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Dr Paulina Trevena is a hypnotherapist and a researcher, with 18 years’ experience in academic research. Paulina, who is neurodivergent with aphantasia and ADHD, specialises in supporting people with these conditions. During her hypnosis training, she realised having aphantasia was a barrier to experiencing hypnosis – and started a research project into aphantasia and hypnosis. Her mission is to raise awareness of aphantasia and promote best practices in working with clients with limited or no mental imagery. Paulina runs a personal development company called No Woo Woo!

These are just some of the questions we covered in a thought-provoking conversation with Dr Paulina Trevena:

How does having aphantasia impact experiences of hypnosis and meditation? 

Why does this matter for hypnotherapists?

How does it impact memory?

What about (night) dreams?

What are the misconceptions within the hypnosis world around aphantasia?

How can we approach working with aphantasic clients?

Is there a cure for aphantasia?

What about the role of trauma in all of this?

A profound dive into all things aphantasia!

She'll cover many of these topics during her upcoming talk at the UK Hypnosis Convention!
Renaissance Hotel, London, her talk is on SATURDAY 15th @11.15 am.

If you're a hypnotherapist, come and join her there!

You can get a 10% discount using her speaker code: PaulinaT

If you’re interested in training on aphantasia and best practices in working with non-visualisers, follow Paulina or get in touch with her for more information.
https://linktr.ee/paulinatrevena

http://www.paulinatrevena.com/

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Mat Dragonstone returns to talk about the Pleiades and to be taught how to use a pendulum.

You can find the upcoming Pleiades talismanic pendulum set that Mat and I have created here:

https://dragonstoneastrology.com/talismans 

There is a brother episode to this on Mats podcast where he interviews me about what a pendulum is and how they work and stuff:

https://dragonstoneastrology.com/podcast/episode-10-dactylomancy-with-lance-baker

You can watch this episode on youtube at: 

https://youtu.be/70nWE9rJbKI


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Bob is the first return guest. You can find his previous episode, way back at EP4 here to save yourself from having to look through the old ones to find it.

Bob Burns talks with Lance about the swan and its voice, evidenced-based hypnotherapy, fixing people, the wall, scripts, lucid dreaming, and so much more.

The swan is somewhere between a hypnotic process, a suggestibility test, a hypnotic phenomenon, an ideomotor response and just something else. It is a truly unique way to speak to the parts within the subconscious!

You can find out more about the Zoom workshop in July here: http://branchesofhealing.com.au/events/swanclass

Buy the DVD or Bob’s books: https://www.bobburnshypnotherapy.com/shop/

If you like the swan, I also have a book on Amazon to aid in engaging with your swan: https://branchesofhealing.com.au/swan

Find more about Bob at: https://www.bobburnshypnotherapy.com/

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Lee is a hypnotherapist, NLPist, and for the main focus of this interview, an Animal Magnetist (or Mesmerist). There are very few of us out there that dive deep into this niche subject of energy and hypnosis. 

Animal Magnetism is a healing art that is the precursor of hypnosis, founded by Anton Mesmer in the mid to late 1700s. Because Mesmer was working with an unseen energy, or magnetic fluid as he called it, he was discredited and deemed a charlatan. However, this art was explored by many and didn't disappear then due to its genuine power and efficiency. It has now been mostly replaced with verbal hypnosis, but the two are very different.

Enjoy our conversation about this healing art, and a presence-building exercise.
You can find out more about Lee and his work at the below links. I strongly encourage anyone in the UK to book in for his classes.

https://www.arcanaevents.com/
https://arcanatherapies.com/
https://arcanatherapies.com/learnmesmerism/
https://www.youtube.com/c/leegerrardbarlow

For those of you in Australia, Lance hosts his certificate of hypnosis every 6 months and includes Mesmerism within that class, and every now and then hosts a class just on mesmerism. You can find out about these all at:
www.branchesofhealing.com.au/events

If you enjoyed this and would like more on the subject, I had Rick Collingwood on for Episode 20, here:
www.akashatalks.com/ep020-rick
I also gave a presentation on Mesmerism at last years Hypnosummit that you can find here:
www.akashatalks.com/hs2021

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Mat Dragonstone joins me to talk about Australia’s astrology chart and gives us an idea of what Australia can expect during 2023.

This episode was recorded at 8:30 Friday, 25th November 2022, Sydney Time. 

