In which I hum with you, and hum with my audience. They say good things happen when you are aligned. Mind, body, spirit, work, play. Discipline. Practices. Aligned. I've been watching The Last Dragon with my son. An essential part of the hip hop cinema canon, and so fucking good. Peace, he says, be my sanctuary. Oh, just a beautiful film. One of the things I like most about it, is how weird the heroine is, how gorgeous and totally strange and searing and true she when she sings. Sexiness...

Lay Your Head on My Pillow has gone live. Episode 11 was recorded in community at Octavia's Bookshelf, one of LA's beloved independent bookstores. Host, Dr. Roopa Bala Singh (hi), tells stories, shares laughs, and hums with a live and loving audience. The podcast will be live all through 2024, and episodes will post biweekly (like a paycheck, mid-month and end of month). Video: Here is a short visual of a joke about parenting and the morning race to school, and the full episode will be ...

Hum, a poem by Mary Oliver. A place to stay in riyaaz, the hum. Hum, a way of bridging the gap between comfort in public speaking and discomfort in singing. Hum, a method of filling the body with sound. youtube: @laypodig: @dr.roopabalasinghemail: [email protected]

In this episode of the Lay Your Head on My Pillow Podcast I riff on Silent Night, the classic Christmas song, which is sweet, and beautiful in its prayer, for a mother and child to be present where "all is calm, all is bright." This is unplugged, acapella, not mixed down. Just chilling, and sharing a slice of my daily life. The song also brings in the idea of the Virgin. This reminds me of innocence. I've been listening to Krishnamurti more, and innocence is central to his definition of ...

Dec 17 is the day we celebrate Rumi, his union with the beloved, his death. So this episode is dedicated to Mevlana Jalal Al Din Rumi, including some insights into the politics of translating Rumi, into his father - also a scandalously sensual scholar and jurist (ahem). I share some Rumi poems, and talk about crying. And share a remix to a poem I once read in a Stephen King book some decades back, a tongue twister from the early 1900's. youtube: @laypodig: @dr.roopabalasinghemail: r@roop...

Today I share 6 healings for betrayal. Welcome to the Lay Your Head on My Pillow podcast, where the vibe is cozy, hopefully sweet, and the intention is to, you know, offer some wisdom with some warmth. In a cold cold world, you know, full of so much ignorance, swirling around. So let's get into it.Today, I'm going to be talking about betrayal, focusing on self betrayal. Such as the betrayal of what you thought were good friends, lifelong friends, childhood friends or your true love...

WelcomeWhy fast?A list of reasons why I fastFasting and Romance: PoemsFood, addiction, healing & supporting our digestion & "gut instinct"youtube: @laypodig: @dr.roopabalasinghemail: [email protected]

Welcome to the Lay Your Head on My Pillow Podcast. I am Roopa, Dr. Roopa Bala Singh. I am doing this podcast, especially for those who are curious about sex and romance after sexual violence. I want to be clear that when I say it's a podcast for those curious about sex and romance after sexual violence, I want to be clear that there really is an after, but there's also really not an after. So I myself, for example, I'm approaching a halfway point where at least half of my life I wi...

The author's podcast evolves to give the author time to write. Hello again. We start with a little bit about me, and why I am doing a podcast with - what - literally me, myself, and I, as De La Soul sang. I used to have a traditional podcast, it was called Critical Yoga Studies, in which I interviewed luminary friends. The Lay Pod is a little more jazz, in the sense of being experimental & based on years of meticulous practice. What’s the experiment? How to live, and why live, in my ...

Stevie Wonder sang, love's in need, of a love today. That's true. So that's what we are doing in this episode. Love song in Hindi, dedicated to the lonely. It's a thread, an idea I am excited to share with you. Love scene from my forthcoming novel: "He knows a lot about songs." Journal excerpt: Intelligence is fraught for women, for many - from my workshop series on A.I. at Octavia's Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in Los Angeles, CA.Guided meditation: Maitri practice, a lo...