Life is a Festival
258 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsThrough intimate, long-form interviews, Life is a Festival unlocks the wisdom of cultural pioneers to help listeners integrate transformational experiences and create more joy and adventure in their daily lives.
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#84 - Musings on Mental Health | Eamon Armstrong
October 22, 2020 15:46 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBEvery few months I like to offer an update on my personal journey by sharing an interview I did with another podcaster. This week’s episode is a repod from Eric White’s show theEWpodcast. Although Eric’s intention was initially to talk about festivals, we move quickly into a conversation about mental health. We discuss techniques for meeting depression and anxiety as teachers. We talk trauma work from psychedelics to shaking to something called “brainspotting.” At the end of the conversation...
#83 - Power & Privilege in Intentional Communities | Ashoka Finley
October 15, 2020 16:54 - 1 hour - 91.7 MBWith a world on fire and a pandemic raging, it sure makes sense to want to escape into the utopian vision of an intentional community. But is that in integrity with the beautiful world we want to create? And would it even work? Today on the show I’m talking to activist Ashoka Finley about the power and privilege inherent in creating land-based communities. We discuss the enormous grief of the climate crisis and how we might meet the world’s challenges with pleasure activism. We talk about in...
#83 [In Community] - Power & Privilege in Intentional Communities | Ashoka Finley
October 15, 2020 16:54 - 1 hour - 83 MBWith a world on fire and a pandemic raging, it sure makes sense to want to escape into the utopian vision of an intentional community. But is that in integrity with the beautiful world we want to create? And would it even work? Today on the show I’m talking to activist Ashoka Finley about the power and privilege inherent in creating land-based communities. We discuss the enormous grief of the climate crisis and how we might meet the world’s challenges with pleasure activism. We talk about in...
#82 - Finding Sovereignty in a Mad World | Jordan Hall
October 01, 2020 15:16 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBThe world seems just a bit crazier every single day right now. Luckily on this week’s show we have the guiding light of a brilliant thinker I’ve admired for years, Jordan Hall (formerly Jordan Greenhall). I first discovered Jordan after reading his Situational Assessment in 2017 and his essay On Sovereignty which was pivotal in my the maturation of my worldview. On the show we begin with my own challenge in transcending myopic preoccupation with personal growth for its own sake and how tryin...
#81 - Edgewalking Gender, Technology, and Communities | Andrew Murray Dunn (Siempo)
September 26, 2020 18:05 - 1 hour - 77.5 MBLast month I spent several days in silent meditation at Azure Village in Southern New Mexico near Gila National Forest. My host was my friend and fellow traveler Andrew Murray Dunn. As we emerged from silence we jumped right into a podcast, sitting out in the expansive desert landscape as the summer monsoons rolled in. On the show we talk about Andrew exploration of his feminine self who he calls Ava Rose, a subject very dear to my own Two Spirit journey. We talk about Andrew’s work in ethi...
#81 [In Community] - Edgewalking Gender, Technology, and Communities | Andrew Murray Dunn (Siempo)
September 26, 2020 18:05 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBLast month I spent several days in silent meditation at Azure Village in Southern New Mexico near Gila National Forest. My host was my friend and fellow traveler Andrew Murray Dunn. As we emerged from silence we jumped right into a podcast, sitting out in the expansive desert landscape as the summer monsoons rolled in. On the show we talk about Andrew exploration of his feminine self who he calls Ava Rose, a subject very dear to my own Two Spirit journey. We talk about Andrew’s work in ethi...
#80 - Live From the Infinite Playa | Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)
September 16, 2020 17:33 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBAs part of the Burning Man Project's Multiverse, my camp, Burners Without Borders offered a speaker series projected into the Infinite Playa. I had the pleasure of interviewing a former guest and friend of the show, Jamie Wheal about his vision for Black Rock City’s future. On the show, we talk about the future of Burning Man in the digital realm and how our culture should evolve if Black Rock City returns. We discuss how to dial in hedonism and service and also the thorny issue of divisive...
