The Buddha Lounge

About the show

The Buddha Lounge can now be heard Sunday afternoons at one. The Best of the Buddha Lounge will continue to be heard Saturday night at eight with Natasha Dern and Colette Baron Reid on Newstalk 1010 CFRB. The e mail address for the Buddha Lounge is: buddhalounge@cfrb.com

Sunday May 18 - The Intention Experiments Lynne McTaggert joins the Buddha Lounge to talk about the first scientific experiments into the power of mass intention to affect the physical world, carried out by a global laboratory of leading scientists, have produced extraordinary evidence showing that ‘group mind' is capable of changing the physical properties of plants and speeding up their growth.

The studies, organized by Lynne McTaggart and a consortium of leading physicists and other scientists involved in consciousness research, demonstrates that the intention of a group as small as 100 is powerful enough to affect the growth of seeds and seedlings more than 7000 miles away.

Her latest book, The Intention Experiment was selected as the book of the year by the Institute of Noetic Sciences founded by Edgar Mitchell and was voted as one of the top 100 books of 2007 by Amazon.com readers. For more visit: www.livingthefield.com

Saturday May 17 - Inspirations and Happiness - Four years ago, a website launched into cyberspace, spreading messages of love, hope, and comfort. It was a place where visitors could hang their hat and stay awhile - a place to find solace from the present day's stresses and worries. Visitors enjoyed DailyOM and steadily their subscriber base grew to 800,000 a month. DailyOM co-founder Madisyn Taylor joins the Buddha Lounge to talk about her book ‘DailyOm' - Inspirational Thoughts for a Happy, Healthy, and Fulfilling Day. For more visit: http://www.dailyom.com/

Also on the Buddha Lounge, Rita Nayar, author of ‘The Happiness Quotient' a practical guide for the journey to inner happiness. Her book reveals the steps to developing a happy mind. Her philosophy is the force behind Rita's triumph over the cruel tragedy of her husband and son's murder suicide in 1997. She has come a long way from that dark night, and now, in ‘The Happiness Quotient', guides everyone to build inner strength and no longer rely on the outside world for happiness. For more visit: www.thehappinessquotient.com or http://www.ritanayar.com/

Saturday April 26 - Trends in Healthy Green Living Arielle Ford - The Guru of Public Relations and Marketing joins the Buddha Lounge to talk about her new business focus - Trends in Healthy Green Living, easy ways to go green, green heros, the amazing eco-utopian society in Italy and her partnership with Gaiam - the world leader in Lifestyle Products.

Arielle Ford's clients have included bestselling authors (11 of them have reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List) including Deepak Chopra, whose career she is credited with launching. With the formation of the Ford Group in 1987, she launched national campaigns in nearly every business sector from non-profit to world class hotels, to fortune 500 companies, real estate, film and television, sport celebrities and publishing.

Arielle Ford has mastered the art of making things happen. Whether generating widespread news coverage, creating a successful special event or launching leaders in the field of human potential, Arielle knows who, what, when, where and how to do it. For more visit: www.fordsisters.com

Saturday April 19th - Enlightened Movie Making & A Real Life Da Vinci Code Quest for the Lost Sacred Feminine. Former Hollywood Producer, Stephen Simon, co-founder of the Spiritual Cinema Circle joins the Buddha Lounge to talk about the global community who want enlightening entertainment and what our current forms of entertainment say about us a society. Stephen Simon has been Mentored by Hollywood greats such as Ray Stark (producer of STEEL MAGNOLIAS, THE GOODBYE GIRL, FUNNY GIRL) and Dino De Laurentiis (producer of over 150 motion pictures, including RED DRAGON, HANNIBAL, KING KONG), He has produced acclaimed projects such as the academy award winning ‘What dreams May Come' (starring Robin Williams & Cuba Gooding Jr. / The classic ‘Somewhere in Time'/ all the right moves (starring tom cruise) and many more. For more visit: www.spiritualcinemacircle.com

Also on the Buddha Lounge, Tim Ward - Bestselling author of ‘Savage Breast  - One Man's Search for the Goddess' will talk about a man's unconscious need for and fear of women which will be the basis of his upcoming Toronto lecture in May - a real life Da Vinci Code quest for the lost sacred feminine.

