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WAYLON LEWIS: Walk the Talk Show


“Mostly Coherent Confessions of a Dharma Brat.” Alex King Video: Waylon Lewis.

by on Mar 19, 2010

A moment in time in Venice, California: Mostly Coherent Confessions of a Dharma Brat – Waylon in Venice CA from Alex King & Mito Media. ~ I’m just back from a week in LA for Natural Products Expo West, which was amazing and exhausting, and then four or five days in LA for meetings, hangings [...]


Telluride Yoga Fest ft. Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis.

by on Feb 22, 2010

Read elephant’s coverage of last year’s Telluride Yoga Festival: here, here or here. Exhale your final ommm, raise your thumbs to your third eye center and bow slowly, then sit up straight and open your eyes. Let yourself drift back to reality, smile, thank your instructor and slowly rise.  It sounds like the peaceful ending [...]


Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis: Evol Burritos Part II.

by on Feb 19, 2010

See our slideshow, courtesy Timmy D’Antonio, ele’s longtime photographer and buddies, at bottom. If you’d like to use photos on Facebook that’s jolly good as long as you tag it “Waylon Lewis” or @elephantjournal (we have a Page). Any other use, please email for permission from Timmy and elephant first. ~ ed. It was our [...]


Walk the Talk Show w Waylon Lewis: David McLaughlin of Club 100K on how to build Residual Income.

by on Feb 12, 2010

David McLaughlin lives the life: when he’s not working with his community of entrepreneurs, his residual income business allows him the time to travel the world and raise a family. Now, with Club 100K (click here to learn more or enroll), he’s set out to show others how to get out of the cubicle and [...]


Sam Iannetta of Functional Fitness on Walk the Talk Show w Waylon Lewis.

by on Feb 10, 2010

Sam Iannetta of Functional Fitness: True Health. Sam Iannetta, a champion powerlifter, tells—and shows—how alignment is the key to both preventing and healing injuries, whatever your fitness practice: yoga, cycling, running, pilates, swimming… Waylon Lewis host: @WalkTheTalkShow, founder: http://www.elephantjournal.com http://www.twitter.com/elephantjournal http://www.facebook.com/elephantjournal Sam Iannetta of Functional Fitness http://www.functionalfitnessusa.com


Farewell, Alex King.

by on Feb 4, 2010

An Elephantian Gentleman. We met when Alex was filming an ecofashion show of ours, with Econscious, at a club in downtown Boulder, years ago. We met again at some other fashion show, at Bacaro. Alex started interning for elephant, then a growing national magazine devoted to “the mindful life.” He began videoing and editing our [...]



It’s…The Dovekins! Walk the Talk Show w/Waylon Lewis, hosted by Naropa University.

by on Jan 27, 2010

Video: Una Morera, Alex King, Jordan Schevene. Event: Lindsey Cash I like to think I was among the Dovekins‘ first handful of groupies. [slide] Now they have hundreds, closing in on thousands of ardent fans…they’re fun to dance to, fun to be around, silly, sweet, professional, talented, stylish, creative, poetical, real, going places yet grounded, [...]


Our first “elevision,” now “Walk the Talk Show” video with Alex King: Ecofashion 2007.

by on Jan 22, 2010

Ecofashion Video of Photoshoot for elephant magazine, Spring, 2007. Ft. Joey Walker, Abbey Smith, Caroline Treadway, Farmers’ Market, Eldorado Springs Pool, Urban Pearl… Love this vid, just rediscovered gathering dust on youtube, up until now lost in some external hard drive, somewhere, along with 150 other video interviews and random shoots. Alex King, our video [...]


Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis: Evol Burritos, Part I.

by on Jan 13, 2010

See our slideshow, courtesy Timmy D’Antonio, ele’s longtime photographer and buddies, at bottom. If you’d like to use photos on Facebook that’s jolly good as long as you tag it “Waylon Lewis” or @elephantjournal (we have a Page). Any other use, please email for permission from Timmy and elephant first. ~ ed. It was our [...]





Boulder City Council debate Monday: elephantjournal.com & New Era Colorado host at Fox Theatre, Columbus Day.

by on Oct 8, 2009

elephantjournal.com & New Era Colorado present the biggest Boulder debate—by far. Candidates will be judged live via audience participation, so candidates make sure your supporters RSVP & attend in force! Important: Reserve your (free) ticket here for the Columbus Day Debate! elephantjournal.com and New Era Colorado are joining forces again for a night of a [...]


elephantjournal.com goes to Wanderlust Music + Yoga Festival. By Mitomedia.

by on Aug 12, 2009

Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis Matas: video of green+yoga+music Wanderlust Festival, in Lake Tahoe. Video via Alex King of Mitomedia for elephantjournal.com. I’ve been in this business for seven years, and Wanderlust Fest is the first time I’ve ever seen first tier yoga in a context of “hip”…or big-time music in a context of [...]


Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis @ LOHAS: 2009. Video.

by on Jul 3, 2009

LOHAS—Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability—is an amazing green/yoga/health/wellness business to business conference that, each year, pumps a kazillion much-needed dollars into elephant’s hometown, Boulder, Colorado. Even more importantly from a save-the-planet and have-fun-doing-so perspective (elephant’s mission), LOHAS that attracts the best and the greenest—and the biggest, with companies like Wal Mart and Coca Cola sending [...]


