Bridge to Being

Your Creative Sparks:

• Often we look at PROBLEMS and think the answer is to throw money at it. But ART can help connect the HEART at a deeper level, where real SOLUTIONS can be discovered.
• IDENTITY can be FLUID. One gets to decide WHO they want to be and WHERE they want to be in the world.
• "HALF PEOPLE" can be the PIONEERS to build a bridge between cultures.
• The ways in which we RELATE to each other can be more important than the things we endeavor to DO for each other.

It's midday in Burkina Faso, and the heat says we can't work anymore. We are responding to the earth, not the clock, to tell us when to take a break. It's a lesson to not force things, but to connect deeply and move the body with the heart. Why not recline on the mats with us?, as Lobsterbird and Miyu Leilani discuss our common suffering, the meaning of identity on personal, global and social levels ~ and what is asked of us as global citizens. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• When it comes to humanitarian causes, there seems to be great connections taking place, but often the connection is about financial support. Often people don't know much about what it is they are supporting. They are not deeply connected in the heart. Miyu Leilani wants to change that for Burkina Faso. [8:48]
• Miyu was born in Japan, grew up in Japan, and moved to New York when she was 19. Japan is very "connected" to the United States, and Miyu heard about New York many times. But hearing about New York and living in New York is different. Talking about the United States in Japan vs actually living in the United States is so very different. [14:54]
• "How can people help us if we are not known?" Miyu organized the NyamaNyama International Art Festival to help connect people to the heart of Diébougou in a meaningful way. She wants people to know and love this place first, then together we can figure out what projects are appropriate. [19:00]
• Countries with money have problems. Countries without money have problems. How does cultural exchange actually change anything and help anyone? Why are multiple languages and multiple ethnic backgrounds important or useful? [26:46]
• A visit to City Hall can create a new identity? Discovering her true ethnic background as a "half person" initiated Miyu into a new role as a cultural connector. [38:08]
• Sixty ethnicities exist in burkina faso, living together, sharing the culture, loving each other and sharing the earth. It's super simple. Co-exiting is possible! [41:04]
• Africa was the motherland before tectonic plate activity caused the continents to drift apart. Our different cultures are basically all made up. We all started from the same place and share the same mother. [50:27]
• Doing something new is not new in New York. It's like a tidal pool in that the water is swirling, but it just stays in there. Too much of a good thing means things are suddenly unimportant. In Diébougou, everything is new, and everything feels so big. Each simple thing is a really big deal. [1:00:00]
• Conventional time does not exist here. People don't look at the clock. It's not the numbers they are dealing with every day. They have the time in themselves. They feel the time, loosely. Time here is more about the agriculture. They look at the earth and the sky and the wind, and they live with it. [1:08:30]
• God is different here too. For the Burkinabè, God is not about religion. It's about the whole spirit, the energy, the earth. [1:16:56]
• The local dance and connecting to the earth: even from a very young age, they are taught to have a relationship to the environment, time, rhythm, and their bodies. [1:26:00]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Hanging Out Amongst the Shadows, the blog about the thing that would change the course of Sophia's artistic career, leading to tremendous opportunities.
• Flash forward to the story of how Lobsterbird came to Africa in the first place, and where she ended up after this experience in Episode 24 Kontomble + Shamanism: Lobsterbird Walking in Crestone III.
• Read 7 Life Lessons from a Guy Who Can't Move Anything but His Face ~ Jon Morrow's Unstoppable blog shows you how you can accomplish more than you ever thought possible.

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:

• There are many artful PATHWAYS to the experience of UNIFIED CONSCIOUSNESS.
• The MEDICINE of DIVERSITY - we distill "Spirit" down into different forms, but it's all the SAME ESSENCE.
• The ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE is a metaphor for what is happening RIGHT NOW.

