The CyberSangha Podcast

Episode 71 · Series 4 — 2024 CyberSangha Dialogues With Eric Garland, Ph. D., and Alejandro Chaoul, Ph. D. Can we ease our physical and emotional pain simply by increasing our sensitivity to natural, healthy pleasures? In Dr. Eric Garland’s MORE research, participants learned a savoring practice in which they intentionally focused on the sights, sounds, smells, and touch of a pleasant experience,...

Episode 70 · Series 4 — 2024 CyberSangha Dialogues With Ed O’Malley, Ph. D., and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal How do the light of day and darkness of night impact our experience as human beings, including the quality of our sleep? What is light, from the perspectives of both modern science and ancient Tibetan wisdom? Ed O’Malley and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche explore the implications not only of sunlight, bu...

Episode 69 · Series 4 — 2024 CyberSangha Dialogues With Danny Lewin, Ph. D., and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal. How do modern science and ancient Tibetan wisdom define the different states of sleep? What is the best advice for improving sleep and circadian health and being more aware while dreaming? What can researchers learn from the ancient practices of dream and sleep yoga? Psychologist Danny Lewin, Ph....

Episode 68 · Series 4 — 2024 CyberSangha Dialogues With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Sleep is very important for our health on all levels, physically, mentally and spiritually. In an online talk, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche discusses 11 key points we can all follow to sleep better each night. The 11 points are: Go to sleep and wake up around the same time every day. A regular sleep schedule is key to sleep...

Episode 67 · Series 4 — 2024 CyberSangha Dialogues With Lorenzo Cohen, Ph. D.; Alison Jefferies; and Alejandro Chaoul, Ph. D Discover how yoga, tai chi, massage therapy, and other mind-body practices can contribute to your health and wellbeing well beyond the simple relaxation response. Cohen and Jefferies, co-authors of  Anticancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health with the Mix of Six , will...

Episode 66 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Mark Siegert, Harvey Aronson, and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche This video begins with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s sweet offering,  “I Am No One.”  For some this may be enjoyed as a poem, a creative expression; others may recognize it as a pointing out instruction which can be experienced as well as understood. Rinpoche and his guests then dis...

Episode 65 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Eric Garland, Fadel Zeidan, David Vago, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich In this fascinating conversation our distinguished presenters share neuroscience discoveries and effects of powerful interventions such as mindfulness, reappraisal and savoring that enable health-enhancing changes in one’s perspective and habitua...

Episode 64 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Siegert and Harvey Aronson Just what is one’s identity? One Western meaning is that identity is a single, healthy part of development required for a happy, successful life. Another view, both in Buddhism and in some aspects of Western psychotherapy, is that identity includes multiple identities, and under...

Episode 63 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche According to the dzogchen teachings, abiding in the spaciousness of our mind can be our doorway to the refuge of the nirmanakaya — the pure movement of energy and genuine warmth that arises from the inseparable openness and awareness of our true nature. In a live online broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche helps u...

Episode 62 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Wim Hof, Elissa Epel, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich Tibetan tummo is an ancient method for cultivating inner fire — the joy, bliss, and warmth of our being. We all naturally have these qualities within us, but they are often unreliably available because we have not learned to access them or to stabilize our attention...

Episode 61 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche According to the dzogchen teachings, resting deeply in the silence of speech can be our doorway to the refuge of the sambhogakaya — the pure, infinite awareness of our true nature. In this video for the cybersangha, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche helps us to enter through the door of silence.

Episode 60 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Adriana Dal Borgo, Peter Payne, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich Contemplative movement can include a number of practices such as yoga, dance, tai chi, tsa lung trul khor and yantra yoga. In their own unique ways, these practices integrate self-awareness, rhythm, sound, movement, conscious breath, disciplined fo...

Episode 59 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche According to the dzogchen teachings, the simple act of resting in the stillness of our body can serve as a doorway to the refuge of the dharmakaya: the pure, unbounded spaciousness of our true nature. In a live online broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche helps us to enter through the door of stillness.

Episode 58 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Sarah Prinsloo, Julieta Galante, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich The last two decades have seen a rise in mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) that support healing of mind and body. This Science & Spirituality dialog gives us the opportunity to hear about the health benefits of mindfulness and other meditation...

Episode 57 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche It’s human nature that we continually struggle to become — to become healthier, wealthier, more knowledgeable, more attractive, or better at what we do, feel, or think. But lasting happiness and joy arise not from becoming, but from our ability to be: to be completely present with whatever experiences life bring...

Episode 56 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Richard Freeman, Mary Taylor, Paul Dallaghan, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich For millennia, yogis have made the breath an integral part of spiritual practice. Even the simple, intimate practice of breath awareness can help us to quickly silence thoughts, calm nerves, soothe anger, and dispel fear. In a live CyberSa...

Episode 55 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With James Duffy, Charles Raison, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich If you’ve ever felt like you’ve lost your mind, you’re not alone — even top scientists remain uncertain of the mind’s location. Based on both contemplative science and anecdotal evidence from direct meditative experience, researchers are reconsidering the relationship between the...

Episode 54 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Before we can experience the joy of recognizing our true nature — the larger sense of self that is open, spacious, and fully perfected — we must recognize our smaller self: the “pain mind” that is continually dominated by emotions, mental images, and scattered thoughts. In a live online broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal...

Episode 53 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Ruth Wolever, Richard Rosen, and host Alejandro Chaoul-Reich Pranayama, or the ancient practice of breath control in yoga and other meditative traditions, plays a crucial role in linking body and mind. Modern research also suggests that certain breathing techniques can promote physical wellbeing, and perhaps even aid in preventing and...

Episode 52 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Are you voicing your words from a space of vibrant, open awareness? Or, from a place of pain? Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche explains how to know when pain speech is active in you; how to connect with it; and ultimately, how to transcend it. This broadcast is part of “A Year of Body, Speech, and Mind,” a free 2021 onli...

Episode 51 · Series 3 — A Year of Body, Speech & Mind With Cyndi Lee · Dr. Jeff Dussek · Geshe Tenzin Wangyal · Alejandro Chaoul-Reich This conversation brings together leaders in contemplative science, integrative medicine, and Tibetan meditation to explore how embodied awareness supports healing, resilience, and meaningful change in daily life. Through personal stories and grounded practice...

Episode 50, Series 3: "A Year of Body, Speech & Mind" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Our true self is an open, vibrant state of clear awareness. But whenever negative emotions are triggered in us, we tend to dissociate from who we truly are and to take on a ‘pain body,’ or pain-related identity. In a live Internet broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche explains how to know when our pain body i...

Episode 49, Series 3: "A Year of Body, Speech & Mind" Featuring: Eve Ekman, Elisa Kozasa, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal, and Alejandro Chaoul-Reich Meditation can contribute to our emotional health. At the same time, a level of emotional balance is necessary for us to move past our worries and agitation and rest deeply in meditation. In the third of a series of 2021 Science & Spirituality Dialogs,...

Episode 48, Series 3: "A Year of Body, Speech & Mind" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche As we deepen our familiarity with resting in a state of spacious awareness, the obstacles and obscurations of our habitual patterns naturally dissolve into the openness of our true nature and our positive qualities spontaneously arise. In a live Internet broadcast, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche guides us in rest...

Episode 47, Series 3: "A Year of Body, Speech & Mind" Featuring: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche offered a spontaneous online teaching and guided meditation as part of the Month of Speech. This broadcast is part of “A Year of Body, Speech, and Mind,” a free 2021 online program of live teachings, practices, and science & spirituality dialogs.  Learn more