This is a conversation from and about the heart as a doorway to presence and healing with John Prendergast Ph. D. John is psychotherapist and non-dual spiritual teacher who bridges the non-gap between spacious-awake-awareness and embodied-heartfulness. 

John's website - 

http://listeningfromsilence.com/

Link to John's recent book, The Deep Heart

https://www.soundstrue.com/products/the-deep-heart

This is a recording I made on the fourth night of a multi-day surf/meditation retreat. I speak to the fear I hold around Love, if all this is really Love, what is there to do? 

This is an enlivening conversation with Reichian Psychotherapist, Daniel Schiff, PHD. Daniel has a tremendous amount of wisdom to share in regards to being a person in a body and all the ways our body-mind gets indoctrinated into locked patterns that restrict the inherent aliveness of our humanness from freely flowing. Enjoy. 

In this brief prayer I share about my journey through the day. True to a contemplative retreat, there was deep struggle and coming to terms with what is. I share about finally "breaking through" into the emotion and reconnecting to the gratitude of being alive. 

This is a conversation with Dr. Sarah around her work as a Clinical Psychologist doing psychedelic integration with clients. She shares her about her journey into the work and her perspectives on what supports safe journeying and how to integrate these numinous and sometimes challenging experiences into our daily lives. 

Dr. Sarah's website

http://www.phoenixrisingpsychology.com/

Link to MAPS website 

https://maps.org/

This is a prayer from night two of a recent SurfWorship trip. Here is explore what it means to embrace life as the great teacher and healer and what it means to serve suffering with joy. 

This is a conversation with my Zen teacher Kakumyo recorded in October before I headed on a month long meditation, surf trip. He was helping me orient and prepare for the trip. 

Kakumyo is a transmitted teacher in the Soto Zen tradition and currently the abbot of Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland Oregon. He has practiced with Dharma rain since 1998, received transmission in 2012 and has been Abbot since 2019. 

If you want to connect with Dharma Rain Zen center, check out there website at:

https://dharma-rain.org/

I recently took a 10 day journey down the West Coast, searching for waves and wanting to connect to the wild-heart. I call these trips, SurfWorship, where I blend what I know of contemplative retreats with a surf trip and see what happens. Here is a recording from night one with my redwood friends. 

A conversation with my dear dharma brother, really my first dharma family, Nathan Railla, a lifelong buddhist and practitioner in the Shambhala lineage. We touch on themes of basic goodness, enlightened society, how to talk about secret tantric practices and working with a guru.

In this van top prayer, I share of my love for mother earth and my desire to be in harmonious relationship with her while surrounded the mountains outside Joshua Tree. Do enjoy and try to listen when you can be in a more meditative, receptive space or not?