Podcast appearances and mentions of martin prechtel

Fellow Orphan Wisdom Scholar, and founder of Marketing for Hippies, Tad Hargrave dives deep with Kimberly into his ever-evolving relationship to whiteness and ancestry. They discuss Tad's journey into exploring his ancestral roots, language and cultural identity, as well as Kimberly and Tad's shared rites of passage experiences doing anti-racism work. Tad shares how he initially felt disconnected from indigenous cultures, but found deep resonance exploring his own heritage, particularly his Scottish Gaelic ancestry. The two discuss the polarities of self-loathing and self-glorification amidst contemporary white activists of both the left and right, and the broader implications of whiteness and cultural identity for white individuals. They touch on the importance of considering both privileges and poverties when it comes to whiteness, and also consider the challenges and complexities faced by white people in navigating issues of privilege, guilt when trying to meaningfully engage with marginalized histories and communities. Overall, the conversation delves into the nuanced and often difficult process of reclaiming one's cultural heritage and identity as a white person, and ends on a consideration of how to creatively and meaningfully approach speaking the colonizer tongue of English. Bio: Tad Hargrave is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing (and then learned to be a hippy again). He spent his late teens being schooled in a mixed bag of approaches to sales and marketing – some manipulative and some not. When that career ended, he spent a decade unlearning and unpacking what he'd been through. How had he been swept up in it? Why didn't those approaches work as well as advertised? Were there ways of marketing that both worked better and felt better to all involved?  It took him time but he began to find a better way to market. By 2006, he had become one of the first, full-time ‘conscious business' marketing coaches (for hippies) and created a business where he could share the understanding he had come to: Marketing could feel good. You didn't have to choose between marketing that worked (but felt awful) or marketing that felt good (but got you no clients). Since 2001, he has been touring his marketing workshops around Canada, the United States, Europe, and online, bringing refreshing and unorthodox ideas to conscious entrepreneurs and green businesses that help them grow their organizations and businesses (without selling their souls). Instead of charging outrageous amounts, he started doing most of his events on a pay what you can basis. He is the author of sixteen books and workbooks on marketing. Tad currently lives in Edmonton, Alberta (traditionally known, in the local indigenous language of the Cree, as Amiskwaciy (Beaver Hill) and later Amiskwaciwaskihegan (Beaver Hill House) and his ancestors come primarily from Scotland with some from the Ukraine as well. He is now dedicated to spending the rest of his days preserving and fostering a more deeply respectful, beautiful and human culture.   What you'll hear: Tad's intro to anti-racism and youth organizing work in the Bay Area Tad found himself pushing up against something in anti-racist/white supremacy trainings What  is the role of self-loathing in anti-racism trainings? Tad  found admiration toward indigenous rituals, but unlike some white peers, didn't feel drawn to doing more work with indigenous cultures Something changed when Tad began learning his indigenous language Tad came to understand whiteness as a cover for something Whiteness is a kind of forgetting Can a white person participate in a indigenous ritual? Yes, but always as a guest and with consideration for the impact their presence might be having on that community Recognizing that whiteness was trouble, that it was a kind of poverty  Tad found he no longer was so anxiously seeking approval from indigenous people and people of color, which he recognized as another form of taking The importance of finding rootedness in ancestral story Kim discusses her experience in urban education in Chicago and studying under Michael Eric Dyson Kim found she was often comparing her ancestor grief to Black peers  Kim has found Canada's links to the older world to be more apparent than the United States Unpacking whiteness is an empty box - there's nothing there. Where do white people go for culture? Often Black culture in North America You can't start with shame - you have to remind people who they came from Peter Levine's idea that you don't, in locating feelings in the body, rest in what's good and stay comfortable; but you also don't stay in the bad and turn to ash. For white people there is no “good” place to go connected to the term white- it's discomfort all the time. A polarizing time - one end of  the spectrum is MAGA which reinforces white supremacy/entitlement the other end is leftist positive reinforcement for self-loathing, guilt, and shame. White privilege gets conflated with cultural appropriation The belief that deep down you are bad is a non-indigenous worldview - it's a Christian one. A rite of passage in a certain way to be so different than the rest of a room of people. There is privilege in white innocence, wide-eyed and curious about other worldviews, but it is not one that you come out the other side of without recognizing cultural poverty. There are double binds of contemporary identity politics discourse - despite the intention to advocate for another group of people, there is also anticipated criticism for participating in culture or movement that is not your own. After an event, there are lines of young people paralyzed by guilt about being white, male, or part of the settler-colonial class.  There's a lot of learning that can happen if you look back to why people left, further than just North American history. Self-loathing is a collapse onto oneself and self-glorification if a puffing up/posture on a very dark history of  genocide, slavery, and racism - they aren't opposites - they are two sides of the same coin. Dominant society has a tendency to co-opt, and possess everything that is holy. There is no movement that isn't co-opted by a dominant society -  BLM, Feminism, Indigeneity Corporations co-opt every movement without changing their practices - the enemy is that machine. Wendell Berry - live as a machine or live as a creature? Whiteness is a construct of empire. How do you make a living when you want to opt out of empire, late-stage capitalism and try and work on a more human scale? How to find or make the village? Leaving more than you had for the next generation. The origins of a conception of whiteness is privilege - but as you go further there are also poverties. At Orphan Wisdom School Tad saw something not just preserved, but practiced How do we not only preserve ancestral culture but also practice it? What does it mean to make culture in the times and places we are living? Resources Tad's Substack: https://tadhargrave.substack.com/ Tad's Marketing Business: https://marketingforhippies.com/ Tad on Whiteness: https://healingfromwhiteness.blogspot.com/  Tad's IG: https://www.instagram.com/marketingforhippies/ Martin Prechtel's book: Rescuing the Light  Stephanie Mackay's website: stephaniemackay.ca  

It wasn't long after my entry into “mythopoetic masculinity” back in 2015 that I came across the Minnesota Men's Gathering, a yearly event that began in 1984 by Robert Bly, author of Iron John.The organization has released a trove of stories & lectures on their Youtube channel from celebrated teachers such as Bly, Lewis Hyde, Martin Prechtel, Martin Shaw, Daniel Deardorff, Malidome Some and many more. I have been tracking their yearly conference with a desire to attend - and when I heard it was the 40th anniversary, I heeded the call. I reached out and confirmed I my attendance, with the aim to produce a podcast episode afterward to share my experience.You're also welcome to join me at the Minnesota Men's Conference Oct 1-6, 2024. Get full details on their website.From the official announcement:The conferences were built around the notion that the souls of men were atrophying in a culture that was essentially in the process of colonizing its own people and of de-animating the living world. As an antidote to a culture of emptiness, of shallowness, and of disconnection from the web of being, men came together to work with mythic story, with images, with poetry, We placed ourselves into the mythic, into stories that contain traces of the old pathways to becoming a fully developed human being. The work has continued for 40 years. At this conference, we will look at what has been done, where we have failed, where there have been sweet deepenings, and where the trail may lead. In my pre-gathering podcast conversation today, I speak with conference organizers & storytellers Walton Stanley and Ben Dennis to discuss this moment of legacy and renewal. Both guests share their experiences from the conference, noting its evolution from a focus on Jungian psychology to including broader elements like ritual and influences from indigenous wisdom. They address cultural shifts, the importance of multi-generational participation, and the necessity of a greater narrative for men in today's world.More about my guests:Ben Dennis is a mythologist and writer with a love of story, myth, psychology, psychodrama, and storytelling. His mythic interests include Greek mythology, Native American story, European fairy tale, and Hindu epic literature. Ben holds his PhD in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Ben retired from the Seattle Fire Department after 28 years as a fire fighter and training coordinator for the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) and Peer Support Team. He leads retreats for Veterans and First Responders, and has been adjunct faculty at Antioch University Seattle.Walton Stanley is a writer and storyteller. He has held a life-long interest in myth, story, and in the power of story to transform the paradigms and frames in which we live. Walton is currently working, with Ben Dennis, on an anthology of selected tales and myths that have been shared in the past 40 years of the Minnesota Men's Conference He has also completed a book, Following the Wrong God Home, Gilgamesh: The Foundational Myth of Civilization and the Roots of Ecological Collapse exploring th mythic roots of human exceptionalism, and our disconnection from the web of being as expressed in one of humankind's oldest extant written stories, Gilgamesh.I'd love to hear your comments. Please share below! Get full access to The Mythic Masculine at themythicmasculine.substack.com/subscribe

