ONEConsciousness Deep Conversations Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Deep, meaningful "no holds barred" conversations about the Conscious Life and about what it means to be human.Jeff Krisman has conversations with spiritual practitioners, healers, and teachers about their evolution and about what they are learning on their journeys.He also has conversations with people from all walks of life who have gone through deep transformation who share their life journeys and the most formative lessons learned along the way.There is nothing that is too deep, too dark, or too heavy.These are not the typical conversations that you hear on podcasts......these are conversations that are spontaneous, unpredictable, and that can take sudden twists and turns that go places that are unknown before the journey begins.These journeys have no map to find out the way to the destination as the destination will only be known after we arrive there.Real Conversations And Real StoriesThought ProvokingConsciousness AlteringEnlighteningNo LimitsNo Scripts
To learn more about Rissa and her work, visit
https://www.teaandsmoke.com
https://www.instagram.com/teaandsmoke_byrissa/?hl=en
Rissa’s journey to becoming one of the most unique diviners working today began in childhood. Finding and interpreting symbols in art fascinated her. And her curiosity developed not only into a natural gift of discernment, but a warm, genuine mission to use her talents for others.
No one else working in the divination space in the world offers Rissa's vision in randomized divination combined with her artistic talent. Each seeker in tea or smoke gets an original piece of art from their reading to help reveal the patterns in chaos.
She was educated at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and Western Kentucky University. Always a storyteller, she has worked at five publications (she's currently the Senior Editor of a national magazine) and has combined spiritual, artistic, and cultural exploration into her work as a professional dancer, poetess, playwright, commercial photographer, and historic tour guide. She regularly presents talks online and in-person in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Rissa offers compassionate support to her clients, leaving seekers more confident and ready to find opportunities in the creative spaces of their world. She’s not out to spook or scare you – she wants to help you interpret and deal with the results of the leaves and the smoke.
In this age of uncertainty, we all yearn for answers and a clear path. Rissa's knowledge of the esoteric helps cast light into the shadows.
Angie Hooper is the founder of Happy at Law and creator of The Forgiveness Path and the Happy at Life HABIT. She shows her clients how to break free from being stuck in a "grudge loop" through the step-by-step process of forgiveness. She teaches executives, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and leaders how to find their confidence, break free from the "suck it up buttercup" burnout cycle, and burnout-proof their businesses and careers.
Angie is a founding contributor to the Onest Network. Her show, The Leadership HABIT can be found on the Onest Network, streaming on Roku and Fire TV. She graduated from SMU Dedman School of Law and the UTA honors program, licensed to practice law in Oklahoma and Texas, and is a Certified Professional Coach, a COR.E Performance Dynamics Specialist, and an ICF-certified coach.
https://angiehooper.com/apply to book a free intro coaching call to see if it's a fit to work with Angie
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Jennifer McKinney-Miser
Herbal Practitioner at H20asis
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To learn more about Jo Anna and her journey and her work, visit
https://www.joannadane.com
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https://www.facebook.com/joannadanerothman
To learn more about Maria and her work, visit
https://www.mariaverdeschi.com
To learn more about Maria's book, There Is No Death, Only Life, visit
https://www.mariaverdeschi.com/no-death-only-life
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Maria Verdeschi is a highly regarded Psychic/Medium, Speaker, Teacher and Coach with clients all over the world. At age four when living on Long Island, she started picking up on spirit, and she has been working in the field for well over a decade.
Maria is known for her accuracy and detailed information from spirit and delivering the messages with kindness and compassion. Many simply state, “She is the real deal.” From the minute you step into a reading with Maria, she will make you feel relaxed and at ease. Maria explains to you how to be a good sitter. She will tell you about her process in giving a reading and includes examples.
Maria is also the best-selling author of There Is No Death, Only Life, with a foreword written by Celebrity Medium Thomas John, and Maria is one of the authors in the best selling book The Last Breath.
Maria has a podcast Hello From The Other Side, and is on Blog Talk Radio with her show Reading The Signs.
Maria teaches classes on Mediumship, Connecting with Your Loved Ones in Spirit, and Meditation and Manifesting. Maria also has a coaching and mentoring program.
Maria has mentored and done many events with Celebrity Medium Thomas John, and mentoring and classes with Andy Byng.
Maria is compassionate about people understanding the simple truth of “There is no death, only life” It's “ Until We Meet Again .”
To connect with Michael and to learn more about Casa Galactica, visit
www.casagalactica.com
To learn more about their 10-Day Ayahuasca Healing & Evolution Retreats, visitwww.casagalactica.com/ayahuasca-retreats-pisac-peru
Michael Thornhill, is co-founder of Casa Galactica in Peru. Michael is a trauma-informed plant spirit healer, professional channel and non-dual teacher. Recovering from addiction, trauma and abuse have been a big part of Michael's own healing journey. He now dedicates his life to helping others heal themselves.
Casa Galactica offer Ayahuasca Healing and Evolution Retreats, online private sessions and group programs for dedicated inner-truth seekers and multidimensional healers.
You can find out more about Francesca and her work on her website
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To learn more about Alisha and her work, visit
https://www.cosmicg8way.com
https://www.newearthchildren.org
From a young age Alisha was very in tune with her healing and psychic abilities. 20 years ago she started formal studies to develop her intuitive and healing gifts. Over the years Alisha trained in all forms of esoteric and energy techniques (Psychic Mediumship, Trance/Channelling, Energy Healing, Past Life Regression, Reiki, Quantum Healing & many more.)
Alisha is also a qualified Holistic Living Counsellor. Since graduating she set up her own practice and have assisted hundreds of clients towards their path of self-mastery.
Over the years of travels, studies and working one-on-one with her clients, Alisha formulated her own Energy Alignment techniques which assist with the relief of things like anxiety, depression, fears & phobias, trauma, past life blockages, direction & purpose, physical ailments and much more.
Her work now specialises in Energy work to assist people on their own Spiritual Awakening process and Ascension journey.
In particular ~ part of her work is specialised to Divine Partnership connections and the children which can come through this Union - Divine Birth as known throughout history, what she calls the ‘ancient way’ returning in various different ways.
Alisha is very passionate about supporting people to their own Personal Mastery and becoming more in alignment with their soul’s purpose which assists transitioning humanity towards a better future.
To learn more about Dr. Rogers and her work, visit
https://korumindfulness.org/about/team
To learn more about Koru Mindfulness, visit
https://korumindfulness.org
To learn more about her books, visit
https://korumindfulness.org/the-mindful-twenty-something-life-skills-to-handle-stress-everything-else/
https://korumindfulness.org/about-the-book/
To learn more about Dave and Carla, visit
https://thegiftofpastlives.com
To learn more about their four books, visithttps://thegiftofpastlives.com/books
Dave and Carla are like-minded souls. They have been close friends since 1998. The two have a spiritual kinship that has taken them through 29 past lives together.
The story they tell in The Gift of Past Lives with Mother, Isabella, God and Elizabeth aims to liberate people from the traps of conceit, jealousy and selfishness and choose love in all actions.
David Bettenhausen
Dr. Dave serves as the vice president of medical affairs at a small Midwestern hospital. Whether he is at the hospital or his private practice, he daily coaches his patients about their well-being mentally, physically and spiritually. He believes in a holistic approach to life and regularly lectures and conducts discussions with groups of patients and physicians on healthcare. He has a personal interest in the stages of grief with death, dying and spirituality. Before he entered medical school, Dave practiced as a registered nurse for ten years.
After years in private practice as a physician in Ohio, Dr. Dave was approaching personal burnout. He had always valued being a positive example to his patients, and as his life became less joyful, he felt he was no longer doing that. He had weight issues, and his life was spiraling downward. Carla, as his office manager and friend was the vessel that carried Dave to meditation and the ultimate healing of himself. Meditation led both of them to an encounter with a set of wise spiritual beings known as Mother, Isabella, God and Elizabeth, which revealed many past lives to Dave and Carla. Through the insights Dave received during meditation, he underwent a personal transformation and regained his sense of self, which led to a weight loss of 116 pounds. He again found his joy in practicing medicine and with his patients.
Carla Bogni-Kidd
Carla Bogni-Kidd has been on a lifelong journey of spirituality, always seeking her purpose and very often serving as a vessel for others’ journeys. The theme running through her life has been to help others—that is where she feels the happiest.
Carla is quite comfortable speaking with people about their innermost feelings and challenges. Her closest friends have often referred to her as their personal counselor.
To learn more about Dave and Carla, visit
https://thegiftofpastlives.com
To learn more about their four books, visithttps://thegiftofpastlives.com/books
Dave and Carla are like-minded souls. They have been close friends since 1998. The two have a spiritual kinship that has taken them through 29 past lives together.
The story they tell in The Gift of Past Lives with Mother, Isabella, God and Elizabeth aims to liberate people from the traps of conceit, jealousy and selfishness and choose love in all actions.
David Bettenhausen
Dr. Dave serves as the vice president of medical affairs at a small Midwestern hospital. Whether he is at the hospital or his private practice, he daily coaches his patients about their well-being mentally, physically and spiritually. He believes in a holistic approach to life and regularly lectures and conducts discussions with groups of patients and physicians on healthcare. He has a personal interest in the stages of grief with death, dying and spirituality. Before he entered medical school, Dave practiced as a registered nurse for ten years.
After years in private practice as a physician in Ohio, Dr. Dave was approaching personal burnout. He had always valued being a positive example to his patients, and as his life became less joyful, he felt he was no longer doing that. He had weight issues, and his life was spiraling downward. Carla, as his office manager and friend was the vessel that carried Dave to meditation and the ultimate healing of himself. Meditation led both of them to an encounter with a set of wise spiritual beings known as Mother, Isabella, God and Elizabeth, which revealed many past lives to Dave and Carla. Through the insights Dave received during meditation, he underwent a personal transformation and regained his sense of self, which led to a weight loss of 116 pounds. He again found his joy in practicing medicine and with his patients.
Carla Bogni-Kidd
Carla Bogni-Kidd has been on a lifelong journey of spirituality, always seeking her purpose and very often serving as a vessel for others’ journeys. The theme running through her life has been to help others—that is where she feels the happiest.
Carla is quite comfortable speaking with people about their innermost feelings and challenges. Her closest friends have often referred to her as their personal counselor.
To read the article that this conversation is based on, visit
Realities that Emerge Through the Evolution of the Experiential Realm - 3 Quarks Daily
To read the article that this conversation is based on, visit
Realities that Emerge Through the Evolution of the Experiential Realm - 3 Quarks Daily
To learn more about John, visit
https://johndavidlatta.com
To learn more about John's book, The Synchronicity Of Love, visit
https://johndavidlatta.com/synchronicity
John David Latta is a mystic, author, teacher and successful founder and CEO of a multimillion-dollar consumer products company. In his first book, The Synchronicity of Love, he shares his extraordinary stories of the radical transformation he underwent when he began to follow the path of the Heart Center with sincerity and earnestness. His stories inspire, uplift, heal, shock, unite, awaken and transform. John also teaches intimate workshops on leadership, healing, transformation, love, synchronicity, wisdom and awakening that unite and expand human experience. He lives with his wife Wendy in Redmond, Washington.
To learn more about John, visit
https://johndavidlatta.com
To learn more about John's book, The Synchronicity Of Love, visit
https://johndavidlatta.com/synchronicity
John David Latta is a mystic, author, teacher and successful founder and CEO of a multimillion-dollar consumer products company. In his first book, The Synchronicity of Love, he shares his extraordinary stories of the radical transformation he underwent when he began to follow the path of the Heart Center with sincerity and earnestness. His stories inspire, uplift, heal, shock, unite, awaken and transform. John also teaches intimate workshops on leadership, healing, transformation, love, synchronicity, wisdom and awakening that unite and expand human experience. He lives with his wife Wendy in Redmond, Washington.
To learn more about Jessica and her life journey, visit
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email: mytruth.mystory.contact@gmail.com
To learn more about Beth, her life journey, and her work, visit
https://bethbell.me
To learn more about Beth's recently released book, visit Angels, Herpes and Psychedelics: Unraveling the Mind to Unveil IllusionsTo listen to a free reading by Beth of the first 2 chapters of the book, visit https://bethbell.me/about
ABOUT BETH
A rising sales star turned marketing executive, Beth Bell spent more than 16 years leading strategic brand planning and more for the pharmaceutical industry. But somewhere between C-level meetings and marketplace assessments,
Beth began listening more closely to the world around — and within — her. What she heard led her eventually to ditch her corporate life to pursue her life’s purpose of “pollinating the planet with love.”
As her inward journey deepened, Beth became known as the “Flower Whisperer” and forged new paths — first as an entrepreneur designing silver jewelry in Bali, then as a radio/TV show host and author. Additionally, she’s a multi-dimensional advisor for CEOs and psychedelic pharmaceutical companies. Beth currently lives in America with her rescue dog, Lily.
To learn more about Nina and her work, visit
https://www.ninasimons.com
To learn more about Bioneers, visit
https://bioneers.org
To learn more about her newest book, Nature, Culture, And The Sacred: A Woman Listens For Leadership, visit
https://www.ninasimons.com/writing
Nina Simons is the co-founder and Chief Relationship Strategist at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Bioneers is a nonprofit that uses media, convening, and connecting to lift up visionary and practical solutions for many of our most pressing social and ecological challenges, using a whole-system approach.
Nina is a social entrepreneur who is passionate about reinventing leadership, restoring the feminine, and co-creating a healthy, peaceful, and equitable world for all. She speaks and teaches internationally at schools, conferences, and festivals, and co-facilitates transformative workshops and retreats for women that share practices for regenerative leadership through relational mindfulness.
Throughout her remarkable career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age, orientation, and more to create conditions for mutual learning and leadership development. She produces and speaks at large-scale events to work intimately to help small, diverse groups of women leaders knit together to strengthen each other’s work pursuing intersectional healing and ecological justice.
Nina serves on the Advisory Council for Daughters for Earth and is a member of the Women Donors Network, Confluence Philanthropy, and Edge Funders. 2017, Nina was a recipient of the Goi Peace Award, presented annually to individuals who have made outstanding contributions toward the realization of a peaceful and harmonious world. Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra.
Her prior work includes President at Seeds of Change, which she helped grow into an emerging national brand in less than five years by using innovative approaches to public relations and community-based marketing. At Odwalla, as Director of Strategic Marketing, she grew consumer loyalty while guiding teams nationwide just after their IPO.
Nina studied Theater Arts and Psychology at Cornell University. In addition to writing the first and second editions of Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership (Green Fire Press), Nina co-edited 2010’s Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart (Park Street Press), which explores the flourishing, passionate forms of leadership emerging from women on behalf of the earth through the prism of more than 30 essays from successful women leaders.
To learn more about Dr. Ron and his work, visit
https://ronaldalexander.com
To learn more about Dr. Ron's recently released book, Core Creativity: The Mindful Way To Unlock Your Creative Self, visit
https://ronaldalexander.com/core-creativity
Ronald A. Alexander, PhD, MFT, SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner) is a Creativity and Communication Consultant, and an Executive and Leadership Coach, with a private psychotherapy practice working with individuals, couples, families, and groups in Santa Monica, California. He is the Executive Director of the OpenMind® Training Institute, a leading-edge organization that offers personal and professional training programs in core creativity, mind-body therapies, transformational leadership, and mindfulness meditation. For more than forty-four years, Alexander has been a trainer of healthcare professionals in North America, as well as in Europe, Russia, Japan, China, and Australia. As a Mindfulness and Zen Buddhist practitioner, he specializes in utilizing mindfulness meditation in his professional and corporate work to help people transform their lives by accessing the mind states that open the portal to their core creativity.
Alexander is a leading pioneer in the fields of Mindfulness Based Mind-Body Therapies, Gestalt Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Ericksonian Mind-Body Therapies, Holistic Psychology, and Integrative and Behavioral Medicine. He is a long-time extension faculty member of the UCLA Departments of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Entertainment, a lecturer in the David Geffen School of Medicine, and an adjunct faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and Pepperdine Universities.
Alexander received his SEP Certificate from the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute in Boulder Colorado. He consulted with and received treatment from Milton H Erickson MD. He personally trained with Ernest Rossi and Steven Gilligan in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy as well as with Daniel P. Brown of the Harvard Medical Cambridge Hospital professional training’s seminars in hypnosis and hypno-analysis. He trained with and was certified by the Los Angeles Gestalt Therapy Institute and with Erving and Miriam Polster PhD of the Gestalt Training Center of La Jolla. He also received training and supervision in Contemporary Gestalt and Family Therapies, Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology, Relational and Object Relations Therapies.
Dr. Ronald Alexander, PhD is a leading Creativity and Communication Coach, International Clinical Trainer, Executive and Leadership Coach, with a private practice in Santa Monica, California. He is the originator of the OpenMind Training® Institute, a leading edge organization that offers personal and professional training programs in mindfulness based mind-body therapies, transformational leadership, and meditation. His unique method combines ancient wisdom teachings with Leadership Coaching and Core Creativity into a comprehensive integrated, behaviorally effective mind-body program. This system combines techniques that support strategies of personal, clinical, and corporate excellence and growth.
Alexander’s extensive training includes core creativity, conflict management, Gestalt therapy, leadership and organizational development, and vision and strategic planning. He pioneered the early values and vision-based models for current day leadership and professional coaching. He specializes in Mind-Body therapies and has been studying and teaching Mindfulness Meditation, Creative Visualization and Transpersonal Psychology since 1970.
Alexander studied with and was influenced by noted leaders in these fields such as Ken Blanchard, Werner Erhard, Warren Bennis, Umberto Materana and Francesco Variela, and was one of the grandfathers of coaching along with Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins and Jack Canfield.
To learn more about Dr. Washington and her work, visit
https://www.ellafwashington.com
To learn more about Dr. Washington's new book, The Necessary Journey: Making Real Progress On Equity And Inclusion releasing in November 2022, visit
https://www.thenecessaryjourney.com
Dr. Ella F. Washington is an organizational psychologist and DEI expert with a wealth of experience through her involvement as the Founder and CEO of Ellavate Solutions, a Professor of Practice at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, the Co-host of Gallup's Center of Black Voices Cultural Competence Podcast, and the Author of "The Necessary Journey: Making Real Progress on Equity and Inclusion". Dr. Washington continues to deepen her research pipeline and thought leadership as a Gallup Senior Scientist studying race, strengths and other DEI workplace topics.
Dr. Washington’s global human capital consulting experience has allowed her to impact clients across a myriad of industries including financial services, sports & entertainment, oil & gas, higher education and government. Previously, Dr. Washington led the Diversity and Inclusion function Gallup as a subject matter expert where she provided insight to clients on issues of inclusion, culture, strategic diversity and engagement. Her research and client work focuses on women in the workplace, barriers to inclusion for diverse groups, and working with organizations to build inclusive cultures. She has conducted inclusiveness audits, developed learning workshops, and facilitates strategic planning sessions with executive leadership teams who have goals of intentionally improving diversity and inclusion.
These experiences inspired the 2016 founding of Ellavate Solutions, an integrated DEI strategy firm. Ellavate Solutions provides dynamic diversity and inclusion strategy and training for organizations looking to commit to systematic cultural changes in how they recruit, develop, engage and assess performance. Dr. Washington's in-depth experience in this area stems from both her research on racial and gender disparities in corporate leadership positions as well as her global DEI consulting experience with Fortune 100, government and non-profit organizations.
Growing up in Durham, North Carolina with a tight-knit family gave Dr. Washington her roots. She proudly attended Spelman College, a historically Black women’s institution in Atlanta which led to her passion for maximizing the success of women and minorities. After earning her PhD in 2014 at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, she moved to Washington, DC where she currently resides. Dr. Washington is passionate about teaching and she truly loves the impact that she is able to make on the lives of future business leaders every day as a professor at Georgetown. Her impact is powerful as she received the Excellence in Teaching Award from Georgetown's MBA Class of 2021.
While eagerly anticipating the publication of her first solo book published by the Harvard Business Review titled "The Necessary Journey: Making Real Progress on Equity and Inclusion", Dr. Washington enjoys being active in her church, giving back to her local community, traveling the world and staying closely connected with loved ones.
To learn more about Nathaniel and his work, visit
www.yourmeaninginlife.com
The Meaning of Life Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082RHWM63/
The X-Factor: The Spiritual Secrets Behind Successful Executives & Entrepreneurs: https://www.amazon.com/X-Factor-Spiritual-Successful-Executives-Entrepreneurs-ebook/dp/B09J45JDXG/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LifetheBook/
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Locals: https://themeaningoflife.locals.com
Minds: https://www.minds.com/lifethebook/
Nathanael Garrett Novosel is a professional researcher and advisor with over 20 years of experience studying individual and group behavior. Over that time, he has researched psychology, evolutionary biology, organizational best practices, leadership decision making, business, technology, finance, and philosophy to understand how the world as we know it works and why.
Nathanael spent much of his career using the insights from this research to help the world’s leading executives solve their most pressing organizational challenges and create their strategic plans. Noticing the common drivers of success in all areas of life, he decided to devote his research, problem-solving, and advisory skills to helping people live the best lives possible.
To learn more about Rachel and her work, visit
https://www.drrachelallyn.com
To learn more about her book, The Pleasure Is All Yours
https://www.thepleasureisallyoursbook.com
To learn more about Melissa and about Karuna Training, visit
https://karunatraining.com
Melissa Moore Ph.D. Steward of the North American Karuna training since 2014, and co-founded Karuna Europe in 1996. Melissa has her MA in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and her Ph.D. in Psychological Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Melissa has been a student of Vajrayana Buddhism and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1979. She was the founding Director of the Felton Institute for Research and Training in San Francisco (2006–2016). She has been involved in community-based research for the most marginalized populations in California, trained front-line providers in mental health in evidence-based practices, and then researched the outcomes.
