Inspired Aliveness Podcast

Discipline doesn’t have to be hard-edged. Sometimes, it’s simply the act of returning – to presence, to breath, to what’s here. This episode offers a space to remember that showing up isn’t about perfection or performance. It’s about tending gently to your inner life, again and again, with honesty and care. Recorded September 27th, 2025.

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This episode invites you to soften into the unfolding of your own path. Rather than trying to arrive somewhere or become someone, we explore the quiet practice of being here – fully, honestly, and gently. In resting with what’s present, you may begin to sense the deeper movement of your life already carrying you forward. Recorded August 8th, 2025.

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When the world feels especially loud, it’s easy to lose touch with what’s quietly unfolding within. This episode invites a soft return – to sensing, to presence, to the subtle movement of your own experience. Not to fix or understand, but to simply be with what’s here, and allow yourself to be healed. Recorded June 14, 2025.

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This episode of Inspired Aliveness is an invitation to stay present with whatever is showing up in your experience – without needing to fix it, change it, or hold yourself together. With gentleness and trust, we allow what’s here to unfold – like something cooking slowly, becoming deeper and softer over time. Recorded April 12, 2025.

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What if practice didn’t require striving or control? In this episode, we explore the deeper truth that real transformation happens not through force, but through ongoing presence. As we show up again and again – with nothing to prove and no goal to reach – we begin to discover that consciousness unfolds on its own. No pressure. No perfection. Just the quiet power of being here. Recorded April 5th, 2025.

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Even a moment of spaciousness – of love, of connection – is enough. In this episode, we explore the simple yet profound practice of settling into presence, dissolving into what is, and finding peace beyond personal stories and fears. No matter how chaotic or uncertain life feels, there is always an opening to stillness. Here, now, you are already home. Recorded March 15, 2025.

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True practice isn’t about forcing change – it’s about allowing what is. In this episode, we explore what it means to be at the cutting edge of practice: to turn toward what arises, even the discomfort, with gentle attention. Jon invites us to step beyond effort and control, to trust that awareness is already here, and to surrender to the natural unfolding of our experience. This is where transformation happens – not by pushing, but by being fully present with what is. Recorded January 18, 2025.

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In a world that often pulls us outward, this episode invites you to turn inward and truly show up for yourself. Explore what it means to be present with your own thoughts, feelings, and needs, offering yourself the same care and attention you would give to a dear friend. Learn to cultivate a sense of peace and connection by simply being here for you. Recorded Dec 21, 2024.

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With everything happening in the world today, it’s easy to lose our balance and get swept away by the external noise. Join Jon Bernie as he reminds you and guides you back to the effortless balance that is your true nature.

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When we’re inspired, those are the high points of our day, even if they’re brief or fleeting. The more you allow yourself to simply stop and listen, the more you’ll find yourself experiencing this natural state of awe. Recorded September 21, 2024.

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We all have various parts within ourselves, and as we learn to allow the integration of the parts of that relative programmed self, we begin to find fulfilment, balance, and harmony that we could have never made happen on our own.

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What does it mean to swim against the stream of conditioning in a world that avoids itself? It means that you begin to open up to the true vibrancy of aliveness. Recorded July 6th, 2024.

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Join Jon Bernie in this episode of Inspired Aliveness as you embark on a profound inner journey through meditation. Discover heartfelt stories and insights that guide you toward deeper self-discovery and lasting inner peace. Tune in and begin your transformative journey within.

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In this episode, Jon Bernie invites us to embrace effortlessness in our daily lives. Through the practice of settling into our bodies, breath, and balance, Jon emphasizes the importance of patience with our habitual conditions and the art of fine-tuning our attention. This episode guides us in cultivating ease, comfort, and effortlessness, allowing our true nature of peace, silence, and stillness to emerge naturally. It’s a beautiful reminder to honor the choice to pause and be present, fostering a deeper connection to our authentic selves. Recorded May 25, 2024.

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What is it that we really need to happy and peaceful? Recorded April 13, 2024.

