Jackie Dobrinska speaks with devotional musician Benjy Wertheimer about dharmic shifts, discovering how our distinctive presents can evolve into deeper types of selfless service.
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This time on the BHNN Visitor Podcast, Benjy and Jackie discover:
- Benjy’s unconventional journey from music and know-how to religious service
- The concept of a “dharmic shift” and the way life can redirect our path
- Ram Dass’s affect on Benjy’s music and religious calling
- Utilizing our distinctive presents in service of one thing bigger than ourselves
- Walt Whitman’s shift from poet to Civil Conflict nurse
- Deep observe as a type of service and connection
- Balancing private presents with humility and non-attachment
- Listening, discovering frequent floor, and navigating disagreement
- Grief, anger, self-care, and “therapeutic the healer”
- Service as an evolving observe of affection and compassion
About Benjy Wertheimer:
Benjy Wertheimer is an award-winning devotional musician, composer, vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist equally completed on tabla, congas, percussion, esraj, guitar, and keyboards. Benjy’s connection to Ram Dass predates his beginning. His father, Professor Michael Wertheimer, was Richard Alpert’s Masters Thesis adviser at Wesleyan within the early Fifties. Some half a century later, Benjy joined Ram Dass and Krishna Das in Berkeley for a joint program in 2002, and since 2003 Benjy – alongside along with his spouse Heather – has typically offered music and kirtan for Ram Dass pilgrimages and retreats in Maui. Sustain with Benjy on Instagram.
“The Dharmic shift that I went by means of from that time, someone who was perhaps serving to lots of people with pc methods, and I used to be perhaps fairly good at it, however I by no means would have been nice as a result of my coronary heart wasn’t there, was out of the blue known as into service with music and with the observe of kirtan, utilizing no matter presents I might carry to honor one thing larger than myself.” –Benjy Wertheimer
About The Host, Jackie Dobrinska:
Jackie Dobrinska is the Director of Training, Neighborhood & Inclusion for Ram Dass’ Love, Serve, Keep in mind Basis and the present host of Ram Dass’ Right here & Now podcast. She can be a instructor, coach, and religious director with the privilege of marrying 20 years of mystical research with 15 years of experience in holistic wellness. As an inter-spiritual minister, Jackie was ordained in Creation Spirituality in 2016 and has additionally studied extensively in a number of different lineages – the plant-medicine-based Pachakuti Mesa Custom, Sri Vidya Tantra, Western European Shamanism, Christian Mysticism, the Smart Girl Custom, and others. Immediately, along with constructing programs and neighborhood for LSRF, she leads workshops and coaches people to find, nourish and stay from their most genuine selves.
