Best Open And Clear Broadcasting Podcasts (2025)

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Unraveling the Puzzle: When HD1 Drops But HD2 Doesn't 11:18

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21h ago11:18

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Send me a text! Ever faced a technical problem that defied conventional wisdom? In our latest deep-dive, we unravel a perplexing HD radio mystery that had us questioning everything we thought we knew about digital transmission. Our HD1 signal kept dropping out randomly for fractions of seconds while HD2 played flawlessly—a contradiction that should…

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Engineers can finally study anywhere with SBE's new web-based certification tools 9:36

8d ago9:36

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Send me a text! Broadcast engineering certification just got a whole lot more accessible. The SBE has finally brought their CertPreview practice exams into the modern era with a completely web-based platform that eliminates the installation headaches and compatibility issues that plagued the previous system. As broadcast engineers, we're rarely in …

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When Your Backup Plan Needs a Backup Plan: The Slow Death of a Generator 7:34

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Send me a text! There's a special kind of dread that comes with finding metal shavings in your generator's oil pan. That unmistakable sign of internal engine breakdown couldn't have come at a worse time for our critical broadcast site. The story of our Cummins 400kVA generator is one of changing technology and infrastructure planning challenges. In…

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Free Software, Priceless Results: Essential Open Source Tools for Broadcast Engineers 10:00

22d ago10:00

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Send me a text! Dive into the world of free and open source software that's revolutionizing broadcast engineering! We're peeling back the curtain on the powerful tools that keep stations running without breaking the bank. The humble Linux penguin (affectionately known as Tux) might be the unsung hero of broadcasting. As Kirk Harnack perfectly put i…

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From Engineers to Babysitters: How Corporate Consolidation Transformed Broadcast Technology 10:31

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Send me a text! Remember when your local TV station actually felt local? When engineers knew every inch of the equipment and could fix problems with a screwdriver instead of a help desk ticket? Those days are rapidly disappearing as corporate consolidation reshapes the broadcast landscape. The quiet revolution in local television has transformed in…

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FEMA Restores Critical Funding for Public Broadcaster Safety Systems 6:16

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Send me a text! When disaster strikes, every second counts. Behind those emergency alerts that interrupt your favorite shows is critical infrastructure that saves lives — and it just got a major boost. FEMA has lifted a freeze on emergency alert grants for public broadcasters, releasing $9.6 million to 22 media organizations. For rural and remote a…

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Public Access TV: When Everyone Had a Voice, Not Just a Channel 10:26

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Send me a text! Whatever happened to that weird channel where your neighbor ranted about aliens one hour and the high school poetry club performed the next? Before YouTube, public access television was America's original media democracy experiment—and it disappeared while we weren't looking. Growing up in Tampa, my media career began at the local p…

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Podcast Finale 28:23

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It has been my honor and privilege to share the practice of breath and meditation with you. This journey started in 2020 as a way to offer support to others during Covid. After 169 episodes and over 11,000 downloads, I am concluding this podcast. I thank all of you who have listened, shared and downloaded over these years. The podcast will remain u…

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Conception: Fourth Quarter Reading 21:04

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An Angel Reading by Maggie Kalas of Soul Light Coach. Please join us as Maggie in a wrap-up of the year past and what to expect from the energetic realm in the final quarter of 2024, into 2025. We have moved through a great deal and center our focus on conception of the new. Having held our own through all the changes of the past year, we find ours…

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Clearing Energy with your Divine Self 32:26

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Connecting to our Divine Self and using this light to clear a stuck place. 'Angels of Beauty' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com) Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com) Disclaimer: Breath exercises are not intended to diagnose or treat illness. Anyone undertaking to practice breath awareness and exercises should be mindful of thei…

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Telepathy: Understanding NonVerbal Communication 34:50

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This chapter is especially poignant for those sensitive folks who have felt bombarded by others’ emotions and thoughts all their lives. Here we learn to discern our own thoughts and emotions, how to tune our minds to our own knowing, and how to turn down the volume on the thoughts and emotions of others. We are reading and learning from the book Pe…

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Chapter 14: Wisdom: Being your Higher Self 33:35

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One of my favorite Orin quotes ever: “Be the leader. Dare to be wise!” Here we are coming to the culmination of our work over the last number of weeks, being our wise, higher self. We have been breathing through a number of steps that have taught us to be in the center of our own lives, compassionate and open, wise and loving. We are all these thin…

