Integral Being
Integral Being explores the lived intersection of martial embodiment, contemplative traditions, and human transformation. These are not abstract conversations—they are grounded in practice, perception, and the direct cultivation of the human system. Through dialogue with masters, scholars, and practitioners, this podcast examines how real practice reshapes the body, breath, attention, and awareness into a unified field of experience.
Episodes
What allows the calm, awareness, and coordination we develop during practice to remain available when life becomes challenging?
In this Inner Life Talk, Mark V. Wiley introduces the Inner Life Ecosystem: an approach to understanding how martial arts, meditation, internal cultivation, somatic practice, healing, contemplative traditions, and relationship inform one another.
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What changes when an ordinary walk becomes a practice of breath, movement, and awareness?
Drs. Jacques MoraMarco and Yun Kim join Mark V. Wiley to explore mindful walking as a daily practice for vitality, balance, and self-directed wellness. Drawing on their book, Walking Your Way to Vitality, they discuss how East Asian medicine, tai chi, breathwork, and meditation come together through th...
What changes when spiritual understanding begins to shape how we live?
In this Integral Being conversation, Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri joins Mark V. Wiley to explore realization through presence, honesty, conduct, and the willingness to relinquish the identities we defend.
Through humorous and revealing stories of his teacher, Swami Chinmayananda, he examines the difference...
What happens when the spiritual path stops being about comfort and begins demanding truth?
In this Integral Being conversation, Sufi teacher Shaykh Burhanuddin Herrmann explores the movement from identification with the mind toward the heart—and why genuine spiritual transformation requires truth, responsibility, self-observation, and lived practice.
"Truth is the...
What does it actually mean to ask, "Who am I?"
Michael James joins Mark Wiley for a conversation on Ramana Maharshi and the practice of self-investigation. Rather than treating "Who am I?" as a philosophical question requiring an intellectual answer, Michael explains Ramana's teaching as a radical change in the direction of attention—from the objects of experience toward the one who i...
What happens when extraordinary spiritual experiences stop being the destination?
In this Integral Being conversation, psychologist, spiritual mentor, and author Aliya B. Haeri reflects on a lifelong search that moved through psychic research, extraordinary phenomena, psychology, and ...
Practice, Embodiment, Spontaneity, and the Taoist Path
What happens after decades of practice when the need to attain something begins to fall away?
In this episode of Integral Being, Mark V. Wiley speaks with Taoist author, artist, and martial practitioner Deng Ming-Dao about what more than fifty years of Taoist cultivation, martial arts, and meditation have taught him...
How Masonic tools become instruments for...
What if medicine were the last step in health rather than the first?
In Part Two of my conversation with Guru Yogi Shivan, we move from Kalaripayattu into the healing traditions of Ayurveda and Siddha medicine and explore a very different understanding of what it means to care for the human body.
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Can authentic spiritual transformation happen without a living tradition?
In this episode of Integral Being, Mark Wiley speaks with Shaykh Peter Huseyin Cunz, a Swiss Sufi teacher of the Mevlevi Order—the spiritual tradition inspired by the teachings of Jalaluddin Rumi.
Together, they explore why authentic traditions continue to matter in a modern culture that oft...
What makes authentic Taiji Qigong Shibashi different from simply learning a sequence of movements?
In this episode of Integral Being, Mark Wiley speaks with Fabrice Piché, a medical qigong practitioner and one of the few Western students to receive private instruction from Professor Lin Housheng, the creator of Taiji Qigong Shibashi.
Their conversation explores the deep...
Light is usually understood as something outside us—something that illuminates the world so we can see it. But seeing is not passive. Light enters into a living relationship with perception, attention, the nervous system, and action.
In this Inner Life Talk, Mark V. Wiley explores what happens when we stop thinking of light merely as something we observe and begin noticing how we part...
What is authentic Kundalini awakening?
According to Swami Kripananda, it is not something to pursue but something that unfolds naturally through years of disciplined practice.
In this episode of Integral Being, Mark V. Wiley speaks with Swami Kripananda about addiction, recovery, Kundalini, yoga philosophy, breath, silence, nervous system development, and the gradual tr...
What does it actually mean to become an internal practitioner?
In this episode of Integral Being, Mark Wiley sits down with René Navarro, a lifelong practitioner of Taoist internal cultivation, traditional Chinese medicine, meditation, and the internal martial arts.
Rather than treating these as separate disciplines, Navarro reveals how they form a single path of embodi...
Why do we possess more information than any generation in history, yet still struggle to live wisely?
In this Integral Being conversation, cognitive scientist and philosopher John Vervaeke explores why genuine transformation cannot be achieved through knowledge alone. Drawing from cog...
What if the true purpose of Tai Chi has little to do with choreography?
In this episode of Integral Being, Mark Wiley speaks with longtime Tai Chi practitioner, experimental physicist, and author Dr. Robert Chuckrow about the deeper principles hidden beneath the external form.
Drawing on more than five decades of practice, Chuckrow explores the relationship between rela...
What does it actually mean for a human being to change?
Most spiritual seekers begin with self-improvement—trying to become calmer, wiser, or more fulfilled. But Dr. Ravi Ravindra argues that authentic spiritual practice aims at something far deeper: transformation.
In this Integral Being conversation, Ravi Ravindra explores attention, consciousness, self-study, e...
Most meditation and breathing methods teach us to control the breath—to slow it, deepen it, or shape it into an ideal pattern.
But what if that effort is actually creating the tension we hope to eliminate?
In this episode of Inner Life Talks, M...
In this Integral Being conversation, Will Johnson and Mark V. Wiley explore meditation as an embodied process of awakening through breath, sensation, posture, movement, and perception.
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- breathing through the whole body
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What does embodiment actually mean?
The word is used constantly in meditation, movement, psychology, and wellness, yet it often remains vague or misunderstood. In this episode of Inner Life Talks, Mark V. Wiley explains embodiment as something f...
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