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In this episode I talk to Yoga and Meditation teacher Dena Jackson.  Dena has also released a Ted Talk entitled “Yoga is 90% off the mat”.  She is also a Comedian whose latest album “Blue Lights” can be purchased on all platforms. 

In this episode Dena discusses her Yoga and Meditation practice.  How those practices started and evolved.  She shares her experiences of going on a Yoga retreat and what a retreat consists of.  She explains different types of Yoga and also shares her experiences becoming a Yoga teacher in India and what that training entails. 

Noor and Dena also discuss their Meditation practices.  They explain how meditation changes your relationship with your thoughts.  They discuss what Mindfulness is and learning how to be more present in life.  They also explain how mediation helps gain emotional control and can be used to break mental patterns that are not serving you.

Dena also shares her complicated relationship with religion and how Yoga and Meditation influenced that.

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I was so excited for this one.  My guest this episode has been working with Ayahuasca for over a decade now.  He has started putting on his on ceremonies out in Mexico and Peru.  I have been able to work with him the last few years and always enjoyed his teachings.  For anonymity I will just refer to him as Marco.  

In this Episode Marco takes us deeper into how Ayahuasca works and helps people heal.  He talks about how shamanic healing works specifically from the Shipibo tradition he learnt from in the Amazon Rainforest.  He shares his journey into becoming a teacher himself who puts on ceremonies.  He helps so many people to transform and heal and this conversation is one not to miss.

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In this Episode I talk with veteran comedian Simon King.  Simon is based out of Vancouver and has been featured on Just for Laughs, HBO, Comedy Network, and is about to release his 3rd comedy album this May called “As good as or better than”.  Also host of the hilarious and informative podcast “What’s wrong with Simon King”.

In this Episode we talk about Simon’s early rise in comedy.  He shares how he had to change his comedy style/persona mid-career and the battling through fear one goes through to make that kind of transformation.  He speaks about the importance of having a clear understanding of what you want, of your motivations and always to continue to grow.

He also shares his experiences living with mental illness and how he has learned to cope with it.  He promotes open conversation of mental illness to help more people.

He also shares his ideas of morality and purpose in life as an atheist.

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In this episode my guest is filmmaker and adventurer Emiliano Ruprah, host of Unexplained and Unexplored on Discovery’s Science Channel.  He was also a former war journalist. 

In this episode Emiliano shares his experiences recording the 1st season of Unexplained and Unexplored.  How he travelled the world pursuing alternative histories of the world.  He shares his favorite experiences of season one in Egypt and Ethiopia. 

He tells us of his time as a war journalist in Iraq and his run-in with a Suicide Bomber. 

He was also at the same Ayahuasca retreat I was at and he shares his thoughts of the whole experience now that 6 weeks has passed.  He talks about his other experiences with Psychedelics mainly Salvia and Kambo which is a frog poison he tried in the Amazon Rainforest that’s meant to clean the body. 

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Unexplained and Unexplored – Streaming on The Science Channel in North America, UK, and Australia.

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Noor Kidwai recently went to Mexico to participate in a 6 ceremony Ayahuasca retreat.  Ayahuasca is an Amazonian plant medicine and very potent psychedelic.  Its currently gaining popularity because of many people talking about their life altering experiences and new scientific research about how it contributes to brain health.  Its been shown to help anxiety, addiction, PTSD, depression and more.  In this episode Noor takes Ayahuasca 6 times in a 11 day span and fully details his experience so you can have more of an understanding what it is.  He claims its the most transformative thing he's ever done.

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