The Mind Bod Adventure Pod (2026)

21/07/2026

This week we’re hanging with Lodro Rinzler, Buddhist meditation teacher, award-winning author of eight books (including the bestseller The Buddha Walks into a Bar…), and the dude behind the Basic Goodness Collective. His brand-new book, “You Are Good, You Are Enough”, rests on one deceptively simple idea: underneath all the self-doubt and noise, you’re already basically (you guessed it) GOOD!

Lodro’s the first to admit this can sound a little Pollyanna. But he’s not talking about “good” in a sinner-vs-saint way. More like “okay as is”: complete, fine exactly as you are right now. It’s something you probably feel fleetingly, quite often. It’s that quiet “oh, I’m fine” when the hot water hits your back in the shower, or that unremarkable beat at the end of the day when you set your bag down and, just for a second, nothing needs doing.

The work, Lodro says, is learning to notice those ordinary moments and string them together until you can start living from that ground instead of just visiting it.

Read more and listen to the episode 👇

Watch now | On basic goodness, the trap of doubt, and what's already hiding in ordinary moments

07/07/2026

Hi friends! The Mind Bod Squad is BACK!

After a few months apart (Jeff squirreled away up in BC, Tasha bummin’ around in Toronto), we’re returning to you on this, America’s birthweek. And we’re here to celebrate INTERdependence instead of independence.

This week we’re hanging with Jeremy David Engels — Penn State rhetoric professor, yoga teacher, student of meditation, and author of the gorgeous little book On Mindful Democracy: A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World.

We talk about:

* What it means to treat democracy as a daily practice of care
* How to find common ground with someone you’re sure you disagree with
* Why conflict is part of being human… and how to hold it well
* Modeling a different way of being, instead of arguing people into it
* Hope as something you practice, not a mood you wait around for

Read more & watch the episode here ->

On common ground, conflict, and rewriting independence as interdependence

10/02/2026

This week we’re hanging with Ivan Bercholz, co-owner of Shambhala Publications, publisher of Bala Kids, and co-author (with illustrator Lasha Mutual) of My Friend Tara, a children’s book that introduces kids to Tara, the Buddhist archetype of compassion.

Ivan set out to create a book that gets straight to the heart of practice: how can kids actually relate to an archetypal quality? How do you help them imagine compassion as something fun and embodied? How do you make an ancient practice feel natural for modern kiddos?

We talk about:

* Visualization as a practice playground for kids and adults
* The 5 Taras and their different archetypal qualities (white for calm, green for protection, blue for difficult emotions...)
* Why mantra might be our oldest human practice
* How books can become spiritual oases when teachers aren’t accessible

And then Ivan walks us through a Green Tara visualization and mantra practice.

This is medicine for all of us - not just the kiddos!

Read more & watch the episode here -> https://www.mindbodpod.com/p/ivan-bercholz-my-friend-tara-kids-compassion, then let us know in the comments how the practice lands - is it your first time doing mantra or visualization?

On visualization, archetypes of compassion, and what children know that we forget

20/01/2026

This week we’re hanging with wandering Celtic teacher John Philip Newell and Earth & Soul Director Cami Twilling to talk about what it means to connect to the sacred when you live outside the four walls of a formal religious tradition.

John Philip is an ordained-minister-turned-spiritual-exile who spent years with one foot in the church and one foot out in the wilderness, before finally giving back his ordination. He couldn’t reconcile his personal experience of the sacredness of humans and nature with Christianity’s history of getting “into bed with empire.”

Read more & watch the episode here -> https://www.mindbodpod.com/p/john-philip-newell-cami-twilling-the-great-search-for-the-sacred

Then let us know in the comments: what does your “great search” look like right now?

On spiritual exile, the efficacy of desire, and finding light in the wilderness

06/01/2026

Happy New Year!

One week into 2026 and we’re already firing on all cylinders. So let’s kick it off with some destress tools to keep us all cool as cucumbers when things get spicy. 🥒😅🌶️

This week we sit down with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar ( aka )physician, Harvard Medical School faculty member, and author of “The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain for Less Stress and More Resilience”. We talk about what stress actually is, why it gets so dismissed in medicine, and what to do when your diamond finally cracks.

Watch the episode here ->

Watch now | A doctor's guide to resetting your nervous system

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