The Modern Crone: Recent Episodes
Danielle Van de Velde
Season 1: The 21st Century ShamanIn this season of the Modern Crone, I have asked the most eclectic and powerful Shamanic practitioners that I know to talk with me about their take on Shamanism in today's world, Shamanic tools and practices and why this ancient way of life is making a come back.
As I wrap up Season 8 of The Modern Crone podcast, I realise that the stories of my incredible guests…have changed me!
Not only because of their courage, resilience and sheer willpower…
Not only because of the powerful testaments their experiences give on the strength of the human spirit…
Not only because they remind us that ‘hardship’ and ‘challenge’ are relative…
But because they have expanded my understanding of TRANSFORMATION itself.
I hope you enjoy my personal reflections.
Love,
Dani
Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Nicole Voltolina is compassionate, creative, always levelling up, living life with intention, with a big heart and a love for creating memorable moments. She is a successful small-business owner of a restaurant, a boutique, and a bar in the French Quarter. Her favourite thing in life is going on adventures. On February 10, 2019, Nicole was unknowingly exposed to Carbon Monoxide Poisoning over several days, which resulted in an unanticipated health crisis and very dire predictions for her recovery.
Join us as Nicole shares:
The hidden dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning in gas-heated spaces
Her horrendous slide into brain damage, severe memory loss and ‘off-lining’
How she was guided to find solutions that her medical team could not provide
The incredible booting up of her psychic and mediumistic abilities, when her cognitive function faltered
And so much more…
And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in!
So grateful for The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Nina is a 31-year-old third-culture kid based in Singapore. Originally from Denmark, with a touch of German heritage, she grew up across Southeast Asia, mostly in Singapore. She left at 18 to study sustainable development at the University of Edinburgh and then went on to work for the United Nations in Geneva. In 2021, she returned to Singapore to join her family’s industrial group as the fourth generation, which is pioneering sustainability within its sectors. She met her husband, Charlie, during a holiday back in Singapore ten years ago, and they married in 2023. Outside of work, Nina is a proud owner of three rescue furbabies, two dogs and a cat, and is expecting her first child in August 2026.
In 2021, Nina was properly diagnosed with the mysterious and misunderstood condition of Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis, caused by an ovarian teratoma, bringing her close to death and permanent brain damage.
Join us as Nina shares:
Growing up as a ‘third culture kid’ - the good and the challenges
Her experience working at the UN and then joining her family business as the 4th generation
The day she collapsed with seizures at work, with acute inflammation of the brain
The arduous road to recovery from a coma, to psychosis, shut down of organs, to health and motherhood.
The incredible intervention of her mother and mother’s intuition
The gathering of a spiritual team, who ran spells and energy healing consistently, which Nina credits as the force that brought her back.
What it was like to be stuck in the dream realm between life and death
The moment when she chose to live.
The power of love and how the presence of her man surged her healing.
How she managed the resultant PTSD and survivor’s guilt from the experience through her spiritual journey.
How she understands the experience as her divine plan, the power of trust in that plan, and the intelligence of the body
So grateful for The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Bradley Montag is an interior designer based in Sydney, Australia. Prior to finding his way into the creative world, Bradley spent more than a decade in trial and error through various studies at university, including architecture, psychology, and, finally, law. After pursuing a career in corporate law, Bradley could no longer ignore the pain that it was causing him and turned inward to find something more - his purpose.
By finding courage within, his passions and gifts slowly re-emerged, and the path ahead became clearer once more. Always fascinated by people’s homes and the powerful ways that spaces made him feel, interior design felt almost inevitable, and so it was a natural step into business to offer this to others.
Join us as Brad shares:
His journey to find his purpose and true expression
The challenge of breaking free from family and societal expectations
How he dealt with others' fear projections when he quit his law career at a time when he ought to be chasing conventional success
How your body, mind and energy levels increasingly signal misalignment in your life path
His interesting take on when we deny our sexuality, we deny our creativity
Why listening to your inner compass is key
Embracing the in-betweens as sacred windows
How the spiritual arts of yoga, meditation and pilgrimage healed and realigned
His wonderful tips to nourish your dreams and find your path
How creativity moves through us, not from us, and we are all here to create
Find out more about Brad's work and writing here:
www.bradleymontag.com.au
www.instagram.com/bradleymontag
www.tiktok.com/@bradley.montag
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleymontag/
https://open.substack.com/pub/bradleymontag
And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in!
So Grateful for The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Juliet Stannard is British and spent her childhood living in the UK, Germany, Hong Kong and Canada as her father was in the British Military. She started work and moved to Singapore in 1993 with her then-husband, via a short stint in HK.
Juliet has worked in the Singapore Real Estate Industry for 26 years, and is now one of the Directors and owners of Citiprop – a very well-established agency on the island.
Her life has been forged through a series of intense events and personal resurrections, which eventually led her on a journey of self-healing and exploring many types of therapy.
Today, Juliet is in a strong and happy place, and it’s a delight to welcome her to the podcast to share her story.
Join us as Juliet shares:
- Her experiences of infidelity and betrayal, and the impact on her self-confidence and intuition
- The challenging dynamics of a family that keeps secrets
- The warning signs of emotional manipulation, the small inner voice and gut feeling
- The deeper importance of allowing ourselves to grieve
- The varying degrees of betrayal
- The intriguing world of private investigators
- Her horrendous experience of the Boxing Day Tsunami and her daughter’s serious accident
- Her incredible ability to find light in the darkest places
- How the body keeps the score
- Does a series of ‘good luck’ factors evidence the presence of guidance and protection?
- The slow and steady road to reclaiming her life, finding herself again and opening to joy and love through spirituality and presence
And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in!
So Grateful for the Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Amy Kelly is a life coach, mentor, and host of the Dream Big With Amy podcast, supporting women in coming home to themselves after heartbreak, burnout, and big life transitions. Her work is rooted in nervous system safety, self-trust, and embodied power, helping women move from survival mode into grounded, self-led lives.
Through her coaching and programs, Amy guides women to release old patterns in love, reconnect with their inner authority, and create relationships (with themselves and others) from wholeness rather than wounds. She believes heartbreak can be a powerful initiation, an invitation to rise, redefine love, and choose yourself fully.
Join us as Amy shares:
- How her own heartbreak sent her on a soul adventure to find herself and her purpose
- How alignment results in manifestation
- What is ‘heartbreak’ and how does it disrupt our identity
- The arc of heartbreak - emotion, anger, comparison, self-assessment, acceptance, release, then healing
- The importance of self-regulation and her top techniques
- How a near-death experience was her wake-up call
- The importance of listening to our intuition
- Relationships and Karma
- Intentionally building self-confidence
- How to trust in love again after betrayal
- The peril of comfort and known patterns
- Heartbreak as an initiation
You can find Amy here:
Website: https://www.amykellycoach.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amykellycoach_/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-kelly-23a369b4/
Podcast: Dream Big With Amy - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dream-big-with-amy/id1827926221
And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in!
So Grateful for The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Wachuka, born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, lives in a small mountain town, Nanyuki, where the slower rhythms of nature have become central to her personal healing and spiritual journey.
Wachuka is the co-founder of Ikigai Nairobi, a nature and wellness-focused co-working company that creates inspiring spaces that reimagine work, community and wellbeing.
After contracting Covid in 2020 and developing Long Covid and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) thereafter, Wachuka’s life shifted in profound ways. Her health journey has opened a profound spiritual doorway; exploring her spiritual path with curiosity, and discovering her purpose through different healing modalities, spiritual arts and a connection to nature.
She speaks with honesty about transformation, identity shifts, the courage it takes to rebuild a life from the inside out, and uses her journey to help others through the healing arts.
Resources
Instagram -
https://www.instagram.com/healingshukie?igsh=MXF1Z2p3emZ6amt5&utm_source=qr
My Long Covid Story
https://www.facebook.com/share/1BytzrcMmg/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Long Covid Support Group
https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1Dat8fMZPv/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Patient Led Research Collaborative (a great organisation Wachuka supports led by patients leading the way in Long Covid research, awareness and advocacy. Great Long Covid resource)
https://patientresearchcovid19.com
M.E. Action
https://www.meaction.net/
Ikigai - Nature and wellness-focused Coworking
https://ikigai.co.ke/
Join us as Wachuka shares:
- What is the global public health crisis of Long Covid?
- The huge range of symptoms that vastly decrease quality of life and, in some cases, are terminal
- The issues with diagnosis and treatment
- Her terrifying experience of contracting Long Covid and the connection with over-exertion and stress
- The trauma and isolation of not being believed
- The global online communities of Long Covid sufferers
- Wachuka’s exploration of alternative and functional approaches
- Following the intelligence of her body and spirit
- The power of story and authentic voice
- The impact of the energy arts and nature in reconnection with the body
- How her senses, dreams and intuition were magnified through illness
- The reframing, acceptance and healing that come through a spiritual journey
And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in!
So Grateful for The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Erika Behl is a coach based in Singapore. Originally from the US, she lived in Africa and Europe before eventually settling in Asia for the past 18 years. After spending almost two decades building a traditionally “successful” life, a breast cancer diagnosis in late 2017 catalysed a shift in her priorities. A year’s-long sabbatical, several attempts at starting a business, and a divorce later, she concedes that sometimes burning down what you don’t want is easier than finding what you do.
She writes for other deep-thinking independents, tells stories on stage, hosts the "Every Moment is a Choice" podcast, and will publish The Clear-Eyed Chemo Journal, a system for cancer patients to reclaim their agency, in 2026. Her work centres on approaches to writing one’s own path.
Join us as Erika shares:
- Her extraordinary and unusual journey as a young woman
- The shock of her cancer diagnosis at 40 years old with a young family
- Her coping strategies as an introvert and atheist
- The usefulness and also peril of ‘the cancer warrior’ persona
- Her subsequent full-blown breakdown after surviving cancer
- The devastating impact of not speaking her truth and the building pressure of wearing masks
- The power of choice and taking action
- How shopping around through therapy, meditation, somatic practices, connection and discovery paved the road to her recovery
- The rise of creativity through personal storytelling, writing, and podcasting
- How her journey led to helping others through coaching and her soon-to-be-released Cancer Journal: The Clear-Eyed Chemo Journal
- The seminal question - ‘Why not now?’
You can connect with Erika here:
Website
And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in!
I am so grateful for The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Marilyn Choong is a Singapore-born author and seasoned marketer with a deep passion for storytelling. She began writing articles on gratitude, mindfulness, happiness, and resilience years ago, and her journey as an author deepened after a life-changing spiritual awakening following her mother’s passing, an experience that reshaped her understanding of grief and the enduring bonds beyond the physical world.
Her book, The Thin Veil Between Us (published July 2024), became a #1 Straits Times bestseller and reached #1 on Amazon Singapore in Mental & Spiritual Healing, Complementary Medicine, and Hot New Releases. She has been featured in The Straits Times and on live radio in Singapore, where she shared the story and insights behind her bestselling book.
Join us as Marilyn shares:
- Her beautiful close relationship with her mum
- The devastating loss of her mother in 2022 after a diagnosis of aggressive cancer
- The first signs of the presence of the spirit realm before her mother passed
- The unexpected return of her mum from the spirit realm during Marilyn’s deepest grief, initially through dreams visitations, and then in more direct and incredible ways
- How this contact was an initiation of an expansive journey into spirituality
- How the bonds of love endure after death, and the frequency of motherly love
- The non-linear, deeply personal stages of grief
- Her guidance on supporting others through loss and grief
- The importance of finding meaning in heartache as a pathway to resurrection
- How loss can lead to personal growth
- How writing her book gave her comfort and healing
- How loss has changed how she lives her life today - intentionally with deep gratitude
- Her guidance for listeners who are struggling with grief
To purchase Marilyn's book, visit: https://sg.shp.ee/GHEowDw
You may also find it at local bookstores such as Kinokuniya or Popular Bookstore.