Michael Pollan re: How to Communicate “Green” to the Masses.

by on Jun 22, 2009

elephantjournal.com founder Waylon Lewis interviews Michael Pollan re: how to communicate “green” to the masses, why he eats meat, GMOs, cancer, diet, Swine Flu & Michelle Obama’s organic garden. Sponsored by Gaiam. A few weeks back I got to interview one of my idols (as I mention in the first moments of the interview)—Michael Pollan. [...]


Virayoga studio, chez Elena Brower, in New York City.

by on Mar 15, 2009

  Elena Brower’s Virayoga studio in New York City. review via Leah Beltran Over the last two weeks I’ve had the opportunity to take a few classes at VIRAYOGA with Elena Brower (founder) and Zhenja Larosa in NYC, a cherished studio in the heart of SoHo offering Anusara Yoga™ to a vast number of teachers [...]


The Poet who Changed America. Allen Ginsberg—Beat Poet Activist Queer American Buddhist.

by on Feb 18, 2009

The Poet Who Changed America Allen Ginsberg—Beat Poet Activist Queer American Buddhist Co-founder of Naropa’s Kerouac School Allen Ginsberg, via Jerry Aronson’s documentary, The Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg: (singing) Come along, come along, the end of Vietnam War, dirty smart bombs and napalms and US army whores. Come along, come along, hey baby, don’t be late. [...]


A Conversation with Dr. Deepak Chopra

by on Feb 12, 2009

The last time I visited my grandpa—a stoic, bullish ex-journalist and novelist—I was mildly surprised to find a book by Dr. Andrew Weil on the coffee table in their living room, the one with views of a golf course. For my grandparents—like most of America—were about as interested in spirituality or self-help as they were in [...]


elephantjournal.com feature interview: Hiroshi Ikeda Sensei of Boulder Aikikai.

by on Jan 24, 2009

No Mountaintop An interview with Hiroshi Ikeda shihan, Chief Instructor of Boulder Aikikai in Boulder, Colorado, USA *Reprinted with kind permission of elephant Magazine, Spring 2005 issue. The interview was conducted by Waylon Lewis, Editor-in-Chief of elephant. Photos by Tom Henwood. Intro - I came to Colorado three years ago to attend the MFA program at Naropa University and [...]



#1 on my interview wish-list?

by on Sep 29, 2008

Beat Poet Gary Snyder, on Ecology. {Video} Have you read Jack Kerouac’s Dharma Bums? Gary Snyder, Beat Poet, Pulitzer-prize winning environmental activist before green meant anything other than a color—was immortalized in Kerouac’s Dharma Bums (which also featured my namesake, Philip Whalen) as charismatic simple-living mountain man, zen practitioner and yogi Japhy Ryder. Check him [...]


Shambhala Buddhism’s Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

by on Aug 20, 2008

Photo by Corey Kohn Shambhala Buddhism’s Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche: relationships, loneliness & “Ruling Your World.” “What about You/What about Me: A Conversation with Sakyong Mipham” from the Spring 2006 issue of elephant journal. Sakyong Mipham is sometimes referred to as a Buddhist monarch. His family lineage is, indeed, royal—he’s the son of Chögyam Trungpa, a guru credited [...]


Kyudo: Kanjuro Shibata Sensei, the XX Imperial Bowmaker to the Emperor of Japan.

by on Aug 20, 2008

Yumis, or bows, past and present. Photo by Corey Kohn.  Walk on the Line of the Present via Scott Spanbauer, from the Spring 2006 issue.  On a beautiful May morning, Kanjuro Shibata, Sensei, 20th in a line of Zen archery masters, kneels at the front of his dojo, or practice hall, wearing a brown kimono and a [...]


Waylon Lewis of elephant journal: green business titan, Paul Hawken [video]

by on Aug 19, 2008



Bill Clinton dubbed Paul Hawken’s book Natural Capitalism one of the ten most important books in the world. It also inspired Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface, to turn his entire business around and go green.




Treehugger.com’s Graham Hill: the Power of Green Media. At LOHAS.

by on Jul 16, 2008



Waylon has a sit down with Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger.com, which recently joined forces with Discovery Channel. Now, Treehugger and Discovery have launched the first eco network, Planet Green.









As seen on elevision: ChicoBag @ LOHAS

by on Jun 25, 2008

First video out of 55 interviews in 2.5 days at LOHAS conference: is here. It looks simple, modest, ordinary…but it’s probably my favorite product since my clock, which manages to wake me up sooothingly yet insistently each morning so I can go out and…sell ads! Edit articles! Clean our bathroom! Distribute our magazine! Drink small cappuccinos [...]




John Perkins, on “Economic Hitman,” 9/11, and What It Means to Really Love America.

by on Mar 24, 2008

Bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and now Secret History of the American Empire, John Perkins-former operative for our government-joined ele and a 100 guests at one of our first “elevision” talk shows in the backyard of the venerable Trident Café & Booksellers in Boulder, Colorado.  -ed. Waylon H. Lewis, for elephant [...]




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