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S2 EP 8. Dr. Alec Verkuilen Brogan: The Dance Between Destiny and Free Will

26 September 2023 by Raj Jana

In this week’s episode of Stay Grounded, host Raj Jana is joined again by Dr. Alec Verkuilen-Brogan, professor of Anatomy at Naropa University. The last episode Raj recorded with Alec was such a hit that he couldn’t wait to bring him back for a follow up.

Dr. Alec takes a multidimensional approach to understanding human potential, integrating chiropractic, Vedic sciences, Jyotish astrology, and Human Design. His fascination with spiritual anatomy and the subtle energies of the body led him to develop ways of supporting grounded awakening and embodiment.

In addition to teaching, Dr. Alec’s journey has been shaped through transformative experiences with plant medicine and guidance from teachers like Sadhguru. He now shares these maps and tools with others to reveal the beauty and uniqueness within each soul.

Key insights include using astrological systems to understand life’s timing, embodying your Human Design for authenticity, allowing initiations to come naturally, and integrating spiritual wisdom into modern life.

In addition to these key insights, Raj and Dr. Alec explore:

Alec’s mystical experience as a teenager that illuminated new dimensions of awareness
How our astrological charts reveal soul purpose and life’s hidden logic
Using Human Design to unlock alignment with our true nature
Leaning into initiations while avoiding forcing or grasping
Embodying spirituality to embrace life more fully
Teaching integrative wisdom traditions as maps to self-realization
Daily spiritual practice as an anchor through all of life’s changes

Dr. Alec offers illuminating perspectives for living with purpose while honoring the soul’s destiny. Tune in for a fascinating glimpse into ancient sciences and grounded spirituality.

Timestamps:

0:48 – Intro / How Alec found himself

13:37 – The awareness of purpose

17:29 – How to have a mentor and still walk your own path

29:41 – The foundations of learning the soul

36:25 – Listen to yourself (it will tell you who you are)

45:14 – How Alec Stays Grounded

These are the links mentioned in the episode:

Website: https://www.geometryofgrace.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geometryofgrace

Email: geometryofgrace@gmail.com

Naropa University: https://www.naropa.edu/

Human Design: https://www.humandesignamerica.com/

Liber8: https://www.rajjana.com/liber8

S2 EP 7. Carissa Johnsen: Activating Your Spiritual DNA

19 September 2023 by Raj Jana

Activating Your Spiritual DNA

This week’s amazing guest is Carissa Johnsen.

With a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and over 7 years experience as an Intuitive, Channel, and Energy Healer, Carissa merges ancient wisdom with modern leadership principles to support high-impact leaders in reaching new levels of wholeness and prosperity by helping them access their deepest spiritual gifts.

In this wide-ranging discussion, Carissa shares:

What spiritual gifts are and how they connect us to unseen realms
Her journey through an intense dark night of the soul to discover her true gifts
Why community support is crucial when abilities first come online
How to listen to the wisdom of your heart and soul
Practices like prayer and presence to stay grounded
How to trust the mysterious unfolding of your path

Carissa offers potent insights into the challenging but rewarding process of a spiritual awakening. We talk in depth about how trauma healing and taking the time to process repressed emotion creates space for your gifts to flourish.

I hope this conversation offers a glimpse into the future of human potential as spiritual abilities awaken on a mass scale.

Links mentioned in the episode

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carissajohnsen/

Website: https://www.carissajohnsen.com/

Timestamps:

0:00 – Introduction

2:45 – What is a spiritual gift?

5:15 – How Spiritual Gifts change the way you live

38:33 – The identity of your true self

44:47 – What is Manifestation

50:04 – How does Carissa Stay Grounded?

S2 EP5 Dr. Alec Verkuilen Brogan: Remembering Your Infinite Nature

5 September 2023 by Raj Jana

This week’s very special guest is my brother Dr. Alec Verkuilen-Brogan.

Dr. Alec is a professor of spiritual anatomy at Naropa University in Boulder, CO, focused on studying the beauty of the subtle body. He is a traditionally trained network chiropractor who brings this knowledge into the Vedic tradition to support deep transformation of consciousness.

Dr. Alec is also the founder of Geometry of Grace, a modern metaphysical framework that uses sacred systems like astrology, Tarot, and Human Design as maps and mirrors for awakening. The geometry of grace paradigm guides people to tune into their unique nature and align with grace.

Through his study of Jyotish, Human Design, and 15+ years spent apprenticing under his root teacher Sadhguru, Dr. Alec’s work offers a map of the territory that must be traversed on the journey to remembering one’s infinite nature. His fascination with the spine inspires people to dive deep into their own spiritual anatomy.

In this wide-ranging discussion, we discuss:

Moving beyond separateness to recognize the oneness of all life
Honoring your unique human design and inner authority
Facing down limitations and illusions to relinquish what is not real
The role of devotion, prayer, and mysticism in staying grounded
Why life gets more mysterious as we awaken to truth

With decades of experience guiding others to self-realization, Dr. Alec offers rare insights into the spiritual process of burning away all that is untrue to uncover one’s infinite essence. I hope you enjoy listening to this beautiful conversation.

