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Amansala is named in Sanskrit after Tulum's peaceful, crystal-clear waters. We're headed there in July 2026 and would LOVE for you to join us. In this episode, Brian and I talk all about the details....feel free to reach out with any questions by emailing us at [email protected] 

Retreat Info: https://inlightenretreattulum.com/

Amansala Website: https://www.amansala.com/about

Book Club Book (we'll send it to you when you register): "How To Read Water" by Tristan Gooley

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For info about the Tulum retreat, please visit http://www.inlightenretreattulum.com.

Sophia Eliana is a Denver-based queer folk musician, florist, and dancer originally from Monterey, California. She fosters the craft of storytelling through lyricism that weaves wit and warmth, allowing laughter to spill from each song like sunlight dappling through the leaves of a dense forest. Her undergraduate studies began as a voice principal at Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain. Among sheep and root vegetables, she concluded her undergraduate studies farming at College of the Atlantic on Mount Desert Island, Maine. Sophia Eliana has embarked on multiple national and international tours, performing at venues such as Mengi (Reykjavik, Iceland), The 1932 Criterion Theatre (Bar Harbor, ME), The Artist bar Valencia (Valencia, Spain), Sonoma Bluegrass & Folk Festival (Sonoma, CA), and Underground Music Showcase (Denver, CO). She has opened up for notable artists including The Ballroom Thieves, Emma Klein, Marielle Kraft, and Spectre Jones. Anyone attending Sophia Eliana’s shows is guaranteed to walk away with a belly full of giggles, a softened smile, and an ooey-gooey heart. Listen to her studio sophomore album, “Glitter Bug,” recorded at The Wonderhaus with Jacob Williams and Noah Dearbon, available on any streaming platform now.

Connect with Sophia 

https://www.sophiaeliana.com

Instagram @thesophiaeliana

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Interested in taking a yoga teacher training, working with me as your Ayurveda Health Counselor, or going on an upcoming retreat? Check out the Madre & The Muse website for details.
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For info about the Tulum retreat, please visit http://www.inlightenretreattulum.com.

Farrah lives a life devoted to the high heart and sacred spirit. She grew up in Boston, MA and now lives on the coast of North Carolina with her orange tabby cat named Baby.

From a very young age she has always been deeply connected to Spirit and finds fulfillment in sharing what she experiences, integrates, and reflects upon. She is a devoted yogi, writer, artist, and spirit channel. She hosts live monthly writing workshops focused on spirituality, self reflection, connection to the infinite and beyond. In an age of advancing A.I and false voices, Farrah’s goal is to support the community in finding their authentic & unique voice expression, empowering them to use it and to grow this community of soul writers like a star constellation imprinting their essence into the galaxy.

On instagram and substack you can find her @spiritcrescendo

https://substack.com/@spiritcrescendo/note/p-182174623?r=2e4fuq&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

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Interested in taking a yoga teacher training, working with me as your Ayurveda Health Counselor, or going on an upcoming retreat? Check out the Madre & The Muse website for details.
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For info about the Tulum retreat, please visit http://www.inlightenretreattulum.com.

Songs have always been there for Moorea Masa (pronounced More-ray-uh Mah-sa), being raised in the musical mecca of Portland, Oregon. The daughter of an Italian immigrant father and a Black mother born abroad, this singer/songwriter/guitarist has been making music for as long as she can remember. At fifteen, she was already looking for chances to perform by sneaking into local clubs, where she was lovingly adopted into the vibrant community of Portland musicians. Moorea has toured the world and shared a stage with artists k.d Lang, Allen Stone, Big Wild, Rachael Price (Lake Street Dive) The Motet, El Vy, Nick Waterhouse, headlined tours in Europe, and supported other artists including Corrine Bailey Rae, Emily King, Lawrence, The Dip, Lady Wray, Bernhoft and many more. 

Connect with Moorea and check out her music!

Intro/Outro Song: Rose Colored Glasses (check out Elixir episode from 8/8/23 for a little backstory on the song)

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Interested in taking a yoga teacher training, working with me as your Ayurveda Health Counselor, or going on an upcoming retreat? Check out the Madre & The Muse website for details.
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For info about the Tulum retreat, please visit http://www.inlightenretreattulum.com.

Jenn Slade is a structural integration practitioner, anatomy, educator, and longtime yoga teacher who helps people feel more connected to their bodies and move through life with greater ease. With a masters degree in human movement and advanced training, in fascia focused manual therapy, she blends science and somatics to support long-term, whole body change. Jenn makes the language of the body approachable, empowering clients and students to better understand their structure so they can reduce pain, move more freely, and feel more at home in themselves.

Connect with Jenn and book a session to feel good. 

Intro/Outro Song: Rose Colored Glasses (check out Elixir episode from 8/8/23 for a little backstory on the song)

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Interested in taking a yoga teacher training, working with me as your Ayurveda Health Counselor, or going on an upcoming retreat? Check out the Madre & The Muse website for details.
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For info about the Tulum retreat, please visit http://www.inlightenretreattulum.com.

Ben is a plant nerd, a people nerd, and the founder of D.W. Alchemists — a zero-proof apothecary lounge devoted to the ancient art of gathering well. He used to build things in the world of corporate tech; now he builds spaces for connection, curiosity, and botanical wonder. Somewhere along the way, a runaway lavender bush and a few wise plants changed his life. These days, he’s on a mission to help people remember the magic of being alive, one elixir at a time.

