Fearless Presence

What we bring to what we see and why.

Libra and Aries are opposite energies in one way, but in another way, they are very similar astrologically. Astrology has been so valuable in terms of helping with pattern recognition. There is an interplay between the pattern and what the pattern is doing over and over again. Everything is energy. The fundamental difference in yin and yang is not a pattern.

How do you shift your perspective on your story?

We are all wired for what is familiar, not what is right for us. Aries and libra are associated with the cingulate gyrus and the amygdala. Chinese medicine associates the kidneys with fear and the interplay between initiating something different and doing what is safe for you. Aries and Libra bring us to two major turning points in our earth's relationship with the rest of the universe and with our sun and the universe. Astrology of the West. Aries and Libra are very different, but they are also very alike. At each equinox, we are moving towards the light or the darkness of the great mystery. Libra is full of baggage.

Aries libra interplay and balance.

Aries and libra interplay and how they show up in her life and how she is seeing it in her charts right now. The cultural myth that Libra is the one who makes things happen. Letting go of vision boards and manifesting strategies to focus on doing something. Justice is a big word right now. Justice is a puzzle. It's a paradox. As a libra, aries feel like they are often in the balance equally with all the people they care about. Native americans had a strong principle of reciprocity in their culture.

Astrology of the West vs. Vedic astrology.

Sometimes things can come back into reciprocity or balance if at the moment one side is doing more than the other side. Egyptian and Vedic astrology The parallel energy structures that are held in different patterns by different gods like Jupiter, vishnu, shiva and Dionysus. The astrology of the west and the western way of thinking. If one wants to change the world, they have to change themselves. Astrology can help us do that. Every person on earth goes back to one mother, the mitochondrial eve.

High contrast trauma.

Our nervous systems are always seeking contrast, but the nervous system will not let you live a boring story story, one without contrast. The universe is always whacking you upside the head with a two by four. War can take people to a different and yet similar kind of edge. Dionysus and the age of terror.

Libra scales.

For a set of libra scales, there would be four platforms on it versus two, because all humans experience change through alertness, awareness, reward and rest. Nerve firing is a contrast. Aries and libra are the two spots in the zodiac where there are two times of equal balance, the equinox and the full moon. The path to wellness at all levels.

The sun is associated with the thalamus.

The sun is associated with the thalamus, the center of the brain, and is the relay station for everything. The sun fuses together two elements, hydrogen and helium. Nerve cells in the thalamus are associated with the water that is in all of the cells and that fills all of us. Neurotransmitters break down into water when fired. Full moons are the only two celestial bodies that are here on the earth without the moon to stabilize orbit and regulate the waters.

What happens when the neuron fires?

A full moon is a chance for everything to have a different stimulus and to clean house and release patterns that have been holding on to. 10 neurotransmitters do 99% of all functions, but it's more about how they cycle through them than how they live statically. Being present with the cycle is what being present is. The hardest thing as a parent is letting the child live out their own karmic journey and not trying to intervene in it. Holding the tension of the opposites is a contrast.

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Pisces rules the feet and foot pain.

• How saturn moved into pisces and aquarius, and how it caused her mother to come down with foot pain.
• Which one of the pisces is a stronger one.
• Every birth chart is designed so that life on earth is designed to be always breaking new ground. Breaking something gets broken in every breakthrough.
• The challenge is to be both grounded in the mother line and individually added from it, not a state.
• The importance of finding joy and pleasure in darkness.
• The new story about darkness is that black holes are the most luminous structures in the universe, that your darkness is your light, and that the darkness isn't scary.

The story of the womb of darkness.

• Darkness is a story that gives enormous power to a very small group of people. It is the womb of light of our birth.
• Darkness and light became the thing.
• There is more love in the dark than in the light. Too much light scorches everything, dries everything up, and things become too brittle.
• Darkness is the space where people rest.
• Where the darkness showed up as a gift, and where it showed up with opportunity in ways that she used it well or didn't have to repattern later.
• How she discovered her fascination with darkness.

Seeking out the dark.

• Seeking out the dark in childhood, feeling alone with the universe, retreating to her room with the shades drawn.
• The pluto signature in the third house of astrology.
• Our brains live in a little black box and only know the information that it gets from our bodies, eyes, ears.
• The myth of Persephone, both kidnapped and rescued by Pluto.
• Being rescued from the story that has mesmerized us for so long about light only light and how that leads to working 24/7 and never being able to rest.
• Melanie shares her story.

Rescuing us from disempowered, disembodied bodies.

