Aware Relaxed Connected

About Aware Relaxed Connected

After more than 2 decades exploring both eastern (Chinese internal and Daoist arts) and western (stretching, rehab, calisthenics, etc) methods of self cultivation, I started to reduce my body of knowledge to something more essential at its heart, and explorative in its application. I stopped focusing on the techniques and started focusing on which qualities the techniques were igniting in me and my students, how those qualities might be useful in other areas of life, and how they could be pragmatically applied. I broadly break my approach into 4 main categories: physical cultivation (all things to do with bodily development and care), internal cultivation (bringing the process of opening and releasing into the internal bodily landscapes), cultivation of the mind (including development of the imaginal spaces), and finally exploring the context within which all this development takes place: non-duality. Join me as I dive into the many discoveries I have made along the way, as well as interviewing many of the super interesting people I have met in my travels and through various practice circles.

Publisher

Craig Mallett

Category

health & fitness · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Feb 2025

Latest episode

24 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Sept 2026

   #023 - The Joy and Wonder of Discovering Something New

   This episode is continuing my series on the Wuxing / 5 phases energies; this one is focused on the fire phase. The Metal episode is episode 18, the Wood episode is 19, and the Water episode is 22. Here I discuss the joy associated with discovering something new, but also the problems with being stuck in a loop of needing new material stimulus (phones, cars, clothes, reels, whatever) when you're unable to recognize the new-ness that's inherent in any given moment. For those interested in my courses, you can find them all here: https://courses.craigmallett.com Enjoy!

2. 

   5 Aug 2026

   #022 - Fear, Willpower and the Wisdom of Waiting Before Acting

   In this episode I'm diving into the Water phase of the Wu Xing, to go along with my previous episodes on Metal (episode 18) and Wood (episode 19). Here I explore the link between willpower, the capacity to confront the depths of fear and potential, and the wisdom to act from a place of experience rather than fast knowledge. In Daoist cosmology, this is linked to the concept of Jing, the essence of our being that contains all the potential that can be realized before we die, should we take appropriately wise action. I mention in the episode that I'm working on a few courses (Dan Tian Gong and a Wu Xing multi course series), all of which will be available on my courses website whenever they are finished, which is right here:https://courses.craigmallett.comEnjoy!

3. 

   16 Jun 2026

   #021 - Gabriela Gutierrez - Animism, Mythology, and Ancient Greek Powers

   In this episode I am interviewing Gabriela Gutierrez who has been deep in both a practice and scholarly investigation of mythology, particularly based in ancient greece. We talk imaginal, and the balance of the rational intellect and irrational relationship to the living animate world. Gabriela runs a Substack called 'Under a Fig Tree' and also has a bunch of online study options on her website. I've linked both of them below. https://www.gabrielamairgutierrez.com/ https://gabrielamgutierrez.substack.com/ As always, you can find my stuff via my website right here: https://www.craigmallett.com/ Enjoy!

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