Solving the Riddle of Being Human

What if you could use Virtual Reality to hack your mindfulness routine? Sah is joined by Sukey and Beth Novogratz — co-founders of Maloka, a VR and mobile game platform for Mindfulness and meditation — to talk about their new partnership, the future of meditation, and why VR is a tool everyone should take advantage of!  They dish about…1. The benefits of having a meditation buddy, a partner on the spiritual path.2. “The church giggles” - experiencing full-body catharsis of spiritual release.3. Turning toward our challenges and trusting the law of impermanence.4. Finding compassion for your offenders: the 360 degree shift of forgiveness.5. Their company Maloka, and virtual reality as a neuropsychological tool for mindfulness.✨✨✨Sukey and Beth Novogratz are the co-founders of Maloka, a virtual reality and mobile game that makes practicing mindfulness fun and rewarding.Prior to creating Maloka, the duo co-authored Just Sit, a beginner's guidebook to meditation, as well as the Well Daily, a website and daily email that brought wellness, meditation, and health to humans everywhere.To learn more about Maloka, visit https://playmaloka.onelink.me/ZHoz/qi0nzbv6Be sure to check out my new 7-day program, “Return to Your Body and Embrace Change,” which just launched on Maloka and can be practiced on Oculus Quest + iOS and Android. Find the link in my profile or visit https://playmaloka.onelink.me/ZHoz/qi0nzbv6 to get started.✨✨✨This podcast was brought to you by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, where Sah began his own career in wellness as a certified Health Coach! IIN pioneered the field of health coaching with the Health Coach Training Program, and created a movement to change the health and happiness of the world.Discover how to nourish, heal, and thrive in all aspects of your life and career.Payment plans start as low as $199/month, AND as a member of our community, you’ll save $2,500 off tuition if you mention Sah D’Simone at registration.✨✨✨Get more Sah in your life:💙 Follow @SahDSimone: Instagram & TikTok💙 Book: Spiritually Sassy: https://amzn.to/3pe5WIF💙 Book: 5-Minute Daily Meditations: https://amzn.to/3yetkZy💙 Spiritualize your wardrobe: Self Care Is For Everyone x Sah D’Simone: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Get free access to over a dozen SAH Method practices, now! https://sahdsimone.com/try-somatic-acivated-healing💙 Shop Sah’s meditations, courses, and more: https://practice.sahdsimone.com/store✨✨✨© Sah D’Simone Permission for use may be requested by contacting operations@sahdsimone.comThis podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever wonder how your childhood traumas affect your adult life? The insecurities, negative tendencies, deep seeded anger, your scarcity mindset, never feeling enough, and our day-to-day struggles.Sah and Fritzi Horstman, Compassion Prison Project’s founder, discuss the vast and complex influence of traumatic childhood experiences in our daily lives. And, how dehumanizing our prison system is, the underlying reasons people commit crimes, and how compassion is the only path to rehabilitation and healing.Listen in to learn how radiating love and compassion is the only way!They chat about…What the Compassion Prison Project is and how Fritzi got involved in this work.The trauma of those living and working in the prison system.ACE Score: Adverse childhood experiences and how they affect us as adults.The difference between punitive vs. restorative justice.The dehumanization of our prison system and how to fix it.How to overcome our 3D self and become our True Self.Fritzi Horstman is a filmmaker and the Founder and Executive Director of the Compassion Prison Project (CPP) an organization dedicated to creating trauma-informed prisons and communities and bringing accountability and creative inspiration to all people living and working in prisons. Fritzi directed “Step Inside the Circle” at a California State Prison An In-depth exploration of the devastating effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on people living behind bars.✨✨✨This podcast was brought to you by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, where Sah began his own career in wellness as a certified Health Coach! IIN pioneered the field of health coaching with the Health Coach Training Program, and created a movement to change the health and happiness of the world.Discover how to nourish, heal, and thrive in all aspects of your life and career.Payment plans start as low as $199/month, AND as a member of our community, you’ll save $2,500 off tuition if you mention Sah D’Simone at registration.