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slow insidehow to come home to yourself: a conversation with elena browersuch a tender, gorgeous conversation with elena. in her words and in her pauses, you feel the power of presence. you feel how different the world can be, how different the world is, when we arrive here. in this moment. this life.elena brower is a mother, mentor, poet, artist, volunteer, bestselling author, and host of the Practice You podcast. she’s been teaching asana since 1999, practicing Zen meditation since 2020, and received the Buddhist Precepts from Roshi Joan Halifax at Upaya Zen Center in 2023. now a candidate for Buddhist chaplaincy, elena offers her time in hospice and pen...2025-08-011h 11
slow insideEmbracing Deep Rest with Tracee Stanley: A Journey to Reconnect with the Sacredauthor of radiant rest and the luminous self and yoga nidra teacher, tracee stanley, explores the profound significance of deep rest and its transformative power on our lives, the differences between sleep and intentional rest, the importance of creating a sanctuary for ourselves, the modern struggles of perpetual exhaustion, the hurdles to genuine relaxation, and how rest can reconnect us with our inner wisdom, support healing, and empower us to show up more fully in our lives. this conversation will change your perception of rest and show how essential rest is not just to nourishing our body but to...2025-07-041h 05slow insidedivine love with srimati, aka julie piattsrimati is one of my heroines and i do not use that word lightly. i look to her often as a model of how to live a courageous, honest, spirit-led life. it was a tremendous honor to have this conversation with her.srimati “has spent decades seeking the divine in all of her life experiences. living from a deep place of devotion, srimati is a living spiritual guide devoted to reminding others of their spiritual nature so that they too can experience the full presence of their existence.”srimati is the author of the best-selling cook...2023-06-151h 07slow insidecreating intimacy with allana pratti first met allana pratt over 13 years ago when i interviewed her for a summit i was hosting on pleasure and sensuality. i loved her candor, kindness and deep devotion to her work.allana is an intimacy expert, the podcast host of intimate conversations, and author of six books. she has interviewed whoopi goldberg and alanis morrisette, coached leeza gibbons on dancing with the stars and been featured on huffington post, people magazine, forbes, CBS, ABC, FOX, TLC, iHeartRadio, the GoodMenProject and more.“for the past 20 yrs, allana’s brave willingness to heal her own hear...2023-05-181h 09slow insideawakening the feminine with rachel rossittoi don’t know how i found rachel rossitto but a handful of words on her website changed the way i understood myself in this world.i had to know more.rachel is a teacher, guide, mystic, and fairy of rose medicine. having devoted the last 16 years of her life to “studying temple arts, earth-based feminine wisdom, eastern spiritual philosophy and practice, plant medicine, energy healing, the way of tea, women’s holistic health and masculine and feminine healing and integration,” rachel has cultivated a deep practice of alchemizing pain into beauty and igniting women’s wisdom...2023-04-201h 06
The Grief Glimmers podcast#151 Making honest art with Daphne CohnHey friends, happy belated full moon! I hope this new episode finds you well, safe and warm. I interviewed the wonderful, generous and wise Daphne Cohn earlier this year and loved listening back to our conversation just now. Daphne weaves community, lives in such devotion to creative practice and has a lot to say about being in the world. Here is some of what we talked about:
Exploring what it is to live a life devoted to creativity
Deepening through daily practice
Being in the world while staying connected to ourselves and our spirit
Taking stock after the last...2022-10-1050 min
Spirit Says HelloSpirit Says Hello Episode 4 - Spacious Conversation with Daphne CohnIt's Episode 4 of Spirit Says Hello, and it's not just Heide talking away this time!
So, without further ado, heeeeeeeerrrrrreeeeeee's Daphne!!
In this beautiful episode, Heide chats about beauty and the experience of sinking into the fullness of self with the incredibly magical Daphne Cohn.
To know Daphne is a gift. She has taught me so much about being fully myself and connecting with others from a space inside my heart.
