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Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness
Interviews with scholars of spiritual practice and mindfulness about their new books.
October 20, 2024
Mental Health Aware Yoga
When taught properly, yoga can be a healing and life-affirming practice for students experiencing mental illness. Lauren Tober's book Mental Health Aw…
October 17, 2024
Landed
In her latest memoir, Landed: A Yogi's Memoir of Places & Poses (2024, Vine Leaves Press), American-born Jennifer traces her journey-both on and off …
September 8, 2024
The Body in Classical Hathayoga
In this episode Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Ruth Westoby a scholar, teacher, and practitioner of yoga. We discuss Ruth’s work on the body in ea…
September 5, 2024
In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic
Alexandra Chan thinks she has life figured out until, in the Year of the Ram, the death of her father—her last parent—brings her to her knees, an even…
August 2, 2024
Cow Hug Therapy
In Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, Death, and Everything in Between (New World Library, 2024), Ellie Laks re…
June 21, 2024
You Don't Have to Change to Change Everything
One of the most significant sources of suffering comes from our human tendency to avoid difficult emotions. We are not taught how to face these unplea…
June 9, 2024
The Enlightenment of the Body
In this episode, Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Naomi Worth, a scholar and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism’s postural yoga tradition. We dive into…
May 4, 2024
Reiki and the Subtle Body
Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Justin B. Stein, a specialist in modern Japanese religion and the preeminent historian of Reiki. We discuss Justin’s…
March 29, 2024
The Golden Thread
Purpose serves as your GPS, guiding your life trajectory, whether you listen or not. It can help you reach for the seemingly unattainable and stop com…
March 23, 2024
Making Sense of Yogacara with William Waldron
Professor William Waldron teaches courses on the South Asian religious traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, Tibetan religion and history, comparative …
March 3, 2024
Dances with Sheep
Anna Dako,'s book Dances with Sheep: On RePairing the HumanNature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving towards Wellbeing (Intellect Books, 2023) pres…
February 19, 2024
Open
With the avalanche of information we get every day, closing down our minds and hearts seems to be the only way to survive. We close down to our inner …
February 8, 2024
The House We Live in
The values of liberalism, pluralism, and democratic governance are under sustained attack from right-wing Christian fundamentalists, white ethnonation…
January 17, 2024
Radical Acceptance
It can be so easy to feel like we’re not enough or that we’re somehow insufficient. According to meditation teacher Tara Brach, this feeling of unwort…
December 10, 2023
Your Heart Was Made for This
What is the role of contemplative practice in times of crisis? And how can meditation actually support us in meeting the greatest challenges of our ti…
December 4, 2023
David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
If anything, the Imperfect Buddha Podcast has been a rallying cry for the disruption of the myths that abound in the world of Buddhism and meditation.…
November 19, 2023
The New Saints
Lama Rod Owens is an author, activist, and authorized lama in the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. In his new book, The New Saints: From Broken…
November 18, 2023
Saving Time
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, artist Jenny Odell examined the power of quiet contemplation in a world where our attention is bought and sold. …
November 17, 2023
The Book of (More) Delights
In 2016, poet Ross Gay set out to document a delight each day for a year. After he published The Book of Delights, his friend asked him if he planned …
October 12, 2023
Surrendering to the Self
The Indian sage Ramana Maharshi (1879- 1950) is perhaps the most widely known Indian spiritual figure of the last century, second only to Gandhi. Patr…