Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
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?”
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.
Voices of the Renegade Burn
Life is a Festival #109
Reflections on the self-organized 2021 Burn from Plan B to drone artists to temple builders.
Healing Veterans with Plant Medicine
Life is a Festival #108: Jesse Gould (Heroic Hearts)
With the rapid fall of Afghanistan, veterans in our communities need our care and support now more than ever.
Real Reciprocity in Psychedelics and Beyond
Life is a Festival #107: Sutton King (Journey Colab)
What is our responsibility for kinship and reciprocity as we explore the healing power of plant medicine?
Brotherhood is the Medicine
Life is a Festival #106: Adam Jackson (Sacred Sons)
A deep dive on modern men's work and how Sacred Sons is working to bring forth the embodied masculine.
Ayahuasca for Healing Ancestral Racial Trauma
Life is a Festival #105: Tony Moss
A mighty deep dive on Ayahuasca healing for post traumatic slave syndrome.
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.
Reconnecting After Covid
Life is a Festival #102: Radha Agrawal
Feeling a nervous about post-pandemic gatherings? A master community builder gives us a gentle nudge back to IRL connection.
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.
Healing New Age Narcissism Part 2 (Clubhouse Show)
Life is a Festival #97: Alex Ebert
A robust history of the dark side of New Age thought and how we can refestivalize our spiritual culture.
Healing New Age Narcissism Part 1 (Clubhouse Show)
Life is a Festival #96: Jamie Wheal
Recorded on Clubhouse, Jamie helps us understand the worrying prevalence of dark triad personality types in transformational communities.
Masters of Steam
Life is a Festival #89: Sasha Baibarin and Boris Ryabov (Steamology Institute)
Sasha and Boris are powerful steam masters bringing a traditional Russian banya all the way to Black Rock City.
Build a Little Ashram in Your Soul
Life is a Festival #87: Shiv Charan Singh (Karam Kriya)
A spiritual teacher and kundalini master describes the spiritual pressure cooker of an ashram.
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.
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.