HONING YOUR INTUITION SHOWNOTES:
Shannon & Ava are on a journey of remembering and activation. They take you along for the ride as they share their truth.
This episode they dive into how they hone their intuition & their relationship with their guides. Sharing their experiences of what it's like as they each tap into their body as a pendulum.
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SHOWING UP SHOWNOTES:
Shannon & Ava are on a journey of remembering and activation. They take you along for the ride as they share their truth.
This episode they dive into how we show up in the world. Sharing their opposing experiences of what it's like to to naturally be more external or to naturally be more external. The ebb & flow of moments of being outward & moments of being inward.
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BOUNDARIES SHOWNOTES:
Shannon & Ava are on a journey of remembering and activation. They take you along for the ride as they share their truth.
This episode they dive into how they navigate boundaries. Sharing their opposing experiences of what it's like to have wide open boundaries, steal tight boundaries and how they both found their way to healthy and balanced boundaries.
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CHRISTINE GARVIN SHOWNOTES:
Christine Garvin Dance+Transform is an Asheville-based dance school of movement, healing, and empowerment. The school offers a variety of dance forms to connect women and girls to their bodies, including Hip Hop, Jazzy Showgirl, Modern, Conditioning, Bellydance, and Bhangra/Bollywood.
With a Masters in Holistic Health Education and a certification in Nutrition Education, Christine is also the creator of the Metamorphosis program, which helps women to get to the next level with their health, work, body image, and relationships through tending to their rich, inner lives.
More at christinegarvin.com.
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Havana, Cuba
Havana is alive with music and movement every day but during Habana Vieja Ciudad en Movimento, that expression reaches new heights. The Old Havana City of Movement festival brings together dance troupes from all over the world to share their talent. The colorful band on stilts plays while spectators wind through the streets of Old Havana following the music from dance performance to dance performance. The whole arrangement is brilliant because not only do the dancers create movement but spectators become an intricate part of the movement as well. This dancer in red takes a moment of pause in her movement to soak up the energy around her.
DANIEL FOOR SHOWNOTES:
I’m a teacher and practitioner of practical animism who specializes in ancestral and family healing and in helping folks learn to relate well with the rest of the natural world.
My focus on the ancestors sources from the guidance of my teachers in earth-honoring traditions (e.g., European pagan paths, Native American ways, Mongolian shamanism, and West African Ifá/Òrìṣà tradition), from my training as a doctor of psychology and clinical mental health professional, and from two decades of implementing the teachings of ancestor reverence in my own life. Since 2005 I’ve guided hundreds of ancestor trainings, rituals, and talks throughout the United States and helped many others to reconnect with their family ancestors through personal sessions. My book, Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing, will be available in 2017.
Over the past few decades I’ve trained with teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and diverse indigenous paths, including the remnant and returning traditions of my older English, Irish, and German ancestors. I’m also a student of Yoruba culture and an initiate (ọmọ awo) of Ifá, Ọbàtálá, Ọ̀ṣun, and Egúngún in the lineage of Olúwo Fálolú Adésànyà Awoyadé from Òdè Rẹ́mọ.
My doctoral research in psychology focused on the use of shamanic healing practices by clinical mental health professionals, and I’m a licensed marriage and family therapist. I’ve been blessed to spend time as a student of culture and language in the Czech Republic, Mexico, Ecuador, Egypt, Morocco, and Nigeria.
Training as a therapist, living in other societies, and immersion in different lineages of ritual work all inform my kind and non-dogmatic approach to ancestor and earth reverence. Although I draw inspiration from lineages of established practice, my public offerings aim to be culturally inclusive, and I hold social and ecological justice to be inseparable from spiritual teachings and practice.
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Havana, Cuba
The buildings and sidewalks of Havana come alive with graffiti art. The Cubans elevate graffiti as an art form of the highest level. Vibrant colors and messages mix with images that contain an aura of reality. Being surrounded by the art makes the city vibrate in a unique way. Graffiti writing sends a message to the world through its beauty and artistry. This graffiti wall with its eyes feels like the past looking into the future.
SAMJHANA MOON SHOWNOTES:
Samjhana is a visionary photographer and natural cycles mentor who empowers women to connect with their cyclical nature and discover their true radiant self. She guides you to align yourself with the seasons of your menstrual cycle, to manifest with the moon phases, and to explore the archetypes of the feminine - so you can reach your fullest potential. Over the past 8 years Samjhana has guided hundreds to say yes to their true radiance, allowing them to see themselves anew on an insightful photographic journey in nature. Her ability to see a person’s soul and capture their unique beauty on camera has helped many women transition from self-critical to self-confident, and supported them along their personal, professional and spiritual path.