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In order to listen to the pain, fear, aversion, or whatever is rising in this moment, compassion is essential. This means allowing and being one with these feelings, so they may be truly heard and felt in a space of complete listening and acceptance. Recorded Jan 20, 2024.

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In order to listen to the pain, fear, aversion, or whatever is rising in this moment, compassion is essential. This means allowing and being one with these feelings, so they may be truly heard and felt in a space of complete listening and acceptance. Recorded Jan 20, 2024.

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It’s too easy to demand perfection of ourselves and others. However, as you begin to allow yourself to be the flawed human that you are, you learn to give yourself the compassion, tenderness, and support that you need to truly be here for this life. Recorded December 16, 2023.

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It’s too easy to demand perfection of ourselves and others. However, as you begin to allow yourself to be the flawed human that you are, you learn to give yourself the compassion, tenderness, and support that you need to truly be here for this life. Recorded December 16, 2023.

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No matter what is going on in your life, the realm of peace and equanimity is always available. All it takes is to simply stop, relax, and open. Recorded December 2nd, 2023.

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Vulnerability is the feeling that you aren’t safe – the survival, egoic program. You aren’t going to get rid of it or transcend it. However, if you begin to truly allow it, you may find that you feel more alive, inspired, and at peace.  Recorded September 21st, 2023.

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When is it enough? When is it not enough? As with all things, finding out how much to practice is all about finding balance. Recorded October 7, 2023.

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As you learn to get out of the way more and more, you begin to align with that which has been guiding you all along. It’s not how you think it should be, or how you want it to be, but it could never be any other way. Recorded September 16th, 2023.

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When you begin to learn to take care of yourself in a way that you’ve always needed, your nervous system will calm, your body will soften, and your heart will begin to open and radiate the love that you intrinsically are. Recorded September 2, 2023.

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Our lives can be so hectic and busy that we can naturally take this “doer” perspective into our practice. It’s important to simply relax, drop the effort, and allow yourself to open to the natural stillness and simplicity that is already here. Recorded July 17, 2023.

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Just like you can’t make a plant grow, you can’t make yourself become transformed, healed, or integrated. Instead, learn to get out of the way and allow the intuitive guidance system to show you the way. Recorded June 17, 2023.

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It’s so easy to be focused on what you don’t have, how it isn’t, and what you want. However, gratitude is essential for your healing, transformation, and integration. Give yourself some gratitude for what it took to be here today, and if you can’t, then that is a good place to start. Recorded May 20th, 2023.

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The journey is not easy, and you may not like it, but you ultimately have no choice. Thankfully, you already have all that you need. As you surrender more and more to this consciousness that you are, things open up, and your garden blossoms all on its own. Recorded April 15, 2023.

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You and your existence are the ultimate mystery. It is impossible to understand, so instead simply learn to allow the mysterious force of your existence to guide your own unique way. Recorded March 11, 2023.

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If you are struggling to understand, simply relax into effortless “not knowing” and let the power and wisdom of your life-force guide you. Recorded Jan 21, 2023.

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You don’t need to look to any external authority or reference to find the truth that is already within you. All it takes is the courage and willingness to simply stop, be still, and listen to that which is already guiding you home. Recorded January 7th, 2023.

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It’s important to continually learn to take care of your garden – the garden of your body, mind, and heart. Although gardening is not an easy job, and requires much work as we travel through this life, the light of awareness is the Sun that allows the garden to grow, evolve, and flourish. Recorded Dec 10, 2022.

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It’s okay to be human, and it’s okay to ask for what you want or need. However, this type of true asking is something you offer up into the space with your whole being without any expectation.  Recorded Sep 3, 2022.

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When true practice is happening, you aren’t in the way. When your attention isn’t muddled by effort or person will, true clarity arises. (Recording taken from an online Satsang with Jon Bernie on November 12, 2022.)

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Returning home allows us to begin to welcome and embrace all parts of ourselves, even those parts that have been marginalized, forgotten about, or that have been in pain.  Recorded Oct 8, 2022.

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What’s the difference between productive suffering and unproductive suffering? With productive suffering, you aren’t fighting against what is by trying to stay in control, but you’re simply being honest about how you feel.

