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Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalThe Bloom of your PerfectionIn a time when so much feels destabilizing—both in the world around us and within our own hearts—this meditation offers a gentle return to the center of your embodied heart. You’ll be guided to reunite with the perfection of who you are, the sacred purpose you came here with, and then create deeper trust and love with your inner child from this gaze of perfection. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2025-04-2312 min
Carving a New Path PodcastYour Body Has a Voice: Tuning into Your Most Powerful Ally with Guest Monisha MittalIn the midst of these destructive times, it is easy to feel powerless and without resources. What if your body held a deeper intelligence to guide your choices and find your “right effort?” In this conversation we’ll hear from Monisha Mittal who has been leading embodied experiences for finding your clarity, ease and flow for five years. We explore how to listen to your body’s wise voice, why movement is a language to accelerate deep insights, and the essential role play has for listening to your body's guidance and for your whole system's well-being.
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Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalInto the light of your knowingThis meditation is inspired by Victor Frankl’s quote about finding the pause between a stimulus and response. In times of turmoil, which the U.S. government is in, it is vital we can bring our whole selves to our choices, rather than be splintered by fear. Step into this meditation to find uplift from inside your Whole Self. “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Victor E. Frankl This is a p...2025-02-0412 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalThe Ground Beneath my FeetThe Ground Beneath my Feet is a new poem that wants to be read out loud. The experience of feeling this poem come through me was remarkable in itself. I never expected it to take me on the path it did, or land me where it did. Title is a working title only. Hope you enjoy it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2025-01-2902 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalThe Four Directions & Right PlacementI begin talking about how a regular practice of playdates preparing for Dance Chapel led to trusting myself. This wise, physical type of play comes from the InterPlay system. Then I share insights from a recent Ancestral Lineage Healing session around our placement at birth. This culminates with a guided meditation to come into right placement with the 4 directions. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2025-01-2221 min
Carving a New Path PodcastWhy Play Matters: Exploring the Wisdom of Play Dates with Monisha Mittal#magic #wisdom #inspiration
Episode 63 w/ Monisha Mittal: Why Play Matters: Exploring the Wisdom of Play Dates
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Join us for a deep dive into the power of play for growth, wellbeing and transformation. In this conversation, we’ll explore the anatomy of Play Dates—their key characteristics—and why play is essential for enlivening your human experience and realizing your secret desires. We’ll cover simple ways you can structure your own Play Dates so you can integrate t...2025-01-0347 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalYour 2024 Winter Solstice RitualPeaceful Solstice Greetings! This is a new way to share my annual winter solstice ritual. I invite you to lean into this longest night of the year. Light a candle. Listen as I read David Whyte’s precious Sweet Darkness poem, where “the darkness will be your home tonight.” Nestle into my guided meditation to find not just your deep rest, but also your light. As always you the magical human conduit in between. There is a question I pass onto you from Master Interplay leader Lisa Laing. If it moves you to put on some music after...2024-12-2111 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalBeyond grititude, True Uplift for the HolidaysI’ll be honest. If you’re experience is anything like mine, 2024 felt like a tough year! Hidden dynamics all rising to the surface, asking to be dealt with. (It felt easier when they were hidden, right?) So here we are. I offer you this guided meditation because it is too stressful to deal without increasing our baseline level of self-compassion. The good news? If we can deal with all the crap (ours, others) with as much Big-Love as possible, we clear the decks for next year. That’s what it seems like! Another tip: for those in any...2024-12-0807 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalThe Whole River is HealingI dusted off an old poem of mine from decades ago because it picks up on the theme of last week’s post: life as a prepetual current pulling us forward. This poem was written during one of those rare, culminating moments when you catch a glimpse of the countless tiny events that had to align for this moment to happen. Take a 2 minute listen. I pay homage to a poem by William Meredith’s (not P) Crossing Over. Its one of my favorite poems (a great love poem too!) and served as inspiration for my own. 2024-08-2002 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSpeaking my own PoemI found a poem and this time it’s one of mine. I found it while searching for another file. I wrote it years ago, and yet I am struck by how much it speaks to my current condition. I am grateful for its reminder for “how” to make a choice when the path forward is not clear. This poem is called The Planting. I hope you enjoy it. Whatever your experience is, please share in the comments. