LOVE SPACE

If you've ever wondered what your purpose is, this episode is for you (and we've all wondered at some point!)  This week, Marisa Radha Weppner (Radha),  guides us on how to re-connect with our life's purpose and tap into our true selves. Through practices like self-awakening yoga, psychedelic assisted therapy, and simply listening to our hearts, Radha shares personal experience and practical wisdom on how we can (re)awaken ourselves and our connection to all the magic this human experience has to offer.

Marisa Radha Weppner, MA is the host of the podcast Love, Service, Wisdom and is a 1000 hr Nosara Yoga Master Educator.  She has been facilitating transformation and self-awakening for nearly two decades through a variety of settings including classes, retreats, community organizing, guiding psychedelic journeys, and private coaching.  She is the co-owner of Source Meditation Space, and a therapist at the Boise Ketamine Clinic.  Her meditation album Guidance, with music by East Forest, is available on all streaming platforms.

Merging ancient wisdom with direct experience, she creates a grounded, safe, and expansive environment in which to explore one's inner world. She has extensive experience working with groups and individuals to help them heal core wounds, release limiting beliefs, and create a life of depth, meaning, and purpose. 

In this conversation, we covered: 

• Her unique story of entrepreneurship, motherhood, and forging her own path
•  What is self-awakening yoga
• How simple movements can be powerful 
• Noticing sensations in the body 
• Yoga as a path to God
• Neuroplasticity and transforming our brain 
• How psychedelics assist with changing and healing our minds
• What is ketamine and how it's used in therapy
• Ketamine and psychedelics as a treatment for depression
• Complex PTSD and how our bodies respond to trauma
• Gaining new perspective on our parents and childhood experiences
• The mind as an information filter
• Making friends with our ego and our humanity
• The Magic in the Mundane
• Spiritual "sampling" vs. digging deep into one or two practices
• What integration is and why it matters
• Following the things that light you up
• Everything in moderation, including moderation
• How the same practices can be transformed by changing the intention
• and more...

Resources and Links:

• Love, Service, Wisdom podcast (listen on apple) (listen on spotify)
• marisaradha.com
• Guidance meditation album (available on all streaming platforms)
• Bhagavad Gita (ancient Hindu scripture)
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma  (book by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.)
•  Journey Space
• Connect with Radha on Instagram @marisaradhaweppner
• Connect with Aryn on Instagram @itsarynlove 

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How do you enjoy yourself? During 15+ years in music/nightlife,  Evan Cudworth experienced the highs and lows of the "party scene" -- and while humans have a universal need to connect, many of us get trapped between anxiety and booze/substances. Now as the WORLD'S 1ST PARTY COACH, he helps anyone reconnect with their natural confidence, set clear intentions for their social life, and thrive without needing booze or substances (or giving them up forever).

In this episode, we covered:

• The search for connection
• People pleasing 
• Finding friendships that stick
• What are "f*** yes friends" and why we love them
• Letting go in order to receive
• Learning to Thrive with ADHD
• Journaling and getting honest 
• First steps to take for the sober-curious!
• 24-48 hour Dopamine Detox
• What Evan learned from getting robbed
• The Fear of Being Irrelevant
• "Happiness is the gap between expectations and reality"
• Socializing with intention to get what you really want
• Partying to actually enjoy ourselves

 Bring more wellness into your weekend by joining Evan's PARTY COACH Patreon, where you can connect to other party people via Discord & weekly ZOOM workshops on healthy habits & hacks for partying smarter (and harder).  Connect with Evan on Instagram @evan_cudworth and Twitter @evan_cudworth. 

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East Forest is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, producer, teacher, and sound ceremonialist. He’s especially known for his beautiful, longform tracks for journeys and ceremonies with psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms, and generally for music that invites introspection into the deepest parts of us.  East Forest, also known as Krishna, weaves together nature, music, technology, and elements of this wild human experience we’re having. He is the co-founder of JourneySpace.com.

