Wonder And Awe
32 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago -The Intersection Between Art and Science.
From Louie Schwartzberg and Moving Art – a Podcast bridging the realms of art and science through the stories and ideas that Louie has shared for decades.
Wonder & Awe sets the stage as Louie hosts a conversation about our natural world featuring guests from the world of art and from the world of science.
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Danielle LaPorte
February 27, 2024 17:00 - 54 minutes - 45.7 MBLaPorte is a best selling author who has inspired millions of people around the world, naming her as one of Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul 100 Leaders for ""uniquely connecting the world together with a spiritual energy that matters."" Her newest book, How to Be Loving, is a nuanced perspective on the life changing power of Self Compassion, shadow work, and being more receptive to Higher Guidance. This is a guide on how to use the genius of your heart to create conditions for healing. The Desi...
Sara Luria
February 20, 2024 17:00 - 47 minutes - 39.2 MBSara Luria is the founder of Beloved, a home-based experiment in Jewish life in Brooklyn. In her family’s home, she hosts Shabbat meals, creative rituals based on the Jewish calendar, meditation circles, learning for families with young children, and more. Prior to Beloved, Luria’s experiences as a community organizer, birth doula, and hospital chaplain inspired her to found ImmerseNYC, a pluralistic, feminist, grassroots-energized community mikveh (ritual bath) project. She has published po...
Lynne Twist
February 13, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBLynne Twist has been a recognized global visionary committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, and supporting social justice and sustainability for more than forty years. She is also the cofounder of the Pachamama Alliance and founder of the Soul of Money Institute. Twist has worked with over 100,000 people in fifty countries in workshops, keynote presentations, and one-on-one coaching sessions on how to fundraise with integrity, practice conscious philanthropy, and create a healt...
Rita Sherma
February 06, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBRita D. Sherma is founding Director and Associate Professor at the Center for Dharma Studies; Core Doctoral Faculty; Department Chair of Theology & Ethics; and Co-Chair of Sustainability 360 Initiative at GTU, Berkeley, CA. Formerly, she was the Swami Vivekananda Visiting Professor in Hindu Studies at USC, Los Angeles. She holds an MA in Women’s Studies in Religion, and a PhD in Theology & Ethics from Claremont Graduate University, CA. Sherma is co-founder of the American Academy of Religion...
Anna Sunn
January 30, 2024 17:00 - 43 minutes - 37.2 MBAnna Sun, an Associate Professor at Duke University, holds a Princeton PhD in Sociology and is a prominent scholar in the field of religion and culture. Her research focuses on Confucianism as a world religion, gender and Global Confucianism, comparative studies of prayer and ritual, and methodological issues in studying East Asian religions. Throughout her career, Professor Sun has been a fellow at prestigious institutions such as the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences a...
Adah Parris
January 23, 2024 17:00 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBAdah Parris is a highly sought-after keynote speaker, polymath, anti-disciplinary artist, tech futurist, and activist who is dedicated to inspiring individuals and organizations to embrace new ways of thinking and doing. She has a unique blend of expertise in multiple fields, including living systems, technologies (digital and ecological) and systems design. Her perspective on innovation, transformation, and technology is both empathetic and subversive, challenging the status quo and helping...
Howard & Michele Hall
January 16, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBLouie Schwartzberg, Howard and Michele Hall have a longterm beautiful friendship, the core of which is based in capturing and celebrating nature's wonders. While Louie explores the earth and air, Howard and Michele have magnificently captured the splendors of what lies within beneath our waters. Howard and Michele Hall are perhaps best known for their underwater IMAX films. In 1994 Howard directed the first underwater IMAX 3D feature, Into the Deep. In 1998 Michele produced and Howard dire...
Uvinie Lubecki
January 09, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBUvinie Lubecki brings compassionate leadership to organizations and is passionate about the role of mindfulness and compassion in leadership and building cultures of connection. In this episode, Louie and Uvinie discuss the the positive impact wonder and awe can have on large organizations who are willing to risk vulnerability and change.
Brenda Salgado
January 02, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBBrenda Salgado is the author of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time. She is a mindfulness teacher, motivational and public speaker, a facilitator and consultant, a health and wellness expert, a traditional medicine woman, and a Toltec energy healer. The founder of Nepantla Consulting, Brenda has two decades of experience in leadership development, nonprofit management, spiritual teaching, movement building, women’s health, and environmental and s...
Michelle Shiota
December 26, 2023 17:00 - 49 minutes - 46 MB"Michelle ""Lani"" Shiota is an associate professor of social psychology at Arizona State University. Her studies of positive emotions, emotion regulation, and emotional mechanisms of close relationships use multiple methods including perpheral psychophysiology measures, behavioral coding, cognitive tasks, and narrative analysis as well as self-reports. Shiota's research has been funded by National Institutes of Health, the John Templeton Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, and ...
