Podcasts

Spiritual podcasts for lovers of mindfulness, meditation, relaxation, spiritual awakening, enlightenment, nonduality and healing. Try them for reducing stress or anxiety, or for calm while falling asleep!

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Apple Podcasts(desktop): On the left side of the page, click the blue button labelled View in iTunes. This will cause the iTunes app to open (or prompt you to install it if you don’t have it installed already). You’ll then land on Jon’s iTunes page within the app, where you’ll see a list of the last 50 episodes. You can choose to subscribe from there via the button on the left, and/or download individual episodes one by one by clicking Get at the right end of each episode listing.

iPhone: open the Podcasts app that came preinstalled on your phone. At the bottom of the screen, tap Search, then type Jon Bernie into the search field. Among the search results, look for Inspired Aliveness Podcast with Jon Bernie. Tap that result, then tap Subscribe. You’ll then be able to download individual episodes, and will be notified when new episodes are published. If you have a different iOS podcast app you prefer, feel free to use it instead! Jon’s podcast is available via all major podcast apps.

Andrioid: download the free app Google Podcasts. Open the app and type Jon Bernie into the search field, then tap Inspired Aliveness Podcast with Jon Bernie at the top of the search results. On the following screen, tap Subscribe. On that same screen, you can scroll to download individual past episodes. If you have a different Android podcast app you prefer, feel free to use it instead! Jon’s podcast is available via all major podcast apps.

  • Intimacy of the Heart

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    Intimacy is the union of being with another without the filter of “me”. It’s a closeness, a heartfulness, an empathetic sensitivity. Even though we may not have conversed, we know each other profoundly. That’s really the depth of relationship that we seek. www.jonbernie.org

  • A Little More Joy

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    The draw to become spiritually free is often just have a little more joy, a little more enjoyment, a little less angst. Can you find that moment, even right now, where you’re not seeking, not trying, not resisting? Can you let go, just for a moment? It feels good, doesn’t it? Recorded 3/7/2016 in San Francisco. www.jonbernie.org  Embodied Awareness podcast

  • The Essential Energy of Transformation

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    Every moment is the beginning of the journey. When you wake up, there is not endpoint called “enlightenment”. There’s just this closeness, this intimacy of connection. No one to defend.

    Opening is a natural, mysterious movement; and what we learn from a human perspective, is how to let it move in the direction it’s moving. How to step out of the way and let go of control — the control of knowing, the control of believing.

    Recorded 2/28/2016 in San Francisco. www.jonbernie.org

  • Wake Up Right Now

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    “The fundamental teaching — the guiding principle, the guiding light — is your own true nature. Whether you’re aware of that or not, it is, always has been, and always will be what you are. Belief has nothing to do with it. Trying to achieve has nothing to do with it. It is already what you are. All you have to do today is be here — right now.” Recorded 2/13/2016 in El Cerrito.

  • Ask Into Vastness

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    Are you able to surrender? Are you able to just be here? Whatever way works for you in this moment, it will open you, and it will bring you back into a harmonious presence. Maybe just being here, sensing this energy or presence in the room, if you can sense, see or tune into that.

    Whatever allows you to, in a sense, be out of the way, is what’s working for you; is your guidance system, your teacher, your path. The fuel for that guidance system is what we call presence, awareness, energy, or awakened consciousness. It’s a vastness of perception.

    Recorded 2/22/16 in San Francisco. www.jonbernie.org

  • Wait Without Waiting

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    Eventually you get tired of trying — tired of wanting to know the answers, or how long it’s going to take — and you just kick back. You just open. You wait without waiting. Your deeper presence begins to emerge, and radiate, and become foreground.

    Our fundamental nature is energy. Aliveness. When you stop, when you become generally, comfortably still, you can begin to develop the sensitivity to perceive that energy — that awareness. Everyone perceives it in their own way, but the quality of it is universal.

    Recorded 3/12/2016 in Santa Cruz. www.jonbernie.org

  • The Creative Force of Discovery

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    “When the veil of the knower drops away, the creative force of discovery guides your way. Each moment is revealed as new. Just as food has flavor, being has resonance, and the resonant being of being here, now, naturally encourages the dropping away of the veil of the knower. So we don’t come here to learn in the normal way we think of learning. We actually come here to unlearn, or to allow a natural getting out of the way to happen. So each and every one of us, in our own unique way, finds out how to be here.” Recorded 1/18/2016 in San Francisco. www.jonbernie.org

  • Love Being

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    Happiness Podcast: “What is the nature of awakened life? What is the nature of freedom? The simplest description is being. When you’re being, you’re more available as a person. You’re more loving, more understanding, more open. You’re creative; alive! And lighter, not too serious. Just enough. Playful. Curious. Awakened life is about becoming fully, completely actualized as a human being.” Recorded 12/12/2015 in Santa Cruz. www.jonbernie.org

  • Leaving the Map

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    “Having a map is good up to a certain point, but sooner or later the map ends, and then how do you find your way? As explorers, do we really know where we’re going? At some point we realize we don’t know, and what originally produced anxiety eventually produces freedom as we learn to listen to this realm of not knowing.” www.jonbernie.org  Recorded 1/16/2016 in San Francisco.

  • Questions that Release You

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    “What will it take to dissolve your mind’s control? Freedom is the absence of the thought called ‘I’. So find the questions that release you, that relax you; that allow opening to happen.” Recorded 1/4/2016 in San Francisco. www.jonbernie.org