Third Dreamer Meditation

David chats about his thoughts as he considers returning to yoga teaching.

This episode David talks about how he tends to run from familial connection and long-term friendships, but how this work has been showing up recently in his life. 

David returns with an episode from Tulum where he talks about his return to social media and the challenge he has dealing with the anxiety that social media can cause him and how he’s been working through that.

A very short episode where David explains that he spilled water on his laptop and explains how that affects the show.

This episode David chats a bit about how small tasks done daily can have a huge impact on life. He then leads a ten minute meditation that can be done daily for the next seven days.

This episode talks about how releasing music makes him feel vulnerable and how the Swami Dayananda Saraswati commentary on the Bhagavad Gita gave him some insight into where this vulnerability comes from. Contact: wanderingwisdom@gmail.com support: www.ko-fi.com/thirddreamermeditation    

Coming at you from Playa del Carmen, David checks in on how travel has been going for him and Mona - through the challenges and the simple joys. He then leads a simple meditation, similar to what he does for his home practice during busy or noisy times.

This episode David talks about his and Mona's plans for travel, his five year anniversary with daily meditation and how meditation can serve as a check-up of where your mind/body/emotions may be and how check-ups serve an extremely useful function - not in changing us directly, but by giving us better understanding of where we are so we can change ourselves contact: wanderingwisdom@gmail.com support: www.ko-fi.com/thirddreamermeditation

David chats a little bit about how he finds long wandering walks so satisfying and then leads a simple observation-based meditation. Contact  wanderingwisdomATgmail.com Support: www.ko-fi.com/thirddreamermeditation

This episode David examines that there may be value in assessing our actions and behavior over the period of pandemic as a means of gaining certain self-knowledge. After that conversation he leads a calming meditation and closes things off with the first listen to a brand new piece of ambient music that he just recorded. You can contact David anytime at wanderingwisdom@gmail.com And support the podcast at: www.ko-fi.com/thirddreamermeditation  

This week David talks a little bit about where the podcast is going and why the series works the way it does. Then he leads a 10-15 minute meditation on observation of space. As always feel free to contact: wanderingwisdom@gmail.com And feel free to support through: www.ko-fi.com/thirddreamermeditation NOTE: The version of this episode uploaded Wed, June 16 had an error in the last five minutes where it cut into a previous episode's meditation. Please delete that episode and re-download this corrected version!  +)

Welcome back to another episode of the fourth season of the Third Dreamer Meditation Podcast! This week David talks about something he's been thinking about lately: the difference between being a traveler and being a tourist. This can be looked at just as it is or as a metaphor for other areas of life. After chewing on this idea for a while, David then leads a very short meditation to use for grounding and relaxing within times of movement. Should you wish to email, email David at wanderingwisdom@gmail.com and should you wish to support the podcast, go to www.ko-fi.com/thirddreamermeditation

After a brief preamble, David leads a fifteen minute meditation with something lovable at its focus. When in contact with that which you find lovable, does it shift your the way your body feels, the way your mind thinks?  As always, if you want to reach out and contact the podcast, email wanderingwisdomATgmail.com

After almost a year away the podcast returns! David briefly talks about where his life is at and then leads a fifteen minute listening meditation. Intro music by David's music project Sidekick Wave, Cover by Mahyar, feel free to send the podcast a tip at https://ko-fi.com/thirddreamermeditation

After a few weeks off David is back to talk about plans to change the format for the podcast. Now no longer simply a meditation podcast, we will start examining yoga/meditation, religion/spirituality and politics/society. This episode explains why the changes are happening and examines the mindset that brought this about. Enjoy!

In light of the events in Minneapolis St. Paul this week, I get a little more political than usual. It can be easy as a white man to use meditation as a method of “spiritual bypass” to feel ok personally while living in the midst of a society that is sick and broken. As a white man I also realize that voices other than mine need to be heard in this time and yet also it’s important not to simply put my head in the sand and wait for the next news cycle. 

Mona and I love to chant, it’s a part of our daily meditation practice. In this second edition of Meditation Monday, David starts off by explaining a bit about the Ganesha mantra: “On Gam Ganapataye Namaha” mantra and chanting in general, then Mona and David chant the mantra 108 times. Great for connecting to Ganesha and for removing unnecessary obstacles in your life. Please enjoy and feel free to chant along with us!

Sometimes the movie we think we’re starring in isn’t the movie we’re actually starring. What seems like a romantic comedy is actually a horror movie and we just haven’t realized it. David talks about this idea, framing it based on the experience of observing tourists dancing in the aisles of an airplane. He ties this into the ideas of the Bhagavad Gita and looks at the ideas of the roles we play and the results we get from these roles. Enjoy!

Welcome to the first of our “Meditation Monday” series. Every Monday for the foreseeable future, we will have a nice guided meditation in addition to the regularly scheduled Thursday show. We start off with a short mantra based meditation based around the mantra “Soham” (translated as “I am that” or “That that I am”). Enjoy!

It’s been a wild couple of months since the last episode. David and Mona are now back in the States and this episode David recounts what happened in those two months. Welcome back!