Viral Mindfulness the Podcast
By Alexander Smith | Mindfulness Teacher
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Featured on CNN, viralmindfulness.com, HIV Plus Magazine, The Gay HotSpot, and the cover of Positively Aware—my work as a mindfulness teacher and artist encourages you to discover your spiritual rhythm.
I earned a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Utah in 2003, and a Bachelor of Science from Brigham Young University (1999).
During migration from a basement office (with no windows) at Salt Lake Community College’s Health & Wellness Services, I resigned from the traditional clinical world, and moved my practice online in 2012.
I live near the ocean in Huntington Beach, California, and enjoy yoga, running trails at the Wetlands, bird watching, live theater & music, and painting. As a spiritual muse, teacher, and musician, you're invited to join my online tribe.
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Embrace Beauty, Brokenness and The Holy Ordinary
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Jul 19, 2026 |
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Sounds & Silence Only -- The Sound of Summer Companion Practice (From Boulder, Colorado)
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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The Sound of Summer: A Guided Meditation with Breath, the Sounds of the Chakras & Silence
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Breath as Prayer: Rediscovering Meditation One Breath at a Time
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Hausted & Whelmed: Finding a Simpler Rhythm in a World That Never Stops
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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The Light Scarf: Pride, Shame and the Freedom to Be Fully Yourself
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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Being With the Dying: How to Offer Love at the End of Life
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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"Live The Life That Chooses You" The Final Chapter of Our Winter Soul Care Series
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Our Frenzied Fidelity to Speed -- May We Approach Geologic Speed
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Intimacy With Soul - Core Practices That Sustain Us (Reflection Question 02)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Write About Repetition - Reflection Question 01 : Nourish the Ritual of Everyday Life
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Kissing the Earth With Your Feet (Guided Walking Meditation) Huntington State Beach
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Amnesia + Anesthesia: Why We're Trained to Forget and Go Numb
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Does Your Soul Value Restraint? A Mindfulness Podcast Series for Winter (Part 4 of 7: Soul Care Series)
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Singing The Blues + Tending The Candle's Flame
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Why Inner Work Needs a Vessel
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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The Quality In Your Approach
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Winter's Edge: The Grandeur of the Soul
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Autumn's Edge - Harvey On The Drums + Season Preview
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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From Meth & Marijuana to Mindfulness: A Decade Sober! With AI-Generated Interview Questions
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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This Is The Time To Become Immense
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Make Sit Happen: A Field Guide to September
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Sally is a Grandma (and Other Updates)
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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WAKING BLUE -- An Original Piano Composition by Alexander Blue Feather
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Dear Alexander: A Listener Asks About Cardell
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Everyone Should Sit Next to a River and Listen (MAKE SIT HAPPEN) Salmon River Meditation, Stanley, Idaho, Summer 2025
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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MAKE SIT HAPPEN: Redfish Lake Meditation (Stanley, Idaho)
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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UPDATED AUDIO: Salt and Peppering My Dad's Ashes: My Grief Ritual at Redfish Lake, Idaho
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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Salt and Peppering My Dad's Ashes: My Grief Ritual at Redfish Lake, Idaho
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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MAKE SIT HAPPEN: June Lake Beach (California)
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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First Dispatch From the Feathered Road (U.S. Route 395) June Lake: From Ice Cream to Ashes
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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MAKE SIT HAPPEN: A Seat For Compassion -- Loving-Kindness Meditation
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Another Seat At The Table: On Self Compassion
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Behind The Velvet Curtain: Broadway's Divine Drama
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Still Defying Gravity: Queer, HIV-Positive & 10 Years Thriving Sober
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Rabbit Rabbit: Interrupting Wanting With Being
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Blue Feather In The Desert Of Dementia: Journey Through Loss and Love
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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"Candy Floss and Dancing Bears" Pirate Poetry With Harvey
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Spinning Light In Midwinter: Call Me Jedi Blue Feather
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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From Silence -- I Need Your Sit and Solidarity!
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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MAKE SIT HAPPEN: We Make The Light | For This Winter's Day
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Meet Lovable Urchin George (1985): From Stage Lights to Candle Light in Winter's Stillness
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Howling at the Moon and Slowing Down with Snail Juice
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Make Sit Happen: Touch The Present Moment, Explore Quality of Thoughts and Mind
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Autumn's Edge 03 Finding Space (and Colours) In The "Chaos" Of Your Mind
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Make Sit Happen: Touch The Present Moment, Explore Any Physical Sensations
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Make Sit Happen: Touch The Present Moment, What Are You Feeling?
