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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 relationship⌠and how Tasha tries not to ghost people who annoy her. đ
Together, we explore:
* The four core skills of relating well
* why being ârightâ isnât the same as being relational
* Why saying âI agreeâ can be the most disorienting move in a conversation
* What it really means to take responsibilityâwithout 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.
⨠âIntegrity has a cost,â James-Olivia reminds us. âBut so does losing it.â
Whether youâre conflict-avoidant, righteousness-prone, or deeply tired of your own relational fuckeryâthis 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, Thatâs all for this week. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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What if happiness wasnât 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 depressionâonly to realize heâd been asking the wrong question. Instead of curing sadness, he discovered the source code for happinessâa 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 canât be erasedâbut happiness can be cultivated
* The six neurotransmitters behind different flavors of happiness (itâs not just dopamine!)
* How to âtrainâ 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 anchorsâand why taking photos might actually make us happier
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We also dive into Matter, Axelâs innovative app that helps reinforce positive neural pathways by engaging with your own peak memoriesâthose moments that spark deep joy, connection, and meaning. Itâs 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 experimentâso 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
Whatâs your most happiness-inducing memory? Let us know in the comments!
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The Afterparty
The Pod is about to get way weirder⌠weâre turning these Afterparty sessions into full bi-weekly episodes! Weâll talk, unpack, guide short practices, sing, danceâwho knows what elseâall in the spirit of bringing you deeper into our weird worlds as practitioners, teachers, and friends. Coming in APRIL! đ
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K, Thatâs all for this week. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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What if the secret sauce to navigating the world isnât hustling harder, fixing yourself, or achieving inner peace like itâs an item on your to-do listâbut 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 lifeâs chaos with more presenceâand fewer panic spirals:
* Why patience and courage might actually be magic powers
* The giant, thorny questionâshould we even have kids?? (Yup, we go there)
* Why the âI donât have time for practiceâ 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 isnât about adding more stuff to doâitâs about seeing that your life, exactly as it is, is already the practice.
Oren has a way of making wisdom feel like a quiet âof course!â you forgot you knewâthe 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
PS⌠Big Afterparty Upgrade Incoming! đ
The Pod is about to get way weirder⌠Instead of just lil Afterparty snippets tacked onto episodes, weâre turning these sessions into full bi-weekly episodes.
That means just the two of us, showing up candidlyâdiving into the questions, quandaries, and delightful existential messes arising in our own lives.
Weâll talk, unpack, guide short practices, sing, danceâwho knows what elseâall in the spirit of bringing you deeper into our weird worlds as practitioners, teachers, and friends. Coming very soon - Stay tuned! đ
K, Thatâs all for this week. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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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: theyâre different ways to get insight into â and intuitive contact withâ 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 itâs fun to talk about friendship and our patterns and all that. Then they blab more generally about âmaps of consciousnessâ like the Enneagram, the Zodiac, Tarot, Human Design and so on, whether they are objectively âtrue,â or more like subjective psychological tools, or some mystical combo of all that.
Let us know what you think in the comments!
K, Thatâs all for this week. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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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 â or yagĂŠ, as itâs known in the Kamentsa indigenous community of Colombia, her root lineage.
We talk about the contemplative practice of yagĂŠ, 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 â we experience how the deliberateness and care of ceremony takes us into the sacred present.
In Celinaâs guided practice, we feel into the mystery of this and try to articulate the remembering that happens⌠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 âŚ. 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, Thatâs all for this week. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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Cara Lai is awesome. Thatâs 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 âMeditate Your Face Off!â (Jeff: Be still my heart.)
Our subject is the shitstorm happening on planet earth â in the Middle East, the Ukraine, the US, and other hot spots â 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
Caraâs guided mindfulness practice comes late in the episode, at 34 minutes. Itâs a compassionate inquiry into whatâs happening for us â in this moment â that we feel we canât bear. âItâs hard to have a heart,â 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
* Caraâs website: caralai.org
* Caraâs 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 worldâs 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 â but! âwell, it made Tasha laugh very hard. And thatâs what matters.
AND NOW: SOME EXCITING NEWS!
Weâre stoked to announce our first Mind Bod Adventure Squad Retreat. Itâs an opportunity to get wild and embodied and very present with us.
Itâs 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, Thatâs all for this week. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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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 cultureâs bogus assumptions â in her words, teens âare on fire with wanting to dismantle whatâs not real.â
We start with a beautiful breath practice that Caverly uses in high school classrooms. âDental-mental flossâ: 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 âright wayâ* shifting towards what works for your situation and what helps you suffer less* the role of lineages and teachers* the joys of many practices ⌠and how none of them may even be going anywhere!