Melissa is the Executive Director of Karuna Training and a lead faculty. She has taught Karuna Training in nine countries and in four states in the U.S. She lives in Denver with her dog and husband.
Melissa recently published The Diamonds Within Us: Uncovering Brilliant Sanity Through Contemplative Psychology; find out more about the book
here: https://thediamondswithinus.org
To learn more about Ronni and Jennie and their work, visit
https://www.heartandsoulsisters.net
Their new book, Healing Begins with Us: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Abuse and Rebuilding the Sibling Bond(HeartWisdom LLC, April 5, 2022), shares their inspiring and hopeful story of healing from their painful upbringing.
They are sharing their story now to help heal the shame that they have carried as survivors of trauma, and to contribute to healing the hearts of others who have struggled in similar ways. To them healing is not about changing, or becoming someone "different" or "better"---it's about becoming more fully who they are: a spark of The Divine, connected to All, here to assist each other as our souls explore this existence and learn to love and live in peace.
Ronni Tichenor has a PhD in sociology, specializing in family studies, from the University of Michigan.
Jennie Weaver received her degree from the Vanderbilt School of Nursing and is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with over 25 years of experience in family practice and mental health.
Devadas is a kirtaniya, composer and artist hailing from Brooklyn, New York. He leads kirtans throughout the world and has recorded a wide variety of acclaimed CDs, including his latest releases, 3 Prayers and Radio Nada.
In 2012, Devadas collaborated with indie-rock icon J Mascis to produce and record the film score for the feature documentary One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das.
Devadas produced Nina Rao’s chant album, Antarayaami, and in 2016 launched the Lokah Peace Project, an online and ever-expanding video project aimed at inspiring reflection, empathy and harmony.
“Devadas is one of the most authentic voices in the modern era of sacred mantra chant.”
-Shiva Baum
Head of Music Programming Bhakti Fest / former Head of A&R Triloka Records
MINDA ZETLIN is the author of Career Self-Care and writes the highly popular “Laid-Back Leader” column for Inc. Her articles and workshops offer research-backed advice to help ambitious people get the most out of their careers and their lives. She is the author or coauthor of several books, most recently The Geek Gap. A former president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), she lives in Snohomish, Washington.
More information at www.MindaZetlin.com.
To request video file in order to see the Tao calligraphy and the notes that Dr. Sha shares, please email consciouspodcastlabs@gmail.com
Master Zhi Gang Sha is a Tao grandmaster, healer, teacher, and author of 30 books, including 11 New York Times bestsellers and several others on the bestseller lists of the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon. He has an MD degree in Western medicine from China and is also a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture. Master Sha has combined the essence of Western medicine with ancient wisdom to create Soul Mind Body Medicine®, Master Sha’s Soul Healing®, and Tao teachings to help humanity.
He is a grandmaster of several Asian arts and in 2002 was named Qigong Master of the Year at the Fourth World Congress on Qigong. With the creation of Tao Calligraphy, he received the highest honors a Chinese calligrapher can receive, being appointed to the position of National Chinese Calligrapher Master as well as Honorable Researcher Professor by the State Ethnic Academy of Painting in Beijing, China.
For more information, visit www.tappingthesource.org
"Tapping the Source" is an online science and spirituality summit premiering on July 16 that will be held quarterly for the remainder of 2022 and beyondQuarterly Held Event Targeting Spirituality and Science Will Help People Navigate Unprecedented Challenges of 2022As millions of Americans continue to grapple with strife in their daily lives caused by a continuing global pandemic, a looming economic recession, lingering social injustices, upsetting political upheavals, and heartbreaking events including deadly mass shootings and fighting in Europe unseen since World War II, a diverse cross section of the world's leading spiritual and wellness icons, humanitarians, philanthropists, philosophers and physicists are launching a series of events to raise awareness about the science of spirituality and help people navigate the unprecedented challenges of 2022.
Responding to an overwhelming need for mental health and wellbeing, and as millions of people are meditating and seeking inner peace, "Tapping The Source" will offer conversations with experts sharing their original discoveries and insights about the science of spirituality. With their own unique perspectives, each panelist will explain how every person has the power to transform their own reality and also have a dramatic impact on the world. This is a rare chance to expand the public's understanding of complex sciences and connect with deeper, underlying sources of life.
100% of proceeds of all future online event will support The Chopra Foundation, The Love Peace Harmony Foundation, and the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, a range of community-serving non-profits established by the program speakers.
Tapping the Source is an initiative by Universal Soul Service Corp.
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A substantial body of Andy Schmookler's life's-work -- on his "integrative vision" of the human story -- can be found on his website, A Better Human Story – Andrew Bard Schmookler
Especially relevant to today's conversation is this piece:
Contact with “the Realm of the Sacred”? – A Better Human Story
The Experience of Meaning – A Better Human Story
To learn more about Jonathan and his work, visithttps://findinghappiness.com
To learn more about his latest book, The Enlightenment Project: How I Went From Depressed to Blessed, and You Can Too, visit
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/260334
Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist, best-selling author of ten books, and a professional speaker from Northern California. He has reached over 200 million people around the world with his practical methods, and his work has been translated into 47 languages. His work has appeared in Newsweek, USA TODAY, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as dozens of other publications. In addition, Mr. Robinson has made numerous appearances on the Oprah show and CNN, as well as other national TV talk shows. He has spent more than thirty years studying the most practical and powerful methods for personal and professional development.
Mr. Robinson’s first book, “The Experience of God,” included interviews with such notable people as the late Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, and Dr. Wayne Dyer. Jonathan’s second book, “The Little Book of Big Questions,” became a New York Times bestseller, as did his book “Communication Miracles for Couples.” Mr. Robinson’s other books include: Instant Insight; Real Wealth; Shortcuts to Bliss; Shortcuts to Success, The Complete Idiots Guide to Awakening Your Spirituality, and Find Happiness Now.
Jonathan speaks regularly to Fortune 500 companies such as Google, Microsoft, Dell, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, and FedEx/Kinko’s.In his public talks and workshops, Jonathan is known for providing his audiences with powerful and immediately useful information in a fun and entertaining manner.
To learn more about Deborah, visit
https://www.deborahedentull.com
Her newest book, Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown, is available for pre-order and will be released by Shambhala Publications in September 2022.
DEBORAH EDEN TULL, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, teaches the integration of compassionate awareness into every aspect of our lives, bridging personal and collective awakening in an age of global change. She is a Zen meditation and engaged dharma teacher, public speaker, author, and sustainability educator, who teaches dharma intertwined with post-patriarchal thought and practices, resting upon a lived knowledge of our unity with the more than human world.. She trained for seven and a half years as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery and has taught engaged dharma for over 20 years. Eden has lived in sustainable communities and as an organic gardener/farmer for decades and celebrates the essential wisdom of nature .
Eden’s teaching emphasizes the spiritual, interpersonal, transpersonal, societal, ecological, and global impacts of engaged awareness practice. She has worked with a wide range of audiences, from dharma students and people wanting to cultivate more compassion in their lives, to concerned citizens and activists, parents, schools, corporations,, inner city youth and people who are incarcerated.
Eden has a special gift for facilitating mindful inquiry, fierce compassion, and relational intelligence. She weaves dharma with her embodiment of animism, deep ecology, shadow work, and conscious movement/dance, to help people release limiting beliefs and collective biases that have been passed down over generations. She draws upon her own experience of navigating loss, illness, and trauma, guiding people to embrace the mystery and celebrate the value and alchemy of light and darkness as teachers of love.
Eden also facilitates The Work That Reconnects, as created by Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher Joanna Macy for transforming our pain and love for our world into compassionate action, and teaches with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. She offers experiential trainings in deep listening, relational intelligence, regenerative leadership, spiritual activism, and the deep-feminine.
Eden grew up in a family of activists and artists. She has been an advocate for social justice and ecological sustainability throughout her life. After college, before becoming a Zen monastic at the age of 26, she worked for an international non-profit focused on cultural and biological diversity and the building of local economies, while also helping to create organic gardens in low-income communities.
She has been an organic gardener and farmer for decades, a visionary urban ecology project in the Arizona desert; the Zen Buddhist monastery where she trained; and in urban gardens in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles. She is certified in Permaculture Design and Bio-Intensive Organic Gardening.
Eden’s work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Tricycle, Yogi Times, Shambhala Times, The Shift Network, and The Ecologist. Eden has also been teaching for UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center since 2012. She has been collaborating with Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers and Cultivating Women’s Leadership, since 2012, on the topics of Relational Mindfulness: Regenerating Ourselves and Our World, and Women’s Leadership.
Jennifer Fraser is a best-selling author and award-winning educator, has a PhD in Comparative Literature. Her online courses and workshops provide dynamic lessons in the impact neuroscience has on personal development and culture change.
Her previous book, Teaching Bullies: Zero Tolerance on the Court or in the Classroom (Motion Press, Aug. 8, 2015), explores what happens when the bully is a teacher or coach.
Her new book, The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health (Prometheus Books, April 1, 2022), delves into how bullying affects the brain and how the brain can heal.
Learn more at bulliedbrain.com
To learn more about Chip and his work, visit
https://www.gnupharma.com
God has always given us the cures. The cures are in Nature. There are keys which unlock this Knowledge. The endocannabinoid system is a big key.
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About GnuPharma
GnuPharma is a research, development, and manufacturing company specializing in modulating the endocannabinoid system with both hemp and non-cannabis plants.
About Chip
Chip Paul is a classically trained mathematician who has spent his career asking WHY. Chip spent over 10 years in corporate work in companies such as Southwestern Bell Corp, Phillips Petroleum Corp, and Williams Communications.
After leaving corp life, Chip started his entrepreneurial career. In 2014 Chip and his wife Cynthia successfully exited a Tulsa based senior assistance company and began to build GnuPharma. GnuPharma was built around Chip's theory of human function under the endocannabinoid system.
In 2015 Chip began building herbal formulations which impacted the endocannabinoid system to alter disease states and improve health. Chip patented these ideas and holds the first issued patent on predictably manipulating the endocannabinoid system for medical benefit without cannabis.
Further Chip holds intellectual property for the first endocannabinoid diagnostic test which is currently being developed. Chip works and collaborates with major Universities and continues to write for additional intellectual property.
Jeff sits down with Lorraine Goldbloom from VortexHealing® to hear about her upcoming Finding Presence Series, which will be available on the resources page of her website as each video is produced.
An “issue” is anything that keeps us out of being present on every level. In this video series, Lorraine will examine how our issues show up in our system, how they hold us, and what it means to be free from them. The discovery of what issues are keeping us stuck and distracted, and how they manifest, is the first step in finding freedom from them.
The Finding Presence Series is an ongoing sequence of videos and articles that focus on the exploration of universal issues. Each segment examines a different issue, and every live event offers a healing to support the process of letting go of what keeps us in the experience of separation.
To learn more about Lorraine and her work, visithttps://lorrainegoldbloom.com To learn more about the upcoming VortexHealing® foundational virtual training program on August 4-8th, visithttps://www.lorrainegoldbloom.com/foundational For more information about VortexHealing®:https://www.vortexhealing.org
To learn more about Amy and her work, visit
https://www.alwaysonpurpose.com
https://www.facebook.com/amyelizawong
https://www.instagram.com/amyelizawong
To learn more about her new book, Living on Purpose: Five Deliberate Choices to Realize Fulfillment and Joy (BrainTrust Ink, May 24, 2022)
Amy Eliza Wong is a certified executive coach who has devoted more than 20 years to the study and practice of helping others live and lead on purpose. She works with some of the biggest names in tech and offers transformational leadership development and internal communication strategies to executives and teams around the world.
To learn more about Alexandra and her book, It Really Is Simple: A Holistic Approach to Self-Confidence, visit
https://www.holisticselfconfidence.com
https://www.facebook.com/HolisticSelfConfidenceMethod
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBdKGVUWVBg5PBduq6rJ4XAAlexandra Dotcheva, DMA, RN was born and raised into a musicians’ family in Bulgaria, and she came to the US in 2000 after earning a bachelor’s degree in Music from the National Academy of Music in Sofia; and she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Violin Performance from Louisiana State University in 2007. She has been practicing as a registered nurse since 2011, with a strong passion for educating patients on attaining optimal health. Her mission is to help people overcome self-imposed limitations that prevent many from realizing their goals, finding peace of mind, and acquiring prosperity. By sharing her own journey to achieving control over the most important aspects of life, Alexandra’s goal is to inspire others to turn away from various forms of fear and self-doubt and go after their dreams instead of leading lives subdued to conventional ways of thinking that have long been proven outdated, inadequate, and damaging to a person’s self-esteem and self-confidence.
To learn more about Dr. Melissa Carver, visit
https://www.drmelissacarver.com
To learn more about Leo Carver, visit
https://chopra.com/bio/leo-carver
Leo Carver has been teaching meditation, yoga, ayurveda, natural herbalism, and other holistic wellness techniques for the past decade. He graduated from The Chopra Center (Dr. Deepak Chopra’s Wellness Education Center) with a certification in Ayurveda and works closely with his wife, keynote Chopra Center speaker Dr. Melissa Carver. Leo is one of the coauthors of Your Roadmap to Purpose, Desire, and Destiny with Karson McGinley, Melissa Eisler, Michelle S. Fondin, and Tris Thorp.
Melissa Carver is a mother of three who holds a PhD in Philosophy. Her passion is helping others to decondition the thinking that no longer serves and rerouting the client/readers mind to go beyond the known into the stage of new perspectives.
Holistic Life Sciences is an educational organization started by husband & wife team, Leo & Dr. Melissa Carver. With a focus on metaphysics, psychology, health, yoga, manifestation, & Ayurveda, HLS serves the community through regular classes/seminars in their region. The HLS teaching staff seeks to promote and further general understanding of mind-body medicine and consciousness-based science.
To learn more about Tevia and about White Tiger Qigong, visit
https://whitetigerqigong.com
Tevia Feng is the Master Instructor and founder of White Tiger Qigong.
Born with chronic illness and suffering, he began practicing martial arts, qigong and meditation at the age of 7 to heal himself. Tevia Feng was a qigong student of Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming in the early 2000s and credits master Yang for putting him on a path of synthesizing qigong with modern sports therapy and medical research.
As a student of qigong, he journeyed all around China and the world seeking the greatest masters including northwestern part of Hubei, Beijing and Southern China, where he met and trained extensively with several true qigong masters. Throughout his journey, he has met many qigong masters around the world, acquiring rare skills, from unique breathing techniques and exercises to delving into the heart of qi energy. Each master has shaped the Qigong training he teaches today.
He has since been published featured articles in the largest qigong magazine in the world. He has self-published three books on qigong and has books translated into multiple languages. He has been named one of the top 3 qigong masters in Indonesia.
As the master instructor of White Tiger Qigong, he has taught over 4,000 students from around the world, in countries including China, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, Italy, Switzerland, France, Australia, and the US. White Tiger has almost 60,000 members. He has worked closely with terminally ill individuals to professional athletes, ballet dancers, the North American Muay Thai champion, the 2019 female Karate world champion, martial arts champions, yoga instructors, hedge fund managers, political figures, military elite, UHNWI, circus performers, health care professionals, psychologists, medical doctors and more.
Through White Tiger Qigong, his mission is to open the pathway for people to ignite transformation and maximize potential, scaling across communities to create a global movement for a shift in consciousness and promote global healing.
A Lifelong Practitioner of Qigong and Internal Martial Arts
Tevia Feng has lived and traveled throughout China from Beijing to Taiwan studying in various martial art forms including rare forms of Martial Qigong, Medical Qigong, Xuan Wu Quan, Xing Yi Quan. and Taiji Quan
Various styles of Baguazhang including Wudangshan Baguazhang, Bagua Lian Huan Zhang, Yin Baguazhang, Cheng Bagua, Emei Shan Bagua and more.
While in China he also studied at multiple Taoist monasteries and temples. He learned additional martial art forms with various masters, hermits and Taoist masters studying:
Golden Elixir Qigong
White Tiger/ Green Dragon Breath
5 Element Qigong
Medical Qigong
8 Trigram Qigong
Traditional Microcosmic Orbit
Esoteric Baguazhang
Primordial Breath
Various Forms of Nei Dan (Internal Alchemy)
5 Animal Qigong (Hua Tuo)
Tevia Feng has trained with these Masters of Qigong and Internal Martial Arts
Tevia Feng has since studied with a variety of masters including, but not limited to:
Daoist Abbot Luo Pin Cho of the Tian Ji Dao Sect (Wuyi Mountain, China)
Daoist Abbot Xu Zhong of the Zhi Zhi An Temple (Wuyi Mountain, China)
Luo Jin Hua of Sha Guo Zheng (Yunnan, China)
Mao Jing Song of Sha Guo Zheng (Yunnan, China)
Master Yuan Xiu Gang of the Sang Feng Sect (Wudang Mountain, China)
Dr. Ming Wu (20th Generation Fengyang Taoist Chinese Medicine and Qigong)
Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming (USA)
Master Chen Si Xing of the Sang Feng Sect (Wudang Mountain, China)
Master Kenneth Cohen (USA)
Master Zhang Yuxuan (Beijing, China)
Master Li Chun Ling (Beijing, China)
Master Mantak Chia (Thailand)
Master Edy Suwita (Sumatra, Indonesia)
Jeff sits down with Trish Causey as she shares deeply about her life journey, her evolution, and about the sacred work that she does to teach her clients to navigate the path of least resistance to manifest the life, relationships, and money of their dreams while working through the trials and traumas of this lifetime and past lives.
She speaks very compellingly about what she has been though in her own life and how she has taken all of those lessons learned and shares them with others.
Trish Causey
ArtistAlchemist ~ SacredSex Shaman
Trish Causey is an ArtistAlchemist, combining her performing arts background as a professional singer, award-winning composer, author, talk show host, & freelance Broadway journalist with the esoteric arts of quantum healing, Tantra, sexual anatomy & function, & sex magik. A torch-bearer for the Divine Feminine revolution, Trish is a warrior fire spirit & Twin Flame on soul mission to bring pleasure & bliss to the forefront of the awakening collective, while exposing ingrained cultural sexual abuse.
As a self-described "SacredSex Shaman", Trish helps clients awaken their bodies' potential for cosmic-level 0rgasms as each allows their body to reveal its inherent mind-blowing capacity for bliss. She guides her clients as they transcend their fears & uncertainties, bust through their own B.S., & anchor love, healing, sovereignty, & consciousness within themselves.
Trish teaches her clients to navigate the path of least resistance to manifest the life, relationships, & money of their dreams while working through the trials & traumas of this lifetime & past lives. She assists her clients with pivotal breakthroughs, utilizing her talents as an empathic intuitive, spiritual wealth consultant, business alignment coach, master tarot reader, numerologist, transformational guide, & relationship-sexpert.
Trish offers exclusive coaching packages for those who are serious about intense transformation, as well as online courses, group classes, & retreats.
Former host of "ArousedWoman Radio with Trish Causey" as well as "SacredSex with Trish", learn more at www.TrishCausey.com.
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To learn more about Andy and his work, visit
http://abetterhumanstory.org
Andy is a prize-winning author, speaker, radio talk-show host, and former Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia.
Since the late 1960s, Andy Schmookler has investigated the ways that forces – constructive and, especially, destructive – operate in civilized societies.
- Among his books are several bearing on the problem of war and peace, including the prize-winning book The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution (hardback from the University of California Press, 1984; paperback from Houghton Mifflin, 1986; second edition from SUNY Press, 1995), Out of Weakness: Healing the Wounds that Drive Us to War (Bantam Books, 1988), and Sowings and Reapings: The Cycling of Good and Evil in the Human System (Knowledge Systems, 1989).
- He has written two books on the problematic relationship between economic forces and human needs, The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny (SUNY Press, 1993, with translations published subsequently in Japan and Korea), and Fool’s Gold: The Fate of Values in a World of Goods (Harper Collins, 1993). ).
- And Debating the Good Society: A Quest to Bridge America’s Moral Divide (M.I.T. Press, 1999), which explores some of the basic issues that underlie this country’s political and cultural polarization.
Since 2004, Dr. Schmookler has focused his attention on the current crisis in America, which he sees as perhaps the most profound to face this nation in its history.
Though it manifests itself in the political sphere, he sees it as going much deeper than politics—involving a deterioration of the moral and spiritual dimensions in which the balance of power between constructive and destructive forces is determined.
Beginning in 2005, Schmookler was the host and main author of the website www.NoneSoBlind.org, where he interpreted the deeper realities about this crisis that can be seen beneath the myriad specific events of our times.
In 2011-12, Andy Schmookler was the Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia’s very conservative 6th District. His campaign motto was “Truth. For a change.”
To learn more about Kerri and her work, visit
www.kerrilake.com
Jeff sits down with Kerri Lake as she shares very deeply and very compellingly about her life journey, key turning points along the way, and about some incredibly life-changing, Consciousness-altering, and empowering lessons that she has learned about the importance of connection and presence.
She speaks very candidly regarding what she has learned about connection and presence from working with animals over the years and how that has illuminated why she is here to work with people as well.
Kerri is masterful in many ways. Utilizing her own innate gifts and abilities, she integrates wisdom, guidance and communication from every realm of consciousness to assist and accelerate your own integration, starting right where you are. She helps people and animals of all species know the sense of living in harmony and clarity.
Her two published books offer a view into the formation of tools, awareness and the courage it has taken to walk through life without compromise. Kerri has blazed a new trail on the road to freedom from limitations and conditioning. On this trail, all species are welcome and integrate through frequencies of communication. The greatest gift she can give to you is her own purity of expression, sharing her own journey, to help you see that if she can do it...so can you.
