Messy Luminous Being Podcast

Conversations about weaving spiritual practice into messy real life.

Episode 146 Bringing the body along with you

“You will never believe or surrender to any thought that is not equal to the way your body feels.” This is a powerful truth, and the thing that makes mindset work really hard. Sometimes we genuinely can’t shift our mindset because our body is stuck in a totally different vibe.

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Episode 145: Mindfulness and why we can’t sit w/Aiko Smith

The benefits of mindfulness and meditation are promoted everywhere. So why aren’t we all sitting? In this episode, I talk with mindfulness teacher Aiko Smith about the invisible standards we’re all trying to live up to and the political and cultural reasons why we can’t sit in stillness. We also

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Episode 144 what meditation feels like

Heading out on a walk, I started thinking about the many ways I practice mind-calming and all the ups-and-downs-and sideways realities of having a long term meditation practice when you live in messy real life. So this episode is a chat, along a woodland walk and with a few startled

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Episode 143 Softening Time, Softening our Hearts w/Elena Brower

Softening our self-critical voice, feeling love for ourselves when we have a human moment, and the evolving journey of meditation practice in messy real life…these are just a few of the illuminating moments in my conversation with Elena Brower, poet, Zen practitioner, mother and creative soul. Elena shares a gorgeous

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Episode 142 Taking care of our Future Self

Imagine your future self, a person you are moving towards through the landscape of time. Our tendency can often be to get caught up in this week, this day, just getting through. But what would happen if we adopted a radical new mindset, one that goes against our culture of

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