From Myth To Miracle: Tales of Inspired Humanity

Send us a text

First broadcast as part of our 31Women project which broadcast a new interview with a different woman every day in March 2023 as our month long celebration of International Women's Day. Lack of resources meant this project could not repeat for 2024, fingers crossed for enough sponsorships/subscribers in 2025.
Nina Stopar lives and works in Slovenia. Nina won a scholarship to study and work at Trinity Art Studios as part of her Masters in Abstract Painters at the University of Ljubljana. This scholarship saw her in London during the first lockdown, a process of unanticipated isolation. Nina says this as both "unfortunate and fortunate" for so much time alone in a studio impacted her art dramatically. In this interview we discuss at length her large canvas named 'Surrender' and what surrender means to her.  Nina says, "If you do not surrender in life, there is no life, there is no art, there is no magic." We also discuss abstraction, the meaning of colors in art and life, the relationship between dance and fine arts in the work she produces, the changing role of gender identity across the generations in Slovenia - with a spotlight on her grandmother, her mother and herself - and her definition of what it means in today's world to be a fully embodied woman. To follow Nina or be in touch about her poetry and fine art, go to: www.ninastopar.art 

Support the show

10-Month Course in Ancient Tribal Medicine Stories, Guided Meditations and Shamanic Healing Ritual Pathways To Aid Pain Relief designed by The Myth To Miracle Academy. For more info on this course, see here: https://mythtomiracle.thinkific.com/products/courses/ancient-medicine-story-pathways

Send us a text

On August 08, 2024 in an international broadcast filmed in UK, India and Japan, Adrian Beckingham speaks with Tushar Gandhi, the great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, and with Ryokyu Endo, custodian of the international Flame of Hope. We discuss the influences having a journalist father, and the famous Gandhi as great grandfather, had on Tushar's childhood and career. Among other works, this includes discussion about his novel 'The Lost Diary of Kastur, My Ba' in which he works to bring to the fore the voice of his great grandmother Kasturba Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's wife - via a diary she allegedly wrote despite having been generally believed to be illiterate. We also discuss the root causes and solutions to world unrest such as the London riots which rage just miles from where the interview is recorded in Adrian's London home. 
For more information about these speakers go to:
Tushar Gandhi: https://www.tushargandhi.in/
Ryokyu Endo shares a song he wrote for Palestine about a girl  he knows who was put in the prison by Israel: the name of  Tushar's great grand mother is in the lyrics:https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6y8x60

Support the show

10-Month Course in Ancient Tribal Medicine Stories, Guided Meditations and Shamanic Healing Ritual Pathways To Aid Pain Relief designed by The Myth To Miracle Academy. For more info on this course, see here: https://mythtomiracle.thinkific.com/products/courses/ancient-medicine-story-pathways

Send us a text

Our host Adrian Beckingham interviews international peace activist Ryokyu Endo, about his work as a custodian of first The Hiroshima Flame and now the international Flame of Hope, including symbolic meetings with world leaders, the descendants of historical figures such as President Truman, Churchill, and Gandhi - plus reflections on Palestinian children taking hope from Japan rising from the flames of Hiroshima. 
To learn more about Flame Of Hope: https://www.flameofhope.net/

Support the show

10-Month Course in Ancient Tribal Medicine Stories, Guided Meditations and Shamanic Healing Ritual Pathways To Aid Pain Relief designed by The Myth To Miracle Academy. For more info on this course, see here: https://mythtomiracle.thinkific.com/products/courses/ancient-medicine-story-pathways

Send us a text

First broadcast on March 3rd as part of our 31Women project which broadcast a new interview with a different woman every day in March 2023 as our month long celebration of International Women's Day. Lack of resources meant this project could not repeat for 2024, fingers crossed for enough sponsorships/subscribers in 2025.
March 3rd is World Wildlife Day so to honor this on '31 Women', we talk to the UK's penultimate Snake Healer and rescuer. Kwali Kumara lives in ‘FairyLand’ (Cambridgeshire UK) with her husband, two children, some adopted cats and 35 rescued serpents including giant pythons.  Kwali is a Mum, Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Mantra Artist, Sacred Sound Ceremonialist, Spiritual Guide and Serpent Healer. We hear about how her serpents add a rare quality of vibration to Kwali's life - including her kundalini teachings where they play an integral role. One of her greatest pleasures is witnessing how people who have come to her to face their fears, are magnetized by the enormous serpents and thereafter feel transformed and restored to face many of life's challenges. Kwali is a magnetic, uplifting and inspiring kundalini yoga and gong meditation teacher -  She creates a high vibration, safe, and sacred space for healing and transformation to occur. Her nurturing nature, passionate energy and colorful heart-felt enthusiasm for the teachings is highly infectious and motivating. She is one of the events managers for Om & Bass festival in Oxfordshire and the resident presenter, host and curator of the ‘Ceremony Space’ for the Mind, Body Spirit festivals in London and Birmingham. Kwali runs an online temple of teachings. Listeners to this podcast are invited to have a free month of access to over 160 different video recordings of classes, meditations and ceremonies. Use the gift code TEMPLE1 to sign up to Kwali's ‘Ruby Cluster Membership’ to get a free month of access to see if you enjoy the kundalini yoga technology. Find more details here: https://www.kundalinitemple.com

