The Live Awake podcast helps bring you back to your grounded center through reflection and guided meditation. 

This podcast lends a new outlook to some of life's hard landscape. Perspective is everything, and by choosing to live awake to all that blooms in front of us we begin to live a more empowered life where joy becomes our natural state of being rather than something we occasionally stumble upon.  Through living awake we become conscious participants in our life’s unfolding.

At the end of each episode you will be guided through a short meditation on the topic at hand to help loosen the spots we can feel victim to. By doing this we come to understand we can choose not our usual, painful unconscious habits but instead to live from a place of grounded awareness, free from suffering.  

Live awake is for all those devoted to their hearts, devoted to the soul behind their ribs that came here to grow and expand, to all those devoted to learning, respecting and honoring the ways they are being called to do so. 

It is a place where one can come to close their eyes and rest a while on their breath, and see all they trouble and toil alongside is truly a gold lined cloud, holding a message of great hope and learning cradled within it.


"The last time I witnessed someone with his kind of presence and voice, one that leaped out beyond the speakers and pulled me in, was when I worked with Garth Brooks. He has it man.” — Don Was about Tyler Stenson

Born in Wyoming but raised in Oregon, Tyler Stenson is an 'Elegant Folk' singer/songwriter from Portland (OR), drawing comparison to songwriter greats such as Cat Stevens, James Taylor and Ryan Adams. While he’s been locally recognized as the two-time 'Songwriter of the Year' by the Portland Songwriters Association and 'Best Male Artist' at the Portland Music Awards, on the national stage, Stenson has received even more impressive praise from the top tier of the music industry. Recently hand-picked by legendary producer Don Was, Stenson was named a Top 10 Finalist in Guitar Center’s Songwriter search (out of 10,000), as well as, hand-selected by Adam Duritz of Counting Crows and music critic Ryan Spaulding, to perform at their Outlaw Roadshow showcase at SxSW. Stenson has opened for LeAnn Rimes, Chris Isaak, John Popper, Marc Cohn, Matisyahu and more and his music has been heard on SiriusXM’s “The Coffee House” station, multiple Chevrolet commercials and several popular television series. As a multi-song finalist in the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) demonstrates, Stenson has proven he’s not just another ‘guy and his guitar’ — his foundational belief that ‘lyric is king’ sets him apart as a true artist worth getting to know.

Heart-sweeping folk/pop with his & hers harmony.

Unabashedly joyful, unashamedly playful, Jonah Luke’s music is pure sunshine. In a world of predictable pop, this Portland, OR-based singer-songwriter crafts innovative folk-rock with sweet harmonies and dashes of a capella. At only 24, Jonah has played major stages, including premier music venues like Portland’s Crystal Ballroom, Chicago’s Millennium Park and The Metro, and he has opened for acclaimed acts such as Joe Purdy and Chris Robley & the Fear of Heights.

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