Special New Year's Deal
Sukhavati Studios wishes you health, happiness, and prosperity in the year ahead! We remain dedicated to providing you with inspirational content to help you navigate your own personal spiritual journey, and to successfully weather the trials and tribulations that we all share, as one, as inhabitants of this crazy blue world.
For 2023, we will continue our ad-free, sponsor-free business model, relying solely on you, our listening audience, for support, and we will continue to keep the price the same as most paid podcasts. For the rest of January, we’ll be offering a $40 per year special deal on the podcasts. That’s a 20% savings on the usual $50 pricing. (USD, FYI.)
I recently asked our podcasters to describe who they think their podcast is for, and how they feel that people will benefit by listening. Here’s what they had to say. If you’re interested in subscribing to all four podcasts, send me an email — gregory at sukhavatistudios dot com — and I’ll let you know about that special price.
All the best!
Gregory
JOHN BUCHANAN — THE LLAMA
“Chitta Chat” is for people who have a practice or are interested in one in a way they can no longer avoid. It nags at them like an itch they can’t scratch but haven’t been able to find any solid direction. They practice Buddhism, or at least think they do. They meditate, or at least haven’t given up on it yet. They have heard Buddhist ideas, read a Buddhist book, or the like. However, they might not have connected actual meditation and scriptural teachings and how they go together.
The one person who needs to listen to this podcast is someone who is willing to put in the time to progress. They want relief from their minds. They suspect their mind is a big part of an overarching mysterious problem. They are tired of blaming the world but may not know it. At the very least, they are tired of something they can’t put their finger on. They are willing to take responsibility for the world they see if they are only shown how. They may be stuck and need a boost. They may have practiced for years and aren’t getting any traction. They may or may not have admitted the lack of traction to themselves. They may not fully believe that any tangible result is possible. They have heard about and maybe even studied samsara but don’t know what it truly is, how it is produced, and how it can be eliminated. They have been told it can be destroyed, but they don’t yet have a deep enough understanding of karma and emptiness to understand how or why any other option is just more pain. But they are ready to hear it.
This person needs to be inspired. To not feel not alone in their quest. They need practical, real-life advice. They need to believe it is possible to succeed and that Buddhahood is not just a myth. Or, at the very least, becoming a realized being is not a myth. They need to stop bouncing off the surface of the ice that is rhetoric. Instead, they need to crack the ice and get to the undercurrent. They need to feel vital before it’s too late.
Listening to the podcast will give them hope and a sense of connection to something real. It will help them see that spiritual growth is fluid. Not an unbending formality. They will see that there is and must be humour in the path of awakening, and that it is done best and quickest down and dirty here on the ground, not a lofty dream of suspended avoidance. Listening will help them see what the signs of real progress are, instead of what they may have thought before. They will take heart knowing that a new kindness towards others is genuine progress, not some fantasy ability they dream of. Finally, they will have a direction.
SILVIA GRABER — THE NUDGER
“Sageheart Nutrition” is for anyone who is interested in working with me but wants to know more about the person behind the practitioner. I feel I’ve lived an interesting life so far and have learned much in my diverse journey! It’s also for anyone who wants to get their health in order but may be lacking in self-worth, self-belief, and support to be able to make it happen for themselves. Sometimes hearing someone else's journey and how they overcame their struggles can be just the motivator they need to get started.
The one person who needs to listen needs some inspiration in breaking through their excuses. They need someone to listen to them and their story and help them to restore the faith in themselves and that their body can heal.
They will learn to see that even practitioners have their own struggles that may have brought them to where they are right now, helping others. They will learn how healing yourself can give anyone the capacity to be in a place where they can share and inspire others. It can give them hope where they may not have much right now, in terms of their own belief that they can heal.
We all start from somewhere and all have wounds to overcome. We can help each other, no matter what stage of growth and healing we are in.
JOSH FUNFER — THE YOUNG BUCK
“Eyes of Love” is for anyone who wants to connect more deeply with their own heart. This may mean connecting more intimately with your loved ones; it may mean feeling your own emotions more fully; it may mean appreciating more of the richness in the world around you. All of this becomes much more accessible when you connect with your heart and start to see yourself and the world around you through eyes of love, and integrate this practice into your daily life.
After a lifetime of seeking, learning, and at times delving into the depths of insecurity, anxiety, and self-hatred, I have found that love is the deepest meaning of life. If you know what it is to struggle with low self-esteem, overthinking, or self-doubt, then seeing through eyes of love may be exactly the kind of practice you are looking for. If you relate to this in any way, I invite you to learn more and explore how you can love yourself and the world around you more fully.
I think that anyone who wants to feel more intensely, to experience a broader range of what this life has to offer, and to live more fully could benefit from our explorations in this podcast. I share my story of how I connected with my own heart, and how I now use the insights I gained along this path to support my clients in connecting with their hearts. My main hope is that you find even one pearl of wisdom or insight from this podcast that helps you on your own journey into your heart.
I hope I bring a new perspective that can help you to see the world from a more heart-centered place, rather than a head-centered place. So of you want to see the beauty within your heart and the magic in the world around you, join us on this journey to open your eyes and your heart.
GARY GOPAL BELLO — THE GODFATHER
“It’s Not What You Think” is the culmination of five decades of meditation practice and the study of Raja Yoga. I learned that the mind is an instrument, a very precise instrument, that is designed as a roadmap/GPS guiding individuals to navigate life fully connected to their wise aware intuitive Self. After leaving the monk vows in the late seventies, I became aware of how spiritual teachings and yoga were needing to be updated and much more relevant to the challenges we face now. Once you know the basic functions of the mind, combined with practices, techniques, and tools offered by this ancient system, flowing with life gets a whole lot easier.
The podcast is really not what you think, but how to manifest a life based on community, love, and service.
