Sacred & Strategic
Your work is both sacred & strategic—and for far too long, they have been held apart. You get concrete, practical results for your clients. And that is no longer enough. You have a deeper aspect to your work—that is how you really want to do what you do. It’s different from the rest of your profession—energetic, holistic, revolutionary even—and it doesn’t seem to fit. Join me, Rebecca Rama Devi Prien, a business advisor, spiritual teacher and attorney with more than 20 years of experience at the leading edge of holistic change in unlikely professions to explore: How to integrate the sacred and the strategic parts of your work—without sacrificing financial stability or professional respect; and How to untangle the one thing at the root of what distracts & derails you from clearly & consistently doing that.
Episodes
Is now—amid inflation, war, political insanity, and rapid technological shift—really the right time to shift your business so that it can fully realize your life’s work?
Conventional wisdom would have you conserve or contract to wait out market risk—even if it means you continue to feel split, stymied, or exhausted by a business that undercuts the full power of your work.
But, contrary to conventional ...
When did your success begin suffocating you? Why is shifting your strategy, tactics or focus not relieving the suffocation?
And why is it proving difficult—like a jumping of tracks you cannot quite name or reach—to fully realize the entirety of your work, beyond the strategic, results-oriented parts that created your success?
In my experience, this is a threshold unlike others you’ve crossed in developing y...
In this episode, I return to the podcast after an intentional, but unexpectedly long, pause in the wake of restructuring how I offer Sacred & Strategic Advising. I share my experience as an example of what I witness in my work with clients: that structural coherence operates 3 levels deeper and 3 steps prior than you are aware.
I retrace how I came to this work over 25 years: from Princeton history major to initiate of Śa...
Voice Notes are short, in-the-moment, personal reflections. Today: why my diversion into the relationship between Artha (wealth) and Dharma (purpose)—and the slow work of making connections and crafting language—is so very me and so essential to my work.
Voice Notes are short, in-the-moment, personal reflections. Today: I finally have the business model that I’ve always wanted—and I’ve been afraid to create. I share what I'm witnessing (that makes this structural coherence liberation), what I'm assessing (about 30 years of a fundamental incoherence), what is changing to make my business model structurally coherent with my work, how my clients want to work with me,...
When my clients really get that they don’t need to analyze what is derailing their life’s work to successfully untangle and release it—it is like a magical lightning bolt of relief and rapid change.
In this episode, I share what you can do instead of analyzing it. (Working with a karmic knot is different from therapy or strategic analysis.) I also invite you to join me in an intimate, 3-part workshop series on Int...
It can feel selfish—and insignificant—to focus on your own work when the world is on fire. But it is a radical act of service and transformation. Because when you untangle the karmic knot that derails your life’s work, you untangle it for all of us.
In this episode, I outline why your karmic knot is bound up with our collective karmic knot and how what you do for yourself at this deep level of transformatio...
How you use intention to untangle the karmic knot derailing your life’s work is different from how you typically work with intention. Because you are working with a karmic knot.
In this episode, I distinguish between intentions that will create karma and intentions that will untangle karma. I explain what type of intentions will untangle your karmic knot and what happens when you use this type of intention in your spiritual p...
In this episode, I explain how mantra and intention work together to untangle the karmic knot derailing your life’s work. I detail the emotional, energetic and physiological effects of chanting mantra; the conscious focus and direction of your intention; and the relationship and role of each in successfully untangling the root of what derails your work's evolution.
It’s one thing to practice mantra (or any other spiritual practice). It’s another to use your practice, intentionally and precisely, to interrupt the habitual patterns that thwart your work and turn them into strategic clarity.
In this episode, I note how we typically use sacred practice and propose some reasons why no one teaches you how to use sacred practice for strategic practicalities. I also invite you to join a ...
In today's voice note, I invite you to join me in an intimate, 3-part workshop series on using mantra and intention to untangle the karmic knot at the root of what derails your work's evolution—and sharpen your strategic discernment. The series traces an arc of skill development for mastering your use of sacred practice to strategically evolve your body of work.
If a karmic knot is at the root of what is distracting or derailing you from evolving your body of work, how do you untangle it?
In this episode, I share an excerpt from my book, This Again? Untangling the Root of What Distracts & Derails You from Your Life’s Work, on why & how a spiritual practice will successfully untangle your karmic knot.
I also briefly share why Sanskrit mantra is designed and intended to ...
At the root of why you cannot cross this threshold into the next evolution of your body of work is a karmic knot. To untangle it, you need to work with what your karma is—where it is in you.
That is what I share with you in this episode—from my audiobook, This Again? Untangle the Root of What Distracts & Derails You from Your Life’s Work:
- What your karma is;
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What is this work really doing when you undertake it? How does it get you a clear, structurally coherent evolution of your work through sacred practice?
In this episode, I share that mechanism and trace the consistent arc of impact from your practice through to your business—which is likely fundamentally different from how you’ve worked before.
This work is not about you becoming me. It’s about you being all of you—in what you offer and how you offer it. In this episode, I share how the way we work together midwifes your body of work into its fullest expression through a return to your own wisdom. I also extend an invitation for you to experience it for yourself.
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The perspective and practices that I share with you are from my adopted tradition of spiritual practice, Śaiva tantra—through the lens of my practice, lineage and experience with clients.
In this episode, I share an overview of the cosmology and practice of Śaiva tantra—and my training and experience with it—to give you context and an understanding of what shapes this work.
Both are excerpted from my audio...
How does the practice of mantra—new to most of my clients and likely new to you—create concrete, practical results? Because it’s likely not obvious that it would.
In this episode, I share five aspects of how I work with clients using the practice of mantra—elements that, together, I’ve witnessed consistently create results. I also share how they are available to you this year.
Voice Notes are short, in-the-moment, personal reflections. Today: I share resources to metabolize fear, anxiety and rage, root and resource yourself, and begin to unhook your sense of safety, security and success from our current socio-economic systems and structures—because it is not business as usual as those systems and structures disintegrate.
I reference:
An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good by David ...
Voice Notes are short, in-the-moment, personal reflections. Today: the wisdom I'm receiving to slow down way down as the world speeds up—and what I’m understanding that to be sharpening in me and my body of work.
I ask questions to invite your own reflection and insight. I’d love to hear what it sparks for you.
Voice Notes are short, in-the-moment, personal reflections. Today: Reflections and an invitation to begin this Universal Year 1 and Year 11 of Personal Mantra Work by voicing things into creation.
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