#79 - That One Time We Saved Burning Man | Marian Goodell (The Burning Man Project)
September 09, 2020 17:48 - 1 hour - 90.1 MBThis is a big one for Life is a Festival. Today I’m releasing an interview I conducted a few weeks ago with Marian Goodell, CEO of Burning Man. On the show, we talk about whether Burning Man is—as is fervently contested—a festival or if we should protect the unique event from that label. We spend the first 20 minutes talking about Marian’s life and how she first came to the Black Rock Desert. We discuss Burning Man’s cultural course correction, how radical inclusivity must now be proactive ...
078b - Into the Burning Man Multiverse (Clubhouse Recording) | Damian Madray (PRESENCE)
August 30, 2020 19:17 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBToday’s episode of Life is a Festival unfolds through two different audio experiences and much like Burning Man’s Multiverse, I invite you, dear listener to enjoy one or both of these diverging moments. The first podcast takes place in the traditional Life is a Festival format, the second is a conversation recorded from the new audio social network Clubhouse (currently in beta testing). My guest for both experiences is my friend Damian Madray, the founder of PRESENCE, which is part of the ...
#78b - Into the Burning Man Multiverse (Clubhouse Recording) | Damian Madray (PRESENCE)
August 30, 2020 19:17 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBToday’s episode of Life is a Festival unfolds through two different audio experiences and much like Burning Man’s Multiverse, I invite you, dear listener to enjoy one or both of these diverging moments. The first podcast takes place in the traditional Life is a Festival format, the second is a conversation recorded from the new audio social network Clubhouse (currently in beta testing). My guest for both experiences is my friend Damian Madray, the founder of PRESENCE, which is part of the ...
#78a - Into the Burning Man Multiverse | Damian Madray (PRESENCE)
August 30, 2020 19:17 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBToday’s episode of Life is a Festival unfolds through two different audio experiences and much like Burning Man’s Multiverse, I invite you, dear listener to enjoy one or both of these diverging moments. The first podcast takes place in the traditional Life is a Festival format, the second is a conversation recorded from the new audio social network Clubhouse (currently in beta). My guest for both experiences is my friend Damian Madray, the founder of PRESENCE, which is part of the infrastr...
078a - Into the Burning Man Multiverse | Damian Madray (PRESENCE)
August 30, 2020 19:17 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBToday’s episode of Life is a Festival unfolds through two different audio experiences and much like Burning Man’s Multiverse, I invite you, dear listener to enjoy one or both of these diverging moments. The first podcast takes place in the traditional Life is a Festival format, the second is a conversation recorded from the new audio social network Clubhouse (currently in beta). My guest for both experiences is my friend Damian Madray, the founder of PRESENCE, which is part of the infrastr...
#77 [In Community] - Making a Magic City | Tony Cho (Metro 1)
August 24, 2020 18:13 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBOn the second episode of the [in Community] series, I’m speaking to my friend Tony Cho, an unconventional real estate developer in Miami. Tony grew up in the Kashi Ashram, where he was adopted by his grandmother, the guru Ma Jaya, and has gone on to work on innovative projects inspired by the joie de vivre of Burning Man. On the show we talk about magic and place, from the ashram to Argentina and from Wynwood Arts to Magic City. We discuss gentrification and how to listen and learn from the...
#77 - Making a Magic City | Tony Cho (Metro 1)
August 24, 2020 18:13 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBOn the second episode of the [in Community] series, I’m speaking to my friend Tony Cho, an unconventional real estate developer in Miami. Tony grew up in the Kashi Ashram, where he was adopted by his grandmother, the guru Ma Jaya, and has gone on to work on innovative projects inspired by the joie de vivre of Burning Man. On the show we talk about magic and place, from the ashram to Argentina and from Wynwood Arts to Magic City. We discuss gentrification and how to listen and learn from the...