Osprey Orielle Lake is founder and executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network(WECAN), and works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey's writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in The Guardian, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, Ms. Magazine and many other publications. Her most recent book is The Story is In Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis.On this episode we discuss:Osprey's longtime connection with the land, which was fostered and developed during her early years spent among the redwood trees and beside the Pacific Ocean in Northern CaliforniaOsprey's understanding of the Sacred Feminine, including how it intertwines with animacy and how She can help us deepen our relationship with the EarthThe concept of sacred activism and Osprey's work with many indigenous peoples through WECAN, including the Rights of Nature movementThe importance of worldviews, and why it's vital that we adopt one that places us within the context of an intricately connected web of life Show NotesIf you'd like to know whose ancestral tribal lands you currently reside on, you can look up your address here: https://native-land.ca/You can also visit the Coalition of Natives and Allies for more helpful educational resources about Indigenous rights and history.Please – if you love this podcast and/or have read my book, please consider leaving me a review, and thank you for supporting my work!You can watch this and other podcast episodes at the Home to Her YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@hometoherOsprey's latest book is "The Story is In Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in CrisisYou can learn more about WECAN, Osprey's organization here:  https://www.wecaninternational.org/about During this episode, Osprey mentioned the Rights of Nature movement. Some overview information here: https://www.garn.org/rights-of-nature/We also discussed a few other individuals work, including Martin Prechtel, Lyla June Johnston, and Robin Wall Kimmerer For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher.To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher To go deeper in your Sacred Feminine explorations, check out the course offerings via Home to Her Academy: www.hometoheracademy.com And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated!

Part 3 of our mini-series about direction and purpose in life! Writing an introduction for our guest this week is an impossible task, but I'll try. Martín Prechtel is an artist, writer, musician, storyteller, teacher, healer and leading thinker..he's also one of the funniest guests we've ever had on The Earthly Delights. He has lived an incredibly full life and has some profound lessons to share with whoever is open to learning. I was first introduced to the work of Martin by My dear friend Matt who shared with me “The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise”. In this book, he speaks of the inherent interconnection between grief and praise in a truly life-affirming manner. It is one of the most influential books on how I view life and I would encourage anyone to give it a read if they are struggling with grief and joy in their own lives. To be brutally honest, I would recommend the work of Martin Prechtel to you all listening. Why do I say that? Well, if you are listening to The Earthly Delights Podcast, chances are that you are finding navigating the modern world very challenging. I don't need to go into the many ways as to how life in 2023 is sucking our life force but I know that many of us are left today feeling blocked, numb, hopeless and even apathetic. Martin's work addresses the maladies of our current situation but still manages to instil a deep sense of hope, love, meaning and gratitude in the people who listen to him talk and read his books. His core messages are simple but profoundly countercultural and I invited him on because I think we all need to hear his words until they sink into our bones. In this conversation we speak about some of the crucial lessons in his book “The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive” namely the nature of our collective disconnection or what he calls un-intactness, the importance of giving energy towards something beautiful that we will never see fully blossom in our lifetime as well as the significance of attempting something even if it feels impossible. These areas of discussion are so relevant now and it was an absolute delight and honour to spend this time with Martin. Thank you all for listening and I left links to his website and soul-sparking music in the show notes if you want more for Martin. The new album ‘The Sun's Gonna Melt Your Gun' is a really touching, powerful piece of art and you will hear a little snippet of it at the end of the podcast. All the best friends, https://floweringmountain.com/https://open.spotify.com/album/6N96PXRbD4WVDAbGiClvDM?si=z6FfW-RfS42Brqwg-2VVDw

In this episode I speak with Katie Vicary about her journey to finding the creative vocation that feels true to her soul's calling. After doing many different jobs over the years, Katie has recently settled on developing her fine art practice. It was whilst in my Creativity Cafe online course (which has recently become a membership) that Katie realised that art was what was most important to her to pursue. We discuss what it feels like to be in transition. Not fully who we once were, but not yet who we are becoming. I give Katie a brief coaching session to help to relate to her creative blocks differently and then release them, through a somatic check in and dialogue. Some of the things we speak about are: -How the only constant in life is change.-How joining the Creativity Cafe led to the unexpected result of Katie deciding to switch course and commit fully to her artistic practice. How being in the cafe helped her to shake off unhelpful ideas about what it meant to be an artist and make work that was looser and more heartfelt and authentic. She speaks about how doing this with others on a similar journey to her, felt  helpful and supportive. -We discuss the retelling of the story ‘the red shoes' by Clarissa Pinkola Estes; a story of choosing  a life that is too tame, being starved of what truly nourishes us and how the choosing comfort and conformity over the authentic needs of our soul, can have a stifling effect on our creativity. -How through the process of working through the grief of losing a loved one, the things that are important for our lives come into sharper focus; time for reassessing.-During the brief coaching session that I take Katie through at the end, she identifies some of her creative blocks and works somatically to release them.-At the end of the episode Katie takes us through the Parsemage technique. You can see visual instructions and artwork made using this technique HERELinksKatie's online portfolio.Katie's Instagram The smell of rain on dust. Grief and praise.Martin Prechtel.The women who run with the wolves. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. The red shoes story.The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron. Support the showTo view Perienne's artwork and find out about the Creativity Cafe membership; an online space with community, accountability and art sessions for creatives, see the links below. Perienne's WebsiteThe Creativity Cafe Instagram If you are enjoying the podcast you can support the show or message Perienne here. Subscribe and leave a review on itunesSubscribe and leave a review on spotify

I recently attended a Peacemakers' Gathering, hosted by the Cowichan People, here in the Salish Sea Ecosystem. In this gathering, people came from all over to make bridges and heal ancestral hurts. In this episode I share a song inspire by the opening ceremony of this gathering, and my friend Eric Fair-Layman shares a beautiful and poignant poem about grief and grieving, inspired by the work of Martin Prechtel. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit storypaths.substack.com/subscribe

Excerpt: At the heart of the teaching of impermanence is conditioned existence but what is conditioned existence? Conditioned existence is the reality that all phenomena, all things that exist  arise in dependence upon other phenomena: "if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist"  This is the heart of impermanence of all - because all things all phenomena arise out of conditions and when the condition causes it to arise, cease then, that which arose, vanishes or transforms into something different.   That is way the Buddha says, “All conditioned things have the nature of vanishing,” Let that sink in  Everything by its nature vanishes. In Japanese the heartbreak, the melancholy of the impermanence of all things is summed up in the phrase Mono no Aware.  Mono-no-aware can't truly be translated. Any one who speaks another language understands this but it can be literally translated to “the ahhness of things” The isness of things or “the bittersweet poignancy of things.”   I remember some years ago reading the introduction to one of my favorite poets Eugenio de Andrade.   The poet writes from his love of the world and the grief and praise that come from its transience.  Something that I am learning as of late is that Grief and Praise are intertwined, as Martin Prechtel teaches us in his book, The Smell of Rain on Dust.  So too are impermanence and gratitude.  Now the concept of mono-no-aware is born from the teachings of shinto and Buddhism, and was first used to explain Japanese aesthetics to explain uch traditions as cherry-blossom viewing and haiku.  But this insight is much more than simply aesthetics.  Mono No Aware is at the heart of a meaningful everyday Buddhism.