The Afterparty (Watch at www.mindbodbpod.com)
In this weekâs 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: thereâs a lot of thumbs up emojis in this⌠Tashaâs macbook was going berserk and apparently fervently agreeing with everythign we said đđ 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 discussionsâŚ
Let us know in the comments how these practices landed for you!
K, Thatâs all for now. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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Well, this one is cool. It may change your meditation practice and â if you stay with the inquiry â your life. Youâd hardly know how ambitious it is though, from our guest Kevin Schanilecâs humble, deadpan delivery.
Kevin is a long-time Buddhist practitioner from Seattle who has formalized a process for seeing through what Buddhists call âThe Ten Fetters.â The fetters are fundamental (mis)beliefs we hold about how the self and world exist. Most of us donât even realize they are beliefs â we are unconsciously inside them, which causes us to suffer in all the usual human ways.
Whatâs wild is that we donât 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 howâŚ
For the purposes of this episode, we focus on the 4th and 5th fetters: desire and ill will â aka, our human compulsion to act on our various likes and dislikes. Kevinâs 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 donât have to react to anything. For Kevin, this is a freedom worth cultivating. In his words, âwe get off that rollercoaster of extreme highs and extreme lows,â 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: âI now do this practice all the time â maybe more than any other Mind Bod Pod practice â and it works for me, every time. I have less reactivity in my life in general, and I consider this practice central to that.â
So give it a shot! You can also find other inquiries on Kevinâs website.
LINKS:
* Kevinâs site: simplytheseen.com* liberationunleashed.com
The Afterparty (go to www.mindbodpod.com to watch!)
In this Afterparty, Tasha and Jeff talk about how Kevinâs 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, âTasha and Jeff conclude with a lighthearted reflection on the elusive and omnipresent nature of enlightenment.â đ
Let us know in the comments how the fetters practice landed for you!
K, Thatâs all for now. Thanks for tuning in!
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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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 â psychic, medium, healer. Yup â all that! Not her choice - at least not at firstâŚ
Skeptics might scoff at these intuitions, experiences, and capacities, but that doesnât 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, sheâs 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 sheâs noticing about Tashaâs 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 itâs very visual, other times more kinaesthetic â 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 Après 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 ⌠a bunch about neurodiversity, since thatâs their thing right now.
Let us know in the comments how your witchy psychic vibes are doing these days!
K, Thatâs all for now. Thanks for tuning in & see you again in 2 weeks (weâre still doing biweekly episodes until life slows down a bit!)
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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Welcome Tim Hwang, an occupational therapist in New York City's public school system. Timâs specialty is teaching mindfulness to young people with âdisabilities classificationsâ - 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 thatâs what we get into!
Tim, Tasha, and Jeff all have experience teaching meditation to young people, so thereâs 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 youâre an educator, a parent, or a teen yourself.
We get into:
* emotional regulation
* customizing meditation for neurodiversity & ADHD
* how to use âfive-finger breathingâ 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 đ 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, Thatâs all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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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 âI within the I.â His relationship to nature changed. More intimate, more connected to natureâs gifts. He found the old ways of agriculture, of grafting, of building â 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. âThereâs so much animosity and stress out there these days, we need to take care of our little child,â says Steven.
For the second exercise â near the end of the episode â 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 â 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, Jeffâs discarded book ideas, and Kurt Vonnegut.
Let us know in the comments how your bond with natureâs going these days!
K, Thatâs all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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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 â from rheumatoid arthritis to lupus to Graveâs disease to multiple sclerosis and more â 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 thatâs 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 moreâŚ
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 Jeffâs. In this episode, we chew on some tasty mini-meditation snacks â 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:
* Whatâs 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, Thatâs all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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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 âskinâ 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!
Thatâs all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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Welcome, Frank Yang â we love you! Frank is an âInfinite Brahâ â a true bodybuilder of consciousness who shares his âjourney, insights and practices for accessing the highest states of consciousness, awakening and beyondâ to quote his fresh and wildly kinetic YouTube channel.
So, thereâs 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 Tashaâs teacher Lama Lena calls âthe original oopsâ), and other excellent topics for consciousness nerds.
Then, 30 minutes in, he takes us to Frank Yang Land â 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!
Thatâs all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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This week, we welcome Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, world-renowned meditation teacher, author, and lineage holder in the BĂśn tradition of Tibet, one of the oldest spiritual traditions on the planet. Today, we take three protective imaginary âpillsâ â a white pill, a red pill, and a blue pill. âBecause in the West everybody loves to eat pills!â
Each pill is both a syllable that we voice out loud and a mini-meditation that addresses a specific challenge. The white pill â âAhâ â is awareness of stillness in our body, which can protect us against unskilful physical action. The red pill â âOmâ â is awareness of silence, which can protect us against saying something stupid. And the blue pill â âHungâ â 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.
