Sounds True: Producer's Pick

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Many of today's most compelling and authentic spiritual teachers enter the Sounds True studio to offer their insights and practices-unscripted and from the heart. The producers of our programs present the moment when they hear the teacher's unique vision coming through with brilliant clarity, and the recording becomes a true wisdom transmission.

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Steve Taylor: A Year to Live

05.10.2018

Dr. Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer and researcher in psychology and the social sciences at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. With Sounds True, he has released the audio program Return to Harmony: From Turmoil to Transformation, a collection ...

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05.10.2018 Steve Taylor: A Year to Live Dr. Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer and researcher in psychology and the social sciences at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. With Sounds True, he has released the audio program Return to Harmony: From Turmoil to Transformation, a collection ...
04.26.2018 Pema Chödrön: Three Ways to Cultivate Compassion Pema Chödrön is a beloved, American-born Buddhist nun who currently serves as the senior teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. The author of many books and audio programs, her most recent collaboration with Sounds True is The Courage to ...
04.12.2018 Latham Thomas: Reclaiming Your Right to Rest Latham Thomas is a lifestyle and wellness maven whose books include Mama Glow and Own Your Glow. With Sounds True, she created the audio program Beditations: Guided Meditations and Rituals for Rest and Renewal. Commenting on this week's selection from ...
03.15.2018 Stan Tatkin: Distress Relief, Exciting Love, and Quiet Love Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinical therapist and author who synthesizes current therapeutic modalities and neuroscience. With Sounds True, he has created the audio programs Your Brain on Love and Relationship Rx. This week's selection was chosen from the ...
03.01.2018 Karen Brody: Breaking a Legacy of Panic Karen Brody is a wellness and leadership coach who focuses on helping women achieve their full potential in a world that often asks far too much of them. With Sounds True, she has published the book Daring to Rest and ...
02.01.2018 Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev: The Way Out Is In Sadhguru is a yogi and mystic who created the Isha Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to exploring the outer limits of human potential. He has collaborated with Sounds True to release an audiobook version of his New York Times bestselling ...
01.18.2018 Rolf Gates: Learning Self-Forgiveness Rolf Gates is an acclaimed yoga teacher and author best known for his boundary-leaping book Meditations from the Mat. This week's Producer's Pick excerpt comes from Rolf's newest collaboration with Sounds True, a practice-centric audio program Meditations on the Mat: ...
12.07.2017 Diane Poole Heller: We Don’t Heal in Isolation Diane Poole Heller, PhD, is a practicing psychotherapist who specializes in Adult Attachment Theory and trauma resolution. In her latest audio program, Healing Your Attachment Wounds: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships, Diane engages with both of these ...
11.02.2017 John Lockley: Connecting with Your Bones, Ancestors, and Seven Senses John Lockley is one of the only modern white men to be initiated as a sangoma—one of the traditional shamanic healers of the Xhosa people of South Africa. He now teaches African shamanic wisdom across the globe. With Sounds True, ...
10.05.2017 Dan Millman: Overcoming Adversity Dan Millman is an author and lecturer whose semi-autobiographical book Way of the Peaceful Warrior first ignited the public imagination almost 40 years ago. Most recently, Dan has partnered with Sounds True to create The Complete Peaceful Warrior's Way, an ...
09.21.2017 Loch Kelly: The Five Foundations of Effortless Mindfulness Loch Kelly is an innovative meditation teacher, author, and the founder of the Open-Hearted Awareness Institute. With Sounds True, Loch has most recently released the audio training program Effortless Mindfulness Now: Awakening Our Natural Capacity for Focus, Freedom, and Joy. ...
09.08.2017 Pedram Shojai: Becoming Vibrantly Alive Pedram Shojai is a former Taoist monk, Qi Gong master, and the creator of the Urban Monk Academy, podcast, and Mastermind program, as well as the New York Times bestselling book The Urban Monk. With Sounds True, Pedram has recorded ...
07.13.2017 Reginald A. Ray: Being Awake to What the Heart Knows Reginald Ray, PhD, is a pioneering teacher who founded the Dharma Ocean Foundation, an organization devoted to the preservation and dissemination of Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. Reggie is a longtime collaborator with Sounds True whose books and audio programs include Touching ...
06.22.2017 Brené Brown: The Reckoning Brené Brown is a nationally renowned author, speaker, and research professor with the University of Houston who has spent the past decade studying the confluence of vulnerability, courage, shame, and resilience. Her latest offering from Sounds True is the audio ...
