Scaling Deep

Pieter Oosthuizen  is the co-founder of Skymind , a teacher, consultant, and entrepreneur and a long-time student of Tibetan Buddhism. He has been teaching various practices and retreats in Lama Tsultrim’s lineage in the US and abroad since 2006. He is the President of the Board of  Tara Mandala Buddhist Retreat Center , and an adjunct faculty in the Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psycho...

Zach Lavarenne  is in his final year of the Sexology program at UQAM, where he’s all about tapping into the creative and transformational potential of education. He’s especially passionate about working with boys and young men—helping them build critical thinking, emotional literacy, and the tools to navigate masculinity in all its complexity (and messiness) with care and authenticity. In 2021, he...

Luis Alejandro Tapia  is an Equity Coach + Consultant for the Center for Strategic Solutions. The son of Dominican immigrants, he brings almost two decades of experience in community and youth development. Luis has facilitated unique programs for a range of NYC agencies and is also the founder of BlackBoyRise. His journey from participant to director to consultant aids him in engaging authenticall...

Carlos Duran  is a spiritual guide to 1000's of people around the world.  With over 13 years of Amazonian plant medicine experience and a lifetime on the streets, he has navigated the path from gangster to healer. Leading from experience, Carlos places you on an ancestral flight towards living in your highest purpose. He is the catalyst to destroying your limiting beliefs and secret shames. Le...

In this profound conversation, Tatiana and gkisedtanamoogk explore the profundity of understanding masculinity in relation to the cosmic feminine, and the significance of indigenous wisdom. They discuss the Eighth Fire prophecy, the shift in consciousness towards a love-based existence, and the role of ceremonial life in connecting to the sacred. The conversation emphasizes the need for men to res...

SUBSCRIBE to Tatiana's Sanctuary Newsletter: https://tatianafraser.substack.com/ --- The first woman elected mayor of Montreal, Valérie Plante has distinguished herself through her leadership, attentive listening and closeness to the Montreal population. It is with a progressive, ambitious and innovative vision that she has been able to rally Montrealers from all four corners of the city. Both war...

Vicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change-makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world. Vicki is Founder of #radical generosity and  Coralus  (formerly SheEO), a global community of radically generous women supporting women-led Ventures working on the World’s To-Do List. Vicki has...

zohra moosa is a facilitator, coach, trainer and advisor to individuals, groups, organisations and funders engaged in the non-profit and for purpose sector. Her aim is to accompany movement actors to change how we make change. In particular, she specialises in supporting feminist, queer and anti-racist approaches to thrive in contexts where there is a will but not yet clarity about the way. As a c...

Terrellyn Fearn is a Mi’kmaq scholar-practitioner, Snake clan from Glooscap First Nation and a citizen of the Wabanaki Confederacy. Terrellyn is the Project Director of Turtle Island Institute , a global Indigenous social innovation think and do tank (a learning lodge) grounded in Metuaptmumk: All Around Seeing, a uniquely Indigenous approach to wholistic human development and systems transformati...

Bayo Akomolafe is the grateful life-partner to ‘EJ’, father to Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi, son of Olufunmilayo Ibidapo Akomolafe and Ignatius Abayomi Akomolafe, and descendant of Yoruba fields of archetypal becomings and mythopoeic landscapes. He is an author, celebrated speaker, teacher, and self-styled  trans-public intellectual  (a concept imagined together with and inspired by the s...

Nisha Sajnani , PhD., RDT-BCT is the Director of the Program in Drama Therapy and  Theatre & Health Lab ; founder of the  Arts & Health @NYU  and Chair of the  NYU Creative Arts Therapies Consortiu m . In her capacity as founding co-director of the  Jameel Arts & Health Lab , established in collaboration with the WHO, Dr. Sajnani leads a  Lancet  global series  on the health benefits o...

A Tonglen teaching and meditation led by the guest from our last episode, Charlotte Z. Rotterdam . Hear her full Scaling Deep interview here. Follow her work @ SkyMind --- Charlotte Z. Rotterdam is a contemplative educator, Buddhist teacher, and meditation instructor. She is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education at Naropa University and an Instructor in Naropa’s...

Charlotte Z. Rotterdam is a Buddhist teacher, meditation instructor and contemplative educator. She received the title of Magyu Lopön, lead teacher of the Mother Lineage at Tara Mandala Retreat Center , by Lama Tsultrim Allione in 2016. She is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education at Naropa University and an Instructor in Naropa’s Core College, World Wisdom Depa...

Tanya Birl-Torres of SoHumanity has taken her 15 years of experience as a Broadway performer, choreographer and movement director and melded it with her love and passion for justice and change on the systemic level. With a deep and grounded sense of presence and urgency, Tanya uses the subtle yet potent power of drawing inwards to provoke curiosity, promote healing and empower oneself to create ch...

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