Dr. Armaiti May, DVM, is an integrative house call veterinarian, and vegan advocate. She is also the founder of Veterinary Association for the Protection of Animals (VAPA) a non-profit organization to educate the veterinary profession about the benefits of vegan eating and encourage veterinary schools to offer humane surgical teaching methods to students. In this episode we talk veganism, helping homeless pets, and vaccines.

Travis Eliot & Lauren Eckstrom are a married couple who've been sharing yoga across the globe for years, including bringing yoga inside prisons and changing the lives of the incarcerated. It begs the question; if those behind bars had been exposed to this practice in early years, would their lives have ended up differently? As Travis talks about the "product of our environments", we reflect on our own lives, the environments we were brought up in, and the state of the environments we create for ourselves.

Laraine Salazar interviews mother and yoga instructor Alexis Cox about the real day in, day out roles of motherhood that often go unspoken on a conventional level. The breakdown of the “village” and its modern day effects, the generational myths we’ve somehow been led to believe and the good, the hard and the unpredictable aspects of motherhood. You can find more information at radhahomeyoga.com

In light of the recent celebrity suicides, Laraine Salazar talks with returning guest Beki Hill, student of psychiatry, about the loss she's experienced, and together they dig deep into the ways people deal with grief.