The Inspired Aliveness Podcast is produced by Jon Bernie, author of Ordinary Freedom, who is a contemporary spiritual teacher who offers a compassionate, heart-centered approach to awakening. His teaching focuses on returning the attention to the already enlightened state that lies at the core of our human experience. He has four decades of practice and study in the Zen, Theravada Buddhist and Advaita traditions, and was formally asked to teach by Adyashanti in 2002. Jon is also an experienced healer and teacher of somatic embodiment, trained in the Alexander Technique, Zero Balancing, and the Qigong system of Dr. Yu Penxi. He works closely and intimately with individuals to facilitate consciousness development and deep emotional healing.
When you begin to learn to take care of yourself in a way that you’ve always needed, your nervous system will calm, your body will soften, and your heart will begin to open and radiate the love that …
Our lives can be so hectic and busy that we can naturally take this “doer” perspective into our practice. It’s important to simply relax, drop the effort, and allow yourself to open to the natural st…
Just like you can’t make a plant grow, you can’t make yourself become transformed, healed, or integrated. Instead, learn to get out of the way and allow the intuitive guidance system to show you the …
It’s so easy to be focused on what you don’t have, how it isn’t, and what you want. However, gratitude is essential for your healing, transformation, and integration. Give yourself some gratitude for…
The journey is not easy, and you may not like it, but you ultimately have no choice. Thankfully, you already have all that you need. As you surrender more and more to this consciousness that you are,…
You and your existence are the ultimate mystery. It is impossible to understand, so instead simply learn to allow the mysterious force of your existence to guide your own unique way. Recorded March 1…
If you are struggling to understand, simply relax into effortless “not knowing” and let the power and wisdom of your life-force guide you. Recorded Jan 21, 2023.
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You don’t need to look to any external authority or reference to find the truth that is already within you. All it takes is the courage and willingness to simply stop, be still, and listen to that wh…
It’s important to continually learn to take care of your garden – the garden of your body, mind, and heart. Although gardening is not an easy job, and requires much work as we travel through this lif…
It’s okay to be human, and it’s okay to ask for what you want or need. However, this type of true asking is something you offer up into the space with your whole being without any expectation. Recor…
When true practice is happening, you aren’t in the way. When your attention isn’t muddled by effort or person will, true clarity arises. (Recording taken from an online Satsang with Jon Bernie on Nov…
Returning home allows us to begin to welcome and embrace all parts of ourselves, even those parts that have been marginalized, forgotten about, or that have been in pain. Recorded Oct 8, 2022.
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What’s the difference between productive suffering and unproductive suffering? With productive suffering, you aren’t fighting against what is by trying to stay in control, but you’re simply being hon…
Do you know what the downside to thinking you know is? It’s that you might be wrong. Instead, allow the vulnerability of not knowing, so that you may truly find out.
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It’s not something that is earned through effort. It is not something achieved through achieved via willpower. Yet, it requires our discipline and attention. Keep returning and allowing the natural h…
You already are that which you are looking for, but how do you open to that possibility when the one wants to surrender is also the one who is in the way? What works is dropping yourself — dropping w…
It can be difficult to stop and become available for what you don’t want to feel. However, by learning how to simply be here for yourself, you may find that things begin to bloom all on their own. Re…
The way of healing and transformation is not something that you can achieve or understand, yet it is revealed as you relax and simply get out of the way. Recorded 12/18/2022 in San Francisco.
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You honor yourself by being here. It’s a gift that you give yourself, to show up and be present. Recorded 1/8/2022 in San Francisco.
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True surrender is enlivening. It’s energizing. It’s empowering. Because you’re letting go of being who you think you are, as awareness slowly, over time, becomes more embodied in your tissue, in your…