Empowered Connection Podcast

A Chat with a Sex Therapist: ADHD, Sexual Empowerment, & Much More with Charmaine Ensinger

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Sex, Partnership, Relationships, ADHD, Neurodiversity, Self Empowerment, Intimacy, Love

Charmaine Ensinger LMFT (she/her) - Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider, Certified Sex Therapist with AASECT and IBOSP, AAMFT Approved Supervisor

As a certified sex therapist and a marriage and family therapist, Charmaine Ensinger is uniquely suited to understand complex relationships in all areas of life. Charmaine enjoys working with people of every ethnic, gender, and sexual background and finds a special connection with people who feel misunderstood, marginalized, or like an “outsider.”

As an ADHD-certified clinical services provider, she is poised to address the complexities of ADHD symptoms and management. Charmaine is currently enrolled in the Clinical Sexology Ph.D. program at Modern Sex Therapy Institutes, where her doctoral project is focused on sex therapy and ADHD. Additionally, she teaches Human Sexuality as an adjunct professor at Rowan University.

For those looking to empower their sex and their relationships! In this informative and fascinating podcast, host Daniel Cordua speaks with Charmaine Ensinger on these topics:

- What is sex therapy? And how could it be helpful to our lives & our relationships?
- Demystifying The scripts about sexuality we learn at a young age
- How couples can get stuck into a pattern of a sexless relationship
- & How couples can bring sexual connection back into a relationship when it is lost
- Sex and ADHD
- Creating more mutual pleasure and awareness in our sexuality
- Exploring our sexuality with more fullness & play
- How our sexuality shifts in a partnership over time
- Key sexual empowerment practices
... and so much more!

Connect with Charmaine here

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Are My Partner and I Too Different? with Daniel Cordua

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Love, Conflict, Healthy Relationships, Interdependence, Doing the Work, Conscious Relationships, Self Understanding, Differentiation

Have you ever felt stuck in your partnership because you feel like your loved one is too different from you?

Are certain differences in relationship incompatible?

How alike do my partner & I need to be for this relationship to survive… let alone thrive?

Join Empower Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua on this solo podcast episode as he sheds light on.. & gives tools + perspectives on:

- Are differences in relationship good? Bad?
- What are the challenges in relationship when we are reckoning with our differences?
- What are the ways we hide from our differences, & hide from our individual truth, in relationship & what does that create?
- What do couples most need to have in common for their relationship to survive… and thrive?
- The MOST important thing to have in common in order for health, possibility + longevity in your partnership

and more!

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How Vedic Astrology Can Empower Our Relationships with Christine Rodriguez

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Astrology, Relationships, Self Awareness, Partnership, Love, Dating, Spirituality, Yoga, Jyotish, Ayurveda

Christine Rodriguez is a Vedic Astrologer, coach, and host of the Astrology Now Podcast. She has been studying Jyotish, or Vedic Astrology, for over 10 years. Her mission is to combine coaching, Vedic astrology, and other Vedantic studies to support others in living in alignment with their personal constitution, karmic makeup, astrological imprint - and how to use this information to their advantage, creating a life of meaning and purpose.

Christine believes that relationships and intimacy act as powerful mirrors for personal development and our partners can be some of our greatest teachers. She views relationships as sacred… and also really, fascinating & challenging! She combines personal inquiry, self-discovery, and Vedic Astrology to work with couples & individuals in relationship.

Christine’s background also includes an undergraduate & graduate degrees in Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin.

In this fascinating podcast episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua talks with guest Christine Rodriguez about the intersection of vedic astrology, love, relationships, dating, self growth, spirituality and more - including these topics:
- What is Vedic Astrology?
- Learning more about our karmic blueprints & how they can help us be & become ourselves in the fullest way
- Using birth charts to understand more about ourselves & our partner
- How Vedic Astrology give us powerful resources & perspectives for navigating relationship with clarity, awareness + potential
- Greater tools for dating & new relationships
- Karmic perspectives that can empower how we traverse the seasons of our life both individually & when in relationship with others
- Employing our karmic blueprints to help us surrender into our spiritual path, as opposed to trying to over-control our lives

Connect with Christine here
Christine's upcoming Vedic Astrology Foundational Course
Mentioned in the episode, Astrology Now podcast on the difference between Western & Eastern Astrology

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Am I Co-Dependent? The Tell Tale Signs of Codependency with Daniel Cordua

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Codependency, Relationships Problems, Healthy Relationships, Partnership, Interdependence

This word is often thrown around a lot, but what does “codependency” actually mean? And… how do we know if we are in a codependent pattern or relationship?

Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua for a special episode that defines, researches, and explores the nuances of co-dependency.

Learn:
- What exactly is codependency? And how common is it?
- How do I know if I am codependent or in a codependent relationship?
- What are the key signs & symptoms of codependency?
- Why is a codependent relationship unhealthy?
- What are the ways of consciously doing relationship that can stop codependency?

… and so much more!

If you are looking to understand your own patterns and your patterns in relationship to others more deeply AND empower & improve your relationship to your own self and to others, this episode is a must listen!

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How to Navigate Power Dynamics In Partnership with Daniel Cordua

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Power, Interdependence, Co-dependence, Unhealthy Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Mutuality, Conscious Couples

In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua helps the listener navigate the tricky relational terrain of power dynamics in our most important relationships - namely, partnership.

To help give more awareness, tools, and empowerment around how to traverse power in partnership, this episode explores"
- Why discussing power dynamics and "doing power" consciously is important in partnership
- The three general types of power: power over, power under, or power with
- Why certain power dynamics are extremely unhealthy in our partnership
- What is an "interdependent relationship" and how can we establish one
- 5 Tips on how to explore and develop sharing power in our relationship with more mutuality and interdependence
and much more!

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From Victimhood to Authorship: Find Your Primordial Power with Amanda Freed

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Empowerment, Victimhood, Authenticity, Healthy Relationships, Nervous System Work, Boundaries, Healing, Trauma, Attachment Styles

Amanda Freed is a bodyworker, anatomist, yoga, meditation, and mindfulness teacher, speaker, and presenter. Her career spans more than three decades serving humans of all ability levels including collegiate, Olympic, and pro athletes, special needs groups including those on the spectrum, TBI and stroke survivors, and people living with Lupus. Amanda works with high level leaders, corporate groups, 1:1, and facilitates onsite workshops and retreats nationally and internationally. Her current passions include facilitating Vagus Nerve Reset and helping humans to reclaim their Primordial Power through mindfulness, meditation, and movement.

In this inspiring & empowering conversation, Empowered Connection podcast host Daniel Cordua and Amanda talk about:
- Finding Your Primordial Power
- Working with Past Memories and Bringing Them to Light In a New Way
- Honoring Our Need to Blame and then Moving Past Blame
- Exploring Our Earlier Childhood For the Moment Right Refore We Gave Up Our Power
- Starting Our Story with Ourself
- Journeying from Victim to Empowerment
- Becoming our Own Protector
- Finding our Acceptance, Safety & Security From Within
- Leveraging How We Are Feeling Right Now
and so much more!

Find out more about Amanda here:
Instagram - afyoga25
Tik Tok - afyoga25
Facebook - AF Yoga

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What is Self Love & Why It is an Absolute Necessity in Our Lives & in Our Ability to Love Others with Daniel Cordua

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Love, Relationships, Partnership, Self Awareness, Conscious Relationships, Shadow Work, Parts Work, How To Love, Relationship Problems

In this shorter podcast episode, Empowered Connection host Daniel Cordua discusses a popular topic: SELF LOVE.

What, exactly, is self love?
Why is it more important - and much less superficial - than we realize?
Why do we need to develop it?
And why is it a necessity in creating healthy, conscious relationships with our most loved ones?

A powerful episode to inspire your relationship to your own self, and the possibility of your deepest relationships to others.

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How to Learn About & Heal Burnout with an Expert Burnout Coach with Lauren Baptiste

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Burnout, Life Balance, Self Empowerment, Relationships, Healing, Ayurveda, Yoga, Self Care, Self Love

Lauren Baptiste is enhancing today’s work culture with a simple strategy: prioritize well-being as the "hardest-working" professionals climb the corporate ladder. As a burnout coach, life coach, and consultant on a mission to help women level-up at work and at home, Lauren brings more than 13 years of experience in corporate culture and workplace burnout alongside her knowledge as practitioner of Ayurveda, hormonal health and other evidenced-based modalities. This results in clients shifting from exhausted to energetic, cynical to optimistic, and ineffective to empowered.

Lauren is also an international speaker on the topics of burnout, mindfulness and women in leadership, and has consulted for a wide range of clients including IBM, TD Securities, EY, NFL, Warner Music, Estee Lauder, Standard Chartered Bank and the United Nations. Lauren has been published in many established outlets, such as Forbes, Thrive Global, Medium and Authority Magazine.

In this conversation with burnout expert, coach, & speaker Lauren Baptiste of Acheloa Wellness and Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua, we dive into these insight topics and helpful tools:

- What exactly is “burnout?”
- Lauren shares her personal story of burnout and how it brought her into her healing + towards her mission
- What are the internal stories + patterns from within that bring us to the external circumstances that lead to burnout?
- Living in a culture of over-doing in the West that enables & encourages burnout
- The tell-tale signs that we, or someone we love, is going through burnout
- How to give ourselves the space in our lives, simple boundaries and the self love to create proper awareness, presence + accountability… & help shift a dynamic that could lead to burnout
- Daniel shares his story of burnout as a small business owner in the healing industry
- How we can show up for others in our lives if and when they are experiencing burnout
- Lauren’s 5 step process of rebuilding a foundation within ourselves + our lives that can prevent burnout
- How the improper use of the senses to cope with burnout create more damage to ourselves & more cycling into patterns of burnout
-How to take on a vision of our our life as a "long game"
And much more!

Connect with Lauren's work here: acheloawellness.com

Follow Lauren on Instagram for burnout tips: @thelaurenbaptiste

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Our Wounds Are the Next Door Neighbors to Our Gifts with Daniel Cordua

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Empowerment, Hurt, Wounds, Self Awareness, Family of Origin, Healing, Wholeness, Transformation

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua directs our attention and intention towards our own unique gifts... specifically, the fact that those gifts had their origin story in our early wounding.

In this episode, Daniel explores this challenging, yet beautiful and celebratory, truth. He also gives the listener tools + tips in how to not only see this truth with more empowerment, but to celebrate our gifts without having to minimize them, feel shameful or guilty about them, or cut them off during the course of our healing journey.

This is an inspiring episode for those looking to reclaim their power while transforming the past.

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It's Time to Allow Yourself to Be Cared For with Daniel Cordua

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Receiving Support, Overfunctioning, Self Empowerment, Intimacy, Self Love, Relationships, Relational Growth, Needs, Emotional Intelligence

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua explores the tendency in many of us to neither receive nor bid for the care and support of others.

Breaking down the reasons why we might push away being cared for, Daniel dives into why "learning how to receive" can deeply benefit and empower our lives and our relationships.

With actionable tools and self reflection prompts, this podcast episode is an important listen for those don't allow for their own needs - while over tending to the needs of others - and those who love them.

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The Difference Between Guilt & Shame and How to Move Through Both with Daniel Cordua

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Shame, Guilt, Self Compassion, Self Empowerment, Self Love, Self Awareness, Self Exploration

What exactly is "shame" and how does it differ from "guilt?"
How do I move through shame and not become disempowered by it?
How does guilt help me grow and when does it hinder my self growth?

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua explores and explains the key differences in our emotional experience of shame VERSUS guilt.

This exploration is key in our ability to understand the patterns behind our feelings and thinking that might be keeping us stuck.

Most of us aren't able to discern between these two emotional states. Listen to today's episode and not only learn how to do so, but also learn how to use your awareness to empower your life and your relationships... and act with more love, acceptance, empowerment and self compassion towards yourself & others...

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*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA !! For Philadelphia area yogis & seekers looking to dive deep into their yoga, this is a transformative journey of Self & connection in inspiring community

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You Are Not “Better” or “Worse” Than Anyone Else with Daniel Cordua

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Healing, Spirituality, Spiritual Bypassing, Shame, Self Empowerment, Shadow Work, Self Growth, Guilt

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Daniel Cordua rounds out the last month's themes of spirituality, self empowerment, spiritual bypassing, and religious trauma with a talk on the tension between being inherently already whole and taking on a practices to make one whole.

There is a sigh of self compassionate relief in the profound spiritual understanding that we don't need to" fix "ourselves, but are already whole.

And it begs the classic question: if we are already love and loved, why must we take on paths, ideas, communities, or practices that prove or find that we are?

This irony is both beautiful and dangerous.

It shows that we are not better or worse than anyone, for we are all equal on a fundamental level of the Self (the beautiful)... yet that same understanding is leveraged by others to have power over others - or us to have shame towards ourselves - by stating you must "earn" that wholeness and equality by being part of a group, guru, or specific path (the dangerous or ugly) and proving your worth.

In this episode Daniel explores the beautiful sides of this paradox and the shadow sides, allowing the listener to have more empowered awareness of their own self and their self growth and/or spiritual practices and longings.

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*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA !! For Philadelphia area yogis & seekers looking to dive deep into their yoga, this is a transformative journey of Self & connection in inspiring community

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Journey Into the Bhagavad Gita: A Guide to Bringing Profound Metaphysical Knowledge Into Your Life with Hari Kirtana Das

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Spirituality, Yoga, Religion, Psychology, Social Activism, Personal Empowerment, Religious Trauma, Karma, Connection

Attention yoga teachers, yoga students, spiritual enthusiasts, those wounded by religious experience and those would like to reconceptualize their relationship with god, and fans of human psychology, spiritual leadership and activism:

Hari-kirtana das is an author, yoga teacher, and mentor who guides people on journeys of self-discovery, spiritual reconstruction, and personal transformation. He's been practicing various forms of yoga and meditation for more than 40 years, has lived in yoga ashrams and intentional communities, worked for Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley start-ups, and brings a wide range of spiritual knowledge and life experience to his books, talks, workshops, and courses.

His talent for making complex ideas easy to understand, keen sense of humor, enthusiasm for meaningful dialogue, and passion for critical thinking have made him a sought-after yoga teacher training instructor and public speaker. Hari's articles and essays about the enduring relevance of yoga's ancient wisdom appear in various forums and journals. His latest book is called Journey Into the Bhagavad Gita: A Guide to Exploring Timeless Principles of Transcendental Knowledge and Integrating Them Into Your Life.

In this inspiring podcast Hari Kirtana & podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua cover these personally empowering & spiritually inspiring topics:

- Why The Bhagavad Gita? What is so important about this spiritual text?
- How The Bhagavad Gita can help us reclaim our spirituality after religious trauma or abuse
- A fresh conception of “God” and our relationship to Spirit
- How to be an eternal being while having a temporary human experience
- Understanding the law of karma & transmigration of soul
- The 4 primary metaphysical principles of The Bhagavad Gita
- What is “dharma” from the yoga perspective?
- Who is the Bhagavad Gita for?

And so much more!

Buy Journey into the Bhagavad Gita

Learn more about Hari Kirtana and find him on Instagram and Youtube

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*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA !! For Philadelphia area yogis & seekers looking to dive deep into their yoga, this is a transformative journey of Self & connection in inspiring community

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Navigating Spiritual Abuse & Religious Trauma with Kayla Felten

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Religious Trauma, Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality, Religion, Trauma, Healing, Relationships, Self Empowerment, Inner Wisdom, Patriarchy,

Kayla Felten, MSW, LICSW has been an advocate for religious trauma and spiritual abuse survivors throughout her career, as the co-founder of the Reclamation Collective and as a Psychedelic Therapist in her clinical work. Kayla has been able to support those in the process of reclaiming their inner peace, relational harmony, autonomy, pleasure, and authentic self. She was initially invited to facilitate support groups for survivors of spiritual abuse due to abuses of power taking place in plant medicine and yogi contexts within Minnesota. This experience helped expand her understanding of spiritual abuse both within and outside of religious contexts, and has allowed her to become a voice of advocacy within the psychedelic and therapeutic communities she shows up in.

Through years experience facilitating support groups, integration circles, retreats, and teaching workshops for folks navigating themes of religious trauma, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, and reclamation through the Reclamation Collective, Kayla aspires to curate expanded offerings for survivors on their healing trajectories that prioritize personal autonomy and pursue radical authenticity.

This is powerful conversation between Kayla & host Daniel Cordua - an important listen for those who have felt religious trauma in their lives, who are part of spiritual and/or religious communities and/or take on teachers from those circles, who are leaders in those communities, or who have experience spiritual abuse.

We talk about:
- What is trauma? How do we know we are experiencing it?
- What exactly is religious trauma? How do we experience it?
- Kayla’s own experience experiencing and then navigating her religious trauma
- Gaining distance, perspective, clarity and a life-giving deconstruction of our religious experiences
- Religious trauma for women, trans-communities, queer folk, and all gender identifications
- What is spiritual abuse? How do we experience - and/or perpetrate it consciously and unconsciously
- Power dynamics in religious communities, spiritual communities, healing spaces, therapy, and plant medicine circles
- The amazing “Spiritual Power Inventory” tool that I think all religious, spiritual, & healing communities, members and leaders should employ
and much more!

Connect with Kayla & the Reclamation Collective: reclamationcollective.com

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*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA

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These Are the Roadblocks to Conscious Connection & Conscious Communication with Daniel Cordua

Wed, 29 May 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Conscious Communication, Conflict, Relationship Tips, Self Regulation, Emotional Intelligence, Compassion, Relationship Problems

- Looking to empower your relationships?
- Looking to connect more deeply and compassionately to others?
- Ready to do conflict with more success, potential, and growth?
- Tired of compromising both yourself and your relationships to others?

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection host & relationship coach Daniel Cordua explores some key roadblocks in our ability to consciously connect and communicate with others.

Noticing these roadblocks - and then moving through them - within our own life and relationships will improve the quality of our connection and communication with others.

Listen to this podcast episode and learn how!

Other helpful episodes to listen to in relation to this theme:
#119
#118
#107
#99

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June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA

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10 Pros & Cons I Learned While Being In Spiritual Communities with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 22 May 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Spirituality, Self Empowerment, Spiritual Abuse, Spiritual Bypassing, Spiritual Connection, Religious Trauma, Spiritual Community, Healing Journey, Yoga

If you are interested in healing, self empowerment, spiritual paths, and spiritual connection, this episode is a must listen!

In this solo podcast episode, Daniel Damodar Cordua brings the listener into important reflections he gained spending many years in yoga, spiritual paths and various spiritual communities.

Expressing both the deep, profound benefits AND the possible drawbacks and disempowering snares of spiritual paths + communities, Daniel paints a more comprehensive portrait of what it means to be "spiritual."

This guidance and these reflections will help the listener inspire their own journey of healing + connection in healthy, safe, conscious, and integrated ways.

Listen now to:
- leverage your life through the inspiration of spirituality
- become more conscious of spiritual + religious trauma
- learn of the importance of like-minded communities of healing & connection
- save yourself from falling into abusive patterns found in spiritual communities & spiritual hierarchies
- become well-rounded, both open-hearted and discerning your own internal compass, in your awareness of spiritual paths
- create better boundaries in your healing and buy-in into spiritual teachers and teachings

Important related episodes mentioned in the podcast:
#94 Narcissism, Spiritual Perspectives on Narcissism, & Narcissism in Spiritual + Healing Communities with Chaitanya Lila Pankhania
#62 Navigating Spiritual Abuse & Religious Trauma with Kayla Felten
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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session - for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
Get 10% OFF by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA

*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA
*Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Traversing Another's Triggers with Daniel Cordua

Wed, 15 May 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Couples, Conflict, Triggers, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Connection, Self Regulation, Co-regulation, Healthy Relationships, Love

In this solo episode - part 2 of a series on navigating conflict in relationship - Damodar focuses on how we can be with & navigate another's triggers when in conflict... AND throughout other moments of our relational life with others.

An important episode full of practical, transformative & helpful perspectives and tools that will bring you to a better place in successfully managing another person's triggered state and emotional intensity - not only when in conflict with your loved ones, but during lots of life's other relational situations.

Damodar specifically presents FIVE STEPS to drastically improve your ability to “be with," sooth, and find connection when present with another's triggered state... that will help you improve your relationship's success, rather than damage it.

This is a special rerelease of podcast #52 which is part of our series on navigating conflict in our relationships with more potential, success, and connection.

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session - for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
Get 10% OFF by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA
*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA
*Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024
Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic healing product line Bhava Wellness

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Traversing Your Own Triggers During Conflict with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 08 May 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Couples, Conflict, Triggers, Self Regulation, Healthy Relationships, Love, Emotional Intelligence,

In this solo podcast episode, Damodar dives into part one of a two part (or possibly 3 part!) series on conflict in our relationships. Difficulty navigating conflict can be one of the major roadblocks in the health & connection within our relationships.

But, where do we start? First, we start with our own selves.

In this episode, part 1, Damodar focuses on how we can be with & navigate our own triggers when in conflict both externally with another and internally within our own selves.

An important episode full of practical, transformative & helpful perspectives and tools that will bring you to a better place in successfully navigating getting triggered when in conflict with your loved ones. Damodar specifically presents two great, simple & actionable strategies to drastically improve your ability to “be with” and gain more information from your triggers to improve your relationships success, rather than damage it.

This is a special rerelease of podcast #50 which is part of our series on navigating conflict in our relationships with more potential, success, and connection.

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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session - for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
Get 10% OFF by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

UPCOMING EVENTS:
June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA
*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA
*Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024
Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic healing product line Bhava Wellness

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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The Power of the Pivot & Our Purpose with Marissa Rose Nash

Wed, 01 May 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Empowerment, Leadership, Pivoting, Mentorship, Yoga, Consciousness, Abundance, Manifestation

Marissa Rose Nash fell in love with the practices of self-discovery & yoga 11 years ago after taking one yoga class in college. She’s since completed two 200 hour yoga teacher trainings, her 300 hour YTT in Yoga Psychology with Ashley Turner, has studied Jon Kabat Zinn’s mindfulness based stress reduction meditation program, and completed a masters in organizational leadership and executive coaching.

