Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
Camille Barton: The Urgent Art of Grief Ritual
Life is a Festival #170
In a world beset by tragedy its important to learn how to grieve.
Tina Nance: Beyond the "Divine" Feminine
Life is a Festival #169
Tina Nance, yin yoga and embodiment specialist returns to Life is a Festival to share her evolving ideas around gender, trauma healing, and embodiment.
Lizz Larouge & Guinevere Rhonwen: Love's Many Colors
Life is a Festival #168
Guinevere Rhonwen & Lizz Larouge created the festival Colours of Love on the island d of Koh Phangan as their wedding celebration.
Julia Maryanska & Ian MacKenzie: From Polyagony to a Village of Lovers
Life is a Festival #166
The Village of Lovers helps us heal the wounds of gender and experience love free from fear.
Gillian Reid: Sexual Kung Fu (Yin)
Life is a Festival #165
In Part Two of our Taoist sexuality series, focusing on woman’s body’s and yin principles, I speak with the Senior Woman’s Instructor at Tao Garden.
Mantak Chia: Sexual Kung Fu (Yang)
Life is a Festival #164
Master Chia, a celebrated Taoist teacher, is best known for his book "The Multi-Orgasmic Man" and his expertise in the alchemy of erotic energy.
Colette Pervette: Why Are All My Friends Becoming Dominatrixes?
Life is a Festival #163
Instead of healing the kink, let the kink heal you.
Iboga Part 2: Initiating with Iboga in Africa
Life is a Festival #140 - Apollon (Bwiti Initiations)
A conversation with a Bwiti N’ganga about how Westerns can connect with this African spiritual practice.
Iboga Part 1: Ibogaine Clinical Treatment
Life is a Festival #139 - Dr. Felipe Malacara, & Vianey Ariadna Perez (Beond Ibogaine)
Healing addiction and trauma using ibogaine HLC in a Western medical model at Beond Clinic in Cancun.
The Art of Interviewing
Life is a Festival #138 - Eamon Armstrong & Ian MacKenzie
To celebrate four years of Life is a Festival, today I’m sharing a conversation I had with my friend Ian MacKenzie about how to conduct a good interview.
The Queer Muslim Hero of Psychedelic Legalization
Life is a Festival #137 - Ismail Lourido Ali (MAPS)
From medicalization to religious exception, how should powerful psychedelic molecules enter mainstream consciousness?
I Kink, Therefore I Am: The Art of Liberating Desire
Life is a Festival #119: Cat Meyer
In honor of the Day of Love, we’re diving into the wonderful world of BDSM
Sex and Shamanic Shadow Hunting
Life is a Festival #112: Ohad Pele & Jasmeen Hana (ISTA)
Shamanic sexuality training at the International School of Temple Arts.
Queer is Questioning
Life is a Festival #111: From Spaces Between Podcast with Al Jeffery
What does it mean to call yourself “Queer?”
Love Free From Fear
Life is a Festival #86: Sabine Lichtenfels
Can we heal the wounds of love and share lives of both dedication and erotic adventure?
Decolonize Your Body
Life is a Festival #85: Camille Barton
Camille shows us how to unravel the legacy of colonization in our bodies through psychedelics, grief work and somatic healing.
Eros and the Shepherdess: A Tale of Trans Emergence
Life is a Festival #72: Zhenevere Sophia Dao (The MogaDao Institute)
Zhenevere Sofia Dao returns to the show to share, for the first time, the story of her transgender emergence during sixteen months of silence in the Jemez Mountains.