COZY ZONE with Ben Weber

Ellice is a sweet friend from Cedarburg, WI  I met in Brooklyn. She makes me laugh and feel loved.

Image: A View from Ellice’s Nice Office Bathroom

Follow along with these gorgeous tracks:

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong “Collom Balem” by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: Embracing the Chaos

TRACK 5: Prakruti

TRACK 6: Kapha Vata

TRACK 7: Captain Ben

TRACK 8: Why Tarot?

TRACK 9: Hurt Now, Comfort Later

TRACK 10: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 11: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Here is Ellice’s bio from her healing practice Brooklyn Whole Health:

ELLICE PLANT is dedicated to developing wholeness in mind, body, and spirit. Her studies and practice led her to the teachings of Dr. Naina Marballi, who initiated Ellice into Ayurvedic teachings. As a certified holistic health counselor, Ellice feels honored to further her own learning through guiding others to whole health and understanding. As a social worker, Ellice works toward systemic change that makes liberation is accessible for all. In these practices, Ellice is continuously reminded that the anti-violence and anti-oppression work of the world happens on the individual level, first.

Ellice works with individuals, families, and groups as they work to transform patterns and purpose. Our work together examines areas including relationship status, gender identity and expression, health, and career. The thirteen years Ellice spent teaching high school give her special insight with adolescents and their caregivers. As a cisgender queer woman, Ellice has both personal and professional experience in creating healthy, nourishing spaces for queer and trans people and those who love them.

Ellice is a sweet friend from Cedarburg, WI  I met in Brooklyn. She makes me laugh and feel loved.

Follow along with these gorgeous tracks:

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong “Skylight” by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: My Office

TRACK 5: Treatment

TRACK 6: Ayurveda

TRACK 7: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 8: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Here is Ellice’s bio from her healing practice Brooklyn Whole Health:

ELLICE PLANT is dedicated to developing wholeness in mind, body, and spirit. Her studies and practice led her to the teachings of Dr. Naina Marballi, who initiated Ellice into Ayurvedic teachings. As a certified holistic health counselor, Ellice feels honored to further her own learning through guiding others to whole health and understanding. As a social worker, Ellice works toward systemic change that makes liberation is accessible for all. In these practices, Ellice is continuously reminded that the anti-violence and anti-oppression work of the world happens on the individual level, first.

Ellice works with individuals, families, and groups as they work to transform patterns and purpose. Our work together examines areas including relationship status, gender identity and expression, health, and career. The thirteen years Ellice spent teaching high school give her special insight with adolescents and their caregivers. As a cisgender queer woman, Ellice has both personal and professional experience in creating healthy, nourishing spaces for queer and trans people and those who love them.

On Saturday June 6, 2015 I spent the day in one of my coziest zones: FIGMENT NYC on Governors Island.

On Side G, I meet Ruby Pearl, a toddler, who shares her thoughts about

The Octonauts and blowing up balloons. She is flanked by her entourage Mommy, Daddy, and Bubbe.

Photo by Melanie Rieders

Terrance Brown is a master of fitness. He visits Planet Fitness five to six times a week. Terrance is also an attractive, caring, thoughtful, and generous man. He will train you through his company Okami Fitness. Please enjoy our intense, courageous, vulnerable, and moving conversation!

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong “Pizza Shawty” by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: Abs

TRACK 5: Prospect Park Station Mural

TRACK 6: Summer Fun

TRACK 7: Bake and Shark

TRACK 8: “Okami Wellness” by Terrance Brown and Ben Weber, A Project of The Cozy Zone Foundation

TRACK 9: Why Cozy Zone?

TRACK 10: A Musical Sound

TRACK 11: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 12: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Honeybears,

I feel sick to my stomach that we just elected Donald J. Trump President of the United States. I wanted to soothe myself and you by making a special Cozy Zone episode. Please enjoy!

