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Monique Schubert is a dear friend who I've had the privilege of studying with, learning from, and teaching alongside. She is a beautiful soul who sees life as an extended project to make the world more beautiful, more kind, and more inclusive. She uses the tools of art, yoga, and music to educate, inspire, and connect.Monique is also a Kripalu certified teacher and helps design their teacher trainings and facilitates transformational experiences, including their 200-hour meditation teacher certification, which she is co-teaching alongside another dear friend, colleague, and past Wonder Dome guest, Sam Chase.For over 20 years she’s been teaching yoga and mindfulness in the New York City area, and she brings together a wonderful background in visual arts that weaves into her mindfulness teaching and practices. She's also a member of the Resistance Revival Chorus, a powerhouse group of 60+ women and femmes who unite to sing songs from various protest traditions, such as the civil rights movement, the labor movement, and the women's movement.Infusing all of Monique’s work as a teacher, an educator, an artist, a musician, and an activist, is her deep commitment to collective joy and thriving. Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Monique:omsociety.yogalinkedin.com/in/monique-schubert-mfa-4a57ba45resistancerevivalchorus.com'For All Beings' by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel - zenju.org/for-all-beings-2/Valerie June 'Astral Plane' - youtube.com/watch?v=rN35g4eLQgg Ronald McNair - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McNairResistance Revival Chorus 'Reason I Sing' featuring Valerie June - resistancerevivalchorus.bandcamp.com/track/reason-i-singAni DiFranco 'Joyful Girl' feat the Resistance Revival Chorus - youtube.com/watch?v=qS_b_ExBfWIUbuntu Philosophy - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy

My conversation with Sessei Meg Levie works with the possibility that sitting in stillness, attending to what is without judging yourself or the world, and simply noticing, can open whole new doorways of possibility in your life and the lives of those around you. Sessei Meg Levie is the head priest of the Stone Creek Zen Center in Sonoma County, CA, and she has been practicing Soto Zen for 30+ years. Over the past decade, she has pioneered the development of awareness practices in organizations around the world.As a senior teacher for Search Inside Yourself, the mindfulness-based emotional intelligence and leadership program created at Google, she has trained hundreds of other meditation and mindfulness teachers and impacted thousands more participants. She's also a professional coach who works with executives to bring meditation and mindfulness to their leadership.I invite you to start with the advice Meg offers at the end: simply pay attention. If you are feeling that sense of exhaustion, fatigue, or overwhelm, or even a hint that things could be different, then start by paying attention. Who knows what doorways might open?Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Meg:meglevie.comlinkedin.com/in/megleviestonecreekzencenter.orgsfzc.orgsiyli.orgSunryu Suzuki Roshiwordsfortheyear.com/2015/09/04/the-breeze-at-dawn-by-rumiynharari.com/book/sapiens-2Find Meg's essay 'Home-leaving and Home-making' here: wisdomexperience.org/product/buddhas-apprentices

Dominic Longo is the founder of Flourishing Gays, a coaching and consulting firm that works especially with gay, bi, queer, and trans men to support their leadership, personal development, growth, and flourishing. He is a remarkable scholar, teacher, coach, thinker, theologian, bringing together a number of different streams of understanding about how we humans are made, and who we can become if we give ourselves the gift of a life of transformation and growth.Our conversation explores human development through the lens of what it is to be Queer - in particular a Queer man - in our culture. We land on the beautiful possibility that by creating a world where Queer humans flourish, we are creating a world where every human can flourish.  Because, in a sense, “queerness” is a part of all of us. Regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, all of us have parts of ourselves that are deemed to be too different, strange, threatening, or confusing by our dominant culture. The natural protective response is to hide or repress those parts. But this comes with massive emotional, psychological, and energetic costs. When we find ways to set down our protections and our defenses, we have the opportunity to welcome and amplify the latent gifts and potentials living inside us. Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Dominic:flourishinggays.comfacebook.com/flourishinggaysinstagram.com/flourishinggayslinkedin.com/in/fdominiclongo

