Sounds True: Producer's Pick

Dr. Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer and researcher in psychology and the social sciences at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. With Sounds True, he has released the audio program Return to Harmony: From Turmoil to Transformation, a collection of teachings, meditations, and poetry on living in alignment with the present moment. This week's […]

Pema Chödrön is a beloved, American-born Buddhist nun who currently serves as the senior teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. The author of many books and audio programs, her most recent collaboration with Sounds True is The Courage to Love the World: Discovering Compassion, Strength, and Joy Through Tonglen Meditation. In this week's excerpt […]

Latham Thomas is a lifestyle and wellness maven whose books include Mama Glow and Own Your Glow. With Sounds True, she created the audio program Beditations: Guided Meditations and Rituals for Rest and Renewal. Commenting on this week's selection from that program, Sounds True producer Kriste Peoples says, "Sleep. It's a necessity for basic human function, […]

Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is a clinical therapist and author who synthesizes current therapeutic modalities and neuroscience. With Sounds True, he has created the audio programs Your Brain on Love and Relationship Rx. This week's selection was chosen from the latter program by Sounds True producer Steve Lessard, who commented, "The world of relationships is […]

Karen Brody is a wellness and leadership coach who focuses on helping women achieve their full potential in a world that often asks far too much of them. With Sounds True, she has published the book Daring to Rest and the audio program The Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Meditation Program. In this week's selection, […]

Sadhguru is a yogi and mystic who created the Isha Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to exploring the outer limits of human potential. He has collaborated with Sounds True to release an audiobook version of his New York Times bestselling book, Inner Engineering. In this week's excerpt, Sadhguru encourages listeners to move past the seemingly […]

Rolf Gates is an acclaimed yoga teacher and author best known for his boundary-leaping book Meditations from the Mat. This week's Producer's Pick excerpt comes from Rolf's newest collaboration with Sounds True, a practice-centric audio program Meditations on the Mat: Practices for Living from the Heart. Producer Mitchell Clute chose this selection because "so many […]

Diane Poole Heller, PhD, is a practicing psychotherapist who specializes in Adult Attachment Theory and trauma resolution. In her latest audio program, Healing Your Attachment Wounds: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships, Diane engages with both of these issues head-on, speaking on her research into what it takes to repair one's ability to […]

John Lockley is one of the only modern white men to be initiated as a sangoma—one of the traditional shamanic healers of the Xhosa people of South Africa. He now teaches African shamanic wisdom across the globe. With Sounds True, John recorded the practice-centric audio course The Way of the Leopard: Meditations and Shamanic Practices […]

Dan Millman is an author and lecturer whose semi-autobiographical book Way of the Peaceful Warrior first ignited the public imagination almost 40 years ago. Most recently, Dan has partnered with Sounds True to create The Complete Peaceful Warrior's Way, an audio follow-up to that perennial seeker's classic. In this excerpt from the program, Dan reminds […]

Loch Kelly is an innovative meditation teacher, author, and the founder of the Open-Hearted Awareness Institute. With Sounds True, Loch has most recently released the audio training program Effortless Mindfulness Now: Awakening Our Natural Capacity for Focus, Freedom, and Joy. In this program—as well as the excerpt that makes up this week's selection—Loch teaches a […]

Pedram Shojai is a former Taoist monk, Qi Gong master, and the creator of the Urban Monk Academy, podcast, and Mastermind program, as well as the New York Times bestselling book The Urban Monk. With Sounds True, Pedram has recorded a new audio course titled The Urban Monk Inner Stillness Training Program. In this week's excerpt, chosen by Sounds […]

Reginald Ray, PhD, is a pioneering teacher who founded the Dharma Ocean Foundation, an organization devoted to the preservation and dissemination of Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. Reggie is a longtime collaborator with Sounds True whose books and audio programs include Touching Enlightenment, Meditation in Seven Steps, and The Practice of Pure Awareness. His most recent project […]

Brené Brown is a nationally renowned author, speaker, and research professor with the University of Houston who has spent the past decade studying the confluence of vulnerability, courage, shame, and resilience. Her latest offering from Sounds True is the audio program Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice, in which Brené considers the effect of spiritual […]

Tara Brach is a renowned meditation instructor, the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, and the author of True Refuge and Radical Acceptance. With Sounds True, Tara has most recently published Nourishing Intimacy: Cultivating Trust, Understanding, and Love in All Our Relationships. In this excerpt from that audio program, Tara discusses those revelatory moments in which we realize that […]