Shahla Ettefagh and Patrick Riley have committed their lives to assisting underprivileged children in India. They gave up their careers in USA and permanently relocated to India in 2002 and founded the Mother Miracle School. 

Located in Rishkesh, India the school provides much need services to more than 400 children. By addressing educational, nutritional and health care needs, the school is supporting some of the poorest children on the planet.

In this interview, Patrick and Shahala talk about the school's humble beginnings and how it continues to grow.  They also talk about ways you can help by sponsoring a child or evening traveling to India to work with the children.

 

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Resources

The Mother Miracle School

Sponsor a Child

Darren’s India Retreat

Although the twelve-Steps began with Alcoholics Anonymous, today there are dozens of twelve-step programs addressing every form of addiction imaginable.   One trait all of these programs share is a focus on spirituality.  While no one dogma is advocated, a regular practice of prayer and meditation is encouraged.

In The Twelve Step Buddhist, Darren Littlejohn explores the relationship between each steps and modern Buddhism while providing a model for recovering addicts who want to take a Eastern approach to their twelve-step recovery. 

In this interview Darren shares some insights as to how a recovering person might benefit from the teaching and practice of Buddhism in conjunction with their twelve-step work.

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Resources
Darren Littlejohn’s Website

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In SIGNS: A New Approach to Coincidence, Synchronicity, Guidance, Life Purpose, and God's Plan, well-known author Robert Perry ventures into new territory to explore what he calls a CMPE (Conjunction of Meaningfully Parallel Events).  Although Perry has written and taught almost exclusively on  A Course in Miracles in the past, this new book speaks to a more universal audience.

According to Perry, each of us is receiving guidance all the time, but without knowing what to look for, those signs often go unnoticed.  In Signs he outlines his model for recognizing these messages and offers insight into  using them to guide our lives.

 

Resources
Circle of Atonement Website
Signs Website

Previous Podcasts with Robert Perry
Understanding A Course in Miracles- Part 1
Understanding A Course in Miracles- Part 2
Understanding A Course in Miracles- Part 3

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All of us have times in our lives when things seem to be falling apart.  In this podcast, yoga teacher and personal coach Peter Chandonnet explores the process by which we can take difficulties and turn them into opportunities.

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Resources
Peter’s Website
Peter on Facebook

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

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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

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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