{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"EP 347: Beyond Wellness with Liz Bucar","description":"Liz Bucar is a religious ethicist and professor of religion at Northeastern University, as well as a certified intenSati and Kripalu yoga instructor. Her popular writing has appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal, and she is the author of four books, including the award-winning Stealing My Religion and Pious Fashion. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. For more about how religion shapes us all, even if we don\u2019t believe, subscribe to Liz\u2019s newsletter at LizBucar.com. In the chaos of today\u2019s world, we\u2019re all searching for meaning. The wellness industry has sold us a promise that we can find it if we just buy the right products, attend the right retreats, and follow the right celebrity gurus. But is this true? Or are we picking and choosing from a self-care salad bar in ways that satisfy our hunger but don\u2019t truly nourish us? When we approach practices like yoga and ayahuasca as fitness routines and life hacks, we miss out on the sacred wisdom they have to offer us. But by digging into the real and often ancient religious traditions behind these practices, from Buddhism to Christianity and beyond, we can make them more meaningful, ethical, and effective\u2014without the often unpleasant baggage of joining an organized religion. In this engaging and deeply personal book, award-winning scholar and writer Liz Bucar embarks on a quest to get to the heart of \u201cspiritual but not religious\u201d activities from detox diets to sound baths. As she tries out each practice for herself, she asks how we can get more out of it by tuning out the hype and taking the religious meaning behind it seriously\u2014with emotionally profound and often surprising results. Whether it\u2019s as simple as setting an intention for a yoga asana or as complex as reevaluating what a \u201chigher power\u201d is, it\u2019s time to understand, experience, and simply get more out of our spiritual practices. It\u2019s time to dig deeper with Beyond Wellness. Order the Book: https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/774524\/beyond-wellness-by-liz-bucar\/ Visit: https:\/\/www.sacred-writes.org   ","author_name":"The Classical Ideas Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/classicalideaspodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"