Mark Unno
December 19, 2023 17:00 - 55 minutes - 44.3 MB"Professor Mark Unno's interests lie in Medieval Japanese Buddhism, specifically in the relation between intellectual history and social practices. He also researches and has published in the areas of modern Japanese religious thought, comparative religion, and Buddhism and psychotherpay. He is the author of Shingon Refractions: Myoe and the Mantra of Light, an study and translation of the medieval Japanese ritual practice of the Mantra of Light. He is also the translator of Hayao Kawai, The...
Alicia Forde
December 12, 2023 17:00 - 58 minutes - 48.2 MBThe Reverend Alicia Roxanne Forde serves with the Unitarian Universalist Association as the Director of the International Office. She is a graduate of The Iliff School of Theology and currently lives in Longmont, Colorado. Alicia was born and spent her formative years in Trinidad and Tobago. She identifies as an African descent queer, cis-gender female with deep roots in Tobago. She considers herself bi-cultural and is grateful that her formative years enabled her to cultivate a global persp...
Dr. Andrew Weil
December 05, 2023 17:00 - 42 minutes - 37.1 MBAndrew Weil, M.D., is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing-oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Combining a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine, Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology, and is Clinical Profess...
Deepa Patel
November 28, 2023 17:00 - 48 minutes - 40.8 MBDeepa Gulrukh Patel is a Sufi teacher in the Inayati Order, which she also serves in her capacity as International Coordinator and Executive Director for the Zenith Institute, a four-week Sufi meditation camp in the Swiss Alps, where she guides retreats for young adults. She is also the Chair of Tamasha Theatre Company and the Loss Foundation, a bereavement support service for people who have lost loved ones to cancer. Her past roles have included being a music education producer for the BBC...
Brother David Steindl-Rast
November 21, 2023 17:00 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBBrother David Steindl-Rast — 96 year-old author, scholar, and Benedictine monk — is beloved the world over for his enduring message about gratefulness as the true source of lasting happiness. Known to many as the “grandfather of gratitude,” Br. David has been a source of inspiration and spiritual friendship to countless leaders and luminaries around the world including Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Thomas Merton, and more. He has been one of the most important figures in the...
Koya Webb
November 14, 2023 17:00 - 46 minutes - 38.3 MBKoya Webb is an internationally recognized yoga teacher, celebrity holistic health coach, author, speaker, and vegan activist whose core mission is to promote daily self-care, oneness and eco friendly living to combat some of the world’s biggest challenges including mental health, social injustices and global warming. Inspiring millions of lives, Koya is the founder of Get Loved Up, an international lifestyle community and Yoga School that promotes mental, spiritual and physical health. Sh...
Snow Raven
July 21, 2023 19:01 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBSinger Snow Raven grew up in a remote tribe in Arctic Siberia. She has performed for SXSW and has appeared on America’s Got Talent, enchanting audiences with her extraordinary talents from her ancestors. Snow Raven hopes to heal people through her music-- combining traditional songs, shamanistic rituals from her tribe, and animal noises. In this episode, Louie discusses the role of wonder and awe in the songwriter’s process and we hear two examples of her magical talent. Video of this e...
Cosmo Sheldrake
May 14, 2021 00:15 - 45 minutes - 43.1 MBLouie Schwartzberg hosts Cosmo Sheldrake multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, and producer to discuss creativity, connection, bio music, and the power of sounds in nature.
Anna Bjurstam
April 28, 2021 00:50 - 57 minutes - 53.7 MBLouie and Anna Bjurstam embark on a conversation about personal health, growth, wellness, and healing. Bjurstam is a wellness pioneer and Founding Board Member of the Global Wellness Summit. Bjurstam has a Masters in Finance and a passion for quantum physics and science. She has been leading the wellness industry for the last 25 years as a shaman, independent consultant, and Vice President of Six Senses Spas
Lindsey Stirling
March 10, 2021 15:56 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBJoin Wonder & Awe as Louie Schwartzberg sits down for a chat with Lindsey Stirling is an American violinist, songwriter, and dancer. Schwartzberg and Stirling have worked together on projects before. The two will delve into topics like grief, pain, healing, energy, artistry, and creative flow.
Giuliana Furci & Nathalie Kelley
February 19, 2021 19:49 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBLouie Schwartzberg hosts Giuliana Furci, Founder of the Fungi Foundation and Nathalie Kelley, Actress, Activist, and Board Member of the Fungi Foundation to discuss the miraculous possibilities of fungi and the importance of discovery and conservation of fungal species.