She’s been a certified holistic life coach for 7 years and is being privately mentored under world renowned yoga teacher, Elena Brower. In 2023 she completed a 60 hour meditation course with global Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Kia Miller.

Marissa has taught over 3,000 hours of yoga, led 11 yoga teacher trainings, traveled and led 3 international retreats, and taught yoga for the Eagles football in 2022. She currently lives in New Mexico and is the founder of The Well Studio, where students tap into their own wellbeing, self-discovery, and body/mind wisdom on their yoga mats in both Philadelphia & New Mexico.

Classes with Marissa are tantric in essence, weaving all layers of being into an experience of self-knowing that will rejuvenate you, awaken you, empower you, & remind you of who you truly are.

In this episode host Daniel Damodar Cordua talks with Marissa on these inspiring topics:

The need for intimate, sacred healing spaces
Navigating life pivots with bravery, resource and empowerment
Learning to do own our dharma, even as it changes
The universe’s tendency to reciprocate with our desire
Mentorship as crucial in our own personal & occupational growth & service to the world
Why consciously being present in liminal spaces is so important and so generative
The practice of “doing nothing” as expansion
Conscious leadership
Yoga teachers as the world’s new leaders

And so much more

Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session - for individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
Get 10% OFF by mentioning Empowered Connection

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

IG - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:
June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA
*Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA
*Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024
Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic healing product line Bhava Wellness

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Learning How to Repair is the First - & Most Important - Step In Navigating Conflict Better with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationship Problems, Conflict, Intimacy, Partnership, How to Improve Your Relationships, Love, Marriage, Healthy Relationships, Conscious Partners

Are you looking to do conflict better in your most important relationships?

Is the cycle of conflict, rupture, and fights creating too much stress in your partnership?

Do you have a hard time navigating rupture or disconnect with your most loved ones?

Are you ready to create a more connected, loving partnership or other relationship?

Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua for this special, shorter, solo podcast on the first and most important step in doing conflict more successfully in your relationships: REPAIR.

What is repair? How do we do it and why is it the most important first step in navigating conflict more successfully and empowering our relationships?

Join Daniel for this solo podcast episode and learn more...

Learn more about RESOLVING CONFLICT in your most important relationships via Empowered Connection Podcast episodes #52, #50, and #28
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Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
AND Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Find Daily Relationship & Self Growth Tools + Tips on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:

June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA - more info coming soon! Mark your calendars

Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA

Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024
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The Deeply Empowering Practice of Holding Two (at Times Opposing) Truths at the Same Time with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Empowerment, Relationships, Self Compassion, Presence, Self Awareness, Gratitude

In this shorter, solo episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Daniel Cordua explains, explores, and gives inspiring examples of a simple, yet deeply empowering practice: holding two truths in our awareness at the same time.

This practice will allow you to find more depth and gratitude within your life, more compassion for yourself, more presence and self awareness, and more possibility within your relationships.

Take a listen and bring valuable, actionable, and relatable tools into your life and your journey now... and far into the future!

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Bring the lessons of our episodes into your unique journey!

Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
AND Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Find Daily Relationship & Self Growth Tools + Tips on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:

June 1st - Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Communication Immersion in Philadelphia, PA - more info coming soon! Mark your calendars

Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA

Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024
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Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness

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A Vision to Integrate Our Medicine: Creating Empowerment in Your Healing Journey with Josh Whiteley

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Integrative Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Healing, Self Empowerment, Jyotish, Vastu, Medical Models, Self Advocacy, Spirituality, Vedic Arts

Josh Whiteley is a Registered ER Nurse, Licensed Acupuncturist, Vedic astrologer, and Ayurvedic practitioner in the Tucson, Arizona area. Founder of Common Roots Acupuncture clinic, josh has practiced acupuncture for over 10 years and is also a graduate of the Ayurvedic Institute previously based in Albuquerque, NM and an accomplished Ayurvedic practitioner and Vedic (or Jyotish) Astrologer. Currently informed by his experiences as an Emergency Room Nurse, Josh has be profoundly inspired by the possibility of integrative medicine, bringing both Western allopathic methods in deeper relationship with Alternative and Eastern modalities.

What I love about Josh is his expert knowledge on a vast array of healing modalities, East and West, Alternative and Allopathic, and his ability to dance within all and integrate them in inspiring and relevant ways. In this informative and fascinating podcast, Josh and and I chat on inspiring topics in the wellness, healing, and spiritual worlds.

Including:
- Visionary and empowering ideas of how integrative medicine can bring more potential to our healing and our future as a species
- The states of shamefulness present in alternative medicine communities
- How to create personal agency, empowerment, and choice in the way we navigate the medical system
- Powerful examples of where the east and west can be bridged and brought into our own unique lives and experiences
- The importance of conscious communication and the role between client and practitioner in the healing process
- Inspiring ideas around Vedic Astrology, called Jyotish, as a medical model (which is what we talked about in length during our first interview with Josh - episode #4 from back in February 2022 - listen to that episode here
- A fun and valuable lesson in the basics of Vastu, or Vedic Feng Shui
and much more!

Josh's Vedic Astrology & Ayurveda practice here
Josh's fun & informative instagram

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Bring the lessons of our episodes into your unique journey! Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Find Daily Relationship & Self Growth Tools + Tips on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA

Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024
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Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness

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When "Conscious Communication" Can Be Unsafe & Even Abusive with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationship Problems, Emotional Abuse, Conscious Communication, Relational Safety, Relationship Tools, Boundaries, Abusive Relationships

In this shorter, solo podcast episode Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua shares a pivotal story from his own journey of relationship that explores how "conscious communication" can be used to perpetuate abusive and harmful relational dynamics.

In this episode you will explore:
- when we tend to betray our integrity for connection
- how to tune into our own body and mind when in an abusive dynamic with another person
- advocating for ourselves in relational difficulty and verbal abuse
- when people "use" conscious communication ideas to perpetuate harmful relational dynamics
- safety as the most important factor in relationships
- creating appropriate boundaries when we feel unsafe in a relationship
- "ghosting" someone as an appropriate measure to navigate feelings of relationship harm and lack of safety
- living with and standing strong in our own integrity, even as others challenge that integrity
and much more....!

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Bring the lessons of our episodes into your unique journey! Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
AND Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Find Daily Relationship & Self Growth Tools + Tips on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:

April 6th, 2-6pm How to Live Your Yoga: An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy & The Bhagavad Gita, explore the depths of spirituality and personal empowerment in this special, inspiring, and transformative immersion at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia or Online

Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA

Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024
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Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness

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More Pleasure, Better Boundaries, and AWE with Jami Lynn Bula

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Intimacy, Relationships, Sex, Boundaries, Partnership, Pleasure, Presence, Connection, Spirituality, Tantra Yoga, Love

Jami Lynn Bula is a relationship and sex therapist in Austin, TX. Jami Lynn's passion is to help people define and create the romantic relationships they crave. For over 10 years, they have been working with individuals and couples who want deeper connections, loving partnerships, and mind-blowing sex. She believes people are drawn into relationship from a deep need to connect- this pull is part of being human. Yet, most of us were not taught how to be in relationship well. Combining tools from psychology, Tantra yoga, and neuroscience, JL supports clients through challenges inherent in relationships, sex, and love

In this inspiring conversation, Jennifer and host Daniel Damodar Cordua talk about:
- Bringing nature & the natural world and our relationships
- Moving past that which blocks pleasure in our lives
- How to reclaim pleasure strictly for you, fully and entirely
- Practices for slowing down and becoming present in our relationships
- Building boundaries for more fun, intimacy, and sexual pleasure
- Physical, internal embodied boundaries and psychological boundaries
- The relational resource of awe experiences

And so much more…

Check out:
Jami Lynn Bula's website HERE
Instagram HERE
Youtube HERE
Retreat to Bali HERE

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Bring the lessons of our episodes into your unique journey! Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
AND Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership and create more intimacy + deeper connection.

Find Daily Relationship & Self Growth Tools + Tips on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:

April 6th, 2-6pm How to Live Your Yoga: An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy & The Bhagavad Gita, explore the depths of spirituality and personal empowerment in this special, inspiring, and transformative immersion at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia or Online

Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA

Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024
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Sponsored by our internationally adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness

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How Learned Optimism Can Shift Your Life (& How Pessimism Can Too) with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Empowerment, Positive Psychology, Optimism, Pessimism, Self Criticism, Self Compassion

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua explores the researched concept of "learned optimism" and how optimism can shift the course of your life, your happiness, your relationships, and your resilience.

Daniel gives researched tips from positive psychologist Martin Seligman and others on how to retrain our minds towards empowering optimistic perspectives and when - and when not - to take on pessimistic points of view... Because, guess what? Pessimism can be helpful too.

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Bring the lessons of our episodes into your unique journey! Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
AND Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership & bring more possibility into their ability to communication, navigate difference & conflict, explore more potential and create more intimacy + deeper connection. Get 10% OFF your 6 session couples coaching immersion by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Find Daily Relationship & Self Growth Tools + Tips on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:

April 6th, 2-6pm How to Live Your Yoga: An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy & The Bhagavad Gita, explore the depths of spirituality and personal empowerment in this special, inspiring, and transformative immersion at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia or Online

Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA!

Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024

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Sponsored by our beautiful, internationally adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness

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The Three Main Patterns of Conflict in Relationships with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Conflict, Relationships, Partnership, Love, Connection

In this solo podcast episode, host Damodar Damodar Cordua addresses one of the most important topics in relationship and partnership - navigating our patterns of unproductive conflict.

In order to do so, he explores and illuminates the three main patterns that couples and dyads move into. Listen to this shorter episode and shine more light on how you may now or in the past danced in a cycle of conflict with your loved one... and gain the tools to shift that dance - and with it, the possibility of your relationship now or a relationship in the future - with your newfound awareness.

Shift the possibility of a partnership with this podcast!

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Bring the lessons of our episodes into your unique journey! Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
AND Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership & bring more possibility into their ability to communication, navigate difference & conflict, explore more potential and create more intimacy + deeper connection. Get 10% OFF your 6 session couples coaching immersion by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Find Daily Relationship & Self Growth Tools + Tips on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:

April 6th, 2-6pm How to Live Your Yoga: An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy & The Bhagavad Gita, at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia or Online

Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA!

Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024

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Sponsored by our beautiful, internationally adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness

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Intellectual Bypassing, Healthy Sexuality, & Parts Work for Inner Awareness with Jennifer Minor

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Inner Work, Self Growth, Self Empowerment, Parts Work, Therapy, Sexuality, Vulnerability, Intellectual Bypassing, Social Media, Gen Z

Jennifer Minor is a licensed professional counselor who helps courageous humans create safer inner worlds, so they can build safer external worlds. With an emphasis on holistic wellness, healthy sexuality, and cultivating curiosity and compassion, Jennifer doesn’t view herself as just your average “professional listener.” She is a personal co-pilot, life cheerleader, compassionate confidant, parts warrior, and the occasional “tea sipper.” With a knack for untangling life's inner webs, she helps folks navigate the intricate peaks and valleys of their emotional landscape with grace, humor, and a sprinkle of psychology. She guides her therapeutic work with sensitivity and a mixture of strategy, creativity, and the right amount of whimsy. When not decoding the mysteries of the mind, body, spirit connection, you can find her throwing 1-2 punches at her local boxing gym, or simply relishing in the fact that she’s “off-duty” for the moment and engaging in a restful, mindLESS activity.

In this inspiring conversation, Jennifer and host Daniel Damodar Cordua talk about:
- Witnessing the inner world and inner growth of people that we don’t usually see
- Holding space for all the parts of ourself and noticing which need to come forward or be updated
- Intellectually bypassing our healing with self growth ideas
- Coaching & therapy as containers that reveal our inner awareness
- Generation Z’s use of technology, social media, and self diagnosis
- The deep vulnerability & empowerment of being fully present with another human being
- What is healthy sexuality?
- Normalizing communication around sex
- How “practicing ease” can bring more empowerment into our lives
and much more!

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Connect with Jennifer here

Bring the lessons of our episodes into your unique journey! Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
AND Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership Get 10% OFF your 6 session couples coaching immersion by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Find Daily Relationship & Self Growth Tools + Tips on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:

April 6th, 2-6pm How to Live Your Yoga: An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy & The Bhagavad Gita, at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia or Online

Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training July-August 2023 in Philadelphia, PA!

Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training for Yoga Teachers starts this June, 2024
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Our beautiful, internationally adored, organic and hand-crafted with intention healing product line Bhava Wellness

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Exploring Spontaneous & Responsive Desire For Better Intimacy & More Pleasure with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Sexuality, Intimacy, Relationships, Partnership, Desire, Pleasure, Love, Romance, Sensuality, Connection

Do you ever feel your sexual desire is different than your partners? (or previous partners?)

Do you struggle to get connected and on the same page sexually with your loved one?

Does your sexual desire towards your partner feel unreciprocated?

Does the style of sexual desire from your partner sometime shut down your desire?

Are you ready for more pleasure in your life?

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua will answer these questions and explore how to deepen intimacy through an investigation of DESIRE.

Specifically, Daniel talks about how understanding - and exploring - the difference between spontaneous desire and responsive desire can create more potential within our sexual lives and our relationships.

Listen in and gain more tools, awareness, and growth within your sexual satisfaction, pleasure levels, and partnerships.

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Bring the lessons of our episodes into your unique journey! Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
AND Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership & bring more possibility into their ability to communication, navigate difference & conflict, explore more potential and create more intimacy + deeper connection. Get 10% OFF your 6 session couples coaching immersion by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:

April 6th, 2-6pm How to Live Your Yoga: An Introduction to Yoga Philosophy & The Bhagavad Gita, in-person at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia or Online Via Zoom

Attention Yoga Teachers! Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training starts this June, 2024
Join us for a deeply integrative educational offering with modern approaches of trauma informed, therapeutic + holistic practices blended seamlessly alongside deep roots of ancient wisdom + spiritual lineage. This training offers 12 full weekends in-studio in South Philly and ends with an Immersive 5 Day Desert Retreat right outside of Phoenix, Arizona

Coming this July! Empower & Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training! Info Coming Soon

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How Defensiveness is Hurting Your Relationships & How to Stop It with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Relationships, Conflict, Defensiveness, Partnership, Conscious Communication, Self Regulation, How to Love

In this shorter, solo podcast episode Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua breaks down and helps heal "defensiveness" within our relationships.

Although an understandable pattern of protection, too much unconscious defensiveness in our relationships - especially partnership - can wear down the foundation of our connection and create negative cycles of conflict and rupture. Some relationship experts call defensiveness one of the death knells of partnership.

Listen in to today's episode and learn:
- What is defensiveness exactly and why do we engage in it?
- The unhealthy cycles that defensiveness creates within our most important relationships
- Signposts that will help us figure out when we are becoming too defensive
- Ways to deal, heal, and move through our defensiveness during relationship dynamics that will lead to more connection - to other and self - and less conflict, stress, and rupture.
this, and much more...

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Bring the lessons of our episodes into your unique journey! Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
AND Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership & bring more possibility into their ability to communication, navigate difference & conflict, explore more potential and create more intimacy + deeper connection. Get 10% OFF your 6 session couples coaching immersion by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Attention Yoga Teachers! Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training starts this June, 2024
Join us for a deeply integrative educational offering with modern approaches of trauma informed, therapeutic + holistic practices blended seamlessly alongside deep roots of ancient wisdom + spiritual lineage. This training offers 12 full weekends in-studio in South Philly and ends with an Immersive 5 Day Desert Retreat right outside of Phoenix, Arizona

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Intuitive Rebirth: Living Free & Authentic to Your Deepest Truth with Rhiannon Heins

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Topics: Spirituality, Personal Empowerment, Authenticity, Energy Work, Spiritual Journey, Self Growth, Divine Connection

Rhiannon Heins is an intuitive channel, a bestselling author, and an energy worker currently based in Bali. She dedicates her life to her soul-work and underpinning her vision at every stage of her journey has been a desire to initiate as many gifted light-workers as possible into their roles on Earth at this time.

Rhiannon has spent the past ten years working and lecturing as a remedial massage therapist, teaching yoga, meditation & breathwork, and facilitating yoga teacher trainings internationally. Now, using her signature Intuitive Rebirth energy-work method, Rhiannon is empowering healers to step into their power as high earning, transformational energy-workers.

Her books include 2023’s “The Keepers of the Light Codes” and The Intuitive Rebirth” and can be found wherever books are sold.

This inspiring conversation between Rhiannon and Daniel Damodar Cordua explores:
- The authentic spark of truth within us all
- How we are all already unconditionally, everything and we are infinite
- Shaking off the shackles of the paths that liberated us, but now bind us
- How to integrate a peak experience of awakening into our day-to-day life
- How to everyday hold our intention to be a vessel for spirit
- With our empowerment comes great responsibility
- Love as a practice
- Our whole life is ritual
and much more...

Connect with Rhianna Heins:
https://www.intuitiverebirth.com/
Rhiannon's books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0BCXG8DGS

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Love Is a Skill, Not Just a Feeling with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: How to Love, Relationships, Connection, What Love Is, Partnership, Spirituality, Self Work

In this shorter, solo podcast episode Empower Connection host Daniel Damodar Cordua dives into the levels of what love is: from it being a feeling, to it being our true nature, and, finally, to the necessity to practice love as a skill.

We are all entities made up of love, it is our soul’s essence.

Yet, the difficulty arises when that love gets blocked, covered, jammed up, overflowed, overused, or dried up.

Listen to today’s episode and find a metaphor and a strong invitation into learning how to be a channel for love to flow more fully, freely, and sustainably within your own life.

Heed the call and empower your relationship to others, to the world, and to your own self.

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What is Skin Hunger & How to Satisfy It with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Intimacy, Connection, Touch, Happiness, Relationships, Sensuality, Sexuality, Nervous System Regulation

In this shorter, solo podcast episode host Daniel Damodar Cordua explores the relational, sensual topic of "skin hunger" in order to give you, the listener, more self empowerment, relational awareness, joy, and connection. We explore our human need and desire for touch, covering these topics:
- What is skin hunger?
- How is it beneficial to our lives?
- How do we explore more about our own skin hunger needs and nuances?
- Examples of skin hunger within our lives and an analogy that will help you in your exploration of consensual touch
- How we can satisfy our skin hunger while being single, not in a partnership?
- How couples can investigate skin hunger together and leverage their relationship for more connection, joy, and happiness
and much more

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Validating Another’s Experience is Your Relational Superpower with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Relational Empowerment, Conscious Communication, Partnership, Friendship, Conflict, Difference, Healthy Relationships, Human Connection, Relationship Problems, How to Love, Compassion, Empathy

In this shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua shares one of the most important relational “superpowers” you can start to easily practice in your own life - validating another’s experience.

In this actionable episode, learn one of the most common, and negative, liabilities to creating better connection during difference with others in our life.

AND, learn a major antidote that will simply, yet profoundly, shift how you connect with others during conflict and how you can express your own truth while at the very same time holding space for another’s

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Bring the lessons of our episodes into your unique journey! Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
AND Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership & bring more possibility into their ability to communication, navigate difference & conflict, explore more potential and create more intimacy + deeper connection. Get 10% OFF your 6 session couples coaching immersion by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

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The Heart Space: Empowered Sacred Sisterhood & Conscious Connection with Leila Dylla

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Divine Feminine, Sisterhood, Relationships, Connection, Spirituality, Healing, Trauma, Conflict, Love, Women's Circles, Sacred Ritual

Leila Dylla is a modern-day mystic that lives life passionately devoted to healing, wholeness, and honoring the sacred thread that ties us all together.

Her entrepreneurial journey began in 2011 after her first Yoga teacher training and has continued to be filled with personal development training, world travel, and deep esoteric studies. Leila has a degree in physiology and kinesiology, she is an 800 hr Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, breathwork facilitator and trainer, reiki practitioner, trauma-informed life coach, writer, spiritual teacher, and self-taught gourmet chef. She lives an unconventional lifestyle of freedom, beauty, and BOLD self-expression. She strives to inspire brilliance and divine reconnection in all that she meets and is devoted to weaving her Soul's purpose into each moment.

Leila serves as a mentor for women, couples, and communities. She is the founder of The Heart Space Mission. The Heart Space is a sacred community of Heart Led women who live their lives devoted to spiritual evolution. She is a retreat leader, teacher trainer, and spiritual guide for many who are walking the path back to true power, freedom, the divine, and life of sacred service.

In this podcast episode, host Daniel Damodar Cordua & Leila dive deep & provide so much resource on these topics:
- The deep healing of coming together in community as women
- Bringing an empowered, sacred feminine into the world-at-large, transforming society
- Learning to connect with others with our armoring or performing in order to that heal intergenerational wounds
- The simple, yet profound, practices of ritual that bring us back together as human beings
- Syncing with another person in presence & authentically disturbs us enough to shake us from our patterns
- Conflict as a gateway to deeper connection
- The sacred, magical, and space of possibility created in the “we” or relationship - you, me, and the collaborative, magical, potential of “we”
- Slowing down in our relationship to ourselves others in order to allow grace, God, and mystery to come in
- True power is being both influenced AND influencing in relationship
and so much more!

Connect with Leila and learn more about her online community here:
the-heart-space.com
www.leiladylla.com

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The Truths Underneath Our Need to Give Unsolicited Advice with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Self Awareness, Conscious Communication, Self Exploration, Relationships, Inner Work, Self Empowerment, How to Love, Couples Wisdom, Self Growth

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection host Daniel Damodar Cordua talks about our proclivity to give unsolicited advice towards people in our life. Problematizing this very human urge, this podcast episode not only gives the listeners a better option of how to mindfully & successfully relate to our loved ones, but goes even deeper in - in order to unpack, why do we tend to give unsolicited advice in the first place?

