Podcasts by The Monk on a Motorbike

An Interview with Meditation teacher Ethan Pollock from 2023-10-15T14:45:51

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 twenti...

An interview with Gaia House meditation centre 'teacher in residence' Kirsten Kratz from 2023-04-02T16:06:45

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. ...

An Interview with Gaia House Dhamma Teacher Gavin Milne from 2023-01-30T18:46:21

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 m...

How to Make Great Decisions with Professor Marc Buehner from 2022-07-19T13:41:47

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 mak...

An Interview with Sally Kempton from 2022-03-23T20:30:45

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 f...

Artificial Intelligence: Terminator or Saviour? from 2022-01-18T19:43:21

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 episod...

Corporate Mindfulness: Does it measure up? An Interview with EY's Michael Von Der Geest from 2020-08-15T14:49:58

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 platf...

Magick: it's not what you think! An interview with Daniel Ingram Part One from 2020-06-18T14:56:32

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...

Magick: it's not what you think! An interview with Daniel Ingram Part Two from 2020-06-18T14:49:11

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...

Magick: it's not what you think! An interview with Daniel Ingram Part Three from 2020-06-18T14:37:53

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 ...

How to become Indistractable! An interview with Nir Eyal from 2020-06-02T16:11:57

Today my guest is Nir Eyal. Nir is a bestselling author, tech entrepreneur university lecturer and investor who literally wrote the book on how to build habit-forming products

The model h...

An Interview with Suvaco from 2020-04-27T18:20:51

Today I'm talking to former Buddhist monk, therapist and climate change activist, Suvaco. Suvaco spent twenty years living as a monk in the jungles of northeast Thailand, getting up before three...

Everyday shamanism. An interview with Ya'Acov Darling-Khan from 2020-04-13T17:17:29

This time round I’m talking to shaman and healer, Ya’Acov Darling Khan. Ya’acov is very much a 21st century shaman. Based in Devon in the UK, he is a bestselling author and founder of the School...

An Interview with Daniel Ingram Part Four from 2020-03-27T21:18:19

If you’ve ever wondered what happens after you die, how the world looks when you’re enlightened, or can’t understand why you’re spending all this time meditating but still seem to get anxious an...

An Interview with Daniel Ingram Part Three from 2020-03-26T22:05:40

If you’ve ever wondered what happens after you die, how the world looks when you’re enlightened, or can’t understand why you’re spending all this time meditating but still seem to get anxious an...

An Interview with Daniel Ingram Part Two from 2020-03-26T21:18:04

If you’ve ever wondered what happens after you die, how the world looks when you’re enlightened, or can’t understand why you’re spending all this time meditating but still seem to get anxious an...

An Interview with Daniel Ingram Part One from 2020-03-26T20:18:13

If you’ve ever wondered what happens after you die, how the world looks when you’re enlightened, or can’t understand why you’re spending all this time meditating but still seem to get anxious an...

Mindfulness, Knitting and Rebellion: An Interview with political activist and textile artist Rachael Matthews from 2020-03-08T21:05:09

To celebrate International Women’s Day, I’m launching a new season of Monk on a Motorbike podcasts with an interview with political activist, textile artist, and author Rachael Matthews.

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Doing Time, Doing Mindfulness from 2019-09-01T14:55:44

Today my guest is Paul Douglas. Jailed at the age of 16 for his part in a murder Paul spent 12 years in prison where he learned mindfulness. Here he talks openly about the constant violence and ...

Trouble in Paradise from 2019-07-06T17:21:11

Today I’m talking to Venerable Candavissudhi. Ven Canda is a Buddhist nun in the Theravadan Thai forest tradition.

Born and raised in England Ven Canda went to Asia at the Age of 19 where...

Mindfulness Behind Bars from 2019-06-23T19:41:38

In this episode I'm talking to mindfulness teacher Sonya Russo. Sonya teaches mindfulness to prisoners in London's overcrowded and often violent jails.  

Here she tells the story of ...

Trading the City for Peace from 2019-06-09T18:55:39

In this episode I'm talking to former city Trader  Johnny Walter about being signed off work with dangerously high levels of cholesterol and stress and his journey to healing with mindfulne...

It's not what you think from 2019-05-19T20:22:45

In this episode  I'm talking to Greenpeace scientist Dr Kevin Brigden about how he dealt with perfectionism and panic attacks using CBT and mindfulness

Love in the Time of Extinction from 2019-04-14T17:30:47

In this episode hear internationally respected meditation teacher, Yanai Postelnik, talking about Buddhism and breaking the law, his involvement with Extinction Rebellion, getting arrested twice...

Me and my podcast! from 2019-03-24T21:42:02

In this episode I talk a about myself, who I am and how I spend my days, and about my podcast-why I decided to do it, how and how I hope it will change peoples' lives. 

Dealing with emotional health problems with mindfulness from 2019-03-23T00:28:14

This is one of a series of interviews with people who have dealt with mental and emotional health problems using mindfulness and other practices and gone on to flourish