Tranquility Du Jour

Succulent Wild Love with the creative and colorful SARK. Bask in stories about her new book Succulent Wild Love, learn the six habits for feeling more love more often, and hear how she met co-author John Waddell.     Featured Guest: SARK SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) is a bestselling author and artist, with over sixteen books in print and well over two million books sold, including the national bestsellers Succulent Wild Woman, Bodacious Book of Succulence, Eat Mangoes Naked, Prosperity Pie, and Fabulous Friendship Festival. Her work is widely used by colleges and universities as required reading and course material and she is a distinguished contributor to magazines and periodicals. SARK is one of the featured trailblazers in the critically acclaimed PBS Series Women of Wisdom and Power. An acclaimed speaker and teacher, she has been leading workshops for over twenty years. She is a transformational role model offering inspiration and guidance to people in their process of living more powerfully and

2016 dream musings by moi. Hear what's beckoning me and why, tips on bringing my 2016 dreams to life, and my biggest dream/word for the year.   Featured Guest: Moi   I'm a writer, therapist, and creative entrepreneur who dreams of Paris and global animal welfare. You'll often find me sipping fragrant tea, practicing yoga on a leopard-print mat, or leading retreats around the globe. I live in the petite Pink Palace in Washington, D.C. with a rescue kitty, a rescue pug, and a non-rescued beau. Indulge in "tranquilosophy" via my blog and podcast, Tranquility du Jour.   A smattering of my 2016 dreams Eat more whole foods {upper right corner image}Consume less sugarHost inspiring events: retreats, workshops, online {lower left corner image}Do more live events via Periscope {lower right corner image}Morning meditation and hot water with lemonWrite morning pagesSavor writing retreats with teachers Natalie Goldberg and Heather SellersWrite daily {upper center image}Finish two books monthlyLess screen timeCla

Year in Review musings by me. Hear the final essay of this year's 52 Weeks of Tranquility, reflections on 2015, and my biggest lesson learned this year.     Featured Guest I'm a writer, therapist, designer of the eco-friendly TranquiliT lifestyle line, and founder of Tranquil Space—named among the top 25 yoga studios in the world. I dream of Paris and global animal welfare.   You'll often find me sipping fragrant tea, practicing yoga on a leopard-print mat, or leading retreats around the world. My work has been featured in US News & World Reports, Washingtonian, Fast Company, and Yoga Journal.   I live in the petite Pink Palace in Washington, D.C. with a rescue kitty, a rescue pug, and a non-rescued beau. Indulge in "tranquilosophy" via my blog and podcast, Tranquility du Jour. Savvy Sources Website: 52 Weeks of Tranquility Journal Facebook Twitter New Year, New You Seasonal Podcast Sign up for weekly Love Notes and access Tranquil Treasures Podcast app: Tranquility du Jour iPhone and Android

An interview with Dana Ellyn on Artistic Activism. Hear her transition from suburban wife to full-time artist, advice to aspiring artists, peek into her exhibit Speciesism, and learn the art history-inspired story behind my new pig painting.   Featured Guest Dana Ellyn is a DC resident and full-time painter who lives and paints in her studio in a subsidized artist housing unit in downtown Washington DC. Ellyn committed herself to full-time status in 2002 when she decided to leave her corporate job and pursue painting. Her work is exemplified by a risk-taking vision, strong content, and colorful critiques of social norms. Ellyn's style sits on the fence between social realism and expressionism. Having spent her childhood and college years honing her skills and striving to be technically correct, during the past 12 years she has tasked herself with unlearning those restrictive habits. Ellyn strives to infuse more emotion and meaning in to each new painting she creates. Ellyn's paintings have stories to

An interview with Sara Avant Stover on The Heroine's Journey. Learn the one thing women can do to have the biggest impact on their happiness, how Pippi Longstocking has influenced Sara, and who SHE is. Direct download: Tranquility du Jour #358: The Heroine's Journey Featured Guest Sara Avant Stover is a yoga and meditation teacher, bestselling author & founder of The Way of the Happy Woman®. Sara graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Columbia University’s all-women’s school, Barnard College. After a cancer scare in her early twenties, Sara moved to Thailand, where she lived for ten years and embarked on a decade-long healing and spiritual odyssey throughout Asia. She has since gone on to uplift tens of thousands of women worldwide. A pioneer in contemporary women’s work, she’s the creator of the world’s first Women’s Yoga Teacher Training, Reversing Our “Curse,” and The SHE School. Sara has been featured in Yoga Journal, the Huffington Post, Newsweek, Natural Health, and on ABC, NBC,