Book an astrology reading with Mat:

https://dragonstoneastrology.com/

Book a holistic counselling session with Mat:

https://www.dragonstoneinsights.com/

Thanks for listening in on our conversation.

You can watch or listen to the episodes at:

www.akashatalks.com/ep028

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Brett Cameron joined me at Merewether beach to talk about story, metaphor, and hypnosis.

This is an inspiring story he references:
https://curtismcgrath.com.au/

Brett's business page:
https://cameronhypnotics.com.au/

Brett's social media page:
https://www.facebook.com/CameronHypnotics

Fully Booked on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com.au/FULLY-BOOKED-Thriving-Healthcare-Business/dp/1922380210/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2G1TGM35BSHGE&dchild=1&keywords=brett+cameron+fully+booked&qid=1603778984&sprefix=brett+cam%2Caps%2C316&sr=8-2

The scan of the 7-year-old Brett's story can be found on my webpage:
http://www.akashatalks.com/ep027Brett

The free pass to my self-hypnosis talk at the Hypnosis Conference:
https://online.hypnosekongress.net/?sc=wfDXoOse&ac=8pcsKHav

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Welcome to the anniversary episode! Thanks for joining me for the past year, I said I was going to do weekly episodes... as you can tell by this episode number... I got halfway there lol. let's say the past year has been very different since I first decided to start a podcast, and I needed to put my health, family, clients, and students first while doing the best not to make this suffer, or just put out junk interviews and waste your time.

This episode is from today's Reiki class and is the story of the history of Reiki as a thank you to the thing that changed my life and made August 5th a day I now respect rather than fear.

I hope you enjoy.

If you want to find out more about reiki and learn a little I have a free mini-class up at www.branchesofhealing.com.au/attunement

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Today Daniel Foor joins me to talk about ancestral healing and the work covered in his book and upcoming class on ancestral medicine.

Ancestral Medicine website:
https://ancestralmedicine.org/

Social Media:
https://www.facebook.com/AncestralMedicine/

The book: 
https://ancestralmedicine.org/rituals-for-personal-and-family-healing/

Upcoming Animism class:
https://ancestralmedicine.org/online-course-animism

Upcoming ancestors class:
https://ancestralmedicine.org/online-course-ancestors

Thanks for listening,
I hope you enjoyed and check out Daniel's work a little deeper.
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This episode of Akasha Talks is more like a free lesson in remote healing. At a time where many of us are isolated at home, I feel the ability to do healing at a distance is a valuable gift. So I am giving you all that gift!

Prior to watching this, I would recommend you check out my free Reiki one attunement video lesson series at: www.branchesofhealing.com.au/attunement

Doing this first will help you understand the fundamentals of energy healing and feel the energy a little more.

This episode also includes some elements where I show you things on a visual dimension, so I would also recommend you go watch this episode rather than listen at www.akashatalks.com/remotehealing

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This week we talk with Francesca Panzironi from Aṉangu Ngangkaṟi Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation (ANTAC) about their traditional healing work and her Hand in Hand report.

"Indigenous Peoples have the right to their traditional medicines and to maintain their health practices, including the conservation of their vital medicinal plants, animals and minerals"
 
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, article 24.1
 
The recognition of Indigenous Peoples' right to their traditional medicine under international human rights law provides the foundation on which the Aṉangu Ngangkaṟi Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation (ANTAC) is established.

The ANTAC Vision is to support the maintenance and practice of the 60,000 year-old Aboriginal traditional medical knowledge system in the XXI century.

The ANTAC Mission is to create a platform for the recognition of Aboriginal traditional medicine and Aboriginal traditional healers as legitimate traditional health care practitioners. They operate as a not-for-profit social enterprise to achieve the following goals:

Create a sustainable employment pathway for Aboriginal traditional healers in today's clinical settings;

Provide a Ngangkaṟi service delivery model accessible to everyone in need across Australia and overseas;

Create an evidence-based documentation on Ngangkaṟi interventions in the area of physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual health & well-being.

Please donate:
https://www.antac.org.au/shopping/make-a-donation

and find out more here:
https://www.antac.org.au/about-antac/about-us

https://www.facebook.com/antac.ngangkari/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyNlJdrZBPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUURb8qWWpo

Thanks for listening, Please sit in meditative respect for the last-minute listening to Awaba

Lance

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