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Aware Relaxed Connected

After more than 2 decades exploring both eastern (Chinese internal and Daoist arts) and western (stretching, rehab, calisthenics, etc) methods of self cultivation, I started to reduce my body of knowledge to something more essential at its heart, and explorative in its application. I stopped focusing on the techniques and started focusing on which qualities the techniques were igniting in me and my students, how those qualities might be useful in other areas of life, and how they could be

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#012 - Animism, Relationship to the Living Subtle...

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2025/10/08

This is an episode I hesitated putting out for all kinds of reasons. This practice is something I mostly keep to myself as a personal thing but I'm getting more and more people contacting me about it so I figured it's time to let the cat out of the bag.In it, I explore the idea of what it means to relate to an animate world that is magical and responds to all kinds of ritualized actions. It's about sorcery, magic, animism, and sentient agency in the so-called external world. This is obviously a

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#011 - To Visualize or not to Visualize

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2025/08/26

In this episode I talk about the nuances and intricacies of internal practices vs visualization based practices. In some systems, visualizations are used to provoke a change in the body, in others it is recommended to stay away from visualizations and stick to direct awareness of physical sensations. I actually use both modes of practice, but for very different reasons (and outcomes). When you have a basic framework for how to approach the two modes of practice it becomes easy to differentiate and

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01:55:26

#010 - Jackson Collings - Nuances of Daoist Internal...

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2025/07/09

In this episode I interview my friend and fellow cultivator Jackson Collings. When I asked him what he wanted to call the episode, he said "Daoist Bro Down" which is pretty apt, we basically spend the whole time geeking out about the finer points of cultivation from the Daoist perspective.I spent a little bit of time prompting Jackson to talk about the difference between his previous explorations in various esoteric realms and his current practice, and some of his responses were pure gold. There is

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#009 - Creating and Sustaining a Daily Practice

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2025/05/29

In this episode I talk about some approaches to the how & why of creating a daily practice. More easily said than done, as we often run into the fact of non-perfection in our practice when we keep it up every day without end. So many days will not be perfect, so many days will not allow the time to do full suite of practices you want to do. How do you keep it going despite these hindrances? The key lies in creating a thread of practice, a small habit that happens every day no matter

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#008 - Non Duality

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2025/05/11

It's time for the non-dual episode! This week I am talking about this topic that is a rather tricky topic to talk about. When we start leaning into these principles, the mind can easily grab hold of it and use it to excuse a whole bunch of gnarly behaviour, and we obviously don't want to end up like that guy.Nevertheless, it's a topic that needs to be broached, as it's talking about how we relate to reality itself. It's a reasonably deep/big episode, so strap yourself in! Remember, if you'd

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#007 - Ramon Castellanos - Of Wolf and Man

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2025/04/22

In this episode I interview my buddy and fellow cultivator Ramon Castellanos. Ramon has a colourful history, from being raised in a family with an ancient animist lineage to working in a wolf sanctuary, and throughout this time he has engaged in practices of magic, devotion, rewilding, natural movement, human domestication, internal and external martial arts, and deep meditations.We talk about the dynamics of practice, the balancing agents between internal and external, how he dealt with a

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#006 - Getting to Know the Mind

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2025/04/10

Want to support the podcast? Join my patreon right here:https://www.patreon.com/c/AwareRelaxedConnected In this episode I dive into my approach to understanding the mind. It's a tricky beast, and it's worth spending time getting to know the tricks, how they work, and the various ways they might appear. Beyond this, I also discuss an approach to gathering the mind and how the orientation towards how this is done is rather important - instead of violently cutting ourselves away from distractions

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#005 - Soisci Porchetta - Integrative Life Practices

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2025/03/27

Want to support the podcast? Join my patreon right here:https://www.patreon.com/c/AwareRelaxedConnected In this episode I interview my good friend Soisci Porchetta. Soisci has a wealth of experience, she's a former women's world champion Thai kickboxer, trained in the inner circle with Ido Portal, learnt traditional Indian meditation and Yoga, and has dived deep into the philosophies and practices of Fighting Monkey. Like me, Soisci has also moved from a performance based athletic practice to one

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#004 - The Heart of My Approach

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2025/03/16

In this episode I dive into some of the aspects of the 2 main qualities which form the heart of my approach: opening and releasing. But what do I mean by these words? What dynamics do each of the concepts point to, and how are these dynamics realized in different ways depending on the context?The next question is why...why train in this way, why go to all the effort? I explore how this process can actually aid many different parts of life, and how its transferable quality can make it possible

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#003 - Joe Fairligh: Coming Back to Center From the...

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2025/03/09

I have a Patreon now! If you'd like to support the podcast, head on over to https://patreon.com/AwareRelaxedConnected In this episode, I interview my good friend Joe Fairleigh. Joe is one of those guys who is both masterful at his arts, and super humble and down to earth. He has been a cornerstone for many other people I know, helping them find stability and meaning in their lives. I'm super stoked to have Joe on as my first guest, and this episode was so much fun to record. We got into topics of

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