For international orders via Amazon: https://a.co/d/5ACiktw
And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in!
Big love for The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
David Ratner grew up on the edge of Chicago, USA. He has worked as an actor, taxi driver, copy editor, bookseller, waiter, house painter, a long-time high school teacher, and a writer. He has lived in Boston, Paris, San Francisco, Dublin, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. He's an avid traveller, a hiker, a baseball coach, a Scoutmaster, a pie maker, a scuba diver, and more. He's been a resident of Singapore, with his wife, Allison, two sons, and their dog, Diggity, since 2014. David was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and told he had between 2 and 6 years to live. That was nearly 5 years ago, but he has no current plans to die, certainly not of cancer.
Join us as David shares:
- His incredible dance with death on several occasions, and the super-charged impact on his view of life and consciousness
- His unexpected diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer and the opening of an extraordinary exploration of spirituality and healing
- The importance of self-agency and perspective
- How sharing his experience on his blog aided his healing
- The role of love
- The main changes he made in his mindset and lifestyle for healing
- The potent combination of traditional and alternative approaches
- His refreshing attitude towards the inevitability of death
And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in!
Resource references:
Why Woo-Woo Works: The Surprising Science Behind Meditation, Reiki, Crystals, and Other Alternative Practices by PhD Hamilton, Dr David R. How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body by PhD Hamilton, Dr David R.
Radical Remission by Kelly A. Turner PhD
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles by BRUCE H LIPTOn
Spirited: A Guide to Your Innate Spiritual Design to Transform Your Life by Danielle Van de Velde
Isabel Galliano - Cancer Coach
So grateful for The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole: www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu: Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng: kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Laila Malone is currently in Grade 11 in high school. She was born in Dubai and moved to Singapore when she was very young, and has been living here for 14 years. When Laila was 8 years old, she was diagnosed with Leukemia – a huge experience for anyone, let alone an 8-year-old. She is now well and excited about finishing school and broadening her studies in the UK. Along the way, she has accumulated incredible practices and wisdom for resilience, healing and optimism. She is an inspiring young woman, destined for amazing things.
Join us as Laila shares:
- her road to recovery, physically, mentally and spiritually
- the importance of acceptance and non-judgement
- the role of creativity and books in her healing journey
- Why ritual is so important
- important guidance for families and young people on a cancer journey
And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in!
So Grateful for The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Lana Terigi is a mother, coach, and intuitive guide based in Nairobi, Kenya, who supports women and individuals through grief and helps young people develop confidence, self-awareness, and emotional resilience
Lana’s journey into motherhood began with her first son, Luca, who passed away unexpectedly at 38 weeks, just before delivery. She held him once, and that moment profoundly reshaped her life - her understanding of love, grief, and resilience. Luca’s presence continues to guide her as a mother and as a coach, and his story is at the heart of the work she does today.
Across all her work, Lana guides people back to their inner truth and helps them find the quiet strength needed to move through life with courage, openness, and compassion.
Join us as Lana shares how her calling rose through the throws of grief; her heartbreaking shock of losing her first child, her coping and healing pathways, the felt presence of her child in spirit, the primal fear after loss, how fear and faith can coexist, the power of ritual, spiritual perspectives and journaling, the importance of remembering, the need to talk about baby loss, her current work coaching families and youth.
You can find out more about Lana here:
https://academic-life-coaching.com/
www.instagram.com/lana_academic.life.coach/
And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in!
So grateful for the Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Born in Faridabad, North India, Surabhi Ahuja has been on a profound spiritual journey for almost ten years. Her awakening began through the experience of hypnobirthing with her first born, which opened her awareness to the power of the mind–body connection and her own energetic depth.
Much of her evolution since then has unfolded through her physical body. Experiences such as an ectopic pregnancy, hypothyroidism, chronic allergies, postpartum depression, debilitating sports injuries and a diagnosis of cancer in 2024, became catalysts for transformation rather than setbacks.
With each diagnosis, Surabhi chose not to accept the limited perspectives offered by family, society, or the medical system. Instead, she forged her own path—breaking norms and bridging the seen and unseen worlds.
Today, she is not defined by her cancer journey or any illness. She stands tall
Join us as Surabhi shares….
- How her spiritual journey expresses through her physical body
- Her very raw and real experience of being diagnosed with aggressive and advanced cancer
- Her process of regaining self-advocacy, and constantly choosing life, love and health.
- We talk about the best ways to support a loved one on a cancer journey (and what not to say),
- Surabhi’s beautiful conscious connection with the Divine and how she knows when the Divine is speaking with her
- Her go-to practices to stay grounded, in harmony and heal
Surabhi’s YouTube channel: Healing with Surabhi:
https://youtube.com/@healingwithsurabhi?si=jPVnCCUYHK_m-tEQ
Reading Surabhi recommends:
Biology of belief by Bruce Lipton
Dying to be me by Anita Moorjani
Radical Remission by Kelly A Turner
Power of now Eckhart Tolle
Untethered Soul by Micheal A Singer
And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in!
I am so grateful for the The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Sascha is an entrepreneur, engineer, and science enthusiast. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the National University of Singapore. With a broad interest in science, his career has been a symphony of innovation and interdisciplinary discovery.
In 2021 Sascha found himself at the lowest point he had ever been. It was a period of profound struggle, but amidst that darkness, he made a promise to himself: to find a way out, to document every step of that journey, and to share those insights openly.
Join us as we get to know this incredible human, his darkest hours and the choice he made for life, the steps he took to reinvent his inner landscape and become a beacon of light for others.
Sascha's links:
Book:
Light Up Your Darkness & Be The Hero Of Your Own Story: A Story Of Personal TransformationIG:
https://www.instagram.com/saa_chaa_chaa/
And if your spirit is stirred by these amazing conversations, don’t forget to like, subscribe and leave a review - so more people can find their way to The Modern Crone. Thank you for tuning in!
So grateful for the The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Lucy Baldwin has spent her life exploring relationships, communication, and the human mind.
With a background in Cognitive Science and a love for spiritual and philosophical exploration, she co-teaches online courses on magic and shadow work and creates in-person transformational experiences.
Lucy is a mother of five, and she and her husband run a few different businesses together.
Lucy believes meaning comes from human connection and creating luminous beauty. Her mission is to help others find the intersection of beauty and joy.
Join is as Lucy shares her journey into the magical arts, through curious play and working with plant medicine; her beautiful explanations of planetary deities, invocation and evocation, and how we all can be witches; how magic synergises into her busy life as mum of five and tech start up CEO; what she is seeing with the healing of the witch wound in her communities and her direction in supporting the role of the priestess…and so much more.
You can find out more about Lucy here:
Website
So Grateful for the The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Studio and Reel production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Bethan Christopher is a UK based illustrator known for her vibrant,
nature-inspired art. Her work draws on the botanical world, a lifelong
study of creative esotericism and her ancestral lineage of Norse and
Indian spirituality. She is the internationally published author of
Rebel Beauty For Teens, the women's body-love bible Grow Your Own
Gorgeousness and founder of Bopha School, a project that provides clean
water, menstrual hygiene education and reusable sanitary products to
school children in the poorest provinces of Cambodia.
Join us as Bethan shares:
- Her happy and magical upbringing in the wilderness of the Isle of White
- How finding a ‘hag stone’ initiated her witchcraft as a girl
- The important role that her father played in exploring how story and land weave together and esoteric writings
- The felt presence of her ancestors and lineages
- The essential relationship with land and nature for magic
- Her beautiful way to work magic for herself and her clients
- Her connection with the warrior witch Queen, Boudicca of the first century CE
- The critical role of artists and creatives in these times, and the spell-craft of her writing and art
- Her incredible personal development program development and coaching to help recovering addicts and young women, and how magic and coaching are linked,
and so much more.
You can find out more about Bethan here:
Website
The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Production:
Kymberly Sng
kymberlysngcm@gmail.com
Angell Deer is an ordained minister, mystic, medicine man, teacher, permaculturist, beekeeper, and lover of all forms of life.
He has dedicated his life to remembering, learning, and teaching ancient wisdom through the lineages of Andean Cosmology and Norse Shamanism. His passion is to weave words and stories, people and places, darkness and light, wounds and love, the ancient and the modern.
Angell has also trained as a Veterinarian, Medicine Man, Breathwork Practitioner, Reiki Master, Meditation Teacher, Herbalist, He is the founder of the New York Bee Sanctuary a national non-profit advocating for the preservation of bees & pollinators.
He was an advisor for 5 years to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). He has spoken in front of global audiences at the French Davos forum, the French embassy in New York, as the nominee for Entrepreneur of the year by Ernst & Young, at Harvard Business School, Parson School of Design in NYC, awarded the NYC Venture Fellow for best entrepreneur in New York City by mayor Bloomberg, and was recognized as “Earth Rockstar” in 2022 at the Global Concert for Earth.
Join us as Angell shares…
His journey from hugely successful tech start-ups and corporate world, to a life of mysticism and meaning
How Shamanism opened his heart to an old familiar feeling of magic
His lineage of healing and boyhood in the French wilderness
How he created The Sanctuary in the Catskill Mountains through restoring the original ancient forest
His beautiful intimate reciprocity with the land and botanical realm
The primary question for all of us on earth – what is my collective mission?
The essential tension between the darkness and light of the world that births service
Story, music and foods as the easiest and most profound ways to connect with our ancestors
And so much more….
You can find out more about Angell here:
Sacred Paths website
IG
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Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
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G is a Scottish witch, folk magic practitioner, and the voice behind @thatglasgowwitch on IG, where she shares wisdom on Scottish folk magic, creating your own Wheel of the Year, herbal traditions, and seasonal rituals.
With over 25 years of practice, she weaves ancient practices into modern life, helping others reconnect with nature’s cycles and the magic of everyday moments.
A passionate advocate for dispelling fear and misconceptions about witchcraft, she highlights how these practices are deeply rooted in ancestral wisdom, land-based spirituality, and everyday folk traditions.
Her work focuses on practical, accessible magic, drawing from Scotland’s rich spiritual heritage. She grows, crafts, and integrates witchcraft into daily life and brings a deep reverence for ancestral wisdom, blending history, storytelling, and hands-on practice to inspire and empower others on their own spiritual path.
Join us as G shares:
Her upbringing just outside of Glasgow and the beautiful ancient historical pagan roots of the land; a childhood free from religious dogma and full of folk-magic and Jungian frames; how she found her way to intentional witchcraft and her divine understanding of witchcraft being a personal cultivation of powerful beliefs and practices rooted in animism, ancestry and deep listening. G lives to reclaim the title ‘witch’, from the legacy of the brutal burning times in Scotland and late repeal of the witchcraft act. Scouring the witch trail documents she finds the ancient Scottish practices of her ancestors and brings them back to life. Learn about her relationship with the Scottish goddesses the Cailleach and Brigitte and the gods and goddess of places, and why interest is growing in witchcraft, ritual and ceremonial gatherings in recent years.
You can find out more about G here:
www.thatglasgowwitch.com
IG
TikTok
YouTube
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Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
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Laura Tempest Zakroff (she/they) is a professional artist, author, performer, and Modern Traditional Witch based in New England.
