Integral Being

Integral Being explores the lived intersection of martial embodiment, contemplative traditions, and human transformation. These are not abstract conversations—they are grounded in practice, perception, and the direct cultivation of the human system. Through dialogue with masters, scholars, and practitioners, this podcast examines how real practice reshapes the body, breath, attention, and awareness into a unified field of experience.

Integral Being is a health podcast hosted by Mark V. WIley, with 27 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Mark V. WIley hosts Integral Being, a health show with 27 episodes published.

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  Episode #28

  Rumi, Sufism, and the Transformative Power of Living Tradition | Shaykh Peter Cunz

  Aug 17, 20261h 45mS1

  Can authentic spiritual transformation happen without a living tradition? In this episode of Integral Being , Mark Wiley speaks with Shaykh Peter Huseyin Cunz, a Swiss Sufi teacher of the Mevlevi Order—the spiritual tradition inspired by the teachings of Jalaluddin Rumi. Together, they explore why authentic traditions continue to matter in a modern culture that often favors individual spirituality, personal interpretation, and the accumulation of spiritual ideas over disciplined practice. Peter explains how ritual gradually changes the practitioner. Through repetition, embodiment, guidance, humility, and sustained participation in a living path, spiritual practice begins to reorganize how we perceive, respond to, and participate in life. The conversation explores the difference between learning about spirituality and actually being transformed by it. Peter discusses the embodied dimensions of Islamic prayer and the Mevlevi Sema ceremony, the importance of authentic guidance, and the relationship between the ego, surrender, and awakening. Rather than presenting Sufism as a philosophy to be admired from a distance, Peter reveals it as a living discipline capable of cultivating presence, compassion, humility, and greater simplicity. In This Conversation • Why ritual changes consciousness • Why modern spirituality can become spiritual consumerism • The difference between information and transformation • Why authentic spiritual practice requires tradition • The embodied nature of Islamic prayer • The meaning and purpose of the Mevlevi Sema ceremony • Rumi's understanding of the spiritual path • Why authentic guidance remains indispensable • The relationship between ego, surrender, and awakening • Why genuine practice gradually makes life simpler • The meaning of "You only ever take the next first step" Whether your interests include Sufism, Rumi, meditation, embodiment, contemplative practice, martial arts, or human transformation, this conversation offers enduring wisdom for the modern seeker.Discover more conversations, reflections, and embodied practices at: https://innerlifewithmarkwiley.com

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  Episode #25

  What Makes Authentic Taiji Qigong Shibashi Different? | Fabrice Piché

  Aug 10, 20261h 41mS1

  What makes authentic Taiji Qigong Shibashi different from simply learning a sequence of movements? In this episode of Integral Being , Mark Wiley speaks with Fabrice Piché , a medical qigong practitioner and one of the few Western students to receive private instruction from Professor Lin Housheng , the creator of Taiji Qigong Shibashi. Their conversation explores the deeper purpose of qigong—not as exercise or choreography, but as a disciplined path of embodied cultivation. Fabrice discusses the principles behind Professor Lin's teaching, the nature of qi, moving meditation, medical qigong, qi emission, Jing-Qi-Shen, and how sustained practice transforms awareness through direct experience. Together they examine why authentic internal arts are measured not by how many techniques we know, but by how deeply practice changes the practitioner. In this episode: What makes Taiji Qigong Shibashi unique Studying directly with Professor Lin Housheng The origins of the 18 Movements Medical Qigong and qi emission Understanding qi through practice rather than belief Jing, Qi, and Shen explained Moving meditation and embodied awareness Why repetition reveals increasing depth Authentic cultivation versus external performance Embodiment as the foundation of transformation Discover more conversations, reflections, and practices at: https://innerlifewithmarkwiley.com

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  Episode #25

  What Light Reveals About Perception, Attention, and the World We Experience

  Aug 10, 20265 minS1

  Light is usually understood as something outside us—something that illuminates the world so we can see it. But seeing is not passive. Light enters into a living relationship with perception, attention, the nervous system, and action. In this Inner Life Talk, Mark V. Wiley explores what happens when we stop thinking of light merely as something we observe and begin noticing how we participate in it. From ordinary vision to embodied movement, attention, and practice, light offers a direct way of examining how the condition of the perceiver shapes the world that appears. The transcript makes this participation point explicitly: seeing is an interaction rather than passive observation, with light functioning as the medium through which the world appears in relationship to us. Discover more conversations, reflections, and practices at: https://innerlifewithmarkwiley.com

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  Episode #24

  Swami Kripananda: Kundalini, Silence & the Long Path of Yoga

  Aug 6, 20261h 31mS1

  What is authentic Kundalini awakening? According to Swami Kripananda, it is not something to pursue but something that unfolds naturally through years of disciplined practice. In this episode of Integral Being , Mark V. Wiley speaks with Swami Kripananda about addiction, recovery, Kundalini, yoga philosophy, breath, silence, nervous system development, and the gradual transformation that authentic contemplative practice makes possible. Rather than chasing mystical experiences, Kripananda encourages practitioners to cultivate the conditions through which grace naturally emerges. Together they explore Patanjali's Eightfold Path, breath as the bridge between body and mind, Kundalini phenomena, and why silence—not extraordinary experience—becomes the deepest teacher. This conversation offers a grounded perspective on yoga as a lifelong path of embodied transformation.

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  Episode #23

  What Is Internal Energy? René Navarro on Qi, Taoist Cultivation & the Internal Arts

  Aug 1, 20263h 22mS1

  What does it actually mean to become an internal practitioner? In this episode of Integral Being, Mark Wiley sits down with René Navarro, a lifelong practitioner of Taoist internal cultivation, traditional Chinese medicine, meditation, and the internal martial arts. Rather than treating these as separate disciplines, Navarro reveals how they form a single path of embodied transformation. The conversation explores what qi really is, how internal energy is cultivated through consistent practice, and why genuine internal development gradually changes not only the body, but also awareness, perception, and the way we participate in life. Topics include: • What is qi? • Can internal energy actually be experienced? • Breath, awareness, and energetic development • The five "triangle bones" and internal organization • Meridians and the energetic body • The Microcosmic Orbit and Taoist cultivation • Internal alchemy as a lifelong process • Why authentic internal arts are about transformation, not performance Whether you come from martial arts, meditation, Chinese medicine, or simply an interest in embodied human development, this conversation offers practical insights into one of the world's oldest living traditions of internal cultivation. Learn more about Inner Life: https://innerlifewithmarkwiley.com Subscribe for more conversations exploring embodiment, consciousness, and human transformation.

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