 His catalog includes a full-length album with the spiritual pioneer Ram Dass, psychedelic therapy soundtracks Music For Mushrooms and IN, and collaborations with artists Jon Hopkins, Typhoon, Laraaji, Dead Prez, Trevor Hall, and more.  As a trailblazer in the global wellness movement, he has guided students through a brain-body approach aimed towards non-religious spirituality, teaching at Esalen Institute, in addition to working with Field Trip, Wavepaths, Imperial College London, UCSF, Yale Psychedelic Science Group, Google, Johns Hopkins neuroaesthetics project, Consciousness Hacking, TED, and more.

In this conversation, we covered:

• What he was like as a kid, and why he walked out of first grade
• The beginnings of his spiritual journey, and the influence of his yogi grandmother
• The heart-opening of psychedelics
• Choosing to see everything (or nothing) as a miracle
• Accepting our parents as human, and also as great spiritual beings
• Giving up the desire to change others, and leading by example instead
• The energy of love and presence -- but also the importance of Action and Service
• Dark thoughts and depression, and his collaboration album with Ram Dass; 
• The role of the Guru in the internet age
• Curating the information we choose to take in every day
• How iPhones have changed the world, forever
• How music can generate emotional responses
• Everyone is an artist -- showing up for our creative work every day
• Staying open to the full range of human emotion and experience, and trusting that we won't break
• Building our daily toolkit and tending to our garden
• Overcoming resistance in the creative process
• Accountability and community
• Psychedelics and Legalization
• and why you should question everything!

To learn more about his work and/or find tickets to his November 2022 tour, go to EastForest.org.  

Resources:

• Instagram: @eastforest @itsarynlove @lovespacepodcast
• Ten Laws with East Forest Podcast (listen on apple) (listen on spotify)
• Dark Thoughts (song by East Forest & Ram Dass)
• Music for Mushrooms (album by East Forest) 
• Sit Around the Fire (song by East Forest, Jon Hopkins, Ram Dass) 
• The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity  (book by Julia Cameron)
• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles (book by Steven Pressfield)
• Journey Space online platform for musical guidance and psychedelic resources

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Treat yourself to a 15 minute meditation today.  Inspired by the fall season, Aryn guides a meditation to help you slow down, feel more grounded, and let anything that’s no longer serving you melt away.

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Lisa joins us from Lima, Peru, where she lives, teaches (and dances!)  We talked about reconnecting with our true self,  and our light within.   Lisa shares practical ways to live more mindfully right now,  how to tap into our five senses, and how we can always start again--every moment is brand new.   We dive into what mindfulness looks like for second-graders, how to navigate difficult emotions, and how we--as adults--can be better parents, teachers, and allies for kids, showing them healthy ways to cope with the full range of the human experience, from elation to rejection, and everything in between.

Lisa Palmer is a primary school educator, yoga teacher, and co-founder and creator of The Fruit of Mindfulness - a 7 week online Mindfulness course designed for educators. In this course the participants build the foundation of their own mindfulness practice then learn various mindfulness strategies and activities to share in their classrooms. She has the honor of being the mindfulness coordinator at Colegio Villa Per Se in Lima, Peru where she designs and implements the K-12 curriculum and leads an intimate meditation circle among secondary students. Lisa is passionate about inspiring others to create intentional moments to connect to the light within.

To learn more about the course, you can connect with Lisa on Instagram @lisers.  To stay in touch, follow the show  @lovespacepodcast and connect with Aryn @itsarynlove.  Be sure to subscribe to the podcast, leave us a review, and share it out with a friend.  Thank you for sharing the love!

When we start to doubt ourselves, Paige reminds us to trust our voice, and to OWN our path to wellness, in a way that uniquely works for us.   In this episode we cover:

• Paige's background and upbringing in St. Louis 
• The story of founding her company, UNDONE
• Releasing the need to be perfect, and unlearning our limitations
• Her mission to make yoga and wellness more inclusive and accessible
• Becoming a published author and the creative process behind her new deck: Good Morning, Good Night
• The importance of finding your voice and taking up space
• Our relationship with our body and learning to nourish ourselves with what feels good
• Paige's journey with faith and her relationship with God
• Building trust with Spirit, and staying open to receive guidance
• Morning and evening rituals, and our shared love of kombucha and all the beverages...