Laura is the author of several bestselling Llewellyn books including Weave the Liminal, Sigil Witchery, Visual Alchemy, and Anatomy of a Witch, as well as the artist and author of the Sigil Witchery Oracle, Anatomy of a Witch Oracle, The Liminal Spirits Oracle.
Laura edited The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance, The Gorgon's Guide to Magical Resistance, and Serpents of Circe: A Manual to Magical Resilience from Revelore Press.
Laura is the creative force behind several community events and teaches workshops online and worldwide.
Join us as Laura shares her fascinating New England childhood and family philosophy, what ‘the witch’ means for her, how her writing is both an invitation and response to expressed needs in her community, dance as a form of energy transmutation and spell weaving and how the ritual expresses itself through her body, her lovely way of dealing with salty witch jokes online, her energetic relationship with nature and urban environments, the importance of deep listening, how witchcraft is 80% observation, her reciprocal ‘work’ with divine beings and the mighty dead.... and so much more!
You can follow and connect with Laura here:
www.lauratempestzakroff.com
www.instagram.com/owlkeyme.arts
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Sam Joole:
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Luana Suciu
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Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
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Marina Kalkum is an Intuitive Artist and Tarot Reader originally from El Paso, Texas. Her nomadic journey has taken her through Santa Fe, Bonn, Zurich, New York City, Singapore, and currently back to Switzerland. Influenced by her Mexican and Italian roots, Marina’s work reflects a vibrant fusion of diverse cultural and life experiences, often incorporating magical elements.
Join us as Marina shares how her art is a form of spell-craft, her beautiful philosophy on death as a constant companion of the witch, her 'becoming' as a witch, how a near death experience initiated her path of shadow magic and brought in Santa Muerte as her principle guide, her deep sentient connection with nature, love of the tarot and so much more...
You can follow/contact Marina here:
https://www.instagram.com/marina_l_k/
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Sam Joole:
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Luana Suciu
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Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
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Elwynn Greenis a generational witch from England. He is the fourth in line from a family of mediums and witches and is known by most for his abilities in divination and spiritual work.
Prior to The Antlered Crown, Elwynn was an archaeologist studying Northern European prehistory and digging at sites in and around the UK.
Elwynn also enjoys teaching others through his social media outlets and Patreon.
He has been invited to write for magazines and zines, such as The Enquiring Eye at the Museum of Witchcraft in Cornwall, and Gentle Hearts Unite in California.
Elwynn has been featured on several other podcasts as well as having his own that he hosts with his wife Amanda, called The Antlered Crown. Previously, Elwynn lived in Chicago but now resides in Northern Ireland.
Join us as we explore Elwynn's unusual boyhood and journey into the Craft; his beautiful perspectives on divination and spellcraft; what we need to 'unlearn' to wield powerful magic; his encounters with The Horned God...and so much more!
You can connect with Elwynn here:
Spotify
Youtube
Patreon
TikTok
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Luana Suciu
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Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
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Born in Singapore, Rae Lee enjoys the city-state’s melting pot of food hubs and cultural diversity. She is passionate about uplifting communities in need and driving collaboration for meaningful social impact. Rae brings with her over two decades of experience in the social service and philanthropy sectors.
In her current role as Executive Director at International Justice Mission, Singapore and Southeast Asia, she leads a team to influence and fuel investments towards increasing protection for people living in poverty and subjected to violence in Asia.
Join us as Rae shares her life-journey of altruism; the impetus behind her work; the horrifying magnitude of the human trafficking and slavery ‘economy’ worldwide and in SEA; the incredible work of the International Justice Mission; the upstream and downstream interventions to free trafficked children; the impact of climate change on human trafficking; her beautiful belief of ‘grace extended’ and the importance of family, friends, scripture and story to keep her stable and positive to achieve her goals of liberating the vulnerable.
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You can contact Rae at:
Website
Linktree
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Luana Suciu
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Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
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With 15 years of corporate leadership experience and currently Senior Workplace Leader at LinkedIn, Sara has developed a deep understanding of personal branding and professional development. Her journey with LinkedIn has been transformative; with her insider knowledge, she’s leveraged the platform to connect with influential professionals, build a strong network, and access career-changing opportunities.
Passionate about helping others, she empowers individuals to navigate their own paths to success using the tools and strategies she’s developed. Beyond her corporate journey, Sara is the driving force behind From Me To We and Return Ready—a sanctuary for modern working mothers. Here, she helps women balance career aspirations and motherhood while embracing their evolving identities.
As a Matrescence Facilitator and ICF-accredited coach, with over five years of experience in Ikigai mentoring and Reiki certifications, Sara brings a unique blend of professional expertise and personal experience to support and inspire others.
Join us as Sara shares her fascinating story of using her skills and personal experiences to build women' s communities and change the paradigm around working mothers. We dive into some pertinent and important topics:
- Sara’s work with Ikigai to find her own purpose and now to help others find theirs
- Following the ‘golden thread’ of her writing and helping others, to raise awareness and bring people together
- Does our purpose change through our lives?
- How motherhood changed her outlook and modus operandi as a woman
- The birth of Sara’s movement From Me to We through Matresence
- The true challenges for women returning to work after starting a family
- How workplaces can harness the skills of motherhood
- The power of vulnerability and having a return to work mentor
- Sara’s personal spiritual lens and practice…
… and so much more!
You can contact Sara at:
www.sarapantry.com
spantry@linkedin.com
@sarapantry
LinkedIn: in/sara-pantry
Cynthia Koh, is one of Singapore’s most acclaimed actresses with 32 years of captivating performances in over 78 drama series. Not just a versatile powerhouse on screen, she’s also a certified Bach flower remedy practitioner and sound therapist . With her deep insights into sound's healing powers, Cynthia crafts transformative experiences that nurture the soul.
Join us as Cynthia shares her fascinating story of fame and purpose. We dive into some super juicy topics:
- Cynthia’s exploration of her spiritual side and how this has taken a significant space in her life as a popular healer.
- How incorporating sound therapy, water, Bach remedies and Reiki helps with both diagnosis and healing of her clients
- How acting plays a significant role in her life as a career and also a channel for self-discovery
- The darker characters she has played and the impact on her life
- How trust and integrity are cornerstones of her messaging as an influencer
- Ageism in the acting industry
- Cynthia’s personal spiritual practice
… and so much more!
You can contact Cynthia here:
https://www.purepotentialtherapy.com
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Luana Suciu
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Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Random Cool People I Know with, Yun Chen
Join us as Yun patches in from her family home in China to share with us her journey to Singapore as a young teenager via a scholarship, and then chooses Singapore as her home. Hear about her fabulous ability to redefine herself, through mastering each role she has taken and attracting sponsorship from her employers. Yun shares with us the importance of determination and work ethic, yet in balance with rest and inner work. Learn about her coaching approach that combines ontology, positive psychology and systems thinking as a powerful offering for leaders and teams to find congruency within. We touch on the power of language and sensation to cultivate resilience and clarity, how the relationship that you cultivate with yourself is key to all relationships and the role of daily meditation and cleansing rituals in her success.
Fanny (Chen Yun) is a seasoned Executive and Life Coach with over 17 years of corporate experience in Change Management across Data, Customer Analytics, Risk Analytics, Regulatory Reporting, and Climate Risk within the banking sector. Originally from China, Yun moved to Singapore as a teenager on a full scholarship and graduated with first-class honours in engineering in 2007. Her passion for continuous learning led her to further studies in Strategic Marketing and Positive Psychology, while leading cross-functional teams in delivering complex projects and driving organizational change in her corporate job.
In 2020, Yun received a scholarship from her employer for coaching training and certification, which sparked her transition into an internal Executive Coach in an international bank, supporting leaders in achieving professional and personal growth. With an ICF-ACC Credential and on her journey toward the ICF-PCC Credential, her passion pushed her to expand her coaching practice in 2024 by launching The Coaching Wave (TCW). Through TCW, Yun helps clients embrace their authentic selves, cultivate resilience and achieve fulfilment, using a holistic coaching approach that integrates ontology, systems thinking, and positive psychology.
Yun’s unique journey from academia to the corporate world and now coaching equips her with a comprehensive understanding of leadership, transformation, and sustainable growth. She said, “I find purpose and joy in coaching.”
You can contact Yun here:
Website:
https://www.thecoachingwave.com/
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yun-chen-12199b23/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/fanny.c.yun
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Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
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Random Cool People I Know with, Stephanie Chok, PhD
Join us as Stephanie shares her journey into advocating for the vulnerable, how her PhD field work in the construction industry in Singapore propelled her from her volunteer work, into systemic change in law and politics and pursuing social justice. We talked about volunteering and altruism in the home, the importance of purpose and hope, the caring human nature and how she sees the difference between religion and spirituality. Stephanie talks us through the functions of HOME from shelters, to legal aid, medical aid, connection and training. I’m so grateful to have a deeper understanding of some of the issues our migrant workers deal with and to share Stephanie's inspiring story.
Stephanie Chok has more than 10 years of research experience working and volunteering in various non-governmental organisations in Singapore, with a focus on migrant workers' rights and income inequality.
She is interested in criminal justice reform, income inequality and social protection for marginalised communities and is the Executive Director, Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME).
You can contact Stephanie here:
Website: www.home.org.sg
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniechok/
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Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
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Random Cool People I Know with, Claire Leow
Join us as Claire shares her story of advocacy for vulnerable communities and historical sites; how her background in journalism at Bloombergs evolved into giving voice for the voiceless; the power of storytelling and accurate and personal historical narratives; the beautiful customs and rituals of Bukit Brown cemetery; the relationship between geomancy, the zodiac and eternal rest; the meaning of Qingming as a reconnection for the living and the dead; the role of Singapore’s Tomb Keepers; Claire’s current humanitarian work with Airlink…and so much more!
Claire Leow is a former journalist. She was the chief reporter for Bloomberg in Southeast Asia before becoming the bureau chief for Bloomberg Indonesia, where she lived for 8 years. She returned to Singapore to find heritage under threat, and campaigned first on the Railway Corridor, the historic former railwaylands owned by Malaysia until July 2011. This is the most successful civil society campaign in recent history.
By the end of the year, she was the lead campaigner to save Bukit Brown Cemetery, the largest and oldest cemetery in Singapore and one of the largest in Southeast Asia. She formed All Things Bukit Brown to raise awareness of the intrinsic value of the site, and successfully won an application for a World Monuments Fund listing in 2014. Here is her TED talk.
With her interest in war history, she also published a book, World War II at Bukit Brown (Ethos Books), and is editing a second edition for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Singapore in 2025. She has rallied a group of volunteers who have collectively guided more than 27,000 people to the site, including academics, researchers, archaeologists and sociologists.
Claire’s walking tours are under the banner “Between Monsoons” to reflect the contemporaneous history and connect those aspects to modern Singapore.
Claire currently works for Washington, DC-based Airlink Inc., a 501(C) aviation-based non-profit that specialises in the logistics of humanitarian response. Airlink is responding to natural disasters as well as conflicts.
You can contact Claire here:
Claire@betweenmonsoons.com
Random Cool People I Know with, Megha Singh
Join us as Megha shares her story from studies and early career in India, to becoming a seasoned coach and community builder in Singapore, her initiation into motherhood and how this evolved into working with female founders, her take on women, altruism and the money-mindset, how she manages to be so massively productive, her beautiful spirituality that blends origin practices with modern perspectives, and so much more!