Turning the mirror back upon ourselves, this episode gives the listener valuable questions & perspectives of self exploration - surfacing, with compassion and self love, the reasons behind our desire to give uninvited advice and unlocking some keys to our own self awareness, self growth, and empowerment.

Learn more about yourself via this series of powerful questions and uplevel your communication with loved ones, your self, and your relationships in the process

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The Two Ways to Deal with Regret with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Regret, Loss, Self Empowerment, Blame, Shame, Self Criticism, Self Compassion, Self Love, Self Growth

It’s the 100th episode of the Empowered Connection Podcast! We extend our deep gratitude to you - our listeners and to expert special guests who have made this podcast such an inspiring resource for self growth, relational awareness, healing, consciousness, and spirituality.

Please join us to celebrate and please join us for our NEXT 100 episodes!

In this solo podcast episode, podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua takes on a timely subject - the experience of regret. Sometimes the New Year inspires us to think about the future and what goals we have coming next, sometimes it asks us to celebrate all that we have done in the previous year, and sometimes it leaves us lingering with the feeling of regret.

Sometimes it can bring up, bubbling into our hearts, the losses, the difficulties and the misses.

In this episode, Daniel explores two distinct ways that we can deal with regret - one that is natural and tempting but filled but with liability and the other more challenging but empowering.

Listen in and explore the ways we deal with loss & regret and be inspired by tools & perspectives that can shift our hearts into fuller potential and opening.

Connect with Daniel for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
AND Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Partnership Full of Possibility for 2024 - for couples ready to up-level their partnership & bring more possibility into their ability to communication, navigate difference & conflict, explore more potential and create more intimacy + deeper connection. Get 10% OFF your 6 session couples coaching immersion by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

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The Wellspring of Our Possibility Begins With Our Nervous System with Samantha Jo

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Somatic Experiencing, Self Empowerment, Pleasure, Trauma, Spirituality, Embodiment, Relationships, Self Awareness, Self Regulation

Samantha Jo is a mother of two, a multi passionate created and a Transformational Somatic Coach. She is all about supporting others in having MORE - more peace, more purpose, and more pleasure. Samantha Jo has been a yoga teacher for over a decade and is an advanced student of Somatic Experiencing. She is also a survivor of domestic abuse. Her journey of healing brought her to this profound somatic work - something that has been life changing, to say the least.

Her Somatic Coaching practice started in 2020 and Samantha Jo has had the privilege of serving many individuals on their paths of personal healing & liberation. Her work in this field is unique in that it interests with spirituality and has a particular focus on pleasure as the antidote to stress and trauma.

In this empowering episode filled with tools, perspectices and guidance, Samantha Jo talks with Empowered Connection podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua on these topics:

- How "neuroception" precedes perception - our mind’s thoughts follow our nervous system’s habits
- Moving from surviving to thriving: expanding our repertoire of responses, choice and possibility in life
- Thinking into empowerment VS feeling into empowerment
- The language & lexicon of sensation
- Pleasure as the antidote to what ails us on the micro and the macro
- Being with what feels alive: practicing the skill of noticing what feels good
- Clearing emotional charge and creating emotional intelligence from within
- Somatic Tools for Self Empowerment and Relational Growth
- The spirituality of presence in the now VS the spirituality of striving for the future

and so much more!

Connect more with Samantha Jo via her Instagram
Get the Somatic Healing Handbook and more from Samantha Jo here

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The Three Ways of Knowing Ourselves with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Self Awareness, Self Exploration, Relational Awareness, Society + Culture, Empowerment, Family Dynamics, Inner Work, Yoga Philosophy

Join Empowered Connection host Daniel Damodar Cordua for this shorter, solo podcast and explore a simple, yet profound premise that will teach you how to see yourself, your patterns, and your relationships more deeply, more fully and more comprehensively.

In the stories of yoga, the divine entities Shiva & Durga both carry tridents. These tridents are viewed as having various metaphors - one insightful metaphor is that the three prongs of the trident represent the three levels - or ways - that we can understand ourselves - personal karma, our relational karma and our karma in connection to the larger time in history we are part of.

In this episode, Daniel Damodar will explore this metaphor and how it allows us to see our lives in three profound ways: intra-pyschically, interpersonally, societally

Listen to the end and gain practical tools from this framework that will help you understand yourself, your life, your relationships, and your connection to all more deeply and profoundly.

That, and much more...

Connect with Damodar for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
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Divine Self Men's Circle more info here monthly in-person in Philadelphia

UPCOMING EVENTS:

1/20-1/21 - Divine Self Men’s Circle Day Retreat in Tamaqua, PA (outside of Philadelphia) In this day-long retreat, explore the depths of what it is to be a concsious male & practice valuable tools you can bring into your life in order to show up as your hightest self whille in conscious community with other men

AND Attention Yoga Teachers! Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training starts this June, 2024
Join us for a deeply integrative educational offering with modern approaches of trauma informed, therapeutic + holistic practices blended seamlessly alongside deep roots of ancient wisdom + spiritual lineage. This training offers 12 full weekends in-studio in South Philly and ends with an Immersive 5 Day Desert Retreat right outside of Phoenix, Arizona

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Building Healthy Boundaries For Couples & Individuals During the Holidays & Beyond with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Boundaries, Family, Holidays, Self Empowerment, People Pleasing, Partnership, Couples Goals, Over-functioning, Self Betrayal, Self Love, Codependency, Conscious Communication, Relationships, Self Awareness

Empowerment Connection podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua takes a deeper look at how to cultivate better boundaries during the holiday season with family and friends. Even though it is a festive, social and loving time of the year, the holidays can also be challenging when navigating the nuance of relationship.

In this solo episode, Damodar gives us a series of helpful tools for navigating this season AND the rest of the year, including:

- a meditation to help us find our center and navigate creating a healthy boundary practice during the holidays and during all times in our lives
- effective + helpful communication & team-building with our partner when navigating family holiday engagements as a couple
- individual awareness and helpful tips for standing in our integrity and practicing boundaries with family, friends and more during the holidays

And so much more...

Connect with Damodar for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships
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Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

Divine Self Men's Circle more info here monthly in-person in Philadelphia

UPCOMING EVENTS:

1/20-1/21 - Divine Self Men’s Circle Day Retreat outside of Philadelphia, PA !

AND Attention Yoga Teachers! Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training starts this June, 2024
Join us for a deeply integrative educational offering with modern approaches of trauma informed, therapeutic + holistic practices blended seamlessly alongside deep roots of ancient wisdom + spiritual lineage. This training offers 12 full weekends in-studio in South Philly and ends with an Immersive 5 Day Desert Retreat right outside of Phoenix, Arizona

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Channeling & Honoring the Energy Around Us as a Path to Service, Devotion & Love with Corey Sokoloff

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Spirituality, Service, Prana, Pranic Healing, Subtle Energy, Bhakti, Love, Devotion, Prayer, Ritual, Intention, Coffee, Yoga

Corey Sokoloff is a Certified Pranic Healer, Arhatic Yogi, 200HR CYT and accomplished drummer and percussionist. Corey implements yoga philosophy and eastern medicine to help achieve inner peace and physical well being. He’s is deeply passionate in helping others do the same.

In 2008, Corey began his training in Pranic Healing: Basic, Advanced, Pranic Psychotherapy, and Pranic Crystal healing courses. Today, Coreyʻs practice flourishes locally and abroad with remote and in-person healing sessions, mentoring and workshops. His love for Bhakti Yoga and sacred music brought him to perform with renowned Kirtan Artists: David Newman (Durga Das), Jai Uttal, and many others.

In 2021, Corey’s passion for specialty coffee, kirtan and community inspired him to launch Japa Coffee. Crafting coffees that nature the soul, taste great, and harmonize well with your system - body, mind, & spirit. He brings his years of experience as a coffee professional, Pranic healer, and devoted yogi to each and every bag and each and every sip.

In this deep, fascinating, & inspiring conversation we cover some of these topics:
- What is Pranic Healing? What is prana? How do we channel prana and what blocks our ability to channel it?
- Awe & reverence to higher energies around us & living a life of serving others
- How we can spiritualize & make sacred what we consume & what we create
- Coffee as plant medicine & the divine energies within coffee
- The real, simple transformative nature of prayer, sacred intention, and well wishing towards others
- How to live from the heart, instead of the head with kirtan
- Clearing & cleansing our auric body to allow the soul to shine through our life in day-to-day life... and to allow us to receive the love + connection of others
and much more!

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Connect with Corey here:
IG: @coreysokoloff & @japacoffee
japacoffee.com

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Divine Self Men's Circle more info here monthly in-person in Philadelphia

UPCOMING EVENTS:

12/9 - Bhagavad Gita Immersion AND Kirtan + Storytelling in Phoenixville, PA at Nectar Yoga

1/20-1/21 - Divine Self Men’s Circle Day Retreat outside of Philadelphia, PA !

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Lessons on Intimacy Pt. 3: Creating Better Physical Intimacy in Our Relationships with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Intimacy, Partnership, Relationships, Sexuality, Sensuality, Relationship Problems, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Deep Connection, Eroticism, Emotional Awareness, Love, Nervous System Regulation

In this third part of a series of episodes on intimacy, join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua and learn how to nurture the fertile groundwork for deeper physical intimacy in our partnerships & relationships.

In many long term relationships, physical intimacy starts to lag or go underground. In this episode, Daniel explores what is need to re-blossom physical connection, touch, intimacy and sexuality. He also gives specific practices and concepts that will ensure more possibility and connectivity in our physical connection with our loved ones now and always.

Listen to this Empowered Connection podcast episode & bring the needed tools + perspectives to step into a deeper connection with your high stakes relationships. And do it now - for intimacy not only creates a beautiful appreciation of ourselves and others, but it also functions as the cornerstone to our relationships' health... and our own health & joy - mentally, emotionally, and physically

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Follow Damodar on Instagram for Daily Self Growth & Relationship Tips + Tools:
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Divine Self Men's Circle more info here once a month in-person in Philadelphia - click to learn more

UPCOMING EVENTS:
12/2 - Winter Deep Dive 1-3pm in Tucson, AZ at YogaPod

12/9 - Bhagavad Gita Immersion AND Kirtan + Storytelling in Phoenixville, PA at Nectar Yoga

1/20 - Divine Self Men’s Circle Day Retreat outside of Philadelphia, PA ! More Info Coming Soon

Elevate & Expand 300 Hr Yoga Teacher Training - details to be released soon!

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Narcissism, Spiritual Perspectives on Narcissism, & Narcissism in Spiritual + Healing Communities with Chaitanya Lila Pankhania

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:00:00 -0500

Themes: Narcissist Personality Disorder, Narcissism, Psychology, Psychological Disorders, Narcissistic Abuse, Self Help, Healing, Religious Trauma, Gurus, Spirituality, Religion, Trauma, Vedic Astrology, Bhakti,

Chaitanya Lila Pankhania is an England-based Integrative Psychotherapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Journey Therapist, Past Life Regression Therapist, & EMDR trauma therapist. She works with the subconscious mind - working with deep rooted beliefs, past negative memories, and emotion reactions that block a person from being able to live at peace with themselves in the present. She was also raised in the Bhakti Yoga spiritual tradition and she blends eastern philosophy into psychology as a way to deeper understand the mind and the Self

In this rich, deep & informative podcast with Chaitanya we delve into these topics:

- What is a narcissist? What are the tell tale traits of a narcissistic?

- What is the difference between narcissist personality disorder and having narcissistic traits?

- Self help gurus, spiritual leaders & religious communities and narcissism

- Tips on how to watch out, notice the patterns, and protect yourself from becoming entrenched with a narcissist in relationship

- How to navigate the decision to stay in relationship with a narcissist or leave a narcissist

- Empowering + compassionate spiritual perspectives on narcissism

- Jyotish - or Vedic astrology - as a resource for healing, dealing with + understanding narcissism

And SO much more…

Resources

Check out all that Chaitanya offers and her vast wealth of enterprise + services here:
www.trikayapsychology.com
And her instagram with tips on narcissism, narcissistic abuse, psychology, and much more:
www.instagram.com/trikaya_psychology

As referenced in the podcast, Sam Vaknin's work as a self-proclaimed narcissist teaching about narcissism:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCLadFapyecCYAeuTqc12avA

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Lessons on Intimacy Pt. 2: Deeply Nurturing & Communicating Self + Emotional Awareness with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:00:00 -0500

Themes: Intimacy, Partnership, Relationships, Relationship Problems, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Emotional Awareness, Inner Work, Deep Listening, Connection, Love, Family, Friendships

In this second episode in a series of episodes on intimacy, join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua and learn how to develop deeper intimacy through becoming more emotionally aware of our own selves, developing deeper self understanding, and learning to safely + mutually share that awareness + understanding with our loved ones

The depth of our intimacy with another only goes as deep as the depth of our intimacy with our own self - and the sacred act of safely + securely sharing of that intimacy with our loved ones. If we don't develop that inner emotional awareness & share it, our close relationships will feel stunted, superficial, and lack depth.

Furthermore, if we can't access or be with those intimate parts of our own self, we will undoubtedly push away those deeper parts of our loved ones. Only if we learn to be with our own deeper emotions and share them with our loved ones in ways that are safe, & secure, AND - at the same time - listen to, hold lovingly, & validate our loved ones' deep emotional experience, can our intimacy grow.

Listen to this Empowered Connection podcast episode & bring the needed tools + perspectives to step into a deeper connection with your high stakes relationships. And do it now - for intimacy not only creates a beautiful appreciation of ourselves and others, but it also functions as the cornerstone to our relationships' health... and our own health - mentally, emotionally, and physically

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Lessons on Intimacy Pt. 1: The Intimacy of Difference, Conflict, & Repair with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Intimacy, Partnership, Relationships, Relationship Problems, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Conflict, Deeper Connection, Love, Family, Friendships

In this first episode in a series of episodes on intimacy, join Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua and learn how to find intimacy in a very surprising place: the conflict, difference, rupture - and then repair - we have with our loved ones.

Some of us may think intimacy - the rich, connective space of deeply of knowing another - happens when we are not in conflict, when things are easy. Even though there is a truth to this, there is also another deep truth. Damodar illuminates that real, vulnerable intimacy actually happens when we can stand in our difference, in our polarity with another, and bridge that difference with healthy reconnection, validation, safety, and revelation.

Listen to this and the future Empowered Connection podcast episode on intimacy and bring more possibility & potential into your life + relationships.

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Developing Self Trust & the Power to Pivot with Scott & Shate Hayes

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Empowerment, Self Awareness, Mindset, Relationships, Purpose, Mental Health, Partnership, Upleveling

Scott A. Hayes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 20 years of experience as a mental health practitioner. His professional interests are in educating minority populations regarding the importance of integrating systems to include regular mental health care as a part of overall health and wellness, which he promotes on the community health panels he's regularly invited to join.

Shaté L. Hayes is a creative at the intersection of education and media production with a passion for producing programming that inspires personal and professional advancement, especially for marginalized communities. She leads a high volume educational content production team at a market-leading ed tech company and is actively engaged in the community through career panels and regular contributions to Dance, Pointe, and Dance Teacher magazines.

This is an inspiring conversation with an inspiring couple who share in their intertwined purpose, wisdom, mental health, and personal empowerment.

Join myself, Scott and Shate for a collaborative conversation on these empowering topics:

- The humbleness, larger awareness, and power to pivot in our lives, our purpose, our relationships, our careers
- Developing self awareness as a key to our relationships, our growth + our empowerment
- How to develop self trust and why self trust is so important
- Finding grace in our failures, exhibiting grace towards others failures
- Mindset & the need for a willingness to be uncomfortable
- Creating momentum in our lives even when it feels absent
- Self Compassion, self acceptance, and allowing ourselves to be in process
- Relationship wisdom for partners

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And enjoy their podcast The Love Haze, here: thelovehaze.co/podcast

And so much more!

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Do This To Transform Your Relationships & Transform the World with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Conflict, Conscious Communication, Nonviolence, Relationships, Partnership, Listening, How To Love, Navigating Difference

Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua for this shorter solo episode and learn one of the most important practices in transforming your relationships - and the world.

During a time of external conflict, difference, and strife, NOW is the time to let your own relational life be an example to others in how to: do conflict with more connection, navigate difference, repair after rupture, and stand for your truth while being in loving, compassionate acceptance of another's truth.

Listen to today's podcast and learn how.

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Ways To Build Intimacy With Your Own Self with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Exploration, Self Awareness, Self Discovery, Parts Work, Self Knowledge, Intimacy, Relationships, Presence, Connection,

In this solo episode join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua for an exploration of self intimacy and self discovery.

Our ability to become intimate with our own self provides for the intimacy we crave with others.

Learn ways to connect deeper to all the parts and aspects of who you are - especially the ones you might hide from or push down - and bridge your self awareness + connection to deeper connection to others in your life.

A short, simple, yet inspiring episode to call you more profoundly into your relationship to your own self.

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STRONG: A Relationship Guide for the Modern Man (& Us All) with Kristal DeSantis

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Partnership, Relationships, Contemporary Man, Healthy Masculinity, Men's Mental Health, Sex, Yin & Yang, Conscious Living, Communication, Conflict, Self Empowerment

Kristal DeSantis is a Texas Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Clinically Certified Trauma Professional, Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional and a State of Texas approved Premarital Education Provider. She is the creator of The STRONG model of Relational Therapy and is the clinical director of Austin STRONG: Relationship Building Center, a group therapy practice in Austin, TX.

Her specialties include: Couples’ Therapy (including sexual desire discrepancy/ out of control sexual behaviors/recovery from infidelity), EMDR for trauma and PTSD recovery, PREPARE/Enrich Premarital Counseling, Conflict and Communication skill-building for high conflict couples, Emotional regulation and healing from attachment trauma.

Her passion populations are high performing/self-identified hyper-masculine men and those who love them.

STRONG: A Relationship Field Guide for the Modern Man is her first book … which I had the chance to dive into - I highly recommend it!

Today’s episode is one of my favorites - a deep conversation with two relationship nerds and experts passionate about teaching + learning relational skills. It was such a fun and engaging time to connect with Kristal, learn more about her inspiring work + new book, and really stir the pot around:

- Empowering relationship tools for all people
- Partnership tips & ideas that will shift the way we “do” partnership
- Problematizing & workshopping the role of the contemporary man in society & in relationship
- Creating more conscious & “updated” contemporary masculine roles for more potential in partnership
- The energy of the feminine/masculine or yin/yang generally speaking within all our relationships
- Breaking down the “STRONG” method in ways that will create more potential in romance, life partnering, and all your relationships
- The importance of beginning all our relationships with a foundation of Safety, Trust + Respect
- Practicing love, rather than "finding" or "falling into" love
... And so much more!

Connection with Kristal here www.austinstrongrbc.com
And her new book: STRONG

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A Few Things I Wish I Knew About Relationships That I Know Now (Pt. 2) with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Relationship Tips + Tools, Self Empowerment, Human Connection, Conflict, Love

In this shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua talks about some of the key ideas + realizations he has learned over the years being both a relationship coach + expert and living in relationship to others within his own life.

Explore practical self and relationship wisdom that will give you the inspiration and frameworks to empower both your life and all your relationships - with friend, family, lovers, and more

This is a Part 2. following episode #85, showcasing more tips, tools, and ideas to give you more self & relational potential!

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A Deep Dive Into the Mysteries of Self Through Tarot with Jessi Huntenberg

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Tarot Reading, Self Awareness, Self Growth, Self Empowerment, Spirituality, Tarot Cards, Mysticism, Life Inspiration, Human Potential, Relationships, Mysticism

Jessi Huntenburg is a tarot deck creator and tarot consultant who helps seekers of all paths invoke and channel their unique creative divine. She’s a three-time Tarot Reader’s Academy instructor, and she’s conducted workshops for Sage Priestess Training and the Fully Lit Business Mastermind. Her tarot deck and guidebook, the Genius Garden Tarot, was self-published in August of 2023.

In this fascinating, inspiring, and empowering conversation, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua talks with Jessi about all things tarot. If you are interested in learning more about this self growth, awareness + empowerment tool, listen to this full episode and learn more about:

- Tarot's ability to nurture a greater understanding of the self and tease out what is hidden in our pysche into the light of our awareness

- Tarot as an intermediary that unearths exploration, rather than tells us what to do

- Why people get tarot readings & why YOU should get a tarot card reading

- The role of the tarot card reader

- Jessi’s own journey of creating her tarot deck, the Garden Genius Tarot

- How to use tarot decks in a variety for yourself of self empowering + inspiring ways

- Hear Damodar's own tarot reading LIVE on the podcast!

- The ethics of tarot card reading and using tarot cards

- How to honor & respect the tarot deck itself as an intermediary & guide

... And so much more

Connect with guest Jessi Huntenberg HERE - geniusgardentarot.com and also learn more about her new tarot deck and all the resoures she has to offer!
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A Few Things I Wish I Knew About Relationships That I Know Now (Pt. 1) with Daniel Damodar Cordua

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Relationship Tips + Tools, Self Empowerment, Human Connection, Conflict, Love

In this shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua talks about some of the key ideas + realizations he has learned over the years being both a relationship coach + expert and living in relationship to others within his own life.

Explore practical self and relationship wisdom that will give you the inspiration and frameworks to empower both your life and all your relationships - with friend, family, lovers, and more

And stay tuned for part 2 for more tips, tools, and ideas to give you more self & relational potential!

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Speak Your Life As A Story & Ask Powerful Questions with K.Lee Marks

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:00:00 -0400

Themes: Conscious Communication, Relationships, Storytelling, Self Expression, Self Empowerment, Finding Meaning, Connection

Klee Marks is a Podcast & Video Marketing Consultant, Musician & Music Producer, CEO of the Podcast Farm, and a Magician. As a podcast strategist, he helps his clients create podcasts that impact their communities, amplify their message, and bring value to their lives & businesses. As a social Entrepreneur, Klee works with organizations who create positive change for youth, women, and indigenous led communities. And as a musician and music producer, his music has has been used by Netflix, Hulu, Apple+ and the SyFy channel. He has also produced over 25 music albums. One of Klee’s empowering talents is his ability to help content creators & businesses efficiently create great content from telling their stories in meaningful and inspiring ways.