The phrase “honey in the heart” is taken from a book by Martin Prechtel. The word “rasa” means taste or essence in Sanskrit. The heart is an alchemical vessel, capable of transmitting, radiating, and metabolizing. The elixir distilled from this process is like honey. When we meet reality as-it-is with an open and undefended heart, we celebrate all aspects of our lives. We become one with all of life in the moment, and our hearts break from sorrow and from joy. Creation is an outpouring of divine love. In celebrating and finding delight in our lives, we align with the heart of creation. The fullness of joy is our birthright. Maybe we do not open to joy, but joy opens us. Joy arises when we surrender to the full spectrum of life, when we drop our resistance and are willing to feel everything without trying to fix, escape, or transcend life as-it-is to become some perfect version of ourselves. Celebration is when we meet reality with full presence. We can cultivate presence and pause, slow down, and notice when we experience this through grace. We get bigger so we can hold the inconceivable by stretching beyond habitual reference points and perceived limitations. We come home through the medium of the natural world. Ways that people experience coming home are shared. Grieving is medicine for our attachments. When grieving is complete, what is left is love not colored by attachment. The path is an investment in loss—hopefully of our illusions. Reality is transmissive, and the transmissions are about love and are always available to us. We die a little in order to love more. The heart will open at death to the degree it has opened in life. Nachama is a physical therapist, editor, and musician who for seventeen years was a member of the Shri blues band which performed Western Baul music.

Have you ever noticed yourself becoming more aware of your senses when you're in the depths of grief or loss?It's an interesting thing that feeling such grief can remind us of what we love, to paraphrase a Martin Prechtel quote that this week's guest Stacey Ramsower shared.Somehow, dropping into what sometimes feels like emptiness, helplessness, or lostness, can actually help us feel what matters most. Which seems counter-intuitive but is often true. Whether it's the often-unspoken grief we experience postpartum when our identities change or grief after another loss or immense life transition, pleasure is commonly part of our healing path.And we talk all about this, and so much more, in this weeks episode. Listen to learn:about the intersection of grief and pleasurehow inner listening may help you connect with your own pleasureways that your simple senses might help you remember what you lovewhy it's important to acknowledge your grief postpartumpelvic pain and pain with sex postpartum and some tips to navigate ithow any kind of immense loss can lead to grief and how pleasure healsResources:This week's shownotes: Get links to Stacey Ramsower's work Episode 19: The importance of softening with Chaya Leia AronsonEpisode 27: Sex, relationships and psychedelics with Juliana GoldstoneEpisode 39: Jade eggs and the practice of pleasure with Usha RoseEpisode 49: How to create a sacred window in transitional times with Ashlee Sakaishi-Wilkin FREE GUIDE: 10 key herbs for your hormonal healthIf you loved this episode, share it with a friend, or take a screenshot and share on social media and tag me @herbalwombwisdom.  And if you love this podcast, leave a rating & write a review! It's really helpful to get the show to more amazing humans like you.  ❤️DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for educational purposes only, I am not providing any medical advice, I am not a medical practitioner, I'm an herbalist and in the US, there is no path to licensure for herbalists, so my role is as an herbal educator. Please do your own research and consult your healthcare provider for any personal health concerns.

Our guest Andreas Kornevall (storyteller, ecologist and writer) argues that contemporary logos work on our subconscious in a similar vein to medieval sigil magic, narrowing our perspective and molding us into consumers. In this episode he speaks about the creation of demblems, counter-sigils to deactivate and balance the negative aspects of our logo-inundated society. We also touch upon a host of related and fascinating subjects, including the value of regenerative grief and how the mythic languages of the non-human world can be found in the areas we least expect. Andreas' Kornevall's website www.kornevall.com In the Borderlands www.intheborderlands.com REFERENCES Sigil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil The Wright Institute https://www.wi.edu/about Sublimation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology) Hug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hug_(folklore) Seidr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sei%C3%B0r Adrian Frutiger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Frutiger Icelandic magical staves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_magical_staves Galdralag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse_poetry Odin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin Homeopathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy Torgrim Mellum Stene's online intuitive fantasy novel Brittle one https://www.brittle.one/ Hypnagogia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia Eve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve Marie-Louise von Franz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_von_Franz Alejandro Jodorowsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky Psychomagic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky#Psychomagic Tomte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisse_(folklore) Yggdrasil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil Animism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism Egregore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore Peter J. Caroll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Carroll Extinction Rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion Asemic: The Art of Writing by Peter Schwenger (book) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45038257-asemic Asemic writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing Frigg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg Jörð https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6r%C3%B0 Wisdom of the Mythtellers by Sean Kane (book) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4892893-wisdom-of-the-mythtellers Urd, Verdandi, Skuld – Norns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norns Aurr https://www.wordsense.eu/aurr/ Blót https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%B3t Life Cairn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Cairn Hel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_(mythological_being) Hermóðr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herm%C3%B3%C3%B0r Cinnamon the brown bear https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/nov/04/environment.france Mímisbrunnr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%ADmisbrunnr Secrets of the Talking Jaguar by Martin Prechtel (book) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/516064.Secrets_of_the_Talking_Jaguar Joseph Campbell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell Maria Kvilhaug https://bladehoner.wordpress.com/author/ Samfundet Forn Sed https://www.samfundetfornsed.se/

Michaela Boehm answers live questions about the untapped power of relaxation, overcoming self-consciousness, the eternal child, and how to grieve. In-person events are back! To sign up: https://www.michaelaboehm.com/workshops/ 00:00 - The untapped power of relaxation 01:25 - How to relax the monkey mind 04:10 - How to relax the body 06:08 - Releasing the fascia and the nervous system 07:17 - Emotional relaxation and seeing visuals 08:41 - Dreaming while awake 10:40 - Non sleep deep rest (NSDR) 11:40 - Getting over concern about how I look 13:14 - How Michaela overcame her self-consciousness 16:34 - Undoing patterns and freeing possibility 18:44 - The eternal child and growing up 21:42 - Flying the nest and freeing one's parents 26:32 - Gods, gurus, and childhood patterns 29:23 - Grief and praise and Martin Prechtel 32:58 - Grief cheerleaders 33:50 - How Michaela grieved when her house burned down 36:40 - Survival beats all other emotions 40:12 - Death of Michaela's best friend For workshops, teacher training and courses: https://www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way" : https://amzn.to/2BQ5WpY Music ‘Deva Dasi' by Steve James at https://www.guruviking.com