Let's dive right off this bridge to being! The Crows lead Lobsterbird and Sylvie to Jackrabbit Bend: a surreal little cove with laughing waves, dead trees growing like dancing beings, and Salvador Dali's third eye. Snuggle in the sand with Sylvie as we engage in some serious Earth Magic, celebrating the capacity of every being to belong and become free, mending the rift between worlds. We are definitely not in Kansas anymore! Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• In this surreal location, Lobsterbird and Sylvie connect over Salvador Dali, whose art symbolized that the world is not as it seems. While he was able to portray the world as it really is, he portrayed it in a way that most people can't really see it. [3:13]
• Sylvie found ballet to be a bridge, where she could be both tangible and intangible. She could be present in her body and expressing the more etheric realms simultaneously. The brain waves of ballet dancers doing advanced movement are the same brain waves as advanced meditation. [6:36]
• How important is a daily schedule? How do we organize something in our psyche to allow space for all that we want to experience. Can our schedule be a tether without becoming too rigid? [15:30]
• Connecting to a sense of "other-ness" - Our lineage is other-worldly as well as human. [24:00]
• Sylvie shares her journey to connectedness, as she went from being a hardcore atheist to holding ritual for the norse goddess Freya and celebrating the Celtic Wheel of the Year. [27:45]
• Being "off the path" is part of the path. [37:57]
• To mend the rift between the worlds is the ultimate medicine of the time. [45:55]
• What is embodied? How can we be human, be in these bodies, but also embodying and connecting to what more we really are? [52:32]
• Practicum: Rooting Down to Rise Up. Taking off your shoes, press the ball down of your foot down and raise the heel. Actively push into the earth so you can rise to the heavens. Make an intentional connection, a sharing of energy. It's reciprocity. That relationship is intrinsic and can be cultivated. [58:35]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• The Spanish painter Salvador Dali remains one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the twentieth century, regarded by many people as synonymous with Surrealism itself. His famous works, quotes, and biography can be found here.
• According to Norse Mythology for Smart People, Freya (Old Norse Freyja, "Lady") is one of the preeminent goddesses in Norse mythology. Freya is famous for her fondness of love, fertility, beauty, and fine material possessions.
• Sharing ancient medicine with the modern world, Liv Wheeler is a voice for the ancestors and the Kontomble. You can learn more about her work on Ancestorbridge.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 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:

• Every time I LISTEN to this inner voice, MAGIC and miracles happen.
• How the SQUIGGLY PATH leads us FULL CIRCLE, and into hidden connections with ancient places, people, and art forms.
• The Kontomble help me appreciate Nature and appreciate MY OWN NATURE.