This fun and insightful podcast dives into Klee’s fascination and study of human communication, the powerful of questions, and storytelling. It also highlights another part of Klee’s repertoire, his role as a magician. Podcast host Damodar Cordua & K.Lee have a great time riffing on some of the themes below and so much more:

- The power of a question & powerful questions
- Creating a setting for a question to land and grow into a potent response
- How some of us deflect with questions and don’t own our own experience
- Owning our own experience - stating, claiming and expressing our truth to others
- Seeing our life as a story and seeing our life’s story
- The magic, impact & realness of passing on information through story-telling
- How to embody and relay a powerful storytelling experience to another person in three succinct ways
- Storytelling as a way to nurture deeper meaning in our lives
- Keli & I both share their own storytelling in ways that can open up possibility & depth

Connect with K.Lee https://podcast-farm.com

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Your Patterns Aren’t Wrong & You Don’t Need To Be Fixed with Damodar Cordua

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Love, Self Empowerment, Healing Journey, Relationships, Self Acceptance, Self Awareness, Freedom

In this shorter podcast episode, Empowered Connection host Damodar Cordua gives listeners resource into their own self & relational growth + empowerment through a discourse on wronging ourselves and our patterns.

Having compassion and validating the desire to feel as though we need to "fix" parts of who we are, Damodar discusses how our patterns are actually intelligent and arise from our innate - & beautiful - ability to survive.

This intelligence, when actually seen, loved, and honored can free up more energy within us and deepen our ability to grow & become empowered - creating more choice in our lives, instead of a duality of "good & bad" or "right & wrong" that can self-condemn & keep us stuck.

Find more freedom, self understanding, and possibility in your life and your relationships in this episode

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Why People Won't Do the Work in Relationships with Damodar Cordua

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationships, Inner Work, Partnership, Self Growth, Self Improvement, Love, Intimacy, Relationship Problems

In this shorter podcast episode, Empowered Connection host Damodar Cordua gives listeners resource into their own self & relational growth + empowerment by going deeper into our roadblocks… specifically, why we are resistant - and don’t do the work in our relationships.

Learn more about your own stuck areas and also learn how to understand your loved ones’ blocks in self & relational growth. Through this understanding, build compassion for yourself and others AND gain more awareness, accountability, and inspiration to start “doing the work” in your most important relationships.

It's time to build a culture of self + relational growth in your life and in your relationships. Now's the time.

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Suffering Obligations of Love with Tanya Tecce

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Ancestral Lineage, Familial Patterns, Self Empowerment, Nervous System Regulation, Nostalgia, Neuroscience, Family Constellations, Yoga, Mindset, Relationships

Tanya Tecce helps empaths name what they want without guilt, break inherited trauma, and reinvent family dynamics so they don’t pass that crap onto their loved ones. She teaches Deep Nervous System Restoratives for Safety to turn poison into peacock feathers. A skilled, experienced coach who graduated with Honors in Psychology, Sociology & Mathematics; and is Mastery Certified in Transformational Psychology NLP, Tanya curates decades of study, experience and practices in neuroscience, positive psychology, family constellations, shadow work, quantum theory, epigenetics, yoga, Ayurveda, akashic records and spirituality; to heal your mindset and fortify your nervous system. These deep nervous system restoratives and updates make it safe for you to get what you want. Integrate, then laser focus the pain that pushes you with the vision that pulls you.

In this insightful & empowering interview with Tanya & podcast host Damodar Cordua, we cover these topics:
- Repairing our nervous system & becoming less reactive through embodied experience rather than intellectual understanding
- Adding to menu of our possibility in our lives - creating less struggle and more choice
- Honoring our previous patterns for how they served us even if they don’t serve us anymore... and we need to let them go
- Healing our family lineage patterns and empowering our lives - and our ancestor's memory
- Family constellation work
- Suffering obligations of Love - how our devotion to loved ones unconsciously devotes us to having the same patterns or issues they had
- Nostalgia as a prison - getting stuck in our lives through an over-attachment to nostalgia
- How the future is better than the past
... and much more!

To learn more, join Tanya Tecce for her free virtual training: https://go.tanyatecce.us/solwebinar?ref_a=palosantowellnessboutique@gmail.com

Tanya's website: tanyatecce.us

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Grounded & Nourished Heart - Embodiment Practice with Damodar Cordua

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Topics: Breathwork, Meditation, Heart's Wisdom, Self Empowerment, Intimacy, Nervous System Regulation, Relationships, Self Awareness, Embodiment Practice

Practices + Tooling Building episode

In this actionable shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua offers an embodiment breath practice that will give the listener more opportunity to:
- bring more self awareness, self regulation, heart connection and intimacy potential into their lives
- ground into their body and find deep support & nourishment from the earth
- bring energy into the root area of their bodies, opening the sacrum & sexual organs
- reveal more spaciousness within the body, nervous system, mind and heart
- experience & connect to the heart's inner knowing, joy, and wisdom ... link that heart joy & wisdom to the mind
- learn more why it is equally important to bring non-verbal embodiment practices into our journey as it is verbal reflection

Timestamps:
2:48 - context: why working somatically & from the bottom-up is important for our awareness & empowerment
12:37 - guided breath-work + meditation begins - cultivating a deep grounded-ness & linking it to our heart's inner knowing & potential

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Develop Your Psychic & Intuitive Abilities with Kilkenny Tremblay

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Psychic Abilities, Intuition, Manifestation, Empowerment, Meditation, Yoga, Relationships, Human Potential, Mysticism

Kilkenny Tremblay, is a passionate podcaster, professor, celtic priestess as well as an intuitive coach of spirituality, earth infused mysticism, yoga, tantra, meditation and mindfulness. She also is a professional astrologer and psychic medium. Her projects and products all reflect her commitment towards helping people find the mystical in the mundane and the magic in the present moment as well as “alignment” from the inside out and the outside in working with the mind, heart and body.

She has been steeping in the practices of yoga & meditation since the age of five & is impassioned as to how the revelations of yogic, mystic & earth based teachings & practices can be leveraged and integrated into day-to-day life.

Her podcast, Modern Mystic, has appeared on the top 100 Apple Music chart. She has taught workshops & trainings for well over a decade and a half & can often be found giving talks to large groups and presenting at national festivals. Kilkenny is also an Adjunct Professor at Temple University.

On this illuminating, mesmerizing and inspiring podcast, host Damodar Cordua & Kilkenny talk about these topics:

- What does it mean to be psychic and what does it mean to be a psychic medium?
- How to develop our psychic abilities and bring them more fully into our lives
- Channeling universal energy
- What are the things that block our psychic potential?
- How do we “raise our vibration?”
- Embracing the beautiful contradictions of our human experience
- Kilkenny’s journey of owning her own truth as a psychic
- What our past lives can show us… and simple yet profound techniques that help us start connecting to them
and much more!

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Finding & Reclaiming the Desires Underneath Your Complaints with Damodar Cordua

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Empowerment, Relationship Tools, Self Growth, Manifestation, Healing, Fear, Desire

Practices + Tooling Building episode

In this actionable shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua offers an empowering 5 part practice that can help the listener find more awareness in their lives and relationships… and move past their fears in order to manifest the desires lying underneath their regular complaints

Recommended to listen to this podcast at least once while sitting down, with pen & paper in hand in order to gain the full benefit of this 5 part practice… and transform you life + your relationships

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Conscious Community, the Vulnerability & Empowerment of Asking for Help, & the Importance of Small Bookstores with Christina Rosso-Schneider & Alex Schneider

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Community, Small Business, Vulnerability, Empowerment, Bookstores, Self Exploration, Sacred Space, Relationships

The first of a series of couples interviews

Alex Schneider is a designer and bookstore owner living outside Philadelphia with his wife and two rescue dogs. When he isn’t reading or looking at memes he’s contemplating his innumerable high school mishaps.

Christina Rosso-Schneider is a writer and bookstore owner living outside of Philadelphia with her two rescue pups and bearded husband. In 2016, Christina received their MFA in Creative Writing and MA in English from Arcadia University. She is the author of CREOLE CONJURE (Maudlin House, 2021) and SHE IS A BEAST (APEP Publications, 2020). Their writing has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize. For more information: http://christina-rosso.com or on Twitter @Rosso_Christina.

They both co-own the the independent bookstore, A Novel Idea, located in the East Passyunk neighborhood of Philadelphia - where they create & foster a space of diversity, inclusivity & engagement … helping their customers fall in love with books, for the first time or the millionth.

A Novel Idea Bookstore in Philadelphia

Their GoFundMe campaign HERE

In this interview we cover these powerful topics and more:
- The independent bookstore - along with other types of small businesses - as a source of safety, idea sharing, community & conscious connection
- The boundaries needed in running a small business as a couple
- The fragility and endangerment of small businesses that create unique and important community & in-person connection
- Asking for help from others and our community - how difficult it can be AND the empowerment and transformation that this practice generates
- Owning our own needs and resisting a comparison of our needs to others' needs & difficulty
- Giving back to & investing in those those who support what brings us deeper joy, connection, exploration, and community
... & much more

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Upleveling With the “Hell Yes & Hell No” Practice with Damodar Cordua

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Empowerment, Clarity, Self Awareness, Relationships, Personal Transformation, Partnership, Manifestation

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua shares one the the simplest & practical, yet most telling & profound, exercises to empower your life and and your relationships

Via the “Hell Yes & Hell No” Practice, you can find your deepest sense of what moves you, what you desire, and what most aligns with your most empowered sense of self, purpose, habits, relationships and partnership.

Grab and pen and paper and dive in with Damodar today and transform your life!

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How To Become A Better Listener with Damodar Cordua

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Conscious Communication, Listening, Relationships, Partnership, Conflict, Intimacy, Connection, Love, Empowerment, Empathy

In this shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua gives the listeners some simple yet powerful tools to become better at listening in their most important relationships.

This episode will help you create deeper connection + intimacy, navigate conflict more successfully, and become a more conscious communicator in all your relationships - with family, friends, partners, and at the workplace.

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Sacred Self Deep Dive Yoga Practice in Tucson Arizona at Yoga Oasis - Saturday July 15th

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Finding the Mystical in the Mundane with Sophia Hornyak

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Spirituality, Mysticism, Akashic, Healing, Self Awareness, Occult, Religion, Divine Consciousness

Raised in a tin-roof house deep in the woods of southern Virginia, Sophia Hornyak is a lifelong seer and comes from a family of root-workers who immersed her in the traditions of their ancestors. She has practiced alongside a diverse group of magical practitioners out of Harry's Occult in Philadelphia, and is an Akashic teacher, having studied under Akashic leaders such as Linda Howe and Helen Vonderheide.

As an explorer of the abyss, her core purpose is in facing fears and researching what it means to do so across various philosophies. Her personal practice is a blend of Bhakti yoga and The Western Mysteries Traditions including Qabalah, Angelics, and Gematria.

As a storyweaver, Sophia’s writing is down to earth, supportive, straight-forward and humorous. As a conduit, she distills the esoteric down to being understandable if not relatable. She writes on nostalgia, adversity, the occult, spirituality, and how it all weaves into our lives.

In this fascinating & spiritually rich podcast we cover these topics and more:

- What is the akasha? And what are the akashic records?
- Developing trust, compassion and larger perspective in our lives
- How to describe the ineffable and live with that which is ineffable
- The deeper commonality among different spiritual experience and various religions and religious practices
- Meeting spirituality from where we are at, rather than meeting religion where it is at
- Creation & creativity as divine connection
- Questioning what it means “to be spiritual”
- Learning + practicing how to find the mystical in the everyday mundane of our lives
- Revealing who we are instead of “healing” who we are
- Creating our own “spiritual eco-system”

and much more!

Learn more about Sophia's work here: divinevoidsophia.com

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Emotional Awareness + Conscious Communication Immersion in-person in Phoenixville, PA on July 8th, 2023 at Nectar Yoga

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Questions To Ask Yourself Before Getting Into a Partnership with Damodar Cordua

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Love, Marriage, Integrity, Self Awareness, Personal Growth, Unconscious Patterns, Attachment Styles

In this shorter, solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection host Damodar Cordua gives the listeners an important list of self-inquiry questions that are a MUST to ask yourself before getting into a partnership .

And if you are already in a partnership, they also serve as a MUST to ask yourself right now!

These explorations will make your relational potential much healthier, stronger, more successful and in deeper integrity with your authenticity, unconscious patterns, needs, and values.

As always, the best way to empower yourself & your relationships, is to take the time to explore these questions more fully on your own, after listening...

AND to book your first, free 30 minute discovery session with Damodar

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Emotional Awareness + Conscious Communication Immersion in-person in Phoenixville, PA on July 8th, 2023 at Nectar Yoga

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Living Cyclically & Attuning To Our Soul's Ancient Wisdom with Carleena Lara Bregatta

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Ancient Wisdom, Mother Nature, Emotional Intelligence, Manifestation, Spirituality, Reconnection, Healing Trauma, Divine Energy, Empowerment

Carleena Lara Bregatta is an author, spiritual coach, embodiment mentor and teacher. She teaches people how to return to the ancient art of cyclical living, sharing tools on how to inner resource safety, sovereignty and freedom. Her creative work weaves together modern neuroscience with Five Element Theory and Tantrik Yogic Philosophy for a multi-faceted approach to trauma healing, self empowerment and soulful self discovery.

Carleena is a certified Usui Reiki Master, 800 Hour E-RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher), a certified hypnotherapist & past life regression therapist and holds B.A. of Psychology and M.A. of International Relations. She has been teaching yoga and meditation for over ten years and routinely facilitates yoga teacher trainings, reiki attunements, group immersions and retreats across the United States and internationally.

For those out there looking to spiritualize and alchemize their lives, manifesting their greatest potential and reconnecting to their deepest rhythms, this episode is for you.

In this podcast we touch on so many inspiring topics, including but not limited to:

- Spirituality, consciousness raising, & manifestation
- The seasons ours emotions and the cyclical nature of our self's journey
- Re-indigenizing ourselves and reconnecting to the land + nature, which is the very heart our essence
- Freeing up the energy of our stuck emotions and allowing our ability to be with our experience to transform our lives
- Carleena's new book: The Akashic Alchemist: A Cyclical Guide to Remembering Your Soul's Ancient Wisdom
and much more!

Connect with Carleena:
You can visit her at www.carleenalarayoga.com or connect with her on social media www.instagram.com/carleena.la.curandera
And buy her NEW book, the Akashic Alchemist here

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Emotional Awareness + Conscious Communication Immersion in-person in Phoenixville, PA on July 8th, 2023 at Nectar Yoga

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What's More Important Self Growth or Self Acceptance? with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Acceptance, Self Growth, Presence, Self Improvement, Spirituality, Spiritual Bypassing, Self Love, Healing, Wholeness

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua dives into the perennial question of healing, self empowerment and spirituality:
Is it more important to accept ourselves as we are or grow in ourselves?

For those on a journey of self healing & self transformation, this episode gives great perspectives on how to find more wholeness, integration, depth, and potential within your path... and how to discover... what you already are.

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Emotional Awareness + Conscious Communication Immersion in-person in Phoenixville, PA on July 8th, 2023 at Nectar Yoga

Divine Self Men's Circle starts June 4th - more info here once a month in-person in Philadelphia & once a month online from around the world - contact Damodar to learn more - next meet up is June 19th online and July 9th in person

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Introduction to Ayurveda: Essential Principle to Balance & Empower Your Life
Theming for Yoga Teachers: The Art of Weaving Yogic Wisdom, Inspiring Stories, & Your Unique Truth into Your Teaching
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Shadow Work Practice: Finding, Knowing, & Integrating Your Shadow with Damodar Cordua

Wed, 31 May 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Shadow Work, Self Denial, Self Empowerment, Relationships, Embodiment, Healing, Self Love, Integration Work, Emotional Intelligence, Somatics

Shadows are parts of ourselves we repress, deny or avoid.

These could range anywhere from anger shadows, to sexual shadows, to shadows of neediness, to shadows of guilt, scorn, revenge, shame, etc. Our inner critic & inner saboteur can often be seen as a “shadow."

When we don't build a relationship to our shadows and work to integrate them more holistically into our lived experience, our shadow may come out sideways in manners that compromise our deeper integrity, our relationships, and our lives.

(Listen to Episode #32 for more on Shadow Work)

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua gives the listener a practical step-by-step embodied meditation that will help you find, know, and build a better relationship with your own shadows.... then, integrate that relationship into your life in empowering and life-giving ways.

*(If your shadow work becomes too intense or you feel the need to become more resourced around this practice, reach out to Damodar or another professional for more assistance)

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Yoga Philosophy, Yoga Wisdom & Yoga Stories Immersion
Introduction to Ayurveda: The Sister Science of Yoga
Theming for Yoga Teachers: The Art of Weaving Yogic Wisdom, Inspiring Stories, & Your Unique Truth into Your Teaching
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Pain As Our Teacher & the Body-Mind-Spirit Connection with Dr. Sara Scrivano

Wed, 24 May 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Body-Mind Connection, Healing, Pain, Embodiment, Breathwork, Presence, Herbalism, Spirituality, Self Empowerment, Self Growth, Eastern Medicine

Dr. Sara Scrivano created New Moon Healing in order to manifest a vision of holistic health care that is not limited to a single lens of health and wellness, but has a broader vision, practice & potential of healing & transformation. She is a Chiropractic physician, a licensed Acupuncturist and herbalist in New York state, and is dedicated to bridging these various therapeutic modalities in order to provide individualized care to every person she works with.

Sara is passionate about treating a variety of conditions including but not limited to pelvic health, anxiety, chronic and acute pain, skin disorder and much more. She utilizes a combination of acupuncture, soft tissue release, mobility, rehabilitation, breath work and herbal medicine in order to facilitate the recovery of her patients.

Educating and empowering individuals to recognize the power they have over their own health is one of the most vital aspects of Dr. Scrivano's practice. Her goal is to hold space for each and every one of her patients while they progress through the many phases of their own personal growth and healing. She works in New York City & online from anywhere in the world

This is a robust podcast episode + interview with Sara & Damodar is for those fascinated by alternative methods within which to heal the body & mind - topics include:
- Biomechanics & breath-work
- Herbal medicine
- Breaking out of the patterns that limit us physically, mentally & emotionally
- Creating better alignment in our bodies & lives, personal empowerment
- The interconnection & interaction of body-mind AND spirit
- Developing a relationship with pain
- What our pain is showing us and how we can grow from it
- How the external reflects the internal - both in our bodies and in our minds & our consciousness
and much more!

Learn more about Dr. Scrivano's work: www.newmoonhealing.care

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Yoga Philosophy, Yoga Wisdom & Yoga Stories Immersion
Introduction to Ayurveda: The Sister Science of Yoga
Theming for Yoga Teachers: The Art of Weaving Yogic Wisdom, Inspiring Stories, & Your Unique Truth into Your Teaching
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8 Ways to Deepen All Your Relationships with Damodar Cordua

Wed, 17 May 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationships, Self Growth, Partnership, Love, Friendship, Connection, Self Empowerment, Intimacy, Vulnerability, Boundaries

Relationships aren't static, they aren't something we simply "fall into." Rather, they are a choice - be it unconscious or conscious. The relational + self growth person sees relationships as a conscious choice. In this way, relationships becomes an opportunity to forever deepen into, learn more about, savor and grow from.

In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar dives into 8 practical, yet powerful, ways we can deepen all of our relationships - in order to find more satisfaction, joy, connection, health within our lives.

Listen to the full episode to find practical tools to get the most out of. your relationships - even & especially the relationship to your own self.

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Relationship Anarchy & Self Authenticity with Gianna Cecile

Wed, 10 May 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationships, Self Growth, Yoga, Empowerment, Partnership, Love, Spirituality, Life Journey

Starting her yoga practice at age 20, Gianna Cecile has used the wisdom of yoga to heal from back pain, depression, ADHD, and a motorcycle accident. She is an international educator teaching yogic practices and Ayurvedic living around the world. She works as a death doula and transitional guide, and runs an online school called the Siddhi School of Yoga. Through her work, she hopes to create space for people to see their options, realize their desires, and create their realities.

In this exploration of self & relationship, Damodar & Gianna talk about an inspiring range of topics that touch on all the themes of this podcast - including:

- The unveiling our divine gifts through the state of focus + flow
- Yoga as a path of dusting off what covers our inner truth
- What is relationship anarchy?
- Maintaining our authenticity + individuality when in relationship with others
- Where relationships & partnerships go wrong
- Relationship as a bigger path to self growth + empowerment
- How to live in presence in relationship & not projection when in relationship

and much more...

Connect with Gianna here:
giannayoga.com

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How to Practice Forgiveness without Bypassing or Minimizing Our Experience with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 02 May 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Forgiveness, Emotional Intelligence, Spirituality, Love, Freedom, Self Empowerment, Sovereignty, Letting Go, Grief, Transformation

Forgiveness is, on one hand, the realm of the spiritual. It brings us into the teachings of many religious luminaries, who have showed us that to soften our heart with compassion - even for those who have wronged us - is a gateway into learning how to truly love.

On the other hand, spiritual perspectives can also overemphasize forgiveness in such a way that it bypasses our own unique emotional process. These perspectives may pressure us to forgive before we are actually ready - making our forgiveness more superficial than we realize or a making our forgiveness a product of guilt more than our capacity to love.

In this solo podcast episode, host Damodar Cordua, explores the nuance of practicing forgiveness and offers empowering tools to allow our forgiving to be authentic, deep, and sincere without bypassing or minimizing our experience and/or our hurt.

