Revolutionary Spinach: Recent Episodes
Revolutionary Spinach
Jay Horton is a filmmaker based in Golden Bay, New Zealand. He is currently working on a documentary about rite of passage that centres around his relationship with his father Jim, who sadly passed away just under 2 years ago. Jay has worked in the field of facilitating and creating space for coming of age ritual and other mens ceremonies, something that is dearly needed in our modern world.
Kelvin Falconer is a blind artist based in Katikati, New Zealand. In 2011 we made a short documentary together based on Kelvin’s process of making a Shakuhachi flute from bamboo growing on his property. Kelvin’s relationship with his art transcend any sense of his perceived disability and his background in buddhism and meditation clearly informs his calm and thoughtful relationship with the world outside.
Ragini is a yoga teacher based in the U.A.E. She has an embodied yoga practice and teaching which she describes as Kundalini initiation and ascension. Ragini was first introduced to yoga by her mother at age 16 and through her yoga journey she moved through hatha and ashtanga practices until she found herself reconnecting with the traditional and indiginous practice of her Kashmiri decent after the death of her mother.
She is the creator of Eye Will Flow, is a somatic flow coach, yoga teacher, oracle card writer, tarot reader and business owner offering online programs for people struggling from the chronic stresses of modern life.
Lochie is a health and performance coach based in Newcastle, Australia. He has a breathing practice which informs his health and performance coaching as well as delving deeply into those modalities of breath and mindfulness. He is also a permaculture practitioner and has plans for unifying his physical and awareness practices with his passion for re-connecting with the land, nature, and each other.
He’s just coming to the end of a 30 day led 'breath' series on his instagram but there are some of the live sessions on his feed that you can still follow along with and he also is launching a podcast in the very near future which we are super excited about.
You can stay up to date on his instagram account here.
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Phillip Townshend is a spiritual coach based in Wellington New Zealand. His youtube channel Real Talk with PhillyC is a candid exploration into his practice and he describes his sharing as radical authenticity. This is a great conversation about authenticity, the new 'C' word, and crypto currency.
https://www.youtube.com/user/ZenD4wg
Dr Manuel Piñuela is the CEO of Cultivo, a company that is changing the way we look at investing in natural resources. How do we increase the health of the land, the bio-diversity, and at the same time productivity? Cultivo approaches these questions with a well thought through and well timed mixture of accurate geographical data and what I see as a permaculture approach to regeneration as a way to implement environmental balance and health, as well as bringing the right land owners together with the right investors. Cultivo works with Indeginous groups, NGOs all the way through to major investment companies.
Manuel is a nature advocate, technology and science entrepreneur, and MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year under 35. Manuel believes that the climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our times and creating Cultivo allows him to contribute to one of the many solutions that are needed. He wants to ensure future generations benefit from nature and works tirelessly to contribute to meet the Paris Agreement goals.
Does Bitcoin fill you with hope about the future? What is the real relationship between energy consumption and Bitcoin mining? Will it single handedly end the global elites grip on manipulating world finance? Was El Salvador's Bitcoin uptake a watershed moment for Bitcoin?
Kent Halliburton’s keen curiosity and passion for building a better future has driven him to Sazmining as the Chief Revenue Officer overseeing the development of renewable energy driven Bitcoin mining operations. Realizing the inevitability of Bitcoin adoption colliding with declining renewable energy costs led Kent back to a role at the point of the spear in a new emergent sector: renewable energy powered bitcoin mining. Kent started writing about Bitcoin during lockdown. Find his work here https://kenth.substack.com/
Matt Lamason, the founder of New Zealand's first 100% Fair Trade Organic coffee company joins us on our first podcast. We talk about authenticity, coming of age rituals, ethical and conscious business, and changing the world vs changing ourselves.