#090 Open Your Mind (with Elish Le)

Stevie Was introduced to Elish Le on his travels in New York. Elish helps people attain physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing through strength training, meditation, breath-work and more. 

Elish has over 6000 hours of meditation practice drawing inspiration from many of the ancient Zen masters and worked with teachers including Shinzen Young, Henry Shukman Roshi and Valeria Forstman Roshi. 

Elish has also explored the world of psychedelics, with 400 trips across many different psychedelic medicines.

The topics covered in this podcast were Elish's upbringing with Vietnamese parents who were refugees from the Vietnam war, how he believes he took on the stress and trauma from their lives, the moments when Elish tried to take his own life, how Psychedelics shattered his life but how 300 trips enabled him to see the world differently
What 'Samadhi' and 'Enlightenment' are, how being stuck in a traditional view of the world can cause suffering and how he changed this.

Enjoy a meditation at the end of the podcast which was recorded live by Elish. This podcast is definitely an experience, enter with an open mind!