Cynthia Scott has carried a lifelong curiosity about how people thrive, regenerate, and transform. She's done extensive research on burnout prevention, personal and organizational resilience, and the development of true agility and adaptability. She asks how do we grow, evolve, and stay resilient, especially as the world around us becomes so much more uncertain and things we once took for granted disappear?She is the founder of ChangeWorks Lab, and she has 40+ years of experience as a consultant, author, social entrepreneur, educator, and coach. Over the decades, she’s served as a leadership professor, an organizational psychologist, a nonprofit board member, an executive, and a change catalyst. In all those contexts, she's worked to help people connect to the light that fills their life with purpose and grieve the losses that make life hard so that we can find a way forward.Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Cynthia:changeworkslab.comlinkedin.com/in/scottcynthiatwitter.com/cynthiascottsf

One of the coolest things about hosting The Wonder Dome is that I get to dive deep into conversations with some of the most dynamic human beings on the planet. Aidan McCullen is one of those people.He is the author of Undisruptable: A Mindset of Permanent Reinvention for Individuals, Organisations, and Life. He also hosts the fantastic podcast, The Innovation Show, which served as an exemplar for me of what's possible for the Wonder Dome. And he publishes a weekly blog centering around what it means to reinvent ourselves and our organizations. As you’ll see and hear, he has a remarkable gift for storytelling and metaphor, and his body of work speaks to the importance of having full access to all of our inner resources. So that we can do the hard work necessary to weather tough times. And so that we can adapt and innovate when the situation demands it.We could stop there, and that would be material enough. But before Aidan built this body of work, he made a successful career as a professional rugby player with over 100 caps for Leinster, Toulouse, and London Irish. And in our conversation, he shares how even becoming a rugby player was in itself a personal reinvention.In short, Aidan is someone who has walked the walk in terms of growth, adaption, and evolution. If you care at all about how to live life more fully, more creatively, with more resilience and adaptability, then this conversation is for you.Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Aidan:Listen to theinnovationshow.ioKeep up with Aidan’s blog aidanmccullen.com/thursday-thought-blogRead Aidan's latest book theinnovationshow.io/undisruptable-bookVisit AidanMcCullen.cominstagram.com/the_innovation_showlinkedin.com/in/aidanmccullentwitter.com/aidanmccullen

Nathan Blair is the founder and lead trainer at the Somatic School, a school for coaches and other practitioners who want to understand how our bodies serve as the vessel for deep connection and understanding between each other, with the entire planet, and with the universe.During his teens, Nathan was diagnosed with ADHD and took medication to manage his “symptoms.” But over time, through mindfulness and nature-based practices, he realized his sensitivity was not a problem to be medicated. It was, instead, an incredible superpower to be amplified.  Over the years, he's trained in a number of different practices rooted in a deep understanding of our neurophysiology, our neurobiology, and our empathic connectivity. Our conversation today is an absolutely delightful exploration into this work that ultimately extends beyond and beneath all words, transporting us into the realm of pure sensing.Connect with Nathan:thesomaticschool.comfacebook.com/thesomaticschoollinkedin.com/in/nathanjblair

Gayle Karen Young is a catalyst for human and organizational development. She is a mentor, a teacher, an empath, a systems thinker, and a healer. For many years, she worked as the chief culture and talent officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the foundation responsible for Wikipedia and all of its sister projects devoted to free knowledge and free information. Now Gayle is in private practice, working with leaders from a variety of sectors, many at the frontlines of our collective future, living the question of where are we going and how might we get there together.Our conversation begins with the question, What is it to belong somewhere? To belong to a group? To a people? What does it take for us to find our way back to the places that feel like home? To remember that, in fact, this entire planet is our one and only home?From there, we work with what we call the imaginal gap - that infinite possibility space that speculative authors, futurists, poets, and creators of many stripes have leapt across. The imaginal gap invites us to explore what becomes possible in the future if we resolve, repair, and restore our connections to universal truths right here, right now.This is not clean or easy work, but it is beautiful and essential. It requires our willingness and capacity to enter the sensitive, nuanced, highly-charged spaces of learning, discovery, and growth so that we can “be able for” all that life has in store for us.Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Gayle:gaylekarenyoung.comlinkedin.com/in/missgayle twitter.com/MissGayle

