Using a blend of storytelling and interviews, the Soul Search podcast is an up-close look at the journey below the surface of our lives to find our deepest and truest selves.
Season One: Welcome Your Life
The key to the spiritual life is not finding a way to manufacture a life that is spiritual but instead giving yourself more deeply to the life that you’re already living, wherever you are.
In our first series of podcasts, we’ll take a look at this essential part of the spiritual journey, one we’re calling “Welcome Your Life.” You’ll hear stories and interview from everyday people and experts in the contemplative life, who have regained a sense of wonder and purpose through the simple act of letting go.
Episode One: Walk
There is a different kind of walking. One in which you’re not trying to get anywhere or to accomplish anything. Instead, it is a walk to linger and to listen. When we walk in this way, we step into “the real” around us and open ourselves to the deeper truth we tend to pass right by.
In our very first episode, we visit with Kirk Davis, community leader and San Francisco native. He took three-hour walks through the city as a way to listen to what it was saying to him about the past and the future. And to what stirred in his heart as he contemplated both. Find out what he heard.
Learn more about Kirk’s work in Bayview-Hunters Point here.
Guided Meditation
In this meditation, you’ll be guided through a "walk of presence" in which you imagine yourself walking through a neighborhood, or any physical space that is meaningful to you. You’re encouraged to sit and listen to it in a quiet space. Or you may listen to it while you take a physical walk, using its prompts to help you be more present to your surroundings.
Spiritual Exercise
Use this Spiritual Exercise to guide you through a physical “walk of presence.” It contains prompts for reflection. You’re encouraged to try it several times over the course of a couple of weeks as a way to build a habit of lingering and listening.