Hey mystic, welcome to Mystic Medicine Tribe. THANK YOU for being here. In this episode, your co-hosts Andrea and Shelby interview our soul sister https://www.instagram.com/ashley.waverley/ (Ashley Waverly )(Death Walker and Ancestral Lineage Healing Steward) all about death, ancestral healing, grief, and reframing the way that the Western World talks about this sacred rite of massage. Resources Mentioned: https://open.spotify.com/episode/69TnvGgguxIWO2yvcumREG?si=b0123ee7f2c040b1 (Ashley's Interview on Shelby Speaks, “WTF is Ancestral Lineage Healing)) https://orphanwisdom.com/ (Stephen Jenkinson's work ) https://ancestralmedicine.org/ (Dr. Daniel Foor and Ancestral Medicine ) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22748016-the-smell-of-rain-on-dust (The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise by Martin Prechtel) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192354.Of_Water_and_the_Spirit (Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidome Somé) https://www.instagram.com/ashley.waverley/ (Follow Ashley on IG), Follow the podcast + community on IG https://www.instagram.com/mysticmedicinetribe/ (@mysticmedicinetribe). Leave us a review here if you love this convo. Follow Andreahttps://www.instagram.com/andrea.lawoflove/ ( @andrea.lawoflove) and Shelby Valentine  https://www.instagram.com/coachshelbyvalentine/ (@coachshelbyvalentine.)

Montserrat Ruiz Puigdomenech Spanish-born Soul worker, Mentor, Doula, Childbirth Activist, Singer & Psychotherapist running a private practice in the conservatory of a wooden self-built house at the end of some woods in Brighton UK, since 2012. Personal human deepening has always been at the core of her purpose and commitment in life since she was very young. Before Montserrat arrived in the UK in 1993, she pursued a career in acting after graduating from Drama school in Madrid and Buenos Aires. In 1996 after becoming a mother, taken she became a Doula and a Holistic Childbirth Educator (Birth assistant) that was my contribution to reclaiming Childbirth out of the Medical profession hands and back onto Women's bodies and wisdom.  From 2002 till 2012 while a single parent of two, Montserrat managed, directed and fronted a nine-piece international musical project called LaXuLa who achieved great success with gigs all over Europe including the Roundhouse in London.   Since 2013 when she finished her studies as a Therapeutic Counsellor she has been running a private practice at home. With a wealth of clinical work experience in a wide range of issues like Death, Bereavement & Grief, CPTSD, Narcissistic Abuse, Women's issues, Men's issues, Couples therapy, Grief Groups, Wilderness rites of Passage, Initiation, Crisis, Psychodelic Integration.   With interests in Shamanism, Psychedelic & MDMA guided Therapies, Eco-psychology, Mythology and Jungian Archetypal Psychology, she has taken part in and begun to facilitate Wilderness Fasting rites of passage. In Montserrat's words ‘I've had the honour to have learned by the feet of great human Maestros and Elders of our times some in person like Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Dr Martin Shaw, Stephen Jenkinson, Michel Odent & Meredith Little, to just name a few, and many others that equally have influenced my life and work greatly through their written legacy like Petruska Clarkson, Francis Weller, Antonio Escohotado, Carlos Castaneda, Fritz Pearls, R.D. Laing, Alan Watts, James Hillman, Starhawk, Vicky Noble, Khrisnamurty, Martin Prechtel, Eric From, Carl Jung, Antonio Machado among many many others to which I am eternally indebted.' For further details please visit http://www.theliminaltrails.com/ and the Facebook page for her wonderful music. https://www.facebook.com/jaggedmountainlaxula To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Each of us is gifted with aspects of creativity; the difference is that some people are aware and attuned to those gifts in deeper and more fulfilling ways. These are the creatives who use their gifts to make an impact in the world and touch other lives. My guest today is a gentle soul who brings his creative gifts forward in unique and time-honoring ways to brighten our world. Join me for a closer look at his work.  Satya Moses is an artist and illustrator from New England. His life and art combine respect and reverence for the non-human, a deep fascination with folklore and mythology, and a love of God according to his understanding of Hinduism. This summer, he self-published his first book, Hare and the Hedge Woman: Stories from the Forest, a collection of interwoven, original fairy tales replete with intricate illustrations influenced by his explorations of traditional European lore and ecology. Satya shares openly and generously about his process in the work of creation in staying the course on his long-term book project. Show Highlights: How Satya's love of art and creation began in his earliest memories, mainly because of the encouragement of his parents Why Satya is fascinated with folklore and traditions of cultures around the world How cultures develop as our similar ideas are expressed in different ways, depending on our language and landscape How Satya's book came to be, both the stories and the illustrations Satya's advice for those who work on long-term creative projects (His book took about six years to complete!) How Satya brings his spiritual practice into the creative process Why storytelling around a fire at night is the pinnacle of tapping into the depths of the human experience What “living in your purpose” means to Satya How your creative calling can have a big impact in the world–but also contains a paradox Hear Satya's answers to rapid-fire questions about helpful advice, grounding habits, favorite hot beverage, last meal on earth, morning routine, an inspiring person, something people might not know about him, what he's reading right now, and what's bringing him joy right now. Links and Resources: Connect with Satya: https://satyamoses.com/ ( Website),https://www.instagram.com/satya.mo/?hl=en ( Instagram), andhttp://www.satyamoses.com/preorder ( Pre-order his book)(2nd edition) Books and authors mentioned by Satya: Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth, A Story Like the Wind by Laurens Van Der Post, and authors Martin Shaw, Martin Prechtel, and Terry Tempest Williams Connect with me: Join me for Magnetize Your Dream Clients, a three day masterclass with me August 29-31, 100% of profits go to the Sovereign Bodies Institute. https://weaveyourbliss.thrivecart.com/magnetizing-your-dream-clients/ (More info and sign up here.) Are you an online business owner? Join my free Facebook group:https://streaklinks.com/BFaTM91w8CwJaq0TKg5JvfKU/https://m.facebook.com/groups/weaveyourbusinessbliss/ ( Weave Your Business Bliss). Join Your Magnetic Blueprint, my group program starting in September for Spiritual Entrepreneurs:https://www.weaveyourbliss.com/group-program ( https://www.weaveyourbliss.com/group-program) (Early Bird pricing is available now!) https://streaklinks.com/BFaTM91FRcDAcJaAKwwTtPRH/https://weaveyourbliss.as.me/discoverycall ( Book a call) to see if you are a fit. Two spots left for the upgrade to 1-to-1 support.

Excerpt:   At the heart of the teaching of impermanence is conditioned existence but what is conditioned existence? Conditioned existence is the reality that all phenomena, all things that exist  arise in dependence upon other phenomena: "if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist"  This is the heart of impermanence of all - because all things all phenomena arise out of conditions and when the condition causes it to arise, cease then, that which arose, vanishes or transforms into something different.   That is way the Buddha says, “All conditioned things have the nature of vanishing,” Let that sink in  Everything by its nature vanishes. In Japanese the heartbreak, the melancholy of the impermanence of all things is summed up in the phrase Mono no Aware.  Mono-no-aware can't truly be translated. Any one who speaks another language understands this but it can be literally translated to “the ahhness of things” The isness of things or “the bittersweet poignancy of things.”   I remember some years ago reading the introduction to one of my favorite poets Eugenio de Andrade.   The poet writes from his love of the world and the grief and praise that come from its transience.  Something that I am learning as of late is that Grief and Praise are intertwined, as Martin Prechtel teaches us in his book, The Smell of Rain on Dust.  So too are impermanence and gratitude.  Now the concept of mono-no-aware is born from the teachings of shinto and Buddhism, and was first used to explain Japanese aesthetics to explain uch traditions as cherry-blossom viewing and haiku.  But this insight is much more than simply aesthetics.  Mono No Aware is at the heart of a meaningful everyday Buddhism.  