Megha Singh is a Business Growth Coach; Fractional Consultant in the areas of Marketing, Communication and Community Building; an Independent Board Director and a Professional Speaker.
She has over 17 years of work experience across startups, SMEs and MNCs like Shell, Sephora, Meta, Publicis Group and Honeycombers.
Through her company, Megha has worked in a variety of roles including Project Management, Community Management, Relationship Management, Marketing, Communication, PR, Events, Partnerships, Business Development, People Management and Pitch Training across industries including Lifestyle, Entrepreneurship Development, Education, Media, Energy, Impact & Art.
Megha has also been building vibrant communities since 2015 including CRIB, Trehaus and Launchpad.
She has a Master’s degree in mass communication and loves the arts - word, visual and motion.
Mom to 2 boys, she is currently working on her first book.
She is also a trustee on the board of Swayam Foundation, an Indian NGO that is creating learning and work opportunities for people in the country.
You can contact Megha here:
Website: https://www.b-inc.asia/
Instagram: @bincbymegha
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bincbymegha/
Email: megha@b-inc.asia
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Random Cool People I Know with, Ed Howard
Join us as Ed shares his incredible journey from Corporate Law and Banking, to being ordained a Zen Buddhist monk in Japan, to now bringing Zen principles of mindfulness and non-duality to industry leaders. Discover a refreshing take on 'Zen' and how we can adopt Zen's ancient principles into modern busy lives.
Born in the North West of England, Ed Howard relocated to Singapore in 2016 bringing with him extensive experience in investment and wholesale financial law and regulation including roles at Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, SMBC and Standard Chartered. Having lived for five years in Japan after university, he was ordained in the Soto Zen tradition and completed a Master’s degree in Advanced Japanese.
In 2024, having graduated from incubators with the Founder’s Institute and ACE he set up Kokoro Business Performance, combining almost 30 years of Zen and other techniques with a deep understanding of the corporate world, executive coaching and consultancy. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, he currently offers online and in-person speaking engagements and seminar programmes and 1-1 coaching. Kokoro is also building online AI driven tools for large businesses, aimed at providing techniques to prevent burnout in employees and leaders by discovering what really matters whilst developing resilience and an innovative mindset.
You can contact Ed here:
info@kokorobusinessperformance.com
www.kokorobusinessperformance.com
www.linkedin.com/in/edward-howard-a86aa823/
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**Random Cool People I Know with, Suparna Kapoor
Join us as Suparna shares her incredible experience of hiking to Everest Base Camp earlier this year (2024), learning to hold fear, how Lord Shiva influenced her experience, and how her psychic awareness amplified on the mountain.**
Suparna is a personal trainer and specialist in pre and post-natal fitness, dedicated to empowering women on their fitness journeys. Her passion for fitness began at 18 while living in India, where she wanted to get healthier and lose weight. This path led her to become a certified Reebok Step Aerobics instructor, and shortly after, a certified personal trainer. For over eight years, she worked as a freelance trainer, helping men and women from all walks of life achieve their fitness goals.
However, her true transformation came during her second pregnancy, when she faced unexpected challenges during and after childbirth. This experience set her on a journey of self-discovery, reshaping her understanding of what it means to be fit and healthy. Now in her mid-40s and a mother of two, she draws from her personal experiences to help guide women through their own unique processes, focusing on strength, balance, and well-being at every stage of life.
Suparna's contacts:
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/kapoorsuparna?igsh=MTVxbnNnaHIycXN3aQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Email : Suparna.kapoor@gmail.com
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Season 5: The Spirit of Love with PhD Student and Commentator on Gender and Sexuality Representation in Australian Film and Society, Issey Kane
Issey Kane, is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne who is researching the intersection of public and cultural policy to explore the fifty year-long project that is curating Australia's national identity through film.
Raised in Singapore from an early age, Issey embarked on her academic journey at the Australian International School before graduating from the International Baccalaureate program in 2016. She pursued her passion for the arts, earning a Bachelor of Arts with majors in Media and Communication and Film and Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne. Continuing her scholarly pursuits, she obtained a Master of Arts and Cultural Management in 2022 and has just begun her PhD as of February 2024 after spending a semester teaching at the University in film and visual media classes.
Beyond the surface of cinema, Issey's research delves deep into the nuances of representations and aesthetics within National Cinemas. Her focus lies in deciphering the cultural resonance embedded in films and understanding their impact on audiences. Of particular interest to her, as a lesbian, is the portrayal of gender and sexuality in these national films, and the industrial landscape that shapes their narratives through policy on funding, distribution, and exhibition.
Through her work, Issey strives to uncover the intricate connections between film, culture, and identity, shedding light on the broader socio-political landscape of Australia through a contemporary and historical lens.
Join us as we explore Issey’s journey as a young lesbian in today’s world and the subtle prejudices that still exist; the queer identity in public spaces; the importance of self-censorship when travelling; the continuous nature of ’coming out’ in a hetero-normative standard of most societies; the impact of Pride and D&I movements for young gay lovers; the impact of institutional gender dynamics; what’s the best way to navigate the queer gender labels; the importance of honest representation of self and listening…and so much more!
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Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
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Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
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The Spirit of Love with Psychologist and Life Coach, Dr Glenn Graves
Glenn is an American psychologist and Life Coach with specialisation in Creativity and believes that creativity is an essential component in healing. For nearly two decades, Glenn has counselled expatriate and Singaporean individuals and families on a variety of issues, including PTSD, anger management, anxiety, alcohol abuse, marital conflicts, cross cultural marital conflicts, divorce, sexual compulsion, adolescents and their family, to name a few.
Glenn also formerly lectured at the School of Positive Psychology in Singapore. Glenn believes in addressing all the elements in a holistic approach to health and co-founded Elemental Wellness which is the wellness component of his business Counselling Perspective. He’s also the founder of Mindful Pathway which is dedicated to the technical neuroscience of healing. Using state of the art technology they can assess and train for adhd, anxiety, ocd, and a myriad of other issues. He’s a father of a son who was raised in Singapore and has a wealth of experience in some of the topics we discuss in this fascinating episode.
Join us as we explore the correlation between the digital mindset and the race for love; the changing concept of love; the importance of reflection; How we form our understanding of love from our family of origin and personal mythologies; Why do we sabotage love?; Why can there be so much cruelty in the love game?; Is love blind?; The physiology of young love and infatuation; The role of responsibility in love; Dr Glenn’s top tips for opening your heart to love…and so much more.
You can contact Dr Glenn here:
**https://www.counselingperspective.com/therapists/dr-glenn-graves
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The Spirit of Love with Energy Healer and Mentor, Tracy Tsang
Tracy Tsang is an energy healer and mentor who helps women mend and improve unhappy personal relationships energetically, and transcend thoughts/actions that keeps them stuck with new perspectives that lead them to what their soul is seeking instead. She guides creative explorations into the world of energy, where problem solving with higher beings, co-creating/healing with energy and manifesting with the miraculously abundant universe can be experienced.
Her new book, ‘Absolute Truth is Love’ takes readers on a transcendental emotional, spiritual, mind and energy journey to reclaim their inner peace, freedom and blissful happiness. From the perspective of an energy healer, Tracy introduces a whole new realm of possibilities of how to heal, resolve and transcend emotional and personal relationship issues by working with the abundant universe and higher beings. ‘Absolute Truth is Love’ is available for pre-order at www.tracytsang.com/absolutetruthislove
Join us as we explore Tracy’s personal journey from burnout, to self-love, to healing others with the frequency of Love; How she works with different forms of love for healing; Her work with ‘Higher Beings’; How the frequency of Love transcends talk therapy and heals emotional wounds; The importance of addressing the vibration of hurt before deeper healing takes place; Creating chords to Universal Love and so much more!
Website/Blog: www.tracytsang.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/hmtracytsang
Fiona Maher, a counsellor and psychotherapist, adopts a Rogerian person-centred approach in her practice, placing utmost importance on ensuring her clients' comfort, safety, and confidentiality.
This commitment has allowed her to cultivate profound working relationships, providing essential support and guidance through life's numerous challenges.
Drawing from over two decades of teaching, counselling, and training expertise across diverse locations such as Ireland, Singapore, Germany, China, the United Kingdom, and beyond, Fiona holds a Master's Degree and a Diploma in Counselling.
Her unique person-centric methodology is rooted in this extensive international experience, where she has encountered individuals facing various life trials. Fiona's rich background is not confined to a single narrative; she has lived multiple lives as an expat and a local, served as a compassionate counsellor, acted as a psycho-educator in the corporate sector, and embraced the role of a mother.
This diverse tapestry of experiences forms the foundation for her integrative approach to professional life, characterised by a profound sense of empathy and understanding.
Join us for an insightful and very useful discussion on Love & Marriage as we dive into a deep exploitation of:
The post-COVID effect on marriage and relationships.
Are our partners supposed to ‘heal’ us?
How to assess the value we bring to our relationships?
The importance of regular reviews of our marriages as we grow.
Is love enough to sustain a relationship over time?
Do men need to ‘step up’ to evolving marriage?
The ‘grandiosity/shame’ balance.
Is our long-term partner meant to be everything for us?
Consulting the adaptive wise part of us and learning your partner’s love language…and so much more!
Books Fiona references:
US by Terrence Real
Getting the Love you Want by Harville Hendrix Ph.D
The 5 Languages of Love by Gary Chapman Fiona's contacts: maher.fiona95@gmail.com
Whatsapp: +65 91142020
Christine Morgan CSNU is one of Australia’s foremost Spiritual Mediums and teachers of the Spiritual Arts, based in Sydney Australia.
Her natural mediumistic ability stems from a long line of natural intuitives and a heritage of mediumship which has been honed through classical training.
Christine is also a Certificate holder of the Spiritualist National Union in Public Speaking and Demonstrating Evidential Mediumship (CSNU), as well as a Tutor and Course Organiser at the prestigious Arthur Findlay College of psychic science and spiritual mediumship in the UK.
Christine has worked for 32 years in the field of Spiritual Mediumship and the Intuitive Arts, throughout Australia as well as internationally, including the USA, Canada, Europe and England.
Through teaching and demonstrating, Christine endeavours to achieve and maintain the standard of true Spiritual Mediumship as defined by the great pioneers of Spiritualism bringing a contemporary approach to the work.
In high demand for her knowledge and talents by various and diverse organisations, as well as the business community, Christine is available for educational workshops, seminars, as a guest speaker, demonstrations of mediumship, as well as private consultations, grief support and personal coaching.
Join us for a fascinating exploration of Love and Grief. What is the relationship between Love and Grief? Does love prevail after death? What is the nature of grief? How important in self-love when experiencing grief? What happens when someone passes over and the relationship in life wasn't love-filled, or even acrimonious? Can mediumship become a bi-pass to grieving? How does mediumistic contact heal? And so much more fabulous wisdom and story share!
You can connect with Christine here:
Christine Morgan CSNU - Spiritual Medium | Facebook
Christine Morgan CSNU
www.instagram.com/indiki1962
The Spirit of Love with Sexual Wellness Consultant, Christina Antonyan
Christina Antonyan is a student of experiences, and curiosity is her driving force.
She is a sexual wellness consultant, speaker, writer, content creator, educator, and founder of ConfidentLovers.com.
She created ConfidentLovers with a mission to normalise what should already be normal – respectfully and comfortably talking about sex, without shame, guilt or anxiety.
For over 15 years she’s explored sexuality across 60 countries to understand how media, culture, tech and religion shape our sexual beliefs.
