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Rev. Wendy Van Allen is an ordained interspiritual minister and counselor through One Spirit Learning Alliance and Outreach Ministries in New York, NY. As a Priestess of both the Afro-Caribbean Lukumi and Wiccan traditions, she is a longtime practitioner of Nature Spirituality. She is also a practicing Spiritist and a trained intuitive consultant through the Holistic Studies Institute, New York, N...

Joel Bennett, Ph. D., is President of Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems (OWLS), a consulting firm specializing in evidence-based wellness technologies to promote organizational health and employee well-being. He is a primary developer of “Team Awareness” and “Team Resilience,” evidence-based culture of health programs recognized by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Surgeon General as effective...

Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway is an interfaith minister, journalist, and author of 25 spirituality books. She has served couples and families of all faiths as a wedding officiant. And she has written extensively on goddess history and spirituality, as well as interfaith and multicultural traditions. Her books include: The Goddess Pages, Lakshmi Magic, and Your Interfaith Wedding. As a contributor to Sp...

Stephen Kiesling is a former Olympic rower, co-creator of the Nike Cross Training System, and editor-in-chief at Spirituality+Health. A 35th anniversary edition of his book, The Shell Game: Reflections on Rowing and the Pursuit of Excellence, was published in 2019. His March/April 2023 cover story “The Source of the Declaration of Independence” about the Indigenous roots of “life, liberty, and the...

Cyndie Spiegel is a born storyteller–turned–writer; she’s an aspirational voice and an igniter of powerful conversation around self-acceptance, integrity, and joy. She is a former fashion executive, adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design and Fashion Institute of Technology, and holds a masters of professional studies. She is also a TEDx speaker and certified yoga and meditation teacher, and...

Rev. Ryan “Mango” Althaus is the Minister of Interfaith Relations for the UUA of Santa Cruz and Regional Inclusion Affiliate for the National Presbyterian Church USA. Ryan dove into the field of mental health following an eating disorder relapse which landed this one-time professional marathon runner and certified Psych Chaplain in an in-patient psych unit. You can learn more about his journey to...

Steven Washington is the author of Recovering You: Soul Care and Mindful Movement for Overcoming Addiction. As a former professional dancer who performed on Broadway in Disney’s The Lion King, his love of movement inspired him to become the highly acclaimed qi gong and Pilates teacher that he is today. Steven lives a joyful life of recovery and is passionate about helping others as they navigate t...

Clark Strand is the author of Seeds From a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey and Now Is the Hour of Her Return: Poems In Praise of the Divine Mother Kali. He is the co-founder of an international, non-sectarian rosary fellowship dedicated to sharing the messages of Our Lady and the co-author, with Perdita Finn, of The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidde...

Ken Mogi is a neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster based in Tokyo. He is the author of Awakening Your Ikigai and The Way of Nagomi. He has published more than thirty papers on cognitive science and neuroscience, and over one hundred books in Japan covering popular science, essay, criticism, and self-help. His books have sold close to one million copies. In this episode, Ken and Rabbi Rami talk...

Dr. Joanna LaPrade is the author of Forged in Darkness: The Many Paths of Personal Transformation, a book that unites self-discovery with mythology to handle an important dilemma of our times—how to live with the darkness in life, reminding us that we have more ways of accepting and growing from the deep and dark places within us than we ever thought possible. Joanna is an educator who has taught,...

Julie Peters is a yoga and meditation teacher, counselor, and Tarot reader based out of Edmonton, Alberta. She is a staff writer for Spirituality & Health and the author of two books: Secrets of the Eternal Moon Phase Goddesses: Meditations on Desire, Relationships, and the Art of Being Broken and the Canada Book Award-winning Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure After Sexual...

Dr. Deborah Threadgill Egerton is a psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, and IEA-certified Enneagram practitioner, consultant, and coach. She’s the founder and president of Trinity Transition Consultants, and the author of Know Justice Know Peace: A Transformative Journey of Social Justice, Anti-Racism, and Healing through the Power of the Enneagram. The book is reviewed in the November/December is...