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Chapter 13: Your Mind, you Inner Dialogue and Personal Broadcast 39:10

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From Orin: “Your mind puts out a powerful broadcast of energy.” He goes on to tell us that our inner dialogue is important, as it determines the events people and objects that we attract. This week we use our minds to create higher energy language around our bodies, ourselves and those around us. Words matter. Some words have higher energy, for ins…

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Chapter 11: Opening Your Intuition 37:40

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Your intuition is part of your sensory system. Through your intuition, you hear inner guidance from your Soul. In this practice, we explore all the ways intuition can be received by us: through our third eye, through our hearts, and through our gut. All these parts of our sensing ability can inform us of higher guidance, information and support. We…

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Maggie Kalas Reading: Energy of Compassion 36:15

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In this episode of Miriam’s Meditations, Maggie Kalas from Soul Light Coaching shares angelic insights as we navigate through unprecedented events unfolding in 2024. Humanity stands at a crossroads, being called to embrace a higher level of compassion towards ourselves and each other. Who are we choosing to be now? How do we choose to move forward …

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Full Breath Practice with JOY! 30:47

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This week we update our pranayama skills with a joy-filled full practice. We do a few breaths we haven’t done together in a while, filling our whole field with LIGHT. We begin with drawing silver light into our spinal cord and nervous system, illuminating us from within. We proceed on to the full practice, adding in the sound of healing for our Hea…

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Chapter 10: Learning Unconditional Love 34:12

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Greetings and welcome. When we embark upon a spiritual path, at some point we come to unconditional love. This is because unconditional love is the most powerful energy in the Universe and we are made of it. We can learn to radiate this amazing light to all who we encounter, and to the world. Orin tells us that unconditional love is when we have ou…

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Chapter 9: Journey Into Light: Going Higher 36:13

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We could all use some peace these days. In this chapter, Orin says, “You can assist humanity in achieving peace by evolving your thoughts.” Our thoughts contribute to mass consciousness. We’ve all felt thrown about by constant bad news, but we don’t have to stay in that place. Through our breath and by evolving our thoughts with Light, we can move …

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Chapter 8: Finding Your Deeper Truth 42:00

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Digging deep can be hard and sometimes unsettling. We all have ways that we hide from the truth of who we are. And Orin tells us the truth is: You are a great being. Within you is compassion, courage, strength and wisdom to live you life from a higher level at all times. In this episode we dive deep into the wellspring of knowing and wonder with ou…

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Chapter 7: Evolving Your Inner Image: Releasing the True Self 32:56

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Our central idea this week is: “The more you can view yourself from a higher perspective the more accurately you are seeing who you are.” This quote from Chapter 7 of Personal Power Through Awareness by Sanaya Roman is our guidestar. We learn to use light and awareness to first understand who we think we are, then to open to who we truly are. Using…

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Awakening Soul Light with Maggie Kalas 25:51

12M ago25:51

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Maggie Kalas Reading: Awakening Soul Light How can we, as individuals and a collective, navigate these challenging times and emerge as evolved beings? In this week's angelic reading, soul coach Maggie Kalas shares inspired insight into how we can begin to shift our lives and the world around us through the transformative path of activating our inna…

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Chapter 5: Who Am I? 37:18

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We dive deep into our own energy field in this chapter, making a commitment to listen deeply to our feelings, and inner guidance from moment to moment, acting upon what is right for you in the present. We do a short breath practice then play with some exercises Orin shares in this chapter. Learning to view things from the perspective of another per…

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Chapter 4: Sensing Energy in Others 32:40

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A gentle breath exploration brings us into a clear knowing of our own energy. From this knowing we are able to know more reliably how the energy of others is affecting us. We can use the breath to bring us into alignment with our own inner knowing, and use it to clear energy that is not in harmony with ours. We can take this breath awareness out in…

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Chapter 3: Directing the Unseen Energies Around You 35:00

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Chapter Three: Directing the Unseen Energies Around You Energy is everywhere, Energy is everything. Everything we encounter, perceive and interact with is made of patterns of energy. Even you. Being able to perceive what comes to you as energy from other people, from the natural world or from anything is a skill you can learn. You are in a vast fie…

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Recognizing Energy all Around You 38:12

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Chapter Two: Recognizing the Energy Around You This week we dive into the book, Personal Power Through Awareness. In this early chapter, we learn energy makes up everything around us and we can learn to sense that energy. In order to be able to sense energy and work with it, we cultivate a relaxed stance in the world. Orin offers the technique of m…