Paige Willis is a published author, musician, and yoga teacher, and the founder of Undone -- a pop-up yoga experience for mind-body renewal. With a background in storytelling and 200 hours as a certified power vinyasa yoga instructor, Paige is passionate about curating events that break the monotony of your routine and leave you feeling inspired. Her teaching style is rooted in intention and support. And she combines her experience as an athlete, writer, violinist, and yoga instructor to equip you with tools and techniques that empower you to own your wellness journey.

Find Paige on Instagram @undonebypaige and learn more at: weareundone.com. 

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LOVE SPACE is back with a new episode, and this one is all about coming out of the spiritual closet.  Let’s talk about God (and also why it can be so hard to talk about).  In this solo episode, I share why these conversations are more important than ever, what my own spiritual practice looks like, and the benefits of living a spiritual life.

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We know it’s important to be ourselves, but for many of us, it’s complicated.  On this week’s episode of Love Space, we joined Mycall Akeem Riley to talk all things queerness, gender, style, safety, intersectionality, and self-expression.  We covered:

• Mycall’s experience growing up as a queer Black person in the Minneapolis suburbs;
• How we can learn to trust ourselves, even when society seems to tell us we shouldn’t; 
• Getting clear and intentional about what we need, and setting boundaries about the people and places we choose; 
• Dismantling hegemonic structures; 
• Intersectionality, privilege, and the nuances of all of our various identities and experiences; 
• Visibility, representation, and safety; 
• “Possibility models” who can inspire new forms of expression and how we carry ourselves; 
• Style, self-expression, and feeling powerful;
• Why it’s time to stop commenting on people’s bodies, and let people live; 
• Mycall’s hopes for the future… and more.  

Mycall Akeem Riley is a liberatory inclined educator and style consultant based in Chicago, Illinois. Currently serving as the inaugural LGBTQIA+ Resource Center Coordinator for DePaul University, Mycall works to uplift and support those who hold marginalized genders or sexualities. Mycall also is an adjunct faculty in the LGBT Studies minor program. The interplay of gender identity, sexuality, and Blackness continues to be a major focus in his work. Outside of the academy, Mycall works to continue to uplift marginalized communities rather than consulting or creating.  A major focus has been the Blaq Agenda Project, a multiform project highlighting Black Queer experiences. Mycall can find joy in thrift shopping, conversations on taboo topics, artfully curated playlist, and striving for a re-imagined world.  To connect with Mycall, follow him on Instagram @mycallakeemriley. 

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Here are 7 simple ways you can start to invite more love and magic into your life right now, in this short and sweet solo episode.  Here are the Seven S’s to live by to make space for a little more love:

1. slow down
2. simplify
3. surrender(!)
4. spirit/nature connection
5. self
6. stillness
7. service

Listen for more on how to implement one (or all) of these tips.  Trust the one(s) that resonate with you, and start there.  Small choices every day lead to transformative results.   

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What the heck do we eat, and how do we know what our bodies really need?!

I sat down with Venessa Rodriguez to find out.  She is a functional nutritionist, intuitive nourishment guide, Akashic Soul Records reader, and host of the Feed Your Wild podcast.  In this episode we covered:

• Her upbringing as a Chicago city kid and her Puerto Rican roots
• Reclaiming our connection to the earth
• Food as Medicine
• Why she’s rejecting the “hustle” culture
• Her mom’s journey with Breast Cancer and what needs to change in our healthcare system (which is more for “disease management” than health)
• The dramatic changes she’s seen when we change our food, and our relationship to what we eat
• How to figure out what works best for you
• The power of a “reset” and the use of an elimination diet
• Journaling and Self-Inquiry to get to the root of what ails you
• Akashic Records and bridging science and spirituality
• And so much more…

To learn more about Venessa’s work, go to WildlyRooted.com or follow her on Instagram at @wildlyrooted

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