BodhiSpeak with Jerry Walsh

With clarity and compassion, Ari teaches and practices astrology as a spiritual tool in service to our soul evolution. His teaching is rooted in the lineage of Evolutionary Astrology as taught by Jeffrey Wolf Green and continues to blossom with his own ongoing realization. In 2011 Ari wrote the foreword to the republished classic Pluto the Evolutionary Journey of the Soul by Jeffrey Wolf Green, as well as his own Beginner’s Guide to EA. He has been teaching in various capacities since then and launched his own Heart and Soul Centered Astrology Two-Year Training Program in 2021. Ari is a student of A Course in Miracles, a musician and lives with his family in Sonoma CA.

Find more out about Ari and his offerings & work here: 

https://arimoshe.com/

Dimitri Mugianis is a writer, artist, musician, ceremonialist, and harm reduction practitioner whose work explores psychedelics, addiction, spirituality, community, politics, and the ways people heal outside conventional systems. For more than twenty-five years he has worked with people navigating addiction, trauma, and profound psychological and spiritual experiences, pioneering community-based approaches to ibogaine and other psychedelic practices.

Drawing equally from the Beat tradition, avant-garde music, activism, and contemplative practice, Dimitri writes and speaks about the intersection of personal experience and social change. His work explores the commodification, medicalization, and militarization of psychedelics, the contradictions of late-stage capitalism, and challenges dominant narratives around recovery, psychiatry, and the psychedelic renaissance, arguing instead for relationship, culture, ceremony, and community as central to healing.

His writing has appeared in STAT News, The Guardian, Salon, Jacobin, Left Voice, and other publications, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, NPR, VICE News, The Village Voice, The Daily Beast, and the documentary I'm Dangerous With Love. He is currently at work on a memoir and a collection of essays exploring the cultural, political, and spiritual implications of psychedelics, harm reduction, and recovery.

Sound Healer Training with Dream Seed 26-27

Frankenstein - who is the real monster? Self-love as the basis of integration 

Venerable Lama Konchok Sonam is the Spiritual Director of the Drikung Meditation Center. Born in Lhasa, Tibet, Lama Sonam began his Buddhist training when young within the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. At the age of 18, Lama Sonam took full ordination and became a monk (Gelong). Lama Sonam then went on to complete a retreat on Ngondro (Common and Extraordinary Preliminaries) and the Five-Fold Path of Mahamudra under H.H. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche and Gelong Yeshe. Lama Sonam received teachings and blessings from more than twenty-five great masters, including Nyedak Rinpoche, his beloved main teacher, and the Most Venerable Pachung Rinpoche, the renown scholar and retreat master at Drikung Thil monastery. Lama Sonam served as disciplinarian at Jang Chub Ling monastery, in Dehra Dun, India. This difficult position required an extremely vast knowledge of the Dharma, and inspirational deep inner qualities. Lama Sonam has also served as the personal attendant to H.H. Chungtsang Rinpoche, H.E. Drubwang Rinpoche, Tongkar Tulku, and H.E. Thritsab Rinpoche, and tutored American tulku Thadag Rinpoche (Jack Churchward).

On June 9, 2003, Lama Sonam arrived in Boston to be the Resident Lama at the Drikung Meditation Center. Lama Sonam has shown himself to be expert in both the theoretical and practical aspects of training the mind through meditation and Vajrayana methods for awakening our Buddha Nature. In the fall of 2005, Lama Sonam started the Jowo Rinpoche Statue Project to benefit the Boston area, the United States, and the world. Lama Sonam began to realize his vision of bringing the blessings of Buddhism, from Buddha Shakyamuni and countless other enlightened masters from the East- India, Nepal, and Tibet, to the United States by creating a pilgrimage site. Arriving in May of 2008, the centerpiece of the pilgrimage site is an eight foot tall gilded, jewel-encrusted bronze, the U.S. Jowo Rinpoche Statue. The magnificent U.S. Jowo Rinpoche statue is a replica and spiritual emanation of the most revered Jowo Rinpoche statue that was made at the time of the historical Buddha and brought to Lhasa, Tibet in 641 AD.