In council with the Kontomble: Sitting on a rock in a little clearing; holding crystals; being stabbed in the arm by an antler wand; and talking to little people. Sophia returns to Crestone, Colorado and the San Luis Valley. Here she tells the story of how her evolution has brought her full circle AND into magical new realms, where Shamans talk to Reindeer and Nature Spirits tell jokes and take us on journeys into environmental healing and social justice. Get in the flow of this glorious mountain space with the valley view stretching out and the aspens ablaze in fiery pink. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• The plan from the Universe is far more expansive than anything our monkey minds come up with. How I found myself talking to "little people" and going on pilgrimage to... Mongolia? [5:25]
• Who are the Kontomble? [11:05]
• They just showed up. And they said, "We want you to talk with us, and we want you to talk to other people with us." And I was like, wha??? But then it all made sense, starting with me in New York watching a documentary called "InnSæi" - a film of inspiring interaction between experts in consciousness and radical insights on the power of intuition. [15:50]
• A series of serendipitous events eventually landed me in Burkina Faso, West Africa. I really wanted to walk around this land in the manner of Butoh/Noguchi Taiso, to better understand my relationship with the earth. I ended up teaching a theatre workshop. I had not completed my intention to connect with the earth, but I did establish a deep relationship with my host family (of the Dagara Tribe) and a goat. [19:50]
• Time cycles on, and I end up back in New York City, listening to an interview with Liv Wheeler, a Kontomble diviner. She was talking about Burkina Faso and how the shaman culture there was still very much alive. An inner voice whispers, "Listen. Remember." And then the voice says, "You're going there." Only "there" wasn't Burkina Faso. [31:38]
• Later, on pilgrimage in Glastonbury, the Kontomble burst into my log cabin for the first time. They came right through the wood walls, insisting that I play with them and my pilgrims and hold ceremony with them in Dartmoor. And YAY! [44:50]
• The buggy connection: A memory resurfaced from when I was four. I am barefoot on this piece of land, chatting it up with trees, the light, and the animals. I was building a castle for the ants and helping them go across the moat. I had lost that connection. But Ant Medicine is one of the themes in Mongolia, and now I know who I was talking to in the woods. [49:06]
• Practicum: Get Outdoors. Go barefoot. Explore your connection and know that you are supported. Take your shoes off, walk around with your bare feet, and listen. [1:00:01]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Lobsterbird's first book: Phase Out: The Secret Guide to Finding Work that Frees Your Soul by Sophia Remolde
• How a serendipitous journey via magical lobster trap first landed Sophia in Crestone, her Power Spot, and one of the key places that made her the Lobsterbird she is today.
• See if you can find my "Where's Waldo" cameo in A Place of Heart, a documentary about Crestone. For two years, I worked on the temple they show around minute [3:43].
• Episode #1: Walking in Crestone with Sophia Remolde
• Episode #3: Walking in Crestone II with Sophia Remolde
• Episode #20: Kelli Reese and Lobsterbird on Pilgrimage in Glastonbury
• Sharing ancient medicine with the modern world, Liv Wheeler is a voice for the ancestors and the "little people". You can learn more about her work on Ancestorbridge.com.
• 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.
• Exploring Astrology podcast with Adam Sommer.

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, adventuring along the White Oak Canyon waterfalls near Syria, Virginia. 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 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:

• Holding EMOTIONS happens in the BODY. We FREEZE in the middle.
• Giving women the time and space to tell the STORY of their BODY can help them to identify THEMES and LESSONS… the what, the why, and the LOVE.
• Jessi's BIO process creates a biographical SCULPTURE, a TANGIBLE reminder that you have SURVIVED.

Dirt is Love. Dirt, jiggle, sweat and vocalizing connection bring us deep into this balmy, beautiful day in Union Square Park. Following on the heels of two notable celebrity suicides, Jessica Browne-White of DreamscapesInk meets our Lobsterbird for a conversation around depression, shadow and the emotional body. Jessi is the colorful and exuberant creator of BIO (Body Image Object), an artistic process in which women's body stories are collected and cast into sculptures that create a healing transformation for the participants. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• Jessi is a hero just because she showed up for this interview. Having dealt with depression for most of her life, her journey is teaching her how to release the stigma and overcome, instead of falling victim to ingrained patterns of isolation and shame. [6:47]
• We often don't know what to say when we see someone in a struggle with depression. But you can't go wrong by saying, "I love you. I'm here." [12:55]
• The dark times and the shadow places are often the source of your ability to have compassion and to help people. When we realize a path that works for us, we can integrate the shadow and bring others along the healing journey with us. [15:45]
• BIO – Body Image Object was formed out of Jessi's desire to integrate her inner and outer world. She found that her inner turmoil manifested in physical ways, specifically in her body. BIO became a tangible way to release the pain and the self-recriminating judgement being frozen within the body and instead reclaim the beauty, complexity and purpose of it. [22:33]
• Jessi's BIO process begins with a conversation and ends with a biographical sculpture. During the client's storytelling, it becomes clear which part of the body has stored the main emotions, lessons, and recurring themes. Jessi creates a ribboned cast of this part of the body, a sacred ritual object, as a reminder that there is beauty and strength in all of these things that you have experienced. [26:26]
• We that have the greatest capacity for light experience the deepest darkness. Not only is it okay, but It's GOOD. Open yourself to feel ALL of the world. Even in the shadow, there is found humor and joy. [35:25]
• The Practicum! Jessi leads Lobsterbird in a practice to help move and shift energy through the emotional body. [45:45]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Jessica Browne-White is a Waking Dreamer and Energy Artist who makes the invisible, visible. She named herself DreamscapesInk nearly 10 years ago and has been making her dreams a reality ever since. She delights in exploring complexity, layered realities, and shifts in perception. Mystery, magic, and transformation also underpin her work. She believes we are all dreaming the world into being - creating & re-creating our existence - everyday. Jessi has over 25 years of visual and performing arts experience and all of her training has taught her how to identify, create, shape, and shift energy to create a desired outcome. The manufacturing of possibility. The means to make the invisible visible, tangible, possible. She invites you to dream your dream with her and shift your perception, and therefore the trajectory, of your life.

