Podcasts by Free Love
The Free Love Podcast is devoted to potent spiritual practices for the purpose of becoming free. It's a collection of Dharma talks given by Free Love Founder, Audra Carmine. Enjoy. At Free Love we love community, meditation, laughter, mantra, meditation, and truth telling. We seek to become so free that expansive love flows through everything we do. Kindness, loving-awareness, and an ever-widening lense of compassion keep us connected to the creative impulse to do good--not the spiritual bypassing, ignoring reality, living in pretend-land kind of good, but the kind of good that comes from a wise knowing to love all of it so much that you are willing to be brave enough to shed your fear, act, tell the truth, serve, change, and grow.
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The Middle Way from 2021-12-19T20:18:55
A good one to listen to over the holidays where we can tend to move from indulgence to aestheticism, from over doing it to trying to give everything up in the New Year.
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The View from Oneness from 2021-11-29T17:36:54
Our second week of Metta meditation practice focuses on a neutral person in our lives. Audra shares a miracle story and some tools for dissolving our protective suits.
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Loving Kindness as a Radical Practice from 2021-11-22T01:10:12
Loving Kindness as a Radical Practice by Audra Carmine
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Practice--There is Still Time on the Clock from 2021-09-19T18:26:17
We live in a time where there is emphasis on division. On anger. On conspiracy -- on believing in a time of uncertainty that we have an answer that others don’t, that we see something that others c...
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Is Practice Selfish? from 2021-08-23T23:30:38
This episode explores the question of whether or not practice supports living an awakened life or not? You get to find out for yourself. What a miracle! Audra uses the five precepts as a tool to di...
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The Chicken of Truth from 2021-08-01T18:56:37
People pleasing, judgment and how to work with it. An exploration of the anatomy of judgment, perfectionism and the promise of our inner genius. Please excuse me, there is a part where I have to ye...
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What's Beyond Acceptance? from 2021-07-18T17:59:56
In the yoga/wellness industrial complex there can exist a stuckness around acceptance, self-acceptance, acceptance of truth, and acceptance of what is. The next step in the evolution of awakening i...
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Letting Go the Comfort of the Box: An Interview with Amanda Melbostad from 2021-07-06T20:03:40
This interview led us to a realization that blew both of our minds and made me, Audra, cry a little. Wait for it, it's at the endish, but you have to listen to the whole banana to really understand...
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Brave, Vulnerable and True from 2021-06-28T18:49:08
A real vulnerable share from Audra and from the community. It's so hard to be with what's here that many times we protect ourselves with limiting belief systems, and intellectualized meaning making...
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An Interview with Anna Mitra from 2021-06-23T16:15:56
An Interview with Anna Mitra by Audra Carmine
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Kissing What Waits Beneath All Want from 2021-05-24T19:38:38
When we get tied to the idea of things needing to be a certain way, a perfect way, we miss the expansive possibility of what's here. The universe is always waiting, right here, to rise up and meet ...
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The Mother of 10,000 Things from 2021-05-09T17:59:13
The energy of mother is so big that it contains both life and death simultaneously. As one thing begins another ends. As one thing ends another begins. What is more personal than living and dying?...
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Beyond Wrong and Right from 2021-04-26T21:16:06
The more time we spend cultivating the expansive space within us, the more the score keeper becomes a caricature. The more the score keeper becomes someone who we realize is not actually us, but a ...
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The Seasons Of The Heart from 2021-04-19T20:59:44
Perhaps the expectation that the heart stay open and soft in the face of so much suffering is misguided. Perhaps the heart has it's seasons that are wise without us having to understand, or make me...
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The Truth is Where It's At: An Interview with Donica Burdette from 2021-03-30T17:44:52
Donica gets into it. We discuss studying trees, growing up in Virginia, adoption, race, being Asian, and all things yoga. What a blessing this interview is, not to be missed.
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Our Bodies Know They Belong from 2021-03-21T20:01:35
A discussion that begins with the exquisite wisdom of the equinox--that there is room for the shadow and the light. We talk about revolving around what matters and how sometimes that changes. Somet...
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Superhighway to the Heart: An Interview with Gina Rodondi from 2021-03-06T19:50:31
Welcome to the Free Love community, Gina. The dharma in this episode is huge. The whole episode is extremely heart opening, so much so that Audra and Gina both ride the edges of vulnerability, and...
