256 episodes

The Everyday Sublime podcast explores a full spectrum spirituality. Each week begins with a dharma talk, and each month Josh has an in-depth conversation with a thought leader in the field. As Stephen Batchelor says, "the mystical does not transcend the world, but saturates it." www.joshsummers.net

Everyday Sublime Josh Summers

    • Health & Fitness
    • 5.0 • 127 Ratings

The Everyday Sublime podcast explores a full spectrum spirituality. Each week begins with a dharma talk, and each month Josh has an in-depth conversation with a thought leader in the field. As Stephen Batchelor says, "the mystical does not transcend the world, but saturates it." www.joshsummers.net

    Why Train Online | Qi Chat with Terry + Josh

    Why Train Online | Qi Chat with Terry + Josh

    Why Train Online | Qi Chats with Josh + Terry

    In this Qi Chat, Terry and Josh discuss some of the ways that an online yoga training is a far better educational experience than the in-person training. 

    We talk about how the pandemic shifted our Yin Yoga School to an online format and how beneficial this has been for our students and our own teaching. 

    Send us your questions to info@yinyogaschool.com



    ***NEW Yin Yoga + Qi Cultivation Training*** – Purifying Water | The Flow of Qi Cultivation, click here=====>

    Join our Yin Yoga-based practice sangha – weekly LIVE classes + Library of Yin Yoga, Yang Yoga, Meditation + Qi Gong, click here =====>

    For a FREE copy of my e-book, The What, Why and How of Yin Yoga, click here =====>

    For replays of our 2hr workshops in Yin Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Qi Gong, click here =====>

    For our popular 50hr trainings in Yin Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Yin Meditation, click here =====>

    • 37 min
    Wrong Chord Right | Dharma Talk

    Wrong Chord Right | Dharma Talk

    Originally recorded on March 4, 2023, I share Herbie Hancock’s story of playing a “wrong chord” during a Miles Davis solo, and what Hancock learned about music and life from that experience. For me, Davis’s response is the very essence of creative generosity, and it says something about what it means to bring a spirit creative generosity to ourselves and others in our practice.



    ***NEW Yin Yoga + Qi Cultivation Training*** – Purifying Water | The Flow of Qi Cultivation, click here=====>

    Join our Yin Yoga-based practice sangha – weekly LIVE classes + Library of Yin Yoga, Yang Yoga, Meditation + Qi Gong, click here =====>

    For a FREE copy of my e-book, The What, Why and How of Yin Yoga, click here =====>

    • 29 min
    Tending the Temple | Talk + Guided Meditation

    Tending the Temple | Talk + Guided Meditation

    Originally recorded on February 26, 2024, I offer ways of tending to your external and internal environment for establishing conditions conducive to simplicity, contentment and calm. Practice is life, without any separation. Vacuuming, laundry, bills and email are all part of a comprehensive practice. And when approached in this spirit, every moment of the day becomes an opportunity for practice.

    After this talk, I offer a guided meditation for brightening the heart in preparation for insight meditation.

    ***NEW Yin Yoga + Qi Cultivation Training*** – Purifying Water | The Flow of Qi Cultivation, click here=====>

    Join our Yin Yoga-based practice sangha – weekly LIVE classes + Library of Yin Yoga, Yang Yoga, Meditation + Qi Gong, click here =====>

    For a FREE copy of my e-book, The What, Why and How of Yin Yoga, click here =====>

    For replays of our 2hr workshops in Yin Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Qi Gong, click here =====>

    For our popular 50hr trainings in Yin Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Yin Meditation, click here =====>

    • 56 min
    Massage, Lymph + Qi Flow | Qi Chats with Terry + Josh

    Massage, Lymph + Qi Flow | Qi Chats with Terry + Josh

    On the podcast this week, Terry and I sat down to discuss our experience of integrating massage and Gua Sha into our yoga and pranayama practice routine. 

    A Gua Sha stone is a tool used in Chinese Medicine to “clean the blood of toxicity.” In lay terms, this refers to the way that massage and Gua Sha help promote the flow of fluids through the fascial fabric, especially in lymphatic vessels, helping to eliminate wastes and pathogenic factors. 

    We shared our assessments of the enhanced Qi flow we both experience with the integration of Gua Sha massage, and explain why it is an integral part of our upcoming 4-week intensive: Purifying Water – The Flow of Qi Cultivation.

