Free Radical Podcast Ep 41 with Venkata Bhatta — Life as Guru: The Daily Act of Initiation
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | YouTube
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SATSANG - Quests and Explorations with Swami Padmanabha
2025-03-08 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-03-15 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-03-22 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-03-29 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Although “istagosthi” and “satsang” are conceptually similar, “satsang” goes straight to the heart of the matter. Derived from the Sanskrit, “sat” means “real honesty,” and “sanga” refers to a special kind of attachment. Thus, satsang is about coming together to support each other’s commitment to truth and to nurture our attachment to becoming the most authentic versions of ourselves. It’s about how we can approach this journey in a healthy, joyful (not neurotic) and celebratory way. This process has no limit; it’s a progressive, dynamic unfolding.
Unlike a typical Question and Answer session, where certainty is often the goal and answers are something we can pocket and carry with us, satsang is not about finding definitive answers. Instead, it invites us into open exploration, allowing space for discovery rather than finality. And while the setting may appear as teacher and student, as you will witness when participating, we are all fellow explorers, sharing in this journey to discover and embody our truest selves.

Saturday @ 2PM EST
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ID: 82876233128
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( Satsang: Preguntas y Respuestas en Vivo: Domingos 10AM hora Argentina)

SATSANG: Preguntas y Respuestas con Swami Padmanabha
2025-03-09 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-03-16 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-03-23 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-03-30 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-04-06 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-04-13 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-04-20 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-04-27 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires) and 3 more dates | Zoom
Únete a Swami Padmanabha y sus amigos en un intercambio dinámico entre teoría y práctica, donde buscamos generar conciencia a través de preguntas y reflexiones sobre lo que debe abordarse en nuestra práctica personal y nuestro viaje al servicio de la fe.

Domingo 10AM (hora Argentina)
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ID: 781 2752 4035
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TAD Talks—Living on the Threshold: Cultivating the Seeker’s Spirit for Life | Rasangi dasi
2025-03-09 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
join us for an informal, exploratory conversation with Rasangi Dasi (from California 🙂 ), as we take a look at the seeker’s spirit—it’s interplay with uncertainty and wonder, questing and resting, and the luminosity and liminality of unknowing. And this week, we not only have a guest guest, but as Yugala-Kishor will be away teaching at a yoga retreat, we will be joined by a guest co-host, Yamuna, from the UK. Together, we’ll approach the pilgrim’s path that embraces uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure and see where they lead.
Toward Authentic Dialogue
Zoom ID: 884 3749 8926
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Free Radical Podcast Ep 42 with Krishna Lila— Bhakti, Trauma & the Human Experience
2025-03-19 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | YouTube

TAD Talks—Sacred Balance: Integrating Ayurveda into Bhakti Sādhana | Rati Rupa
2025-03-23 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Joining us from New Zealand, Rati Rupa will share transformative insights and practical applications of Ayurvedic wisdom, showing how these concepts can seamlessly integrate into our bhakti practice for a more balanced, holistic, and progressive life.
Together with your hosts, Bhaktirasa and Yugala-Kishor, we’ll explore this once-central yet nearly forgotten art—reviving its relevance in our daily lives.
Toward Authentic Dialogue
Zoom ID: 884 3749 8926
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Free Radical Podcast Ep 43 with Yogesvara— Faith, Science & the Consciousness Puzzle
2025-04-02 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | YouTube

SATSANG - Quests and Explorations with Swami Padmanabha
2025-04-05 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-04-12 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-04-19 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-04-26 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-05-03 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-05-10 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-05-17 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Although “istagosthi” and “satsang” are conceptually similar, “satsang” goes straight to the heart of the matter. Derived from the Sanskrit, “sat” means “real honesty,” and “sanga” refers to a special kind of attachment. Thus, satsang is about coming together to support each other’s commitment to truth and to nurture our attachment to becoming the most authentic versions of ourselves. It’s about how we can approach this journey in a healthy, joyful (not neurotic) and celebratory way. This process has no limit; it’s a progressive, dynamic unfolding.
Unlike a typical Question and Answer session, where certainty is often the goal and answers are something we can pocket and carry with us, satsang is not about finding definitive answers. Instead, it invites us into open exploration, allowing space for discovery rather than finality. And while the setting may appear as teacher and student, as you will witness when participating, we are all fellow explorers, sharing in this journey to discover and embody our truest selves.

Saturday @ 2PM EDT
YouTube
Zoom
ID: 82876233128
PW: [REDACTED]

( Satsang: Preguntas y Respuestas en Vivo: Domingos 10AM hora Argentina)

TAD Talks—What is the purpose of pain? | Sukhavaha
2025-04-06 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
If you have not yet had the pleasure of meeting Sukhavaha, you can get a glimpse by listening to her conversation with Swami Padmanabha on the Free Radical Podcast. She is a dear wise elder with a spacious heart that one is able to offer only after having dealt with one’s own traumas.
Sukhavaha graduated with a BA degree in Social Welfare from Pennsylvania State University in 1974. The following year she accepted initiation from her guru, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. She was ordained an Interfaith Minister in January of 1992.
With decades of training in various healing and coaching modalities, Sukhavaha empowers spiritual seekers to address their buried emotions in order to assist in their relationships and spiritual development. Dedicated to showing the profound, yet simple power of emotional maturity, of choosing words carefully, she has authored four books:
Revealing the Heart: The Practice of Compassion
Finding the GAP, Some Truth About the Lies We Tell Ourselves
Entering the GAP, More Truth About the Lies We Tell Ourselves
What to Do About Sue, a memoir of her deprogramming at age 22
You are invited to join us in conversation with Sukhavaha. Right from the beginning, she will be asking those who want to share, “What is the purpose of pain?” This exploration will not be the same without you, so please add your heart to the offering.
Toward Authentic Dialogue
Zoom ID: 884 3749 8926
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Free Radical Podcast Ep 44 with Lila Vrindavan— Art, Creativity & the Anatomy of Wonder
2025-04-16 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | YouTube

TAD Talks—RADICAL EMBODIMENT: embracing our body in bhakti—warts and all | Krishna Kumari
2025-04-20 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Being born with spina bifida, Krishna Kumari’s journey began in a very intense way—with over 50 surgeries by the time she was 15 years old. Succumbing to feelings of deep shame, she turned to body-denial as a way to survive. Being introduced to Gaudiya Vaishnavism with the sutra “You’re not this body,” she thought she had found the jackpot of affirmation, the ultimate permission, freedom and necessity to reject her body. Finally she belonged…but in what way?

Join us as Krishna Kumari shares her challenges and healings as she struggles free from the crushing weight of body- and self-denial into the embrace of Radical Embodiment, an aspect of radical personalism.
Toward Authentic Dialogue
Zoom ID: 884 3749 8926
Passcode: [REDACTED]
