Bridge to Being

Your Creative Sparks:

• We all VOLUNTEERED to have this HUMAN experience, and we need to REMEMBER the ORIGINAL ENERGY of this planet.
• The "PROGRAMMING" is there to have our spirits FORGET - to DISCONNECT from our heart, the land, our guides, our ancestors, and from Spirit in general.
• WAKE UP and remember. Get QUIET. Go WITHIN yourself. Sit in STILLNESS. You will be REMINDED, especially out in Nature.

The journey to get here screened out fear, transmuting and raising the frequency to one of awe and wonder. We find Lobsterbird and Cheeky in Taiga, an ancient valley. Lichens dominate the tundra, where the medicine is natural spring water, moss, horse and reindeer and dog. The smell of smoke rises from tipis dotting the landscape. Our magical friends stir up visions of ascension, a healing of spirit and lineage and Gaia herself, as the sun shimmers, rainbeads sprinkle and thunder speaks. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• Coming soon!

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's new book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde

• Connect with Crystal Seeder on Facebook!
• Previous episodes featuring Lobsterbird and Mongolia:Episode #24: Kontomble + Shamanism: Lobsterbird Walking in Crestone IIIEpisode #33: The Elementals: EARTH with Lobsterbird in MongoliaEpisode #35 The Elementals: SPACE with Malia Luna in Mongolia

Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.

Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the CrossRoads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind GO Solo Travel & Vision Quest.

For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero's Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.

✨The next pilgrimage takes us to Indonesia in November! If you want to build your business so you can make more money with more ease, and make a bigger impact with your work, shoot an email over to [email protected] for more details!✨

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Your Creative Sparks:

• We can access INFINITE SPACE through a BODY because the body IS infinite space
• Our PURE and NATURAL STATE would be in a constant, FLUID dialog that is VIBRATION.
• Don't we all want to RECONNECT with our infinite VASTNESS? BREATH helps us access that SPACIOUSNESS.

Our five-part series exploring the fundamental building blocks of life concludes with the fifth element, known as ether or space. We invite you to dissolve your preconceived notions about form and structure. Malia radiates with the light of the entire cosmos, spinning galaxies with her hands, describing concepts to Lobsterbird that are beyond words. "When I close my eyes and put my hand on you, I dissolve into the infinite space that you are embodying." Let go of your identity so we can be pure energy, embodying and expressing infinity. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

coming soon!

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's new book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Sharing medicine from the stars! Connect with Malia Luna to learn more about Emotion Code, Ritual + Intentional Tatoo. See her work on Instagram, including links to her YouTube channel and email.

Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.

Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the CrossRoads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind GO Solo Travel & Vision Quest.

For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero's Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.

✨The next pilgrimage takes us to Indonesia in November! If you want to build your business so you can make more money with more ease, and make a bigger impact with your work, shoot an email over to [email protected] for more details!✨

If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 stars makes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!

Your Creative Sparks:

• FIRE comes as a reminder that WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL.
• Making the choice to GO WHERE WE ARE CALLED often feels like BURNING.
• People are AFRAID of the fire of PASSION igniting their lives and changing everything.

