Solving the Riddle of Being Human

This week, Sah welcomes Christena Cleveland, Ph.D., a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist. She is the founder and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal as well as its sister organization, Sacred Folk, which creates resources to stimulate people’s spiritual imaginations and support their journeys toward liberation. An award-winning researcher and former professor at Duke University’s Divinity School, Christena lives in Boston, Massachusetts.In this episode, Sah and Christena discuss...the quest for perfection and how anti-spiritual that mentality can behow we can take back our sovereign power over how we interact with the world.somatic awareness as a pathway to emotional freedomsetting healthy boundaries in a loving, spiritual, self-aware wayhow the pathways to liberation vary depending on your privilegeChristina's book, God is a Black Woman, and her walking journey across France, to meet Black Madonnasthe patriarchal and colonial impact on how we perceive spiritual history and our Godshow to pray to the Black Madonna and access her wisdomand 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 Patita Pavan Das, founder of the Hanuman Project which is known for creating devotional and musical spaces that are full of joy, powerful, and accessible.The Hanuman Project is a grassroots and cutting-edge devotional music ensemble specializing in sacred mantra chant. They weave together a vibrant blend of mantra, bhajan, and South American medicine music. This group is dissolving boundaries and creating accessibility for devotional culture in the Yoga, Bhakti, and Conscious Dance communities, worldwide.https://linktr.ee/hanumanprojectIn this episode, Sah and Pavan discuss...Kirtan as a refuge for the unpredictable times in which we're livingPavan's journey into spirituality, yoga, and his unlikely path into Kirtanthe experience of spiritual pilgrimage and its power as a catalyst of transformationspiritual vortices, and how we can leverage their mystical and transformative energybrushing against the inability to forgive, and how to work through itand 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 Jessie Inchauspé: badass biochemist, author of The Glucose Revolution, and creator of the Glucose Goddess movement. Jessie shares cutting-edge science with people to help them balance their blood sugar levels and feel amazing. Find Jessie on IG @glucosegoddess.In this episode, Sah and Jessie discuss..."the code" that Jessie has cracked regarding behavior improvement and translating medical science to help people regulate their blood sugar.why glucose matters, and how glucose spikes can affect our mental and physical wellbeing, our energy levels, and our lives.the "Ten Commandments" of the Glucose Goddess Method and how you can use them to change your life.how the order in which you eat your food dramatically impacts the way your body processes sugar.how you can still eat sugar and enjoy dessert without having a major glucose spike afterward.how Jessie is changing the world through living her mission.and 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 Deborah Eden Tull. She is the founder of Mindful Living Revolution, a Zen meditation, and engaged dharma teacher, author, spiritual activist, and sustainability educator. She emphasizes the connection between personal awakening and collective transformation.Eden spent seven years training as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery. Her teaching style is grounded in mindful inquiry, fierce compassion, and the essential wisdom of nature, drawing upon diverse wisdom streams to make timeless teachings relevant to today’s world.In this episode, Sah and Eden discuss...the 7 years Eden spent training as a nun at a silent Zen monasteryEden's book "Luminous Darkness" and her spiritual perception of darknessdispelling binary thought around darkness vs light, and learning to embrace our own darknessThe true Buddhist philosophy about emptinessEden's calling to spiritual activismOur collective fear of silence, despite its healing and teaching powersand 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 author Mary Firestone, who has an MA in clinical psychology and is on a mission to let others know they are not alone + there is light on the other side of the darkness of PTSD. Her new book, Trusting the Dawn, is the story of Mary’s survival and transformation through healing. Mary’s transformative epiphanies led her and her sister Lucy to launch their company, Firestone Sisters, Inc, to provide others with healing and growth opportunities through experiences and products.In this episode, Sah and Mary discuss...The PTSD that Mary experienced, and how she found her way through healing.EDMR, Craniosacral therapy, ketamine, flower essences, and other body-based healing modalities as complements to more traditional mind-based therapies.The body's wisdom and how we can connect to it for healing.How to fit spiritual moments of practice into a busy, hectic daily lifestyle.Mary's book, Trusting the Dawn, and the treasures it holds for people healing from trauma.The role of forgiveness in healing from traumaand 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 Tahir Qawwal, who, at fifteen, left his home for the Himalayas to spend the rest of his teens living as a lonely dervish, practicing the yogic path and searching for enlightenment through the purity of sound and pitch.Later, he immersed himself in the sacred Sufi teachings of the past millennium and began his formal training in Indian Classical music (Hindustani) and Qawwali. Qawwali music weaves ancient poetry and intense rhythm with complex melodies to invoke an atmosphere of reverence and devotional ecstasy, catharsis and transformation.In 2001, Tahir co-founded the first Western-born Qawwali ensemble and released an 8-episode documentary series: “Qawwali - Music of the Mystics.”