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, exploring the retrograde energy of the cosmos in the foothills of the Shenandoah Mountains near Madison, Virginia. 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 newest pilgrimage is a Virtual Pilgrimage beginning in August! If you are interested in soaking in some magic so you can Level Up, 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:

• Looking into perceived DIFFERENCES CAN MELT them all away.
• We come from ONE SOURCE. Whatever OUTER LAYER you wear is not an acknowledgement of separation.
• If I feel a DISCONNECT, it's from something that is INSIDE OF ME.

Guided by Spirit to sunny San Diego, Lobsterbird spends her Happy Birthday! learning to "Speak and Write to Make Millions." Here we find her with sister goddesses Dee and Ayofemí, sharing their work and wisdom in a sweet little vortex on the lawn of the Hilton La Jolla, with the grass rolling green over the golf course. The course of conversation also rolled into how to handle racial issues with sensitivity while creating a greater unity consciousness. #paradoxalert Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• How did I get here? It's my year of saying NO. And I don't even like golf courses… Sometimes we have to go out of our way to breakthrough limiting beliefs. [2:06]
• Ayofemí is a creative artist, student of Chinese medicine, and African dancer. Her trademark coaching course helps women cultivate a relationship with their womb power center. Here we learn about womb magic, womb healing and womb archetypes. [10:30]
• Dee spreads love everywhere she goes. Her passion is teaching women how to heal the relationship with themselves beginning with their relationship with food. The healer in her emerged through a dramatic food renaissance in early adulthood. [17:17]
• Fueled by the the mixed ethnicity of this Dare to Soar conference and the recent controversy with Danielle LaPorte's Lighter, Sophia weaves in a self-serving question for the ebony goddesses... one that centers on race. [24:54]
• Do people of color have a trauma that is inherited through genetics? And if so, how does the prevalence of mixed ancestry fit in? This includes our ideas around gender to. Do we just not address this, because it actually doesn't exist? [29:45]
• The awareness piece is very important. If we don't address the negative story, it will keep recreating itself. It needs to be resolved, but don't stay there. Express it. Re-frame it. Shift that story. We want our thoughts to go toward healing. [37:37]
• Part of the race issue is about wealth. When you grow up "humble", it's hard to take the leap into abundance and invest in your dreams. Is it harder for immigrants and people of color? [40:30]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Lisa Nichols' extraordinary story of transforming her own life from a struggling single mom on public assistance to Millionaire Entrepreneur is the inspiration behind her book Abundance NOW and her bold mission to teach others that it is possible to do the same.
• Ayofemí is known as The Sacred Womb Whisperer™. She is the founder of Womb Connection 101™ and The Sacred Womb Academy™, where she empowers womben to cultivate a relationship with their womb power source. As a result of her course & coaching, womben gain clarity within themselves & their lives, tap into their intuition, and learn how to harness their Divine Creative Feminine Energy. She is looking for womben who are ready to • stop playing small • stop dimming their light • ready to transform • excited to live the life they truly desire! If that's you or someone you know, connect with her at www.wombconnection101.com or [email protected].

