Eamon Armstrong 5/15/21 Eamon Armstrong 5/15/21

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.

Eamon Armstrong 4/29/21 Eamon Armstrong 4/29/21

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.

Eamon Armstrong 4/12/21 Eamon Armstrong 4/12/21

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.

Eamon Armstrong 3/26/21 Eamon Armstrong 3/26/21

The Play of Creative Work

Life is a Festival #98: Autumn Skye

To succeed as artists, the muse must find us working, but how do we maintain the play and passion that lit our creative fire to begin with?

Eamon Armstrong 3/12/21 Eamon Armstrong 3/12/21

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.

Eamon Armstrong 3/5/21 Eamon Armstrong 3/5/21

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.

Eamon Armstrong 2/25/21 Eamon Armstrong 2/25/21

Building Big Art with the Cape's Creator

Life is a Festival #95: Daniel Popper

Inside the creative process with the South African creator of Tulum yogis and Boom shamans.

Eamon Armstrong 2/19/21 Eamon Armstrong 2/19/21

Stay Safe, Psychonauts (Live from Clubhouse)

Life is a Festival #94: Dr. Molly

How to protect yourself from pseudo-shamanism, bad medicine, and neurotoxicity.

Eamon Armstrong 2/8/21 Eamon Armstrong 2/8/21

Medicine or Meds? How to Manage a Spiritual Emergence

Life is a Festival #93: Dr. Joseph Barsuglia

A PhD neuropsychologist explains spiritual initiation through the lens of the Bwiti tradition in Africa and the plant medicine iboga.

Eamon Armstrong 1/23/21 Eamon Armstrong 1/23/21

A Vaccine for Conspirituality

Life is a Festival #92: Erik Davis

Erik Davis, wizard of weird, returns to the show to address “conspirituality” and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against it.

Eamon Armstrong 1/15/21 Eamon Armstrong 1/15/21

The Transformative Power of Folktales

Life is a Festival #91 Jan Blake

Jan Blake, one of Europe's most renowned storytellers teaches the medicine of myth through six tales.

Eamon Armstrong 1/8/21 Eamon Armstrong 1/8/21

Yes, Psychedelics Can Help Heal Attachment Trauma

Life is a Festival #90 Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score)

Attachment wounds can be more difficult to treat than acute trauma but psychedelics can help reimprint the feeling of being a lovable child.

Eamon Armstrong 12/30/20 Eamon Armstrong 12/30/20

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.

Eamon Armstrong 12/8/20 Eamon Armstrong 12/8/20

Don't Flail the Derp

Life is a Festival #88: Brad Rhadwood

The king of “lowbrow visionary art” gives us his own version of making lemons into lemonade.

Eamon Armstrong 11/18/20 Eamon Armstrong 11/18/20

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.

Eamon Armstrong 11/11/20 Eamon Armstrong 11/11/20

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?

Eamon Armstrong 11/3/20 Eamon Armstrong 11/3/20

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.

Eamon Armstrong 10/22/20 Eamon Armstrong 10/22/20

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.

Eamon Armstrong 10/15/20 Eamon Armstrong 10/15/20

Power & Privilege in Intentional Communities

Life is a Festival #83: Ashoka Finley

We need to compost the old world, not simply run away from it. Ashoka is here to teach us how to build the infrastructure of care for the new world that we know is possible.

Eamon Armstrong 10/1/20 Eamon Armstrong 10/1/20

Finding Sovereignty in a Mad World

Life is a Festival #82: Jordan Hall

Jordan teaches us how to make sense and find our footing to meet the world’s complex challenges.