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Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
Tami Simon, Founder and Publisher of Sounds True interviews spiritual teachers, visionary writers, and living luminaries about their newest work and current challenges—the growing edge of their inner inquiry and outer contribution to the world.
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Sounds True: Insights at the EdgeRuth King: Race, Rage, and the Healing Power of Mindfulness
Ruth King is a life coach and insight meditation teacher of the dedicated practitioner program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She's the author of the book…
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Henry Grayson: Your Self-Healing Power
Henry Grayson, PhD, is a psychotherapist, public speaker, and the author of such books as Changing Approaches to the Psychotherapies and The New Physics of…
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Richie Davidson: New Frontiers for Creating Healthy Minds
Dr. Richard Davidson is a world-renowned research professor, director of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, and founder of the Center for…
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Judith Orloff: How To Thrive as an Empath
Judith Orloff, MD, is a psychiatrist and the New York Times bestselling author of books such as The Power of Surrender. With Sounds True, Dr. Orloff has…
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Emily Bennington: Becoming a Clear Channel for the Expression of Love in This Moment
Emily Bennington is an author and teacher both of contemplative practice and leadership strategies. With Sounds True, Emily has released the book (and…
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Gabor Maté: The Roots of Healing
Dr. Gabor Maté is an author, speaker, and physician who specializes in addiction, stress, and childhood development. His many books include In the Realm of…
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Alexandra Katehakis: Grown-Up Sex
Alexandra Katehakis is the founder and clinical director of the Center for Healthy Sex, specializing in therapy for sexual addiction and sexual issues within…
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Karena Virginia and Dharm Khalsa: Tapping into the Light: Essential Kundalini Yoga
Karena Virginia and Dharm Khalsa are two of the most important teachers of kundalini yoga, a form made popular by Yogi Bhajan. Karena has taught various forms…
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Acharya Shunya: An Infinity Mindset and its Implications for Your Health
Acharya Shunya is a renowned expert in Ayurvedic lifestyle medicine and the founder of Vedika Global, a school of Ayurvedic study based in California. With…
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Bessel van der Kolk: Fluid, Alive, and Optimistic
Bessel van der Kolk is a clinician, teacher, author, and one of the most esteemed researchers on post-traumatic stress in the world. A veteran professor at…
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Rabbi Rami Shapiro: Living in Free Fall: The Path of the Holy Rascal
Rabbi Rami Shapiro is an award-winning author, teacher, and former congregational rabbi whose written prayers are used in books around the world. With Sounds…
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Larry Ward: Mindfulness in Action, in Business
Larry Ward is both a Baptist minister and a teacher of the Buddhist dharma, personally ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh. A lifelong advocate for nonviolent social…
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Bonnie Badenoch: Trauma and the Embodied Brain
Bonnie Badenoch is a therapist, teacher, and author who has devoted much of her career to helping trauma survivors and those with attachment wounds to…
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Reverend angel Kyodo williams: Warrior Spirit
Reverend angel Kyodo williams is an activist, master trainer, founder of the Center for Transformative Change, and the acclaimed author of Being Black: Zen and…
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Theresa Reed: What the Tarot has to say about 2017
Theresa Reed is a recognized expert in the field of Tarot reading who writes, speaks, podcasts, and coaches on the subject. With Sounds True she has released…
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Shamini Jain: The Missing Link Between Consciousness and Healing
Dr. Shamini Jain is a psychologist, scientist, and social entrepreneur who is also the founder and director of the Consciousness Healing Initiative (CHI). She…
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José Luis Stevens: Encounters with Power
José Luis Stevens is an author, international lecturer, teacher, psychologist, licensed clinical social worker, and the cofounder of the Power Path School of…
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Amy Kurtz: Kicking Sick
Amy Kurtz is a health coach and Pilates instructor whose painful, multi-decade struggle with chronic illness made her decide to stand up and take better charge…
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Nancy Colier: Waking Up from Our Addiction to Technology