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, feasting on the earth's bounty from the farmer's market in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. 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 newest pilgrimage is happening in Colorado in August! If you are interested in soaking in some magic so you can Level Up, 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:

• CREATIVITY is the spark of ENLIGHTENMENT.
• MAKING ART is creating the opportunity for ENERGY to flow through the artist and out into form.
• We are ALL MAKING ART together, creating this giant canvas, this giant performance we call LIFE.

The magical song of the Lobsterbird calls to us from the heart of the emerald forest, where she collaborates with Nature to help us bend our awareness around the concept of "Aesthetics". There are ways of knowing other than our physical senses. Our understanding of who and what we are is deepening. Paying more attention to the energetic qualities of our existence is accelerating and elevating our human consciousness. Letting go of aesthetics is another key to expansion and enlightenment. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• This episode was inspired by our podcast manager trying to wrap her head around the concept of "Aesthetics", as presented in a previous episode with Gerald Busby. [3:06]
• Sacred Survival School? Sonya Louise is helping Sophia prepare for her Vision Quest, helping hone both the practical and mystical skills she will need to rely on. While here, Sophia decides to get Nature's input on the concept of "Aesthetics". [5:15]
• Gerald's ideas on "Aesthetics" as understood by Lobsterbird: i believe he means creating a world in which things look and seem a certain way. that when we put a layer of opinion on anything, it becomes an aesthetic choice we make, instead of it simply existing as an amorphous, undefinable energetic entity (which it is at its very essence). in short, aesthetics = the world we perceive to be real. [8:24]
• Aesthetics and Artists: An artist who has been working on their craft for a very long time will develop an "aesthetic". Over time, the art that is produced is a product of this one stream of consciousness, an energy stream that is embodied in a person – the artist – and so similar themes and patterns will come up, creating a certain essence of it because of the imprint of the artist on it. [10:45]
• We perceive things in 3D form, as material objects. We are under the assumption that we are touching and feeling and sensing everything exactly as it is. For instance, we perceive each other as having a specific human form. But we are actually just a channel for energy flowing into form, and our consciousness chooses that form. [16:40]
• Is a rock really a rock? Gerald Busby's "Aesthetics" also talked about the "context" we put on things. Our thoughts about it offers context, and without that context, the form would simply dissolve into energy. Without assigning it form and meaning, the thing itself wouldn't exist. [19:29]
• To really BE: If presence is our power, and perception is our power, than we can enter a process of letting go of aesthetics... letting go of the meaning of things, especially the meaning of things that we have been given by others. [24:50]
• Buddhism and the Five Skandhas: How sensing> feeling> perception> formation> and consciousness can be summed up in poop, and why that stinks. [28:04]
• Art is a representation of what we do with our consciousness all the time. [34:54]
• When we go out into Nature, a quietness descends in our mind. There's a power that the earth has to somehow unravel the conditioning of context. We can tap into something here, a different way of being, untainted by our need to exert our human influence on it. [37:17]
• Practicum! Go out into nature. Be. Notice the sensations. Shift your senses. Allow your Self the space to sense without putting any kind of label on it, without having a reaction to it, without telling yourself whether it is good or bad. Allow your consciousness to experience this world without labeling it. [40:25]

Links and resources:

• Lobsterbird's newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Episode 18: Gerald Busby in New York City
• Episode 12: Power Truth of the Universe #1: Energy is Everything
• Episode 13: Power Truth of the Universe #2: Perception is Power
• Episode 14: Power Truth of the Universe #3: Consciousness is Creation
• Here Pema Chödrön talks about Tibetan Buddhism's five skandhas—the mental and physical characteristics that create and sustain the ego—and offers a simple lesson.

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, celebrating the Summer Solstice in Little Silver, New Jersey. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Sacred Survivor Quest, as heard on today's episode.

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

✨The newest pilgrimage is happening in Colorado in August! If you are interested in soaking in some magic so you can Level Up, 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's a FINE LINE between CRAZY and GENIUS. Many an artist has walked it.
• APPEARANCES are not at all what they SEEM, and not as important as we make them out to be.
• In the Land of Infinite Possibilities, when you open yourself to the possibility that ANYTHING can happen, anything CAN happen!

