Awakin Calls

Two decades ago, in her early days as a healer, Margaretta "Maggie" McIlvaine had supported patients through invasive surgeries, monitoring energy fields and chakra systems. But while standing beside a client's exposed heart at a hospital in Charlott...

As a teenager, Cortland Dahl once fainted on stage from the sheer force of his social anxiety. That debilitating phobia would become the unlikely doorway to a life spent in Himalayan retreat caves, neuroscience laboratories, and meditation halls on s...

"Each of us is on a journey back to the Love that we already are — whether we recognize it or not. The gift and challenge of being human is that suffering, in all its forms, can become a doorway Home." – Melinda Edwards, MD

Melinda Edwar...

"But in the end, the mountain has the last say." That was a phrase Shrinivas Sainis Dattatraya lived by — data analyst, mountaineer, dog rescuer, and the quiet, unwavering anchor in his wife Sushma Soma's life. On May 19, 2023, Shri summited Mo...

Rudy Karsan walks onto the stage looking the part of a successful entrepreneur: charcoal suit, wired microphone, confident stride. What catches your attention is the smile—wide, unguarded, unmistakably joyful. At this point in his life, he call...

[Please note this call is on Sunday, unlike our usual Saturday slot. Also, it marks the launch of a deeper collective inquiry with the"Gandhi Today" Pod. Learn more & join here.]

"I'm going to take you out of politics," the Indian spiritual...

"Picture yourself sitting at a table," Mark Moore, founder of MANA Nutrition, says. "Take your phone and slide it right to the edge. Now if something bumps the table, your phone will fall and crack."

For children born in South Sudan or the Democrati...

[This is the 4th conversation of Awakin AI Series. Following this call, you are welcome to join 1-week peer-learning "Pod"  for a deeper dive.]  

What happens when an engineer who built a multimillion-dollar company discovers the worl...

“I was, according to my mother, a difficult baby—miserable, impatient, unable to handle any kind of physical discomfort.” Born Steve Young in 1944 in Los Angeles, he failed algebra and geometry, disappointing his parents—until...

This call explores poetry not as performance or consolation, but as a lived practice of presence — a way of staying with what is tender, unfinished, and real. Together, we’ll listen for how language arises from the body, how loss and love...