Life Living Itself

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 sha...

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 s...

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...

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...

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....

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 th...

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 its...

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 U...

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...

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 th...

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 div...

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 h...

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...

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 havin...

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. The post Guided Meditation: What Can You Set Down Today appeared first on Susanne Marie .

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. The post Guided Meditation: Mantra Soham Practice appeared first on Susanne Marie .

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. The p...

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...

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...

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 prese...

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. The post Meditation on Awake Mind ~ An Invi...

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. The post Breath’s Rhythm Contains a Teaching a...

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. The post Noticing Without I appeared firs...

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...

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. The post Soham Meditation Practice appeared first on Susanne...