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Pneuma with Daniel Finneran

Daniel Finneran

Welcome to Pneuma—wellness with depth. I’m Daniel, a PT who believes in strengthening body and soul. Here, we blend practical health tips with timeless wisdom. From the Shake Weight to Shakespeare, Pilates to Platonism, we’ll dive into it all—always with a mission of helping you live more deeply. If you"d like your questions featured on the show (or just want to chat!) send a message to pneuma.finneran@gmail.com. I can"t wait to connect!

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25:08

A Guided Meditation For Your TEA Time (As CALMING As...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2023/03/07

A simple, soothing guided meditation for when you drink your tea. I assure you: this episode will enhance what is, on its own, without my meager contribution, one of the great human institutions of which we have the good fortune to partake: teatime. Let us take the opportunity (the opportuni-TEA?--I couldn't resist!) to employ some mindfulness while we enjoy this delightful beverage. Tell me, what is YOUR favorite tea? Chai? Chamomile? Green? Oolong? Accompanied by honey and sugar? Or

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55:17

How to Keep Calm in a Crazy World | A Gentle Guided...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2023/03/02

No doubt—this world in which we live is a crazy one! From political unrest, to economic uncertainty, to global pandemics, and interminable wars, you might begin to feel as if there’s no escape. Rest assured, there is. The path is simple: all you need to do is retire into yourself and find your inner peace. Join me on this soothing meditation to rediscover your inner peace and, above all, to keep your calm in what is, by any measure, an increasingly crazy world! Like this episode, share it

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97:54

Life Lessons From YouTube's SLEEP GURU | Jason...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2023/02/25

Jason Stephenson is the founder and host of the wildly popular YouTube channel, “Jason Stephenson: Sleep Meditation Music” to which some 3 million people (and counting!) are subscribed. Since joining the platform in 2011, Jason’s videos on sleep, mindfulness, meditation, music, nature, life, and breathing have amassed over 700 million views–a number to which I’m honored to say I’ve contributed!In this conversation, Jason and I discuss…His tumultuous background and how it led him to a life

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7:04

Sailing to Byzantium by WB Yeats | The Great Poems Of...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2023/02/19

William Butler (WB) Yeats (1865 - 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and statesman. A poet to whom I was introduced at the tender age of twelve, Yeats has continued to inhabit a special place in my heart. His finest work, in my opinion, is "Sailing to Byzantium". After the collapse of Rome in the fifth century AD, the center of European culture shifted east to the Golden Horn. Renamed "Constantinople" after the famed Christian Emperor, Byzantium was, to Yeats, the spiritual

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30:28

A Celebration Of The Sun: Gratitude For Our Great...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2023/02/12

Thomas Traherne (1636-74) was an English poet, writer, theologian, and Anglican cleric to whom I was recently introduced.His only extant work, Centuries of Meditations, completely swept me away. It’s a short but powerful book with which you should spend an afternoon. In this episode, we’ll focus on a couple of passages from Traherne’s Meditations. In them, he lists the countless gifts that the sun bestows upon us every single day–of which we’re almost always unmindful, and for which we’re

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5:32

A Simple 4-7-8 Breathing Exercise | On The Beach

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2023/02/07

The 4-7-8 breathing exercise, of which the great Dr. Andrew Weil is widely-acknowledged to be the inventor, is simple and effective. You need only do the following: inhale for 4 seconds; hold the breath for 7 seconds; and exhale for 8 seconds. That constitutes one cycle. You'll then repeat this sequence for a total of four cycles. Perform this at least twice a day. A little "behind the scenes": this episode, which was completely unscripted, was recorded while I was sitting on the beach

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6:51

If-- by Rudyard Kipling | The Great Poems Of All Time

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2023/01/29

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English poet, journalist, and author of short stories. An unbending defender of the British imperial project, his reputation has suffered in recent years. Many of his detractors today echo the judgment rendered by George Orwell, who called him, in positively venomous terms, a morally insensitive, aesthetically disgusting, brutal, sadistic, jingo imperialist. Well then! Despite Orwell's unflattering assessment of his near contemporary, Kipling's finest

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10:08

A Quick, Calming Breathing Meditation At The Beach

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2023/01/25

The title says it all! After a peaceful morning spent reading on the beach, I took a few minutes to absorb all the natural beauty, tranquility, picturesqueness, and happiness that surrounded me. Join me and interrupt your day with the gentle sound of waves rolling on the beach, wind blowing through the trees, laughter dancing in the air, music echoing in every direction, and--the least euphonious of the aforementioned--my calming voice leading you through a simple breathing exercise. Visit

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17:40

Treat Your Feet Right! Basic Strength, Balance, and...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2023/01/20

Encased by slippers, sneakers, and shoes all day, our poor feet are suffering from the mistreatment of modernity. For twelve, sixteen, eighteen hours, they're confined to ill-fitting shoes from which they want nothing better than to be set free. Sadly, they're prohibited, for almost the entirety of their life, from bending, bearing, feeling, and moving as the Author of nature intended. In this episode, we'll go through a few simple exercises that can help restore the strength, flexibility,

