Satsang With Jon Bernie
By Clear Water Sangha
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Podcast Description
Jon Bernie, author of Ordinary Freedom, is a contemporary spiritual teacher in the lineage of Adyashanti, leading regular classes, retreats and intensives in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. As a counselor in private practice, Jon also works with individuals directly to facilitate consciousness development and deep emotional healing. A lifelong resident of the Bay Area, Jon has been at various times a Zero Balancing practitioner, a teacher of the Alexander Technique, a concert violinist and an ordained Zen Buddhist monk. Jon studied extensively in the Zen and Theravadan Buddhist traditions, and later spent time with Advaita masters Jean Klein, Robert Adams and H.W.L. Poonja. Jon was asked to teach by Adyashanti in 2002.
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The Intimacy of Allowing | “What’s it like to just allow waiting? Allow expecting? Allow wanting to know? How can you become familiar with the intimacy of allowing?” Recorded 1/16/2012 in San Francisco. | 5/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Silence, Energy and Vastness | “As listening into the silence deepens — that realization that we are just pure energy, that we are vastness itself — then I think we finally learn to be human, we finally learn to take care of ourselves, and the planet, and whatever’s next. And resting in equanimity becomes the default setting.” Recorded 1/14/2012 in Santa Cruz. | 5/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No One In the Way | “It’s ok to have beliefs, as long as you don’t believe them — as long as you know they’re beliefs, as long as you’re not bound, imprisoned, chained by them. Then seeing is seeing, and listening is listening, even when it’s silent. There’s the flow of receiving and giving. There’s no one in the way. Then there’s effortless being, and aliveness.” Recorded 11/28/2011 in San Francisco. | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Infinite Array of Possibilities | “The purpose of life is to be fully alive, however that’s appearing right now, and it appears in an infinite array of possibilities. Uniquely, creatively discovering each moment, the presence that we are is the creative intelligent force of the universe. We are that! And I think we’re just beginning to tap into the possibility of what that really is, and how it will evolve human consciousness.” Recorded 3/10/2012 in Santa Cruz. | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Ultimate Generosity | “You’ve probably heard the saying, ‘give until it hurts’. But what I want to offer is: give until you don’t exist anymore, until you dissolve. That’s complete giving, when you give of yourself so completely that there’s no more holding back… Because then the light that you are can just shine, the energy that you are can just flow, and everyone is nourished by it.” Recorded 11/21/2011 in San Francisco. | 3/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Great Silence | The great silence is filled with light, and it illuminates from the inside out as we listen into it — as we tune in and allow ourselves to be healed of our loss, of our dissappointment, our pain, our lack of control. Our natural state, our natural being, is really no holding, no holding back. No resisting.” Recorded 11/14/2011 in San Francisco. | 3/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Permission to Transform | “If you can have permission to keep discovering, then you can also have compassion for the blowback that awakening precipitates — the transformation that can often happen at the human, personal level, when we begin to align with… full aliveness. The purpose of our life is to become fully alive, to live fully in each moment, in being. That beingness is the meaning of life, no matter what our activity is or isn’t.” Recorded 11/12/2011 in Santa Cruz. | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Freshness of Each Moment | “When listening is happening, you’ve never heard this before, and we’ve never met before. It’s brand new, right now. So there’s this aliveness, this vibrancy of being. That’s the freshness, the innocence of pure consciousness — always learning new things and becoming more sensitive, and totally, totally ok with being human, because the illusion of perfection has completely dropped away.” Recorded 10/24/2011 in San Francisco. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Freeing the Thinking Mind | “Let’s talk about thinking, about finding out how to allow the mind to be the creative, flexible tool that it really is. What does it take to cultivate a really flexible thinking mind, so that it can be a useful support in this so-called journey?” Recorded 10/22/2011 in Santa Cruz. | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Offering Into Awareness | “So we learn to let go, by sitting, by being available. By resting in awareness. By dropping all the comparisons, and judgments, and expectations, and agendas. How do you do that? It’s impossible, actually; you can’t do it. So you give up trying. Just notice that they’re there, that’s all. The awareness of them is enough. It’s the offering into awareness. It’s not problem-solving time, it’s problem dis-solving time.” Recorded 1/9/2012 in San Francisco. | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Solvent of Awareness | “Allow your feeling, sensing, seeing, hearing, to dissolve you into awareness. Allow the dissolving to happen by itself, free of any anticipation or expectation, free of any agenda. Just being fully available, totally available in this moment, allowing openness to simply open into itself.” Recorded 10/17/2011 in San Francisco. | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Where