Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

What’s more dangerous: Surviving the gauntlet of fighters in the UFC and still living in your mother’s house or sustaining a rattlesnake bite in your backyard?  Kyle Kingsbury (UFC) and Paul (rattlesnake) trade survival tactics and share practices that will help you break the habit of being yourself this week on Spirit Gym. Check out Kyle and his work on his community page and his Kingsbu website...

If you’ve watched the news lately, the pharmaceutical world is beginning to embrace the use of psychedelic medicines as a safer and more effective means to treat deep emotional challenges. That’s the good news… However, are people using these ancestral medicines like allopathic medicines to bypass the deeper work they truly need that can create real pathways to personal growth and lasting healing?...

Over his long career as a practitioner and therapist, Paul has taken such great care in honing and fine-tuning his daily practices that for him to consider changing them is pretty rare. That is, until Simon Cheng, the founder and CEO of Pique Life , put a thought into Paul’s brain in their first podcast conversation more than five years ago about using black teas to support his early morning medit...

1Filmmaker Ben Stewart describes the tactics mass media uses to bend your mind to their will and how you can turn the tables by living your own myths and stories and embracing the badassery of being human by learning how to use the tools the fat cats use for good, this week on Spirit Gym. Learn more about Ben’s work on his website and social media via Instagram . Watch his series Psychedelica and...

The stories we tell each other and ourselves have a very profound effect on our ability to sooth, heal and nurture ourselves. Nancy Mellon, a pioneer in healing and therapeutic storytelling and author of the landmark book, Body Eloquence: The Power of Myth to Awaken the Body’s Energies , shares her life lessons, the moment she discovered Rudolf Steiner and how myth plays a critical role in our liv...

Do you believe your life is following a predetermined path that limits who you are, what you can earn and how you live your life, yet you want more ? Jason Pickard , a former hedge fund manager and Paul’s best friend in the world, describes the kind of mindset you will need to connect to the far greater whole in order to achieve the life of your dreams, earn the money you need to make it a reality...

Remember the beginnings of the Internet in the consumer world more than 30 years ago?  Times have changed exponentially from the early days when you could only connect to the World Wide Web on a very bulky home computer via telephone land lines, “surfing” speeds were a crawl and Amazon wasn’t the fastest or cheapest way to buy a book! Whether you interact with the Internet daily or not, you can’t...

Have you ever had a deep conversation about a topic as personal as your beliefs about God, only to be told you didn’t understand what you were talking about fully, and that all you knew about God was blowing smoke ?  Vedic scholar, poet and Sanskrit master Jeffrey Armstrong returns to the podcast for a spirited conversation with Paul about Higher Powers, practices versus beliefs and nondualism thi...

As modern culture claims it strives for equality between the sexes, why does our society feel more unequal than ever, especially for women? This inequality many of us feel stems from the existing patriarchal stranglehold on society that often leaves women competing with men for the very same things, yet feeling unfulfilled emotionally, mentally, spiritually and sexually. How can we begin to change...

Confused by the daily deluge of medical studies in the news that are often built on faulty science, yet imply great harm to your health? Researcher, podcaster and former Army captain Alec Zeck joins Paul in a wide-ranging conversation about the serious lack of critical thinking and reasoning skills whenever science, health and medicine are discussed this week on Spirit Gym.  Learn more about Alec...

Have you ever considered how the power of myth can make an impact on your life? Did you know it can affect your ability to grow, evolve and love? Spiritual counselor and Tarot master Letao Wang demonstrates how myth and astrology permeate our very existence with the help of CHEK Practitioners Sasha Andrious and Allen Simkovich this week on Spirit Gym. Plus, Paul shares his valuable insights with A...

Have you experienced being cancelled by friends, family and people you work with for saying the "wrong" thing? World famous chef, author and speaker Pete Evans returns from several years of social hibernation to talk about his latest adventures — writing a new cookbook ( Healthy Food for Healthy Kids ) with help from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and opening a wellness retreat — this week on Spi...

