The Delicate Business of Being Human

Episode 10; Dissecting Our Defenses; Procrastination, Postponement and Laziness is live. In the third part of our study, Paramita Oliveira and I continue on a micro-but-mighty odyssey. The terrain is tracing the ego’s development as a series of solutions and defense mechanisms. We’ll examine the structure of the personality, which was built around a being in development who didn’t have the protect...

Episode 9 – Yoga, Trust, and Reverence. This week we travel to Rishikesh, India to speak with Surinder Singh, possibly the most beloved Yoga teacher in the Yoga Capital of the world. Surinder’s warmth, humility, and heart, coupled with his engineering precision in asana has kept Laura (and thousands of other students) deepening their practice for years. We speak about Yoga’s capacity to transform...

Francesca Mason Boring joins The Delicate Business of Being Human to share her depth of experience and unique vantage point on family and systemic constellations and the Indigenous Knowing Field. We explore constellation’s capacity to show us hidden dynamics, and to offer the belonging so necessary for those who have been excluded. What if rather than a healing modality the constellation itself we...

In Episode 7 Jennifer Muir joins us to speak about tending grief, navigating loss, and death as an agent of awakening. Jennifer shares about her work as a death doula and grief tender, and about the experience of the sudden death of her husband while their daughter was an infant. And how this passage both ungrounded her and deepened her experience of life. We’ll speak about approaching death as a...

Episode 6 Paramita Oliveira Dissecting Our Defenses; Gluttony, Compulsions and Addictions In episode two of our study, Paramita Oliveira and I continue on a micro-but-mighty odyssey. The terrain is tracing the ego’s development as a series of solutions and defense mechanisms. We’ll examine the structure of the personality, which was built around a being in development who didn’t have the protectio...

In this episode we travel to Andhra Pradesh, India, to visit a very special temple: Devipuram. We are joined by Rama Kandarpa who tells us the story of her father Guruji Amritananda Nath’s incredible life and mission. We learn of the rational nuclear scientist’s visions of the Goddess, and his wild mission to build Her a home.

In episode four we are joined by Taganyahu Swaby acupuncturist, practitioner of Eastern Medicine and the Internal Martial Arts, and founder of Yaad Wellness. Taganyahu speaks about community and the impulse behind opening his center. We speak about the difference between Qi, Shen and Jing, and the importance of feeling and of respecting the cycles of nature.

Gurumaa Dipti Rajkumar Baswar, lineage holder and teacher of Shivoham Tantra, joins us to speak about mantra, sadhana, the inner Guru, and kundalini shakti. In this episode we’ll hear the traditional perspective of the movement of the soul from multiplicity to oneness as mapped by Adi Shakti. Gurumaa will share perspectives on what Tantra is, and how attitudes of receptivity, listening, and going...

In this episode, Paramita Oliveira and I start on a micro-but-mighty odyssey. The terrain is tracing the ego’s development as a series of solutions and defense mechanisms. We’ll examine the structure of the personality, which was built around a being in development who didn’t have the protection or cognitive capacity to navigate life’s difficulties. In this episode we start to recognize these solu...

What are the stories that we are telling ourselves about what it is to be a person? Host Laura Carrotti speaks on the need for context and coherence in our lives. She offers her working definition of spirituality and considers why the road to transformation requires us changing the story and practicing something different.

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