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An Inside Look At Our Shadow (Talk + Breathwork + Meditation)

by Jay Chodagam

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Our shadow is our internal storehouse for anything in us we've disowned or rejected, or are otherwise keeping in the dark. Exploring this leads to far more freedom from our conditioning to strongly enhance one's capacity for intimacy and healthy relationships. A fuller, grounded, awakened wholeness. In this workshop, Jay leads you through some breathwork that prepares you for diving deep into the shadow work that ensues.

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Transcript

Okay,

With that said,

I will guide you through a pranayama,

Ancient wisdom around breathwork.

We're going to do some pranayama exercises today.

And I ask that you go ahead and put your fingers in vayu mudra.

So that is where your index finger,

The tip is touching the tip of your thumb.

The other three fingers are open and your arms are rested on your lap if you're sitting down.

Or if you're lying down and listening to me today,

I ask that you please go ahead and put your arms besides you,

Palms facing upwards in both cases.

We're going to start off with what is called rhythmic breathing,

Breathing deep in through the nose.

And I want you to put your palms on your belly and just feeling that air going in and out.

In through the nose,

Out through the mouth.

For a count of even five in,

Five out.

Nice,

Even rhythmic breathing,

Samavritti pranayama.

That is your breathing out,

You relax,

You're letting go of any tightness that you may be feeling anywhere in your body.

Even breathing five in,

Five out.

Now I ask that you introduce a space of holding.

So this is going to be five in,

Five hold,

Five hold after exhalation.

So in five,

Hold for five,

Out for five through the nostrils and hold for five.

In for five,

Hold for five,

Out for five and hold for five.

This is called box breathing in,

Hold,

Out and hold.

In for five,

Hold,

Out for five and hold with empty lungs.

Now let's go back into a regular cadence,

Five in and five out.

That was called box breathing and that's just a very good way to regulate because the pranayama involves not just the art of breathing deep but also manipulating your breath and holding your breath.

That's where the biggest benefits are.

Now we're going to do something called one-two breathing.

Now what this is going to entail is for you to breathe in and then you're going to do a second breath in.

So first you breathe in full and then add some more capacity to your lungs and then exhale one out and relax.

Okay,

It looks like this.

One-two and out.

So let's do this together for seven rounds together.

Start now relax,

Go back into a natural state,

Five in and five out.

And when I say five in and five out,

I want to make sure all of my exercises,

You're breathing into the belly,

Not into your chest.

I want this to be deep breathing because when you breathe into the belly,

You're activating your parasympathetic nervous system versus if you're breathing shallow into your chest,

If you feel your chest is what is expanding,

You're breathing and activating your sympathetic,

Which is your fight and flight part of your autonomic nervous system.

We don't want that.

So now five in and five out,

Even breathing.

Now on this next inhale,

You're going to breathe out after a count of five at the empty lungs,

I want you to hold.

We're going to hold for 30 seconds.

I'll do the counting.

You just do the holding.

Hold,

Exhale and hold.

Five,

Four,

Three,

Two,

One and inhale.

Just a few rounds of inhale exhalations,

Even breathing.

This next inhale and after the exhale,

You're going to hold again.

We're going to do it a little bit longer.

I believe you can.

You have capacity to that exhale and hold.

Five,

Four,

Three,

Two,

One and inhale.

Now exhale,

Few rounds of just regular breathing in through the nostrils,

Out through the nostrils.

Next inhale and after the exhale,

You're going to hold,

Hold again.

We're going to slightly extend the duration of our hold.

We can do it.

Tremendous benefit in holding.

We'll talk about that after we finished,

But hold till I tell you.

Hold as best as you can and if you cannot,

Then go ahead and inhale.

Let go of this exercise,

But then if you can,

I'm telling you it's worth the practice and this time as you're holding,

I want you to squeeze the muscles in your buttocks.

Squeeze the muscles in your thighs,

Your hamstrings.

