Active Pause ®

Gregory Kramer and I set about to embody the attitude of not knowing as we stay present with what happens moment by moment.

This approach blends moments of meditation and moments of sharing our experiences of meditating.

I want to find a down-to-earth experience that helps me relate to non-duality.

Koshin Paley Ellison and Serge Prengel talk about connecting with others as a healing spiritual practice.

I invited my friend and colleague Leslie Ellis tohave a conversation about Active Imagination in therapy and in life.

Peter Levine talks with Serge Prengel about his personal journey through trauma and how he came to develop Somatic Experiencing.

What does it mean to pay attention to our body? A lot opens up when we bring our awareness to the silent, invisible parts.

Pablo Márquez talks about his meditative approach to photography. He describes how his art emerges from his being present.

Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer are the authors of: Reflective Meditation: Cultivating Kindness and Curiosity in the Buddha’s Company.

In conversation with Raja Selvam, we explore the practice of developing the capacity for emotions by making more room for them in the body.

Seth Zuihō Segall talks about his journey, making sense of life through the practice of psychology, Buddhism, and philosophy. We talk about values, and the value of pluralism in a divided world.

Maia Szalavitz blends personal experience and years of investigative research into an inspiring perspective on addiction.

We do our best to avoid anxiety, and in so doing, risk missing out on the best of the depth and mystery of existence. We also risk compounding the very anxiety we hoped to avoid and becoming destructive as a result.

How does the Polyvagal Theory affect our understanding of mindfulness? Blake O'Connor, Education Director of the Polyvagal Institute, interviews Serge Prengel.

In this conversation, we talk about freeing meditation from the pressures of what we believe it should be and welcoming every aspect of our inner experience. Dr. Elizabeth English began meditating as a student in 1983. Three decades later, she was appointed as Cambridge University’s first ever Mindfulness Practitioner. Her courses are the subject of research published in The […]

Antonio Damasio described Nora Arikha as “a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist.” Our conversation is informed by psychology and neuroscience. It is grounded in the firm intention to pay attention to the embodied quality of our experience and the context in which it emerges. Noga Arikha is a philosopher and […]

Lawrence Berger and Serge Prengel discuss how we make sense of the world and our place in it, i.e. what is usually called philosophy or spirituality. We approach this from somewhat different perspectives:– One emphasizes a connection with a sense of something greater than ourselves in which we can find meaning and purpose (“there’s nothing […]

We explore a concept that is very important to Bruce Gibbs, finding the right distance from our experience. We talk about how the right distance varies with the context, for instance how it is different in meditation and in Focusing. And we talk about what finding that distance entails. Bruce Gibbs, Ph.D., has explored consciousness, […]

The following conversation with Ken Benau serves as an introduction to shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with adult survivors of relational trauma, the theme of his book, Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy. Ken Benau, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in clinical psychology with a subspecialty in adult psychotherapy at Georgia State University in Atlanta, […]

In this conversation, our intention is to share with you what we like about the notion of “inquiry,” and to do so by giving you a flavor of what we mean by it. Dr. Marjorie Schuman is a clinical psychologist who teaches, writes about, and practices mindful psychodynamic psychotherapy. Serge Prengel is the editor of […]