Animacy

Robin McKenna is an award-winning director, producer and writer with over two decades of experience in documentary filmmaking. She is director, producer and writer of GIFT, a feature-length documentary inspired by Lewis Hyde's classic bestseller The Gift. In this episode Zack and Robin engage in a dialogue around the “Spirit of the Gift.”

Author Marlee Liss and founder of Re-Humanize. Re-Humanize is a movement offering heart-softening remembrance of what it means to be human, built upon liberating expectations of connection and love. With healing words born from the depths of the author's pain, this vulnerable narrative offers a window into sexual assault and the messy path of survival.

Carl Rabke & Erin Geesaman Rabke are Somatic Naturalists and Embodiment Mentors. Between them, they have more than 45 years of experience offering somatic education and bodywork. As well as being parents, writers, podcasters, long-time meditators, passionate learners, and are madly in love with each other. The beautiful diversity that they embody speaks loudly in this episode where having a conscious relationship with your body and the impact it can have on your life is discussed.

Phoenix Aurelius, a present day alchemist and Zack speak about alchemy’s presence in many aspects of modern life. Alchemy is by no means gone, as a matter of fact, alchemy’s presence and influence in the world is greater than it has ever been due to our inability to see it. Alchemy is alive and well, and it’s influence on every aspect of your life as explored in this unique dialogue will shock and illuminate you if you can stay the course with us.

There is a contagious psychospiritual disease of the soul, a parasite of the mind, that is currently being acted out en masse on the world stage via a collective psychosis of titanic proportions. “Wetiko” as the Native Americans referred to this mind virus. It operates through the unconscious blind spots in the human psyche, rendering people oblivious to their own madness and compelling them to act against their own best interests.

Erwan Lecorre, author of “The Practice of Natural Movement” and the founder and innovator of a physical education system and lifestyle known as MovNat, which derives from the French words "mouvement naturel", sits down with Zack to take an in-depth look at how being consciously engaged with our own bodies movement can bring us more present to our own lives and help us transform them.

Mythologist, storyteller and author Micheal Meade sits down with Zack for an authentic exploration of their own stories. Drawing from their often similar life experiences, they lay out the relationship between “The Divine” and “The Ecstatic” and why a dip into the ecstatic is so healing for one’s soul. The ecstatic is always nearby, the door may be locked, however the keys can be found through ceremony and ritual, with initiation awaiting you betwixt the threshold.

The very fiber of our beings are constituted from what we put into our bodies. Our hunger and appetites orchestrate a chain reaction that pervades every aspect of what it means to co-habitate on a living earth, with other humans and our non-human family. This podcast suggests that compassion and intelligence are intrinsically linked and that what causes our suffering is a wrote form of economic and industrialized control based education. This is a prayer for the liberation of our sovereign spirits, joy.

Zack, Madeleine, and Michelle discuss the power of dance to access our sensuality, blending dance styles to create fusion performances and the importance of having confidence in our own bodies.

Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW, teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, and Zack have a deep and authentic conversation on the current state of culture, society and how to experience life through being in touch with death. Highlighted in this conversation is Stephen’s “Night’s of Grief & Mystery Tour”, a participatory event of poetry, reading and music that you leave understanding less than you did when you arrived.