Nancy Colier is a psychotherapist, interfaith minister, meditation teacher, and the celebrated author of books such as Inviting a Monkey to Tea: Befriending…
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Terri Tate: A Crooked Smile
Terri Tate is a clinical nurse specialist, teacher, and down-to-earth inspirational teacher disguised as a standup comedian. Drawing on the experience of…
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Hank Wesselman: The Re-Enchantment
Hank Wesselman is a paleoanthropologist and a shamanic practitioner who has devoted his life to exploring the mysteries of human origins. He has authored…
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Damien Echols: Magick
Damien Echols was wrongly convicted of murder in 1994 as part of the infamous "West Memphis Three" trials. He spent almost two decades in prison, until new DNA…
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Jacqueline Freeman: Listening to the Wisdom of Honeybees
Jacqueline Freeman is a biodynamic farmer and natural beekeeper who speaks internationally on organic beekeeping, women in agriculture, and cultivating a more…
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Janine Shepherd: A Broken Body Is Not A Broken Person
Janine Shepherd is an author, motivational speaker, and former Olympic-level skier whose work draws upon an incredible journey of personal healing. She details…
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Shinzen Young: The Science of Enlightenment, Part 2
Shinzen Young is a renowned mindfulness teacher known for his live gatherings, where he uses a scientific, "algorithmic" approach to explain the many aspects…
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Shinzen Young: The Science of Enlightenment, Part 1
Shinzen Young is a renowned mindfulness teacher known for his live gatherings, where he uses a scientific, "algorithmic" approach to explain the many aspects…
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Snatam Kaur: Original Light
Snatam Kaur is an American-born, internationally renowned kirtan singer raised in the Sikh and kundalini yoga tradition. Known for her blends of ancient chant…
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Krista Tippett: Virtue, Hope, Flesh & Faith
Krista Tippett is a Peabody® award-winning broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author whose works focus on faith, ethics, and moral wisdom. She is the…
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Elena Brower: Following Your Homing Intuition
Elena Brower is a yoga instructor, artist, and designer who is devoted to cultivating meditation as our most healing habit. With Sounds True and coauthor Erica…
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Cheri Huber: There Is Nothing Wrong with You
Cheri Huber is the founder of Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Practice Center in California, as well as the author of 19 books including When…
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Eric Kaufmann: The Four Virtues of a Leader
Eric Kaufmann is a leadership consultant who has advised executive teams at companies such as Sony and T-Mobile. With Sounds True, Eric has published the book…
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Raghu Markus and Parvarti Markus: Love Everyone, Serve Everyone
Raghu Markus is a musician and artist who collaborated with Ram Dass on the groundbreaking spoken-word and world music album Love Serve Remember, and currently…
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Terry Real: Fierce Intimacy
Terry Real is a family therapist, author, and founder of the Relational Life Institute, which hosts workshops on family and relationships throughout the…
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Mark Nepo: Holding Nothing Back
Mark Nepo is a poet, philosopher, and spiritual teacher who is the author of numerous books and audio projects, including the New York Times #1 bestseller The…
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Diana Fosha: The Transformational Therapist
Diana Fosha is the developer of AEDP—Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy—a transformational psychotherapy model that grows and changes according to…
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Tehya Sky: A Ceremony Called Life
Tehya Sky is an author and metaphysical guide who focuses on the integration of our physical humanity and our innate divinity. With Sounds True, Sky has…
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Iyanla Vanzant: Truth is Light
Iyanla Vanzant is an author and expert on personal empowerment whose work includes five New York Times bestsellers and many appearances onstage, over the…
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Jack Kornfield: Difficult Times & Liberation
Jack Kornfield is a world-renowned teacher and one of the key figures to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. He is the author of many books…
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Michael Carroll: Mindful Leadership
Michael Carroll is the COO of Global Coaching Alliance, a former executive, and a certified meditation teacher of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. A globally…
