Category: Audios

Saturday online meeting
Recorded August 8th, 2026
Length: 1 hour

We keep looking for the spectacular. The breakthrough, the opening, the moment that changes everything. Because part of us is hoping for another life. A different reality than the ordinary one we’re standing in right now. This monthly gathering is about what happens when we stop reaching past our life for another one. Not turning away from what’s actually here. Simple, yes, but not easy.

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Date: April 24, 2026
Length: 1 hour

Susanne and Beth Miller explore the nature of evil, shadow, and embodiment through a deeply personal and philosophical conversation that bridges inner work and collective experience. They question whether evil is an external force or a human creation, reflecting on how unconscious patterns shape both personal suffering and the world around us. Through honest sharing, Beth Miller reveals how long COVID helped her integrate a generational victim pattern rooted in trauma, while Susanne describes a healing that transformed lifelong feelings of not belonging into a sense of being at home everywhere. Together they emphasize the importance of meeting the shadow with awareness and compassion, pointing to spiritual awakening as an ongoing, embodied process that invites us to live with greater presence, responsibility, and wholeness.

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Open Circle Hosted Online Meeting
Topic: Maturing the Teacher-Student Relationship
Date: March 29. 2-26
Length: 2 Hours

In this online meeting, Susanne explores the evolving dynamics of teacher–student relationships in spiritual spaces, with particular attention to projection, idealization, and the subtle ways personal authority can be surrendered. Drawing on the insight “don’t mistake the finger for the moon,” the conversation examines how genuine realization is often confused with external figures, and how both students and teachers are invited into a more mature and balanced relationship with guidance. The meeting also reflects on a broader collective shift toward self responsibility and inner authority, while still honoring the value of learning from others. Together, participants explore how to engage spiritual teaching in ways that support sovereignty, discernment, and healthy, integrated spiritual growth.

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Approx. 1 hour 21 minutes
This conversation is Part 2 of the Listening Voices series, continuing our exploration of resilience, awakening, authenticity, and the courage to live in integrity and care. The first part is found on my youtube channel under Conversations.

In this three way conversation, Susanne Marie, Jac O’Keefe, and Ellen Emmet explore resilience not as something that simply helps us endure, but as the courage to stay present when life challenges us and changes us. We speak about what it means to live authentically, to not betray ourselves, and to meet whatever arises within and around us with honesty and care.

We also reflect on the deeper dimensions of humanity, including how we understand difficult forces in the world, and how clarity and compassion can coexist. Susanne, Jac, and Ellen each share what resilience looks like in real life and offer practical ways to meet ourselves with more love, integrity, and steadiness.

This dialogue is an invitation to open more fully to life and to discover the strength that emerges when we do.

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Open Circle Center Hosted Online Meeting
Topic: Turning Toward Wholeness
Sunday, November 23, 2025
2 Hours

At any given moment, we can tune into one of two streams. One arises from the natural wholeness of our being, open, still, and complete. The other is formed by the mind’s projections onto Reality, creating a sense of separation and confusion. This mental stream veils what is already whole and true.

In this meeting, we explore how to rest in the stream of wholeness, learning to recognize and gently turn our attention away from the mind’s content. Through shared inquiry and practice, we deepen our capacity to abide in what is real, whole, and ever-present.

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Open Circle Center Hosted Online Meeting
Topic: The Paradox of Being and Becoming
Sunday, January 25th, 2026
2 Hours

“Always being, always becoming” speaks to something quietly and profoundly true. Within us is an aspect that has never changed, already whole, complete, and present, even as life continues to unfold, evolve, and express itself. Awakening does not bring our human unfolding to an end. Rather, it reveals becoming as a natural expression of being.

Being and becoming are like the two wings of a bird. Without being, human becoming can lose its balance and become caught in endless striving, risking getting lost in experience. Without becoming, being has no place to land, no ground through which it can learn and grow, our human potential manifesting in the world.
Together, we sit with this simple and liberating truth: you are always becoming what you already are.

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Recorded Sunday August 17th
2 Hours

Self-preoccupation veils the natural sense of unity and belonging. This is why, traditionally in India, the Bhakti path of selfless service, Seva, has been so deeply valued. When we make a habit of prioritizing our own needs above all else, it reinforces the illusion of a separate self. The spiritual journey is, in essence, a process of self lessening so that the Divine may grow within us. Deep down, we all long to be of true service, to be put to good use, because giving from the heart brings real joy.