Much love,

Ben

Terrance Brown is a master of fitness. He visits Planet Fitness five to six times a week. Terrance is also an attractive, caring, thoughtful, and generous man. He will train you through his company Okami Fitness. Please enjoy our intense, courageous, vulnerable, and moving conversation!

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: Black Lives Matter

TRACK 5: The First Black Man on Cozy Zone

TRACK 6: Your Work is Inspiring

TRACK 7: What Can We Do?

TRACK 8: Why Am I Still Here?

TRACK 9: Self-Help Books

TRACK 10: Grandfather

TRACK 11: Janice at American Eagle

TRACK 12: Someone Like Me

TRACK 13: Religion?

TRACK 14: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 15: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Terrance Brown is a master of fitness. He visits Planet Fitness five to six times a week. Terrance is also an attractive, caring, thoughtful, and generous man. He will train you through his company Okami Fitness. Please enjoy our intense, courageous, vulnerable, and moving conversation!

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: Creed

TRACK 5: Rage

TRACK 6: Goals

TRACK 7: Sex

TRACK 8: A Collection of Weights

TRACK 9: Kamau + Smokey

TRACK 10: $100 for Ten Minutes

TRACK 11: Body Pride

TRACK 12: Meme-ified 

TRACK 13: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 14: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Terrance Brown is a master of fitness. He visits Planet Fitness five to six times a week. Terrance is also an attractive, caring, thoughtful, and generous man. He will train you through his company Okami Fitness. Please enjoy our intense, courageous, vulnerable, and moving conversation!

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: Music + Heroes

TRACK 5: Okami Fitness

TRACK 6: Goals

TRACK 7: What is the Dream?

TRACK 8: Dad

TRACK 9: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 10: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Terrance Brown is a master of fitness. He visits Planet Fitness five to six times a week. Terrance is also an attractive, caring, thoughtful, and generous man. He will train you through his company Okami Fitness. Please enjoy our intense, courageous, vulnerable, and moving conversation!

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4: I’m Not Really A Gym Goer

TRACK 5: Planet Fitness Gym At Prospect Park

TRACK 6: Origin Story – I Don’t Ever Want To Be This Weak

TRACK 7: Underground Cage Fighting

TRACK 8: Should We Face Our Weakness?

TRACK 9: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 10: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend

Lisa Locascio is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in English at Wesleyan University.

One time, she made me a woo woo with Blue Curacao at her dad’s basement bar in River Forest, IL and I puked up Ethiopian food all night.

She holds a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, an MFA from New York University, and a PhD from the University of Southern California.

I read Stuart Dybek’s Pet Milk at her wedding and felt shy about the saying the sexy part at the end out loud in front of all those well-dressed people.

Lisa’s work appears in The Believer, Salon, n+1, Tin House Flash Fridays, Bookforum, Sou’wester, Santa Monica Review, American Short Fiction, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Faultline, and many other journals.

We lived together in the East Village during undergrad where I would often find her in a mud mask and barely-fastened silk robe, demanding pizza, while we shrieked with intoxicant-fueled laughter.

She is editor of the anthology Golden State 2017: The Best Fiction and Nonfiction from California, which will be published by Outpost19 Books in 2017, co-publisher of Joyland,  and editor at the ekphrastic collaboration magazine 7×7.

Lisa invited me to her home in Los Angeles where she showed me her altar room, filled with crystals, talismans, and other objects that channel and magnify her formidable power.

Please enjoy SIDE E of my beloved friend Lisa’s cozy zone.

TRACK 1: Intro Themesong by Danny Townsend

TRACK 2: Circlesong by Ben Weber

TRACK 3: Intro by Ben Weber

TRACK 4:  “Redwood Home School / Desert Home School” by Lisa Locascio and Ben Weber, A Project of The Cozy Zone Foundation

TRACK 5: Thé Adoré 

TRACK 6: Outro by Ben Weber

TRACK 7: Outro Themesong by Danny Townsend