    Send us your questions at info@yinyogaschool.com



    Join our Yin Yoga-based practice sangha – weekly LIVE classes + Library of Yin Yoga, Yang Yoga, Meditation + Qi Gong, click here =====>



    For a FREE copy of my e-book, The What, Why and How of Yin Yoga, click here =====>



    Our NEW Qi Cultivation Training: Purifying Water – The Flow of Qi Cultivation, where you will learn develop the sublime trifecta of Yang Yoga (safe stability, mobility and flow), Gua Sha (Chinese massage tool) and Yin Pranayama (the breath of Qi). Flow Your Qi, click here======>

    • 42 min
    Amiel Handelsman | Meeting the Meta-Crisis

    Amiel Handelsman | Meeting the Meta-Crisis

    Until I spoke with Amiel Handelsman, I had mistakenly thought that the term “meta-crisis” referred to the overarching sense that the world is in a massive crisis of overlapping calamities, all threatening our survival. But after speaking with Amiel, I realized that I was thinking of the poly-crisis. Amiel explained to me that the meta-crisis refers to an underlying crisis of all the crises on fire. The meta-crisis is a crisis of consciousness or being – a root crisis in terms of how individuals and collectives will rise to meet the challenges that besiege the world today.

    I was heartened to welcome Amiel Handelsman back on Everyday Sublime to share his thoughts on how personal development, and systems of personal development, like the Enneagram, can help frame a generative response to the metacrisis. In short, we need to grow up, clean up and wake up to deeper capacities of our being to deal with the multi-horrific poly-crisis.

    Amiel has a professional background in leadership, management and executive coaching along with a strong foundation in the Integral Theory of Ken Wilber among other frameworks.

    Amiel is also launching his own excellent podcast: How My View Grew, which looks at the origin stories of big ideas about humanity's challenges. 

    I highly recommend subscribing to Amiel’s show. I always learn a LOT from my talks with him.

    Click here======> to subscribe to How My View Grew.

    Amiel’s website, click here======>

    First Episode with Amiel, Deracialization + Anti-racism click here======>

    Book mentioned: The Wisdom of the Enneagream (Riso and Hudson)

    Here is Amiel’s description of his show, How My View Grew:

    “If you’re weary of political polarization, nothing is more refreshing than nuanced thinking: ideas that reveal the complexity of what’s wrong in the world and how to make it better. But where does such thinking come from? Often, it’s from someone changing their mind—letting go of an old perspective and growing into a new one. Join executive coach Amiel Handelsman as he interviews nuanced thinkers about the origin stories of their big ideas. Each story offers a window into one of humanity’s greatest challenges like climate change, democracy, the culture wars, the wealth gap, Ukraine, and Israel. In weeks between interviews, Amiel offers tips for training your mind to navigate complex topics and difficult conversations.”

    • 1 hr 34 min
    The Challenge of Pausing | Dharma Talk + Meditation Prompt

    The Challenge of Pausing | Dharma Talk + Meditation Prompt

    On the phone recently, a friend shared a comment from their therapist: “Until you stay in the same place for three years, you’re never going to address and heal your shtuff.” The therapist didn’t say “shtuff,” but the comment is relevant to anyone interested in the fruits of contemplative practice.

    But, as a sangha member emailed to me, the challenge of staying in place – physically or metaphorically – is that all too often when we try to pause, we get overwhelmed by the various floods of worry, anxiety, fear or worse. What to do?

    In this talk, I speak to ways in which dharma practice attunes us more vividly to this challenge, and how it offers a way through this formidable challenge.



    ***NEW Yin Yoga + Qi Cultivation Training*** – Purifying Water | The Flow of Qi Cultivation, click here=====>

    Join our Yin Yoga-based practice sangha – weekly LIVE classes + Library of Yin Yoga, Yang Yoga, Meditation + Qi Gong, click here =====>

    For a FREE copy of my e-book, The What, Why and How of Yin Yoga, click here =====>

    For replays of our 2hr workshops in Yin Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Qi Gong, click here =====>

    For our popular 50hr trainings in Yin Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Yin Meditation, click here =====>

    • 54 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
127 Ratings

127 Ratings

Hawaii Bioneer ,

Best of Yin & Meditative Content out there

Josh’s 30 years of exploring the meditative path shine through brightly in how he shares his stories and reflections on topics of yin yoga, meditation and related content. His brilliant use of analogy and commitment to honest and academic examination of theory & pedagogy are rare and refreshing!

ecpapa ,

Wonderful!!!

It is refreshing to have a podcast episode that goes right into the substance of the topic without all the filler-talk. I love these short, but extremely substantive talks. They are very relevant, informative, and spot on. KUDOS!!!!!

zulumom ,

Love this podcast

Look forward to every episode. Insightful and thoughtful—masterful!

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