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Inspire Create ManifestStory, Stillness, and the Sacred Act of Remembering with Daniel CorduaGet your Philadelphia Yoga Conference tickets - HERE In this conversation, Joe Longo sits down with longtime yoga teacher and pre-licensed therapist Daniel Cordoa to explore what it really means to practice and teach yoga in a modern world.Together, they talk about the power of storytelling, creating space with intention, and why yoga is less about performance and more about remembering who we are beneath the noise. Daniel shares his journey into teaching, how mythology and story inform embodied practice, and what he hopes people walk away with after stepping onto the mat.
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Empowered Connection PodcastA Chat with a Sex Therapist: ADHD, Sexual Empowerment, & Much More with Charmaine EnsingerThemes: Sex, Partnership, Relationships, ADHD, Neurodiversity, Self Empowerment, Intimacy, Love Charmaine Ensinger LMFT (she/her) - Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider, Certified Sex Therapist with AASECT and IBOSP, AAMFT Approved SupervisorAs a certified sex therapist and a marriage and family therapist, Charmaine Ensinger is uniquely suited to understand complex relationships in all areas of life. Charmaine enjoys working with people of every ethnic, gender, and sexual background and finds a special connection with people who feel misunderstood, marginalized, or like an “outsider.” As an ADHD-certified clinical services prov...
2024-09-0454 minEmpowered Connection PodcastAre My Partner and I Too Different? with Daniel CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Love, Conflict, Healthy Relationships, Interdependence, Doing the Work, Conscious Relationships, Self Understanding, DifferentiationHave you ever felt stuck in your partnership because you feel like your loved one is too different from you?Are certain differences in relationship incompatible?How alike do my partner & I need to be for this relationship to survive… let alone thrive? Join Empower Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua on this solo podcast episode as he sheds light on.. & gives tools + perspectives on:- Are differences in relationship good? Bad?...
2024-08-2825 minEmpowered Connection PodcastHow Vedic Astrology Can Empower Our Relationships with Christine RodriguezThemes: Astrology, Relationships, Self Awareness, Partnership, Love, Dating, Spirituality, Yoga, Jyotish, AyurvedaChristine Rodriguez is a Vedic Astrologer, coach, and host of the Astrology Now Podcast. She has been studying Jyotish, or Vedic Astrology, for over 10 years. Her mission is to combine coaching, Vedic astrology, and other Vedantic studies to support others in living in alignment with their personal constitution, karmic makeup, astrological imprint - and how to use this information to their advantage, creating a life of meaning and purpose.Christine believes that relationships and intimacy act as powerful mirrors for personal development and ou...
2024-08-211h 01Empowered Connection PodcastAm I Co-Dependent? The Tell Tale Signs of Codependency with Daniel CorduaThemes: Codependency, Relationships Problems, Healthy Relationships, Partnership, InterdependenceThis word is often thrown around a lot, but what does “codependency” actually mean? And… how do we know if we are in a codependent pattern or relationship?Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua for a special episode that defines, researches, and explores the nuances of co-dependency.Learn:- What exactly is codependency? And how common is it?- How do I know if I am codependent or in a codependent relationship?- What are the key signs & symptoms of codep...
2024-08-1424 minEmpowered Connection PodcastHow to Navigate Power Dynamics In Partnership with Daniel CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Power, Interdependence, Co-dependence, Unhealthy Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Mutuality, Conscious CouplesIn this solo episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua helps the listener navigate the tricky relational terrain of power dynamics in our most important relationships - namely, partnership.To help give more awareness, tools, and empowerment around how to traverse power in partnership, this episode explores"- Why discussing power dynamics and "doing power" consciously is important in partnership- The three general types of power: power over, power under, or power with- Why certain...
