Garden and the Moon

Biodynamic farming and living, with Anthony Mecca

Anthony Mecca is a whisperer, he’s an advocate and a truth teller. Gently, in communion, with purpose and eloquence, Anthony speaks on behalf of the natural world, the plants, the flowers, the trees and the stars. 

His ability to connect with them is almost beyond word. In fact, when spending time with Anthony and the natural world, one can feel the impact of every form of his speech, every sound he is witnessing and every blessing he is counting.

Anthony is a biodynamic farmer and a teacher, also husband and father of a 4 years old daughter. He lives in upstate New York, USA.

Any of his offerings and teaching on the themes of biodynamic agriculture, developing new faculties of perception, the nature of substance, and an understanding of nutrition based on Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture Course to support soil, plant, animal, and human health, is a work toward the future and the potency of the present.

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Farming for over 20 years, Anthony has rich practical experience with vegetables including seeds and breeding, nearly any type of farm animal, draft power, dairying including processing, medicinal herbs and pharmacy, small grains, and perennial crops including berries and tree fruit.

The Sun Heart Farm and Sun Heart School for Spiritual Agriculture in NY, USA (www.sunheartfarm.org) is where Anthony farms, conducts research, and offers workshops and courses in biodynamic agriculture for all ages. He also provides a Foundations of Biodynamic Agriculture distance learning cohort based course and is the author of the EduCareDo year-long distance learning subject course Biodynamic Agriculture and Nutrition.

Food as Medicine with Dominique Gassin

Dominique Gassin is a naturopath and functional nutritionist. She is a recipe consultant, restaurant owner of Chez Judy and author of several books on health and eating well.

Dominique is one of those persons who made me love Paris again. She is a breath of the Australian sunshine living in France, the depth of what healing is all about and a friend that one would dream to have, except she is real!

In this conversation, Dominique shares about her story and missions, in Paris and beyond. She reveals her commitments to true living, her takes on the French women, her role as a mother of three boys.

There is something so pure and enlivening in her, so elegant and playful. There’s a richness and generosity in whatever she brings to the world.

To find out more about Dominique’s work and world: https://www.dominiquegassin.com/services

Absolute beauty with Pratima Raichur

Indian born Dr Pratima Raichur has been living in New York City since 1977. She is the founder of Pratima Ayurvedic Skincare and author of “Absolute Beauty”, a book written nearly thirty five years ago and still considered as the “Bible of beauty” by the finest editors and creators in the world.

Encountering Pratima’s radiance feels like a stepping stone for anyone walking the path of the understanding of true beauty.

Here are a few highlights of our conversation unveiling all the different layers of beauty, food, aging, the five energies and the three main virtues of life. 

Food as Medicine with Chef Rajesh Sharma

Up North India, near the city of Dehradun, Chef Rajesh is reinventing the world of food and hospitality. 

Leading the culinary offering and culture at Vana, a beautiful temple of healing at the foothills of the Himalayas, Chef Rajesh Sharma has pushed the understanding of “food as medicine” to the next level. 

Locally sourced, organic, vibrant, generous, fresh (all is made à la minute, throughout the day), perfectly executed and essentially based on the principles of Ayurveda, the art and science behind Rajesh’s food connects all the dots, meeting anyone exactly where they are, from their cultures and backgrounds, medical conditions and body constitutions, moods and freedom.

His food chain and supply are all based on years long connections and relationships with farmers and communities around.

His work and collaborations with Ayurvedic and Tibetan doctors have brought forth a powerful earth body synergy, celebrating the seasons, the elements, the rhythms, the journeys.

In this conversation, Chef Rajesh shares about his story, his love for home cooking, the ingredients, travel and India, fear and misunderstandings when it comes to health and food, reconciliation and connection.

The Vana cookbook (10 years in the making) has just been released, like an act of revelation, a march for revolution. It is called Anayu, meaning food (Anna) and life (Ayu).

I am so grateful for Chef Rajesh’s voice and nourishment. 

Traveling with Ulli Allmendinger

Ulli Allmendinger lives between Germany where she is from, Turkey and Bali.

She has been studying Ayurveda in the USA and India since 2003, under the guidance of renowned teachers such as Prof Dr Subhash Ranade, Dr Robert Svoboda and Dr Vasant Lad.

She provides Ayurvedic consulting & education to whomever encounters her path.

