Odyssey & Alchemy: Men's Inner Transformation and Depth Psychology with Martin Prihoda

If you've ever felt disconnected from yourself — this episode is the map back.

Eoin Finn is one of Canada's most celebrated yoga teachers and movement philosophers — founder of Blissology, author of Yoga Optimized, and a man who has spent 35 years bridging the science of the body with the wisdom of the soul.

In this conversation we explore men's work through the lens of somatic healing — how emotions live in the body as physical tension long before the mind catches up, why vulnerability is the real gateway into shadow integration and subconscious healing, and what it actually means to build a life of conscious masculinity rooted in the body's intelligence rather than the mind's stories about itself.

This is Martin's most-played episode for a reason — proof that the body already knows the way back, if you're just willing to listen to it.

If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more men find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living, is available now.

James Cameron didn't want a song at the end of Titanic. Robert Kraft helped change his mind.

Robert Kraft is one of Hollywood's most storied music executives — an award-winning composer, producer, and the former President of Fox Music. Over a remarkable career spanning four decades, he helped shape some of the most beloved soundtracks in cinema history: The Little Mermaid, Titanic, Avatar, The Mambo Kings, Ice Storm, Life of Pi, and many more. He also launched Jim Henson Records, worked alongside Ang Lee and Chris Columbus, produced Seth MacFarlane's most absurd passion project, and somehow ended up with Miss Piggy in a leather jacket singing Born to Be Wild with Ozzy Osbourne.

But this conversation isn't just about Hollywood. It's about what happens when a man who spent decades in one of the world's most ego-driven industries finds his way to the yoga mat — and what it taught him about presence, acceptance, and the art of not tensing up.

Martin and Robert get into the inside story of recording Under the Sea for The Little Mermaid, what it was like to work with Ang Lee (who never gave up his vision without quietly getting exactly what he wanted), and why the music that touches millions is never just about the notes. They also go deep on what yoga reveals about the mind, how to sit with discomfort instead of running from it, and why accepting what is — rather than fighting it — might be the most underrated life skill there is.

Funny, warm, and genuinely wise. One of the most entertaining conversations Odyssey & Alchemy has produced.

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What if the path to healing after the worst thing imaginable ran straight through the person who caused it?

Aaron Lyons has spent over 20 years guiding some of the most painful conversations a human being can have — between murder victims' families and the people responsible, between communities torn apart by violence, and between Israeli and Palestinian youth who grew up seeing each other as the enemy. He's a director at Just Outcomes Consulting and one of Canada's leading voices in restorative justice and peace building.

In this conversation we explore trauma therapy and emotional healing not as coping mechanisms but as something closer to transformation — a mother who bought a bike for the man who killed her son, a grieving woman who walked out of a restorative circle no longer needing to be believed, and youth from opposite sides of one of the world's most entrenched conflicts who made films together and became friends. We also get into why punitive justice systems are built around punishment rather than healing, and what restorative thinking might offer conflicts that feel impossible from the outside.

This is one of the most moving conversations this show has produced — proof that dignity, not punishment, might be the thing that actually heals.

If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more people find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living, is available now.

If you've ever snapped at someone you love and hated yourself for it — this one's for you.

Clara Roberts-Oss is a Vancouver-based Vinyasa Flow master trained under the legendary Shiva Rea, who has spent decades exploring how yoga's ancient wisdom applies to the messiest, most humbling job there is — raising children consciously.

In this conversation we explore embodied spirituality and what it actually means to respond rather than react — in parenting, in relationships, and in a world moving faster than any of us signed up for. We get into the philosophy of tapas (discipline without rigidity), the nervous system regulation underneath presence itself, and how AI is quietly reshaping human consciousness in ways we haven't begun to reckon with.

Most of us try to parent from our heads. This is a conversation about learning to parent — and live — from the body instead.

If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more people find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living, is available now.

No one cares as much as you think they do.

Jason Jacobson built My Yoga Online from nothing, sold it to Gaia, wrote a book called Strategic Instinct, and is now building an AI company. He also tried stand-up comedy. Not everything worked — that's kind of the point.

In this conversation we explore what it takes to live a purpose-driven life by betting on yourself repeatedly and often irrationally, what separates people who move through fear from those who get stuck in it, the grip social media has on Gen Z, journaling as a grief practice, and why ancient wellness principles and cutting-edge AI have more in common than you'd expect.

This is a conversation with the ease of two old friends who've both taken the long road — proof that reinvention isn't a one-time event, it's a practice.

If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more people find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living, is available now.

This is not a typical wellness conversation.

Will Blunderfield is a Vancouver yogi, musician, and men's rewilding guide with a UBC psychology degree and certifications from Mantak Chia and Gabor Maté. He's led naked yoga workshops and teaches sexual kung fu.

In this conversation we explore embodied spirituality through sexual kung fu, semen retention, and the microcosmic orbit, what Will believes Kundalini energy has to do with modern masculinity, and the cultural forces he sees quietly dismantling men's vitality — from xenoestrogens to what he calls the feminization of masculine culture. Whether you agree with everything or nothing, this conversation will make you think differently about the body, energy, and what it means to be fully alive.

Not for the faint-hearted. Absolutely for the curious.

If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more men find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living, is available now.

The most powerful thing a man can do is pause before he reacts.

Joel Laforet has been coaching bodies and minds for 28 years. He founded Awaken Yoga, built a garage gym, and is seven years sober — he recorded this conversation fresh off a kettlebell hike up Mount Erskine.

In this conversation we explore men's work and what it actually looks like to be strong and soft at once, how sobriety cleared the noise that kept Joel from hearing his own inner voice, the samskaras — old imprints — that run a man's life without his permission, early fatherhood at 21 and the years he wasn't the man he wanted to be, and why breaking a bad habit is less about willpower and more about learning to pause.

This is a raw, unpolished conversation between two men trying to figure out what it means to train hard, sit still, and still be very much a work in progress.

If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more men find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living, is available now.

Something is happening to men's health — and most doctors aren't talking about it.

Dr. Rigobert Kefferputz is a naturopath who has spent his career asking the questions conventional medicine tends to skip: why testosterone is declining across generations, what the absence of fathers does to the body, and how the nervous system holds onto trauma that supplements can't touch.

In this wide-ranging first episode, we explore nervous system regulation and why breathwork reaches trauma that pills can't, the gut-health crisis hiding behind conditions like Candida and SIBO, what declining testosterone across generations is actually telling us about modern masculinity, and why so many men are physically alive but spiritually checked out.

This is a call to take radical ownership of your own wellbeing — equal parts science, philosophy, and a starting point if you've always suspected there was more to health than your GP has time to tell you.

If this conversation moved something in you, a rating or review helps more men find this work. Martin's book, The Weary Traveller's Guide to a Life Worth Living, is available now.