2024-08-0724 minEmpowered Connection PodcastFrom Victimhood to Authorship: Find Your Primordial Power with Amanda FreedThemes: Self Empowerment, Victimhood, Authenticity, Healthy Relationships, Nervous System Work, Boundaries, Healing, Trauma, Attachment StylesAmanda Freed is a bodyworker, anatomist, yoga, meditation, and mindfulness teacher, speaker, and presenter. Her career spans more than three decades serving humans of all ability levels including collegiate, Olympic, and pro athletes, special needs groups including those on the spectrum, TBI and stroke survivors, and people living with Lupus. Amanda works with high level leaders, corporate groups, 1:1, and facilitates onsite workshops and retreats nationally and internationally. Her current passions include facilitating Vagus Nerve Reset and helping humans to reclaim t...
2024-07-3157 minEmpowered Connection PodcastWhat is Self Love & Why It is an Absolute Necessity in Our Lives & in Our Ability to Love Others with Daniel CorduaThemes: Self Love, Relationships, Partnership, Self Awareness, Conscious Relationships, Shadow Work, Parts Work, How To Love, Relationship ProblemsIn this shorter podcast episode, Empowered Connection host Daniel Cordua discusses a popular topic: SELF LOVE.What, exactly, is self love?Why is it more important - and much less superficial - than we realize?Why do we need to develop it?And why is it a necessity in creating healthy, conscious relationships with our most loved ones?A powerful episode to inspire your relationship to your own self, and...
2024-07-2417 minEmpowered Connection PodcastHow to Learn About & Heal Burnout with an Expert Burnout Coach with Lauren BaptisteThemes: Burnout, Life Balance, Self Empowerment, Relationships, Healing, Ayurveda, Yoga, Self Care, Self LoveLauren Baptiste is enhancing today’s work culture with a simple strategy: prioritize well-being as the "hardest-working" professionals climb the corporate ladder. As a burnout coach, life coach, and consultant on a mission to help women level-up at work and at home, Lauren brings more than 13 years of experience in corporate culture and workplace burnout alongside her knowledge as practitioner of Ayurveda, hormonal health and other evidenced-based modalities. This results in clients shifting from exhausted to energetic, cynical to optimistic, and in...
2024-07-171h 03Empowered Connection PodcastOur Wounds Are the Next Door Neighbors to Our Gifts with Daniel CorduaThemes: Self Empowerment, Hurt, Wounds, Self Awareness, Family of Origin, Healing, Wholeness, TransformationIn this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua directs our attention and intention towards our own unique gifts... specifically, the fact that those gifts had their origin story in our early wounding.In this episode, Daniel explores this challenging, yet beautiful and celebratory, truth. He also gives the listener tools + tips in how to not only see this truth with more empowerment, but to celebrate our gifts without having to minimize them, feel shameful or guilty about t...
2024-07-1021 minEmpowered Connection PodcastIt's Time to Allow Yourself to Be Cared For with Daniel CorduaThemes: Receiving Support, Overfunctioning, Self Empowerment, Intimacy, Self Love, Relationships, Relational Growth, Needs, Emotional IntelligenceIn this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua explores the tendency in many of us to neither receive nor bid for the care and support of others.Breaking down the reasons why we might push away being cared for, Daniel dives into why "learning how to receive" can deeply benefit and empower our lives and our relationships.With actionable tools and self reflection prompts, this podcast episode is an important listen for those...
2024-07-0328 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Difference Between Guilt & Shame and How to Move Through Both with Daniel CorduaThemes: Shame, Guilt, Self Compassion, Self Empowerment, Self Love, Self Awareness, Self ExplorationWhat exactly is "shame" and how does it differ from "guilt?"How do I move through shame and not become disempowered by it?How does guilt help me grow and when does it hinder my self growth?In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua explores and explains the key differences in our emotional experience of shame VERSUS guilt.This exploration is key in our ability to understand the patterns behind our...
2024-06-2627 minEmpowered Connection PodcastYou Are Not “Better” or “Worse” Than Anyone Else with Daniel CorduaThemes: Healing, Spirituality, Spiritual Bypassing, Shame, Self Empowerment, Shadow Work, Self Growth, Guilt In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Daniel Cordua rounds out the last month's themes of spirituality, self empowerment, spiritual bypassing, and religious trauma with a talk on the tension between being inherently already whole and taking on a practices to make one whole.There is a sigh of self compassionate relief in the profound spiritual understanding that we don't need to" fix "ourselves, but are already whole.And it begs the classic question: if we a...