• Isis and osiris, the story of how the stars moved and how Osiris got chopped into pieces as the king of egypt, but came back together.
• Medicine as an institution has the worst osiris wound.
• The earth is having its dark night of the soul, and that we are all participating and experiencing that with the earth.
• The gift of astrology and mythology.
• Zooming out to the 60,000 foot view is anxiety inducing and inspires purpose. It has been transformative for her own mental health and physical health.
• Trauma has a creative role in the world.
• The dark goddesses that are all transformers of trauma, and how they do not try to heal their own trauma.
• The trauma-free life.

The importance of owning our traumas.

• Trauma is something that comes inside of us and wants to transform us so that we are not the same person we were before it happened.
• The two primary traumas in her life.
• The purpose of a doula is to wake us up from thinking we are nouns, not verbs, and to support the birth process.
• Melanie is a trauma doula.
• Astrology has been a magic elixir for her, and the stories that go with it have been a framework to help understand what's happening.
• The black Madonna tarot deck.

The power of the dark goddess.

• Every birth chart is full of darkness. Life is filled with darkness, and the dark goddess invites us into it.
• The first use of satan in the old testament.
• Marsha defines darkness as a bigger being over time, but she loves how she redefines darkness and how it is fundamentally held in the nervous system.
• Dutch teaching systems hold the stories we know and the ones that we haven't yet discovered. Story lives epigenetically in our bodies.

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Exploring the meaning of life.

• Chronic regional pain syndrome crps, is a leading cause in health crises and trauma, seeing them as messages, not random or divine punishment.
• The role of purpose in the health crisis.
• The astrologer Caroline Casey used the phrase, "My dangerous, beautiful assignment," in a conversation with Sophie Strand over a year ago.
• Setting the stage for the diagnosis.
• Every life is a compromise with the understanding at the time and the larger understanding of who one is moving into.
• One day near Christmas, a long cashmere scarf knocked her off balance.

How did you become aware of your physical health?

• She was 55 years old and had broken her right arm four times since she was six, the fifth and last time she broke it.
• She was working for a private university.
• She was finally diagnosed with a complex regional pain system called reflex sympathetic dystrophy, or RSD, which is a misfiring of the nervous system.
• RSD is very mysterious and can start in one part of the body and then spread to others. It is unpredictable.
• She was fired from her job in her mid 50s.

How did you know you needed help?

• She went to every major medical center in the south face and was all the same thing, a sad diagnosis.
• She started working with an herbalist and neurofeedback.
• The first several times she went over a period of months twice a week, she was fascinated by the brainwaves.
• The flare-ups continued to get more and more infrequent.
• The four transits beginning at 50 and ending around age 62, beginning with the chiron return and ending at 62 with the chariklo return.
• Being in the window of the second saturn return.
• The four transits that are our guidepost and initiators through our 50s, which is the journey when we realize we are on the track.
• The four yin yang pairs.

Connecting back to the bigger picture.

• As a woman in her early 50s, she relates to how this is unfolding in her own life right now.
• When she stops thinking about herself, things flow the best.
• The last time he had a flare-up was in 2010, and only in the last few years has he begun to realize she had lost everything.
• The framework of how she lives her life.
• The most devastating betrayals are the ones where the person always knew, but pretended they didn't know.
• We can't get enough of what we don't really want.

Numbing yourself to pain.

• We live inside a pain body where the payoffs are so large, comfortable and generous that we believe we just have to learn to live with this pain.
• Success is a way of numbing.
• The process of breaking her arm five times to avoid her own healing process around her complicated relationship with holidays and holidays.
• The pattern of breaking one's right arm three times or four times, and how this pattern was fundamentally threatening to her.
• Broken arms lead to an opening of space for the left hand pass in the right hand.
• A book of Greek myths, persephone and her journey to the underworld.

How do elbows and forearms relate to saturn?

• The earth rotates one degree on the ecliptic every 72 years, and the Earth rotates by one degree.
• The average carrying angle of 90 degrees is 72 degrees.
• Bones, crystals and rocks hold the oldest memories, and there is a whole physiology about how bones connect to the brain.
• The astrology of her foot fracture was so hilarious.
• We are all here to see these things and how they happen for us and for the collective vs. to us.
• Black holes are the most luminous structures in the universe.

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The transition from outer medicine to inner medicine.

Melanie introduces her guest for this episode, Kerri Hummingbird, medicine woman, mother and mentor, and founder of inner medicine training and mystery school. The transition from outer medicine to inner medicine. The power is outside of yourself to do anything

How to get out of your own way.

