The InterWorld Podcast

On the newest episode of The InterWorld Podcast, Yasha welcomes Davis Trachte!

Davis Trachte is a meditation practitioner, Dharma student, and founder of the Adirondack Loving Awareness Meditation Project (ADK LAMP), an initiative dedicated to offering free, secular and nondenominational, nature-based meditation programs.

Born in Goshen, New York, in 1993, Davis grew up in the Hudson Valley and developed a deep connection with the natural world at an early age. As a teenager, he fell in love with rock climbing and solo hiking in the Adirondack Mountains, experiences that cultivated an enduring appreciation for wilderness, solitude, and contemplative life.

At nineteen, during a period of depression, Davis discovered a book on meditation in his favorite local climbing shop. That encounter became a turning point and eventually led him to Tibetan Buddhism.

Davis earned a bachelor’s degree in Tibetan Language and Buddhist Studies from Naropa University in 2018. He later lived at Kunzang Palchen Ling, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Red Hook, New York, where he immersed himself in Buddhist study, meditation, ritual, and community life.

For approximately six years, Davis worked closely with Lama Tashi Topgyal, serving as his personal attendant and assistant translator and traveling extensively with him. His practice is rooted primarily in the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, with an emphasis on the Barway Dorje lineage, Dzogchen, Mahamudra, compassion, and bodhicitta.

Davis is currently undertaking an extended period of intensive meditation and Dharma training under Lama Tashi Topgyal’s guidance. His own experience of discovering meditation during a difficult period of his life has inspired a particular passion for making contemplative practice accessible to people facing mental health struggles and to at-risk and underserved young people.

Through ADK LAMP, Davis hopes to create opportunities for people of all backgrounds to encounter meditation, loving awareness, compassion, and a deeper relationship with themselves, one another, and the natural world. 

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On this episode of The InterWorld Podcast, Yasha interviews Alyona Mindlin!First and foremost Alyona is a student of earth and the vast disciplines of consciousness. Professionally, she is an international yoga teacher and wellness visionary with 25 years of movement background.

Teaching creative alignment based flow, meditation and breathwork that inspire awareness, precision and connection to the heart, Alyona’s client roster is extensive. From Celebs to CEO’s of successful endeavors to kids, dancers and the elderly, Yoga is for all. She leads workshops, yoga teacher trainings and ceremonies weaving the ancient teachings of yoga, sound healing and nature. Her classes, sessions and trainings will inspire healing, joy, peaceful stillness, and a deeper appreciation for life. Her free time is spent supporting and learning from the Indigenous people, and playing instruments from all sacred traditions of the globe.

She studies sacred traditions of humanity with Maestro Manuel Rufino, and has a long list of yoga teachers that lit up her path, most recently Iyengar Senior Teacher, Nikki Costello. Kula Yoga Project, highly respected studio of New York, a place for teachers of teachers, and Golden Drum, place of Shamanic Sound and home to Indigenous Leaders were her home studios in NYC where she practiced, taught and saw private clients Pre Covid. Alyona has taught for 14 years predominatly in NYC. She has traveled to teach worldwide sharing workshops and guest teaching on teacher trainings when living in Tulum, Mexico, Spain, and Maui Hawaii.

Find Alyona at - https://www.alyonayoga.com/

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🌟On this episode of The InterWorld Podcast, Yasha interviews Gabe Crane!

Gabe Crane is a life coach and spiritual guide with over 15 years of experience helping individuals develop successful lifestyles based in health, heart-based awareness, and connection to what truly matters. He holds graduate degrees in East-West Psychology and Conflict Resolution from CIIS and Columbia University and integrates depth psychology, somatic practice, and contemplative traditions into grounded, practical transformation.

His path has included years of travel and study across diverse cultures and spiritual traditions — but his most transformative work came in navigating his own divorce while becoming a father, a season marked by profound isolation, reckoning, and ultimately renewal.

Today, he works primarily with men in their 30s to 50s who are ready to move beyond survival and step into a life of integrity and action, guided by their true selves. Gabe lives in Maui and works with clients worldwide.

🎵 On this episode of The InterWorld Podcast, Yasha interviews Sierra Marin!

