OM By The Beach - Fascinating People in the Hotseat

Robert Gold , Trust Development Coach, and Author Once a telecommunication systems sales executive and owner of an electrical contracting business, Robert has been forever learning and exploring. He became fascinated by the relatively unknown field of ontology which combines architecture, anthropology, neuro and cellular biology. He has transformed many lives and has developed accounting systems w...

Carolyn Feder Gold, Interior Designer and Author ​"Designing lovely spaces is a gift, creating surroundings that enhance lives, a privilege." ​When this classically trained Interior designer, discovered she possessed the unique gift of synaesthesia, everything in her life and practice, changed. She created innovative methods, based on science, to help clients, both children and adults, t...

Dane Dormio is a Martial Scientist, Chivangelist, MindBody Mastery Mentor. Dane is from San Diego, California, he studied martial arts since the age of 10, and QiGong for 16 years. Moreover, he studied Physics at San Diego State University, and Applied Math - Dynamical Systems at San Diego State University. Questions asked: Qigong combines exercise, breathwork, and meditation into a single activit...

“Modern-day Rumi” Ellie Shoja is a serial entrepreneur, author of The 13th Planet and Your Heart Knows The Way, co-founder of Peace Unleashed, TEDx speaker, and the co-host of the Unleash Your Peace podcast. As the daughter of an international con man, Ellie moved 30 times and lived in refugee camps in Germany before immigrating to the United States at the age of 15. By the age of 12, Ellie was su...

Excerpts from my book with the same title. Copyright © 2017 Josef Schinwald, MDiv Introduction 9:41 Minutes Have you Ever Wanted to Learn Meditation?  My name is JOSEF SCHINWALD and I can relate. In my early twenties, I traveled the world. I was usually accompanied by books like the Tao Te Ching, the Upanishads, or some new novel, i.e. Herman Hesse’s Prince Siddhartha.  I lived in India, Thailand,...

Mark Schwimmer designs programs in Cognitive Behavioral Techniques that strengthen mindset, promoting confident mindful skills for peak results and wellness. Trained in hypnosis, NLP, and a Master Facilitator of the MythoSelf(tm), Soma-Semantic Model(tm), Mark leads each of his clients to their Somatic Signature(tm). They experience a realization; a position where their life works exquisitely, reg...

Helen Edwards – Movement Speaker, Advisor, Event Creator, Yogini and International Author of, Nothing Sexier Than Freedom & Your Inner Evolution. Co-creator and leader of four successful Yoga Retreats. Helen has taught life skills, networking, and conscious behavior classes in shelters since 2008. She has a background as a Vision Therapist and working with kids with autism.  She has worked wit...

Jonathan Troen , Chief Life Officer. Jonathan's mission: To help people find the joy inside of themselves. Jonathan is a Life Mastery Coach, and co-founder of Austin Yoga Tree and the Life Mastery Collective. His latest creation is the Self Love Revolution. Jonathan spent 20+ years in the entertainment industry. He was living the life of his dreams, meeting the biggest stars in the world, exc...

Ryan Souther is a certified shamanic life coach and art therapist, and he goes by Llama Su, on various online platforms. He has written a book of poetry and a couple of books of haiku which is a type of short-form poetry originally from Japan. He had numerous art exhibitions in the northwest. Humboldt County, California has been his place of residency. He has a ten-year-old son with the name of Ma...

Courtni “StarHeart” Hale Traditional and Authentic Shaman, 15 years training, including Native American Medicine Teachers, Herbalists and Holistic Health. Personal Consulting, monthly Kambo Medicine, Medicine Retreats, Soul Retrieval, Readings. Executive Director, The Center for Natural and Traditional Knowledge Leader/ Organizer, and Speaking events include: World Economic Forum (4 Steps Into The...

Phil Reynolds, The Mind-Body Mentor, states that he loves his fiancé, helping his tribe succeed, and present moment awareness. There is only NOW. Phil spent 10 years working in and leading campus ministries in non-denominational Christianity. Then after his first spiritual awakening began studying Q'ero Shamanism, Deeksha, Hermeticism, and other esoteric paths. He believes Enlightenment is av...

Lois Kramer-Perez is a Certified Practitioner in Feng Shui, Hypnosis, Past Life Regression, NLP and Energy Clearing, Lois merges these methods to create the unique program for sustainable change. Lois Kramer-Perez, “Queen of the Shui” is the go-to expert when you are ready to receive passionate relationships, a peaceful home, and a life you love. Her popular programs, “Feng Shui Your Space and You...

