Ten Laws with East Forest

Now 65, Lorin has been meditating since age 18, when he signed up to be part of a research project on the physiology of meditation. He was a control subject, and received no instructions whatsoever – they paid him to just sit in a totally dark, soundproofed room in the lab for two hours a day for several weeks, and measure his brain waves. With no instructions, and never having heard of meditation, Lorin just attended to the total silence and darkness, and spontaneously entered entered a state of intense alertness. A few months later, someone handed him a little book describing 112 meditation practices. When he looked at the first page of the book, Lorin felt a huge flash of light and delight as he realized that he had experienced some of these meditations while sitting in the lab. This experience made it clear that meditation is a spontaneous and natural human experience, and that there are many doorways into meditation. The book contained the first English translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, an ancient yoga text. After the experiment was over, the researchers began asking Lorin to teach simple meditation practices as part of the scientific studies. Then students at the university asked him to share the techniques he was exploring, and this led to teaching meditation in academic classes. Thus it was that with no training whatsoever, Lorin wound up teaching meditation. This was 1968, at the newest University of California campus, so Lorin could get away with a lot. One thing led to another, and soon Lorin was running his own Experimental College, which went by the name, Esalen at Irvine: Experiential Workshops. He invited teachers from Esalen to come to Irvine and offer workshops in meditation, yoga, dance, Tai Chi, Structural Integration Movement Awareness, Art Meditation, and Gestalt Body Awareness. Each of the Esalen teachers taught Lorin an important component of what later became his own approach to meditation, which combines body awareness, movement, spontaneous gestures or mudra, mantras, visualizations, and above all, individuality. Individuality is the appreciation that each of us is different, and have unique pathways into our inner worlds. Lorin was born in 1949 and grew up in Southern California, in little beach towns such as Ventura, Malibu and Dana Point, which in the 1950's, 60's and 70's were middle-class and unpretentious. Both his parents were surfers and members of the San Onofre Surfing Club from the 1940's on, and took him into the ocean before he could walk. lorinroche.com eastforest.org/podcast

In just over ten minutes let's find center and work through this simple, musically backed, guided meditation for reducing anxiety and transmuting energy into an outward gift. eastforest.org

Ten Thousand Buddhas by Amanda Giacomini is a world wide, highly sought after art project, including large scale murals & fine art paintings. She has been featured on National Geographic Channel, New York Magazine among many others. Amanda has painted murals in Wynwood District of Miami, Abbot Kinney, and across all the US, as well as Cambutal, Panama plus a mobile installation in 5 cities in Germany. She's a rad lady. 10000buddhas.com eastforest.org/podcast

Eric Gilbert is the festival director for the massive Treefort Music Fest that occurs every spring in Boise, Idaho. He is also in the touring band Finn Riggins and is a talent manager for Duck Club Presents and its spawn Duck Club Touring. He's a man of many talents and has a bunch of wisdom to share with a cool ease. Treefort Fest Duckclub Presents eastforest.org/podcast

Day Schildkret is known internationally for Morning Altars and has inspired thousands of people of all ages from all over the world to forage, build and be awed with Earth Art. Day is igniting an international movement by sharing the art, teachings and spirit of Morning Altars as a tangible spiritual practice that renews and redeems our relationship to wonder, creativity, nature connection, generosity, and impermanence. "In today’s overly virtual landscape, I want my viewers to be enchanted by each altar's capacity to awaken their imagination, their awe, their nuanced eye and deep love and connection with the magic and mystery of our earth. I long to have my audiences linger on that ephemeral edge where death and rebirth bring forth and ancient remembering and a new impermanent beauty." His book "Morning Altars" will be released nationally in October, 2018. https://www.morningaltars.com/ eastforest.org/podcast

MC YOGI is a world-renowned yoga teacher and musician. He has performed and taught yoga everywhere, from headlining festivals and nightclubs to performing in the Forbidden City in China and even at the White House. When not on the road, MC YOGI and his wife, Amanda (10000 Buddhas) , teach at their home studio, Point Reyes Yoga, in Northern California. Before he was one of the most well-known yoga teachers in North America and an international hip hop artist, MC YOGI was a juvenile delinquent who was kicked out of three schools, sent to live at a group home for at-risk youth, arrested for vandalism, and caught up in a world of drugs, chaos and carelessness. MCYOGI.com Free Track GIFT - "Circle The Sun (Keith Sweaty Remix)" - Download eastforest.org

We take a break from the conversations for a short musically guided East Forest meditation to help you ground into your heart and sense of beingness. Take a moment to drop in and come back to this meditation anytime for a dive into the heart. eastforest.org

Marisa Weppner is on the artist committee for Treefort Music Fest in Boise ID, has a degree in Transpersonal Psychology, is a master yogini, studio owner, DJ, and mother -- her yoga work and new book appears via Udaya.com. She is also co-heading up the new programing with 1440 Multiversity in Northern California. She lives a life where she gets a lot done and does so with incredible grace. marisaweppner.com

Matthew Cochran has followed land all his life, a conscious wanderer – after traveling much of the Inner West he continued studies in Eco-psychology (MA) – this navigation between inner and outer geography is the heart of his work. Matthew is a geo-poetic writer, teaches dream-work, practices and implements Permaculture design (Sonoran Permaculture Guild) being especially interested in patterning. Matt has experienced, apprenticed, and guided Rites of Passage and Vision Quests. He is also active in community holding Men’s Councils, sharing and practicing martial arts such as Ninjutsu and Tai Chi, and tends to the surrounding wild lands through ecological protection and restoration. Matthew is a stand for each person to live their unique truth and believes personal sustainability is the beginning of true resilience in a changing world. He lives in in Boulder, in alliance with a remarkable place and community finding vitality and contentment by adapting in accord with nature as best he can. ravendreamtracking.com eastforest.org

Lorenzo Hagerty is the founder of the Psychedelic Salon — one of the richest, deepest, and oldest podcasts on the internet. He’s a pioneer and leader in the psychedelic thought movement and has led a rich life on his path from a Texas Lawyer, a navy man, a computer visionary, to a trail blazing podcaster … and much more. He was also the producer of the Palenque Norte lecture series at Burning Man. He an OG counter culture originator and we couldn’t be happier to have him on the podcast. Lorenzo Hagerty Psychedelic Salon EastForest.org