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The Mind Bod Adventure PodHow to Find a Calling That Feeds You | Chela DavisonThis week we’re hanging with our friend Chela Davison — facilitator, sacred mischief maker, former master coach, and writer of the Substack, Wisdotainment.She brings her trademark mix of depth and irreverence to the question of what it means to live a “regenerative calling”, a purposeful life that actually feeds you instead of wringing you dry.Chela walks us through 4 dimensions of personal calling:1. Interiority – the pulse of what’s meaningful inside you.2. Aptitude – the weird mix of things you’re naturally good at and the skills you might still need.3. Contribu...
2025-11-1100 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodGood Vibrations: Can tech train us to feel safe?| Dr. David RabinWe chase healing in all directions: therapy, breathwork, cold plunges, maybe a lil microdosing… but what if all your nervous system is asking for is a safe place to land?This week, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. David Rabin joins us to talk about how safety is the foundation of healing. His research explores how vibration, touch, and rhythm can retrain the body for calm. He’s the creator of Apollo Neuro, a wearable (and app) that uses subtle vibrations to signal safety to the nervous system and help the body unlearn chronic stress.We talk abou...
2025-10-2250 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodReclaim Your Mind: Attention Activism in the Digital Age | Jay VidyarthiHow do we stay aware in a world designed to steal our attention?This week, we sit down with Jay Vidyarthi — designer, tech founder, meditation teacher, and author of Reclaim Your Mind: Seven Strategies to Enjoy Tech Mindfully — to explore what it means to live mindfully with technology instead of fighting against it.We look at how our phones, apps, and algorithms are constantly training our nervous systems, and how awareness itself can change the relationship. Jay calls this attention activism: a way of reclaiming choice and joy in a tech-infused world.----------------------------
2025-10-0854 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodSex: The Final Frontier of Authenticity | Dr. Juliana HauserWhen it comes to “getting to know ourselves,” we talk about mindfulness, creativity, career… basically everything except sex. But as Dr. Juliana Hauser argues, sexuality might be the most direct doorway into who we really are. In this episode, she takes us past the performance of “being sexy” into the raw territory of authenticity, agency, and connection.Dr. Juliana has spent over two decades helping people claim their own sexual agency. She’s a counselor and family therapist with a PhD in Counseling Education, a TEDx speaker on agency, and creator of the Revealed course on holistic sexuality. H...
2025-09-2350 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Slow Fire of Reading | Chelene KnightWhat’s the biggest mistake you’ve made as a creative? Chelene Knight answers without hesitation: “I think the biggest mistake was just not being me.”This week, we sit down with acclaimed poet, novelist, memoirist, and Tasha’s own writing mentor, Chelene Knight, to talk about what it means to build a creative life. Not the tidy, “professionalized” version, but the messy, alive, human one that actually feels good.Chelene’s most recent book, Safekeeping: A Writer's Guided Journal for Launching a Book with Love, is part guided journal, part treasure map through the writing life. It...
2025-09-0351 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodPolyvagal Pathways: Tuning the Body Toward Connection | Stephen Porges & Karen OnderkoThis is an exciting one, friends!Stephen Porges is the visionary scientist who gave us polyvagal theory—a framework that’s reshaped how the world understands trauma, safety, and human connection. His work has influenced everyone from therapists to meditation teachers to parents trying to soothe a colicky baby. And now he’s here with us, alongside his brilliant co-author Karen Onderko, to talk about their new book and the Safe and Sound Protocol.This episode is part science, part storytelling, and part live experiment.In this conversation, we talk about:* The or...
2025-08-2053 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodHow to Dream a Better World | Sherri MitchellThis week on the Pod, we’re joined by the luminous Sherri Mitchell: Indigenous rights attorney, activist, ceremonial leader, and the author of Sacred Instructions.We dive into the birth canal of this moment — a world in transition, contracting and expanding as it labors to bring something new into being. Sherri doesn’t shy away from the pain, confusion, or cultural clusterf*ck of our times and she also doesn’t wallow. Instead, she offers radical clarity, vision, and a deeply embodied path forward.Together, we explore:* What it means to live through a specie...
2025-07-091h 02
The Mind Bod Adventure PodWriting as Presence | Sarah SeleckyThis week on the pod, we’re joined by writer and teacher Sarah Selecky for a beautiful, funny, and surprisingly deep exploration of writing as a contemplative practice.Sarah teaches writing as presence. As a way of being and noticing. She helps writers get out of their own way so that something real and alive can come through the page (or the google doc 😅).Together, we explore:* the overlap between writing and meditation* how honesty transmits (and why you can feel when a writer is lying)* the difference between tryin...
2025-06-241h 02
The Mind Bod Adventure PodSilent Illumination: How to Meditate Without a Method | Rebecca LiThis week on the pod, we’re joined by Chan teacher and sociologist Rebecca Li for a luminous practice session in Silent Illumination, a deceptively simple, deeply transformative form of open awareness meditation.Rebecca guides us through a full-body relaxation and easefully invites us into the “method of no method,” offering a living glimpse into this subtle and powerful practice. As we settle into presence together, she shares insights from her lineage, her own experience, and her new book Illumination.We talk about:* Why relaxation isn’t the goal, but the doorway* How...
