A State of Balance

Meditation is a form of presence, allowing us to be with our true self, allowing us to be with what is. It is the practice of focus, loss of focus and the regain of focus. The ability to be with our thoughts that arise with no judgment, letting go of control and allowing these thoughts to pass through us. When we notice the mind wandering, we practice the return to the breath which cultivates attention and mindfulness. Learning how...

The recognition of personal space, personal values and personal needs define our boundaries. Understanding that we have a choice to be active or passive in our responses. To create and to have boundaries are a necessary part of our self-love and self-care. It's also healthy and beneficial to have these boundaries when interacting with others and having relationships. In creating boundaries we can naturally become more compassi...

What does it mean to Surrender? In this episode, Megan & Leilah introduce the topic via COVID-19 Mindful Consumption tips. They expand on what they have been doing to take care of themselves in order to take care of others. Then they explain that these adjustments and shifts have been in favor of surrendering to what is. 

Surrendering is difficult because we often find ourselves wanting to put our input, our two cents in m...

Often times we find ourselves in a situation or in front of someone reacting in disproportion to what is. This happens when we allow ourselves to react out of our emotional programming rather than responding through mindfulness and our spiritual practice. Each and every opportunity that we are presented with is actually space for us to rise up to our higher consciousness. When we are faced with conflict can we begin to practice Min...

From The Network of Spiritual Progressives: A spiritual activist is one who is a courageous warrior of love! Being a spiritual activist means working to create a loving, just, sacred, and sustainable world through means that are also loving, just, sacred, and sustainable. A spiritual activist practices empathy in word and deed as a way to build beloved communities and transform consciousness.

What we do makes such a difference in t...

In this next podcast episode, Megan and Leilah talk about how the road less traveled can sometimes be a lonely one, but one that essentially yields to a more wholesome life. First, it all begins with the self. In truly healing and aligning with who we really are, we contribute to the healing of the world. We let go of things that have attempted to harden us and allow for our true being to arise. By understanding who we are and know...

In this next episode, Megan and Leilah talk about how being creative means recreating with the Universe. When we participate in creative processes we allow ourselves to bask in the fullness of who we truly are. Because like Elizabeth Gilbert says, a creative life is an amplified life. We all know that creating is hard, its real, authentic and vulnerable for us. But it’s more rewarding than anything else we could do because creating...

Osho says, "The ego lives in the tension between what you are and what you want to be." In this second episode, Megan & Leilah dive deeper into topics surrounding what ego really means and how it affects our daily lives. The ego works to protect our dignity and to keep us comfortable not to make us truly happy.  In this conversation we find out that essentially true happiness is the death of the ego. That we can gradu...