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Includes Self Compassion Body Scan Meditation Who says holidays HAVE to be stressful? In this Holiday Survival Guide BONUS episode - we are joined by DEN Senior Mindfulness Teacher (who you know and love), Heather Prete to dig in to what we all can do during the holidays to help make them easier. We were lucky enough to have so many of you send in questions and topics you’d like us to discuss, so...

Includes 7 min meditation led by Chandresh Bhardwaj. Welcome to our 2nd edition of DENtalks LIVE -- and our FIRST panel! We brought together a diverse group of change-makers to discuss questioning belief systems over time, and what it means to be a continuous seeker of truth as your own guru. You’ll hear from spiritual advisor Chandresh Bhardwaj, who quit his job on Wall Street to follow in the fo...

Includes a beautiful Sanskrit song. Thom Knoles, a Maharishi of Vedic Meditation, celebrated speaker and thought-leader, joins us on DENtalks! Personally mentored by Transcendental Meditation founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Thom has personally taught over 40,000 students so far over his lifetime. Among his many accomplishments, he has founded a Vedic university in the Himalayas, co-founded a medita...

Includes 10-minute intention-setting meditation. We’re so excited to chat with relationship guru, NYT bestselling author, and the woman behind “Conscious Uncoupling” - made famous by none other than Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin! Single and with just 8 months to her 42nd birthday, Katherine committed to being engaged by 42. Her success prompted her to share the power of manifestation in her acc...

Includes passage from T.H. White. Please join us in welcoming author, lecturer, & religious leader Rabbi David Wolpe to this week’s episode of DENtalks Podcast! Rabbi Wolpe has been named the Most Influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek, and one of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the world by the Jerusalem Post, what a man! In this episode, we dive into both finding and losing faith, the diff...

Includes 22 minute meditation. An extra special episode with one of the best known spiritual leaders of our time -- Marianne Williamson! Marianne is an internationally acclaimed lecturer, activist, author of FOUR #1 New York Times bestselling books, and as she announced exclusively at our first DENtalks LIVE... a 2020 Presidential Candidate!! In this one of a kind conversation, Marianne sits with...

Includes a 5 minute breathing practice. This week on DENtalks Podcast we sit down with the amazing teacher, Light Watkins, to talk serendipity, synchronicity and taking the leaps of faith that require you to build a safety net on the way down. Light is a former model-turned-accomplished author, speaker and Vedic meditation teacher who left his first job in advertising after just 3 months for a one...

Includes a Shift Your Perspective Meditation. This week, LA-based yoga & meditation teacher, holistic health coach, and the woman behind the top-rated Radically Loved Podcast, Rosie Acosta, joins DENtalks! Rosie gets real about her struggles: from growing up in a one-bedroom apartment with 8 people in East LA, to hearing gunshots in the middle of the night, to experiencing panic attacks by the...

Includes quote by Maya Angelou which you can always come back to. We now call her the Queen of Quotes and we are so happy she came to chat with us. Actress Sarah Shahi, mom of 3, has more references and a perfect quote for every situation. As a regular client of the DEN we knew we had to get deep with her on DENtalks. You would never guess by how well read she is (and all the quotes) that it was o...

Includes a Meditation on Balancing the Masculine and Feminine Aspects of Ourselves Welcome to DENtalks! Today we are joined by Gahl Sasson, teacher of Astrology, Mythology, Mysticism, Kabbalah, and so much more. W Magazine even named him the best astrologer in Los Angeles! He teaches all around the world and we are fortune to have him lead workshops at The DEN. His first book, “A Wish Can Change a...

Includes a Self Compassion Body Scan. We are here today with a very special guest, our senior Mindfulness DEN Meditation teacher, Heather Prete. She knows her stuff! She is a UCLA Certified Mindfulness Facilitator, Self Compassion teacher, and Mindful Recovery Coach. She started her formal training in Tibetan compassion practices in 1998 and has since studied all over the world. We cover it all in...

Includes 5 min Self Reflection Meditation Founder and CEO of Shape House, an Urban Sweat Lodge, Sophie Chiche joins us on DENtalks Podcast today! She is a French American entrepreneur, psychologist by trade, lifelong optimist, and sweat activist. Sophie opened her first Shape House 6 years ago, and since then has opened 10 locations in Los Angeles and New York catching the attention of celebrities...

Includes a Guided by Biet Experience Meditation. Meditation teacher, spiritual leader, and artist, Biet Simkin, joins us on DENtalks Podcast today for a conversation all about NO excuses and shaking up your meditation practice. Biet creates a complete rock and roll experience through her art, music, and spiritual teachings because she believes meditation should never be boring. Her father was a Ru...

