The Heart Space podcast - simple, practical wisdom for modern times
Welcome to the Heart Space podcast - sharing simple, practical wisdom teachings for modern times. We discuss various wisdom teachings - with a focus on Buddhism (although not exclusively) - and how we can relate them to our everyday, modern lives. We'll also explore a host of nature based connection and meditation practices. Host, Nicola Fanucchi, is an avid meditation and mindfulness practitioner and incorporates nature in her approach. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and subscribe. Please email Nicola with any questions or comments. You can find us on Instagram @nicolafanucchi
Episodes
18 episodes
The Magic of Awareness (Live talk)
This talk is a discussion of Anam Thubten's books the Magic of Awareness and No Self, No Problem. It covers developing awareness and finding enlightenment in our everyday lives. Recorded from a live talk presented on 8...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:21:52
Rescue Remedy: embracing insight meditation in times of stress (Live talk February 2023)
In these increasingly busy and chaotic times, insight meditation can lead us to inner freedom. In this talk, we'll explore the concept of insight meditation and I'll share a simple practice suitable for both beginners and more adva...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:19:13
Manifesting your unexpressed potential and creative flow - a Buddhist perspective
This episode is an excerpt of a live talk given by Nicola Fanucchi at the Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist centre in South Africa in August 2022. Due to the workshop nature of the talk there are several guided meditations. The topic of t...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:02:41
Develop your 5 inner wisdoms - the world needs it!
In this episode, we'll discuss wisdom and why developing wisdom is the most important (and urgent) thing each of us can do for ourselves and our communities. We'll look at the 5 wisdom superpowers and the 5 mind poisons, and how we...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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24:29
Meditation in Action - taking action in tough times
We're living in tough times and we need to put wisdom teachings into action. We need more compassionate action and less theory. In this live talk, given at the Kagyu Samye Dzong (South Africa) centre, we work through Chogyam Trungp...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:04:34
Connecting with bodhicitta, the awakened heart, within our ordinary lives (live talk)
In this episode we will be discussing Pema Chodren's book "Becoming Bodhisattva's" where she provides a practical commentary on Shantideva's 6th century teaching on the 'Path of the Bodhisattva'. The episode focusses on how we can ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:12:28
Examining the world of form with lucid daytime practices (live talk)
Is the world and, with it, all our thoughts and ideas as solid & fixed as we believe? In this episode, we'll be discussing the teachings and science behind illusory form and understand how through training our minds we can expand ou...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:09:27
Learning to see clearly through confusion
Welcome to Season 2! In this season we'll be exploring teachings on inter-connection and non-duality, kicking off with this first episode inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings on inter-being. There's a lot of noise in the world right ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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32:55
The 5 inner elements and our emotions (live talk)
How do the 5 elements (water, earth, fire, air and space) influence, and manifest through, our emotions? How can we work with the 5 elements to transform our negative emotions into their positive attributes? In this talk (it's fair...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:12:43
Balancing the five elements (live talk)
Working with the elements - earth, water, fire, air and space - is an act of continual balancing. We can learn about the elements by observing them in their outer/external form: in nature, our home environments and even in our bodies. T...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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43:43
Exploring the energy of loneliness
Loneliness is such a common but painful human experience and is so prevalent in our fast-paced world. Although we all seek connection, and even may have more connections than ever before thanks to technology, what we are often miss...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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41:18
Working with energy & the elements to achieve inner balance (Live talk)
In this episode, I'll share a live recording from a talk held at the Cape Town Kagyu Samye Dzong Buddhist centre in April 2021. In Tibetan Buddhism, it is taught that all energy that arises from the ground of existence (also called...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:14:30
The energy behind change: why we struggle to make lasting changes in our lives
We so often have the best intentions behind making changes but then never fully following through or implementing them. Why? In this episode we'll cover the energetic laws that govern our lives, and how to apply the pattern of birt...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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53:28
A return to Earth: Making the shift from head to heart-based living
"Living from the heart" is a common catchphrase but what does it actually mean and how do we try it for ourselves? In this episode, we'll explore how we can work with the outer landscape, inner landscape and energies to make a last...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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55:12
Putting nature back into our lives and spiritual practices
Although we're human animals, we've become increasingly disconnected from our natural environment and this disconnect makes us believe that we are, in fact, separate from the natural world and other species. This perception of sepa...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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35:16
Heartbeat: How to connect to nature
In this short episode, we'll cover a beginner-friendly guide on how to connect to nature. Nature connection is something available to all of us and is part of healing our disconnect and separation with the earth, other specie...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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14:26
Heartbeat: A 'pill' for the pain body, speech and mind
In this short Heartbeat episode, we'll explore a tool called the the 'three pills', adapted from Tenzin Wangyul Rinpoche's book Spontaneous Creativity. The three pills of stillness, silence and spaciousness can be applied...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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10:05
Trailer - get ready to explore! Season 2 is here.
Welcome to Heart Space! This podcast is designed to lead you on a journey into your inner nature using the tools of nature connection, deep listening, the elements and the power of imagination and storytelling. We're living in time...
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Season 1
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