Tim Ward is perhaps the first modern man to deeply investigate the question: What does the Goddess have to offer men? IN HIS QUEST FOR ANSWERS, Ward journeys to the ruined temples and shrines of the goddess in the cradles of Western Civilization. He meets her face to face in her many forms: at the Delphic Oracle as Gaia-Mother Earth; in Romania as the maiden Pandora; and on a remote Anatolian hilltop, as Hecate, crone-queen of the witches. For more visit: www.timwardsbooks.com

Saturday night: Dating & Mating America's toughest matchmaker and dating coach joins the Buddha Lounge to share and talk about her trade secrets. Find out what to wear, where to go, and how to get out of a disastrous date - plus her 15 first-date tips, basic dating etiquette, conversation dos and don'ts and much more. For the past seven years, Patti Novak has been bringing people together in Buffalo, New York, a city with one of the highest populations of singles per capita. On the A&E show Confessions of a Matchmaker, Patti doesn't mince words when counseling single, divorced and widowed clients. The truth might hurt, but her methods seem to work. On average, Patti matches more than 500 people every month. For more visit: www.pattynovak.com

April 5th:  An encore presentation with The First Transgender Music Artist Lucas Silviera, front man for the Toronto rock band ‘The Cliks' joins the Buddha Lounge to talk about being the first Transgender Music Artist signed to a major music label and if being the first transgender music artist been an asset or a liability.

He also talks about his journey from being female to male and his decision for a double mastectomy. He shares the details of the most difficult year of his life and offers a revealing look at transgender sexuality and relationships. While his career and fame are growing just south of the border - he talks about the people who supported him and his music and having had the opportunity to tour with Cyndi lauper and Debbie Harry. For more visit: http://www.thecliks.com/

March 22nd show:  Transforming Fate into Destiny. World Renowned Intuitive/Astrologer, Robert Ohotto, Joins the Buddha Lounge again to talk about his highly anticipated book ‘Transforming Fate into Destiny'. He will also talk about what is Fate? What is Destiny? Transforming victim consciousness, what are cultural spells, the law of attraction, and the essential tools for transforming fate in destiny. For more visit: www.ohotto.com

March 15th show:  The Five Things You Must Discover Before You Die & Can Relationships Harm Your Health?John Izzo Joins the Buddha Lounge to talk about his book ‘The Five Things You Must Discover Before You Die' - a book based on interviews with 250 people over the age of 60 who reveal the secrets to happiness.

He has authored four books, Second Innocence: Rediscovering Joy and Wonder, Awakening Corporate Soul: Four Paths to Unleash the Power of People at Work, Values Shift: Recruiting, Retaining and Engaging the Multigenerational Workforce and his newest book, The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die. His work has been featured by the likes of Canada-AM, CNN, ABC World News, American Public Television, Canada's Biography Channel, Fast Company, Inc Magazine, The Healthcare Forum Journal, the Vancouver Sun and he is a feature writer for The Globe and Mail.

Dr. Izzo's rise from spiritual visionary to personal and corporate philosopher has him advising and speaking to individuals & Corporations across the globe. For more visit: www.theizzogroup.com

Also on the Buddha Lounge, Simone Wright talks about her book ‘Survive & Thrive' - How to Heal After a Break Up, Your Health and Relationships, The Misconceptions about Relationships. Simone Wright, author and creator of Soul Strategies and the Masterpiece Workshop Series, is a highly acclaimed expert in the field of relationships, personal power and spiritual transformation. Simone's work is based in the deep understanding that transformation occurs only when we realize the power of our deepest and often hidden beliefs and accept that we have the power to change them, and as a result, change our lives for the better. For more visit: www.soulstrategies.com

March 8th show: Healing the Past, Present and Future. Denise Linn joins the Buddha Lounge to talk about Forgiveness, Healing Negative Family & Ancestral Patterns, Soul Coaching and her new book ‘PastLives/Present Miracles'. She is the best-selling author of 14 books, & one of the world's most sought-after metaphysical speakers. After recovering from a near-death experience as a teenager, Denise apprenticed with teachers in diverse healing traditions around the world. As a renowned lecturer, author, and visionary, she regularly gives seminars on six continents. For more visit: www.deniselinn.com

