Weavers & Healers

Rabbi Tsvi Bar-David and I discuss what's in our hearts about the current tragedy in the Middle East.  We discussed ancient wounds, ancestral healing, and how to support those who are helping. For a bio of Rabbi Tsvi see the previous podcast with him. :)  Prayer Vigil for Israel/Palestine from Daniel Foor as mentioned in the podcast. Links are below to groups who have been working on this healing for many years and through much suffering.So many people have been doing the hard work of "waging peace" in the Middle East. Some of those are:Women Wage Peace (Israel)Women of the Sun (Palestine)Parents Circle (parents from Israel and Palestine who have lost beloved children to violence)KnowHope Studios. This Is Limbo--a young Isaeli qigong friend of mine who is an artist in Tel Aviv has been using his art as a way of bringing people together, telling their stories, working for peace. Addam's artwork is the art on this page. Wounded Israeli soldier playing music with his Arab surgeon in hospital, as referred to in the podcast.Multifaith/Multicultural Concert, Bishop, CA First United Methodist Church.Saturday December 16, 2023. 6:30 PM PST. Tickets from Rabbi or at the Door, $20. Live Link: https://www.youtube.com/@easternsierraunitedmethodi3601/streams Tickets for in-person $20-36, suggested donation for livestream, Venmo @Tsvi-Bar-David or Paypal or Zelle tsvi.bardavid@gmail.com or at the doorSunday December 17th, 11:30 AM, Sacred Drumming, Sacred Community at C5 Art Studio, Bishop. To register click here. 

Rabbi Tsvi Bar David from Berkeley joins me in discussing his love of language and sharing the G!d Zone with communities through song, chants, and rhythm of all kinds. The G!d Zone is: I am still me, and the Beloved is still the Beloved, and yet the wall between us dissolves! Bio: Around 2014, Reb Tsvi came to the conclusion that teaching mystical Jewish texts cognitively was too high a barrier to entry into the G!dzone for many. This despite his deep love of reading Kabbalistic and Chasidic texts in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.  So, honoring both his Chasidic rebbe grandfather as well as his growing involvement with Sufism, Reb Tsvi founded a sacred ensemble - Qirvah (intimacy with G!d) - and began playing sacred ecstatic concerts all over California. In fact, Reb Tsvi will be directing a sacred concert at the Bishop Methodist Church, 6:30 PM Saturday night, 16 December 2023, which will be followed by nibbles and a jam at the church. Flyer linked here.  Stay tuned for Livestream link: A Middle Eastern Drum Gathering will follow on Sunday December 17th at C5 Art Studio. Contact C5 for more information and to reserve your place. Experience not necessary. Reb Tsvi was ordained as a rabbi at AJRCA in Los Angeles, and also proudly holds CPE Level 2 certification as an inter-faith chaplain with specialization in recovery (yes, 12 Step too) from chemical dependency. And to complete the picture, a PhD in applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley.Reb Tsvi lives with his beloved Ilana in Berkeley, and Ilana teaches harpsichord in the Music Dept. at Stanford University. She is known in the Baroque music world as Elaine Thornburgh.Rabbi Tsvi Bar-David.  Email:  tsvi.bardavid@gmail.com

This is a heart expanding conversation with two human beings...Dr. Zenia McLaughlin brings internationally recognized guidance to all who seek to deepen their Sacred Connection.  Offering clients direct support in clearing energetic blocks, she creates openings for expansion, vitality, and greater love to enter their lives.  Zenia facilitates a conversation with Spirit, asking each client for permission to receive the healings, teachings and lessons that have been waiting for them as they unfold into the person they are here to be.Zenia also guides those who want to see their money as Sacred and who are ready for something new to happen with their finances.  She holds an expansive and expanding conversation about money and each person's relationship to it. Utilizing the budgeting tool You Need a Budget (YNAB), she helps bring this sacred relationship into a very practical application.  Bridging the Sacred with the day to day of money, Zenia offers a systematic AND soul-centered approach to fund each person's vision.For more information about Zenia's offerings visit: https://sacredconnectionjourneys.com/ Rabbi Jessica Kessler Marshall passionately leads soul-centered retreats, women's gatherings, and weddings across the United States.  She guides participants into deeper connection with Spirit by moving beyond intellect or logic, to access soul-wisdom so their path lights up with ease, vitality, abundance, and JOY! Championing spiritual inclusivity via creative rituals, intentional reflections, mindfulness practices, and the wisdom of the natural world, Rabbi Marshall guides with humor, authenticity, and Divine presence.  Find out about her upcoming retreats and virtual gatherings at:  rabbijessicamarshall.com.A different intriguing interview with Jessica and Zenia re their spiritual partnership.

George Taylor is a Marriage and Family Counselor. He weaves his counseling profession with traditions that promote consciousness of listening and responding skillfully to oneself and one's partner. We learn to breathe and meditate together, to self-disclose in a safe environment and evolve a way forward as a couple that is conscious and soulful. This podcast gives you an introduction to this Path and a way to connect with Geo and his teachings if this speaks to you. Geo's Website: A Path for Couples

This is a Wisdom Healing Qigong Sound Healing practice I offered in Spring 2021. There is little teaching, mostly just focusing on the sounds and how they bring your body and organs into balance and harmony. For more information on Qigong Sound Healing check out this info from The Chi Center. As a certified teacher, I often offer Sound Healing on Sunday nights (Pacific time).  To sign up for newsletter and class reminder, click here! 