AND - Listen to the end of the episode and find a helpful forgiveness ritual that will help you on your path of forgiving others - and with it, your healing, your freedom, and your ability to love.

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The Major Roadblock In Creating Positive Change in Our Life & Our Relationships with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Relationship Goals, Self Empowerment, Life Goals, Roadblocks, Do the Work, Positive Change, Human Potential, Self Transformation

We listen to the podcast, we read the book or go to the class or retreat or ceremony, but we STILL feel stuck in our lives, in our limiting beliefs + patterns, and in our relationships.

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua explores one of the major roadblocks in our ability to move through the stuck areas in our self that are limiting our lives + relationships.

Through a powerful perspective and a call to action, Damodar encourages - and hopefully inspires - the listener to push forward with empowerment and radical self accountability in this episode!

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The Shamanic Neurotype: Neurodivergence, Decriminalizing & Re-Imagining Plant Medicine with Colette Condorcita

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:00:00 -0400

Themes: Plant Medicine, Psychedelics, Neurodivergence, Community Activism, Healing, Self Regulation, Empowerment, Spirituality, Indigenous Peoples, Psychology

Colette Condorcita is a Transformational Coach, Psychedelic Facilitator, Activist, Entrepreneur, Integrative Hypnotist, Psychedelic Consultant, and Regenerative Designer. She describes to her clients and in interviews that her brain “works like how psychedelics do” and considers herself neurodivergent, having what she calls a shamanic neurotype. Colette does not identify as a shaman as she was not born into a traditional shamanic culture, but she neurologically and psychologically identifies with the ways shaman’s and traditional healers’ nervous systems function.

This brought her to work with the traditional ayahuasca cultures, where she had her first experiences with ayahuasca thirteen years ago. Colette finally felt the confirmation of her own neurological experience and framework after these experiences, directly connecting with traditional curanderos and shamanic entheogenic medicines.

Colette is the founder and the Board Chair of Decriminalize Nature Philadelphia, a registered 501-C4 working to decriminalize entheogens in Philadelphia by passing a resolution at the city level. She works at the premier 5-MeO-DMT retreat center as a guest facilitator, Tandava Retreat Center, and supports retreat clients with psychedelic integration work. Colette is currently a consultant on psychedelic education, safety, and Indigenous advocacy for two different psychedelic startups.

In this fascinating podcast, Damodar & Colette talk about:
- Why decriminalizing of, & grass roots community advocacy for, entheogenic (psychedelic) plants is so important
- Having a "Shamanic Neurotype" and it's connection to Neurodivergence
- How to best undertake a plant medicine journey as an individual
- Honoring & understanding the traditional use of plant ceremony and spirituality
- Eagle + Condor Prophecty: Bridging western ideas of medicine + healing (the "eagle") with the global south's indigenous traditions of plant ceremony (the "condor")
- Collette's own transformational and inspiring journey
and much more!

Connect with Colette:
www.condormedicine.com
Philly Ayahuasca Church
Decriminalize Nature Philadelphia

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An Upgrade On How To Apologize with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Repair, Apology, Relationships, Validation, Empathy, Conflict, Forgiveness, Self Empowerment, Self Accountability, Connection

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua breaks down our common use - and abuse - of "the apology" in our relationships... and gives an empowering reframe that will bring your self awareness, self accountability, self growth, and relationships to the next level when repairing with + apologizing to others.

A great podcast for those who want to learn how to navigate conflict better, create deeper self accountability + better repair & connection with ourselves and our loved ones, and grow self worth and self empowerment in their lives.

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Navigating Spiritual Abuse & Religious Trauma with Kayla Felten

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Religious Trauma, Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality, Religion, Trauma, Healing, Relationships, Self Empowerment, Inner Wisdom, Patriarchy,

Kayla Felten, MSW, LICSW has been an advocate for religious trauma and spiritual abuse survivors throughout her career, as the co-founder of the Reclamation Collective and as a Psychedelic Therapist in her clinical work. Kayla has been able to support those in the process of reclaiming their inner peace, relational harmony, autonomy, pleasure, and authentic self. She was initially invited to facilitate support groups for survivors of spiritual abuse due to abuses of power taking place in plant medicine and yogi contexts within Minnesota. This experience helped expand her understanding of spiritual abuse both within and outside of religious contexts, and has allowed her to become a voice of advocacy within the psychedelic and therapeutic communities she shows up in.

With many years experience facilitating support groups, integration circles, retreats, and teaching workshops for folks navigating themes of religious trauma, spiritual abuse, deconstruction, and reclamation through the Reclamation Collective, Kayla aspires to curate expanded offerings for survivors on their healing trajectories that prioritize personal autonomy and pursue radical authenticity.

This is powerful episode and conversation between Kayla & Empowered Connection host Damodar Cordua - important for those who have felt religious trauma in their lives, who are part of spiritual and/or religious communities and/or take on teachers from those circles, who are leaders in those communities, or who have experience spiritual abuse, this is a needed listen.

We talk about:
- What is trauma? How do we know we are experiencing it?
- What exactly is religious trauma? How do we experience it?
- Kayla’s own experience experiencing and then navigating her religious trauma
- Gaining distance, perspective, clarity and a life-giving deconstruction of our religious experiences
- Religious trauma for women, trans-communities, queer folk, and all gender identifications
- What is spiritual abuse? How do we experience - and/or perpetrate it consciously and unconsciously
- Power dynamics in religious communities, spiritual communities, healing spaces, therapy, and plant medicine circles
- The amazing “Spiritual Power Inventory” tool that I think all religious, spiritual, & healing communities, members and leaders should employ!

and much more!

Connect with Kayla & the Reclamation Collective here:
https://www.reclamationcollective.com/
Upcoming Events:
Reclamation 101 Workshop: https://www.reclamationcollective.com/reclamation-101
Spiritual Abuse Recognition & Recovery Workshop: https://www.reclamationcollective.com/spiritual-abuse-recognition-and-recovery
and much more...

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AND: Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your FREE Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

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Find Your Truth in the Present Moment: A Guided Meditation with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 07:00:00 -0400

Themes: Somatic Meditation, Empowerment, Breathwork, Clarity, Self Awareness, Self Love, Connection, Self Regulation, Authentic Self, Integrity, Relationships

In this solo episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua leads listeners through a beautiful meditation that combines somatics, breathwork, and self-reflection in order to see, hear, hold + validate the truth of our present moment.

When our nervous system is strained and tightened, we will inevitability default to the strategies that steer us away from "what is..." strategies rooted in the past or overly desirous of the future. During these moments, we often become maladaptive, push down our truth, and our work, our integrity, our relationships to others, and our relationship to our own self suffers.

In this meditation, find a simple, practical & potent reset amidst the busyness of life in order to move into more spaciousness of the body, nervous system and mind. This spaciousness allows the truth of our most present self to rise to the surface of our awareness. And a self reflection exercise then allows that truth to be integrated into our life in meaningful & needed ways.

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Upcoming workshops with Damodar in-person, in Philadelphia, including Emotional Awareness + Conscious Communication Immersion

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Attention Yoga Teachers in the Philadelphia/NJ/Delaware areas:
Empower & Uplevel your yoga teaching with this special
50 hr Advance Your Teaching Training at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia

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How Vedic Astrology Can Empower Our Relationships with Christine Rodriguez

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Astrology, Relationships, Self Awareness, Partnership, Love, Dating, Spirituality, Yoga, Jyotish, Ayurveda

Christine Rodriguez is a Vedic Astrologer, coach, and host of the Astrology Now Podcast. She has been studying Jyotish, or Vedic Astrology, for over 10 years. Her mission is to combine coaching, Vedic astrology, and other Vedantic studies to support others in living in alignment with their personal constitution, karmic makeup, astrological imprint - and how to use this information to their advantage, creating a life of meaning and purpose.

Christine believes that relationships and intimacy act as powerful mirrors for personal development and our partners can be some of our greatest teachers. She views relationships as sacred… and also really, fascinating & challenging! She combines personal inquiry, self-discovery, and Vedic Astrology to work with couples & individuals in relationship.

Christine’s background also includes an undergraduate & graduate degrees in Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin.

In this fascinating podcast episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua talks with guest Christine Rodriguez about the intersection of vedic astrology, love, relationships, dating, self growth, spirituality and more - including these topics:

- What is Vedic Astrology?
- Learning more about our karmic blueprints & how they can help us be & become ourselves in the fullest way
- Using birth charts to understand more about ourselves & our partner
- How Vedic Astrology give us powerful resources & perspectives for navigating relationship with clarity, awareness + potential
- Greater tools for dating & new relationships
- Karmic perspectives that can empower how we traverse the seasons of our life both individually & when in relationship with others
- Employing our karmic blueprints to help us surrender into our spiritual path, as opposed to trying to over-control our lives

Connect with Christine here
Christine's upcoming Vedic Astrology Foundational Course
Mentioned in the episode, Astrology Now podcast on the difference between Western & Eastern Astrology

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Upcoming workshops with Damodar in-person, in Philadelphia, including Emotional Awareness + Conscious Communication Immersion
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Attention Yoga Teachers in the Philadelphia/NJ/Delaware areas:
Empower & Uplevel your yoga teaching with this special
50 hr Advance Your Teaching Training at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia

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AND

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Grief, Loss & Finding Meaning with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Grief, Loss, Love, Meaning, Healing, Self Love, Self Empowerment, Emotional Intelligence, Conscious Communication

In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua brings a deeper awareness into navigating loss in our life. If we are in a human body, we will experience loss. If we love, we experience loss. If we live, we experience loss. This loss is not limited to losing a loved one because of death, but includes losing a relationship due to breakup or divorce, losing a pet, losing a job, losing a home, losing at time in our life, losing a physical ability, and/or losing a dream.

Damodar presents the key aspects of grief, the process and practice of grief, the stages of grief and empowering tools for navigating grief - such as finding meaning - this podcast gifts the listener tools + perspectives in traversing loss.

If you or a loved one are navigating love, loss, and grief now, in the past or in the future, this will be a powerful and helpful episode for you.

For more on grief, check out episodes #14 and #36 of the Empowered Connection podcast

Referenced on this episode: works of David Kessler & Elisabeth Kubler Ross

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Connect with podcast host Damodar for his upcoming online immersion starting March 19th!

Do you desire supportive community & relationships that are aligned with your path of self growth, healing, emotional intelligence, relationship work, and empowerment?

Would you like to continually learn, & bring into the weave & weft of your life, the tools, practices, ideas, coaching, relationships & self work that can transform your life and your relationships?

Empowered Connection Monthly Group Coaching 6 Month Immersion - one Sunday a month starting March 19th, 4:30pm PST via Zoom - empower your life & your relationships with this special online community and coaching experience!

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Empower & Uplevel your yoga teaching with this special
50 hr Advance Your Teaching Training at Palo Santo Yoga in Philadelphia

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And: Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your Free Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

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The Dance of the Divine Masculine: Community, Consciousness, & Connection with Richie Parrella

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Masculinity, Manhood, Relationships, Somatic Therapy, Partnership, Community, Family, Love, Divine Masculine, Divine Feminine, Self Love, Self Compassion, Ayurveda, Spirituality, Heart Wisdom, Empowerment

Richie Parrella is a Somatic Therapist, Certified Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master and Sound Healer trained in Prana yoga, based in the lineages of Kundalini and Tantra yoga and Ayurveda in the lineage of Dr. Vasant Lad. He facilitates sessions, classes, and groups with the intention to create a safe space for others to explore their inner experience, create transformation, as well as reduce stress, anxiety, and support the allowing of the body, mind, and spirit’s natural ability to heal. His teachings are rich in yogic philosophy, breath work and mindfulness.

Richie currently sees clients over zoom, as well as in person in Princeton NJ, Philadelphia, and Langhorne, PA. He leads yoga classes, meditations, tantra workshops, Men's circles, and Sound Healings. He is one of the co-creators of the Celebrate All People Organization which host conscious events that support cultural diversity. Additionally, he is an organizer with the non-profit organization Dance Medicine Philly which is Philadelphia's first ecstatic dance community.

In this beautiful conversation, Empowered Connection Podcast Damodar Cordua talks with Richie Parrella and dives into these inspiring & life-giving topics:

- What is the Divine Masculine (& Feminine) and how do we all access both?
- Embodiment as a Tool for Creating a Healthier Masculinity
- The Importance of Men's Work, Men's Circles, & Containers of Heart Deepening Space
- Reclaiming Our Wholeness
- How Softening and Slowing Creates More Possibility & Depth of Connection
- Somatic Therapy & the Gifts of being both Grounded & Expansive
- Building Conscious Relationships + Conscious Community
- Empowering & Reshaping Our Contemporary Patterns of Masculinity
- Moving Through Our Shame & Creating Self Compassion

and much more..

Connect with Richie Parrella and learn more about his work & his events:
richieparrella.com

Men's Divine Higher Self Day Retreat, March 18th
in Philadelphia, PA:
palosantowellnessboutique.com/workshops

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Do you desire supportive community & relationships that are aligned with your path of self growth, healing, emotional intelligence, relationship work, and empowerment?

Starts March 19th, 2023 - Empowered Connection Monthly Group Coaching 6 Month Immersion - one Sunday a month starting March 19th, 4:30pm PST via Zoom - empower your life & your relationships with this special online community and coaching experience!

Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your Free Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to empower their lives & their relationships

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Am I Codependent In My Relationships? What to Know and How to Change It with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Codependency, Relationships, Partnership, Family Systems, Mutual Interdependence, Healthy Relationships, Love, Overfunctioner

We have all experienced codependency in our relationships and most of us are living with a little bit of it. Yet, if a relationship is largely rooted in codependency this could lead to unhealthy patterns and disempowerment for everyone involved.

In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast Host Damodar Cordua gives a short history of "codependency," the signs and symptoms of living in a codependent relationship or relationships, the "stability" of codependency, how codependent patterns disempower us and our loved ones, and empowering tools to break the cycle of codependency and move into a stronger version of relationship - mutual interdependence - and a stronger version of our own selves.

That - and much more!

Connect with podcast host Damodar for his upcoming online immersion!

Do you desire supportive community & relationships that are aligned with your path of self growth, healing, emotional intelligence, relationship work, and empowerment?

Empowered Connection Monthly Group Coaching 6 Month Immersion - one Sunday a month starting March 19th, 4:30pm PST via Zoom - empower your life & your relationships with this special online community and coaching experience!

Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your Free Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

AND

Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

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Radical Freedom & Radical Awareness: Journey into the Bhagavad Gita with Hari Kirtana Das

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Freedom, Spirituality, Dharma, Yoga Wisdom, Relationships, Purpose, Crisis, Suffering, Transformation, Human Potential

Hari-kirtana Das is a yoga teacher, spiritual mentor, and public speaker. He's been practicing devotional yoga and other yogic disciplines for almost 50 years, has lived in yoga ashrams and intentional spiritual communities, worked for Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley start-ups, and brings a wide range of spiritual knowledge and life experience to his books, talks, workshops, and courses. Hari-kirtana began teaching yoga classes in 2009 and has been creating in-person and online yoga philosophy courses since 2016. He's on the faculty of numerous Yoga Teacher Training programs and his articles about the enduring relevance of yoga’s ancient wisdom frequently appear in various forums and journals. He currently lives in Washington DC with his wife, Elizabeth.

In this spiritually inspiring episode Hari Kirtana Das shares with Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua some of the key transformational truths of the Bhagavad Gita, one of the world's perennial wisdom classics.

In this interview, we discuss:
- Correlation of physics and spiritual truth of the Gita
- How the Bhagavad Gita can deeply inform other spiritual traditions
- Radical freedom, Radical Awareness, Radical Potential
- The state of the soul, our true Self
- Relationship between faith & knowledge
- The Divine as our best friend
- The “Science” of Yoga - Self Realization by Direct Perception
- The yoga of existential crisis: crisis as a gateway into more possibility + awareness
- Bridging our material identity & our spiritual identity
- What is "dharma" - our deepest sense of who we are?

and so much more!

Connect with guest Hari Kirtana Das here:

hari-kirtana.com

Find his workshops, events and learning opportunities on the Bhagavad Gita:
HERE

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Connect with podcast host Damodar for these upcoming workshops:

Empowered Connection Monthly Group Coaching 6 Month Immersion - one Sunday a month starting March 19th, 4:30pm PST via Zoom

Bhagavad Gita Immersion: the 4 Paths of Yoga - in-person in Tucson, AZ and online via Zoom from anywhere in the world

Reach Out to Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your Free Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

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Unreal & Unhealthy Fantasies About Love: A Valentine’s Day Critique & Redo with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Romance, Love, Real Love, Valentine’s Day, Society, Romantic Fantasy, Partnership, Self Love, Relationships

In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua presents a critique on society’s over infatuation with and unreal fantasy of romantic love. This critique finds its ultimate expression in the stereotyped ideals of the Hallmark holiday, Valentine’s Day.

In this exploration, Damodar reveals many of the unhealthy perspectives our society’s ideals & pressures around love & romance - ones that block not only an empowered connection with another person, but also prevent a deeper relationship with our own selves.

Finally, Damodar presents a reframe that gifts the listener three ways that we can “redo” Valentine’s Day and these societal scripts that empower our relationship to: 1) the idea of romantic partnership 2) our relationships with all others in our lives and 3) the romance of many lifetimes, the relationship with our own self

That and much more...

Connect with Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your Free Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

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Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Connection Is Not a Transaction: Standing for a Better Way of Relationship with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Relationships, Friendship, Family, Partnership, Acceptance, Unconditional Love, Real Love, Self Empowerment, Authenticity, Boundaries

In this solo podcast episode Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua sheds light on the relationships in our lives - friendships, family, partnerships and more - that are transactional… that say we can only “get connection” if we act this way, please this person, hide ourself, fit in, or have some measurable value to another.

Challenging this way of interacting with others, Damodar asks of us to explore the relationships in our lives that are unconditionally in our corner and STAND FOR a way of relationship that allows us to be accepted + connected fully and authentically.

- Dive deep with a practice that will clarify this in your own life + relationships.

- Become vulnerable in reckoning with what relationship has been, is, and will be for you.

- And learn how to find that unconditional love + connections without qualification and see how it can empower your life.

That and much more...

Connect with Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your Free Discovery Sessionand start your 2023 journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

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Accessing the Gifts of Our Innate Creativity with Amy Lohr

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Creativity, Empowerment, Self Growth, Healing, Vulnerability, Expression, Self Awareness, Connection

Amy Lohr is a writer and all-around creative exploring the art of expression through her work. As a creativity mentor and brand designer, Amy helps inspired folks bring their ideas to life; from abstract to tangible. She is the author of Like the Sun at Midday and the host of the In Full Color podcast

In this dynamic + exploratory conversation, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua talks with guest Amy Lohr on these empowering topics:

- We are ALL inherently creative... how do we access & channel that creativity?
- Removing stagnant energy and allowing that energy to flow through our inherent creativity
- Reckoning with our inner critic & moving out of our limiting stories & normal strategies in life
- Allowing ourselves to be messy & owning our own vulnerability
- The value of play & becoming a kid again
- Bringing creativity into other areas of our self + life that we may not deem “creative” in order to empower our lives
- What we can mine from the space of the unconscious mind
- Living nonlinearly gives & reckoning with the dark night of the soul
- The lessons of imperfection in our creative process ... and in our life as a whole

... and so much more

Connect with the work of Amy Lohr:
"Essence of" Email List: essenceof.amyinfullcolor.com
Amy's book: likethesunatmidday.com
In Full Color podcast: http://link.chtbl.com/infullcolor
Instagram: @amyinfullcolor

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Traversing Another's Triggers with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Couples, Conflict, Triggers, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Connection, Self Regulation, Co-regulation, Healthy Relationships, Love

In this solo episode - part 2 of a series on navigating conflict in relationship - Damodar focuses on how we can be with & navigate another's triggers when in conflict... AND throughout other moments of our relational life with others.

An important episode full of practical, transformative & helpful perspectives and tools that will bring you to a better place in successfully managing another person's triggered state and emotional intensity - not only when in conflict with your loved ones, but during lots of life's other relational situations.

Damodar specifically presents FIVE STEPS to drastically improve your ability to “be with," sooth, and find connection when present with another's triggered state... that will help you improve your relationship's success, rather than damage it.

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Internalized Capitalism from the Outside In with Sarah Bryski-Hamrick

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Capitalism, Internalized Capitalism, Burnout, Over-functioning, Self Worth, Self Empowerment, Exploitation, Self Healing, Social Revolution, Socio-Economics, Trauma

Sarah Bryski-Hamrick is a partner, therapist, activist, podcaster, cat friend, plant mom, long time renter and ower of student loans. She is a forever student who loves deepening their yoga and meditation practice while honoring the tradition’s Eastern roots. She loves speaking in her "therapist voice" to calm others down… and desires revolution and liberation for me and all citizens of the world.

In this important & illuminating conversation between Sarah and Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua, we bring the listener into these important topics:

- Defining "internalized capitalism," a phenomenon that powerfully effect us all
- What are the similarities and differences between the ideas of “burnout” and internalized capitalism?
- The fetishization of the “hard worker” as the cultural & deeply internalized barometer of our goodness
- Our main worth + value being based upon our productivity and our work
- The commodification of our lives & our relationships
- Social interactions becoming more about transaction & less about connection
- The exploitation of the "wellness industry"
- The inter-generational trauma of internalized capitalism
- Identifying our own manifestations of internalized capitalism
- Empowering ways to navigate internalized capitalism internally to our own self and externally within the world around us

And so much more...

Resources:

Books Sarah mentioned on the podcast:
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

Connect with the work of Sarah Bryski-Hamrick:
website: https://www.teletherapywithsarah.com/
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teletherapy_withsarah/
podcast: https://www.tndpodcast.com/

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Traversing Your Own Triggers During Conflict with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Couples, Conflict, Triggers, Self Regulation, Healthy Relationships, Love, Emotional Intelligence,

It’s the 50th episode of the Empowered Connection Podcast! To celebrate, host Damodar Cordua gives his deep gratitude and appreciation for you the listeners coming back each week to learn, grow, and practice new tools for self growth and relationship potential. He also give thanks his special guests sharing their journey & expertise with us on the podcast.