Yet the pull of self-centeredness is strong and deeply ingrained. Thankfully, life offers many natural opportunities for the diminishment of ‘I’: Through parenting, caregiving, volunteering, and other forms of service. However, even in these, the inner doer can persist, resisting the surrender that allows giving to be truly selfless and unattached. In this meeting, we will explore the transformative power of selfless giving, and share helpful pointers to support the gentle loosening of self-identification.

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Open Circle Hosted Online Meeting with Susanne Marie
Recorded Saturday, June 14, 2025

Sometimes the only way to be free of something is to allow yourself to be fully trapped. Most of us are initially drawn to spirituality with the understandable desire to feel better and in general to be released from suffering. Often, however, our desire to escape suffering creates its own bondage. The desire itself plays into the belief that something needs to be done about what we are feeling, that we need to somehow disappear a feeling by replacing it with bliss or peace, or whatever we imagine freedom to be.

The truth of reality, however, is that all is One. Which means that what you are feeling and trying to escape is part of a totality. By wishing something away, we are setting ourselves up to be at odds with an aspect of ourselves. Truth is inclusive, meaning that what you are feeling is included in what you are. Rather than trying to escape unwanted feelings, we might consider building bridges to deeper understanding, where true freedom awaits.

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Recorded July 2025, approx. 1 hour.

In this rich and insightful episode on The Center For Healing Podcast, Matt is joined by spiritual teacher Susanne Marie for a profound exploration of the integrative path of spiritual awakening. Together, they unpack the evolving journey of awakening, moving through key phases such as:

• The Emptiness Phase – where identity dissolves into spacious awareness
• The Unity/Oneness Phase – the realization of interconnectedness with all life
• The Embodiment Phase – where transcendence gives way to full inclusion of our humanity

Rather than bypassing the human experience, Susanne shares how true awakening eventually circles back, inviting us to meet our emotions, stories, and challenges with compassion and presence. The discussion reflects on how non-dual realization is not the endpoint, but the beginning of an embodied, integrated life.

This episode is a heartfelt, clear, and nuanced look at the spiritual path beyond the clichés, where the divine and human are no longer at odds, but fully lived as one. Topics Covered:

• Spiritual Awakening & Non-Duality
• The Illusion of Separation
• Stages of Realisation
• Embodiment & Integration
• Full Circle Awakening

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Recorded March 26, 2025, approximately 43 mins in length.

Join Susanne Marie and Connie (Ma Prem Zareen), in an exploratory and lively discussion about how we come about waking up to Truth, and what it takes to have awakening live in a grounded way. We touch on a variety of subjects, with the focus being about the naturalness of waking up, and the importance of looking at one’s conditioning (both collective & individual). Ma Prem Zareen is a Dances of Universal Peace Leader (Sufi Tradition), Writer, & Teacher.

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Recorded January 2025, 1 hour, 23 minutes long.

A relaxed conversation between two friends touching on a variety of interesting topics pertaining to awakening. Pierre Richard is a saxophone player and teacher, and a dedicated spiritual practitioner who lives in Montreal, Canada. Topics contained in this podcast range from the different types of bliss, to the varieties of teachers’ transmissions that exist, including those to avoid. We also discuss the importance of preserving your life force energy, as well as healthy versus unhealthy ways to be in relationship with others.

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This is an online meeting hosted by Open Circle Center and recorded on Sunday November 10th, 2024. Approx. 2 hours.

It is good to take stock now and then and sincerely look at what one is wanting spiritually. In order to attain undivided Truth, one needs to be intentional, even if knowing how to get there is undefined. In actuality, having clarity in the moment as to ‘how’, while also allowing divine intelligence to guide, are both important frames of mind to hold in realizing your true nature.

It is important to recognize that the purpose of the seeking energy is to motivate one to come home to oneself. In fact, it can be a guide for you if you learn how to listen. Having an inner drive to wake up is the first step, learning how to listen and follow your inner guidance is the second step, and finally, surrendering and resting in the unknown is the third step. But nothing happens without inner clarity of what we are sincerely wanting. Without intention, one can float a long time in confusion as to how to realize.
The aim of this meeting will be to go beyond the ideas you hold about awakening, lovingly letting go of any false beliefs you may encounter, and access the current true desire you have to wake up. This helps reboot your spiritual intention, bringing it into the now, and enlivening its potentiality.