2025-06-1043 min
Life Happens with Barb & Michelle207 - Unravel Your Mind: Meditation Made Easy with Mindfulness Experts Jeff Warren and Tasha SchumannImprove your mental health with Barb & Michelle through practical mindfulness, meditation, and real talks with experts Jeff Warren and Tasha Schumann. from the Mind-Bod Adventure Pod. Build ease, trust, and lasting calm—one breath at a time.In this episode of Life Happens with Barb & Michelle, mindfulness experts Jeff Warren and Tasha Schumann join the conversation to explore how meditation can transform your mental and emotional wellbeing.Meditation is often misunderstood, but at its core, it's the simple, consistent practice of returning to the present moment. This episode breaks do...
2025-05-271h 02
The Mind Bod Adventure PodFocusing: A Practice of Presence & Listening | Serge PrengelThis week, we’re in conversation with therapist and longtime Focusing teacher Serge Prengel about the transformative power of slowing down and listening from the body.Serge is one of those rare people who seem to live from a deeper layer of presence. His work blends Focusing, Somatic Experiencing, Core Energetics, and Polyvagal Theory to support real, embodied change.What stood out for us was how relational this practice is. It brought us into a slower, softer place of deep listening, where we could fully meet each other’s nervous systems.We explore:
2025-05-0754 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodReleasing Trauma with EFT Tapping | Mirjam PaninskiThis week on the Mind Bod Adventure Pod, we get our somatic groove on with tapping wizard and trauma therapist Mirjam Paninski. Miriam guides us into the world of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)—a deceptively simple practice where tapping acupressure points while speaking truth can open up big shifts in the body, mind, and heart.It’s part therapy, part ritual, part emotional plumbing.In this episode, we explore:* Why EFT is becoming a popular trauma modality (and how it stacks up to EMDR)* How tapping calms the nervous system and give...
2025-04-2254 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodBeyond “Normal”: Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy | Joel SchwartzThis week on the Mind Bod Adventure Pod, we sit down with Dr. Joel Schwartz, a psychologist and one of the early architects of the Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy movement. Joel is known for speaking truth to systems that pathologize difference — and for offering a way of working with our minds that’s healing, joyful, and radically humane.In this episode, we explore:* Why the “pathology model” of ADHD and autism misses the point* The emotional toll of masking and code-switching to survive* What actually helps when someone is overstimulated (spoiler: not deep...
2025-04-0853 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodLearning to Relate with James-Olivia Chu HillmanThis week, we sit down with relational facilitator James-Olivia Chu Hillman, whose teachings on radical responsibility, integrity, and unconditional positive regard are already shifting how Jeff shows up in relationship… and how Tasha tries not to ghost people who annoy her. 😅Together, we explore:* The four core skills of relating well* why being “right” isn’t the same as being relational* Why saying “I agree” can be the most disorienting move in a conversation* What it really means to take responsibility—without shame, and without blame--------The Mind Bod...
2025-03-251h 02
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Science of Happiness with Axel BouchonWhat if happiness wasn’t just a feeling but something you could train and reinforce?This week on MindBod AdventurePod, we sit down with Dr. Axel Bouchon, a neuroscientist and biotech entrepreneur who spent 20 years searching for a cure for depression—only to realize he’d been asking the wrong question. Instead of curing sadness, he discovered the source code for happiness—a set of six neurotransmitters that shape our emotional landscape.In this episode, Axel takes us on a guided tour of our own brains, revealing:* Why depression can’t be erased—but happines...
2025-03-1143 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Heart of Patience & Courage with Oren Jay SoferWhat if the secret sauce to navigating the world isn’t hustling harder, fixing yourself, or achieving inner peace like it’s an item on your to-do list—but something way simpler and right under your nose?This week on the Mind Bod Pod, we sit down with Oren Jay Sofer, a meditation teacher, communication wizard, and all-around wise human, to talk about his book, Your Heart Was Made for This.We dig into the deep but wildly practical ways we can meet life’s chaos with more presence—and fewer panic spirals:* Why patien...
2025-02-2551 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodCore Energetics & Human Design with Angela AiIn this episode, we remix therapy and healing with Angela Ai, a syncretic teacher practitioner of Core Energetics, Radical Aliveness, and Human Design.What the heck are these modalities? Good question!In a nutshell: they’re different ways to get insight into — and intuitive contact with— the human experience. Into our internal patterns, our relationships, and the ways we meet the world.This is an adventure for the taxonomy nerds among us. Enjoy!The Mind Bod Pod is a community-supported project. If you like these adventures, consider helping us keep the lights...
2025-02-0455 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodAyahuasca & Spiritual Care with Celina De LeonThis week, we go deep into the spiritual heart of psychedelics with Celina de Leon, founder of the Circle of Sacred Nature Church, and adjunct faculty at the Graduate Theological Union. Celina has spent 20 years working with ayahuasca – or yagé, as it’s known in the Kamentsa indigenous community of Colombia, her root lineage.We talk about the contemplative practice of yagé, its unique characteristics, and how it opens us up to benefits beyond individual mental health. So much goodness!The main thing is we go into ceremony – we experience how the deliberateness and care of cerem...
2025-01-2152 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodNo Enemies with Cara LaiCara Lai is awesome. That’s the first thing to say. She is humble and real and willing to explore a heated topic without having any easy prepared answers. Backtrack! Cara is a dharma teacher, artist, Mom and former therapist. These days she mostly teaches meditation retreats and a fun online drop-in class called “Meditate Your Face Off!” (Jeff: Be still my heart.)Our subject is the shitstorm happening on planet earth – in the Middle East, the Ukraine, the US, and other hot spots – and whether everyone should be speaking out. We recorded the episode back in May 2024...
