Episodes
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This week, weāre 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 otherās nervous systems.
We explore:
* What Focusing actually is (and isnāt)
* How to feel into whatās ānot fully formed yetā
* The role of safety and vulnerability in a therapeutic or relational container
* Why this is a two-way street: the listener is as active as the talker
* How to turn everyday conversations into profound practices of connection
We also talk about what it means to be in right relationship: with yourself, with others, and with the felt sense of a moment thatās still unfolding.
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* Learn more about Serge and his work
* Check out the Active Pause Podcast
* Explore the Proactive Twelve Steps
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This oneās relational, tender, and surprisingly intimate. Drop in and tell us what moved in you:
Thanks for tuning in. Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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This 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)āa deceptively simple practice where tapping acupressure points while speaking truth can open up big shifts in the body, mind, and heart.
Itās 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 gives stored emotion somewhere to go
* Ancestral trauma (your body might be carrying Grandmaās fears!)
* What happens when you stop bracing and start releasing
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Also: find out why EFT works so well with kids, how it can be used in war zones and post-shooting trauma support, and why tapping might be the pre-meditation dimmer switch you didnāt know you needed.
šÆ Practice highlight: Miriam guides us through a powerful tapping sequence that opens into inner child healing. The result is some surprising nervous system release in real time (spoiler: Tashaās jaw melts, Jeff yawns like a lion).
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This oneās playful, poignant, and weirdly effective. Tap along with us and let us know how it lands in your nervous system!
Thanks for tuning in. Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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This 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 ā and for offering a way of working with our minds thatās healing, joyful, and radically humane.
In this episode, we explore:
* Why the āpathology modelā 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 breathing)
* Reclaiming movement, joy, and the right to stim without shame
* An unexpected practice that ends in synchronized swaying and yodel-singing!
Joel brings brilliance, humor, and zero tolerance for the rigid norms that ask neurodivergent folks to contort themselves into āacceptableā versions of humanity.
Along the way, Tasha reflects on late-diagnosed spectrum-y traits, Jeff gets real about rejection sensitivity, and we all momentarily dissolve into giggles about somatic intelligence andā¦ mosh pits.
āØThis episode is both a call to arms and a warm hug ā a guide to seeing difference not as deficit, but as creative, embodied, meaningful expression.
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Connect with Joelās Practice: Total Spectrum Counseling
Now itās your turn! Let us know what this episode and practice shook loose for you:
Thatās all for this week. Thanks for tuning in.
Love always,
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This 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 relationshipā¦ and how Tasha tries not to ghost people who annoy her. š
Together, we explore:
* The four core skills of relating well
* why being ārightā isnāt the same as being relational
* Why saying āI agreeā can be the most disorienting move in a conversation
* What it really means to take responsibilityāwithout shame, and without blame
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And we wrestle with the tension between compassion and boundaries, support and self-abandonment, and the paradox of allowing versus control in both meditation and relationships.
āØ āIntegrity has a cost,ā James-Olivia reminds us. āBut so does losing it.ā
Whether youāre conflict-avoidant, righteousness-prone, or deeply tired of your own relational fuckeryāthis episode offers a compassionate (and funny) mirror.
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The Afterparty (watch at www.mindbodpod.com)
Jeff breaks and Tasha explores why setting boundaries and advocating for oneself can be both challenging and powerful.
Let us know in the comments what this episode shook loose for you.
K, Thatās all for this week. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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What if happiness wasnāt 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 depressionāonly to realize heād been asking the wrong question. Instead of curing sadness, he discovered the source code for happinessāa 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 canāt be erasedābut happiness can be cultivated
* The six neurotransmitters behind different flavors of happiness (itās not just dopamine!)
* How to ātrainā yourself for more joy, resilience, and long-term well-being
* Why laughter, nature, music, and even bass drops all play a role in happiness
* How our best memories act as anchorsāand why taking photos might actually make us happier
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We also dive into Matter, Axelās innovative app that helps reinforce positive neural pathways by engaging with your own peak memoriesāthose moments that spark deep joy, connection, and meaning. Itās a fascinating look at how we can actively shape our emotional landscape for greater balance and well-being.
This episode is part neuroscience, part meditation, and part mind-expanding happiness experimentāso get ready to light up your brain in real time.