Janet Allison's work asks and helps us answer the question, how do we raise boys to become good men? She is the founder of Boys Alive, an organization that provides coaching and education to parents of boys of all ages. She's also the host of the ON BOYS podcast, which is now four years running with hundreds of thousands of downloads, featuring experts in the worlds of child psychology, development, and parenting. Even if you are not a parent or don't ever plan to become one, this conversation will deeply impact you. It points to tragic cultural feedback loops that keep making it harder for children of all genders to become healthy, thriving adults.As a result, we keep reproducing the very social-cultural problems we want to avoid - men abusing power, unable to communicate effectively, unable to express their emotions, confusing strength with force, confusing confidence with arrogance. All of these problems have roots in our culture's approach to raising boys.Janet has done amazing work as an educator and coach to help people of all backgrounds unpack this. In the process, she helps us think deeply and clearly about who we want our children to become. How do we help our children unlock their full potential without forcing them into rigid gender identities that limit that potential? Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Janet:Visit boysalive.comListen to on-boys-podcast.comfacebook.com/boysaliveinstagram.com/boys.alivelinkedin.com/in/janetallisontwitter.com/ParentAdvisor

Kyrah Altman is the Chill Executive Officer and co-founder of LEAD an organization devoted to cultivating mental health and wellbeing in organizations and communities around the world.  She is one of those rare, wholehearted leaders pushing back against the dominant narrative that constantly drives us to produce, to perform, to be perfect without ever revealing our full humanity.Kyrah co-founded LEAD (Let's Empower, Advocate, and Do) 10 years ago as a 15-year-old high school student. Today, the fast-growing organization provides teaching, training, coaching, and a huge library of resources dedicated to what she calls "no fluff" mental health education. She travels the world speaking about the impact of social entrepreneurship on trauma survivors, the importance of addressing mental health and wellbeing, and of destigmatizing mental illness, particularly in vulnerable communities.Ultimately, Kyrah is a champion for the idea that while not everyone has a mental illness, everyone can improve mental health. All of us live in contexts that are producing pain and suffering, but we can all contribute to the reduction of that pain in how we treat each other, how we treat ourselves, and how we build thriving cultures by inviting everyone to show up as full human beings.Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Kyrah:Visit leadnow.orgfacebook.com/leadinc.nowinstagram.com/leadinc.nowlinkedin.com/in/kyrahaltmantwitter.com/LEADInc_now

Since he was a kid, Howard Prager has been living the question, “how can I make someone else’s day?”  Howard is the Founder and Executive Director of the Advanced Learning Group. He is a generous, kind-hearted human who is taking a stand for bringing “memorable, cherished moments” into leadership. His recent book, Make Someone's Day: Becoming a Memorable Leader in Work and Life, explores what it takes to do that. In our conversation today, Howard and I play with the possibility that part of our collective work ahead is developing the capacity to show up for each other in a way that suspends judgment so we can meet the real, live human being across from us. Every interaction we have with someone else is an opportunity to show up with kindness and generosity. These seemingly small or inconsequential acts can often have a profound impact on our well-being and our relationship to the world.Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Howard:HowardHPrager.comhowardhprager.com/make-someones-dayadvancelearninggroup.comfacebook.com/howardhpragerinstagram.com/howardhpragerlinkedin.com/in/howardhpragertwitter.com/howardhprager

Owen Ó Súilleabháin lives the belief that art has the power to awaken the most dynamic and creative aspects of ourselves in the world, regardless of whether or not we identify as “artists.” He's a singer, composer, and a teacher who has collaborated with world-class artists including Steven Spielberg, Russell Crowe, Nigel Kennedy, the Chieftains, and David Whyte.He’s usually found working alongside his brother, Mícheál, and his mother, Nóirín. Together the trio co-founded the Dámh Imeall — translation: the (h)Edge School — rooted in an ancient tradition of hedge schooling that emerged under the brutal repression of British rule in Ireland.Owen invites us to make contact with ourselves, our origins, and our unassailable place in the world when we feel isolated, lonely, or alienated. To recognize that there is always a home for us to come back to. Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Owen:owenandmoley.comturasdanam.comfacebook.com/owenandmichealtwitter.com/owenmoleyinstagram.com/irishbrothersyoutube.com/user/size2shoesofficial