In this solo podcast episode, Damodar dives into part one of a two part (or possibly 3 part!) series on conflict in our relationships. Difficulty navigating conflict can be one of the major roadblocks in the health & connection within our relationships.

But, where do we start? First, we start with our own selves.

In this episode, part 1, Damodar focuses on how we can be with & navigate our own triggers when in conflict both externally with another and internally within our own selves.

An important episode full of practical, transformative & helpful perspectives and tools that will bring you to a better place in successfully navigating getting triggered when in conflict with your loved ones. Damodar specifically presents two great, simple & actionable strategies to drastically improve your ability to “be with” and gain more information from your triggers to improve your relationships success, rather than damage it.

Connect with Damodar for your Free Discovery Session and start your 2023 journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

AND
Get 10% OFF your coaching journey by mentioning the Empowered Connection Podcast

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Finding the Codes to Our Authentic Self with Joe Longo

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Self Empowerment, Manifestation, Human Potential, Authenticity, Self Acceptance, Purpose, Self Growth, Entrepreneurship, Vibrational Energy, Self Awareness

In this engaging conversation Empowered Connection Podcast host talks with a dear longtime friend and inspiring soul, Joe Longo.

Joe brings individuals and businesses into a journey of transformational improvement within their lives and work. He offers personal and business coaching, helping his clients reach their professional goals. His clients describe his work as empowering: allowing the rooting out of negative self-talk to create new paradigms to build their best life & business. Joe is a Mindset, Manifestation, and Business & Social Media Content Creation Coach. He is also a beloved photographer and meditation + Kundalini yoga teacher in the Pennsylvania area.

In this episode you will discover:
- How to rediscover your authentic self and your deepest “why”
- The revelations that our childhood joys can usher into our adult journeys of empowerment + purpose
- Deep Imagining
- The empowerment of fully accepting and loving where we are right now into order to profoundly move forward
- Deep questions to ask yourself in your journey of self growth + potential
- The importance of quiet and “practicing” daydreaming
- Joe’s own compelling life stories of self awareness & authentic expression

And so much more…

Resources:

Connect with Joe Longo:
inspirecreatemanifest.com
Instagram i@inspirecreatemanifest
Tiktok is @joe_longo
and podcast Daily Shot of Inspiration

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8 Ways to Uplevel Your Relationships in 2023 with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 09:00:00 -0500

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Family, Friendship, Love, Relationship Tips, Healthy Relationships, Self Empowerment, Intimacy, Connection, Self Growth

Join Empowered Connection podcast host & relationship coach & life coach Damodar Cordua for this empowering episode.

Up-level all your relationships - from partnership to family to friends, co-workers and other loved ones - as Damodar gives the listening community 8 key ways that can improve your relational capacity, health, success, and potential in the New Year… and beyond!

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Sexual Liberation with Brittany Policastro

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Sex, Sexuality, Authenticity, Empowerment, Orgasm, Sensuality, Eroticism, Connection, Relationships, Trauma, Loving, Intimacy, Women's Sexuality, Human Potential, Self Acceptance, Self Love

Brittany Policastro is a Sexual Liberation Coach, Sexologist, Certified Practitioner of Authentic Tantra and Embodiment Specialist. She guides women through sacred sexual reclamation. Brittany has spent 19 years educating herself on various healing modalities including yogic wisdom, yoga therapy, Reiki, Energy Healing, modern psychology, Somatic Healing and Nonviolent Communication.

Her purpose is to support consciously powerful women in releasing the stories that stifle them, healing the wounds and stigmas that define them so that they can live an orgasmic, authentic life in every possible way. She looks forward to guiding you through the sacred process of reclaiming your pleasure and experiencing sexual liberation.

In this empowering + life-giving podcast, Brittany and Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua dive into these revealing subjects for men, women, non-gender binary and anyone & everyone who is in relationship to others and themselves :

Living authentically & learning how to embrace all parts of who you are
The patriarchal sexual scripts, stories, ideas & expectations we consciously - & very unconsciously - live out in our relationships
Redefining and radically expanding what our very limited definition of “sex” looks like
Ways to explore your sexuality deeply and free yourself from sexual patterns that are not in integrity with your most authentic, most empowered self
Sex without orgasm… and orgasms without “sex”
What to do if your partner wants more sex than you or you want less sex than your partner
Consciously using & expressing our sexual energy in the world

And so, so much more

Resources:

Brittany Policastro's amazing resources, groups, classes, & connections here: linktr.ee/brittanypolicastro

and her Instagram @sexually_liberated

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A No Bullsh*t, Honest & Transformative Way to Establish Our New Year’s Goals with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Self Empowerment, New Year's Resolutions, Goal-Setting, Purpose, Integrity, Self Growth, Self Improvement, Relationships, Self Awareness, Conscious Living, Values, Lifestyle Practices, Life Coaching

As we approach the New Year, there is the common propulsion & expectation to come up with resolutions & goals for the year to come

Oftentimes, we get stuck in a fantasy of what we want to do next - coming up with goals that aren’t realistic or aren’t practically aligned as a stepping stone from where we actually are right here, right now.

Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua for this special episode made specifically for those looking to honestly & sustainably transform their lives in 2023

Damodar shares a tool that he has been given to him by his teachers and that he uses both in his own life and to empower the lives of his clients

This tool is provides a great way for individuals and couples to:

- Be honest with the values we are ACTUALLY living out in our day-to-day lives & the goals coming from those values
- Track how those values + goals are playing out in our day-to-day life and how they can be sustainably bridged to real change that is in integrity with our deeper desires & life purpose
- See where our lifestyle & values are misaligned & develop New Year’s goals that aren’t a fantasy but are real & sustainable
- Line up our system of lifestyle & values with our partners to see where there is alignment and misalignment… and create deeper connection + conscious agreements with those alignments
- Learn to see & speak to their loved ones through their loved one’s ACTUAL values + goals, not a fantasy we might have of them based on our values

And so much more...

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Building Healthy Boundaries For Couples & Individuals During the Holidays & Beyond with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Boundaries, Family, Holidays, Self Empowerment, People Pleasing, Partnership, Couples Goals, Over-functioning, Self Betrayal, Self Love, Codependency, Conscious Communication, Relationships, Self Awareness

Empowerment Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua takes a deeper look at how to cultivate better boundaries during the holiday season with family and friends. Even though it is a festive, social and loving time of the year, the holidays can also be challenging when navigating the nuance of relationship.

In this solo episode, Damodar gives us a series of helpful tools for navigating this season AND the rest of the year, including:

- a meditation to help us find our center and navigate creating a healthy boundary practice during the holidays and during all times in our lives
- effective + helpful communication & team-building with our partner when navigating family holiday engagements as a couple
- individual awareness and helpful tips for standing in our integrity and practicing boundaries with family, friends and more during the holidays

And so much more...

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Unblock Your Body’s Natural Intelligence & Unlock Your Health & Potential with Dr. Jamal Fruster

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Health, Healing, Embodiment, Empowerment, Burnout, Healthcare, Trauma, Over-functioning, Self Healing, Stress, Chiropractic, Vulnerability, Presence, Gratitude

A hype-man for humanity, Dr. Jamal Fruster is on a life mission of providing for the tired provider, shifting healthcare from the inside out making it more sustainable for those working in it, and powerfully shifting the cultural perspective on chiropractic. The essence of his work goes beyond the pain and into the root cause of the suffering; physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

Dr. Jamal is a doctor of chiropractic at The Source in Tucson Arizona & host of Soul Coffee Podcast. With these roles, he’s helped serve hundreds of students all over the world through co-facilitating over 250 sessions of movement, breath-work, meditation, and chiropractic technique.

He’s been featured as a guest on many podcasts, diving deeper into the importance of how the phenomenon of the tired provider is impacting today’s society.

In this conversation between Jamal & host Damodar Cordua we explore these enlivening topics:

- The main block to our human potential
- The body is always true and always present even if we are not
- The natural intelligence of the human body
- Learning to appreciate, love + respect our health
- Burn-out, over functioning and betraying our body’s bandwidth and inner wisdom
- The epidemic of care-givers, providers, and healers burning themselves out in order to help others - and the roots & resolve of this trend
- Nurturing courage and the deep power of our vulnerability
- Being in “I’m Worth-It Mode”
- A felt sense of the soul & expanding our nervous system’s capacity
- Attuning to your body’s compass & finding our internal G.P.S. - Gratitude, Patience, & Service
- Providing for our providers

... and much more

Resources:

Connect with Dr. Jamal Fruster and all his inspiring offerings

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Life’s Great Narrative: Our Story is Still Being Written with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Self Empowerment, Self Authorship, Healing, Life Wisdom, Resiliency, Metaphor, Self Awareness, Transformation, Hero's Journey, Depression

In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua shares one of his favorite resources for moving through difficulty and finding empowerment in our lives.

He also shares some of his own journey as a young person navigating depression, a broken family, and teenage angst + isolation... and the wise perspective an old friend gave him at the right moment to bring life into perspective and create resiliency for years to come.

Resources:

Connect with Damodar for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

Find Daily Relationship Tools + Tips & Self Growth + Empowerment Practices with Damodar on Instagram - @empoweredconnection.me

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Psychedelic Integration: Empowering Our Everyday through Peak Experiences with Daniel Shankin

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Psychedelics, Psychedelic Integration, Healing, Trauma, Spirituality, Empowerment, Awakening, Somatics, Relationships, Self Love, Self Acceptance, Shadow Work, Yoga Wisdom, Awareness

As a psychedelic integration coach, Daniel Shankin serves people with emerging spiritual visions as they find ways to weave their new-found truths into their lives in a way that is sustainable, harmonious, compassionate and wise. He works with people from all walks of life and his methods are fiercely practical while maintaining space for mystery and magic to emerge. Daniel offers time tested and scientifically backed tools so clients can create a life for themselves that is aligned with their deeper values and manifests measurable results that matter.

The founder and director of Tam Integration, which is committed to offering radically accessible and inclusive support and education for people who are wanting to transform, heal, and grow. Tam’s integration circles and online classes & conferences enjoy a world wide audience and much critical acclaim.

In this rich, deep conversation Daniel & podcast host Damodar Cordua move into these realms:

- Psychedelics as a path of healing, awareness, empowerment, embodiment, insight, and spiritual depth
- How to integrate peak experiences into our day-to-day lives in meaningful, empowering + transformative ways
- The power of conscious intention & goals in psychedelic journeying
- What psychedelic experiences create within our brain, our mind, and our nervous system & their importance in healing trauma
- How psychedelic experiences can check us when we automate our spiritual practices or hide from parts of ourself in our spiritual practices and/or communities
- The importance of self acceptance and loving the unloved parts of ourself
- The difficulties, road blocks, and importance of integration work that is sustainable & transformative in an ongoing way
- Some of Daniel’s best stories of psychedelic experience and other peak experiences of heart revelation

And so much more…

Resources:

Connect with Daniel and his team at TAM Integration for tons of free information and resources on how to go deeper into integrating your peak psychedelic experiences

Check out Daniel and TAM on Instagram here

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Am I An Overfunctioner? with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Themes: Overfunctioning, Underfunctioning, Relationships, Codependency, Partnership, Family, Emotional Intelligence, Self Empowerment, Stress, Anxiety

Is it easier to get things done, manage your time and manage other people’s time than it is to be with your own experience and emotional landscape?

When you take the time to look at yourself - do you tend to fix, rescue, advice-give, and keep busy doing and solving other’s issues?

Would you rather take on another person’s responsibilities than deal with the difficulty of interpersonal stress?

Is getting your “to-do list” finished a place that soothes you immensely?

Well, you maybe an overfunctioner or have aspects of one.

Listen to this solo podcast with host Damodar Cordua and see if it’s true….

And learn:

- What does overfunctioning mean and where does it often originate from?
- What are the tell-tale signs of an overfunctioner? Is it a positive trait? A negative trait? Or both?
- What is an underfunctioner?
- In relationship, what is the dance between underfunctioner & overfunctioner? And why is it at times problematic?
- Key tools to balance out, integrate, and make more healthy your overfunctioning or under functioning patterns

And so much more…

Resources:

Connect with Damodar for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment... for both individuals + couples who are ready to explore, illuminate + empower their lives & their relationships

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Becoming a Spiritual Warrior: The Way of the Goddess with Ananta Ripa Ajmera

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Spirituality, Spiritual Warrior, Goddess, Healing, Ancient Wisdom, Empowerment, Yoga, Ayurveda, Chakras, Trauma, Storytelling, Healing Community, Service, Desire, Connection

Ananta Ripa Ajmera is an award-winning author, spiritual teacher, co-founder and CEO of The Ancient Way, an organization that supports you to embody ancient wisdom in a way that unfolds your true Self. The Ancient Way offers a Spiritual Warrior Certification Program, Ayurveda Wellness Ambassador Program, and spiritual wellness retreats. Ananta is also advisor of Ayurveda at THE WELL, a modern wellness club, where she writes articles, offers workshops, and works with a team of integrative medical practitioners.

The author of The Way of the Goddess: Daily Rituals to Awaken Your Inner Warrior and Discover Your True Self (Penguin Random House September 2022) and The Ayurveda Way (Storey Publishing 2017), her work has been featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine, Newsweek, Forbes, Vogue, Yoga Journal, Spirituality & Health Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Well + Good, MindBodyGreen and on ABC News and Fox News.

In this uplifting + empowering conversation, podcast host Damodar Cordua explores these inspiring topics with Ananta:

- What does it mean to be a “spiritual warrior?”
- How do we deal with desire in a way that empowers us personally + spiritually
- Living deeply IN this world but not OF this world
- Simple + profound life essons from the perennial spiritual classic, the Bhagavad Gita
- The Way of the Goddess
- Spiritual connection, healing + empowerment through sacred storytelling
- The need for healing community & how it can support + challenge us to live with integrity
- 3 keys to what it means to be a leader

And so much more

Resources:

Learn about The Way of the Goddess: Daily Rituals to Awaken Your Inner Warrior and Discover Your True Self Book: https://theancientway.co/wayofthegoddess

Visit Ananta’s organization website, The Ancient Way: https://theancientway.co

Become a Spiritual Warrior: https://theancientway.co/spiritualwarrior

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Overcoming Self Sabotage: Why We Get In Our Own Way & 5 Tools to Stop with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Self Sabotage, Fear, Disempowerment, Self Betrayal, Relationships, Empowerment, Self Awareness, Self Love, Self Compassion, Imposter Syndrome, Self Judgement

Have you ever made decisions that are diametrically opposed to your potential or happiness?

Have you acted - consciously or unconsciously - in patterns that throw a grenade into the possibility of living your purpose, succeeding at work or nurturing a positive + loving relationship?

In this solo podcast episode, host Damodar Cordua takes a peek into our tendency to self-sabotage and helps the listener understand this insidious tendency (shared by so many of us!) more deeply. He also gives empowering tips on how to see underneath of and work through our self sabotaging patterns.

In this episode, you will learn more about:

Common examples of self-sabotage
Self Sabotage in our relationship patterns
The reasons why we self sabotage
5 simple, yet profound ways to stop self sabotage

And much more!

Connect with Damodar for your Free Discovery Session and start your journey of self & relational discovery & empowerment

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Vibration of Connection: How Sound Deepens our Empowerment, Our Healing & Our Relationships with Laura Rose

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Sound, Sound Healing, Trauma Healing, Mantra, Music Therapy, Relationships, Empowerment, Creativity, Intimacy, Sexuality, Somatic Healing, Emotional Intelligence, Spirituality

Laura Rose is a cosmic musician and vocal empowerment pioneer with over a decade of experience as a board-certified music therapist and advanced yoga teacher. She blends together modern psychology, sensual embodiment and NeoTantra to inspire others to live their authentic expression and actualize their creative potential.

Laura received her degree in music therapy and vocal performance at the University of Iowa. She specializes in vocal embodiment and sensuality, primarily supporting women to heal the relationship with their voice, expression and sexuality.

Her music has often been described as “other-wordly”and “transcendent”. You can listen to her latest album, “In Essence” on all major platforms. You can also find her on Instagram as @the.vocal.sanctuary

In this beautiful conversation between Laura Rose & podcast host Damodar Cordua, you will find:

- Developing an awareness of how sound moves through us, what it nurtures in us, and what it shows us
- the power of sound to connect us - or disconnect us - to ourselves, to others and to our greater potential
- Chanting (mantra meditation) connects us to our true self’s vibration from the inside out
- Seeing sound as an offering, not as performance
- Regulating our nervous system through & co-regulating our nervous system with others through a conscious use of sound
- The dance of tension and release that music + sound gives us in our body + our mind
- Entrainment + Iso Principle in Music Therapy - consciously creating connection in relationship via sound
- Sound and intimacy - with self, with other, and outward into community
- Emotional awareness + emotional integration + empowerment through sound

Resources:

Learn all about Laura’s work, offerings & trainings:
www.thevocalsanctuary.com

and Laura’s music

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The Architecture of a Gaslighter with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Gaslighting, Abusive Relationships, Manipulation, Narcissism. Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Relationship Problems, Relationship Tools, Partnership, Emotional Abuse, Relationships

The term “gaslighting” is thrown around a lot nowadays. But, in the real world of our relationships, what does it really mean and how can you recognize that it’s happening? How abusive it gaslighting? How common - or uncommon - is it?

In this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua helps the listener learn more about:

- The tell-tale signs that gaslighting is happening
- The psychology behind the world of a gaslighter
- How to recognize a Gaslighter
- What are a gaslighter’s tactics?
- Narcissism & gaslighting
- Who becomes a gaslighter?
- What’s the difference between gaslighting and manipulation?
- Leaving a gaslighter (please leave this relationship & get support)
- 10 Signs of gaslighting in a relationship
- 5 Ways to fight + heal gaslighting abuse & It’s symptoms
- Gaining the necessary support for navigating emotional abuse

And much more…

RESOURCES:

Hotline for Gaslighting Abuse Support

No More Gaslighting website - links to books, resources, & support

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Love, Loss & Presence: Learning about Death, Dying & Grief with Matthew Dwyer

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Topics: Death, Dying, Grief, Presence, Love, Relationships, Spirituality, Grieving, Connection, Compassion, Emotional Awareness, Healing, Self Healing, Yoga Wisdom

Matthew Dwyer is grief and death doula, yoga teacher, and kirtan wallah. His deep practice of bhakti yoga has lead him to being of service in end of life care where he educates people on death and dying, works with individuals who are grieving, sits with people who are dying and supports their families. Matthew is the founder of the Being Held Institute, an online network of education and training workshops that helps support others through grief and helps mentor others interested in death care. He is also the co-host of the On Death podcast that explores those taboo topics of death, dying, and grief which aims to encourage // support a healthy relationship with death - ideally to move from a fear based culture of death denial to a community focused on living life more fully alive and in love.

In this beautiful conversation Matthew and host Damodar Cordua dive deep into these topics:

Finding real presence in our lives & in our relationships with others
What is grief?
The difference between grief & dashed desire
Matthew’s inspiring & mystically-colored path to working as a death doula and grief counselor
Experiences working with Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity
America’s death & grief phobic society
The West seeing death as a “failure”
The power of loving presence and deep listening
Yoga and yoga wisdom’s perspectives on death & dying
Death & grief challenging & deepening our suppositions & creating spiritual growth
Embracing the risk to love, when there is always a chance of loss

And so much more...

Resources:

Connect with Matthew & learn more about his work & offerings here:
www.madhumatt.com

On Death Podcast

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The Path to Rebirthing Ourselves with Kate Brenton

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Rebirth, Self Growth, Self Empowerment, Storytelling, Elders, Spirituality, Life Inspiration, Hero’s Journey, Personal Growth, Healing Journey, Life Wisdom, Self Discovery

Inspired teacher, author + bodyworker, Kate Brenton, Ed.M, helps people connect the dots between their purpose, passion, and true brilliance.

She especially loves meeting women where they are and guiding them back to their center. Kate's holistic work combines life experience with her studies of Polynesian Healing Arts. Clients work with her one-on-one, in intimate online settings + on retreats. She hosts Master Writing courses and is also the host of The Rebirth Podcast

Her brand new bestselling book, Rebirth, is out now!

From the book: “when life is calling, often we need only the space and the support to remember our way. Sometimes we lean into our expansion, and sometimes we bolt from our greatness. The biggest shock is that big change happens in small choices. In Rebirth you will find real-life stories of people who made courageous leaps, inspiring you to make your own… to inspire you as you read others' stories of how they listened and learned to make embodied changes in their own lives.”

In this engaging conversation with host Damodar Cordua we cover these topics and more:

Beholding life in cyclical time instead of linear time

Reclaiming & renewing the role of the elder in our lives & within society

Storytelling as deep medicine

How to step into the unknown in order to beckon forth the new phase of where life is meant to take us

The process of moving through life’s journey - instead of over or under - with grace + faith… allowing the universe to work with us, not against us

Reintegrating our past selves into the mystery of our next self

Rebirth: How truly come forth, we must contract and then expand

Real life inspiring stories of letting go & letting life lead

Why we must include ourselves in our own journey… & our propensity not to

Birth energy

And so much more…

Resources:

Buy your copy of Kate's inspiring, best-selling book Rebirth

Learn more about Kate's work + offerings here: www.katebrenton.com

Connect with Damodar to learn more about his transformative Relationship Coaching + Life Coaching AND book your first free discovery session: www.empoweredconnection.me

AND stay tuned for upcoming Group Coaching Immersion: Relational Empowerment + Awareness 101 with Damodar live & online starting the end of October!

