Essential Conversations with Rabbi Rami from Spirituality & Health Magazine

Brian McLaren, author of Faith After Doubt

Brian McLaren is a leading voice advocating for a new kind of Christianity. He was featured in Spirituality and Health’s January/February 2021 issue as one of the seven trailblazers who are helping define the future of spirituality. He and Rabbi ...

Author Natalie Goldberg

Rabbi Rami's guest this week is author Natalie Goldberg. She is the author of 15 books, including the classic Writing Down the Bones, (Shambhala, 1986). Her new book is Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland ...

Podcast: Progressive minister Rev. Jes Kast

Rabbi Rami’s guest this week is Rev. Jes Kast. She is a pastor at Faith United Church of Christ in State College, Penn. Rev. Kast is featured as one of the trailblazers in the Jan./Feb. 2021 issue of Spirituality and ...

Author Sarah Wilson

Individualism and capitalism are simply not working. Author Sarah Wilson talks with Rabbi Rami about the challenges we face as humans, such as climate change and racial injustice, and proposes healthier systems to heal a fractured world.

Podcast: Dr. Lydia Dugdale on the Lost Art of Dying

Who do you want at your deathbed? We do not like to think about such things, yet we will all die, and wrestling with such finitude can actually make our lives richer. Rabbi Rami’s guest this week is Lydia Dugdale ...

Lama Rod Owens

Lama Rod Owens is a Buddhist minister, activist, yoga instructor and authorized Lama (Buddhist teacher) in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. Owens holds a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and has given talks, retreats and workshops ...

Podcast: Jaimal Yogis

Podcast: Psychologist Rick Hanson

Did you know we can reverse-engineer happiness and contentment by warming up our body’s own neural circuitry? That is the essence of the new book, Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness, by Rick Hanson, ...

Podcast: Sarah Bowen

This week’s guest is Sarah Bowen. Bowen is an award-winning author, multifaith spiritual educator, animal chaplain, and is completing postgraduate work at Chicago Theological Seminary on the intersection of human spiritual values and animal welfare. A lot of people’s theology ...

Podcast: Spirituality in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 4

This is the final episode in Rabbi Rami’s special four-part series on how to stay healthy from social, psychological, and spiritual perspectives during the COVID-19 crisis. This week, Rabbi Rami focuses on the Buddhist practice of metta, or lovingkindness, which ...

David Kessler, grief expert

“Your loss is not a test, it is not a blessing, it is not a plan. Loss it what happens in life. Meaning is what we make after,” says David Kessler. Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on ...

Podcast: Spirituality in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 3

This is the third episode in a four-part podcast series on maintaining spiritual and emotional wellness during the COVID-19 crisis. Rabbi Rami’s guest today is Frank Levy. Based in Alabama, Levy is the retired Bureau Chief of Public Health Preparedness ...

Podcast: Spirituality in the Time of Coronavirus, Part 1

In this special four-part series, Rabbi Rami gives counsel on how to stay healthy from social, psychological, and spiritual perspectives during the COVID-19 crisis.

Teacher, healer, and author Spring Washam

This week, Rabbi Rami interviews Spring Washam. Spring is a well-known meditation teacher and author based in California and Peru. One of the founders and core teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center in downtown Oakland, Calif., Spring has been ...

Dr. Will Cole, functional medicine specialist

This week, Rabbi Rami speaks with Dr. Will Cole, a functional medicine practitioner based in Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Inflammation Spectrum: Find Your Food Triggers and Reset Your System.

Kelly McGonigal on the Joy of Movement

Rabbi Rami speaks with Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University, about her latest book, "The Joy of Movement." It looks at how physically moving the body is not only a way to treat depression, anxiety, and ...

Joel Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams

Rabbi Rami speaks with the husband-and-wife team of Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack. Primack is a distinguished professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz and a world-renowned cosmologist; Abrams is an author and speaker. Together, they explore issues about ...

Scott Shay on the value of monotheism

“What does it mean to believe in a monotheistic god?” asks Scott Shay, author of the new book In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism. It in, one of his main goals is to show that it is as rational ...

Barbara Brown Taylor

In this podcast, Barbara and Rabbi Rami have a wide-ranging discussion, including talking about some of the Christian traditions that have gotten lost in Protestantism—such as early contemplative practices, and Mary/the divine feminine archetype—that are now being re-discovered and embraced.

Pouria Montazeri

Julie Peters

Staff writer Julie Peters talks with Rabbi Rami about her new book, Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure After Sexual Assault.

Jane Brox

Jane Brox is the author of several books, including Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives. Listen to Rabbi Rami and Jane Brox discuss silence, conversation, and talking about what really matters.

Stuart Brody

Is It OK to Hog a Table at Starbucks? A closer look at a small thing so many of us do. Rabbi Rami talks to Stuart Brody about how looking closely at our small actions can help us move closer ...

Sara Gottfried on Eating for Energy and Mental Sharpness

Dr. Sara Gottfried is the author of three New York Times bestsellers and was featured in the January/February issue of Spirituality & Health. She talks with Rabbi Rami about her latest book, Brain Body Diet.

Igniting Your Inner Pilot Light with Lissa Rankin

How daily love letters became a tool for healing and tapping into intuition.