The Soul-Directed Life

The Call to Live From the Heart I stumbled upon a video conversation between Adyashanti and Loch Kelly last year. I was transfixed by the love and wisdom flowing out of their hearts. Loch Kelly was asked to teach meditation by Mingyur Rinpoche. Loch has explored the science and practice of openhearted awareness and discovered how this practice moves us out of fear and into freedom. This will be a conversation of insight and joy filled with practical tools. Join us and drop into your awakened heart space.

The Call to Live From the Heart Brenda Michaels is the inspiring and insightful cohost of the syndicated radio show, Conscious Talk Radio. I was blessed to be on her show in May to talk about my book Soul Vows. During the break, she mentioned that she's had breast cancer-not once, not twice, but three times. Each time she healed it by living from the heart. I said "What?!" I'd been holding a space in my schedule for this theme, not knowing why. Join us for an exquisite insight into the true gifts and healing powers of living from deep within your heart.

On his 30th birthday, Marc Allen was broke, unemployed, unhealthy, and wracked with fear. He sat down and wrote an ideal scene of what he wanted his life to look like in five years. And he began to use the magician's toolkit. What happened? He cofounded New World Library with Shakti Gawain. Today, Marc is a multimillionaire publisher, author, teacher, enjoying a truly magical life. Join us to learn some of the tools in the magician's toolkit!

The Call to Nourish Your Creative Soul The Soul-Directed Life Book Club for June: The Artist's Rule Christine Valters Paintner is the online abbess for Abbey of the Arts, a virtual monastery offering classes and resources on contemplative practice and creative expression. She has a doctorate in Christian spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and is a registered expressive arts educator with the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. She is the author of The Eyes of the Heart, Water, Wind, Earth and Fire, and The Artist's Rule. Her newest book is The Soul of a Pilgrim. She leads pilgrimages in Ireland, Austria, and German and online retreats at her website. She lives her commitment as a Benedictine oblate in Galway, Ireland, with her husband John.

The Call to Nourish Your Creative Soul The world knows Michael Gelb as the great student of Leonardo da Vinci. His book, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, brought the consummate genius down to earth where we, too, could take small steps to be a genius every day. In this conversation, we're going to focus on Michael's newest book, Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius. This topic is dear to my heart because I live it. I do not wait for creativity; I slip into theta and ride it. And I do it every day. Join us, but hold on to your hats!

The Call to Nourish Your Creative Soul Natalie Goldberg is the world's writing teacher. Writing Down the Bones has sold more than 1.5 million copies. It is a textbook in my August course, Plug in for Writers. She's written a dozen others including Wild Mind, The True Secret of Writing, and for those wanting to write a memoir, Old Friend From Far Away. Natalie is also an accomplished painter, displayed in shows and prominent collections around the country. Our conversation focuses on Living Color, her book about-as the subtitle says-painting, writing and the bones of seeing. You'll be seeing the world with new eyes after this conversation!

The Call to Nourish Your Creative Soul Gail McMeekin is a therapist, writer, artist, creativity coach, career counselor, and certified Scientific Hand Analyst. In other words, a wildly creative Renaissance woman. Gail is also a dear friend and fellow Conari author. Her book, 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, set the world on fire in 2000. I feel so strongly about Gail's ability to mentor writers and creatives, that I've invited her to share her secrets in my August writing course, "Plug in for Writers." Listen in for practical ways to nourish your creativity, including becoming best friends with your muse. She's real, you know!

The Call to a New Beginning The Soul-Directed Life Book Club for May: It's Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been B.J. Gallagher is the author of a gazillion books. Okay, I exaggerate, "only" 17, including the international best-seller A Peacock in the Land of Penguins. Whether her audience is corporate executives, working women, or giggling youngsters, her message is powerful, positive, and practical. Her joyful message is front and center in our May selection, It's Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been. Do you think it's too late to go back to school? Become an artist? Athlete? Start a new career? Find wealth? Fall in love? Join B.J. and me and get inspired-because it's never too late for a new beginning!

The Call to a New Beginning Celeste Yacoboni was with us in August to talk about her glorious book, How Do You Pray? During that interview she quickly told us the story of a clear vision that told her to ask the world "How do you pray?" My ears perked up. I knew I was hearing the story of total surrender to a radical new beginning. So when the Medicine Wheel turned to the East and a whole month on new beginnings, I invited Celeste to come back and walk us through her story and what it really means and really takes to be radically open to possibility. Get ready to be inspired.

The Call to a New Beginning Allison Carmen has a unique and important message: release your addiction to certainty and become friends with uncertainty. Got that! Maybe is a gift, not a problem. Maybe is a portal into possibility. In The Gift of Maybe, she shares powerful stories of how saying maybe has helped people find wonderful new beginnings. Join us for a delightful conversation on finding hope and possibility in uncertainty. Soon, you too will be singing the song of maybe.

As a child Ruth Drayer, numerologist, artist, and author of Numerology: The Power in Numbers, wondered why she was here. She'll tell us how she found the answer to that question, what led her to numerology, and the deep meaning of numbers. You are filled with numbers. They're in your name, birthday, clock, calendar. What do those numbers mean? And how can they help you awaken to new beginnings?

The Call to Awaken The Soul-Directed Life Book Club for April: Walking in Light Sandra Ingerman is a licensed therapist, board-certified expert on traumatic stress management, shamanic practitioner, and author of 10 books, seven audio programs, and the Transmutation app. She has taught shamanism and shamanic journeying internationally for more than 30 years. She also teaches how to reverse environmental pollution using spiritual methods. She joins us to talk about how everyone in their everyday life can live a shamanic life. Are you a shaman? Join us and find out.

The Call to Awaken David Ian Cowan is a biofeedback trainer, alternative health practitioner, and teacher in spiritual communication and the art of dowsing. (I want to know more about that for sure!) When I picked up his book, I fell instantly in love reading, "We are all thought-addicted." And "There is nothing of any value you could read here or anywhere else that is not already somewhere in your own mind." And, "I can't tell you what you don't already know." I underlined and hooted and hollered! This is going to be a totally delightful conversation-especially when we get to that dowsing!

The Call to Awaken Sally Kempton has studied and taught the wisdom of yoga for 45 years. A highly regarded teacher of meditation and spiritual philosophy, Sally writes the popular Yoga Journal column, "Wisdom." In Awakening Shakti, she introduces the pantheon of Hindu goddesses not as beings out there, but as qualities in here. She opens the book explaining Tantra and the Tantric philosophies-and at last I understand! It's a very juicy book and we'll have a very juicy conversation. (Just call me Saraswati!)

The Call to Awaken Guy Finley is the founder of the renowned Life of Learning Foundation in Merlin, Oregon, and the author of more than 40 books and audio programs on self-realization, including the international best-seller, The Secret of Letting Go. Guy joins us to talk about his newest book The Secret of Your Immortal Self. It's a secret resonating deep in my heart, so I know this will be a sparkling conversation.