Posts by Leilani Navar
Turning Season Episode 15: The Non-GMO Project, Right Relationship, and How Powerful Each of Us Truly Is (with Megan Westgate)
Have you ever noticed that little butterfly on some packaged foods, labeled “Non-GMO Project VERIFIED?” Maybe you even look for the butterfly before you buy, and feel better about eating what’s inside because of it. That’s you exercising your power in one of the most intimate ways possible: how you take food into your own…
Read MoreMissing Cat & Faceless Dance Partner (Real Live Dreamwork with Viviana)
Lots of movement in this dreamwork session, exploring Viviana’s recurring dream themes of loss and frustration. You might recognize some motifs from your own dreams: a lost pet, a missing key. And there are unique images too, like her faceless dance partner. You’ll hear me share through the lens of Chinese Five Element energetics, on…
Read MoreDrifting Raft & Underwater Snake (Real Live Dreamwork with Gwenn)
Ooh, this was a good one! Thank you, Gwenn, for the rich dreams. Snakes, motherhood, hopeless lostness, and a returning to Earth within Water. I personally resonate with a lot of what we explored in this dreamwork session. Perhaps you’ll find that it strikes some chords in you, too. If this is the first live…
Read MoreCommunity House & a Beret Plate (Real Live Dreamwork with Luna)
This time, a Beret Plate dream with Luna. In dreamwork, you never know what you’re going to get… Luna brought a dream to this session that didn’t feel very big or very clear to her. Sometimes, those are the most fun to explore, because there’s always a surprise. You’ll hear several little insights, and then…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 14: The Body is Our Gateway (with Petra Bongartz)
How do we get from, “We know we have to change,” to “We’re actually changing”? As a society, or even as individuals? As you’ll hear my guest Petra Bongartz say at the beginning of this episode, we’ve known for a long time that we need to change – and yet, we haven’t changed. Why not?…
Read MoreThe thing about the future
https://leilaninavar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Thing-About-The-Future.mp4 The thing about the future is that it might not be that bad – or, it might be so bad that nothing we do will make much difference. But what about the present? How are we living, right now? Is it loving and life-affirming? This seems like a more helpful question for my mind…
Read MoreWorms in Dreams: Unearthing the Gifts of Earthworms in the Dreamscape
Worms. Naturally fascinating, or immediately repulsive? What else? And … how about in a dream? (Pictured here are my little ones when they were much littler, in a “naturally fascinating” frame of mind.) Recently I got to do a few acupuncture/dreamwork sessions with someone who’d had two dreams of worms, and we walked (crawled?) down…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 13: Balancing All Seven Centers (with Morgan Starr-Riestis)
How are you dealing with the stress of these times? If you’re turning to (or curious about) talk therapy, yoga, other spiritual and energetic practices, or learning to regulate your own nervous system, you’ll be interested in my guest for this episode, Morgan Starr-Riestis, therapist at Mind Psy Guidance and creator of the Seven Centers…
Read MoreDo I need emotional or physical healing? Which Element do I focus on? Clearing what I once stuffed down AND not stuffing anything new? (Healing Season Q&A Call)
Here are a few selections from a Healing Season Q&A in February 2022. This was about halfway through the group program, after exploring Fire, Earth, and Metal. Watch and listen to get a feel for the kinds of conversations we have in Healing Season, and to hear my replies to the questions below: 0:00 Question: How…
Read MoreChewing One Bite of Food, Thoughts, or News at a Time
Physical, mental, emotional – all are working with the same qi. The Earth network of organs and channels processes information AND food. Overthinking or worrying can be like chewing, and chewing, and chewing on the same bite, without swallowing it. (✋🏼 I’m familiar with this one…) I share a couple of suggestions in this video…
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