2025-01-0757 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodRealizing Freedom Together with Caverly MorganIn this episode we welcome Caverly Morgan, former Zen monk and author of The Heart of Who We Are. Caverly is also the founder of Peace in Schools, a teen-centered mindfulness curriculum for teens.We jump right into it with a discussion of how teens very naturally want to challenge many of the culture’s bogus assumptions – in her words, teens “are on fire with wanting to dismantle what’s not real.”We start with a beautiful breath practice that Caverly uses in high school classrooms. “Dental-mental floss”: back and forth through the center, expanding and grounding...
2024-12-1752 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Ten Fetters with Kevin SchanilecWell, this one is cool. It may change your meditation practice and – if you stay with the inquiry – your life. You’d hardly know how ambitious it is though, from our guest Kevin Schanilec’s humble, deadpan delivery.Kevin is a long-time Buddhist practitioner from Seattle who has formalized a process for seeing through what Buddhists call “The Ten Fetters.” The fetters are fundamental (mis)beliefs we hold about how the self and world exist. Most of us don’t even realize they are beliefs – we are unconsciously inside them, which causes us to suffer in all the usual human...
2024-12-0553 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodDiary of a Young Psychic with Neon DreamerToday we head off the rails and into the spiritual undergrowth, where the wild things are. Our guest is Diana Piruzevska, aka Neon Dreamer – psychic, medium, healer. Yup – all that! Not her choice - at least not at first…Skeptics might scoff at these intuitions, experiences, and capacities, but that doesn’t change the fact that they kept happening to Diana and have always happened to some of her older family members. After years of battling it, she’s come out the other side and embraced her witchy Macedonian heritage. Diana now shares her talents with others via her ra...
2024-11-191h 06
The Mind Bod Adventure PodMindfulness for Neurodivergent Teens with Tim HwangWelcome Tim Hwang, an occupational therapist in New York City's public school system. Tim’s specialty is teaching mindfulness to young people with “disabilities classifications” - Autism, ADHD, and so on. Some of these teens are into the practice, some are bored by it, and some are highly resistant to it. And that’s what we get into!Tim, Tasha, and Jeff all have experience teaching meditation to young people, so there’s much insight-sharing and general tomfoolery. Unsurprisingly, Tasha and Jeff revert to their rebellious teen selves when Tim starts guiding them in his GROW practice - an acron...
2024-10-3040 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodDeepening our Bond with Nature with Steven MartynThis episode is a transmission, no doubt about. Our guest wandered out of the Ontario forest and is here to challenge how we think about ourselves and meditation and nature and agriculture and the old crafts and a lot more. Welcome, Steven Martyn, founder of The Sacred Gardener School.While living alone in the bush - mediating, surviving - Steven came to understand meditation as a form of hunting for the origin of thoughts, looking for the “I within the I.” His relationship to nature changed. More intimate, more connected to nature’s gifts. He found the old wa...
2024-10-091h 02
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Autoimmune Feedback Loop with Eileen LairdWelcome Eileen Laird, author of Healing Mindset. This episode, we target autoimmune disease and the role that the mind-body connection can play in reducing pain, increasing resilience, and living a more vital life.There are over a hundred different autoimmune conditions — from rheumatoid arthritis to lupus to Grave’s disease to multiple sclerosis and more — one in ten people have an autoimmune condition worldwide. Stress makes the condition worse… fortunately, this also works in the other direction! In moments of overwhelm, we can learn to send an anti-inflammatory cascade back through the nervous system.And that’s w...
2024-09-2447 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Creativity of Practice with Toby SolaToby Sola is founder of the Brightmind Meditation app and an old friend of Jeff’s. In this episode, we chew on some tasty mini-meditation snacks – yum yum!We get all Jedi-mind and try splitting our attention between chatting and meditating. Finally, we explore an inventive and beautiful practice of nurturing our own sense of trustworthiness.All of these are ways of highlighting the basic creativity of meditation, how we can mix and match the core skills to build practices that work for us.We chat about so much more! Like:* What’s...
2024-09-1056 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodFinding Home in Our Skin with Kaira Jewel LingoWelcome Kaira Jewel Lingo, author of We Were Made for These Times and coauthor of Healing Our Way Home. Kyra shares her journey from a communal upbringing and monastic life with Thich Nhat Hanh, her work in nurturing community, and her exploration of racial identity in spiritual practice.Her gentle guided practice is beautiful and completely original. We notice the experience of our skin - its age, its protective and permeable nature, its colour, and its history. Afterwards, Tasha shares how profound this was for her, feeling her mixed white and Black heritage, which at times can...
2024-08-2747 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodContemplative CrossFit with Frank YangWelcome, Frank Yang – we love you! Frank is an “Infinite Brah” – a true bodybuilder of consciousness who shares his “journey, insights and practices for accessing the highest states of consciousness, awakening and beyond” to quote his fresh and wildly kinetic YouTube channel.So, there’s lots of talk about the experience (and health benefits!) of non-duality and awakening, whether it shows up in different ways for people in different cultures, the value and traps of using a map to find your way, the primordial mistake of separation (what Tasha’s teacher Lama Lena calls “the original oops”), and other excellent...
2024-08-0657 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThree Precious Pills with Tenzin Wangyal RinpocheThis week, we welcome Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, world-renowned meditation teacher, author, and lineage holder in the Bön tradition of Tibet, one of the oldest spiritual traditions on the planet. Today, we take three protective imaginary “pills” – a white pill, a red pill, and a blue pill. “Because in the West everybody loves to eat pills!”Each pill is both a syllable that we voice out loud and a mini-meditation that addresses a specific challenge. The white pill – “Ah” – is awareness of stillness in our body, which can protect us against unskilful physical action. The red pill – “Om” – is awareness of s...