What we are witnessing unfold in the psychedelic movement is truly unprecedented. We are reaching a tipping point where psychedelic medicines are rapidly entering mainstream society.  But is this really a good thing? And how do we make sense of the sacramental and sacred use of psychedelics within the cultural context of late-stage capitalism?  In this episode, Laura Dawn drops in with best selling author of Stealing Fire and Recapture the Rapture, Jamie Wheal, who holds strong opinions about the dark underbelly of the psychedelic movement. Jamie shares the pitfalls we need to be aware of and how this psychedelic party isn't all sunshine and rainbows. Jamie shares his criticisms and cynicism with a twist of hope and invitation to tend to and feed the holy in our lives. This is how we build our lives around meaning 3.0.      Click here to access this episode's page complete with a full transcript, more about the author, and complete list of resources. Resources Mentioned Books  https://amzn.to/3rpJFJ2 (Tim Woo's book The Master Switch ) https://amzn.to/34gflHN (Feed the Holy quote from Martin Prechtel)   https://amzn.to/3J2JHwc (How to Laugh in Ironic Amusement During Your Existential Crisis by James McCrea ) https://amzn.to/3ufgtpK (Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit) Other resources https://northstar.guide/ethicspledge (North Star Pledge) https://lauradawn.co/psychedelic-leadership-for-women/ (Psychedelic Leadership Mastermind for Women) https://lauradawn.co/Vet-Your-Shaman (Vet your shaman Guide ) https://lauradawn.co/Psychedelic-Integration-101 (Guide to Integration ) Featured Music Episode #42 of the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast features a song called Chosen Ones by Mary Isis. https://open.spotify.com/track/5xQzQ5BcLtaM8gKC3lSTGj?si=ffb7a87fea98422c (Listen on Spotify) https://maryisis.bandcamp.com/track/chosen-ones (Listen on Bandcamp)

Episode Recorded October 18,  2021. Kiko Denzer deftly mixes clay, food, and carving together with a dash of philosophy to bake in the fires of this next conversation. It's a departure from our typical format, but Kiko has a welcomed perspective of craft and lifeways that doesn't often show up in the craft world. He has spent most of his life teaching others how to build earth ovens, creating sustainable buildings and publishing books. Throughout the show we visit the role of craft in everyday life, the value of investing in one's local community, and most importantly, how we're all just walking bellies. To find more of Kiko's work visit his website: https://www.handprintpress.com/ and on Instagram @kikodenzer and @earth.ovenCræftspeople Kiko admires:Martin Prechtel (floweringmountain.com, many titles, first one is Secrets of the Talking Jaguar -- all his stories bridge the many gaps between indigenous origins and modern dilemmas. A good starting place is this interview: Saving The Indigenous Soul)Betty Seaman ( unintentional community, gardens, natural building, wonderful craft & art work of many kinds, including martial arts (she built a dojo for her spouse @muhudojo)Nate Johnson (crafts)Robin Wood, Wood Tools (craft business/community in Sheffield, UK, ala Bernard Leach)Russell Sparks and Redbird (skills, hunting, community, events -- co-coordinators of The Buckeye Gathering)Tamara Wilder (paleotechnics)Stephen Edholm (skill cult)Tending the Wild by Kat AndersonDeanne Bednar (natural building)Emily Reynolds (studying/practicing plastering in Japan)Kyle Holzhueter (plasters/permaculture)Angela Francis (natural building)Esther Gokhale, posture and craft, "primitive posture," addressing physical demands of craftAnanda Coomaraswamy, esp. Christian and Oriental Philosophy of ArtThe Hand-Sculpted House, by Ianto Evans, Michael Smith, and Linda SmileyMorihei Ueshiba, founder of AikidoSupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/cutthecraftpodcast)

John Scaife This episode discusses  ritual, what has happened the masculine in the West and it's the implications for society, very engaging and very deep. John Scaife MA Cantab has walked twin paths of business man and ceremonialist for over 30 years. His business suited life culminated in floating a company he co-founded on the stock market, after years as an entrepreneur and banker, during which time he was lucky enough to stumble upon the nascent mytho-poetic men's movement, learning from Robert Bly, Michael Meade, Malidoma Some, Robert Moore, James Hillman and Martin Prechtel. He went on to study extensively with Pretchtel and Some, developing his own deep sense of ritual and the sacred, which he has sought to weave with traditions of these lands, tapping into his skills as storyteller, writer and life coach. A sportsman and lover of the outdoors, as often as possible in his native Northumberland, he is also very aware, from his time in business, of the need to ground these learnings in the practicalities of the day to day world we live in. www.greenwavecoaching.com  https://www.facebook.com/Greenwave-Coaching-181000316110045 John also works with Annie Spencer check out http://www.hartwell.eu.com/riteofpassage.html Also listen to Annie's interview on the podcast  To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk   For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com   Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music      

In this episode, Dan talks with Charlie and Megan from The Art of Domes. They have a chat about their passion project - running workshops and spreading the love of Dome Living. They teach workshop participants how to build their own dome structures out of aircrete which is an affordable material that is light enough to move easily, provides incredible insulation properties, and (due to their igloo style) are amazingly strong and completely cyclone proof. Formally a carpenter, Charlie brings a wealth of experience to the project and traveller Megan has absolutely no prior building experience, adding a very important element to the team - aircrete domes are achievable projects for everyone. Thank you for watching. Please Like and Subscribe to Eco Convos with Dan... and be sure to Comment and Share too! You can find us on Spotify & Apple Podcasts, as well as - Facebook: @ecoconvos Instagram: @ecoconvoswithdan Website: www.ecoconvos.com.au #SupportLocal #BuyFreeRange #DemandRealFood Credits Production by 'MAV marketing' Hosted by Dan Vanderhoek - Eco & Lifestyle Property Specialist Guests were Charlie Walshe and Megan Ricciardi from The Art of Domes Music by Daniel Raymxnd Mentions The Art of Domes
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 - Website: https://crystalwaters.org.au/ 
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 - Website: https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/ 
 - Facebook: Centre Of Applied Permaculture Syntropic Life
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 Books - Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
https://www.booktopia.com.au/dark-emu-bruce-pascoe/book/9781921248016.html - The Secrets of the Talking Jaguar by Martin Prechtel 
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Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the Indigenous soul in all people. He is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh approach. In his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad's Kitchen, a hands-on historical and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming, cooking, smithing, natural colors, architecture, animal raising, clothing, tools, grief and humor to help people from many lands, cultures and backgrounds to remember and retain the majesty of their diverse origins while cultivating the flowering of integral culture in the present to grow a time of hope beyond our own. Martín's books include: “Secrets of the Talking Jaguar”; “Long Life, Honey in the Heart”: “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun”; “Stealing Benefacio's Roses”; “The Unlikely Peace of Cuchumaquic” and “The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise.” His latest book, “Rescuing the Light: Quotes from the Oral Teachings of Martín Prechtel” was published on June 8, 2021. More about Martín can be found at https://www.martinprechtel.com/Production Credits:Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive ProducerLiz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), ProducerTiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NYMusic Selections:1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)Artist: Moana and the Moa HuntersCD: Tahi (1993)Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)(00:00:44)2. Song Title: Above the BonesArtist: MishkaCD: Above the Bones (2009)Label: Mishka Music(00:53:10)

