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“I kept comparing myself to people that had really good voices. I wanted to sing better so badly.”

Liesl is a profound South African spiritual guide and medicine woman, well known for her work leading plant medicine journeys, sweat lodges, vision quests and more. But the way she felt...

I stumble into them, the ultimate hipster couple. He's a legendary DJ and she does super cool live visuals for his shows.

He is already looking at me VERY strangely as I’m shaking his girlfriend's hand - awestruck. I'm shaking her hand and shaking her hand and still shaking her hand. Some...

Here's a picture from when I was 20 years old. Aside from looking desperately undead, I was having a really rough time.

Beneath that cool, frozen zombie exterior I was battling with depression. I was in the second year of a commerce degree that I hated, barely attending classes and was failing...

Social media is such a conundrum. Or is it, “social media are such a conundrum’? See?!?! Questions everywhere.

Is spending lots of time online healthy or unhealthy? Do we need it for our work? Does it make us unconscious and waste our time? Or could we be one of those people that...

I walked onto the stage with my body vibrating with fear.

Bright spotlights on me, I could barely see the audience.

I sat down at the huge, shiny black Bosendorpher grand piano.

Took a long, deep breath.

I was shaking.

I was about to play the first song from my then new solo piano album,...

Abedah and I met for the first time and recorded this conversation about her work as a yogi, meditation teacher and death doulah. In my culture we don't talk much about dying, and Abedah's work shows us how.

Watch this wonderful interview with choirmaster, academic and and author Ludumo Magangane, who describes singing in Black South African culture, where singing and movement are woven into daily life from birth. As he says, "we are born INTO rhythm"... and song!

In this awesome conversation with dancer, choreographer and academic Maxwell Xolani Rani, we explore some remarkably healthy perspectives on dancing and singing in his culture.

Hey friend,

Watch the episode where my best friend interviews me on our 50th birthday!

ARE WE SEPARATE OR CONNECTED?

Friends, in today’s episode, we cover the whole universe! It’s less ambitious than it might sound. As a Swiss patent clerk turned world renowned theoretical physicist once put it:

“A human being is part of a whole called by us universe ..”

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VAGUS & VOICE

"When I hold you in my arms 
And I feel my finger on your trigger
I know nobody can do me no harm.."

In the interests of healing, I think Lennon's next line goes too far in comparing fundamental well-being to a heated up firearm. But the legendary Beatle's insight above is...

iGwijo

Can something harmonize and electrify simultaneously?

One listen to a Gwijo squad singing its a cappella-style call-and-response in full force, and an ancient memory is awoken. We’re reminded at the DNA level that humans evolved to sing together: through good times and bad, and from...