Her journey from western medicine to shamanism and energy medicine, and how it led her to yoga, a spiritual mentor, medicine and shamanic teachers. Her journey into the mystery of her own experience. The need for knowing that western society misses out on the power of the word mystery in their culture, and why people are addicted to knowing everything. How to tap into the timeless.

Being addicted to being right exactly.

Being addicted to being right, and how this is challenging for the western mind and conditioned mind.

China outlawed qigong many years ago to prevent people from knowing their inner being.

People are trying to control you and what they want you to do.

People are addicted to talking and not good at listening.

There is not one reality for everyone.

The paradox that boggles people's minds is that there is not one reality for everyone. There are 8 billion realities on the planet.

The importance of curiosity.

You are the only subject that matters, and your nervous system and your body is going to respond differently and have a different relationship with intuition.

Everything on the planet is interrelated.

The power of the story.

The power of story, the stories people tell each other, the stories they tell about each other, and how they influence each other.

The neuroscience of storytelling.

Louis Madrona's method is effective because it gets out into the open the story that everyone's telling and makes accountability for every person to own their own story.

Privacy practices are killing us.

Secrets can keep you sick.

Secrets keep us sick. They are not isolated. They have energy associated with them. Anyone who is empathic or psychic or sensitive can feel that the whole truth isn't exposed.

The loss of shamanic traditions has caused us to have more built up trauma than we have ever had.

Being isolated from the tribe.

Being isolated from the herd is such a big threat, and that is a really old ancestral reptilian brain truth.

The talking stick circle gives every person a chance to voice what they need to voice.

The importance of listening to all perspectives to be in harmony with the environment, not just humans, but all of life on the planet.

The gift of having two ears.

Cardinal directions and the center.

The book is organized in cardinal directions, north, south, east, west, and center.

The west helps us feel everything, see the beauty, and claim the wisdom from the wound. The north helps us navigate our multi-dimensional self. The east helps us nudge through synchronicity, message, curiosity and experiments along the path of greater discovery.

Everything on earth is something that has medicine and guidance.

How to set an intention for your medicine journey.

How the book leads people through a medicine journey, and why the book is architected this way.

How people can get more information about Kerri and her work.

The middle way is the path that embraces everything that life has to offer. Carrie shares her book and her medicine.

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Introduction to Marigny's background.

• Marigny's background in finance and mental health.
• Everyone wants more money without having to talk about it.
• How her mental health background has served her.

The importance of building a relationship with your financial planner.

• Everyone has their own stresses and anxieties about money.
• Historically, financial institutions have been transactional.
• The value of a financial planner.
• The most difficult challenges women face financially.
• The gender wealth gap is even larger than the pay gap.
• Racism and redlining.

Life transitions that impact financial decisions.

• The financial aspects of a divorce.
• Community property state in Louisiana.
• Major life transitions, divorce, marriage, job loss and career changes.
• Health insurance.

The cost of not having a financial advisor.

• The cost of not having someone help you.
• Stress drives poor decision making.
• How trauma and family patterns play a role.
• Having a second person there.

Pain points in the financial services industry.

• Pain points in the financial services industry.
• How to determine the best fit for you.
• How to communicate with a financial planner.
• Fiduciary has confidentiality standards.

Risk tolerance level.

• The general investment climate right now.
• Risk tolerance level is not a comfort level.
• The importance of having a stable foundation.
• Specific goals and needs for each account.

Who is on your team?

• The importance of having a good financial planner.
• Art helps the brain and taps into the subconscious.
• Art is a practice for her.

The importance of hobbies and time for them.

• Hobbies are important to stay balanced.
• Putting things on the calendar to give yourself permission.
• Why art is important in the healthcare industry.
• The cost of not doing it.

Using art as a deterrent for discipline.

• Art as a deterrent from long-standing patterns.
• A technique called neuro-graphic art.
• How her mom is an expert in mind-body medicine.
• How to get more information about Marigny.

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Melanie’s introduction.

• Introduction of Dawson Church, phd, award-winning science writer.
• Being on the leading edge of the craziness.
• Bliss is feeling really good.

How do you measure happiness?

• How to measure happiness on a scale.
• The highest frequency wave, gamma.
• The 10,000 hour process to create the EFT system.
• A pivotal experience in a hotel.

Training people to acquire the brain states of zen.

• Training people to acquire brain waves really fast.
• How to get there in 10 minutes.
• Transformation in one session or a few simple exercises.
• The short path, the direct path.

How neurotransmitters are like drugs.

• How neurotransmitters are like drugs, similar to pharmaceuticals and recreational drugs.
• Psilocybin and morphine.
• Why Dawson meditates every day.