Do you ever ask yourself, “What can I do in the face of these deep, pervasive social, cultural, and spiritual dilemmas that our species has faced and will continue to face in the decades and centuries to come?”Stephen Cope’s latest work The Dharma in Difficult Times dives deep into this question. He weaves ancient wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita together with an exploration of the lives of eight different people over the course of the past ~240 years. People who - in the face of colonialism, enslavement, subjugation, oppression, and racism - found a way to listen to their own inner wisdom and take action that rippled throughout their communities and through the world.The book taught me that at every level of our lives there is an opportunity to abide by the quiet inner voice inside of us. If we're willing to slow down enough to hear it, we can find our way towards a deep sense of purpose that will carry us through our lifetime and weave its way into the lives of many generations to follow.Stephen is the author of a number of books that have had a profound impact on how I relate to my sense of purpose and calling in the world, such as Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, Soul Friends: The Deep Power of Human Connection, and The Great Work of Your Life. He is also a personal mentor and friend, and it’s safe to say The Wonder Dome wouldn’t exist if not for the invitations he’s given me to listen to my own quiet inner voice and find my calling.So I hope this conversation helps you find your way to your own calling in these difficult times; to the beautiful possibility that you are participating in something that has existed long before you and will carry on long after you.Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachCheck out all of Stephen's writing: stephencope.com/shop/#booksLearn more about Kripalu: kripalu.org Connect with Stephen on StephenCope.com

My guest today is Ariel Burger: scholar, artist, poet, musician, rabbi, professor, nonprofit leader, and former student of Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel.Ariel is an incredibly playful, creative, and devoted servant of the public good. He is the author of Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom. Elie Wiesel was perhaps one of the most important voices for the power of memory and witness to nourish and protect the parts of our lives that are most important for who we are as a species. His work stands as a warning about who we become if we are unwilling to face the fears and underlying forces that shape us, and also a celebration of who we can become if we're willing to stand in witness.Through The Witness Institute, Ariel carries on that lineage of helping people remember where we come from and what we've been through. His work awakens us to generations of suffering and also invites us to receive the generations of gifts and heirlooms we’ve inherited. It’s from this stance that we can enter true boundary-crossing dialogue with the capacity to learn, collaborate and grow as opposed to the impulse to defeat, dominate, and destroy.I for one want to live in the kind of world that Ariel and his colleagues, mentors, students, and community members are helping to imagine for us. Dig in and enjoy!Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Ariel:ArielBurger.comwitnessinstitute.orgRead Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroomfacebook.com/Ariel-Burger-361142947963007instagram.com/arielisdrawinglinkedin.com/in/ariel-burger-a5a4597twitter.com/arielburger

I’m excited to have Sam Chase on the show today. Sam is one of the most gifted mindfulness & meditation practitioners I have ever met. He is the author of a wonderfully rich book called Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness. It is a deep, dense, and humorous exploration of ancient wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutras, paired with the latest research in neurobiology and mindfulness. I had the good fortune of working with him as part of Kripalu’s RISE program. He played a key role in designing the program’s rigorous curriculum, weaving together the ancient mystical wisdom embodied in Kripalu's lineage with the modern Western medical research that demonstrates the massive impact that mindfulness practices can have on our physical and mental well being.Mindfulness practices help us meet reality as it is, giving us way more capacity to respond to the moment with creativity and possibility - while also being deeply compassionate for all of the ways in which we suffer and struggle in the face of both personal and systemic forces that harm us. Our conversation is a deep, thoughtful, and heartfelt exploration of what it means to show up for life at the places where we have the agency to take action and the awareness necessary to act with wisdom. Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with SamSamChaseYoga.comRead Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness by Sam Chasefacebook.com/SamChaseYoga linkedin.com/in/sam-chase-wellness

