Mangu.TV Podcast

We are delighted to host Rory Spowers on the Mangu.tv podcast series, for a special episode on his new book.

Rory Spowers is a writer, researcher and broadcaster, focused on ecological and consciousness issues. His books include Rising Tides, a critically acclaimed history of ecological thought, and A Year in Green Tea and Tuk Tuks, the story of Samakanda, an ecological sanctuary he founded in Sri Lanka in 2004. 

In 2012, Rory relocated to Ibiza, Spain, to work with ex-BBC presenter Bruce Parry on the feature-length documentary film Tawai, exploring humanity’s conceptual separation from nature. He is currently the Creative Director of the Tyringham Initiative, a world-class think-tank for ‘new paradigm’ thinking - which he co-founded in 2015 - and in 2018 he launched The Re-Generation, a new media platform for regenerative systems change solutions'. 

Rory joins Giancarlo to discuss his new book - Thinking Like A Mountain: Seeking the Source Code for a Regenerative Culture. He delves into his three-part book, looking at the context, the cause and the solution. Rory discusses current-day issues from the meta-crisis to social, economic and environmental issues, as well as the cause and finally the possible solutions. He offers a great deal of insight into these topics and references many interesting books and other sources as cited.

We are delighted to host Amánda Efthimiou on this episode of the Mangu.tv podcast series.

Amánda is a psychedelic wellness advocate, integration educator, speaker, and writer. She founded INTEGRA to support retreat centers, facilitators, and coaches with integration programs that help people find meaning and healing from their experiences with altered states. She bridges traditional wisdom with contemporary practices through her experiences in the nonprofit sector facilitating forest regeneration and bio-culture preservation of indigenous medicines in the Amazon basin. She received her MSc in Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health where she focused on the integrative effects of plant-based medicines such as psilocybin with traditional psychotherapy for mental health outcomes.

Amánda speaks about her work in psychedelic wellness and integration practices. She discusses the need to bridge the gap between traditional wisdom and contemporary practices as well as the ways in which INTEGRA can support facilitators in their integration techniques. Giancarlo and Amánda discuss the psychedelic revolution and delve deep into the current climate for coaching and sharing ancestral wisdom. Amánda speaks about the varying integration techniques beyond talk therapy that are available today such as movement, bioenergetics, and art therapy.

Welcome back to the 44th episode of the Mangu.tv podcast series. In this episode, we’re talking to Lorna Liana about coaching & psychedelics. Lorna Liana is the CEO of EntheoNation, a media company covering psychedelics, plant spirit shamanism, and visionary culture. She is also the Founder of The Plant Spirit School, an online school offering workshops, programs, and 1-to-1 mentoring to individuals and professionals in the psychedelic and plant medicine sector. With over 25+ years of psychedelic exploration and 100s of ceremonies, Lorna is an advocate for the safe, intentional use of entheogens as a tool of self-mastery, as well as the practice of sacred reciprocity. 

She credits the intentional use of ancestral plant medicines, such as ayahuasca and magic mushrooms, for healing a lifetime of racial and colonial trauma. Her experience growing up in colonial Hong Kong informs her work on plant medicine decolonization and inspires her to further the expansion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the psychedelic sector.

Having personally experienced the pervasive lack of post-ceremony psychedelic integration support in plant medicine culture, Lorna was inspired to launch the Plant Spirit School Integration Coach Certification Program, designed to provide plant medicine practitioners with essential psychedelic harm reduction training and support them in becoming thriving integration coaches in the Psychedelic Renaissance.

Lorna discusses the experiences that led to her work with psychedelics, current projects, and attributes for great integration coaching. Giancarlo and Lorna discuss the Psychedelic Renaissance and different ways to support its rise in popularity.

Welcome to the first episode of the Mangu.tv pondside talk and debate series, recorded live in Ibiza. In this episode, Giancarlo invites Jorge Ferrer, Marianne Costa, Santoshi Amor and Raffaello Manacorda to discuss eros and spirit from a tantric and non-tantric perspective. Following a brief interpretation from each speaker, the panel is opened up to the audience for discussion.

Jorge Ferrer was a professor of psychology for more than 20 years at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, where he also served as chair of the Department of East-West Psychology.  He is the author of several acclaimed books and dozens of articles on psychology, education, and religious studies.

Marianne Costa is a renowned world Tarot expert. Together with Alejandro Jodorowsky, she authored the bestseller - The Way of Tarot. She has also published several books translated into various languages and collaborated with institutional museums as a symbology expert. 

Santoshi Amor is an international teacher fully devoted to living the Tantra Path for over 20 years. Her presence and both her passion and spontaneity encourage participants to discover hidden aspects of themselves. She is the founder of ‘The Ibiza Tantra Festival’, ‘International Tantra Woman Training’ and ‘Tantra Woman Team’. 

Raffaello Manacorda is an international Tantra teacher and practitioner. After completing an MA in Philosophy, Raffaello spent more than twelve years living in alternative communities and experimenting with radically alternative lifestyles where he discovered tantra. He has been practising Tantra for more than 15 years and has undergone intensive training in several styles of Yoga.

Raffaello Manacorda is an international Tantra teacher and practitioner. He has been practising Tantra for more than 15 years and has undergone intensive training in several styles of Yoga. After completing an MA in Philosophy, Raffaello decided to spend more than twelve years living in alternative communities and experimenting with radically alternative lifestyles.

It was in these wild years that he first encountered Tantra, the "rebel way to Spirit". This encounter developed into a life-long practice, first on a solo journey, then studying Tantra and Yoga in some of the best worldwide schools. Raffaello serves as lead faculty in ISTA, the International School of Temple Arts, and teaches and lectures worldwide. He is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Wisdom Studies at Ubiquity University (California). Raffaello is the co-creator of the ISTA Practitioner Training (PT), ISTA’s program for coaches and practitioners in the field of conscious sexuality.

Raffaello discusses his path to spiritual awakening, through living in squats and alternative communities in Rome during the techno movement and on to Barcelona and later Kho Phangan where he discovered Tantra. He talks about love, passion and intimacy, as well as non-monogamy, polyamory, and navigating societal pressures and heartbreak in open relating. