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Molly Lannon Kenny is a teacher, therapist, and writer who has dedicated her life to the collective reclamation and liberation of the human spirit.  

She believes in the inherent worthiness of all beings and uses her passion, knowledge and experience to inspire collective care and well-being. In the late 1990s, combining her extensive clinical background with her knowledge and experience in yoga, Molly developed Integrated Movement Therapy® – a therapy framework which centers the wholeness of the individual, incorporating movement, breath and contemplative practices to address the complexity and dimensionality of every lived experience. 

In July 2000, Molly founded The Samarya Center in Seattle, Washington, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing yoga based therapy to people of all ages and abilities.

Molly is the author of the book No Gurus Came Knocking, a memoir about yoga and everyday life. She has also published a unique deck of yoga cards with a booklet describing the neurophysiologic perspective of Integrated Movement Therapy®, with several fun games and activities linking cognitive, linguistic and motor output from the games with their specific correlations in the brain.

Website: mollylannonkenny.org 

Lead-in music: 66 Saints, “Collider” (w/ Molly K.)

Detailed Show Notes

(00:00:31) Intro

(00:02:06) 66 Saints - “Collider”

(00:02:40) Begin interview

(00:02:47) How did you first get into yoga?

(00:07:38) The unsung heroes of yoga

(00:09:47) Ashtanga Yoga & the 90s Seattle yoga scene

(00:16:40) Playing in the Seattle grunge scene

(00:18:53) DIY, diversity in yoga

(00:22:10) Developing Integrated Movement Therapy

(00:31:55) “If we’re already perfect and whole, why do we need therapy?”

(00:39:07) Integrating yoga and psychotherapy

(00:39:55) Identifying with our trauma, “survivor” or “victim”

(00:43:15) Triggering vs. Activation

(00:52:01) Developing discernment through somatic and emotional attunement

(00:55:48) “Pain is the unavoidable motive for practice”

(00:56:00) Joy is a resource

(00:59:31) The Inner Critic vs. the Inner Praiser

(01:02:26) Body image

(01:07:30) Addiction & harmful behaviour

(01:11:38) What is the function of the addiction or behaviour?

(01:13:45) Becoming a clearer mirror

(01:18:13) Contemplative Christianity

(01:24:40) Howard Thurman “Jesus and the Disinherited”

(01:32:09) Loving thy neighbour

Since 2008 East Forest has been a leader of underground ‘sound meditation’ ceremonies around the world.  Recently he collaborated with Ram Dass for a series of tracks that feature new teachings from the spiritual icon backed by East Forest's lush instrumentals. 2019 also saw the release of Music For Mushrooms, "a five-hour, fully connected journey designed to musically guide a group or individual through an entire psilocybin experience, start to finish."

She pioneered the practice of healing ancestral traumas with her Healing Family and Ancestor and Resonant Family Constellations, and activated the mandala as a living practice with her extended Mandala ceremonies.

She lectures and conducts workshops internationally, especially The Healing Voice, and has taught the English National Opera and The English Shakespeare Company, as well as teaching in hospitals, schools, monastic communities, and businesses. In the last 20 years she pioneered her workshops, Healing the Family and Ancestors, a unique combination of Family constellations, chant and ceremony.

Her recordings include Overtone Chanting Meditations and The Healing Voice. She lives in London with her husband, the biologist Rupert Sheldrake and their two sons: the biologist and author Merlin Sheldrake and the musician Cosmo Sheldrake.

Jill’s Website: http://healingvoice.com

Jill Purce pioneered the international sound healing movement in the 1970’s through her rediscovery of ancient vocal techniques, the teaching of overtone chanting, the power of group chant, and the spiritual potential of the voice as a magical instrument for healing and meditation.

She pioneered the practice of healing ancestral traumas with her Healing Family and Ancestor and Resonant Family Constellations, and activated the mandala as a living practice with her extended Mandala ceremonies.

She lectures and conducts workshops internationally, especially The Healing Voice, and has taught the English National Opera and The English Shakespeare Company, as well as teaching in hospitals, schools, monastic communities, and businesses. In the last 20 years she pioneered her workshops, Healing the Family and Ancestors, a unique combination of Family constellations, chant and ceremony.

Her recordings include Overtone Chanting Meditations and The Healing Voice. She lives in London with her husband, the biologist Rupert Sheldrake and their two sons: the biologist and author Merlin Sheldrake and the musician Cosmo Sheldrake.

Jill’s Website: http://healingvoice.com

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Conner Habib is a writer, lecturer, sex workers' rights activist, and host of the countercultural podcast, Against Everyone with Conner Habib.

Conner's writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including CR Fashion Book, Salon, Slate, Vice, and more. Conner served for two years as the Vice President of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee, which strives to improve the laws surrounding and working conditions for adult performers, and to combat stigmatization of sex work. He is probably the only person who has won awards for writing, teaching, and porn. He is currently pursuing a Phd, studying the paranormal in Ireland, and finishing a novel and a book of short fiction.

Ellen Goldberg is an author, psychotherapist and internationally renowned teacher of the mystic arts of Tarot and Palmistry. In addition to founding the New York-based School of Oracles and teaching internationally for the past 30 years, Ellen has maintained a successful private practice, offering both psychotherapy and readings that blend astrology, tarot and palmistry.

This was a fun and informative conversation with another elder. Ellen was even kind enough to give me a mini palm and tarot reading! Enjoy.

Ellen Goldberg is an author, psychotherapist and internationally renowned teacher of the mystic arts of Tarot and Palmistry. In addition to founding the New York-based School of Oracles and teaching internationally for the past 30 years, Ellen has maintained a successful private practice, offering both psychotherapy and readings that blend astrology, tarot and palmistry.

Ellen’s website: https://schooloforacles.com

Ellen’s Free Tarot & Palm Reading Videos

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