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Do you know what the downside to thinking you know is? It’s that you might be wrong. Instead, allow the vulnerability of not knowing, so that you may truly find out.

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It’s not something that is earned through effort. It is not something achieved through achieved via willpower. Yet, it requires our discipline and attention. Keep returning and allowing the natural healing process that you are to show you the way.

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You already are that which you are looking for, but how do you open to that possibility when the one wants to surrender is also the one who is in the way? What works is dropping yourself — dropping who you think you are and everything you think you know.

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It can be difficult to stop and become available for what you don’t want to feel. However, by learning how to simply be here for yourself, you may find that things begin to bloom all on their own. Recorded 3/22/2022 in San Francisco.

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The way of healing and transformation is not something that you can achieve or understand, yet it is revealed as you relax and simply get out of the way. Recorded 12/18/2022 in San Francisco.

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You honor yourself by being here. It’s a gift that you give yourself, to show up and be present. Recorded 1/8/2022 in San Francisco.

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True surrender is enlivening. It’s energizing. It’s empowering. Because you’re letting go of being who you think you are, as awareness slowly, over time, becomes more embodied in your tissue, in your mind, in your heart. That’s the purpose of our life from awakening on. Recorded 12/4/2021 in San Francisco.

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Authentic, unique inner guidance is available to each one and every of us, all of the time. The question how often are we really aligned with it? How often are we authentically listening, seeing, feeling, and deeply, intuitively knowing that?

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Awakening is the beginning of understanding what practice is. As you bring attention to what is, and you’re not in the way, then naturally, miraculously, consciousness merges into matter and you become more and more radiant, more free, and your life becomes more and more amazing.

Awakening is the beginning of the path, and life, your whole life, is the process of allowing evolution to transform you.

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Beliefs are the cause of all suffering. So pay close attention to what you believe. A useful belief might get you to where you are, just don’t let it be the prison of your eternal unhappiness, but rather the gateway to your freedom.

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Keep your mind open and free of any conclusions. Ask deeply within yourself, or into your true connectedness: “May I be open and clear to receive what is being given.” When you are filled and touched with grace, with presence, with what we call the transmission of the Dharma, that’s exactly what’s happening. And all you have to do is ask, and be available to receive.

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When you sit, stop, and tune in, you’re entering an infinite realm of discovery and possibility. So what you think about it, the beliefs you have about it, what you’ve heard about it – all that can go into the background, so that you can actually begin to see, and feel, and be available, fresh, for what’s happening. You have to go beyond the teachings. You have to go beyond your own beliefs, especially ones that you are very attached to.

Recorded July 17, 2021 in San Francisco

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The secret way to freedom is to allow yourself to become intimate with the unconscious struggle that is programmed into you. It’s a struggle you don’t even necessarily know you have until you stop, eliminate as many distractions as possible, and actually pay attention to how conditioning has been literally imprinted into your nervous system, your tissue, your mind and your emotional body. It is not asking for your conclusions, judgments, analysis, or attempts to fix it, figure it out, or get rid of it. So don’t even try. Relax, let it all go, and allow the na...

Enlightenment and awareness are happening naturally. That’s what brought you here, that movement within you. Natural healing is nothing more than the process of awakening and becoming liberated. A flower growing in a garden has its own wisdom that produces that beautiful blossom and that wonderful fragrance, and you are exactly like that rose. Recorded 2/13/2021 in San Francisco.

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It’s important to remind yourself to not get caught in that force field of struggle, of worry and concern, but rather to bring more attention to and just be present with what’s arising, whatever it is, so that it can naturally circulate through and out of your system and be integrated into a deeper realm of equanimity and peacefulness. Recorded 1/9/2021 in San Francisco.

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I want to wish you a very happy and healthy new year. I know we’ve had one of the hardest years in history, but here we are. We’re still here. So just allow yourself to be here, right now. As you open more and more into the Divine, the Vastness, whatever you want to call it, you have the opportunity to become more fully human. Embrace that opportunity! Our humanity is literally the fuel for the fire of transformation and integrated freedom.

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