This is an encore posting of my conversation with Neil Douglas Klotz (NDK) from 2019 (originally posted on my blog.)  NDK's work is focused on Native Middle Eastern spirituality, ecology, and peacemaking. He became a scholar of ancient Middle Eastern languages to better translate the words of Jesus (Yeshua) and other ancient prophets, prayers, and teachings. Neil is best known for his work on the Aramaic Prayer of Jesus (“The Lord's Prayer”), shared both in his books as well through the body prayers with music that have spread around the world in the past 32 years (a form called the Dances of Universal Peace.) For more information check out his website.  Enjoy!  

Celia Blackwood is an amazing teacher, healer and human being. I was in Tucson for a Josh Ritter concert staying at one of Celia's airbnb casitas and was gifted with the awareness that she was a healer, so asked for a session. Long story short, she is now my beloved Q'ero (Andean/Peru) medicine teacher and friend. I love when the universe offers us these connections! Enjoy the conversation and check out Celia's website to see what she offers for  individual healing as well as her wonderful classes and retreats. Website: http://www.heartstonehealing.com/From Celia's website:My purpose and intention for this lifetime is to facilitate the awakening and unfolding of awareness, healing, growth and love for each and every soul I encounter along my own journey of awakening.  I believe that we are drawn to one another for this purpose and have the capacity to co-create powerful change in our lives and for Pachamama - our Mother Earth.

...You're either healing or you're healed.  In this conversation, Cas reminds us that the Q'ero culture has no words for being broken. We are either healed or healing. Cas is an amazing healer and teacher who weaves a variety of different healing threads to show us how to care for and heal ourselves, our own unique tapestry of being, She sees us as "...dynamic beams of compassion dreaming our world into being. Stones, stars, blooms, spirits, & sunsets." Cas is available for distance healing now and in-person once the pandemic subsides; feel free to connect with her by email.  Email: stoneshamama@gmail.comInstagram: Stoneshamama

Josephine Thomason is a mulit-dimensional healer, astrologer, artist, and teacher.  She lives, raises her family and works in Tucson. See more about her on her website and the various resources below. Enjoy the conversation with us! Josephine's Website: http://www.josephinethomason.com/To Schedule contact at josephine.thomason@gmail.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2388325Podcast: http://www.josephinethomason.com/weaving-voices---podcast.htmlFine Art America: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/josephine-thomasonWeavers & Healers Podcast music courtesy of: https://www.purple-planet.com

We use our own voices to initiate vibration in each of our five organ systems to open up energy flow, transforming stuck energy to flowing energy. Deeply we transform emotions that are not serving us into the energies of joy, happiness, creativity, willpower, trust, confidence, courage, clarity, compassion and compassionate action. Using Sound Healing as a practice brings us deep emotional healing and into an intimate relationship with our organs that do the work of keeping us alive physically, connected emotionally, and opening us up to our potential as spiritual beings. These sounds have been excavated from ancient Taoist texts by Dr. Pang Ming, the founder of Zhineng Qigong. I learned them from Master Mingtong Gu, a student of Dr. Pang's and the founder of the Chi Center in Galisteo, New Mexico. After three years of training I was certified to teach this ancient art of vibrational healing.  Enjoy!

Steph Valenzuela is a gifted empath who weaves her Reiki, Emotion Code and Medical Intuitive training and lineages into a custom healing journey for each of her clients. She has fully embraced her emergence as a complementary healer and will be launching her practice full-time beginning in January.  She is currently taking new clients for phone consults and sessions. To contact Steph:Phone/Text: 760-937-5069Email: elementssalon77@gmail.com

This podcast is from a conversation with Vivi  under a different podcast title, but I wanted to add it to Weavers and Healers as an encore audio. :) Vivian is a long time activist, Academy Award winner, and a Wisdom Healing Qigong teacher and healer. She is a gift to all who know her and have experienced her teachings. Enjoy!

In this episode Jean and I discuss her journey from the high stress corporate world to becoming an acupuncture and functional health practitioner. We get to find out her one universal antidote to stress. Jean Drummond, L.Ac. is an acupuncturist, functional health practitioner, health educator and writer.  For more than 19 years, Jean has offered her patients compassionate and professional care by blending the best of eastern and integrative medicine. Her treatments integrate modalities such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, integrative medicine, nutrition and diagnostic lab tests to provide the best in comprehensive care.She graduated top of her class with honors earning a Masters Degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine from Emperor's College in Santa Monica, California. She is licensed with the California Acupuncture Board and is a Diplomat of Acupuncture with the National Certification Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.To contact Jean for an appointment:The Wellness Potential760-914-1639

Guma, a beloved qigong teacher and energy activist, has a rich and long history of bringing spiritual and energy practices to hospitals, prisons, and centers of teaching and learning. She was my Wisdom Healing Qigong teacher-certification leader, and I'm honored to call her friend as well as mentor. Her website is chifully.net. 

Melissa is a mom, wife and Integrative Healer in Bishop, California. She's a friend and a colleague and has the amazing gift of being able to see the super powers in each of us, introducing us to our highest selves. She allows us to recognize, acknowledge, embrace and activate the gifts we bring to this world. She is taking new clients and can often work remotely. She knows if she is the right person for you at this time or if a different healer/weaver can better assist you with your journey, and will refer you. Her email is flyingnotscreaming@gmail.com. Enjoy!