The Spiritual Geek Podcast: Wisdom for Modern Times · Sheila Franzen

Living on the Edge of Change with Dheepa Nedungat

May 31, 2023·43 min·2 clips
Sheila Franzen opens the conversation around living on the edge of change. Deepa brings a prayerful, expansive frame, returning to Divine Mother, service, and the call to align with what is being asked for now. The pace stays unhurried. The exchange keeps circling the tension between safety and openness, asking how groundedness can stay alive without turning into a stuck anchor. Breath becomes one answer. Deepa describes starting with the body, feeling stability and security there before anything else. She connects that grounding to a morning yoga practice that settles the system. When possible, she follows with dance, letting music move the body until movement and person feel like one thing. That practice feels less like performance and more like surrender. Sheila picks up the thread and reflects on how movement can bring people back into flow when life feels uncertain. The conversation opens into the larger question of what it means to keep showing up while the old sense of certainty falls away. Deepa does not leave that at the level of ideas. She links it to ordinary habits, to listening inwardly, and to the daily work of reclaiming sacred voice, creative expression, and leadership. The dialogue keeps returning to support. Again and again, both voices suggest that help is always arriving in many forms. That idea lands with a soft, devotional calm rather than urgency. The final movement of the conversation turns toward stillness and trust. It holds the possibility that even in change, a person can stay guided. The closing feels like a blessing more than a conclusion. The whole conversation leaves change sounding less like a threat and more like an invitation to align, soften, and move.

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A warm, reflective episode about staying grounded without getting stuck.

Sheila Franzen and Deepa move the conversation from Divine Mother language into something more grounded: breath, body, and the plain work of daily practice.

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If change has you gripping hard, this offers a softer way through.

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