March 1, 2008 show: The Nature of the Soul Thomas Moore joins the Buddha Lounge to talk about the nature of the soul, soul and sex, soul and depression, and his latest book - ‘A life at Work - The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do'. A Life's Work is not just about finding the right job, he states, it is also about uncovering and becoming the person you were meant to be. He is the author of Care of the Soul, which spent forty-six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and fifteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating the soul in every aspect of life. He has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and ecology. For more visit: www.careofthesoul.net

February 23, 2008 show: Trevor Strong, comedian and author of Get Stupid, will join the show along with Albert Nerenberg, director of the award winning documentary Stupidity. Stupidity is both a serious and hilarious investigation into the history and significance of human stupidity as a cultural, political and religious force. Trevor's book is a mocking look at the 7 ways to find bliss through stupidity. www.getstupid.biz/about.html

http://www.stupiditythemovie.com/

February 16, 2008 show:  Nazanin Afshin-Jam, former Ms. Canada and runner up at Ms. World, will join the show. Nazanin is a recording artist and model. But her primary role in life is that of an activist. Nazanin led the successful campaign to free Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi, sentenced to death in Iran for killing the man who was trying to rape her. Nazanin has since founded Stop Child Executions, a non profit organization to raise awareness and help free children sentenced to death in Iran. Cheryl Hotchkiss from Amnesty International will join Nazanin.  http://www.stopchildexecutions.com/

February 9, 2008 show:  Patrick Wanis, life coach to the stars will join the Buddha Lounge to talk about how to get what we really want...not what we think we want. Patrick will also share his insights on celebrity melt-downs and that which prevents stars as well as we regular folk from living authentic lives. For more information on Patrick Wanis go to: http://www.patrickwanis.com/ 

February 2, 2008 show:   Could the marriage of science and spirituality answer the  deepest mysteries of our past, while solving the problems that threaten our future? A growing body of evidence suggests that the answer to this question is an empowering "YES!"

Best Selling Author, Gregg Braden joins the Buddha Lounge to talk about his journeys through the remote monasteries of Egypt, Peru and Tibet.  Through his travels he found forgotten texts that were hidden by the early Christian Church, the secret of the Divine Matrix left in the coded language of our most cherished traditions and how all this is being verified by today's science. For more information on Gregg go to: http://www.greggbraden.com/

The Buddha Lounge Sunday afternoon 1p to 2p and the Best of The Buddha Lounge Saturday 8 pm to 9pm on Newstalk 1010 CFRB. The Buddha Lounge explores spiritual practices and timeless wisdom from the great traditions. It will provide insights from contemporary spiritual thinkers, celebrities, leading experts, gurus and great visionaries of our time on a wide range of topics from personal transformation to the environment, from corporate responsibility to building better relationships, from the intuitive arts to alternative health care and from current events to celebrity happenings.  

Here is a quick bio of the two hosts:

Natasha Dern owns Bedhar Investments, Inc, a company specializing in creating and developing business initiatives within the Beauty, Publishing, Retail, Media and Online sectors in service of transformation and evolution of human consciousness. Bedhar's recent business initiative included the launching of ‘Awakenings' in 2005, Toronto's leading bookstore & resource for Mind Body Spirit Living. Having traveled a non-traditional path enabled Natasha to deepen her knowledge and insights into the nature of Spirituality and Transformation, Mysticism and Higher Consciousness, Personal and Professional Success, which she disseminates through writing and speaking. For more visit: www.awakeningscanada.com

Colette Baron-Reid is an internationally respected intuitive Counselor, motivational speaker, best selling author of ‘Remembering the Future': The path to recovering intuition, and recording artist on the EMI music label. She has a best selling meditation CD ‘Journey Through the Chakras'. She is appearing in 36 cities over the next year with NEW YORK TIMES Best Selling author Sylvia Browne, and at events with Dr. Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Caroline Myss and others. Her second book Messages from Spirit is due for release May 2008.

She brings her wisdom, experience, and infectious laughter to the Buddha lounge mix. For more visit: http://www.colettebaronreid.com/

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