#77 [In Community] - Making Magic City | Tony Cho (Metro 1)
August 24, 2020 18:13 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBOn the second episode of the [in Community] series, I’m speaking to my friend Tony Cho, an unconventional real estate developer in Miami. Tony grew up in the Kashi Ashram, where he was adopted by his grandmother, the guru Ma Jaya, and has gone on to work on innovative projects inspired by the joie de vivre of Burning Man. On the show we talk about magic and place, from the ashram to Argentina and from Wynwood Arts to Magic City. We discuss gentrification and how to listen and learn from the...
#76 - Film Festivals, VHS, & Collaborating with Chance | Quinn Armstrong (Survival Skills Movie)
August 18, 2020 18:32 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBToday on Life is a Festival I am interviewing my brother, Quinn Armstrong! Quinn’s first feature film, Survival Skills, is playing on demand as part of Fantasia Film Festival starting on August 20th. This interview was recorded after the film’s debut at Cinequest back in February. However, with the advent of coronavirus, Quinn’s expected festival run was put on hold. Now with festivals going digital, Survival Skills is back on the circuit and available for your viewing pleasure. Survival Ski...
#75 - Founding Everland | Jonny Jenkins (Everland)
August 06, 2020 20:48 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBToday I’m excited to announce a new mini-series within Life is a Festival about communities and land-based projects where we can live our most expressed lives. In a time of isolation and global change, without the festivals, ceremonies, and other gatherings we have used to grow together, many of us are looking to build or join communities that cultivate that particular serendipitous convergence we have felt at places like Burning Man. Starting with today’s episode I will be interviewing some ...
#75 - Founding Everland [in Community] | Jonny Jenkins (Everland)
August 06, 2020 20:48 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBToday I’m excited to announce a new mini-series within Life is a Festival about communities and land-based projects where we can live our most expressed lives. In a time of isolation and global change, without the festivals, ceremonies, and other gatherings we have used to grow together, many of us are looking to build or join communities that cultivate that particular serendipitous convergence we have felt at places like Burning Man. Starting with today’s episode I will be interviewing some ...
#75 [in Community] - Founding Everland | Jonny Jenkins (Everland)
August 06, 2020 20:48 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBToday I’m excited to announce a new mini-series within Life is a Festival about communities and land-based projects where we can live our most expressed lives. In a time of isolation and global change, without the festivals, ceremonies, and other gatherings we have used to grow together, many of us are looking to build or join communities that cultivate that particular serendipitous convergence we have felt at places like Burning Man. Starting with today’s episode I will be interviewing some ...
#75 - Founding Everland | Jonny Jenkins (Everland Immersive Art Park)
August 06, 2020 20:48 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBToday I’m excited to announce a new mini-series within Life is a Festival about communities and land-based projects where we can live our most expressed lives. In a time of isolation and global change, without the festivals, ceremonies, and other gatherings we have used to grow together, many of us are looking to build or join communities that cultivate that particular serendipitous convergence we have felt at places like Burning Man. Starting with today’s episode I will be interviewing some ...
#74 - Wrestling with the Predator | Ian MacKenzie (The Mythic Masculine)
July 25, 2020 19:53 - 1 hour - 62 MBToday’s topic is a challenging one. A few weeks ago, numerous allegations surfaced regarding sexual misconduct by two prominent male musicians in the festival world: Lorin Ashton (ie Bassnectar) and Nahko, who I interviewed on this podcast last month. At the time of the allegations I decided to remove that podcast from my catalogue pending an accountability process. To make sense of this cultural moment, I invited my good friend and mentor in men’s work, Ian Mackenzie, back to the podcast t...
#73 - Trip Sitting America | The Teafaerie (Erowid)
July 11, 2020 19:37 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBThe Teafaerie, like God herself, is never serious but always sincere. She has facilitated psychedelic peer support at festivals since her work with Rock Med in the 90s, and boy does she have some stories to tell. On the show, we talk about the art of trip sitting and how we can see a difficult trip as an emergence, not an emergency. We discuss how to protect ourselves from conspiracy theories, personal mythologies, and the psychedelic renaissance itself. Finally, we end by asking, if the gl...