▶ONLINE MUSIC SCHOOL: https://www.samaschoolofmusic.comIn this episode, Sah and Tahir discuss...His years living as a renunciate, without possessions, on foot, across India + TibetThe mystical experiences he's received on his holy pilgrimagesReconstructing his life and devoting himself to Sufism and musicHow the Muslim "Call to Prayer" became one of his most famous recordingsHis passion for Qawwali music, his music school, and documentary seriesand 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, and dynamic meditation, developed by Sah D'Simone.Join our next teacher training and start 2023 on the path to becoming a certified SAH Method movement healer. Get 10% off w/ our exclusive discount code: PODCAST at http://sahmethod.com✨✨✨Get more Sah in your life:💙 Follow @SahDSimone on Instagram and 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 Collection: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Join the Somatic Activated Healing Method Certification: https://sahmethod.com✨✨✨© 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 3 recently-certified Somatic Activated Healing coaches, Thais Kraus, Lena Moxon, & Danielle Be.As a Lifestyle Transformation Mentor Teacher, Thais helps women to awaken to how divine & powerful they are to transform all aspects of their lives that are longing for change.https://natureintendedwellness.com/Lena is a modern mystic infusing spirituality, embodiment, & self-expression into the heart-based healing movement & mindfulness coaching to support women in moving beyond awareness & into action.https://www.lenamoxon.com/Danielle is a SelfHealing Guide & a Community Builder in Dr. Nicole LePera’s SelfHealers Circle & offers 1:1s & group nurturing.https://instagram.com/danielle_becomeIn this episode, Sah, Thais, Lena, & Danielle discuss their experience becoming certified movement healers through the Somatic Activated Healing Teacher Training Certification.Together, they reflect on...how they each integrate the Method into their unique professional offeringsthe transformations they've experienced as a result of this practicetop-down (mind-based) vs bottom-up (body-based) approaches to healinghow emotional baggage accrues, & how the SAH Method helps us release ithow we can create sustainable safety within& 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 next year 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 on Instagram and TikTok💙 Find books, courses, and events: https://shor.by/sahdsimone💙 Join the SAH Method Certification: https://sahmethod.com✨✨✨© 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 Parashakti. Over the last 20 years, Parashakti has developed the Seven Foundations and the Dance of Liberation™ as maps for her spiritual practice, living and breathing these foundations in daily ritual.DOL'S mission is to help people experience ecstasy – without taking it. Parashakti has successfully adapted the teachings of the DOL as a modality for recovery from addiction.She is also the Creator of the Winged Ones Jewelry, ceremonially blessed power objects which have a specialty online activation program called the East Gate. Use the code SAHDSIMONE for 10% off your purchase.In this episode, Sah and Parashakti discuss...her lifelong love of dance, and how it brought her to spiritualityhow exploring trance states can be transcendentalecstatic dance as an altered state of consciousness, without drugsthe seven foundations of the Dance of Liberationopening up from a narrow view to a higher, broader perspectivedance as a ritual for self-forgivenessserving as a vessel for divine energyher work bringing spirituality and dance to recovery and addiction treatmentand 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, and dynamic meditation, developed by Sah D'Simone.Enrollment is open for our next teacher training session! Join now and start next year 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 on Instagram and 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 Collection: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Join the Somatic Activated Healing Method Certification: https://sahmethod.com✨✨✨© 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 Gabrielle Bernstein, who has been transforming lives—including her own, for over fifteen years. The #1 N​ew York Times bestselling author has penned eight books including her first Audible Original, ​You Are the Guru. ​In her weekly​ podcast, ​Dear Gabby,​ she offers up real-time coaching, straight talk and conversations about personal growth and spirituality with unique and inspiring guests​.Gabby connects with her community through her books, her podcast, her Miracle Membership, the Spirit Junkie app, social media, digital workshops and e-courses, and live events.In this episode, Sah and Gabby discuss...addiction, sobriety, and how they intersect with the spiritual pathspiritual and therapeutic antidotes for traumaGabby's book Happy Days, and her reflections from the other side of traumahow curiosity about our fears can bring us freedom and peacethe role of forgiveness in undoing our fearhow to shift from being guided by fear to being led by loveand 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, and dynamic meditation, developed by Sah D'Simone.Enrollment is open for our next teacher training session! Join now and start next year 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 on Instagram and 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 Collection: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Join the Somatic Activated Healing Method Teacher Training webinar: http://sahdsimone.com/webinar2✨✨✨© 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 Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a globally recognized spiritual leader, humanitarian, and peacemaker.Gurudev has created trauma relief and meditation programs for at-risk youth, war veterans, prisoners, and survivors of disaster. He has touched the lives of more than 450 million people around the world (including heads of state and world leaders) by teaching powerful breathwork and meditation practices to alleviate stress and anxiety, and build resilience.The Prison Program is a rehabilitation program that aims to reduce offender recidivism by transforming the mindset, attitude, and behavior of offenders, with an aim to break the cycle of violence in our societies from the root.In this episode, Sah and Gurudev discuss...the mental health pandemic, and what we can do to support our own mental wellnessthe role of forgiveness as a way to save your mind (at all costs)The two kinds of happiness and how we mature from seeking one to the otherGurudev's belief that everyone is born good, and how we can all look for the goodness in each otherDevotion as the key to open ourselves to the non-dual experience of onenessThe role of fun on the spiritual pathand 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 on Instagram and 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 Collection: https://selfcareisforeveryone.com/collections/sah-d-simone💙 Take the quiz: https://myspiritualinventory.com/💙 Join the Somatic Activated Healing Method Teacher Training webinar: http://sahdsimone.com/webinar2✨✨✨© 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