She has taught and studied with teachers around the world, as a result, her work integrates many different modalities.
She’s helping singles, couples and parents understand and appreciate the fascinating and mysterious nature of sexuality through her website, social media and video courses.
Join us for a fabulous exploration of Love and Sex. Is love, expressed sexually, a spiritual experience? What is the role of Love in our sexual relations and confidence? Does sex ‘make love’? What is the role of trust in relationships? What is the connection between self-love and intimacy? Has dating become transactional in the digital era?
You can connect with Christina here:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/confident_lovers/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/ConfidentLovers/
Website: https://www.confidentlovers.com/
The books Christina references in the chat:
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Transcendent Sex Book
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The Spirit Intimacy Book
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Karezza Practice Article
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Erotic Touch Video Course
The Modern Crone team -
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Creative Spirit with Serial Entrepreneur and Content Community Queen, Chris Edwards
Chris is a serial entrepreneur having started her first business in 2008 at 28 years of age — a lifestyle media platform: Honeycombers. Honeycombers is now the go-to lifestyle resource for locals, expats and tourists alike across Singapore, Hong Kong and Bali. She has also created a parenting platform called HoneyKids Asia. Collectively there are over 1 million unique readers of Honeycombers content across South East Asia every month.
Chris started coaching entrepreneurs, and from this experience she saw the need for a community for conscious entrepreneurs, so she created Launchpad in 2022. Launchpad is an entrepreneurial community, designed to help small businesses thrive through community, peer mentoring and coaching. Launchpad today has over 450 members from across 6 countries.
Chris now runs 4 companies across 4 countries and hosts a weekly podcast called Good Business where she interviews impact-led founders. Chris spends her time split between Singapore, Hong Kong, Bali and Byron Bay, Australia, where she lives with her husband and three kids.
Join us as we explore the role of creative expression in the generation of business ideas and growth, the need to slow things down to gain traction, how to intuitively identify potential niches and trusting your gut to take risks, Chris’s ability to envisage offerings that don’t currently exist, and the importance of trust, how having her third child compelled her into art school…and so much more!
You can find out more about Chris at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisedwardshoneycombers/
www.thelaunchpad.group
Creative Spirit with Musician, Singer, Songwriter and Entertainer Sam Joole
Sam Joole is an Australian singer, songwriter, entertainer, multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, producer and composer. Born in South Africa, from Spanish, Moroccan and Lithuanian Roots, he resides in Sydney, Australia.
A diverse career has taken him to many places where he has developed his own sound and story. He is constantly playing live and creating new music.
Always inspired by making records with labels or on his own, there is always room for great opportunity - small or large.
Sam is also available as a covers and tribute show performer.
Join us as we explore how Sam’s rebellious nature as a boy forged his path into being a professional creative; the influence of his mother’s creative nature; his ability to sense musical patterns and adapt them to different instruments; his beautiful take on the ‘spaces in between’ and the importance of ‘being lost’ to allow the subconscious to create, and so much more.
You can find out more about Sam here:
www.samjoole.com
www.instagram.com/samjoole/
www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=sam%20joole The Modern Crone team:
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Creative Spirit with Speaker and Author Simone Heng
Simone Heng is a human connection specialist and former international broadcaster for, among others, Virgin Radio Dubai, HBO Asia, and CNBC.
She is one of the youngest female Certified Speaking Professionals in the world. With over fifteen years of experience as a communicator on air, on stage, and one on one in different countries, connection has always been her life’s work.
As a speaker, Simone inspires people to connect in a world thirsty for connection. She has spoken to thousands, and often for Fortune 500 organisations.
Her clients include Google, ByteDance, Spotify, Salesforce, SAP, Meta, the United Nations, and many more. Simone and her work have been featured on CNN and in Forbes, SCMP, TEDx, Vogue, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar, among others.
Simone is based and was born in Singapore but has also studied in Switzerland, was raised in Australia, and worked in the United Arab Emirates.
**She has a communications and cultural studies degree from Curtin University of Technology. Her latest book “Let’s Talk About Loneliness” will be published by Hay House on June 27th.
Join us as we explore the role of creativity in Simone's journey, how trauma and hardship can become fuel for creativity and how she perceives her creativity as a guiding light that links her to the universe. Beautiful!
You can find out more about Simone here:**www.simoneheng.com
www.linkpop.com/simoneheng
www.instagram.com/simoneheng
Creative Spirit with Art Psychotherapist and Author: Samantha Hickman
Samantha qualified as an Art Psychotherapist from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore and holds a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art from University of Plymouth, UK.
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, prior to the beginning of the civil war, Sam was brought up between the Middle East (Morocco and Saudi Arabia) and the UK, before her family moved to Asia where she lived for a total of 23 years (Hong Kong and Singapore).
Sam became an art psychotherapist to integrate her own creative practice into working with others and covers a wide spectrum of reasons for therapy from depression, stress, and anxiety, to anger and grief and loss.
She completed her clinical placement with the Singapore Cancer Society, working with adults living with cancer, and went on to employment with the organisation before relocating to the city Bath, UK, in 2019, where she now works as a socially engaged artist alongside her private practice.
Sam has exhibited in Singapore and the UK, has delivered workshops at international conferences and universities, and is a published writer on art therapy, practices and processes.
She is a member of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) and the Australian, NewZealand and Asian Creative Arts Therapy Association, (ANZACATA), and HCPC registered. She is also DBS approved.
**Her multicultural exposure and love of art mean that she brings a wealth of life experience into the therapy space, where she empowers others through the process of creativity, providing therapeutic guidance and support along the way.
Join us as we explore Samantha's beauitful process of creative expression as a form of guidance and respite; her varied and prolific mediums; her work with cancer patients and art as a healing medium.**
You can find out more about Sam here:
www.instagram.com/hopearttherapy
hopearttherapy@gmail.com
The Modern Crone team:
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Rebecca Downie is an international personal branding photographer whose clients are based across the UK, Singapore and Australia.
Her great uncle was a photographer and it was the many old photos from her mum's life that instilled in her the value of photos. A tangible record of a life lived.
From teen years she often had a camera in her hand but with no creative role models in her life she followed the traditional path of uni and business, followed by a 15 year career in the media and marketing industry.
When looking to leave corporate to create a life on her terms she turned to her love of photography.
Her passion is empowering women leaders and founders to proudly take the space they deserve.
Her 'why' in business is to provide a service that not only creates a portfolio of stunning on-brand marketing images for their business, but one that shows them, via the power of her lens, just how fabulous they are. And how the world already sees them.
You can find more about Rebecca here:www.rebeccadowniephotography.com
www.instagram.com/Rebecca.Downie.photography
www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccadowniephotography
Creative Spirit with Professional Artist - Mishell Leong
Malaysian born Artist, Mishell Leong is a life expressionist; passionate about communicating her love for life through her use of vivid colours and bold techniques found in her iconic artwork.
Mishell’s signature style is a credit to her ever expansive and evolving nature. She has liberated herself from the constraints of traditional techniques and preconceptions of what and how art should be, using her distinct style and vibrant colours as an avenue to communicate her inspirations and messages to the world.
As a multiculturalist who has lived all over the world, Mishell very much identifies with Western culture and way of life, as much as she does with Asian culture. Mishell started out her professional career as a Chartered Accountant in London which quickly transported her to New York, Korea, Germany, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Singapore and beyond. Mishell’s journey in the world of finance came to an end in 2012 when she gave into her true calling of expression and has not looked back.
As all great stories often tell, life has taken her one full circle and she now finds herself residing back in Switzerland beside stunning Lake Zurich creating more than ever.
Mishell taps into life’s energetic flow drawing on love and the beauty of each given moment & all that surrounds us to create her new collection.
Mishell Leong is proudly represented by International Artist Management and Art Consultancy firm Curate International – with a presence in London and Singapore.
Join us as Mishell shares her journey from corporate career into professional artist, how she works with colour and form in every aspect of her life, some unusual sources of inspiration (which include being spanked), how she interweaves spiritual symbolism into her works and so much more.
You can find out more about Mishell here:
www.mishellleong.com
www.curate-international.com/mishell-leong
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=mishell%20leong%20art
https://www.instagram.com/mishellleongart/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishell-leong
Creative Spirit with Film Director, Musician, Commercial Advertising Director - Adrian Van de Velde
Born with prodigious music and technical talents, Adrian started writing music and pulling apart household appliances at the age of five. A theme which has since underscored his approach to almost everything he turns his attention to.
After graduating from the prestigious Australian Film, Television and Radio School Adrian was immediately snapped up by Commercial Music Powerhouse Song Zu Sydney as a composer of TVCs, TV and Film, while moonlighting for Fox Studios Australia, screenwriting an original SciFi TV Series. He has won the coveted Australia Guild of Screen Composers award twice, and has been nominated for a Motion Picture Association of America 'Technical Oscar' for his short film Rock et Man.
Adrian’s love of the moving image soon took hold and in 2000 he started his Commercial Directing career. Adrian has been directing TV Commercials ever since, and has been a regular with some of the biggest brands in South East Asia for over 10 years. In 2004 and 2007 he founded two of the most successful Production Companies in the Asian TVC Market - Great Guns Bangkok and Bullet Production.
**After divesting his shareholding in both companies he founded Indigo Asia Production. Indigo is the envy of the industry. A busy hothouse of creativity with TVC Production, Indigo also has Feature Film and Digital Media projects in development.
Join us as we explore Adrian's creative journey, the artist's need to create balance, the non-linear nature of time, the difference between commercial and personal creative projects and the innate human dynamics of both creativity and spirituality, the role of mystery in the human experience and how the subconscious mind connects us with oneness consciousness.**
You can find out more about Adrian here:
https://vimeo.com/adrianvandevelde/
https://indigoproduction.com
https://www.instagram.com/adrian_vandevelde/https://vimeo.com/339041543
Creative Spirit with Professional Artist - Julie Williams
Julie Williams was born an artist, passionate and creative as a little girl. She was drawn to esoteric practice as a teen, a full-blown Hippy in the early 70’s and then became a dedicated Biba follower of fashion in London.
After studying art and ceramics at school she wanted to go to Art School in Brighton UK but her plans were thwarted so she went to Paris for a year in 1977. There her true passion for in Art and the History of Art developed, she returned home and completed a BA in business studies, tourism and law to appease her parents and shortly after emigrated to Sydney Australia.
Finding love and becoming a mother at 24 left no time for developing her artistic passion. She immersed herself in ‘Looking at Art’ until the age of 41 when she finally achieved her dream and enrolled at the National Art School in Sydney in 2000.
Since then Julie has been in numerous exhibitions in Sydney, Regional Australia, and Singapore including a satellite exhibition during ARTJOG in Jogjakarta Indonesia in 2018.
It was whilst living in Singapore for five years that Julie also developed her esoteric practice and deepened her Spiritual enquiry that really shifted her creative practice.
Her paintings are conceptual, based on an idea and constructed with attention to her craft, but lately she has felt drawn to clearing her mind of all thought and trusting her Spirit to pull her through a painting. A painting is an illusion of space and it is this playing with space through shape, form and colour that keeps Julie painting.
Join us as Julie shares her unique journey into claiming her creative expression fully later in her life, how her process feels as she nurtures concept to finished work, and how important her spiritual practice is for staying in flow and aligned with the truth of her works.
