Inner Truth with David Newell

What does it mean to properly inhabit our bodies?

What lies within us that we can tap into through greater understanding of our feelings, emotions and biology?

Embodiment Coach Nadine Lee talks about what it means to reawaken our often depleted sensuality, reconnect to our bodies and access our unique wisdom.

If you're interested in how to really feel fully alive, this is an episode for you.

Poetry might not be embraced by the masses (only 5% of people read poetry in the USA), but where it is, it seems to have a transformative effect on people.

Perhaps none more so than one of the most famous poets, Rumi, a 13th-century Persian sufi cleric.

Why would an Islamic mystic, dead 800 years, be one of the most popular poets in the West in the 21st century. How does he connect to readers and what can we learn about ourselves from sufism and poetry in general?

If you're interested in understanding the power of poetry and sufism, this wonderful episode is for you.

What's going on inside our hearts?

Is it all emotion, attachment, craving, or is there a constancy there? A divine light of some sort?

For millennia, there has been a Indian yogic tradition that honours the divine light within each of us by meditating on the heart and its presence within each of us.

Followers of the practice report incredible stillness and inner peace.

So how do we tap into our heart and the divine light within? Best-selling author and heartfulness expert Joshua Pollock answers the questions.

If you're interested in exploring heart-centered meditation practice, this episode is for you.

How do you know when a boy has become a man?

Is it measured by age or some psychological threshold through which he has passed?

As men grow up, take on power and responsibility, these questions become increasingly acute, particularly in this modern era where the feminine is rising in the collective and questioning hundreds of years of masculine imbalance.

In this fascinating discussion with masculinity writer and speaker Eamon Armstrong, we dive into what's happening with men today, how the loss of male rites of passage has contributed to a major loss of masculine maturity, and what can be done to create balance for everyone's sake.

If you're interested in the ways men can transform into inspiring lovers and leaders, this episode is for you.

What can children teach us about our own inner child?

Is what they want from us (to be listened to), the same thing we all crave deep down?

This week we explore these questions of listening and connection as they relate to both children and parents and adult-to-adult relationships to see how witnessing and expression of feelings is absolutely vital to an emotionally healthy past, present and future.

If you're interested in how to connect more deeply to yourself and others, this fascinating episode with the wonderful parenting counsellor Roma Norris is for you.

How much do you write and what do you write about?

Have you ever thought about it as a way to access your inner truth?

Many people say that writing has saved their lives and yet often we might feel like we're not a born writer or we don't know where to start. My guest this week specialises in helping people use writing to access their innermost truths and fall in love with themselves in the process.

If you've been holding off on a writing passion or want to go deeper into exploring your own imagination, this wonderful episode with the poet Albert Flynn DeSilver is for you.

Taoism is one of the oldest forms of spirituality and has a beautiful simplicity that can sometimes confound the mind.

One of its seminal books – The I'Ching – stands for the 'easy way' and speaks about how coming into alignment with the forces of life (called the 'Tao') is what brings true harmony.

It can be a super esoteric and abstract mode of spirituality as so do demystify it all I went back to my first ever spiritual teacher – Nilima Raichoudhury – a 30 year Taoist, to help explain things.

If you're interested in Taoism, how to find more flow in your life and how to cultivate life wisdom, this episode is for you.

What does tantra mean to you?

A common perspective is its just sensual sexual, some wild rituals and something practiced by a select few hedonistic people.

But look a bit more deeply and tantra is actually huge body of ancient wisdom that encompasses the way we look at our body, mind and soul as well as our romantic relationships and our gifts to give to the world.

To demystify things and learn about the simple tantric practices we can incorporate into our lives, I spoke with Shiva Rajaya, one of the best known tantra coaches in Bali.

If you're interested in sexual and life mastery, this fascinating episode is for you.

Yoga and meditation have exploded in popularity in the last two decades and many styles, modalities and philosophies now prevail in the West.

With so much choice how do you know what works best and whether you're doing it right?

This week features meditation and yoga expert Josh Summers to talk about the differences between yin and yang approaches to both meditation and yoga and how to practice each effectively.

If you're interested in understanding yoga and meditation more deeply as well as finding answers to common pitfalls with both, this episode is for you.

What if everything that happens to us in life really is for our own benefit?

The breakups, job losses, conflicts – all fuel for something much more profound, peace and deep insight.

How can we open ourselves up to it?

Amoda Maa – Spiritual Teacher and Author – discusses what it means to bring a tender openness to all our experience so that we can realize this most noble of life experiences.

If you're interested in getting deeply intimate with life, this is an episode for you.