2024-06-1931 minEmpowered Connection PodcastJourney Into the Bhagavad Gita: A Guide to Bringing Profound Metaphysical Knowledge Into Your Life with Hari Kirtana DasThemes: Spirituality, Yoga, Religion, Psychology, Social Activism, Personal Empowerment, Religious Trauma, Karma, ConnectionAttention yoga teachers, yoga students, spiritual enthusiasts, those wounded by religious experience and those would like to reconceptualize their relationship with god, and fans of human psychology, spiritual leadership and activism:Hari-kirtana das is an author, yoga teacher, and mentor who guides people on journeys of self-discovery, spiritual reconstruction, and personal transformation. He's been practicing various forms of yoga and meditation for more than 40 years, has lived in yoga ashrams and intentional communities, worked for Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley...
2024-06-1258 minEmpowered Connection PodcastNavigating Spiritual Abuse & Religious Trauma with Kayla FeltenThemes: Religious Trauma, Spiritual Abuse, Spirituality, Religion, Trauma, Healing, Relationships, Self Empowerment, Inner Wisdom, Patriarchy, Kayla Felten, MSW, LICSW has been an advocate for religious trauma and spiritual abuse survivors throughout her career, as the co-founder of the Reclamation Collective and as a Psychedelic Therapist in her clinical work. Kayla has been able to support those in the process of reclaiming their inner peace, relational harmony, autonomy, pleasure, and authentic self. She was initially invited to facilitate support groups for survivors of spiritual abuse due to abuses of power taking place in plant med...
2024-06-051h 04Empowered Connection PodcastThese Are the Roadblocks to Conscious Connection & Conscious Communication with Daniel CorduaThemes: Conscious Communication, Conflict, Relationship Tips, Self Regulation, Emotional Intelligence, Compassion, Relationship Problems- Looking to empower your relationships?- Looking to connect more deeply and compassionately to others?- Ready to do conflict with more success, potential, and growth?- Tired of compromising both yourself and your relationships to others?In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection host & relationship coach Daniel Cordua explores some key roadblocks in our ability to consciously connect and communicate with others.Noticing these roadblocks - and then moving through them - within o...
2024-05-2930 minEmpowered Connection Podcast10 Pros & Cons I Learned While Being In Spiritual Communities with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Spirituality, Self Empowerment, Spiritual Abuse, Spiritual Bypassing, Spiritual Connection, Religious Trauma, Spiritual Community, Healing Journey, YogaIf you are interested in healing, self empowerment, spiritual paths, and spiritual connection, this episode is a must listen!In this solo podcast episode, Daniel Damodar Cordua brings the listener into important reflections he gained spending many years in yoga, spiritual paths and various spiritual communities.Expressing both the deep, profound benefits AND the possible drawbacks and disempowering snares of spiritual paths + communities, Daniel paints a more comprehensive portrait of what it...
2024-05-2232 minEmpowered Connection PodcastTraversing Another's Triggers with Daniel CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Couples, Conflict, Triggers, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Connection, Self Regulation, Co-regulation, Healthy Relationships, LoveIn this solo episode - part 2 of a series on navigating conflict in relationship - Damodar focuses on how we can be with & navigate another's triggers when in conflict... AND throughout other moments of our relational life with others.An important episode full of practical, transformative & helpful perspectives and tools that will bring you to a better place in successfully managing another person's triggered state and emotional intensity - not only when in conflict with your loved ones, but du...
2024-05-1529 minEmpowered Connection PodcastTraversing Your Own Triggers During Conflict with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Couples, Conflict, Triggers, Self Regulation, Healthy Relationships, Love, Emotional Intelligence,In this solo podcast episode, Damodar dives into part one of a two part (or possibly 3 part!) series on conflict in our relationships. Difficulty navigating conflict can be one of the major roadblocks in the health & connection within our relationships.But, where do we start? First, we start with our own selves.In this episode, part 1, Damodar focuses on how we can be with & navigate our own triggers when in conflict both externally with another and internally within ou...