Timestamps:

0:32 – Meet Alec Brogan

3:57 – Illusions of Loneliness

10:37 – The Rhythm of Our Nature

17:12 – How to Accrue Karma

23:17 – The Geometry of Grace

28:52 – Why you should stay connected to Grace

35:22 – Initiation in truth

44:35 – The Awakening in your initiation

51:06 – The Revelation of your true self (edited)

These are the links mentioned in the episode:

Website: https://www.geometryofgrace.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geometryofgrace

Email: geometryofgrace@gmail.com

Naropa University: https://www.naropa.edu/

EP 231. Justin & Leigh: The Deepest Silence You’ve Ever Known

16 May 2022 by Raj Jana

“Tuning into silence is just taking time to listen to nothing in particular… just tuning into the simple essence of what is.”

The WHO has ranked noise pollution as only second to air pollution in its impact on human well being. Our world has become noisier and noisier. We’re constantly bombarded with stimuli and notifications competing for our attention. As a result, it’s becoming harder than ever to disconnect from external chaos and sink into the depths within.

Justin Zorn & Leigh Marz are the authors of Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise. Their perspectives and work on reclaiming the presence of silence in our lives has been taught to the U.S. Congress, Harvard, and Google. Justin & Leigh are committed to empowering people to reclaim silence in their lives – so they can experience the joy of connection, rest, and deep listening.

Justin & Leigh are here to remind us that silence does exist in the world. We just have to find it, honor it, and sink into it. In turn, we’ll experience mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health benefits.

I love how embodied Justin & Leigh are with their message around silence. The conversation we had was so rich and mindful. Together, we unpacked the psychology and science of silence from so many different angles and perspectives.

Key takeaways include:

Defining silence.
Silence, noise and their relationship with productivity & GDP.
Understanding health issues & life years lost because of auditory noise.
Becoming aware of our internal noise.
Differentiating between stress & aliveness.
How to tune into silence.
How Cyrus Habib became a connoisseur of creation.
Seeking ‘eudaimonia’.
Exploring the discomfort of being.
Why Pythagoras required members of his inner circle to spend five years in silence.
And more…

If you’re ready to allow silence to be your greatest teacher, tune into this powerful episode to learn how to embody the practice of silence. In turn, you’ll discover how to access new depths of who you are through connectedness, slowness, and pristine quite.

Contact Info:

Check out www.leighmarz.com
Check out www.justinzorn.com

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Blown away. Spoke to the US Congress, NASA, Google – how to reclaim presence in our lives through silence. Such a practical application of mindfulness. I can tell when people embody their message and Justin and Leigh most certainly do. Such a nourishing, refreshing conversation and a potent reminder of what’s available to us when we drop into deep, palpable silence.

Go nuts on one specific subject. The whole episode about one thing (rather than the usual dancing around). A central topic – and unpack what that means in so many beautiful ways. I felt very grateful that I got to enter into a new level of awareness of silence. Expanded my definition about what it means to connect with silence. I didn’t expect it – and it was beautiful. Also, it’s fun interviewing 2 people at the same time.

Even if it’s just five seconds, can I just go as deep as possible and make those five seconds feel like a lifetime, because that is such a powerful idea that I certainly could use more of.

I realized this the other day I was having writer’s block and like just stuck in this space of not being able to be creative. And you’re both making me realize how it’s actually the key to all of it is coming back to those moments that you can just go deep and not go outside, looking for an answer or a space or something to pull you out of it. It’s not more noise. That’s going to pull you out of it. It’s actually connecting deeply with what’s present and what’s here. And so I’m just really appreciating I’m appreciating both of you right now, actually very much so.

EP 228. Amy Albright: Waking Up Your Spiritual Gifts

25 April 2022 by Raj Jana

“The most important thing that you can ever give another person is your loving presence.”

I first met this episode’s guest at a dinner. We had an instant connection that led to a deep spiritual conversation. Since that moment, I’ve been so excited to have Dr. Amy Albright on the show.

Dr. Amy’s audacious ownership of who she is inspires me, and I was curious about how one develops the courage to know themselves so deeply. How do you reach the place of trusting your intuition so fearlessly? How do you live a life fully guided by the wisdom within?

This episode is a spiritual journey – almost a 101 for the role of spirituality in these changing times. We cover a LOT, and in particular, explore the incredibly important role that presence plays as an activator, a catalyst, and a gateway to a soul-led life.

Dr. Amy Albright is on a mission to advance humanity. She’s a top-tier executive coach, and strategic business advisor to high-level CEOs, leaders of multi-million & billion-dollar companies, and social change makers. With over 20 years’ experience, Dr. Amy serves as the life-changing catalyst in her clients’ lives. Through her unorthodox methods, Dr. Amy guides her clients through extraordinary transformations using her cutting-edge blend of neuroscience, consciousness, personal development, and business success.

As the co-founder of Holon Evolution, Dr. Amy works to reinvent the operating system for leaders, so they can fulfill their life’s purpose and accomplish their soul’s calling. Her work is potent, powerful, and profound.

Our conversation was so rich and delicious. Amy has access to an incredible depth of wisdom and information. She blew me away and I know she’ll do the same for you too.

Here’s an overview of everything we explored:

What is spiritual intuition?
Why do some people wake up and others don’t?
Leaning into moments of truth.
Remembering and reconnecting with indigenous wisdom.
What is a spiritual gift?
Expanding our level of consciousness.
What is presence?
The most important thing you can give to another.
What’s happening in presence.
The Holon Breath Practice for activating presence.
Bifurcation is why we suffer.
The potency of making meaning from nature.

If you’re ready to discover the magic that can happen inside of presence – as well as some techniques that can take you there – do not miss this incredible conversation with Dr. Amy Albright.

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