06.08.2017 Tara Brach: Intimacy with Life Tara Brach is a renowned meditation instructor, the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, and the author of True Refuge and Radical Acceptance. With Sounds True, Tara has most recently published Nourishing Intimacy: Cultivating Trust, Understanding, and Love ...
05.25.2017 HeatherAsh Amara: Walking in Your Highest Purpose HeatherAsh Amara is an author and teacher whose work draws from many different cultural backgrounds, but is most informed by the Toltec teachings of her longtime mentor don Miguel Ruiz. I've had the pleasure of working with HeatherAsh Amara on ...
05.11.2017 Elena Brower: The Invitation of Allowing Elena Brower is a renowned yoga teacher who has held classes across the world. With Sounds True, she is the coauthor of the book Art of Attention and the creator of the audio program Grounded and Free. Producer Kriste Peoples ...
04.27.2017 Judith Orloff: The Gifts of Empathy Judith Orloff is a psychotherapist, empath, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Surrender and Emotional Freedom. Judith is well known—and rightly so—for her insights on the sensitivities of empaths and teachings on how empathic people ...
04.13.2017 Elena Brower: Devotion Elena Brower is a widely respected yoga instructor, artist, and the coauthor of Art of Attention. With Sounds True, she has most recently released the audio program Grounded and Free. Having worked closely with [Elena] on the creation of this ...
03.30.2017 Jeff Foster: You Are Perfect With Your Imperfections Jeff Foster spent much of his early life—including the period he studied astrophysics at the University of Cambridge—consumed with self-loathing, illness, and depression. Following an intense spiritual search that led him to embrace all this, here and now, Jeff has ...
03.02.2017 Jeff Foster: The Courage to Love Jeff Foster is a spiritual teacher who draws upon his own awakening experience after decades of struggle with illness and depression. With Sounds True, Jeff has published several books and audios, including The Way of Rest and Sacred as You ...
01.23.2017 Alan Watts: Just So Alan Watts (1915–1973) is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. Working closely with his son and official archivist Mark, Sounds True has gathered together a new compilation of some of Alan's most ...
01.17.2017 Rabbi Rami Shapiro: Aligning with Your Own Knowing Rabbi Rami Shapiro is an award-winning author and spiritual teacher whose work has been published worldwide. In this week's edition of Producer's Pick, producer Mitchell Clute selected a potent offering from Rami's newest audio release, How to Be a Holy ...
01.13.2017 Reginald A. Ray: Turning Over the Agency of Our Lives to the Soma Reginald Ray is a renowned meditation teacher and cofounder of the Dharma Ocean Foundation. His most recent publication with Sounds True is Somatic Descent: Experiencing the Ultimate Intelligence of the Body. In this excerpt from Somatic Descent—chosen by Reggie's longtime ...
11.15.2016 Roger Teel: The Joy of Giving Dr. Roger Teel is the Senior Minister and Spiritual Director of Mile Hi Church in Denver, a thriving New Thought community with thousands of active congregants. With Sounds True, he has released the audio program Heart Work: Nine Ways to ...
11.01.2016 Deva Premal & Miten: Beyond Fear Deva Premal Miten have shared the joy and power of sacred chant with the world across more than a dozen albums. In this excerpt from their audio learning course The Spirit of Mantra with Deva Premal Miten: 21 Chant Practices ...
10.19.2016 Pema Chödrön: Building Discomfort Resilience Pema Chödrön is one of the most beloved American-born teachers of Buddhism in the West. In the words of Sounds True producer Mitchell Clute, I always love editing Ani Pema's talks because her kindness and heartfelt connection come through in ...
10.04.2016 Kelly McGonigal: Compassion as an Unfolding Process Kelly McGonigal is a respected lecturer and author on the subject of the mind-body relationship who integrates the latest findings in neuroscience, psychotherapy, and mindfulness into her work. She is the author of The Willpower Instinct and Yoga for Pain ...
08.29.2016 Edward Tick: A New Vision for Healing Edward Tick is a practicing psychotherapist who has specialized in veterans’ health and PTSD for more than 40 years. He is the cofounder of the Soldier’s Heart nonprofit organization and the author of many books, including Warrior’s Return and War ...
08.16.2016 Lisa Wimberger: Three Keys to Understanding Anxiety Lisa Wimberger is an author and a practicing therapist who specializes in stress disorders. She founded the Neurosculpting Institute, which promotes and encourages the practice of positive neuroplasticity. In this excerpt from the audio program Neurosculpting for Anxiety: Brain-Changing Practices ...
08.08.2016 A.H. Almaas: The Freedom to Be Nobody A.H. Almaas—the pen name of A. Hameed Ali—is an author, teacher, and the creator of the path of spiritual inquiry known as the Diamond Approach. Speaking on Almaas, Sounds True producer Mitchell Clute shares, “In editing [Almaas’] talks, on more ...
07.31.2016 Kevin Griffin: Living with a Mind “Just by virtue of being human, we are at times going to be challenged and even controlled by our habitual patterns of thought,” states Sounds True producer Mitchell Clute—something that Kevin Griffin, an authority on mindful addiction recovery, can attest ...
