Live your best life in the second half. This no-nonsense show is dedicated to healthspan and features best-selling authors and thought leaders in nutrition, mental health, relationships, and self-improvement. Each episode also includes listener Q&A. Hosted by yoga trainer, writer, and expert speaker, Lucas Rockwood, the founder of YOGABODY.
Detox Your Thoughts with Andrea Bonior
--------- The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the news for months as a quiet crisis, one of mental health, has spread even faster and further. Depression, anxie…
How to Control Your Attention
with Nir Eyal ----------------
How is it possible that with social distancing, telecommuting, and almost zero social events right now, you can still go an entire day an…
Understanding Madnesswith Susannah Cahalan --------------------------Susannah was an ambitious young adult starting an exciting life in New York City when she began having seizures, experiencing a …
Men with Meaning & Purposewith Connor Beaton--------What do you call a man who cannot perform, provide, and protect? Many people would call him a loser. It’s true that men have it easier in some area…
Heart Rate Variability Simplified Marco Altini-------------
“I know my body!” is something I hear from yoga students constantly. Sometimes they want to keep practicing and shouldn’t (due to injury or…
Water, Whiskey, Coffee - Yoga Breathing Made Simple
With Lucas Rockwood
“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” - Hans Selye
Mental and emotional stress were at historic highs pr…
Losing it All in COVID-19with Lucas Rockwood--------------Greetings from Barcelona. We’re nearly 2 months into COVID-19 lockdown, and instead of our usual expert interviews, I thought I’d share my ex…
The Pleasure Gap - Women’s Inequality in the Bedroom
Katherine Rowland----------------------“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
- Hunter S. Thompson
Most of us are hig…
Adversity into AdvantageLaura Huang
----------------------------As I get older, I appreciate the struggles of my past almost as much as the successes, and here’s my question for you: What if your gre…
How Successful People See the World with Emily Balcetis
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I ran out of laundry detergent last week and couldn’t motivate myself to walk 20 steps to the store to buy more. Why? I can…
Once a month I have to tell a pregnant yoga student that she cannot practice in our studio, cannot hang upside down in the Yoga Trapeze, or practice long-h…
The New Science of Self Actualization with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman ---------------------------When I feel frustrated with my place in the world, it’s often because I feel I’m not living up to my fu…
You’re stuck at home, your economic future is uncertain, and it’s difficult to plan more than one day at a time. To make things even more challenging, the people and activities that bring you the mos…
I once had a yoga student with a prosthetic leg. I didn’t realize until I attempted to push her heel to the floor in Downward Dog. I assumed that she wanted to simply blend into class and that’s why …
A close friend lost her husband tragically and suddenly, but she was back in the office just two weeks later. She shed a few tears that first month, but mostly, it was Beth as usual. She didn’t fall …
Do you have a talky coworker who never gives you space to share your ideas? Do you have a neighbor who does home repairs at 2 am? Or a spouse that never follows through with their shared housework? W…
My piano lessons were a dark, 45-minute drive from home. Mom and I left home at 6:30 am on Tuesday mornings to get there before school. “Luke is really good at this,” Ms. McGill said after my third l…
“I’m not sure if you feel things the way I do,” she said. “I feel everything.” I was twenty-one, she was twenty-three. The window looked out at a brick wall in my Lower East Side apartment. “I have e…
I always wanted to be a writer. Kerouac, Hemmingway, and Carver were my heros. Later it was playwrights Kushner, Ibsen, and Chekov. I’d drag home backpacks full of books from the public library, and …
The three largest mental health facilities in the USA are Rickers, Cooks Country and LA Twin Towers Jails. The mentally ill have literally been relegated to prisons since there are so few public reso…