✨✨✨Get more Sah in your life:💙 Follow @SahDSimone: Instagram & TikTok💙 Book: Spiritually Sassy: https://amzn.to/3pe5WIF💙 Book: 5-Minute Daily Meditations: https://amzn.to/3yetkZy💙 Spiritualize your wardrobe: Self Care Is For Everyone x Sah D’Simone: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Get free access to over a dozen SAH Method practices, now! https://sahdsimone.com/try-somatic-acivated-healing✨✨✨© Sah D’Simone Permission for use may be requested by contacting operations@sahdsimone.comThis podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever feel like you’re “losing it” after a major life crisis or struggle? Sah and author Valerie Gangas connect about her book “In Deep Shift: Riding the Waves of Change to Find Peace, Fulfillment, and Freedom.” Listen in to learn about their personal journeys through their own dark nights of the soul, how vital falling apart can be for the expansion of human consciousness, and how you can translate your own pain into poetry.They chat about…1. Grief and the power of meditation as medicine for healing.2. Opening ourselves to the mysticism in the world.3. Dissociation and how to identify if you’re “losing it.”4. Navigating upheaval and coming out stronger.5. What peace looks like on the other side of trauma.6. Valerie’s book, “In Deep Shift: Riding the Waves of Change to Find Peace, Fulfillment, and Freedom.”Valerie Gangas is a speaker, transformational life coach, and author who specializes in helping people gain a deeper understanding of who they are, so they can genuinely thrive and unleash their magic more fully. She has worked alongside the David Lynch Foundation and Oprah Winfrey, speaking to large groups nationwide about meditation and the benefits of expanding consciousness. Visit valeriegangas.com✨✨✨This episode of The Spiritually Sassy Show was brought to you by Higher Dose. Elevate your mood, promote a healthy glow, support long-term health benefits, and lift your spirit with Higher Dose's at-home wellness tools that use nature-inspired technologies to release a DOSE of your feel-good chemicals like Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins, naturally.Visit higherdose.com and enter the code SAH15 to save 15% on your first order.✨✨✨Get more Sah in your life:💙 Follow @SahDSimone: Instagram & TikTok💙 Book: Spiritually Sassy: https://amzn.to/3pe5WIF💙 Book: 5-Minute Daily Meditations: https://amzn.to/3yetkZy💙 Spiritualize your wardrobe: Self Care Is For Everyone x Sah D’Simone: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Get free access to over a dozen SAH Method practices, now! https://sahdsimone.com/try-somatic-acivated-healing💙 Shop Sah’s courses and meditations! https://practice.sahdsimone.com/store✨✨✨© Sah D’Simone Permission for use may be requested by contacting operations@sahdsimone.comThis podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if you had a wise and loving older sibling you could turn to with spiritual questions? This week on The Spiritually Sassy Show, Sah and his sister, Moun D’Simone, combine their wisdom to answer questions directly from the Spiritually Sassy Show audience. This episode is full of practical advice and tools to bring you inspiration, hope, and healing!Tune in to hear them discuss…Spiritual hygiene tips to help you go with the flow while going for goals.The difference between self-development and genuine spiritual practice.Tools and practices to help resolve obsessive-compulsive or reactive behaviors.Creating the conditions for forgiveness within yourself and with others.Loving the parts of ourselves that we hate into integration.The incredible benevolent goodness within us all.Moun D’Simone is a spiritual mentor, meditation guide, and artist. She has studied with esteemed masters like His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Ven Karin Valham, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Ven Robina Courtin, and the oracle Khadro-la. Moun has an upcoming retreat with Maha Rose in Mazunte, Mexico February 27th - March 4th.Find her on socials @moundsimone ✨✨✨This episode of The Spiritually Sassy Show was brought to you by Higher Dose. Elevate your mood, promote a healthy glow, support long-term health benefits, and lift your spirit with Higher Dose's at-home wellness tools that use nature-inspired technologies to release a DOSE of your feel-good chemicals like Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins, naturally.Visit higherdose.com and enter the code SAH15 to save 15% on your first order.