Explore Spirituality

Rabbi Rami’s guest this episode is Kyle Chayka. He is a weekly columnist for Pacific Standard. As a writer and critic, his work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, and Rolling Stone, among many others. He began his career as an art critic, and his new book, The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, is more in that vein than offering methods for organizing your spice...

“Your loss is not a test, it is not a blessing, it is not a plan. Loss it what happens in life. Meaning is what we make after,” says David Kessler. Kessler is one of the world’s foremost experts on grief. He coauthored On Grief and Grieving and Life Lessons with famed psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who pioneered the concept of the five stages of grief. He and Rabbi Rami discuss his new book,...

Based on Maui, Jeana Naluai is a trained physical and massage therapist who shares her Native Hawaiian cultural healing practices with students through retreats and trainings, and at her spa in the town of Makawao.  For the past 10 years, she has taught lomilomi, a Hawaiian traditional massage and healing tradition. She and Rabbi Rami discuss how lomilomi was used for medical treatment such as tis...

This is the third episode in a four-part podcast series on maintaining spiritual and emotional wellness during the COVID-19 crisis. Rabbi Rami’s guest today is his friend and colleague at the One River Foundation, Frank Levy. Based in Alabama, Levy is the retired Bureau Chief of Public Health Preparedness for the Houston Department of Health and Human Services, and former Director of Interfaith Re...

This is the second of our four-part series of short Essential Conversations podcasts. Today’s guest is Rev. Dr. Gordon Peerman. Dr. Peerman is an Episcopal priest and a psychotherapist in private practice in Nashville, TN, and the author of two books, The Body Knows the Way: Coming Home Through the Dark Night and Blessed Relief: What Christians Can Learn from Buddhists about Suffering. He and Rabb...

In this special four-part series, Rabbi Rami gives counsel on how to stay healthy from social, psychological, and spiritual perspectives during the COVID-19 crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Rabbi Rami interviews Shauna Shapiro, Ph. D. She is a professor and clinical psychologist who is one of the leading scientists studying the effects of mindfulness and self-compassion on wellbeing. Her new book is Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness + Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity + Joy. One of the most hopeful and exciting developments in science has...

This week, Rabbi Rami interviews Spring Washam. Spring is a well-known meditation teacher and author based in California and Peru. One of the founders and core teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center in downtown Oakland, Calif., Spring has been a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based healing practices to diverse communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rabbi Rami speaks with Clark Strand and Perdita Finn. They are the co-founders of The Way of the Rose, an inclusive fellowship of rosary friends dedicated to the Earth and to the Lady, “by any name we wish to call Her.” Strand is the author of numerous articles and books on spiritual practices, including Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey and Waking Up to t...

This week, Rabbi Rami speaks with Dr. Will Cole, a functional medicine practitioner based in Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Inflammation Spectrum: Find Your Food Triggers and Reset Your System. Despite how much Americans spend on health care, we don’t rate high in health, happiness or longevity. Functional medicine, a newer approach that can complement traditional Western medicine, may be abl...

You may recognize Dr. Christian Conte from the TV show Coaching Bad, or the daily Emotional Management Minutes that air on more than 300 radio stations across the country, or his TEDx talk, “Why I Chose to Go to Prison.” He is hard to miss: a six-foot-tall, muscled, bearded, and tattooed mental health specialist. His latest book is Walking Through Anger: A New Design for Confronting Conflict in an...

Rabbi Rami speaks with Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University, about her latest book, The Joy of Movement. It looks at how physically moving the body is not only a way to treat depression, anxiety, and loneliness, but also a powerful way to connect and promote cooperation with other humans. It literally builds joy in the body via specific receptors and hormones,...

Seane Corn is an internationally acclaimed yoga teacher and public speaker known for her social activism, impassioned style of teaching, and raw, honest and inspired self-expression. She's been teaching for more than 25 years, and speaks with Rabbi Rami about her very first book, which was published in the fall of 2019. "Yoga is about cracking you open," Rabbi Rami notes. "Expanding your heart." S...

Rabbi Rami speaks with the husband-and-wife team of Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack. Primack is a distinguished professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz and a world-renowned cosmologist; Abrams is an author and speaker. Together, they explore issues about the cultural and social implications of the modern scientific understanding of the universe. The two have co-authored two books together: The N...

In this episode, Rabbi Rami speaks with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison. Paley Ellison is the co-founder the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, the first Zen-based organization to offer clinical chaplaincy training in America. Koshin is also the author of the new book Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up. Many of us are in what Ellison calls Zombieland. Walking down the street, staring...

“What does it mean to believe in a monotheistic god?” asks Scott Shay, author of the new book In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism. It in, one of his main goals is to show that it is as rational to be a monotheist as an atheist. Rabbi Rami and Scott discuss the book and Shay's views.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From 2009 to 2017, Sarah Hurwitz worked in the White House, serving as head speechwriter for First Lady Michelle Obama and as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama. Her new book explores her deeper exploration of her Jewish faith.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this podcast, Barbara and Rabbi Rami have a wide-ranging discussion, including talking about some of the Christian traditions that have gotten lost in Protestantism—such as early contemplative practices, and Mary/the divine feminine archetype—that are now being re-discovered and embraced. Support for this show comes from the International Yoga Festival located at Parmarth Niketan, uniting yogis...

Rabbi Rami interviews bestselling author, podcaster and all-around happy guy, Ken Honda. Ken is helping people transform their relationships with money, and has written a new book "Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money."   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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S&H editor Ben Nussbaum turns the tables on Rabbi Rami and interviews the host of Essential Conversations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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