Our five-part series exploring the fundamental building blocks of life – their constitution, their character, our assumptions about them, and our relationship to them. Tune into the energetic - and often misunderstood - gifts of Fire with Lobsterbird and Kelli, also called Daenerys, Mother of Dragons. Reunited under the mighty Redwoods as the fires rage across Northern California, these business partners and cosmic twins peel back the mystery and majesty of the flame. Join the ancient council in the Grove of Titans and tap the wisdom that awaits you there - and everywhere. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• Daenerys has past lives where she worked with and commanded dragons. Do people have a sense of their past lives? Kelli's experience with Akashic Records reading says yes. "I'm only telling you what your soul already knows," she says. They realize they already know it, because of how familiar it feels. [3:09]
• Fire is actually very healthy in a forest. The Redwoods in particular require the blazing seasons in order to propagate themselves. Here's why. [6:36]
• Kelli was recently called to Italy. Following that still, small voice within led her on a journey which deepened her connection to, and her ability to communicate with, the Redwoods - who had promised to always be with her. [10:21]
• People get disconnected. PLACE doesn't often resonate with people as being important energetically, a critical factor to being grounded on this planet. [16:36]
• We get stuck in our heads and leave our hearts and get all confused, until we drop back into our hearts again. [20:27]
• Pilgrimage benefits: We set the fire. We watch it burn. We are reborn. [25:00]
• Burning down the house… Kelli has done this a number of times in her life, following that inner voice, driven by a need to answer those inconvenient questions. [28:48]
• Honor the force of fire – People are afraid of Dragons. People are afraid of the fire of passion igniting their lives and changing everything… I see a lot of women resisting this fire and suffering MORE. [37:07]
• The spiritual path isn't about *praying for something*. It's a relationship. You develop a toolkit to build a connection with spirit, based on trust. You build a relationship that you can rely on - so you can be more decisive; so you can feel more certain. [39:59]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's new book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Kelli's first book: The Destiny Roadmap: The Little Guidebook to Face Your Fears, Embrace Change, and Follow Your Heart
• Kelli's second book: The Relationship Roadmap: The Spiritual Guidebook to Ditch the Uncertainty and Find Clarity in Your Marriage (The Roadmap Series)
• Previous episodes featuring Kelli Reese, Lobsterbird's business partner and cosmic twin:Episode #15: Kelli Reese and Hailey Wiseman at Ek Balam in TulumEpisode #17: Kelli Reese in Manhattan | Flashback on Mexico BreakdownEpisode #20 Kelli in Glastonbury

Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.

Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the CrossRoads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind GO Solo Travel & Vision Quest.

For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero's Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.

✨The next pilgrimage takes us to Indonesia in November! If you want to build your business so you can make more money with more ease, and make a bigger impact with your work, shoot an email over to [email protected] for more details!✨

If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 stars makes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!

Your Creative Sparks:

• LESSONS from the land, elements, and animals… Are we paying DEEP ATTENTION?
• The EARTH is a *body* - and an extension of OUR BODIES.
• We must learn to HONOR and RESTORE what we RECEIVE from the LAND.

Our five-part series exploring the fundamental building blocks of life – their constitution, their character, our assumptions about them, and our relationship to them. Come galloping across the landscape, bouncing in the saddle, embracing your deepest desires and dreams disguised as fear. Lobsterbird shares wisdom gleaned from shaman and barking reindeer, as well as deep grief from the heart of the earth herself. Rattle your cages. Sound the call. Take in the untainted medicine of Mongolia and beyond. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• What I learned about myself from a horse named Rogue. I was wholly unprepared for this. [3:36]
• Fear and excitement are two sides of the same coin. They reside in and fire off in the same part of the brain. What might happen if you told yourself that you were excited instead of afraid? Here's what happened to me. [13:53]
• As energy healers, we give so much. How do we restore and give back to ourselves? And how might this principle apply to the energy we take from the earth? [18:00]
• Sitting in council with the Kontomble, allowing the heart of the earth to grieve through me… it split me wide open, people. [20:00]
• If we want our bodies to feel good, we need to tend to this larger body that we are a part of - the earth. [24:40]
• Practicum! Go out into the land. Put your hand on it. Practice the healing art of Ho'oponopono the earth. [27:03]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's new book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Episode #24 Kontomble + Shamanism: The Little People and Pilgrimage to Mongolia

• An intensely personal yet epic spiritual journey, The Horse Boy follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through Outer Mongolia, in a desperate attempt to treat his condition with shamanic healing.
• Ho'oponopono means to make right. Essentially, it means to make it right with the ancestors, or to make right with the people with whom you have relationships. It is an Hawaiian healing art.

Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.

Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the CrossRoads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind GO Solo Travel & Vision Quest.

For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero's Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.

✨The next pilgrimage takes us to Indonesia in November! If you want to build your business so you can make more money with more ease, and make a bigger impact with your work, shoot an email over to [email protected] for more details!✨

If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 stars makes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!

Your Creative Sparks:

• CAUSES and CONDITIONS are never as LINEAR as our mind wants them to be.
• The bad news is, YOU'RE FALLING, and there is no parachute. The GOOD NEWS is there is no ground.
• The greatest source of CONFLICT is UNFULFILLED EXPECTATIONS.