Jeff sits down for a deep conversation with Ross Guttler, the CEO of Open Center in NYC, which is the longest running urban holistic center in the United States.
He shares very deeply about how he began on his spiritual path, about his evolution, and about his passion for integrating meditation and other healing modalities into everyday life and work and for providing all kinds of transformative and enlightening learning and growth opportunities for people all around the world.
ABOUT ROSS GUTTLER
Ross Guttler is Chief Executive Officer of The Open Center, the country's longest-running urban center for personal growth and spiritual practice. Throughout his time with The Open Center, Guttler has led the evolution of a four decade-old New York City institution into a global changemaker with an engaged audience from more than 180 countries.
After a career in wellness real estate, exploring how the built environment makes us healthier, happier, kinder and more creative, Ross found his calling at The Open Center, where wisdom traditions and spiritual practices, balanced with modern day medical and behavioral science, art and sound, are used to help us live more harmoniously with ourselves, each other and the earth.
Prior to joining The Open Center, Guttler was Chief Operating Officer for Global Treehouse, a Tokyo-based startup combining meditation, creativity, collaboration and problem solving for large corporate clients. He previously led the growth of several business lines at Delos, a health, technology and real estate firm that focuses on optimizing the built environment for occupant health.
Ross has served as an advisor to startups in the wellness and proptech spaces, currently sits on the board of Women in PropTech and has held leadership roles on numerous other industry and non-profit boards. He received a B.S. in Economics from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
To learn more about Chris and his work, visit
https://chrismccann.co
About Chris
There’s something all successful people know but rarely talk about:
External achievement isn’t enough.
No matter how hard you work, how many degrees you earn, or what job title you hold, none of it can quiet that little voice inside that says: “there is more to life than this.” I know because I lived with this voice for many years, and it was only when I really started paying attention to it that things began to shift for me.
Fast forward to today: I specialize in helping successful people and organizations remember who they are and align their life with their purpose.
But before I could do this gratifying and meaningful work, I had to go on a journey of self-discovery. And that journey started in my hometown of Jackson, Michigan.
To learn more about Elaine and her work, visit
https://www.elaineclayton.com
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https://www.instagram.com/elaineclayton
To learn more about her latest book, The Way of The Empath
https://www.elaineclayton.com/the-way-of-the-empath
To learn more about her book that she spoke about on the conversation, Making Markshttps://www.elaineclayton.com/gallery/spirit-paintings/making-marks-bookAbout ElaineI started out in mid 1980s an author and illustrator of books for children and developing drawing workshops for kids, which cultivated a sense of empathy for student peers, and confidence in creative self-expression. These drawing techniques and experiments were done while I worked as artist-in-residence and most notably, when I taught at the progressive independent Paideia School in Atlanta, GA. At that time I worked with my first New York City based art/literary agent, Whit Stillman, who was writing and shooting his first Academy Award nominated film Metropolitan (Last Days of Disco, Barcelona, Damsels in Distress and recently, Love and Friendship).
“After many years of writing and illustrating children’s books, and illustrating for other authors such as Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley and author of WICKED, Gregory Maguire, April Halprin Wayland and others, I began a new focus. I started creating spiritually themed books on intuitive intelligence, empathic and creative self expression.
I developed a non-threatening and relaxing meditation style of drawing based on all those years of conducting workshops with children, a drawing technique I call stream drawing or intuitive stream drawing (see MAKING MARKS book). I have practiced intuitive stream drawing sessions for clients seeking guidance at my studio in Westport, CT and in NYC at Fitness Results (formerly at 137 5th Avenue in NYC directly behind the iconic Flat Iron Building) for many years, also conducting workshops on this method in person, small and large groups and via internet.”
My name is Elaine Clayton. I am an artist, author and illustrator of books for children and adults, parent, and former teacher and certified Reiki Master and intuitive reader. For years I’ve done Intuitive/Psychic Readings for family, friends, and others who wanted a reading. Over those years, the more art and books and teaching and readings I did, the more I understood that I am entirely devoted to the healing arts. All my art is about reaching points of illumination, and as I’ve evolved, I’ve found that at my core, healing myself and others is my passion.
This website is dedicated to the healing arts, by way of Sketchbook Dream Journal/blog, Reiki, and Intuitive sessions. I invite you to playfully explore and enjoy along with me the signs and messages, the images and mysteries of life that are unveiled to us daily. Through art and dream journaling, we’ll explore inspiration, imagination and spirituality, intuition and mysticism.
I am dedicated to supporting clients in visualizing and creating what you dream of having and learning in this life—we’ll orient ourselves by going inward where our inner knowing and miraculous creative powers are waiting to be discovered and celebrated.
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Jeff sits down with Megan Amelia Burnett, the Owner of 405 Yoga to hear her share some very powerful reflections about how her studio was intentionally designed to be highly conducive to the ongoing cultivation of a loving and healing community from the very unique way that the space was designed to the intensely open, welcoming, and friendly way that teachers and students are with each other and with new people who come there the first time.
She also reflects on her own inner journey since she started practicing yoga, on some very powerful lessons that she has learned along the way that inform how she guides the community at 405 Yoga, and how she has evolved as a practitioner, teacher, and human being over time.
Bernadette Pleasant is the founder of Femme! & The Emotional Institute as she shares very deeply about the meaning of her work in promoting emotional freedom through movement and empowerment, about her own Journey that led her to do this very powerful work and why it matters so much to her and to those that she works with, and about the impact that it has had on others.
As the conversation concludes, she shares an incredibly moving and deeply compelling perspective on the importance of healing all of the grief, trauma, pain, and challenges that we have been going through here in the U.S. and in the world.
To learn more about Bernadette and her work, visit
https://theemotionalinstitute.com
Intoxicating and energetic, Bernadette Pleasant is a fiery sensual Speaker, Somatic Healer, and Creator of The Emotional Institute LLC, 400 Years: Unlearning Racism & Femme!, a mind-body wellness program. She has spent a lifetime exploring creative visualizations and celebrations of the human form, from sensual dance to somatic healing. A gifted healer, dancer, and entrepreneur, she channels her personal journeys and her radical empathy into transformative, immersive experiences that empower and celebrate people of all genders, ages, sizes, and fitness levels. Bernadette travels globally empowering all through classes, private workshops, retreats and conference engagements.
With certifications in Emotions-Centered Coaching, Nia Technique, Nia 5 Stages, Ageless Grace, Pole Dance, Somatic Healing, Reiki, and Integrated Energy Therapy—and studies in African, Tribal, and Free Dance—Bernadette Pleasant promotes emotional freedom through movement and empowerment.
As an experienced entrepreneur and the founder of Femme! & The Emotional Institute, Bernadette Pleasant regularly leads discussions on emotional healing, grief rituals, inclusive movement, and empowerment for all. Her authenticity, charisma, and warmth allow her to empathize with and inspire those ready for a journey of emotional exploration and affirmation. Intuitive and engaging, Bernadette Pleasant is a vibrant, sensual speaker who connects with those who have been silenced and shut down to support their physical, emotional, and healing journeys—whether in a classroom, from a podium, or one-on-one.
To learn more about Noor and her work, visit
https://thisisyourdream.com
Her new book, YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE: Find Your Purpose. Reclaim Your Power. Make Life Count. (John Murray Learning, Feb 22, 2022) goes deeper by examining not just how to improve your life through positive thinking, but how to direct your positivity in the most consequential direction—towards the life you most want (and need)—to live.
Hibbert’s unique personal experiences are weaved throughout the book and her tone, directness, and ability to see the bigger meaning in small moments pairs beautifully with her professional training.
NOOR HIBBERT is a qualified life and business coach, serial entrepreneur, motivational speaker, author, mother, and spiritual badass. Noor has a degree in Psychology and Postgraduate Certifications in Business & Executive Coaching and Coaching Psychology. She is a trained Strategic Intervention coach and Rapid Transformational Therapist. She is the proud founder of This Is Your Dream, where she helps people transform their mindset, master manifestation, and live their best life through her monthly memberships. She also supports people in building their business in her coaching programs and is the host of the 'Think It, Get It' podcast. She has built a seven-figure business whilst raising three small children and she strongly believes that embarking on a spiritual journey has accelerated her success.
To learn more about Bill and his work, visit
https://www.billhalal.com
To learn more about Bill's most recent book, visit
https://www.billhalal.com/blog/beyond-knowledge-how-technology-is-driving-an-age-of-consciousness
William E. Halal, PhD, Professor Emeritus at George Washington University. He has published seven books and hundreds of articles, consults to corporations and governments, and is a frequent keynote speaker. He was cited by the Encyclopedia of the Future as one of the top 100 futurists in the world. His new book, Beyond Knowledge: How Technology Is Driving an Age of Consciousness (Foresight Books, Sept. 6, 2021), explores a vision for the next stage of human evolution
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https://www.instagram.com/florinedemosthene
To learn more about Elisa and Adam and their work
https://www.holyandhuman.com
To learn more about their book, Holy Love
https://www.holyandhuman.com/holylove
Elisa Romeo is a licensed marriage and family therapist, intuitive and bestselling author of Meet Your Soul: A Powerful Guide to Connect with Your Most Sacred Self. After meeting her Soul during an out-of-body experience, she uncovered an ability to see and communicate with the Soul-energy of others, including Souls who have crossed over. She teaches others how to connect to the still-small voice of intuition to access their ultimate and eternal Love self. Her worldwide private practice, which grew by word of mouth, consists of thousands of clients, who she works with by merging her background in depth psychology with an ability to directly communicate with the Soul.
While living in India, Adam Foley found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, trapped in the center of a large-scale terrorist bombing. He wrestled with the injustice of fate after surviving this experience while others did not. As the lone American at the scene, news stories highlighted his nationality, which brought unwanted attention from the terrorists and ultimately compromised his personal safety. Seeking anonymity and existential answers, he traveled India, trained with world-renowned gurus and became a certified somatic practitioner and yoga instructor. Yet it wasn’t until Adam met Elisa that he experienced himself as a Soul and understood the eternal nature of love. As a healer, he uses spiritual coaching, somatic healing and his own intuitive abilities to connect people to their Soul.
Together, they help individuals awaken and deepen their soulful nature within relationship. As married parents of two, Elisa and Adam use practical stories from the trenches of everyday life, their personal spiritual experiences and examples from their work with thousands of couples to teach sacred partnership. They teach that the spiritual journey can be as simple–– and profound––as getting closer to the people we love. With relationship as a spiritual path, we discover that instead of giving or receiving love, we become love itself.
They host the popular spiritual podcast, Holy & Human. Hailed as being both sacred and relatable, they are known for making esoteric topics, practical and accessible. They help modern-day mystics remember and reunite with the all-loving, always-present, wise Source of their being. Adam and Elisa both offer client sessions, spiritual retreats and host an online mystery school.
The legendary Udo Erasmus is the co-founder of Udo’s Choice line, which can be found in Whole Foods and other health food stores worldwide. Udo designed the machinery for making oils with health in mind and pioneered flax oil, a billion-dollar industry.
However, Udo walked a difficult path to become the man he is today.
Being a child of war, Udo’s life began with intense struggle. As an adult, he got pesticide poisoning in 1980, leaving doctors at a loss regarding treatment. Deciding to take his health into his own hands, Udo began researching, and his discoveries led him to a passion for finding the answers to life’s big questions which would hopefully one day bring him and the world peace.
Today, Udo is an acclaimed speaker and author of many books, including the best-selling Fats That Heal Fats That Kill, which has sold over 250,000 copies. He teaches at events hosted by Tony Robbins and Deepak Chopra, has keynoted an international brain health conference, and has traveled to over 30 countries to conduct thousands of live presentations, media interviews, and staff trainings impacting more than 25,000,000 lives with his message on oils, health, peace, nature, and human nature. Udo has an extensive education in biochemistry, genetics, biology, and nutrition, including a master’s degree in counseling psychology.
To learn more about Jessie and her life journey and work, visit
https://jessiekanzer.com
To learn more about her book, Don't Just Sit There, Do Nothing, visit
https://jessiekanzer.com/#pre-order
Jessie was born in the Soviet Union as Asya Bronfman
A descendant of Holocaust survivors living in a communal apartment with four households, one toilet, and a rickety old bathtub in the middle of the kitchen. Her family sought asylum in the U.S., and after awaiting their fate in Austria and Italy, they finally made it to Brooklyn in 1989.
As an 8-year-old refugee who only spoke Russian, Jessie (or “Asya” then) yearned to fit in. She changed her name and much about herself. Later though, she experienced depression, an eating disorder, and all sorts of existential problems. She pursued Hollywood fame, men, and the American Dream, but always fell short.
Until she stopped.
With the help of the Tao Te Ching she rediscovered herself and her innate power, and she learned to chill. Her book, Don’t Just Sit There, DO NOTHING, will help others do the same.
“An honest, magnificent journey of courage and insight. The unveiling of light in a way that illuminates the light in each of us. I think you will find a hero in this book. And that hero is you.” —Laura Day, NYT bestselling author of Practical Intuition and The Circle
Jessie lives with her husband and daughters in Dobbs Ferry, NY. She considers herself an expert in Doing Nothing.
PAOLA KNECHT is a certified leadership, transformational, and self-development coach. Offering insights from 15 years of work in leading-edge global corporations, including Viatris and Syngenta, Knecht is dedicated to helping people transform their professional and personal lives. She is the founder of My Mindpower Coaching & Consulting and author of the new book The Success Mindset: Take Back the Leadership of Your Mind(November 8, 2021). Learn more at my-mindpower.com
To learn more about Sean and about BUBS Naturals, visit
https://www.bubsnaturals.com
Sean Lake is a former professional snowboarder who went on to join Burton Snowboards, work as Shaun White’s Team Manager, and land a spot as the Director of Sports Marketing at DC Shoes.
After decades in action sports marketing, Sean co-founded BUBS Naturals, a line of collagen peptides and other all-natural supplements named after Sean’s childhood best friend Glen “BUB” Doherty, a Navy SEAL who was killed in Benghazi, Libya on 9/11 in 2012.
A devoted husband, father, and fitness fanatic, Sean is passionate about helping people feel great and do good while leading a business that gives back to the community.
To learn more about Frances and her work, visit
http://www.dryahia.com
Frances is an archetypal astrologer, akashic records reader and counselor based in Weston, Fl. She earned her Ph.D. in Mental Health Counseling and Educational Leadership from Barry University and has studied metaphysics for more than three decades.
Her background in mental health counseling and metaphysics helped her create a therapeutic model that helps her clients gain personal insights and unlock the power of their own intuition by removing destructive subconscious programming.
Dr. Frances Yahia serves clients nationally and internationally and her mission is to help everyone free themselves from a dependence on religion, cults, gurus, or any sources of spiritual coercion.
Having been born into a cult, and finally freeing herself and her children 33 years later; Frances believes that cults and other coercive spiritual groups/teachings/techniques are on the rise and "we are headed towards a spiritual holocaust". The therapy model and techniques she uses are designed to liberate individuals and restore self-love, self-empowerment and self-worth.
The rise of empaths, healers and intuitives is being mistaken as regular people having "special powers". Dr. Yahia believes each individual has an internal guidance system, but spiritual teachers and leaders often try and override it, this lack of trust in self is eroding society and is empowering people who are simply narcissists.
Frances begs you to stop giving away your power! Your internal guidance (she calls hers her jumping jellybean) is equal in each human being, sometimes it's been overridden by your religion, upbringing or society. With some simple training you can reestablish this connection to your Self. Your intuition is a human right and everyone has it, it just may look different. It's ok to seek guidance; however, guidance is simply a suggestion, it's never mandated, angry or coercive. There are no special powers, talismans or protections, simply a call to show up as your highest self.
Love, community, service and taking personal responsibility are the tenants Frances lives by.
Jeff sits down with Sharla Ember for a very deep conversation about her music, her evolution as a human being, and about her life journey.
As the interview begins, she shares one of her very healing sound meditations.
Sharla Ember is a musical mystic, sound healer, singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist including piano, violin, hammered dulcimer, tongue drum, and crystal bowls. Her musical sound crosses into many cultural styles and time signatures sprinkled with layered harmonies and counter melodies.
In 2003, after having an encounter with divine unconditional love and experiencing a deeply personal realization that God IS unconditional love, she left the fear-based fundamentalist dogma she had grown up with and began an intense inward journey that she now expresses through her music.
Sharla leads workshops and events where she combines music, meditation, and spiritual guidance to inspire people to discover their deepest soul purpose and return to their natural state of being which is Love. It’s her passion to bring all races, religions, and cultures together in unity through music, community, unconditional love and acceptance.
MORE ABOUT SHARLA BELOW
BOOKINGS/SOUND HEALING SESSIONS:
My website: https://sharlaember.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharlaember/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZvehFSmzQOxuTs-cHflVQA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sharlaember
MUSIC:
To download:Music
website: https://www.sharlaembermusic.com
To stream: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/7uRjZ0TRTLpvHAGvHasVU4Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCynL4t01fUGMGalADyqvuKw
Jeff sits down with LaTasha Timberlake to spend some time in Presence and in deep conversation to hear about her life journey and spiritual evolution and about some very critical lessons learned along the way.
About LaTasha-
LaTasha S. Timberlake born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, raised by the Universe and I AM DOPE!
Transformational Life Coach, Spiritual Mentor, and Inspirational Speaker.
Contact info:
Website:
tashatimberlake.com
Email:
info@tashatimberlake.com
FB:
Timberlake
IG: timberlake_liveyourtruth
innergy_guru
To learn more about Rosie and her work, visit
https://www.rosiemankes.net
To learn more about Rosie's book, Find Your Joy and Run With It, visit
https://www.rosiemankes.net/book
Rosie Mankes is a life coach, motivational speaker, and author of Find Your Joy and Run With It, a heartwarming memoir about overcoming her second battle with cancer, the transitioning of her mother into an assisted living facility, and the unexpected loss of her brother, all within one year. Rosie’s recovery from these major challenges inspired her to become a life coach, in order to help people pull through significant adversity and life challenges. Rosie is a resident of New Jersey, where she lives with her husband. She is the mother of two grown sons.
Jeff sits down with David Goad to hear some very deep thoughts about how his current musical project, Kali Ra came into being, about his life journey and formative experiences, some very deep reflections about the music that resonates most deeply with him, and about his process of composition and songwriting.
To learn more about Tony and the Noesis Project, visit
https://noesisproject.com
About TonyTony graduated from the William Penn Charter School, in Philadelphia. He then continued his education at Lake Forest College, in Chicago, Il.
A Liberal Arts education ignited Tony’s interest in existential philosophy. Existential thought is deductive at its core. It demands that Tony, and now, the entire human species, views the world through a starkly realistic lens.
Tony started his professional career in relationship-based sales, eventually becoming the top producer with ADT National Accounts.
In 2000, Tony reinvented his career, earning his licenses as a Registered Investment Advisor with PNC Investments, and later, with the Royal Bank of Canada.
Tony’s passion today is centered on the growth of Noēsis, to create a worldwide network of education, to understand the totality of evolutionary influence on modern behavior, to enable the arrival of the human species into a sustainable future.
Tony raised his family in Eagleville, Pa. He names his two children, Matthew and Jack, as being his greatest achievement.
About Noesis
Noēsis is a Non-Profit Organization, Dedicated to Helping the Human Species to Achieve Sustainability.
A helpless and exhausted Humanity has suddenly arrived to a place that feels far less promising than we were taught to expect.
The human species, all eight billion of us together, senses a gathering storm. Noēsis was formed to help the human race achieve sustainability, by exposing the evolutionary motivators that combine to influence all modern behavior. Ancient messages continue to haunt the human mind.
The only way to get ourselves under control is to determine how we lost control. We have a key that was never available–the evolutionary data that will allow self-discovery for the entire human species.
We Are Educators.Our mission is to identify and describe the machine-like action of evolutionary relics inside all of us, against which we are largely powerless in the modern day. To bring them into view will open a window to human sustainability.
Jeff sits down with Patrick Wilborn as he shares deeply about mantras and about kirtan meditation and why it is significant and also very healing, He also speaks candidly about his journeys to India and how that has transformed his Consciousness and how those experiences fit into his overall life journey.
With roots in the visual and performing arts, Patrick has been diving into the depths of yogic philosophy since 2016. His practice advanced to the next level during his 200 hour yoga training in Rishikesh where he was instructed on how to teach Vinyasa yoga and meditation. Since then he has received certifications in Hatha yoga and Reiki energy healing, and collected wisdom from all across India.
To learn more about Lara and her new book, Caged, visit
https://www.larasabanosh.com
Lara Sabanosh, the author of Caged, has dedicated her life to helping others. Beginning in her youth as a volunteer and continuing through her career, she has made it a priority to aid individuals in finding and meeting their emotional, educational, or professional goals. From counseling children and families to facilitating civilian and military members in social and educational leadership—as Director for Fleet and Family Services at GTMO—she has been blessed with assisting others in the journey of becoming their best selves. Lara has completed coursework for two doctorates with a focus on research, evaluation, and clinical psychology and a master's in general psychology from Walden University. Through her career, she has found solace and joy in her civil service—the main driver in sharing her experience of Caged.
Lara has since retired from civil service and private sector roles and her new goal is to continue to help others through the written word. She hopes that by sharing her story, she will give voice to the topics of domestic abuse and the broken system that desperately needs repair.
Regardless of her struggles, one thing has been constant throughout Lara’s journey: the pride, respect, and unconditional love that she has for her two exceptionally intelligent daughters who have overcome the same trauma and challenges described within the pages of Caged. They have used the experiences to help forge who they are—strong and independent women—and move forward in life. These remarkable young ladies are in the process of completing their educational journeys and advancing into their careers, as they too, look to help others in their diametrically different fields of study.
