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Lisa Najjar used to be a Court Reporter. Now she’s reporting for a higher court; not the Supreme Court, but the Celestial Court! As an International Psychic-Medium and Author of Dying to Tell You – Channeled Messages from the Famously Dead, Lisa feels she is living her passion to help raise consciousness on the planet. She lives in Florida, offering workshops, courses, events and private consultations world-wide.

Lisa Najjar's website:

https://dyingtotellyoubooks.com

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In this heart-centered conversation, we sit down with Sasha, co-founder of Hridaya Family Retreat Center, a small, family-run sanctuary tucked into the pine-covered mountains of southern Mexico. Far from the noise of modern retreat culture, Hridaya Family offers something increasingly rare — genuine presence, deep listening, and a space where each person is truly seen.

Sasha shares the spirit behind their work: creating an intimate environment where spiritual practice is not performance, but lived experience. We explore what it means to hold retreat space as a family, how warmth and attention become forms of teaching, and why small, human-scaled communities may be essential for authentic inner transformation.

This episode is a gentle reminder that awakening doesn’t always happen in grand halls or large gatherings — sometimes it unfolds quietly, in the mountains, in stillness, in the presence of those who care enough to truly be there.

Whether you’re a long-time seeker or simply curious about heart-based spiritual practice, this conversation invites you into a softer, more personal path home to yourself.

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Hridaya Family is a small, family-run retreat center nestled in the pine-covered mountains of southern Mexico, offering an intimate, caring environment where people are met with real attention, warmth, and presence.

Our work is rooted in non-dual Shaiva Tantra and informed by Buddhism, Sufism, early Christianity, and modern psychotherapy.

Slogans:

1)Come back home... into the Heart

2)Waking up, all the way down to earth.

https://www.hridaya-family.com/

Our main offerings are:

• Silent meditation retreats focused on awakening, embodiment, and integration (https://www.hridaya-family.com/10-day-hridaya-meditation-retreat-mexico)

• Individual solitary and dark room retreats (https://www.hridaya-family.com/dark-room-retreat-hridaya-family-mexico)

As well as:

• Workshops on emotional digestion, trauma, and the release of chronic contraction

• Programs on conscious relationship and intimacy

• Somatic meditation and embodiment practices for inhabiting the body and relating to the world

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Nancy D. Bennett is a psychotherapist and writer whose work and book explore identity, perception, and true nature. She holds a BA in psychology from the University of Oregon and a master’s in counseling from Seattle University and practiced as an individual and family therapist with a focus on addictions. She also trained for many years in body-based and experiential therapeutic approaches. Her spiritual inquiry began in her early twenties through Gurdjieff Work groups and later deepened through constellation systems work and direct investigation into nondual awareness. After decades of searching, questioning, and unraveling assumptions about self and reality, she found herself wanting to articulate what had become clear through lived experience rather than theory. Her book grew out of that impulse — not to teach, but to intimately describe a shift in perception that has transformed how she relates to mind, identity, and reality. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Nancy’s website: https://nancydbennett.com