2024-05-0823 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Power of the Pivot & Our Purpose with Marissa Rose NashThemes: Self Empowerment, Leadership, Pivoting, Mentorship, Yoga, Consciousness, Abundance, Manifestation Marissa Rose Nash fell in love with the practices of self-discovery & yoga 11 years ago after taking one yoga class in college. She’s since completed two 200 hour yoga teacher trainings, her 300 hour YTT in Yoga Psychology with Ashley Turner, has studied Jon Kabat Zinn’s mindfulness based stress reduction meditation program, and completed a masters in organizational leadership and executive coaching.She’s been a certified holistic life coach for 7 years and is being privately mentored under world renowned yoga teacher, Elena Br...
2024-05-011h 00Empowered Connection PodcastLearning How to Repair is the First - & Most Important - Step In Navigating Conflict Better with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationship Problems, Conflict, Intimacy, Partnership, How to Improve Your Relationships, Love, Marriage, Healthy Relationships, Conscious Partners Are you looking to do conflict better in your most important relationships?Is the cycle of conflict, rupture, and fights creating too much stress in your partnership?Do you have a hard time navigating rupture or disconnect with your most loved ones?Are you ready to create a more connected, loving partnership or other relationship?Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Cordua for this special, shorter, solo podcast on the...
2024-04-2423 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Deeply Empowering Practice of Holding Two (at Times Opposing) Truths at the Same Time with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Empowerment, Relationships, Self Compassion, Presence, Self Awareness, Gratitude In this shorter, solo episode, Empowered Connection podcast host Daniel Cordua explains, explores, and gives inspiring examples of a simple, yet deeply empowering practice: holding two truths in our awareness at the same time. This practice will allow you to find more depth and gratitude within your life, more compassion for yourself, more presence and self awareness, and more possibility within your relationships.Take a listen and bring valuable, actionable, and relatable tools into your life and your journey now... and f...
2024-04-1716 minEmpowered Connection PodcastA Vision to Integrate Our Medicine: Creating Empowerment in Your Healing Journey with Josh WhiteleyThemes: Integrative Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Healing, Self Empowerment, Jyotish, Vastu, Medical Models, Self Advocacy, Spirituality, Vedic ArtsJosh Whiteley is a Registered ER Nurse, Licensed Acupuncturist, Vedic astrologer, and Ayurvedic practitioner in the Tucson, Arizona area. Founder of Common Roots Acupuncture clinic, josh has practiced acupuncture for over 10 years and is also a graduate of the Ayurvedic Institute previously based in Albuquerque, NM and an accomplished Ayurvedic practitioner and Vedic (or Jyotish) Astrologer. Currently informed by his experiences as an Emergency Room Nurse, Josh has be profoundly inspired by the possibility of integrative medicine, bringing bo...
2024-04-1052 minEmpowered Connection PodcastWhen "Conscious Communication" Can Be Unsafe & Even Abusive with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationship Problems, Emotional Abuse, Conscious Communication, Relational Safety, Relationship Tools, Boundaries, Abusive Relationships In this shorter, solo podcast episode Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua shares a pivotal story from his own journey of relationship that explores how "conscious communication" can be used to perpetuate abusive and harmful relational dynamics.In this episode you will explore:- when we tend to betray our integrity for connection- how to tune into our own body and mind when in an abusive dynamic with another person- advocating for ourselves...
2024-04-0321 minEmpowered Connection PodcastMore Pleasure, Better Boundaries, and AWE with Jami Lynn BulaThemes: Intimacy, Relationships, Sex, Boundaries, Partnership, Pleasure, Presence, Connection, Spirituality, Tantra Yoga, Love Jami Lynn Bula is a relationship and sex therapist in Austin, TX. Jami Lynn's passion is to help people define and create the romantic relationships they crave. For over 10 years, they have been working with individuals and couples who want deeper connections, loving partnerships, and mind-blowing sex. She believes people are drawn into relationship from a deep need to connect- this pull is part of being human. Yet, most of us were not taught how to be in relationship well. Combining tools f...
