Turning Season Episode 1: Beekeeping and Reweaving (with Ariella Daly)
I’m so excited today to bring you Episode 1 of my newly expanding podcast… Turning Season. Come to turningseason.com/episode1 to get this first dose of active hope. It’s a rich conversation with Ariella Daly, who spoke with me about dreams and bee shamanism in Episode 31 of the Dreamers’ Den series. We talk about living…
Read MoreA Point for Breathing, Sleeping & Grieving: Landscape of Your Body #12
https://leilaninavar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lung-1-Video-September-2021.mp4 Here’s a need-to-know point on the body landscape when dealing with breathing concerns, sadness or grief, or waking up between 1-3am. This is the first place that the Lung Channel rises to the surface of the body. We call it Lung 1 in English and Zhong Fu (Central Palace) in Mandarin. We also know…
Read More3 Questions to Unlock Your Dreams
3 questions I love to ask my own dreams + bring to dream group. These can unlock the doors to what’s waiting to be found. At 2:30, I share a short but potent dream I asked these questions of. At 4:50 I get into what’s been troubling me about how health is talked about “these…
Read MoreEpisode 35: The Dreams that Shape Us (with Leilani Navar & Steve Ernenwein)
Something new and much more personal for this Full Moon: You’re about to hear me share a series of 3 of the most potent dreams of my life, and how they’ve been woven into my healing. There’s the personal physical level, the ancestral, and the societal levels. There’s a yurt at the sandy confluence of…
Read MoreEpisode 34: Dreams of Exes plus Bathroom & Gotta-Go Dreams (highlights from Dreamers’ Den members episodes with Leilani Navar & Kezia Vida)
Do you recall any dreams of being back together with an ex? How about needing to pee and not being able to find a bathroom? These are more common dream-themes than you might realize, and there can be much more going on here than the obvious. Click Play below to hear a deep-dive on these…
Read MoreEpisode 33: What Happens in Dream Group? This. (a projective dreamwork group hosted by Leilani Navar)
I could try to describe group dreamwork to you. Why we do it, what it’s like, how wow’d and moved I am every time. But I couldn’t do it justice. There’s nothing else like this. I couldn’t have imagined it before I’d taken part, no matter how it was explained. A current dream group member…
Read MoreA Point for Easing the Breath: The Landscape of Your Body #11
https://leilaninavar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Lung-6-Video-July-2021.mp4 There are these cool spots on the rivers of your body where the Qi and blood dive deeper beneath the skin. Close to the fingers the toes, channels run near the surface, but at these “xi-cleft” points, the rivers plunge deep. This is the xi-cleft point on the Lung channel, named Kong Zui, or…
Read MoreEpisode 32: A Powerful Remover of Obstacles (a conversation with Cythera Wilkerson)
Raise your hand (or, better yet, leave a comment below, so I can see it too) if you’ve ever dreamt of a political figure you strongly dislike. When they showed up in dream-form, how did you engage with them? When dreamers have shared dreams of political figures who were the object of anger or disgust,…
Read MoreEpisode 31: Intentional Dreaming, the Honeybee, and the World’s Dreamweave (a conversation with Ariella Daly)
“Bee shamanism” is ancient, but its existence was recent news to me. Ancient Greek priestesses who dreamt with the bees? A European folk tradition tied to women’s spirituality and beekeeping? Tell me more! In this episode, Ariella Daly tells me so much more. I was enchanted. Click Play on the player below to hear us…
Read MoreEpisode 30: The Gifts in Grief Dreams (a conversation with Joshua Black)
Have you ever dreamt of a loved one, after they passed away? Has that dream stuck with you ever since? Dr. Joshua Black has had that kind of dream — and heard thousands of those dreams from others. He’s devoted his academic research to these “grief dreams” and to continuing bonds after many types of…
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