Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
#183- Chris Stakich (Summit): The Lie of the Linear Path
What does it feel like to climb every mountain and arrive at the top feeling... nothing?
#175 - Atish: Beats, Breaks, and Balance, a DJ Unplugs
Service, legacy, and giving back to one’s community.
Chip Conley: Midlife is also a Festival
Life is a Festival #171
Midlife is not a crisis but a chrysalis—a time for transformation and growth.
Stephen Jenkinson: Personal Growth Won't Save Us
Life is a Festival #146
…but perhaps embracing catastrophe might... just maybe.
How to Earn a Secure Attachment Style
Life is a Festival #142 - George Haas (Mettagroup)
Meditation teacher George Haas is preparing the path to enlightenment by healing childhood attachment injuries.
To Escape the Tyranny of the Self
Life is a Festival #141 - Benjamin
Liberation from mental health issues through the dissolution of the constructed self.
A Superhero Team of Indigenous Elders
Life is a Festival #110: Vivien Vilela & Rudy Randa (Aniwa Gathering)
From Benki Piyãko to the mysterious Mamos of the Sierra Nevadas, Aniwa is a platform for Indigenous Wisdom.
An Open-Source Operating System for Transformational Culture
Life is a Festival #104: Jamie Wheal
Jamie’s new book "Recapture the Rapture," is your invitation to the sexual yoga of becoming a homegrown human.
The Yang Container
Life is a Festival #100: Benjamin
For the 100th episode of Life is a Festival, I’m honored to bring you this conversation with my dear friend and spiritual teacher Benjamin.
Love All Your Parts
Life is a Festival #99: Richard Schwartz
Does your inner world sometimes feels like a squabbling family, always reacting to the outside experience and to itself? You’re not alone. In fact there’s an entire style of therapy that specifically seeks to bring harmony to our Internal Family Systems.
Musings On Mental Health
Life is a Festival #84: Eamon Armstrong
A repod from my interview on Eric White’s show theEWpodcast where we discuss techniques for mental wellness and how to see depression as a teacher.
Collective Liberation for Drug Users
Life is a Festival #71: Mohawk the Educator
Cognitive liberty is a beautiful thing and all drug users should have the right to experiment safely.
Grandmother, Teach Me Patience
Life is a Festival #70: Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook & Jyoti Ma
In times of chaos and trouble, look to the grandmothers for wisdom, compassion, and above all, patience.
Embodiment Practices for Healing Trauma
Life is a Festival #66: Tina Nance (Yoga Barn)
Tina Nance, a yin yoga and yoga therapy teacher in Bali, is a true master of the art of cultivating interoception (the felt sense of the body) and meeting our edge with mindfulness and compassion.
A North Star for Psychedelic Ethics
Life is a Festival #65: Liana Sananda (Auryn Project)
The psychedelic movement is at a threshold point where it is vitally important to create an attractor coalition of value-driven leadership. However, in order to get this right we need to co-create and move at the speed of trust.
The Boy Hero Must Die
Life is a Festival #48: The Mythic Masculine Podcast with Ian Mackenzie
It is the humility of the failed hero that allows him to truly connect with his brothers
The Work of Art
Life is a Festival #47: Amanda Sage
“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.” ― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Living Yoga Off the Mat
Life is a Festival #40: Janet Stone (Janet Stone Yoga)
From Burning Man to the bake sale, Janet Stone teaches us to live life like a festival both on the mat and off it.
We Can All Be Babes
Life is a Festival #36: Andrea Graham (The Librarian)
At Bass Coast, a beautiful boutique festival in the forests of British Columbia, everyone is a babe. What is a babe? A Bass Coast babe is a person of any gender who’s really feeling themselves.
Dance Music's Woke Girl Gang
Life is a Festival #25: Abi Getto & Liz Garard (Nap Girls)
How the iconic napping pose drew over 250 members to the collective, intersectionality and white feminism, how a girl gang metabolized #metoo, and how best to be an ally.