Lara now spends her time in Pensacola, Florida with her loving family, dogs, and grand puppies. She’s learning to move forward with hope that one day, she will no longer be caged by her past, and will be free to fly forward unburdened.
In this episode, Jeff sits down with musician Chris Combs as he shares about his current project, "Combsy" and reflects deeply about his journey and evolution during his first 10 years with Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey.
To learn more about Chris and about "Combsy"
visit www.combsymusic.com
Sallyanne Pisk has worked in health for 30 years as a practitioner, researcher and manager. She is an Accredited Practising Dietitian, mindfulness practitioner and author. For the past 10 years she has been devoted to helping women transform their eating mindset and relationship with food.
Over her career she has presented at health conferences and participated in over 200 radio interviews, including talkback. She is a health and wellbeing presenter for the new Feisty, Fabulous & 50+ community radio program and podcast.
Sallyanne founded Eating for You, an online business, to help women reclaim themselves and their lives through mindful eating and living. The Eating for You approach is based on scientific research, Eastern nutrition and Sallyanne’s own experiences of transitioning from dieting to mindful eating herself, as she realised that healthy eating wasn’t meant to be so hard. Sallyanne has a private community of over 2000 members.
The Emotional Eating Triggers Checklist
The 'Emotional Eating Triggers Checklist' has evolved from Sallyanne's near daily conversations with women about their eating habits. It has been responsible for giving women a new understanding of their biggest barriers to changing the way they eat. And most importantly how to transform the negative voice inside their heads into one that is supportive of their health and wellbeing goals. It really is about identifying one of these self-sabotaging voices and putting an alternative in place. These triggers are the same for men too.
Link
eatingchecklist.com
Websiteeatingforyou.com.au
In the spring of 2018, I sat down at Artspace at Untitled for an incredibly deep and meaningful conversation with the members of the OKC based fusion band Local Man Ruins Everything: Jay Gleason, Byron "Chopz" Collins, Eric Harris, and Adam Ledbetter. It is one of those conversations that totally captures the essence of a group of musicians at higher level of Consciousness.
To learn more about Barbara and her work, visit
https://www.barbarabiziou.com
As a transformational vision coach, spiritual teacher, and motivational speaker, Barbara inspires your growth and positive change.
Blending ancient spiritual rituals with emotional intelligence and strategic communication skills, Barbara instructs, empowers and motivates her clients to achieve higher levels of meaningful success.
Her two published books, The Joy of Ritual and The Joy of Family Rituals seamlessly integrate old world modalities, modern psychology and neuroscience, providing a roadmap for everyday life.
A former television and fashion executive, Barbara left her corporate career to share the wisdom she amassed from decades of global studies with gurus, spiritual masters and her own dedicated practice.
Barbara lives in New York City, has a passion for film and theater, and works with private and corporate clients worldwide.
To learn more about Mark and his new book, Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People, visit
https://markwestmoquette.co.uk
Mark works with people to help them connect their inner and outer universe to uncover the wonder and awe of being in every moment.
As an astrophysicist and Zen teacher and ordained Zen monk, he offers a unique method of embodied practice based on science and research, which will encourage people to find a deep connection with the cosmos.
In 2019, he gave up his life of teaching courses and workshops in yoga, mindfulness and Zen to move with his wife to the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic for a two-year adventure that involved writing this book
In his new book, Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People, he stresses that by bringing awareness and kindness to these relationships will naturally shift them into something much broader and more inclusive. The result is a helpful book with a positive and helpful message: we can take a new perspective on the people who cause us pain.
To learn more about Leonard and his work, visit
https://americanmeditation.org
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanMeditationInstitute
https://www.instagram.com/american_meditation_institute
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbjgf9zM53NRo80FnMzbV9g
To learn more about Leonard's new book, YOUR CONSCIENCE: The Key to Unlock Limitless Wisdom and Creativity and Solve All of Life’s Challenges visit
https://americanmeditation.org/your-conscience
Each of us knows how it feels to make the right choice. The true choice. When our outer actions reflect our inner wisdom, we feel positive, energized, creative, loving, and fulfilled. So why do we sometimes ignore that wisdom and make bad decisions? The problem lies in our mind…and the solution lies there too.
Your Conscience, a new book by AMI Founder Leonard Perlmutter, helps us understand how to train the mind to make choices that lead to the kind of life we want to live. This short, powerful handbook teaches that we already have everything we need to live a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life. We must simply learn a few tools to access our own unlimited wisdom and creativity.
LEONARD PERLMUTTER (Ram Lev) is the founder and director of the American Meditation Institute in Averill Park, NY and is the originator of National Conscience Month. He studied in Rishikesh, India under Swami Rama of the Himalayas whose lab studies at the Menninger Institute demonstrated that blood pressure, heart rate and the autonomic nervous system can be voluntarily controlled. Leonard has presented informative Yoga Science and meditation workshops at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Kaiser Permanente, The New York Times Forum on Yoga, the Commonwealth Club of California, the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, the Washington University Medical School, the University of Colorado Medical School, the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point Association of Graduates, the Albany Medical College, and Berkshire Medical Center and has served on the faculties of the New England Institute of Ayurvedic Medicine and the International Himalayan Yoga Teachers Association. He is the author and editor of Transformation: The Journal of Yoga Science as Holistic Mind/Body Medicine and his Heart and Science of Yoga® course curriculum has been certified by the Albany Medical College, the American Medical Association, and the American Nurses Association for continuing medical education credit.
To learn more about Jessica and her work, visit
https://www.agadaenergyhealing.com
Instagram @agadaenergyhealingSound Healing Practitioner | Reiki Master | BS/BMJessica Neideffer became aware that there was more to her than just a physical body at a very young age. She experienced many health issues during childhood and almost died when she was fifteen from complications of Crohn’s dis-ease. After many years of doctors treating the symptoms with western medicine, she knew there had to be another way of being healed and healthy. After a profound experience at the age of 31, she realized there was a different way and that she was meant to support herself and others in healing on a deeper level.
Since this moment in 2007, Jessica began studying and practicing energy work and sound healing. She became more conscious of what her body was asking for and began working with Naturopaths, Nutritionists, and other Mentors to assist her in the healing process. Through her own research and life experience, she found that a combination of diet, exercise, and emotional healing practices was the key.
About Irie Blues
Photography is the portal to how my brain communicates life visually. Ever since mental health became an important element in my life, I have asked myself "How can I live a better life and remain at peace with the blues?" Presenting color psychology, light and harmony through the world of photography are my creative practices. By blending a multitude of elements to produce many forms of harmony are my experiments for socially conscious connections. I have been able to not only conduct these perspectives through photography, but through community events, where I am bridging artistic gaps and empowering others. Being a part of my local community drives my innovative spirit and empowers my artistic abilities, all while evolving individual artistry.
To learn more about her and her work, visit
https://www.irieblues.co
Shelly Tygielski is the author of Sit Down to Rise Upand founder of the global grassroots mutual aid organization Pandemic of Love. Her work has been featured by over 100 media outlets, including CNN Heroes, The Kelly Clarkson Show, CBS This Morning, the New York Times,andthe Washington Post. A trauma-mindfulness teacher and a Garrison Institute Fellow, she has been called one of the “12 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement” by Mindful.org and teaches self-care and resilience at organizations around the world.
Visit her online at http://www.shellytygielski.com.
Link to her book’s product page on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1608687449
Shelly's social media links:
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mindfulskatergirl
Facebook Personal: http://www.facebook.com/shellytygielski
Facebook Professional: http://www.facebook.com/shellymeditation
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/shellytygielski
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bentleyangel
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shellymindfulness/
ABOUT HER NEW BOOK
The practice of mindfulness is most often touted for its profound mind, body, and spirit benefits. In Sit Down to Rise Up, self-care activist Shelly Tygielski shows that mindfulness can also be a powerful tool for spurring transformative collective action.
“The premise of this book,” Shelly states, “is fairly simple: When we are interconnected, when one of us heals, we all heal.”
Organized in three sections—Me, We, and Us—SIT DOWN TO RISE UP sheds light on:
Why self-care — a commitment to taking an active role in safeguarding our mental and physical wellness — isn’t self-centered but truly a selfless act — and ways to expand our view of the “self” to include our family, community, human beings across the globe, and the natural world.
How we are each born with a sense of agency — the ability to rise up, assert ourselves, and become an agent for social change, regardless of our circumstances — and ways to uncover and nurture that seed within us.
Why positive thinking as a consistent habit is downright impossible — and how to find simple, unconditional happiness that is not in opposition to negative experiences through conscious action and connection with others
Why self-care — a commitment to taking an active role in safeguarding our mental and physical wellness — isn’t self-centered but truly a selfless act — and ways to expand our view of the “self” to include our family, community, human beings across the globe, and the natural world
The power of showing up, taking baby steps, and making incremental change — and an arsenal of tools to help anyone create circles of influence for serving others and doing good, sparking a ripple effect that continues to reverberate and inspire people of all types everywhere.
Why we urgently need to extinguish the stigma attached to asking for help and support the concept and reality of equity, how to set up your own mutual aid network…and more.
Jeff sits down with Brigitte as she shares deeply about her spiritual journey and about her work over the years as an herbalist and nutritional consultant of Natural Health with almost fifty years of experience.
To learn more about Brigitte and her work, visit
https://brigittemars.com
Brigitte is an herbalist and nutritional consultant of Natural Health with almost fifty years of experience. She teaches Herbal Medicine at Naropa University and The School of Health Mastery in Iceland. She has taught at Omega Institute, Esalen, Kripalu, Sivananda Yoga Ashram, Arise, Envision and Unify Festivals, and The Mayo Clinic. She blogs for the Huffington Post and Care2. She is also a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild.
Brigitte is the author of many books and DVDs, including The Home Reference to Holistic Health and Healing, The Country Almanac of Home Remedies, The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine, Beauty by Nature, Addiction Free Naturally, The Sexual Herbal, Healing Herbal Teas, Rawsome!, and co-author of The HempNut Cookbook. Her DVDs include Sacred Psychoactive, Herbal Wizardry for Kids of all Ages, Natural Remedies for Childhood Ailments, Overcoming Addictions, and Natural Remedies for Emotional Health. Her latest project is a phone app called iPlant that helps budding herbalists to identify plants in the wild.
Brigitte and her daughter, Sunflower Sparkle Mars, run Herb Camp for Kids in Boulder, Colorado. Brigitte’s other daughter is world famous activist/yogini-actress/ international model, Rainbeau Mars.
Jeff sits down with Nicole Poole as she shares very deeply about her life journey, about her work in the community that is making love cool again in Oklahoma City through SPARK! and her pandemic street art, about her evolution as a human being, an artist, and as a creative changemaker.
To learn more about Nicole and her projects, visit
https://www.nicolepoole.com
To learn about SPARK!
visit
https://www.sparklahoma.com
ABOUT NICOLE
I am a broker of delightful disruption hell-bent on making love cool again.
After a couple of decades in NYC and a few years in Paris, I have returned to Oklahoma, where I seek opportunities to connect with other curious humans, create art, and initiate projects for the common good.
My background is multidisciplinary collaboration, where generosity and authentic response transcend discipline, language and culture. Spending decades in creative spaces governed by “I don’t know - let’s be lost together” has taught me that curiosity in the face of uncertainty fosters deep connection, full expression and collective transformation. Process is the product, and the medium is, as always, the message. My personal journey of healing from Complex Trauma/C-PTSD is rooted in compassion, and I am uniquely able to create brave, safe spaces that nurture vulnerability, the surest path to risk, growth and innovation.
My primary tool in performance is Soundpainting, a universal sign language for live composition, powered by the offerings of the performers, sculpted in real time to highlight the immediacy of live performance and the power of improvisation.
Maverick Arts, LLC is the arm of my work that incorporates my artistic expertise with my desire to advocate for cultural dialogue and experience. I partner with individuals, non-profits, governmental organizations, educational institutions and industry to provide dynamic initiatives powered by global creative experience, expansive social perspective and contemporary collaborative expertise.
ABOUT SPARK!
SPARK! is a daring and diverse new ensemble of acclaimed artists joining forces to bring cutting-edge, immersive performance to the heart of OKC. SPARK! harnesses collective creativity to ignite community healing and cohesion, rethinking how the arts engage with each other, and with the public.
"We need spaces to heal from the trauma of isolation, division, inequity and loss brought or revealed by the past year.
Live performance is uniquely poised to foster belonging, meaning and unity. But to do so effectively, I believe we've gotta rethink and transcend both the idea of shared space and the transactional, passive entertainment we've become accustomed to.
Throughout my career as a collaborative performing artist, I have seen, time and again, that creating a performance together, in a public space, has the power to activate vibrant, light-hearted and radically inclusive engagement. In fact, studies have proven this - the evolutionary psychology concept of positivity resonace explains why our heartbeats synchronize when we gather: collaborative, shared co-experience of positive emotion is the most elemental building block of love.
I feel called at this moment in our lives to share the expertise I've honed in NYC and Europe with my hometown of OKC. Intentionally applied radical collaboration can help us come together with curiosity, compassion, joy and play. That's what SPARK! is all about."
Nicole Poole, Producing Artistic Director
SPARK! joyfully merges dance, visual art, music, poetry and theatre into wildly unpredictable, one-of-a-kind happenings created with the public in pop-up locations accessible to the broader OKC community. Our events are free of charge and intended to reconnect us through active creativity, radical collaboration and shared humanity.
Jeff sits down with Josh Stout as he shares deeply about what his art, his process, and the consciousness and presence that he channels through this work means to him at a deeper level.
He also reflects on his journey both as an artist and as a human being.
To learn more about Josh and his work, visit
https://joshstoutart.com
ABOUT JOSH
Take away the sun, so I may rove the ocean despite light.
Let go the hand, so sightless fog drifts in between reflections of ourselves.
Give me a lifetime to forget the language of my birth,
so only wind screams out my lungs when I'm aflame.
We were born to create.
I will not betray my instinct.
I will dig my voice out from beneath the stone.
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Husband, Son, Brother, Uncle, Father of Five talented children.
Questioning everything in a relentless quest for harmony.
Finding the path.
Living life everyday, following my natural instincts.
Growing wise.
Experimenting at the boundaries of what the mind can create.
The first time in my life a brush from my hand hits a canvas was an explosion of emotions that I’m still trying to figure out in my own mind as it creates images of a people and a planet.
Art, my outlet has become my voice. The filtration between the brain and the hand. A direct influence of every experience in my life combined towards a single subject.
Born an artist. My entire life has lead to being an artist. Creating, exploring and experiencing life and how it affects one’s outlook on the world. Ultimately how all these views are transferred through a medium.
Compositions arranged straight from the most powerful tool on Earth, the mind. Paintings are sculpted at a journeyman's pace by the use of oil and pallet knife. Bronze sculptures crafted exclusively by hand, where a thought can become completely encompassed.
Jeff sits down with Meg Sutherland as she shares deeply about her inner journey through the process of creation of The Victory of Greenwood project and what it all means to her personally. She also speaks very compellingly about her own evolution through this process.
To learn more about The Victory of Greenwood project and the book, visit
https://thevictoryofgreenwood.com
Meg Sutherland is a communications and marketing professional with over 15 years of experience. Much of her focus has been on helping area non-profits that provide assistance for women, children and minorities. Most recently, she co-founded Spark Collaborative which supports creative projects with some element of social responsibility. The most recent of these is the Victory of Greenwood where she performs extensive research, editing and grant writing.
Her pro-bono work has included providing public relations services to TulsaNow and as a storyteller for Code for Tulsa (a local brigade of Code for America). She was also instrumental in the creation of Tulsa Little Jam, a video and podcast series showcasing area musicians and performers, which launched in Tulsa in 2018. Meg graduated, cum laude, from Langston University in 1996 with a B.A. in Psychology. She has two adult sons and resides in Tulsa, OK.
The Victory of Greenwood endeavors to tell the story of Greenwood from the perspective of the heroes and entrepreneurs who built Greenwood and then rebuilt it after its destruction. Historians have published many books and articles about the days surrounding the 1921 Race Massacre, but Tulsa knows very little about the founding of Greenwood. We as a city know even less about Greenwood's reconstruction. Against all odds, the neighborhood was built again, better than before, and became known as “Black Wall Street”.
The name Victory of Greenwood is attributed to Timantha Norman, executive editor of the Tulsa Star. She and her staff have been wonderful joint partners throughout the process of writing this article series and book and we're grateful for their collaboration.
We began publishing a series of articles in the fall of 2019 with the goal of sharing Greenwood's story from the perspective of its founders and significant historical figures. The project will cover Greenwood’s early history, the 1921 massacre, Greenwood's rebuilding, and its prosperity through the late 1960s, focusing on the neighborhood’s great nationwide legacy. Every day that we work on this project, we uncover a piece of history that Tulsa has not seen for decades-in some cases for over a century.
The article series will be published as a book in May, 2021. We are producing a series of events, a video series, a podcast and a web-based interactive timeline and archive, and will be contributors to the collections/exhibits housed at the Greenwood Rising Museum.
We have listened to our city’s conversation about the massacre and about Greenwood’s history and legacy for the past 20 years and we believe that it is incomplete. This project, for us, is an attempt to tell the story of Greenwood’s triumphs so that as a city we might learn from and be inspired by the people who rebuilt the neighborhood in spite of the tremendous challenges they faced.
Greenwood’s history is incredibly rich, multifaceted, and fascinating. By learning the individual human experiences of Greenwood residents, Tulsa can begin to come together as a community promoting growth, cooperation, equity and respect for all its citizens. Perhaps other communities will look to Tulsa’s efforts and be moved to strive for their own growth and reconciliation. The Victory of Greenwood continues.
Jeff sits down with Michelle Bias as she shares deeply about her work with people, about her own Journey and evolution, and about some very important lessons that she has learned along the way.
To learn more about Michelle and her work, visit
https://www.michellebias.com
If you are in a session or a workshop with Michelle, you’ll find she brings spunk, experience, non-judgment, and integrity. She will guide you towards creative ways to look at life to see where old paradigms and worn-out narratives can be shifted and integrated.
Michelle holds a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Psychology with an undergrad in Psychology & Behavioral Sciences. She is a RYT 200 Yoga Instructor, Certified Astrologer, EFT practitioner, Karmic Theory Konnector, Writer, and Artist**. She has a private practice and works with clients in the Tulsa area as well as remotely across the U.S via Zoom.
Why does systemic work matter?** I know first hand the impact this work has had in my life. It is powerful. If an individual is willing, it can be the catalyst for new growth and perspective. I love guiding people to a place in their life where they can access more resources and support. I want more ground to stand upon for all people. I love to see people stepping into the bright, shining lights they are. Regardless of how one finds a road towards healing, it is important to remember that everyday you have a choice.
My commitment to myself and others: To be the best me I can be. I am a teacher and mostly, I am a student. In case you are wondering, yes, I have a coach. I have mentors, and I have teachers. I would not be here showing up in this way if I didn’t.
A few other things about me: I’m a public speaker, facilitating TeamBuilding workshops for businesses and organizations. I co-founded OK, So Tulsa’s Storyslam in 2013 (which became a non-profit in 2020) and before covid, co-hosted the event each month.
Jeff sits down with Carissa Pankey as she shares very deeply about her experiences with the creative process, with awareness, and with presence at a deeper Conscious level.
Jeff sits down with Christiaan McPherson as he shares deeply about his Journey, evolution, and lessons learned along the way.
He also speaks about what his work as the General Manager of H2Oasis Float Center & Tea House means to him at a deep level.
Christiaan also speaks about the benefits of floatation therapy, about float culture, and he also takes a deep dive into the world of tea.
To learn more about H2Oasis Float Center & Tea House or to contact Christiaan directly, visit
https://h2oasisfloatcenter.com
Jeff sits down with Nicole Chrisman as she shares very deeply about her work, about her Journey, and about her evolution and lessons learned along the way.
To learn more about Nicole and her work, visit
https://www.brandiechrisman.com
**Nicole Chrisman is an Evidential Medium, Spiritual Teacher and Author dedicated to bringing departed loved ones and those in the living together since 2008. Spiritual development, particularly the study of Mediumship and Intuitive abilities has been the center of her purpose driven passion her entire adult life.
She is considered to be one of the “movers and shakers” of Mediumship in the Midwest. Combining fifteen years of training and personal study, she has been helping others connect to the other side professionally for over a decade. Known for her straightforward and compassionate approach Nicole provides for a unique and accurate experience.**
She has worked to develop her gift at Arthur Findlay College, workshops and personal development and had the pleasure to work along side other well known mediums in her field.
Currently, Nicole has also been called to teach others how to connect with their spiritual gifts and incorporate spirituality into their everyday lives by focusing on family, personal spiritual development and overall well being.
It is her goal that in sharing her own spiritual gifts, teaching others and encouraging continual growth she will help individuals embrace their spiritual potential.
Nicole is also a loving and dedicated mother to her three amazing children and resides in Tulsa, OK with her soul partner.
Jeff sits down with Joe Moody to hear him share deeply and compellingly about his Journey, about his evolutions, and some of the most formative lessons that he has learned along the way.
To learn more about Joe, his work, and to access his articles that are published on Medium, visit
https://www.joemoody.com
Jeff sits down with Madeleine Besson to hear about the connection between her artistic work and Consciousness and about her Journey and evolution. She also reflects very deeply about the significance of her experiences when she lived in the United States for 5 years.
To learn more about Madeleine and her work, visit
Instagram: @madeleinebesson
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC490lV94TS0aAjBQ-Jlvx-A
Website: https://www.madeleinebesson.com
**Madeleine Besson is an actor, singer, musician, composer, sound healer and artist. She has been immersed in theatre, cinema and music from an early age. Her first acting job was at eleven years old in “La Belle Verte”, later on interpreted the lead part in the sequel of the original French movie “Three Men and a Baby”, “18 ans Après”.