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Skillful Means: Practice AND Letting Go the Wheel from 2021-02-28T20:23:05
Skillful Means: Practice AND Letting Go the Wheel by Audra Carmine
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Lower the Bar For What's Sacred In Your Life from 2021-01-31T21:38:06
Lower the Bar For What's Sacred In Your Life by Audra Carmine
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Return with Warmth: A Simple Meditation from 2021-01-11T20:14:09
Return with Warmth: A Simple Meditation by Audra Carmine
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The Cosmic Game from 2021-01-01T19:59:03
A New Year's Day talk on how the expression of difference is what opens us. We close we open, we rememeber and we forget. Plus a refelction excercise for the New Year.
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Meaning Becomes from 2020-11-15T19:54:26
Meanings arises. Meaning is revealed. Meaning is akin to a poem--it becomes. Meaning is not in our control and is not revealed through a doing, which can feel uncomfortable. It is revealed through ...
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The Inner Pillar of Wisdom and Strength from 2020-11-09T01:33:42
The Inner Pillar of Wisdom and Strength by Audra Carmine
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The Big Paradox of Codependency from 2020-10-28T00:13:58
Enmeshment with another person can create suffering when we begin to think we need them to be a certain way in order for us to be happy. We loose the sweetness that exists in the dance of duality. ...
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Discipline = Freedom from 2020-10-17T16:22:23
It takes fortitude and strength to redirect our awareness towards love. In the beginning of any spiritual practice it can feel unbelievably good and elevating. However, yoga is also about doing har...
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Let It Die: Shedding Identities To Get To The Heart Of Who You Really Are from 2020-09-20T19:21:04
An extended talk from Yoga Church that explores the paradox of suffering, radical love, and heart opening. How many identities can we shed to get to the heart of who we really are?
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A Meditation To Keep Our Hearts Open from 2020-09-20T19:11:02
This meditation uses four steps to help us be spacious with difficult emotions. Taped in the presence of our Love Hive community on the top of Mount Tabor 8am 9/20/20.
1. Sit and let the breath...
Service As Public Worship--Giving Until It Feels Like Receiving from 2020-08-23T20:09:47
What brings comfort? What makes us small? How does this relate to giving ourselves the gift of presence so that we are able to be in service to and alignment with love?
The poem Audra reads is ...
Groundlessness from 2020-07-09T03:01:15
Here's what's happening, we are all experiencing a collective loss. How do we say yes to this? How do we trust that we are expansive enough to integrate and be a part of even this moment?
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Yoga Does Not Center Comfort. Yoga Centers Love from 2020-06-16T14:25:01
Yoga does not center comfort. Yoga centers love and connection. How can we better take care of each other and belong to one another as we move toward revolution and re-imagining of the world not ce...
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The Cheapest Room In The House from 2020-06-01T18:54:43
Shame and guilt, like fear, are the cheapest room in the house. As Hafiz writes, "I would like to see you living in better conditions." If we continue to center the conversation on self, on our own...
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The Racist in Me and the Racist in You--Your Inner Karen from 2020-05-28T22:28:24
Audra speaks about the video of Amy Cooper faking being attacked by a black man--bird watcher Christian Cooper--and calling the police on him. Watch it.
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As white women we are te...
A Generous Heart from 2020-05-19T16:48:16
We have all reached our limit with the pandemic--in our relationships, financially, and personally. How can we use our practice of connecting to our own essential goodness to be generous with ourse...
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The Loving Witness: Deep Listening In Relationship from 2020-05-11T19:05:54
Audra begins with a meditation, encouraging us to listen inward with humor and curiosity. She then takes you through a script that creates a no nonsense container for deep listening in relationship...
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Lakshmi Gets Lost from 2020-05-03T20:01:33
Something new is waiting to be born. What is containing you and keeping you from being free? Getting lost--the place where we are still leaning into limiting belief systems while at the same time o...
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Get Lost: Moving Toward The Lost Feeling from 2020-05-03T19:48:28
How can we begin to belong to ourselves rather than our limiting belief systems? Audra redefine's lost as the place where we are still leaning into our limiting beliefs, even as we can feel our sou...
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Free to Feel from 2020-04-28T21:42:26
Audra talks about the reality of being lonely and how we have to trust our own capacity for feeling and healing.