You can find out more about Julie here:
www.julie-williams.com
www.Artchisg.com
ArtChisg@gmail.com
www.instagram.com/juliewilliamsartist
Creative Spirit with Creative Director - Anastassia Selezneva
Anastassia Selezneva first began her creative exploration as a painter in her youth, and transitioned to jewellery design as a new medium in 2012. The desire came spontaneously when she walked into a jewellery supply store on Queen St in Toronto.
This chance encounter ignited an immediate curiosity. Anastassia taught herself basic goldsmithing techniques late into most nights and early mornings. Moving between her kitchen counter and her makeshift studio, she experimented with wire wrapping gemstones, fusing metals, and stone setting.
Her life began to form a duality; she was a business analyst by day, and an artist by night. The pull to be immersed in creativity was clear and in 2015, Anastassia quit her job, began training as a professional goldsmith at George Brown College and simultaneously, launched her line, Anastassia Sel Jewelry.
Synonymous with her roots, Anastassia’s collection is handmade in Toronto, using 100% certified Canadian gold and ethically sourced materials.
Since then, Anastassia’s work has been featured in Vogue, Elle, Wedluxe, Brides, among other publications, has walked the New York, Milan and Toronto runways, and can be found in select boutiques in Canada, US and online.
Join us as we explore Anastassia’s journey into her full creative expression, how our greater purpose keeps finding us until we respond, her incredible melding of spiritual travel and downloads into her jewellery, and how working with gold as supreme medium.
You can find out more about Anastassia here:
www.AnastassiaSel.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/anastassiasel/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AnastassiaSel/
Creative Spirit with Creative Director - Luana Suciu
Luana Suciu is a Creative Director with a multi-disciplinary background in design, art direction and photography. Born and raised in Romania, Luana studied Marketing Communications with a focus in Advertising and Photography at Emerson College, Boston and started her career in New York City.
Over the past 13+ years Luana's creative expression took various shapes, from designing brand identities, experiences, websites, publications to conceptualising and directing global advertising and PR campaigns for fashion, lifestyle and luxury brands.
She has worked and lived in Boston, Brussels, Toronto, New York, Singapore and Gothenburg — long enough to call all home. Travelling and moving countries has opened her heart to the new and unfamiliar and helped her develop holistic and intuitive ways of seeing and creating.
Luana’s clients include some of the world’s biggest brands, including, Anastassia Sel
Sephora. Condé Nast, Bottega Veneta, Puma, Ray-Ban, Heineken, The Macallan, Durex, WWF and Meta.
Alongside her personal bodies of work and her commercial creativity, Luana also manges her ongoing projects of Host and Organiser, Creative Mornings Singapore, (https://www.instagram.com/creativemornings.sg/), and, Art Director, Return Trip Magazine
(https://www.instagram.com/returntripmag/)
Join us as we learn about Luana's creative process and evolution; how her spiritual process informs her creative expression and the perception that spiritual energy and creative energy are one and the same thing.
You can learn more about Luana here:
Website https://www.luanasuciu.com/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/luanasuciu/
AFTERLIFE with Author and Psychic Medium - Kerry Alderuccio
Kerry Alderuccio’s introduction to all things of a psychic nature came to her relatively late in life. It was after the loss of her adored 19-year-old son, Sam, that she realised that the instinct that she had always had, might be something more profound.
Throughout her life she has always been aware of changes in the energy around her, naively assuming that everyone felt such things. But as her loved ones gradually passed away, she always remained very aware of their presence.
It was after Sam’s untimely passing that Kerry decided to act on this instinct and look for answers as to where Sam was and how contact could be made. She began her mediumship studies initially by sitting in circle in Melbourne and then attended Arthur Findlay College in the United Kingdom, where her psychic and mediumship gifts became very apparent.
Kerry’s studies continue at Arthur Findlay College with yearly visits for two weeks at a time. Kerry believes that knowledge and learning have no ending, just like life itself. It is Kerry’s wish to work with and help as many people as possible to assist them in coping with their own grief, whether that be through simple conversation, a mediumship reading or a tarot reading, where she can gain insight into them in a psychic way.
Contact info:
https://kerryalderuccio.com/about/kerry-alderuccio/
The Modern Crone team:
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
AFTERLIFE with Intuitive Artist, QHRT Practitioner and Psychic Medium- Biba Logan
Biba Logan is an intuitive artist who began painting after a vision she received in a dream. She began painting with the understanding that she is not the artist, but the vessel that the spirit of creativity needs to be expressed through.
Biba attunes to what she describes as ‘golden access to the light’ which contains all the information she needs as an artist and intuitive and all that we will all ever need. Her focus is learning to attune to that energy and allow it to be.
She began to understand that her paintings are healing in nature. They are encoded with frequencies that are assigned to the people that are drawn to them. Each piece is created for a specific person and when that person receives the painting, the light information within the painting sets a frequency within their environment and they will be able to communicate with their spirit team and receive the healing that they need. They are multi-dimensional paintings and so the healing and connection is multi-dimensional.
After several months of non-stop painting and much success with acknowledgements which was not her initial intention, Netflix took several of her paintings for one of their tv shows being made in Ireland.
Painting released in her a deeper awareness of the way the mystery works.
Biba knows how to paint and how to communicate with those in the unseen realms and bring messages of hope and love to those seeking solace, guidance, love and healing.
She has since qualified as a Quantum Healing Hypnosis Practitioner and has begun to write a book about her journey to discovering the mystery within. It’s to help people enquire and discover their connection to a greater power of light and love within. As within so without
Contact info
https://www.thebibafrequency.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheBibaFrequency/
AFTERLIFE with Psychic Medium, Tarot Consultant and Crystal Healer - Bronia West
Bronia West is a Spiritual Psychic Medium, Tarot Consultant and Crystal Healer who studied with the Spiritual Venturers Association to obtain her Diploma in Crystal Healing. This was founded by Edmund Harold who was a trance medium and linked the clear quartz crystal to trance mediumship. She is also a member of the Affiliation of Crystal Healing Organisation.
Bronia believes that our own personality and the uniqueness of our very being, allows us to open and expand the mind, body, and spirit, awakening and igniting the flame within our souls. It is the very essence of the divine spark that gives us the zest to search for knowledge, truth and understanding. If we do not understand our own awareness, the energy of our own spirit, we cannot begin to understand the awareness and energy of others, both on the physical plane and those who reside in the spirit world.
She is a great believer that our sensitivity and heightened awareness is contained in the very core of our being, within our soul of personal belief system - this is the unique universal energy and power of your spirit.
Since her journey’s unfolding in 1990 (and well before then as she can recall events that she experienced in childhood), Bronia has found that there is always something new to experience through our sensitivity of sight, feeling, sensing, and knowing. She is a great believer in unlocking the awareness of the spirit and she has produced an inspirational card deck, “The Awakening of Your Spirit” where each card can be a focus and message for what you truly seek.
You can find out more and connect with Bronia here:
https://www.broniawestclairvoyantmedium.co.uk/about-me/ The Modern Crone team:
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
AFTERLIFE with Paranormal Researcher & Investigator, Noel Boyd
Noel Boyd is an author, producer and television host. He is best known for being the host of Skin Art and Ghost Watch. Both series have a combined viewership of close to 6 million viewers from Singapore and around the globe.
Noel has been featured in leading publications such as The Straits Times and Shin Min Daily News and magazines such as 8 Days and Cleo. Noel has also been featured on Mediacorp Channel 5 and Channel NewsAsia.
Join us as we discuss Noel's fascinating journey into his work investigating the paranormal, his ideas on why and how entities remain in certain locations and make contact, his take on demons and non-human entities and lots of amazing shared stories.
You can learn more about Noel here:
www.noel.asia
Adrian Bai has been a spiritual practitioner for many years.
Adrian is a highly intuitive practitioner who has worked with channeling since the age of eight. He channels the Maitreya Ascension Energies™ through the Maitreya Buddha.
The Maitreya Ascension Energies™ has guided him on countless spiritual missions, from clearing spaces and dealing with negative entities, mass soul sending and the closing of dimensional portals. He has also healed, coached and counselled many individuals using the guidance of the Maitreya Ascension Energies™.
Adrian conducts weekly meditation sessions and classes in Singapore. He also runs tailored workshops and courses inspired by the Maitreya Ascension Energies™ for those looking to further their practice.
Through the courses, his students are able to better understand and heal their karmic patterns and life issues, enhance their communication skills with the spirit world, and progress in their journey to Ascension.
You can connect with Adrian here:
Website: www.artofblessing.com
Email: ask@artofblessing.com
Telegram: @artofblessing
WhatsApp Only: +6587380218
The Modern Crone team:
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciuhttps://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/ Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studiosmaskmusicstudios@outlook.com
AFTERLIFE with Trance Medium and Circle Leader, Carol Blake
After a few years in an awareness group Carol started trance mediumship groups in 2007, every week with her mentor and tutor Pat William Ellis. Pat had 75 years in Spiritualism and passed away in 2021 at the age 93, still working. He was a wonderful trance philosopher, and Carol feels so privileged to have worked with him. He went to the Author Findlay College when Gordon Higginson was there.
Fifteen years later Carol is still doing trance every week. Carol used to say that getting into the physical energies was by chance because it wasn't planned. But she has been told many times that she is a physical medium, and nothing happens by chance, when working with Spirit.
Twelve years on with the physical circle all Carol can say is “wow what a privilege!”. She has her own awareness group and trance group every week plus a physical mediumship circle of which she is circle leader. Carol’s husband is the physical medium. It is very much a home circle. They are allowed by the ‘Spirit Team’ to have a couple of demonstrations a year for other trance workers to experience the physical energies with the intelligent phenomena. Carol still loves her mediumship one-to-one work which has grown alongside her other mediumship work.
You can contact Carol here:
blake670@btopenworld.com
https://www.facebook.com/carole.blake.33671
AFTERLIFE with Trance Medium and Teacher, Sharon Harvey
Sharon is a tutor at the Arthur Findlay College where she is known for her lively, humorous approach.
Sharon is from a travelling family who only settled in a permanent home following the tragic death of her Grandmother's children. Following this, her grandmother would not move far away from where they were buried and so they settled down.
She never forgot her roots and kept the barrel top caravan in her garden. Her Grandmother was a great influence on her and was well known for her 'gifts' especially in healing, including animals.
As a child Sharon was always drawn to God and would skip school to sit in churches and graveyards where she felt close to him. As a teenager she saw spirit but didn't understand it and it frightened her.
Eventually however her interest was aroused again and she began reading Tarot cards and doing sittings. Her real love was to be found at the Arthur Findlay College where her proper mediumistic development began.
Her great inspiration was Mavis Pittilla, and Sharon joined every course of hers that she could. Mavis once said:
"The Spirit World is Sharon's World and she has to be a medium."
These words have meant everything to Sharon and have inspired her through good and bad times.
Sharon's love of life is infectious and she enjoys sparking the interest of new students which she does with ease. Her favourite expression is "God doesn't want you to be miserable", and she certainly practices what she preaches.
Sharon is married with three children and four grandchildren, some of whom already exhibit her mediumistic traits. Sharon's grandfather was also very psychic and he used his abilities in a very enterprising way.
Earlier this year I spent a week at The Arthur Findlay College in Sharon’s Trance Mediumship class…which was incredible on so many levels.
You can find out more about Sharon here:
http://sharonharveymedium.co.uk
The Modern Crone team:
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
Christine Morgan CSNU is one of Australia’s foremost Spiritual Mediums and teachers of the Spiritual Arts, based in Sydney Australia.
Her natural mediumistic ability stems from a long line of natural intuitives and a heritage of mediumship which has been honed through classical training.