#73 - Trip Sitting America | The Teafaerie(Erowid)
July 11, 2020 19:37 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBThe Teafaerie, like God herself, is never serious but always sincere. She has facilitated psychedelic peer support at festivals since her work with Rock Med in the 90s, and boy does she have some stories to tell. On the show, we talk about the art of trip sitting and how we can see a difficult trip as an emergence, not an emergency. We discuss how to protect ourselves from conspiracy theories, personal mythologies, and the psychedelic renaissance itself. Finally, we end by asking, if the gl...
#72 - Eros and the Shepherdess: A Tale of Trans Emergence | Zhenevere Sophia Dao (MogaDao Institute)
July 02, 2020 19:06 - 2 hours - 122 MB“Someone who creates a practice tradition this vast is someone who can't survive in the world as it is.” Today on Life is a Festival, Zhenevere Sophia Dao returns to the show to share, for the first time, the story of her transgender emergence during sixteen months of silence in the Jemez Mountains. We discuss what Zhenevere calls the “Transgender Necessity” wherein transgender people ask society to wake up to the magnitude of their own desire. We talk about MogaDao as a collection of artful...
#72 - The Shepherdess and her Transgender Emergence | Zhenevere Sophia Dao (MogaDao Institute)
July 02, 2020 19:06 - 2 hours - 104 MB“Someone who creates a practice tradition this vast is someone who can't survive in the world as it is.” Today on Life is a Festival, Zhenevere Sophia Dao returns to the show to share, for the first time, the story of her transgender emergence during sixteen months of silence in the Jemez Mountains. We discuss what Zhenevere calls the “Transgender Necessity” wherein transgender people ask society to wake up to the magnitude of their own desire. We talk about MogaDao as a collection of artful...
#71 - Collective Liberation for Drug Users | Mohawk the Educator (DanceSafe)
June 27, 2020 20:59 - 2 hours - 112 MBYou know that oceanic feeling of Oneness you first discovered during that beatific acid journey at Burning Man? Cognitive liberty is a beautiful thing, everyone should have the right to experiment with psychedelics safely. But what methamphetamines? Opiates? Or even cigarettes? Do these lifestyle choices deserve the same support and safety? If these cases seem incongruent, Mohawk the Educator has some lessons for you. Today’s episode is all about the philosophy of harm reduction. On the show...
#70 - Grandmother, Teach Me Patience | Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook & Jyoti Ma
June 17, 2020 18:17 - 1 hour - 110 MBIn times of chaos and trouble, look to the grandmothers for wisdom, compassion, and above all, patience. On June 4th, a few days after protests against police brutality roiled across the country, I sat with Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook of the Oglala Sioux Nation and her sister Jyoti Ma, convener of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. We came together in a virtual circle of sacred fire to better understand how to respond to these times of anger and confusion as we se...
#69 - Indigeneity, Whiteness, & Medicine For All People | Nahko
June 11, 2020 19:12 - 1 hour - 96.1 MBNahko is a man of multiple truths and multiple identities. His heritage is Apache, Puerto Rican, Filipino, and Chamorro, but the indie folk rock star was raised in a white Christian household by adopted parents. His long journey of self-discovery culminated in him receiving a Native American Music Award in 2017. On the show, we discuss how Nahko first broke out of the box of Christian fundamentalism with psychedelics and how the prayers and guidance of his elders directed him back to his in...
#69 - The Journey of Indigenous Identity | Nahko (Medicine for the People)
June 11, 2020 19:12 - 1 hour - 96.1 MBNahko is a man of multiple truths and multiple identities. His heritage is Apache, Puerto Rican, Filipino and Guamanian, but the indie folk rock star was raised in a white Christian household by adopted parents. His long journey of self-discovery culminated in him receiving a Native American Music Award in 2017. On the show, we discuss how Nahko first broke out of the box of Christian fundamentalism with psychedelics and how the prayers and guidance of his elders directed him back to his in...