Includes a Connecting with your Dosha Meditation at the end of the episode. We welcome the magical Sahara Rose to DENtalks Podcast today to talk all things Ayurveda! She’s the Best Selling Author of “The Idiot’s Guide to Ayurveda” and the upcoming book “Eat Feel Fresh: A Contemporary, Plant-Based Ayurvedic Cookbook.” We go deep into Sahara’s complicated journey with nutrition and spirituality, and...

Includes a personal mantra that Sophia lives by. Today we are joined by, Sophia Bush, a woman who wears many hats. She’s an actress, an activist, and a producer. You may know her from her roles on One Tree Hill, Chicago PD, and John Tucker Must Die. She is also blazing the way for people to own activism as a major part of who they are in their own lives. She has a loud voice on social media and is...

Includes a 10 minute Self-Love Meditation. Andrea Bendwald, a phenomenal mom, friend, actress, and also incredible spiritual leader here at DEN Meditation, is with us today for a conversation rooted in The Art of Circling. Andrea runs our circles at The DEN, which we will talk about more in depth in today’s episode. We chat about her journey from being a success actress to a spiritual mentor, the...

Includes a 10 minute Spirit Hacking practice you can do at home. We are honored to have Shaman Durek, 3rd generation shaman, spiritual teacher, and inspirational leader with us on DENtalks to discuss how ego drives us, resolving conflicts through love, how we all deserve and can attain happiness and how he DOES NOT believe in forgiveness. This episode is not for the closed minded - we discuss othe...

Includes a Message of Gratitude. We are thrilled to share with you this very special episode with LaRayia Gaston. She is an amazing woman who has been feeding the homeless since she was a teenager. Her organization “Lunch on Me” pioneers new grassroots methods to empower the most vulnerable among us, LA’s homeless community. She provides over 10K organic hot meals a month (which she cooks out of H...

Includes a 10 minute Grounding meditation. We’re talking to psychic, Kathryn Schiff, a favorite over at DEN Meditation. We go deep into the world of energy and how we’re all connected, and where we go when we pass, aka the Astro plane. Kathryn shares with us what big message our spirit guides want us to know and how to acknowledge all of the signs we are all given every single day as validation fr...

Includes a quote by Buddha to meditate on. DENtalks Podcast welcomes actress Jordana Brewster for a candid conversation about motherhood, the pressures of Hollywood, and how meditation has helped her move through her anxiety. The mother of two, and star of Lethal Weapon and The Fast and Furious movie series, digs deep into how finding a spiritual practice helped her quiet her thoughts and helped h...

Includes the reading of Psalm 23. Activist and founder of Black Lives Matter Greater New York, Hawk Newsome, is with us on DENtalks. He’s been called the next Martin Luther King Jr. as he is determined to lead the Black Lives Matter movement with love. Hawk has dedicated his adult life to the betterment of his community and our nation as a whole by bringing justice to an unjust system. Prior to fo...

Includes a Working Skillfully with Emotions Meditation. Former buddhist monk, Scott Tusa, joins us on DENtalks Podcast for a very candid conversation about the dynamics of becoming a monk at age 28 and his decision to hang up his robes. His modern take on the Buddhism is refreshing and relatable as he sheds light on the struggles of being a monk in modern day and how isolation eventually caught up...

Includes a 10 minute distance Reiki meditation. One of our amazing instructors at The DEN Meditation, Kelsey Patel, joins us today on #DENtalks! She is one of LA’s most well known reiki masters, a beautiful spiritual teacher, creator of Magik Vibes and overall badass woman. Kelsey opens up about how suffering from excruciating back pain started a major life shift that would take her from working i...

Includes a meditation on Facing Your Problems. Prepare to get woke! Ryan Weiss of “Waking Up with Ryan” joins us on DENtalks for a conversation that pushes the boundaries of today’s social norms in relationships, career change, and life. Ryan is a life coach extraordinaire, yoga and meditation instructor, and creator of “Waking Up with Ryan” daily newsletter. He speaks candidly about the imposter...

Includes a 10 minute Chakra Meditation! Prominent yoga + meditation teacher, Nina Endrst, joins DENtalks today! Nina is an open book. She shares how she has dealt with deep trauma, anger, and learned self acceptance. How her own chronic health issues and childhood trauma promoted her career change, which ultimately led her to deepen her practice and begin to teach. For anyone who feels stuck or ov...