Audio Library

The future of Buddhism is in meditational therapies like Depth Hypnosis – Robert A.F. Thurman

Sacred Stream Radio Podcast: Isa Gucciardi

Description: Isa Gucciardi (author, educator, creator of the therapeutic model Depth Hypnosis, and founding director of Foundation of the Sacred Stream) responded to the conflict she saw all around her by developing a method of conflict resolution to help families and couples. In her new book Coming to Peace, Isa transforms her years of experience working with people in this way into highly accessible wisdom about the roots of conflict and peace.


 

Sacred Stream Radio Podcast: Healing Beyond the Conscious Mind

Description: Once we have become conscious of our issues, we must then go beyond our conscious understanding to truly transform them. In today’s episode Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. discusses how altering consciousness through hypnosis, meditation, and the shamanic journey can lead to deep and long lasting healing. From this perspective, Isa offers a brief introduction to several of the programs offered by Foundation of the Sacred Stream.


 

Sacred Stream Radio Podcast: Buddhist Perspectives on Death

Description: This episode features a talk by Isa Gucciardi, Finding Meaning in Loss, which she gave at the Reimagine End of Life Conference in Berkeley, CA. In this thoughtful and uplifting talk, Isa encourages us to create the spaciousness required to truly be with the experience of loss, grief, and even death. She examines ways of navigating loss, and explores Buddhist perspectives on theme, while also offering practices that will help us approach death, our own and those we love, with awareness and grace.


 

Sacred Stream Radio Podcast: The Path of the Bodhisattva

Description: The path of the bodhisattva is, among other things, designed to break down the illusion of separation between self and other. When we talk about the Two Truths in Buddhism, ultimate reality and relative reality, in relative reality there is a separation. Ultimately, there is no separation. By serving others you wind up serving yourself. In this excerpt from a 2008 Applied Buddhist Psychology course, Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. discusses what one has to attend to within oneself in order to liberate oneself and be of service to others on the path of the bodhisattva.


 

Sacred Stream Radio Podcast: The Nature of Relationships

Description: It is through our relationships that we come to know who we are. One of the principles of Depth Hypnosis is that we are all teachers to one another; all of our interactions with others reflect our relationship to our deeper self. Most of us come into this life with misconceptions about the nature of who we are and disruptions in the relationship with our deeper self and with the universal flow. By engaging in relationship with others we come to see where these disruptions are. In this excerpt from a Relationship and Power workshop, Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D., offers examples of hidden aspects of relationship that lie beneath more obvious relationship dynamics. She also discusses co-dependence.


 

Divine Insight Podcast: Coming to Peace – Resolving Conflict Within Ourselves and With Others – Dr. Isa Gucciardi

Description: The essence of resolution lies in the recognition of the deep and unbroken connectedness that we share as human beings. Dr. Gucciardi, with Laura Chandler, scripted a groundbreaking book showing how the processes of Coming to Peace meet those in conflict and provide them a pathway to reconciliation and wholeness. Though best known for her innovative and powerful Depth Hypnosis technique, Dr. Gucciardi shares insights she’s gained through decades of experience with clients, and integrating Buddhist and contemporary psychologies with Native American Shamanic practices. Learn how to take radical self-responsibility to learn to live your life with courage, acceptance, and joy, in this not to be missed show!


 

Inner Truth Podcast: Conflict As A Gateway To Peace with Isa Gucciardi

Description: Inner Truth host David Newell catches up with Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. – Founding Director and lead teacher of the Foundation of the Sacred Stream – to talk about conflict, the ways we can take steps to resolve it, and how it can be a gateway to profound internal growth and healing.


 

Heal Yourself Now Interview with Isa Gucciardi

Description: In this interview from Heal Yourself Now, host Lindsey Fitzgibbons speaks to Isa Gucciardi about the creation of the Foundation of the Sacred Stream and Depth Hypnosis. Isa also shares a story of a client who was able to heal a chronic condition through Depth Hypnosis and the Coming to Peace process.


 

A Meeting of the Ways with Diane Solomon and Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.: Understanding the Experience of the Altered State of Consciousness in Depth Hypnosis, Dreams, and Plant Medicine

Description: Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D., and Diane Solomon, host of A Meeting of the Ways, discuss the similarities and differences between the experience of the altered state of consciousness in Depth Hypnosis, Dreams, and Plant Medicine, focusing particularly on the way each of these methods of accessing broader consciousness can provide a path to healing and insight.


 

A Meeting of the Ways with Diane Solomon and Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.: Huna, Ho’oponopono, and the Nature of Forgiveness

Description: Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D., and Diane Solomon, host of A Meeting of the Ways, explore the Huna concept of ho’oponopono and the nature of forgiveness. They also discuss Isa’s upcoming workshop on the Big Island of Hawaii, where students visit sacred sites, including Kīlauea, the active volcano on the island.