She studied theatre at the LAMDA school in London. Trained in violin, piano, classical singing and guitar from an early age, she then studied jazz and contemporary music at the Cmdl in Paris and at The New School in New York, before recording her first album in Bristol Uk and Paris France and touring all over France and Germany. She composed music for several plays and films, as well as playing in short films and theatre productions.
She recorded her second and third albums in Nashville where she lived for five years touring all around the States.
She started creating sound healing channeled transmissions and meditations in 2020 and painting with her own natural pigments. She is currently working on several acting and music projects.**
Jeff sits down with Ashley Ludman to hear about her Journey, her evolution and healing, and some of the most formative lessons that she has learned along the way.
To learn more about Ashley and her work, visit
https://ashleyludman.com
**Ashley Ludman is a breathwork therapist and educator. Graduating with a degree in Occupational Therapy in 1995, her experience in neurotrauma and acute care rehabilitation informs her current offerings.
In 2001, she opened Seaside Yoga, in Wilmington, NC, while training Yoga teachers and specializing in Yoga Therapeutics. In 2010, relocated to Nosara, Costa Rica, where she now lives and offers Breathwork Facilitator Training Programs both through the distance and at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.**
Jeff sits down with Lisa Ann Catano as she shares deeply about her Journey and evolution.
**To learn more about Lisa, visit
https://onatahlifecoaching.co.za/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetamorphoseBullying
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/onatahlifecoaching/
Blog: https://lisacatano.wordpress.com/
To contact Lisa,
Email: 3Onatah@gmail.com**
Jeff sits down with Jaileen Shoemaker as she shares very deeply about her Journey, her evolution, and about why her work with others is so healing and so important to her.
To learn more about Jaileen and her healing services, visithttps://www.facebook.com/jaileenlovehealrepeat To contact Jaileen(785) 404-8164
jaileenshoemaker757@gmail.com To book an appointment with Jaileenhttps://squareup.com/appointments/book/LRC1CVY6QK3R4
About Jaileen
I consider myself an Earth guide and Spiritual Ascension Coach. I facilitate sacred space for healing and evolution. I do energy and light work. I am a certified Holy Fire III Reiki Master and a Certified Be Free Breathwork Facilitator.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE
https://youtu.be/FR3VS4JcVkM
Jeff sits down with Louise Livingstone from the Heart Sense Research Institute as she shares very deeply about her Journey and evolution and about the work that she does with individuals and organizations to empower them to return to the heart and to reconnect to life.
Her next Introduction to Heart Sense course is beginning online on Monday 13th September. For more information see the following link - https://www.heartsenseresearch.co.uk/training-events
“Imagine that the heart is trying to speak to us; how would we understand its language and receive its message?
How might we cultivate the ears to hear the heart’s voice, and focus the eyes to see the heart in its authenticity?” --Louise Livingstone, 2019
**About Louise
In the early 1990s, I developed a condition called myocarditis which enlarged my heart and left me with numerous physical ailments. Deep in my soul, I knew that my heart was urgently trying to speak to me, making me aware that I had been ignoring my heart's wisdom and guidance for many years. This experience transformed my life, and I began a long journey of recovery; learning to listen to the soft whispers of my heart's wisdom and guidance. This meant un-learning almost everything I was taught about the world through the contemporary Western approach towards knowledge; along the way gaining an MSc in Holistic Science from the Schumacher College, and a PhD in Transformative Education from Canterbury Christ Church University. My PhD thesis drew on the discourses of transformational learning, depth psychology, holistic science, cultural history, esoteric wisdom and religious philosophy.
I am the founder of the Heart Sense Research Institute. My work aims to re-imagine the long-forgotten wise and intelligent heart for contemporary times; illuminating through research, contemplative action and nourishing dialogue how the heart as a focal point of compassion, love and kindness, and as an organ of perception and wisdom, is a valuable and vital ally in our world of increasing global challenges, injustice and inequality. I particularly work with people to empower them to access their heart's wisdom in order to engage more meaningfully with life.**
Watch on youtube
https://youtu.be/RExY1GNdfHY
Witch, Writer and Intuitive Coach, Monika Carless lives on the magical shores of Vancouver Island, B.C. guiding creatives, earthkeepers and witches on their sacred journey through life. Her heart song is being of service to the Consciousness, while leading a life of simple pleasures.
With over 300 articles published in various magazines, Monika is the author of The Dark Pool trilogy; a tale of erotic pagan mysticism and conscious relationships. Her next book, Transforming Mother Wound Healing Pathways for the Wild & Sovereign is due for release in 2021.
**"My writing as a spiritual midwife rests on the deep belief that humanity is destined for compassion, empathy and unconditional love. I seek to offer opportunities to understand ourselves in new and inspired ways.”
Connect with Monika via her website, monikacarless.com, or FB and Instagram**
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Monika Carless, She/Her
Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Author, Way of the Shaman
Coaching Women to Wild, Fearless Authenticity
Featured @ Elephant Journal , The Urban Howl
*I gratefully acknowledge the Lkwungen People on whose traditional and unceded territory I live, work and play, and offer thanks and reverence to the ancestors, supernatural ones, hereditary leaders, matriarchs and creatures for their stewardship of the rich resources and cultural teachings of this beautiful land, Southern Vancouver Island.
monikacarless.com - Work With Me/The Dark Pool Trilogy/Blog
Jeff sits down with ecstatic vocalist, innovative composer, teacher and invoker of the sacred, Suzanne Sterling, as she shares deeply about her journey and her work in creating and performing healing music and in facilitating sacred and participatory ceremonies for large gatherings and festivals worldwide. As a voice for joyful and sustainable activism she has created trainings and curriculums for numerous communities, is co-founder of Off the Mat, Into the World® with other yoga luminaries, Seane Corn and Hala Khouri.
**Suzanne’s musical explorations in the realm of electronic dance music, devotional chanting and songs of the ecstatic soul have brought her to the forefront of the “kirtronica” sound (Conscious Dancer magazine named her a “kirtronica pioneer”) and have led her to enjoy mainstage billing at festivals such as Earthdance, Harmony Festival, Burning Man, Power to the Peaceful and The World Festival of Sacred Music (hosted by the Dalai Lama). Suzanne has performed and toured internationally both solo as well as with well-known electronic dance act Medicine Drum, innovative electronic dance act Alcyone (System Recordings NY) and acoustic trio Kali’s Angels.
Her music has been commissioned for film, theatre, and DVD, including “Gifting It,” an award winning documentary film about the Burning Man Festival, and the bestselling, award winning “Vinyasa Flow Yoga I and II with Seane Corn” produced by Gaiam Inc. She also created the soundtrack for a postnatal Yoga DVD entitled “YogaBonding” and appears in the DVD “Yoga from the Heart” with Seane Corn and produced by Yoga Journal. Most recently completing a three DVD set to accompany Seane Corn’s Chakra Flow DVD series.
Her latest performances are a thoroughly modern exploration of devotional music and have been known to have an audience on their feet in a matter of minutes. She has been called a soulful and groove-loving musical priestess – refining and reinventing the ancient traditions of ecstatic prayer through the voice. Her first solo album “Bhakti” reached #1 on the New Age radio playlists and she was chosen as “Best Spiritual Artist” in the 2008 Norbay Awards sponsored by the North Bay Guardian. Her latest album “Blue Fire Soul” (produced by Christopher K) is an album created specifically for yoga classes and will be available soon.
As well as performing, she facilitates retreats and workshops in the U.S. and abroad, and brings a special blend of music, yoga, sacred ceremony and activism to events as far reaching as yoga retreats, emerging culture conferences, and music festivals – most recently as featured artist and teacher at several Yoga Journal Conferences, The Esalen Institute, The Omega Institute, The Global Sound Conference, and Exhale Center for Sacred Movement. Suzanne has also been a ritual designer and priestess for many years and has developed curriculums, teacher trainings and apprenticeship programs for numerous communities nationwide. She offers year long apprenticeships in Ritual Skills in both SF and LA and is part of the faculty for YogaWorks’ internationally respected Teacher Training Programs in both SF and New York.**
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Jeff sits down with comedian Mona Aburmishan as she shares very deeply about her Journey in comedy, about her evolution, and about how she has connected with Source and with higher Consciousness through the performance of her craft.
To learn more about Mona, her comedy, and her work, visit
https://monacomedy.com
https://www.instagram.com/monaspix/?hl=en
https://twitter.com/monaaburmishan?lang=en
https://youtube.com/c/MonaComedy
Mona is an international comedian based in her hometown of Chicago.
She performs, emcees, and produces comedy shows, competitions and events in major clubs, theaters and universities around the world. In addition to comedy, Mona is a sought-after speaker for her expertise in using stand-up comedy to bring joy and affinity to various socio-political topics in the United States, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Most notably, Mona is America’s first internationally honed stand-up comedian. Similarly, she is the first Arab and Muslim woman to perform stand-up comedy in the nation’s most prestigious institutions: Carnegie Hall in New York City as well as the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC as well as private events for diplomatic agencies.
She has a Master’s in International Development and is fluent in English, German and Arabic and performs in these languages. Living and working around the world, Mona uses her global insight and homegrown Chicago-style urban & sub-urban perspective, that offers a fresh look at shifting frustration into funny.
In addition to regularly performing in the US, Canada, EU, UK and the Middle East, Mona is a sought-after headliner on the African continent. Becoming a regular in the South African market, Mona works regularly with comedians and multi-media personalities throughout South Africa’s major cities: Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.
As for Northern Africa and Middle East, Mona was a featured guest on the wildly successful “Al Bernameg” with host Dr. Bassem Youssef’s ground-breaking satirical news program (once North Africa’s version of “The Daily Show”); as well as headlined Comedy Central’s Season 2 and 3, Premier “Comedy Central Present: Stand-Up Al Waggif” filmed on location in Dubai, UAE - featured throughout the Middle East and Africa.
She was the first female to headline this revolutionary series produced by Viacom.
State side, Mona is a regular host and headliner throughout the Midwest, Northeast, South and West Coasts of US. While touring Mona always checks in with Chicago based media was a consistent featured guest on “Pretty Late with Patti Vasquez” Chicago’s #1 late-night radio show WGN 720 Radio as well as a regular feature on Chicago’s #1 daytime talk show, Windy City Live!
Globally, Mona launched Class Clowns® “Comedy & Culture Series” a stand-up comedy, improv, spoken word & writing workshop for CORPORATE AMERICA looking to reinvigorate and pivot their corporate family into a productive 2021. These workshops are dual-development model whereby the same workshop will be offered to a community group, school or charity of the company’s choosing.
She is currently working with the University of Chicago to teach medical students comedy skills to relate better to their patients and overcome racism and income disparities
“Leadership isn’t just the person on stage talking into a microphone, it’s everyone around
that person making sure the microphone is on and the person is seen & heard!”
Mona is also a trained and professional medium and channeler.
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Jeff sits down with intuitive artist and spiritual teacher Jo Jayson as she shares very deeply about her practice, her work, and her Journey.
To learn more about Jo and her work, visit
http://www.jojayson.com
https://www.facebook.com/JOJAYSONART
https://www.instagram.com/jojaysonartist
https://www.pinterest.com/jojaysonartist
British born Jo Jayson is a self-taught, intuitive painter, teacher and author. She is internationally known and acclaimed for her work on the Sacred Feminine and is the author of the award-winning book ‘Self-Love Through the Sacred Feminine’ and the accompanying oracle deck.
Through her paintings she teaches self-healing, and self-development to women worldwide, and she sells her paintings, prints, guidance cards, and meditation tools internationally.
She has lived in New York for over 20 years and continues to expand her work on the Feminine with a new Zodiac series in progress.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/pKMYW4Oj19oJeff sits down with Wendy De Rosa, author of Becoming an Empowered Empath, as she shares very deeply about her Journey and evolution and about some very formative lessons that she learned along the way.
Visit her online at
http://www.wendyderosa.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/schoolofintuitivestudies
Twitter: https://twitter.com/wendyderosa
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendyderosa
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/wendyde8684
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-de-rosa-9093b2a/
**Wendy De Rosa is the author of Becoming an Empowered Empath. The founder of The School of Intuitive Studies, she has been helping people develop intuition and experience personal transformation for over two decades.
Wendy is a popular faculty member at the Shift Network and has filmed two programs for MindValley’s spiritual growth channel.
She lives in Longmont, Colorado.**
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Jeff sits down with Maja Metlicar as she shares very deeply about her Journey, her evolution as a human and Divine being, and some very impactful lessons that she has learned along the way through beginning to work as a practitioner years ago.
**Maja is a Source codes keeper, spiritual activator and frequency holder.
Through her presence and her voice she facilitates the unlocking of dormant codes held within one’s DNA, unleashing a deeper layer of their highest embodiment potential. She feels & reads individual, collective and cosmic frequency, and works multidimensionally.
LIght Language, light codes, awareness and anchoring in love as a state of being, are her modalities.
That said, her service goes beyond labels. What she essentially does is create and hold a safe container for one to experience themselves in their most authentic and brilliant truth.
Connect to Maja through her website:**https://www.majametlicar.com
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Jeff sits down with Kimberly Palm as she shares very deeply about her Journey, her work, and about the most important realizations that she has had along the way.
To learn more about Kimberly and her work, visit
https://spiritualgrowthjourneys.comhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/spiritualgrowthjourneyshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaffyTt1JkomFs7EBXdmipQ/videos
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Jeff sits down with Lukaijah to hear him share very deeply about his Journey, evolution, and work with people regarding soul purpose and divine union alignment.
**To learn more about Lukaijah and his work, visit
https://www.lukaijah.com
To learn more about Divine Union Alchemy, visit
https://divineunionalchemy.com
To contact Lukaijah directly, email
DivineUnionAlchemy@gmail.com**
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Jeff sits down with Nick de Zwart as he shares very deeply about his Journey, about his evolution, and how he has been guided to create spaces for men to become more comfortable sharing their emotions, connecting more closely with their intuition, and being vulnerable in new ways.
To learn more about Nick, Om & Alpha, and The Conscious Man Project, visit
https://linktr.ee/omandalpha
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Jeff sits down with Yvonne Perry to hear about her Journey, about her evolution, and about her work with people to help them connect more deeply with their Gifts.
She also shares deeply about the healing aspect of connecting with Spirit and about the energetic power of gathering together in community.
**To learn more about Yvonne, visit
https://weare1inspirit.com
As a celestial shaman, Yvonne Perry helps people learn to manage energy, understand soul aspects, access and anchor vibrations of higher realms, transmit their soul's unique frequency, and remember light language as a tool to create positive change in their life and the world.**
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Jeff sits down with Lorraine Goldbloom to hear about her Journey, evolution, and her work with clients and training facilitators in VortexHealing.
She also shares some very inspiring and enlightening lessons learned along the way.
**To learn more about Lorraine and her work, visit
https://lorrainegoldbloom.com
For more information about VortexHealing:
https://www.vortexhealing.org
Lorraine Goldbloom is a Divine Energy VortexHealing® teacher and facilitator who has been working in the healing arts for more than 20 years. With her intensive background as a personal trainer, yoga instructor and Reiki Master, Lorraine brings forth a breadth and depth of knowledge in regards to the healing world. Her natural ability to work and support people as they experience the transformation of VortexHealing® transmissions in class is evident. With a degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a background in theater, Lorraine has a natural gift for presentation. She has taught throughout the country and also internationally. Lorraine lives in Westchester with her husband.**
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Jeff sits down with Joanna Walden to hear about her Journey and evolution and about her work in helping people recalibrate back to their unique blueprint and be who they really are.
**To learn more about Joanna and her work, visit
https://www.joannawalden.com
https://www.instagram.com/iamjoannawalden/
https://www.facebook.com/iamjoannawalden
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086R7C766
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuj8UORM86vTBFleWV0Ne5A
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-walden-83b584/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20183464.Joanna_Walden
Joanna Walden is a consciousness visionary, transformation coach, speaker and author of The Inside Hustle: A Mystical Misfit's Travel Adventure Into The Unknown.
Joanna spent twenty years working in a high flying advertising career in New York, London & Melbourne while secretly exploring her passion for the unseen world of energy, spirit and consciousness. Inspired by a series of mystical experiences in her teenage years Joanna explored everything from Transcendental Meditation to quantum physics on a global quest to find her purpose and ultimately her true self, through a process of self-realisation.
Currently residing in her hometown of Auckland, New Zealand, Joanna quit her old corporate life to start a transformational consulting business, and begin sharing her knowledge and voice with the world.**
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Jeff sits down with Ursula O'Farrell for an incredibly unique and deep conversation about her Journey and her perspective on the intersection of art and metaphysics.
**To learn more about Ursula and her work, visit
http://ursulafineart.com
Back in the 1950s a group of painters in the San Francisco Bay Area established what came to be known as Bay Area Figurative Painting. Originally David Park, Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn, painters who had all done abstract pictures, decided to embark on figuration which was indebted to abstract gesture painting, but looked again the world of appearances for their subjects.
They even painted from the life model which simply was not done by the Abstract Expressionists. A second generation, Joan Brown, Manuel Neri, Bruce McGaw and others made this new approach to painting (or sculpting) the human figure, into their own and endowed it with a new spirit.
Ursula O’Farrell can be said to represent a third generation which includes Christopher Brown and Roger Hermann. She has made this tradition as the source of her own work. It is important that she looked beyond her immediate environment. She spent a seminal year in Florence and another in Germany and she took a long look at Matisse’s paintings of women and learned how to fuse figuration with abstraction.**
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Jeff sits down with Alisha Braché as she shares very deeply and compellingly about her Journey, about very important turning points along the way, and about her service to the world through her work with people to assist them with their Spiritual Awakening and to empower them on their Ascension journeys and what it all means to her on a Divine and human level.
**To learn more about Alisha and her work, visit
https://www.cosmicg8way.com
https://www.newearthchildren.org
From a young age Alisha was very in tune with her healing and psychic abilities. 20 years ago she started formal studies to develop her intuitive and healing gifts. Over the years Alisha trained in all forms of esoteric and energy techniques (Psychic Mediumship, Trance/Channelling, Energy Healing, Past Life Regression, Reiki, Quantum Healing & many more.)
Alisha is also a qualified Holistic Living Counsellor. Since graduating she set up her own practice and have assisted hundreds of clients towards their path of self-mastery.
Over the years of travels, studies and working one-on-one with her clients, Alisha formulated her own Energy Alignment techniques which assist with the relief of things like anxiety, depression, fears & phobias, trauma, past life blockages, direction & purpose, physical ailments and much more.
Her work now specialises in Energy work to assist people on their own Spiritual Awakening process and Ascension journey.
In particular ~ part of her work is specialised to Divine Partnership connections and the children which can come through this Union - Divine Birth as known throughout history, what she calls the ‘ancient way’ returning in various different ways.
Alisha is very passionate about supporting people to their own Personal Mastery and becoming more in alignment with their soul’s purpose which assists transitioning humanity towards a better future.**
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Jeff sits down with Prema Shakti to hear about her Journey, her work, and her evolution.
She also shares about how her life has changed and what it has been like to work with clients over the years.
**To learn more about her and her work, visit
https://www.hibiskissayurveda.com
Prema Shakti (Haley Kalb), NAMA Certified Āyurvedic Practitioner (CAP), Yoga Alliance E-RYT500, Licensed Massage Therapist and Registered Psychotherapist is a devoted practitioner and disciple of yoga, āyurveda and massage. She guides her students to explore the union of body, mind and spirit through āyurvedic principles, asana (posture), pranayama (breath work), bodywork therapies, energy healing and meditation.
Prema maintains specialty certifications as an Āyurvedic Practitioner + Bodyworker, Vedic Counselor, Y12SR (yoga for 12-step recovery) leader, Prison Yoga Project, ĀyurDoula, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Yin Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Stand-up Paddle-board (SUP) Yoga, Reiki Master, Laughter Yoga and is currently working towards her Āyurvedic Doctor designation. Budtender certified in the state of Colorado. Current CPR & AED certified. Prema also sits on the board of COLORAMA (the Colorado Ayurvedic Medical Association) as the Treasurer and on the Seminars in Āyurveda sub-committee through the National Āyurvedic Medical Association (NAMA).
Instagram Handles:
@prema.shakti.guru
@hibiskiss.ayurveda
@ayurvedaforaddiction**
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Jeff sits down with Micheila Sheldan to hear her share about her Journey, about her transformation, and about the most important lessons that she has learned along the way.
**To learn more about Micheila and her work, visit
https://www.micheilasheldan.com
During a struggle to overcome chronic pain, Micheila awakened to her intuitive gifts, launching a journey to better understand her connection to spirit and the universe. After meeting a very special guide, Jacob, she was lead down a synchronistic path of physical, emotional and spiritual healing, leaving behind her mainstream life to uncover a mission she has brought to this planet in many incarnations. Through her connection to Jacob and many others, Micheila completely healed her pain and stepped solidly onto her soul’s path as a trance channel. She now shares channeled teachings with international audiences through live events, radio and television interviews, live courses, writings and private sessions.
Micheila understands that her purpose in this life is to usher lightworkers through a very turbulent and significant dimensional shift on the earth. To accomplish this, she has access to a variety of Guides, Ascended Masters, Teachers, Philosophers, Interdimensional Beings and Collectives, including Mary Magdalene, the Pleiadians , the Council of Light and many others. Micheila channels detailed information about our history, creation, structure, ascension and transition to a fifth dimensional consciousness. She is also able to transmit light coded frequencies and vibrational healings as a vessel for crystalline light through channeled messages and activations.