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Asking For Help from 2020-04-23T22:14:59
How can we cut through our limiting belief systems around asking for help and heal? With humor and love, Audra gives you a down and dirty guide to setting yourself free.
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Full Submersion from 2020-04-12T20:00:46
Audra speaks about her experience of Easter as a young Catholic, and decodes some of the rituals including baptism.
Topics covered--
The three stages of spiritual development
1.Co...
Brave Enough To Feel from 2020-04-09T23:32:01
Audra talks about the call to be brave enough to hold space for all of our feelings during this time of crisis, and the importance of avoiding the temptation to grade or rank suffering as judgment ...
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Light Bringers from 2020-04-02T23:36:03
It's gonna be all of it, loved ones. And we need the light bringers, the artists, the musicians, the seerers, the knowers and the people who have accepted their mission in life and said yes to thei...
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The Path to Freedom from 2020-02-24T04:58:17
Using two stories--one experienced as positive, and one experienced as negative--Audra helps students understand the practical benefit of being able to rest in witness consciousness. When we cease ...
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When Love Hold Up This Whole Thing from 2020-02-18T05:17:07
Audra speaks about the subtle ways in which the why we have for practice gets between us and love.
"Look what happens to the scale when love holds it, it stops working."
Kabir
Love Is Learning How To Say Yes To What Is from 2020-02-04T23:00:16
Love is learning to say yes to what is, and suffering is whenever we are not in control, according to the beloved rebel priest Richard Rohr. Audra discusses the paradox of this idea and how it rela...
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Fierce Grace from 2020-02-02T03:03:33
Kobe, fierce grace and returning to what matters. Love.
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What is Terrible is to have Thought from 2020-02-02T03:02:04
Audra speaks about identifying with our thoughts and how to move toward our own loving awareness as a source of our identity.
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Beloved Community: A Refuge When We Are Lost from 2020-01-20T23:12:10
How is community a refuge for us when we feel lost from ourselves and the truth of who we really are? It takes courage to reach out from our small selves and connect, but the promise of community i...
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Dharma--Trusting What Is from 2020-01-19T22:07:34
Dharma--that which supports us is resting in the truth of what is. Not resisting,accepting. This moment is perfectly designed to wake us up, call us to presence, to soften our hearts, so that we ca...
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Living From The Container of Your Truth from 2020-01-17T21:44:35
Audra speaks about living from a place a container of our highest truth. It is better to live our own dharma poorly than another's dharma well.
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Perfection Is Not A Requirement For Wholeness from 2019-12-19T03:52:34
Audra tells the story of Ganesha, the moon, a mouse and snake.
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The Death Card from 2019-12-18T22:48:52
When things weren't what they once were and aren't yet what they are going to be--Audra speaks about Veda coming home from college. Here's to the death of what was and the creation of space for new...
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Rush Toward Kindness from 2019-12-18T22:43:51
Audra tells a story about a coffee spill and speaks about the importance and effects of rushing toward kindness in our lives.
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You Are Not Alone: Widening the Net of Connection from 2019-11-24T21:47:58
Audra discusses the steps to softening the inner critic in times of anxiety and confusion, and how sometimes we are the least qualified person to nurture and love yourself. We need one another to w...
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You Are Not Diminished By Your Struggles: The Healing Power Of Love from 2019-11-07T22:46:38
The teachings of yoga help us remember that we are not the sum of our cummulative human, ever-changeable, parts, rather we are something larger. We are love. Audra speaks about the power of this un...
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Accepting Pain As Our Teacher from 2019-11-05T00:04:23
How can we accept the invitation pain offers us to grow? Audra begins with a recounting of an episode of Rythmn and Flow and ends discussing why it is important to allow pain to transform us rather...
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The Complex Nature of Our Interconnectedness from 2019-10-30T20:48:36
The teachings of yoga are in service to connection and our interconnectedness. In this confusing-unstable time politically and personally, it is important that we be in relationship to our own ener...
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Your Birth Right: Feel it All from 2019-10-22T01:29:42
The perfectionist idea that we should not act on or even experience anger, frustration and reactivity when triggered is a bad deal family. We were built for the whole spectrum of emotions and you h...
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Sell Out? Maybe???? from 2019-10-17T23:16:10
This one is a funny one.Audra speaks about a brush with fame and how willing she was to completely sell out because she wanted something. The ego shows up when we least expect it, and we won't alwa...