An interview with Annie Mahon on Things I Did When I Was Hangry. Learn how to figure out what's eating you, evaluate your activities and habits, and have  a more peaceful relationship with food.     Featured Guest Annie Mahon founded Circle Yoga in 2003 in order to bring mindfulness and yoga to people of all ages. She is the co-founder of DC Yoga Week and Yoga on the National Mall and the Opening Heart Mindfulness Community, and she is active in much of the grassroots community yoga and mindfulness activities in the Washington DC Area. She is also a writer and published her second book, Things I Did When I Was Hangry: Navigating a Peaceful Relationship with Food with Parallax Press in 2015. Read Annie's mindfulness blog at rawmindfulness.com. Annie holds masters degrees in both Computer Science (University of Michigan) and Religious Studies (Howard University). She is also trained in massage therapy. Annie teaches mindfulness in the tradition of her primary teacher Thich Nhat Hanh and yoga in a mixed Anusa

An interview with Elisha Goldstein on Uncovering Happiness. Learn how to release natural antidepressants in the brain and take back control of your mood, your mind, and your life. Featured Guest Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is co-founder of The Center for Mindful Living in West Los Angeles. He is a psychologist, speaker and author who has published numerous articles, chapters, and blogs, including Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, The Now Effect: How This Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life and co-author of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn and MBSR Every Day. He synthesizes the pearls of traditional psychotherapy with a progressive integration of mindfulness to achieve mental and emotional healing. He has his private practice in West Los Angeles, California.   Savvy Sources Website: elishagoldstein.com Twitter: twitter.com/Mindful_Living Facebook: facebook.com/ElishaGoldstein YouTube: youtube.com/user/ElishaGoldsteinPhD

An interview with Leeann Carey on Restorative Yoga Therapy. Learn about her yummy style of restorative yoga, the many benefits of this type of practice, how to get started at home with your own restorative set up.   Featured Guest Leeann Carey is the author of Restorative Yoga Therapy and has a network of Yapana Way mentors throughout the United States and Canada. She is ERYT-5000 certified and has studied with masters including Kofi Busia and Judith Hanson Lasater. She lives in Redondo Beach, California. Visit her online at yapanayoga.com.   Savvy Sources Website: yapanayoga.com Join my complimentary 52 Weeks of Tranquility Program New Year, New You Seasonal Podcast 1/10 Fall Seasonal Podcast mp3 Fall's online book club pick: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert Sign up for weekly Love Notes and access Tranquil Treasures Podcast app: Tranquility du Jour iPhone and Android Upcoming Events Mini Retreat in DC: December 31 2016 Art + Asana in Costa Rica: February 13-20 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reducti

The Good Karma Diet with Victoria Moran. Learn what the good karma diet is, how it impacts our bodies and minds and affects the aging process, and how to eat plant-based even if you live far from Whole Foods.     Featured Guest: Victoria Moran has been a Main Street Vegan® for 31 years and is an obesity survivor, maintaining a 60+-pound weight loss for all this time. She’s the bestselling author of twelve books, including Creating a Charmed Life (in 30 languages around the world) and the plant-based weight loss classic, The Love-Powered Diet, and the iconic Main Street Vegan. Her latest book is The Good Karma Diet: Eat Gently, Feel Amazing, Age in Slow Motion. Her college thesis became Compassion the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism, originally published in 1985 and the first work on vegan philosophy and practice to come from a major publisher. Victoria is also an inspirational speaker, corporate spokesperson, certified holistic health counselor (HHC, AADP), graduate of the T. Colin Campbell Found

Wild Women, Wild Voices with Judy Reeves. Learn how to deal with your critic, write about your shadow side, and tap into your senses with writing. Enjoy this Washington Post article I mention about the turkey feed I went to over the weekend. Featured Guest: Judy Reeves is a writer, teacher, and writing practice provocateur who has written four books on writing. Her work has appeared in magazines, journals, and anthologies and on the spoken word compilation First Friday: Year 3. She has edited several books and chapbooks, including Brown Bag Anthology, a collection of writings from the first five years of her writing practice groups at The Writing Center, a nonprofit literary arts organization, which she cofounded. In addition to leading writing practice groups, which she has done for over seventeen years, Judy holds private workshops, teaches at University of California San Diego Extension; San Diego Writers, Ink; and writing conferences internationally. She is a regular speaker at the Southern California W