Micheila’s personal mission is to inspire others to fearlessly live their soul’s higher purpose. Having bridged the gap between two completely different dimensional realities, her story inspires audiences to let go of the fear holding them back from embodying their authentic selves and creating a new, more meaningful human experience.
Micheila believes she also incarnated as a conduit for Lightworkers to identify and activate their collective assignment or signature imprint. She is able to relay meticulous information about the soul’s path and purpose designed to uplift and activate Lightworkers to create timelines from their higher self’s perspective. She also has the unique ability to relay detailed visions of past life experiences that may be impacting a soul’s current timeline. In conducing private readings, she has experienced astoundingly accurate results.
Micheila serves as Executive Director of the Flower of Life Institute, a volunteer organization focused on raising the consciousness of the planet. In this position, Micheila works with volunteers on a variety of projects ranging from conscious action initiatives and youth programs to the organization’s international expo and magazine. She is also the mother of two very gifted teenage daughters and has a passion for meditation, dance, holistic health and spending time in nature.**
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Jeff sits down with Seth Leaf Pruzansky to hear him share recent realizations about how we can break our addictions to fear, disempowering news, and self-defeating ways of seeing ourselves and the world around us.
He also shares some very nourishing reflections about how we can cultivate a deeper relationship and connection to the Consciousness within each of us.
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Jeff sits down with Conner Durand as he shares some recent experiences and transformation related to identity and confronting outselves about what and who we are not.
They also talk about the fear and disconfort that can result when even the spiritual identity is blown apart and how both we and our lives and Consciousness just unfold and flow as we do when we just live moment to moment without believing anything about who we are, why we are here, and what this life is about.
**As Conner said, “it’s both the hardest and the easiest thing we can do.”
From Conner-
"We are the stories we tell ourselves. The views we hold of our pasts obstruct the future of which we are without those views, and this process becomes the boxes of which we all find ourselves living within. What would life be like if we were free to be and free to act without constraint of identity?
Confronting ourselves where we are lends us the authenticity to know where we are being inauthentic, and in doing so, collapses the story told about our suffering or celebration. In other words, what’s possible for our lives is governed by our views of it - good or bad. No one wants to lose themselves or their identity. We are who we are with our memories, hopes, dreams and fears, and we find comfort in the mental worlds built that house our lives.
In confronting ourselves and understanding where we are not, we are granted the freedom to create in a new space free from the limitation of the stories we think we are so far tied within. We are all the authors of our own stories, and whether we pay attention to this or not, it will continue to unfold – I am suffering told in the story of how Love knows and holds itself, and in as such, I am created into it.
Who would you be if you were free from the stories of your past and what stories would you want to tell yourself in your future?"**
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Jeff sits down with Victoria Angel Heart to hear her share one of her "musitations," and about her spititual Journey and evolution.
She also speaks in depth about the impact of Ram Dass's teachings and the experience of actually meeting him in person has had on her Consciousness.
To learn more about Victoria, about her "musitations," and about her mentoring programs and Maui retreats, click the link below for all her information
https://linktr.ee/calmmindopenheart
Victoria channels a blend of soul guidance and sacred music into unique "musitations" that bring peace, bliss and self-love. She is a UCLA-trained, IMTA-certified professional mindfulness teacher specializing in mindful habit change mentoring. Her clients find freedom from their anxiety and burnout so they can enjoy their lives again. Join Victoria on Maui for a Mindful Life Reset to unwind your mind in paradise!
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Jeff sits down with Jai Ma to hear about her journey and work with people in plant medicine over the years.
She also shares deeply about her own inner transformation and what this work means to her at a deeper level.
To learn more about Jai Ma, her work, and about her new online class for women's healing, visit
FB Group for the goddess:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sacredlunagoddesscircle/
Kambo Website :
https://www.kambothrive.com
Kambo FB Page:
https://www.facebook.com/kambothrive
Personal IG: jaima_luna
Kambo IG: Kambo Thrive
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/GrCSPQcXmpIJeff sits down with Nessi Gomes to hear her share very deeply about her Journey, about how she found her voice, and about how she has forged a path less traveled into her artistry by relentlessly pursuing her own journey of self-discovery and channeling her most painful, revelatory and liberating experiences into her powerful musical creations.
She also speaks about what moved her to begin to teach others to find their voice as well through various workshops.
**To learn more about Nessi and about her music and workshops, visit
https://www.nessigomesmusic.com
Following the release of her acclaimed debut album, British/Portuguese singer - songwriter Nessi Gomes (winner of the Best Unsigned British Female Artist for 2016) is embarking on her first Australian tour.
Born on the tiny Island of Guernsey to a Portuguese family, Gomes channels influences from both sides of her ethnicity, blending the essence of the traditional, emotional and ‘larger than life’ Fado folk music with British progressive modern inspiration.
Diamonds & Demons is the debut album by musician Nessi Gomes, a composer and lyricist of rare invention and beauty. Ensuing tales of darkness and light allow a deeper exploration of the human condition, psyche, collective fears and torments. Nessi and her producer Duncan Bridgeman ('1 Giant Leap’) together dug an uncharted tunnel into the artist's turbulent heart and soul. The album was recorded following a successful fundraising campaign in April 2015 during which more than $50,000 was raised. Nessi toured in the wake of the campaign, playing in 25 European countries in the last 2 years includes major festivals in Europe.
And now she has the perfect “thank you” to those who have supported her on her journey: an album revealing an authentic and heartfelt search for light, depth, hope and truth; an artistic quest for love and trust. A series of intricately detailed, hauntingly atmospheric and lushly textured avant-ballads. Here is a musician whose work obliquely references her travails and nods to Björk and Kate Bush but is uniquely her own, with Portuguese inflections and intimations of hope and dread.**
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Devadas is a kirtaniya, composer and artist hailing from Brooklyn, New York. He leads kirtans throughout the world and has recorded a wide variety of acclaimed CDs, including his latest releases, 3 Prayers and Radio Nada.
In 2012, Devadas collaborated with indie-rock icon J Mascis to produce and record the film score for the feature documentary One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das.
Devadas produced Nina Rao’s chant album, Antarayaami, and in 2016 launched the Lokah Peace Project, an online and ever-expanding video project aimed at inspiring reflection, empathy and harmony.
“Devadas is one of the most authentic voices in the modern era of sacred mantra chant.”
-Shiva Baum
Head of Music Programming Bhakti Fest / former Head of A&R Triloka Records
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Jeff sits down with Stuart Preston to hear about his Journey, his evolution, and about some of the most formative lessons that he has learned along the way.
He also shares deeply about his experiences with plant medicine and about how his comedic craft has transformed and has become very personal and healing.
Stuart has been on a journey to learn to heal with the grief of losing his son to suicide. His "Grief Trip" includes psychedelics, meditation, and the teachings of Ram Dass. He shares his story in his one-man show, The Stoned Ape Show, along with his podcast, The Stoned Ape Reports. He also hosted The Consciousness Podcast.
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Jeff sits down with Conner Durand to hear about his life Journey, about how his Conscious has changed, and about the most important realizations that he has had along the way.
**Conner Durand comes as Life’s own estatic vision - an embodiment of the attention and intellect that is Love itself. He is not a teacher nor student, but a being in its own rite of existence, and he is the story Life tells itself to be known.
His Life is his message and with it he empowers others to find their own and the gift that comes with it. The message is his perception of Love and the gift is what he uses to manifest it here and now. Living the most ordinary life, he perceives the extraordinary, and spends his time empowering others and helping them be with their own.
In this world, there are constant experiences of suffering and the prospect of losing ourselves to our deaths. Understanding and befriending his own end has allowed him to dedicate his Life to service and the Love thereof. He is not a messenger for any answer or Truth, but for the methods of which it may be known. By the end of his Life, he will have lived it and he will have loved it - there is nothing else for him to do but be himself.**
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Laura Hensley and Jeff sit down with Katrina Loos to hear about her life journey, about her evolution, and about her yoga practice.
She shares deeply about the most formative lessons that she has learned along the way.
Katrina Loos is a yoga teacher in training whose open documentation of her spiritual journey has enchanted and intrigued humans from all walks of life. Known as Yoga With Kats across social media, Katrina shares her yogic thoughts, yoga asana practices, spiritual mantras and affirmations, and her two cats, Flicker and Pumpkin Spice Latte. Follow Katrina in her journey here: @ yogawithkats
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Jeff sits down with Shauna Cuch to hear her share very deeply about what her work with individuals, families, and groups means to her at a deeper level and about her own life Journey that led her to do this work.
To learn more about Shauna and her process and work, visit
https://www.journeyintotheheart.net
Shauna brings a unique and genuine inclusion of ancient healing wisdom traditions and rituals in life and systems to her constellations. Her method(s) are widely used in a multitude of countries that value the work Family Constellations and Systemic Healing offer. The use of a wide variety of specific and dynamic modalities, raises the vibration, frequency and consciousness of her wisdom in the circle.
Shauna is an expert at helping you take a deep dive into Self love so you can love more fully. She researched over 100 men and taught over 200 women while earning her qualifications to help understand the not so obvious differences between men and women. She is also a coach in communication courses and a sought after business consultant. Shauna is known for events that deepen your awareness to find the communication skills of emotional sovereignty.
Shauna also brings to the mix a unique and genuine inclusion of ancient healing wisdom traditions and rituals in life and systems to her constellations to heal relationships.
She was raised in an oppressive polygamous group facing many challenges as one of four wives she has a lot to offer in to is also the mother of eleven successful children that make huge contributions to the world. Her method(s) are widely used in a multitude of countries that value the work Family Constellations and Systemic Healing. Her use of a wide variety of specific and dynamic modalities raise the vibration, frequency, and consciousness with her wisdom in the circle. Her approach is unique, individualized, and draws on her years of experience not only in Constellations, but Shadow Clearing transmuting darkness to light within our divine energy fields.
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Jeff sits down with Trish Causey as she shares deeply about her life journey, her evolution, and about the sacred work that she does to teach her clients to navigate the path of least resistance to manifest the life, relationships, and money of their dreams while working through the trials and traumas of this lifetime and past lives.
She speaks very compellingly about what she has been though in her own life and how she has taken all of those lessons learned and shares them with others.
Trish Causey
ArtistAlchemist ~ SacredSex Shaman
Trish Causey is an ArtistAlchemist, combining her performing arts background as a professional singer, award-winning composer, author, talk show host, & freelance Broadway journalist with the esoteric arts of quantum healing, Tantra, sexual anatomy & function, & sex magik. A torch-bearer for the Divine Feminine revolution, Trish is a warrior fire spirit & Twin Flame on soul mission to bring pleasure & bliss to the forefront of the awakening collective, while exposing ingrained cultural sexual abuse.
As a self-described "SacredSex Shaman", Trish helps clients awaken their bodies' potential for cosmic-level 0rgasms as each allows their body to reveal its inherent mind-blowing capacity for bliss. She guides her clients as they transcend their fears & uncertainties, bust through their own B.S., & anchor love, healing, sovereignty, & consciousness within themselves.
Trish teaches her clients to navigate the path of least resistance to manifest the life, relationships, & money of their dreams while working through the trials & traumas of this lifetime & past lives. She assists her clients with pivotal breakthroughs, utilizing her talents as an empathic intuitive, spiritual wealth consultant, business alignment coach, master tarot reader, numerologist, transformational guide, & relationship-sexpert.
Trish offers exclusive coaching packages for those who are serious about intense transformation, as well as online courses, group classes, & retreats.
Former host of "ArousedWoman Radio with Trish Causey" as well as "SacredSex with Trish", learn more at www.TrishCausey.com.
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COURSES:
AWESOM: AWakening Energy & Sound 0rgasm Meditation: http://www.trishcausey.com/awesom
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Jeff sits down for a very deep conversation with Britt Johnson to hear about her Journey, evolution, and about her work with clients.
The conversation also joyfully veers off into discussions about: Conscious parenting, the power of group healing, the importance of humor in the spiritual journey, etc, etc, etc.
To learn more about Britt, visit
http://www.britt-johnson.com
Britt Johnson is an evolutionary astrologer, shadow worker, ascension guide and community creator. She assists individuals through subconscious programming, repetitive patterns and traumas created during their lifetime with the help of their astrological blueprint & shadow work techniques.
Britt is a Women's Health Consultant. She is a guide and mirror for women to move back towards their own inner wisdom, sexual expression, autonomy and intuitive gifts. Womb healing and conscious single parenting are areas of lived experience and expertise.
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He shares very candidly and compellingly about his process and evolution and how that has informed his craft and how his craft has brought about new insights and healing as well.
To learn more about Ra and his work, visit
www.artsaflame.com
ABOUT RA's UPCOMING SHOW AT LIGGETT STUDIO ON FEBRUARY 12TH
"LIVING EPHEMERA": This will be a one-night event showcasing an art installation and gallery pieces created out of ephemeral materials such as newspaper, junk mail, receipts, packaging, etc. The focal point of the event will be an installation of multiple rows of wire with string wrapped around the wire and through holes punched in Polaroid photographs depicting themes of nature, time, and human experience. The gallery pieces will be artwork created from/on ephemeral materials that echo themes of mortality, time, and change. No photographs will be allowed of the artwork, and all artwork is to be destroyed immediately following the event.
ABOUT RA AND HIS WORKRa Vashtar is a mixed media artist with a focus on depicting monsters as a metaphor for the internal world. Vashtar's method often involves layers of ink, acrylic paint, watercolor, found objects, and resin. He draws imagery from dreams, mythology, and the belief in the esoteric practice of creating art. Vashtar cites Junji Ito, Guillermo Del Toro, Salvador Dali, and Japanese Gaming and Animation as influences in his work.
As a queer, transgender, and autistic person, Vashtar's work explores themes of mental health, neurodiversity and identity. He finds meaning in seeking to show others they are not alone in their struggles, and in opening conversations about difficult topics.
Vashtar was born and raised in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and has worked full time as an artist in the Tulsa area since 2017. Vashtar graduated from CG Spectrum with a certificate in advanced concept art in 2020. He works as a freelance illustrator and sells handmade adoptable monster figurines.
Vashtar is a member of the Hot Topic Creator Program and a contributor for the neurodiversity blog NeuroClastic, making comics and illustrated articles about living with autism.
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Jeff sits down for a deep conversation with Ross Guttler, the CEO of Open Center in NYC, which is the longest running urban holistic center in the United States.
He shares very deeply about how he began on his spiritual path, about his evolution, and about his passion for integrating meditation and other healing modalities into everyday life and work and for providing all kinds of transformative and enlightening learning and growth opportunities for people all around the world.
ABOUT ROSS GUTTLER
Ross Guttler is Chief Executive Officer of The Open Center, the country's longest-running urban center for personal growth and spiritual practice. Throughout his time with The Open Center, Guttler has led the evolution of a four decade-old New York City institution into a global changemaker with an engaged audience from more than 180 countries.
After a career in wellness real estate, exploring how the built environment makes us healthier, happier, kinder and more creative, Ross found his calling at The Open Center, where wisdom traditions and spiritual practices, balanced with modern day medical and behavioral science, art and sound, are used to help us live more harmoniously with ourselves, each other and the earth.
Prior to joining The Open Center, Guttler was Chief Operating Officer for Global Treehouse, a Tokyo-based startup combining meditation, creativity, collaboration and problem solving for large corporate clients. He previously led the growth of several business lines at Delos, a health, technology and real estate firm that focuses on optimizing the built environment for occupant health.
Ross has served as an advisor to startups in the wellness and proptech spaces, currently sits on the board of Women in PropTech and has held leadership roles on numerous other industry and non-profit boards. He received a B.S. in Economics from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
ABOUT THE OPEN CENTERThe New York Open Center’s mission is to bring the holistic, ecological and spiritual worldview into the contemporary world. Founded in 1984 in the heart of downtown New York City, The Open Center offers programs, workshops, conferences, lectures and performances that awaken the potential of the human spirit and help turn our society toward a future of well-being and sustainability.
The Open Center’s purpose is to advance and further the creation of a more conscious world, and to do so from the standpoint of urban America, where different cultures, ethnicities, beliefs and races converge and coexist in harmony. For over 36 years, we have presented a diverse offering of dynamic programs of different practices, traditions and belief systems, so that we may learn from each other to find the path best suited for ourselves.
It is our pursuit to help build a more multicultural, sustainable and just world. One open to the world’s mystical traditions, eager to learn from neglected health and wisdom sources and dedicated to the inner growth and human potential of all. Drawing on practices and ideas from a wide variety of sources long neglected by mainstream academia, The Open Center focuses on the development of the body, the psyche, the spiritual faculties, the creative arts and on the social and ecological transformation of society.
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Jeff sits down with Seth Leaf Pruzansky on ONEConsciousness Deep Conversations Podcast to take a very deep dive into his life journey as he shares very compellingly about his evolution and about the most important lesson that he has learned along the way.
He also shares very in a deeply moving way about how he lives his life and how this Consciousness is available to all of us.
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Jeff sits down with Life Artist Whitney Freya to hear about how in 1996, she "took the leap" and dared to open an art center with ZERO art background. She shares very deeply and compellingly about her own Journey and about how since that time, she has been committed to creating her own most inspired life & then helping others to do the same.
She speaks in a very moving way about how she discovered for herself that art is and can be a practice for people to learn more about who they are and to get more in touch with their own Consciousness and awareness at a deeper level, to let go of previous limitations and open up to and embrace a new sense of personal security, and as a vehicle to take back their power.
To learn more about Whitney and her work and to peruse her online studio, visit
https://whitneyfreyastudio.com
Her new book, Rise Above, Free Your Mind One Brush Stroke at a Time is now available at amazon.com
Whitney Freya provides practical tools and practices that help people learn to live as a Life Artist and free their minds from beliefs about limitations and scarcity so that they can create more in their lives that light them up from the inside out.
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This afternoon, I sat with Phyllis Douglass for a different kind of conversation and had no idea what this conversation would even be about until it happened. All that I knew was that I trusted in what would unfold and intuited that what she would share today is in perfect alignment and timing as we prepare to begin another trip around the sun.
Phyllis shares about a very powerful realization that just came up in her Consciousness this morning, and what she spoke about was deeply nourishing, insightful, and transformative for me and feeling very strongly that it will resonate with others as well.
I am so joyous and honored to share this with everyone who is moved to listen to it and to experience it.
To learn more about Phyllis and her work, visithttps://www.phyllisdouglass.com
Phyllis specializes in untying the knots that bind through the intelligence of the Body, power of the Mind, and wisdom of the Spirit. Besides being an Author, a catalyst for Healing, and a Musician. . . she is a Visionary.
In her practice, she offers individualized therapeutic bodywork, and spiritually oriented healing modalities that MOVE the body and the mind to help YOU become a frequency match to your innermost desires, create flow within all aspects of your life, and to fully express the personal gifts you came into this world to share.
Working with powerful and proven tools for clearing, release and manifestation, she assists and guides her clients forward towards a more fulfilled, healthier and purposeful life!
The key thing that she has taken away from her life experiences thus far, is that being 'uncomfortable' is the seed for physical and emotional healing, personal growth and evolution. And she is here to help people water that seed, and blossom from within the confines of that 'too little pot' that has kept them locked onto a path that feels like it belongs to someone else.
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Jeff sits down with the Founder of Gentle Somatic Yoga, James Knight, to hear him share about what his work with students and training teachers means to him at a deeper level. He talks about the importance of awakening to the body as a vast field of awareness that is open and wise and about how out of the body's wisdom, true freedom arises.
James also speaks very compellingly about his spiritual Journey and about what he has learned regarding the power of being present with others and how that has changed his Consciousness and has informed how he has been working with students over the years.
James Knight, Founder of Gentle Somatic Yoga & Wellness®, is an Experienced Yoga Teacher, Certified Hanna Somatic Educator, and Integrative Therapist. His passion is to inspire and encourage others to live a fulfilling life of physical, emotional and spiritual freedom. From his combined experience as a lifelong yogi, intuitive bodyworker, body-oriented psychotherapist, movement educator and author, James created a method of integrating what he discovered to be the most progressive, life-enhancing techniques into an embodied practice of mindful movement.
Gentle Somatic Yoga® was born out of years of exploring means of connecting with the deepest aspects of himself.
To learn more about his online courses, self-care video library, and schedule of live events please visit his website: https://www.gentlesomaticyoga.com
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Jeff sits down with Katie Hart Teixeira to hear about her Journey in Consciousness and music and what her practice means to her at a very deep level.
She also shares about her evolution and how she discovered her Gift as Voice of Presence and how she takes people on a musical journey of pure soul. Her intentions pave the way for resonance that is palpable to each individual.
I had a Sounding session with Katie before we recorded our Conscious conversation today, and I was so deeply moved beyond words and was transported to a place within myself that I hadn't ever traveled before.
Not only was this a musical Journey like I had never taken before (and always wished that I had), but it is also a Journey into the Silence in which the sounds are contained within.
To learn more about Katie and her work, visithttps://voiceofpresenceohio.com
To contact Katie directly with any questions and/or to book a Sounding session, contact her at kathrynsings (at) yahoo (dot) com
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Jeff sits down with Pam Cail to hear about her life Journey, about her inner transformation, and about her Soul Portraits that she creates for clients by connecting to their spirit guides to deliver messages of hope.
Pam is an intuitive soul artist. Always artistic, she awakened to her art while suffering through a very stressful time in her life "when a lot of things seemed to be going wrong" she found her art again - only this time with a much different attitude. She would remain true to herself and her own unique interpretation being led by the voice of her heart. The results astounded not only herself but those that were guided to her.
Intuitively and with focused intent, Pam connects to her client’s spirit guides to deliver messages of hope in the form of beautiful, colorful and passion-driven art. Anyone who has experienced Pamela’s work can attest to the purity of the message and sacredness of the energy contained within.