Of Legend and Lore and mystical Lands, in this episode we join Lobsterbird and Kelli Reese in glorious green Glastonbury, communing with two ancient tree creatures named Gog and Magog and preparing for the imminent pilgrimage. A new group of pilgrims are arriving to awaken and deepen their unique gifts and skills, to immerse in and surrender themselves to the flow of energy, and to open their hearts and their imagination to a new, magical perspective. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• The energy of the gnarled old oaks called Gog and Magog is extremely grounding. A fire nearly destroyed them, but something powerful and resilient remains. Death and Rebirth. [4:30]
• Driving by yellow fields growing barley, so bright, with a smell that is incredibly familiar, Sophia can see the elvin jumping. She experiences a deep, visceral knowledge of being supported - by humans and by beings of another realm. We all have that support, if we open our hearts to what's available. [11:11]
• Planning pilgrimage involves having a framework AND being open to letting the pieces fall into place. We humans want to plan. We want to feel like we are in control of everything. But that's what keeps us stuck. Letting go releases us into the flow, synchronicity, and magic. [14:54]
• Sophia walks through a portal and meets a Druid. Kelli acknowledges that she and Sophia were Druids in a previous life. Power principle: We have access to many different forms of information and many different ways of being. [23:06]
• We have to see the blood in order to access the beauty. We must allow ourselves to crack open with a willingness to let go and forgive. "The wound is where the light enters you." ~Rumi [26:26]
• The Gift the druid gave Sophia – the gift of ceremony. [32:18]
• Time Warp - Fast Forward! Sophia and Kelli begin the recap of their journey. Picture an indoor spring. A dark cave. A private ceremony. Chanting and singing. Twelve bodies in a circle, lit by candles, their hearts blowing wide open. [33:33]
• The pilgrims become the students of poetry and movement in a workshop by Deborah Black and Alyson Hallet called "Embodying the Line." [49:04]
• Butoh-ic Shamanism? Sophia learns of this healing practice and embodies her new knowledge in an improv performance in the redwood forest around a fire circle. The Gift of Ceremony is revealed! [51:31]
• After a Reiki healing ceremony at Stonehenge, the pilgrims head to Avebury – the feminine version of the standing stones. Here they were guided by Georgina, a high priestess of Avalon. [54:20]
• Healing abounds among the pilgrims at the Manor of Chippenham, a 13th century house with crooked stone floors, clawfoot tubs, and spaceship showers. [58:36]

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Lobsterbird's newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Kelli Reese's newest book: The Relationship Roadmap: The Spiritual Guidebook to Ditch the Uncertainty and Find Clarity on Your Marriage
• Deborah Black is a multi-disciplined embodied coach, teacher, energy healer and artist.
• Episode 10: Businesses Breaking the Mold: The Author Incubator
• What is Avalon? A place between mythology and the utopia of a lost kingdom…

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, leading her latest Vision Quest in the emerald temperate rainforest known as the Pisgah, the "Cradle of Forestry". 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 newest pilgrimage is happening in Colorado in August! If you are interested in soaking in some magic so you can Level Up, 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:

• Contemplating DEATH can help you appreciate LIFE - and prioritize how you focus your time and ATTENTION.
• We all want to be WITNESSED at our true ESSENCE, which is something akin to LOVE.
• EVERYONE who comes in CONTACT with you takes SOMETHING away from it.