Go down further.

Squeeze the muscles in your calves.

Can you make a squeeze on your feet,

The muscles of the feet?

Now let's come up to the torso.

Can you squeeze the muscles in your abdomen,

Holding your breath?

Squeeze the muscles in your chest.

Squeeze the muscles in your back.

Squeeze the muscles in your upper arms.

Squeeze the muscles in your forearms.

Make a fist with your fingers.

Squeeze the muscles in your neck,

Your face.

Try to extend and squeeze.

Make a frown with,

So make,

Expanding the scalp,

Stretching the skin in the back of your head and then relax.

Inhale.

Very well done.

Very well done.

That's a tremendous benefit because as you are holding your breath,

What you're doing is you're allowing the carbon dioxide in your body to build up and thereby facilitating upon the next breath the amount of oxygen that is exchanged into your bloodstream.

That's a direct correlation between the oxygen buildup and how much of the air that you're actually breathing in is of value to you.

So that's why we manipulate this breath by holding.

So fantastic.

Well done.

Now we can do some fast bow breathing.

So I want you to do one,

Two.

So count of two in,

Count of two out.

In through the nostril,

Out through the mouth.

In through the mouth.

And now inhale and long exhale.

Count of five in and out for a count of eight.

In for five.

And out for eight.

In for five.

And out for eight.

And let this continue.

And I want you to notice for yourself how you feel right now.

Acknowledge what this 20 minutes of pranayama has done for you.

It's the simple act of deepening our breath,

Holding and manipulating.

Notice what it's done to your activity in the brain.

Notice what it's done to the quality of your breathing,

The depth of your breathing.

And notice how you feel in your entire body right now.

Some tingly sensation like it's come alive.

That is the power of pranayama.

Now as you keep your eyes closed,

I'm going to transition into the matters of the heart.

And today we're going to do a look,

A deep look inside our shadows.

Our shadow is the place within each of us that contains what we don't know,

Don't like or deny about ourselves.

Calling it our shadow is fitting because of its lack of illumination.

What it's storing is being kept in the dark to whatever degree.

Wherever you go,

Our shadow goes with us,

Whether we are aware of it or not.

Our shadow holds our unattended and not yet illuminated conditioning,

All the programmed ways we act,

Think,

Feel,

And choose without knowing why.

It also contains all that we've disowned,

Pushed aside,

Or otherwise rejected in ourselves.

Whatever in us about which we insist,

That's not me,

Whatever in us we're out of touch with or keeping out of sight,

Such as the roots of our unresolved wounding.

Now these things that are hidden away in our shadows could include your fear,

Especially in the form of core level anxiety,

Your anger,

Including anger that's been converted into aggression,

Your shame,

Particularly when we associate it with humiliation and rejection,

Your empathy,

Especially what you equate it to with being too soft,

Your less than flattering intentions such as being good in order to stay in control,

Your resistance,

Especially when you know something is muted or muscled,

The child in you,

Particularly when you're avoiding or minimizing your childhood wounding,

Your inner saboteur featuring you playing victim to self-repeating behaviors,

The non-sexual factors driving your sexuality such as wanting to be wanted,

Your grief,

Especially in its raw depths and unsullied intensity,

Your bigness and your beauty,

The ennobling qualities you've learned to suppress.

The quickest way to get a sense of what's in your shadow is to identify something that you don't like about yourself,

Perhaps a quality you wish you didn't have and therefore tend to push away and ignore as best as you can.

Initially you will probably only see the presenting surface of this quality,

Such as an out of proportion insecurity or irritability,

Not realizing that this is but the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

However,

Once you realize there's more to this dislike quality of yourself than you're being,

You're likely going to feel more open to exploring it and its origins.

And the more you explore,

The more likely you are to realize that the quality that you've disowned is in fact the quality that can be helpful to you.

I'm going to read you through a practice of bringing your shadow elements more into the open.