Overwhelmed with Brigid Schulte. Learn her secrets to making work, love, and play work, tips to move toward time serenity, and the importance of unplugging.     Featured Guest: Brigid Schulte is the author of the New York Times bestselling book on time pressure, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time. She has spoken all over the world about how to make time for The Good Life by redesigning work cultures to focus on effective work and innovation, by re-imagining gender roles for a fairer division of labor and opportunity at work and home and, instead of seeking status in busyness, by recapturing the value of leisure. She is an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine. She was part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre. She is also a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, Tom Bowman, a reporter for National Public Radio, and their two childr

At Home with Madame Chic with Jennifer Scott. Learn her secrets to a fulfilling life at home, why details matter, and what it truly means to be chic.   Featured Guest: Jennifer Scott Jennifer L. Scott is the New York Times bestselling author of Lessons from Madame Chic, At Home with Madame Chic and Polish Your Poise with Madame Chic (Simon & Schuster) and creator of the blog The Daily Connoisseur. She is a contributing writer for Huffington Post Style and has been featured on CNN, BBC, and CBS News, and in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, USA Today, Newsweek, and The Daily Mail. She lives with her family in Los Angeles, California. Savvy Sources: Website: jenniferlscott.com Facebook: facebook.com/JenniferLScottAuthor Twitter: twitter.com/JL_Scott Instagram: instagram.com/dailyconnoisseur/ YouTube: youtube.com/user/TheDailyConnoisseur Books: jenniferlscott.com/books/ Jennifer's first interview on Tranquility du Jour Join my complimentary 52 Weeks of Tranquility Program Tranquilosophy Fall Seasonal Pod

The Last Pig Part II with Bob Comis. Hear his journey from pig farmer to vegetable grower and the challenges that came with the transition. Learn the truth about "humane" meat and slaughter and what he means when he says "it's about emotions, not logic."   Featured Guest: Bob Comis For the first few decades of his life, Bob Comis was oblivious to the suffering of non-human (and human) animals. Thanks to the courage and bravery of undercover investigators who secretly capture and share footage of the twin horrors of factory farming and industrial slaughter, Bob was roused from his ignorance. He became a vegan, but quickly failed. Then he became a humane pig farmer, and quickly succeeded. He raised pigs for slaughter for ten years, until one day in January, 2014 a powerful vibration of empathy, compassion, and love overwhelmed him, and with the strength of the universal goodness that is our unfettered state of being behind him, he decided to quit pig farming, start a vegetable farm, and become a vegetarian (v

Bonjour. Welcome to the 349th edition of Tranquility du Jour: Filming The Last Pig with Allison Argo. Hear her non-traditional and award-winning filmmaking journey, path to creating The Last Pig film, and touching tales from working on this project.   Featured Guest: Allison Argo’s films have won over 100 awards internationally, including six national Emmys, DuPont Columbia, Genesis, Jackson Hole, NY, Banff, and dozens of awards from New Zealand to Japan. Argo is known for her emotionally-charged and deeply personal films – in particular her intimate portraits of endangered animals. The nearly two dozen award-winning films she’s produced, directed and written have all been broadcast by PBS and/or National Geographic and have reached audiences worldwide. The Last Pig continues Argo’s mission to provide “a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves”– and to deepen understanding and respect for all beings. Savvy Sources: Websites: thelastpig.com and ArgoFilms.com Facebook: facebook.com/thelastpig Twitt

Learn Sheila Pai's definition of a living family and mindful self-care, how mindful communication has enhanced her life, and about the Nurturing You online retreat .   Featured Guest: Sheila Pai is the author of Nurturing You: A Woman's Mindful Self-Care Guide for More Peace, Ease and Joy as well as the founder of A Living Family coaching and community. Sheila is a relationship, parenting, and life coach specializing in Mindful Communication and Mindful Self-Care. Sheila has worked with women, men, couples and teens in workshops, retreats and 1-on-1 coaching as well as Birth Story Listening and Birth Art Process. The real focus and thread through all of her work is helping people cultivate a thriving life by nurturing connection, presence and peace. She believes whole-heartedly that you matter and that small simple efforts make a difference. Sheila lives with her two children and husband outside Philadelphia. Learn more about Sheila, Mindful Communication and Mindful Self-Care at www.SheilaPai.com. Savvy So