If you're interested in intelligent conversations, thoughtful questions, and feeling deeply moved (and maybe tears welling up in your eyes), Da...2022-07-1749 minslow insidenadia bolz-weber on grace, leadership and the messiness of being humannadia is the author of three new york times bestselling memoirs, pastrix:the cranky, beautiful faith of a sinner and saint; accidental saints: finding god in all the wrong people, and more recently shameless: a sexual reformation. she is an ordained lutheran pastor and the founder of house for all sinners and saints in denver, colorado, a quirky congregation she served for over 10 years.nadia travels domestically and internationally as a speaker and has been featured on NPR’s morning edition, on being with krista tippett, fresh air, CNN and in the washington post, bitch magazine, th...2022-06-101h 25slow insidedaje james on essence liberation and creative couragewhen i think of daje, i think of power. wide-eyed, full-bodied power. the kind of power born of tension and tightness, emergence and transcendence. power that roots in the earth and spreads, like tendrils, through their poetry, song and space holding.daje is “a storyteller, flower essence practitioner, and space-holder for wild-hearted leaders and creative entrepreneurs. she supports creatives in coming home to their true nature and self-initiating themselves into dharmic creative flow while boldly sharing their medicine with the world.”daje is the founder of “brave school: an institute of dreaming,” creator of “wildboy apothecary...2022-05-271h 15slow insidesolocast: the stories that make up my songin this episode i share my stories: the stories that make up my song. stories that defy logic, go beyond rational thinking, and yet were the exact experiences i needed to understand my place on this earth and my work in this world. this is my most personal solocast. i hope you enjoy it. you can listen to all past episodes with beautiful, amazing folks like lisa congdon, valarie kaur, david whyte, rob bell, michael franti, laura horn, and many more at daphnecohn.com
2022-05-2029 minslow insidepoet mandy kahn on the world-altering power of the peace mindin some way i am changed by every interview but then there are the ones that uproot my knowing and shift the soil below me. this is one of those interviews.mandy is a poet, peace advocate and public speaker. her list of accolades and accomplishments is long. in brief (but hardly complete), mandy is the author of two collections of poetry, glenn gould’s chair and math, heaven, time, writer-in-residence at the philosophical research society, subject of a feature-length documentary, “peace piece: the immersive poems of mandy kahn,” and recipient of the 2018 shakespeare prize in poetry–other rec...2022-05-131h 26slow insidesolocast: the courage it takes to be truein this episode i talk about the hardest thing when crafting your own life, singing your own song: fear. as elizabeth gilbert says, "creativity is a path for the brave, but it is not a path for the fearless. bravery means doing something scary." i talk about the fear i live with every daythe truth of this journeyhow to let your life speakthe terror, and freedom, in being vulnerable andstaying close to the way we are madeyou can listen to previous episodes with amazing artists and makers at daphnecohn.com
2022-05-0721 minslow insideanna lovind on telling the truth, the vulnerability backlash, and doing what's rightanna is an edge walker. dancing with the wild. beckoning towards the unknown. digging into the unchartered to open eyes, shift sands, and create new. she is as wise as she is brave, as honest as she is strong. anna is a writer, creativity teacher and mother. she is the author of “the creative doer” and the founder of the creative doer community and ignite.anna writes “about writing, feminism, learning to say (holy) yes and (fuck) no, sisterhood, motherhood, and her quest to re-define the creative path.anna is a gift of a human and it...2022-04-291h 08slow insidesolocast: creating a life that is yoursin this episode i explore one of the most powerful questions i know: how do you use your creativity to craft a life that is yours? i talk about moving from domesticated adult to wild animal, going beyond your personal belief system, learning the language of your body, how to use your body as a tracking system to bring you home and specific strategies for singing your own song. you can listen to previous episodes with amazing artists and makers at daphnecohn.com
2022-04-2221 min
