Personal Healing as Global Healing
Turning 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 MoreTurning 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 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 7: Betting on Emergence (with Jamie Harvie)
When you click Play at turningseason.com/episode7, you’ll hear the voice of Jamie Harvie, reflecting on the mindset that’s at stake as he works on one practical project: ending the use of single-use bags. When I first connected with Jamie, he told me about this campaign in Duluth, MN, to move on from single-use bags and…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 6: Re-Membering We’re Connected (with Skye and Miraz)
Have you ever glimpsed your interconnection with the rest of the living world? Felt it in your own body? Maybe breathed in that knowing for a moment, or a few, but then slipped back into our dominant culture’s habitual perspective of separateness? I adored this conversation with Skye and Miraz, who are devoted to re-membering…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 5: Causing Legacy (with AnneLisa Vallery)
Do you carry stories or sayings from your grandparents, or other elders in your life? How about wisdom that comes through you — are you a mentor or an elder to someone? Do you ever view yourself as a “future ancestor”? Come to turningseason.com/episode5 to hear my conversation with AnneLisa Vallery about supporting intergenerational connection…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 3: Guided by Dreams (with Matt Cochran)
Dreamwork is back in the conversation, because Matt Cochran is back. You may have heard him on Episode 22 of The Dreamers’ Den series. He’s here this time to share how dreamwork, especially in connection with men’s work, is a part of his role in The Great Turning. You can find Turning Season Podcast on…
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