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Rumi and The Mysterion with Kabir Helminski
Explore Spirituality - April 25, 2024 17:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsRami talks with author Kabir Helminski about his newest book The Mysterion: Rumi and the Secret of Becoming Fully Human. Rami and Kabir explore many topics including the beauty of Sufism through the lens of one of the greatest poets the world has ever known. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
Nothing to Grasp with Joan Tollifson
Explore Spirituality - April 05, 2024 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsRami is joined by longtime friend Joan Tollifson to discuss Joan's compelling spiritual journey and perspective on the nature of being. Rami and Joan focus on her book Nothing to Grasp and the nature of being and suffering and Joan shares her experience dealing with challenging life circumstances...
Addressing Modern Anti-Semitism with Ayal Feinberg and Frank Levy
Explore Spirituality - March 22, 2024 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsRami is joined by special guests Ayal Feinberg and Frank Levy to discuss the changing face of anti-semitism and how modern academic approaches hope to develop new ways to understand and fight anti-semitism in its many forms. **Have a question? Download the mindbodyspirit app and use the open mic...
Perry Garfinkel, How to Live Like Gandhi
Explore Spirituality - March 08, 2024 17:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsPerry Garfinkel is a veteran journalist, editor, frequent speaker, and author of the bestselling Buddha or Bust. His newest book is Becoming Gandhi: My Experiment Living the Mahatma's 6 Moral Truths in Immoral Times. An excerpt from the book, along with an edited transcript of this conversation,...
Rebecca Martinez, Ethics and Psychedelic Therapy
Explore Spirituality - February 23, 2024 17:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsRebecca Martinez is the founder and executive director of Alma Institute, a nonprofit educational institution equipping students from marginalized communities to become legal psychedelic facilitators. She's served as an advisor to the National Psychedelics Association, the American Psychedelic Pr...
Myra Goodman, How to Cultivate Spiritual Bravery
Explore Spirituality - February 09, 2024 17:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsMyra Goodman is the author of Quest for Eternal Sunshine: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey from Darkness to Light, in which she tells the story of her father, Mendek Rubin, who survived the Holocaust to become an inventor and sage. Myra's essay with her cousin Trudy Goodman, "Awaken to Spiritual B...
Gilda Montenegro-Fix, Celebrating Diversity and Remembering Love
Explore Spirituality - January 26, 2024 17:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsGilda Montenegro-Fix is an Olympic whitewater slalom kayaker. She is also the founder of Celebrate Diversity!, a consulting and training company focused on cultural agility. She is a motivational speaker and the author of an essay in the January/February 2024 issue of Spirituality+Health entitled...
Don Miguel Ruiz, The Art of Being Energy
Explore Spirituality - January 12, 2024 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsDon Miguel Ruiz is a renowned Nahuatl teacher with millions of followers worldwide. Born into a family of healers and raised in Mexico by a healer mother and Nahuatl grandfather in the Toltec tradition, don Miguel is the author of the classic The Four Agreements, The Fifth Agreement, and many oth...
Neal Allen and Anne Lamott, How to Challenge the Inner Critic
Explore Spirituality - December 29, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsAnne Lamott is the author of numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction. Her new book, Somehow: Thoughts on Love, is due out in April 2024. Neal Allen is the author of Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside of You, and an excerpt from his new book, Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, entitled “En...
Ellen Evert Hopman, Herbal Traditions for Yule and Christmas
Explore Spirituality - December 15, 2023 17:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsEllen Evert Hopman is a master herbalist and lay homeopath and holds a Master’s in Education and Mental Health Counseling. She’s the archdruid emerita of the Tribe of the Oak and a founding member of the Order of the White Oak. Her newest book, The Sacred Herbs of Yule and Christmas: Remedies, Re...
Judith Polich, How to Be More Like Trees
Explore Spirituality - November 17, 2023 17:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsJudith Polich is an environmentalist and wetlands advocate. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Studies and Environmental Education from the University of Wisconsin, and is the author of Return of the Children of Light. Her newest book, Why Can’t We Be More Like Trees: The Anci...
Dr. Gavin Francis, The Art of Convalescence
Explore Spirituality - November 03, 2023 16:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsDr. Gavin Francis is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, and a fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He has authored eight books and numerous articles in a variety of publications, including the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. His new...
Perdita Finn, Conversations With the Unseen World
Explore Spirituality - October 27, 2023 16:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsPerdita Finn is the co-founder with her husband Clark Strand of the nondenominational international fellowship called The Way of the Rose. Perdita and Clark were guests on the Spirituality+Health Podcast a few years ago to discuss their book The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Fem...
Dr. Norman Rosenthal, Defeating Seasonal Affective Disorder
Explore Spirituality - October 06, 2023 16:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsDr. Norman Rosenthal is a world-renowned psychiatrist and best-selling author who was the first person to describe seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and to pioneer the use of light therapy in its treatment. He did this during his 20 years at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Rosenthal’...
Dr. David Rosmarin, How to Thrive With Anxiety
Explore Spirituality - September 22, 2023 16:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsDr. David Rosmarin is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, a program director at McLean Hospital, and founder of Center for Anxiety. He’s an international expert on spirituality and mental health, and his work has been featured in Scientific American, the Boston Globe, the Wall Stree...