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This clip is taken from an online meeting titled “Why Awaken?”

Resting with ‘what is’, is a powerful teaching and helps one live this life with more presence and less resistance. As a practice: First one notices what is taking place inside, then one opens to it the best one can. What is allowing something to be is spaciousness itself, which is already open and free. This practice helps one learn how to be present and available to the moment.

The full length audio recording is available for sale in the store.

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Excerpt taken from an online meeting titled: “What Can One Do to Awaken?”

Over time one can realize that the separate self sense is not needed in order to make your life work. Relaxing (surrendering) into your Being, and learning how to function from an unbounded place, supports the letting go of the belief that you need to exert a doer (which is imagined). Awakening is making awareness conscious throughout your whole being (as a felt sense), and increasingly in your life.

The full-length recording of this meeting is available for sale here.

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This clip is taken from Susanne’s 7-day retreat from May 2024, “Truth Unveiled.”

Where are you at on your own spiritual map? The more you give yourself to what it is you are wanting spiritually, the more support you receive from the divine. What makes one unaware of Being, is the sense that it is covered over by content. Awakening is your spirit essence becoming conscious of itself, and then having that awareness liberate all the forgotten lost parts, inside. In this video, Susanne speaks to the spiritual map that we hold in common evolutionarily.

The full audio recording of this retreat is available for purchase under Retreats in the store.

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What would you like to be done with? What has been weighing on you, and you would like to set down today?

This guided meditation is taken from Susanne’s 7-day retreat held in May 2024, “Truth Unveiled.”

The full length recordings of the retreat are for sale here.

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Enter into the silence in-between the gaps of your thinking mind, by using a Sanskrit seed mantra. Soham is translated as: I am That.

This guided meditation is taken from Susanne’s 7-day retreat held in May 2024, “Truth Unveiled.”

The full length recordings of the retreat are for sale here.

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The natural flow of one’s breath is an ever present invitation to be renewed. With the in-breath we invite fresh vital life-force energy, and with the outgoing breath, one can release what is not needed or useful, back to the uncreated.

This guided meditation is taken from Susanne’s 7-day retreat held in May 2024, “Truth Unveiled.”

The full length recordings of the retreat are for sale here.

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In order for awakening to be known throughout one’s system, the light of consciousness is meant to be awaken to sensorily in the body. While learning how to open to feeling presence in the body, one can encounter resistances along the way. Working with these resistances helps one to more deeply live awakening in an abiding way.

This audio clip as well as the meditation audio titled “The Felt Sense of Presence” are taken from an online course recording titled “Focused Practices to Help you Awaken.”

The full-length course is available for purchase here.

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It is best to resist the urge to hurry up awakening. The point is to stay on track remaining focused on your spiritual practice. Digging one well deeply is what yields fruit. It is easy to become addicted to the internet thinking that your spiritual growth will come from taking in outside content. Your own connection to source is what is important. Over time, embodying Truth changes you, emptying you out and revealing a more harmonized and soulful nature.

Clip taken from an online meeting titled: Embodying Soul. Available for purchase under the Premium Audio page of Susanne’s website.

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In this Open Circle Center Hosted Online Meeting, Susanne walks one through landing in the here and now firstly in the body, then placing attention on the power of noticing, leading to awareness being aware of itself.

Whether you are an advanced practitioner, or newly entering the spiritual stream, one can always use the simple (yet profound), essential practice of resting one’s attention on presence. As you may know, what we sincerely give our attention to, grows, and this is also true in regard to realizing our true nature.

It is easy to get caught up with flowery or complicated pointers, falsely believing that realization is difficult to attain and meant for the few. But it does take a certain type of dedication and willingness to unstrip oneself of imagination and avoid the tendency to complicate things, which puts awakening into time.

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Learning how to be true to oneself rather than giving over to how one imagines one should behave, helps one to align to Truth. Remain home within yourself, and see what kind of response comes from there.

Audio clip taken from Susanne’s Truth Unveiled May 2024 Crestone Retreat. You may purchase the entire 7 night retreat package on her Premium audio page.

