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Learning HorizonsBrooke McNamara - Learning on the Edge of Emptiness and Form [Ep. 21]In this episode Brooke and I talk about:The origins of her passion and workHer teaching of Zen practice and writingWorking with Emptiness and forTeaching from the edges of emptiness and form in both Zen and creative expressionThe art of Seeking and letting goSlowing down in moments of collective urgencyHer upcoming work and offerings And many other topics.Guest Bio:Brooke is a poet, meditation instructor, and transmitted Zen teacher and lineage holder. She has published two books of poems: Bury the Seed and Feed Your Vow. She loves to create poems from 3 main...2025-01-191h 40
Redesigning the DharmaHow Zen Fuels Creativity with Brooke McNamaraEpisode Summary:Episode 13 of Redesigning The Dharma by Sahaja Soma features a conversation with poet, artist, and Zen meditation teacher, Brooke McNamara. The discussion centers on the intersection between art and Zen Buddhism and explores themes like the embodiment of Eros, the paradox of transcendence and intimacy, and the importance of uncertainty in spiritual practice. Brooke also reads one of her touching poems, 'Change the Lighting,' and discusses her perspective on poetry as a vehicle for transmitting life's vibrancy. The conversation touches on the influences of various Zen and Tantric masters and how their teachings intersect...2024-07-2246 min
Getting Work To Work“From the Poet to the Podcast” with Christopher Luna (GWTW768)
The last time I crossed creative paths with today’s guest was for my Innovators of Vancouver project over 11 years ago. Recently, as I’ve been getting into creative writing and poetry, his name naturally resurfaced, along with the open mic poetry events and workshops he facilitates throughout the area. Christopher Luna is a poet, collage artist, teacher, and maximalist who has been instrumental in fostering a creative community in Vancouver, Washington. In this conversation, Christopher shares the origins of the Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic events and how he believes poetry chose him. We discuss what he learned from...2024-03-151h 18
The Big Rhetorical PodcastEpisode 121: Dr. Alexandra Hidalgo (Keystone Perspectives)Episode 121 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Dr. Alexandra Hidalgo. This episode is part of TBR Podcast Keystone Perspectives Series and serves as the Season 7 finale. Dr. Alexandra Hidalgo is an award-winning Venezuelan writer, filmmaker, theorist, memoirist, and editor whose documentaries have been official selections for film festivals in 15 countries and been screened at universities around the United States. Her videos and writing have been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, NPR, The Criterion Collection, and Women and Hollywood. She has a PhD in English from Purdue University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University and is as...2022-12-121h 07
The Divorce and Beyond® Podcast with Susan Guthrie, Esq.Unleashing Your Inner Creatrix for a Better Divorce and Beyond with Author, Stephanie Raffelock #228This week on Divorce & Beyond, Host, Susan Guthrie speaks with Speaker and Author, Stephanie Raffelock who is on a mission to change the way we look at aging and change in our lives. Stephanie's insights on unleashing your Inner Creatrix is going to change the way you look at change - and change forever, the way you see your BEYOND!
“We need to revise how we think of aging. The old paradigm was: You’re born, you peak at midlife, and then you decline into decrepitude. Looking at aging as ascending a staircase, you gain well being, spirit, soul...2022-03-2839 min
The Big Rhetorical PodcastEpisode 78: Ashley M. Beardsley (Emerging Scholar Series)Episode 78 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast is another entry in our Emerging Scholar Series. Ashley M. Beardsley holds an MFA in Writing and Poetics with a concentration in poetry from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Naropa University) and a certificate in publishing from the Denver Publishing Institute (University of Denver). She is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at the University of Oklahoma where her research focuses on food and cookbooks as multimodal, collaboratively written community texts; digital and community literacy; the rhetoric of food; and feminist rhetoric. She also works as the Assistant Director...2021-10-0443 min
Awake and On PurposeEmpowering Women with Stephanie RaffelockOn today’s episode of Awake & On Purpose Podcast, Jennifer speaks with Stephanie Raffelock about empowering women to stand in the power of their feminine strengths, especially as we age. They discuss changes to female leadership, especially in corporate America, visibility and representation of aging women in the media, recent events in feminist history, labels put on women by ourselves and society, and so much more in today’s empowering, inspiring episode! We hold the word power differently than the men hold the word power. Men have power over something or over someone. There’s that kind of warr...2021-09-2224 min
Me Time Midlife PodcastEmbracing Your Age - Guest Expert Stephanie RaffelockStephanie Raffelock is the author of “Creatrix Rising, Unlocking the Power of Midlife Women". She also penned the award winning book, “A Delightful Little Book on Aging.”A graduate of Naropa University’s program in Writing and Poetics, Stephanie was a contributor to The Rogue Valley Messenger in Oregon. She has blogged for Nexus Magazine, Omaha Lifestyles, Care2.com, as well as SixtyandMe.com.A former i-Heart Radio host, she is now a popular guest on podcasts, where she inspires women to embrace the strength and passion of their personal story. Stephanie continues to build her speaker’s...2021-08-1932 min
