Lindsay Sanwald's guest appearances

Lindsay Sanwald

Peter's Podcast

Choose Your Own Religion

Idgy Dean

Noah Lampert

Ed Bacon

Rick Doblin

Ryan Singer

Natalie Roy

Brett Larkin

Greg Smith

Emily Schmidt

Katelyn Hempstead

Erika Curry

Ross Blocher

Patrick Ehlers

Jon Danforth-Appell

Barbara Gray

OwlTail

Lindsay Sanwald aka Idgy Dean chooses her own religion! Lindsay is a classmate of mine at Harvard Divinity School who creates and performs amazing psychedelic spiritual surf rock, and she came on to share her musical, creative, and spiritual journey. We also muse on comparative theology, Christianity, and spiritually working with anger. Go to idgydean.com for more of her music!

Lindsay Sanwald aka Idgy Dean chooses her own religion! Lindsay is a classmate of mine at Harvard Divinity School who creates and performs amazing psychedelic spiritual surf rock, and she came on to share her musical, creative, and spiritual journey. We also muse on comparative theology, Christianity, and spiritually working with anger. Go to <a href="https://www.idgydean.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">idgydean.com</a> for more of her music!

Just the Beginning with Lindsay Sanwald aka Idgy Dean

Happy Solstice, Kwanza, Hanukkah, Christmas, or whatever you appreciate this time of year! The holidays around this time celebrate light, and today’s podcast is about light’s energy: vibration. Here’s a link to a video that shows you how vibrations move matter in beautiful ways. I head over to visit my student and kirtan co-conspirator Lindsay Sanwald where we talk about mantras and kirtan. But before I head out, I wanted to share something from Oprah’s Supersoul podcast, which Lindsay turned me on to a while back. In Oprah’s recent conversation with Shawn Achor, who taught a course on happiness at Harvard, they discuss a practice of gratitude. At this time of darkness and light, I just want to say, I’m grateful that you are listening to my podcast, and I wish you actual happiness and deep living. Come start the new year in the right vibration at ISHTA Yoga, New Year’s Day. Details are here. I D G Y  D E A N  is the musical moniker of ISHTA-trained yogini Lindsay Sanwald. A one-woman psychedelic rock band, Idgy Dean has been composing DIY music for 20 years, playing various instruments in multiple bands, performing solo as a looping artist across the country, and producing critically-acclaimed records and music videos from her home base in Brooklyn, New York. I hope you’ve noticed that I don’t run ads for taxis or mattresses or food delivery or underwear on Peter’s Podcast, but here’s a mini-advertisement for me. An issue of Yoga Journal costs close to $10 A single yoga class in New York costs more than $20 A single private consultation with a yoga teacher can cost hundreds of dollars I’m bringing the kind of content you would find in all those places to your phone, weekly. Won’t you please support me on Patreon? I’m avoiding running advertisements, because I find them so annoying on the podcasts I like. I constantly fumbling for my phone to hit the fast-forward control. But to keep my ad-free format feasible, I need for you to value this effort. You can support the podcast at any level you like, and change or stop your support whenever you want. Help me keep this an ad-free zone supported by the community of listeners like you. Go now to Patreon.com/peterspodcast. Click the link now. And thank you for listening. I’m very excited to announce a summer retreat, led by Ulrica Norberg, Wendy Newton, and myself in Normandy, France this summer, August 14-18. It’s called Yoga and the Art of Living Creatively. Details are available at peterferko.com/france2018. I’m also heading to the Caribbean for an Easter retreat with Petra Rakebrandt. Details here! I’m teaching a 300-hr teacher training at ISHTA in January. I also teach regular asana and meditation classes there. See ISHTAYOGA.com for details. Finally, I’m using Patreon to offer opportunities to work with me one on one. You can subscribe for a mantra session or for an hour video private. Of course, as they say on public radio, I hope you’ll subscribe at any level, just because you value Peter’s Podcast. Go to Patreon.com/peterspodcast.