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Season Seven: Personal Power Through Awareness 33:57

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Season Seven! After 3 years and over 150 episodes of Miriam's Meditations, it feels like a good time to do something new. For the next several weeks, I'm going to be teaching from this book: Personal Power Through Awareness, an Orin Book by Sanaya Roman. (We will still be breathing too!) Reading Orin is like visiting with a kind friend whose guidan…

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Scrubbing Bubbles: Purification 32:23

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Play is an integral part of this practice. Let's not take ourselves too seriously! The Guides and Beings of Light are present for us this week to share a sweet, fun practice that involves clearing away all that is ready to be released with effervescent bubbles! Light-filled energies that arise from below move through our energy field and attach to …

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Healing Breath 35:42

1y ago35:42

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Our 150th episode! Thank you everyone for joining in this practice and for sharing this podcast. Our breath is always with us. Using our focus and our relaxed attention, we learn to follow the breath into healing. Beginning with a focus on healing our bodies, we draw the breath in and out. We follow the breath to our emotional bodies and mental bod…

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Light from a Future You 37:48

1y ago37:48

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You are more than you may think you are. We are all a distinct focus of consciousness, living in and creating our own distinct time line. As we expand our sense of being we come to realize we have a vast inner storehouse of wisdom and strength. In this journey we contact a future version of ourselves, wiser, more accomplished, more evolved. That fu…

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Fluid Nature, Open Boundaries, Floating 37:21

1y ago37:21

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Stretch your body and your mind with this session of breath and meditation. Walk along the shoreline, opening to the water as a living being. Float in the waves and beneath the surface, merging with the perfect water. Lift up into the sky as we recognize the blue sky mind of sky consciousness, always motion, always changing. We shift our awareness …

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Maggie Kalas Reading: Energy of Transition 24:25

1y ago24:25

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Miriam's Meditations welcomes Maggie Kalas as she returns to present an energy update. As the winds of change move us rapidly into 2024, the last few months of intense energies have been stirring the remembrance of our soul's true abundance in light. Our spirits are beginning to lift in a newfound optimism and clarity. The season of spring unfolds …

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What to do when you don't know what to do 34:44

1y ago34:44

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A simple powerful practice of opening to the choices that lie before us and working with energy to discern the highest, most light-filled path forward. Using our breath practice, we create a field of clear energy. We imagine 2 choices before us on something we care about, that we are stuck on, or if we are simply hitting a wall. We use our energy s…

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Harmonic Infusion of Light 38:27

1y ago38:27

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These days we may find we have pieces of our lives or our work that seem to be out of place, or just don't fit right. The world is evolving and changing and maybe we feel out of step. This meditation is all about harmony, harmonizing your energy and light. We first practice with our hands, touching fingertips together to harmonize the brain. Our br…

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Healing the Nervous System with Bee Breath and Smiling Breath 31:18

1y ago31:18

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We all have times when we are overstimulated. Our nervous system feels overwrought and jagged. This episode we do several practice aimed at soothing and nourishing the nervous system. Since it's almost spring, we'll do a humming breath known as Bee Breath. Just a humming sound that moves around the head and face, stimulating the nervous system and …

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Abundance Reset 38:40

1y ago38:40

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Welcome to the Abundance Reset. This expansive rich practice will teach you, step by step, how to contact and open to the essential Abundance of Creation. Reality is inherently abundant. We open to that abundance in these steps: Notice native/natural abundance. Abundance that makes you feel uplifted or at least neutral. Ignore the abundance of unwa…

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Angel of Breath 35:46

1+ y ago35:46

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A gentle restorative practice to support us after last week’s challenging practice of forgiveness. Easy breaths, soothing repetition, and a remarkable visit from the Angel of Breath bringing a Gift especially for you. Gratitude to you for being in this practice. 'Angels of Beauty' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com) Podcast production by iRonick …

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Forgiveness as Pain Relief 35:38

1+ y ago35:38

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This amazing idea of forgiveness as a form of pain relief was shared with me by a woman named Margaret. It speaks to the unrecognized pain we all live with by carrying around unforgiven hurts or ways we’ve not forgiven ourselves for our failings. In this practice we use the power of the breath to bring the unforgiven to the surface and breathe into…

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Building Radiance with Peace 41:30

