Messy Luminous Being Podcast

Conversations about weaving spiritual practice into messy real life.

Episode 154 The Presence of the Breath w/ Dani Mae

How can we rediscover the natural breath? What are the biggest issues we humans living in the crazy modern world have around breathing? What does it mean to ‘optimise’ the breath? And how far can the breath really take you? In this episode, I talk with Dani Mae, founder of

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Episode 153 a Guidance System for this New Year

How can we make things easier on ourselves while still creating the life we really want? How can we genuinely stop overworking, pushing ourselves beyond our limits, and running out of steam? Three inter-related ideas come to mind, as we step through the threshold of this next year, and take

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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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