✨✨✨Get more Sah in your life:💙 Follow @SahDSimone: Instagram & TikTok💙 Book: Spiritually Sassy: https://amzn.to/3pe5WIF💙 Book: 5-Minute Daily Meditations: https://amzn.to/3yetkZy💙 Spiritualize your wardrobe: Self Care Is For Everyone x Sah D’Simone: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Get free access to over a dozen SAH Method practices, now! https://sahdsimone.com/try-somatic-acivated-healing💙 Shift From Scarcity to an Abundance Mindset: my 30-day course https://practice.sahdsimone.com/shift-from-scarcity-to-abundance✨✨✨© Sah D’Simone Permission for use may be requested by contacting operations@sahdsimone.comThis podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ever wondered how to translate your trauma into growth? Sah and military Psychologist, Dr. Erin McKee, dive into the difference between post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic growth, the intersections of Buddhist psychology and trauma recovery, and the complexities of being a female psychologist in the military.Tune in to hear them chat about:1. Approaching psychological care for the military and veterans AS a military veteran.2. Why is military burnout such a common crisis?3. Punitive justice in the military and Dr.McKee’s fight to make it more restorative.4. Understanding punitive vs restorative justice from a psychological perspective.5. The plague of anti-trans and anti-gay sentiment in the military.6. Overcoming PTSD with the help of spirituality and Buddhist psychology.Dr. Erin McKee Psy.D., M.A., is an experienced Clinical Psychologist, trauma expert, Certified Mindfulness Meditation teacher, and military veteran. Dr. McKee’s areas of expertise include attachment disorders, traumatic stress, and PTSD, relationships, Buddhist psychology, ADHD, veteran trauma, healthcare worker work/life balance, anxiety disorders, and panic disorders including OCD.✨✨✨This podcast was brought to you by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, where Sah began his own career in wellness as a certified Health Coach! IIN pioneered the field of health coaching with the Health Coach Training Program, and created a movement to change the health and happiness of the world.Discover how to nourish, heal, and thrive in all aspects of your life and career.Payment plans start as low as $199/month, AND as a member of our community, you’ll save $2,500 off tuition if you mention Sah D’Simone at registration.✨✨✨Get more Sah in your life:💙 Follow @SahDSimone: Instagram & TikTok💙 Book: Spiritually Sassy: https://amzn.to/3pe5WIF💙 Book: 5-Minute Daily Meditations: https://amzn.to/3yetkZy💙 Spiritualize your wardrobe: Self Care Is For Everyone x Sah D’Simone: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Get free access to over a dozen SAH Method practices, now! https://sahdsimone.com/try-somatic-acivated-healing✨✨✨© Sah D’Simone Permission for use may be requested by contacting operations@sahdsimone.comThis podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if you could learn to feel your feelings without trying to fix or change them? Sah and integral psychologist Natasha Nair get deep into somatic approaches to healing and the freedom we can find by learning to be in our feelings.Tune in to hear them chat about:The freedom in learning to be with your feelings without trying to fix or change them.The magic of how somatic healing can teach us to be in our bodies.Remembering that everyone is the protagonist of their own story helps inform forgiveness.Forgiveness as the biggest act of self-love.The impermanence of our knowledge and perceptions, and how we're ever-evolving.Natasha holds a masters in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco. Subsequently, she trained in Integral Somatic Psychology with Dr. Raja Selvam, as well as in Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing.✨✨✨This podcast was brought to you by Higher Dose. Elevate your mood, promote a healthy glow, support long-term health benefits, and lift your spirit with Higher Dose's at-home wellness tools that use nature-inspired biohacking technologies to release a DOSE of your feel-good chemicals like Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins, naturally.Visit higherdose.com and enter the code SAH15 to save 15% on your first order, and prepare to get high on your own supply!✨✨✨Get more Sah in your life:💙 Follow @SahDSimone: Instagram & TikTok💙 Book: Spiritually Sassy: https://amzn.to/3pe5WIF💙 Book: 5-Minute Daily Meditations: https://amzn.to/3yetkZy💙 Spiritualize your wardrobe: Self Care Is For Everyone x Sah D’Simone: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Get free access to over a dozen SAH Method practices, now! https://sahdsimone.com/try-somatic-acivated-healing✨✨✨© Sah D’Simone Permission for use may be requested by contacting operations@sahdsimone.comThis podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Struggling to overcome a dogmatic religious upbringing and find your way back into spirituality? This week, Sah and spiritual recovery coach Kevin Garcia get into the dangers of bad theology and how spirituality fits into modern belief systems, religious dogma, and more.Tune in to hear them chat about:Theology vs Spirituality: What's the difference?How “Bad Theology" affects people, and how they can recover from an unhealthy religious upbringing.What it means to be mad at god, and how to reckon with that anger.How to deal with the unfairness of life while believing in God.How to navigate grief from your spiritual heart.What people can do when their life has completely fallen apartThe idea that our purpose is just to be alive, and ever-expandingKevin Garcia is a spiritual recovery coach, a mystical theologian + practitioner, an author/speaker, and a wild lover of life, based in Atlanta, GA. Kevin’s the author of Bad Theology Kills: undoing toxic beliefs and reclaiming your spiritual authority.✨✨✨This podcast was brought to you by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, where Sah began his own career in wellness as a certified Health Coach! IIN pioneered the field of health coaching with the Health Coach Training Program, and created a movement to change the health and happiness of the world.Discover how to nourish, heal, and thrive in all aspects of your life and career.Payment plans start as low as $199/month, AND as a member of our community, you’ll save $2,500 off tuition if you mention Sah D’Simone at registration.✨✨✨Get more Sah in your life:💙 Follow @SahDSimone: Instagram & TikTok💙 Book: Spiritually Sassy: https://amzn.to/3pe5WIF💙 Book: 5-Minute Daily Meditations: https://amzn.to/3yetkZy💙 Spiritualize your wardrobe: Self Care Is For Everyone x Sah D’Simone: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Get free access to over a dozen SAH Method practices, now! https://sahdsimone.com/try-somatic-acivated-healing✨✨✨© Sah D’Simone Permission for use may be requested by contacting operations@sahdsimone.comThis podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Sah welcomes Brandon Beachum, an entrepreneur, thought leader, author, and host of The Positive Head Podcast, as well as the late-night style talk show, Optimystic.Today, Brandon’s primary focus is on helping people shift their perspectives to innerstand the “ultimate nature of reality’’ and create more of what they want to see in their world! In an effort to do so, Brandon's first book, The Golden Key: Modern Alchemy to Unlock Infinite Abundance, shares the 8 keys of abundance, which he has unlocked over 25 years of experience and deep exploration.Visit goldenkey.gift and use the code 'sassy' to get a free copy of The Golden Key audio and/or ebook.In this episode, Sah and Brandon discuss...reframing triggers as treasuresshifting our lens to find the gifts behind our challengesthe 8 keys of abundance in Brandon's book, The Golden KeyBrandon's own "hero's journey" toward forgivenessmindblowing mystical experiencesopening yourself to gratitude, even in your darkest hourand more...✨✨✨This podcast was brought to you by Higher Dose. Elevate your mood, promote a healthy glow, support long-term health benefits, and lift your spirit with Higher Dose's at-home wellness tools that use nature-inspired biohacking technologies to release a DOSE of your feel-good chemicals like Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins, naturally.Visit higherdose.com and enter the code SAH15 to save 15% on your first order, and prepare to get high on your own supply!