Ralph Waldo Emerson said that “language is fossil poetry.” If that's true, then Báyò Akómoláfé is one of the most remarkable archaeologists and excavators of language's hidden meanings and of our shared human past. What I love about Báyò is his capacity to reformulate, reimagine, reconfigure, and remember. He works with language in a way that deepens our understandings of what's true and real, and also what is untrue and unreal. He weaves those understandings together to help us move towards the boundaries of conventional life, where we might truly learn, grow, and discover.He's an author, a speaker, a teacher. He's also the executive director of The Emergence Network and the chief host of the wildly popular online/offline course and festival, we will dance with mountains. But another way we might talk about Báyò is that he's a self-styled trans-public intellectual, which is a concept imagined together with and inspired by a much more ancient idea of a shamanic priesthood of the Yoruba healer trickster Eshu, who we talk about in our conversation.It's possible that you'll hear some of Báyò's formulations and be struck with a sense of, "what does that mean?" In fact, I hope that’s the case! And I invite you to deepen into that encounter. That when faced with the unknown, you’re not immediately and unconsciously repulsed by it. Rather, you stop and ask, "What is the trick here? What is hiding inside these words? What is waiting to break open a belief or way of seeing that I need to let go of? That no longer serves me or the world?"Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Báyò:BayoAkomolafe.netfacebook.com/bayoakomolafeampersandlinkedin.com/in/bayoakomolafetwitter.com/bayoakomolafe

Ben Preston is an Ulsterman from Northern Ireland who currently lives and works across Australia and New Zealand as a regenerative engineer and designer. Regenerative designers think about what is it to make a space that comes to life and invites people in. One that invites people to name their biggest hopes, dreams, and fears, connect around them, and in the process, take care of and support each other. As a facilitator, I'm often thinking about those things purely in the context of how two people might talk or interact with each other. But Ben is thinking about it through the lens of what is it to build a space that allows for that.I was introduced to Ben through another wonderful guest, Jeff Hull. He said Ben is working with deep ideas about what it is to be in community in ways that allow for our highest and best to come through. That’s where our conversation starts: locating ourselves in the world, and the places where we and our ancestors came from. I follow Ben on this journey to embracing his longing for connection in a way that allowed him to be true to himself, but also allowed him to begin to walk with and talk across boundaries of identity, ethnicity, and culture.Ben lives at the heart of this beautiful paradox that we can be uniquely anchored in where we come from and who we are in a way that actually allows us to connect with others who are uniquely where they come from and who they are. Rather than seeing those borders as divisions or sources of conflict, we can see them as the spaces where worlds meet, and where new possibilities emerge.Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Ben:Ben-Preston.comlinkedin.com/in/ben-preston-he-him-74437952Listen to Episode #55 with Jeff Hull: mindfulcreative.coach/the-wonder-dome/2021/5/19/55-jeff-hull

Those of you who have been listening for a while know that I care deeply about the creative process. About the ways in which insight can come to us from the most unexpected places. One of our opportunities as human beings is to show up for whatever life brings. Carrie Newcomer is someone who embodies that as fully as any of us might hope for.Carrie is a songwriter, a recording artist, a performer, and an educator. She co-hosts the podcast, The Growing Edge, with one of my mentors and heroes Parker Palmer. She makes gorgeous music and poetry, and she has been described as a "prairie mystic" by the Boston Globe. As “someone who asks, in her art and music, all of the right questions” in Rolling Stone magazine.If you care at all about treating the people you love with more grace and respect or navigating complex scenarios with more humility and openness to possibility, then this conversation is for you. Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Carrie:facebook.com/carrienewcomerinstagram.com/carrienewcomertwitter.com/carrienewcomerCarrieNewcomer.comThe Growing Edge Podcast: newcomerpalmer.com/podcast-archives Listen to Until Now: open.spotify.com/album/5lfY9Roe6ItPcLPcCvcUFi?%20si=lQCj2x1MQNO5C5JW3gFm2w%20IListen to Episode #70 (with Parker Palmer): mindfulcreative.coach/the-wonder-dome/2021/9/15/70-parker-palmer

