The Monk on a Motorbike

Jun 02 2024 28 ep. 76 mins 40
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This podcast is all about transformation-mindfulness and mental health, community and sharing. Real people, real stories.....and loads of other lovely stuff. Hosted by Danny Hill, the Monk on a Motorbike. Inspire, empower, transform.

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Death and the Dhamma. An interview with Yanai Postelnik

Jun 02 2024 88 mins  
Today I'm talking to meditation teacher, Yanai Postelnik about old age, sickness, death and the Dhamma Yanai was diagnosed with bowel cancer just over a year ago and so has a very personal experience of both the Dhamma and ill health. He has led retreats on the subject and talks very openly and candidly about what he has been through, so far from being a morbid conversation I

An Interview with Dhamma teacher Ayala Gill

Apr 14 2024 114 mins  
Today my guest is Ayala Gill. Ayala has been committed to a path of insight and awakening since her early twenties. She has been practicing Iyengar yoga since 1977 -aged just six years old- Insight Meditation and Dhamma since 1995, Insight Yoga (including yin yoga and psychospiritual enquiry) since 2001 and the animistic practices of the Andean-Inkan Holy Mountain tradition since 2

An Interview with Meditation teacher Ethan Pollock

Oct 15 2023 96 mins  
Today my guest is Ethan Pollock, meditation teacher and co-founder of Mindful Living Community. Ethan has been facilitating mindfulness groups and retreats for over a decade. In his early twenties he gave up a career as a commercially successful artist and spent five years training at Plum Village with the internationally recognized mindfulness teacher & Zen Master Thich Nhat H

An interview with Gaia House meditation centre 'teacher in residence' Kirsten Kratz

Apr 02 2023 78 mins  
Today my guest is meditation teacher Kirsten Kratz. Born and brought up in Germany Kirsten has practiced Buddhist meditation in Asia and the West since 1993. She started teaching in 2006 and since 2015 she has been ‘teacher in residence’ at Gaia House meditation centre supporting those on personal retreat there. Her love and understanding of the Dhamma has been strongly in

An Interview with Gaia House Dhamma Teacher Gavin Milne

Jan 30 2023 109 mins  
Today my guest is meditation teacher Gavin Milne. Gavin teaches at Gaia House retreat centre in Devon, one of the largest Buddhist meditation centres in Europe Gavin has been practicing meditation for twenty years and gave up a career as a design engineer for the Red Bull Formula One race team to travel to Asia and the US to explore the Dhamma intensively before returning to the UK

How to Make Great Decisions with Professor Marc Buehner

Jul 19 2022 65 mins  
Today I’m talking to Professor Marc Buehner about how we make decisions Marc is professor of cognitive Psychology at Cardiff University in Wales where he designed a course in decision making which he teaches to final-year students. I’ve always been pretty indecisive, so when I learned recently that you can formally study the decision-making process and how to make better ones I

An Interview with Sally Kempton

Mar 23 2022 115 mins  
Sally Kempton Is a meditation teacher and author. As a young successful journalist and feminist living in New York in the early 70s Sally had an awakening experience after dropping acid for the first time. This got her interested in meditation and yoga and led her to become a monastic under the guidance of the Indian yogi Swami Muktananda For the next twenty years, she studied and

Artificial Intelligence: Terminator or Saviour?

Jan 18 2022 82 mins  
There are a lot of bleak predictions going around about artificial intelligence creating mass unemployment or even becoming sentient and enslaving humankind or killing us all off. In this episode, I speak to one of the world's leading authorities on AI, Professor Dave Cliff about whether the computers of the future will finish us off or save us.  Dave is a professor of Compute

Corporate Mindfulness: Does it measure up? An Interview with EY's Michael Von Der Geest

Aug 15 2020 47 mins  
Today my guest is Michael Von Der Geest. Michael helps to run one of the big four accountancy firms EY which used to be called Ernst and Young. He is also the CEO of EY Seren their digital platform. He has helped to make mindfulness teaching widely available to their 250, 000 staff worldwide and sponsors their internal mindfulness support network which now has 10,000 members. Here

Magick: it's not what you think! An interview with Daniel Ingram Part One

Jun 18 2020 43 mins  
If you’re interested in Magick, what it is, and just as importantly what It isn’t, then you have to tune into this interview with Daniel Ingram This is the second time Daniel has appeared on my show. Daniel is famous for his teachings on Buddhist meditation and his controversial views about meditative attainments-but is less well known as a practitioner of Magick, something whi