2024-07-2339 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodZentangle! with Martha Huggins and Molly HollibaughOK friends, enough with the talky talky. Grab some paper and a pencil: in this episode, we’re waking up our inner artists and making Zentangle magic!Martha Huggins and Molly Hollinbough are our sister guides. Many years ago, their romantic parents – Maria and Rick – figured out the Zentangle method together. Ever since, they’ve been teaching it to people around the world as a way to slip into a fulfilling artistic flow and create beautiful works of pattern, shape, and color.Then we chat about:* how nothing is a mistake* the equa...
2024-07-0952 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodStory Unbound with Pádraig Ó TuamaPádraig Ó Tuama is a poet, theologian, and the host of The On Being Project's Poetry Unbound podcast. He is interested in story and storytelling, in the practice of reading ourselves into stories, and sometimes in reading our lives as stories. All of which can shake us us up in surprising ways.**If you like these adventures in consciousness, consider supporting our work with a paid subscription! at www.mindbodpod.com**In today’s episode, he reads from a sequence of poems he wrote called “Seven Deadly Songs” – sonic booms of verse that recreate some of the imp...
2024-06-2648 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodSelf-Compassion (& Hip Hop) for Young People with Ofosu Jones-QuarteyThis week, we welcome the multi-talented Ofosu Jones-Quartey, a meditation teacher, author, and hip-hop artist. This discussion is so fun! It starts with how to share meditation and mindfulness with young people – how to stay real and relatable. Then gets into the role of the artist, creativity, and what it means to connect to your actual voice.We do 2 practices: the first is a self-compassion practice that ends with Ofosu singing! And that leads to a second practice: an actual song - a beautiful (it made Jeff cry) hip-hop track called “Avalo” that features the voices of Ofosu’...
2024-06-1952 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodHow to Communicate with Mudita Nisker and Dan ClurmanWelcome Mudita Nisker and Dan Clurman, authors of Let's Talk, An Essential Guide to Skillful Communication. Mudita and Dan have been teaching people how to communicate effectively for over 40 years, so there is serious wisdom in this episode. As Mudita points out, changing how you communicate can change your entire way of perceiving and relating to others. It is a profound practice, and it’s one each of us is already involved in, so we may as well get better at it!With that in mind, the entire episode is really one long practice of communication, with Mu...
2024-06-1345 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodUsing Music to Shift Emotions with Jamie PabstWe’re joined by Jamie Pabst, founder and CEO of Spiritune, a music therapy app that supports people’s mental health. Spiritune makes explicit what most of us know implicitly: music can shift our emotional and cognitive state.What does “clinical-grade music” sound like? We listen to two 3-minute tracks, the first designed to move us from anxious to peaceful and the second from lethargic to victorious.Along the way, Jamie points out the different music therapy principles at work:* the “iso-principle” of meeting people where they are* rhythm and neural entrainment
2024-06-0433 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodA Playful Approach to Psychedelics with CardeaLast summer, we interviewed Ross Ellenhorn and Dimitri Mugianis, founders of Cardea, a psychedelic-assisted care organization based in NYC. This week, we’re finally posting that conversation! Made up of therapists, space holders, artists, and musicians, Cardea focuses on cultivating what they call “aliveness”: the sense that you are vital, fully engaged in your life, and connected to the world around you.Something we find refreshing about the Cardea crew is their playful approach to psychedelics. A lot of people are so serious about psychedelics lately, obsessing over how they might use them to “fix” what’s “wrong” with th...
2024-05-2944 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodPsychedelic Somatic Therapy with Saj RazviYou don’t want to miss this one! A deep dive into “the heart of healing,” as we explore how medicines like cannabis and ketamine can amplify trauma therapy. Our guest is Saj Razvi, Director of Education at the Psychedelic Somatic Institute, and one of the original MAPS researchers and clinicians responsible for bringing MDMA-assisted therapy into the world.According to Saj, there’s a self-corrective homeostatic healing mechanism available in the body that gets amplified during altered states. The key intervention he uses with clients is called “selective inhibition.” Normally, when stressed, we calm ourselves with coping strat...
2024-05-231h 11
The Mind Bod Adventure PodCrazy Wisdom with Lama Liz MonsonWelcome Lama Liz Monson, spiritual co-director of the Natural Dharma Fellowship, and author of a new book on “crazy wisdom,” Tales of a Mad Yogi. Contrary to its controversial reputation, crazy wisdom is more than a spiritual shock technique – of, say, covering oneself in feces (to use a classic example), or staggering drunkenly around the Tibetan countryside. It is, in fact, a powerful and time-tested way to cut through our habitual patterns and engage with how reality actually is, as opposed to how we want it to be.How do we practice this? By starting simple!Liz...
2024-05-1645 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Dark Imaginal with JF MartelWelcome JF Martel, filmmaker, writer, and cohost of the superb podcast, Weird Studies. Sometimes, we have a guest who really gets the spirit of what we’re up to here at the Mind Bod Pod… JF is one such guest. He full-on designed a practice for us based on his love of old-school, Dungeons-and-Dragons-style role-playing games… the kind that (in JF’s words) “usually happen in dank basements.”That’s right, in this week’s episode, JF is our Dungeon Master!**Watch this podcast and our fun-filled afterparty in VIDEO over at www.mindbodpod.com where you can co...
