Podcasts about Innerspace

Have you been feeling a little out of balance lately?In this special episode of Take a Breath, I'm sharing one of the guided breathwork sessions from my REWIRE programme—a course designed to help you gently retrain your nervous system and create a calmer, steadier baseline.Before we begin, I'll walk you through the structure of the session so you know exactly what to expect. Then, when you're ready, I invite you to find a quiet space, get comfortable, and press play.This 20-minute practice is designed to help you:• Release mental and physical tension• Regulate your nervous system• Create a greater sense of balance and steadiness• Reconnect with yourself and the present moment• Move from overwhelm towards calm clarityPlease don't listen while driving. Give yourself these 20 minutes as a gift—an opportunity to pause, breathe, and return to yourself.If you enjoy this session and would like more support, The REWIRE offers a deeper journey into nervous system regulation through breathwork, awareness, and simple body-based practices designed to help you feel calmer, clearer, and more resilient in everyday life.Take a breath, settle in, and enjoy the session.Download 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

It's a packed line-up of directors this week on The Interviews, folks. Directorpalooza? First up, we bring you an extended excerpt from our spoiler special interview with The Mandalorian And Grogu, Jon Favreau, who tells Chris Hewitt about his intentions behind the first big-screen Star Wars film in seven years. Then Chris leaps onto Zoom to have a lovely natter with the great Joe Dante about his beloved (eventually) 1987 sci-fi comedy, InnerSpace, which is out now on 4K UHD, and English director Mike Figgis about his hard-hitting, Oscar-winning drama, Leaving Las Vegas, which has also received the 4K UHD treatment. The Figgis chat is an extended excerpt from an hour-long deep dive into the movie which, like the Favreau interview and Team Empire diving deep into The Mandalorian And Grogu, can be found over on our spoiler special feed. empirespoilerspecials.com, if you haven't already taken the plunge. Enjoy!

Mike is an author, journalist, and Adjunct Professor of English at City Tech (CUNY).  This podcast will focus on his new book: The Innerspace of Outerspace--Exploring Other Worlds Through Music.  His other works include:  UFO Symphonic-Journeys Into Sound (2025 Finalist in the Miscellaneous category for the 2025 Indie Excellence Awards); For All We Know (2025 Eric Hoffer Category Finalist Award); Mescalito Riding His White Horse (2024 Independent Press Distinguished Favorite Award in Spirituality); Falling From Trees (2022 Independent Press Distinguished Favorite Award in Short Stories). To reach out and connect with Mike in this space time dimension, please see:  https://mikefiorito.com/ This podcast is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here:  https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-345-mike-fiorito-the-innerspace-of-outerspace-exploring-other-worlds-through-music Have a blessed weekend!

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about three little words…mind, mouth, and mood.Ultimately, those three things - our thoughts, our words, and our emotions - are the building blocks of our reality. But most of us spend our lives trying to change what's going on in the outside world, instead of prioritising our inner world. And the outer world is simply a reflection of our inner world. So…master your mind (the stories you're telling yourself, the thoughts you repeat etc); master your mouth (are you constantly moaning and complaining?); and master your mood (by becoming aware of how you feel and learning how to gently shift into a better feeling state.) We really hope you'll find something useful in here.Love,Polly & Lucy xDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

We are delighted to host Marieke McKenna on this episode of the Mangu.tv podcast. Marieke McKenna (London, 1994) is a Scottish-Dutch philosopher, historian, artistic researcher, and performance artist. Her work explores metaphysics, phenomenology, consciousness studies, spirituality, ecology, and philosophies of nature through interdisciplinary research and embodied practice. She is an expert on cross-cultural perspectives on dreaming and other altered states of consciousness.For the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, she led the research project History of Lucid Dreaming Research, the first oral-historical examination of the emergence of lucid dreaming as an object of scientific inquiry. In collaboration with the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, the project combined oral history, philosophy, and cross-cultural anthropological research into how different cultures and traditions understand dreaming, with hands-on experience in neuroscience sleep laboratories conducting EEG and fMRI research on the dreaming brain.Outside academia, Marieke, who is based in The Netherlands, is an award-winning artist and curator, with performances and lectures at institutions including the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum. She is the host of her own national radio show on NPO Radio 2, for which she selects music from across the globe, and has taught at various universities, conservatoires, and institutes, including Advaya and the Embassy of the Free Mind.Giancarlo and Marieke discuss idealism, interconnectedness, and how dreamwork nurtures healing and belonging. They speak about lucid dreaming in therapy, indigenous perspectives, and technology's encroachment into “inner space,” debating AI, advertising in dreams, collective consciousness, telepathy, quantum theory, and the mind's creative potential.

You breathe more than 20,000 times a day.But if your breathing is shallow, fast, noisy, or stuck high in your chest, your nervous system may be receiving a constant signal that you're not safe yet.Which means your body can stay stuck in stress mode even when you're desperately trying to relax.And over time, that can look like:

Cam Cooksey shows up with the question every kid secretly wants to ask. Is space real? And if it is, what even is it? Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast pulls out a scale-of-the-universe chart and walks Cam from the size of a sunflower out to Andromeda, then all the way down to quarks and quantum strings. The takeaway: you are connected to all of it, top to bottom. From there the conversation gets philosophical in the best way. Kwast lays out the decision-making framework he teaches future leaders. Start with an opinion, hold it with humility, then test it against the facts. His own starting opinion is that there is one God who made an infinite universe so we could love, explore, and grow. They tackle time travel (probably possible, probably unwise), the early 90s vertical takeoff rocket technology that will let you fly New York to Singapore in 37 minutes, and the deep state lie that the planet is too full. The closer, from Cam, is the line of the episode. Before you try to figure out outer space, focus on inner space first.

This week on Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about complaining.We all love a good vent now and again, and sometimes it's healthy to let those emotions out. But when we stay stuck there, replaying the same thoughts over and over, it can keep us trapped in a really low-energy state.In this episode, we share our thoughts on the difference between releasing emotions and ruminating, plus some simple ways we try to catch ourselves before getting pulled into the cycle of constant complaining.Because sometimes the most powerful shift is asking: “Do I want to stay here… or do I want to move forward?”We hope you find something useful in here.Love, Polly & Lucy xDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

In this episode, I'm sharing a big realisation I've had recently, one that feels like a real full-circle moment for me. Nearly 10 years ago, I left my teaching career feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, anxious and completely disconnected from myself… although at the time, I had no idea that perimenopause was playing such a huge role in how I was feeling. Looking back now, I can see that this was the beginning of a much deeper journey into understanding stress, the nervous system and what my body was really trying to tell me.Over the years, I immersed myself in learning - from coaching to breathwork and nervous system regulation - while also supporting hunderes of other women navigating midlife. And the one thing I kept seeing over and over again was that so many women weren't simply struggling with hormones alone… they were living with chronically overwhelmed nervous systems.In this episode, I explore why perimenopause can suddenly make life feel harder to cope with, why so many women feel like they've “lost themselves”, and how hormonal changes can make the nervous system far more sensitive to stress. I also share why learning to regulate my nervous system changed everything for me, and why I now believe this is one of the missing pieces in the perimenopause conversation. In this episode, I share: How hormonal changes affect the nervous system and our ability to cope with stress  Why anxiety, overwhelm, irritability and exhaustion often intensify during midlife  The connection between chronic stress, survival mode and feeling “not like yourself anymore”  How breathwork and nervous system regulation helped me feel calmer, steadier and more like myself againDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about something every single one of us experiences at some point…self-doubt.We discuss why it's so common and why it stops us speaking up, going for things, or trusting ourselves fully.We also share some of the things that have genuinely helped us quiet our inner critic and build more self-trust over time.Because life is far too short to spend it constantly second-guessing yourself, shrinking yourself, or waiting until you feel “ready.”We hope you find something useful in here.Love Polly & Lucy xDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