2024-03-2759 minEmpowered Connection PodcastHow Learned Optimism Can Shift Your Life (& How Pessimism Can Too) with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Empowerment, Positive Psychology, Optimism, Pessimism, Self Criticism, Self CompassionIn this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua explores the researched concept of "learned optimism" and how optimism can shift the course of your life, your happiness, your relationships, and your resilience. Daniel gives researched tips from positive psychologist Martin Seligman and others on how to retrain our minds towards empowering optimistic perspectives and when - and when not - to take on pessimistic points of view... Because, guess what? Pessimism can be helpful too.*
2024-03-2028 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Three Main Patterns of Conflict in Relationships with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Conflict, Relationships, Partnership, Love, ConnectionIn this solo podcast episode, host Damodar Damodar Cordua addresses one of the most important topics in relationship and partnership - navigating our patterns of unproductive conflict.In order to do so, he explores and illuminates the three main patterns that couples and dyads move into. Listen to this shorter episode and shine more light on how you may now or in the past danced in a cycle of conflict with your loved one... and gain the tools to shift that dance - and with it, the p...
2024-03-1322 minEmpowered Connection PodcastIntellectual Bypassing, Healthy Sexuality, & Parts Work for Inner Awareness with Jennifer MinorThemes: Inner Work, Self Growth, Self Empowerment, Parts Work, Therapy, Sexuality, Vulnerability, Intellectual Bypassing, Social Media, Gen Z Jennifer Minor is a licensed professional counselor who helps courageous humans create safer inner worlds, so they can build safer external worlds. With an emphasis on holistic wellness, healthy sexuality, and cultivating curiosity and compassion, Jennifer doesn’t view herself as just your average “professional listener.” She is a personal co-pilot, life cheerleader, compassionate confidant, parts warrior, and the occasional “tea sipper.” With a knack for untangling life's inner webs, she helps folks navigate the intricate peaks and valley...
2024-03-061h 00Empowered Connection PodcastExploring Spontaneous & Responsive Desire For Better Intimacy & More Pleasure with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Sexuality, Intimacy, Relationships, Partnership, Desire, Pleasure, Love, Romance, Sensuality, Connection Do you ever feel your sexual desire is different than your partners? (or previous partners?)Do you struggle to get connected and on the same page sexually with your loved one?Does your sexual desire towards your partner feel unreciprocated?Does the style of sexual desire from your partner sometime shut down your desire?Are you ready for more pleasure in your life?In this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Co...
2024-02-2826 minEmpowered Connection PodcastHow Defensiveness is Hurting Your Relationships & How to Stop It with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Conflict, Defensiveness, Partnership, Conscious Communication, Self Regulation, How to LoveIn this shorter, solo podcast episode Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua breaks down and helps heal "defensiveness" within our relationships. Although an understandable pattern of protection, too much unconscious defensiveness in our relationships - especially partnership - can wear down the foundation of our connection and create negative cycles of conflict and rupture. Some relationship experts call defensiveness one of the death knells of partnership.Listen in to today's episode and learn:- What is...
2024-02-2124 minEmpowered Connection PodcastIntuitive Rebirth: Living Free & Authentic to Your Deepest Truth with Rhiannon HeinsTopics: Spirituality, Personal Empowerment, Authenticity, Energy Work, Spiritual Journey, Self Growth, Divine ConnectionRhiannon Heins is an intuitive channel, a bestselling author, and an energy worker currently based in Bali. She dedicates her life to her soul-work and underpinning her vision at every stage of her journey has been a desire to initiate as many gifted light-workers as possible into their roles on Earth at this time.Rhiannon has spent the past ten years working and lecturing as a remedial massage therapist, teaching yoga, meditation & breathwork, and facilitating yoga teacher trainings internationally. Now, u...
