Episodes
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Aziz & Maoz: An Israeli and a Palestinian Refuse to Be Enemies
After losing family to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, here's how Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah chose peace over revenge — and became brothers.
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Procrastination as a freeze response: Everyday Somatics with Jennifer Tantia
Learn why procrastination is an autonomic freeze response and how everyday somatics helps you move past task avoidance using bottom-up regulation and curiosity.
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Beyond Screen Addiction: Reclaiming Presence in the Attention Economy
This article puts screen addiction within a larger context and draws practical conclusions. The environment in which human attention evolved has changed so dramatically that mindfulness is becoming an essential human capacity rather than an optional spiritual practice.
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Meditation as a Living Process: Moving Beyond Forced Stillness
Stop trying to force stillness. Discover an experiential meditation process to move from automatic tension to embodied presence through physical sensing.
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Looking Past Political Autopilot: Scary Does Not Mean Powerful
What happens when you look past political outrage? Discover how mindfulness interrupts automatic reactions and reveals the vulnerability beneath the surface.
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Gentle Presence with John Amodeo: Turning Anxiety & Defensiveness into Connection
Explore how gentle presence helps you drop out of your head and into your body. John Amodeo shares how pausing and welcoming what you feel shifts automatic reaction into mindful connection.
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Meditation as Engagement: Mindfulness Is Not a Spectator Sport
Mindfulness is more than passive observation. Discover how active, embodied engagement—from meditation to somatics—helps you move from automatic reaction to conscious response.
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Mindful Presence & Embodiment: A Conversation with Andrew Rosenstock
Andrew Rosenstock and Serge Prengel explore embodiment, self-regulation, and how to stay grounded in felt body awareness during live conversation.
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Stephen Batchelor: Mindfulness Beyond Dogma & Rigid Rules
Stephen Batchelor discusses how returning to early Buddhist sources and Greek philosophy helps us move beyond rigid dogma, cultivate ethical judgment, and bring mindful presence to life’s choices.
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Embracing mindful connection & its transformational power
Serge Prengel and Bruce Nayowith explore the power of mindful human connections and their vital role in personal growth.
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Andrea Ruhland: Autism & Mindful Parenting
Andrea's journey as a mother to a daughter on the autism spectrum. This heartfelt conversation conveys a down-to-earth sense of the complexities and rewards of mindful parenting.
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Mindful Engagement & Personal Growth: A Practical Example
Engagement in everyday life involves being present in the moment. Here is a simple, down-to-earth example of how it works in everyday life.
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Julie Nelson: A mindful exploration of power dynamics in spiritual communities
We delve into the importance of recognizing power dynamics and how they affect mindful living and spiritual growth.
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How to truly engage with your life: A mindfulness experiment
In this video, people reflect on their inner experience when they have difficulty engaging compared to when they can engage more.
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Brenda Shoshanna: an experiential conversation about authority
Brenda Shoshanna and I are having a conversation informed by Zen, being present with our experience, as we discuss authority.
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Dan Clurman: Feldenkreis & the body as an organizing system
The Feldenkrais method teaches people to be aware of how they move so that they can change ineffective habits. Here, we're using these tools to put the method into practice, live.
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Active imagination: Leslie Ellis & Serge Prengel
I invited my friend and colleague Leslie Ellis to have a conversation about Active Imagination in therapy and in life.
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Jeff Warren: Coming into presence through connection
Jeff Warren has an iconoclastic approach to meditation and what it's like to be human. Here, we discuss coming into the present, practicing what we preach.
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Owen Flanagan: What it is like to be an addict
Owen Flanagan is an expert in the philosophy of mind and ethics. For many years, he was also an addict. Here, we talk about addiction from both perspectives.
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Gregory Kramer: Not knowing, being present in the moment
Gregory Kramer and I set about to embody the attitude of not knowing as we stay present with what happens moment by moment.
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Shared meditation informed by Focusing
This approach blends moments of meditation and moments of sharing our experiences of meditating.