Arrow UK's Neil Snowdon walks hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through five movies he's proud to have released via Arrow, and five he wishes he could release. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode The Warriors (1979) Innerspace (1987) Excalibur (1981) The Emerald Forest (1985) Deliverance (1972) Hope and Glory (1987) Where the Heart Is (1990) Zardoz (1974) The Devils (1971) First Knight (1995) The Exorcist (1973) Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) Boorman and the Devil (2026) The Shootist (1976) The Cowboys (1972) Dirty Harry (1971) Taxi Driver (1976) True Grit (1976) Targets (1968) Sleep (2020) Suspiria (2018) Suspiria (1977) Ms. 45 (1981) Irreversible (2002) The Boy Friend (1971) Women in Love (1969) Altered States (1981) The Music Lovers (1970) Lisztomania (1975) Tommy (1975) Trapped Ashes (2008) Gothic (1986) The Lair of the White Worm (1988) Crimes of Passion (1984) Whore (1991) Salome's Last Dance (1988) Robin and Marian (1976) Unforgiven (1992) Nuits Rogues (1974) Judex (1963) Eyes Without a Face (1960) Petulia (1968) Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979) Cuba (1979) Citizen Kane (1941) The Three Musketeers (1973) The Four Musketeers (1974) Fantomas (1913-14) Les Vampires (1915) The Hunger (1983) Unstoppable (2010) True Romance (1994) Domino (2005) Deja Vu (2006) The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) Loving Memory (1970) Performance (1970) Little Big Man (1970) Top Gun (1986) The Last Boy Scout (1991) Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) Isle of the Dead (1945) Cat People (1943) The Body Snatcher (1945) Bedlam (1946) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) The Seventh Victim (1943) Marlowe (1969) The Long Goodbye (1973) Other Notable Items Our Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition Arrow Video UK Harlan Ellison  John Boorman Powers Boothe Dabney Coleman Neil Jordan Walt Disney Pictures 20th Century Studios Warner Bros. Paramount Pictures Warner Bros. Clockwork The Cannes Film Festival Ken Russell The Parade's Gone By… book by Kevin Brownlow (1976) Mike Hodges Anthony Pratt Boris Karloff King Arthur Robin Hood The Once and Future King novel by T.H. White (1958) Arthur Rex novel by Anthony Burgess (1978) David Kittredge Our William Friedkin podcast episode William A. Fraker BJ and Harmony Colangelo Lee Gambin Jim Hemphill Glenn Kenny Don Siegel John Wayne Robert Mitchum John Carradine Letterboxd TFH Guru Jonathan Kaplan Dino De Laurentiis Sam Peckinpah Pauline Kael Howard Hawks John Ford Ron Howard Howard S. Berger Sandra Hüller  Michael Venus Walter Hill Ms. 45 (Cultographies) by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (2017) Abel Ferrara Richard Howorth Zoë Lund Gaspar Noé The Warner Archive Collection Richard Lester Robert Shaw Nicol Williamson Richard Harris Sean Connery Audrey Hepburn Georges Franju  BFI The Criterion Collection Jacques Champreux Louis Feuillade Tony Scott Denzel Washington Christopher Walken Dennis Hopper Nicholas Roeg “Bela Lugosi's Dead” song by Bauhaus (1979) Dick Smith Carl Fullerton Griffith Park in Los Angeles Val Lewton Henry Daniell Bela Lugosi Columbia Pictures The Body Snatcher short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (1884) James Garner Bruce Lee The Rockford Files TV series (1974-80) Mike Mignola Tony Stella SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We're a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Take a Breath, I'm joined by my lovely friend Carly for a deeply honest conversation about her journey through breast cancer and everything that came with it.  Nearly three years ago, Carly was diagnosed with breast cancer and advised to undergo a mastectomy and radiotherapy. Instead, she chose a very different path,  one that focused on radically changing her lifestyle.And of course, it wasn't easy.We talk openly about the reality of what that looked like day-to-day, cutting out sugar, preparing everything from scratch, trying to reduce toxins, learning to slow down, and turning inward through meditation.During this time, Carly also lost her mum to cancer, while continuing to navigate her own diagnosis and the fear and uncertainty that came with it. At one stage, the cancer spread, yet Carly continued to trust the path she was on and doubled down on caring for her body and mind in a completely different way.Now, two years later, after recent scans, doctors could find no trace of cancer.This episode is not about telling anyone what they should or shouldn't do medically, and Carly's experience is uniquely her own. But it is a powerful conversation about trust, intuition, resilience, lifestyle, emotional wellbeing, and the incredible connection between mind and body.We talk about:Carly's diagnosis and the emotions that followedWhy she chose a different routeThe intense lifestyle changes she madeStress, grief, and the nervous systemMeditation and emotional healingLearning to trust herselfWhat this experience taught her about lifeIt's a raw, moving, hopeful conversation and one I know so many of you will take something meaningful from.Download 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

On this week's Thursday's Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about the small, unglamorous steps that we take when nobody's watching, that ultimately get us to where we want to go.For example, I talks about the tiny, seemingly insignificant physio exercises I'm doing every day to help heal from my knee operation - it would be easy to feel like they weren't doing anything, but I'm trusting the process, showing up every day, knowing that they will pay off eventually.So if there's something you'd like to do, remember that it's those baby steps you take that nobody else sees that are actually having the biggest impact of all.We hope you'll find something useful in here.Love,Polly & Lucy xDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

You know the phrases… “You can't pour from an empty cup.” “Put your oxygen mask on first.”But here's the real question…Are you actually doing it?Or are you still giving your time, energy, and attention to everyone else… and hoping you'll get a moment for yourself somewhere down the line?In this episode, I'm sharing a very honest reflection, one that's come from being forced to slow down after surgery, and what it's helped me realise about what I thought was self-care… versus what actually supports your nervous system.✨ In this episode, I also explore: Why knowing you should prioritise yourself isn't the same as actually doing it  The hidden ways you might be “pushing” under the guise of self-care  What your nervous system really needs to feel calm and supported  Why one-off self-care (like holidays or occasional treats) isn't enough  The power of small, consistent moments to reset and reconnect  A simple 3-step approach to start showing up for yourself dailyTo claim your FREE month's membership for The Inner Space (offer ends at end of May 2026) email INNER SPACE to info@pollywarren.com Download 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