Lisbeth Scott
February 16, 2021 19:02 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBJoin Louie and Lisbeth Scott for a live musical performance and a discussion about how music has the ability to give us a sense of connection to something bigger. Scott is a singer and composer whose work has been discovered in Louie's own projects and is widely known across television and films including AVATAR, Iron Man 2, Concussion, The Chronicles of Narnia, Spiderman, HBO’s True Blood, and much much more. She has collaborated with John Williams, Hans Zimmer, and James Horner just to nam...
Kelly Noonan Gores & Adam Schomer
February 05, 2021 01:37 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBLouie is joined by filmmakers Kelly Noonan Gores and Adam Schomer from Netflix's HEAL Documentary, discussing inner strength, confronting fear, finding hope, and the power of choice.
Jason Silva
January 21, 2021 07:56 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBJoin us for an engaging conversation with Emmy-nominated TV personality, filmmaker and futurist, Jason Silva. Louie and Jason talk about being present, biomimicry, energy, connection, optimism, finding your truth, and healing.
David Bronner, Sheri Eckert, & Tom Eckert
December 17, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBLouie Schwartzberg explores the legalization and decriminalization of psilocybin. It is the launch of a real movement that has been driven by David Bronner of Dr Bronner's, and the architects of Oregon's Psilocybin Therapy legalization initiative, Tom & Sheri Eckert.
Dacher Keltner
December 12, 2020 13:30 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBLouie Schwartzberg hosts Dacher Keltner Founder of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkley. We discuss unique perspectives on humanity from psychology, compassion, and contribution.
Tamara Toles O'Laughlin & William Padilla Brown
December 10, 2020 23:05 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBLouie Schwartzberg hosts an important conversation with Tamara Toles O'Laughlin, North American Director of 350.org and William Padilla-Brown an urban farming advocate, entrepreneur and mycologist. O'Laughlin and Padilla-Brown are directly influencing environmental impact in their daily lives. Building a movement is an artform with science at the foundation of each cause.
Alex & Allyson Grey
November 10, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBLouie Schwartzberg hosts an engaging conversation with Alex and Allyson Grey. The Greys have spent decades as artists, leaders, and mentors in the Visionary Art movement. They co-founded the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, a sanctuary of visionary art to inspire every pilgrim’s creative path and affirm the values of love and wisdom. Alex Grey’s renowned work has been exhibited around the world, and he is also the author of several books, including Sacred Mirrors, Net of Being, and Tr...
Ruth Westreich & Dr Jeffrey Bland
November 06, 2020 23:57 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBLouie Schwartzberg hosts an inspiring conversation with functional medicine founder and author Dr. Jeffrey Bland alongside artist, philanthropist, and activist Ruth Westreich. Dr. Jeffrey Bland is an internationally recognized leader in the nutritional medicine field for over 35 years and is known as the father of functional medicine. Ruth Westreich is a wonderful artist, philanthropist, and activist. For many years, she’s brought art into the world of healthcare and education.
IN-Q & Toni Blackman
October 21, 2020 20:55 - 58 minutes - 37.3 MBWelcome to Wonder & Awe, a podcast exploring the intersection between art and science. In this episode, Louie Schwartzberg hosts an inspiring conversation with poet and songwriter IN-Q and hip-hop ambassador and meditation expert Toni Blackman. IN-Q is a National Poetry Slam champion, award-winning poet, and multi-platinum songwriter. His new book is called “Inquire Within,” a book of poems about love, loss, forgiveness, transformation, and belief. Toni Blackman, an award-winning artis...
Paul Stamets & Merlin Sheldrake
August 12, 2020 00:05 - 1 hour - 44.1 MB"What we need now more than ever is survival of the kindest, the stories of interconnections of generations of nurturing, a more feminine and less macho view of nature," says Louie Schwartzberg in this inaugural episode of the Wonder and Awe podcast. In each episode, Louie hosts a conversation that explores the intersection of art and science. Celebrating the Apple TV release of Louie's Fantastic Fungi film, this first episode features legendary mycologist Paul Stamets, who shares the m...
Wonder And Awe Trailer
July 23, 2020 02:56 - 4 minutes - 5.49 MBLouie Schwartzberg shares the inspiration behind his new podcast series Wonder and Awe. Louie's desire is to awaken listeners to the natural wonders of our world. Engage in conversations about the natural, featuring one guest from the realm of art and one from the field of science. "Wonder is the spark and muse that triggers curiosity to explore both inner and outer worlds, and how they are interconnected. My greatest hope is that we can reawaken our personal and global sense of wonder a...