With characteristic joy and humor, Chloë Goodchild teaches that one of our greatest tools for self-expression, healing, and spiritual insight resides within us: our own naked voice. As Sounds True producer Mitchell Clute says, “I loved working with Chloë on Awakening Through Sound, and hearing her insights about how we can unlock the hidden potential […]

Shamanic healer and teacher Nicki Scully leads expeditions to sacred spots around the globe. However, her Sounds True audio program Becoming an Oracle shows that you don’t need a plane ticket to experience a powerful journey—travels of the spirit can illuminate, inspire, and transform us. Becoming an Oracle includes visits to sites and associated figures […]

Could the difficulties we experience at work be doorways into spiritual and emotional growth? What happens if we reframe the troubles of our daily lives as precious opportunities for awakening? In The Power of Radical Forgiveness, Colin Tipping describes a perspective—along with practices and techniques—to help us embrace our challenges rather than fighting or fleeing. […]

Seth Godin is the author of many bestselling, industry-redefining books on business, marketing, and creativity such as Purple Cow, The Icarus Deception, and The Dip. In this excerpt from his audio program Leap First: Creating Work That Matters—chosen by Sounds True founder and publisher Tami Simon—Seth shares his insights into why certain Internet ventures succeed […]

One of the most significant barriers that many Westerners encounter when approaching meditation is a confusion about the religious and mystical origins of Eastern practices—and whether one has to take some kind of leap of faith to meditate. Shinzen Young, a noted authority of mindfulness meditation, is the ideal teacher to put such concerns to […]

One of the top figures in the field of consciousness studies for more than 30 years, Marilyn Schlitz is an author, speaker, and president emeritus of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. On the audio program Living the Noetic Life: Transformation and Healing at the Convergence of Science and Spiritual Practice, Marilyn shares insights from a […]

Many of us are curious about past lives, but how much do they affect us in the here and now? In his experience as a psychic consultant, author Ainslie MacLeod has come to believe that healing our past lives may be the most important step we can take in our spiritual growth. When recording Ainslie’s […]

Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and one of the prime movers behind the spread of mindfulness-based stress reduction. In this excerpt from Mindfulness for Beginners, Jon outlines one of the fundamental aspects of mindfulness meditation—the difference between thinking and awareness. According to Sounds […]

“Angeles Arrien has the mind of a scholar and the heart of a friend.” This was Sounds True producer Mitchell Clute’s reaction when he recorded Angeles’ audio program Gratitude: The Essential Practice for Happiness and Fulfillment. As both a cultural anthropologist and a spiritual teacher, Angeles had a gift for seeing how diverse global traditions […]

Joseph Goldstein has been one of the most prolific and well-respected teachers of Buddhist meditation practices in the West since 1974. In this excerpt drawn from the audio series Abiding in Mindfulness, Joseph explains how mindfulness can—and must—be practiced in even the most trying of circumstances. In the words of Sounds True producer Randy Roark, […]