1+ y ago41:30

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We are lighted beings. We can learn to recognize and build our radiance using the breath and the frequency of Peace. We begin by breathing into our physical lungs and heart, circulating the breath and prana. We extend that light to the entire body, which begins to sparkle with Light. Next we breathe light into our emotional body, circulating the li…

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Clearing Energy with Your Divine Self: Step by step instructions 32:06

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As we move about our lives, we can sometimes feel bogged down or clogged with old ideas, worries, beliefs that no longer seem valid. This energetic clutter can make us feel fatigued or hopeless. Using your connection to your Divine Self, you can clear yourself of these unwanted energies. This episode teaches you how, with step by step instructions.…

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Maggie Kalas Reading: Remembrance 30:41

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This week Maggie returns with a reading for first Quarter 2024. 2024 is rapidly moving us forward. Get ready for another year of surging energies, shifting all aspects of our lives! Overall, this year rings a loud wake-up call, bringing us out of a deep slumber into remembering our soul's intended mission and redefining humanity's experience on thi…

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Big Wave Surfing 36:00

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Have you ever seen videos of people surfing waves that are 40-50 feet high? They glide down the face of the huge vertical plane of water, which could and sometimes does sweep them away? These times may sometimes seem like we are being followed by a huge wave that threatens to knock us off our feet and sweep us away like broken sticks upon the ocean…

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Updating YOU 40:35

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Welcome to the new season of Miriam’s Meditations. Thank you for continuing to breathe and meditate with us and congratulations on creating time and space for your inner explorations. This week we begin again, as fresh beginners, refreshing our skills and techniques with the breath. We do a few breaths we haven’t done in a while, creating space as …

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Season Five Finale: Aligning with Star Energy 39:52

1+ y ago39:52

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This is the last episode of Season Five. We will begin in the new year with Season Six. This episode bring together all we’ve been learning about Being our Divine Self and Breathing as our Divine Self. A play exercise from Sanaya Roman, channel for Orin (https://www.orindaben.com/) offers us Aligning with Star Energy as a way to connect to the grea…

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Joy Light Fun and Play 41:50

1+ y ago41:50

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A light-hearted jaunt into the higher energies just for the fun of it. We sometimes think we need to be so purposeful and serious, especially about our spiritual journey. But doing these wonderful playful meditations without aim, not like it’s work but as a fun thing to do, this is valuable and valid in it’s own right. It is in the play and the jus…

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Light of Being 34:20

1+ y ago34:20

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We have been practicing connecting with our Divine Self, breathing as the Divine Self, being the Divine Self. This episode brings all these together in the light of being, where we are our most open to the true nature of who we are. We find this light easily now, breathing and circulating this vitality throughout all the layers of our being. We use…

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A Walk in Sparkling Light 34:02

1+ y ago34:02

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A de-stressing practice that is soft and easy for these holiday times. Some gentle opening breaths, massaging our breathing spaces to create ease and openings. Then we open to our Body of Light and experience a solar radiant presence. After filling with light and warmth that is flowing to us, we experience our ordinary selves on a walk in the radia…

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Being Divine Self 37:05

1+ y ago37:05

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When we breathe in our practice, we open to our deeper being. We all want to know who we are, and on this deeper level we are our Divine Self. The Divine Self is us. It is our expanded, greater being. As we slow down, breathe with our practice, our Divine Self and our everyday self blend, come into oneness. We can ask questions, listen for wisdom, …

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Be As You Are: A Reading with Maggie Kalas 15:44

1+ y ago15:44

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Everything you’ve been searching for has been hidden in plain sight. You just didn’t know it. But guess what? The Light that is You has been seeking to be seen as and through you. Get ready cause it’s about to make itself known. In this week’s Soul Request reading by Maggie Kalas of Soul Light Coaching, you are encouraged to “Be As You Are.” And it…

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Breathe as a Tree 34:22

1+ y ago34:22

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Beginning with a new practice, Solidifying the Breath, we learn how to concentrate the breath deep in the body with a hand gesture and smooth breath. This practice allows the breath to solidify as energy deep within the body, creating open space for more breath while clearing the mind. After our regular practice, we venture into the divine world, r…

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What is your Divine Self? 36:40

1+ y ago36:40

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A relaxing and soft practice of breath awareness leads to awareness of the Divine Self. A sweet and simple breath activity starts and permeates this episode. We simply breathe, with recognition of our physical being, starting with softening and relaxing. Notice the hands, the back of the neck, the crown of the head. We move to softening the emotion…