#69 - The Journey of Indigeneity | Nahko (Medicine for the People)
June 11, 2020 19:12 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBNahko is a man of multiple truths and multiple identities. His heritage is Apache, Puerto Rican, Filipino and Guamanian, but the indie folk rock star was raised in a white Christian household by adopted parents. His long journey of self-discovery culminated in him receiving a Native American Music Award in 2017. On the show, we discuss how Nahko first broke out of the box of Christian fundamentalism with psychedelics and how the prayers and guidance of his elders directed him back to his in...
#68 - Visions of an Afropunk Futurist | Adah Parris (-ism)
May 31, 2020 21:14 - 1 hour - 75.2 MBThis week on Life is a Festival, I am honored to share the vibrant voice of Adah Parris. Self-isolating in her flat in London, Adah offers her perspective on these difficult times, from Covid-19 to racial injustice in the United States. On the show, we talk about Afropunk and Adah’s radical self-expression, including mystical tattoos of imaginary numbers, DMT molecules, and the ancient Ouroboros. Recorded just as news broke of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, we discuss the impact of “...
#68 - Afropunk Futurist | Adah Parris (-ism)
May 31, 2020 21:14 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBThis week on Life is a Festival, I am honored to share the vibrant voice of Adah Parris. Self-isolating in her flat in London, Adah offers her perspective on these difficult times, from Covid-19 to racial injustice in the United States. On the show, we talk about Afropunk and Adah’s radical self-expression, including mystical tattoos of imaginary numbers, DMT molecules, and the ancient Ouroboros. Recorded just as news broke of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, we discuss the impact of “...
#67 - Skeptical Thinking for Spiritual People | Anna Zakrisson (Doctor Anna's Imaginarium)
May 21, 2020 19:39 - 2 hours - 115 MBIs it possible to have a mystical mindset without getting lost in magical thinking? Or worse, getting hijacked by harmful fantasies? In the chaos of coronavirus, I’ve noticed an increasing deficit of critical thinking within conscious communities. With an upswell in conspiracy theories and lack of good sensemaking on social media, I asked Dr. Anna Zakrisson of the Swedish Skeptics Association to help us think about thinking in this confusing time. On the podcast, we discuss how to notice a...
066 - Embodiment Practices for Healing Trauma I Tina Nance (Yoga Barn):
May 18, 2020 21:23 - 1 hour - 90.6 MB“How much can I feel?” When we experience trauma, whether shock trauma (too much too fast) or developmental trauma (too little too long), it is common to disassociate. The healing process begins with reconnecting to the body and courageously experiencing all that we reject and hold inside. Tina Nance, a yin yoga and yoga therapy teacher in Bali, is a true master of the art of cultivating interoception (the felt sense of the body) and meeting her edge with mindfulness and compassion. Two yea...
#66 - Embodiment Practices for Healing Trauma I Tina Nance (Yoga Barn)
May 18, 2020 21:23 - 1 hour - 99.5 MB“How much can I feel?” When we experience trauma, whether shock trauma (too much too fast) or developmental trauma (too little too long), it is common to disassociate. The healing process begins with reconnecting to the body and courageously experiencing all that we reject and hold inside. Tina Nance, a yin yoga and yoga therapy teacher in Bali, is a true master of the art of cultivating interoception (the internal felt sense of the body) and meeting her edge with mindfulness and compassion...
#66 - Embodiment Practices for Healing Trauma I Tina Nance (Yoga Barn):
May 18, 2020 21:23 - 1 hour - 90.6 MB“How much can I feel?” When we experience trauma, whether shock trauma (too much too fast) or developmental trauma (too little too long), it is common to disassociate. The healing process begins with reconnecting to the body and courageously experiencing all that we reject and hold inside. Tina Nance, a yin yoga and yoga therapy teacher in Bali, is a true master of the art of cultivating interoception (the internal felt sense of the body) and meeting her edge with mindfulness and compassion...
