{"podcast":{"title":"The Flower Heads Show with Dakota Wint","slug":"the-flower-heads-show-with-dakota-wint-7690325","podcast_index_feed_id":7690325,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/the-flower-heads-show","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/the-flower-heads-show","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/e0/8e/96/d5/e08e96d5-ac58-47ec-927c-c0163e9b21bc/a5952594fdbf2b4432195e42c066925a27daf43f2a24faf0df505596c561d7b7713869b5cc6d59f43c502b7e7c008838d340fa530066830d40c0703c78f0f879.jpeg","author":"Be Here Now Network","episode_count":8,"summary":"The Flower Heads Show is a journey into the wild, unpredictable, and transformative edges of life. Host Dakota (known as Dakota of Earth / Dakota Wint) shares his own extraordinary path—from time with Ram Dass in Maui to years of travel through India filled with psychedelics, sadhus, magic, and the full spectrum of human experience. Along the way, he brings in fascinating guests with unbelievable stories of their own. Expect a mix of adventure, spirituality, and raw storytelling that blurs the line between the mystical and the everyday. Check out more of Dakota's adventures on YouTube at dakota of earth .","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T08:18:27.772217+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-flower-heads-show-with-dakota-wint-7690325"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 3 - The Aghori Who Changed My Life with Dr. Robert Svoboda","slug":"ep-3-the-aghori-who-changed-my-life-with-dr-robert-svoboda","published_at":"2026-04-30T19:02:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-flower-heads-show-with-dakota-wint-7690325/ep-3-the-aghori-who-changed-my-life-with-dr-robert-svoboda","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-flower-heads-show-with-dakota-wint-7690325","url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/600e9730-c4e1-4c2f-8ec3-23f892751871.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/600e9730-c4e1-4c2f-8ec3-23f892751871.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"When does spirituality cease to be sacred and become performance? Dakota shares the drastically different encounters he had with Aghori while traveling through India. He brings on Dr. Robert Svoboda to learn more about Aghora practices and shares some of the extreme practices he encountered while traveling through India. In this episode, Dakota dives into: The performative and theatrical dimensions of religious ritual Dakota’s firsthand experience with the Aghori of India Learning the power of spiritual practice through Bhavani Baba The Aghori ritual of Shava Sadhana (meditation on the corpse) Lessons from Vimalanda on illusion and superficiality  Loving your mother as a spiritual practice  Seeing through the relative and connecting to ultimate reality  The practice of non-attachment to passing experiences and states Check out Dr. Svoboda’s renowned books on the Aghori HERE . About Dr. Robert Svoboda: Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of twelve books including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and the Aghora series, which discusses his experiences with his mentor during the years 1975 – 1983. In the years since 1986, Dr. Svoboda has traveled extensively, spending three months per year on average in India. He often speaks on Ayurveda, Jyotish, Tantra and allied subjects in locales across the world. “Something that Vimalananda emphasized repeatedly is that the least important part of Aghora is the external part, the part where you’re applying a bunch of ashes…","meta_description":"When does spirituality cease to be sacred and become performance? Dakota shares the drastically different encounters he had with Aghori while traveling th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2557,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-flower-heads-show-with-dakota-wint-7690325/episodes/ep-3-the-aghori-who-changed-my-life-with-dr-robert-svoboda/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-flower-heads-show-with-dakota-wint-7690325/ep-3-the-aghori-who-changed-my-life-with-dr-robert-svoboda.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}