A Quest for Well-BeingWomen: Celebrating The Creatrix— Each woman has a unique history that’s made up of many small stories. Sharing your chronicles with others is a way of sharing your heart and your soul. It’s also the way in which you’ve been growing into the archetype of the Creatrix. Your narratives are what connect you to other women and to your shared humanity. Every woman I’ve ever known has a tale to tell that is brave and beautiful, sad and sweet. Knowing your stories and those of women around you can change the way you see the world, and even change the world...2021-07-2839 min
Inspired Conversations with Linda JoyUnlocking the Power of Midlife WomenUnlocking the Power of Midlife WomenAired Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM ESTAward-winning author Stephanie Raffleock is remarkable woman with an empowering mission to help other women reclaim midlife and embrace their age while challenging ageist, sexist archetypes. Watch for her new book, “Creatrix Rising: Unlocking the Power of Midlife Women,” on Aug. 24.About the Guest:Stephanie Raffelock is the author of “Creatrix Rising: Unlocking the Power of Midlife Women.” She also penned the award-winning book, “A Delightful Little Book on Aging.” A graduate of Naropa University’s program in Writing and Po...2021-06-2257 min
Women Awakening with Cynthia JamesCynthia with Stephanie Raffelock author of Creatrix RisingStephanie Raffelock is the author of Creatrix Rising, Unlocking the Power of Midlife Women. (She Writes Press in August, 2021). She also penned the award winning, bestseller, A Delightful Little Book on Aging.A graduate of Naropa University’s program in Writing and Poetics, Stephanie was a contributor to The Rogue Valley Messenger, in Oregon. She’s blogged for Nexus Magazine, Omaha Lifestyles, Care2.com as well as SixtyandMe.com.A former i-Heart Radio host, she is now a popular guest on podcasts, where she inspires women to embrace the strength and passion of their personal story.2021-06-0420 min
Emerging FormEpisode 42: Embodiment and Creative Practice with Brooke McNamaraWhen creatives show up for their practice, they bring a lot of tools: perhaps books and pens and paper. Perhaps canvas and paint. Perhaps a camera or a script. But all creatives have one thing in common: they bring their bodies. In this episode, we speak with poet/teacher/dancer/zen monk Brooke McNamara about body awareness and creative practice. How did her own body awareness inform her practice and what might we all do to tap deeper into our physical bodies and let our “empathetic kinesthetic awareness” help lead us. Brooke McNamara, MFA, is a poet, teach...2021-05-2734 min
Finding RefugeI Will Rise AgainThis episode is a magical interview with my friend Seán Johnson. Seán is a musician, storyteller, teacher-trainer, and sacred space-holder who has been teaching Yoga for the last 24 years. He is the founder of Wild Lotus Yoga in his native New Orleans, and Soul School, an online interdisciplinary spiritual immersion and Yoga teacher training program that focuses on teaching Yoga with skill and imagination, that he guides with Mitchel Bleier. In all these roles, he relishes creating a playful, tender, brave space for people to open their hearts and voices, sing, and embrace their innate cre...2021-04-0100 min
Finding RefugeI Will Rise AgainThis episode is a magical interview with my friend Seán Johnson. Seán is a musician, storyteller, teacher-trainer, and sacred space-holder who has been teaching Yoga for the last 24 years. He is the founder of Wild Lotus Yoga in his native New Orleans, and Soul School, an online interdisciplinary spiritual immersion and Yoga teacher training program that focuses on teaching Yoga with skill and imagination, that he guides with Mitchel Bleier. In all these roles, he relishes creating a playful, tender, brave space for people to open their hearts and voices, sing, and embrace their in...2021-04-0100 min
EFT Tapping StoriesCREATRIX RISING: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF #MIDLIFE and #WOMENSend us a textStephanie Raffelock is the author of Creatrix Rising, Unlocking the Power of Midlife Women. (She Writes Press in August, 2021). She also penned the award winning, bestseller, A Delightful Little Book on Aging.A graduate of Naropa University’s program in Writing and Poetics, Stephanie was a contributor to The Rogue Valley Messenger, in Oregon. She’s blogged for Nexus Magazine, Omaha Lifestyles, Care2.com as well as SixtyandMe.com.A former i-Heart Radio host, she is now a popular guest on podcasts, where she inspires women to embrace the streng...2021-03-0534 min
Grown-Ass Woman's GuideA Delightful Little Episode on AgingWe don't often hear the words "delightful" and "aging" in the same sentence, but today, we're changing that. Stephanie Raffelock is the author of A Delightful Little Book on Aging. (She Writes Press, April 2020). A graduate of Naropa University’s program in Writing and Poetics, she has worked as a freelancer for The Aspen Times and The Rogue Valley Messenger. She’s also written and blogged for Nexus Magazine, Omaha Lifestyles, Care2.com and SixtyandMe.com, to name a few. The new co-host of Yak About Today, Stephanie can be heard on i-Heart Radio, station WCZR 101.7 in Flori...2020-12-2328 min
