Odyssey & Alchemy: Conversations on Spirituality, Psychology & Inner Transformation

Most of us try to parent from our heads. Clara Roberts-Oss teaches from the body. A Vancouver-based Vinyasa Flow master trained under the legendary Shiva Rea, Clara has spent decades exploring how yoga's ancient wisdom applies to the messiest, most humbling job there is — raising children consciously. In this episode, Martin and Clara go deep on what it means to respond rather than react — in pare...

Jason Jacobson built My Yoga Online from nothing, sold it to Gaia, wrote a book called Strategic Instinct , and is now building an AI company. He also tried stand-up comedy. Not everything worked. That's kind of the point. This episode is about what it takes to bet on yourself — repeatedly, and often irrationally — and what separates people who move through fear from those who get stuck in it. Jas...

This is not a typical wellness conversation. Will Blunderfield is a Vancouver yogi, musician, and men's rewilding guide with a UBC psychology degree and certifications from Mantak Chia and Gabor Maté. He's led naked yoga workshops. He teaches sexual kung fu. He believes most men are leaking their life force — and he has some very specific ideas about how to stop. In this episode, Will and Martin g...

Joel Laforet has been coaching bodies and minds for 28 years. He founded Awaken Yoga. He's built a garage gym. He's seven years sober. And he recorded this conversation fresh off a kettlebell hike up Mount Erskine. This is not a polished interview. It's a real conversation between two men trying to figure out what it means to be strong and soft — to train hard and sit still — to be a father, a par...

Something is happening to men's health — and most doctors aren't talking about it. Dr. Rigobert Kefferputz is a naturopath who has spent his career asking the questions conventional medicine tends to skip: Why is testosterone declining across generations? What does the absence of fathers do to the body? How does the nervous system hold onto trauma that supplements can't touch? In this wide-ranging...