âAhâŚâ
âOmâŚâ
âHungâŚâ
The audio isnât perfect, but who cares?! Can you feel each vibration? Can you feel each blessing? Jeff cries, as usual. Itâs 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
Thatâs all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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OK friends, enough with the talky talky. Grab some paper and a pencil: in this episode, weâre waking up our inner artists and making Zentangle magic!
Martha Huggins and Molly Hollinbough are our sister guides. Many years ago, their romantic parents â Maria and Rick â figured out the Zentangle method together. Ever since, theyâve 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 âtangling,â
* and much more
Share your Zentangly thoughts with us in the comments! Then watch The Afterparty over at www.mindbodpod.com
Thatâs all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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PĂĄdraig Ă 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.
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In todayâs episode, he reads from a sequence of poems he wrote called âSeven Deadly Songsâ â sonic booms of verse that recreate some of the impossibly hard things that happened to Ă Tuama growing up gay in Ireland.
Maybe we can feel ourselves into these poems too, feel the sounds of the words inside us, feel something â anger, sacrilege, indifference, recognition. We growl at God, because sometimes, in Ă Tuamaâs words âthe God character of our narrative needs to be undone in order for something new to open.â
We talk The Lord of the Rings, N.K. Jemisin and world-building, about Tashaâs deep childhood desire to be Batman, and Ă Tuamaâs deep childhood desire to be Wonder Woman!
What questions can we ask of our stories that will take us deeper into them?
Let us know in the comments!
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Then join us for the Afterparty video: In which Jeff says he feels dumb, and poetry is hard, and Tasha says reading a poem is like watching a gas cloud condense into a planet. We talk about the practice of finding yourself in the landscape of a story, and also of finding story in the landscape of your life. Then, we talk about prayer. Tasha recites a childhood prayer in German, and Jeff exclaims, âEzekiel comes through with $10,000!â đ
Thatâs all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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This 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 â 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 âAvaloâ that features the voices of Ofosuâs wife and daughter. Ofosu plays the full music video for us. Definitely worth checking out the whole video episode!
How do we make being kind to ourselves an accessible practice, while also acknowledging (in Ofosuâs own words) âhow stupid it can sometimes feelâ?! Good to figure this out, since weâre talking to ourselves all the time anyway.
Relatedly, how can you integrate meditation into your art practice without it coming off as corny or performative? We explore the challenges and rewards of being both a meditation teacher and an artist and how both Ofosu and Tasha negotiate these roles in public.
Then join us for the Afterparty over on www.Mindbodpod.com!
In this Afterparty your hosts, Tasha the Amazon and Jeff the Non-Amazonian, continue to discuss navigating being both an artist and a meditation practitioner. We talk high-brow/low-brow, spiritual materialism, and authentic artistic expression. Then we say these phrases, not in this order: âYou donât talk about Tantra - you do it!â âTake your demon and stick it in someone elseâs nut sack!â and âTank-top, nice shirt, put in the work!â
Thatâs all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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Welcome 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 itâs 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 Mudita and Dan reflecting back our own questions and habits. They skillfully unpack these key principles:
* how to give feedback
* loop communication and the art of becoming more aware of how we affect the other person
* how to avoid âfloodingâ other people, and instead âchunkâ your delivery
* the life-changing skill of reflective listening as a way to understand anotherâs perspective and foster connection
* positive intentions and the way this brings caring into the mix
* the importance of âprovisionality,â ie, using language that acknowledges the possibility of change
* the skill of framing and how to work with emotionally triggering subjects
* understanding whether to talk or listen in the first place!
Communication shapes how we get along with others, how we achieve our goals, and ultimately is core way to add more peace and compassion into the world.
Such a fun and bouncy conversation, like improvising with two jazz pianists.
Thank you Mudita and Dan!
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Then join us at www.mindbodpod.com for The Afterparty:
Communication is what we do, and itâs something many of us also do very poorly! In this Afterparty, we talk about the various unconscious crutches we use while hanging out with others and what it might look like to connect in a more open-ended way. We also riff on the way good conversation is a kind of agreement, a world we construct that we then get to play inside! This is very different than seeing language as a route to discovering what is objectively true.
*In an effort to sustain our antics and continue paying our producer Timmy, the Afterparty will move behind ye old paywallâŚsoon. Please join us if you can!
Thatâs all for now! Thanks for tuning in & see you next week.
Love always,
đ§đ˝ââď¸ Tasha & Jeff đ§đźââď¸
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