This is a personal and collective invitation. You are welcome to join in whatever way resonates with you:

Join the vigils and conversations via Zoom

Fast in a way that aligns with your capacity—full, partial, from food, a habit or distraction

Hold moments of daily silence, prayer, or reflection together

Share stories, light candles, or simply witness

Together, we reflect with curiosity, become aware of our role in all of it, take responsibility for what we create, reimagine what’s possible, and manifest peace through conscious presence.

There is no need to RSVP. Just join us when you feel called.

Zen Buddhist Teachings and Beyond inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh and others

Descriptions are empty but I am home, I have arrived

Our very own Mateo Bazgier joins me in-house for discussion on the coming changing times and astrological insights of the year 2025 - a profoundly unique and extra - ordinary year of change and paradigm shift galore

https://thecosmoswithinus.com/about-us/

In Mateo's own words:

"Originally I come from Poland. I was born into a family of astrologers, both my stepfather and my mother were full-time astrologers since I remember. I was saturated with this atmosphere since early childhood, but I started to study astrology when I was 20 years old.

In 2015, I moved from Poland to New York, where I have been exposed to various teachers, including Maestro Manuel Rufino, A.T. Mann, Kypacha, Anne Ortlee, Mark Waltz, who represent different lineages, schools, and approaches to astrology.

I’m a member of the Initiatic College and Golden Drum Community based in Brooklyn. For 10 years I have been studying sacred traditions of humanity under the guidance of Maestro Manuel Rufino and other Elders from different traditions and indigenous cultures. I’m also a multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer, and sound healer, which I combine with astrology with great success.

I really love teaching astrology to groups, but my favorite form of practice is private 1:1 consultation session. When we can have a real dialog about important life events, we can create a space to go deep into certain aspects of the chart and see how it is reflected in a client’s life. Together we can get to an understanding of how the natal chart works in a client’s relations, work, business, study, and growth process and how to realign with one’s unique planetary blueprint.

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THERESA BEAR FOX

Shekon Sewakwekon, (Greetings everyone), My name is Theresa “Bear” Fox, my Mohawk name is Kenkiohkoktha, and I am of the Wolf Clan. My Mohawk name means I am at the back of a crowd of people or I am the end of a long line of people. I have five children. My oldest is a girl and I have four boys.

I was born into a big family. There are eight boys, six girls and I am the youngest. My Mother and Father were hard working. They made sure we were always provided for. They always made sure we had a table full of food and clean clothes to wear. We didn’t have a lot of money, but I didn’t feel that we had to go without anything. I always felt like we were rich, because I was so happy and I always felt loved. We always looked out for one another, and at times my sisters were like my Mothers too. I try and raise my children with the same family values. I taught them to take care of each other. I taught them to respect their elders and to take pride in who they are.  I encourage them to learn our language and culture so they can teach their young ones someday. My goal is to raise good mothers and fathers.

I  live in Akwesasne, and I love our community. I especially love how our people care for one another. If someone is going through hard times, the community comes together for a fundraiser and a lot of support. I always try to do my best to help out when I can. I am part of a woman’s singing group called “Kontiwennenhawi” which means Carriers of the Words. We get together once a week and we talk, laugh and learn songs. Our duties as a Singing Society are to help out in our community. We are often asked to sing for visitors or for the children in our community. We help out at fundraisers and donate money to people who are in need. We have a community fund account and we raise money by selling our CD’s or by singing outside of our community. Niawen kowa, (Big thanks)

Jo Confino is a leadership coach, facilitator, journalist, sustainability expert

He works at the intersection of personal transformation and systems

He is co-founder and co-presenter of the acclaimed podcast series ‘The

We sit down to discuss Zen Buddhism, Thich Naht Hanh and spiritual transmissions, global conflict, activism, community action, and the power of simplicity 

Read more about Jo here:

Besides facilitating events and conferences all over the world for the past

As a journalist for more than 40 years, he was executive editor, Impact &

York. During his five years there, he developed long-term editorial projects

Before joining HuffPost, he was an executive editor of the Guardian and

Jo also created and managed the sustainability vision and strategy for the

He is a fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts,

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Zen ramblings and grappling with global atrocity