2024-02-151h 01Empowered Connection PodcastLove Is a Skill, Not Just a Feeling with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: How to Love, Relationships, Connection, What Love Is, Partnership, Spirituality, Self WorkIn this shorter, solo podcast episode Empower Connection host Daniel Damodar Cordua dives into the levels of what love is: from it being a feeling, to it being our true nature, and, finally, to the necessity to practice love as a skill.We are all entities made up of love, it is our soul’s essence. Yet, the difficulty arises when that love gets blocked, covered, jammed up, overflowed, overused, or dried up.Listen to today’s epi...
2024-02-0721 minEmpowered Connection PodcastWhat is Skin Hunger & How to Satisfy It with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Intimacy, Connection, Touch, Happiness, Relationships, Sensuality, Sexuality, Nervous System RegulationIn this shorter, solo podcast episode host Daniel Damodar Cordua explores the relational, sensual topic of "skin hunger" in order to give you, the listener, more self empowerment, relational awareness, joy, and connection. We explore our human need and desire for touch, covering these topics: - What is skin hunger?- How is it beneficial to our lives?- How do we explore more about our own skin hunger needs and nuances?- Examples of skin hunger within our lives an...
2024-01-3124 minEmpowered Connection PodcastValidating Another’s Experience is Your Relational Superpower with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relational Empowerment, Conscious Communication, Partnership, Friendship, Conflict, Difference, Healthy Relationships, Human Connection, Relationship Problems, How to Love, Compassion, EmpathyIn this shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua shares one of the most important relational “superpowers” you can start to easily practice in your own life - validating another’s experience.In this actionable episode, learn one of the most common, and negative, liabilities to creating better connection during difference with others in our life.AND, learn a major antidote that will simply, yet profoundly, shift how yo...
2024-01-2421 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Heart Space: Empowered Sacred Sisterhood & Conscious Connection with Leila DyllaThemes: Divine Feminine, Sisterhood, Relationships, Connection, Spirituality, Healing, Trauma, Conflict, Love, Women's Circles, Sacred RitualLeila Dylla is a modern-day mystic that lives life passionately devoted to healing, wholeness, and honoring the sacred thread that ties us all together.Her entrepreneurial journey began in 2011 after her first Yoga teacher training and has continued to be filled with personal development training, world travel, and deep esoteric studies. Leila has a degree in physiology and kinesiology, she is an 800 hr Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, breathwork facilitator and trainer, reiki practitioner, trauma-informed life coach, writer, spiritual...
2024-01-1757 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Truths Underneath Our Need to Give Unsolicited Advice with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Awareness, Conscious Communication, Self Exploration, Relationships, Inner Work, Self Empowerment, How to Love, Couples Wisdom, Self GrowthIn this solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection host Daniel Damodar Cordua talks about our proclivity to give unsolicited advice towards people in our life. Problematizing this very human urge, this podcast episode not only gives the listeners a better option of how to mindfully & successfully relate to our loved ones, but goes even deeper in - in order to unpack, why do we tend to give unsolicited advice in the first place?Turning the mi...
2024-01-1019 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Two Ways to Deal with Regret with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Regret, Loss, Self Empowerment, Blame, Shame, Self Criticism, Self Compassion, Self Love, Self GrowthIt’s the 100th episode of the Empowered Connection Podcast! We extend our deep gratitude to you - our listeners and to expert special guests who have made this podcast such an inspiring resource for self growth, relational awareness, healing, consciousness, and spirituality. Please join us to celebrate and please join us for our NEXT 100 episodes!In this solo podcast episode, podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua takes on a timely subject - the experience of regret. Some...