Listening Happens | “The relentless mind craves silence, craves a break, a relief from the endless mental movement. So what is it that you hear in the silence? What is it that’s arising, or present in the space between the thoughts, between the words? Are you intimate with that space? That space which is what you really are?” Recorded 10/10/2011 in San Francisco. | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Gift of Renewal | “When we align with our energy, our being, our true nature, we begin to realize that every moment is a rediscovery, a renewal of awareness, of attention, of perception. We are continually reborn.” Recorded 12/19/2011 in San Francisco. | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Healing Journey | “What is this journey that we’re on, really? Is it just about awakening, being one with God, the infinite? You hear that a lot: just be presence and that’s it. And there’s truth in that, fundamentally. But really, awakening usually is followed by healing, by transformation and integration.” Recorded 9/26/2011 in San Francisco. | 12/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Invitation to the Changeless | “Are you conscious of what doesn’t change? Usually we’re aware of what’s changing, and we either like that or we don’t like that, depending on what’s changing… One way to talk about our fundamental nature is that which doesn’t change.” Recorded 9/19/2011 in San Francisco. | 12/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bring it Home | “Freedom is being home. It’s home without a location. It’s home where everything is the location.” Recorded 9/10/2011 in Santa Cruz. | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Surrender | In the opening talk of a recent retreat, Jon invites us to surrender, to give up believing, and to allow ourselves to be guided by the deep truth revealing itself in the utter uniqueness of each moment. Recorded 11/3/2011 at Santa Sabina Retreat Center in San Rafael. | 11/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Listening Without Anticipation | “The listening that we ask you allow, here, is free of anticipation about what will be heard, or even whether there will be any comprehension or understanding. If you’re weary of spiritual teachings, if they’ve become platitudes, then this is even more an invitation to listen without any idea about what you’re hearing.” Recorded 8/22/2011 in San Francisco. | 11/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Balance Point of Equanimity | “The purpose of this gathering, this movement of energy, is to realign ourselves with our birthright of aliveness — we are fundamentally vibrant awareness. And in that we find what I like to call our balance point of equanimity.” Recorded 8/13/2011 in Santa Cruz. | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Way is Built In | “The way is self-revelatory — it’s built in. It’s not externalized, it’s not outside; it’s within. And whether the waves are gentle and calm, or turbulent and chaotic, we learn to move with them, we learn to trust their process. Just like we trust that the body knows how to be alive.” Recorded 8/15/2011 in San Francisco. | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Resting Point | “When you find the balance point between seeking, avoiding, and explaining — then you’re at peace. Your whole being opens up, and the energy flows. And then what needs to move is activated.” Recorded 8/8/2011 in San Francisco. | 10/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Deeper Source of Fulfillment | “As we learn to pay attention to that force, that alignment — that energy that we are, that channel of energy we’re plugged into — then everything is perfect, everything falls into place. Everything is as it is, and what’s next is obvious. And we step forward without thinking about it.” Recorded 7/25/2011 in San Francisco. | 9/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Home Ground of Presence | “It begins right now. You arrive right here. Literally, there’s nowhere to go, and nothing to do. Be this home ground of presence; this tender listening.” Recorded 9/12/2011 in San Francisco. | 9/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Expressing the Truth of the Condition | “Many of us come from traditions of silent sitting and contemplation, and concentration practices of various kinds. But where is the place for expression, for actually creating the sound of release? We are expressive beings, we create sound by speaking. And when we express the truth of the condition, something is released…” Recorded 7/18/2011 in San Francisco. | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Phenomenal Joy of the Heart | “This journey to freedom, this path with no road… With no guidance, really… This mysterious path is on the one hand liberating, and at the same time deeply healing — physically, emotionally, psychologically. So ask yourself right now, where am I putting my attention? Even just asking the question awakens you. Can you feel that? Can you sense that?” Recorded 8/29/2011 in San Francisco. | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Aliveness of Stillness | “When pushing forward ceases, and holding back ceases, then the aliveness of stillness is revealed. ‘Revealed’ because we don’t do it. We don’t make it happen. We don’t accomplish it.” Recorded 6/1/2011 in San Francisco. | 8/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beyond the ‘I’ | “Who would we be without our our personal history? Who would we be without our future? Who would we be without the ‘I’ thought? What would we be? How would we live this life?” Recorded 6/11/2011 in Santa Cruz. | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Space of Questioning | “How can you cultivate a flexible mind? Maybe you can’t get rid of your mind, maybe you