✨✨✨Get more Sah in your life:💙 Follow @SahDSimone: Instagram & TikTok💙 Book: Spiritually Sassy: https://amzn.to/3pe5WIF💙 Book: 5-Minute Daily Meditations: https://amzn.to/3yetkZy💙 Spiritualize your wardrobe: Self Care Is For Everyone x Sah D’Simone: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Get free access to over a dozen SAH Method practices, now! https://sahdsimone.com/try-somatic-acivated-healing✨✨✨© Sah D’Simone Permission for use may be requested by contacting operations@sahdsimone.comThis podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Sah welcomes Jai Dev Singh, world-renowned Kundalini yoga teacher, Ayurvedic specialist, and founder of Life-Force Academy (LFA), a yoga, meditation, and wellness company that helps people connect to their inner confidence and genuine purpose.In this episode, Sah and Jai Dev discuss...the impermanence of life and how fighting it leads to miseryembracing all of life as expressions of bliss, wisdom, and divinitythe real meaning of “feeling your feelings” and how to practice itcompassion as the antidote to an emotional spiralJai’s views on astrology, not as a prediction tool, but more of a weather reportKundalini yoga as a doorway to mystical experiencesand more...✨✨✨This podcast was brought to you by the Somatic Activated Healing Method — a revolutionary wellness practice combining the healing modalities of somatic movement, rhythmic breath, positive affirmations + dynamic meditation, developed by Sah D'Simone.Enrollment is open for our next teacher training session! Join now + start 2023 on the path to becoming a certified SAH Method movement healer. Get 10% off your tuition with our exclusive discount code: PODCAST at http://sahmethod.com✨✨✨Get more Sah in your life:💙 Follow @SahDSimone: Instagram & TikTok💙 Book: Spiritually Sassy: https://amzn.to/3pe5WIF💙 Book: 5-Minute Daily Meditations: https://amzn.to/3yetkZy💙 Spiritualize your wardrobe: Self Care Is For Everyone x Sah D’Simone: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Get free access to over a dozen SAH Method practices, now! https://sahdsimone.com/try-somatic-acivated-healing✨✨✨© Sah D’Simone Permission for use may be requested by contacting operations@sahdsimone.comThis podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Sah welcomes Dr. Jennifer Mullan (she/her), a Clinical Psychologist and published author, currently serving communities as a consultant for behavioral and mental health organizations and schools. Dr. Mullan is an ancestral wound worker and CEO and founder of Decolonizing Therapy, LLC. — seeking to unpack the oppressive legacy of modern mental health practices and reconnect practitioners and clients to the roots of our wounding and healing within a sociopolitical lens — most particularly for Queer Indigenous Black Brown People of Color (QIBPOC).In this episode, Sah and Dr. Mullan discuss...Punitive vs restorative approaches to justice and how they relate to forgivenessMystical experiences and what they have to teach usRage as a vessel of expression & healingSpirituality & decolonization (appropriation & cultural freedomHow Dr. Mullen felt spiritually called to be a "paradigm crusher"Ancestral and migrant trauma and their lasting effects on a family systemHow to use ancestral wisdom to engage in our current realityand more...✨✨✨This podcast was brought to you by the Somatic Activated Healing Method — a revolutionary wellness practice combining the healing modalities of somatic movement, rhythmic breath, positive affirmations + dynamic meditation, developed by Sah D'Simone.Enrollment is open for our next teacher training session! Join now + start 2023 on the path to becoming a certified SAH Method movement healer. Get 10% off your tuition with our exclusive discount code: PODCAST at http://sahmethod.com✨✨✨Get more Sah in your life:💙 Follow @SahDSimone: Instagram & TikTok💙 Book: Spiritually Sassy: https://amzn.to/3pe5WIF💙 Book: 5-Minute Daily Meditations: https://amzn.to/3yetkZy💙 Spiritualize your wardrobe: Self Care Is For Everyone x Sah D’Simone: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Get free access to over a dozen SAH Method practices, now! https://sahdsimone.com/try-somatic-acivated-healing✨✨✨© Sah D’Simone Permission for use may be requested by contacting operations@sahdsimone.comThis podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices