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Divine Feminine's Return Danielle Dulsky - Listen to her interview ...

Danielle is a long-time activist for wild woman spirituality and the divine feminine's return. She is the author of Woman Most Wild (coming May 2017 from New World Library). A multi-media artist, yoga teacher and teacher trainer, and energy worker, Danielle is on a mission to inspire women to be fearless creators of their sacred work. She holds the highest designation from Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT 500, is the founder of the fully accredited Living Mandala Yoga teacher training programs, and believes in holistic healing for the sensual, creative, and spiritual self. Her work is grounded in holding space for women to harvest their inner Priestess through personally relevant movement alchemy, intuitive artistic practice, and divine feminine spirituality. Danielle leads women circles, Witchcraft workshops, energy healing training, and basic and advanced yoga teacher training internationally. She believes that all women alive today are meant to be instrumental in supporting positive social transformation by enacting their spiritual agency, reclaiming the name Witch as a holy healer, and liberating their inner wild woman. Website: http://DanielleDulsky.Com.

Shared Heart Foundation Joyce & Barry Vissell - Listen to her interview ...

Marianne Williamson says "Bravo to the Vissells for helping us find the connection between spirituality and relationship." Ram Dass describes Joyce and Barry Vissell as "a couple who live the yoga of love and devotion." They are two people deeply in love for 52 years, who have raised three children and "walk their talk." Their model of relationship and deeply heart-oriented approach have made a unique impact upon many thousands of people's lives. They are the authors of The Shared Heart, Models of Love, Risk To Be Healed, The Heart's Wisdom, Meant To Be, and A Mother's Final Gift. They have 2 new books coming out this fall: To Really Love a Woman and To Really Love a Man.

Nada Yogi Russill Paul - Listen to his interview ...

Author of The Yoga of Sound and many best-selling chant CDs, Russill Paul brings 25 years of teaching at leading educational institutions to the founding of his online Yogic Mystery School. Highly regarded for his ground-breaking work worldwide, he is a pioneering figure who introduced the sonic aspects of yoga in North America. At the present time, his work focuses on emotional healing, personal transformation and spiritual awakening, bridging the gap between ancient Eastern wisdom and living life in western society in ways that facilitate deeply fulfilling states of consciousness. While he continues to travel across the US and internationally to present workshops and concerts to large audiences, working one-on-one with individuals as well as guiding small groups in deep spiritual practice is fast becoming his true love.

Traditional Healing Heather Bruce - Listen to her interview ...

Heather has been a student of acupuncture and natural healing since she started a mother's journey to discover how to NOT have her (now 40 year old, then a newborn) son descend into asthma and eczema like his father. (She won). Along the way she picked up classical acupuncture skills (and designed and taught undergraduate courses from 1981, leading into her post graduate mentoring), investigated many traditional forms of healing (initially Western herbs, nutrition from the East and the West, vibrational remedies, massage and allied techniques, and later on, many ways too overcome distortions in energy and thus form).

'Against Purity' Alexis Shotwell - Listen to her interview ...

Alexis Shotwell is an associate professor at Carleton University, on unceded Algonquin territory. She is the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding (Penn State Press, 2011) and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (Minnesota University Press, 2016), a potter, and a practitioner in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition.

'Vanishing of the Bees' Maryam Henein - Listen to her interview ...

Maryam Henein is an investigative journalist , activist, and public health expert, best known for directing the internationally acclaimed documentary Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Ellen Page. Maryam is also the co-founder of HoneyColony, an online magazine and marketplace that aims to empower people to be their own best health advocate. This short animation explains the concept. Her website is www.maryamhenein.com

'Suppressed Histories' Max Dashu - Listen to her interview ...

Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women's history from an international perspective. She built a collection of 15,000 slides and 30,000 digital images, and has created 150 slideshows on female cultural heritages across human history. For titles and descriptions, see the online catalog. Dashu's work bridges the gap between academia and grassroots education. It foregrounds indigenous women passed over by standard histories and highlights female spheres of power retained even in some patriarchal societies. http://www.suppressedhistories.net/aboutmax.html

Psychedelic Philosophy Nese Devenot - Listen to her interview ...

Nese Devenot is currently a Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Puget Sound. Nese received her PhD in 2015 from the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied psychedelic philosophy, the literary history of chemical self-experimentation ("trip reports"), and radical poetics. Nese taught the class "Drug Wars: The Influence of Psychoactive Rhetoric" as a 2014-15 Critical Speaking Fellow at Penn, where she previously taught "Higher Dimensions in Literature" and "Poetic Vision and the Psychedelic Experience."

'Unmowed Corners' Anita Sanchez - Listen to her interview ...

Anita lives in upstate New York—the part of New York that has trees and mountains, not skyscrapers. But she also loves Manhattan, London, and Paris, and her blog Unmowed.com often chronicles the unnoticed plants of urban environments. She loves to adventure in the wilds of the United States as well as visiting remote places around the world—she has ridden camels in the Sahara desert, dived the Great Barrier reef of Australia, and participated in an Earthwatch expedition to the Kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific, as well as travelling in England, France, and Spain, visiting temples and watching elephants in Sri Lanka, and hiking Mt. Olympus in Greece.

Goddess of Sacred Power Starr Goode - Listen to her interview ...

Starr teaches literature at Santa Monica College. Producer and moderator for the cable TV series, The Goddess in Art, it is now available on YouTube. She is the author of The Art of Living: Falstaff, the Fool, and Dino. Her latest essay, "Adventures She Has Brought My Way" appears in Elders and Visionaries Anthology. Her latest book is Sheela na gig: the Dark Goddess of Sacred Power. www.starrgoode.com

Wild Heart Queen Chris Zydel - Listen to her interview ...

Chris Zydel, AKA the Wild Heart Queen, is head creative goddess at Creative Juices Arts She has over 40 years of experience as a compassionate creativity guide and an unshakeable faith in the power of creativity to heal hearts and change lives. She knows deep in her bones that everyone is deeply, wonderfully and gloriously creative and is on a relentlessly love-soaked mission to prove that to the world. She performs this magic by providing nurturing and joy-filled creative sanctuaries overflowing with encouragement, permission and trust in the sacred energy of play and creativity that lives inside of us all.

Sleep Medicine Dr Michael Breus - Listen to his interview ...

Michael is a Clinical Psychologist and both a Diplomat of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Fellow of The American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He was one of the youngest people to have passed the Board at age 31 and, with a specialty in Sleep Disorders, is one of only 163 psychologists in the world with his credentials and distinction. Dr. Breus is on the clinical advisory board of The Dr. Oz Show and is a regular contributor on the show (30+ times). Dr. Breus is the author of the soon to be published (September 2016) The Power of When, a ground breaking bio-hacking book proving that there is a perfect time to do everything, based on your hidden biological chronotype. Dr. Breus gives the reader the exact perfect time to have sex, run, a mile, eat a cheeseburger, ask your boss for a raise and much more. Dr. Breus has been in private practice for 16 years and recently relocated his practice to Los Angles. www.thesleepdoctor.com

Shamanic Therapist Shonagh Home - Listen to her interview ...

Shonagh is a shamanic therapist, teacher, writer and poet. Her specialized private sessions and retreats are probing and revelatory, assisting clients to break chronic, self-defeating patterns, and move into empowered personal sovereignty. Shonagh is an international public speaker on the subject of visionary shamanic-spirit medicine, a voice for stewardship of the honeybees, and a teacher on the subject of Traditional Foods. She is author of the books, 'Ix Chel Wisdom: 7 Teachings from the Mayan Sacred Feminine,' 'Love and Spirit Medicine,' and 'Poetic Whispers from the Green Realms.' Website: www.shonaghhome.com