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Lissa Rankin: Leaps of Faith in a Benevolent Universe
Lissa Rankin is a physician, public speaker, and the founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over…
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Lama Tsomo: Finding the Ocean of Joy: Tibetan Buddhist Practice for Westerners
Lama Tsomo—born Linda Pritzker—is an author, teacher, and ordained holder of the Namchak Buddhist lineage of Tibet. She’s the cofounder of the Namchak…
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Bruce Tift: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy
Bruce Tift has been a psychotherapist since 1979, a practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism for more than 35 years, and has taught at Naropa University for 25…
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Andrew Holecek: Dream Yoga, Part 2
Andrew Holecek is an author and spiritual teacher whose work blends a background in ancient Tibetan Buddhism with the leading edge of contemporary Western…
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Andrew Holecek: Dream Yoga, Part 1
Andrew Holecek is an author and spiritual teacher whose longtime study of Buddhism blends ancient wisdom with contemporary knowledge and insights. With Sounds…
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Natalie Southgate: Chakradance
Natalie Southgate is an internationally respected teacher who drew upon her background in psychology, dance, and energy healing to create the ecstatic movement…
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Solala Towler: Practicing the Tao Te Ching
Solala Towler is a widely respected author and teacher who has been spreading the word of Taoism and qigong for more than 20 years. Solala is the editor of the…
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Mark Thornton: Meditation at Work
Mark Thornton has more than 20 years of experience in meditation, and has become one of the world’s leading executive meditation coaches, specializing in…
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Christopher Willard: Growing Up Mindful
Christopher Willard is a licensed psychologist who focuses on mindfulness, anxiety, and learning issues. With Sounds True, he has released a new book and…
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Adyashanti: Waking Up: What does it really mean?
Adyashanti is a widely beloved, American-born spiritual teacher whose practice is rooted in Zen Buddhism but has expanded beyond any one path or perspective…
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Steven Hayes: Self-Acceptance and Perspective-Taking
Steven Hayes is a professor, the chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, and the author of more than 35 books and 500 scientific…
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Seane Corn: The Yoga of Awakening
Seane Corn is a celebrated yoga teacher, philanthropist, and the cofounder of Off the Matt, Into the World—a leadership training organization devoted to the…
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The Choice to Have a Healthy Brain
Dr. Daniel Amen is a practicing psychiatrist, the director of the wildly successful network of Amen Clinics, and the bestselling author of titles such as…
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Grateful Living in the “Double Realm”
Brother David Steindl-Rast is an internationally renowned author, lecturer, and pivotal member of the monastic renewal movement. A monk in the Benedictine…
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Standing for the Spiritual, in a Secular World
Thomas Moore is a psychotherapist, former monk, and the bestselling author of the spiritual classic Care of the Soul. Thomas has collaborated with Sounds True…
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A.H. Almaas: Endless Enlightenment
A.H. Almaas is the pen name of of Hameed Ali, the author of more than 14 books, founder of The Ridhwan School, and creator of the “the Diamond Approach” of…
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Sandra Ingerman: The Power of Ceremony
Sandra Ingerman is an award-winning author and internationally recognized teacher of shamanism and ceremony. Sandra will soon join many other leading shamanic…
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HeatherAsh Amara: Becoming an Artist of the Spirit
HeatherAsh Amara is the founder of Toci—the Toltec Center of Creative Intent—which is an organization devoted to the development of an authentic and aware…
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Mary O’Malley: What’s in the Way Is the Way
Mary O’Malley is an author, counselor, and acknowledged leader in the field of spiritual awakening. With Sounds True, Mary has published What’s in the Way Is…
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Inside the Mind of Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin is a renowned American author, animal behavior expert, and advocate for autistic people. She’s written many books—including Animals in…
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Whatever Arises, Love That, Part 2
Matt Kahn is an author, spiritual teacher, and highly attuned empathic healer whose intuitive abilities allow him to bridge the mystical with the mundane. With…