She also offers intuitive painting classes, where the focus is on healing with art, and in particular, facilitating groups of people interested in expanding into their heart space.
For more information about her new book that will be released soon, One HeArt Wisdom, and about her work,
visithttps://www.rainbowrea.com/
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Jeff sits down with Scott Ware, the President of Radiance Multidimensional Media/Radiance Magazine to hear about his spiritual Journey and about how his life and work are all part of his spiritual practice.
He shares very openly and compellingly about what his work and relationships mean to him at a deeper level and the connection between it All.
To learn more about Radiance Magazine, Radiance Multidimensional Media, and about Scott, visithttps://radiancemm.com/
Scott Ware is the President of Radiance Multidimensional Media (The Radiance Channel, Radiance Magazine).
Raised Catholic, he explored Buddhism, did volunteer work at an Indian ashram in SoCal, and has embraced Oneness and Unity Consciousness.
His greatest desire is that everyone knows how powerful they are and how much freedom they have to create the life they want and pursue their highest joy.
Through Radiance, he enjoys connecting people to teachers, spiritual practitioners, and holistic healers who assist us in taking new steps on our soul journey.
He has three lovely children and enjoys being in nature, creating a spiritual community, working with the healing properties of plant medicine, and writing fun poetry and spiritual fiction that seeks to inspire all of the above.
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Jeff sits down with mindfulness and communications skills coach Brett Hill to hear about his work with clients, about how he discovered Mindfulness practice, and how he has evolved as a human being since discovering the benefits of the practice.
He also reflects deeply about how he created a unique coaching practice blending mindfulness and communication skills and how this has impacted his life and those that he works with in several beneficial ways.
To learn more about Brett and the unique coaching experience that he offers that blends Mindfulness and communications skills, please visithttps://www.languageofmindfulness.com/ To receive a Free PDF on 8 Ways you can be more mindful in virtual meetings and to sign up for his email list, please visithttps://www.languageofmindfulness.com/8ways/
In college, Brett decided that limits of what we can achieve and the quality of our lives is dependent on our ability to communicate well. His degree in interpersonal communication combined nicely with his fascination for technology leading to a career as a technical story-teller, author, blogger, and speaker for companies like Microsoft, Adobe, and others.
But he wanted to go much deeper, so he sought out the best he could find. He has had the good fortune to study Hakomi somatic psychotherapy with the founder – Ron Kurtz, Matrix Leadership group dynamics with the founder – Amina Knowlan, and meditation with the late Audle Allison.
He taught meditation for several years and founded the Quest Institute in Dallas. Other influences include martial arts, contact improvisation, and training with Gabrielle Roth
As a result of this unique background, he has come to believe there no faster way to improve your communications and the quality of your life than being mindful during conversation. The Language of Mindfulness is the distillation of many years of work and inspired a TEDx talk (2021), the book and class in development.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/HzvfE5uQLCoJeff sits down with Phyllis Douglass to hear her share very deeply about her spiritual Journey, about how she began to work as a practitioner, and about how she has evolved over the years in her work with clients and as a human being.
She also speaks in a very moving way about some of the most powerful and insightful realizations that she has experienced and the most formative lessons that she has learned along the Journey.
To learn more about Phyllis and her work, visit
https://www.phyllisdouglass.com
Phyllis specializes in untying the knots that bind through the intelligence of the Body, power of the Mind, and wisdom of the Spirit. Besides being an Author, a catalyst for Healing, and a Musician. . . she is a Visionary.
In her practice, she offers individualized therapeutic bodywork, and spiritually oriented healing modalities that MOVE the body and the mind to help YOU become a frequency match to your innermost desires, create flow within all aspects of your life, and to fully express the personal gifts you came into this world to share.
Working with powerful and proven tools for clearing, release and manifestation, she assists and guides her clients forward towards a more fulfilled, healthier and purposeful life!
The key thing that she has taken away from her life experiences thus far, is that being 'uncomfortable' is the seed for physical and emotional healing, personal growth and evolution. And she is here to help people water that seed, and blossom from within the confines of that 'too little pot' that has kept them locked onto a path that feels like it belongs to someone else.
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Jeff sits down with Gina Kegel to hear about her spiritual Journey, her work with clients, and about her evolution as a practitioner and as a human being.
She speaks very compellingly and candidly about some of the most formative lessons that she has learned along the way.
Contact and follow Gina at:
releasethatshit.com
ginakegel.com
Facebook.com/releasethatshit
Instagram: @ginakegel
Gina Kegel is an Energy Healing Transformation Coach, Certified Emotion Code Practitioner, medium, voice channeler, and Akashic Records Reader. She jumpstarts and supercharges the healing process through remote energy release and coaching sessions. She communicates with her client’s subconscious mind and team-in-spirit to quickly and easily release layers of trapped emotions from this life, past lives, and ancestor’s lives that are adversely affecting physical, emotional, and energetic wellbeing. Gina offers profound change through the combination of intuitive reading and healing sessions, and client education and transformational tools for lifelong evolution.
Gina is also an Executive Editor with Radiance Multidimensional Media and Senior Columnist at The Los Angeles Tribune with her regular column, The Journey-Centered Life. For both media outlets, she completes video interviews and participates in online expert panels. She serves as the Director of Community Outreach and Fundraising with the Huntington Beach Chapter of the Holistic Chamber of Commerce. She has a best-selling children’s book, The One that Makes Me Yawn, available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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Jeff sits down with Rev. Dr. Toni Petrinovich, Pam Cail, and James Knight to hear their perspectives and deep reflections on the challenges and the rewards of being vulnerable and "showing up" during the pandemic when things have changed so much in the public sphere.
Rev. Dr. Toni Petrinovich has worked for years with her students to help them accept their own divinity-to live as I AM in this life and to take them to the edge that they have avoided all of these years of their lives.
To learn more about her and her work, please visit
https://sacredspaceswa.com
Pamela Cail is an intuitive soul artist. Always artistic, Pamela awakened to her art while suffering through a very stressful time in her life "when a lot of things seemed to be going wrong" she found her art again - only this time with a much different attitude. She would remain true to herself and her own unique interpretation being lead by the voice of her heart. The results astounded not only herself but those that were guided to her.
Intuitively and with focused intent, Pamela connects to her client’s spirit guides to deliver messages of hope in the form of beautiful, colorful and passion-driven art. Anyone who has experienced Pamela’s work can attest to the purity of the message and sacredness of the energy contained within. She also offers intuitive painting classes, where the focus is on healing with art, and in particular, facilitating groups of people interested in expanding into their heart space.
To learn more about her and her work, please visit
https://www.rainbowrea.com/
James Knight is a Yoga Teacher, Certified Hanna Somatic Educator, and Integrative Therapist. His passion is to inspire and encourage others to live a fulfilling life of physical, emotional and spiritual freedom.
From his combined experience as a lifelong yogi, intuitive bodyworker, body-oriented psychotherapist, movement educator and author, James founded a method of integrating what he discovered to be the most progressive, life-enhancing techniques into an embodied practice of mindful movement. Gentle Somatic Yoga® (GSY) was born out of years of exploring means of connecting with the deepest aspects of himself.
In his free time James enjoys designing sacred spaces and other creative endeavors that reflect his spiritual aesthetic. He also enjoys spending quality time with loved ones while cultivating and energizing conscious community.
To learn more about him and his work, please visit
https://www.gentlesomaticyoga.com/
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Jeff sits down with Gosia Lorenz to hear about her work and about her spiritual Journey as since she was a child growing up in Poland, she has been in touch with what she calls "the primary language of humans," which is energy. They deeply explore in conversation how this "language" can transcend all other aspects of human personality, verbal communication, and culture.
She shares about her life since she moved to the United States in the early 2000's and what her experiences have been like and about how her work with clients has evolved since then.
Gosia speaks in a very compelling way about how all of us humans have the innate ability to be more tuned-in to our own energy and energy from others, and that all it takes is to practice being open to this in a more profound way that can really change our lives.
To learn more about Gosia and her work, visit
http://www.gosialorenz.com/
Gosia was born and raised in Poland. At a very early age, she became interested in holistic health, spirituality, metaphysics, dowsing and personal empowerment.
By living in seven countries on three continents and traveling extensively, she encountered many inspirational people and experienced multitude of empowering moments.
Throughout the years she completed countless trainings, programs, courses, classes, and workshops (Silva Method, Extrasensory Perception, Reiki, Dowsing, BodyTalk System, Theta Healing, Matrix Energetics, EFT, Break Through, MindScape, Spiritual Life Coaching, Access Consciousness™, Talk To The Entities™, meditation, yoga).
She has been studying self exploration for most of her life and the last ten years she spent traveling all over the United States, Canada, and to multiple countries in South America, Europe, and Africa, teaching classes and workshops on various subjects, including: consciousness, awareness, women empowerment, psychic abilities, spirit awareness and communication, health and energy healing, abundance, relationships, creation, receiving, business, and many more.
Clients hire her to expand what is possible for them, eliminate energetic blocks, and explode their results. she assists them to create everything they desire trough releasing limitations, painful past, experiences and events and raising their vibrations.
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Jeff sits down with Lotus Lindley to dive further into her own awakening and embodiment Journey that is chronicled in her book, Awakening From The Dream-A Kundalini Memoir.
She shares deeply about her own experiences, and she and Jeff explore her perspective on the differences between change and transformation, about death and rebirth, about surrender and purification, and soul and spirit.
Lotus also speaks about how she learned the importance of surrender and how she describes it from her perspective, and she also speaks candidly about some of the issues that come to the surface for people when they are in a process of transformation.
To learn more about Lotus and her work as well as her blog and links to various classes and talks, visit
https://lotuslindley.net/
To see all of her talks and classes on video, visit her youtube channel at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh6-8zW7AVtTqjOvbTXZwDw
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Jeff sits down with Marcy Neumann, The HeartShift Coach, as she shares very deeply and in a very heartfelt and compelling way about her journey to find her own voice and her soul’s purpose.
She shares many formative, highly valuable, and heart-nourishing lessons that she has learned along the way as well.
To learn more about Marcy and her work, visithttps://www.heartshiftcoach.comMarcy teaches others based on her own challenges and subsequent realization that everything can change and it’s possible to make those changes by shifting your heart and your energy to one of love, specifically self-love because when your heart is full of love for yourself, there is nothing and no one that can break that.
Self-love is indestructible, unshakable and all you need to move towards the life you deserve to.
Her process is called HeartShifting and it’s a recalibration of energy.
Energy healing is a common practice and through her continued development into this area of healing, she has discovered four key elements involved in making a HeartShift and it’s through these elements that she is able to help her clients make the shifts they need in their lives.
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Jeff sits down with Lotus Lindley to hear her reflect deeply upon some early formative experiences on her spiritual journey that are documented in her book, Awakening From The Dream: A Kundalini Memoir. She speaks very candidly about her earliest experiences with "soul communication," about the importance of being open to sacred embodiment, about the centrality of connecting with soul by "going within" oneself in spiritual practice, and about why surrender is so incredibly critical in healing oneself
To learn more about Lotus, about her ongoing programs and events, and about her work with clients, visit https://lotuslindley.net/
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Jeff sits down to visit with Reverend Doctor Toni Petrinovich as she shares deeply about her own Journey and about how she has worked for years with her students to help them accept their own divinity-to live as I AM in this life and to take them to the edge that they have avoided all of these years of their lives.
To learn more about her and her work, please visit
https://sacredspaceswa.com
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Jeff sits down with Dr. Lara Romero as she shares very deeply about her life Journey, about her own spiritual evolution, and about how she works with clients by holding space for them to undergo their transformation and to get back in touch with their soul's purpose.
To learn more about Dr. Lara, visit
http://drlararomero.com/
Dr. Lara Romero holds a BA in Human Services and another BA, Masters and a Doctorate in Metaphysics. She is an author, is certified in Reiki II, clears past lives, serves as a Medium for those who have crossed over and communicates with Higher Intelligence.
She has always known from a young age that there was more to the human existence that went beyond the 5 physical senses. After a potentially fatal car accident in 1989, Dr. Lara realized that she was here for a reason and began to embark on finding and fulfilling her life's purpose.
Through her studies and personal healing experiences, Dr. Lara has become a holding space for transformation. Her sessions focus on releasing belief patterns that are not in alignment with the life you are meant to live. She then directs you to reviving your passion and getting back in touch with your soul's purpose leading you into gaining the courage, confidence and clarity needed to move forward.
Dr. Lara has helped people find their soul mate, leave unhealthy relationships, improve their health and sense of well-being, cultivate their unique talents while making money, get in touch with their purpose, and gain a sense of freedom they never before experienced.
Dr. Lara works with your Angels, your higher self, and a Higher Intelligence. The space she holds provides the opportunity to shift DNA on an emotional level, release trauma, clear past lives, relieve physical symptoms, and experience real transformation.
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Jeff sits down with Bernadette Pleasant, the founder of Femme! & The Emotional Institute as she shares very deeply about the meaning of her work in promoting emotional freedom through movement and empowerment, about her own Journey that led her to do this very powerful work and why it matters so much to her and to those that she works with, and about the impact that it has had on others.
As the conversation concludes, she shares an incredibly moving and deeply compelling perspective on the importance of healing all of the grief, trauma, pain, and challenges that we have been going through here in the U.S. and in the world.
To learn more about Bernadette and her work, visit
https://theemotionalinstitute.com/
Intoxicating and energetic, Bernadette Pleasant is a fiery sensual Speaker, Somatic Healer, and Creator of The Emotional Institute LLC, 400 Years: Unlearning Racism & Femme!, a mind-body wellness program. She has spent a lifetime exploring creative visualizations and celebrations of the human form, from sensual dance to somatic healing. A gifted healer, dancer, and entrepreneur, she channels her personal journeys and her radical empathy into transformative, immersive experiences that empower and celebrate people of all genders, ages, sizes, and fitness levels. Bernadette travels globally empowering all through classes, private workshops, retreats and conference engagements.
With certifications in Emotions-Centered Coaching, Nia Technique, Nia 5 Stages, Ageless Grace, Pole Dance, Somatic Healing, Reiki, and Integrated Energy Therapy—and studies in African, Tribal, and Free Dance—Bernadette Pleasant promotes emotional freedom through movement and empowerment.
As an experienced entrepreneur and the founder of Femme! & The Emotional Institute, Bernadette Pleasant regularly leads discussions on emotional healing, grief rituals, inclusive movement, and empowerment for all. Her authenticity, charisma, and warmth allow her to empathize with and inspire those ready for a journey of emotional exploration and affirmation. Intuitive and engaging, Bernadette Pleasant is a vibrant, sensual speaker who connects with those who have been silenced and shut down to support their physical, emotional, and healing journeys—whether in a classroom, from a podium, or one-on-one.
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Jeff sits down with Shawnaleah Sunshine Epps from Shine Your Heart Healing in Long Beach, California as she shares very deeply about her spiritual Journey, about her evolution, and about how she holds others in the light with love while they acclimate to their own awakening.
She also speaks very candidly about her own awakening and formative lessons that she has learned along the way.
To learn more about Shawnaleah Sunshine and about Shine Your Heart Healing, visit https://shineyourhearthealing.com/
On Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/shawnaleahsunshine Instagram @shawnaleahsunshineShawna is an ambassador of LOVE, a certified yoga instructor, Reiki practitioner and licensed Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) practitioner dedicated to helping people heal this and past life trauma. She is a LightWarrior here to raise the planetary vibration while helping those she encounters to expand their consciousness. That is why she opened Shine Your Heart Healing. It seems Shawna has always been on her way to this very moment.
Born an empath and highly intuitive, she didn’t start realizing her potential until her late 20s when her activations really began. Over the years, he ability to feel people and hold space for them has grown. She has had her fair share of shadow work to do and having gone through her own ‘dark night of the soul’ she can hold space for others going through the same. She is an old soul who answered the call to come to Earth to love others and raise the vibration so Gaia and the souls upon it can ascend to the 5th dimension.
There is work to be done and love to be given.
*Photo credit vine + jude photography by Mackenzie Coplin @vineandjude on instagram
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Jeff sits down with Laura Hensley, the co-host of Bad Decisions | Good Choices Podcast on youtube as she talks about how the podcast came into being and what it's all about. After that, Laura shares very deeply and very compellingly about her life journey, about what she has been through, and about how she has continued to heal and to cope moment to moment and day to day. She has certainly inspired me and know in my heart that she will inspire others as well.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/5tuZVcQ2FJsJeff sits down with Wayshower Lorie Ladd to hear about her spiritual Journey and she shares a very deep and compelling perspective about Ascension and her work on herself and with others.
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Jeff sits down with Pam Savino to hear about what her work with clients means to her at a very deep level, about formative moments in her life journey, and some important and inspiring lessons that she has learned along the way.
To learn about Pam and her coaching work with clients, visit
https://liveauthentically.today/
Pam founded Live Authentically to help others learn to find their voice, speak their truth and live authentically. As they go through the transformative events of life, she helps them find their truths and the inner strength to live them fully. She helps people see learning and knowledge in their challenges.
She encourages her clients to let go of the ideas that are holding them back. She coaches them away from behaviors based on fear and doubt, instills a healthy level of self-confidence and love, as well as a spiritual understanding of our world.
Pam believes that every person is important and valuable, and everyone deserves to live their best and most fulfilled life. Live Authentically is dedicated to helping others find their own happiness, on their terms. There is no judgment.
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Jeff sits down with Yoga teacher, trainer, and author Amy Weintraub as she shares very deeply about how she discovered the healing power of Yoga and how it alleviated her depression and changed her life.
She also speaks in depth about how she was ultimately moved to dive deeper into the practice and was also led to train Yoga teachers and mental health therapists and health care providers in very specific protocols to help their clients and patients manage their mood and mental health.
To learn more about Amy and her work and for more information about her new book, Temple Dancer, which will be released soon, please visit
https://www.amyweintraub.com/
Amy began her love affair with yoga in the late 1980’s, after a successful career in television broadcasting that garnered the documentaries she wrote and produced national and regional awards but did not alleviate her chronic depression. When she started practicing yoga daily, with supervision, she was able to titrate off medication and find joy in the world once again.
As her practice deepened, she wrote for magazines like Yoga Journal and Yoga International and wrote the first feature article about yoga and depression called “Yoga the Natural Prozac”, which appeared on the cover of Yoga Journal in 1999.
Her own recovery led her to research and write books on yoga and mental health, and she became passionate about sharing what had helped her heal with others who suffered.
In 2004, she founded the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute, which continues to train yoga teachers and health care providers in yoga practices appropriate in clinical and yoga therapy settings.
She is happy that the evidence-based yoga protocol for managing mood she developed is in use in health care settings throughout the world. This protocol is featured on audio-visual products, including the LifeForce Yoga series, an award-winning library of evidence-based yoga and meditation CDs and DVDs for mood management.
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Jeff sits down with Dashama to hear about her dharma, about her work to bring healing and increased wellness to people all over the world, and about her awakening and spiritual Journey.
She shares deeply about her evolution and how her life has unfolded since the beginning.
To learn more about Dashama and to sign up for her free self-love and yoga mini course including meditation, yoga practice, and EFT for gratitude and forgiveness, visit https://www.dashama.org/Dashama has impacted hundreds of millions of lives globally with her message of healing, happiness, oneness, love & flow. Since 2005 she has produced hundreds of videos, multiple best selling online courses, 32 instructional DVDs, written 5 books, lead international retreats, teacher trainings and events serving the growing demand for her high quality educational material in the meditation, yoga, health & wellness segment.
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Jeff sits down with teacher and healer Nischala Joy Devi as she shares very deeply about her practice, her Journey, and some very formative lessons that she has learned along the way through living her life and working with her students.
She offers a very nourishing and enlightening perspective that is so incredibly timely during this global crisis.
To learn more about Nischala and her work and teachings, please visithttps://www.abundantwellbeing.com/productsbynischalajoydevi/
NISCHALA JOY DEVI is a masterful teacher and healer. For many years she has been highly respected as an international advocate for her innovative way of expressing Yoga and its subtle uses for spiritual growth and complete healing. Her dynamic delivery and deep inner conviction empower each individual, allowing the teachings to expand beyond boundaries and limitations of any one tradition enabling her to touch people’s hearts.
She was graced to spend over 25 years as a monastic disciple with the world-renowned Yogiraj Sri Swami Satchidanandaji, receiving his direct guidance and teachings. She also was blessed with teachings from great Yoga masters in US, India and worldwide.
Originally trained in Western medicine, she began to blend western medicine with Yoga, offered her expertise in developing the yoga portion of The Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease, and co-founded the award-winning Commonweal Cancer Help Program. Her book “The Healing Path of Yoga,” and her Abundant WellBeing Audio Series expresses these teachings.
With her knowledge of yoga and her experience in assisting those with life-threatening diseases (particularly people with heart disease and cancer), she created Yoga of the Heart®, a training and certification program for Yoga teachers and health professionals designed to adapt Yoga practices to the special needs of that population.
She is now dedicated to bringing the Feminine back into spirituality and the scriptures, in her book, The Secret Power of Yoga, a woman’s guide to the heart and spirit of the Yoga Sutras and Secret Power of Yoga Audiobook Nautilus Book Silver Award Winner!
Her two newest books are available on Amazon.com
THE NAMASTE EFFECT: Expressing Universal Love through the Chakras
MEDITATION IN THE YOGA TRADITIONFor more information, also visit
Facebook.com\Nischala Joy Devi
Twitter.com\nischaladevi
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Jeff sits down with Kerri Lake as she shares very deeply and very compellingly about her life journey, key turning points along the way, and about some incredibly life-changing, Consciousness-altering, and empowering lessons that she has learned about the importance of connection and presence.
She speaks very candidly regarding what she has learned about connection and presence from working with animals over the years and how that has illuminated why she is here to work with people as well.
