Active Pause

About Active Pause

This podcast explores how mindful presence shapes personal growth, from healing trauma to living mindfully. We cannot force personal growth through sheer willpower or simplistic formulas. We grow as we stay present and engaged while navigating the complexities of life. This approach to mindfulness is informed by the practice of therapy. Mindful presence is an essential part of the living process of change. It involves engaging with what happens as it happens. A recurring theme is Embodied Presence. I bring my perspective as a therapist to short talks and conversations with thoughtful guests.

Publisher

Serge Prengel

Category

education · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Jan 2001

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

310 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Inside a Trauma Therapist’s Mind with Glenn Fleisch

   Step inside a therapist's process for an immersive look at how decoding physical posture heals developmental trauma from the inside out.

2. 

   14 Sept 2026

   Somatic therapy without body mindfulness?

   When a client struggles to access body awareness, double downing on somatic techniques can feel like a demand. Exploring what happens when 'I don't know' opens a gap between therapist and client, this episode looks at moving from an internal report to a relational perspective. By tracking external cues and the therapist’s own embodiment, we stay present with personal change as a living process. I explore these relational and somatic dynamics in depth through my 6-month experiential training for clinicians: The Embodied & Relational Edge of Focusing-Oriented Therapy. See: https://proactivemindfulness.com/fot-embodied-relational/ Key topics: Somatic therapy, relational space, embodied presence, tracking nonverbal cues, navigating clinical resistance. Resource: ProactiveMindfulness.com

3. 

   26 Aug 2026

   Aziz & Maoz: An Israeli and a Palestinian Refuse to Be Enemies

   After the Israeli-Palestinian conflict took their families, Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah refused to meet loss with revenge. Instead, they chose to engage — with grief, with each other, and with a shared vision for peace. Their story is a real-world case of response over reaction, played out at the highest possible stakes. Key topics: response vs. reaction, trauma and forgiveness, embodied engagement, vision-driven change, Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding Resource: ProactiveMindfulness.com

Who has been a guest on Active Pause

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Brenda Eshin Shoshanna
• Dan Clurman
• Venerable Losang Gendun
• Serge Prengel

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

348,120

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

48

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

89

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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