Sierra Marin is a revolutionary artist, musical medicine woman, and producer rising from San Diego with deep roots in Hawai’i. Crossing genres of reggae, hip hop, and folk, Sierra creates music that is both irresistibly catchy and profoundly healing — an offering of remembrance, gratitude, and awakening for these potent times of transformation.With over 21,000 monthly listeners and counting, and over 2 million streams on Spotify alone, Sierra is a quickly up and coming artist in the conscious music movement. Whether performing as a live loop artist or backed by the soulful roots reggae band Roots Ascension, Sierra’s soundscapes become ceremonies — calling in ecstatic states of joy and sovereignty, and weaving a sonic blueprint for the New Earth community now emerging.Her journey has led her to main stages at major transformational festivals across California, Arizona, Oregon, Ohio, Hawai’i, Missouri, Illinois, New Mexico, and Florida, sharing stages with visionary artists such as Tribal Seeds, The Movement, Kabaka Pyramid, EN Young, Rising Appalachia, Satsang, Alborosie, Porangui, Mike Love, Cas Haley, Indubious, Wookiefoot, Natalie Rize, Yaima, Ayla Nereo, and many others.Through her revolutionary songs, Sierra offers more than music — she offers a pathway. Her lyrics acknowledge the depths of healing from personal and collective trauma, while anchoring the frequencies of unconditional love, Divine Feminine wisdom, and sovereign remembrance. Her music is a living prayer for a humanity awakening to its true beauty, its true power, and its sacred connection to all life.#InterworldPodcast #innerworldpeace

On this week's episode of The InterWorld Poedcast we are excited to welcome Paula Gasparini-Santos! Paula is an immigrant born therapist who works with depth and contemplative psychology with an emphasis on trauma and grief. She is in love with poetry, grief, butterflies, and anything that helps us appreciate the metamorphosis of a life. Paula just completed her manuscript with a working title, "The Art of Loving and Losing" a manuscript reimagining Grief as part of universal higher intelligence. Paula speaks globally around this topic through poetry, art, and psychology.

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This month, we are releasing a Special Edition InterWorld Podcast episode for the New Year (somewhere in between Gregorian and Chinese?)… This special episode features 3 leading Board Members of the whole InterWorld Institute - the broader nonprofit organization that Yasha’s podcast represents. Tune in to hear Yasha speaking with some of his closest friends and partners about their own journeys and their giant co-creative working collaboration on the various InterWorld initiatives.#interworldpodcast #innerworldpeace

🎧 This week on The InterWorld Podcast, we sit to talk with Swami Aniruddha from the Bhakti Marga tradition.Swami Aniruddha has been on the spiritual path for more than 20 years. As a young man, he felt a deep call within. Like many, he tried to find happiness in external things but never found satisfaction in them. It wasn’t until 2008 when he met his Satguru Paramahamsa Vishwananda that his spiritual pursuit began to flourish.

As a result of being with Paramahamsa Vishwananda for the last twelve years, Swami Aniruddha has had many intense personal experiences coupled with in-depth study of ancient Hindu scriptures which carry the true secrets of life.

He lives daily the same teachings and lessons he shares with spiritual seekers across the world. His mission is to improve the lives of people and help them achieve Divine Love by sharing the teachings of his Satguru.  🌎✨

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This week on The InterWorld Podcast, we sit down with Ixchel Prisma —Ixchel Prisma is a student and initiate of the intertribal path. She has been guiding healing work for 10 years and is a life-long musician. She has traveled the world studying with traditional healing practitioners and learning cultural arts practices. Ixchel's intention in carrying this healing work forward is to bring the full spectrum vibration of the “Rainbow People” to the global community: honoring and carrying the foundation of the many ancient lineages, while incorporating practices and energies that are both relatable and applicable in the modern world. She is an initiate of the sacred herbs and elements, a trained sound healing practitioner, a songwriter, artist and a mother. It is with deep reverence and honor that she walks this path of leadership and service. 🌎✨

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This week on The InterWorld Podcast, we sit down with Jerry Walsh — Jerry has been deeply walking the path of dharma and meditation for 16 years and has been a student of the shamanic traditions for over 13 years, undergoing intensive initiations under various Native elders, guided by his teacher, Taino elder, Maestro Manuel Rufino.
He is a member of the sound meditation ensemble, Dream Seed, and has traveled to over 30 countries on five continents, spending a year studying Buddhism and traditional Himalayan culture in India, Nepal, and Bhutan from 2010-2011. He has spent the last decade supporting and facilitating meditation and healing retreats, sharing music, dharma, spiritual disciplines, and creating community throughout the world. . 🌎✨

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🎧 This week on The InterWorld Podcast, we sit down with Alais Clay — conscious music artist, founder of StarTribe Alliance and Critical Mass Media Design, and a powerful voice in the global conscious hip-hop movement.

Born in Colombia, raised in Miami, and rooted between Costa Rica and Colorado, Alais bridges worlds through bi-lingual music that blends hip-hop, reggae, and electronic beats with messages of unity, healing, and transformation.

In this conversation, we dive into how she channels music, design, and community work into planetary stewardship and personal empowerment. 🌎✨

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