To learn more about Kerri and her work, visitwww.kerrilake.com
Kerri is masterful in many ways. Utilizing her own innate gifts and abilities, she integrates wisdom, guidance and communication from every realm of consciousness to assist and accelerate your own integration, starting right where you are. She helps people and animals of all species know the sense of living in harmony and clarity.
Her two published books offer a view into the formation of tools, awareness and the courage it has taken to walk through life without compromise. Kerri has blazed a new trail on the road to freedom from limitations and conditioning. On this trail, all species are welcome and integrate through frequencies of communication. The greatest gift she can give to you is her own purity of expression, sharing her own journey, to help you see that if she can do it...so can you.
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In this episode, Jeff sits down to visit with Kim Stanwood Terranova as she shares about what her work with clients means to her at a deeper level and about how she and her spiritual practice have evolved over the years.
The conversation concludes as she speaks very compellingly about the power of intention and how important it is in our spiritual Journey.
Kim Stanwood Terranova is a woman of passionate power who assists individuals with experiencing true inner greatness and unlimited, authentic joy. She has been dubbed the chiropractor of the mind, and the master teacher of intentional living.
For more information about her new book The Technology Of Intention, please visit https://kimstanwoodterranova.com/the-technology-of-intention
Kim holds a license as a Practitioner of Truth from The Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, and she has also earned a Bachelor's Degree in Spiritual Studies. For over three decades she has immersed herself in the application and practice of universal spiritual truth and wisdom.
Website: https://kimstanwoodterranova.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KimStanwoodTerranovaALSP
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kimstanwood
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimstanwood/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-stanwood-terranova-alsp/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCygeK7nXvJp18ZICuWJmCeg
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In this episode, Jeff sits down with Arthur Curtis, Soul Shaman, as he shares deeply about his work with clients and about his own spiritual journey and some key turning points and formative lessons learned along the way.
Arthur also speaks candidly and very compellingly about the opportunity that everyone has to evolve during this time in history and offers his perspective about some of the opportunities that await us if we "take the Journey inward" during this time.
To learn more about Arthur and his work, please visit
http://www.arthurcurtis.org/
and on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/arthur.curtis.12
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In this episode, Jeff sits down with Ora Nadrich to hear about her work as a Mindfulness teacher and Certified Life Coach. She shares about her life journey and about what moved her to begin doing this work and what it all means to her at a deeper level.
She also reflects upon the transformative nature of the "feedback loop" between healing practitioners and their clients and some examples of how that has impacted her life and Consciousness. The conversation concludes with Ora speaking about the importance of cultivating Mindfulness and higher Consciousness at this time in human history
Ora Nadrich is founder and president of the Institute for Transformational Thinking and author of Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity, named in the 100 Best Mindfulness Books of All Time by BookAuthority. She is a certified life coach and Mindfulness teacher, specializing in transformational thinking, self-discovery and mentoring new coaches as they develop their careers.
Ora's rare combination of insight, intuition, compassion and charisma has made her one of the most effective and sought-after coaches in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in Women's Health Magazine, Reader's Digest, Conscious Lifestyle Magazine, Fast Company, Success Magazine, Spirituality & Health, Elevated Existence, NBC News, LA Yoga Magazine, Yahoo! Health, and many more.
Ora's daily updates may be found on Instagram @OraNadrich, Facebook at Author Ora Nadrich and Twitter @OraNadrich. Other insight and quotes by Ora can be found on Instagram @OraNadrichQuotes and Twitter @OraNadrichQuote.
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In this episode, Jeff sits down to talk with Cristina Costantino as she shares deeply about her healing work with clients, about her art, and about her life journey and transformation.
She also speaks about her experiences over the past few months and what formative lessons that she has learned and embodied in terms of integration and engagement with the world.
To learn more about her work and her art, visit
www.lovesquaredalcheme.com
OR
On Instagram @LoveSquaredAlcheme
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In this episode, Jeff sits down with artist Sonya Shannon as she shares deeply about her process, which has been informed by her spiritual journey and evolution over the years.
The conversation centers around the intersection of art and higher consciousness and how her work has evolved as she has evolved personally and professionally.
Sonya’s distinctive style is shaped by her training in hand-drawn animation, combined with expertise in digital color, 3-D computer animation and digital effects. Her current work reflects her sources of interest and inspiration, from childhood when she first discovered the visionary writings and etchings of William Blake, to her teen years guided by the allegorical fantasy scenes of Maxfield Parrish and Roger Dean, and later discoveries including the mysterious symbolism of Remedios Varo and George Tooker.
Early computer art and animation deeply shaped Sonya’s decision to use digital tools and a cinematic process to make fine art. These influences, combined with a personal collection of crystals, costumes, and collectibles, give rise to lavishly illuminated images that conjure up metaphysical realms of imagination and fantasy.
To learn more about Sonya and her work, visit https://sonya-shannon.com/
To learn more about Sonya's healing and spiritual work, visit
https://sonya-shannon.com/about/healing-spiritual-work/
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Windsor Aniol to hear about her Spiritual Journey and about the various healing practices and modalities that she has utilized.
She shares very deeply about how she has transformed and about how meaningful and important it has been for her to engage in practices such as dance and movement that have allowed her to get in touch with the Flow.
The conversation concludes as she speaks about her work with Light Language and about what it has been like for her over the past few months during the pandemic. She also illuminates how this has been a time of transformation for her and what it has been like to emerge back out into the world and continue her inner and outer work.
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In this episode, Jeff sits down with Andrea Martin to hear her reflect about her art, her process, and how her work has evolved over the years due to her spiritual evolution.
As the conversation continues, she shares deeply about how her work has been very therapeutic for herself and for many others as well.
Andrea also offers a fresh, unique, and very compelling perspective about what her own work means to her at a deeper level and about her connection to it.
TO WATCH A VIDEO OF THIS INTERVIEW, GO TO INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS PODCAST CHANNEL OR VIEW DIRECTLY AT https://youtu.be/pc99NjD6l5gIn this episode, Jeff sits down with public speaker and author Charles Eisenstein to hear some deeper reflections about his life journey and how his personal evolution has informed his work over the past several years.He also shares some deeper thoughts about how he sees the current global crisis on a human and a deeper, spiritual level.
To read his recent essay entitled "The Coronation" regarding his perspective on the Covid-19 crisis and how it is affecting us on a global and local level, visit https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/
His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement.To learn more about Charles and his work, visit www.charleseisenstein.org
In this episode, Jeff sits down to visit with Mara Bishop as she shares at a very general level about Shamanic practice, some very deep reflections about her work with clients, about why this practice is so timely at this point in history, and about how these practices have informed her own evolution.
To learn more about Mara, her work with clients, and upcoming classes and events, please visit
www.wholespirit.com
Link to the Events page for classes
Link to most recent email for summary of events and registration links
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In this episode, Jeff sits down with His Grace Sankarshan Das Adhikari as he shares deeply about his life journey since he started spreading the Krishna consciousness movement since the 1970's. Sankarshan Das fully dedicated his life for serving the order of his spiritual master to become a guru and deliver the world.
For the last 40 years he has uninterruptedly served his spiritual master’s movement, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), in various capacities.In the year 2000, in recognition for his full dedication to Srila Prabhupada’s mission, ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission (GBC) gave him their blessings to initiate disciples.
Since that time he has been regularly traveling and lecturing extensively all over the world for reviving the dormant Krishna consciousness in the hearts of all living beings. Well known for his Internet based training program, the Ultimate Self Realization Course, he has attracted over 12,000 subscribers from over 100 different countries who receive a daily inspirational message and personal answers to their questions regarding how to become perfect in Krishna consciousness. Those who are interested can join his course at www.backtohome.com
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In this episode, Jeff sits down with Dian Shirley to hear about how she uses the knowledge she's acquired from many years of study and her own experience of healing to help her clients with integrity, compassion, and gentleness.
Dian also offers a window into her own experiences during this time in history and how she has been helping others who are seeking her help during this time
She also shares about some formative experiences and lessons learned on her Journey, about how she has evolved over the years, and how she was led to move to Colorado and what that has been like for her so far.
Dian works virtually with people all over the country who are ready to learn and integrate through ancient wisdom practices to experience healing and a greater sense of wellbeing and peace of mind no matter what they are facing. To learn more about Dian, please visit www.dianshirley.com
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In this episode, Jeff sits down with Andrea Reed to hear about Ancestral Clearing and how she works with groups and individuals to access the intelligence of the body, to help address the possible underlying spiritual causes in the body, releasing stress, allowing them to feel more present and even freeing them from the burdens that they carry from the past so the body can then go on to heal itself.
She also shares deeply about how she got started working with Ancestral Clearing and about some very formative experiences and lessons learned on her Journey since she began practicing this healing modality.
To learn more about Andrea and her work with Ancestral Clearing, visit www.clearingburdens.com
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In this gathering featuring music by musical mystic Sharla Ember, the group has a very deep discussion about how they are finding newfound creativity and Light amidst the darkness of a very trying time in the world.
They also share about what their experiences have been recently as they adapt to the "new paradigm" and confront and clear out old insecurities and beliefs that no longer serve them as things continue to shift energetically.
Sharla Ember is a musical mystic, sound healer, singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist including piano, violin, hammered dulcimer, tongue drum, and crystal bowls. Her musical sound crosses into many cultural styles and time signatures sprinkled with layered harmonies and counter melodies.
In 2003, after having an encounter with divine unconditional love and experiencing a deeply personal realization that God IS unconditional love, she left the fear-based fundamentalist dogma she had grown up with and began an intense inward journey that she now expresses through her music.
Sharla leads workshops and events where she combines music, meditation, and spiritual guidance to inspire people to discover their deepest soul purpose and return to their natural state of being which is Love. It’s her passion to bring all races, religions, and cultures together in unity through music, community, unconditional love and acceptance.
View Video At Inspiring Conversations Podcast Channel On Youtube Or At https://youtu.be/Z6VeqmBvLyE
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Anna Veronesi as she shares about her therapeutic healing work with clients, how she got started in this field, and how her work has evolved over the years.
She also reflects about what she has been experiencing during this time in history, about what has been happening at a deeper level, and about how her spiritual practices have informed her perspective and helped her to cope.She also speaks about her work as the Director of the Shambhala Tulsa and about what they have to offer the community.
View video on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzfOMh5eyfQIn this episode, Jeff sits down to visit with the partners from Spiritworks--Shana Zimmerman, Michelle Johnson, and Kyla Price-Germany to hear about what life has been like for them during this time, about how they came together and started Spiritworks and what it means to each of them at a deeper level, and about the practices that they are utilizing to cope most effectively and what they are helping their clients with as well.
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In this conversation, Jeff sits down with Lotus, Shela, and Sharla to hear about their experiences over the past few weeks, about what this time has felt like for them, and about how each of their practices have helped them and those people that they work with.
The conversation continues as they each share their own perspective on how spiritual practices can help people who are struggling with confusion and fear and how they view what is shifting energetically in the collective Consciousness during this time of uncertainty and change.
To find out more about Lotus, her book, her work, and upcoming events, please visit www.lotuslindley.net and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/lotuslindley
To learn more about Shela, visit https://lifespiralservices.com/
To learn more about Sharla, visit
website: https://sharlaember.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharlaember/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZve...
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sharlaember
In this episode, Jeff sits down to visit with Rachel Calvert about the work that she does with clients utilizing Thai Yoga Bodywork, Craniosacral, and Osteopathic Bodywork.
She speaks very candidly about her life journey, about how she has been healing and evolving over the years, and about how she takes what she has learned and integrated within herself into the classroom with her students as an Elementary teacher and as a hospice volunteer.
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Lotus Lindley to hear about her spiritual journey, her evolution, and her work with clients.
She reflects upon and shares very deeply about her own experiences that ultimately resulted in her writing about her spiritual journey in her book “Awakening from the Dream ~ A Kundalini Memoir"
The conversation concludes as Lotus shares Light Language Activation with Jeff and with listeners so that they can experience it for themselves.
Lotus began her awakening journey in 1996. In 2002 she underwent the initial fires of a Kundalini awakening, that transformed her life & consciousness. She is dedicated to uplifting the consciousness & expanding hearts of the divine human-ness that we are. Her work centers around the Ascension Process, Self-Love, the body as a Divine Technology & the remembrance that we are divine beings! She teaches classes, hosts Light Language Activation gatherings, works with private clients with the multi-dimensional healing modality of Embodying Light healing & Light Language Activation.
To find out more about Lotus, her book, her work, and upcoming events, please visit www.lotuslindley.net
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Shelly R. Wilson for a "conscious conversation" and so incredibly grateful to her for sharing this phrase as it really resonates at a deeper level.
She shares deeply about her own personal experiences from years of work with clients and about her own spiritual journey and how she has evolved over the years. The conversation continues as she speaks very candidly about what this intuitive work feels like from both the practitioner's and the client's perspective.
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Megan Amelia Burnett, the Owner of 405 Yoga to hear her share some very powerful reflections about how her studio was intentionally designed to be highly conducive to the ongoing cultivation of a loving and healing community from the very unique way that the space was designed to the intensely open, welcoming, and friendly way that teachers and students are with each other and with new people who come there the first time.
She also reflects on her own inner journey since she started practicing yoga, on some very powerful lessons that she has learned along the way that inform how she guides the community at 405 Yoga, and how she has evolved as a practitioner, teacher, and human being over time.
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Michael Palazzo to hear him reflect deeply and in a very compelling way about his experiences at the opening of his current exhibit "Removed" at Living Arts on display through January 25th and what it all means to him.
He also shares about his very unique and highly refreshing artistic perspective, about his process, and about the importance of connecting with the community through his work.
In this episode, Jeff sits down with travelling master sound alchemists and sound healing instructors Jay Schwed and Megan Ann Walker to take a deep dive into the origins and the therapeutic benefits of sound healing. We also get to hear from each of the Tulsa Advanced Sound Healers about what drew them to this healing modality and how it has changed their lives.
In order to reach Jay and Megan as well as the Tulsa Advanced Sound Healers who were present on this particular evening, please visit them at:
Jay and Megan
928-241-0311
www.healingcrystalbowls.com
https://www.facebook.com/octavialrepatterning/
On Instagram @octavialrepatterning
Nancy James, RN and Reiki Master
918-470-6652
Kimberly Sharp-Fielder
918-431-4456
On facebook
Leah Odum
On Instagram @leah_stylist17
Margie Alban
On facebook
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Krishna Deva Das with Bhakti Yoga Tulsa.
He shares an overview of Bhakti Yoga practice and about their group, some deeper personal thoughts and reflections about the practice itself and about how he got started on this particular spiritual journey, and what he has learned along the way.
To learn more about Bhakti Yoga Tulsa and about their regular and future one time events, visit:
www.facebook.com/BhaktiYogaTulsa
and on Instagram at @bhaktiyogatulsa
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Dana McMurchy at Harvard CBD Health Center as she reflects deeply about how she got started practicing yoga, her personal teaching philosophy, and how it has changed her life.
The conversation continues as she speaks about her activism in cannabis legalization before and after the law has changed, about her work in the wellness community, and how Harvard CBD Health Center has become a place where people come together and share information and research about healing that truly has made and is making a difference in peoples lives.
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Hailey Boswell to hear about her teaching approach and philosophy, how she got started teaching yoga, and how she has evolved through her practice.
In this episode, Nicole Peltier Hall sits down with Jeff at The Yoga Room to share about what her yoga and meditation practices mean to her at a deeper level and an incredibly moving and inspiring story about her life transformation and the most formative lessons that she has learned along the way.
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Yadenee Hailu to hear about her life journey as a Unitarian Minister as well as a human being who is living her life intentionally while utilizing various spiritual practices from diverse traditions.
She shares very deeply about her own evolution, about what her life experiences mean to her at a deeper level, and about how she sees the world and her place in it.
In this episode, Jeff sits down with Joe Picorale, owner of Be Love Yoga Studio in the Pearl District to hear about how he got started practicing yoga and about his teaching style.
He also shares about his life journey and reflects about how yoga has changed his life and the lives of his students.
The conversation concludes as Joe speaks about the connection of of his studio to the surrounding neighborhood and about the upcoming Silent Yoga Downtown Shutdown on September 13th, the Big Om Yoga Festival at Centennial Park on September 14th and 15th, and the Fall Big Om Yoga Retreat on October 11th-13th.
For more information, please visit
www.beloveyogastudio.com
To learn more about the Big Om Yoga Festival At Centennial Park, please visit
https://www.bigomyogaretreat.com/big-om-yoga-festival
To learn more about Big Om Yoga Retreat, please visit
www.bigomyogaretreat.com
In this episode just found in the lost archives, Jeff sits down for an incredibly deep and meaningful conversation with the members of the fusion band Local Man Ruins Everything: Jay Gleason, Byron "Chopz" Collins, Eric Harris, and Adam Ledbetter. It is one of those conversations that totally captures the essence of a group of musicians at higher level of Consciousness.
In this episode, Jeff sits down for a very deep conversation with Katie Petrik to hear about her life journey and transformation. She shares some very enlightening stories and valuable lessons learned along the way that are incredibly healing to hear.
In this episode, Justin and Jeff talk about fear, uncertainty, and resistance to change and how these emotions are related to emotional blocks and the unconscious mind.
They also visit about the benefits of cultivating a more disciplined mind and integrating our inner work between the body and mind and how these practices can further empower us to cope more effectively and to embrace these things that happen in our lives.
For more information about Justin and Peaceful Mind Edu, contact him at justin@visionarystatus.com and on instagram at @peacefulmindedu or at @justinconsciousness
In this episode, Jeff sits down for a deep conversation with Justin Clark of Peaceful Mind Edu and Visionary Status about how cultivating a higher level of Consciousness can really help us to set goals and take action in a more meaningful way in our work and in our relationships with others.
To learn more about Justin and Peaceful Mind Edu, contact him at justin@visionarystatus.com
and on Instagram at @Peacefulmindedu
In this episode, Justin and Jeff sit down to take a very deep dive into what it really means to "start over" and how it is such a natural and integral part of the Process of Life.
The conversation continues with an exploration of the power of questioning and of taking a deeper look at our thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions about our lives and the world around us can help us be more Conscious, more at peace, and more in the flow of it All.
For more information about Justin's Peaceful Mind Education program, you can reach him at justin@visionarystatus.com and on instagram at @peacefulmindedu
In this episode, Jeff sits down to hear some deep thoughts from Justin Clark, the CEO of Visionary Status about the intersection of the unconscious and conscious mind and culture and what it all means at a deeper level of the human experience. They also discuss virtual reality and the potential that it has to affect our consciousness at deeper levels that may very well not be understood as of yet.
Justin Clark is an author and coach as well as the founder of Peaceful Mind Education and **can be reached on instagram @peacefulmindedu
To receive his new free Peaceful Mind E-book and to learn more about his program, please message him via Instagram**
In this episode, Jeff sits down with comedian Lenny Vanhorn to have a deep conversation and to hear about his formative life experiences and how they have informed his comedic perspective.
He shares deeply about how he got started in comedy, what it was like in those early years, and how his work has evolved over the long run.
Lenny also reflects about his hopes that his work can be very meaningful for others and about what his craft means to him at a very deep level and about how he has evolved as a human being as well.
**To learn more about Lenny and about his upcoming events, lookup
https://www.facebook.com/lennyvanhorncomedy/
AND
On Instagram @lennyvanhorn**
After recording Michelle's episode on The Inspiring Conversations OKC Podcast, she sits down with Jeff to continue the conversation and takes a deep dive by reflecting upon her journey in comedy, her experiences thus far, and her creative process. They also explore the intersection between comedy and Higher Consciousness from her vantage point at this moment.
In the episode, Jeff sits down to talk with Kyle Dickinson, who wrote the screenplay and recently completed filming for his movie, "Cigarettes For Breakfast"
Kyle shares some details about the story and very candidly describes his experiences during the process of writing and producing the movie. He is very upfront and frank about his own personal psychological struggles and has a very deep conversation with Jeff about what going through this process has meant to him and how it has affected him on a human level.
In this segment, Allin KHG shares some stories of his childhood experiences that inform the artwork that he does today and some deeper thoughts about his creative process.
In this segment, Jeff sits down with Allin KHG and has a deep discussion about the inherent challenges with describing and conceptualizing an artist's works in words and how every person interprets artwork differently.
In this segment, we hear from Edmond physical therapist Holly Jones, who is also a pianist and composer. She has just released her third album, “Storyteller” and performed a sold-out performance at the UCO Jazz Lab in May of this year. We hear from her as she talks about how composing music is "the way that she processes life" and how that informs her creative process. She shares a story of how she began studying classical piano as a child and developed her skills and how her particular style has evolved over the years. She then reflects on how her compositional skills were inspired by various popular songs on the radio. We then listen to her speak about how her life informs her music and vice versa, and the synergy between the two. She relays to us the importance of being fully present, being fully grounded in her own body, actually "being the music," and how she utilizes this as an ongoing practice that brings about peace in all aspects of her life, especially her work as a physical therapist. Ultimately, she sees her actual performing as a "conversation between both hands" as she plays the piano. She then shares her experience of traveling to Prague, Czechoslovakia in May of this year, in which orchestration was added to her piano album "Storyteller", orchestrated and conducted by Ludek Drizhal, and recorded by the Prague Metropolitan Orchestra. We then wrap things up as she talks about her goal of getting her compositions in film, and get a brief teaser about her next album, "Sacred Places". She plans to record both the piano solo version as well as the orchestrated version in Prague, benefitting from the classical influence of the region, and its inherent instrumental recording opportunities. Listen and purchase Holly’s music (which is playing in the background of the podcast) at https://www.hollyjonespiano.com/recordings