2024-05-0753 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodSassy Spirituality with Sah D'SimoneWelcome Sah D'Simone - a former “condescending spiritual c**t” (his words not ours!) who’s since grown into one of the best humans we’ve ever met. Sah is hilarious, fresh, wise and so loveable! You’ll feel all of that immediately, as we explore themes from his new book, Spiritually, We.**Watch this podcast and our fun-filled afterparty in VIDEO over at www.mindbodpod.com where you can comment and let us know how the practice landed for you!What themes you ask? Juicy goodies like:* What makes a great teacher* Und...
2024-04-3058 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodPsychoacoustics & Safety with Paula ScatoloniWelcome Paula Scatoloni, a wise somatic experiencing practitioner (she’s been doing this for 30 years!). Paula uses Stephen Porges’ “Safe and Sound Protocol” as a tool to soothe and heal our frazzled nervous systems. We start by exploring how sound can be healing—in particular, how to train our systems to move out of fight-and-flight and into safety-and-connection. The more our body finds this safety, the better able we are to access and process our trauma and attachment challenges. If you like these adventures in consciousness, consider supporting our work with a paid subscription!A...
2024-04-2552 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodAstrology & Participatory Magic with Caroline CaseyArch-Trickster Caroline Casey is our guest today, rapping on the subject of astrology and participatory magic. For Caroline, astrology - like all divination - is an outward expression of an inner state. We don’t need to know astrology, it’s in us. The practice here is to participate - to actively engage with Caroline’s wild flood of words and let the language of interrelatedness provoke insights, protests, and new possibilities.If you like these adventures in consciousness, consider supporting our work with a paid subscription at www.mindbodpod.comLove always,🧘🏽♀️ Tasha & Jeff 🧘🏼♂️...
2024-04-171h 04
The Mind Bod Adventure PodGlimpses into Freedom with Loch KellyWatch the video episode here: https://www.mindbodpod.com/p/loch-kelly-glimpses-into-freedom “The issue of suffering is a simple case of mistaken identity,” says our guest Loch Kelly. By this, he means the you that is thinking about you, is not the real you! Then who is it, you ask? His name is Percy, he lives on a riverboat, and makes a fine fish fillet. 😅 Just kidding! That’s not true at all.This episode – a delicious tongue-twister of the mind – really should be watched on video, since Loch’s gestures and body language are part of his teaching...
2024-04-0953 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodHarry Potter & The Sacred Text with Casper ter KuileThis week’s guest is Casper ter Kuile, author of the excellent The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Rituals into Soulful Practices. Casper is passionate about spreading the goodness of ritual. Ritual? Isn’t that a religious thing?! HELL NO! For Casper (“Gay atheist goes to divinity school!”) a ritual is anything we do with “intention, attention and repetition.” Our rituals are a basic human need, found in a great many surprising places, from CrossFit classes to Harry Potter books.If you like these adventures in consciousness, consider supporting our work with a paid subscription!In this...
2024-04-0248 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodConnected Roots with Tracee StanleyTracee is the rock solid – and radiant! – author of Radiant Rest and The Luminous Self, both syncretic works that combine yoga nidra, self-inquiry, ancestor and nature practices, and much more. Tracee is truly a gem!We jump right into a practice that starts with a fresh take on alternate nostril breathing and then flows into a beautifully supportive practice that connects to gratitude, community, and the larger community of nature.If you like these adventures in consciousness, consider supporting our work with a paid subscription at www.mindbodpod.comThanks for tuning in! See...
2024-03-2641 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodMultiplayer Meditation with Vince Fakhoury HornSome very inventive practice exploration today, friends! We’re joined by dharma teacher and Buddhist Geeks founder Vince Fakhoury Horn, who leads us in a smorgasbord of short “social” practices, all designed to tap into the goodness of meditation in a bouncy, fun and interactive way. We explore Kenneth Folk’s social noting, try out a microdose-sized practice of loving kindness, and finally, an imagination-rich social “MindCraft,” where we build a world together.If you like these adventures in consciousness, consider supporting our work with a paid subscription!Our wide-ranging conversation includes Vince’s experience o...
2024-03-2051 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodRisking Freedom with adrienne maree brownDo you love yourself and the world enough to risk making moves for other people’s freedom? For guest adrienne maree brown, any such movement has to be rooted in love. And that’s her practice: finding what and where we love, placing it deliberately in the centre of our lives, and then asking: what action wants to arise naturally from that? Not based on other people’s ideas of what’s right, but from our own natural capacities and passions and connections. “What would love have me do today? What would love have me risk today?” “What would love have me b...
2024-03-1235 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodCannabis and Meditation with Will JohnsonDISCLAIMER: we talk about smoking weed while meditating in this episode, and then we actually do it (its legal here in Canada) to see what it’s like. Our guide thinks there’s value in this practice, and so do we - FOR SOME PEOPLE. For others, particularly younger folks whose brains are not fully developed, cannabis can negatively affect mental health. It can also be addictive. As always, we are not endorsing; we’re exploring. You do not need to ingest marijuana in order to benefit from Will’s beautiful embodied meditation.If you like these ad...
2024-03-0648 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodHow to Relate to the News with Jay MichaelsonAlthough we recorded this interview back in September 2023, it could not be more timely. It is, in fact, about the times, about the news of the world as it comes in via our screen and newspapers, and whether there are practices that can support a more healthy relationship to that news. Our guest is Jay Michealson, writer of , who is both an excellent journalist (he appears regularly on CNN and other media outlets) and a fine meditation teacher and director of programming at New York Insight Meditation Centre.Jay guides a practice to first notice how we’re...