Allie Middleton is deeply attuned to the future possibilities that might be. She has been meditating and practicing yoga for over 45 years and is the author of Yoga Radicals - a curated set of inspiring stories from 36 pioneers in the field. The book emerged from a conference that brought together a collection of a truly remarkable and diverse set of yoga practitioners from around the world.As a certified yoga teacher myself, I'm aware of the way in which our culture has reduced yoga to a purely physical set of practices to stretch, build strength, and develop resilience and calm. While that is true, it’s only one tiny aspect of a much deeper, multifaceted prism of possibility that yoga practitioners are committed to.Allie describes yoga as a way to move from "me consciousness" to "we consciousness," the recognition that all of us are sharing one moment in our one planet's history, and it's possible to embark on a path of social change through personal transformation. The 36 amazing folks that she interviews in her book represent the diverse ways in which we can begin to listen to what's here in our minds and hearts without trying to plan, strategize, fix, or save.If you feel some sense of that there's more to yoga than getting your stretch on and breaking a good sweat - that in fact there are unbreakable threads that connect all of us in the midst of the many stories that divide us and position us as opponents - you've got to check out Yoga Radicals by Allie. And this conversation is a good starting point. Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerillaFollow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/thewonderdomepod​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Allie:facebook.com/alliemiddleton01instagram.com/embodyingcreativity_allielinkedin.com/in/alliemiddletontwitter.com/alliemiddleton1AllieMiddleton.comRead Allie's book, Yoga Radicals: alliemiddleton.com/books

In all aspects of her work and life, Tiffany Wen beautifully models the capacity to share our stories with authenticity and vulnerability. As a yoga teacher, as an activist, as a podcast host, as a storyteller. In all of those contexts, she's helping people tap into inner wisdom and actually listen instead of repressing it or ignoring it. She hosts the Alt-Normal, a podcast centering on diversity as both a beautiful and absolutely critical force for reimagining our future as we work to build a post-pandemic world that's actually worth fighting for. She's also the co-founder of Resonance, a marketing agency that helps people bring out authentic truths that resonate with others. These inner resonances allow her clients to share their work in a way that truly makes a difference in the lives of the people they serve. And she's also the author of a wonderful article about how she's curing the cancer she never had through epigenetic science. It explores the ways Tiffany reimagined and deepened her own relationship with her body after a genetic test revealed that she carried a gene that has a very high statistical correlation with breast cancer. At the beginning of our conversation, Tiffany shared with me that she was having her period. This inner rhythm was understandably impacting her emotionally and physiologically. Past iterations of herself might not have shared that with me. But instead, she chose to share openly because her healing journey taught her to ask the question:  What becomes possible when we listen to our bodies and use that as a way to navigate our lives? One of the tragic taboos of our male-dominated culture is our discomfort with human bodies; women's bodies in particular. If you're listening, particularly if you’re male-identifying, and you find yourself uncomfortable talking about things related to women's bodies in a way that isn't about objectifying them or sexualizing them - but simply to just be present to who they are and what they're living with - then I hope you stick with this conversation.Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerilla​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coach Connect with Tiffany:facebook.com/tiffanywen3383instagram.com/tiffanywenlinkedin.com/in/tiffanywenListen to the Alt-Normal podcastLearn more about Resonancebloodandmilk.com/how-im-curing-the-cancer-i-never-had-with-epigenetic-science/

Mattias Olsson is a remarkable independent documentary filmmaker and the creator of Campfire Stories, making films that touch the roots of change. His films invite us into the lives of people who are actively imagining and creating a world of ecological balance and human sanity. Campfire Stories ascribes to something called the gift economy, the understanding that the beauty that any one of us can bring into the world is infinitely valuable. But at the same time, it may be infinitely inaccessible to some, because we live in an economy driven by money. So Mattias decided to offer these films at whatever donation the person watching could afford. It is a remarkable way of thinking about the way people connect with and exchange meaning with each other. Through trading. Through sharing. Through gift. And his films are truly a gift.They serve paths towards a future that is waiting for us if we’re willing to let go of what we know. Mattias and the people he documents are standing outside the cultural norms that many of us assume to be reality. They show us that we could build communities where we see each other not as units in a transaction, but rather as full beings with gifts and ideas that will add immeasurable value to our lives.This conversation is a wonderful look into how an artist reckons with and engages with the questions that move him, and also points towards what's possible when we step into something that calls to us, even if we’re terrified of leaving behind the story we've been sold as we’ve grown up.Get Connected:The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerilla​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachConnect with Mattias:campfire-stories.orgSubscribe to the Campfire Stories Newsletter: mailchi.mp/eac50ea3073f/campfire-storiesfacebook.com/Campfire-Stories-inspiring-change-through-film-266708933739635