Awake In Relationship
Awake In Relationship explores the art of intimacy, connection and community in the digital age. Build your social fitness habit with inspirational long form interviews featuring thought leaders on the frontiers of mindfulness, conscious relationships, community building, deep work and social enterprise. Fresh episodes drop twice a month on all major platforms.
Episodes
74 episodes
Never let a good break up go to waste with Cole Zesiger
074 As human beings our nervous system is evolutionarily wired for connection. While our life circumstances have changed radically, our neolithic brains are still playing catch up in the modern world. When a rupture happens in...
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Season 3
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Episode 74
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40:11
Masculine spirit and the recovering ‘nice guy’ with Jason Lange
073 Only recently have both women and men been able to liberate themselves from the yoke of patriarchal norms. The transition to a more egalitarian, post modern society in the last 50 years also meant a rejection of historical narratives ...
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Season 3
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Episode 73
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52:49
Salon culture and the art of hosting conversations that matter with Justine Kolata
072 The age of connectivity was supposed to give everyone a voice and spread liberal values around the world, but instead public discourse in the digital town square has been reduced to 280 characters and cynical memes shared with strangers.&nb...
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Season 3
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Episode 72
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29:58
ON AIR: Chosen family and the mirror of relationships with Silas Rose
071 As we transition to fall and celebrate thanksgiving (In Canada) it seems like a natural time to focus on the hearth, the place of warmth, family and community. The constellation of people we share our world with, especially our chosen famil...
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Season 3
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Episode 71
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6:08
Getting into flow: Productivity and work that feeds your soul with Steve Puri
070 The road to original and impactful work can be long and lonely. The digital age has enabled more freedom, creativity and opportunity, but also epidemic levels of disconnection and distraction. It is estimated that 20 percent of North Americ...
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Season 3
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Episode 70
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39:39
The pilgrimage from the head to the deep heart with Dr. John Prendergast
069 The heart is not just a pump, it is also the tender center of our being we most often guard and long to liberate. As young children we got to experience the wonders of life through an open heart, but also the pain of separation and in...
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Season 3
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Episode 69
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49:47
Loneliness and the highest yoga of love with Susan Gillis Chapman
068 The spiritual journey is not all love and light. The more one commits to waking up, the more life is punctuated by times of intense loneliness and a longing to be liberated from the sense of separateness. The nature of love i...
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Season 3
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Episode 68
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31:13
Dancing with the Shadow and conscious relationships with Dr Connie Zweig
067 Every rose has its thorn... so too, there is no intimacy without first facing the Shadow. In the background of our quest to be known and held deeply in relationship is a murky and sometimes dangerous territory. The Shadow contains a lifetim...
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Season 3
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Episode 67
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38:16
Intro to Season 3: Conscious relationships at the dawn of AI with Silas Rose
066 After an extended hiatus Awake In Relationship is back on the AIR with season 3! In this short episode Silas discusses the origins of the loneliness epidemic and the evolution of his mission in the brave new world of super intelligent...
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Season 3
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Episode 66
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6:57
REWIND: The state of boys and men outside the 'man box' with David Jurasek
065 In this episode of REWIND we revisit an interview about mens struggle to find a generative form of masculinity in a rapidly changing world. FYI we will be taking a break from regular publishing over summer and be back in fall with the launc...
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Season 2
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Episode 65
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42:21
ON AIR: Social fitness & relating in the wild with Silas Rose
064 Long before the pandemic many of us were practicing some form of social distancing. Modern life is rich in connectivity, yet so often lacking in the felt sense of connection and belonging. In the transition to the digital world more of life...
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7:46
Spiritual warriorship in a world on the edge of war with Susan Gillis Chapman
063 When war and rumours of war are everywhere in the news how we personally relate to uncertainty and show up for others matters more than ever. The temptation to harden our hearts and join the chorus of polarizing voices is difficult to resis...