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LINKS
* Learn more at: Matter.xyz
* Download the Matter app: matter.xyz/app
Whatās your most happiness-inducing memory? Let us know in the comments!
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The Afterparty
The Pod is about to get way weirderā¦ weāre turning these Afterparty sessions into full bi-weekly episodes! Weāll talk, unpack, guide short practices, sing, danceāwho knows what elseāall in the spirit of bringing you deeper into our weird worlds as practitioners, teachers, and friends. Coming in APRIL! š
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K, Thatās all for this week. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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What if the secret sauce to navigating the world isnāt hustling harder, fixing yourself, or achieving inner peace like itās an item on your to-do listābut 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 lifeās chaos with more presenceāand fewer panic spirals:
* Why patience and courage might actually be magic powers
* The giant, thorny questionāshould we even have kids?? (Yup, we go there)
* Why the āI donāt have time for practiceā excuse is a lie (and what to do instead)
* How self-care, spirituality, and social action are actually the same weird beast
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This episode isnāt about adding more stuff to doāitās about seeing that your life, exactly as it is, is already the practice.
Oren has a way of making wisdom feel like a quiet āof course!ā you forgot you knewāthe kind that lands gently, like a deep breath or a long walk in the park.
Let us know in the comments what thoughts, feels & practice revelations wiggled loose for you during this episode!
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The Afterparty
PSā¦ Big Afterparty Upgrade Incoming! š
The Pod is about to get way weirderā¦ Instead of just lil Afterparty snippets tacked onto episodes, weāre turning these sessions into full bi-weekly episodes.
That means just the two of us, showing up candidlyādiving into the questions, quandaries, and delightful existential messes arising in our own lives.
Weāll talk, unpack, guide short practices, sing, danceāwho knows what elseāall in the spirit of bringing you deeper into our weird worlds as practitioners, teachers, and friends. Coming very soon - Stay tuned! š
K, Thatās all for this week. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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In 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: theyāre different ways to get insight into ā and intuitive contact withā 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!
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Watch The Afterparty (available at www.mindbodpod.com):
In this here After Party, Tasha and Jeff talk about how they are in relationship with each other, cause itās fun to talk about friendship and our patterns and all that. Then they blab more generally about āmaps of consciousnessā like the Enneagram, the Zodiac, Tarot, Human Design and so on, whether they are objectively ātrue,ā or more like subjective psychological tools, or some mystical combo of all that.
Let us know what you think in the comments!
K, Thatās all for this week. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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This 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 ā or yagĆ©, as itās known in the Kamentsa indigenous community of Colombia, her root lineage.
We talk about the contemplative practice of yagƩ, 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 ā we experience how the deliberateness and care of ceremony takes us into the sacred present.
In Celinaās guided practice, we feel into the mystery of this and try to articulate the remembering that happensā¦ although, of course, no words can ever be adequate.
So friends, come experience it with us :)
The Afterparty (watch at mindbodpod.com)
Tasha and Jeff get personal about some of the benefits of exploring psychedelics over the long-term, but also some of the ways they can be destabilizing. No one needs to do psychedelics, but if you do, be responsible: Find an experienced community that understands how to hold a safe container, and ā¦. pace yourself!
We also get into a great discussion about how to think about teachers and communities of practice at a time when there are not enough deeply experienced teachers to go around.
Let us know in the comments how this practice was for you!
K, Thatās all for this week. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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Cara Lai is awesome. Thatās 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 āMeditate Your Face Off!ā (Jeff: Be still my heart.)
Our subject is the shitstorm happening on planet earth ā in the Middle East, the Ukraine, the US, and other hot spots ā and whether everyone should be speaking out. We recorded the episode back in May 2024; things are no less urgent today, seven months later. People have very strong opinions on these issues, and very strong opinions both about what should be said, and who should be saying it.
We talk about things like:
* How we can approach polarizing conversations
* What role anger and shame play in how we relate to each other
* How mindfulness and compassion might move us in a different direction
Caraās guided mindfulness practice comes late in the episode, at 34 minutes. Itās a compassionate inquiry into whatās happening for us ā in this moment ā that we feel we canāt bear. āItās hard to have a heart,ā she says. In learning to stay present with our own experience, we also learn to stay present with others, even those we disagree with. The episode ends with a conversation about belonging, trust, and sharing our unique gifts with the world.
