Good Clean Reads

“Tantra loves, and loves unconditionally. It never says no to anything whatsoever, because everything is part of the whole, and everything has its own place in the whole, and the whole cannot exist with anything missing from it.” ~Osho

“Faith is where you hold your heart.” This is what one of the master teachers shared when he was translating the ancient practices of Tantra yoga into a modern...

Having sexual conversations, even among adults are perhaps the most challenging discourse to engage in, no wonder most parents dread “the talk” that they often don’t feel competent or confident to give their children. Don’t miss this honest and authentic conversation with Deborah Roffman, award winning sex educator and author of Talk to Me First for the strategies and confidence you need to not...

Largely, this is a misleading and fruitless focus for our collective attention because what matters more than the moments of fleeting glory accompanying the win is the courage to play. If we could re-focus our attention on the beauty and spontaneous interaction which makes the game, we might come to value the strength of character that every athlete brings to the game. It is in fact, the discipline, vision, and devotion to wanting to play that makes winning meaningful. But it also makes losing meaningful. These are life lessons through sports that shape us. And in the grand scheme...

The universal emotion of disgust is one that is both intrinsic to our survival protecting us from external poisons, but also in surprising ways prevents us from having to confront our own weaknesses and even mortality. Listen as psychologist and author, Rachel Herz illuminates us about how what we find disgusting uniquely reflects our personality, how we treat others and what we find most...

Yoga is one of the world’s fastest growing health and fitness activities with 20 million people in the US and over 250 million around the world practicing it every day.  Its ancient roots go back to 2500 BCE.  Don’t miss this enlightening conversation with William Broad, Pulitzer Prize winning author and lead science writer for the New York Times, share his discoveries about the surprising...

If modern day politics and the increasingly large polarization that is dominating rhetoric has anything to teach, it is this: there are no solutions to be found when we are asking the wrong questions. Demanding answers to the wrong questions is a practice that often get trained into us in our personal lives. The wrong questions are easily identified as a product of our fears and judgments. At...

I was a guest on a really cool radio show in San Francisco called an Organic Conversationwhen I first learned of the Let Love Out campaign. The designer of this universal symbol of love was being interviewed, also. He explained how he combined an interlocking heart with an infinity sign to create a symbol for all that is good within us and for all the good that we can do when we let it out. Carl...

Learning the art of practicing is all about embracing the process of becoming fully present in life.   By combining a commitment to disciplined repetition and an unquenchable curiosity we not only come to master the skills we desire, we develop a mind-set that brings more joy and contentment to even the most challenging obstacles.  Don’t miss Thomas Sterner, author of The Practicing Mindinspire...

Carter Phipps enlightens us with a whole new understanding of both the internal and cultural meaning of the process of evolution and in doing so lifts the debate of creationism vs. evolution out of the polarized battle between religion and science. With a thorough understanding of the historical context of where we find ourselves in history and the depth of scientific inquiry, Carter shows us how...