worth x, y, z price, there's a price that you have to pay for all these things. And that looks like money that looks like time that looks like time away from family that looks like more time with family that looks like some things that maybe you're simply not willing to do at this point in your life. Yet any rate, so there we were three of us. in similar situations, I personally feel like I'm making the progress and doing the things and taking the steps myself. I don't know if I could be doing it any harder or faster. I've hired a you know, hired marketers, I've hired people to do my branding, I've done things I think that are on brand on point selected a targeted message selected different space, like, again, spirituality for the street, spiritual dope, it's a definitely a brand, it's definitely got a targeted demographic. And you know, and, you know, in support of mental health, there's a you know, there's another reason for it, how to apply it in your in your life, so that you can have to be anything that you want beyond your limited, mortal self. some shit like that, once you incorporate overall spirituality. So that's where I come from on it. And, you know, I've even got right now, somebody, you know, working with me, PR, too, help spread the message beyond the way that I know how because guess what, I don't know how to do some of these things. And sometimes I don't want to know how I want to find somebody that specializes in it to help me. So I can accelerate to a place that I would like to be at the same time in a in organic fashion without deviating from the message without without putting the need to monetize this in such a way that it influences the message. And what I mean by that is I'm not looking for ways to press on your pain points. To say that you've got to make a move in your life and buy my product, right. I don't feel like that's 100% necessary for where I am today. And what I'm doing. So I avoid it as part of the whole stick as it were again, so that I can stay pure anyways, shared all that out with the group. And also the idea that if you want to find somebody, if you do want to take any steps like that and you want to see it show up in your life, you got to go out and you got to look for find it. And, and then the one one guy in the group, he says the other thing he said to which I stuck out in my mind, just What's on your plate? what's in front of you right now is enough, as you're making the progress that you should be making with intention with purpose. And surrendering a little bit, again in surrender means Unknown Speaker 15:15 stop trying Brandon Handley 15:16 to control all the outcomes only control, you work work on what's right in front of you right now as part of the process. And as a second part of that, this whole thing is that this is a sort of group where we're focused on creating or witnessing miracles with our life, however you want to see it. And two parts to that the odds of this group coming together are what? Three out of four of us worldwide, what are the odds of us coming together? The first answer to that, and I got this from a gentleman who's been on the show before Adam Walton been coached by him before and brought up a scene like this Tim before and just the odds of this are 100%, it had to show up in my life in such a way like this, that I would accept it, to motivate me to, to have an impact, to be noticeable to have awareness of it. So the odds are like 100%. So then the very next morning, speaking of miracles, I've got meetings that are back to back, got a little coffee shop that I want to go get some coffee for, but I don't have fucking time for it. Because I got all these meetings, and they're good meetings. I'm really, really looking forward to them. Because I'm doing some cool shit. However, I still want that cup of coffee. What I want is like this little break just in the day to change up the pace of things. And my 10 o'clock cancel, I was like, shut the fuck up. Unknown Speaker 16:53 Mariko Brandon Handley 16:54 gives me a little bit of time to run across and grab a cup of coffee. So I want to cross it and get this cup of coffee. And Funny thing is his funny on the way in. There was a dad telling his daughter stay outside with the dog goes hoppy, right? She goes, What if What if I get kidnapped? And he goes, he goes, look, I'll be I'll be back before you're kidnapped. I have asked when we walk as like to just tell her that you'll be back before she was kidnapped. Yeah, I was like, all right, just making sure I heard that. Right. And I leave the place with my coffee, and the goddamn lemon Danish because they bake them fresh there and just wanted it. That's why I've wanted I've resisted for way too long. And I go outside, walk outside. And as I'm leaving, there's a there's a dude sitting there. reading his book power versus force by David Hawkins. got two options. I can note it. That's a cool book in my head and keep walking. But I was like, fuck it. I was like, I was like, Yeah, that's a great book. I said it out loud to him. Because Yeah, I was like, What do you check it out what's happening? We get to talking. And turns out, he is a men's spiritual coach right down the street. We get to talk about different things and pieces, we can act on a lot of different things, but which is all awesome. But the big takeaways I looked at as a miracle something that you know, without that night before talking about having a coach show up to does what you're trying to do in your life. So that you can find somebody to to rap about this stuff with. Like shamwow and instantaneous the moment that you believe that something like that could even happen. Like I had to be able to believe that something like that was possible in my life, to be aware of it, to allow for it to show up. yada yada. What are your beliefs around what's possible for you in your life. And the thing with spirituality is that if you believe that you have to do it all yourself within the confines of you and your own mind. And you have to force these things yourself. What you're not allowing for is this idea of this idea of surrendering to the universe and trusting as Alan Watts said, Justin the universe as though it were another throwing your the possibility of anything that happen that is in alignment with what you're trying to do in your life. As a step towards it, whatever that is. And I'm always reminded of the quote, or the idea of you only had to see 200 feet in front of you when you're driving at night. your headlights can only see two to 500 feet in front of you. You keep driving the headlights keep on shining two to five 100 feet in front of you continues to open up, you just have to follow the road. Same concept, same idea. Same thing will happen for you and your life if you're willing for it. If you allow for it, if you follow it if if you're willing to believe you're willing to step out in faith and if you're willing to go beyond just slightly beyond your current belief system and accepted, anything is possible for what you once deemed impossible. Check it out later. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

how do we find a guru? / could you please elaborate on how to properly prostrate when meeting elevated souls such as Swamis and could you please shed some light on taking Darshan for me? / if you work for something "bad", but you create "good" impacts out of it, what are the karma implications? / 
“Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, "I AM THAT" approach, how does that sit with Bhakti...?”