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Is Hope Sus? Why Letting Go Might Just Set You Free
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Bash Bish Falls, Mt. Washington, Massachusetts
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Autumn's Edge 01: Super Simple 7-Day Meditation Challenge
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The Fifth Season
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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"How Can We Possibly Be Joyful In A Moment Like This?"
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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The Music Will Save Us In The End
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May 25, 2024 |
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Make Sit Happen: The Life Of A Garden
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May 06, 2024 |
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LIVE from Taos, New Mexico, Part 2 Conversations On Fear
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May 05, 2024 |
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LIVE from Santa Fe, New Mexico | Conversations On Fear
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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It's My New Year! And Harvey Texted Me For The First Time Today!
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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A Pause In Decades: My 21st HIV Birthday (March 17, 2024)
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Winter's Edge: My Melancholy and a Public Service Social Worker Announcement (PSSWA)
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Music Lessons
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Snotty Tales Of Mucus & Textiles
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Starry Night Yosemite | Foresta, CA, 9PM PT, Sept 10, 2023
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Starry Morning Yosemite | Foresta, CA, 5AM PT, Sept 11, 2023
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Make Sit Happen - Forgiveness - The riddle and process known as forgivenss
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Winter's Eve -- Be The Light
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Daddy Drag, My Desert Of Dementia With Cardell W Smith (My Father)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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INSIDE YOU
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Interlude
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Make Sit Happen: Healing Trauma, A Guided Meditaion Journey, Written by Belleruth Naparstek
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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BLUE NOISE: Foresta Falls in Yosemite National Park (60 Minutes)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Make Sit Happen: Crane Creek in Foresta, CA (Yosemite National Park)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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May Your Life (and Pain) Carve a Yosemite-Like Canyon Within You (Inner Strength and Beauty)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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And Just Like That... I Turned 50 Years Old In August
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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"Muscular Hope" Your Invitation To Take An Imaginative Leap
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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COAX: My Favorite Four-Letter Word
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Dear Alexander! Question From a Potential Wise Circle Traveler
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Bloom and Flower With My 100th Episode
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Dear Alexander! Question From Tara
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 13 The Practice of Writing, Learn from it, write from it, teach from it!
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge (Guided Meditation) Tend to the Waves of Mind
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 12 The Practice of Meditation, Explore My Guided Meditation Starter Kit
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 11 (Spring Equinox) Stop and Notice and Thaw and Melt and Soften
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 10 (Guided Meditation) Drawing Compassion for Yourself and Others
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 09 The Practice of Drawing, "Everything is better when you draw together!" (Wendy Mac)
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 08 (Guided Meditation) Listen to the Deep Melody of Your Own Soul
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Becoming Blue (Original Song) Written By Alexander Blue Feather
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 07 The Practice of Music, Become the Song of Your Heart
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 06 (Guided Meditation) Bring Soul Light Into Your Body
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 05 The Practice of Movement & Loving Attention Toward Your Body
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 04 A Pack of P's
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 03 (Guided Meditation) Daily Suggestions and Mantras of Spirit
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 02 How To Organize Your Mini (At Home) Spiritual or Silent Retreat
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Winter's Edge 01 Spiritual and Soul Solutions
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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"We are smothered and saturated without being in the least satisfied."
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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You Are The MapMaker Of Your Life (Wonder, Wander, Winter)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Midwinter Weather Check
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Cravings & Carols
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Make Sit Happen: Waterfall in Lower Calf Creek Falls, Boulder, Utah
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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Make Sit Happen: Mossy Cave Trail and Waterfall Creek (Bryce Canyon Utah)
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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How To Cultivate a "Genuine Sense Of Humor & Light Touch Of Appreciation"
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Refreshed & Reimagined Website (Original Watercolours For Purchase)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Make Sit Happen: Experience All The Textures Of The Roadway (10 minute guided meditation)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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FALL To The Level Of Your New Systems
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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Touch A Bubble With A Feather?! Won't It Pop.
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Summer circa 2002 (Part 3) My Big Takeaways from a Summer in Europe
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Summer circa 2002 (Part 2) Watering Seeds With Effort, Heart & Imagination
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Summer circa 2002 (Part 1) The Seed
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Make Sit Happen: Field of Mindfulness Guided Meditation
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Uncle Blue's "The State of the Union Address" (Summer 2022)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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The Space that Opens Through the Act of Creating
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May 30, 2022 |
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I Dropped My Phone in the Toilet Last Night!