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...2024-07-2000 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalFinding our Song - Poetry ReadingI am so happy my friend sent me this poem. It lifted me. Literally got me out of bed where I had lain sick for 2 days. “Live,” this poem by Ruth Awad whispers and then commands. Especially in these turbulent times, please let me know how this poem moves YOU. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2024-07-1701 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalHerThis is a poem about vulnerability —mine, and maybe yours. How I was transformed by a few words in a moment of authentic friendship. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2024-03-1902 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalActivating Your Joy RideToday's activation is about taking our ability to co-create with the universe to the next level by giving up control and embracing the joyride. Listeners are guided to on a car ride powered by their heart's desires. Listeners are given the opportunity to surrender control, allowing excitement and anticipation to flow. Listeners are guided to experience the ability to steer with the flow. Uplevel your ability to go on a Joy Ride with the Universe. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus e...2023-09-1910 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSuper Blue Moon Abundance ActivationAnother activation to help you move towards your dreams, in full flow of your Bliss-state. This is inspired by the Super Blue moon we experienced last Wednesday. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2023-09-0416 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSunflower ActivationThis episode is inspired by the sunflower and invites us into our heliotropic light bodies so we can feel the fullness of our heartlight and unseen desires. Includes a reading of Ticht Naht Hahn. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2023-08-1517 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalThe Tiny Voice of Big Love: Lions Gate ActivationA gift to activate the energies and vibrations of magnificence and abundance from the Lion's Gate portal of 8-8-23. It was always You. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2023-08-0810 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalLions Gate Portal ActivationA gift to activate the energies, vibration and gifts of magnificence and abundance in your body from today's Lion Gate Portal. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2023-08-0810 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSpring Equinox 2022 Activating Receiving MeditationActivate your capacity to receive support and abundance with the free Spring 2022 meditation! I work with an often ignored yet precious place of your body, Check it out. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2022-03-2712 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalTap into Your Knowing and RenewalIt finally started to get to me. The constant grating of death, systems and mechanisms around me coming undone, the sheer destruction of it all. I crafted this meditation last week and decided to share it as a gift to help people tap into their knowing, as a source of ease and renewal for your lovely life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2022-01-2313 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSoundcard 12: The Holy DarknessAttuning to the messages of the seasons, in the northern hemisphere we began our descent into a darkness and are just emerging from Winter Solstice. Many traditions embrace the light during this time but what of the Dark? Darkness is Holy also. Learn how Darkness supports our wholeness, and ultimately, our shining our light. I read from: Wendell Berry's "To Know the Darkness"; David Whyte's "Sweet Darkness," and Mark Nepo's "Things Light and Dark". Surrendering to it all means embracing the darkness that awaits us with open arms. This is a public episode. If you'd like t...2021-12-2413 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSoundcard 11: Trusting it AllThis week we delve into the very human heart-centered experience of grieving. In a movement I was doing during an InterPlay workshop, my body floated up a memory from my past, a tender moment full of grief. What mysteries and promises might grieving hold for us on our path and why does that matter to you? Learn what I glimpsed. This week I read Cutting Loose by William Stafford and There Were no Signs by Irving Layton. Check out the bonus clip to pick up a tool to hear your own body's wisdom. This is a...2021-11-1211 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSoundcard 10: Emanating PresenceEach one of us is emitting an energetic presence, which means there is something in us that is Alive. Today I activate your connection with your presence by reading "What was Told That" by Rumi and "To Unravel" by Ana De Jong. Come get your hum on and come listen to why this connection can help us through it all. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2021-10-1011 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalBig Love Alchemy Soundcard #9: Wading into Deeper WatersOne of the bigger games we play in our life is the game of safety: are we safe or not. What if we could make the game about listening to a different frequency? This week I invite you to take the plunge of diving into deeper waters, listening for your joy frequency and giving yourself permission to see where that takes you. Listen for the difference between playing for joy versus 'having a positive mind-set.' This week I read from Mark Nepo's "In your Veins" from his Book of Awakening and to Marie Rainer Wilke's "Go to the Limit...2021-10-1011 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSoundcard #8: Remembering Your Love Light Its one thing to learn the skills of navigating our terrain from our inner heart, but in order live with increasing ease, freedom and joy, its essential to remember who we really are. Listen to what that this and why remembering this can help guide you on your path. I dedicate this episode to the character of Yoda ("and what a powerful ally it is") and to all the families impacted by the circumstances in Afghanistan. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vis...2021-10-1012 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSoundcard 10: Emanating PresenceEach one of us is emitting an energetic presence, which means there is something in us that is Alive. Today I activate your connection with your presence by reading "What was Told That" by Rumi and "To Unravel" by Ana De Jong. Come get your hum on and come listen to why this connection can help us through it all. 2021-10-0911 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalBig Love Alchemy Soundcard #9: Wading into Deeper WatersOne of the bigger games we play in our life is the game of safety: are we safe or not. What if we could make the game about listening to a different frequency? This week I invite you to take the plunge of diving into deeper waters, listening for your joy frequency and giving yourself permission to see where that takes you. Listen for the difference between playing for joy versus 'keeping a positive mind-set.' This week I read from Mark Nepo's "In your Veins" from his Book of Awakening and to Marie Rain...2021-09-1411 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSoundcard #8: Remembering Your Love Light Its one thing to learn the skills of navigating our terrain from our inner heart, but in order live with increasing ease, freedom and joy, its essential to remember who we really are. Listen to what that this and why remembering this can help guide you on your path. I dedicate this episode to the character of Yoda ("and what a powerful ally it is") and to all the families impacted by the circumstances in Afghanistan. 2021-08-3012 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalBig Love Alchemy Soundcard #7: Being with What IsBeing with what is is shorthand for being with ourselves. Yet this can bring up uncomfortable feelings or something else we're avoiding. What happens when we can be with what is? What happens when we don't? What's in it for us and how does your body play into this? This week I read from David Whyte's Winter of Listening. I invite you to pause at multiple points during the many passages of this poem to notice your experience and affirm what feels good. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other sub...2021-07-2512 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalBig Love Alchemy Soundcard #6: Your Ever Unfolding StoryPart of our jobs as humans is to come into relationship with each other which can seem the challenging task of all. Why Big Love? How does it help? This week I read from Although the Wind by Izumi Shikibu (translated by Jane Hirshfield) and On the Other Side by Lynn Ungar. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2021-07-1307 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSoundcard #5: Our Pathways ThroughWhen we hurt, our grief, hurt, shame or fear can feel overpowering, making us feel it is all that is real. What is our passageway through? How can Big Love assist? This week I read from William Stafford's You Reading This Be Ready and Mark Nepo's Instructions to My Small Self. The subsequent micro-lesson can be used as a guided meditation. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2021-06-2410 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSoundcard #4: When we Ebb by Monisha MittalI read Self Love by Lang Leav and Sweet Darkness by David Whyte and share inspiration from the ebbs of life, when our terrain feels particularly difficult. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2021-06-1609 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSoundcard #3: a Center abidesI read aloud the poems: "A Center" by Ha Jin and 'The Delight Song of Tsoai Talee' by N. Scott Momaday. I speak to the importance of connecting to this for yourself and what compels me to bring these soundcard offering to you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2021-06-0811 min
Big Love Alchemy: Embodying Your Heart with Monisha MittalSoundcard #2: Silent JoyI read from "The Breathing" by Denise Levertov and "The Great Scarf of Birds" by John Updike for what I experience as a silent joy. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit monishamittal.substack.com/subscribe2021-05-3108 min