I'm going to read out a few statements and I want you to finish the incomplete sentence as spontaneously,

Out loud.

Don't think too much about it.

Don't repeat the part that I'm going to read.

Just complete the sentence where I've left off.

Number one,

Something in me I often feel aversion towards is.

Number two,

The emotion I'm least comfortable expressing is.

Number three,

What I have a hard time admitting an argument is.

Number four,

What I'm most hesitant to express in a relationship is.

Five,

What I least want others to know about me is.

Six,

I don't like admitting that I am.

Seven,

When I feel shame,

What I usually do is.

Eight,

What I most readily judge others for is.

And the final ninth question,

I tend to give away my power when.

Your responses point to things that are probably in your shadow,

Whether partially or fully.

Don't be too concerned about clarity here.

What matters is that you're turning towards your shadow.

You're accessing some curiosity about what may be in it.

Looking inside is a process of ongoing discovery.

Treat it as such.

In order to know your shadow,

You need to learn how to skillfully relate,

Not just intellectually,

But also emotionally,

Somatically and spiritually to the qualities and behaviors housed in it.

No matter how ugly or unsavory they may seem to you.

It may be helpful here to personify a particular element as a guest that you invited into your living room.

Perhaps a difficult or unpleasant guest and perhaps one you invited reluctantly,

But a guest nonetheless taking a seat in front of you.

Your guest may be your anger,

Your shame,

Fear,

A part of your body,

Your aversion towards a certain class of people,

Your unwillingness to take responsibility in a particular area of your life.

Whatever you'd rather not face in yourself,

Whatever you haven't faced in yourself,

Whatever's in you that you're trying to keep out of sight.

Whatever in yourself you're trying to keep in the dark doesn't go away just because you don't see it,

Hear it or feel it.

In fact,

The more you push it away or ignore it,

The stronger and more rooted it becomes insinuating its way into your everyday life.

The longer you cage an animal,

Especially in the dark,

An easy to forget cage,

The worse it may behave once it's let out or gets out.

And this is not the animal's fault.

The same applies to your shadow elements.

The further and more forcibly you push them into the dark,

The more monstrous or alien they will seem.

Under anger,

When it's been long repressed,

Muted,

Muscled,

Locked up in the darkness,

It will likely show up in a far from healthy form once it breaks out of its confinement.

It doesn't mean that anger itself is bad or unwholesome thing.

It's over containment and mistreatment is the problem.

Meeting and exploring your anger or any other emotion in a compassionately contained well-lit space allows you to see it more clearly,

Deepening your capacity to express it in ways that serve your well-being and the well-being of others.

There's no true escape from your shadow elements,

For they're a part of you,

No matter how removed from you they may be.

The idea of the shadow has been around for a while in various forms,

But it remains on the fringe of the mainstream culture,

As does the idea of shadow work.

However,

Exploring our shadow doesn't have to be a arcane or limiting or solely intellectual consideration.

We need to see,

Feel,

And know it deeply without bypassing its visceral reality and its industrial strength impact on your choice-making and your destiny.

We need to explore it not generically,

But specifically in personal way.

Turning towards our shadow,

However slightly,

Is a shift from abstraction to direct experience.

It's also a shift from the comfortably familiar to the edgily unfamiliar,

The unknown,

The hidden forces that are driving us.

Turning towards your shadow is the significant first step of a courage-deepening,

Self-affirming adventure that asks much of you and gives back more than can be imagined.

Working sincerely and in-depth with your shadow is a powerfully liberating labor affecting every area of your life,

Furthering your capacity to become intimate with everything,

Everything that you are.

Nothing gets stranded in the dark.

Nothing gets left out.

The more that you ignore your shadow,

Both personally and collectively,

The more it dominates and operates you,

Sometimes with disastrous consequences.

Our increasingly perilous time calls for us to wake up to our shadow,

To face and know our shadow very well,

To work with it in enough depth so that it can no longer run us.

