Harm Reduction — Life is a Festival

Atish: Beats, Breaks, and Balance, a DJ Unplugs

Life is a Festival #175

Service, legacy, and giving back to one’s community.

Community, Art, Gender, Personal Growth, Fame, Leadership, Harm Reduction, Mentorship, Music, RaceEamon ArmstrongOctober 25, 2024Comment

Live From Burning Man Information Radio (Encore)

Life is a Festival #172

Playing around at BMIR 2019 and Harm Reduction Tips for 2024

Community, Festivals, Spirituality, Burning Man, Art, Gender, Harm Reduction, Personal GrowthEamon ArmstrongAugust 22, 2024Burning ManComment

Camille Barton: The Urgent Art of Grief Ritual

Life is a Festival #170

In a world beset by tragedy its important to learn how to grieve.

Community, LGBTQ, Yoga, Death, Gender, Harm Reduction, Mental Wellness, RaceEamon ArmstrongMay 16, 2024Comment

Sami Awad & Sharon Avraham: A Lighthouse for the Middle East

Life is a Festival #167

Sami and Sharon return to the show to discuss their ambitious peace project, the Lighthouse.

Critical Thinking, Leadership, Harm Reduction, Burning Man, Art, Community, Festivals, Politics, Personal GrowthEamon ArmstrongFebruary 15, 2024Comment

Julia Maryanska & Ian MacKenzie: From Polyagony to a Village of Lovers

Life is a Festival #166

The Village of Lovers helps us heal the wounds of gender and experience love free from fear.

Personal Growth, Gender, Sexuality, LGBTQ, Community, Critical Thinking, Film, Leadership, Harm Reduction, Mental WellnessEamon ArmstrongFebruary 6, 2024TameraComment

Colette Pervette: Why Are All My Friends Becoming Dominatrixes?

Life is a Festival #163

Instead of healing the kink, let the kink heal you.

Community, Harm Reduction, Personal Growth, Gender, Leadership, LGBTQ, SexualityEamon ArmstrongDecember 26, 2023Kink, DominatrixComment

Ilana Gilovich-Wave: Requiem for Sleep No More

Life is a Festival #162

Immersing into immersive experience design with one of the world's most iconic theatrical experiences, Sleep No More.

Community, Harm Reduction, Leadership, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Psychedelics, SpiritualityEamon ArmstrongDecember 7, 2023IrelandComment

Darragh Stewart: The Indigenous Medicine of Ireland

Life is a Festival #161

Ancient Ireland was like the Amazon, with impenetrable forests navigable only by rivers, deep mysticism, and its very own indigenous medicine, the psychedelic Liberty Cap mushrooms.

Community, Harm Reduction, Leadership, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Psychedelics, SpiritualityEamon ArmstrongNovember 17, 2023IrelandComment

Marian Goodell et al: Inside Burning Man’s Worst Case Scenario

Life is a Festival #157

Will our changing climate stop Burning Man, or will our collective resilience and response to crisis make our community stronger.

Mental Wellness, Burning Man, Community, Festivals, Leadership, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Art, Business, Harm ReductionEamon ArmstrongSeptember 15, 2023Burning ManComment

Dennis Walker (Mycopreneur): The Court Jester of the Psychedelic Renaissance

Life is a Festival #153

How humor keeps psychedelics entertaining and helps level the playing field.

Personal Growth, Harm Reduction, Psychedelics, Critical ThinkingEamon ArmstrongJuly 17, 2023satireComment

Phil Wolfson: Is Recreational Ketamine Therapeutic?

Life is a Festival #152

All your burning questions about Special K to Phil, like whether there's a difference between S and R isomers, if one should "spit the drip" to avoid bladder damage, and if frequent ketamine use leads to memory loss.

Personal Growth, Harm Reduction, PsychedelicsEamon ArmstrongJuly 6, 2023ketamineComment

Jetta Blaine: The Marvelous Peptides of Kambo

Life is a Festival #150

Kambo, an Amazonian medicine derived from the secretions of the Phyllomedusa bicolor has been instrumental in maintaining my mental health for the past six years.

Personal Growth, Harm Reduction, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, SpiritualityEamon ArmstrongJune 14, 2023KamboComment

Iboga Part 2: Initiating with Iboga in Africa

Life is a Festival #140 - Apollon (Bwiti Initiations)

A conversation with a Bwiti N’ganga about how Westerns can connect with this African spiritual practice.

Leadership, Psychedelics, Gender, Harm Reduction, LGBTQ, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Race, SpiritualityEamon ArmstrongDecember 20, 2022MAPSComment

Iboga Part 1: Ibogaine Clinical Treatment

Life is a Festival #139 - Dr. Felipe Malacara, & Vianey Ariadna Perez (Beond Ibogaine)

Healing addiction and trauma using ibogaine HLC in a Western medical model at Beond Clinic in Cancun.

Leadership, Psychedelics, Gender, Harm Reduction, LGBTQ, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Race, SpiritualityEamon ArmstrongDecember 10, 2022MAPSComment

The Art of Interviewing

Life is a Festival #138 - Eamon Armstrong & Ian MacKenzie

To celebrate four years of Life is a Festival, today I’m sharing a conversation I had with my friend Ian MacKenzie about how to conduct a good interview.