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42:10

Momotaro (The Peach Boy) | Fall Asleep With Me

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2023/01/13

The story of Momotaro (the "Peach Boy") is one of the most famous and beloved in Japanese folklore.Born of a giant peach that was floating down the river, Momotaro was adopted by an elderly couple that was incapable of having a child of its own. Nurtured by his parents' unremitting love and care, Momotaro grew to be a big, virtuous, strong young man. Eventually, he set out to confront the nasty demons who made a habit of terrorizing Japan. Try, if you can, to listen to the entirety of this

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24:04

A Meditation on Human Nature with Machiavelli and The...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2022/11/04

I'll bet that you weren't expecting to see those two names joined together! Such are the promiscuous and varied sources from whom we here on Pneuma draw our inspiration. We look at once to the courtly Florentine political philosopher (by whom the murderous Medici were, for better or worse, advised), and to the ascetic Indian sage who, in the sixth century BC, attained enlightenment and enjoyed an apotheosis. In this episode, we'll examine one of the fundamental features of human nature: the

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36:00

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens | Fall Asleep...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2022/10/15

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."Is there, in all literature, an opening line with which more minds are stamped? A passage more famous and quotable than that with which Dickens' timeless classic begins? I think not! Set in those two great centers of learning and culture, London and Paris, before and during the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities follows the tribulations of Dr. Manette, his blue-eyed daughter, Lucie, and her dashing, strong-willed husband, the

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29:11

Guided Meditation For When You're On An Airplane

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2022/10/10

Not even the most experienced traveler (to whom thousands of valuable “miles” and precious points have accrued!) is totally immune to the uneasiness and discomfort associated with flight. These feelings, sadly, are an inescapable part of our airborne journeys. In this episode, we’ll go through a mediation by which our stresses will be quieted, our equanimity restored, and our flight made much more peaceful and, perhaps, enjoyable. We’ll perform a simple breathing exercise, a gentle body

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27:06

How To Lose Weight Like a Stoic

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2022/10/05

"To live in accordance with nature". That, in its simplest form, is the central principle around which the entire philosophy of Stoicism revolves. To live in accordance with nature is to practice the four virtues (temperance, prudence, justice, and courage) for which we all have an inborn aptitude and reverence. It’s to elevate temperance, the virtue of moderation, self-control, self-possession, and self-governance, above the lower appetites by which we’re too easily overcome. In this

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29:13

Is Happiness Attainable in THIS Life?

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2022/09/23

Can you be happy in this life? Can anyone, for that matter, be happy (I mean truly happy) in this life?Join me, Aristotle, and St. Thomas Aquinas as we address this difficult question. Be sure to subscribe to and follow this channel. Leave a Five-star rating on it and share it with friends! Finneran’s WakeListen to some fascinating conversations on your favorite podcast streaming service: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/74eUg83Q8zOgaRA5EBuzyl?si=871b6aa8082146af. Apple

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30:58

Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2022/09/18

#sleep #bedtimestories #bedtime #relaxing #calming #soothing Get comfortable! Here's an excerpt from Thomas De Quincey's intoxicating work, "Confessions of an English Opium Eater". The title, I think, says it all. De Quincey's confessional joins a timeless genre to which such luminary names as St. Augustine and Jean-Jacques Rousseau contributed. In this excerpt, you'll learn how the esteemed British author got hooked on the soporific drug, against whose recreational or medicinal use he's

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41:36

How To Think About The Sublime And Beautiful: A...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2022/09/14

Refine your aesthetic sense, heighten your appreciation for nature's splendor, learn what it means to experience the sublime and the beautiful.This episode, at whose center the great Irish philosopher Edmund Burke stands, is something of a didactic meditation. In it, you'll learn how to think about the sublime and the beautiful, and how to talk about aesthetics in a more sophisticated way. If you enjoy this content, please subscribe to or follow this channel! Share it with friends and

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23:04

Gentle Stretches for the Relief of Neck Pain and...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2022/09/10

That bothersome, inescapable tension in which your sore neck is all "knotted up"... Well, it's about to be unravelled. If these simple stretches don't put your neck at ease, the buttery-smooth cooing of my voice just might. Check out my new YouTube channel, "Pneuma by Daniel Finneran", on which I'll post an accompanying video. And visit my sister channels, Finneran's Wake (YouTube and podcast) and Finneran's Wake for Kids for more content.

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14:21

Food, Shelter, Clothing - How Our Most Basic Needs...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2022/09/08

Food, shelter, and clothing--these are the fundamental needs without which we can't long live, the biologic claims on us to which we can't be inattentive (lest we cease to exist!) We all know this to be true, but these things quickly become, once we detach ourselves from the modest demands of nature, ostentatious treasures, immoderate indulgences to which we become lost. Let's think about these basic needs and the the ways in which they become perverted into sumptuous feasts, capacious

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25:33

Learn to Love and Celebrate the Morning! It's the...

Pneuma with Daniel Finneran ·

2022/09/06

Are you most decidedly NOT a morning "person"? Listen to this episode, inspired by the wisdom of Henry David Thoreau, and your affirmed dislike of the dawn might just change! “All memorable events transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, ‘All intelligences awake with the morning’. Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Agamemnon and Achilles, are the children of Aurora, and

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