Christine is also a Certificate holder of the Spiritualist National Union in Public Speaking and Demonstrating Evidential Mediumship (CSNU), as well as a Tutor and Course Organiser at the prestigious Arthur Findlay College of psychic science and spiritual mediumship in the UK.
Christine has worked for 32 years in the field of Spiritual Mediumship and the Intuitive Arts, throughout Australia as well as internationally, including the USA, Canada, Europe and England.
Through teaching and demonstrating, Christine endeavours to achieve and maintain the standard of true Spiritual Mediumship as defined by the great pioneers of Spiritualism bringing a contemporary approach to the work.
In high demand for her knowledge and talents by various and diverse organisations, as well as the business community, Christine is available for educational workshops, seminars, as a guest speaker, demonstrations of mediumship, as well as private consultations, grief support and personal coaching.
You can connect with Christine here:
Christine Morgan CSNU - Spiritual Medium | Facebook
Christine Morgan CSNU
www.instagram.com/indiki1962
The Modern Crone team:
Theme music and season intro tracks:
Sam Joole:
www.samjoole.com
Cover design and photography
Luana Suciu
https://www.instagram.com/luanasuciu/
Luanasuciu@gmail.com
Voice editing:
Christopher Hales - Mask Music Studios
maskmusicstudios@outlook.com
THE RISE OF THE ENERGY ARTS WITH ACCESS CONSCIOUSNESS PRACTITIONER AND MINDSET AND BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE SPECIALIST - KALINKA POULLAIN-JACOBS
Kalinka co-founded YES over 25 years ago, a British consultancy based in London specialising in mindset and behavioural changes for organisations. Through YES, she has trained (directly or indirectly through online training) over 400,000 people in over 85 countries, helping them work together more effectively and more harmoniously. YES's clients include some of the world’s largest international groups.
Kalinka is trained in diverse disciplines including the Access Consciousness Certified Facilitator training (including Bars and Body Processes), Eric Pearl’s Reconnective Healing training, the Kinslow System, Theory U, Psycho-genealogy and Shamanism. She offers private sessions and classes to help everyone, wherever they are in their life, create the life that really turns them on.
Join us as we explore the energetic nature of collectives, the immense creative power of our choices as our birthright, Kalinka’s work with today’s youth, how the modality of Access Consciousness works, her own journey into the energy arts, the nature and role of intuition through intent and so much more!
You can connect with Kalinka here:
https://www.jechooze.com
https://en.accessconsciousnesswithkalinka.com
THE RISE OF THE ENERGY ARTS WITH KINESIOLOGIST, YOGINI AND REIKI MASTER, CLAIRE TAIT
Claire Tait is an Holistic Kinesiologist, a Reiki Master (with lineage to Dr Mikao Usui), a Yoga teacher, an Australian Bush Flower Essence practitioner and an EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) practitioner amongst other things.
When she’s not working with clients online or in her clinic on Sydney’s northern beaches, She loves to spend time with family and friends, enjoying great food and wine, yoga, a good gym session, animals and nature, acts of kindness and the appreciation of all the simple things in life. She tries to live in gratitude every day.
Whenever Claire is faced with problems or challenges she asks herself "What would Love do?"
Join us as we explore the incredible modality of Kinesiology, the interlinking of meridiens, muscles, organs and emotions, the intelligence of the body and how biofeedback works, how surrogacy facilitates healing for babies and online sessions, Claire’s own journey into the energy arts from accountant to highly regarded healer and so much more.
You can connect with Claire here:
www.clairetait.com.au
THE RISE OF THE ENERGY ARTS WITH CRANIOSACRAL AND REIKI MASTER, STEPHANIE EDWARDS
Since childhood, Stephanie had a desire to learn about the human body and how it connects with nature. She has always sought to lead a holistic and spiritual lifestyle, initially focusing on meditation and yoga. With a thirst to expand her knowledge and understanding of energy healing, she spent time in Asia in 2013 studying Reiki before qualifying as a licensed Western Usui Reiki Practitioner and Master Teacher and a Jikiden and Millenium Reiki Practitioner. Reiki has influenced, changed, and reconnected her back to a happier, spiritual existence which is always evolving.
Her interest in Holistic healing and healing her own personal trauma did not stop with Reiki and has led me down the magical path of Reflexology, TRE (trauma release exercise), Think and Craniosacral therapy.
Craniosacral Therapy has widened Stephanie’s view of life as she perceives it and how the body’s inherent wisdom is far greater than we can comprehend and how deep healing can occur on all levels. We perceive the body as only having a few levels but in fact it has many of which we are not fully aware of.
Join us as we discuss the state of ‘Dynamic Stillness’, the power of touch and an attitude of curiosity, the role of intuition and how her client demographics are changing in recent years. Stephanie shares her own journey into the Energy Arts and so much more.
You can connect with Stephanie here:
www.steph-edwards.com
https://www.instagram.com/steph.edwards.therapist/
https://www.facebook.com/stephedwardsnaturaltherapist
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-edwards-8aa708b9/
THE RISE OF THE ENERGY ARTS WITH BODY TALK PRACTITIONER & DIRECTOR OF BODY TALK SINGAPORE, SUFEN PAPHASSARANG
Sufen is an ex-corporate executive with the AIG and Marsh Group who left her successful corporate career to become a full-time mother. After her tragic loss and health crisis, Sufen credited the BodyTalk System for her quick recovery of the disease without drugs. Her healing journey led her to learn the BodyTalk System in 2010. Sufen now integrates the fields of mind and body medicine with The BodyTalk System. Sufen provides whole-person centered healthcare, integrating medical science, neuromuscular biofeedback and neuroscience/neuroplasticity within the philosophies of health and wellness of both Vedic and Chinese traditions.
**She directs The BodyTalk Centre Singapore, where she teaches the BodyTalk and MindScape courses in Singapore and internationally. She also coordinates BodyTalk courses for the Asia Pacific region. When Sufen is not teaching, she is running a busy clinic where she conducts private BodyTalk treatments.
Join us as we explore whole-person centered healthcare, integrating medical science, neuromuscular biofeedback, neuroscience within the philosophies of health and wellness of both Vedic and Chinese traditions.**
You can connect with Sufen here:
www.release.com.sg
www.instagram.com/sufen_bodytalk
www.facebook.com/bodytalksg
THE RISE OF THE ENERGY ARTS WITH HYPNOTHERAPIST, SPIRITUAL RESPONSE THERAPIST, PSYCHOLOGIST AND REIKI PRACTITIONER BHARTI JATTI VARMA
Bharti is a holistic therapist conducting various services through her offering Mynd here in Singapore, and on behalf of Illuminations Well-Being Center in Dubai.
Bharti’s passion and communication skills make her extremely popular in front of larger audiences! She is also a chosen favourite with corporate programs due to her ability and flexibility to connect to anyone and everyone!
With a background in Psychology and a keen interest to explore the intricacies of the human mind, body and energy system, she has studied Hypnotherapy, Spiritual Response and Energy Healing Approaches.
Through her personal journey of self-discovery and self-development, Bharti learnt to distance herself from any limiting beliefs and patterns that prevented her from achieving her true potential of happiness, success and harmony in her everyday life. Her aim is to educate others about personal transformation through the energy arts.
Her expertise in various approaches allows her to offer more holistic and bespoke approaches while working with clients.
Join us as we explore the creative nature of the subconscious mind, energetic resonance and its role in manifesting illness and wellness, the natural desire of the human system to be well and heal itself and the truth about hypnosis. Bharti shares her own journey into the Energy Arts and examples of healings with her clients.
You can connect with Bharti here:
https://www.instagram.com/Myndsingapore
https://www.facebook.com/Mynd.sg/
THE RISE OF THE ENERGY ARTS WITH QI GONG MASTER, QI HEALER AND CERTIFIED LIFE COACH, PASCALE JENART
Pascale Jenart started her professional life in Banking for ten years and then moved her attention to mothering her two wonderful kids.
She fell in love with Tai Chi and started competing in Singapore, Hong Kong, and China. Qi Gong came into her life as a way to improve her Tai Chi, to deepen her felt connection with the Qi. This deeper exploration led to her being a golden medalist several times over.
In 2014, Pascale fell sick Thyroid disfunction, and decided then to explore the power of the Qi. She was able to restart her Thyroid by practicing Qi Gong, which led her to create her company Chi Balance and start teaching. She wanted to share this fantastic body/mind health tool.
Pascale studied Qi Gong for ten years with a Chinese Grand Master and has been teaching since 2014. During those ten years, Pascale developed her Qi knowledge by studying Acupressure, Yin and Yang in food, Reiki, and finally when she felt she was ready to go deeper, she trained in Qi Healing.
During the pandemic, Pascale also completed her ICF certification as a Life Coach as she realised that a lot of her clients needed to share and have a safe space to reflect after the healing, and she have the tools to take responsibility for their own healing journeys.
Join us as we explore the nature of Qi, the relationship between Qi Gong and Qi Healing, Pascale’s own journey into the Energy Arts and so much more!
You can find Pascale at:
https://www.facebook.com/chi.balance.64
21ST CENTURY SHAMAN WITH SHAMANIC TEACHER, SPACE HOLDER AND MEDICINE MAN, MIGUEL KAVLIN
Miguel A. Kavlin was born in la Paz, Bolivia, where he lived until he was 17 years old. Upon finding himself in the United States to study at university, he started to have unusual experiences which eventually led him to become interested in Native American culture and religion.
Miguel’s spiritual path has led him to studying and participating in various ceremonies with Beautiful Painted Arrow (Joseph Rael), leading him to eventually inherit the title of Chief for both the Sun-Moon Dance and the Long Dance with sacred Cactus of the Andes; training with Sifu Kenny Gong, an international martial arts teacher and traditional Chinese doctor, in the arts of Shing-Yi Chuan and Pa-Kua. This training has provided Miguel with a very serious grounding to all his spiritual practices.
Eventually Miguel’s path led him to an apprenticeship with Don Agustin Rivas Vazques in his jungle camp. Now Miguel is the only foreigner authorized by Don Agustin to conduct his ceremonies outside the Peruvian Amazon. Since 1995 Miguel has also been apprenticing with Don Hector Aguanari and Don Jose Coral.
Amongst his many incredible achievements Miguel has completed graduate studies in Anthropology and Philosophy; has set up a non-profit agency that works with NYC’s public school students in multicultural awareness, violence-prevention, adolescent rites of passage, and various other educational programs; a three-part Video-Documentary series on Peruvian Amazon Shamanism, entitled Spirits of the Rainforest featuring interviews with Don Agustin Rivas Vazques and the Paintings of Don Pablo Amaringo.
Miguel started the Sacharuna Community in Bolivia, 25 years ago, dedicated to help people heal disorders and learn to serve using practices and teachings from the Amazonian Indian, native North American, Buddhist, Sikh and Judeo Chrisitian traditions and teachings.
Miguel’s deepest prayer, to truly be of service to the collective in the most profound ways possible.
Join us as we explore the truth of ‘the Hollow Bone’ state, the vibrational nature of being, the importance of devotional inner practice and the ‘Principle’ Idea’ of all things. We share our experience of Ayahuasca ceremony, the communion with the Spirit of the Plant Medicine and the ‘naked truth’ it enables….and much much more!
You can find out more about Miguel’s offering and get in contact at: https://sacharuna.com
21ST CENTURY SHAMAN WITH SHAMANIC ANTHROPOLOGIST, PHILOSOPHER, SPEAKER AND EXPERT IN JAVANESE SHAMANISM, PATRICK VANHOEBROUCK
Patrick Vanhoebrouck is a Belgian anthropologist specializing in Javanese culture and spirituality. He has a BA in Anthropology from University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology from Leiden University (Netherlands).