They say "wherever you go, there you are" - but is that really true? How often are we actually *fully present* in the time and space we are in? A poignant popup from Where's Waldo sets the stage for deep discussion on the value of being present in our daily lives. As JayMee trims the follicles of our Lobsterbird, they deconstruct time and space and the story of social justice, inquiring into how to help and what kind of help is really effective. Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• If the name of the game is presence, we could just sit here and be *present*. Why do anything at all? [7:47]
• JayMee's bizarre productivity hack: There's nothing like a near-death scare to make you think about the bigger picture, give you energy, and spur you to action. Will you be happy with the way you have lived and what you have left behind? [13:33]
• Being present allows JayMee to catch special moments and be deeply touched by them. A family playing becomes a beautiful thing, and seeing kindness exchanged becomes a tearful moment. [19:49]
• JayMee wanted to be a force for change in the world, and she would fire off ideas then attack her list of things to get done to create the change she wanted to see. But her physical body couldn't keep up with her emotional drive toward social justice. She needed to learn to relax into the process and be fully present in the journey. [22:55]
• "Maybe it's more about helping one or two people instead of saving the world." [26:45]
• The Butterfly Effect in action: You are often completely unaware of how your passionate presence alone can be inspiring others toward radical action, even if you feel like your efforts are weak and ineffective. [32:45]
• How do you measure success? Can you ever be satisfied with what you accomplish? Maybe success is more about being fully present in ALL of life, not just when it's good; being willing to explore the depths of it, and learn from it. [40:00]
• Choose your tribe wisely - the people who will know you and understand you - without giving up on the ones who don't. [42:42]

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Lobsterbird's newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Read about Lobsterbird's predestined journey to Maine: https://lobsterbird.com/how-i-traveled-to-colorado-via-magical-lobster-trap/
• Episode 17: Kelli Reese in Manhattan | Flashback on Mexico Breakdown
• Episode 18: Gerald Busby in New York City
• The interconnected concepts of the butterfly effect, chaos theory, determinism, free will, and time travel have captured many imaginations since their discoveries. This article from Farnam Street may not actually tell you "everything you need to know about this mental model", but it's a good initiation into your portal of understanding… https://www.fs.blog/2017/08/the-butterfly-effect/

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, balancing on the slackline of work/ play/ family dynamics in Vero Beach, Florida. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Soulmate Survivor Quest.

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

✨The newest pilgrimage is happening in Colorado in August! If you are interested in soaking in some magic so you can Level Up, shoot an email over to [email protected] for more details!✨

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Your Creative Sparks:

• Order and hierarchy are an ILLUSION, and perception is a CREATIVE act.
• ENLIGHTENMENT is the opposite of RATIONAL thinking and CRITICAL judgement.
• The LESS I know what I'm doing or how I'm doing it, the BETTER it goes.

Every story has a protagonist and an antagonist. It's easier to tell the story. The NEW paradigm is the dissolution of aesthetic boundaries. Lobsterbird visits her mentor and spiritual mirror, Gerald Busby in New York City, where we are jostled out of our limiting views with his *alarming* embodiment of his progressive ideas on consciousness, enlightenment, and the foils of life. "My job as a person is to realize that this life is a wide open space, like the plains of Texas." Leave us a Rating & Review!

Your Travelogue

• You can become aware of yourself as reactive, and choose otherwise. Acting in his first movie and surrounded by starlets, Gerald was so frightened he could hardly breathe. "Robert Almond said to me, 'Don't resist your fear. Use its energy to tell your story.'" Focus on the energy and flow with it. Get out of your head. [13:40]
• Your repertoire of words, thoughts, and experience are in a corral of sorts that you have built with your consciousness out of a need to contain them. But there are actually no boundaries. Being mindful is understanding that there are no limitations whatsoever. Meditation puts you in the position to perceive yourself as non-aesthetic. [19:15]
• You think you need a foil. You need an enemy to know who you are. You get the most power from your group by agreement, and the best way to create an agreement is to create an enemy. That way we must come together. [23:14]
• The things that concern you are your thesis. Then you meet someone who disagrees with you, and they become the antithesis. When these two forces start talking and having a dialogue and form a new *synthesis*. [28:50]
• Stop defining yourself in terms of your ability to describe yourself. Get away from critical thinking. Simply be present, and turn yourself over to the mind of intuition. [34:08]
• "The truth is what's so. It's also so what." The essential existence of something is precisely the opposite of your intention to nail it down. There are no limits, and values are arbitrary. [41:15]
• Gerald's view on morality: You manufacture whatever you need to keep your tribe cohesive and together. And the quest for certainty? There is none. You create it. Certainty is whatever you say it is. [50:18]
• Consciousness is a mattress. "I'm lying on the mattress of consciousness," says Gerald. It's the elimination of resistance. To imagine yourself as a non-aesthetic being is to not resist anything. [59:19]
• The best things that happen to you are ostensibly by accident. You are really in tune with yourself when you turn yourself over to accidents being the highlight of your life. The more terrifying the better. [1:15:05]