Week 5 of our Lenten practice of Walking Led by Jonathan Stalls of Intrinsic Paths. You can find this week’s video and pdf resources at www.citychurchsf.org/walking “Animals. They are the most profound doctors for loss, mostly because animals are practically a molecular presence in our psyches and souls, but also because in a sense animals are the grief of theworld's losses. They are the tears and songs of the heart of the divine turned into powerful, walking, flying, swimming, furry, hunting, hiding beings whose spirits have never been compromised by having a choice to be other than the powerful beings they already are." - Martin Prechtel, The Smell of Rain on Dust

This episode is with Sophy Banks. Her eclectic background has included being a therapist, family constellator, radical footballer, environmental activist, engineer, computer trainer, and more. She was on the ground with Transition Town Totnes, the birth place of the global Transition Movement. Sophy’s keen interest and commitment to creating healthy human culture at all scaleshas underpinned all her work and what we explore here in this episode. Sophy Banks: https://grieftending.org/ https://www.astemperaturesrise.com/ https://www.patreon.com/m/astemperaturesrise Music is “Vibrancy" by Ketsa Show notes: * orienting question: why do humans create systems that create so much suffering and nobody does anything about it? * not responding to the signals of pain and suffering * power inequality and inequality in suffering * the Transition Movement * endemic nature of burnout = burning the planet * what is it that organizes healthy culture to be life sustaining? * grief tending and how do we re-create a form of circle where we can hold one another in our grief * grief gives us insight into what’s wrong in our world * conflict between inner transition vs. outer transition * archetypes of doing and being * balance of opposites: health is when these are in balance = * yin and yang = Chinese medicine * fire and water = Sobonfu Some * love and will = Psychosynthesis * sympathetic and parasympathetic systems = organizing systems * what if a healthy culture is one supports a healthy flow between action and rest, between outward and inward movement? * the medicine wheel = cycles of nature * ground state of rituals and practices that support a healthy balance between action and rest * Stephen Porges Polyvagul theory * the return pathway + social technology for helping us come back to relaxed flow * when that return pathway is not there * double injury of the difficult experience + not having the support around to help us come back in a good way * a whole people can go through mass trauma and these pathways are wiped out * the inner world of a culture that’s been organized by trauma * we lose a trust in life * what do we do with pain in our culture? * systems of oppression: * those more identified with fight-flight tend to run things in our world because they have the energy to do so * there the part of the system being run by trauma and part being run by health * “The line between good and evil runs through every human heart.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn * George Lakoff on frames and metaphors * Riane Eisler on partnership vs. dominator cultures * Starhawk on good reality vs. bad reality * What we put at the center matters and why our efforts at systems change fail * Molly Scott Cato - our purpose should be to provide meaningful and dignified lives for everyone in the community * No time for grief = it’s not normal to take time * privilege gives us the illusion/possibility of avoiding the pain through comfort * the false construct of privilege * "those who most need to do the work are the ones least resourced and equipped to do it and have the most possibility to go on avoiding it" * we are wired to support each other = the possibility for reconnection is always inside us * attachment theory getting backed by neuroscience * "primarily we are our attachments" * Maslow’s view to put the needs as a hierarchy is a traumatized view * the landscape of inequality * the need to titrate, to be resourced = wisdom of touch it and come back * when it’s wise to not go to the trauma and grief * putting the relationship at the center * letting the pain of the truth transform us so we won’t let it happen again * Bert Hellinger - guilt is not an absolute moral compass but it depends on the moral compass of the group to which we belong * even in perfect society there will still be loss, there would still be grief but we manufacture suffering * the problem is not a technical problem * Martin Prechtel on grief and praise

Being an activist brings an emotional burden. The issues we deal with are intense, difficult and sometimes without any immediate solution. And often, we try to deal with these issues through logically planning a strategy and communicating issues using words. It's an intellectual process, but with a lot of underlying emotional baggage. Elisa Lee has some thoughts about how to get under the intellect to connect with ourselves and people in our communities on a deeper level. She, and many other people involved in grief work, think that it's important to deal with the full range of emotions ranging from anger and fear to hope and joy. Lee bases a lot of her work on the groundbreaking work of Joanna Macy. Macy turned 91 on May 2, and is still connecting with people on issues of environmental activism and grief. Throughout her life, she has been a spokesperson for the anti-nuclear movement, peace, justice and environmentalism. She has created a framework for both personal and social change and has created a workshop methodology to help people move work with social change in a way which helps them connect with their deeper selves.  Lee's current activism focuses on community grief rituals and nature-based rites of passage for girls and adults. Both grief rituals and rites of passage profoundly changed her internal world, creating a strong foundation of embodied being that continues to guide and nourish her through life. A big part of that sense of being is getting beyond the intellectual processes which help us explain the world to ourselves and others, but does not get to the root of our reactions to the complex issues that we all face in these difficult times. For the past 15 years, Lee has been promoting personal development in collaboration with nature as a specialist teacher in ecological education, a self-care facilitator, and a rite of passage guide. In addition to the teachings of Joanna Macy, Lee draws on teachings from Alan Wolfelt, Francis Weller, Martin Prechtel, Animas Valley Institute, The School of Lost Borders, The Haven, and her personal sacred experiences in the wild. She holds a masters degree in environmental education with a focus on women's rites of passage and is the founder of Fire & Flower, a rite of passage organization for girls. On today's rabble radio, Elisa Lee talks to Victoria Fenner as part of rabble.ca's series on Climate Hope in the Time of the Pandemic. Image: Elisa Lee

In this episode, we sit down with Kelly Howard. She calls herself a "multi-faceted healer," combining Massage Bodywork, Grief Coaching, Women's Circles, and Yoga Retreats. She's been a Massage Therapist for 6 years and came into the profession as she saw her then husband suffer from pain as well as her younger brother when he was in a medically-induced coma. She believes her work around grief is her dharma as she also began this work after the loss of her brother and her husband. Kelly believes strongly in this work as it's a universal truth that levels us. She notes how we've all experienced grief; dreams/desires, relationships, jobs, stages of life. "Loss is the only guarantee in the human experience." Kelly's talks about her Healing Circles for Women that include intuitive movement, a topic to explore such as resiliency and fear, guided meditation, and a group share that is intended to hold space and listen. Her Yoga Retreats are for small groups and are full of adventure, life coaching, yoga, meditation, and culture. With her business partner, Carrie Wren, of Explore and Expand Retreats, they want to challenge our way of thinking and believing while exploring the world. "By leaning in and recognizing and giving it {grief} a name, we can more easily walk with it. And when we can more easily walk with it, I've found in my own experience and with the experience of my clients, that you can more easily lean into those joyful experiences and joyful moments and recognize the little pieces of beauty and bliss." As mentioned before, Kelly believes her life's work is Grief Coaching. Her own experience of losing loved ones has given her the knowledge to help put support structures in place for her clients. It is her hope that her clients feel stronger, more capable, more resilient, and acutely aware of joyful moments while moving through the process. Kelly calls out an important aspect of grief work; there is no endgame. She is passionate in giving others support who have lost a loved one as a way to honor her late husband's legacy. She recommends beginning grief work at 6 weeks past the event and on. "You are going to move through it and it's going to shift and change and be different from day to day and different year to year." Kelly has been inspired in this work by her own travels as well as "The Grief Recovery Handbook" by John James & Russell Friedman, "The Smell of Rain on Dust" by Martin Prechtel, and "The Courage to Grieve" by Judy Tatelbaum. In the Charlotte community, she is inspired by Jillian Longsworth, co-owner of Noda Yoga. She loves what she is doing for the veteran community as well as the Charlotte community as a whole. She appreciates the variety of her Yoga offerings as well as her mission to serve "everyBODY."

