Untangle, The Podcast From Meditation Studio

Emily Fletcher is back on Untangle! Emily is the founder of Ziva Meditation, author of Stress Less, Accomplish More, Meditation for Extraordinary Performance and a meditation teacher on Muse and Meditation Studio. She’s an amazing fountain of wisdom and inspiration. Today she talks about her life in New York, why the pandemic is giving us an opportunity to reset and to awaken, why it’s important that we grieve the losses we’ve experienced over the last several months, and how we can quite literally be our own light. She talks about what she calls the one minute rant — which she recommends doing daily — to just let it all out…and to tap into our inner brat. This, of course, is in addition to meditating daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Siyabulela Mandela is a scholar-activist and Nelson Mandela’s great-grandson. He speaks to us from South Sudan, where he trains journalists to advocate for human rights. He speaks to us about the structural and historical situation that has led to racism in the US, and the opportunity for each of us to “decolonize our mind”, and shares the characteristics that allowed his great grandfather Mandela to stand up to oppression with courage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maureen is a Social Scientist with 35 years of professional experience as an Integrative Psychotherapist, Executive Coach, Organizational Consultant, Spiritual Teacher, and Mystic. She’s the Co-Founder of ShiftIt Institute and a pioneer in the field of embodiment. She shares how we can use embodiment practices as a way to do the deep work of developing a stronger sense of self and to become more aware of the body and its natural intelligence and wisdom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aubrey Marcus is the author of “Own the Day”, and the philosophy of Total Human Optimization. What does that look like in a pandemic? Processing emotions and accepting where we are at. Aubrey shares practical tools and wisdom to accept where we’re at in these unprecedented times, and gets real about his own emotional experiences and how he works through them, and how finding your resistance can show you what you’re truly capable of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spring Washam is the author of an amazing book called "A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in any Moment." She shares her thoughts on how we can emerge from the darkest moments in our lives--and even use our suffering as a catalyst for growth She talks about things like Divine Patience and using humour as a resource for when we’re at our worst. Spring also shares the work she's now doing combining plant-based medicines with meditation in Peru, and how this powerful blend of ayahuasca and meditation can be so transformative. She’s a beautiful soul who shares so much wisdom in this interview! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Warren is a meditation teacher and founder of The Consciousness Explorers Club. He’s the co-author of NYT Best Seller "Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics" and "The Head Trip." In the episode, Jeff explains different states of consciousness we all experience and guides exercises to enhance 3 useful states: insight, equanimity, and compassion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roshi Joan Halifax is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, medical anthropologist, author, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. Her new book, "Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet," is brilliant. The potential for transformation, she believes, exists within all of us and we often discover this in our most difficult moments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anu Gupta is a scientist, educator, lawyer, and the Founder of BE MORE with Anu, an ed-tech company advancing equity and belonging by addressing the root causes of racial and gender disparities. He shares insights and practical tools for how we can transform deeply ingrained stereotypes and biases in ourselves and in organizations, healthcare, education and more. Follow him @bemorewithanu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author, Activist, Educator and Meditation Teacher, Ruth King, shares how important it is that we transform racism from the inside out. Her book, Mindful of Race, implores us to look at our conscious and unconscious biases, our racial history and to deeply explore how we’ve been conditioned to think about race. It’s time for us to ask ourselves the question “how can I be a part of the change.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this powerful and deeply moving episode, inspirational spoken word poet Sekou Andrews shares his upbringing as the child of 2 Black college professors, his perspective on social justice, and the power of Love to overcome Hate. Sekou shares extraordinary performances of his poetry during the interview, inspiring and empowering listeners to find their voice now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nahko Bear is a wildly popular musician and activist whose indiginous ancestors come from Puerto Rican, Filipino, Mohawk and Apache roots. His lyrics sing of hard truths and an optimism for a better world. In this episode Ariel Garten has the pleasure of speaking and singing with him just 3 days after his new album "Take Your Power Back", released. He shares his startling life story and raw perspective on the world as they played his songs and talked through the stories behind them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Shelby Harris is a Clinical Psychologist, Board Certified in Behavioural Sleep Disorders and the former Director of the Behavior Sleep Medicine Program at Montefiore Medical Center. Her new book is called The Women’s Guide to Overcoming Insomnia — Get a Good Night Sleep Without Relying on Medication. Shelby covers the nuts and bolts of a good nights sleep, how our hormones affect our sleep and how we can change certain habits, thoughts and behaviours so we can stomp out insomnia for good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Relationship stress has been growing as we're cooped up together, here are amazing tools to ease the tension with your partner. Dr Stan Tatkin, legendary relationship therapist and author of Wired for Dating and Wired for Love, teaches us techniques to break the tension and return to a place of caring for each other. Valuable relationship insights for today and always, whether you've been together for years, or are just at the beginning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Hanson is a psychologist and New York Times best-selling author. He delivers wisdom from the worlds of psychology, neuroscience, and buddhism. He is one of the leading experts in the world on happiness and resilience, and his brand new book is called Neurodharma, New Science, Ancient Wisdom and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness. In today’s interview, he shares the brain science and wisdom that led him to the 7 practices or ways of being that can help us to cultivate an unshakable presence of mind, a courageous heart, inner peace and serenity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nataly Kogan is an author, former VC and the founder of Happier, a global technology and learning platform helping individuals and organizations to realize their full potential by adopting scientifically-proven practices and tools to improve their well-being. In this interview, we talk about emotional health at work during challenge and uncertainty. Nataly goes through 5 skills that can help reduce stress and overwhelm, strategies to foster more human connection and practices that can help strengthen a culture of openness, kindness and gratitude. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Jeffrey Rubin is a psychotherapist and author of the book, The Art of Flourishing, a Guide to Mindfulness, Self Care and Love in a Chaotic World. His pioneering approach combines psychotherapy and mindfulness. He shares that flourishing is all about the choices we make and how we live our lives. His book covers wisdom for both self-care and relationships. We talked a bit about the current crisis in the beginning of the interview and he shared how important it is for us to relax into our challenges and search for the opportunities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest Frank Ostaseski shares comforting and inspiring truths on how we live and die and on what matters most. When we get to the end of our lives, he says, the two questions most often asked are: "Did I love well?" and "Am I loved?" His teachings show us that we can live with joy and sorrow, and live a rich life filled with love Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diana Winston is one of the top Mindfulness educators in the country. She is the director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. She’s also the author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness and co-author of Fully Present: The Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness. Both of these books are treasures. In the first part of this conversation we discuss how we can use our mindfulness practice to help us find some stability and inner peace during the CV pandemic. Diana talks about acceptance, dealing with uncertainty and finding equanimity. Then, in the second part of our conversation, she shares the spectrum of awareness practices including focused awareness, flexible awareness and natural awareness. She’s an incredibly gifted teacher and expresses herself with authenticity, humor and grace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this meditation, Chrissy Carter will guide you to a more balanced place. She invites you to let go of news overwhelm and to embrace the positive, shifting your perspective to a place of calm awareness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laughter boosts your immunity and gets your body out of fight or flight. Laughter is not a frivolous act in these times, it's a valuable tool to have in your tool chest. Come laugh along with us, learn the science of laughter, and how to regularly bring laughter into your house even during these times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices