Posts by Leilani Navar
Turning Season Episode 22: News on the Right to Repair Electronics, the Indigenous Environmental Network + Climate Justice, and Sponge Cities
More good news! Come enjoy a dose of Active Hope in the Great Turning with these 3 quick news stories: the movement to grant the “right to repair” our electronic devices, plus why we throw away and replace them so quickly introducing the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Western Mining Action Network, and the Climate Justice…
Read MoreThe Wood Element in You: Vision, Anger, Passion for Justice, Flexibility and Compassion (a few minutes of Healing Season)
I love hosting Healing Season. One of my favorite parts is sharing the poetic science of the Five Elements, as applied to the body, mind, and emotions in Chinese Medicine. Here you can see a few minutes of the course video about the Wood Element. If you’re curious about Healing Season, a 12-week small group…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Fertility (Natural and IVF)
Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine have been used for thousands of years to support fertility and healthy pregnancy. We have a wealth of ancient as well as modern information about how best to support our patients. I’m happy to discuss the “how” and the “why” of this with you when you come in for a…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Sleep
Want to schedule a treatment? Have questions? Find the scheduling link at leilaninavar.com/clinic (I’m currently practicing in Laguna Hills, CA) In my 10 years of practice, one of the things I’ve helped with most often is sleep issues. If you or someone you care about has trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or waking up rested,…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 21: Water Wisdom for Deserts, Forests, and Cities (with Charles Upton)
How much power do you think you have to affect rainfall, or to influence how vulnerable a landscape is to wildfire? Do we have any agency in our situation of “running out of water”? Until recently, I didn’t think those things were in our hands at all. I’ve been excited to learn from water experts…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 20: News on 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People, Moratorium on Oil and Mining in Ecuador, Protect Thacker Pass
Welcome to your dose of Active Hope in today’s news episode of Turning Season Podcast, here to bring you news and deep conversations about our adventure toward a life-honoring, life-sustaining way of being human on Earth. This show is for every one of you who’s awake to our multiple crises, feels your love for life…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 19: Creative Changemaking in Art & Architecture (with Sinéad Cullen)
I know Sinéad Cullen is not alone in once feeling inadequate for not being a fists-in-the-air, protest-in-the-streets kind of activist; for not taking a stand in that dimension of The Great Turning we call “Holding Actions.” I also know she’s not alone – and many of you listening will relate – in being deeply inspired…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 18: News on Banning New Oil and Gas Drilling, Holding Actions Against Land Grabs, and a Moveable Forest
Welcome to news episode no. 2 of Turning Season Podcast, your regular dose of Active Hope in the Great Turning, bringing you news and deep conversations about our adventure toward a life-honoring, life-sustaining way of being human on Earth. This show is for every one of you who’s awake to our multiple crises, feels their love…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 17: Experiential Deep Ecology (with John Seed)
How do we live at a time like this? You are in for a treat in today’s episode, hearing John Seed’s answer to this question, and especially in hearing about how he’s come to his answer. If you don’t recognize his name, John Seed is a wise elder, activist and well-loved leader based in Australia,…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 16: News on Amazonian Women’s Healing Center, International Treaty on Plastics, and Reconnection Ecology at Wildlife Sanctuary
This is the first “news” episode of Turning Season Podcast. I had the idea to do short episodes like this while listening to a 5-minute NPR podcast a few months ago. It was a very quick, back-to-back series of stories with the sense: “Here’s what you should know.” It included something like, updates on war…
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