Bonjour. Welcome to the 347th edition of Tranquility du Jour: Secrets of Paris with Heather Stimmler-Hall. Hear stories from her journey to French citizenship, travel writing, and creation of Naughty Guides . Featured Guest: Heather Stimmler-Hall Born just outside Philadelphia, Heather grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona where she was Teen Correspondent at the Phoenix Gazette (1992-1993). She studied journalism, political science and environmental policy at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota (1993-1997) and the University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas in Paris (1995-1996), where she moved permanently after graduating in 1997. Travel WritingAfter working as the editorial assistant at the Carleton News Bureau (1993-1997), her first professional position in Paris was as Travel Editor for the website of ELLE Magazine (1999). Freelance since 2001, she has written for many international publications and websites including Fodor’s Guides, Michelin Guides, Robb Report, Expedia.com, easyJet inflight magazine, Time Out

Learn how to get out of a rut, stop holding yourself back, and focus on pleasure and self-compassion.   Featured Guest: Ellen Blaufox, LSW-R is the Founder of true edge workshop. She is an expert in her field with more than 20 years of professional, clinical experience. Ellen is the Clinical Director of the Sally & Anthony Mann Center RTF (formerly known as Linden Hill). S&AM is the largest residential, psychiatric treatment facility for adolescents in New York State. Ms. Blaufox has been an Adjunct Professor for New York University Silver School of Social Work for the last five years where she teaches DROP (Diversity, Racism, Oppression and Privilege). Ms. Blaufox is a well-respected authority on such topics as trauma, racism, white privilege, feminism and self-care. She is a graduate of Skidmore College, NYU Silver School of Social Work, as well as NYSSA Julliard and Circle in the Square Theatre School. Savvy Sources: Website: ellenstrueedgeworkshop.com Upcoming retreat: trueedgeworkshopevents.s

Bonjour. Welcome to the 345th edition of Tranquility du Jour: Meet Mookie with Tim Mooney. Follow along on our recent transition from losing Louis to welcoming our new pug Mookie into the family. Direct download: Tranquility du Jour #345: Meet Mookie   Featured Guests: Moi + Tim Mooney + Mookie   Him: Tim Mooney is a Washington, DC-based attorney and entrepreneur with a passion for technology and the law. Tim’s legal career began in Oregon where he was a co-founder and legal counsel for Columbia Riverkeeper. In 2001, Tim relocated to Washington, DC and served as senior counsel at Alliance for Justice.  Tim currently serves as General Counsel and Director of Operations for Tranquil Space, Hip Tranquil Ventures and TranquiliT. Tim is also the founder of Nineball Media, an independent podcast, website, e-course and social media production project. Most recently, Tim has discovered the joys of bicycle touring and launched Pedalshift, a podcast devoted to bike touring lifestyle. Tim received a B.S. from Syrac

Bonjour. Welcome to the 344th edition of Tranquility du Jour: A Scary Diagnosis with Sarah Evans. Be inspired by her story through breast cancer, the tools that helped her through the process, and how this diagnosis changed how she lives life. Direct download: Tranquility du Jour # 344: A Scary Diagnosis   Featured Guest: Sarah Evans began her yoga journey in 1998. After being an avid Hatha student for a few years, she craved deeper study and became a registered yoga instructor in 2004. Sharing the wisdom of yogic practices expanded her commitment to live a healthy lifestyle. In February 2014, she had just celebrated her son's 4th birthday when she found a lump in her breast. She had no family history, but much to her surprise, a biopsy diagnosed Stage 2 breast cancer. After enduring a life threatening diagnosis, chemotherapy, radiation, and 6 surgeries, Sarah is forever changed. She found strength in unrelenting love from her incredible husband, 2 kids, family, friends, and amazing local yoga community.

Bonjour. Welcome to the 343rd edition of Tranquility du Jour with Laura Vanderkam. Be inspired by her latest work, I Know How She Does It, and learn how to take charge of your time, make life easier, and nurture yourself in the process.   Featured Guest:       Laura Vanderkam is the author of I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time, and other time management books including 168 Hours, and What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and four children, and blogs at LauraVanderkam.com. Savvy Sources: Websites: LauraVanderkam.com Facebook: facebook.com/lauravanderkamauthor Twitter: twitter.com/lvanderkam Join my complimentary 52 Weeks of Tranquility Program Seasonal online book club: I Know How She Does It by Laura Vanderkam Tranquilosophy Seasonal Podcast: Monday, September 21 at 3pm ET Podcast app: Tranquility du Jour iPhone and Android Stay Connected: New? Peruse my FAQs. Join moi for a retreat, workshop, e-course,