[Note: This call blends both conversation and movement practice.] Many of us spend our days thinking, planning, willing our bodies to obey — as if life happens only from the neck up. For dancer-philosopher Kimerer LaMothe, that disconnection ma...

As all real poetry is, his poems exist beyond the empirical, the rational, the obedient, the quiet or, even worse, the quieted. He brims with exuberance…To speak of him, his spirit and his work, is a gift in itself. - Mary Oliver from the Pref...

“Education is the root system underlying all other systems.” Zoe Weil’s life traces that conviction from a teenage fascination with Star Trek’s just and peaceful future to discovering humane education in 1987, co-founding...

Six minutes into a presentation on the science of healthy aging, Peter Wayne, a researcher and professor at Harvard Medical School, takes a pause from his slides. As if performing a martial arts maneuver, Peter flows from dense objective data to subj...

In a black Japanese robe, with a friendly rat nestled upon his shoulder, Bart Weetjens smiles for the camera. The unexpected seems to be one of his trademarks, and his work in the world evokes a similar sense of surprise, integrating two roles not of...

"Just get up one morning and ask your heart." — Advice that changed everything

At 35, self-described "party girl" Grace Dammann asked her heart what she was meant to do and heard: "Go to medical school." Despite having no love for science, she...

Richard Lang was just a teenager searching for truth when he found himself in a quiet room with Douglas Harding in 1970. Harding, author of On Having No Head, didn’t hand him a philosophy. He offered experiments and direct experiences in self-i...

[*Please note the call time, different from usual Awakin Calls] Long before spiritual integrity became a rallying cry, Jac O’Keeffe was drawn to life’s deeper questions. Born and raised in Ireland, she studied theology and adult education...

For Paul Livingstone, a sitarist and composer deeply rooted in the traditions of Indian classical music, jazz, and world music, such a fire wasn’t just a physical one. In 2023, when the Eaton Fire ravaged his Altadena neighborhood outside of Lo...

Ameeta Kaul’s life unfolded along familiar lines: a bright upbringing in Mumbai, where devotion and intellectual rigor braided together in her family’s values; a steady pursuit of conventional success that carried her through the first th...