The importance of coming back to the here and now.

• Two minutes of grounding at the end of each eco-meditation.
• Why feeling bad is so important.
• Happiness is not necessary for evolutionary survival.
• The importance of being on high alert.
• Modern day society and the threat of the pandemic.
• The benefits of bliss.

Different types of meditation and their benefits.

• Stroke patients can still gain improvement 20 years later.
• The seven distinct schools of meditation.
• Seven different kinds of meditations in tibetan buddhism.
• Using a visual cue in Tibetan Buddhism.

Loving kindness and compassion in meditation.

• Loving kindness and compassion are the most powerful components of meditation.
• Compassion fatigue.
• Compassion in meditation produces quicker wiring and suppression of self-absorption.
• Tibetan monk's moment of greatest danger.

Compassion.

• Compassion is not just for others.
• The power of self-compassion in 2017.
• Wildfire racing down the hillside toward them.
• The next morning they woke up to devastation.
• Emergency meditation during the pandemic.
• The importance of being blissfully happy every day.

How meditation and immunity work together.

• Resilience is not a psychological trait, only a volume of tissue.
• Meditation and mindfulness.
• Immunity and meditation in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic.
• EFT acupressure and meditation.
• The power of energy consciousness.
• The vision for basic public health.

Innovation in health care.

• Innovation in healthcare is bleak.
• The medical system is highly resistant to innovation.
• Acupuncture is a quantum leap for mental health and pain.
• The resistance to EFT.
• Get a copy of bliss brain.

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• Intro. 0:01
• Tilly is a holistic sex coach and tantra teacher.
• Tilly's story of transformation.
• The birth of her son. 2:29
• Waking up to deeper truth about her body.
• The jade egg practice.
• Challenges people have with their sexual desire.
• One of the biggest issues with sexuality.
• What will spark desire in women? 7:35
• What will spark sensuality for women.
• What will accelerate desire in women.
• How does childbirth and trauma affect sexual health? 9:00
• Backtrack to childbirth and trauma.
• Religious and media conditioning and how it affects sexuality.
• How birth can affect sexuality.
• How birth experiences can affect sexual desire.
• What is sexual health and pleasure? 13:33
• Why oral sex is confusing.
• The benefits of doing this type of work.
• Getting to know yourself without conditioning and trauma.
• The dallas tradition of sexuality.
• What is the source of pain? 18:11
• Tension and stress is stored in the vagina.
• Neurological and nervous system work.
• Vibrator addiction and sexual pleasure. 20:22
• The link between the throat and the sacral.
• Vagus nerve and the vagus nerve.
• Vibrators are an easy way to get to orgasm.
• 30 to 40 minutes of orgasm.
• What happens when women don’t say what they want? 24:55
• The average couple has sex for seven minutes.
• One of the biggest fallacies in relationships.
• Couples often end up divorcing or reviving their sexuality.
• Why men come to you.
• How to create sexual healing on a collective level. 29:33
• Creating sexual healing on a more collective level.
• The double standard between men and women.
• Relationship coaching and tantra for couples.
• How to get more information about Tilley.

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For more about Scott Roos go to teacherscott.org

Introduction to the episode. 

Welcoming Scott roots to the podcast. Scott is a yogi teaching qigong and practicing Vedic astrology. The resurgence of ancient and indigenous medical practices. An Ayurvedic practitioner vs an Ayurvedic doctor.

American Medical Association only recognises MDs and doctors of osteopathy.

American medical association only recognizes MDs and doctors of osteopathy. The blurring of boundaries between doctors and yoga. The difference between Ayurvedic medicine and western medicine. Vitamin c and Ayurvingic medicine.

What is the problem with western medicine?

Different ways of thinking. Stress causes 75-90% of all disease. How the body mimics the zodiac. The three doshas, Aata, Pitta and Kapha.

What kind of person are you dealing with?

Dealing with different types of people. Differentiating between vedas and kapha. Belief is just the way the world works. The science behind higher veda.

The basic science of Ayurveda

Why cold water with meals is not good. The neuroscience of storytelling and the neuroscience of change. Modern medicine vs acute care medicine.

How to heal a herniated disc? 

Steroids and Ayurveda to heal the body. The story of a student from meijer. Somatic plasticity of the body. The difference between herniated discs and non-herniated disc

Yoga Training and Kapha pathology. 

Yoga teacher training and Ayurvedic practitioner. The importance of hydrating the body. The Vedic astrologer who inspired Scott. The year program with Dr Laden Albuquerque.

