Personal Healing as Global Healing
Episode 36: Personal and Collective Healing in Chinese Medicine and Deep Ecology (with Leilani Wong Navar and guest interviewer Lydia Violet Harutoonian)
Our bodies are just like the rest of the living world: coursing with healing, life-affirming intelligence and capacity; and suffering the effects of being out of balance. The body is one setting for what Joanna Macy called “the three stories of our time”: Business as Usual, the Great Unraveling, and the Great Turning. We’ve explored…
Read MoreEpisode 32: Protecting Sacred Groves in India (with Radhika Bhagat)
“Somehow, we were only touching the symptoms, whether it’s poaching, whether it’s the destruction of forests, or unsustainable development.” So said Radhika Bhagat about her 12+ years of conservation work with leading organizations in India, as she explained to me why she founded the Sacred Earth Trust. Radhika now focuses on reviving spiritual connection to…
Read MoreEpisode 31: Deep Ecology, Small Actions and Big Resonance (with Fernanda Lenz)
This Full Moon, a new deep conversation with someone rising to her own unique role in The Great Turning – the role only she can play, coming about through what she loves, what breaks her heart, her gifts, her circumstances, her stories. Today, meet Fernanda Lenz, an educator, facilitator, and visual documentarian in São Paolo,…
Read MoreEpisode 27: Your Healing Story is a Love Story (with Nisha Mody)
Which is easier to feel in your own mind and body: The sense of living in The Great Turning (aka, our transition toward a life-sustaining way of being human on earth), or the feeling of “Business as Usual,” a way of being human that values being productive, consuming, succeeding, and never feeling like you’ve done…
Read MoreStress Causes Disease – So What Do we Do?
We’ve all heard that stress causes disease. Chinese Medicine teaches us that about half our diseases trace back to how we relate to our emotions. And, the world right now – there’s a lot of stress, and a lot of emotion. So what do we do? A new round of Healing Season: Practical Wisdom from…
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 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 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…
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 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…
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