Having spent nearly 15 years in residence in Yogyakarta Province, Patrick has accumulated specialized knowledge in various aspects of the spirituality, culture, history and ancient literature of Java, deepening himself in ancient sources to help explain the contemporary manifestations of traditional and authentic Javanese culture and practices.
He is preparing a doctoral research PhD in the same vein, and shares his passion and knowledge through lectures, exhibitions and guided tours through circuits connecting ancient sites dotting the Central and East Javanese landscape.
Join us as we explore Patrick’s fascinating work with the Javanese Master Healers, the synergies between Tibetan and Shamanic frameworks, how understanding the energy body and the self is the starting point of all spiritual enquiry, and the amazing healings he has witnessed in his time in Java...and so much more!
To connect with Patrick, he can be emailed at jurus6@gmail.com
21ST CENTURY SHAMAN WITH SHAMANIC HEALER, MEDITATION TEACHER AND SPIRITUAL MENTOR, LOUSE GILMORE
Notwithstanding her early work as a journalist, after an intense period of crises, tragedies and shocks, Louise discovered meditation and threw herself into discovering all she could about it. This led her to eventually learning and teaching meditation and training people to become teachers for 40 years. Shamanism ‘grabbed’ her in a similar way and she has explored, practiced and taught this fascinating modality for 20 years. Louise also offers one to one shamanic healing sessions. Louise also happens to be my teacher, mentor and dear friend and I am so thrilled that she is joining me for a chat in this season.
Join us as we explore the nature of ‘modern shamanism’, trance and the wisdom that is available to us within altered states; the spiritual familiarity of shamanism; the active space of dreaming; the importance of meditation to enter silence and what can be found within the silence. We ask the questions: Is Shamanism in our DNA? We share our experiences of ecstatic posture and meeting in ‘the other’ regardless of time or space and the questions these experiences raise about a shared spiritual reality and the power of intention….and so much more!
Enquire about joining a face to face shamanic group in Sydney or online shamanic healing at: lougilmore@bigpond.com
Rubiyanti Basuki was born in the high land of Dieng Plateau, Java, in 1979 and left home at an early age, engaging in life’s lessons when most of us are cocooned in family and school.
**Her connection with Spirit and the land through her Kejawan roots meant that she responded to life experiences through a wider angle. Yanti believes that her path of complex life realities was, and is, a path of empowerment, held by Mother Earth, to accelerate consciousness and spiritual evolution. She sees her experiences of life and her two children as clear channels of wisdom within that evolution.
Yanti is a successful business woman yet also seamlessly holds the ancient living wisdom of Javanese belief, and this fusion defines her path to complete her journey as ‘a walking mandala’. Yanti is also a leader in the spiritual and social movement called Gemah Ripah which supports others to live a real spiritual daily life.**
Join us as we explore the native spirituality of Java as the ‘flowing water of spirit’; the importance of harmony with all phenomenon; the relationship between the land and respect of its drive for balance; the true nature of Java’s sacred sites; shamanism and structured religions and how spirituality is not mutually exclusive of success in business and life...and so much more!
Find out more about Yanti here:
https://www.instagram.com/rubiyantibasuki
https://www.facebook.com/solodesignyogyakarta/
https://www.instagram.com/solodesign_/
Jeff ‘Gent’ Stone (Gentle Eagle) was raised around Ceremony. Specifically, he has worked with Native American Elders (mostly Lakota) who have taught him how to perform Inipi Sweat Lodge Ceremonies, Firewalk, Vision Quest, Chanunpa Sacred Pipe, Sun Dance as well as many Sacred Plant Medicine Ceremonies, including Ayahuasca, Peyote, Huachuma, Psilocybin, Rape and others. Gent has carried a Sacred Pipe for over 30 years and facilitates many healing Ceremonies with the community.
Gent also has a PhD in Biomedical Science from UCSF and is currently furthering his education and working in the field of Bioinformatics and Data Science. Gent also collaborates with many clinicians, including those at MAPS and other psychedelic integration therapists and adjunct care providers. He is working diligently to educate the community on best practices for use of Sacred Plant Medicines as well as harm reduction and is working with others to lead decriminalisation efforts across the country.
Join us as Gent shares his views on Native American Shamanism in the modern era, the interconnectedness of all of life, even at a cellular level, the active role of our ancestors, the first, second and third attention, and the true nature of the Dream Space as a Healing Space. We share some of our story when we met in Peyote Ceremony in Utah three years ago and how the Plant Medicines help us to reconnect to Spirit and the Mystery.
You can connect with Gent and his offerings here:
www.swcnac.org
On today’s episode I am joined by Mark Flood. Mark has a passion to work with various shamanic techniques and perspectives – to open up the spaces he holds for direct and revelatory contact to pure existence.
He feels that in an age of information proliferation, we can all forget where to go to find our own visions- while being surrounded by so much of the sight already seen.
Mark has learnt from shamanic teachers over the past seven years and also acknowledges the teachings from the unseen and inner ones that have been with him and felt since a young boy.
He considers himself to still be in training for his shamanic becoming, as he believes in the long road, and the long ways in which learning arrives through the measures of walking this path through great distances of time.
Mark moves deeply and reverently within the spaces he holds and really enjoys the connective moments that arise out of the hearts of human beings gathering in sacred circles.
He practices the shamanic work daily and has allied himself through this work to a purpose and a type of medicine that helps to reveal a vision of life that Is unique and available to every one of us.
Join us as we explore Mark’s story of a felt-knowing of the Great Mystery from his boyhood, the ecstatic path of the soul, the disruptive dynamics of Shamanism, the soul’s call, working with spiritual allies and finding the resonance of ‘wonder within’. Mark shares with us how his poetry moves through him as an extension of this ‘felt knowing’ and a sublime revelation of the nonlinearity of who we were, who we are and who we are becoming, all coexisting in every moment. We end the podcast with a reading of Mark’s beautiful poetry. Divine!
https://www.instagram.com/sandbox_shamanics_visioning/
www.sandboxshamanics.com
On today’s episode I am joined by Magi Whisson. For the past fifty years Magi has been an explorer, student, and practitioner within the field of esoteric science. She has worked independently and in collaboration with others, bringing the esoteric sciences to the worlds of healing, writing, publishing, personal and spiritual development programs and workshops. Magi has been influenced by a range of traditions, philosophies and theories and respectfully acknowledges their contribution in forging her own pathway and ‘World Work’. She is the co-creator and co-facilitator of The Human Odyssey- a Map for the Journey and she has a strong alliance and involvement with the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project.
Her own body of work is held as OPUSonus. A work existing on subtle levels and the inner planes and one that is now emerging and being given further expression in the outer world, to serve the evolutionary imperatives of our times.
Join us as we explore Magi’s experience of ‘The Shaman’s Death’; the deep calling through visioning and eventually visiting the motherland of Africa; her encounters and healing with the celestial beings embodied in the White Lion’s of Africa and the incredible work of reginiting the songlines of the Earth through the Earth Treasure Vase project. Magi shares with us the deep call and purpose of her writing, offered via OpusOnus, weaving story and experience from Land, Spirit and People.
https://opusonus.net
https://earthtreasurevase.org
https://gaia-mandala.mn.co/feed
On today’s episode I am joined by Jorge Luis Delgrado. Born in the highlands near Lake Titicaca, Peru, Jorge is of Aymara Incan heritage. His mother is from a family of herders and his father was a teacher.
He was trained by the Kallawayas shamans of the northeast Lake Titicaca region, in the lineage of the Amautas, (the Wise Ones of the Andes). He also trained with the Q'ero Elders of the Cusco region who are considered the last remaining descendants of the Incas. Jorge is known around the world as a knowledgeable guide of the Sacred Valley and the High Plateau of the Andes. His knowledge spans the culture, the traditions, and the spiritual heritage of his vibrant Inca world.
We met a few years ago in the Sacred Valley of Peru and our discussions, rituals and meditations completely changed the trajectory of my life.
**Join us as we explore ‘Shamanism’ as a state of consciousness, the current times of the Pachakuti and the role of COVID in this ‘great reversal’, the true nature of Light, the reciprocity of the Universe and much more.
You can follow and contact Jorge on Facebook here:**
https://www.facebook.com/jorgeluis.delgado.311
On today’s episode I am joined by Zenta Zebergs. With a background in counselling, women’s creative spirit facilitation and private practice as an oncology massage therapist, Zenta Zeberg has over 20 years’ experience in the mind/body/spirit wellness field. Inspired by ancient and Indigenous cultures across the world, and particularly the traditions of rock art, Zenta’s art and spiritual-view are both unique, intriguing and magnetic. By ‘entering the Realms of the Poetic’ Zenta affirms that we can each experience ourselves as a channel for Divine Source as we embody the livingness of Consciousness, seeking to know itself within the dance of Creation.
Join us as we explore the ‘Realms of the Poetic’, Zenta’s art and oracle tool, an incredible experience of ‘unexpectedly’ channelling the god-heads of ancient Egypt, and much more. We close the episode with a spirit-stirring reading from Zenta’s Lioness Light Oracle Deck. Superb!
**On today’s episode I am joined by Julian Silburn. Julian has devoted his life to Sound Healing and is known for his work nationally and internationally. Julian has learned Yidaki, (Didgeridoo) directly from Aboriginal people around Australia including Arnhem Land (where the Yidaki originates), and has been playing for 29 years. He mainly uses the instrument in its traditional way for meditation ,sound therapy and for ceremony. In this fascinating episode we chat about Julian’s life journey from the wilds of South Africa, to Western Australia and into Arnhem Land, an historical and mythical region of the Northern Territory of Australia. Following the visions he was receiving in his dream space, and the spiritual reverberation of the Yidaki, Julian lived with the elders and original custodians of the Didgeridoo and was initiated into its medicine. Join us for an exploration of the true nature of dreaming, the Australian Aboriginal shamanic view of sound and healing, the interconnectedness of life, the importance of deep listening and much more. And as a special treat, Julian plays out this episode with his Didgeridoo and a ‘song’ given to him directly from Mother Earth.
Julian offers in-person and zoom sound healing sessions for individuals or groups which include recordings of the sessions.**
http://soundalchemy.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/julian.silburn
Uluru ceremony:
https://opusonus.net/2020/11/21/uluru-ceremony/
Music designed to support the Uluru Ceremony:
https://opusonus.net/2020/12/19/sound-journey-with-didjeridu/
**On today’s episode I am joined by Adrienne Kane. Adrienne is a highly regarded international healer and spiritual guide. Her spiritual journey has taken her into some of the world’s oldest and most powerful frameworks, including Druidic, Amazonian and Andean Shamanism, reiki, Quantum Healing, Hypnosis, Emotional Freedom and Body Talk Techniques, Symbology, Numerology and Astrology. She employs Amazonian plant medicine in her practice and regularly holds plant medicine ceremonies in Singapore, Australia and Ireland using tinctures of the medicines from the Amazon. In this episode we chat about Adrienne’s take on what Shamanism today really means; how her early childhood in the Irish mythic culture of the Faire and Elementals informed her journey; the true nature of Plant Medicine and the power of intent.
You can connect with Adrienne here:
www.adriennnekane.com*www.facebook.com/adrienne.kane.transform.heal.inspire.11/* You can connect with me here:
www.daniellevandevelde.com**