An article describing Rudolf Steiner's 7 year cycle of life as referenced in the episode

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Learning Emotional Intelligence and How to Navigate Our Anger with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Anger, Emotional Intelligence, Self Growth, Relationships, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, Emotions, Self Empowerment, Self Awareness, Emotional Awareness, Self Love

In this solo podcast episode host Damodar Cordua brings us even deeper into the need to cultivate emotional intelligence in our lives, specifically with the emotion of anger.

In this illuminating & practical talk, we explore:

- Our society’s tendency to “make wrong” certain emotions
- Spiritual ideas around experiencing emotions
- Why learning to be with & hold space for our emotional experience is such a powerful place of empowerment
- Getting underneath our emotions, rather than calling our emotions “wrong,” allows us to enrich our lives, show us more about ourselves, make more informed choices, flourish in our relationships AND experience our true Self or soul
- How anger is a specifically challenging emotion for many of us and how we can learn to see our anger as an opportunity, instead of a liability
- The other, at times difficult, but important emotions that lie underneath our anger
- Anger and boundary work
- Practice tools that will allow you to see beneath your anger, become aware of what your anger is showing you, and becoming empowered instead of disempowered by your emotional experience

And so much more!

Resources:

Ready to get underneath your emotional experience and learn what it is showing you about who you are and about your potential? Ready to learn & the tools that will allow you to become emotionally intelligent and empowered in all areas of your life?

Book your first free coaching discovery call with Damodar NOW!

SAVE THE DATE: Oct 17th starts our next live, online Group Coaching Immersion! Relational Awareness & Empowerment 101 with Damodar - up-level your relational capacity, with yourself, with your most loved ones, and with the world… become empowered to live more authentically and more connected. This will be a 5 part online deep-dive of live group coaching, supportive + inspiring community, transformative practices + homework, and an opportunity for personal transformation

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Narcissism Explained, Spiritual Perspectives on Narcissism, & Narcissism in Spiritual + Healing Communities with Chaitanya Lila Pankhania

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Narcissist Personality Disorder, Narcissism, Psychology, Psychological Disorders, Narcissistic Abuse, Self Help, Healing, Religious Trauma, Gurus, Spirituality, Religion, Trauma, Vedic Astrology, Bhakti,

Chaitanya Lila Pankhania is an England-based Integrative Psychotherapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Journey Therapist, Past Life Regression Therapist, & EMDR trauma therapist. She works with the subconscious mind - working with deep rooted beliefs, past negative memories, and emotion reactions that block a person from being able to live at peace with themselves in the present. She was also raised in the Bhakti Yoga spiritual tradition and she blends eastern philosophy into psychology as a way to deeper understand the mind and the Self

In this rich, deep & informative podcast with Chaitanya we delve into these topics:

- What is a narcissist? What are the tell tale traits of a narcissistic?

- What is the difference between narcissist personality disorder and having narcissistic traits?

- Self help gurus, spiritual leaders & religious communities and narcissism

- Tips on how to watch out, notice the patterns, and protect yourself from becoming entrenched with a narcissist in relationship

- How to navigate the decision to stay in relationship with a narcissist or leave a narcissist

- Empowering + compassionate sppiritual perspectives on narcissism

- Jyotish - or Vedic astrology - as a resource for healing, dealing with + understanding narcissism

And SO much more…

Resources

Check out all that Chaitanya offers and her vast wealth of enterprise + services here:
www.trikayapsychology.com
And her instagram with tips on narcissism, narcissistic abuse, psychology, and much more:
www.instagram.com/trikaya_psychology

As referenced in the podcast, Sam Vaknin's work as a self-proclaimed narcissist teaching about narcissism:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCLadFapyecCYAeuTqc12avA

Connect with Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar for your first free coaching session and dive deep into your journey of relational awareness + empowerment, self growth, deep inner connection, emotional intelligence, purpose, and life potential
www.empoweredconnection.me

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What Is Shadow Work? An Introduction with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Shadow Work, Healing, Inner Work, Self Healing, Inner Child, Self Awareness, Self Realization, Emotional Intelligence, Trauma, Self Discovery, Relationships, Shame, Guilt, Anger, Sex, Spirituality

Have you every wondered more about what lies hidden behind some of the actions, thoughts, patterns and behavior in your life?

Ever wonder what the parts of yourself that you judge, dislike or hide from others are telling you?

Are you ready to illuminate what lies beneath the surface of the self you present to the world in order for deeper understanding and potential?

In this solo podcast episode, host Damodar Cordua takes the listener into an exploration of “shadow work,” engaging in these empowering topics:

- What is “shadow work”?
- How can embarking on a journey of shadow work help create more richness, clarity, discovery and empowerment in our lives?
- How do we start the shadow work process?
- What are the areas of our internal landscape and emotional reality that are signifiers that shadow work needs to be explored?
- Questions to ask ourselves to illuminate more clearly what is in our shadow
- Guidelines & boundaries for working with our shadow

And so much more…

Resources:

Dive into your own shadow work journey with Damodar - book your first FREE Discovery Session and start the process of giving your life more clarity, exploration, possibility and empowerment

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Reconnect to Source: Yoga, Surfing, and Moving from Victim to Author with Thomas Zielinski

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Spirituality, Yoga, Surfing, Personal Empowerment, Life Coaching, Connection, Self Improvement, Self Growth, Yoga Wisdom,

In this sweet & inspiring episode host Damodar Cordua & Thomas Zielinski discuss:

The power of yoga lifestyle + yoga wisdom in our day-to-day life
Feeling small & in awe as a resource for connection + empowerment
Shifting from victimhood to authorship in our lives
Positive community - surrounding ourselves with those who inspire us + paying that forward by inspiring others
Surfing as a practice of reconnection, conscious lifestyle + spirituality
The importance of retreats that immerse us in healing, wisdom + community
Accessing the inner teacher within all of us & our inherent eternality, bliss + wisdom

And much more!

Connect with Thomas and his offerings here Get Wet Soon

Connect with Damodar and his offerings here Empowered Connection

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Are My Partner & I Too Different? with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Are My Partner & I Too Different? with Damodar Cordua

Themes: Relationships, Partnership, Love, Conflict, Healthy Relationships, Self Worth, Doing the Work, Conscious Relationships, Self Understanding, Differentiation

Are certain differences in relationship incompatible?

How alike do my partner & I need to be for this relationship to survive… let alone thrive?

Join Damodar on this solo podcast episode as he sheds light on.. & gives tools + perspectives on:

- Are differences in relationship good? Bad?
- What are the challenges in relationship when we are reckoning with our differences?
- What are the ways we hide from our differences - & hide from our individual truth - in relationship & what does that create?
- What do couples most need to have in common for their relationship to survive… and thrive?
- The MOST important thing to have in common in order for health, possibility + longevity in your partnership

and more!

Resources:

Ready to go deeper into the themes presented in this episode or other episodes? Ready to challenge yourself to grow in your own awareness, possibility, and relationship potential? Schedule your first free discovery call with Damodar.

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Empowerment through Embodiment: Body Temple Church with Adriana Marie Rizzolo

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Themes: Embodiment, Somatics, Empowerment, Trauma, Sex, Divine Feminine, Women's Work, Spirituality, Religion, Relationships, Awakening, Self Healing, Dance, Movement

Adriana Marie Rizzolo is a Somatic Healer, sex educator for women and non binary folks, speaker, meditation, energy healer and embodied movement facilitator, Adriana helps people heal trauma and patterns of helplessness, awaken their power and feel at home in their bodies to start living life in alignment with their souls offerings and within sexy, secure relationships.

Adriana created the Power of Love School after a massive awakening initiating her into the mystical transmission of the Divine Feminine in India in 2013. Her intuitive coaching and healing is super fun and supports people in groups and 1:1 through writing, teaching, somatic practice, chanting and guidance. Her relentless devotion to sobriety and all her teachings are rooted in tradition Tantra and healing her lived experiences growing up around addiction and suicide. She believes that if we can learn to be willing to keep our eyes open in moments of unbearable pain, we will be taken to the dream and desire within us that originated in God.

Her work & content is challenging, confronting, inspiring, playful & galvanizing

In this fun, inspiring & rich episode, discover:

- Being in the body and being with the Divine
- Sexual awakening & spiritual awakening
- Trauma healing through somatic work + yoga
- Sex, the body & women in spiritual traditions
- Practices of transcendence versus practices of embodiment
- Validation as a pathway to healing, spirituality & life affirmation
- The empowerment of embodiment & intimacy with the divine, intimacy with ourselves & intimacy with our loved ones
- Spiritual warriorship + the grace & empowerment in being of service to others - Relationships as a self growth journey
- Trusting the wisdom of our hearts & our inner way of prayer
- Showing others + ourselves via embodiment instead of "telling" others + ourselves

and much more..
Resources:

Connect with Adriana here -
www.bodytemple.church
www.theloverecovery.com
IG @artofloving

Connect with Damodar here -
www.empoweredconnection.me
IG @empoweredconnection.me

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The 4 Primary Reasons Couples Fight with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Why do partners typically fight about?

In episode #25, we discussed the 7 stages of a relationship. Today, and in some following solo episodes, we are going to explore in detail aspects of the stage that many couples get stuck in (or break up during) - the differentiation or challenging stage of a relationship

This stage can often be characterized by a lot of conflict. Couples fight more & they often don’t know why they are fighting… what they exactly are fighting about… let alone, how to fight with more productivity and possibility for connection

In this solo podcast Damodar gives the listener an easy 4 part way to peer underneath conflict and see with more clarity what we are actually fighting about

This will help anyone in relationship now - or in a past or potential future relationship - to start navigating fights and conflict with more awareness and success.

RESOURCES:

Ready to learn how to move more successfully through conflict in your most intimate relationships? Ready to create more self awareness, relationship possibility, deeper connection and empowerment? CONNECT WITH DAMODAR for your first free discovery coaching session!

Moving Past the Paybacks We Get From Holding on to Our Hurt with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 05:00:00 -0400

THEMES: pain, hurt, paybacks, empowerment, attachment, victimhood, healing, self-healing, relationships, self growth

Sometimes we hold onto our suffering or pain because we are gaining something from it

It might not be a high gain, it might not be a conscious gain...

But nonetheless there maybe present some payback that is keeping us stuck - that is preventing us from processing and moving forward into our fullest, most empowered version of who we are meant to become

In this solo podcast episode Relationship Coach + Counselor & Life Coach Damodar dives into why we maybe holding onto hurt in order to receive a low-level payback - to confirm a story that keeps us secure, paid attention to, needed or even loved.. or to gain a return.. or keep someone in our life... or keep a dead idea of who we are alive... or play the victim... or rationalize bad behavior...

As he navigates these edgy waters, Damodar gives the listener a series of tools & self exploratory questions that will help give clarity + shed light onto why we maybe holding onto our hurt... and how we can start the path of integrating that hurt in order to move to our best potential

Resources:

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Spiritual Tradition & Individual Expression with Jahnavi Harrison

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Spiritual Tradition & Individual Expression with Jahnavi Harrison

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode 26 - a conversation with Jahnavi Harrison & Damodar Cordua

In this rich conversation with world renowned & celebrated devotional musician and recording artist Jahnavi Harrison, this episode covers spiritual & creative topics such as:

- Why we honor the teachers in our lives, trying to live in a state of gratitude, understanding our dependence on others, and humility

- The dynamics of growing up in a religious community & what it brings forward as we grow from it into other stages in our life

- Externals of spiritual traditions, community + institutions VS individual expression of spiritual connection and the sometimes messy spaces in between

- The independent choice of “sadhana” or the spiritual practices of yoga - the push-pull of a controlled process that actually allows us to to let go, surrender & go deep within in ways we ironically might not have control over

- The nuances of spiritual or “devotional” music, presenting mantra to others, the creative process, and offering up what we do in this world

- Mantra meditation practice in the the bhakti yoga tradition, or the yoga of love + devotion

- The power of partnership & having someone witness your life, journey and spiritual journey - relationship as a mirror of what we can’t see ourselves and as a reminder to stand in our values

And so much more ...

Resources:

Jahnavi Harrison

Divine Maha Mantra by Jahnavi Harrison

Jahnavi's music on Spotify

Jahnavi's Patreon Community

Linktree Source for Concerts, Workshops, Retreats & More

Website

Connect with Damodar:

Emotional + Relational Awareness, Self Love, & Empowered Communication
Summer Group Coaching 6 Week Immersion Online

Empower + Evolve 200 Hr Yoga Teacher Training in Philadelphia

Instagram @empoweredconnection.me

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Become Empowered by Understanding the 7 Stages of a Partnership with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Become Empowered by Understanding the 7 Stages of a Partnership
Empowered Connection Podcast #25 with Damodar Cordua

In this solo podcast episode, Relationship Coach + Life Coach - and host of the podcast - Damodar breaks down the 7 primary stages of a partnership.

Understanding these 7 stages can shed light as to where we are in our relationship and give us perspective on what work might need to be done to step into the next space of our partnership's potential.

Even if we have been together for a lifetime, we may remain in one of the earlier stages of relationship - especially differentiation or the "challenging" stage.

This stage is the most difficult to navigate without the proper tools to do so. But, when we approach this stage with awareness, practices, and dedication we not only become more closely connected in our relationship, but we may also become empowered to finally see - and heal - some of the patterns that don't serve us as individuals.

If YOU are looking to build more self awareness, relational capacity, empowered communication, emotional intelligence, and become conscious to some of the patterns that are keeping you stuck, check out Damodar's Emotional + Relational Awareness, Self Love, & Conscious Communication Summer Group Coaching 6 Week Immersion

starting August 3rd, live online - supportive community, practice & follow through, live expert coaching, and outside work that will challenge you to your own growth edge of self and relationship awareness!

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Shifting & Empowering Patterns of Intergenerational Toxic Masculinity with Michael Brasher

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Shifting & Empowering Patterns of Intergenerational Toxic Masculinity

Empowered Connection Podcast 24 with Michael Brasher & Damodar Cordua

In this important interview, Damodar talks with Michael Brasher - the CEO of Boys To Men a Tucson nonprofit that strengthens communities by nurturing intentional spaces for boys, men, and masculine-identified folks to practice honest and mindful relationship,

Reshaping and healing toxic intergenerational patterns of masculinity touches all parts of our world, no matter our age or gender. In this episode we dive deep into why that is so - and how we can shift the narrative to heal + empower not only young men, but men of all ages, generations of manhood, and our society at large.

Some of the themes explored:

The core beliefs & wounds of masculinity that are passed down through generations
Challenging some of the normative scrips of manhood… What would it be like to get a real dose of healthy heartfelt masculinity… what would that look and feel like?
Shifting some of the disempowering intergenerational patterns of masculinity by working with teenage boys who are often starving for authentic, connected experiences with masculine figures
Why showing young men vulnerability, acceptance, validation, and emotional awareness is transformational
Generativity: becoming healed empowered, accountable & connected to multiple generations of men versus the isolation of injured, alienated boyhood + manhood
Michael shares his own inspiring story that brought him towards his purpose
Cycle of men’s violence + domestic abuse towards women as a shockingly common narrative within many men's & women's lives
Emotional intelligence - breaking down the myth that “men don’t feel” and the empowerment of being with, processing and stating our feelings as men

And more..

Resources:

For more about Boys To Men in Tucson & how you can help: www.btmtucson.com
Boys To Men Organizations around the world

Links to books referenced on show
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity + Love
We Will Not Cancel Us

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Learning About & Moving Through Burnout with a Burnout Coach with Lauren Baptiste

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Learning About & Moving Through Burnout with a Burnout Coach with special guest Lauren Baptiste

Empowered Connection Episode #23 with special guest Lauren Baptiste and host Damodar Cordua

In this conversation with burnout expert, coach, & speaker Lauren Baptiste of Acheloa Wellness, we dive into these helpful topics & tools:

- What exactly is “burnout?”

- Lauren shares her personal story of burnout and how it brought her into her healing + towards her mission

- What are the internal stories + patterns from within that bring us to the external circumstances that lead to burnout?

- Living in a culture of over-doing in the West that enables & encourages burnout

- How to give ourselves the space in our lives, simple boundaries and the self love to create proper awareness, presence + accountability… & help shift a dynamic that could lead to burnout

- Damodar shares his story of burnout as a small business owner in the healing industry

- The body never lies - our bodies will show us when our stress is leading us to burnout.. what are the signs of burnout in ourselves and others?

- How we can show up for others in our lives if they are experiencing burnout

- Lauren’s 5 step process of rebuilding a foundation within ourselves + our lives that can prevent burnout

- The ayurveda idea of the “gunas” + how they interact with & perpetuate burnout… & how the improper use of the senses to cope with burnout create more damage to ourselves & more cycling into patterns of burnout

- The resource of looking at our life as a "long game"

And much more!

Lauren shares lots of free, actionable resources for burnout information + healing

Resources:

Connect with & learn more about burnout, moving through burnout & Lauren's work here: acheloawellness.com

Follow Lauren on Instagram for burnout tips: @acheloawellness

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Standing Strong In & Speaking Our Needs in 7 Steps with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Standing Strong In & Speaking Our Needs in 7 Steps (Needs, Pt. 2) with Damodar Cordua

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode 22 with Damodar Cordua

In this solo podcast episode, podcast host Damodar Cordua dives back into the subject of needs in relationship and offers an actionable 7 steps within which to stand strong in + speak our needs

Cultivating our needs in relationship - a recap

If we don’t develop a culture within our relationships wherein we can speak our most important needs they go “underground” and come out it ways that compromise ourselves and our relationship

It can be difficult to speak our needs because we fear we may lose the relationship, we may fear the other person’s reactions… we also may have no idea that we have needs, even though they are being lived out unconsciously by our actions, our attitudes, and our mindset

Take the time and list out what are the costs of not speaking my needs?

7 Step Process of Standing Strong in & Speaking our Needs

1. Get Clear On Your Needs
2. Own Your Own Needs With Your Own Self & Another Person
3. When Ready to Speak Your Need Lead with Vulnerability + Accountability
4. Speak in 2-5 Sentences Maximum
5. Regulate + Receive How the Other Person is Impacted by the Need
6. Restate The Need, Educate the Other Person More, and “Sell”
7. Keep Noticing + Tuning In To the Part of Yourself that is Resisting or Wants to Settle

Resources:

- Dive deeper into your ability to connect to your needs, understand them and speak them. Up-level your relationship potential and empower every part of your life with a coaching journey Connect Here for your first free session with Damodar

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We Are All Needy: A Framework for Understanding Our Needs in Relationships with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -0400

We Are All Needy: A Framework for Understanding Our Needs in Relationships
Episode 21 of the Empowered Connection Podcast with Damodar Cordua

In this solo podcast episode, Damodar dives into:

How “neediness” is pathologized by our current culture

Deconstructing this myth: the essence of who we are is actually needy and interdependent - we are ALL needy people

Relational Needs: Our relationships mirror our fundamental survival + emotional needs, regardless of how “independent” we think we are or should be

If we do have relational needs, how do we figure out what those needs are?

Damodar gives a simple, yet dynamic template of 4 principles within which to understand what our needs are in relationship & partnership and how understanding + meeting these needs can empower our life

Listen to this actionable & inspiring episode and uplevel your relationships!

Resources:

Looking to go even deeper? Looking to transform + empower your life & relationships? Connect with Damodar for your first free coaching discovery session

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Listening is Loving: Transforming Our Lives Through Intentional Conversation & Amplifying What We Love with K.Lee Marks

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Listening is Loving: Transforming Our Lives Through Intentional Conversation & Amplifying What We Love with K.Lee Marks

Episode 20 of the Empowered Connection Podcast with K. Lee Marks and Damodar Cordua

Are you ready to amplify what you love?

Do you long for intentional conversation and listening from the heart?

Join Damodar as he interviews podcast coach, music producer, and branding consultant K. Lee Marks for a dynamic episode that covers these topics and more:

- The importance, possibilities & profound magic of deep listening when in relationship & communication with others

- Oral transmissions & passing down conversation has been the essence of human society & human truth since the beginning of time

- How intentional conversation can shift our lives & the lives of others

- Why podcasting?

- How to amplify what we love

- Podcasting as community service, societal healing & social change

- The power of sound vibration to uplift the world

- The alchemy of being curious & listening to our own heart and learning to be in integrity with our inner voice

- Why our story & YOUR story is important & the need to share it

- Transforming your life in 25 conversations

... and much more!

Resources:

K.Lee's upcoming training & info Amplify What You Love

Ikigai

Empower & Evolve Yoga Teacher Training

Upcoming Monthly &/or Weekly Group Coaching, Practice + Community with Damodar

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How To Give Feedback with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Giving others feedback. What an edgy place.

For many of our relationships, this feels challenging & uncomfortable - I know it does for me.
Or it feels toxic or hurtful... eliciting defensiveness, shutting down, or resentment

Is it hard for you to give your loved ones honest feedback?

Do you give feedback but, when you do, it seems not to land, not to be heard, or it’s resented?

Are you looking to bring a culture of supportive + challenging feedback into your relationships for more intimacy, honesty, growth and potential?

A culture of calling each other forward, instead of calling each other out - OR - not calling each other at all??

In this solo podcast episode, Damodar gives the listener an understanding of how our culture usually gives feedback through 3 main styles of communication

Then, he breaks down five actionable tools that you can bring into your partner, family, friend, & business relationships to create a culture of positive, challenging, and supportive feedback.

Resources:

- Ready to step further into your relational capability? Are you an individual or a couple ready to move through roadblocks to your life, your potential, your ability to love?

Connect with Damodar for your first free coaching session and begin a journey of exploration, discovery, clarity and empowerment

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Heart Perfect: Feeling it All - Creative Expression + Authenticity with Sri Kala

Tue, 31 May 2022 05:00:00 -0400

How does creativity bring us to the depths of our authentic self?

How can we break past a need for perfection and catapult ourselves into the realm of feeling it all - our" imperfections," our full spectrum of emotions, and all the corners of our self?

How can we be "Heart-Perfect?"