MIKE'D UP!Storytelling Is a Sacred Art With Stephanie RaffelockStephanie is the author of A Delightful Little Book on Aging. She’s a graduate of Naropa University’s program in Writing and Poetics and has penned articles and interviews for The Aspen Times, Care2.com, Nexus Magazine, Omaha Lifestyles, The Rogue Valley Messenger and SixtyandMe.com. She shares a passionate and uplifting message about midlife women, creativity and power. She’s also the new co-host of the iHeart radio show and podcast, Yak About Today. She’s also a popular public speaker for ERG’s (Employment Relations Groups) like WINS at Charles Schwab. A rec...2020-09-2141 min
State of Emergence024 Brooke McNamara – Our Now More-Human HeartsLuminous poet, performance artist, Zen monk, and teacher Brooke McNamara joins Terry for a tender inquiry into this scary, beautiful and pregnant moment in our collective journey. Terry reads one of Brooke’s new poems to her and then she reads several poignant and evocative poems in a deeply touching, playful, grounding, and generous conversation. Brooke McNamara is a poet, dance-theater artist, and teacher. Her second, marvelous book, Bury the Seed, was just published earlier this year, and her first book, Feed Your Vow, was published in 2015. For her poetry, she is the recipient of the Charles B...2020-04-1143 min
Mindful U at Naropa University78. Charles Eisenstein: The Origin of Wrongness"I read very widely and was trying to put the pieces together to understand this lifelong question that I had carried. What is the origin of the wrongness in the world, which is presented to us as a series of fragmented isolated atrocities and injustices and horrors -- without any synthesizing narrative that explains why the world is the way that it is? And I really wanted to understand so that I wouldn't be part of maintaining the status quo through pursuing insufficiently deep solutions that may be actually part of the problem. I think a lot of our...2020-02-1745 min
Curb the Binge: The PodcastFood and Money - Major Gardens of Life with Bari TesslerFood is considered by some - and for some - to be a "keystone habit." Coined by Charles Duhigg, a keystone habit is a habit that leads to the development of other good habits. Getting 8 hours of sleep per night, for instance, is a keystone habit. For many, organizing our food (and, I would add, solving for addictive behaviors around food) is also a keystone habit. When we begin to clean up our food, we may notice ourselves waking up to other parts of our life that we feel ready to clean up. One of th...2018-06-0300 min
Mindful U at Naropa University01. Naropa President Chuck Lief: Welcome & Social InnovationChuck Lief is the President of Naropa University, and a long time student of Naropa's founder Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. In this inaugural episode of MindfulU, Lief discusses his various roles at Naropa since its founding, and explains what makes Naropa University unique. Lief then gives an overview of the course he teaches at Naropa as a part of the Peace Studies undergraduate program, Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He explains how the idea of a social enterprise has shifted over time to acknowledge that business and business tools can be used to create significant social change. He also gives e...2017-10-0533 min
Theatrical Mustang PodcastMeridith GrundeiIt's Episode 107 with Meridith Grundei!
We talk about Naropa University's upcoming production of Under Construction, by Charles Mee.
Advance reservations are required. >>Purchase tickets here.
To find out more about Meridith's upcoming improvised year, please visit www.thisimprovisedyear.com.
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This episode is sponsored by Panfocal Photography.
2017-09-2637 min
Pirate Radio Podcasts™Episode #15 - William RamseyARCHIVED PREMIUM CONTENT
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3min30sec - William comes on board, PRINCE RIP, Roman Polanski's #PIRATES, Walter Matthau http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091757/
8min - William's personal history & background, what inspired him to...2016-05-031h 43
Buddhist GeeksThe Scholar-Practitioner: Joining Theory and PracticeJudith Simmer-Brown, a professor of Religious Studies at Naropa University and authorized teacher in the Shambhala tradition speaks with us about the coming together of theoretical study and meditation practice in the context of academia—what professor Charles Prebish calls the “scholar-practitioner”. She shares with us the historical precedents for this movement in America, and how it is changing now.
When asked about the benefits of doing both study and practice together, Judith shares much of what she sees are the benefits of using a “contemplative pedagogy” (or contemplative education approach) in the classroom. She also relates the danger of not bringi...2015-07-2120 min
Buddhist GeeksThe Scholar-Practitioner: Joining Theory and PracticeJudith Simmer-Brown, a professor of Religious Studies at Naropa University and authorized teacher in the Shambhala tradition speaks with us about the coming together of theoretical study and meditation practice in the context of academia—what professor Charles Prebish calls the “scholar-practitioner”. She shares with us the historical precedents for this movement in America, and how it is changing now. When asked about the benefits of doing both study and practice together, Judith shares much of what she sees are the benefits of using a “contemplative pedagogy” (or contemplative education approach) in the classroom. She also relates the danger of not bri...2007-12-1020 min