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Who is Mushtaq Ali al Ansari?

This is a question that is infrequently asked, mostly because the answer is rather boring.

If asked (enough) he will tell you that after long study, he may have begun to learn the basics of a couple of martial arts, but that he has no rank that is worth mentioning.

He has been involved in Sufism for the entirety of his adult life, though being the worst of his teacher’s students, he did not receive his Ijaza (permission to teach) until 1999.

He has managed to travel extensively to some interesting places and to hang out with some remarkable people, and can be coaxed into talking about this on rare occasions. 

In 2018 he was dragged kicking and screaming from a quiet retirement in order to found The Nine-Sided Circle (a no mystery school) with his partner Noor Kyle George.

It is rumored that he lives somewhere on the West Coast.

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Nigel Dawes has been practicing and teaching East Asian Medicine for 35 years. He lived and studied in Japan for 5 years followed by hospital internships in China in the 1980’s. Prior to moving to the United States, he founded the London College of Shiatsu in 1987, and in addition to acting as director and lead instructor, began lecturing at various Oriental Medicine (OM) schools in England, France, Israel and the U.S. Since 1994, New York City has been his home, where he has continued his involvement in undergraduate and graduate OM education and administration, political work in the field, clinical practice, research and publishing. In 1999 he founded the NY Kampo Institute whose mission is the dissemination of traditional Japanese medicine through teaching and practice.

These days Nigel divides his time between clinical practice, teaching, and publication & research. He is currently considered one of the leading experts in the practice and teaching of Kampo, lecturing widely throughout the US and abroad including Canada, Europe, Israel and Australia, He is a regular contributor to various peer-reviewed journals in the field and has published 4 books including a translation of a modern Japanese Kampo classic Kampo Igaku by Otsuka Keisetsu. His fourth book, Fukushin and Kampo, on the topic of Abdominal Diagnosis in East Asian Medicine, was published in October 2020. He has been on the faculty of both Tristate College of Acupuncture and Pacific College of Oriental Medicine where he taught courses in both Kampo and Japanese Acupuncture as well as supervising in clinic.

Nigel's private practice is located in New York City and incorporates Acupuncture, Shiatsu massage and Kampo herbal medicine. He lives in Brooklyn.

Upcoming events:

Kampo Management of G.I. Disorders hosted by Sun Ten Labs 6/27/21

Most recent book:

Fukushin and Kampo

For more about Nigel please check out his website:

Kampoherbology.com

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Bio: Amy Edelstein, educator, author, and public speaker is a powerful communicator of ideas and beliefs that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in. In 2014, she founded Inner Strength Education, a non-profit organization that has empowered 15,000 Philadelphia high school students in mindfulness and systems thinking and 1,400 Philadelphia teachers in self-care strategies. Inner Strength received the coveted Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)-recommended designation in 2018. ISE's new mobile app Inner Strength, free for all teens and developed to promote teen mental health, launched in April 2021. Amy was awarded a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award for her work in Violence Reduction and an IPPY Award for her #1 bestselling education book The Conscious Classroom. She began her own contemplative practice in 1978 and continued studying and practicing transformational tools and philosophies ever since. She is a Cornell University College Scholar and cofounder of the transformative learning platform Emergence Education. More at: www.InnerStrengthEducation.org and www.TheConsciousClassroom.com 

Just a quick word from Lukas.

The music this week is a tribute to my cousin Chris Sener. Chris was a beautiful vibrant young man and a truely inspiring artist. This week is Chris's birthday so rather than dwelling on our loss we're celebrating his life. He is a major reason why I had to confidence to launch this podcast. I am continuously working through my insecurity about expressing myself intelligently. But we only have one life to live. Why not just go for it? 

Intro: "Ketto" - Chris Sener

Outro: "Good Day" - Chris Sener

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Bio:

Noor Kyle George has been meandering a Sufi-esque path for over a decade and, along the way, somehow grew into a teacher in spite of herself when her teacher invited her to do so. She is a co-founder and co-faciliator of The Nine-Sided Circle, a mostly-virtual, no-mystery school in which the wisdoms of esoteric traditions and members’ life experiences are drawn upon in support of the pursuit of human adulthood and conscious Awakening. She co-hosts live public talks via Zoom every week -- anyone interested can join by connecting with The Nine-Sided Circle on Facebook or signing up for the NSC email list for updates. The replays are all posted on YouTube. Get in touch with her personally via Facebook or Instagram to talk about sex and gender in modern Sufism, the death(s) of “identity”, singing as an embodied spiritual practice, and/or the virtues of ice cream. (She's provisionally open to other subjects too.)

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Bio:

Tyson is Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at Deakon University in Victoria, Australia.

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World

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