On today's Thursday's Thoughts, Lucy and I are exploring the idea that ‘it's all an inside job.'Your inner world shapes how you experience everything around you, and your outer world becomes a reflection of what's happening within. When you start to notice your thoughts, and how you're really feeling, something shifts. You respond to life differently with more awareness and often more calm and compassion.In this episode, we share some of the simple tools that have helped us navigate our own inner worlds.We hope you find something useful in here.Love Polly & Lucy xxDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

Mike Fiorito returns to the show and Joshua Cutchin and Seriah speak with him about his latest book, The Innerspace of Outerspace, a book that deals with Music, Altered States, Channeling Music, and much more. This conversation is also continued in a Pateron segment...Become a Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/SeriahAzkath for extra content, commercial free shows, early access, and bonus content as well! All this for only $3 a month! Outro Music is Morpheus V2.1 by Psyche Corporation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, I open up about how I've been navigating the emotional ups and downs of recovery after knee surgery.I share a recent wobble I experienced, and why learning to feel your emotions, rather than push them away, is such an important part of moving through difficult moments. It's not about getting stuck in how you feel, but allowing those emotions to move through you with awareness and compassion.I also talk about the power of a good cry (something we often underestimate), and the simple, supportive ways we can gently shift heavy or stuck energy when it shows up.If you've been telling yourself you're “fine” when you're really not, I hope my  reflections remind you there's another way.Download 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about not living in the past.We all spend time thinking about the past — whether it's reminiscing about a lovely memory, cringing about something we said or did 5 years ago, or thinking about a relationship we're struggling to move on from. The question we want to ask is: how much time am I actually spending in the past?The truth is that what's done is done, and while we can learn lessons from the past, staying stuck on something that happened 3 weeks or 10 years ago probably isn't serving you. So...if you find yourself spending a little too much time ruminating over that time you made a tit of yourself at last year's Christmas party, it might be time to let that go; and instead, start thinking more about the present moment, and your exciting future.We hope you'll find something useful in here.Love,Polly & Lucy xDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

Mrparka's Weekly Reviews and Update Week 467 (04.25.2026) (Innerspace 4K, The Ugly)www.youtube.com/mrparkahttps://www.instagram.com/mrparka/https://twitter.com/mrparka00https://www.facebook.com/mrparkahttps://letterboxd.com/mrparka/https://www.patreon.com/mrparkahttps://open.spotify.com/show/2oJbmHxOPfYIl92x5g6ogKhttps://anchor.fm/mrparkahttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mrparkas-weekly-reviews-and-update-the-secret-top-10/id1615278571Time Stamps 0:00“Innerspace” 4K Review - 0:34“The Ugly” Blu-Ray Review - 8:35“Dancing Hawk” Blu-Ray Review - 15:07“Saurians” Blu-Ray - 20:22“The 10th Victim” Blu-Ray Review - 25:381983 “The Prize of Peril” Review - 31:181983 “The Beautiful Prisoner” Blu-Ray Review - 39:451983 “Alligator Queen” Review - 42:35Patreon Pick “Cut Shoot Kill” Review - 45:17Questions/Answers/ Comments- 48:03Update - 53:0622 Shots of Moodz and Horror – https://www.22shotsofmoodzandhorror.com/Podcast Under the Stairs – https://tputscast.com/podcastVideo Version – https://youtu.be/vYnI1zUtv4ILinks Arrow Video - https://www.arrowfilms.com/Innerspace 4K - https://mvdshop.com/products/innerspace-limited-edition-4k-ultra-hdUnearthed Films - https://www.unearthedfilms.com/The Ugly Blu-Ray - https://mvdshop.com/products/the-ugly-limited-collectors-edition-blu-rayVisual Vengeance - https://www.facebook.com/visualvenvideo/Saurians Blu-Ray - https://mvdshop.com/products/saurians-visual-vengeance-collectors-edition-blu-ray10th Victim Blu-Ray - https://kinolorber.com/product/the-10th-victim-the-tenth-victimThe Prize of Peril IMDb - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084540/The Beautiful Prisoner Blu-Ray - https://www.amazon.com/La-Belle-Captive-Blu-ray/dp/B00PSH22T2Alligator Queen IMDb - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19892684/Cut Shoot Kill Justwatch - https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/cut-shoot-killUpdate Blu-Ray Gutter Auteur - The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan, Degenerates, Compass Rose, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, House of Seven BellesFeeding Frenzy (Night of the Sharks, Monster Shark, Shark Hunter) Antonio Margheriti The Jungles of Doom His 80s Adventure Films (Hunters of the Golden Cobra, Ark of the Sun God, Jungle Raiders) 4KThe Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection 3 - Beat Girl / The Hands of Orlac / The Virgin of Nuremberg BD & 4K / Arabian Adventure / A Feast at Midnight / The Life and Deaths of Christopher LeeDeathcember Visible Secret The Basement Horror Anthology Death by Dialogue Some Guy That Kills PeopleChocolate, Strawberry, Vanilla Matango DVDCocaine Stepdad Frankhooker 4KUncommon Valor 4KFilm Notes Innerspace 1987 Directed by Joe DanteThe Ugly 1997 Directed by Scott ReynoldsThe Dancing Hawk 1978 Directed by Grzegorz KrólikiewiczSaurians 1994 Directed by Mark PoloniaThe 10th Victim 1965 Directed by Elio PetriThe Prize of Peril 1983 Directed by Yves BoissetThe Beautiful Prisoner 1983 Directed by Alain Robbe-GrilletAlligator Queen 1983 Directed by M Sharieffudin ACut Shoot Kill 2017 Directed by Michael Walker

Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world's best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss:NEWS - CRITERION COLLECTION: Hud | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | The Crying Game | Cruel Story of Youth | The Elephant Man 4K | Mike Mills Collection (Beginners | 20th Century Women | C'mon C'mon)ARROW VIDEO: InnerSpace 4K IMPRINT FILMS: Collaborations (Gong Li / Zhang Yimou Box Set) | The Keep (with documentary) | The Ninth Gate (box set inclusion)VINEGAR SYNDROME: Limbo (Brainstorm sub-label) | D.A.R.Y.L. Special EditionUMBRELLA ENTERTAINMENT: The Dirties Special Edition | Harlequin | SnapshotMADMAN: No Other Choice 4KNEON: No Other Choice 4K (deluxe edition with book)LIGHTYEAR ENTERTAINMENT: Goldstone 4K (upcoming)Support: JOIN THE ONE HEAT MINUTE PATREON FOR AS LITTLE AS $1 A MONTHFollow Drew:Twitter: @drewtailoredInstagram: @drewtailoredPodcast: Light the FuseOne Heat Minute ProductionsWEBSITE: oneheatminute.comTWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute & @OHMPodsMERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/en-au/stores/one-heat-minute-productionsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On today's Thursday's Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about brainwashing ourselves with beliefs that are actually going to serve us.Whether we know it or not, our lives are quietly being run by the subconscious beliefs that we hold - some of which are helping us, many of which are not.The good news is that we can choose to change our beliefs anytime we like; so if you believe that “life goes downhill once you hit 50”, or “being single makes me a loser”, you aren't stuck with those limiting beliefs forever. It's simply a matter of choosing a different, more empowering belief, and reinforcing that new one in the same way you reinforce the negative ones.Ultimately, a belief is just a thought you think over and over and over again - so…it's time to start paying attention to the stories on repeat in your monkey mind.We sincerely hope that you'll find something useful in here.Love,Polly & Lucy xDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

Author and musician Mike Fiorito visits and talks about how music is a key to humanity's relationship with the Universe and each other.

