Over the last ten years, Alyson Atma Simms has gone through more than her fair share of loss. With each passing of a loved one, Alyson explains that every experience is different, and grief is never linear. As a yoga teacher, Alyson is intimately familiar with the internal mind/body connection — and when combined with her gift for writing, she is a…

As a Kripalu Yoga instructor and somatic movement therapist, Janet Farnsworth is no stranger to the on-going war we have with our bodies — the constant barrage of voices that berate our imperfections, damning our “flaws” and holding us to the impossible societal standards of beauty and perfection. In her new book, Love Your Body, Janet shares how a…

Growing up the daughter of a Japanese American mother and a father of French-Canadian descent, Fran Tatu was raised with an immense capacity for compassion for others. Her parents were human rights activists, her father a U.S. diplomat, and between the ages of 6 months and 16 years, Fran lived in over nine different countries, mostly in Southeast A…

For centuries, our species has used storytelling for entertainment, to document our history, to heal our hearts, and even to survive. Without it, our world would be less colorful, more binary, and certainly less magical. As a novelist and playwright, Josh Wagner is no stranger to the power of a story, and in this episode, he reminds us that life is…