2024-01-0324 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Wellspring of Our Possibility Begins With Our Nervous System with Samantha JoThemes: Somatic Experiencing, Self Empowerment, Pleasure, Trauma, Spirituality, Embodiment, Relationships, Self Awareness, Self RegulationSamantha Jo is a mother of two, a multi passionate created and a Transformational Somatic Coach. She is all about supporting others in having MORE - more peace, more purpose, and more pleasure. Samantha Jo has been a yoga teacher for over a decade and is an advanced student of Somatic Experiencing. She is also a survivor of domestic abuse. Her journey of healing brought her to this profound somatic work - something that has been life changing, to say the leas...
2023-12-2755 minEmpowered Connection PodcastThe Three Ways of Knowing Ourselves with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Awareness, Self Exploration, Relational Awareness, Society + Culture, Empowerment, Family Dynamics, Inner Work, Yoga PhilosophyJoin Empowered Connection host Daniel Damodar Cordua for this shorter, solo podcast and explore a simple, yet profound premise that will teach you how to see yourself, your patterns, and your relationships more deeply, more fully and more comprehensively.In the stories of yoga, the divine entities Shiva & Durga both carry tridents. These tridents are viewed as having various metaphors - one insightful metaphor is that the three prongs of the trident represent the three levels - or...
2023-12-2024 minEmpowered Connection PodcastBuilding Healthy Boundaries For Couples & Individuals During the Holidays & Beyond with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Boundaries, Family, Holidays, Self Empowerment, People Pleasing, Partnership, Couples Goals, Over-functioning, Self Betrayal, Self Love, Codependency, Conscious Communication, Relationships, Self AwarenessEmpowerment Connection podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua takes a deeper look at how to cultivate better boundaries during the holiday season with family and friends. Even though it is a festive, social and loving time of the year, the holidays can also be challenging when navigating the nuance of relationship.In this solo episode, Damodar gives us a series of helpful tools for navigating this season AND the rest of the ye...
2023-12-1324 minEmpowered Connection PodcastLessons on Intimacy Pt. 3: Creating Better Physical Intimacy in Our Relationships with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Intimacy, Partnership, Relationships, Sexuality, Sensuality, Relationship Problems, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Deep Connection, Eroticism, Emotional Awareness, Love, Nervous System RegulationIn this third part of a series of episodes on intimacy, join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua and learn how to nurture the fertile groundwork for deeper physical intimacy in our partnerships & relationships.In many long term relationships, physical intimacy starts to lag or go underground. In this episode, Daniel explores what is need to re-blossom physical connection, touch, intimacy and sexuality. He also gives specific practices and concepts that wi...
2023-11-2924 minEmpowered Connection PodcastLessons on Intimacy Pt. 2: Deeply Nurturing & Communicating Self + Emotional Awareness with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Intimacy, Partnership, Relationships, Relationship Problems, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Emotional Awareness, Inner Work, Deep Listening, Connection, Love, Family, FriendshipsIn this second episode in a series of episodes on intimacy, join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua and learn how to develop deeper intimacy through becoming more emotionally aware of our own selves, developing deeper self understanding, and learning to safely + mutually share that awareness + understanding with our loved onesThe depth of our intimacy with another only goes as deep as the depth of our intimacy with our own self...
2023-11-1525 minEmpowered Connection PodcastLessons on Intimacy Pt. 1: The Intimacy of Difference, Conflict, & Repair with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Intimacy, Partnership, Relationships, Relationship Problems, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Relationships, Conflict, Deeper Connection, Love, Family, FriendshipsIn this first episode in a series of episodes on intimacy, join Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua and learn how to find intimacy in a very surprising place: the conflict, difference, rupture - and then repair - we have with our loved ones.Some of us may think intimacy - the rich, connective space of deeply of knowing another - happens when we are not in conflict, when things are easy. Even though there i...
2023-11-0816 minEmpowered Connection PodcastDo This To Transform Your Relationships & Transform the World with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Conflict, Conscious Communication, Nonviolence, Relationships, Partnership, Listening, How To Love, Navigating Difference Join Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua for this shorter solo episode and learn one of the most important practices in transforming your relationships - and the world.During a time of external conflict, difference, and strife, NOW is the time to let your own relational life be an example to others in how to: do conflict with more connection, navigate difference, repair after rupture, and stand for your truth while being in loving, compassionate acceptance of another's truth.