Staying oblivious to your shadow,

As is especially common in political and corporate arenas,

Simply reinforces your dysfunction,

Regardless of your achievements.

Bringing your shadow elements out of the dark and working with them may seem optional at first,

But eventually doing so becomes,

If you do so,

Wholeheartedly,

It's not only a foundational invitation,

But also a sacred demand and necessary journey packed with uncommonly deep healing and awakening.

It takes courage to face your shadow and work with it.

And the very act of doing so deepens your courage.

I want you to notice for yourself how you feel right now.

Now,

I want you to please pull out your notebook and pen,

And I'm going to repeat those nine exercises,

Nine questions to bring your shadow elements out more into the open.

And you're welcome to write those down for you to reflect and respond to those nine statements.

Number one,

Something in me I often feel aversion towards is.

The emotion I'm least comfortable expressing is.

Number three,

What I have a hard time admitting in an argument is.

Four,

What I'm most hesitant to express in a relationship is.

Five,

What I least want others to know about me is.

Six,

I don't like admitting that I am.

Seven,

When I feel shame,

What I usually do is.

Eight,

What I most readily judge others for is.

Final ninth,

I tend to give away my power when.

Now,

I want you all to please go ahead and share what was the most relevant,

What touched you,

Spoke to you deeply in this last 45 minutes we've been together.

We should go ahead and post that in the comments section.

Thank you,

For sharing all of the questions,

For typing it out and sharing with everybody.

Thank you,

For sharing that you had this purge.

Yes,

Leslie,

The fear is everywhere until we start looking,

It's going to keep controlling.

Door is indeed sitting face to face with my guest,

The uninvited guest that's been sitting in the center of my living room.

For a long,

Long time and I've just been ignoring looking the other way.

What I am hesitant to express in a relationship.

Yes,

Joe.

Charlie says clinging too much and needing to.

Lots of surprising tears around shame of weakness.

Yes.

Reclaiming it as a act of courage and recognizing that you're the one who have been pushing it away.

Realization how shadow elements run me indeed,

What to do,

How to sit with shame.

I tend to give away my power when a relationship,

When a relationship I give too much anger,

Shame,

Fear and are intertwined.

I discovered something that I thought was not so unhealthy is actually a shadow.

Actually like admitting that I'm lonely.

Very good.

Name it and you can tame it.

And the loneliness is really love that you need to show to yourself.

The love that you are.

That's another workshop.

Looking at my anger as a form shape and that it can change shape indeed.

So much to us.

So much of a good teaching.

I appreciate it.

Melinda.

My cells are crying.

Put for me to hold in my heart many tears.

Yes.

Courage indeed.

Melinda.

Tatiana says,

I don't like admitting that I feel lost sometimes.

And that's OK.

It's OK.

We all lost how much we think much we think we are in control,

How much we think we have it all figured out.

We're all lost.

Nobody knows.

The question is,

Are you comfortable being in this mystery?

Life is a mystery.

And have we accepted it versus fooling ourselves into believing it's a straight line that we walk?

Recognizing that my fear has a lot with my belief system and I'm not good enough.

Yes.

Or not enough.

Period.

Good,

Asha.

Good.

You're always enough.

You always have been enough.

You just have to accept it.

This beautiful divine universe,

You call it God,

But call it whatever name you want,

Has created you.

And it's in her,

His image.

How can it be otherwise?

Thank you,

Diana.

You're amazing.

Jay,

Your meditations have helped me so much.

I appreciate that.

Comfortable and surrendering indeed,

Ash.

Not feeling good enough.

Yes.

The second question,

The emotion is least comfortable expressing is the question made me think about my feelings of anxiety.

I don't like feeling anxious and I need to learn how to accept that feeling more and just sit with it.

Yes.

And then it'll go away.

Yes.

Because sometimes we don't even show what we're anxious about.

It's that underlying turbulence that is sitting deep within the belly that shows up.

