A good one to listen to over the holidays where we can tend to move from indulgence to aestheticism, from over doing it to trying to give everything up in the New Year.

The Wisdom of Suffering

Dec 13th, 2021 26m 53s

The Wisdom of Suffering by Audra Carmine

The View from Oneness

Nov 29th, 2021 22m 59s

Our second week of Metta meditation practice focuses on a neutral person in our lives. Audra shares a miracle story and some tools for dissolving our protective suits.

Loving Kindness as a Radical Practice

Nov 22nd, 2021 26m 58s

Loving Kindness as a Radical Practice by Audra Carmine

Practice--There is Still Time on the Clock

Sep 19th, 2021 27m 43s

We live in a time where there is emphasis on division. On anger. On conspiracy -- on believing in a time of uncertainty that we have an answer that others don’t, that we see something that others cannot. We live in a time that is riddled with f

Is Practice Selfish?

Aug 23rd, 2021 27m 6s

This episode explores the question of whether or not practice supports living an awakened life or not? You get to find out for yourself. What a miracle! Audra uses the five precepts as a tool to discuss what an inquiry like this might look like

The Chicken of Truth

Aug 1st, 2021 22m 46s

People pleasing, judgment and how to work with it. An exploration of the anatomy of judgment, perfectionism and the promise of our inner genius. Please excuse me, there is a part where I have to yell at my kid for using the internet while I am

What's Beyond Acceptance?

Jul 18th, 2021 22m 11s

In the yoga/wellness industrial complex there can exist a stuckness around acceptance, self-acceptance, acceptance of truth, and acceptance of what is. The next step in the evolution of awakening is to honor our truth, AND to engage with life f

Letting Go the Comfort of the Box: An Interview with Amanda Melbostad

Jul 6th, 2021 1h 7m

This interview led us to a realization that blew both of our minds and made me, Audra, cry a little. Wait for it, it's at the endish, but you have to listen to the whole banana to really understand the revelation. This interview was deep, vulne

Brave, Vulnerable and True

Jun 28th, 2021 24m 48s

A real vulnerable share from Audra and from the community. It's so hard to be with what's here that many times we protect ourselves with limiting belief systems, and intellectualized meaning making. Practice helps us to come back to our own int

An Interview with Anna Mitra

Jun 23rd, 2021 57m 16s

An Interview with Anna Mitra by Audra Carmine

The Tap Root

Jun 14th, 2021 23m 27s

The Tap Root by Audra Carmine

Kissing What Waits Beneath All Want

May 24th, 2021 22m 13s

When we get tied to the idea of things needing to be a certain way, a perfect way, we miss the expansive possibility of what's here. The universe is always waiting, right here, to rise up and meet us, even if things aren't going the way we woul

The Mother of 10,000 Things

May 9th, 2021 24m 32s

The energy of mother is so big that it contains both life and death simultaneously. As one thing begins another ends. As one thing ends another begins. What is more personal than living and dying? What is more personal than creating something?

Beyond Wrong and Right

Apr 26th, 2021 22m

The more time we spend cultivating the expansive space within us, the more the score keeper becomes a caricature. The more the score keeper becomes someone who we realize is not actually us, but a projection of processes we are living out based

The Seasons Of The Heart

Apr 19th, 2021 20m 32s

Perhaps the expectation that the heart stay open and soft in the face of so much suffering is misguided. Perhaps the heart has it's seasons that are wise without us having to understand, or make meaning, of the way in which the heart protects.

The Truth is Where It's At: An Interview with Donica Burdette

Mar 30th, 2021 45m 23s

Donica gets into it. We discuss studying trees, growing up in Virginia, adoption, race, being Asian, and all things yoga. What a blessing this interview is, not to be missed.

Our Bodies Know They Belong

Mar 21st, 2021 26m 26s

A discussion that begins with the exquisite wisdom of the equinox--that there is room for the shadow and the light. We talk about revolving around what matters and how sometimes that changes. Sometimes we need to go back to the basics, back to

Superhighway to the Heart: An Interview with Gina Rodondi

Mar 6th, 2021 58m 26s

Welcome to the Free Love community, Gina. The dharma in this episode is huge. The whole episode is extremely heart opening, so much so that Audra and Gina both ride the edges of vulnerability, and I am very proud of how open we allowed ourselv