The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Meditation”

Episode 194: Sarah Marshank - Selfistry: The Artistry Of The Self & Listening For Wisdom In The Wilderness

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0500

In this episode, I dive into a deep and nourishing conversation with Sarah Marshank author of Being Selfish and Selfistry: A Guide to Embodying Timeless Spiritual Wisdom. We talk about her own journey from escort to monk to spiritual guide, and what she discovered about what it takes to become an authentic, grounded, creative and integrated being in these challenging times. Join us as she reveals her path tol deep spirituality without the dogma, and discover how to "listen for the genius in the room” as we practice how to become wisely selfish so that we can cultivate the deep wisdom that always sits waiting for us in the depths of the darkness.

"Studies estimate nearly 25% of the world’s population does not ascribe to any religion and roughly 25% of people in the US consider themselves “spiritual but not religious.”

Many of these people are searching for a life of integrity amid an increasingly polarized global landscape filled with religious extremism, political turmoil, and environmental uncertainty. Disillusioned but seeking to contribute to the well-being of the planet, many are finding guidance in emergent integrative systems that develop all aspects of the modern human: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and social. “Selfistry” is one of those systems that offers a unique and simple approach.

“Selfistry” offers a fresh take on embodying authentic spiritual principles. It is an innovative and integrative framework for self-reflection-an opportunity for the genuinely curious to reconsider their relationship with themselves and the cosmos.”

Sarahs Marshank Bio
Sarah Marshank is the founder of Selfistry, an integrative system for mastering the art of being human. She is the author of the award winning memoir Being Self-ish: My Journey from Escort to Monk to Grandmother, where she tells the story of her decade in spiritual retreat. She is also the author of Selfistry: A Guide to Embodying Timeless Spiritual Wisdom. Her teachings weave together spirituality, psychology, and neuroscience in an innovative way — integrating Eastern and Western philosophies with meditative and somatic practices. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sarah teaches and speaks internationally, consults for organizations, and works one-on-one with individuals. When not sharing Selfistry, you might find her walking along the beach, shopping at the local farmer's market with her husband, or making art with her granddaughters.

*The topics we cover in this episode: *
00:03 Introduction and Welcome
00:26 Guest Introduction: Sarah Marshank
02:57 Exploring the Power of Female Collaboration
03:27 The Importance of Partnership and Trust
04:17 Overcoming the Sisterhood Wound
04:32 The Power of Women in Partnership
04:45 The Art of Being Human
05:28 The Role of Women in Times of Crisis
06:59 The Emergence of Wise Elders
14:50 The Importance of Slowing Down
23:02 The Journey of Self Discovery
37:45 The Power of Emptiness and Fullness
41:16 The Artistry of Life
42:32 Embracing Your True Self
43:12 Breaking Free from Societal Expectations
43:28 Invitation to Join the Unbecoming Coaching Circle
44:09 Exploring the Fear of Self-Reflection
45:15 Understanding the Trance of Self-Doubt
45:38 The Power of Self-Inquiry
46:06 The Journey to Self-Understanding
46:54 The Importance of a Guide in Self-Discovery
48:07 The Artistry of Self-Realization
48:41 Embracing Simplicity and Connection
49:24 Reorienting Our Relationships and Conversations
49:46 The Power of Presence and Self-Consideration
51:24 The Witness: A Tool for Self-Understanding
51:44 The Role of Fear in Self-Discovery
55:03 The Power of Community in Self-Discovery
55:55 The Wisdom of Embracing Both Light and Darkness
01:06:08 The Role of Sisterhood in Scaling Self-Discovery
01:14:29 The Power of Storytelling in Self-Discovery
01:20:39 The Journey from Escort to Monk to Grandmother
01:21:53 Invitation to Join Selfistry Retreats
01:22:50 Conclusion and Invitation to Connect

Special Guest: Sarah Marshank.

Episode 192: Oren Jay Sofer - Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices to Meet a World In Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Perhaps upon first glance, when the terror of the world is breathing down our necks, we refuse to see how capable we are of meeting it. Perhaps we think, our hearts were not made to contend with the immensity of what’s happening- the chaos the sensory input, the imminent threat of climate change, or the video footage of the atrocities happening around the world in Israel and beyond.

And yet, we are equipped with an incredible potential for compassion and resilience - to grow and learn from challenge, and to biologically, neurologically, and spiritually, adapt and change to meet the times we are living in.

My Guest, Oren Jay Sofer, believes that every one of us can transform and grow, even in the midst of the heartbreak.

In his new book Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love , Oren reveals how we can tap into our full capacity for peace and goodness by cultivating a practice day by day with tiny steps and many other revelations for living in this time of extreme chaos and change.

