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How physical fitness supports my creativity and my work as a writer
How physical fitness at age 53 supports my creativity and my work as a writer—with pilates, body weight conditioning, calisthenics, trail running, and…
 • Bowen Dwelle
Eighteen essays about addiction, masculinity, creativity, and intuition
As well as anxiety, fitness, sobriety, self-discipline, purpose, love, adventure, pain yoga, intuition, the collective unconscious, psychedelics…
 • Bowen Dwelle
Highlights from two dozen Brothers and Teachers
Twenty-four good people on truth, creativity, identity, writing, performing, meditation, addiction, abstinence, transcendental moments, the infinite…
E19 / Meditation and Intuition with Scott Britton
Meditation as a sport, presenting a question to intuition, movement and wayfinding, and the Book of Nature.
41:46
I'm here to be myself as much as possible—and the absolute truth can only be...nothing.
A conversation about meaning, identity, physicality, and purpose with Bowen Dwelle and Andy Johns
 • Andy Johns and Bowen Dwelle
What is Intuition? A Whole and Open Mind
An inner voice, guardian within, embodied cognition, pattern recognition, knowing without knowing how, understanding through the senses, bone knowledge…
 • Bowen Dwelle
"Writing yourself into existence" with Lyle McKeany
Writing yourself into existence, how writing is like music, whether men can say “sex”, writing memoir as a man, what we're afraid to write about…
 • Bowen Dwelle and Lyle McKeany
E16 / Sky Racing and Self Expression with Galen Kirkpatrick
Free flight as self-expression and as a higher project. Managing risk. Gender euphoria and the responsibility of coming out. Learning to stop…
1:17:00
Let's open it up
Memoir only for the moment, done with previews, new interview format, and memoir on Substack
E20 / Pilates for Men with Sean Vigue
Health and fitness in our fifties, being yourself, flow, fitness for kids, getting outside, joy through movement, and... those ducks are real, people!
57:48
What I'm Reading, Nov 2022
Maia Szalavitz, Liz Goldwyn, John Paul Brammer, Tim Kreider, Holly Whitaker, Connor Beaton / Mantalks, Bill Maeda, Jamie Wheal, and Bill McKibben on why…
 • Bowen Dwelle
E10 / Everyday Flow with James Brown
Flow, presence, Vedic meditation, intuition, fatherhood, adoption, giving things up, moving past alcohol, freedom, discipline, becoming a disciple of…
 • Bowen Dwelle and JAMES BROWN
51:43
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