Ari Wallach is a futurist and the founder and executive director of Longpath Labs. A sought-after speaker on innovation, AI, and the future of public policy, Ari Wallach’s TEDTalk on longpath thinking has been viewed by 2.6 million people and has been translated into 21 languages.  His new book is Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs. Ari was interviewed for the November/Decembe...

Adrienne van der Valk is a writer, podcaster, certified meditation and yoga teacher, recovery mentor, co-founder of REVA Recovery Support, and co-host of The Hangover Liberation Society podcast. In her work as a trauma-informed recovery mentor, Adrienne teaches meditation and movement techniques to help her students align their minds and bodies with their vision for their sober lives. She draws on...

Carrie Wilkens, PhD is co-founder and clinical director of the CMC in New York City, NY; Long Island, NY; and Washington, DC. She is cofounder of CMC: Berkshires, a private inpatient/residential program employing the same treatment approaches in Western Massachusetts, and cofounder and president of the CMC: Foundation for Change, a nonprofit organization with the mission of improving the dissemina...

Mark Nepo moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world with his New York Times-bestseller, The Book of Awakening. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time.” His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. His latest book, out now, is Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity. His essay...

Dr. Rachel Goldsmith Turow is a psychotherapist in private practice, a research scientist, and an adjunct faculty member at Seattle University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has trained hundreds of individuals to use mindfulness, self-compassion, and cognitive behavioral skills to transform their self-criticism into self-encouragement and to cultivate resilience. An excerpt f...

Julia Cameron is the bestselling author of more than 40 books, fiction and nonfiction, as well as a poet, songwriter, filmmaker, and playwright. Commonly referred to as the Godmother or High Priestess of creativity, her tools are based in practice, not theory, and she considers herself "the floor sample of her own toolkit." Her book The Artist's Way has been translated into 40 languages and has so...

Awyn Dawn is a pagan high priestess who has been working with spiritual seekers for nearly 10 years. After being incarcerated and overcoming her own life challenges, Awyn dedicated herself to the pagan path and now teaches others in the Colorado prison system. Awyn’s second book, Paganism on Parole: Connecting to the Magic All Around, is scheduled for release in November of 2022. Her article “Pris...

Machiel Klerk is an award-winning social entrepreneur whose latest book is Dream Guidance: Connecting to the Soul Through Dream Incubation. His essay “How to Get Guidance From Your Dreams” appeared in the May/June issue of Spirituality & Health. You can learn more about Machiel at machielklerk.com. In this episode, Machiel and Rabbi Rami chat about the source of dreams, Jungian psychology, and how...

Rabbi Rami Shapiro is an award–winning author of over 36 books on religion and spirituality. He received rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and holds a PhD in religion from Union Graduate School.  Rami is also the contributing editor at Spirituality & Health magazine and hosts the Spirituality & Health podcast. In this episode, guest host Sarah Bowen c...

Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity”—just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good.  He is a faculty member of The Living School and podcaster with Learning How to See, which are part of the Center for Action and Contemplation. He...

Mara Branscombe is a mother, writer, yogi, artist, teacher, mindfulness leader, ceremonialist, and spiritual coach. She is the author of “Ritual As Remedy: Embodied Practices For Soul Care.”   Mara is passionate about weaving the art of mindfulness, self-care, creativity, mind–body practices, and earth-based rituals into her life and work, and she has been leading community ceremony since 2000. In...

Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, and queer identities and has app...

Natalie Goldberg is the author of fifteen books, including Writing Down the Bones (Shambhala, 1986), which has sold over one million copies, and has been translated into fourteen languages. For more than forty years Natalie has practiced Zen Buddhism and taught seminars in writing as a practice.  In this episode, Natalie and Rabbi Rami discuss writing, aging, and the beauty of Zen practice. Learn...