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A skill worthy of learning has to do with noticing the natural in and outgoing of your breath. With the in-breath, we are here and exist, and with the out-breath, we let go and release into emptiness.

Audio clip taken from Susanne’s May Truth Unveiled 2024 Crestone Retreat. You may purchase the entire 7 night retreat package on her Premium audio page.

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In this meditation, Susanne walks one through the steps of how to drop below identification via being in awareness of noticing. Noticing without interpretation is a doorway to freedom and is something one can practice. This meditation was especially loved by those who attended Susanne’s Taos retreat.

Recorded live at Susanne’s Taos Retreat, September 2022.

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In this guided meditation, you are invited to tune into what presence feels like in the body via the sensing body. This helps ground presence consciously so that one can know what awareness is not only in an abstract way through the mind, but also in an understandably direct and sensorially manner via the body.

This audio as well as the video titled: Non-Dual Awakening of the body, are taken from an online 4-part course titled: Focused Practices to Help you Awaken. Which is available for sale under Susanne’s Premium Audio Page.

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In this meditation, Susanne walks one through sinking into the aliveness of presence by using a simple, yet powerful, Sanskrit seed mantra: Soham (I am That).
This clip is taken from an online 4 – part series titled: Focused Spiritual Practice Support Sessions. The entire  series is available for sale under Susanne’s Premium Audio page.

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There is a very simple method to realizing your true nature, and that is in order to wake up and have truth stabilize within, you have to not only desire it with your whole heart, you also have to one pointedly work towards it.

There is a saying in Zen that the Buddha lies at the base of the hedgegrow. What this is pointing to is that truth is locatable, bit in order to find it, you are required to sincereley look. Realizing truth is not held outside of you, found within teachings on YouTune, or dispensed solely by grace. Truth is locatable and resides in a grounded way, within you.

The Indian spiritual teacher Nisargadatta said that sincerity is key, which couldn’t be more true. It is vital to look for yourself to see whether you contain the sincerity needed to be unwaveringly devoted. When such devotion is cultivated, the goal is a forgone conclusion as our focused attention is the power that is required.

In this meeting Susanne speaks honestly about what is required to realize truth, including guidance as to where to place your attention. If you are already clear on your personal inner guidance, this meeting will support you in further deepening into the unfoldment of Truth.

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In order to advance spiritually, we do need to open in trust to the inner guidance that is intent on bringing you back home to your undivided true nature. In this meeting, you are invited more fully into letting go of control, so that divine intelligence can support your inner unfoldment.

A poem from Shar which emerged following the online meeting:

One day walking life, next moment walking life. One day loving life, next moment loving life.
Breathe, fill the lungs & release. Same day every day, yet, each day blossoms so differently.
As rhythm of moment blossoms so differently.
Once you walk through the door. Life is life, yet life not life.
The one that angered, now let go of. The one that irritated, now let go of.
Mind now a moment passing away.
Mind another day lived, another day loved, another day being home as is,
no holding, just living wildly.

poem- Sharkatana

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Susanne and friends exploring the topic of how the impact of crisis can be met within the realm of awakening. Living our daily lives under ordinary conditions, when the unexpected never materializes and is very far from our active mind, often doesn’t reveal undiscovered territory within one’s conditioning.

This reveals itself in its full, if often unwanted, glory when a major incident takes place. The opportunity held within such times of one’s life unearths hidden patterns leading to reactions and behaviors that jump at the opportunity to come to the light and be transformed. Perhaps the first blessing of a major life altering event is being stopped so fully that there is no option other than being fully present to the moment. Another is encountering the beautiful human spirit of generosity and kindness that can help redeem one and in turn open one’s heart.

Similarly, pain and crisis can invite vast reservoirs of capacity to open in surrender to the moment, helping us to see how much we have benefited from realizations and personal work. It is a blessing to be benefited by the grace arising out of deep spiritual work. It is like having a spiritual piggy bank that comes in handy when faced with challenging times.

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Everybody contains inside of them an inner spiritual guidance system, which when aligned with, helps orient one to following the path that best servces your awakening. Learning how to open in trust to your inner knowing is much of what the spiritual journey is about.

~ Online Meeting hosted by Open Circle Center

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