And the more you start peering into it to give it light,

You'll naturally begin to illuminate and see that there is really nothing to run from.

I saw that my perfection is ugly and controlling.

Sago,

Wow.

And you know,

Sago,

I don't know if you're from Japan,

But people in certain cultures have this tendency to hold on to perfection much more than others.

And that can be an extreme cause of distress.

And I know that because of the suicide rates in some countries,

Because they want to be perfect.

You can set your clock by the time they arrive and they leave and everything needs to happen perfectly.

And that's just not the way the world works.

Going back to this idea of deep mystery and not knowingness and uncertainty and being comfortable with it.

I think my desire to be loved could be in my shadow.

Indeed,

All of us,

Beatrice,

That's the element of that in all of us.

Yes,

Laura agrees with us.

Hema says,

Letting someone in after a loss.

And yes,

And that is a process.

You know,

The grieving is a process indeed.

And to learn to heal your own heart is a process that you need to undertake.

And nobody else can do that,

Hema,

Besides yourself.

And that's when we can heal our heart and let it be feeling comfortable.

It's only then can be a love anything and anybody else into it.

Yeah,

Letting a lot of my beliefs on how much I've struggled through this life,

Speaking out such a feeling,

No shame any longer that I have.

Have a second grade.

I don't know what the thing's typing is.

Honoring my life as education.

Yes,

Life is the greatest university,

No matter how many degrees you have.

The School of Hard Knocks is your best educator.

Indeed,

Admit that sometimes I'm wrong in an argument.

Yes,

Carlota,

Recognizing that is important.

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Carlos.

Yes,

Indeed.

I appreciate you being here.

My inability to accept constructive criticism.

Yes,

Audrey.

That's very,

Very important.

The ego speaking up here.

Yes.

And you're not understanding that sometimes the people in front of us,

Those uninvited guests can be our greatest teachers.

Many a times life puts those people in our way such that we can learn,

We can grow,

We can move forward if we'd stop resisting it with our ego.

Yes.

Yes,

Monita.

Thank you for sharing those questions.

Indeed.

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Ah,

Yes.

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Thank you.

Thank you,

Muritha,

For posting about that.

This was beautiful,

Says Alta.

Thank you for being here,

Alta.

Yes,

Meena says,

The Sacred Circle for me has brought me space,

My heart space has opened up more,

And I feel surrounded by love and understanding.

Yes,

And that's the point.

You know,

There is everybody is going through something.

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Believe it or not,

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What does squeezing our muscles do when we hold our breath?

Yes,

Indeed.

So this is one of the practices of Yoga Nitra.

So if any of you have gone to my meditation on this Inside Timer or on YouTube,

I teach about the breath work and the squeezing.

When you squeeze and relax,

You're basically undoing any tension,

Any tightness that you've held,

Specifically in different parts of your body.

And we tend to sometimes just ignore certain muscles where we have been holding for a long time and don't even realize.

When I say,

Take a deep breath in and let it all go,

You're like,

In your mind,

You're saying,

Let it all go,

But you're really not relaxed that muscle.

So I work through individual muscles because I want you to undo the tension there.

And again,

Why do I do it when I'm holding my breath?

Murti is because when you're holding your breath,

Sometimes you're like,

Your brain is trying to tell you,

No,

You can't hold,

You know,

You're fighting your instructions.

And so I'm trying to keep you focused on something else while you are holding your breath so that way the time passes you don't even realize it versus,

You know how when you're lifting weights in a gym and you think that's all you're thinking about.

It's much more painful than if you think about what you're going to eat after the gym workout,

Right?

So it's just another trick up the sleeve to use when I'm trying to make you hold your breath for a long time.

With breath work,

Why sometimes out through the nose and other times out through the mouth?

Good question.

Okay,

Now I want you to understand something very fundamental to breathing exercises.

Now,

Many people don't teach you this probably you've never heard this in your life and here you go.