Hello, Beautiful...I'm so grateful you're here with me. Step inward with Guided Meditation to Enter Your Sacred Inner Space, a deeply calming meditation from the Healing Meditation Podcast designed to help you access your inner sanctuary. ✨ This spiritual meditation supports emotional healing, mindfulness, clarity, and deep inner peace. Love,

Raushanah Williams is back with me to celebrate another great 80s movie, Innerspace.  We share some fun trivia facts about this fun, Comedy/Sci-fi hybrid in our discussion.  Please visit jasondavisvoice.com/podcast for information about how to support the podcast with a donation or by buying Screen Facts merchandise.  We have a couple of stores from which to choose and some new designs.  Thanks!

This week on The Video Store Podcast, I am recommending four movies built around one of the simplest and most reliable science fiction ideas there is, shrinking people down. It is a strong trope because every one of these films understands that once a character gets small, nothing has to be exotic to feel dangerous. A bloodstream can look like deep space. A shopping cart can feel absurd and threatening at the same time. A backyard can turn into a full scale survival story. The fun of these movies is not just the effect itself, it is the way each one finds its own tone inside the same basic setup.Fantastic Voyage starts this set in an old-style studio style. Richard Fleischer directed it, Raquel Welch was still early in her career, and the movie ended up winning Academy Awards for art direction and special effects. Isaac Asimov wrote the novelization, which helped give the film an added layer of science fiction prestige even though the movie was not adapted from one of his earlier books. It is still one of those sixties films where the production design does a lot of the selling. You are watching people turn the inside of a human body into a full cinematic world, and they do it with real confidence.The Incredible Shrinking Woman takes the same basic concept and pushes it toward satire. Lily Tomlin is the main reason to see it, and she is surrounded by exactly the kind of bright, slightly unreal suburban world that makes the jokes work. Jane Wagner wrote it, Joel Schumacher directed it, and the movie has a cast that includes Charles Grodin and Ned Beatty. There is also a nice eighties detail in the score, since Suzanne Ciani handled the music, which gives the film one more thing separating it from the older version of this idea. It is not the most famous title in this group, but it feels very specific to its moment, especially in the way it folds consumer culture and household products into the premise.Innerspace may be the easiest recommendation here because it is so good at being funny, fast, and a little chaotic without losing track of the effects work. Joe Dante directed it, Dennis Quaid and Martin Short make a very good mismatch at the center, and the movie won the Academy Award for visual effects. This is one of those late eighties studio movies where the effects are both impressive and funny. It also has that Dante who has a habit of making a mainstream movie feel just a little off center. You can sense the touch of Industrial Light and Magic in the technical side, but it never turns into a dry demonstration reel.Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a joy to watch. Joe Johnston made his live action directing debut with it, Rick Moranis is exactly right for the inventor at the center, and Disney turned a backyard into a full adventure landscape. It was a major hit, and for a while it stood as Disney's highest grossing live action film. Part of what makes it hold up is that so much of it was built around practical effects, oversized sets, models, puppetry, and carefully staged perspective tricks. It also had Tummy Trouble attached in theaters, so for a lot of people there was a Roger Rabbit bonus built into the experience. That is a pretty good rental memory to have.What I like about putting these four recommendations is that they show how flexible a shrinking movie can be. One plays it as a polished sixties science fiction trip. One turns it into satire. One uses it for special effects comedy with a little manic energy. One makes it into a family adventure that a lot of people probably first met on cable or VHS. Same basic hook, very different results. That is usually a good sign you have a real movie trope and not just a gimmick.Thanks for reading Video Store Podcast! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.videostorepodcast.com

Mike Fiorito arrives at the Virtual Alexandria to discuss his new book, The Innerspace of Outerspace: Exploring Other Worlds Through Music. Let's explore the liminal realm where music acts as a vital portal to unseen dimensions and a map for the inner space of the human mind. We delve into the "tone science" of Sun Ra, whose cosmic jazz arrived like a signal from another universe, challenging conventional reality and offering a path to a more liberated alter-destiny. The journey continues through the ambient dreamscapes of Brian Eno and the progressive rock visions of Jon Anderson, exploring how these giants were inspired by non-human intelligences and realities beyond the material world. Alongside the insights of musical pioneers like Syd Barrett and Steven Halpern, we discover how sound serves as a universal language and a bridge to a sacred understanding of oneness with all of creation. Get the book: https://amzn.to/4cacOxQ More on Mike: https://mikefiorito.com/ Get The Occult Elvis: https://amzn.to/4jnTjE4 Virtual Alexandria Academy: https://thegodabovegod.com/virtual-alexandria-academy/ Gnostic Tarot Readings: https://thegodabovegod.com/gnostic-tarot-reading/ The Gnostic Tarot: https://www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/synkrasis Homepage: https://thegodabovegod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aeonbyte AB Prime: https://thegodabovegod.com/members/subscription-levels/ Voice Over services: https://thegodabovegod.com/voice-talent/ Support with donation: https://buy.stripe.com/00g16Q8RK8D93mw288 Merch store: https://aeonbyte.creator-spring.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Send us a text or a voicemailA young woman is abducted by a monstrous figure intent on raising her on a diet of only string cheese and cigarettes. On Episode 715 of Trick or Treat Radio our feature film discussion is Dolly from director Rod Blackhurst! We also talk about some of the most memorable and infamous Mondo films, learn the dietary habits of our resident “health nut”, and we react to trailers for the films; Alpha from director Julia Ducournau, and Buffet Infinity from director Simon Glassman. So grab your entire doll (or action figures if that makes you feel better) collection, bring it into the woods to make creepy scenes, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Jenna Ortega, Beetlejuice, Hereditary, actors who get passed over for roles, Ari Aster, sparking up an intelligent conversation, Christian Cage, turtleneck to mock turtleneck, Milly Shapiro, The Boys, Gen V, Daredevil, Talk is Jericho, Kuarantine, Rascals, PJ Farley, Chris Jericho, Square One Mall, having cops break up your pool party, The Brainiac, Hammer Horror, The Curse of the Crying Woman, The Mephisto Waltz, Family Plot, Tremors 2, The Backlot Murders, The Man With the Screaming Brain, SyFy, Bruce Campbell, Bubba Hotep, Shaun of the Dead, Elle Fanning, Predator: Badlands, Kristen Stewart, Crimes of the Future, Love Lies Bleeding, Jenna Jameson, Zombie Strippers, The X-Files, Supernatural, Fred Dekker, The Monster Squad, Night of the Creeps, Innerspace, The Substance, Dennis Quaid, Ed Wood, Glen or Glenda, Bela Lugosi, Dracula, Faces of Death, real atrocities, steakandcheeseDOTcom, Savage Man Savage Beast, mauled to death by lions and bears, Roar!, Shocking Asia, Traces of Death, Mondo Cane, The Killing of America, Riz Ortolani, Nekromantik, Strange Days, Ralph Fiennes, The House of Frankenstein, Kurando Mitsutake, Krull, Ice Pirates, Julia Ducournau, Alpha, Nick Cave, “what's that static movie?” Simon Glassman, SCTV, Buffet Infinity, Neon Films, Yellow Veil Pictures, how great is the breakfast buffet, string cheese for breakfast, food shaped like cigarettes, Dolly, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Max the Impaler, Sean William Scott, Rod Blackhurst, Fabianne Therese, Ethan Suplee, Brute 1976, wrestlers playing masked killers, Becky, Day of the Dead, Deranged, William Friedkin, Sorcerer, How to Kill Monsters, Unsolved Mysteries vs. In Search Of, Robert Stack, Leonard Nimoy, Transformers: The Movie, RIP Tigger, The Untrustable Uncrustable, Circumvent Yourself, Oil Your Mohel, and a little tinkle with the ivories.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: Support the show

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about trusting the process. I talk about my recent knee operation and how trusting the process has been has been and will be such an important part of my recovery.We explore how having faith, and choosing to believe that things are working out for you, even when it doesn't feel like it, can really help to keep positive. Because let's be honest… it's easy to trust when life's flowing. It's a very different story when things feel slow, uncertain, or a bit wobbly.We hope you find something useful in here.Love Polly & Lucy xxDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

Our podcast The Movies That Made Me returns from our post-Oscar hiatus with a brand-new guest! Visual effects supervisor and artist Todd Sheridan Perry breaks down the top 10 visual effects shots that made him with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Infested (2002) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Star Wars (1977) Tron (1982) The Abyss (1989) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909) The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) Dead Alive (1992) Foreign Correspondent (1940) Number 17 (1932) Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) Flesh Gordon (1974) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) Jack The Giant Killer (1962) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 1941 (1979) Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Piranha (1978) Caveman (1981) Battle Beyond The Stars (1980) The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981) Independence Day (1996) Seconds (1966) Superman (1978) Innerspace (1987) The Gate (1987) Bad Taste (1987) Meet The Feebles (1989) Forgotten Silver (1995) The One and Only Ivan (2020) The Call of the Wild (2020) F1 (2025) Tron: Ares (2025) Heat (1995) Other Notable Items Our Patreon!  The Hollywood  Food Coalition Robert Wise TFH Guru Roger Corman For All Mankind TV series (2019) Star City TV series (2026- ) I'm A Virgo TV series (2023) Boots Riley John Dykstra J. Stuart Blackton  Georges Melies James Whale F.W. Murnau  Peter Jackson Alfred Hitchcock The Dick Cavett Show TV series (1968-88) Ray Harryhausen  David Allen Jim Danforth TFH Guru Rick Baker Charles Band Gregory Jein John Carpenter Doug Beswick Jim Aupperle Bill Hedge Laine Liska Star Trek franchise Battlestar Galactica TV series (1978-79) Dennis Muren Joe Viskocil Douglas Trumbell Robert Abel Mat Beck Jerry Goldsmith John Frankenheimer Christopher Reeve Margot Kidder Weta Workshop Randall William Cook Halo TV series (2022-24) Mickey Rooney Judy Garland Richard Taylor James Cameron MPC VFX Bryan Cranston Darryl Zanuck Harry Cohn  Jack Warner Los Angeles International Airport Robert De Niro Michael Mann SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We're a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1980, Ozzy Osbourne sang about "…going off the rails on a crazy train." We all know what he was talking about, don't we? Certainly, the world around us often feels crazy, but sometimes we struggle with mental health issues, too.   In this important 7-part series, Roy Biancalana, our host, talks about "The 7 Pillars of Mental Health," and how they can allow us to "live above the fray," and stay off the "crazy train."   In part three of the series, we're challenged to manage our inner space. Just as you wouldn't let some stranger come into your home and dump their trash all over your living room, so we need to keep people from coming into our "homes"—our inner space—and wreak havoc. We need to learn how to stand guard yet remain open.   In this episode, you'll learn: ·      The two-letter word that is the key to mental health; ·      The importance of setting and enforcing boundaries; ·      The role of EQ (emotional intelligence) in mental health; ·      How to "stand guard," yet remain open; ·      And much, much more!   Additional Resources Roy may have mentioned on the show:   Roy's Website: https://coachingwithroy.com   Roy's Relationship Fitness Self-Assessment Test: https://coachingwithroy.com/the-relationship-fitness-self-test/   Roy's 4 Books: ·      Quantum Questions: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4RFZBS3/ ·      Relationship Bootcamp: https://amzn.to/360UsMR ·      Attracting Lasting Love: http://amzn.to/1UnYeYh ·      A Drink with Legs: https://amzn.to/31UBl3K     Roy's Group Coaching Program: https://coachingwithroy.com/group-coaching/   Roy's Complimentary 45-min. Coaching Session: To set up an appointment, email him at roy@coachingwithroy.com or call his cell 407-687-3387.   The Attracting Lasting Love podcast explores the dynamics of mature and adult dating, delving into the issues of emotional intelligence, the law of attraction, and the quest for a life partner or soulmate, while offering conscious insights and mindful advice on navigating modern relationships.

Send us Fan MailWhen two co-hosts and their insufferable producer become stranded on a deserted island as the only survivors of a plane crash, they must overcome past grievances and work together to make it out alive, on a very special episode of Trick or Treat Radio. On Episode 714 our feature film discussion is Send Help from director Sam Raimi! We also talk about being able to detect the advances in technology over time in art, pitch our off-the-cuff dream film projects, and react to new trailers for the following films; Backrooms, Mother Mary, and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. So grab your survival kit in preparation for being stranded, submit your resume to the afterlife so you can be invited to the Hard Party Cabal, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Nostalgia, Guinness Book of World Records, horror related records, Halloween the Video Game, Michael Myers, finding flaws, Boston, Crow Sting, being a surly old fuck, beefing up numbers, 13 years between films, pole climber, going into business for yourself, Jarret Blinkhorn, Signal to Noise, drones shots are a dime a dozen, Make A Film Foundation, The Black Ghiandola, Guillermo del Toro, out dream director to work with, Panos Cosmatos, Flesh of the Gods, Emilio Estevez, Michael Rosenbaum, Kurt Russell, Sidney Sweeney, Angela Bassitt, James Gunn, Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Crispin Glover, Danny Glover, Keith David, David Keith, Donald Glover, Jamie Lee Curtis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Roger Corman, Jackie “The Jokeman” Earle Haley, Vernon Wells, This Day in Horror History, Evil of Dracula, Inferno, Cat People, Silent Rage, Biker Zombies, The Frightening, Hellboy, The Monster in Phantom Lake, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Land of the Dead, Cry Wolf, Dawn of the Dead, Wrong Turn, Michael Fassbender, Promeus, Christopher Meloni, Elias Koteas, True Blood, Superman: Man of Steel, Debralee Scott, Welcome Back Kotter, Ron Palillo, Alec Guinness, Garry's Mod and Jerry's Mod, the marketing of Neon, A24, Backrooms, “They already got my fux”, Faces of Death, Mother Mary, Charlie XCX, David Lowery, Hunter Schafer, Black Swan, Starry Eyes, Jared Leto, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, digital pennies, Jay Leno, Mack the Night, Sam Raimi, Rachel McAdams, Dylan O'Brien, Send Help, Misery meets Castaway, Delta 88, Bruce Campbell, Evil Dead, Michelle Pfeiffer, Navy Seals, Major League, Dennis Haysbert, Yellowjackets, bad CGI plane crashes, Doxxing with Dokken, The Nopebook, The Neverending Story, Innerspace, The Tucc is Loose, Dolly, Max the Impaler, Sirat, William Friedkin, Sorcerer, submitting your afterlife resume, Hard Party Cabal, The Wizard of Halloween, Backroom Bacchanalia, The Princess with the Pool, Almost James Edward, Parallel of Power, the smoke rings of Saturn, the wrong Shemp, and Straight Out the Bike Shop.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http:Support the show