2024-02-2747 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Wheel of Consent with Betty MartinIn this episode of the Mind Bod Adventure Pod, we take a deep dive into the dynamics of giving, receiving, taking, and allowing with guest Betty Martin.Why does Jeff gush that Betty is the next Buddha? Because Jeff is overly-excitable! And because Betty’s Wheel of Consent is about much more than just sex and touch. It’s about how we’re human with each other. Her model of consent is now taught in dozens of communities around the world. Among other things, the practice teaches communication and boundaries, integrity and self-awareness, generosity and gratitude, vulnerability and co...
2024-02-2149 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Practice of Activism with Lama Rod OwensWhat do struggle and resistance look like as spiritual practices? What does it take to push for change in a violent and antagonistic world? Our guest in this week’s episode (which was recorded last summer) is Lama Rod Owens, in his words, “a fugitive” – disobedient and on the run in a culture where it’s not safe to be Black, not safe to be Queer, not safe to be an activist speaking truth to power. Sometimes, not even meditation spaces feel safe, especially where meditation is touted as a way to get comfortable and tune out the world...
2024-02-1351 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodIntuitive Knowing with Sebene SelassieThis episode is a rocket launcher for enabling all the weird ways you already half-know stuff, ie … intuition! The way we get into the subject is curious and open and “non-expert-y” – we hope it will create an opening for you to consider the possibilities of intuition in your own life. Via the gut, via empathy, via dreams – and via a bunch of other deliciously unsanctioned ways of knowing that certain guardians of scientific respectability can’t see, can’t handle, and also have no sense of humor about. KA-POW!Our guide in this rollicking convo is the delightful Seb...
2024-02-0647 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodLectio Divina with Nadia Bolz-WeberIn this episode, we chat with Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Lutheran pastor and public theologian celebrated (justly - excellent Christian word) for her edgy, honest, and sometimes hilarious approach to spirituality. The titles of her three bestselling memoirs say it well: Pastrix, Accidental Saints, and Shameless. Nadia also writes the popular Substack, The Corners – in fact, as you’ll learn at the end of the episode, Nadia is the one who convinced us to move our pod to Substack in the first place – thank you, Nadia!Nadia shares about her falling out with Christianity, and how she came back t...
2024-01-3045 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodSeason 2 is landing! Watch the Trailer 🧘🏽♀️👽🧘🏼♂️Hello Friends!Jeff Warren & Tasha Schumann here with some exciting news for 2024 and beyond! The Consciousness Explorers Podcast has evolved into … *drumroll* …🚀 The Mind Bod Adventure Pod! 🚀Starting January 30, we’re coming at you with new weekly practice episodes, amazing guests, and rampant tomfoolery. In your inbox (and on Substack) every Tuesday.Here’s what’s new:* The Pod is now in VIDEO!! Audio-only is still available on all podcast platforms, but if you wanna see us hang out in Tasha’s living room every week, come over to www.mindbodpod.com...
2024-01-2508 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Sensual Self with Ev'Yan WhitneyIn today’s episode (the Season 1 finale!) we get slow and personal with Ev’Yan Whitney, sexuality doula, podcast host, and author of Sensual Self. “Sensuality” often gets lumped in with sexuality… Ev’Yan wants to change that, to tease apart these two aspects of being human and demonstrate how everyone can connect with a more sensual version of themselves.Ev’Yan’s 19-minute practice is a tour of the senses. Take your time. The pacing of Ev’Yan’s guidance – the way she encourages us to pause and savor each sense – is pa...
2022-06-1650 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodDirect Pointing with Angelo DilulloOur guest today is Angelo DiLullo, a medical doctor and author of a fine book called Awake: It's Your Turn. Angelo points directly to the true nature of self / consciousness / or whatever you want to call this bizarre ululating mystery we all seem to be living inside. He probably wouldn’t even say he “teaches” this, since all he really does for his guided practice is describe his own experience of operating in a world without a sense of a panicked separate self running around going “I gotta get more stuff!” In fact, the whole conversation is a direct p...
2022-06-0956 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Body's Intelligence with Philip ShepherdIn today’s episode, we’re joined by author and embodiment expert Philip Shepherd. Philip is also an actor, and thus a wonderfully entertaining tour guide. He takes us into the body’s “grounded sensitivity” – really the perfect phrase for it, a place both of exquisite intelligence and dependable common sense. Under Philip’s careful guidance, we explore how to move past the mind’s imaginary constraints, softening and merging with the world around us. It’s an ambitious itinerary with many practical take-aways. Come feel reality beyond the head! To go straight to Philip’s grounded sensitivi...
2022-06-0255 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodUnconscious Bias with Rima DibToday we’re joined by Rima Dib, a good friend of Tasha and Jeff’s who also happens to be an expert in unconscious bias and anti-oppression education. Rima teaches workshops about difference – race, age, gender, sexual preference, ability – to people around the planet. She makes it fun. Is this possible? Yes, it turns out. We laughed our asses off. In Rima’s words, “If it gets too heavy, we’re gonna want to put it down. By keeping it light, we can carry it longer.”Fun doesn’t necessarily mean comfortable. Her acting and word association practices are very...
2022-05-2657 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodSpontaneous Thinking with Shinzen YoungMeet Shinzen Young, a long-time instructor of mindfulness, author of The Science of Enlightenment, and now co-director of the “Science Enhanced Mindful Awareness” or “SEMA” Lab at the University of Arizona. Shinzen is Jeff’s OG meditation teacher. He is both a scholar of comparative mysticism, and a highly creative designer of strange and beautiful (and practical) meditation techniques.In this episode, instead of trying to banish thoughts, we drop into a "global unfixated state," and allow creative images and words and associations to spontaneously unfold. Both Shinzen’s exposition and his guided practice are quite precise – so much so tha...
