Turning Season Episode 12: Courageous Intention on Behalf of Life (with Adrián Villaseñor Galarza)
Adrián is one of the many people I am just so glad to know is out there, enacting The Great Turning in the ways that he is uniquely moved to do. This conversation was especially nourishing to my heart and mind. Adrián is a longtime facilitator of the Work that Reconnects, in Spanish and English,…
Read MoreBasement Light & Getting to My Dying Dog (Real Live Dreamwork with Erika)
What a gift Erika shares through this dream, taking us along with her from the depths of the basement to the love of a constant companion of such resilience. We begin at one layer, gradually travel deeper, and move into and through a doorway that opens into a vast territory. I don’t ask Erika at…
Read MoreWild Wind & Missing Daughter (Real Live Dreamwork with Haylee)
Watch this live dreamwork session with Haylee and walk with us down a path dreamwork often takes: starting with a dream that the dreamer has already found some meaning in (and even taken action on), wandering into some other possible meanings, and then arriving into a depth of emotion that opens up new understanding. You’ll…
Read MoreGrappling, Surrender, and Dust in a Sunbeam (Leilani’s Dream & Fred Lamotte’s Poem)
In this video, originally shared live on Instagram, I share a dream about grappling with young Grindelwald and beholding dust in a sunbeam — and the way this dream blossomed into meaning through a poem by Fred Lamotte. May you feel all your feelings and be held in vast Love, and have a beautiful day…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 11: Herbal Medicine & Systems Thinking (with Judyth Shamosh)
“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” – The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien That’s a favorite quote of my guest Judyth Shamosh, which she relates to seeing each person’s health as a whole system, and as part of even larger whole systems.…
Read MoreBreathing Through: a way to meet bad news
https://leilaninavar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Breathing-Through.mp4 How do we stay open to the essential function of feeling our pain for the world (or the person next to us, or ourselves), when it feels like it might break us? Or might make us feel helpless? Or might separate us? I recorded this video yesterday to post on Instagram, for anyone who,…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 10: The Choice to Re-Wild (with Claire Dunn)
Click Play at turningseason.com/episode10 (or find Turning Season Podcast on any podcast platform) to hear my entire conversation with Claire Dunn, the founder of Nature’s Apprentice. I knew that in conversation with Claire – who lived alone in the bush for a year, spent almost a decade in grassroots environmental activism, has authored two books,…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 9: Resourcing in Pleasure (with Ann Nguyen)
What do desire and pleasure have to do with The Great Turning? Oh so deliciously much. I asked Ann Nguyen to join the Turning Season conversation not only because she facilitates trauma resolution – which is a huge piece of personal and global healing – but also because she facilitates a deepened connection to Love…
Read MoreLittle Plum – a lullaby in memory of Thich Nhat Hanh
What a blessing to be able to practice with the international Plum Village community these past few days, and witness the ceremony for Thich Nhat Hanh’s body via the miracle of livestreaming. What a blessing, too, to see so many of Thay’s words shared online, about his own death (or, no-death / no-birth / continuation),…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 8: The Rainforest Defending Itself (with Liz Downes)
Have you ever donated to “save the rainforest?” I remember placing a globe-shaped piggy bank on the secretary’s desk at my elementary school in about 1991. The Kids for Saving Earth club asked people to drop their spare change in, so we could buy a $25 acre of rainforest, and protect it “forever.” It’s been…
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