The Inner Well Podcast

The Inner Well
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Real talk on meditation, meaning and modern life. We all contain a space within that when enlivened and nourished, will support us with unwavering stability, expansion, and peace of mind.  Join us each week as we dive into honest, grounded conversations about Transcendental Meditation, consciousness, and growth, and what it means to live an integrated life, supported by a foundation of creativity and calm.  This is the Inner Well.

  1. 23h ago

    Dr. Tony Nader: The Power of Caring + Experience Beyond Belief

    There comes a moment in everyone’s life when they just know. For world-renowned neuroscientist and leader of the Transcendental Meditation organization Tony Nader, this moment came in phases and as a bit of a complete surprise. Following both his teacher and his inner knowing, it lead him on a journey that few souls have the privilege to experience. Tune in this week to hear his unbelievably inspiring story as well as get a behind-the-scenes look at the motivation behind his new book: The Power of Caring. In this episode: What is the true meaning of know thyself?What does fullness of being look like throughout the different philosophies and dogmas?What was his TM journey that started on bliss street?What’s the one thing that remains stable in our ever-transient existence of being?How did one week turn into a lifetime?What was Maharishi like and what did it feel like to be in his presence?What are the vedas and how are they ever present in our own physiological blueprint?How do epigenetics play into our experience of mind body connection?How did Dr. Nader's scientific training become a baseline for his understanding of consciousness?What are the laws of nature and how do they manifest?Training yourself to think in the way nature thinksWhat is the connection between the dynamics of consciousness and the dynamics of our physiology?Consciousness is all there is! Tony Nader Bio: Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D., is a medical doctor trained at Harvard and MIT, and a globally respected neuroscientist and Vedic scholar. Appointed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to lead the international Transcendental Meditation organization, he champions the development of Consciousness to awaken higher values, resolve societal conflicts, and help individuals unlock their full potential. Pre-Order The Power of Caring: https://www.thepowerofcaringbook.com/ More info on Dr. Tony Nader: https://drtonynader.com/ Dive in each week for real talk on meditation, meaning and modern life. And let us know what resonates with you. After all, this podcast was created with you in mind –  to support the human condition by optimizing the human experience. Watch, listen, and connect here: tm.org/theinnerwellpodcast We'd love to hear your thoughts. Email: theinnerwellpodcast@gmail.com Find your local TM Teacher: www.tm.org Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who might need it. Follow us on social and send us your questions, stories, and topic ideas — this podcast exists because of you.

  2. Jul 16

    Better Together: Ayurveda + TM for Health, Wholeness & Deeper Relationships

    In this episode, Donielle talks with her student Mary Goines about her journey through health and wholeness with Ayurveda – another pillar of wellness from the same tradition as Transcendental Meditation. Mary speaks in detail about her benefits from TM as it relates to anxiety, creativity and peak performance. She also talks about how her practice has served as a source of nourishment for her relationship with both her husband (who was struggling with the stress of the entrepreneurial lifestyle) and her mother (who had been challenged with her journey through grief and loss). Dive in for details on all this as well as a sneak peek into the basics of Ayurveda and the creative uplevel Mary received from her practice. What to look for: How does TM support Ayurveda as a system of health and wellness?What is Ayurveda?How can both of these practices together nourish the mind and body?How has Mary’s TM practice sparked her creativity?In what ways has it nourished her relationship with her husband?How has it helped them both with peak performance in business?How does TM support the journey through grief and loss?What makes Ayurveda such a powerful discipline for life? Dive in each week for real talk on meditation, meaning and modern life. And let us know what resonates with you. After all, this podcast was created with you in mind –  to support the human condition by optimizing the human experience. Watch, listen, and connect here: tm.org/theinnerwellpodcast We'd love to hear your thoughts. Email: theinnerwellpodcast@gmail.com Find your local TM Teacher: www.tm.org Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who might need it. Follow us on social and send us your questions, stories, and topic ideas — this podcast exists because of you. Mary Goines Bio Mary Marie is a Lifestyle Architect, private Ayurvedic chef, educator, and co-founder of Nashville Ayurveda & Vedaville (a global online wellness community). After reversing her autoimmune diagnosis through Ayurveda, she dedicated her life to studying the world’s oldest system of natural medicine. She holds a master’s degree in Maharishi Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine and completed advanced clinical training at Sreedhareeyam Ayurvedic Hospital in Kerala, India. Blending ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with modern science, Mary helps people look better, feel better, and live better through personalized nutrition, lifestyle design, and holistic wellness. Her mission is to make authentic Ayurveda approachable and empower others to create vibrant health that lasts.