#65 - A North Star for Psychedelic Ethics | Liana Sananda (Auryn Project)
May 07, 2020 18:48 - 1 hour - 104 MBThe Psychedelic Renaissance is a profound step forward in our understanding of the mind, but there’s growing concern that important lessons and a vibrant culture may be left behind in the rush to medicalization. My guest today, Liana Sananda, has spent a lot of time considering the cultural delivery mechanism of psychedelics into society. Liana is the Development Officer of MAPS and co-founder of North Star and the Auryn Project, which just released the North Star pledge. With input from ove...
#64 - The Mad Scientist of House, Techno, & Love | Lee Reynolds (Desert Hearts)
May 02, 2020 20:18 - 1 hour - 83 MBComing hot on the tail of a hugely successful digital festival, today I offer you the humor, joie de vivre, big heart, and kookiness of Papa Lee Reynolds, co-founder of Desert Hearts. On the show we get an intimate look inside the mind of a mad scientist, from his days as a BMX rider — including a stint riding for D.A.R.E. — to co-founding Southern California’s premier micro-festival. Along the way we dip our toes in 5MEO-DMT, crafting community, overcoming dark times and an amazing Sean C...
#63 - The Way of the Metamodern Burner | Hanzi Freinacht (Metamoderna)
April 23, 2020 20:06 - 1 hour - 73.5 MB“Metamodernism is the marriage of extreme irony with a deep, unyielding sincerity,” writes today’s guest Hanzi Freinacht. If that sounds a lot like Burning Man snark, you won’t be surprised to learn that Hanzi’s enigmatic writings have found a home in the Scandinavian Burning Man community. On the show we begin with the death of the individual and how true freedom is actually relational. Hanzi then defines the Burning Man community as an alchemy of hackers, hipsters, and hippies. We discus...
#62 - Financial Resilience for Creatives | Nick Farr, CPA (The Long Disaster)
April 17, 2020 19:20 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBIn this global crisis, financial uncertainty affects us all, especially those whose livelihoods are based on gatherings like festivals and other events. Today on Life is a Festival, my friend and fellow member of Burners Without Borders, Nick Farr CPA, will help us navigate the byzantine networks of government programs so we can get the resources we need now, and prepare for the future. On the show Nick shares the immediate steps we can take for financial resilience, specifically how to get...
#61 - Bonus Birthday Blast From the Past | Behind the Mynd with David Colón
April 13, 2020 21:15 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBIf you’ve discovered my work through this show and you want to know more about the Life is a Festival philosophy and how I met so many fascinating people to interview (or if you just want to hear some silly stories on my birthday) this is the podcast for you! My dear friend David Colón used to have the most delightful weekly radio program on FCC Free Radio called Behind The Mynd. It was a celebration of San Francisco’s local musicians, artists, and creative humans. Every November I would c...
#60 - From Crisis to Coronation | Charles Eisenstein (Sacred Economics)
April 08, 2020 17:27 - 1 hour - 85 MBWhat if the coronavirus crisis is an initiation for humanity? What if, amidst all this suffering and uncertainty, we have an opportunity to rewrite the story of our species? What if this is the moment we’ve been waiting for to step into our sovereignty and forge a mature partnership with our Mother Earth? Many of us have been asking these questions, but to my knowledge, no one has explored these ideas with the depth and precision of Charle’s Eisenstein’s powerful new essay, The Coronation. ...
#59 - Is Life Still a Festival? | World of Wisdom Podcast with Nils von Heijne
April 01, 2020 16:59 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBCan we still live life like a festival when there are no festivals for the foreseeable future? When there are no gatherings at all? With a global pandemic, a faltering economy, and profound uncertainty moving through the world, can life still be looked at through the lens of open hearted celebration? Life is a Festival is guided by the belief that we can kinder, more open, and more expressed by taking the lessons and collective effervescence we experience at festivals and bringing them into ...