The nose,

Like everything else in the body has evolved through time.

If you look at the primitive,

The animals that we came from,

Supposedly we evolved from.

Look at the size of their nose and look at the size of our nose.

A nose forms significant size and shape within our body,

Within our facial structure and it has therefore a tremendous role in the amount of air we are able to take in.

Now,

As the human being,

The homo sapien has evolved,

We've learned to cultivate fire.

We have learned to do agriculture and we combine fire and agriculture,

We've learned to break down the food that we consume,

Those wrong ingredients,

Whereby it becomes easier for the human gut system to digest.

Thereby what has happened is you're given a greater amount of energy to the brain.

I don't know if you know this,

But 25% of the energy in your body is being used up by that one organ.

So our heads have grown longer,

How larger,

And the need for us to chew,

So our mouth and our jaw become smaller and the noses become bigger.

The larynx has dropped further down into the throat.

So what has happened is that now we have the ability to breathe nice and deep with these big nose.

Now,

The nose does three things.

When you breathe in through the nose,

You're moistening your air,

You are warming the air,

And you're filtering the air.

So this is one of the fundamental things I want you to learn.

Even though you can inhale both through the mouth and from the nose,

There is a benefit,

A significant benefit when you're breathing in through the nostrils.

Now,

What they don't also teach you,

Which is very,

Very fundamental to well-being and to stress reduction,

If you want to take away one thing from the session,

May it be this.

When you learn to exhale longer than you inhale,

You automatically relax your body.

When you learn to exhale longer than you inhale,

You automatically relax your body.

Now,

The exhalation can happen both through the nostrils and through the mouth.

Now,

The natural way of doing it in pranayama,

The nose is the regular way.

So when you're at any given point of day,

When you train yourself,

Your muscle memory,

To exhale from the nose,

That's best for you.

Because like I said,

Evolutionally,

That's how your body,

Your face has been evolving,

Has been constructed for that.

That's the best way.

Now,

When you exhale from the mouth,

Specifically,

There's a long exhalation.

Like,

For example,

If you play the flute,

I play the flute,

I learned to play the flute.

Regardless of the music,

Which has a beautiful vibration by itself,

But regardless of that,

The focus on exhalation for a long time through the mouth is a thin stream of air,

Naturally relaxes the body.

Okay,

So the exhalation is optional,

Whether through the mouth or from the nose,

But the inhalation through the nose is very important.

Okay,

All right,

And then we come to the top of the hour.

So,

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Suggestions,

Etc.

And like I said,

I'm available for one-on-one mentoring,

And I also have the Sacred Circle that I mentioned on Saturdays.

Do consider joining that.

It's extremely beneficial,

As you can see some of the comments here.

Some people really swear by it.

It has really helped them to learn,

Grow,

And heal themselves.

And also,

Once again,

Thank you for your donations.

They mean a lot to help me to continue doing my work without any barriers.

If you're here just to receive,

You're most welcome.

And if you can donate,

Donate so generously.

Thank you so much.

I will see you all again on Wedness Day,

6 p.

M.

Pacific.

That's 1 p.

M.

In Sydney.

Otherwise,

It's Wednesdays and Sundays is my regular cadence.

I wish to see you all either in the recordings or my YouTube channel,

JoyWithJay.

That's my website,

Joywithjay.

Com.

You can find links to all of these different channels in which I publish content.

With that said,

I wish you all stay strong,

Be happy,

Until I see you all again.

Be well.

Meet your Teacher

Jay ChodagamSan Francisco, CA, USA

4.9 (38)

Recent Reviews

Tamara

November 4, 2022

This was a very insightful, powerful, and incredible guide into my shadow. Thank you for this much needed and helpful confrontation. ❤️🙏

Carlin

February 8, 2022

Thanks for this insight on shadow much appreciated

Tracy

December 15, 2021

Thank you Jay for the recordings. Very helpful to listen a second time. 🙏🏻🤍

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