Life is a Festival
Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.
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.
Bye Bye Plastic, Hello Vibes
Life is a Festival #39: Vivie-Ann Bakos (BLOND:ISH)
If you were an international DJ sensation, how would you use your fame to change the world?
Making Sustainability Sexy
Life is a Festival #38: Pete Phornprapha (Wonderfruit)
Pranitan "Pete" Phornprapha, scion of Siam Motors Group, has created an innovation lab for sustainability… disguised as a festival.
How to Celebrate Death
Life is a Festival #37: Klaudia Oliver (La Calaca)
Can we “undrown” ourselves from painful loss through a celebration of death?
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.
Depression & Psychedelics: Dancing with the Black Dog
Life is a Festival #35: Dr. David Rabin MD, PhD (Apollo Neuroscience)
I interview my own psychiatrist about the myth of the “chemical imbalance” and how psychedelics interrupt neural pathways that associate depressive ideation with identity.
The Ripple Effect of Claiming Your Space
Life is a Festival #34: Lizzie Rose (Lizzie Rose Media)
An ode to taking up space as boldly, colorfully, and radiantly as you want.
A Paul Revere for the Psychedelic Renaissance
Life is a Festival #33: Jamie Wheal (Flow Genome Project)
When the search for the Grail Castle becomes the prison of Hotel California, we need some tough love to wake the woke.
Fumbling Towards Inclusivity
Life is a Festival 032: JR Nexus Russ
Is Burning Man “a white people thing?”
Regenerate the Earth 1000 Hectares at a Time
Life is a Festival #31: Stephen Brooks (Punta Mona)
If you plant it right all you do is reap.
The Wizard of Awe Goes to Burning Man
Life is a Festival #30: Jason Silva (Shots of Awe)
Chronos and Kairos: Of Timelessness, Flow States, Psychedelics and Death
It’s Better With You Here
Life is a Festival #29: Live From BMIR (Burning Man Information Radio)
Live from Burning Man with David Block (The Human Experience), Jex and Wolverine.
What's the Point of Burning Man?
Life is a Festival #28: Caveat Magister (Burning Man)
Caveat Magister, author of The Scene That Became Cities, and I discuss the collision of prank culture and personal development at Burning Man.
Can Free Love Save the World?
Life is a Festival #27: Julia Maryanska & Ian MacKenzie (Love School)
According to Tamera, the revolutionary peace research eco village in Portugal, liberating love from fear, violence, and lies is the root solution for a true system change.
The Business of Building a Psychedelic Disneyland
Life is a Festival #26: Vince Kadlubek (Meow Wolf)
Meow Wolf is an inspiration for creatives everywhere, especially when it comes to building a sustainable, artistic livelihood. CEO Vince Kadlubek opens up about his journey in leadership and the art of financing imagination.
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.
The Spiritual Side of Failure
Life is a Festival #24: Mauricio Boogieloop (Heart Ibiza)
How street performance taught Mauricio to embrace failure as a teacher, the history of Ibiza, and why Mauricio is optimistic about the future of the White Island.
Keep Psychedelics Weird
Life is a Festival #23: Erik Davis (Techgnosis)
Where’s the true weird in the age of Donald Trump and weird weather? Is depression weird, or is depression when things aren’t weird enough? Is Burning Man still weird or has it become too mannered and too known? Are there degrees of reality? How can we serve the psychedelic Renaissance while keeping the weird alive?
Authenticity, Anxiety, & the Artist
Life is a Festival #22: Atish Mehta (DJ atish)
Atish gets real about getting real.
Demystifying Fly Ranch, Burning Man’s Perennial Oasis
Life is a Festival #21: Zac Cirivello (Fly Ranch)
What could Burning Man culture look like year round? Well, like Black Rock City itself, it’s going to be up to us.