2022-05-1958 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodTarot and the Imagination with Tatianna MoralesToday we hang out with the incomparable Tatianna Morales – aka @tatiannatarot – a Brooklyn-born spiritualist, priestess, and Tarot diviner! Together, we plunge into the imagination, learning how the age-old tradition of reading Tarot cards can give us insight into our personalities and our life situations. It turns out we’re meeting Tatianna at the very moment her own relationship to Tarot is changing. And not only hers: there’s a revolution happening out in the culture – artists and enthusiasts are creating their own tarot decks, imagining new archetypes to better reflect the realities of 21st century life. As we discuss...
2022-05-1252 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodEffortless Meditation with Peter RussellToday’s episode: Peter Russell. Peter started out as a theoretical physicist, a student of Stephen Hawking’s, until sometime in the early 70s he made his way to India and had his brain blown open. He became one of the West’s early proponents of meditation, and in the 80s wrote several seminal books on consciousness and technology. He’s had a big influence on the culture of meditation in general and on Jeff in particular – Jeff tells the story of meeting Peter in San Francisco back in 2008 and afterwards getting “let go” tattooed on his forearm.Appropriat...
2022-04-2853 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Feldenkrais Method with Donna RayMeet psychotherapist and Feldenkrais teacher Donna Ray. In this episode, she makes us move! Ok, more like she makes us sit in chairs and roll our eyes and turn our heads a bit and suddenly everything feels better. Welcome to the subtle art of micro-movement. Donna shows us how small physical adjustments in the way we hold ourselves can change both our experience and our body’s overall functioning. She’s a true adept – Donna has been teaching this method for over 40 years, ever since Moshe Feldenkrais first brought his system to North America.Like much of what w...
2022-04-2145 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodAddiction & Self-Compassion with Valerie Mason-JohnToday we’re joined by the UK-based Valerie Mason-John, also known as Vimalasara, a leader in the field of mindfulness for addiction and trauma.This episode is about the ways we get disconnected from our bodies and our lives, and the role self-compassion can play in bringing us home. We explore this in the context of our addictions – even addictions we don’t realize are addictions, like, in Vimalasara’s words, “stinking thinking” and technology. And we explore it in the context of contemporary challenges like coronavirus, and the institutional racism and violence directed to Black bodies. For...
2022-04-1452 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodTechnology-Enhanced Meditation with Dr. Baron ShortToday we’re joined by Dr Baron Short, an Interventional Psychiatrist at the Medical University of South Carolina, and co-founder of Zendo, an electronic device that purports to enhance both the experience and the long-term benefits of meditation.How might a direct current of electricity to the brain affect our meditation? This is not a hypothetical question. All three of us – two hosts and one guide – wire up, select the highest possible setting, and ride out the hum. Tasha and Baron go to Bliss-land. Jeff goes... somewhere else!Baron’s guidance is lovely and supportive and usef...
2022-04-0758 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodHypnosis with Dr. David SpiegelToday we’re joined by Stanford psychiatry professor Dr. David Spiegel, an expert in the clinical use of hypnosis. David is co-author, along with his late father Herbert Spiegel, of Trance and Treatment, a classic work on hypnosis published by the American Psychiatric Association. And therein lies a story … almost 20 years ago, Jeff interviewed David’s 92-year old father Herbert Spiegel. Not just interviewed – Dr Spiegel managed to hypnotize Jeff, demonstrating to him first-hand the strange persuasive power of this mind-body intervention. Now listeners can get their own taste. David’s first practice is a guided hypnosis session –...
2022-03-3149 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodBreath as Medicine with Therese JornlinToday we’re joined by Jeff’s good friend Therese Jornlin, teacher of meditation, yoga, and qi gong. Much happens in this episode! Therese re-introduces us to our breath as both medicine and guide. We learn how the specific way each of us breathes reflects our particular mental patterns and habits. The breath can show us where we’re stuck, and it can show us how to find a way through. This is really an exploration of the wisdom of cycles: the inhale and the exhale, the up and the down, even life and death. We learn how The...
2022-03-2458 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodConnecting to the Land with Warren HooleyIf you live in the US or Canada, you may have noticed a movement to acknowledge local indigenous groups who've historically lived in a particular territory. For example, Tasha and I live in Toronto, Ontario, which is also where our nonprofit meditation community group – The Consciousness Explorers Club or "CEC" – operates. These days, at the beginning of every CEC retreats and meditation sits, even our virtual events, we say some version of "The CEC operates on the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit, and is covered by Treaty 13." We say this as a way...
2022-03-1755 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Wakeful Body with Lama WillaMeet meditation teacher Willa Blythe Baker. Willa is an authorized Lama in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and author of our new favorite book: The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom.She guides us in a practice called GROUND – an acronym that describes progressively more subtle and expansive "layers" of somatic experience. We drop from the physical body, to the subtle body, and finally into the causal or nondual “body” of awareness itself. For Willa, the whole process is about “waking down” – in her words, “metabolizing, not transcending.” We also explore how to work with...
2022-03-1051 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodRadiant Rest with Tracee StanleyToday our explorer-in-residence is Tracee Stanley, a longtime student and teacher of Yoga and Tantra, and author of Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity. We’ve explored rest before on this pod, but not quite like this! When we sit and attempt to let go, what gets in the way? What messages about safety and worthiness are hiding in our nervous system?For Tracee, rest is about sanity, empowerment, and resistance. Resistance to our own self judgements and the pressures of dominant culture. We talk about all of this from a place of re...