Mainly she lets the world unfold petals of herself willing to open and grow. 

Her latest book and work can be found here.

Alchemy with Matthieu Frécon

Matthieu is a French alchemist living in between a rose garden in France and a remote mountains’ valley in Switzerland.

From a very early age, he got interested in the Kabbalah, the Tree of Life. The thread continued into the discovery of alchemy and its therapeutic medicinal aspect, spagyrics and Paracelsus, Buddha.

Right away Matthieu “knew” that health and spiritually had to work hand in hand. Spirituality is ultimately a branch of health and health is a branch of spirituality. 

In fact, like Paracelsus, his two masters are nature (the observation and experience of it) and the Gospel. 

Matthieu makes the most elevated & enchanted potions and remedies. He is a healer at heart.

This conversation is in French (with an English transcript coming soon)

Discover about Matthieu’s work here.

Metamorphosis in Motion with Gahl Sasson

Kabbalah is an esoteric method, a discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. It is referred as “the act of receiving”, the art of accepting.

It is the Tree of Life.

It is at the core of Gahl Sasson’s work of connecting astrology, psychology, storytelling, music, singing.

In this conversation, recorded in Istanbul where we happened to be both at the same time, Gahl unveils some of the key aspects of 2026 and the years to come, he shares about his story and life travels. Mainly he brings forth the symbolic language of nature and sacredness, connecting us all.

You can find more about Gahl’s work and newly released book: Metamorphosis in Motion, the Astrology of 2026 , in the link below:

https://cosmicnavigator.com/

Pain Management

The KARE podcast series unveil the wisdom of Ayurveda, the Science of Life. 

KARE is an Ayurvedic and Yoga Center located in the outskirts of Pune, India and focusing on Ayurveda, Iyengar Medical Yoga, nutrition and meditation. 

Poonam Kalmadi is the daughter of Prakash and Ragini Kalmadi who founded KARE 25 years ago. Having recently moved back to India from America, she is now leading the center with her mother Ragini Kalmadi.

In these series, she discusses with Dr Roli Rangappa, Chief Medical Officer at KARE, some of the most common health conditions they are encountering at their center and how Ayurveda treats and approaches them.

From Food & Nutrition to Ayurveda, Doshas, Pain Management, Cancer Recovery, Diabetes, Hypertension, Fibromyalgia, Fertility, they are bringing insights and perspectives rooted in modernity and tradition, prevention and restoration. Mainly they are providing knowledge meant to empower anyone on their own healing journey.

Food and Nutrition

The KARE podcast series unveil the wisdom of Ayurveda, the Science of Life. 

KARE is an Ayurvedic and Yoga Center located in the outskirts of Pune, India and focusing on Ayurveda, Iyengar Medical Yoga, nutrition and meditation. 

Poonam Kalmadi is the daughter of Prakash and Ragini Kalmadi who founded KARE 25 years ago. Having recently moved back to India from America, she is now leading the center with her mother Ragini Kalmadi.

In these series, she discusses with Dr Roli Rangappa, Chief Medical Officer at KARE, some of the most common health conditions they are encountering at their center and how Ayurveda treats and approaches them.

From Food & Nutrition to Ayurveda, Doshas, Pain Management, Cancer Recovery, Diabetes, Hypertension, Fibromyalgia, Fertility, they are bringing insights and perspectives rooted in modernity and tradition, prevention and restoration. Mainly they are providing knowledge meant to empower anyone on their own healing journey.

Earthquakes and Yoga

Ozgun Konca is both a scientist, specialized in the earthquake physics, as well as an Iyengar Yoga teacher. He lives in Istanbul.  

Ozgun understands the subtleness of the earth as well as he connects with the miracle that the human body is.

Without ever fully acknowledging it, Ozgun sees what most people miss.

With the eyes of a child and profound humility, he continues to explore, question and navigate the most important questions of the living.

Through exploring the shaking of the earth, he gets to approach the intrasec movements of the body and beyond: education and the youth, healing and mental health, love and surrendering, freedom. 

Ozgun sees, all that feels unseen. One by one, he reveals the petals of life, the flower of Truth.

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My research is primarily focused on modeling earthquakes, and understanding the short term and long term behavior of faults. Using, strong-motion, teleseismic and geodetic data, what can we tell about the slip in a single earthquake, rupture velocity, slip functions? How can we compare the long term coupling to slip in individual earthquakes.