"I like to think of the human organism as an instrument," he says. "And this whole journey I invite readers on is about how well you know how to play your instrument. Can you hit the notes of compassion and joy and generosity and gratitude and energy and integrity?” In this episode he walks us through where to start exploring the amazing capacities that we have as human beings- not as a blueprint but to develop the resources inside so that we can each play the role we're uniquely called to play.

Key points discussed in this episode include:

The importance of keeping our hearts open during painful and uncertain times
The inspiration behind Oren's latest book, Your Heart Was Made for This
An exploration of contemplative practice and its role in reflecting upon meaning and purpose in life
Various forms that contemplative practice can take for diverse individuals
The healing power of letting go, and the practice of renunciation
The interconnection between inner personal transformation and larger societal changes
The critical role of forgiveness in finding inner peace and restoration

Oren Jay Sofer teaches meditation and communication internationally. He holds a degree in comparative religion from Columbia University and is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. He's also the author of several books, including the best-seller Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication and his latest book, Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices to Meet a World In Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love. A husband and a father, Oren lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he enjoys cooking, spending time in nature, and home woodworking projects.

Special Guest: Oren Jay Sofer.

Episode 115: Kyle Russell- Revealing the Power of Crystals

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:15:00 -0500

In this episode I speak to Kyle Russell about his thirty-five year journey with crystals and how he structured a new method for defining and categorizing them. Kyle is a wealth of knowledge including writing his popular book, Crystal Energy: Understanding and Working with Stones for Clarity and Flow. I think you will really appreciate his perspective and his story of how it all started! This episode will enhance your own understanding of crystals (and life itself) not to mention that this episode was super fun!

How Kyles journey began and why he did not touch a specific crystal for 20 years!
What the term Geo-sentient means
How Kyle's approach differs from everyone else out there talking about Crystals?
Learn How existing crystal practices can be hard for some (Clearing, Cleansing, Charging, and Programming) and how Kyle approaches it.
Kyles system for grouping all stones into 10 categories.
Hear how Kyle prioritizes balancing inspiration with logic, and metaphysical with scientific

For 3 decades, Kyle Russell has been an innovator, educator, and online personality - having just published his book - Crystal Energy: Understanding and Working with Stones for Clarity and Flow.

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Episode 108: Stella Eisenstein - The Resonance of Healing

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:15:00 -0500

I started making appointments with Stella this past summer through the recommendation of a friend because I had recently had mercury fillings removed from my mouth. It seemed that even though I was on a detox regimen, my body was still having trouble, and my migraines were getting worse vs. better.

After a couple of sessions, I noticed that my body responded to what Stella would say and do in our sessions. My curiosity and fascination led me to start asking deeper questions about what she was doing and how she was doing it, to which she generously shared with me that I, too, could learn to help my body heal.

This led to a number of discussions about bringing attention to my body, how I could access the energetic field, and allow the healing to occur by “getting out of the way,” as Stella will often say.

Over months of getting to know her more deeply, I am often struck by her gentle but deep wisdom and her perspective on certain things that are happening in the world in mainstream medicine. I marvel at how she orients herself in the world of healing, with respect for multiple modalities and room for contemplating the larger questions that continue to invite us to seek our own answers.

Stella is not a woman of small intellect. She is professionally trained in multiple modalities and an apt pupil of her own healing experiences and the miracles that have occurred in her presence through her understanding of how to communicate with the body. She has healed herself twice of cancer and has also healed herself of autoimmune thyroid disease and scoliosis. She believes that we can heal anything if we are willing to reveal what’s wanting our attention and why it’s calling us into the invitation in the first place.

Stella also happens to be one of the most genuinely loving people I have ever met. I have witnessed and experienced her generosity and integrity, not only for how she holds her work as a practitioner but also as a wife to her husband Charles, a mother to her son, and a teacher and a friend.

I’m proud to bring you this interview because I believe Stella's work in the world is incredibly relevant, especially at a time when many seek to unentangle themselves from the medicalized world of experts, prescriptions, and diagnoses that often leave us with nothing but frustration, inflammation, and a bottle of pills to suppress the symptoms vs. reveal the root cause.

In this great time of revelation, we are making our way back to ourselves, our intuition, and our bodies. We are trusting the body's innate healing potential through the quantum energy field - where all things are possible - especially miracles.

In this episode, we will reveal:

Stella’s story of healing breast cancer and what she had to first reveal in herself in order to heal.
What Stella means by "re-skilling” medicine and why she wants to teach others how to heal.
We are in a time of spiritual emergence, and we are being invited to reclaim the middle path in our communities.
Why Stella changed her name, and how she shifted her work over time into the realms of energy and spirit.
How “allowing” plays a profound role in healing.
How Stella developed her intuitive skills over time.
Why Stella believes the body holds the wisdom and why Integrative Manual Therapy is the next frontier of energy medicine.

