For more than 30 years Yanni has been entertaining people around the world with his soothing instrumental music.  His new CD, Voices is a departure from his past work, however.  In this new CD he has gathered some of the most talented vocalists from the next generation of musicians to add lyrics to some of his greatest hits.

In this interview I join Nathan Pacheco and Chloe on their tour bus to talk about what it is like to work with a musical legend and how it feels to lend their voices to such a groundbreaking CD.


Resources:
Yanni Voices
Nathan Pacheco on MySpace
Chloe on MySpace

Purchase the CD
Amazon • iTunes

Early in his life, Nathan Ohm was raised a fundamental Baptist and eventually graduated from Bob Jones University.  As a gay man, Nathan continues to reconcile his past to his present spiritual journey of peace, love, and enlightenment.  He advocates that through all of our challenges, we can ultimately experience satisfaction and wholeness.

Nathan  is the founder of Lifestyle Invention, a coaching practice designed to help people improve the quality of their lives.  He currently resides in New York city where he leads a multidimensional lifestyle as an actor, singer, life-coach, yogi, corporate manager, and world traveler.

Resources
Nathan's Website

David Plotz is a journalist and writer with Slate as well as the magazine's editor.  He is the co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest podcast with John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon.
Several years ago, he began blogging about the Bible, which became the foundation for his second book entitled  Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible.

Director and filmmaker Kate Churchill discusses her new documentary on yoga and the transformational effects it had on skeptic Nick Rosen.  Enlighten up is a  funny, charming, and informative tour of modern yoga that will take you around the world in search of the essence of yoga.


Resources:
Enlighten Up Website

Watch the Trailer

Have you ever cried while practicing yoga?   This experience is very common and yet it can take a new  yogi by surprise.  In this podcast, psychologist and yoga teacher Darcy Lyon explains that emotional and psychological releases during hatha yoga practice are a natural way for the body and mind to release past traumas that may be stored in the tissues of the body.


Resources
Darcy's Website

Suggested Reading

John Friend is the founder of Anusara Yoga and a world-renown expert in both hatha yoga and yoga philosophy.   In part two of this two part interview John talks about the principles of Anusara yoga and what distinguishes it from other styles.

John Friend on YouTube

Books

Darren Main’s Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic is a completely delightful and insightful introduction to the philosophy of yoga for the modern practitioner. Darren’s personable and compassionate style makes the philosophical visions of Classical Yoga and Vedanta easily accessible and applicable for the quickly growing yoga community in the West.
~John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga

John Friend is the founder of Anusara Yoga and a world-renown expert in both hatha yoga and yoga philosophy.   In part one of this two part interview John talks about his own start on the spiritual path and what lead him to develop Anusara Yoga.  He also discusses his passion for "The Wizard of Oz" as  a spiritual metaphor.

John Friend on YouTube

Books

Joshua Bell is a Grammy award-winning violinist who has performed worldwide including the prestigious Carnegie Hall.  Joshua's music is featured in the motion picture Defiance and his 11th CD, Vivaldi: The Four Seasons was recently released.

In this podcast, Joshua discusses his childhood, his son and a fascinating social experiment in which he participated in a Washington, DC Subway station. 

Resources
Joshua Bell's Website
Washington Post Article
Watch Video of Joshua in the D.C. Metro

Purchase Joshua's Music
Complete Discography

Nick Margerrison, host of The Night Before on the United Kingdom's radio station Kerrang talks to Darren about homosexuality and the Bible and Darren's controversial interview with Shirley Phelps.


Resources
Nick Margerrison's on Kerrang
Nick's Blog
Listen to the Shirley Phelps Interview

BUY: Hearts & Minds: Talking to Christians about Homosexuality

Matt Miller is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress; a contributing editor at Fortune; and the host of Left, Right & Center, public radio's popular week-in-review program  Miller's first book, The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love, was published in 2003.  Now his much anticipated book The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go Of The Old Ways Of Thinking To Unleash A New Prosperity is available. 

In this podcast Matt, talks about the future of America under President Obama’s leadership as well as how we can all change our minds and save the world.
Resources
Matt Miller’s Website

The Center for American Progress
Left Right & Center Website

Left Right & Center Podcast

Purchase Matt Miller’s Books