A powerful practice to really invite you to come more deeply in to your body. And really become aware of your embodied experience as a human being...

In this episode, we speak with Elizabeth Spring. Elizabeth is survivor of horrific traumas in her life. She speaks so eloquently, courageously and vulnerably about her traumas and the journey from some very dark places to a life with light and love and joy in it. So much of this journey of healing was made possible by her deep commitment to mindfulness practice as a way of life and a way meeting difficulty and suffering. We found Elizabeth and her story to be q...

Join Jules, Mark and special guest Peter Larson for a fascinating discussion on Social Media, Technology, & Soul.

For Day4 of this meditation series, Mark explains how to perform a walking meditation and the difference between formal and informal practice. Go outside and experience your moment. Post on Instagram @soul.matters.podcast

Join us on a meditation to learn the Tonglen practice of giving and receiving... breathing in suffering ... breathing out love and kindness and ease and relief...breaking your heart...and breaking your heart open ... This is part of a daily 10 minute meditation practice to help renew the soul. Let us know your feedback on Instagram @soul.matters.podcast!

Join us on a mindfulness journey to be in the moment and hold whatever it is inside of you that needs to be held... This is part of a daily 10 minute meditation practice to help renew the soul. Let us know your feedback on Instagram @soul.matters.podcast!

Ground yourself in a beautiful meditation where we take you in to the depths of relaxation to find your home... This is part of a daily 10 minute meditation practice to help renew the soul. Let us know your feedback on Instagram @soul.matters.podcast!

In a world full of distraction and challenge, how do we find our way back home to ourselves. This is such a crucial question because if we are going to live our lives from our most authentic and powerful selves and if we are going to truly address the challenges of this century, we have to find our way to that core place of our being. In this episode, Jules and Mark address this essential question of homecoming. There are many doors to leave home and fewer doors to co...

In this episode we interview singer, songwriter, music producer and activist Valerie Orth. She talks honestly and vulnerably about her journey in the music industry, the deep and painful challenges of being a woman in that industry, and her commitment to authenticity, to finding her authentic voice as a musician, as a woman, and as a human being. She also speaks about how activism is woven into her life and her music how important that balance, that weaving, is for her. ...

Join Jules and Mark as they answer soul questions they are commonly asked as psychotherapists. "What are the main regrets you hear people talk about...?", "What's the secret to being happily married...", "How do I find and listen to my own voice...?"

In this episode, we, Mark & Jules, interview artist Carol Meckling. She is a full-time working artist living on the island of Kauai. During the interview we talk to Carol about her journey to fully listen to her soul's longing to create and become an artist. She speaks eloquently about how she was able to move art from something that was on the margins of her life to its very center and how doing that has brought her so much joy and life satisfaction. Along the way,&nbs...

In this episode Jules and Mark experiment with not having an agenda and trusting the emerging moment in their conversation. The idea here is that sometimes our agendas and our desire to control things gets in the way of soul emerging. Sometimes if we let go and just trust what emerges and ride the wave of emerging life, we are taken to delightful places including places of the soul.

Welcome back to Season Two! In this episode, Mark and Jules discuss the intersection of science and spirituality in an interview with Ricco Bonicalzi, Ph.D. Ricco is a scientist, physicist , Buddhist practitioner and a professor of math and physics at Seattle Central College. He has spent many years contemplating where science and spirituality overlap and where each modality can actually support and deepen the other. We hope you find this interview as fascinating as we...

In this final episode of the year, Mark and Jules delve in to healing and renewal after a tumultuous 2020.

Join Mark and Jules during this election season on a soul journey to "Lean In..." In this first of two fall specials they talk about and struggle with how to have soulful and fruitful conversations with friends/family/partners/neighbors with polarized views. They also talk why this kind of practice is essential for for healing the polarizations in the world and for our survival as a species.

In this episode Mark and Juliana reflect on Season 1 of this podcast as they come to the end of the season. They talk about what they have learned on this journey. Then, in honor of upcoming Father's Day, they explore what healthy masculinity and soulful masculinity might look like and the challenges for men of claiming masculinity in a culture full of toxic masculinity and few role models.

This episode is a mini-episode where Juliana and Mark discuss the inherent, potential hope in the act of protest. They go on to introduce the practice of TONGLIN, which comes from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and is practice of developing a warriors heart, a heart wide enough to take in and and bear witness to the suffering of the world. The hope is that if we can bear witness and truly take in that suffering, compassionate and effective action would be the inevitable result of ...

In this improvisational episode Mark and Juliana wrestle with their own white privilege and institutional racism in response to George Floyd's murder, the history of police brutality in this country, and the protests that have broken out in many cities across this country It is a raw, challenging and painful episode as they try and own the internal racism that lives inside of them by virtue of living in this culture. They go on to ask what are skillful and soulful responses to wh...

Mark and Juliana interview special guest Sam Lamb who seems to have a gift of building community and connection. They discuss what it takes build a life and business through "soul connections".

A special Mother's day episode about the soulfulness of motherhood.