Catherine is one of the best dharma teachers alive now. We are so lucky to have intimate access to her wisdom and compassion in these podcasts and in her zoom sessions. She gives me hope and inspiration with every answer to live a meaningful and peaceful life.

Catherine Ingram is the real deal, a dharma teacher in the truest sense, and deeply empathetic and human.Even when I disagree with her, I always get value from listening to her very articulate analysis of our world and our place in it, and how we can become more accepting, gentle and loving human beings.

When I joined my first Buddhist sangha in the early 90s, I started hearing the word “freedom” being used in conversation, spiritual freedom that is, as if people’s goal was to achieve this in their practice. I remember saying to someone then that I’d settle for sanity. Well, I don’t remember how I got introduced to Catherine’s Dharma Dialogues, but I drove to Berkeley to see her a few times, and listen to her still. Kind of like a security blanket woven with impermanent yarn. I appreciate her embodied presence, yes, even by podcast, and her voice is so easy to hear, and her message couldn’t be simpler, and yet, and yet….

This podcast has provided great insight during these trying and uncertain times. Thank you!

Catherine Ingram’s podcasts are a treasure. Her guidance is grounded in reality and warmly heart centered, without any religiosity or artificial “positive thinking”. The in-depth questions and comments by those who participate in the dialogues lead to conversations that are sincere, personal, and moving. I look forward to each podcast as if to a gathering with friends.

Like therapy, this podcast is a conversation with a trusted, disinterested guide. But conversation that steers one away from the “big story of me,” as Catherine calls it. Some days I need reminding that living can be less difficult. Catherine encourages us to keep in touch with the depths. “Hanging out in the deep,” as Catherine calls it. No framework or dogma. She finds a humble way to communicate this that makes perfect sense: open access to joy is effortlessly always with us. Seems like a preposterous idea in moments, with things so complicated, and then I sit and listen to one of these (or, more often, I listen as I drive to work), and the wisdom sinks down like a stone in a pool. Of course! Years of striving are not necessary. Self-deprivation also not necessary. Look: there is beauty! Look: you are breathing! Look: you can walk without pain! There are people who “get” you! You can eat this delicious fruit! You can flirt with that baby! So freeing. And there is a salutary effect to listening: more oxygen, more health, or simply the strength to go on. “Kiss the joy as it flies, “ said William Blake, and Catherine often reminds us of this directive, while also acknowledging the wretchedness that humans have wrought on earth. Beautifully spoken, highly intelligent, generous with her own life experiences, kind and deft with her interlocutors, Catherine sets a strong example of compassion. Listen to this podcast, friends!

Catherine ... thank you! Your patient and peaceful delivery is a welcome gift in this world.

I am so very grateful for Catherine’s great work. It’s a service to humanity. Blessed to listen to her opening comments and conversations with guests. Grounding heartfelt with a great sense of humor truth and life wisdom!

Beautiful and grounding discussions. These conversations are timeless and helpful to connect us all. Precious. Thank you, Catharine.

...you need this. We all do. Catherine offers a conversation on life that helps us all to be freer of self. Immersed in the realities of life, caringly aware of its complexity, demands and competing interests, she reliably sees through to the simplicity of truth and the necessity and sufficiency of presence. Enjoy! You’ll probably hear a solid literary quote, too.

This is fine within the waking state. Everyone is coming to enlightenment and figuring out how to have peace by way of letting go and letting be. Good. Sharing notes, fine. But this is for the waking state of 16 hours a day. What about sleep? One could say well, there are no problems to work out during sleep. So what? I ask, "What is our nature during sleep as compared to the waking state where so much working stuff out needs to be done?" What is true is true for all 24 hours of the day, no? Then what does that say about the waking state where all this commotion in coming to enlightenment lies? Just wondering. It seems easy to miss / ignore the sleep state where each night we lay it all down, all of it.

These podcasts are an amazing gift. I’ve listened to them alone and with others, sitting quietly or while “doing” something (driving, cooking, working), and listening to each talk is as powerful the 10th time as the 1st. Each time the “steeping” in this beautiful energy transmits in just the way needed at that moment, in part because of Catherine’s profound quality of human-ness and “being” through these dharma talks and in part because there is so much in them to (re)absorb anew. Highly recommend!

This is a beautiful podcast. I wish I could go to these talks live. A peaceful reminder that we always have a refuge within ourselves.

Catherine’s interviews and discussions are insightful, thought provoking and help us remember what is important in life. Her voice is calming and her messages bring me peace, sometimes with humor, always with compassion. In this crazy world of ours, she reminds me to experience the joy and beauty that is all around. I look forward to her podcasts every week and never miss them! Thank you, Catherine.

Stay tuned to “In the Deep” with Catherine Ingram to have your questions explored with a seasoned guide, who consistently reflects back what is essential and takes the discussion deeper. With Catherine we have a trust worthy friend by our sides as we face life’s challenges. Highly recommended.

WOW….In the Deep is flat out awesome. Good production quality. Easy to listen. Very impressed Catherine. Keep bringing it.