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May 17, 2022 |
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[Music Only] Harvey Rose & Uncle Blue Sing Moon River
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Winter's Birdsong: Harvey Rose & Uncle Blue Sing Moon River
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Morsels From My Mid-Wintering Nest
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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The Christmas Wish of Harvey Rose
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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"ING" not "ED"
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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PODCAST PARTY! Parker Smith Sings + Dr. Jude Theriot Diagnoses the Elements of Mister Blue
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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1 Day Until I'm Officially 6 Years Sober from Drugs & Alcohol
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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2 Days Until I'm Officially 6 Years Sober from Drugs & Alcohol
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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3 Days Until I'm Officially 6 Years Sober from Drugs & Alcohol
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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4 Days Until I'm Officially 6 Years Sober from Drugs & Alcohol
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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5 Days Until I'm Officially 6 Years Sober from Drugs & Alcohol
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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6 Days Until I'm Officially 6 Years Sober from Drugs & Alcohol
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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Make Sit Happen: Impermanence Meditation
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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"Live In The Layers, Not On The Litter" #Poetry
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Make Sit Happen: Equanimity Meditation
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May 24, 2021 |
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LULLABY (Music Only): Give Said The Little Stream
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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LULLABY: Learn & Sing 'Give Said The Little Stream'
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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WRITE: My 8 Week Writing Retreat With Natalie Goldberg
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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5 Ideas On Space
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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REHEARSALS Part 2: My HIV Birthday Concert & Recital
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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REHEARSALS: My HIV Birthday Concert (Behind-The-Scenes Part I)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Mindfulness Tools to Inspire Your Path in March 2021
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Soul-Sibling Sunday: Open Your Heart To The Neutral Person
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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127. Broadway: The Last Play I Saw On January 3, 2020
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Trail Talk: Meet Your Depression With Mindfulness (LIVE from Joshua Tree)
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Birds & Bees Do It -- Let's Do It -- VM ACADEMY is OPEN!
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Soul-Sibling Sunday(SSS): Shut Up And Listen! I just finished a 7-day silent retreat.
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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126. What's the Last LIVE SHOW you saw before the 2020 March Shutdown?
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Trail Talk: False Positives, Shenanigans & SSA
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Make Sit Happen: I Am Loving Awareness #Meditate (Inspired by Ram Dass)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Trail-Talk: A poem and a story about the word KEEP!
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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125. How Do I Integrate Spirituality Into My Life Right Now?
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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124. Trapped by the Eagle Creek Fire Near Portland: Lessons from the Trail
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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123. The Great Dysthymia 2020 + LAST CALL Podcast Review Giveaway!
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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Make Sit Happen: Grounded In Being #Practice
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Trail-Talk: Wise Friendships + Podcast Review Giveaway!
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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122. I Found the Perfect Clinical Word to Diagnose 2020!
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Soul-Sibling Sunday (SSS): Strength To Pose For Life & Death
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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121. Suggestions to Soften the Edge of Your Spiritual Practice (COVID-19 Series)
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May 28, 2020 |
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120. To Retreat! Or Not To Retreat! (COVID-19 Series)
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May 22, 2020 |
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Soul-Sibling Sunday (SSS): Oooshka! A word for the current state of affairs.
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May 18, 2020 |
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119. Good Grief! Learn to Make Meaning of Your Difficult Emotions (COVID-19 Series)
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May 06, 2020 |
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MAKE SIT HAPPEN #Practice: Sitting With Difficult Emotions
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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118. Leave What You BELIEVE Behind & PRACTICE (COVID-19 Series)
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Soul-Sibling Sunday (SSS): My Picasso Picnic
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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MAKE SIT HAPPEN #Practice: Mindfulness of Body & Breath Guided Meditation
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Soul-Sibling Sunday (SSS): Be Quiet & Listen!
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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117. Viral Mindfulness 2020 (COVID-19 Series)
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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116. The Last 15-Minutes of a One Hour Infrared Sauna Session!
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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113. Dead Man Posing: Here's What A Yogi Who Died With AIDS Taught Me
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Live The Questions (Inspired by David Whyte)
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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A Prayer Big Enough For The New Decade
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Dec 29, 2019 |
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112 Activate Light!
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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How Do I Find Time To Devote To My Spirituality?
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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How Do I Follow My Intuition Without Question?
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Four Years Sober: Even Recovery Is Figureoutable
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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108 The Biggest Roadblock To Mindfulness
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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107 Are You Afraid Of Sharing Your Truth? Spreading Slogans
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Jul 07, 2019 |
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106 Freedom From Anxiety - Journey To & From
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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105 Seeking To Uncover The Unconscious Roots
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Apr 21, 2019 |
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104 Cultivating Fortune From Your Misfortune
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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103 Share The Magic Of Your Heart
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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102 What's The Difference Between Guided Imagery & Meditation
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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101 Why Learning To Meditate Might Be Your Biggest Mistake
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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The First Episode: I'm Making Sit Happen #ViralMindfulness
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Jan 15, 2018 |