Samjhana is devoted to sisterhood and offering an alternative lens that challenges the media’s distorted projection of beauty and releasing the taboo around menstruation. She is founder of Goddess Portraiture and co-creator of the World’s first moon and menstruation clock; the Inner Seasons Wisdom Dial. Samjhana was People’s Choice Speaker for TEDx Totnes 2015. Watch her talk here: http://j.mp/TedxMoon
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Osiyan, India
There is an intricately carved Jain temple in bleak deserts of Rajasthan in the small town of Osiyan. The beautifully designed sandstone of the temple pulses with gentle energy. The ascending circles of the vast ceiling signify that we are unified as one. These circles also remind us of the cyclic rhythms of our lives. The seasons that ebb & flow, the moon waxing & waning in the sky above & your own personal monthly moon cycle.
ESTHER BAILEY-BASS SHOWNOTES:
Esther Bailey-Bass, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach who regards herself as a Lifestyle | Leadership Coach specializing in personal leadership involving self-confidence, self-care, feminine power and authentic movement while engaging women to lead by example. In her words, "Leadership is an inside job. It is not enough to be authentic or unapologetic. There is a process for your growth and the journey of leadership starts with self-discovery."
Trained through the Coaches Training Institute, one of the oldest coach training organizations in the world, she received her designation of Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) in the spring of 2015. Esther is passionate about coaching, the ancient practice of Circle and using that work to connect and bridge understanding.
As a veteran sales and marketing professional with more than 20 years experience in direct sales, retail and media sales, Esther fosters deep connections with clients building trust by modeling authenticity and transparency. A residual effect of coaching training is learning to ask powerful questions opening the windows of curiosity for deeper exploration. For Esther this enhances her work as a sales and marketing professional, too.
Esther is a community activist utilizing coach training and circle process skills. She has served on the boards of CABLE, a non-profit leadership organization for women’s advancement, The YWCA of Nashville and Middle Tennessee and is currently serving on the board of the International Coach Federation (Middle Tennessee). She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business and Organizational Communication from the University of Akron.
Esther can be reached by email at engage@ebbnflowcoaching.com or found on major social media platforms @ebbnflowcoach.
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Jodhpur, India
The town center of Jodhpur, in the heart of Rajasthan, teems with the hustle of markets around the world. Spices are measured for sale in one corner with shoes in the next corner. The traditional designs on these shoes are often hand stitched in local homes. The young man selling these shoes swore they were stitched by his own mother. Here, you can walk away wearing a little piece of the India of the maharajas. These shoes remind me of all the different shoes we wear & the diverse paths we walk each lifetime.
DANIEL SOWELU SHOWNOTES:
Daniel Sowelu (B.Sc. Dip.Ed) initially trained as a human biologist but after a major and ultimately benevolent life crisis at 26, became an astrologer, primal therapist, group leader, writer and trainer now in his 34th year of practice. He is a pioneer in therapeutic and experiential astrology internationally, an advocate for the reclamation of the sacred feminine in all her forms and specialises in working with the sacred marriage.
Currently based in Fremantle, Western Australia , his work focuses on his unique astrology readings, counselling and therapy, and his powerful experiential astrology workshops, programs and professional trainings. For the last 25 years he has been the astrology columnist for the alternative magazine Nova Journal and writes about the current astrology in his monthly newsletter. A natural teacher and facilitator, he is also co-led workshops on the Shiva Shakti relationship, The Black Madonna and, Mary Magdalene with the great sacred activist Andrew Harvey.
Since 1992, he has been leading sacred tours in the central desert, Kimberley and South Coast regions of Australia and for the last three years in India. His Goddess Tours and Sacred Marriage Retreat in Ganeshpuri, western India are a culmination of many years of meditation, other Eastern spiritual practices and his work with the light and dark faces of the Shakti goddesses. http://www.sacredlawfirm.com.au/india-goddess-retreat-and-tour.html
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Varanasi, India
As morning dawns in Varanasi, the Ganges River pulses to life. The Ganges is truly a sacred entity, revered as a goddess whose purity cleanses the sins of the faithful and aids the dead on their path toward heaven. The Ganges is a symbol of hope. There are temples & altars throughout the city of Varanasi. I love that there is a pantheon of gods in Hinduism. A god for each of the faces ~ the light, the dark, the masculine & the feminine ~ all the contradictions that live & dance within each of us.