Malachy and Stephanie Silva are the founders of Midtown Jiu-Jitsu, a martial arts school located in Kingston, New York. The gym celebrated their one year anniversary in May and continues to thrive offering a variety of gi and no-gi classes for adults, kids and youth, including wrestling. The discussion explores the evolution of Jiu-Jitsu, the importance of empowerment through community, challenges and meditative aspects of training. 

https://midtownjj.com/

Will Conway is the Farm Director at Wildflower Farms in Gardiner, New York. He has worked as a Food and Farm Based Educator with program development, community partnership building and grant writing to support a regenerative and just food future. Will discusses various aspects of farming, including the importance of soil health, crop management and sustainable practices.

Dave Loverde founded the Friends of the Feathered and Furry Wildlife Center with his late wife Barbara “Missy” Runyan in 2011 as a rehabilitation center for injured or orphaned wildlife in New York State. The wildlife service also travels to multiple locations where animals are threatened with future injury and physical injury of adult animals that can be treated without capture or injury to animal. They offer educational programs that cover ages from adult to pre-k on how to peacefully co-exist with our wildlife.

https://www.fffwildlifecenter.org/about

Dr. Susanrachel Condon LM DM, a.k.a. Birdie, graduated from the SUNY Brooklyn Midwifery Program in 1998. She is also a certified cooperative childbirth educator, a sexual health instructor, and a massage therapy instructor, who has taught broadly in numerous programs and venues throughout the US. Susanrachel has served as a clinical preceptor for four midwifery programs. She was one of eight graduates in the inaugural class of the Doctorate in Midwifery at Jefferson University, studying the long term impact of conventional maternity care practices on mental health and well being. Her research was centered on consent, collaborative decision-making, overt obstetric violence and subtle, unconscious coercive practices as barriers to respectful care. She runs a Midwifery Practice based in the Hudson Valley, New York called River and Mountain Midwives.

https://www.riverandmountain.net/

Grai St. Clair Rice is an organic beekeeper with 21 years' experience, as well as a writer/artist. In 2022, Grai started Bee Joy, a solo company, to continue teaching and coaching beekeepers, with an approach that is both spiritual and scientific. She engages the public with visual presentations on bees, beekeeping and gardening for Honey bees, to help broaden the vital knowledge and appreciation of Honey bees and other pollinators.

https://www.beejoy.org

In this episode, Andy Mossey, the Executive Director of the Woodstock Land Conservancy speaks to us about Native Plants and some ways to work together as a community in living harmoniously with our local environments. The Woodstock Land Conservancy is a non-profit organization committed to the protection and preservation of the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historic sites in Woodstock and the surrounding area.

You can visit the website to learn more about how the movement is protecting native lands with  key initiatives and conservation easement programs. 

In this episode Melissa speaks about how we can protect ourselves from radioactive isotopes and industrial nuclear waste fallout everyday with medicines like sea vegetables. This is not usually talked about in mainstream media although extensive research has been done on the potency of this healing plant food. Furthermore, she discusses the compounds found in sea vegetables such as sodium alginate and iodine that bind to heavy metals so they can be safely excreted out the body. 

In this episode we discuss the importance of potent phytonutrients found in plant foods as well as a few different subcategories of chemical constituents that are useful for healing. Melissa also speaks about the innovative and important 'Resonance Science Foundation' that is conducting research and education in the field of unified science. She finishes with a poem she wrote called 'Dark Love' and what inspired her to write it.

William Brown, biophysicist, research scientist: https://www.resonancescience.org/william-brown
Resonance Science Foundation: https://www.resonancescience.org/
Open Minds episode on GaiaTV 'The Hidden Power of DNA':  https://www.gaia.com/video/hidden-power-dna-william-brown

Susan Wagner, Co-founder of Equine Advocates Inc. joins us to talk about what inspired her to start the horse sanctuary located in Chatham New York.  The non-profit 501 (c) (3) was established to protect, rescue, and prevent the abuse of equines through education, investigation, rescue operations, and dissemination of information to the public and operation of a horse sanctuary for slaughter-bound, abused, and neglected horses.  Equine Advocates is an award-winning organization, honored by the New York State Humane Association and the Thoroughbred Charities of America for excellence in equine protection and rescue work, including numerous multi-horse rescue operations.

You can visit the sanctuary at: http://www.equineadvocates.org
Compassionate and Responsible Tourism Project: http://www.compassionatetourism.org