#59 - Is Life Still a Festival? | World of Wisdom with Nils von Heijne
April 01, 2020 16:59 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBCan we still live life like a festival when there are no festivals for the foreseeable future? When there are no gatherings at all? With a global pandemic, a faltering economy, and profound uncertainty moving through the world, can life still be looked at through the lens of open hearted celebration? Life is a Festival is guided by the belief that we can kinder, more open, and more expressed by taking the lessons and collective effervesce we experience at festivals and bringing them into our...
#58 - Festival Medicine on the Frontlines | Richard "Wolverine" Gottlieb (RGX Medical)
March 26, 2020 17:20 - 1 hour - 63 MBThis episode goes out to all the healthcare workers in the fight against coronavirus. If you are an EMT, a doctor, nurse, or hospital janitor… bless you! Richard “Wolverine" Gottlieb is the king of festival medicine. His company RGX Medical manages 30-40 festivals per year including favorites like Lightning in a Bottle, Envision, and Desert Hearts. RGX emphasizes a harm reduction approach and works closely with the Zendo Project psychedelic peer support to provide nonjudgmental, compassionat...
#57 - Turn Isolation into a Spiritual Playground | Nino Mendes (Nino Yoga - China)
March 17, 2020 19:03 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBWith self-isolation and shelter in place proliferating the globe, here’s some good medicine from a yogi who spent 5 weeks in lockdown in a small apartment in China. Nino Mendes is a rockstar yoga teacher who speaks seven languages and has taught massive classes with over a thousand students Beijing, Shanghai, and across China. At the time of this recording, on March 10th, Nino had just emerged from five weeks in lockdown in a small apartment in Chengdu. Before I understood that the corona v...
#56 - My Sacred Morning Ritual | Solocast
March 16, 2020 18:59 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBWhat I can personally offer to support you, my dear listener, during this period of global turbulence and necessary self-isolation? Only what has been helpful to me. When you work from home, as I do, it’s important to segment your day and create ritual space for nourishing practices. Otherwise the week can feel like one long unproductive day of scrolling and task switching. Since we’re all going to be spending a lot of time at home in the coming weeks, I want to share a sacred morning ritual ...
#55 - A Love Letter to Earnestness | Alex Ebert (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)
March 12, 2020 17:01 - 1 hour - 97.8 MBWhy do our hearts long for renown and how might we meet that longing in a way that actually fertilizes a garden of rich, creative pursuits? Lately I’ve been re-examining a lingering desire for fame. I experience it in flavors of lack, or envy, or regret as if I somehow missed out on the grand adventure of celebrity. Do you sometimes feel the same? No matter my personal growth, there’s a small of me that still believes I might be happier if the whole world knew my name. This week on the po...
#54 - The Acid Countess and the Art of Consciousness | Amanda Feilding (Beckley Foundation)
March 04, 2020 19:49 - 1 hour - 91.5 MBRemember a few years ago when LSD brain imaging went viral on social media? Those images were taken at Imperial College London in an fMRI study conducted with the Beckley/Imperial Research Programme. Today on Life is a Festival, I’m speaking to psychedelic royalty… literally. Who better to discuss the magical molecule lysergic acid diethylamide, than the Countess of Wemyss and March, and the founder of the Beckley Foundation, Amanda Feilding? I ask the sphinx of psychedelia all my favorite...
#53 - Wilderness First Responder | Ryland Gardner (NOLS)
February 27, 2020 16:29 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBWhatcha know about vasogenic shock? Can you treat an open pneumothorax? Better learn your ABCs if you want to save a life! If you’ve been following this show for a while you may recall in episode 33 when Jamie Wheal challenged me to do a Wilderness First Responder training. Well, friends and countrymen, I DID THE THING! I scooted over to the Hygiene, Colorado fire station and spent 10 days learning wilderness medicine and splinting broken femurs. Today on the show I’m speaking to one of my ...