Our five-part series exploring the fundamental building blocks of life – their constitution, their character, our assumptions about them, and our relationship to them. Pull up a rock and ponder at the popup clouds with Lobsterbird and Pat, on retreat in the mountains of Colorado. Marvel at how an engineering mind and tibetan buddhist practice coalesce in an atmosphere of curiosity, respect and care. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• Where do clouds come from? Everyday magic. Just because you can figure it out with some scientific theory does not make it any less cool. [5:11]
• On the other hand, we can become utterly convinced over something that is completely delusional. [12:50]
• More about the paradox of Pat. Firefighter. Transportation engineer. Adding Buddhist practice to conflict management to bring deeper understanding of people and their emotional turmoil. [21:48]
• The greatest source of conflict is unfulfilled expectations. The remedy for that is looking within, because you can't control the outside world. [26:01]
• Practicum! If you get angry, disappointed, or hurt… Look at what is behind the emotion. Rather than blaming, stop and ask yourself: What expectation did I have of the other person that was violated? [31:04]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's new book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde

Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.

Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the CrossRoads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind GO Solo Travel & Vision Quest.

For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero's Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.

✨The next pilgrimage takes us to Indonesia in November! If you want to build your business so you can make more money with more ease, and make a bigger impact with your work, shoot an email over to [email protected] for more details!✨

If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 stars makes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!

Your Creative Sparks:

• WATER can be ALTERED in its STATE from liquid to solid to gas. Our BODIES are about 70% water... get it?
• Challenge your ASSUMPTIONS. Anything can CHANGE, and it's ALLOWED to change.
• CHANGE in the WORLD will come through the BODY.

Our five-part series exploring the fundamental building blocks of life – their constitution, their character, our assumptions about them, and our relationship to them. Meander along with us as Lobsterbird marks time and space with the illustrious Deborah Black, reflecting on the flow of their lives as performers and artists, how studying embodied practices has altered their paths, and how this momentum is leading to significant change in themselves and the world. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• We often get into habits with time. When we change those habits, a lot starts to come through the channel of creative flow. Water – what time does it hold in it? 6:00 There are many different kinds of water time… snow falling time, still water time, rippling water time, rushing river time… [4:52]
• Deborah's career began with her training as a dancer. She soon learned that she also wanted to use her voice on stage, and it started coming up in her choreographic work. She was looking for a theatre training that she related to, and she found the Viewpoints - her island of dancers and actors coming together to use their bodies in a different way. [8:11]
• "Corporations aren't going anywhere, but they want to become more human." This idea planted in my head that I wanted to be spreading embody practices to people who were not dancers. [13:36]
• How we get to flow… When water runs on your body, you get to feel all sides of water, even the inside of it. Not like a rock, where you only get to feel the surface. With the Viewpoints, you get to look at your assumptions about the materials of life… time, space, emotion, story… What are those things really? And what is my relation to them? You get to choose. [20:50]
• How would you explain the Viewpoints to your Grandma? Deborah connects with her ancestry and formulates a unique perspective to describe her embodied practice. [22:55]
• You can explain the Viewpoints in words, but you must experience it to really get it. We are breaking down time and space into different elements, and putting our attention on them in a new way. Then we can put them back together in new configurations and create new possibilities. [29:20]
• Artists and scientist are not really that different from each other. They are all researching without having any idea of what the result is going to be, and doing so with the hope that you are going to change someone's life. [31:11]
• How can the Viewpoints help us today? Uncovering assumptions! One is that the body isn't valued. But the brain is not disconnected from the body. Knowledge comes through more than just language. How can we integrate the moving body and the thinking body? [36:14]
• Anger is a tool. What makes me angry is that art has been placed in a box. Artists have superpowers from being in their bodies. Creating change in our society is calling for embodiment. [43:33]
• Practicum! Join us in a basic Viewpoints practice called Walk and Stop. Put down whatever you are working on, and prepare to challenge your assumptions. [49:00]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's new book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Teaching embodiment online is completely possible and totally radical. Deborah Black is a multi-disciplined embodied teacher, energy healer, dancer, and artist. Learn more about her Viewpoints online and in-person workshops, popup dance meetups, and how to work with her personally to help you: Be in your body, Embody post-modernism to create change in your community, and Take your business or project into the size/scale you imagine it to be at DeborahBlack.net.
• The Six Viewpoints as taught by Mary Overlie include: Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement, Story, and Space. Learn more about working with these deconstructed materials to gain new impact and perspective at thesixviewpoints.com.

Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.

Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the CrossRoads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind GO Solo Travel & Vision Quest.

For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero's Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.

✨The next pilgrimage takes us to Indonesia in November! If you want to build your business so you can make more money with more ease, and make a bigger impact with your work, shoot an email over to [email protected] for more details!✨

If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 stars makes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!

Your Creative Sparks:

• We can ENVISION with more CLARITY when we QUEST into the unknown.
• One thing that NATURE TEACHES us is how to be in FLOW, able to respond JOYFULLY to life's UNPREDICTABILITY.
• Not only can you alleviate physical problems by immersing yourself Nature, but you can tap into ANCIENT WISDOM, where REAL HEALING can occur.

Immerse yourself in the ancient realm of the Pisgah National Forest with Lobsterbird and Sonya Louise. Explore vision quest, earth medicine, forest bathing and more as these two shapeshifters wander together under craggy rock overhangs, among the stone people, squirrels, and fern angels, skittering over fluorescent mosses and through the faerylands. BEing in Nature bridges the practical physical aspects of ourSelves with the deeper, older elemental Spirits within. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• "Divine disorder" gave Sonya the permission to follow the call in her heart, removing her from struggle and striving and all the things she thought she HAD to do… All the things that kept her from doing what she felt she really wanted to be doing, which was to be in the earth. She finally said Yes to that call, threw a few things in her car, and started GOing, pursuing her own unique personal pilgrimage. [3:36]
• How Sonya's story became a book, in response to the hundreds of other women who express an inner longing for a solo travel adventure of their own. [8:38]
• Sonya discovered that her "wandering in the wilderness" was actually a Vision Quest. "My travel wasn't just about being on vacation and disappearing. I was questing." Normal every day life, our habits and patterns can obscure real *vision* from us. We can envision with more clarity when we quest into the unknown. [14:20]
• The scope of Sonya's work has become much more profound that simple survival tips. "I realized early on in my journey that Nature was communicating with me and teaching me things." She now passes that teaching on to others, showing women more than just logistically and physically how to be "out there" in a way that is smart and safe, but how to connect on a deep spiritual level and tap into the myriad of energies present and available there. [18:41]
• "I think of myself as a docent," says Sonya. "When you go to a museum, the docent helps you understand the exhibit on a deeper level… I suggest ways that you can interact with this exhibit to help open yourself to new perspective and possibilities." [26:00]
• From a purely physical level, Sonya's work is akin Shinrin-yoku, which means "forest bathing". This form of nature therapy originated in Japan and has a wide variety of scientifically proven health benefits. For women being called into the forest, it is likely their bodies are also calling out for healing. [33:53]
• When you give yourself to things that are not in alignment with who you really are and what you really want, you are literally giving your power away. How can you begin to take your power back? [45:00]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's new book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Go: Solo Travel for Women by Sonya Louise offers more than just a collection of her travel stories. In it, she offers persuasive evidence that taking a solo travel adventure is not only smart and safe, but can also be the most loving thing you can do for yourself, your relationships and the earth. Includes a detailed roadmap for how any woman can GO on a solo travel adventure of her own.
• Shinrin-yoku (森林浴) is a term that means "taking in the forest atmosphere" or "forest bathing". It was developed in Japan during the 1980s and has become a cornerstone of preventive health care and healing in Japanese medicine. Researchers primarily in Japan and South Korea have established a robust body of scientific literature on the health benefits of spending time under the canopy of a living forest.
• The Moon Lodge Reading is a useful tool for revealing that which is hidden and subtly in control of our lives. Schedule your free Moon Lodge Readings here. Connect with Sonya Louise on Facebook here.

Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.

Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the CrossRoads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind GO Solo Travel & Vision Quest.

For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero's Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.

✨The next pilgrimage takes us to Indonesia in November! If you want to build your business so you can make more money with more ease, and make a bigger impact with your work, shoot an email over to [email protected] for more details!✨

If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 stars makes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!

Your Creative Sparks:

• Does too much COMFORT and CONVENIENCE actually STIFLE our growth?
• What is good about humans is that WE CAN ADJUST TO ANYTHING.
• Larger than language, it is our ACTION that helps people UNDERSTAND US.

Part four and the "final" episode of our West African adventure! Lobsterbird talks with Ida-san, a man whose life took a dramatic turn at 50 years old, when he decided to challenge himself by going out of his comfort zone in a monumental, transcontinental move from Japan to Burkina Faso. What inspired him? And will it inspire you? Let your imagination take flight as we talk about making a big move, going where your heart is leading you, and finding the path to your greatest personal impact in the world. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• At 49 years old, Ida-san was a busy entrepreneur. He had worked as a hairdresser for thirty years and had grown his business to four salons with about 40 workers. One fateful day, he heard about a disaster in the mountains of the Philippines, where many people lost their homes and many children became orphaned. What he learned about the strength and ingenuity of these children would change his life forever. [2:20]
• Ida-san decided he wanted to try himself. "I wanted to become strong, to challenge myself. What will happen in such a place? Maybe I will give up. Or maybe I will become sick. Or maybe I will just close myself in the room because I cannot speak to anyone." Ida-san was inspired to find out what he was really made of. [7:04]
• In a new and harsh environment where no one spoke his language, Ida-san found himself wasting away, physically as well as personally. [10:14] After two months, he thought, "I gotta do something. If I keep being like this, I'm going to lose myself. I'm going to lose to myself, and I don't want to do that." What did he do to find his power, break the stalemate, and begin to feed himself and his soul? [12:12]
• How helping a little boy to fell a tree finally broke the language barrier and established new friendships. Ida-san explains, "I learned something. It's not about the language. I can connect my heart with other people at the first point, through my action." [13:48]
• Ida-san's body began to adapt as well, and he became one that could eat and drink anything. Even a gecko. [16:16]
• Ida-san's experience continued to develop within him new strength, ingenuity and persistence. At first dismissed as a foreigner, how did he finally convince a local expert in agriculture to teach his village how to grow rice? He eventually created a system that combined the best techniques from Burkina Faso and Japan. He also made thirty wells, constructed a school, and initiated many other impactful projects. [18:58]
• Ida-san sees a bigger role in his projects, working from inside the local community and understanding its history. How colonization created distrust between people, and Ida-san's vision to re-establish that trust. "In trust, there is a strong, strong power that we can create." [25:15]
• We don't have to break the system we have today to make an impact on the future. How can we put the elements of Nature into our civilized society, so that the law of the earth informs our understanding and the choices we make? [30:40]
• And what does Ida-san say about Africa being the motherland? "We all humans came from Eve, the mother, the first person. We have to go back unto Eve. From there, we should listen to what she is saying once again." [34:00]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's new book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Episode 26 Africa: Land of Creation with Miyu Leilani
• Episode 27 Africa: Land of Creation with Saori + Miyamoto
• Episode 28 Africa: Land of Creation with Cheick

Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.

Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the CrossRoads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind GO Solo Travel & Vision Quest.

For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero's Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.

✨The next pilgrimage takes us to Indonesia in November! If you want to build your business so you can make more money with more ease, and make a bigger impact with your work, shoot an email over to [email protected] for more details!✨

If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 stars makes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!

Your Creative Sparks:

• There is great SATISFACTION in the SMALL SUCCESS toward a vision.
• We just need TEN PEOPLE of common will to make a DIFFERENCE.
• The circle of GIVE and TAKE… It has the power to CONNECT the WORLD.