In this episode, Michaela does a round of Q&A with her first full residential retreat group in Yorkshire. Curious about what happens during a live-in retreat? Topics include: •How to be who you are
 •Why we conform 
 •Pecking order in groups of women
 •Successful group dynamics
 •Finding your unique gifts 
 •Trusting the body to guide you 
 •Interpreting dreams and visions 
 •Uses of plant medicines in ritual 
 •How to overcome fight, flight, and freeze
 •Increasing capacity and learning new skills
 •Finding your inner darkness as a woman 
•Michaela meets a snake 
 •Preparing for a relationship with a great man 
 •Psychic and shamanic uses for NLMM
 •How to use practice and ritual
 •Different types of practice 
•Self improvement vs Self Inquiry 
•Integrating personality changes into daily life 
•Healing the family construct 
 •Traits of high performers 
 •The misinterpretation of Kali
 •Kali and Earth element practices 
 •Kali and climate change 
•Martin Prechtel's ‘Grief and Praise'
 •How to deal with profound loss 
•The appropriateness of Big Grief ... For instant access courses, events, and teacher training: www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way": https://amzn.to/3FJEBEa Music by Steve James: https://www.guruviking.com/

It is Sunday, so it is time for CounterSpell. A Sunday intention for Earth honoring People. This particular Sunday is the day after two mass shootings by two white men in 24 hours, in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH. The current Web of Life Animist Ministers in training met this morning, and focused on the subject of Grief. Quynn Red Mountain shared an excerpt from The Smell of Rain on Dust=Grief and Praise by Martin Prechtel. Many prayers to all who are suffering due to this event of domestic terrorism. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/web-of-life-animist-netwo/message

Continuing the conversation on personal and global grief, Ivory talks about ‘grief as praise’, based on the work of teacher and author Martin Prechtel. Recorded on 24 June 2019 at Byron Bay, Australia.

Hello and welcome to the Joy Factor podcast. Today's episode is brought to you by Lola. For 40% of all subscriptions, visit mylola.com and enter promo code “Joy” when you subscribe! Our show is all about helping people connect to their natural ability to bring joy alive in their lives. We all have the capacity for joy and as we've discussed before it doesn't have to come on the heels of an event or an experience. It's something we can bring alive with our intention, action and through consistent practice. Sometimes though, life throws us curve balls and we end up stuck in ways that make it feel impossible to find relief from emotional or physical pain, let alone access joy. If you can relate to this, you're not alone and I'm glad you're tuning in today. One message I'd like to send is that no one has to suffer alone. Everyone deserves to have a support system. Just for a moment imagine that you're seated at the head of a long table. The table represents your life and each chair represents someone who has earned the right to have a seat at your table. Who do you currently have and who do you need? No one can create the team for you but there is support in helping you fill your table with the people and resources that will strengthen your ability to enjoy your life. Today we're talking to somatic experiencing practitioner and yoga therapist, Alicia Barmon. She's someone I'm proud to have at my table both as a friend and colleague. Did I mention my belief that everybody needs a therapist at their table? Well, get comfortable and enjoy my interview with Alicia. Her wisdom is sure to resonate with many and hopefully, you feel as hopeful and inspired by her words as I did. Enjoy the show. Resources Mentioned on Today's Show What Somatic Experiencing (SE) is and what to expect for this style of therapy.  Founder of SE Peter Levine Work of Buddhist teacher, author, nun and mother Pema Chodron  Audio recording Martin Prechtel. Grief and praise. Understanding that stuck energy creates problems.  Ph.D, psychologist, author, and teacher of meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening, Tara Brach   Sol Yoga If you haven't had a chance to share your thoughts on the show, there are many ways to rate and review: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/julie-hanson/the-joy-factor https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/cwgs7-42058/The-JOY-Factor-Mindfulness-Compassion-Positive-Psychology-Healing-Yoga-Podcast https://chartable.com/podcasts/the-joy-factor-mindfulness-compassion-positive-psychology-healing-yoga/reviews www.thejoyfactorpodcast.com If you haven't had a chance to share your thoughts on the show, there are many ways to rate and review: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/julie-hanson/the-joy-factor https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/cwgs7-42058/The-JOY-Factor-Mindfulness-Compassion-Positive-Psychology-Healing-Yoga-Podcast https://chartable.com/podcasts/the-joy-factor-mindfulness-compassion-positive-psychology-healing-yoga/reviews www.thejoyfactorpodcast.com Would you mind taking a moment to complete a fast survey so we can better understand who our listeners are? https://survey.libsyn.com/thejoyfactorpodcast  

Ginger's daughter is officially launching into the world, leaving her feeling sad and teary. These emotions lead to a bunch of other emotions (anger, embarrassment) that then triggered some release. The complexity of the situation — all the different expectations and relationship dynamics — adds to the load that leads to collapsing under the pressure of perfectionism. Ginger also talks about cultivating personal relationships and how to be more present and connected by doing less. Being is often enough. Since this episode was a bit awkward and abrupt, the Geminati recorded an update 1 week after the first segment. Ginger shares how her perspective has shifted, and then the Gems talk about initiations in our society and how the process benefits the entire community. It's actually a crucial part of societal evolution. Here are a few links to resources Ginger and Kathy mention: Martin Prechtel on grief and praise Access to Power book

Inspiring hope, solace, and courage in the face of loss, author and Tzutujil Maya shaman Martín Prechtel shares profound insights on the relationship between grief and praise-- and how modern culture has suppressed our ability to fully and honestly express our feelings of loss. Let him help you discover and create beauty in grief, honoring the loved one you've lost with all that he or she deserves, and lead you on the path to healing. This show originally aired on Empower Radio.  A leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the indigenous soul in all people, Martín Prechtel is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh approach. In his native New Mexico Martín teaches at his international school Bolad's Kitchen: a hands-on historical and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming, cooking, smithing, natural colors, architecture, animal raising, clothing, tools, story, grief, and humor to help people from many lands, cultures, and backgrounds to remember and retain the majesty of their diverse origins while cultivating the flowering of integral culture in the present to grow a time of hope beyond our own. His new book is The Smell of Rain on Dust. Find out more about Martín and his work at floweringmountain.com.

Inspiring hope, solace, and courage in the face of loss, author and Tzutujil Maya shaman Martín Prechtel shares profound insights on the relationship between grief and praise-- and how modern culture has suppressed our ability to fully and honestly express our feelings of loss. Let him help you discover and create beauty in grief, honoring the loved one you've lost with all that he or she deserves, and lead you on the path to healing. This show originally aired on Empower Radio.  A leading thinker, writer and teacher in the search for the indigenous soul in all people, Martín Prechtel is a dedicated student of eloquence, history, language and an ongoing fresh approach. In his native New Mexico Martín teaches at his international school Bolad's Kitchen: a hands-on historical and spiritual immersion into language, music, ritual, farming, cooking, smithing, natural colors, architecture, animal raising, clothing, tools, story, grief, and humor to help people from many lands, cultures, and backgrounds to remember and retain the majesty of their diverse origins while cultivating the flowering of integral culture in the present to grow a time of hope beyond our own. His new book is The Smell of Rain on Dust. Find out more about Martín and his work at floweringmountain.com.

