Podmasana: Spirituality, Awareness & Enlightenment
Podmasana is your companion for spirituality, awareness, and the path to enlightenment. This wisdom podcast blends mindfulness with deeply human storytelling. Host Brendon Orr explores the thread connecting spirituality and wisdom traditions from around the globe through engaging conversations with remarkable guests. Real stories. Real wisdom. Real transformation for the journey within. Subscribe to awaken.
Episodes
Welcome to the wisdom podcast exploring spirituality and awareness. Discover enlightenment and mindfulness with author Yakub Mathew.
Yakub Mathew spent 35 years in global finance, but a severe near-death experience at age 58 radically shifted his perspective. To mark his 60th birthday, he took his wife and 17 friends to the Mahakumbha Mela in Prayagraj—a sacred, once-in-144-years gathering of 660 million seekers. What began a...
Welcome to the wisdom podcast exploring spirituality and awareness. Discover how 55 global thought leaders define the infinite and the path to true enlightenment with Yakub Mathew.
In this clip, Yakub unpacks the cosmic significance of the Mahakumbh Mela—a sacred gathering occurring only once every 144 years—and shares the surprising common thread he discovered across Hindu, Islamic, Christian, and Judaic traditions. Dr...
What if spiritual awakening begins in our deepest pain? Today, we explore the wisdom of suffering and finding enlightenment with Hadassah Treu...
Hadassah Treu is an award-winning bilingual author and faith blogger from Bulgaria whose book, Draw Near: How Painful Experiences Become the Birthplace of Blessings, offers a profound roadmap for navigating life's trials. From the platform of her own greatest pains—including the los...
In the next episode of Podmasana, explore the Draw Near book and biblical suffering with author Hadassah Treu. Discover spiritual maturity and faith in adversity through Christian hope. This Podmasana conversation reveals how painful experiences become birthplace of blessings through lament, surrender, and drawing near to God. Learn practical spiritual disciplines for grief, anxiety and fear of the Lord, unmet expectations spiritua...
What if spiritual awakening begins by healing the soul? Today we explore the wisdom of energy healing and deep awareness with Gina Cavalier...
Gina Cavalier is a former Hollywood studio executive, wellness program director at Sedona Mago Retreat Center, and author of Planet Walking: A Handbook for the Living. Behind her successful exterior in the entertainment industry, Gina battled chronic illness and persistent suicidal ideation ...
In the next episode of Podmasana, navigate suicidal ideation healing and energy work with author Gina Cavalier. Discover spiritual healing, protection rose practices, and grounding techniques in this transformative Podmasana conversation about Planet Walking: A Handbook for the Living. Learn soul blueprint guidance, chakra reading basics, shadow work for mental health, and how understanding yourself as energy bridges surviving to t...
In this episode of Podmasana, explore Marcus Aurelius Meditations and Stoic philosophy with translator Aaron Poochigian. Discover ancient wisdom for modern living, cognitive reframing roots, and mindfulness practice through literary translation. This Podmasana conversation reveals how Marcus wrote in multiple voices during war and plague, offering timeless guidance on kindness, justice, mortality, and building your inner menta...
In the next episode of Podmasana, explore Marcus Aurelius Meditations and Stoic philosophy with translator Aaron Poochigian. Discover ancient wisdom for modern living, cognitive reframing roots, and mindfulness practice through literary translation. This Podmasana conversation reveals how Marcus wrote in multiple voices during war and plague, offering timeless guidance on kindness, justice, mortality, and building your inner mental...
In this episode of Podmasana, discover how burnout recovery connects to nervous system regulation with Inner Design founder Rubina Chadha. This Podmasana conversation reveals stress as a nervous system state. Learn breath awareness without fixing, interoception practices for emotional regulation, and somatic awareness as gateway to embodied mindfulness. Understand creativity as perceptual function dependent on regulation. Find tool...
