Upper West Side Philosophers - Yoga for the Mind

05/18/2025

We are delighted to have had our very own Dr. Michael Eskin featured as a speaker together with translators Sandra Smith, Monica Cure and Sawad Hussain at the 2025 PEN World Voices Festival event “Translation on the Line: Censorship, Power, and the Politics of Language.”

05/16/2025

We are delighted to have had our very own Dr. Michael Eskin featured as a speaker together with artist Ranaan Gabriel, and poets Forrest Gander & Moira Egan at the 2025 PEN World Voices Festival event “Transmediation: Visualizing Verse.”

04/02/2024

Provocative and revelatory! Check out this "Conversation about Germany" with Ulrike Draesner and Michael Eskin.

https://www.literaturhaus-berlin.de/programm/ulrike-draesner-michael-eskin-gespraech-ueber-deutschland

01/26/2024

A timely, revelatory, and absolutely necessary conversation in these trying and unsettled times. Globally available now! We are honored to welcome Ulrike Draesner, one of Germany's foremost authors, to the UWSP family.

01/25/2024

Congratulations to Timothy Balding on another literary coup!

Spice up your January with "The Spectator," a contemporary social novel, laced with its author’s signature wit and dark humor. This mad caper of a novel examines the poisoning of a nation’s psyche by tabloid media and the existential torments of one man struggling to escape his fate as both one of its villains and its victims.

06/09/2023

"Reality is stranger than fiction" or should we rather say that fiction comes closer to the truth than reality. Timothy Balding's brilliant satirical novel certainly encapsulates the absurdity of the political situation in the US better than our news feeds – and it is so much more fun to read!

"Not since Vonnegut has the absurd been so beautifully crafted into a clever, thoroughly entertaining adventure! Cool. Fun. Painfully relevant!" (Amazon Review)
The fun starts here:

The United States and Bangistan, a former Soviet satellite dictatorship, are edging towards nuclear conflict. At any moment, their war of words, insults and threats may escalate into an exchange of missiles and an apocalypse. In the White House, President Ronald Rump hesitates between negotiating...

10/12/2022

November Rose - The Film won "Best Inspirational Film" at Florence Film Awards. We are so grateful for having had the honor of collaborating with the stunning filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer on this project of consolation.
https://www.november-rose.com/
https://florencefilmawards.com/september-2022

06/16/2022

We are so excited to announce the launch of our new app, Health Is In Your Hands, available for purchase in the App Store! Join us in celebrating the launch of this incredible Jin Shin Jyutsu self-help app (based on Waltraud Riegger-Krause’s book-and-card-set Health Is In Your Hands) by purchasing the app on your device. Enjoy on-the-go, convenient, symptom-specific Jin Shin Jyutsu self-help! AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE VIA LINK IN BIO.

02/05/2022

Curious about the award winning short film" November Rose – The Tides of Loss, Life and Love?" by Thomas Riedelsheimer? Watch it here!
https://www.november-rose.com/

The short film November Rose is a collaborative project of consolation and our gift to you. We wish to reach out to those who have lost a loved one and offer what we can as creative human beings: the...

02/05/2022

Amazing news! November Rose – The Tides of Loss, Life and Love was just selected by Paris Film Awards!

12/13/2021

Our very own Dr. Kathrin Stengel appeared on the "Open to Hope" podcast. Check it out and share with anyone in need of comfort and consolation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6fz7BneyJ8

Have you tried to think your way out of grief? Join Dr’s Heidi and Gloria Horsley and their guest Dr. Kathrin Stengel, president of Upper West Side Philosoph...