Stella is a writer and intuitive bodyworker. Her work draws from her training in multiple modalities, including Oriental Medicine, Esoteric Acupuncture, Ortho-Bionomy, Depth Hypnosis, and Integrative Manual Therapy. Before becoming a bodyworker, she was in publishing in New York, mainly as a travel writer. Her first memoir, Star Sister: How I Changed My Name, Grew Wings, and Learned to Trust intuition, was published in 2012. Her new memoir, about healing from breast cancer, scoliosis, and autoimmune thyroid disease, is currently being serialized at resonantattention.substack.com.

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Episode 77: Dale Allen - Goddess Calling

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0400

This episode is positively filled with wisdom and beauty. Goddess Calling - Healing Through Feminine Archetypes.

Listening to Dale Allen share her insights is like listening to a master storyteller at work. I’ve rarely experienced a woman so connected to her self-expression while so effortlessly integrated with her body.

While you can’t see her, you might be able to imagine her moving and flowing throughout this interview, connecting to all of us as we listen. She tells us of her discovery of the Goddess, about how she came to know the healing power of archetypes, and her belief that now is the time for us to remember the Divine Feminine.

In this episode, we discuss:

Why does the term GODDESS make some of us uncomfortable?
What is our core wound, and why do we all have one?
How can archetypes help us to heal?
How is the GODDESS related to the Return of The Divine Feminine?
How can we listen for the GODDESS CALLING?
Why now? Why is the feminine the missing piece for what ails us as humans/society?
Why a BREAKDOWN is needed for a BREAKTHROUGH.
Why Women?
Why reclaiming emotion is a critical piece of our inner peace.

Dale Allen was honored to present to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, her one-woman show, In Our Right Minds™, Guiding Women to Their Strength as Leaders, Leading Men to Strength Without Armor. The Vice President of the Commission invited her to return the following year for an encore. She has brought her talents to scores of audiences at universities, theaters, expos, and workshops across the U.S. and Canada and from Kauai to Dubai. Described as having the energy of “a Cape Canaveral lift-off,” she thoroughly engages and inspires her audience, ranging from highly educated corporate leaders to teenage girls seeking their place in the world.

Dale Allen is a veteran of corporate, commercial communications. Her extensive resume includes hundreds of voice-over, on-camera, and live presentation projects. Some of the most quality-conscious companies, such as BMW, Canon, and MasterCard, among others, have chosen her to represent their brands. Her energy and enthusiasm, sincerity, and strength infuse her presentations and impact audiences.

Dale's Opening Prayer:

“Our mother who art within us, each breath brings us to you. Thy wisdom come, thy will be done, as we honor your presence within us. Each day, you give us all that we need. Your abundance calls us to give and receive all that is loving and pleasurable. You are the courage that moves us to be true to ourselves, and we act with grace and power. We relax into your cycles of birth, growth, death, renewal out of the womb, the darkness, the void comes new life, where you are the mother of all things. Your body is the sacred earth and our bodies. Your love nurtures and unites us all now and forevermore."

Amen.

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Episode 46: Monica Rodgers - Monsterlogue: I Am Not Sorry

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:15:00 -0400

When I was a kid, I developed a variety of sophisticated bedtime rituals to ensure that the monsters that lived beneath my bed wouldn't “get me."

I was known to follow an elaborate sequence each night that included practically pole-vaulting into bed from the furthest point in my room I could muster, and this went on for years. I would often perform the rituals in a more “grown-up way” over time, even if I was sleeping at a friend's house. As I look back, while I know this was just a phase most kids go through, I had a preoccupation with scary subjects well into adulthood that would simultaneously pique my curiosity while activating a keen sense of dread.

Maybe it had something to do with my upbringing, and what I now recognize as my hyper-vigilant inner child who rarely felt safe. Or maybe it’s something we all have and hide to some extent, not wanting to reveal the childish notion that there’s something out there coming for us.

As I grew into adulthood and began the inner work of revealing and healing, I discovered that most monsters don’t live under beds, but in my head. Many of them are well known in my work as a coach by different names - such as shadow work, saboteurs, inner gremlins, distorted masculine, distorted feminine, and so on.

Basically, the true monsters live as conjurings of our own deepest fears about ourselves, projected out into the world making it seem like an awfully scary, hostile, and unpredictable place. Most of my work is helping women especially reveal the shadows of the self that keep us running, or believing that we are not worthy, not enough, not lovable.

Ironically, my name "Monica" became shortened to “Mon," “Mons," sometimes "Har-Monica," or "Momica," but “Monster” eventually became an affectionate nickname that stuck with many of my friends over the years.

I decided that instead of a monologue, I wanted to record a series of Monsterlogues as a way to bring them out from our unconscious and into the light of the day, so we can all see them for who and what they really are.

This first Monsterlogue is about the Sorry Monster that can’t stop apologizing because she has the audacity to exist in a world that trained her to believe she doesn’t have a right to take up space. I hope you enjoy it, and that you have your own revelations about your own “Sorry” Monster.

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