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Season 2
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Episode 63
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36:27
Micro dosing & psychedelic therapy for evolving your relationships with Jim Kragtwyk
062 From Silicone Valley tech bros to stressed out single moms, many people are proclaiming the therapeutic virtues of micro dosing for enhancing creativity and mental health. Micro dosing involves the consumption of a sub perceptual, fractiona...
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29:53
Powerful questions for illuminating the hidden spaces of love with Topaz Adizes
061 The modern world is filled with connectivity, yet for so many people the need for authentic connection goes unmet. Even in a long term relationship we can hide our vulnerability and true desires, sometimes for decades. When we avoid having ...
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Season 2
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Episode 61
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34:31
The tender art of breaking up & caring for a broken heart with Mel Cassidy
060 For anyone who has loved and lost you know how much it can hurt when the fairy tale ends. Neuroscience has shown that social and emotional pain stimulate the same regions of the brain as physical pain. However, while heartbreak might ...
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Season 2
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Episode 60
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40:47
ON AIR: Courting the MUSE and other subversive acts in 2024 with Silas Rose
059 Artists and creators have always held a special station in life, even if their work goes unnoticed. It is the artist who sees the details of life that we often miss, speaks truth to power and imagines into existence new ways of being....
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Season 2
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Episode 59
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8:13
REWIND Authentic Relating: Revealing your truth on the first date with Ryel Kestano
058 If your New Year's resolutions include improving your social fitness this holiday replay is for you!The promise of online social platforms was access to an infinite pool of new friends and possible mates. However, rather than ...
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36:26
Getting to the roots of ecological anxiety with David Segal
057 Ecological anxiety a is new diagnostic label describing a complex of physical and emotional symptoms related to existential dread and despair around the state of the environment. Extreme weather events like wild fires, floods and hurricanes...
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Season 2
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Episode 57
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26:19
ON AIR: Searching for the love & light in the fog of war with Silas Rose
056 The Oct 7th attack on Israel has ignited a new hot war in the middle east and a polarizing information war online. For many people around the world the conflict between Israel and Palestine touches old wounds of injustice as a c...
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Season 2
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Episode 56
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8:47
Heart centred business and healing your relationship to money with Mark Silver
055 There are few things in life more ephemeral than money. Those who seek an enduring happiness and freedom through a path of awakening often find themselves rich in spirit, but constantly struggling to keep the lights on, literally. This is e...
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Season 2
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Episode 55
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44:21
Original Sin: The split between sex and spirit with Indrus Piche
054 The struggle to reconcile the better angels of our nature with powerful, earthly desires of the flesh is familiar to anyone on a spiritual path. Historically vilified and repressed by religious intuitions and the state, our sexual energy of...
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30:08
Conscious dance, compersion and the music that moves us with Shauna Devlin
053 Since time immemorial humans have danced in tribal and shamanic ceremonies for healing and social harmony. The rhythmic beat of a djembe or a subwoofer connects us with the internal rhythm of the heart and entrains us with other...
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Season 2
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Episode 53
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27:28
Awakening to the Shadow on the spiritual path with Dr. Connie Zweig
052 For decades people have been leaving traditional religious institutions in droves to pursuit a more direct path to enlightenment through eastern practices like meditation and yoga. In this lonely world it can be intoxicating to find a...
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46:44
REWIND: Great intimacy begins with healthy boundaries with Mel Cassidy
051 In this episode of REWIND we revisit a conversation with relationship expert and coach Mel Cassidy focused on creating health boundaries. Personal boundaries are a natural part of any relationship, but rarely are they discussed openly...
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37:09
ON AIR: Synthetic relationships and what makes us human with Silas Rose
050 ON AIR is a short monologue where Silas digs deeper into some of relational themes covered on the podcast and current affairs, Artificial Intelligence is all the buzz after the release of Chat GBT4 by Open AI in the fall of 2022. This versi...
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Season 2
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Episode 50
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7:57