Excerpts from Smith, Huston. The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (PP.114-122). HarperOne. Kindle-Version.  Covered here in 8:28 minutes: In this episode, I cover the famous parable of the arrow smeared thickly with poison, and how the original Buddhism can be characterized by being empirical, scientific, pragmatic, therapeutic, psychological, egalitarian, and directed to individuals. &...

Excerpts from Smith, Huston. The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (PP.105-113). HarperOne. Kindle-Version.  Covered here in 7:16 minutes: In this episode, I cover the four passing sights, his search, leaving the palace, the forest, Raja Yoga, Hindu philosophy, asceticism, the middle way, the immovable spot, his enlightenment, 45 years of ministry, his death, his simplicity, the constant...

Excerpts from Smith, Huston. The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (S.85-93). HarperOne. Kindle-Version.  Covered here in 9:52 minutes: In this episode, we learn about the Hindu worldview, and how it sees all other religions in her context. "To the question, “What kind of world do we have?” Hinduism answers:   A multiple world that includes innumerable galaxies horizontally, innumer...

Excerpts from the book by Smith, Huston. The World’s Religions, Revised and Updated (PP.82-83). HarperOne. Kindle-Version. Covered here in 9:52 minutes: In this episode, notions of brahman, jiva (individual soul), karma, and the journey of a being from the very beginning to moksha (liberation) will be the topics. Below is an excerpt of one of many. “Individual souls, or jivas, enter the world myst...

Smith, Huston. The World’s Religions, Revised and Updated (PP.60-70). HarperOne. Kindle-Version. Covered here in 10:20 minutes: In this episode, we continue with the ways of to the goal, with Raja Yoga. Here is a short excerpt of several covered. “The purpose of raja yoga is to demonstrate the validity of this fourfold estimate of the human self by leading the inquirer to direct personal experienc...

Smith, Huston. The World’s Religions, Revised and Updated (PP.50-70). HarperOne. Kindle-Version. Covered here in 8:31 minutes: In this episode, the subject matter is Bhakti and Karma Yoga. Here is a short excerpt of several covered. “The ideal form for most people will be one of God’s incarnations, for God can be loved most readily in human form because our hearts are already attuned to loving peo...

Excerpts from the book by Smith, Huston. The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (PP. 42-47). HarperOne. Kindle-Version.  Covered here in 06:18 minutes: The root of the word Yoga. The quest that has inspired India for ages. The different personality types and the Yogas. The first steps of Yoga. Jnana Yoga, the first way. The meaning of persona. The task of the yogi. Metaphors of the self i...

Excerpts from the book by Smith, Huston. The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (PP. 27-41). HarperOne. Kindle-Version.  Covered here in 9 minutes: Hinduism's affirmation is you can have what you want. Pleasure, worldly success, ... are not the things the people really want, however. There is the path of desire and the path of renunciation. The people who see nothing to renounce for...

Excerpts from the book by Smith, Huston. The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (PP. 252-254). HarperOne. Kindle-Version.  Covered here in 7  minutes: The Taoists rejected all forms of self-assertiveness and competition. The ax falls first on the tallest tree.  Selfless as melting ice is one of their descriptive figures. Chuang Tzu's description of his grand funeral. The notion of th...

Excerpts from the book by Smith, Huston. The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (PP. 252-254). HarperOne. Kindle-Version.  Covered here in 4  minutes: Perfecting a life of wu wei. Meanings of wu wei, pure effectiveness, and creative quietude. The way to do is the way to be. The secret lies in seeking out the empty spaces in life and in nature. Chuang Tzu and his story of a cook cutting up...

Excerpts from the book by Smith, Huston. The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (PP. 234-242). HarperOne. Kindle-Version.  Covered here in 05:40  minutes: The three schools of Taoism, efficient power (philosophical), augmented power (hygiene, and Yoga), and vicarious power (religious). Furthermore, the concepts of wu wei (pure effectiveness)  and ch'i (vital energy), and magic are ex...

Excerpts from the book by Smith, Huston. The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (P. 232). HarperOne. Kindle-Version.  Covered here in short 3 minutes: Tao can mean the way of ultimate reality, the way of the universe, and the way of human life. It cannot be named, there are no words for it, except Tao (a nonsense word), it refers to the womb of creation from which everything comes and ret...

Excerpts from the book by Smith, Huston. The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (P.230). HarperOne. Kindle-Version.  Covered here in short 3 minutes: Lao Tzu, 604 B.C., Confucius meets him, the Old Master or Old Boy as Lao Tzu is translated leaves riding on a water buffalo and at the border when asked for his teaching, he writes in three days the Tao Te Ching. Brought to you by OM By The...