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Batman: From Our Wounds Come Great Love from 2019-10-17T23:12:42
After a challenging week, Audra speaks about bandaids versus leaning into the inherhent contridictions of living. We explore the Batman story and using our own woundness to serve.
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Wild and Free: Reremembering We Are Love from 2019-10-10T03:56:41
Audra speaks about her daughter's crucs and attempts to embarass her from 3,00 miles away while still downloading the teachings that help us remember that the universe love us so much.
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The Barriers We Build To Joy from 2019-10-03T02:51:03
Audra speaks about expereincing joy and love in our bodies rather than holding the goodness in our lives at a safe distance.
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Carl Sagan and Inhabiting Our Wholeness from 2019-09-26T20:35:36
Audra speaks about the benefits of a vast perspective and how we can meet ourselves without comparison or accounting. Can we stop judging and making ourselves small/bigger and instead inhabit our f...
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You Are The Garden: You Belong from 2019-09-15T21:23:53
Audra speaks about our tendency to go straight down the rabbit hole into feeling not worthy of love and belonging and how sometimes when we speak truth to that we can have our own light reflected b...
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The Power of Your Yes is Only as Big as The Power of Your No from 2019-09-10T22:27:21
Audra discusses saying yes, John Lennon and Yoko Ono and saying no in order to burn a path to your biggest and brightest yes.
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Disorientation, Kindness and Love from 2019-08-25T20:55:15
Audra speaks about the process of becoming bewildered and disoriented and how to meet ourselves there with presence and a special, expansive sort of kindness.
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Faith in Love When The World Seems Horrible: Part Two from 2019-08-09T01:18:11
Part two, in which Audra discusses the benefits of presence and curiousity versus the constant desire to make meaning. Understand does not mean to know. It means to stand in the midst of.
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Faith In Love When The World Feels Horrible: Part One from 2019-08-09T01:16:09
Audra speaks about faith, trust and surrender in times of shadow through the lense of a story from the gospels about a man who is blind, yet has a clear faith and knowledge of the divine. Good pep ...
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Acting in Alignment with Our Values: The Bhagavad Gita Part 3 from 2019-07-28T20:59:43
Audra discusses the process of knowing versus doing. Acting in alignment with our values is not always comfortable, it doesn't always feel good so how do we stay in connection with our values as we...
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Dating Your Way To Spiritual Freedom from 2019-07-25T23:54:17
Audra discusses understanding our hearts and minds so that we can be free. She uses the real world lenses of attachment theory and dating. After the class, a therapist approached her and explained ...
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Disruption and Integration from 2019-06-30T20:37:21
Audra speaks about how we begin to belong to our routine rather than ourselves, and how to mindfully disrupt to make space.
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Bring Me To The Center Of My Lostness: Gita Part 2 from 2019-06-17T20:45:26
Audra continues her exploration of the very beggining of the Bhagavad Gita, this episode we hear Krsna responds to Arjuna's despair.
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Take Me To The Center Of The Mess: The Bhagavad Gita from 2019-06-17T20:39:52
Audra speaks on feeling lost, Elizabeth Gilbert and the very first lines of the Gita.
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Yoga and The Call Back To Our Bodies from 2019-06-11T17:42:17
Audra speaks on the mass exodus of women from their bodies,healing an eating disorder and the gift and power of reunifying with this portal from which we get to view the universe.
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The Loneliness Wound from 2019-05-16T15:50:26
Being with,rather than fixing our pain,is the stuff healing is made of and the payoff is huge. When we are able to be with our own discomfort, we begin to understand and feel what it means to expan...
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Limiting Beliefs from 2019-05-15T18:09:06
Humor, puberty, penis size and the stories we tell ourselves. Audra speaks about the limiting belief systems we choose to believe and how to begin to touch in on our own wholeness, and the possibil...
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Forgiveness and Accountability: Speak from Your Soul from 2019-05-07T16:37:41
Audra continues her investigation into the ways in which we try to manage our lives and relationships with a short talk on asking for forgiveness and accountability. Let go of the excuses and speak...
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Free Bird and The Manager: Sunday May 5th with Audra from 2019-05-06T13:51:37
Audra describes her personal expereince with a hose, a new neighbor, how she became a free bird, and why it's the exact same thing as becoming a control freak and how we can begin to soften our rel...
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