Episodes

Saturday Jan 18, 2020
My Heartsongs Podcast #79 My Recent Arrest
Saturday Jan 18, 2020
Saturday Jan 18, 2020
A couple of months ago, I was one of 21 adults arrested at the NM State Capitol in support of Youth United For Climate Crisis Action. Catastrophe can be averted through community, companies and countries getting their collective act together, and realizing that the time to act is yesterday.

Saturday Jan 11, 2020
My Heartsongs Podcast #78: Using The On Off Switch
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
Saturday Jan 11, 2020
We each have some daily dependence & intimate relationship with our devices, and the emerging deep learning algorithms that continue to transform every aspect of human endeavor and experience. Are we really paying attention about how to align Artificial Intelligence ethically and legally with our most cherished values?

Friday Jan 03, 2020
My Heartsongs Podcast #77: Welcome to 2020
Friday Jan 03, 2020
Friday Jan 03, 2020
New day new year new decade new chapter in the book of our life. New Year’s resolutions might be a good example of our lack of individual emotional smarts, since half of them are dropped within a month. Here are five emotional barriers that may get in our way in terms of following through on what we say we are about this new year.

Saturday Dec 28, 2019
My Heartsongs Podcast #76 Holiday Blues
Saturday Dec 28, 2019
Saturday Dec 28, 2019
Holidays – with their expectations of joyous celebration and social niceties – are anything but for millions of people who find little comfort in old family wounds, and re-igniting of addictive or personal less-than-skillful habits and triggers. Here are my “three chords and the truth” to get through.

Saturday Dec 21, 2019
My Heartsongs Podcast #75 Solstice Blessings
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
How to find a space of appreciation no matter what is unfolding? Solstice is always a time, as we begin anew to enter the light, to focus on what is good and true. I am blessed to be alive…

Saturday Dec 14, 2019
My Heartsongs Podcast #74 : Sacred Music
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
From ancient Egyptians to Australian aborigines, sound healing is a primordial practice that uses musical instruments that vibrate at particular frequencies, or the voice chanting mantras, to cultivate immersive meditation or relaxation. This week I had the privilege of listening to the Drepung Loseling monks offer their sacred multiphonic chanting for individual, social, environmental and global healing.

Saturday Dec 07, 2019
My Heartsongs Podcast #73 Longing and Legacy
Saturday Dec 07, 2019
Saturday Dec 07, 2019

Saturday Nov 30, 2019
My Heartsongs Podcast #72 Conscious Aging Part Four
Saturday Nov 30, 2019
Saturday Nov 30, 2019
The reality is always that ENERGY FLOWS WHERE ATTENTION GOES. Whenever we bring ourselves back to right here right now, our bodies respond with a burst of life force. The paradox is that during duress trying to escape the present is always less effective – and often more destructive – than fully entering into our pain and discomfort, consciously softening it and working with it rather than against it.

Saturday Nov 23, 2019
My Heartsongs Podcast #71 Conscious Aging Part Three
Saturday Nov 23, 2019
Saturday Nov 23, 2019
Nothing like a sudden encounter with the flu – as is happening this week – to kindle the inner flames of thankfulness. This week we focus on living in gratitude, one of the four internal power threads of conscious aging, empowering perspectives worth cultivating.

Saturday Nov 16, 2019
My Heartsongs Podcast #70 Conscious Aging Part Two
Saturday Nov 16, 2019
Saturday Nov 16, 2019
Conscious aging asks us to do our best to keep both our bodies and our minds flexible, willing to discover a different inventive way, to navigate new challenges before us. When we can muster the mindset of adjust and adapt, struggle frustration and efforting go out the window, replaced by calm and resourceful acceptance.