In today's Thursday's Thoughts, Lucy and I are diving into something we all need a little more of… patience.In a world where almost everything is available at the click of a button, waiting can feel harder than ever. We're so used to instant results that anything slower can feel frustrating.But when we allow things to unfold in their own time, they often feel even more meaningful. There's a richness in the process that we miss when we rush straight to the outcome.Because sometimes, it really is better to travel than to arrive!We hope this conversation gives you a gentle reminder to slow down, trust the timing, and maybe even enjoy the in-between moments a little more.Love Polly & Lucy xxDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

In this week's episode of Take a Breath, I'm joined by Dr Martin Moore-Ede — one of the world's leading experts in circadian science and the health impacts of light. After more than 40 years of research, his work reveals something most of us never even think about… how the light we're exposed to every day could be quietly shaping how we sleep, feel, and function.If you've ever found yourself lying awake at night, feeling wired but exhausted… struggling to wake up in the morning… or riding that familiar mid-afternoon energy dip — this conversation may explain why. Because in today's world of screens, indoor living, and artificial lighting, we've drifted far from the natural light patterns our bodies were designed for — and our nervous systems are feeling it.We also explore some of the sobering findings around light and long-term health, including research linking artificial light exposure at night with increased risks of conditions like breast cancer. But this isn't about fear — it's about awareness and empowerment. You'll come away with simple, practical ways to support your health, improve your sleep, and feel more calm and balanced using something as accessible as light.✨ In this episode, you'll learn: The powerful impact of natural outdoor light on your energy, mood, and sleep  How artificial light exposure can influence hormones, metabolism, and long-term health  What research is beginning to show about light and conditions such as breast cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular health, and weight gain  Why modern lighting may be contributing to that “tired but wired” feeling  Simple, realistic shifts you can make to feel calmer, sleep better, and support your overall wellbeingTo find out more go to: https://lightdoctormartinmooreede.substack.com/Download 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about victimhood.We all know that person who tells the same story over and over again, blaming everything that's wrong with their life on something that happened to them in the past. And let's be honest, we've probably all done it to a greater or lesser extent. The question is: how long will we play the victim? And are these stories we keep repeating actually serving us?Of course bad things happen to us all, and of course we need to feel our feelings; but how long we choose to stay in that place of victimhood is ultimately up to us. Freedom comes when you start to take radical responsibility for yourself and your life.We hope you'll find something interesting or helpful in this conversation.Love,Polly & Lucy xDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

Episode 776 of On Screen & Beyond beams up Robert Picardo of "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy", "Star Trek: Voyager", "InnerSpace", "The Wonder Years", "China Beach" and more!

Episode 775 of On Screen & Beyond brings director Joe Dante! Joe has given us decades of hit movies including "Matinee", "Gremlins", "Gremlins 2", "Explorers", "Innerspace", "The Howling" and so much more! Head back to the hit films of the 80's with us in this episode!

In this episode, I'm taking you into the third step of regulating your nervous system — and this is where things really begin to shift.We've already explored awareness and regulation, but if you've ever felt like you're still getting pulled into stress again and again… this is the missing piece. Today, I'm talking about capacity (how much your nervous system can actually hold) and why midlife can feel like things suddenly become “too much”, even when nothing obvious has changed.I'll walk you through how to gently expand your window of tolerance, so you're not constantly overwhelmed by life's demands. This isn't about avoiding stress — it's about building the ability to move through it with more steadiness, more clarity, and far less reactivity. What you'll learn in this episode: Why stress isn't always the problem, and how a “full” nervous system changes the way you respond to everyday life  How your window of tolerance works (and why it can feel smaller in midlife)  The concept of building capacity through small, manageable stretches, not pushing or forcing  How your breath becomes a powerful tool for both calming your system and building resilience  What real nervous system regulation actually looks like in daily life, and how to feel more steady, even when life is fullDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

Can music actually be a form of magic? In this episode of The Twilight Tonic, DeeDee sits down with author Mike Fiorito to discuss his latest work, The Inner Space of Outer Space. Together, they trace the mystical thread connecting ancient shamanic chants to modern ambient explorers like Brian Eno and Steven Halpern. Whether you're a practitioner of the craft, a music lover, or a researcher of the unknown, this conversation offers a rare look at the 'sonic architecture' of the paranormal.

In this episode of the show our brief expedition into 80s sci-fi comedies gets physical as we discuss the Joe Dante-directed Innerspace. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk - and argue passionately - about Joe Dante's brand of filmmaking that bridges Spielbergian blockbuster sensibilities, attempts at a spoof and a thick filter of Looney Tunes comedy that some of us see as an extension of a very long genre tradition. We also discuss this movie as a pastiche of James Bond films and a big screen recreation of what viewers found in spades on television in that time, Martin Short's comedic appeal, Dennis Quaid's star potential and much more!Tune in and enjoy!Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy BurrowsHead over to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠uncutgemspodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to find all of our archival episodes and more!Follow us on Twitter (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@UncutGemsPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), IG (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@UncutGemsPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) and Facebook (@UncutGemsPod)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy us a coffee over at Ko-Fi.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (ko-fi.com/uncutgemspod)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to our Patreon!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (patreon.com/uncutgemspod

This week on Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about decluttering…and not just the cupboards and drawers.Because clutter isn't always physical. Sometimes it's the mental tabs we keep open, the emotional baggage we're still carrying, the commitments that no longer feel like ours, or the digital noise constantly pulling at our attention.If life has been feeling a little full lately, we hope this conversation might be the gentle nudge you need to clear some space, both physically and mentally.Love Polly & Lucy xDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time.Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now.Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible.To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to:  https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at:  info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

This week's episode is for anyone who has been dealing with symptoms that feel very real, very limiting, and yet every test, scan or specialist appointment seems to come back with the same answer: “You're fine.”I'm joined by Miguel Bautista, founder of CFS Recovery, who helps people recover from chronic fatigue syndrome, long COVID and other debilitating symptoms through a nervous system and neuroplasticity-based approach.Miguel shares his own powerful story of recovery after four and a half years of living with a hypersensitive nervous system, severe fatigue, brain fog and a huge range of physical symptoms that left him bedridden and searching for answers.Together, we explore what can happen when the body is stuck in survival mode, why symptoms can be very real even when tests come back normal, and how recovery can begin when we start working with the nervous system rather than against it.In this episode, you'll learn:Why a hypersensitive nervous system can create real physical symptoms even when tests appear normalHow stress, personality traits and life pressures can push the nervous system into survival modeHow neuroplasticity and brain retraining can help change persistent symptom patternsWhy your emotional response to symptoms can influence whether they intensify or settleThe difference between managing symptoms and truly moving toward recovery and thrivingFor Recovery Stage Identifier and Personalised Recovery Report go to: https://cfsrecovery.co/breatheDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time. Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now. Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible. To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to: https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at: info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

On today's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about moving your body, and more specifically, starting small when you've been injured or you've got out of the habit of taking exercise.Lucy and I talk about what our exercise routines look like when we're taking it easier than usual, which can include some simple stretches or 10 minutes on a rebounder. We also touch on nasal breathing and why it's so helpful for our overall health.The main thing to take from this conversation is that even the smallest amount of movement is better than nothing.We really hope you'll find something useful in here.Love,Polly & Lucy xDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time. Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now. Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible. To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to: https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at: info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

I'm continuing our series on how to build a more regulated nervous system. We've already explored Stage One: Awareness — learning to notice when your nervous system is calm, when stress is creeping in, and when you've tipped into that more activated state of anxiety or overwhelm.In this week's episode episode, I'm guiding you through Stage Two: Regulation & How to Come Back To Calm — the practical ways you can bring your nervous system back to calm once you notice it's been activated. Because stress, pressure and emotional ups and downs are part of being human. The real skill isn't avoiding stress altogether, but learning how to guide yourself back to a steadier, calmer state.I'll walk you through several simple body-based “portals” that help your nervous system shift from stress back into safety — tools you can begin using straight away in everyday life.In this episode I share:Why we often can't think our way out of stress — and why the body needs to feel safe firstHow the brain and body communicate through the nervous system, including the 80/20 body-to-brain signal pathwayFive simple “portals” into nervous system regulationHow your everyday breathing habits influence your nervous system throughout the dayWhy developing body awareness helps you notice stress earlier and respond before overwhelm buildsTo find out more about how your breathing may be affecting your nervous system, download for FREE The Breath Check up.  If you'd like some guidance with the breathing techniques I mention in this episode, you can explore my Rapid Calm Toolkit or Breathe Better Basics, where I guide you through simple practices to help you calm and regulate your nervous system whenever you need to.Download 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time. Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now. Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible. To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to: https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at: info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about how the amount of good things in your life depends on your ability to notice them.With so much fear and negativity in the news right now, it's easy for your attention to be pulled towards what feels heavy and overwhelming. That's why being intentional about where you place your focus matters more than ever.This conversation is a gentle reminder that you can train your brain to look for more of what's uplifting and good. It's not about ignoring reality — it's about strengthening your capacity to see the positive alongside it.We hope you find something that resonates in here.Love,Polly & Lucy xxDownload 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time. Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now. Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible. To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to: https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at: info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

In this episode of Take a Breath, I'm joined by Wendy Heine — certified Wim Hof instructor, breathwork coach and yoga teacher.Wendy shares her journey from avoiding the cold completely to embracing it as a powerful tool for healing, particularly following her cancer diagnosis in 2021.We explore both the science and the nervous system side of cold exposure — what's actually happening in the body, why it can lift mood and energy so quickly, and how breathwork completely changes your experience of stepping into discomfort.This isn't about bravado. It's not about forcing yourself into freezing water. It's about intention, regulation, and building resilience in a calm, grounded way.Inside this conversation, we explore:Why cold water can lift mood, sharpen focus and boost energyHow long is long enough to trigger the key physiological benefitsWhat “cold enough” really means (and why it doesn't need to be extreme)How to use your breath to stay calm and in controlWhy cold exposure is a form of positive stress that can strengthen both body and mind when approached safelyIf you've been curious about cold showers or sea dips but feel hesitant, this episode will help you understand how to approach it in a way that feels empowering rather than overwhelming.It's about learning to stay steady — even when things feel uncomfortable — and taking that steadiness back into everyday life.To connect with Wendy, go to: https://www.instagram.com/longevitylifestylecoach/Download 15 Breaths to Calm Anxiety - a FREE 5 minute audio to calm you down in real time. Download The Breath Check-Up - your FREE guide to understanding how well you're breathing right now. Download my energising 5 Minute Morning Practice to get your day started in the best way possible. To find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to: https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceEmail me at: info@pollywarren.comhttps://www.pollywarren.com/https://www.instagram.com/pollywarrencoaching/