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One-minute mindfulness: Embodied presence
I am going to describe to you a one-minute practice. Now, when I say one minute, it could be 50 seconds or five minutes.
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Koshin Paley Ellison: Connection as a spiritual practice
Koshin Paley Ellison and Serge Prengel talk about connecting with others as a healing spiritual practice.
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Pablo Márquez: Photography as a meditative process
Serge Prengel talks with photographer Pablo Márquez about his meditative approach to photography. Pablo describes how his art emerges from his being present.
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Linda Modaro & Nelly Kaufer: Reflective Meditation
Serge Prengel talks with Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer about their gentle, inspiring approach to meditation practice and self-discovery.
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Seth Zuihō Segall: In praise of Pluralism
Serge Prengel talks with Seth Zuihō Segall about his journey, making sense of life through the practice of psychology, Buddhism, and philosophy.
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Maia Szalavitz: An inspiring perspective on addiction
Maia Szalavitz blends personal experience and years of investigative research into an inspiring perspective on addiction. Conversation with Serge Prengel about her perspective on addiction.
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What is Polyvagal-informed Mindfulness?
How does the Polyvagal Theory affect our understanding of mindfulness? Blake O'Connor, Education Director of the Polyvagal Institute, interviews Serge Prengel.
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Elizabeth English: Gentle mindfulness
We talk about freeing meditation from pressures and welcoming every aspect of our inner experience.
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Noga Arikha: The embodied mind
Antonio Damasio described Nora Arikha as a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist.
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A mindful take on spirituality & philosophy
We discuss how we make sense of the world and our place in it, i.e. what is usually called spirituality & philosophy.
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Bruce Gibbs: Finding the right distance from our experience
We explore a concept that is very important to Bruce Gibbs, finding the right distance from our experience.
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An experiential inquiry into the nature of inquiry
We share with you what we like about the notion of "inquiry," and to do so by giving you a flavor of what we mean by it.
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Lawrence Berger: A quest for meaning
We start this conversation from the perspective that human beings are self-interpreting animals, and go on to explore what gives us a sense of meaning.
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Jacqui Lewis: Fierce Love
Jacqui Lewis & Serge Prengel talk about bringing a quality of fierce love to our life, as a person and as an agent of change.
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Salvador Moreno-Lopez: Sensing into life as a musical improvisation
We talk about metaphors that Salvador Moreno-López uses to understand and orient interaction in psychotherapy and daily life.
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Elliot Jurist on the process of mourning
We talk about the process of mourning and how it relates to the human condition
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Ron Purser: Beyond McMindfulness
Ron Purser & Serge Prengel talk about the limitations of "McMindfulness" and discuss what it feels like to explore a new sense of self in the context of interaction.
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Monica Gomez Galaz & Özlem Mavis: A felt sense of faith
We explore faith as a human experience. That is, it need not be attached to any religious narrative.
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Suzanne Noel: What Sustains Me
Suzanne Noel talks about what sustains her: swimming, riding a motorbike, and connecting with others.
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Bruce Gibbs reflects on his experience with meditation & Focusing
Bruce Gibbs talks about what his practices of meditation and Focusing have in common, what is different about them, and how they can enhance each other.
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Merete Holm Brantbjerg: What Sustains Me
Merete Holm Brantbjerg talks about the deeply satisfying bodily experience of finding what sustains her.
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Susan Rudnick: Mindfulness within a broader context
Susan Rudnick talks about mindfulness within the broader context of Buddhism and the Zen tradition.
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Merete Holm Brantbjerg: A gentle exploration of stress
In this conversation with Merete Holm Brantbjerg, we explore experientially what happens in our body when we get stressed.
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Gregory Kramer: A Whole Life Path
Gregory Kramer talks about integrating Buddhist wisdom with our everyday life.
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Richard Gillett: The high cost of divisiveness and how to deal with it
we talk about how personal and social divisiveness manifests and its huge costs to our physical and mental well-being.
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Understanding social myth: Why it’s so hard to find common ground & how to do it
A myth is anything but a quaint story. It is an organizing principle that makes it possible for a society to coalesce and function as a society.