2023-10-2514 minEmpowered Connection PodcastWays To Build Intimacy With Your Own Self with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Self Exploration, Self Awareness, Self Discovery, Parts Work, Self Knowledge, Intimacy, Relationships, Presence, Connection, In this solo episode join Empowered Connection Podcast host Daniel Damodar Cordua for an exploration of self intimacy and self discovery.Our ability to become intimate with our own self provides for the intimacy we crave with others.Learn ways to connect deeper to all the parts and aspects of who you are - especially the ones you might hide from or push down - and bridge your self awareness + connection to deeper connection to others...
2023-10-1823 minEmpowered Connection PodcastA Few Things I Wish I Knew About Relationships That I Know Now (Pt. 2) with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Relationship Tips + Tools, Self Empowerment, Human Connection, Conflict, LoveIn this shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua talks about some of the key ideas + realizations he has learned over the years being both a relationship coach + expert and living in relationship to others within his own life.Explore practical self and relationship wisdom that will give you the inspiration and frameworks to empower both your life and all your relationships - with friend, family, lovers, and moreThis is a Part 2. following episode #85, showcasing...
2023-10-0433 minEmpowered Connection PodcastA Few Things I Wish I Knew About Relationships That I Know Now (Pt. 1) with Daniel Damodar CorduaThemes: Relationships, Partnership, Relationship Tips + Tools, Self Empowerment, Human Connection, Conflict, Love In this shorter solo podcast episode, Empowered Connection Podcast host Damodar Cordua talks about some of the key ideas + realizations he has learned over the years being both a relationship coach + expert and living in relationship to others within his own life.Explore practical self and relationship wisdom that will give you the inspiration and frameworks to empower both your life and all your relationships - with friend, family, lovers, and moreAnd stay tuned for part 2 for more...
2023-09-2023 minEmpowered Connection PodcastPsychedelic Integration: Empowering Our Everyday through Peak Experiences with Daniel ShankinThemes: Psychedelics, Psychedelic Integration, Healing, Trauma, Spirituality, Empowerment, Awakening, Somatics, Relationships, Self Love, Self Acceptance, Shadow Work, Yoga Wisdom, AwarenessAs a psychedelic integration coach, Daniel Shankin serves people with emerging spiritual visions as they find ways to weave their new-found truths into their lives in a way that is sustainable, harmonious, compassionate and wise. He works with people from all walks of life and his methods are fiercely practical while maintaining space for mystery and magic to emerge. Daniel offers time tested and scientifically backed tools so clients can create a life...
2022-11-1559 min
Inspired Creativity97 Meditation Tuesday - Damodar Daniel CorduaWelcome to Meditation Tuesday, today I am talking with Damodar Daniel Cordua
Damodar and his wife Radha are the owners of Palo Santo Wellness and Bhava Wellness where they offer space to help guide your personal journey of mind, body, and spirit - specializing in yoga, fitness, movement, meditation, on-going workshops, and healing sessions by an array of talented practitioners. Their boutique provides a variety of beautiful & mystical objects for healing, home, and adornment. Their apothecary & our in-house product line offer an ever-growing array of holistic health & wellness.
I invite you...
2020-06-1657 min
What's Eric EatingEpisode 66 - Drake Leonards and Daniel Blue of EuniceOn today's episode of the What's Eric Eating podcast, Eric is joined by frequent co-host and beverage consultant Linda Salinas to discuss some of the latest news from the Houston restaurant and bar scene. Eric and Linda discuss Urban Harvest relocating, Linda's work with Urban Harvest on the Cultivated Cocktails event, Michael and David Cordua leaving Cordua Restaurants group, Del Frisco's Grill closing, Postino opening a 2nd location in Montrose, and more! In the Restaurants of the Week portion Eric and Linda discuss One Fifth Mediterranean and Flower Child.
In the Guest of the Week section, brought t...
2018-09-1357 min