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BUGONIA screenwriter Will Tracy talks to The Movies That Made Me podcast hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante about his 10 favorite "held captive" movies! Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) You Only Live Twice (1967) Bugonia (2025) Save the Green Planet! (2003) The Menu (2022) Murder, He Says (1945) After Hours (1985) Something Wild (1986) The Ghost Breakers (1940) Hold That Ghost (1941) Ace in the Hole (1951) Young Frankenstein (1974) Haunted Honeymoon (1986) Videodrome (1983) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) The Naked Spur (1953) Reign of Terror, a.k.a. The Black Book (1949) El Cid (1961) A Man Escaped (1956) Phone Booth (2002) Lifeboat (1944) Devil (2010) Zone of Interest (2023) The Exterminating Angel (1962) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) No Exit (1962) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Abigail's Party (1977) Rio Bravo (1959) Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) The Last Detail (1973) Innerspace (1987) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) The King of Comedy (1982) Misery (1990) Gerald's Game (2017) Funny Games (1997) Funny Games (2007) The Last House on the Left (1972) The Vanishing (1988) The Vanishing (1991) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Rear Window (1954) Vertigo (1958) North By Northwest (1959) Captive Wild Woman (1943) Captive Women (1952) The Petrified Forest (1936) Last Stop in Yuma County (2023) Key Largo (1948) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) The Incident (1967) Collateral (2004) One Battle After Another (2025) A History of Violence (2005) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Other Notable Items Our Patreon!  The Hollywood Food Coalition Phillip Kaufman Beverly Garland Yorgos Lanthimos  James Bond TFH Guru Illeana Douglas Stavros Halkias The Cum Town podcast Our Chapo Trap House podcast episode Matt Christman Our Andrew Hickie podcast episodes A History of Rock in 500 Songs podcast Daniel Waters Our Ari Aster podcast episodes Our Brian Helgeland podcast episode George Marshall  Fred MacMurray Marjorie Main  The Ma and Pa Kettle movies Bob Hope Paulette Godard Pauline Kael Helen Walker Bonnie Parker Peter Whitney The Rifleman TV series (1958-63) Gene Wilder Robert Ryan James Stewart Ralph Meeker  Anthony Mann John Ford William Cameron Menzies Robert Bresson  TFH Guru Larry Cohen M. Night Shyamalan  Jonathan Glazer Luis Buñuel  Lee Grant Joseph Strick John Carpenter Dean Martin Hal Ashby Robert Towne Jack Nicholson Randy Quaid Dennis Quaid Jesse Plemons Aidan Delbis Sandra Bernhardt Robert De Niro Jerry Lewis Rob Reiner Stephen King William Goldman James Caan Kathy Bates Mike Flanagan Carla Gugino Misery novel by Stephen King (1987) Gerald's Game novel by Stephen King (1992) Michael Haneke Elmer Fudd Jang Joon-hwan  Alfred Hitchcock Peter Lorre Orson Welles Ingmar Bergman Woody Allen Charlie Chaplin Michelangelo Antonioni Cary Grant Larry Peerce Paul Thomas Anderson Larry McMurtry Diana Ossana Clint Eastwood Lauren Bacall William Hurt This list is also available on Letterboxd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to a new episode of The Way Out Is In: The Zen Art of Living, a podcast series mirroring Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's deep teachings of Buddhist philosophy: a simple yet profound methodology for dealing with our suffering, and for creating more happiness and joy in our lives. In this installment, Zen Buddhist monk Brother Phap Huu and leadership coach/journalist Jo Confino discuss the importance of creating inner space and stillness through meditation practices. But what does it actually mean to create more space in our lives? And why is this important, and how do we go about it? The conversation emphasises that the practice of meditation is not just about achieving enlightenment, but about becoming more present, compassionate, and engaged with the world. It touches upon the difficulties of finding space in modern life, the benefits of different meditation techniques, and misconceptions around enlightenment. The hosts also share personal experiences, including insights about how meditation has deepened their practice and allowed them to navigate challenges with greater flexibility and understanding. The episode ends with a meditation guided by Brother Phap Huu. Co-produced by the Plum Village App:https://plumvillage.app/   And Global Optimism:https://globaloptimism.com/ With support from the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation:https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org/ List of resources Pilgrimage: In the Footsteps of the Buddhahttps://plumvillage.org/event/pilgrimage/in-the-footsteps-of-the-buddha-2 Being with Busyness: Zen Ways to Transform Overwhelm and Burnouthttps://www.parallax.org/product/being-with-busyness/ Calm in the Storm: Zen Ways to Cultivate Stability in an Anxious Worldhttps://www.parallax.org/product/calm-in-the-storm/ Course: Zen and The Art of Saving the Planethttps://plumvillage.org/courses/zen-and-the-art-of-saving-the-planet Interbeinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interbeing Plum Village Traditionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Village_Tradition ‘Resources for Practicing the 16 Exercises of Mindful Breathing'https://plumvillage.app/resources-for-practicing-the-16-exercises-of-mindful-breathing/ ‘Making the App More Inclusive: Introducing the ‘Access to Practice' Folder'https://plumvillage.app/introducing-the-access-to-practice-folder/Robert Thurmanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Thurman Mahayanahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana Bodhisattvashttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva The Way Out Is In: ‘The Three Doors of Liberation (Episode #18)'https://plumvillage.org/podcast/the-three-doors-of-liberation-episode-18 Sister Chan Lang Nghiemhttps://plumvillage.org/people/dharma-teachers/sr-lang-nghiem Quotes “Walking meditation was our teacher’s favorite practice and it was really a life-changing cultivation for him. Because, particularly when we are very emotional – whether that be grief, agony, pain, anger, frustration – it is probably better to be in a state of motion.” “The Buddha has said, What are we mindful of? We are mindful of our suffering. Why do we practice? To liberate ourselves and all beings from suffering. That is the greatest vow of a monk or a nun: to find liberation in oneself and liberation in all.” “There are so many creations of senses – what we see, what we hear, what we smell, what we taste – to help us cope with our suffering. And when we are suffering, whether that suffering is very petite, a daily concern, or is a generational trauma, we don’t have language for how to be with that suffering. Therefore, we look for a way out – and the world loves giving us a prescription of, ‘If you do this, you will feel that.'” “Sometimes silence is a chance for us to be in touch with deep suffering or deep experiences that our noise has covered up. As a meditator, space gives us the barrier and boundaries to listen and to hold. If we don’t create that space, we will be on autopilot for the rest of our life. Our mind is on autopilot; it has a way of thinking, a way of doing, a way of perceiving, of creating perceptions, creating judgment. So when we meditate and have the opportunity to listen to and then to guide the mind, it gives the mind a chance to not also be carried away by its own habits – which is thinking.” “Thinking is not a bad thing. Like our teacher has always transmitted to us, thinking is a part of creating a view in life, a project, a mission, an intention. But most of our thinking is not productive. It is actually more daydreaming, it is more procrastination. It is more like a zombie, in a way, or a sleepwalker. It has no destination; it’s just on autopilot.” “Many people feel they have to sit on a cushion, they have to have a shrine, they have to light incense, they have to light a candle – which of course can be very beautiful and give a good atmosphere for meditation. But you can also do it on a busy bus or train, or as you’re sitting on a park bench. It’s not about taking things out of your life; it’s about allowing life to be.” “Sometimes we sit just to enjoy sitting and doing nothing, because maybe that's the one gift that we want to give to ourselves – because we’re always doing, we’re always in fifth gear. Sometimes we need a radical act: to sit and do nothing, to give and create and redefine space for ourselves.” “How can we keep mindfulness alive if we are not cultivating it? Sitting meditation is one of the concrete cultivation practices.” “There is right mindfulness and wrong mindfulness. We could be a wonderful burglar with full concentration – but we would be creating suffering. So right mindfulness relieves suffering; it is about understanding suffering and heading towards the path of understanding and love.” “One time our teacher told us that sometimes insight doesn’t come during sitting meditation, but when it’s ripe. Maybe when we’re most relaxed: when we’re not thinking about it, but are living the moment very deeply. And Thay told us that, a lot of the time, it would come while he was gardening or doing walking meditation. But sitting meditation is the cultivation; it is like a gardener tending the seeds of insights to help us have a moment of, ‘Ah, I get it.'” “The practice is maybe just continuing to unlearn things, in order to learn again.” “There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” “Sitting is already action. When we sit in this way and have new insight, that will become the thread of so many actions coming forward. So don’t underestimate the power of sitting still; yes, we have apps and guided meditations, but also build the capacity of generating your own guide. And that breath is there, that body is there. Then the community is there – and that’s the beauty of a tradition.” “Whenever we speak about enlightenment, enlightenment of what? What do we want to be enlightened from or towards? Then, later on – like in my own growth – I see that enlightenment is a verb; it is a continuous enlighten-ing. You cannot be enlightened today, December the 9th, and expect that enlightenment to stay the same in 2028. Because things are changing; we are changing. The world is changing.”