06.28.2016 Sharon Salzberg: Guided Instructions to Breath-Centered Meditation Sharon Salzberg is a renowned spiritual teacher who has been leading meditation classes and retreats for more than 40 years. An avid student of many schools of Buddhist thought, Sharon is the cofounder of both the Barre Center for Buddhist ...
06.13.2016 Matt Kahn: The Imaginary Identity Called Ego Matt Kahn is an increasingly renowned author and spiritual teacher who drew upon his background as an empath to publish the book Whatever Arises, Love That. Sounds True producer Mitchell Clute drew this week’s excerpt from the companion audio program ...
05.31.2016 Christopher Willard: Developing Mindfulness Christopher Willard is a practicing psychologist who focuses on bringing mindfulness into childhood education. With Sounds True, he has published the book Growing Up Mindful: Essential Practices to Help Children, Teens, and Families Find Balance, Calm, and Resilience. In this ...
05.16.2016 Michael Carroll: The Fruition of Mindful Leadership Michael Carroll is a former executive for Simon Schuster, a successful business consultant to companies such as Starbucks, and a longtime teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. With Sounds True, he has released the audio program Mindful Leadership Training: The Art of ...
05.02.2016 Tami Simon: Go Into the Darkness Tami Simon is the founder and publisher of Sounds True. She is the host of the weekly podcast Insights at the Edge, which features interviews with some of today’s most well-known and provocative spiritual teachers. This week’s edition of Producer’s ...
04.18.2016 HeatherAsh Amara: Committing to Your Own Process HeatherAsh Amara is an author, speaker, and teacher who focuses on weaving together many different spiritual traditions to encourage deeper inquiry into our most authentic selves. In this excerpt from her audio offering The Warrior Goddess Training Program, HeatherAsh talks ...
04.10.2016 Kriyas, the Movement of Kundalini Kundalini is identified by traditions worldwide as a key to the most profoundly transformative experiences we can have—yet if we don’t know what’s going on or how to deal with it, a Kundalini awakening can be challenging and confusing. This ...
04.08.2016 HeatherAsh Amara: Commit to You HeatherAsh Amara is the founder of Toci—the Toltec Center of Creative Intent—a spiritual community steeped in Toltec thought and many other global traditions. Her published works encourage the development of more open, authentic lives and a deeper exploration of what ...
04.04.2016 James Gordon: The Seven Stages of Healing Through his pioneering research and experience in the field, Dr. James Gordon has established himself as a leading voice on how we treat and prevent depression. Yet it is his own personal experience that has provided many of his key ...
03.23.2016 Thomas Moore: The Paradox of Modern Religion Thomas Moore is a bestselling spiritual author who has been—at various points of his life—a university professor, psychotherapist, musician, and a monk. “There’s no mistaking that the world is changing rapidly . . .” says Sounds True producer Kriste Peoples ...
03.16.2016 Kristin Neff: What Is Self-Compassion, and Why Is it Important? Dr. Kristin Neff is an associate professor at the University of Texas whose work focuses on a universal truth: most of us are incredibly tough on ourselves. We feel a genuine desire to feel compassion for others, but we’re afraid ...
03.09.2016 Lisa Wimberger: Creating Healthy Habits Lisa Wimberger is the founder of the Neurosculpting Institute and a therapist specializing in stress disorders. In her audio program Neurosculpting for New Habits, Lisa explores why we establish habitual patterns of behavior—both good and bad—and how they become ingrained ...
03.03.2016 Rick Jarow: Honoring Your Calling Rick Jarow is a professor of religion at Vassar College and an acclaimed alternative career counselor. Most counselors will tell you that the way to find the right job for you is to make an inventory of your skills and ...
02.24.2016 Adyashanti: The Transmission of Generational Suffering Adyashanti is a prolific and respected spiritual teacher whose work began in Zen Buddhism but has expanded beyond any set tradition or ideology. His teachings emphasize that any and all people can achieve enlightenment regardless of their specific spiritual path. ...
02.18.2016 Cyndi Dale: The Importance of Energetic Boundaries Cyndi Dale—one of the world’s leading experts in energy healing—has made an astonishing discovery in her private practice: up to 80 percent of the complaints that people come into the office with are not really their own, but are issues ...
02.05.2016 What Are the Akashic Records? For more than a decade, Dr. Linda Howe has been on a mission to give the world full access to one of our most extraordinary birthrights: the Akashic Records, said to be the energetic archive that holds information about every ...
01.29.2016 Caroline Myss: The Many Factors of Illness Caroline Myss is one of the world’s leading authorities on intuition, energy medicine, and the pure potential of the human spirit. In this excerpt from her audio program The Anatomy of Your Health, chosen by Sounds True editor Randy Roark, ...
01.20.2016 Judith Orloff: Surrendering Old Relationship Rules Judith Orloff, MD, is one of the premier figures in the contemporary fields of psychiatry and intuition. Most recently, she has written extensively about the concept of surrender and how the act of letting go can be a powerful catalyst ...

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