  3. Jul 9

    Sacred Boundaries & The Unshakeable Self

    Heathere Evans is an accomplished coach, writer and CEO with a 50+ year TM practice and a genuine understanding of the human experience. She will be the first to say that after having accomplished so many of the standard success markers for “happiness,” she still found herself in a space in her journey where she just didn’t feel happy. Her TM practice became a pivotal tool for her experience of fullness, happiness and joy, as well as a catalyst for establishing consciousness as one of the pillars of success for her coaching sessions with her clients (and herself).  In this episode: What are sacred boundaries?How do they support the unshakeable self? What is the unshakeable self?Life happening for you versus to you.Why is consciousness so important for our happiness?What does successful self care look like?What is 200% of life?Why is the inner experience of self so necessary to support the outer for a true experience of happiness?How has Heathere’s TM practice supported her success and why does she see it as a non-negotiable in her life? Heathere Evans Professional Bio: Certified professional coach Heathere Evans is a 50+ year practitioner of the Transcendental Meditation technique and is the author of The Success Mindset: 12 Strategies to Unlock Your Full Potential for Life and Leadership, a new book to help executives, entrepreneurs, and other leaders live and lead from strength and wisdom. Heathere began her career as a reporter, was an award-winning communications consultant (including Washington PR Woman of the Year), and is now the CEO of the Los Angeles-based executive coaching firm Pivot, Inc. She is a member of Harvard’s Institute of Coaching, a speaker and workshop leader on human development, habit change, and adaptive leadership, and a guest lecturer at leading academic institutions. Check out Heathere’s book The Success Mindset here! Dive in each week for real talk on meditation, meaning and modern life. And let us know what resonates with you. After all, this podcast was created with you in mind –  to support the human condition by optimizing the human experience. Watch, listen, and connect here: tm.org/theinnerwellpodcast We'd love to hear your thoughts. Email: theinnerwellpodcast@gmail.com Find your local TM Teacher: www.tm.org Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who might need it. Follow us on social and send us your questions, stories, and topic ideas — this podcast exists because of you.

  4. Jul 2

    Our Most Pivotal Relationship: The Self

    How is it possible that in a day and age where connection is the most effortless it’s ever been, we can still feel so disconnected? So much so, in fact, the Surgeon General officially diagnosed loneliness as an epidemic in 2023. So, how is this possible and (more importantly) what do we do about it? Could it be as simple as a collective disconnect from the most pivotal relationship we have… the one with ourselves? Dive in to this week’s episode as we discuss this and so much more revolving around relationship with self and others. In this episode: What is the loneliness epidemic and why is it so concerning?Why is relationship with self our most pivotal relationship?Why is relationship with self not enough?What is attachment theory and where do your hosts fall on its spectrum?How does your attachment style influence your relationships?Why is presence such a crucial component for healthy relationships?How does TM support relationship with self?How does TM help you nourish and sustain relationships with others?Why does safety play such an important role in relationships?How does TM help facilitate an experience of safety with self and others? Dive in each week for real talk on meditation, meaning and modern life. And let us know what resonates with you. After all, this podcast was created with you in mind –  to support the human condition by optimizing the human experience. Watch, listen, and connect here: tm.org/theinnerwellpodcast We'd love to hear your thoughts. Email: theinnerwellpodcast@gmail.com Find your local TM Teacher: www.tm.org Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who might need it. Follow us on social and send us your questions, stories, and topic ideas — this podcast exists because of you.

  5. Jun 25

    Clarity, Confidence and Stylized Consciousness: Payton Dale’s Inner Well

    Tune in this week as Donielle talks fullness, fashion and fate with world renowned stylist Payton Dale. A Beatle’s nerd at heart with a flare for fashion and a genuine desire to help her clients embody their most confident and attuned experience of self, Payton serves as a soul-level fashion guru for the human experience. According to her, fashion is an energetic expression of consciousness and TM helps her sustain the bandwidth she needs to support others in their most coveted expression of themselves. She possesses a genuine understanding of the human experience and how life presents when the well runs dry. Dive in this week to hear her story and how daily access to her inner well has supported her in her journey. In this episode: From depleted to abundant: Payton’s Inner Well journeyHow does consciousness support her on a daily basis?What does having access to TIW mean for her and her clients?How does she become a better version of herself with access to TIW?What did life look like before she fully embodies her self expression?What is her origin story?What makes her passionate about the human experience?Why does she refer to TM as her “spiritual smoke break?”Who inspired her to learn TM?How does her daily meditation practice help her be better and do better for her clients? Dive in each week for real talk on meditation, meaning and modern life. And let us know what resonates with you. After all, this podcast was created with you in mind –  to support the human condition by optimizing the human experience. Watch, listen, and connect here: tm.org/theinnerwellpodcast We'd love to hear your thoughts. Email: theinnerwellpodcast@gmail.com Find your local TM Teacher: www.tm.org Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who might need it. Follow us on social and send us your questions, stories, and topic ideas — this podcast exists because of you.

