Mapping the Self™

Know thyself was carved into stone at the entrance of Apollo’s temple at Delphi in Ancient Greece. Scholars, philosophers, and poets have debated the questions of what it is to know yourself for thousands of years. I invite you to join me for conversations with artists, creators, scholars, spiritual teachers and writers of all walks of life to discuss the big questions; to engage with what it is to live fully, to map ourselves, know ourselves, to grow our compassion and listening and explore our greatest possibilities.

Mike Maeshiro On Deconstructing Spirituality and Religious Trauma 03/29/2024

Radical Truth Telling with Lauren Zander 03/14/2024

Episode 14 Erica Mather: My Body My Best Friend 12/04/2023

Episode 13: Marie Grujicic on the Evolution of Your Yoga Practice 11/20/2023

Episode 12 with The Kind Teacher 11/08/2023

DJ Drez Episode 11: On creating, yoga, music, and living your Highest purpose 09/22/2023

Episode 10 Michaela Boehm on Attachment, Relating, Healing, and Our Evolution 07/02/2023

Pete Longworth on the art of seeing, self-kindness, AI and art, cultivating your creativity 06/07/2023

Body as the Altar: Explorations in Embodiment with Amber Ryan 05/30/2023

Travis Davison Leadership and Owning Our Mistakes 05/23/2023

Lissa Rankin Sacred Medicine and Healing 05/09/2023

Marnie Nir 04/24/2023

Practicing the Pause and Reclaiming Rest as Our Birthright with Octavia Raheem 04/10/2023

Practicing the Pause and Reclaiming Rest as Our Birthright with Octavia Raheem In this episode I am joined by auther, speaker, and rest coach Octavia Raheem. This episode is like balm for the soul. Octavia speaks on practicing rest, celebrating the moments we are able to pause, rest as activism, and so much more. Octavia is a gift to humanity and this talk serious medicine. Grab a cup of tea, light a candle, and rest with us. Octavia Raheem is a wife, mother, author of two books Pause, Rest, Be and Gather, executive rest coach, yoga educator, and former wellness studio owner. She founded Devoted to Rest + Starshine & Clay Online Yoga and Meditation Studio for Black Women and Women of Color. Within her rest and work she threads poetry, prayer, and time tested practices into a blanket of experience under which individuals can gather and rebuke stress, fatigue, and burnout. The foundation of Octavia’s rest work is Black Church (rooted in the South USA), restorative yoga, Yoga Nidra, and meditation. Her deepest offerings lead driven, ambitious, visionary, and highly impactful women to awaken the fullness of their wisdom, power, and clarity through rest. Octavia has over 20 years of experience and well over 10,000 hours of designing and delivering classes, restshops, workshops, immersions, and trainings that transform, heal, and restore individuals and organizations. In 2021 Yoga Journal magazine recognized Octavia as one of fifteen experienced yoga professionals who have elevated and changed the field on a global scale. Closer to home and as a beacon in her local community, she was named one of four luminaries who have lit the way and created new avenues to yoga in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Southeast in September 2019 by Natural Awakening Magazine. Additionally her writing, rest, and work have been featured in Mantra, Tricycle, Well + Good, Atlanta Magazine, CNN, and at Essence Festival Wellhouse Atlanta. She has an academic background in English Literature, creative writing,and middle grades education as well as 10+ years of professional experience developing curricula for innovative learning and teaching Language Arts in K-12 settings. Most recently, she combined her passion for yoga, creativity, language, and community through her four year tenure as co-director for Yoga, Literature, and Art Camp for Teen Girls at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art founded by Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts. Octavia is committed to herself, family, and community being well and rested- in body, mind, heart, and spirit. After a lifetime of overworking, exhaustion, and diminished presence she is devoted to rest and writing as liberatory and generative practices for us all. What Octavia does not do will be as much a part of her legacy as what she courageously chooses to say yes to and does. Learn more about Octavia Raheem at Books: & Octavia in the media: Instagram- @octaviaraheem /episode/index/show/f1669c67-b420-4201-a7f2-e4cbbf656293/id/26444427

Abbie Galvin 04/03/2023

Jeff Krasno 03/20/2023

High altruism, aging with grace, creating personal ritual, becoming an elder with Elena Brower 03/06/2023

High altruism, aging with grace, creating personal ritual, becoming an elder with Elena Brower On our altruism and personal practice. Aging and elderhood. Stoicism. Self-mastery and pragmatism. Forgivness, shame and parenting, and so much more. Elena Brower, mother, mentor, artist, teacher, bestselling author and host of the Practice You Podcast, Elena has taught yoga and meditation since 1999. After graduating Cornell University in 1992, she designed textiles and apparel for almost a decade before focusing on yoga, meditation, art and writing. Her first book, Art of Attention, has been translated into seven languages; her second, Practice You, is a bestseller. Both Practice You and Being You are utilized as teaching tools in a variety of settings. Elena's first collection of poetry, Softening Time arrives in May 2023. Elena's yoga classes and meditations are featured on . Her virtual Engaged Mentorship is renowned for inviting analog creativity into online coursework, and her Perceptive Parenting audio course is a key resource for parents. Elena's spoken word poetry can be heard on Above & Beyond's Flow State albums. She works to elevate bright futures for girls, women and children through her support for Girls on Fire Leaders, On The Inside and Free Food Kitchen. Her stunning work invites us to bring artistry and beauty into our everday, to offer our deepest listening, and to hone our attention. You can find Elena's work at You can find out more about Katonah Yoga™ at And to connect with The Studio and Abbie Galvin visit A note on this episode: Since the recording of this episode I have learned neuroscience no longer speaks of the limbic brain and the frontal cortex as being the "reptilian brain" and they are finding that emotion is far more complex than we once thought. The amygdala is no longer considered to be the "fear center" for example but is only partially and sometimes involved in the emotion of fear. I do however still find the "lizard and wizard" a useful metaphor for the tensions and types of experiences that can arise interoceptively when we're at our best and when we're in states that are not always helpful. /episode/index/show/f1669c67-b420-4201-a7f2-e4cbbf656293/id/26145375

Mapping the Self™

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