Every day in Hollywood we are surrounded by the sights and sounds of people clawing their way to success in their perceived paradigm of happiness. You have to be tough, you’ll need a little talent and you’ll probably have to eat some kale. But some say success in Tinseltown means selling your soul, handing over your innocence and compromising your principles. For many that may be true but for our guest today, it’s all about being a better person. In a town someone once called the City of Satan, Ben Dornbush is finding a taste of what some might call... enlightenment.

LA is famous for many things, fast cars, big budget films, beautiful people and the struggle for all who venture here to “make it." Can you “make it" if you don’t make it big? Can you be happy if you don’t strike it rich? Ben Dornbush joins the boys on Unofficial this week to talk about his emotional, spiritual and physiological journey as a hard working yoga practitioner and teacher, navigating the hurdles of everyday existence and also stumbling over reminders of just how magical the universe that surrounds us, really is. Preserved nutrients, liver and kidney detoxifications, candida cleanses? Entheogens?? Pratyahara??? Ben’s search into himself has even taken him from Agnosticism to an opinion on god that is now technically more TBD. The mark of a humble man, a selfless student of the cosmos, always ready for the next opportunity to learn. Accepting the unknown, healing the self by holistic means and embracing the absence of sensory gratification. Ben sees the world as perfect, just the way it is...Gleaned in a town that is mostly famous for the grand theft of real art, drug overdoses and sex-crimes. No small feat, my friend.

Every week Coop&Myan introduce a random element into the Unofficial equation for an off-the-cuff discussion that usually tangents in directions impossible to predict. But this week Ben Dornbush does a pretty good job bringing the discussion back to himself and his journey in LA as a progressivly developing human being, utilizing meditation, Yoga and the periodic practice of fasting. Many of us get cranky if we go 14 minutes without a snack so can you imagine 14 days? Ben takes being on a cleanse to levels unfamiliar to the average American and does it in a town famous for wood-fired pizza, epic sushi and comfort-food trucks that literally pull up to you on the side of the street.

The challenge on the path toward enlightenment is a real one and Ben dives in and finds a host of personal benefits from chakra-connected emotional clarity, to diarrhea-related detoxification. It may not be pretty but no one ever said being a better person was a lilty jaunt through a dewy meadow. So hat’s off to you, Unofficial’s spirit-animal, Ben Dornbush.