Inspiring hope, solace, and courage in the face of loss, author and Tzutujil Maya shaman Martín Prechtel shares profound insights on the relationship between grief and praise-- and how modern culture has suppressed our ability to fully and honestly express our feelings of loss. Let him help you discover and create beauty in grief, honoring the loved one you've lost with all that he or she deserves, and lead you on the path to healing.

CLICK HERE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD PODCASTMartín Prechtel  was raised on a Pueblo Indian reservation in New Mexico, where he learned the Keres language. His mother was a Canadian Native American and his father a Swiss palaeontologist. In 1970 after his first marriage ended, he traveled south through Mexico to end up in Guatemala. After a year of traveling through Guatemala, he found his home in a small village near Lake Atitlan inhabited by the Tz'utujil (one of the numerous Maya sub-cultures). There he met Nicolas Chiviliu Tacaxoy, a respected shaman of the village who believed Prechtel to be the student he prayed for.He learned the Tzutujil language, married a Tzutujil woman and raised two sons (a third son had died). Though not Tzutujil by birth, Prechtel became one of the most important village members both spiritually and politically. When Chiviliu died, Prechtel then became acting shaman to the approximately thirty thousand people of Santiago Atitlan. Prechtel joined the Scat Mulaj (the village political body) and even rose to the position of Nabey Mam (the first chief), and among other duties was responsible for the initiating of the village's young men into adulthood. During the Guatemalan civil war, Prechtel and his family were forced to flee for their lives and settled in the U.S. His wife returned later with their two sons to Guatemala, but the two boys then came back to their father.Upon returning to the U.S. Prechtel was introduced to author Robert Bly and began contributing at Bly's Men's Movement workshops. Bly was instrumental in getting Prechtel's writing published. Prechtel once again resides in New Mexico, at the site of his school near the village of Ojo Caliente. He appears around the world at different educational conferences and leads workshops intended to assist in the reconnection to the sacredness in nature and everyday life, and in finding one's sense of purpose in the modern world. Colleagues include Robert Bly, Malidoma Somé, and Michael J Meade.Among his writings are Secrets of the Talking Jaguar, an autobiographical account of his initiation as a Mayan Shaman; Long Life, Honey in the Heart, an account of his village life in Santiago Atitlán; Stealing Benefacio's Roses: A Mayan Epic (Formerly Titled The Toe Bone and The Tooth), an autobiographical account of how he relived an ancient Maya myth in his own life; and The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, a Maya myth that includes Prechtel's observations of how the Maya relate to the story. His works also include various musical recordings, paintings and an audio recording of a lecture he gives called Grief and Praise. He orchestrates "gatherings" and workshops around the country as well as curating his own school called Bolad's Kitchen.

A master of eloquence and innovative language, Martín Prechtel is a leading thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtlety, irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language. As a half blood Native American with a Pueblo Indian upbringing, his life took him from New Mexico to the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. There becoming a full village member of the Tzutujil Mayan population, he eventually served as a principal in that body of village leaders responsible for instructing the young people in the meanings of their ancient stories through the rituals of adult rights of passage. Once again residing in his native New Mexico, Martín teaches at his international school Bolad’s Kitchen. Through story, music, ritual and writing, Martín helps people in many lands to retain their diversity while remembering their own sense of place in the daily sacred through the search for the Indigenous Soul. For more information visit: www.floweringmountain.com

Caroline hosting long-time ally of aspirational eloquence, fellow pragmatic mystic dedicated to democratic animism, Martin Prechtel. We be in KPFA Fund Drive (11shows of Caroline and Martin cahooting available) http://www.floweringmountain.com/ The post The Visionary Activist – Dark of Moon “Long Life – Honey in the Heart” Radio appeared first on KPFA.

Today our Fund Drive honors Venus in Myriad forms, with a cameo love drive-by from Martin Prechtel (offering his book “Unlikely Peace…” and Keeper of venus and Mars cycles Daniel Giamario, offering Rose tinctures from Al-Kemi, and magic potions from Dori Midnight,and all honoringChuck Brown,The God Father of Go-Go, and Donna Summer, the Queen of Disco, go back-stage in tandem… (Jason Cohen's apt words:) “We had little, we have all been close to death, then we found rhythm, now we have much.” We are grateful to our GodFather and Queen that we have so much- rhythm. The post The Visionary Activist – Venus in Myriad appeared first on KPFA.

Caroline hosts long-time compadre, Martin Prechtel, that we may honor the plant world and “feed the Holy” in our conversational cahooting.” Martin's latest book being offered in our Fund Drive: “The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic:The Parallel Lives of People as Plants:Keeping the Seeds Alive” The post The Visionary Activist – February 9, 2012 appeared first on KPFA.

Martin Prechtel is a thinker, writer and teacher whose work, both written and oral, hopes to promote the subtlety, irony and pre-modern vitality hidden in any living language. As a half blood Native American with a Pueblo Indian upbringing, his life took him from New Mexico to the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala where he […] The post Remembering the Ancestors appeared first on Future Primitive Podcasts.

May Day Beltane – a Feast of Eloquence to Feed the Holy! May the truth of animism eclipse the hubris of humanism! Caroline welcomes back wildly popular life enthusiast, master of eloquence, teacher, writer, story-teller, keeper of Mayan rites of passage, Martin Prechtel.For info and his imminent California schedule – www.floweringmountain.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – May 1, 2008 appeared first on KPFA.

Caroline is wildly enthused, at this time of seasonal sensual quickening and re-alignment with the dynamic beauty of nature, to welcome back Martin Prechtel. Martin exhorts us to "become humans of such beauty that even our failures feed the holy." "Martin Prechtel is a master of eloquence and innovative language, His life, the well known subject of his previous books, Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, took him from his native New Mexico upbringing as a half-blood, Native American from a Pueblo Indian reservation to the village of Santiago Atitlan, where he eventually served the Tzutujil Mayan population as a full village member, becoming a principal in the body of village leaders…" The post The Visionary Activist Show – May 3, 2007 appeared first on KPFA.

On this day of the Autumnal Equinox, Caroline is joined once again by artist of forceful magical eloquence, Martin Prechtel (floweringmountain.com), (a former resident of New Orleans) as we re-gain equilibrium to be ever more effective Pragmatic Mystics. If the soul of this country has a physical address, it would be New Orleans, and its fate is our fate… Martin invites us to conspire with the Wild Mother of Life to rebuild the House of the World, using grief as compost for beauty. The post The Visionary Activist Show – September 22, 2005 appeared first on KPFA.

"Jump Up and Live Again, to feed the starving Divine in a time of stinginess, hatred and fear," so sayeth one of our favorite guest/allies, Martin Prechtel, who returns today to cavort with Caroline, that we may leave the nightmare realm of bad crazy exile isolation kerfuffle, and rejoin the Community of Good Crazy Creation.. The post The Visionary Activist Show – April 28, 2005 appeared first on KPFA.