In recognition of International Yoga Day, we are sharing this first episode of Podmasana Media’s other show YogaScussion in case any Podmasana listeners are not already aware of the show and may also be interested in conversations specifically dedicated to yoga.
In this first episode of YogaScussion, Gina and Brendon participate in the first YogaScussion where they touch on how they met, what brought them to yoga, the role it...
In the next episode of Podmasana, discover how burnout recovery connects to nervous system regulation with Inner Design founder Rubina Chadha. This Podmasana conversation reveals stress as a nervous system state. Learn breath awareness without fixing, interoception practices for emotional regulation, and somatic awareness as gateway to embodied mindfulness. Understand creativity as perceptual function dependent on regulation. Find ...
In this episode of Podmasana, author and educator Rob Dorgan explores the profound intersection of ancient wisdom and modern healing. Drawing from his novel Awakening the Mystic, Rob reveals how yoga sutras, consciousness expansion, and spiritual astrology can guide seekers toward radical self-discovery. We discuss how mystical experiences are not supernatural events, but natural expressions of feminine energy and collective devoti...
In the next episode of Podmasana, author Rob Dorgan explores how yoga philosophy and astrology illuminate the path to mystical awakening and spiritual transformation. Rob discusses Awakening the Mystic, his novel blending memoir, mysticism, astrology, and cosmic love, offering practical wisdom for navigating ego, attachment, and fear. Discover siddhis yoga sutras explained as supernatural abilities attained through dedicated practi...
In this episode of Podmasana, Dr. Edi Bilimoria, author of Consciousness Came First explores how consciousness is primary rather than emerging from matter, challenging the materialistic paradigm that dominates modern science. Drawing on his unique background as both a distinguished engineer and devoted student of perennial philosophy, Edi presents evidence from quantum ...
In the next episode of Podmasana, Dr. Edi Bilimoria, author of Consciousness Came First explores how consciousness is primary rather than emerging from matter, challenging the materialistic paradigm that dominates modern science. Drawing on his unique background as both a distinguished engineer and devoted student of perennial philosophy, Edi presents evidence from quan...
In this episode of Podmasana, spiritual counselor and author Stephen Paul Edwards shares the untold story behind his memoir, The Venus Flytrap. From Blackpool to Beverly Hills, Stephen explores how a tumultuous relationship became his greatest spiritual teacher. Discover the power of soul contracts, why "nothing happens to you, it happens for you," and how ego death opens the doorway t...
In the next episode of Podmasana, spiritual counselor and author Stephen Paul Edwards shares the untold story behind his memoir, The Venus Flytrap. From Blackpool to Beverly Hills, Stephen explores how a tumultuous relationship became his greatest spiritual teacher. Discover the power of soul contracts, why "nothing happens to you, it happens for you," and how ego death opens the doorw...
In this episode of Podmasana, Indra Rinzler shares wisdom from 50+ years on the spiritual path and his award-winning book Indra's Net: A Seeker's Guide to the Human Experience, an Amazon #1 bestseller structured around 78 tarot cards. Discover how the ancient concept of interconnectedness—like jewels reflecting in an infinite cosmic web—transforms our understanding of life's challenges. Indra explores reimagined tarot t...
In the next episode of Podmasana, Indra Rinzler shares wisdom from 50+ years on the spiritual path and his award-winning book Indra's Net: A Seeker's Guide to the Human Experience, an Amazon #1 bestseller structured around 78 tarot cards. Discover how the ancient concept of interconnectedness—like jewels reflecting in an infinite cosmic web—transforms our understanding of life's challenges. Indra explores reimagined tar...
In this episode of Podmasana, at 82, Dr. L.S. Vishwanath wrestles with spiritual inheritance versus realization. Born in sacred Kashi into a Brahmin family, he shares miraculous encounters with Shirdi Sai Baba, surviving near-death experiences, and the lifelong challenge of aligning a wandering mind with the Atma. An honest exploration of seeking the higher truth.
Topics: Shirdi Sai Baba, spiritual awakening, Hindu spiritualit...
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