Thank you Cara!
LINKS
* Caraās website: caralai.org
* Caraās Podcast: adventuresinmeditating.com
The Afterparty
Where Tasha and Jeff chat about global culture, neurodiversity, and the privilege of living in this time. What new creative responses to the worldās challenges are waiting to emerge? That, friends, is the true promise, which Jeff immediately degrades in the final two minutes, when he curses and asks for money and then gargle-chokes on some grapefruit LaCroix bubbly water. The whole denouement is exceedingly stupid and immature and should have been cut ā but! āwell, it made Tasha laugh very hard. And thatās what matters.
AND NOW: SOME EXCITING NEWS!
Weāre stoked to announce our first Mind Bod Adventure Squad Retreat. Itās an opportunity to get wild and embodied and very present with us.
Itās going down at the Omega Institute, June 8-13, 2025. We love our community and want to practice with you IN PERSON. Come explore!
REGISTER HERE
K, Thatās all for this week. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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In 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 cultureās bogus assumptions ā in her words, teens āare on fire with wanting to dismantle whatās not real.ā
We start with a beautiful breath practice that Caverly uses in high school classrooms. āDental-mental flossā: back and forth through the center, expanding and grounding.
From there, we discuss goodies like:
* the primacy of subjective experience* letting go of the need to find the āright wayā* shifting towards what works for your situation and what helps you suffer less* the role of lineages and teachers* the joys of many practices ā¦ and how none of them may even be going anywhere!
The Afterparty (Watch at www.mindbodbpod.com)
In this weekās party time, we wax excitedly about concerns that are close to our hearts, which is to say WEIRD SPIRITUAL S**T. We discuss whether there is a universal direction in the contemplative path, one true in all cultures (if so, what might that be?). We talk about how different practices are designed to address different problems or needs, and how these change from culture to culture, person to person, and even - within each person - week to week and moment to moment!
NB: thereās a lot of thumbs up emojis in thisā¦ Tashaās macbook was going berserk and apparently fervently agreeing with everythign we said šš Enjoy!
*The Afterparty will move behind the paywall in January! For real this time! Become a paid subscriber to continue being privy to these strange discussionsā¦
Let us know in the comments how these practices landed for you!
K, Thatās all for now. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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Well, this one is cool. It may change your meditation practice and ā if you stay with the inquiry ā your life. Youād hardly know how ambitious it is though, from our guest Kevin Schanilecās humble, deadpan delivery.
Kevin is a long-time Buddhist practitioner from Seattle who has formalized a process for seeing through what Buddhists call āThe Ten Fetters.ā The fetters are fundamental (mis)beliefs we hold about how the self and world exist. Most of us donāt even realize they are beliefs ā we are unconsciously inside them, which causes us to suffer in all the usual human ways.
Whatās wild is that we donāt have to live according to these beliefs. With practice and commitment, we can learn to let go of each one and experience a corresponding drop in suffering and an increase in fulfillment. And Kevin shows us howā¦
For the purposes of this episode, we focus on the 4th and 5th fetters: desire and ill will ā aka, our human compulsion to act on our various likes and dislikes. Kevinās guided practice tries to show us that in our present experience, there is actually no inevitable reason to react to anyone, or anything.
If we are quiet and open and curious, we can follow the chain of reactivity back, and find out, as weird as it may sound, that nothing in our direct experience actually kicked it all off. We donāt have to react to anything. For Kevin, this is a freedom worth cultivating. In his words, āwe get off that rollercoaster of extreme highs and extreme lows,ā and start to respond to life in a more sane, effective, and compassionate way.
We get into all this and so much more! Kevin has such a refreshing perspective on the normalcy of the whole self-realization process.
Jeff says: āI now do this practice all the time ā maybe more than any other Mind Bod Pod practice ā and it works for me, every time. I have less reactivity in my life in general, and I consider this practice central to that.ā
So give it a shot! You can also find other inquiries on Kevinās website.
LINKS:
* Kevinās site: simplytheseen.com* liberationunleashed.com
The Afterparty (go to www.mindbodpod.com to watch!)
In this Afterparty, Tasha and Jeff talk about how Kevinās logical style of spiritual inquiry can be a great fit for the Western mind. They also talk about how there are many other ways and paths. And then they talk about what it means to be your own teacher: How we need the traditions and experienced guides to go deeper, but ultimately we are the ones taking care of ourselves and directing our path.
