Enhanced Senses Podcast
Enhanced Senses Podcast
Podcast Description
Enhanced Senses explores the connection between external creative pursuits—such as sport, art, and outdoor recreation—and the internal journey of emotional healing and transformation.
This podcast features guests who have found intentional ways to integrate adventure, creativity, and psychedelics into their personal and collective growth.
By sharing these stories, we aim to inspire listeners to explore the balance between their external and internal worlds while discovering meaningful ways to contribute to their communities.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores topics such as the healing power of theater, the impact of endurance sports on recovery from addiction, and the use of psychedelics for personal growth. Episode examples include Brian Stanton discussing theater as a healing modality and Erin Witter sharing insights on endurance biking and recovery from alcoholism, highlighting the importance of community and personal development.
Enhanced Senses explores psychedelics, extreme sports, creativity, and intimacy as portals to the enhanced sense of being human. Altered states and flow states reveal the edges of human consciousness — and as AI and artificial reality reshape how we experience the world, knowing how to access that felt sense becomes essential.
Host Danielle Peecher, researcher, athlete, and community builder, is your guide through the experiences that cut through artificial reality and return you to yourself.
What does it feel like to be you?
Is paragliding the stupid thing that you do, or is it the path that leads you to realize your life might be worth more than paragliding?
Ari DeLashmutt asks that question. Not rhetorically. He's watched people answer it both ways.
Ari is a paragliding instructor and men's coach, helping men be safe in the air and secure, authentic and free in their lives on the ground. He runs men's retreats that double as paragliding clinics around the world. He lives in Bend, Oregon with his wife and young child.
In this conversation we cover:
- How powder skiing unlocked a new dimension and why paragliding took that even further
- How to read the invisible, finding thermals when you can't see the air
- Why paragliding demands everything: body awareness, risk, ego, emotional intelligence, reverence for nature
- Motivational structures underneath risk-taking and how they shift moment to moment
- What men actually transform in the group: relationships, sobriety, father-son dynamics, belonging located internally
- The concept of obedience, following the current rather than fighting it
- Expanded awareness as a skill that transfers from the glider to your whole life
- Why getting really good at paragliding reveals you were always dealing with yourself
When you get really good at paragliding you start realizing you were never just dealing with the air. You were dealing with yourself.
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Ari talks about expanded awareness as something you develop over time, one flight at a time. Your story is the same, it's already there, it just needs excavating.
If this conversation opened something up for you, that's the starting point. My story excavation guide walks you through pulling your own transformation story using the Six Dynamics Framework. Download it here!
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Enhanced Senses Podcast explores what it feels like to be you through portals like extreme sports, psychedelics, creativity, and intimacy.
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