In this episode of the Empowered Connection Podcast, Damodar interviews Sri Kala, music producer, songwriter, and coach for artists who want to unlock their true creative expression and share that with the world. Sri has created well-loved spiritually-rooted music and collaborated with some of the biggest names in the conscious music scene.

In this creatively-inspiring, empowering, and healing episode we discuss:

- Sri Kala's story of growing up in Brooklyn’s hip hop world and how moving to the yoga ashram allowed him to step into understanding the science of sound vibration... as the wellspring for his own music and creative offerings

- The importance of offering our creativity to something higher

- The creative process as trauma work, the creative practice as healing work, the creative process as becoming free

- The new understanding of enlightenment and consciousness: feeling it all - getting into the space where all our emotions, parts, and corners of ourself are welcome

- The core of creative and emotional intelligence: our spiritual longing as fuel for our connection & our expression

- The importance of having teachers, mentors, guides + communities that can unravel us and usher forth towards our truest authenticity

- Controlled chaos in Sri Kala's inspiring creative process

- The future of music

and so much more..

Resources:

- Check out all of Sri Kala's work + music here and via his website

- Connect with Damodar here

- FREE coaching discovery session

- Workshops AND Trainings in Philadelphia this June with Damodar + Radha on yoga, spirituality, and ayurveda

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Communication Up-level: Personhood VS Behavior with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 24 May 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Communication Up-level: Personhood VS Behavior
Episode #17 of the Empowered Connection Podcast

- Ready to communicate more successfully with your loved ones?

- Want a simple, profound way to improve your relationships & connect with more love + support to others?

Join Relationship Coach + Life Coach, host Damodar Cordua on this shorter solo podcast episode as he dials into a simple, profound way to up-level and improve your communication style with others - especially your most loved ones.

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Developing Conscious Connection to the Natural World & Falling In Love with Nature for Self Preservation + Self Empowerment with Radha Cordua

Tue, 17 May 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Developing Conscious Connection to the Natural World & Falling In Love with Nature for Self Preservation + Self Empowerment with Radha Cordua

Episode #16 of the Empowered Connection Podcast

On this episode of the Empowered Connection Podcast Damodar talks with his wife, Radha Cordua, herbalist, Ayurveda practitioner, conscious creator, and developer of Bhava Wellness healing remedy herbal line

In this conversational episode Radha & Damodar explore connecting to the natural world as a way to heal, deepen awareness, create magical relationships, and empower ourselves

Some Inspiring Topics Covered:

- The healing power of developing a relationship with mother nature

- Become attuned to what we regularly take in with our senses & the consciousness that creates

- The importance of presence, self awareness, and ritual on a daily basis and how they can transform our lives

- Tuning into the natural world around us as a means to survive, strive and thrive

- Love languages and the importance of deeper communication in partnership

- Herbal medicine as a path for all in healing ourselves & healing others

and so much more!

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Slowing Down, The Benefits of Becoming Present with Ourselves + Our Loved Ones, & Deep Intimate Connection with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 10 May 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Slowing Down, The Benefits of Becoming Present with Ourselves + Our Loved Ones, & Deep Intimate Connection with Damodar Cordua

On this solo episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Damodar Cordua speaks on the need to slow down in our lives and become more present with ourselves and our loved ones. This is the real root He provides the listener with two practices that they can bring back into their own individual life and their relationship.

Key Topics Covered:

Relationship as a path of self-understanding and self growth

We need to do self work in order to be in best relationship with others

But, we also can’t just heal ourselves on our own and then expect a perfect relationship… we also heal ourselves IN relationship

The difficulty of slowing down & being present with ourselves in our current age

The need to slow down our body + nervous system through the lens of neurobiology, yoga, ayurveda & more

A guided meditation for slowing down and becoming present with ourselves as an individual

What happens when we slow down? What are our physical sensations? What are our thoughts and stories around slowing down? What comes up for us?

Why our ability to be present with ourselves on a regular basis is the only way we will be able to be fully present with our loved ones

My personal story of how not finding presence & not slowing down became a real threat & liability to my own partnership’s health and connection

A guided exercise for becoming present with our loved ones in a beautiful way

Tuning into the nervous system of another through slowing down, breath, eye-gazing and touch as a powerful way to rebuild connection & intimacy

Being flexible, creative and adaptive as to how we can create various contexts to best slow down, become present, and connect to different loved ones in our life

Making these practices of presence, connection & slowing down a daily presence in our life and our relationship’s life

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Is it finally time to dedicate some time to explore + grow your own ability to connection better to yourself and your loved ones? Are you ready to build better potential and integrity in your life and your relationships?

Connect with Damodar Here

Running as an Act of Devotion, Surrender, Healing & Processing Grief with Eddie Gieda

Tue, 03 May 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Running as an Act of Devotion, Surrender, Healing & Processing Grief with Eddie Gieda

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode #14 with Eddie Gieda and Damodar Cordua

In one of the most powerful, heart-opening, and inspiring episodes to date, Damodar takes some time talking with vegan long distance runner Eddie Gieda - hearing his story of losing his life partner & most loved one in a sudden car accident.

Eddie gives the listener an inspirational journey of survival and moving through grief… and powerful path to surrender, devotion and deep healing through the process and practice of long distance running.

An episode not to be missed, as we discuss very touching and transformational themes:

The impact of sudden loss in our life
The grieving process
Long distance running as a practice of presence, healing, and spiritual connection
Transformative moments of divine awakening amidst tragedy
Intentional living and intentional grieving
Messages + communication from those who have left us
Long distance running in the sacred places of India
Veganism

And so much more…

In memory of Amanda Medina

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Connect with Eddie Gieda here: www.instagram.com/ebgiii/

Connect with Damodar here: www.empoweredconnection.me

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Boundary Work: A Dynamic Way To Envision + Practice Boundaries that Empower Our Lives

Tue, 26 Apr 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode 13: A Dynamic Way To Envision + Practice Boundaries that Empower Our Lives with Damodar Cordua

Do you have a difficulty envisioning, creating, and sticking to boundaries that bring you deeper into your integrity + empowerment?

Are you looking for a framework to allow healthy boundary-making to become a practice - one that can adapt to the changes of life, yet continually bring you back to center?

Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua for this solo podcast episode and open up to a process that will help you successfully start your journey into cultivating better boundaries.

Using an analogy from the Bhakti Yoga spiritual tradition, Damodar gives the listeners an inspiring metaphor and a practical strategy within which to begin their boundary practice.

- one that is dynamic, able to adapt to the vicissitudes of life and - at the same time -one that is about continual refinement and a continual re-centering of us back into our essence.. back into our integrity

Integrity in our life, in our relationships, in our love, in our purpose, in our health, in our spirituality, and more

With this inspiring episode, Damodar outlines a powerful practice of becoming a boundary bad-ass that will help you learn to live more in-touch with your true self - in all areas of your life!

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Tattooing as a Spiritual Practice with Mike Gary

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Tattooing as a Spiritual Practice with Mike Gary

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode #12 with Mike Gary and Damodar Cordua

In this fascinating interview with talented tattooer Mike Gary, we dive deep into these subjects:

- Having spiritual experiences & lessons outside of the perimeters of organized religion

- Spiritually transformative experience of witnessing death in an intimate way

- Presence of dead ones in our life after their death

- The Akashic Records

- Self-growth journey of: needing to be comfortable & secure and at the same time pushing our edges of comfortability - the practice of becoming comfortable in our uncomfortability

- Tattooing as a practice of compassion, presence, and positive boundaries of holding space for others and one's self

- Getting tattooed & giving tattoos as a space of real vulnerability... & real vulnerability being the space within with we are truly alive and connected to ourselves and others

- Tattooing as a metaphor for being in a relationship with others

- Getting tattooed as a rite of passage in our modern world

- Meeting people where they are at, instead of meeting people where you are at

And much more...

Find out more about Mike's beautiful tattooing and artwork here:

https://truehandsociety.com/tattoo

Instagram: @mike_gary

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When We Betray Our Authentic Self For Connection: An Exploration + Healing Meditation with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Have you ever felt like you had to “hide” who you are in order to be accepted by others? By family, friends, communities?

Have you developed patterns in life based on this self betrayal? Ones that you may still be stuck in to this very day?

In this solo podcast Damodar talks about one of the core human splits: our need to connect & be accepted and our need for self expression and authenticity

During times in our journey, many of us experience self-betrayal - hiding parts of our true self - in order to be accepted by our family of origin, a partner, a community, or even a country.

We may do this for love - we may do this, frankly, to survive.

But, if we never reckon with that part of us we betrayed - or are still betraying - we will maintain a low ceiling on our potential…

and we will repeat those same patterns of betrayal in our relationships and in our communities.

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Conscious Parenting, Conscious Communication + Empowerment with Kelly Whitaker

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Conscious Parenting, Conscious Communication + Empowerment with Kelly Whitaker

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode #8 with Kelly Whitaker & Damodar Cordua

- How do we empower our children, see and reveal their greatness?

- How do we create conscious communication habits with our kids? And with the world?

- How do we heal our own childhood hurt via our role as parents?

- What are our unique gifts to this world?

In this episode Damodar talks with Conscious Parenting Coach + Women’s Empowerment Coach Kelly Whitaker

In this inspiring episode for both parents and the rest of us we cover these topics + more:

The power and healing that being in nature has over our nervous system and our children’s nervous system

What is conscious coaching for parents + children?

Parenting as a practice

Using the energy of anger & other emotions instead of letting them use you

Seeing a child in their greatness

Allowing for the messiness of the human experience but the powerful resource of learning to repair and clean up that messiness in the moment

Children’s brain function VS the adult brain function

Learning how we were parented in order to heal ourselves... and potentially heal how we deal with our children… to not pass down our trauma… and to empower the next generation

Our children choose us

Tapping into kid’s curiosity & potential through simple, powerful practices

The transformative conscious partnering practice of asking our children: “honor what I ask”

Fighting imposter syndrome & Becoming empowered to share our own gifts on our own terms & being in service to yourself by being of service to the world

Women’s circle, Men’s circles & “circling “ work

When we are heard, we show up in our greatness

Learn more about Kelly's inspiring work with parents, children and women and all her healing offerings HERE

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Three Things You Can Do As An Individual To Create More Success, Resilience, & Awareness in Your Relationships with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Three Things You Can Do As An Individual To Create More Success, Resilience, & Awareness in Your Relationships with Damodar Cordua - Empowered Connection Podcast Episode #9

⁃Are you an individual and looking to work on your ability in relationships - especially primary partnerships?

⁃Are you single & ready to take on some transformative practices that can give you much better mastery - & ultimately, success - over how you do relationships?

⁃Do you continue to keep getting stuck in confusing, negative or disempowered patterns with your partner or partners over the years?

Then join Damodar in this solo podcast as he shares three perspectives that will help individuals improve their relational awareness, capacity, health & wellness now & far into the future !

AND, if you are an INDIVIDUAL looking to go even DEEPER into these transformative strategies, tools & perspectives reach out for your FREE coaching discovery session with Damodar

If you are a COUPLE looking to learn + practice tools that will empower the potential of your partnership, join him for his live, in real-time (& recorded) online workshop EMPOWERED PARTNERSHIPS. Use the code EMPOWEREDCONNECTION at checkout & receive 20% off !

Catholic All Boys School, Punk Rock, Psychedelics, Spiritual Awakenings, & Bhakti Yoga: Soul Journeying with Liam Wilson

Tue, 22 Mar 2022 05:00:00 -0400

Empowered Connection Podcast Episode #8:

Catholic All Boys School, Punk Rock, Psychedelics, Spiritual Awakenings, & Bhakti Yoga: Soul Journeying with Liam Wilson

This episode is like a origin story, a little biopic of two old friends on the path of seeking...

In this podcast Damodar talks with one of his oldest, long-standing friends, Liam Wilson. Liam is a musician and is most well-known known for his work as the bass player for the now defunct progressive metal band The Dillinger Escape Plan, as well as for his writing and performances with his current projects Azusa and John Frum. As a long-standing proponent of yoga and meditation, Liam believes these are essential parts of his lifestyle and creative process.

Some of the great topics covered in this episode:

- Soul journeying: what it means to have someone on the path of seeking weave in and out of your life for decades, as an inspiration to your spirituality, self-growth & empowerment

- Growing up going to Jesuit Catholic All Boy School and what it gave spiritually, morally and relationally… and what was rebelled against

- Being a "Man for Others" through the idea of a life dedicated to service through the Jesuit order and Bhakti Yoga

- The pros of being an outsider & anti-authoritarian in a variety of ways, Liam shares some of his own person story growing up, including being part of the lesbian community in the 1980s

- Spiritual seeds planted while growing up in religious community/school and the possible need for a new context for those spiritual seeds to fully take root and grow

- It's “Punk to be a priest!”

- Teen-age and young adult rebellion through punk rock, art, music, and counter-culture… to explore and help ask the bigger questions

- Psychedelics in our contemporary experience as a gateway or peek into sincere spiritual awakening & experience

- The logic of atheism in the face of mind-blowing moments of spiritual awakening

- The Eastern practices of yoga, meditation, and Bhakti as paths & lifestyles to stay on the course of spiritual awakening in a grounded, real day-to-day way

- A God that is right with us, right by our side, not against us: relationship with the divine that is loving - that is “flirty” - rather than repressive or judgmental

- Are science & religion at odds or complementary paradigms?

- Spirituality: a way of life that promotes wonder, mystery, humility and awe

And much more...

Learn more about Liam, his offerings and music projects here:

IG - @Liam_Wilson
Twitter - @LiamWilson

https://linktr.ee/Liam_Wilson

Azusa

John Frum

The Dillinger Escape Plan

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Relationships as Our Mirror & the Transformative Practice of Deep Listening with Our Loved Ones with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 05:00:00 -0400

On this solo podcast I dive into the realm of relationships...

highlighting how relationships are actually a mirror into our own self-healing & self-growth...

And highlighting the transformative relationship practice of listening until our loved ones feel fully heard, fully felt, and fully understood.

Are you ready to see that reflection?
Are you ready to find you own self-growth & empowerment through what you see?
Are you able to listen fully to your loved ones and notice what that process nurtures & empowers in yourself, the other, and your relationship?

On this episode we cover:

Relationships as a mirror reflecting our own hurt, trauma, and the places we are being called forward to grow, heal and become empowered
Even if we change our relationship, the same mirror will pop up, still reflecting what we need to see and where we need to heal + grow
Online workshop to up level and empower YOUR relationship
The powerful practice of listening to others until they feel held, heard, loved - until they feel fully understood
Listening deeply in such a way can beautifully change a person’s - and a relationship’s - trajectory
Resisting the urge to fix someone, react to what your are hearing, push away what you are hearing, hide it, distance from it or distract it
Postponing your own agenda to be fully present for another person, even for one moment
Breaking down the negative patterns of assuming how are partner will always be and placing them in a box of our preconceived notions
"Always" & "Never" as red flags
Diving deeper into the mystery and unlimited potential of our loved ones
What such a powerful listening practice creates in ourselves, our loved one, and our relationship
Deep listening as a spiritual practice

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Trauma, Finding Freedom via Our Nervous System's Capacity, & Spiritual Bypassing with Samantha Jo

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 05:00:00 -0500

How can we expand our nervous system’s capacity?

How can we create more space in our body and therefore in our emotional & relational self?

What is trauma?

How does all this relate to our spiritual life?

What is a way we spiritually bypass?

In this wonderful, illuminating episode host Damodar talks with Somatic Experiencing practitioner Samantha Jo of the Puja Collective and covers these engaging topics of nervous system regulation, trauma, self healing, relationship capacity, empowerment and spiritual growth:

When something actually feels good, how do you know?

What is “trauma”? How it is defined, & how it is experienced

How animals process trauma VS how we process trauma

How many response options do you have currently within your life?

Shifting our nervous system’s pattern and the ideas of polyvagal theory

We are wired for connection - “co-regulation” and relationship potential

Boundaries and the health of the nervous system

Taking our healing journey step by step, day by day, celebrating the small victories

Having more spaciousness within the home of our own self

Spiritual bypassing

PLUS: Samantha Jo leads the listener through a short Somatic Experiencing session!

Learn more about Samantha Jo’s and the Puja Collective’s work here

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Reframing Our Blame with Damodar Cordua

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:00:00 -0500

Do you have the tendency to blame others?

Are some of your key relationships plagued with blaming? Is blaming creating difficulty, resentment and a lack of connection?

Are you looking for some perspective and tools to move out from and transform your propensity to blame?

In this solo podcast episode join Relationship + Life Coach and host Damodar Cordua for a helpful look into a simple but profound reason why we blame...

AND some great perspectives and tips on how we can transform our blame into our ability to learn more about ourselves, become empowered, find personal responsibility and create better connection & love in our relationships.

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Becoming Empowered by Our Karmic Blueprints - interview with Josh Whitely

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 05:00:00 -0500

This is an exciting & fascinating episode that interviews Josh Whitely, Vedic Astrologer located in Tucson, AZ.

Vedic Astrology is an astrology based in the Eastern Vedic tradition that helps us find some of the karmic patterns that govern our life.

In this podcast we dive deep into the idea of "karma" and how knowing more about the karmic patterns within ourselves can actually help us become an author of our reality instead of a victim of our fate. We can become more empowered in our self, in our relationships, and in our spiritual journey

In this podcast episode we cover:

- How does Vedic Astrology differ from Western Astrology?

- What is our “karmic blueprint?”

- Can we change our karma?

- How can our karmic blueprints give us lessons towards our self growth & agency, instead of feeling helpless or a victim - “it’s fated!” or obsessing over what we find out & using it as a crutch

- How vedic astrology helps to see ourselves & our relationships more clearly instead of hiding from ourselves or our relationship dynamics

- Free will VS "fate"

- At the end of the episode find your EMPOWERED CONNECTION PRACTICE TOOL and bring back home into your life some of the inspiring themes & ideas from the podcast

- And much more!

Connect with Josh Whitely for your Vedic chart reading & much more here:
https://rupaayurveda.com

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Why You Need to Become Emotionally Intelligent - Damodar Cordua

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:00:00 -0500

On this solo episode I talk about the dire need for emotional awareness and intelligence in our lives

In fact, this need is one of my main purposes as a relationship + life coach

Often we repress, distract, push aside, get overwhelmed by, or betray our emotions. It is not that we are “unemotional” people, rather it is that we don’t have the tools within which to process, understand, and move from what our emotions are showing us.

This leads to the emotions coming out sideways in patterns that can compromise ourselves, our loved ones, and our empowerment.

But, by being with them we have more agency, more information, and more options as to how we want to deal with them and/or react to them.

If we cannot learn to “be with” our emotions and learn what they are showing us about ourselves, then we will limit the potential of our lives, our relationships and even our success in this world.

Covered in this episode:

We are all “emotional,” even if we don’t say or think we are
The tendency for our emotions to come out sideways when we hide them, repress them, betray them, distract them
How our inability to hold space & process our emotions compromises our life
“Being with” our emotions and the information, agency, & empowerment this gifts us
At the end of the episode find your EMPOWERED CONNECTION TOOL to help you start the journey of creating more emotional awareness + intelligence

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The Work of Inner Illumination, Loving Fiercely & the Grace of the Teacher - Sonia Karas

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:00:00 -0500

This episode speaks eloquently & beautifully of the soul - to the work of our inner illumination. Energy worker, yoga teacher, kirtan singer, and storyteller Sonia Karas & I take some sacred time on topics that will light up your heart and inspire your healing. A heart-centered podcast for those on a spiritual quest of their own.

In this episode we cover:

The journey into embodiment and, from there, the path to spirt
The subtle realm of our expansive self
Moving past conditional love to a space of full acceptance + vulnerability
What it means to have a relationship to spirit, to be unconditionally loved and to fiercely love ourselves and the divine
What it means to have a teacher and what student-teacher relationships can bring into our lives
Beautiful, inspiring yoga storytelling with Sonia
At the end of the episode find your EMPOWERED CONNECTION TOOL and bring home & into your life some of the inspiring themes & ideas from this podcast

Connect Sonia here: https://soniakaras.com and on Instagram @soniakaras

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Our Pain & Struggle is the Doorway to Our Journey of Healing, Transformation & Empowerment - Damodar Cordua

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:00:00 -0500

On this solo episode I talk about why our times of pain & struggle are the signposts for entering into our healing, self-awareness, transformation + empowerment.

I share the story of the Bhagavad Gita, the perennial spiritual classic, that starts with existential crisis as the gateway into deeper understanding of the self.

I also share a part of my own journey. During a difficulty in an area of my own life - in my partnership - I was able to see my pain not only only an opportunity to grow, but as pathway to look for mentors, teachers, and new guides in my life.

AND as a pathway for the next stage in my purpose and my gifts of service to the world.

In this episode we discuss:

Pain, struggle, crisis & difficulty as gateways into healing, transformation, and empowerment
How we can become more aware & attuned to the signposts pointing us to our own growth
How a positive embracing of :”surrender” gifts us the opportunity to shift our paradigm and enter deeper into our healing & reaching out for help, guidance, & connection
A meditation on your own ability to see how crisis & difficulty has transformed your life

Are you ready to enter into your journey of transforming your difficulty or pain into your healing & empowerment? Connect here with Damodar and dive deep into that possibility!

Trailer - Connect more fully to yourself, to others, and to something greater - Damodar Cordua

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:00:00 -0500

Are you ready to connect? This is the Empowered Connection Podcast where we empower our listeners to connect more fully to themselves, to each other, and to something greater. We do this with the help of myself & special guests including healers, coaches, artists, seekers, and those on a journey of healing + self growth. Welcome

Prepare yourself for conversations that will bring you deeper into your own self-awareness & healing, that will empower your most important relationships, and that will connect you to something grander... within yourself, within others, and within the world

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hosted by Damodar Cordua,
Relationship + Life Coach & Yoga + Yoga Wisdom Teacher

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