Support the show

10-Month Course in Ancient Tribal Medicine Stories, Guided Meditations and Shamanic Healing Ritual Pathways To Aid Pain Relief designed by The Myth To Miracle Academy. For more info on this course, see here: https://mythtomiracle.thinkific.com/products/courses/ancient-medicine-story-pathways

Send us a text

Sara Iman is an Egyptian storyteller, who speaks with our host Adrian Beckingham about how she first began storytelling; the power of storytelling to calm and focus to children, storytelling as dialogue; the importance of intention; and reimagining the narrative. Sara shares with us an original and explicit tale created around a historical perspective of Palestine and the Israeli occupation.We also discuss ideas for grass roots initiatives our listeners can adopt to help enhance peace and justice. You can follow Sara here: https://instagram.com/simamstoryteller

Support the show

10-Month Course in Ancient Tribal Medicine Stories, Guided Meditations and Shamanic Healing Ritual Pathways To Aid Pain Relief designed by The Myth To Miracle Academy. For more info on this course, see here: https://mythtomiracle.thinkific.com/products/courses/ancient-medicine-story-pathways

Send us a text

Adrian Beckingham interviews Master Storyteller and Peace Activist Donna Jacobs Sife. Donna is an Australian Jew who used to write a column for The Australian Jewish News where she often presented a stance critical on Israeli occupation. She discovered storytelling as a tool for community peace activism over 30 years ago. Listen to her share three enlightening stories from a range of traditions, plus about independent grass roots movements who - along with her own work - embody community groups co-run by Jews and Palestinians aimed toward mutual understanding, autonomy, tolerance, and an end to the struggles.

Support the show

10-Month Course in Ancient Tribal Medicine Stories, Guided Meditations and Shamanic Healing Ritual Pathways To Aid Pain Relief designed by The Myth To Miracle Academy. For more info on this course, see here: https://mythtomiracle.thinkific.com/products/courses/ancient-medicine-story-pathways

Send us a text

Support the show

10-Month Course in Ancient Tribal Medicine Stories, Guided Meditations and Shamanic Healing Ritual Pathways To Aid Pain Relief designed by The Myth To Miracle Academy. For more info on this course, see here: https://mythtomiracle.thinkific.com/products/courses/ancient-medicine-story-pathways

Send us a text

We talk with Emma Louise (previously one of our interviewees in the 31Women series in 2023) about the Forest Moon Camp where healing arts ranging from reiki, yoga, crystals, massage and campside shamanic storytelling can be enjoyed, delivered by gifted and highly experienced practitioners.Great chat very inspirational and covers lots of ground from camp activities to holistic and/or shamanic healing, and attitudes to money/poverty/abundancehttps://facebook.com/events/s/forest-moon-healing-retreat-ca/793409255393561/

Support the show

10-Month Course in Ancient Tribal Medicine Stories, Guided Meditations and Shamanic Healing Ritual Pathways To Aid Pain Relief designed by The Myth To Miracle Academy. For more info on this course, see here: https://mythtomiracle.thinkific.com/products/courses/ancient-medicine-story-pathways

Send us a text

We first heard from today's guest Aysu as part of my 31WOMEN project. Now we host another interview with her to hear about the Solidarity Festival she is organising as a Music For Turkey fundraising event live on Saturday May 6 is Spain. She also gives listeners an update on the food kitchens which have been set up to feed the many thousands of people now living in tent cities in the areas devastated by the earthquakes.

Please donate to help the people devastated by the earthquakes: https://www.gofundme.com/f/turkey-after-devastating-earthquakes?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet

Listeners can tune into Aysu Cogur - including the opportunity to listen to some of the fundraising concert - using any of the following links: https://linktr.ee/aysucogur
https://soundcloud.com/aysucogur

Youtube channel: aysuisu

Instagram: aysuisu
Facebook Music Page: Aysu Cogur

Support the show

10-Month Course in Ancient Tribal Medicine Stories, Guided Meditations and Shamanic Healing Ritual Pathways To Aid Pain Relief designed by The Myth To Miracle Academy. For more info on this course, see here: https://mythtomiracle.thinkific.com/products/courses/ancient-medicine-story-pathways

Send us a text

First broadcast as part of our 31Women project which broadcast a new interview with a different woman every day in March 2023 as our month long celebration of International Women's Day. Lack of resources meant this project could not repeat for 2024, fingers crossed for enough sponsorships/subscribers in 2025.
Sabina grew up as a mixed race Persian/Indian/English/Irish child in London which remains her home. Bullied as an outcaste at school, she was lured into the world of fashion modeling at a very young age and later toured the world as a pole dancer, married a rockstar in the USA, and finally returned to London where she rekindled a latent love: playing guitar, songwriting and singing. Being the last in the 31WOMEN series, in this extended mix you'll hear some of Sabina's story and inherent wisdom, plus a story from Adrian our host with a true and entirely remarkable traveller's tale. With extra songs this extended mix waves our listeners a fond farewell, until we meet again at some Crossroads (the name of one of Sabina's original songs, heard here in an intimate recording). Follow Sabina here: https://instagram.com/nikkidarlin?

Support the show

10-Month Course in Ancient Tribal Medicine Stories, Guided Meditations and Shamanic Healing Ritual Pathways To Aid Pain Relief designed by The Myth To Miracle Academy. For more info on this course, see here: https://mythtomiracle.thinkific.com/products/courses/ancient-medicine-story-pathways