The Great Turning
The 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 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 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 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 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…
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…
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