  6. Jun 18

    The Ultimate Energy Source For Creative Expression

    Is it really possible to recapture the possibility, promise and creativity of our youth? In a word: Yes! Within your inner well lies an infinite reservoir of creativity, innocence, awe and wonderment… the same qualities that made our youth filled with so much promise and opportunity. Being able to tap into that space as an adult brings with it endless possibility. Not only does it support you with creative intelligence, resourceful problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking, according to Dave, it also serves as a catalyst for an infinite supply of energy that enables you to accomplish all the things you have the desire to with a level of presence and engagement that seemed unavailable without access to the well. In this episode: Where does creative intelligence come from?How does seemingly limitless energy support the entrepreneurial spirit?What does it feel like to reconnect with that youthful part of ourselves?Is that youthful energetic innocence still there after we become an adult?How can the Inner Well facilitate healing on a holistic level?Why is creativity so important to our quality of life?How does TM provide access to that childlike wonderment where creativity sparks from?How does a regular TM practice help you accomplish all the things you desire to AND provide the idea engine for consistent momentum?What does life look like before and after TM  for the creative, entrepreneurial spirit? Connect with Dave: Dave Escamilla is an avid practicer of TM who resides in Austin, TX. Dave plays in the band Rippleberry, hosts the holistic health channel Rapid Regeneration, and is co-founder of Texas Fruit Festival.  Linktree Dive in each week for real talk on meditation, meaning and modern life. And let us know what resonates with you. After all, this podcast was created with you in mind –  to support the human condition by optimizing the human experience. Watch, listen, and connect here: tm.org/theinnerwellpodcast We'd love to hear your thoughts. Email: theinnerwellpodcast@gmail.com Find your local TM Teacher: www.tm.org Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who might need it. Follow us on social and send us your questions, stories, and topic ideas — this podcast exists because of you.

  7. Jun 11

    Catching Big Fish: TM, Creativity & Authentic Living with Criss Cain

    In this episode, Donielle sits down with Criss Cain — tour photographer, videographer, podcast host, and right-hand person to rock legend Ann Wilson of Heart — to talk about how Transcendental Meditation found its way into his life and what's unfolded since. The conversation covers creative breakthroughs, the courage it takes to be authentic in a buttoned-up industry, and what it's like to warm up a sold-out arena crowd with stand-up comedy — all by staying effortlessly in the moment. The David Lynch thread Lynch's influence runs throughout the episode — from his MasterClass metaphor about fishing for ideas at different depths, to his famous quote: "Meditation makes you more and more you." Criss reflects on what that has meant in practice: more space, slower speech, more self-trust, and a low tolerance for inauthenticity in an industry full of it. In this episode you'll find: How a chance meeting over David Lynch sparked Criss's TM journeyThe morning routine (yes, it involves dancing to Britney Spears) that changed how he createsHow TM directly fueled the launch of his podcast After Dinner Thinks with Ann WilsonThe story of cold-emailing Ann Wilson's manager and nine years later walking her on and off stage every nightWhat it's like to do stand-up comedy in arenas with 15 minutes of prep — and why TM was his secret weaponWhat the mantra actually is (and why it having no meaning is the whole point)David Lynch's "ideas are like fish" metaphor and why it still resonates "If there's love, it's fine. Always." — Criss Cain Connect with Criss: Podcast: After Dinner Thinks with Ann Wilson — Spotify & YouTubeInstagram: @thecrisscainDive in each week for real talk on meditation, meaning and modern life. And let us know what resonates with you. After all, this podcast was created with you in mind –  to support the human condition by optimizing the human experience. Watch, listen, and connect here: tm.org/theinnerwellpodcast We'd love to hear your thoughts. Email: theinnerwellpodcast@gmail.com Find your local TM Teacher: www.tm.org Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who might need it. Follow us on social and send us your questions, stories, and topic ideas — this podcast exists because of you.

  8. Jun 4

    Already Genius: Tapping The Creative Intelligence Within

    How have some of the most brilliant minds in the world tapped into their creativity and is there a way to sustain access to it? We’ve all heard of the flow state – the most coveted expression of inner and outer alignment that comes in many different forms. It’s a form of creative intelligence that manifests through spontaneous right action, frictionless flow and the undeniably effective, creatively inspired problem solving to life’s every-day challenges. In this episode, the three hosts discuss creative intelligence in both its manifest and unmanifest forms – not only the inner well it manifests from inside of you, but also how it moves through each individual nervous system in its own individualized creative expression. Dive in! In this episode: What is Creative Intelligence?How have some of the most brilliant minds attempted to access it in the past?What does it have to do with the flow state?How does it manifest differently for every individual?Is there a way to sustain access to it?How does TM help you access your own creative intelligence?How is problem solving a form of creativity?How does creative intelligence help facilitate mind-body connection?Can creative expression be integrated for consistent availability?Why does being in flow with your own creative intelligence feel so good? Dive in each week for real talk on meditation, meaning and modern life. And let us know what resonates with you. After all, this podcast was created with you in mind –  to support the human condition by optimizing the human experience. Watch, listen, and connect here: tm.org/theinnerwellpodcast We'd love to hear your thoughts. Email: theinnerwellpodcast@gmail.com Find your local TM Teacher: www.tm.org Original Music Composition by Jessica Sharman Bennett

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Real talk on meditation, meaning and modern life. We all contain a space within that when enlivened and nourished, will support us with unwavering stability, expansion, and peace of mind.  Join us each week as we dive into honest, grounded conversations about Transcendental Meditation, consciousness, and growth, and what it means to live an integrated life, supported by a foundation of creativity and calm.  This is the Inner Well.

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