how do we find a guru? / could you please elaborate on how to properly prostrate when meeting elevated souls such as Swamis and could you please shed some light on taking Darshan for me? / if you work for something "bad", but you create "good" impacts out of it, what are the karma implications? / 
“Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, "I AM THAT" approach, how does that sit with Bhakti...?”

Surfing: One of the coolest hobbies anyone can have, right?Are you a keen surfer? You'll enjoy listening to someone with a ton of experience.And if you're hoping to get into it, you will benefit from some great advice.My guest today is from Madrid, Spain. He has been surfing for over 25 years.Welcome, Ruben Martin.Episode highlights:[01:40] - started surfing as a teenager, canary islands[03:10] - his brother is a pro skater, compares skating to surfing[04:05] - advice for someone wanting to start. To be great is technical, but just start[04:56] - safety aspect of surfing. Advice on currents in the sea, Swim parallel to shore[06:40] - What board and wetsuit he recommends based on height & weight and skill[07:10] - Start with bigger board, 8/9 ft, helps with balance. Don't use small pro board[09:20] - He uses different boards based on how the waves are, has used 5"10 board[11:10] - 3/4m in Costa Rica, biggest wave he's done[11:38] - Took professional lessons from a great instructor in Sopelana, North Spain[13:00] - In one week a person can start catching waves and get some good feelings[13:32] - Lessons in Sopelana around €20-30 a number of years ago[14:25] - Explains method of teaching surfing[15:31] - Feeling of catching his first wave, a feeling you never forget[17:05] - lived in california 2 years, studied there and saw a surfing instructor school[17:56] - speaks about different surfing spots in spain, galicia, cadiz etc[19:20] - Portugal: Lisbon, Carcavelos etc. Great spots for surfing there[20:50] - surfing in canary islands, gran canaria, tenerife. Sometimes a walk of 30 minutes to the beach, some beaches inaccessible by car[23:00] - sometimes the waves aren't what you thought, so you have to move to another place, or sometimes you just have to change plans entirely and can't surf at all[24:35] - Some cool spots in california to surf: Huntington beach, Oceanside, Malibu, Venice beach, Redondo Beach, Tressels, Carlsbad. Favourite spot is Swamis, Encinitas.[26:28] - Huntington beach. WSL professional contest.[27:00] - Artificial wave machine near his house in Madrid, Spain[27:50] - feeling of real waves in nature irreplaceable[28:37] - working in sporting events, wants to save and reach his goal of living by the ocean and living off surfing, open an surf school[29:30] - what qualifications are needed to open a surf school or teach? Each country has its own rules[31:06] - social dynamics of surfing, great way to make friends[31:55] - Speaks about vibe / type of people drawn to santander, galicia, swamis, etc.[32:45] - Surfing fire in California, worked there as a surf instructor, since they needed someone who also spoke Spanish[36:00] - he will be back on the show to advertise his new surfing school[36:29] - Has been to both pacific & caribbean side of costa rica, preferred surfing on the caribbean side[37:22] - resorts for surfing or air bnb? Air bnb / own accommodation better, then find your own spots[37:50] - Scariest experiences when surfing[39:57] - important to be a strong swimmer to be a surfer[40:40] - gives final words of advice to those wanting to startRecommended surf school in North Spain that Ruben used: w: www.escueladesurfsopelana.com

Do you want to live to your fullest potential? Ancient Yogic wisdom contains countless gems to help us to live radiant and fulfilling lives. This introduction will bring you into the world of Yoga Life through an easily digestible taste of knowledge, brought to you by Ram Giri Baba, a Yogic Explorer and teacher for over 30 years. Each episode explores a facet of yogic wisdom through practical examples, entertaining stories and the direct experience of the narrator. It's designed for everyone, regardless of your commitment to yoga, and is both profound and light-hearted. We will explore everything from yoga practice to the nature of reality, the emotional body, health and wellness, Tantra and much, much more!  If you are interested in learning more about this fascinating yoga knowledge, join us for a workshop or training. Please visit Randall's Swara Yoga Academy website at: https://swarayogaacademy.com/ And... If you love the podcast, consider supporting it through the Patreon artist support programme. Help be a part of supporting conscious content by donating. Visit my page: https://www.patreon.com/yogisswamisandswindlers

In this installment of our Swami's Speak series, Suhag Shukla talks with Chinmaya Mission's Swami Ishwarananda about the role of spiritual teachers in modern society, the importance of building Hindu communities and not just temples, and his inclusive definition of Hindutva. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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