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Lobsterbird's newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• An unorthodox experience in learning, Paul Baker's Integration of Abilities is a highly personal, thought-provoking philosophy of creative work of limitless application to all of the arts - and life itself.
• In No Man Knows My History, author Fawn M. Brodie tells the controversial story of Joseph Smith, the Mormon founder, a charlatan on one side and a prophet on the other.

Music for this episode was contributed by the demiurgic force within Gerald Busby himself, and arranged by Daniel Munkus 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, surrendering to the flow of life in Nine Mile Falls, on the bank of the Spokane River. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Soulmate Survivor Quest.

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

✨The newest pilgrimage is happening in Tulum in July! If you are interested in soaking in some magic so you can Level Up, 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:

• Often there is a BREAKDOWN just before the BREAKTHROUGH.
• Our most difficult ORDEALS are actually ORCHESTRATED to bring us into our greatest OPPORTUNITIES.
• There is NO such thing as SPIRITUAL BYPASSING. No matter how enlightened you are, you are not above the lessons.

The pilgrimage was amazing, but the journey leading up to it was not… Returning from a spiritual *high* at the Mayan ruins of Ek Balam (episode #15), our three American goddesses face some of their biggest fears when they become stranded in the middle of nowhere at night on a Mexican highway. Interwoven with clips recorded LIVE at the site of the breakdown, Lobsterbird and Kelli retell the tale and retrieve the treasure at recent a meetup in Manhattan.

Your Travelogue

• They knew they needed gas. Why would they leave the restaurant without getting gas, even though there was a gas station right across the street? Kelli saw the gas station, but in the moment it did not occur to her to stop. It wasn't long before the error hit her, the gas light started flashing, and she started trying not to panic. [5:25]
• These three amigas had taken on Goddess personas at the ancient Mayan ruins of Ek Balam. As Kelli's biggest fear was playing out right before her eyes, the three fell into these roles and "performed" them to a Tee. {Cue Power Truth of the Universe: we are the creators of our reality!} [14:19]
• Pushing the car across a bridge and running down the highway in her sandals, Sophia remembers that "the voice inside" had told her to put on sneakers, but she didn't listen. {Cue Power Truth: you have an internal guidance system! Our tale is full of examples of how this inner guidance system is always functioning in your favor, if you listen.} [21:21]
• Broken down on the side of a Mexican highway in the dark, Kelli is reminded of another Power Truth: You are there, so just feel, don't think. As she settles herself into being in the moment, she opens her eyes to the amazing display of stars, her ears to the song of crickets, and her heart to an incredible oneness with God. The ladies realized there was a purpose to this debacle, and they each had an opportunity to work on deeper inner issues. [31:00]
• Sophia and Kelli share some of the breakthroughs and lessons that came from their breakdown. [44:48]

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Lobsterbird's newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
• Bridge to Being episode #15 Kelli Reese and Hailey Wiseman at Ek Balam in Tulum
• Bridge to Being episode #4 Sumi in South Jersey

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, dancing with the song of the sparrow in the shadow of Mount Rainier in the Pacific Northwest. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Soulmate Survivor Quest.

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

✨The newest pilgrimage is happening in Tulum in July! If you are interested in soaking in some magic so you can Level Up, 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!