How the vedas describe leaky gut syndrome.

Leaky gut syndrome in Ayurveda and modern medicine. Vedic astrology and Jyotish framework. The difference between western and eastern ways of thinking. The key to understanding eastern thinking.

Where modern medicine gets its start. 

Modern medicine is addicted to being right. The importance of giving up power. The daily show interview with a congresswoman. The American medical association and diabetes association.

How to be healthy in an unhealthy environment?

Society is addicted to sugar and junk food. The modern world is a youtube addict. McDonald's is not the cheapest meal. Keto and paleo eating plans are popular

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• Melanie introduces her guest, Margaret Jacobsen. 0:01
• Introduction to Margaret Jacobsen and her business.
• Margaret's background in healthcare.
• The importance of credentials and showing up. 2:48
• Rising up into who you are.
• Credentials and showing up.
• Battling for a masculine world.
• How she defines femininity
• What is the difference between traditional and modern Chinese medicine? 8:23
• Traditional chinese medicine is a synthesized version of classical medicine.
• Chinese medicine in the us.
• The pandemic of sleep and rest.
• The importance of restorative moments.
• Mantras that work for Melanie.
• How Melanie uses her chakras to heal blockages.
• How we reduce everything to one dimensional systems. 14:42
• Reducing everything down to one thing or one-dimensional.
• The importance of trust.
• The importance of being honest with oneself.
• How Melanie helps us release blockages.
• The magic is in the falling apart. 20:03
• The magic is falling apart.
• Intuition is a feminine quality, and it is important.
• Developing the intuition muscle.
• Naming emotions and being clear on your language.
• Reciprocity is important. 23:35
• Native American traditions of reciprocity.
• The importance of teaching reciprocity in relationships.
• Shine high and shine bright for those who are worthy. 28:23
• The quality of yin and femininity.
• Blessing the heart for those who are worthy.
• Cervix is the original route to the earth.
• Take responsibility for everything that makes movement.
• The science of how thoughts become things. 34:04
• The science of thoughts and pleasure.
• Carolyn Elliot's existential kink process.
• Getting out of the routine of thought patterns.
• Abraham Hicks, giving yourself momentum.
• Having a blame-free zone.
• Owning responsibility for everything, including yourself.
• Using your voice to assert yourself. 41:20
• Women overwhelmingly play the game of how much can they bear.
• The first time.
• Nervous energy, butterflies and nervousness.
• Having a working relationship with people and yourself.
• Why is peace the end goal? 44:48
• Why peace is not the end goal.
• Being the only person who can take the crown.
• My mother pulled the rug out from under neath.
• Shaking off a false identity.
• Using tarot cards and pendulums to connect with intuition.
• Being the pendulum yourself.
• Learning to let your intuition flow. 51:04
• The four planets in pisces and mediumship abilities.
• The first question her astrologer asked her.
• We are all slow learners.
• How to get more information about Margaret
• Where to get more information about Ayurveda? 55:32
• Where to get more information about yon care.
• High altitude sickness medicine.
• Being in the trenches and being the real deal.
• Finding joy and pleasure in everything.

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Learn more about Justin and Lisa at prescottpt.com

Introduction. 

Introduction to Lisa and Justin McKinney. The first piece of change starts with Lisa. Heart palpitations and digestive issues after covid-19. The vagus nerve is getting better. Night and day difference after 18 months of all-day stomach pain. Success story.

What drives you to become a physical therapist? 

Sleep apnea. What drives her to collect all of her skills. Feeling things in the body is a huge primary driver. Seeing lives changed by PT.

Staying away from Pts.

Lisa calls PT her drug of choice. Stepping away from PT for brain integration. Bringing up the body part to improve body functions. Limiting is a common issue.

The magic show of physical therapy.

Lisa describes her private practice as a magic show. Lisa shares her favorite techniques. The human connection and how it can unlock pain. The intention is everything.

Bringing all of yourself to the table.

How physical therapy has changed in the last 27 years. The american physical therapy association. Being receptive and confident in the skill set. Educating the client.

How to talk to your body.

Creating a safe space for the client. An exploratory approach to therapy. The body has its own language. Bike fitting and hydration for the body. The worst thing to do to the heart is become dehydrated. Bilateral plantar fasciitis.

The importance of proper posture and posture. 

Look at the kinematic chain to the elbow, shoulder, neck. The value of movement. How posture affects the nervous system. How kyphotic posture supports the aortic arch.

How to get in touch with Justin and Melanie. 

How to get more information about Justin Lisa. Finding the right physical therapist or neuro practitioner.

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