How would it feel to wake up one morning to feel totally transformed in a heightened state of awareness and receiving downloads of quantum information? Would you feel frightened by those new abilities or empowered that you were starting to figure out who you really are? Mary Buckingham shares her growth as a master in the field of frequency calibration and how it helped her to reclaim her youthful...

Why people call religion organized ? Depending on where you go, a spiritual leader will lead you to feel something — it could be fire and brimstone fear or insincere feelings of piety — all the while avoiding the hard questions and truths that gnaw on your soul. As an evangelical pastor’s son, Aaron Abke knew that organized world all too well and tried to live that prescribed life for a very short...

Our world is way long overdue for a sacred revolution! Teacher, Druid and psychologist John Churchill joins Paul on a deep exploration of human development and explains why a sacred revolution must take place to reclaim and transform our planet this week on Spirit Gym. Learn more about John’s work and upcoming courses at his Planetary Dharma website . Find him on social media via Instagram . For S...

Is it possible to correct your vision to a perfect state merely after meditating? Just the possibility of it sounds fantastic but very true, as Dr. Jacob Israel Liberman shares how a single session of meditation led to 20/20 vision and a far greater awareness of being able to see what’s invisible to most people (due to their conditioning) this week on Spirit Gym. Learn more about Jacob’s work and...

Sunlight is such an important part of our natural lives and health, so why do we spend much of our waking days hiding indoors from it? Light biology researcher and truthteller Dr. Alexis Cowan separates real facts from the science-fiction we’ve been forced to swallow for far too long and explains why it’s so harmful for our bodies to be bathed by “junk light” and so much more this week on Spirit G...

You’ve been existing unhappily in the toxic world of corporate America for a long time and the downsizing has begun. Fear is all you know, and you can be cut out of that world at a moment’s notice. What would you do? When faced with that question, Dr. Enolia Foti took an amazing journey to connect with her African and Native American roots through working with a string of amazing teachers. Enolia...

For countless CHEK Institute students and podcast listeners, their first exposure to vaporizing has come from Paul sharing his spiritual practices with plants and herbs. Knowing that good vaporizing starts and ends with the right plant and herb blends grown organically and made with love and respect for nature, what’s Paul’s go-to source to formulate the perfect Volcano? Kacie Kinzer and Tom Gerha...

Looking for science news that focuses on consciousness, spirituality and true healing can be hard for the average consumer to find unless you’re Paul (who knows where to look for it). Meet David Lorimer, program director and global ambassador of the fact-finding Scientific and Medical Network , editor of its companion publication Paradigm Explorer and the author of many books. David joins Paul for...

What does enlightenment really mean to you? For some, it can conjure up images of sitting in silence with monks in an ashram for days on end in prayer. For people like Paul and Russell Sturgess , however, the path to enlightenment means something much deeper, more realistic and illuminating at a soul level. Paul and Russell explore progressive enlightenment by way of the Major Arcana of the Tarot...

Paul has talked a lot about Spirit Gym for most of the past year, but not about how and why he created this life-changing program. Jason Pickard — Paul’s best friend and best student — interviews Paul about the methodology behind Spirit Gym, why it’s important to know the difference between theory and real practice and recognize the most dangerous thing a student can say in this very special episo...

After developing the first commercially-produced microprocessor for Intel more than a half-century ago, physicist and engineer Federico Faggin has seen it all in the world of computing. That is, until Federico spent many years working on creating a conscious computing experience before concluding such a thing was impossible. Federico shares his journey from creating some of the world’s first micro...

What can we do on a spiritual level to change the trajectory of our world to a much more loving place? Paul compares notes with Sean O’Laoire about the anatomy of the self and how that works with the tiny laptops in our heads this week on Spirit Gym. Learn more about Sean and his work at his Spirits in Spacesuits website where you can learn more about his What in God’s Name is Christ Consciousness...

For most people, caffeine is their first drug of choice, and a very legal one used in everything from energy drinks and coffee to products you wouldn’t expect (think protein bars and over-the-counter pain relievers). That over-reliance on caffeine to provide a daily boost in energy and alertness often comes at a high cost, especially if you’re addicted to it (which many people are) or metabolize i...