2022-03-0353 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodA Psychedelic Sangha with Erik DavisToday we meet Erik Davis, award-winning journalist and author, most recently, of High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies.Erik guides us in an imagination-based open awareness practice that for him is about cultivating a very specific kind of watchful attention. This turns out to be the perfect setup to discuss one of Erik’s specialities: the defiantly unclassifiable weirdness of psychedelic experience.We explore the ins and outs of the current psychedelic revival, the heretical nature of psychedelics as “practice,” even the possibility of the Buddha himself being a psychonaut. Can we sca...
2022-02-241h 02
10% Happier with Dan HarrisThere's No Part of Your Life You Can't Make More Awesome | Jeff WarrenIt is very easy to think about your meditation practice as being quarantined to those minutes when you're dutifully sitting down with your eyes closed. But actually the point is to turn your whole life into a practice. Our guest Jeff Warren has a very broad, capacious understanding of the concept of practice. There's formal meditation practice, but also: movement practice, work practice, relationship practice, sleep practice, art practice, and more. It's really about the goal, which few of us will ever fully attain, of turning everything you do into something intentional and illuminating. ...
2022-02-2359 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodLove and Rage with Lama RodToday’s episode we’re joined by Buddhist minister and social activist Lama Rod Owens, author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger. Our subject is anger, something Lama Rod once had to suppress in order to survive as “a Black queer body in America.” He writes: “My fear of death and policing has translated into a self-policing of my anger, to such an extent that if it weren’t for my meditation practice, I wouldn’t know how to find my anger.”How do we work with the energies of anger in this intense cultural...
2022-02-171h 00
The Mind Bod Adventure PodFreeing the Voice with Debora JoyIn today’s episode we’re joined by the delightful voice coach and kundalini teacher Debora Joy. Debora guides us through an array of voice exercises, all of them meant to free us from the shackles of bodily restriction. We learn how the way we speak reflects our conditioning, and how opening up our voice can change who we are.This episode is much more interactive than usual, almost all of it a practice. We left this one feeling exhilarated, full of energy and – yes – joy.If you want to go straight to her first meditati...
2022-02-101h 07
The Mind Bod Adventure PodWake Up to Sleep with Charlie MorleyToday’s episode is an energetic dive into the healing potential of the nighttime mind with Charlie Morley. Charlie is the author of several much-loved books on lucid dreaming, including his newest: Wake Up to Sleep: 5 Practices to Transform Trauma and Stress for Peaceful Sleep. Charlie guides us in two practices: a powerful protection practice inspired by the Bön tradition of Dream Yoga, and a simple Yoga Nidra practice, meant to help reset the nervous system. Both help create a safe and supporting space for overcoming insomnia and getting a good night’s rest. We also explor...
2022-02-0359 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodLoving Kindness with Sharon SalzbergToday we’re joined by Sharon Salzberg, one of the pioneers of Western Buddhism. She’s the author of a new book: Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World.This episode is all about what’s possible when we bring a little (or a lot) more love into our lives. We explore her take on loving kindness, and learn in real-time how loving kindness can be an antidote to fear. We explore how the practice both synchronizes and conflicts with activism, and how to avoid the "Disney-ification" of loving kindness, among many other topics.To...
2022-01-2745 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Deep Heart with John PrendergastIn today’s episode: psychotherapist and meditation teacher John Prendergast.John is the author of The Deep Heart: Our Portal to Presence, a book that explores “the convergence of psychological healing and spiritual awakening.” For John, this happens most clearly and powerfully in the depths of the heart. How do we sensitize ourselves to this subtle space? This is our guide's expertise. John shows us how to rest in the heart as a way to appreciate and embody a different way of knowing and relating. We ask our hearts about our core limiting beliefs, and what it might m...
2022-01-2059 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodThe Four Elements with Sebene SelassieToday’s episode: Sebene Selassie.Sebene is a meditation teacher, integral coach, Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy (IFOT) practitioner and author of You Belong: A Call for Connection. She’s also one of the most popular teachers on the Ten Percent Happier meditation app.Sebene guides us through the four elements of earth, fire, water, and air. This practice is both powerful and practical. Sebene shows us how to harness the elements to balance our minds and bodies, and how the elements help us understand different aspects of who we are and how we connect to the...
2022-01-1339 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodLiminal Dreaming with Jennifer DumpertMeet Jennifer Dumpert. Jennifer is a San Francisco-based dreamer and lecturer, author of Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edge of Sleep. And the edge of sleep is where we go today! We drop like stones into the weird space between dreams and ordinary waking consciousness, and then attempt to recombobulate afterwards into coherent human beings.We find out what liminal dreaming is, why it’s such a good practice, and how it can be used to great effect at the opera and with the in-laws. We also get a taste of Jennifer’s boundary-mixing pers...
2022-01-1353 min
The Mind Bod Adventure PodPodcast TrailerWelcome to our trailer, where we venture into what this pod's about, how it came to be, and most importantly, how to nerd out at a rave...The Consciousness Explorers Podcast (CEP) is an experiential sandbox for mind and body hosted by Tasha Schumann and Jeff Warren. Each episode is a real-time adventure, where a different guide takes us through a short meditation or personal growth practice. (That means you’re coming too!)Don't forget to hit subscribe and if you want to be notified for each new episode then sign up to ou...
2022-01-0507 min