Connect with Ben and learn all about the magic of DW Alchemists in Wilmington, NC. 

Intro/Outro Song: Rose Colored Glasses (check out Elixir episode from 8/8/23 for a little backstory on the song)

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Interested in taking a yoga teacher training, working with me as your Ayurveda Health Counselor, or going on an upcoming retreat? Check out the Madre & The Muse website for details.
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For info about the Tulum retreat, please visit http://www.inlightenretreattulum.com.

Sydney Kale is a student, author of The Love Language of Plants, and human in love with the world. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Wisdom Studies from Ubiquity University, with an academic focus on plant intelligence, phenomenology, and co-authorship with plants and the more-than-human. In 2021, Sydney completed an M.S. in Environmental Studies and Sustainability from Unity College. And in 2023, she completed an M.A. in Movement, Mind, and Ecology from Schumacher College. Through her academic studies and personal explorations, Sydney has been introduced to an enchanted world of relationality, kinship, and care.

Through practices of co-authorship with the more-than-human world, guided by collaborative becoming, connection, and attunement, Sydney relearned what it means to exist in the world and to be a part of an entangled ecology of communion. Plants have taught her what it means to be plant, and what it means to be human. Her academic writing and creative explorations are an expression of the relationships she shares with plants and her experience as a sensuous embodied human being.

Connect with Sydney:
https://www.sydneykale.com/

My Current Offerings:
Inlighten Retreat, Panama

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Thanks for listening and for your friendship.

Interested in taking a yoga teacher training, working with me as your Ayurveda Health Counselor, or going on an upcoming retreat? Check out the Madre & The Muse website for details.
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For info about the Tulum retreat, please visit http://www.inlightenretreattulum.com.

Annabeth is the ethereal force behind Anmara, a project merging organic synth-pop, dreamy ambient folk, and “post new-age” into sonic catharsis. Echoing strains of Enya and Florence & The Machine, she invites us on a journey of emotional exploration and beckons us not just to listen, but to dive deep and fall in love with life anew. 

The word Anmara refers to a mystical land made manifest when we cultivate HARMONY- between self, others, and planet.
Prepare to be transported, only to wind up back in the center of your Self.

Connect with Anmara:
https://www.annabethsings.com/

My Current Offerings:
Inlighten Retreat, Panama

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Interested in taking a yoga teacher training, working with me as your Ayurveda Health Counselor, or going on an upcoming retreat? Check out the Madre & The Muse website for details.
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For info about the Tulum retreat, please visit http://www.inlightenretreattulum.com.

On November 16, 2024, join local herbalists and the herbal-curious in Burgaw, NC for a day of celebration, education and community at the inaugural Southeastern North Carolina Herbal Conference

This one day event will include an eco-conscious market with local vendors and food trucks, community activities, and a rich selection of herbal workshops with presenters featuring: 

• Khetnu Nefer, herbalist and Founder/Director of the Gullah Geechee Herbal Gathering
• Robin Rose Bennett of  Wisewoman Healing Ways
• CoreyPine Shane Founder/Director of the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine 

With experienced teachers to provide instruction on how to work with medicinal plants, compassionate leaders to host fun and educational community activities, and earth-centric vendors to support the local  economy, the 2024 SENC Herbal Conference will leave participants feeling connected, inspired, and equipped to continue supporting their community’s health – physically, emotionally, and economically. 

Surround yourself with other passionate, enthusiastic people who are excited to learn from one another and celebrate the rich ecosystem we call home!

To Learn More Visit: https://sencherbalconference.com/ 

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Interested in taking a yoga teacher training, working with me as your Ayurveda Health Counselor, or going on an upcoming retreat? Check out the Madre & The Muse website for details.
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For info about the Tulum retreat, please visit http://www.inlightenretreattulum.com.

Before beginning work as the Senior Oceans Campaigner for the Center for Biological Diversity in 2022, Brady played key roles in fighting off multiple waves of approvals for expanded federal offshore drilling under multiple Presidential Administrations, decisively defeating the largest offshore drilling proposal in history under former President Trump. In his work with the nonprofit Oceana, he also succeeded in securing kwy support for a national ban on shark fin sales and trade in the United States. His current work involves holding the existing oil industry accountable for the damage they have caused at sea, and forcing them to shut down their dangerous operations.

Brady is a competitive freediver and has broken US national record 13 times, and North American continental records 4 times. 

As a passionate waterman and environmental activist, Brady has spent much of his life in water sports, marine biology studies, and ocean conservation. He graduated from UNC Wilmington with Honors in Marine Biology and went on to study for a short time on the Great Barrier Reef. 

He believes that human health, community empowerment, and ocean health are inseparable. As a competitive free diver and body surfer, he knows that the power of experience in the ocean can motivate us to protect it at all costs.  

After flying over the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Brady made a vow: to eliminate the threat of the oil industry at sea so that life can thrive and recover in the absence of seismic airgun blasts and oil spills.

Connect with Brady:
https://www.instagram.com/bradyorca/

Journal Prompt:

My Offerings:
Harmony in the Forest, Brunswick, GA

Inlighten Retreat, Panama

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Interested in taking a yoga teacher training, working with me as your Ayurveda Health Counselor, or going on an upcoming retreat? Check out the Madre & The Muse website for details.
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For info about the Tulum retreat, please visit http://www.inlightenretreattulum.com.