can’t control it; but can you encourage it to be flexible? Can you notice if your mind or your beliefs are limiting you in some way?” Recorded 5/30/2011 in San Francisco. | 8/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Aliveness of This Moment | “Thought is very much a part of the creative force. But how did it get out of control, so to speak? How did it go crazy? Why does it think it’s running the show? When you have a taste of energy, of awareness, of presence, then you can become free of the controlling, dominating mind. You can really rest in aliveness right now. You can be relieved of the burden of the struggle.” Recorded 5/23/2011 in San Francisco. | 7/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Who’s In Control? | “Why can’t we just let go? What are we afraid of? The question, continually, is how do we arrive here? One way is to find out what’s holding us back from being here, or pushing us away from being here…” Recorded 7/11/2011 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 7/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beyond Description | “What would be happening if you couldn’t describe what’s happening? If all language dropped away, all description dropped away — who would you be without the description of who you are?” Recorded 5/16/2011 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 7/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Is the Body? | “Let’s say the body is a vehicle for discovery, an instrument. How is it that we use this body, so often, unconsciously? What would happen if when talking, you actually listened to the instrument, to the vibration through the whole instrument? If you listen, you’ll realize that every cell is resonating in the sound, and that sound, fundamentally, is energy. And energy is fundamentally who you are. So even by the simple act of paying attention to speaking, you could realize who you are. You could realize the truth of being.” Recorded 5/9/2011 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dissolving Body and Mind | “How is it possible to completely dissolve, to allow the body and the mind and the emotional realm to completely dissolve, so there’s only consciousness present? … When there’s just pure consciousness, there’s an extraordinary aliveness that we realize we are.” Recorded 4/25/2011 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 6/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Facing Yourself Right Now | This week Jon invites us to drop our interpretation of what’s arising and allow ourselves to not know, even if only for only a moment; and emphasizes that when you can truly be with whatever is present right now — with yourself, however you are, right now — then in this moment you’re right on the edge of freedom. Recorded 4/18/2011 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Expression in the Depth of Stillness | This week Jon discusses the importance of expression and our need to be heard, while emphasizing that expression must come from and be informed by stillness. As Jon says, “stillness is what holds us up; is what supports us, nourishes us, heals us, and gives us what we want. You can ask into that stillness, you can offer everything into that stillness. Because it is yourself — the creative intelligent force of the universe.” Recorded 3/28/2011 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 5/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Calling in Each Moment | This week Jon expands on the Zen instruction that you should “practice as if your head was on fire”, and challenges us to discover the opportunity for full awakening that is present in each moment. Recorded 3/14/2011 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Real Refuge | This week Jon suggests that as we come to rest more and more in equanimity, we are also more able freely to move into action at whatever level of intensity our circumstances require; discusses the temporary usefulness of identity, while also pointing to the deeper understanding that allows identity to fall away; and describes the profound security we move into as we allow even that understanding to dissolve into the space of awareness. Recorded 3/12/2011 in Santa Cruz. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Enrichment of Engagement | This week Jon describes the fullness of life that becomes possible when one is able to perceive without the filter of belief; the enrichment of experience when one becomes truly engaged with the creative force of experience; and the deeper meaning that becomes obvious when one is deeply aligned and engaged with each moment. Recorded February 28, 2011 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 3/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Thrill of Continual Discovery | This week Jon encourages us to relax, drop everything, and allow ourselves simply to melt into the space of listening; emphasizes that when there’s no longer any holding on, life is characterized by endless movement and expansion; and invites us to experience the freedom of perpetual discovery, the learning that doesn’t accumulate knowledge. Recorded 2/21/2011 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Awake in the World | In the opening talk of a recent daylong intensive, Jon discusses the challenge of transitioning away from archaic ways of speaking about spirituality; the uniqueness of each individual’s journey and path; and the integration of aspects of life and the self that might previously have seemed separate, as gradually we become ever more deeply established in awareness. Recorded 2/19/2011 in El Cerrito. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I’m in “Consciousness Development” | This week Jon discusses the challenges of describing exactly what it is we’re up to in satsang; how the ways we frame reality psychologically affect our spiritual process; and how we can move out of perceiving reality through the filter of the separate self, and into true aliveness. Recorded 2/12/2011 in Santa Cruz. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Nonstop Magic Trick | “When being comes into the foreground, thinking… takes a different pathway.” This week Jon emphasizes that as we become established in presence, our choices originate from a different place than previously; suggests that as we become more conscious, we might find that emotion moves more freely, not less; and invites us to notice how we believe our personal stories less and less as gradually we allow ourselves to relax into awareness. Recorded 1/24/2011 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Welcome What’s Happening | This week Jon asks us to notice that when we allow ourselves to rest in the question without trying to escape into the answer, openness arises quite naturally; points out that the question itself creates the movement of openness; and suggests that true intimacy begins with simply paying attention to this moment. Recorded 1/8/2011 in Santa Cruz. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our Nature is Freedom | This week Jon examines the question, ‘What is knowing?’; suggests that when faced with difficulty, what’s necessary is to meet what’s happening from a place of open-heartedness; and invites us simply to notice that as we become more established in awareness, a deeper trust in our experience arises naturally, without any effort on our part. Recorded 1/10/2011 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 1/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Recipe for Joy | When the emotional heart is unclear, gratitude may seem less available. But feeling out of balance is actually balancing trying to happen. This week Jon offers permission to experiment — to fall down as often as it takes to find your way — and suggests that true happiness appears spontaneously when we let go of expectations and allow ourselves to wake up to the lightness of being that is our natural condition. Recorded 1/3/2011 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Being Is the Meaning of Life | This week Jon emphasizes that once we discover our essential nature, thinking about spirituality is no longer necessary or even likely; that once we’ve had even a glimpse of the truth, we naturally give ourselves to that; and suggests that only in that profound allowing of what is is the true meaning of life discovered. Recorded 11/15/2010 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 12/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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It’s Always New | Jon discusses the mystery of transmission, and how presence can in some sense be contagious; invites us to allow ourselves to see the infinitely new even where there might appear to be no movement; and points to the true vitality and aliveness that arise from simply relaxing into openness. Recorded 10/18/2010 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 11/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Becoming Available to Yourself | This week Jon offers the invitation, “really see if you can discover when you truly are available to yourself, and I mean that in the deepest sense. And when you are, really go in that direction, allow that to guide you, to move you into that fullness, into that openness. See if you can really begin to trust your own inner guidance, into the openness of being.” Recorded 11/1/2010 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 11/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Relaxing Into Truth | Jon points out that awakening can sometimes sneak in unnoticed, but that the momentum of seeking can nevertheless continue to propel our search for what, in fact, has already happened; invites us to notice the fullness of being that is already present, whatever our condition or state; and suggests that we allow ourselves to quite literally relax into awakening, and experience true rest for the first time. Recorded 10/9/2010 in Santa Cruz. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 10/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Harmony of the Body and Heart | Jon addresses the confusion created by the common teaching that “there is no self”; points out that where our attention goes, energy goes also, and describes the healing and harmonizing process this can facilitate; and poses the question, “how often are we really available?” Recorded 9/20/2010 in San Francisco. We are happy to offer these podcasts for free, and are grateful when you donate to support our organization. Thank you! | 10/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 50 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Healing in Presence
Jon’s down-to-earth teachings have helped me tremendously on my spiritual journey. His podcasts comprise a short teaching of about 20 minutes or so followed by an open sharing from members of the audience and their struggles with the path and what gets in the way. Jon’s soothing voice, patience, and deep empathy leads to a movement of their emotional energy back toward balance. These teachings are probably best suited for those with some background in meditation seeking for a way of deepening their practice.
Looking Deeper
Jon speaks clearly, from a space of deep understanding, regarding the awakened life, it's challenges and possibilities. I love hows he often uses his own work as a healer to teach presence and laughs a lot as he talks. This is an awesome step for those outgrowing more mainstream teachings.
Satsang with Jon Bernie
Wise and gentle counsel from Jon Bernie.
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