Atelier-Talk#46 Daphne Cohn and the Art of AskingA conversation on the power, freedom and beauty of questions.Daphne Cohn had inspired thousands of people all over the world with her podcast „Beyond“. It is her own art that makes the interviews in her podcast so special: her wonderful way of asking questions. In this episode she talks about her own creative path, how difficult it was to accept her art, how she hones her craft as well as how her art has influenced her and her life. A conversation on the power, freedom and beauty of questions..Daphne:2022-03-111h 05slow insideandrea scher: wonder seekerandrea is a wonder seeker.she looks for it in the easy moments – a kiss, friends gathered together, traveling to other countries. and she looks for it in the hard moments – beset by anxiety, in the midst of divorce, struggling to stay afloat.we talk about this – about turning towards the hard, making space for the all of it, in order to give wonder the breath and space to arise.wonder is a habit, a skill, just like eating well, exercising, meditation or any other tool you use to stay sane and find your e...2021-12-041h 11slow insidemariana mae: the story we are here to tell on earthin the middle of my conversation with mariana, i broke down crying. i had to stop talking to gather myself, to find words again. it was, in part, in response to mariana’s words. but it was also in response to mariana herself.mariana mae is an artist, visionary, founder of easy to breathe, unearth, and origen raíz, an “organization in alliance with Indigenous Nations of Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala, committed to amplifying the voice of cultural education, preservation and exchange.”mariana has been working with clay since she was six and teaching pottery since 2...2021-10-201h 11slow insidejulia cameron on the listening pathjulia cameron has been changing lives all over the world since the artist’s way first came out in 1992. millions of people write morning pages and take artist dates - two of julia’s most well-known tools for finding your creativity and living out your truth. since then julia has gone on to author more than forty books, plays and works of poetry. she is commonly referred to as "the godmother" or "high priestess" of creativity. the artist's way has been translated into forty languages and sold over five million copies to date. in today’s conversation, julia and I explor...2021-01-1148 minslow insidedavid whyte: the art of being humanlistening to david whyte reminds me of something I had long ago forgotten. his words, written and spoken, feel like a homecoming. there is permission within them to lose oneself in the questions and the listening. to simply arrive at what is here, waiting for me. for us.david calls this “the empty space beneath the breath where everything real emerges.”david is a poet and a philosopher. he is the author of nine books of poetry and four books of prose, including his two most recent books, the bell and the blackbird and consolations: the...2020-06-2956 minslow insidebelonging, creativity and a pathway home with toko-pa turnerthere are those souls that are both soft and strong, wise and wide open. toko-pa is one of those souls.when toko-pa was just 15 she ran away from a violent, destructive home life and found herself having to navigate “the system.” the next decade was a hard one as she figured out, on her own, how to become an adult in a complicated, often uncaring world. this was the beginning of her search for belonging.this search has led her down many creative, beautiful paths and today she is the founder of dreamschool: weaving a livi...2020-05-111h 35slow insidethe path to greatness: episode 4 of "who we might become" with jesh de roxin this episode of the ten-part series, "who we might become," joy researcher, jesh de rox, explains what is joy, why it’s so important to creativity, and how to connect to ithow to respond to sadness and pain with a creative spiritthe path to greatnessand how we let go of what doesn’t serve us anymore in order to make what doesyou can learn more about jesh and download the remaining seven episodes of this series over at daphnecohn.comyou can check out "within studio": a community with hands-on art workshops, live q & a...2020-04-1339 minslow insideepisode 2: who we might become with jesh de roxjoin joy researcher, jesh de rox, and I for part 2 of our ten-part mini-series “who we might become.” in this episode we explore how to see differently, create your own language and change the culture with your creativity. some things we talk about: the seed of all creativitythe three stages of the creative processthe gift of enough and not enoughwhat it takes to become an artist who will actually produce change in the larger culturewhy joy matters so muchand how to start breaking the rules and creating something new.you can learn more about jesh and previous podca...2020-03-231h 05slow insideusing art to create a sustainable planet for all with elaine su-huiwith the world falling into chaos, it always lightens my heart to find artists and women like elaine. elaine is a rebel of the highest cause: rising up against the worst parts of a capitalist economy to bring about a more sustainable, peaceful life for all.elaine’s studio, inner fields, is founded on the principles of deep ecology and buddhism. inner fields has two key wings: on one side are elaine’s prints, pigment drawings and works on paper; on the other side are her hosted listening and drawing communal events.in all that she do...2019-12-0253 min