Part three of four on our West African adventure with Lobsterbird finds us in the office of Cheick, the organizer of the NyamaNyama International Art Festival. Here we discuss the ethos of why he created the festival and what it could mean for the future of Diébougou and beyond. Pull up a chair as we pull together something extraordinary. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• Before the NyamaNyama International Art Festival became a *festival*, it was just an activity organized to create awareness: to make the people of Diébougou aware of the need to take care of the environment, and to make other people aware of the city of Diébougou. [2:45]
• The vision for NyamaNyama came from a conversation between Miyu (see episode 26) and Cheick in transforming the issue of garbage in the city. Cheick's first challenge was to figure out what kind of activity would be of interest for the people of Diébougou *and* for those who would travel here from other places. [10:45]
• Cheick had organized other festivals before NyamaNyama, each with its own theme. NyamaNyama took all of these ideas and put them into one festival: traditional music, dancing and performances, local food, local products, a children's drawing competition and more. "People will come from far away to our dear city," says Cheick, "So the people and volunteers must find it interesting." [15:30]
• Cheick is not dispirited with slow progress. He holds firmly to the vision and believes that one day it will happen. "It is a long way, to change this kind of mentality. It has been years of people living this way," He says. "If we can change the minds of ten people, then those ten people can change the minds of ten others, and change will happen." [21:55]
• Cheick is gathering this small group of people through his efforts. Each person who comes is a small success, and even a small amount of success is a victory. [29:30]
• Diébougou may be a small place, but there is big work happening here. What we are doing can have effect into the future. It's about people with similar objective, similar heart, and big vision, coming together. Anything can be done, if we have the same will. [33:03]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's new book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Episode 26 Africa: Land of Creation with Miyu Leilani
• Episode 27 Africa: Land of Creation with Saori + Miyamoto

Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.

Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the Cross Roads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Sacred Survivor Quest.

For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero's Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.

✨The next pilgrimage takes us to Indonesia in November! If you want to build your business so you can make more money with more ease, and make a bigger impact with your work, shoot an email over to [email protected] for more details!✨

If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 stars makes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!

Your Creative Sparks:

• Your life's PHILOSOPHY can be as SIMPLE as doing what is right in front of you.
• Sometimes CLARITY begins with knowing what we DO NOT WANT.
• Why worry, when IT ALL WORKS OUT in the end?

Part two of four on our adventure in West Africa. Hang out with us on the porch under the hot African sun, while Lobsterbird endeavors to ply open the hearts behind the hands of Saori and Miyamoto. Undisguised and unpretentious as they come, these two volunteers simply followed the flow of life to Diébougou and found happy meaning among the singing children. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• How did Saori come to be in Africa? By airplane!, of course. This artist draws with the children of Diébougou. [2:20]
• Saori's philosophy of life is quite simple. She does what is in front of her. When asked what she WANTS to do in life, her response is that she is far more clear on what she DOESN'T want to do, like to go business meetings or wear fancy, poofy clothes. [8:46]
• Saori doesn't get caught up in thinking about problems, her own or the world's. Does she have any problems? "I can't think of any," she says, "But if I started coughing, I would be more concerned about my health than about the problems of the world." [14:04]
• The Diébougou children follow Saori and Miyamoto around. Saori humbly dismisses the gesture and remarks that they are just interested because her skin is a different color. But Sophia sees deeper into the special relationship there… [19:20]
• Miyamoto's philosophy of life is to say yes, always to everything. This freedom to say yes included many years of drug use. "I used drugs to free myself, but in the end, I was captive to drugs," he says. "It became the opposite. So I quit. I came to realize that there is more freedom without drugs." [24:05]
• What does Miyamoto think of Diébougou? It simply happened by chance. He hasn't traveled anywhere else, so he has nothing to compare it to. The children here pay attention to him, and so he pays attention to them. This makes him happy. [38:20]
• Like Saori, Miyamoto doesn't spend his time in worry. What about poverty? War? Diseases? "Of course everything exists," he says. "There is nothing that is weird about having them. But I don't join inside. I join poverty, but I'm not thinking that I'm poor. I don't have money, but I've never had a problem with money. I always have what I need for the day. [45:00]
• Happiness for Saori and Miyamoto is not a goal in and of itself. Happiness seems to be a natural outcome from a simple life that is free from worry and goes with the flow. [54:04]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde

Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.

Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the Cross Roads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Sacred Survivor Quest.

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