Then, to quote the AI they asked to summarize this Afterparty, āTasha and Jeff conclude with a lighthearted reflection on the elusive and omnipresent nature of enlightenment.ā š
Let us know in the comments how the fetters practice landed for you!
K, Thatās all for now. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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Today we head off the rails and into the spiritual undergrowth, where the wild things are. Our guest is Diana Piruzevska, aka Neon Dreamer ā psychic, medium, healer. Yup ā all that! Not her choice - at least not at firstā¦
Skeptics might scoff at these intuitions, experiences, and capacities, but that doesnāt 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, sheās come out the other side and embraced her witchy Macedonian heritage. Diana now shares her talents with others via her radio show and her professional healing practice.
For her guided meditation, Diana takes us through a grounding and opening breath practice that she uses with clients before a session. Then, to demo what her psychic process is like, she does a reading for Tasha, sharing out loud what sheās noticing about Tashaās neat and orderly brain.
Diana talks about what it feels like to lock into a client, to get an embodied feeling for their experience. Sometimes itās very visual, other times more kinaesthetic ā she unpacks the whole creative thing for us, leading to a lively discussion on doing magic on creepy dudes, trauma and disembodiment, and how others can navigate the stormy waters between mental illness and spiritual insight.
Enjoy!
LINKS:
* neondreamer.com
* IG: @neonandroid
* Substack: Neon Dreamer
* Spiritual Emergence Network
The Afterparty
In this here AprĆØs le Part-AY, your hosts discuss why women and people of colour have higher incidences of empathy and intuition, how hyper-masculinity shuts the whole thing down, and then ā¦ a bunch about neurodiversity, since thatās their thing right now.
Let us know in the comments how your witchy psychic vibes are doing these days!
K, Thatās all for now. Thanks for tuning in & see you again in 2 weeks (weāre still doing biweekly episodes until life slows down a bit!)
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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Welcome Tim Hwang, an occupational therapist in New York City's public school system. Timās specialty is teaching mindfulness to young people with ādisabilities classificationsā - 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 thatās what we get into!
Tim, Tasha, and Jeff all have experience teaching meditation to young people, so thereās 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 acronym that means Ground, Relax, Open, Warm (the heart).
Good times! This episode is for anyone interested in supporting young people - whether youāre an educator, a parent, or a teen yourself.
We get into:
* emotional regulation
* customizing meditation for neurodiversity & ADHD
* how to use āfive-finger breathingā to calm down
* the role of community,
* and how teens can find their own unique pathways to practice.
Tim - thank you, friend! And to all teens: feel free to ignore everything we say and do it your own way š One-finger breathing!
Then join us for The Afterparty video! And let us know in the comments at www.mindbodpod.com how you liked the GROW practice!
K, Thatās all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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This 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 āI within the I.ā His relationship to nature changed. More intimate, more connected to natureās gifts. He found the old ways of agriculture, of grafting, of building ā all of them sacred practices. And now he teaches this in his forest mystery school.
For our first guided exercise, we go back to being little kids and receive blessings from our elders, our ancestors. āThereās so much animosity and stress out there these days, we need to take care of our little child,ā says Steven.
For the second exercise ā near the end of the episode ā we practice seeing the natural world in a way that may push us out of our idea of being a small, separate self.
We talk leadership, authority, hierarchy. Steven describes the power of the group at his school and how he helps participants move deeper into their relationship with nature.
Lots of good stuff ā maybe life-changing if you let it in!
Then join us for The Afterparty (at www.mindbodpod.com), where your hosts discuss the natural world and plunging nondual fuckery unto infinity. Then we talk about losing connection to the blissful interconnectivity of nature, talking to plants, Jeffās discarded book ideas, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Let us know in the comments how your bond with natureās going these days!
K, Thatās all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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Welcome 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 ā from rheumatoid arthritis to lupus to Graveās disease to multiple sclerosis and more ā one in ten people have an autoimmune condition worldwide. Stress makes the condition worseā¦ 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 thatās what we practice today! Eileen guides us in a soothing meditation of self-compassion, both working with pain and befriending the body.
