Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
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.
Pleasure is Medicine
Life is a Festival #134: Chloe Macintosh (Kama: Sex & Pleasure Education)
The importance of embodiment from erectile disfunction to the magical art of squirting.
Every Daddy Needs a Daddy
Life is a Festival #132: Eamon Armstrong with Chloe Macintosh (Live from Burning Man)
Kink, like psychedelics and Burning Man itself, can be a powerful transformational technology, if used wisely.
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?”
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.
From Boy Prince to Embodied Man
Life is a Festival #103: Adrian Grenier
An icon of male fantasy finds peace and purpose in healthy masculinity and joyful service.
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?
Founding Everland
Life is a Festival [in Community] #75: Jonny Jenkins (Everland)
Jonny’s journey to create an eco-retreat & immersive art park in Colorado.
Wrestling with the Predator
Life is a Festival #74: Ian MacKenzie (The Mythic Masculine)
A mythopoetic understanding of the patterns of sexual abuse in our culture.
Trip Sitting America
Life is a Festival #73: The TeaFaerie (Erowid)
The Teafaerie has facilitated psychedelic peer support at festivals since her work with Rock Med in the 90s, and boy does she have some stories to tell.
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.
Financial Resilience for Creatives
Life is a Festival #62: Nick Farr, CPA (The Long Disaster)
Nick Farr, CPA, shares the immediate steps we can take for financial resilience, specifically how to get money from the government including Economic Impact Payments, unemployment benefits, and loans. We talk about how communities can support each other and what people with privilege can do. Once we have some ground under our feet, long term resiliency means switching our mindset from disaster response to birthing a new way of being.
Bonus Birthday Blast From the Past
Life is a Festival #61: Behind the Mynd with David Colón
If you’ve discovered my work through this show and you want to know more about the Life is a Festival philosophy or how I met so many fascinating friends to interview (or if you just want to hear some silly stories on my birthday) this is the podcast for you!