Kristoffer Hughes, The Power of Druidry
Explore Spirituality - September 08, 2023 16:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsKristoffer Hughes is Chief of the Anglesey Druid Order, a Mount Haemus Scholar, and a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. He is a best-selling author of a number of books, including The Book of Celtic Magic. He’s the creator the Celtic Tarot, and his newest book is The Book of Druid...
Dr. E. Elisabet Lahti, The Unsung Beauty of Ordinary Enlightenment
Explore Spirituality - August 25, 2023 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsDr. E. Elisabet Lahti is an awarded educator, international speaker, and the founder of Sisu Lab that helps individuals everywhere think deeply about excellence in how we operate as humans and to tap into our innate capacity for virtuous fortitude. She's the researcher of 'sisu' for which her jou...
Dr. Allan Hamilton, The Enlightenment Lab
Explore Spirituality - August 11, 2023 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsAllan Hamilton, MD, is a Harvard-trained brain surgeon, a decorated Army veteran, and Regents Professor of Surgery at the University of Arizona as well as a life-long horse trainer. His next book on the human brain is Cerebral Entanglements—How the Brain Gives Value and Meaning to Our Private and...
Myles Mellor, The Zen of Crossword Puzzles
Explore Spirituality - July 28, 2023 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsMyles Mellor is one of the top crossword writers in the world. Published in over 1000 magazines, newspapers and web outlets. Over 20,000 crosswords published worldwide. Supplying theme crosswords, diamond crosswords, syndicated puzzles, cryptograms, diagramless crosswords, word search, sudokus, a...
Light Watkins, Travel Light With Spiritual Minimalism
Explore Spirituality - July 14, 2023 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsSince 2007, Light has personally taught thousands of people from all walks of life how to enjoy a daily meditation practice in a self-sufficient way, and he’s positively impacted many more practitioners through his books, videos, and popular TEDx talk on the 5 Most Common Meditation Myths. Light ...
Susan Bauer-Wu, A Future We Can Love
Explore Spirituality - June 30, 2023 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsSusan Bauer-Wu is the President of the Mind & Life Institute, an organization cofounded by the Dalai Lama in 1987 to bring science and contemplative wisdom together to better understand the mind and create positive change in the world. In her work with Mind & Life, she has championed “human-earth...
Podcast: Susan Bauer-Wu, A Future We Can Love
Explore Spirituality - June 30, 2023 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsSusan Bauer-Wu is the President of the Mind & Life Institute, an organization cofounded by the Dalai Lama in 1987 to bring science and contemplative wisdom together to better understand the mind and create positive change in the world. In her work with Mind & Life, she has championed “human-earth...
Cheryl Pallant, Healing the World With Ecosomatics
Explore Spirituality - June 16, 2023 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsCheryl Pallant is an author, poet, energy healer, somatics coach, teacher, and dancer. She has several published books, most recently the nonfiction work, Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing. Her book on contact improvisation, Contact Improvisation: An Introduction ...
Podcast: Cheryl Pallant, Healing the World With Ecosomatics
Explore Spirituality - June 16, 2023 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsCheryl Pallant is an author, poet, energy healer, somatics coach, teacher, and dancer. She has several published books, most recently the nonfiction work, Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing. Her book on contact improvisation, Contact Improvisation: An Introduction ...
Sherianna Boyle, Energy in Action
Explore Spirituality - June 02, 2023 16:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsSherianna Boyle, MEd, CAGS, is an international Emotional Detox Coach and the author of nine books, including her most recent Energy in Action: The Power of Emotions and Intuition to Cultivate Peace and Freedom. She has been featured in over 90 articles and is a presenter for renowned organizatio...
Andrea Sherman, Practices for Shattered Nights
Explore Spirituality - May 19, 2023 17:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsBio: Andrea Sherman, PhD, is a gerontologist, educator, trainer and End of Life Doula. She is a graduate of the New York Zen Center Foundations in Buddhist Contemplative Care Program, teaches meditation at Westchester Meditation Center, and studies Vajrayana Buddhism with Phakchok Rinpoche. As an...
Chip Conley, The Time of Our Lives
Explore Spirituality - May 05, 2023 16:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsChip Conley joined the tiny tech start-up Airbnb nearly a decade ago after a successful career as a boutique hotel company founder and CEO. He was twice the age of the average Airbnb employee which earned him the title "Airbnb's Modern Elder" who was as curious as he was wise. As the internal men...
Rev. Wendy Van Allen, Relighting the Cauldron
Explore Spirituality - April 21, 2023 16:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsRev. Wendy Van Allen is an ordained interspiritual minister and counselor through One Spirit Learning Alliance and Outreach Ministries in New York, NY. As a Priestess of both the Afro-Caribbean Lukumi and Wiccan traditions, she is a longtime practitioner of Nature Spirituality. She is also a prac...
Dr. Joel Bennett, Become A Connoisseur of Time
Explore Spirituality - April 07, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsJoel Bennett, Ph.D., is President of Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems (OWLS), a consulting firm specializing in evidence-based wellness technologies to promote organizational health and employee well-being. He is a primary developer of “Team Awareness” and “Team Resilience,” evidence-ba...
Laurie Sue Brockway, Put Your Wisdom to Work
Explore Spirituality - March 24, 2023 17:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratingsRev. Laurie Sue Brockway is an interfaith minister, journalist, and author of 25 spirituality books. She has served couples and families of all faiths as a wedding officiant. And she has written extensively on goddess history and spirituality, as well as interfaith and multicultural traditions. H...
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