Happy Solstice, Kwanza, Hanukkah, Christmas, or whatever you appreciate this time of year! The holidays around this time celebrate light, and today’s podcast is about light’s energy: vibration. <a href="https://youtu.be/1yaqUI4b974" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Here’s a link</a> to a video that shows you how vibrations move matter in beautiful ways. I head over to visit my student and kirtan co-conspirator Lindsay Sanwald where we talk about mantras and kirtan. But before I head out, I wanted to share something from Oprah’s <a href="http://www.supersoul.tv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Supersoul podcast</a>, which Lindsay turned me on to a while back. In Oprah’s recent conversation with Shawn Achor, who taught a course on happiness at Harvard, they discuss a practice of gratitude. At this time of darkness and light, I just want to say, I’m grateful that you are listening to my podcast, and I wish you actual happiness and deep living. Come start the new year in the right vibration at ISHTA Yoga, New Year’s Day. Details are <a href="http://ishtayoga.com/workshops/ringing-in-the-new-year-asana-kirtan-meditation-with-peter-ferko-idgy-dean/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. <a href="https://www.idgydean.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I D G Y  D E A N</a>  is the musical moniker of ISHTA-trained yogini Lindsay Sanwald. A one-woman psychedelic rock band, Idgy Dean has been composing DIY music for 20 years, playing various instruments in multiple bands, performing solo as a looping artist across the country, and producing critically-acclaimed records and music videos from her home base in Brooklyn, New York. I hope you’ve noticed that I don’t run ads for taxis or mattresses or food delivery or underwear on Peter’s Podcast, but here’s a mini-advertisement for me. An issue of Yoga Journal costs close to $10 A single yoga class in New York costs more than $20 A single private consultation with a yoga teacher can cost hundreds of dollars I’m bringing the kind of content you would find in all those places to your phone, weekly. Won’t you please support me on Patreon? I’m avoiding running advertisements, because I find them so annoying on the podcasts I like. I constantly fumbling for my phone to hit the fast-forward control. But to keep my ad-free format feasible, I need for you to value this effort. You can support the podcast at any level you like, and change or stop your support whenever you want. Help me keep this an ad-free zone supported by the community of listeners like you. Go now to <a href="https://Patreon.com/peterspodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon.com/peterspodcast</a>. Click the link now. And thank you for listening. I’m very excited to announce a summer retreat, led by Ulrica Norberg, Wendy Newton, and myself in Normandy, France this summer, August 14-18. It’s called Yoga and the Art of Living Creatively. Details are available at <a href="http://peterferko.com/france2018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">peterferko.com/france2018</a>. I’m also heading to the Caribbean for an Easter retreat with Petra Rakebrandt. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1485831381532259/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Details here</a>! I’m teaching a 300-hr teacher training at ISHTA in January. I also teach regular asana and meditation classes there. See <a href="http://www.ISHTAYOGA.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ISHTAYOGA.com</a> for details. Finally, I’m using Patreon to offer opportunities to work with me one on one. You can subscribe for a mantra session or for an hour video private. Of course, as they say on public radio, I hope you’ll subscribe at any level, just because you value Peter’s Podcast. Go to <a href="https://Patreon.com/peterspodcast." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon.com/peterspodcast.</a>

Good Vibes for Dark Days w/Lindsay Sanwald

In this episode, I chat with Lindsay Sanwald. Known to her music fans as Idgy Dean, I know Lindsay as a yoga teacher and as part of a kirtan project, where we join forces to put a psych-rock vibe to traditional Sanskrit mantra. We cover a lot of ground between the arts and yoga, including the way both serve as a "way" to help find one's purpose, or ISHTA devata — the energy that helps you experience the whole of who you really are. We mention several artists in the episode, including:  Singer Mira Lu Kovacs and her project Schmids Puls Painter Robert Henri (I mistakenly attribute a quote by him to sculptor Henry Moore) Artist Petr Shvetsov  We talk about my book, Yoga for Artists, and how yoga creates a path for tapping your muse as an artist. Finally, we discuss the nature and value of mantra, including the sound Om, and how a mantra creates transformation. I decided not to interrupt my podcast with advertisements, so if you like it, please support it on Patreon, a wonderful artist-funding web community. You can support the podcast at any level you like. Various levels will soon get you cool rewards, like questions on the podcast, a decal of me as a motorcycling meditator, and a temporary tattoo of Like Happiness, but More Permanent. See Patreon.com/peterspodcast for details. Learn more about me at www.peterferko.com. And please share the podcast with friends who you think would appreciate it. Special thanks to my student and friend, photographer Francesco Sapienza who took my logo photo.

In this episode, I chat with Lindsay Sanwald. Known to her music fans as <a href="http://www.idgydean.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Idgy Dean</a>, I know Lindsay as a yoga teacher and as part of a kirtan project, where we join forces to put a psych-rock vibe to traditional Sanskrit mantra. We cover a lot of ground between the arts and yoga, including the way both serve as a "way" to help find one's purpose, or ISHTA devata — the energy that helps you experience the whole of who you really are. We mention several artists in the episode, including: <ul> <li>Singer Mira Lu Kovacs and her project <a href="https://www.facebook.com/schmiedspuls/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Schmids Puls</a></li> <li>Painter Robert Henri (I mistakenly attribute a quote by him to sculptor Henry Moore)</li> <li>Artist <a href="http://www.shvetsov.info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Petr Shvetsov</a></li> </ul> We talk about my book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1539503453/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yoga for Artists</a>, and how yoga creates a path for tapping your muse as an artist. Finally, we discuss the nature and value of mantra, including the sound Om, and how a mantra creates transformation. I decided not to interrupt my podcast with advertisements, so if you like it, please support it on Patreon, a wonderful artist-funding web community. You can support the podcast at any level you like. Various levels will soon get you cool rewards, like questions on the podcast, a decal of me as a motorcycling meditator, and a temporary tattoo of Like Happiness, but More Permanent. See <a href="http://www.patreon.com/peterspodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon.com/peterspodcast</a> for details. Learn more about me at <a href="http://www.peterferko.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.peterferko.com</a>. And please share the podcast with friends who you think would appreciate it. Special thanks to my student and friend, photographer <a href="http://www.francescosapienza.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Francesco Sapienza</a> who took my logo photo.