In our discussion afterwards we explore:
* how to work with pain and find safe places in the body
* the relationship between sensitivity and autoimmune conditions
* how to notice early warning signals
* how Eileen supports herself via daily routines
* and much moreā¦
Take the practice for a spin and tell us in the comments how it went!
Eileen, thank you for writing your book and for supporting so many people through your incredible podcast.
LINKS:
* Healing Mindset Book
* The Phoenix Helix Podcast
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Toby Sola is founder of the Brightmind Meditation app and an old friend of Jeffās. In this episode, we chew on some tasty mini-meditation snacks ā 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:
* Whatās the minimum amount of meditation for stress relief vs more enduring transformation?
* How is one view of meditation and practice limiting?
* How do we work with cringe moments?
* And so on, and so forth, unto infinity!!!!
Take these practices for a spin in your own nervous system, then join us for the official Afterparty, and tell us how it went!
K, Thatās all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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Welcome 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 feel like a battlefield playing out on her own skin.
Our conversation afterward is frank and open: on race and ancestry, on how every person - regardless of skin color - has a role to play in healing the collective trauma of racism and colonialism. We talk about the larger āskinā of community - the role community has to play in offering support and safety, and yet also how hard that can be to find in a culture whose values so often separate and isolate. Is this changing? There are signs it may be. As Thich Nhat Hanh used to say, there is no more noble task than true community building.
Hopefully, this podcast can be a place of community for our listeners - a place where we can explore together the many different ways of being human.
Let us know in the comments how this practice was for you!
Then join us over at www.mindbodpod.com for our riveting afterparty!
Thatās all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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Welcome, Frank Yang ā we love you! Frank is an āInfinite Brahā ā a true bodybuilder of consciousness who shares his ājourney, insights and practices for accessing the highest states of consciousness, awakening and beyondā to quote his fresh and wildly kinetic YouTube channel.
So, thereās 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 Tashaās teacher Lama Lena calls āthe original oopsā), and other excellent topics for consciousness nerds.
Then, 30 minutes in, he takes us to Frank Yang Land ā a WONDERFUL and very impactful guided practice that merges mindful noting with surrendering to effortlessness. We hit the sweet spot between doing and non-doing.
Then, join us at www.mindbodpod.com for The Afterparty, where we discuss what percentage of our suffering has actually been reduced through practice. Is it 99%, like Frank says for himself, or some other number? How does this change with external intensities (like having kids)? Would the Buddha have gotten his ass kicked if he had to raise two kids in our 21st-century urban insanity? Probably!
Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
Thatās all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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This week, we welcome Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, world-renowned meditation teacher, author, and lineage holder in the Bƶn tradition of Tibet, one of the oldest spiritual traditions on the planet. Today, we take three protective imaginary āpillsā ā a white pill, a red pill, and a blue pill. āBecause in the West everybody loves to eat pills!ā
Each pill is both a syllable that we voice out loud and a mini-meditation that addresses a specific challenge. The white pill ā āAhā ā is awareness of stillness in our body, which can protect us against unskilful physical action. The red pill ā āOmā ā is awareness of silence, which can protect us against saying something stupid. And the blue pill ā āHungā ā is awareness of spaciousness in the heart, which can protect us from making decisions out of anger or urgency.
For eight ethereal minutes, Wangyal Rinpoche sings these three syllables to us again and again. You can let them wash through you as you sit with us or sing along.
āAhā¦ā
āOmā¦ā
āHungā¦ā
The audio isnāt perfect, but who cares?! Can you feel each vibration? Can you feel each blessing? Jeff cries, as usual. Itās an honor to experience such venerable medicine.
Let us know how the pills went to work on you and tune into the video afterparty over at www.mindbodpod.com
Thatās all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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OK friends, enough with the talky talky. Grab some paper and a pencil: in this episode, weāre waking up our inner artists and making Zentangle magic!
Martha Huggins and Molly Hollinbough are our sister guides. Many years ago, their romantic parents ā Maria and Rick ā figured out the Zentangle method together. Ever since, theyāve 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 equanimity training of going with the flow
* the balance of freedom vs constraints in art
* the therapeutic and healing benefits of ātangling,ā
* and much more
Share your Zentangly thoughts with us in the comments! Then watch The Afterparty over at www.mindbodpod.com
Thatās all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
š§š½āāļø Tasha & Jeff š§š¼āāļø
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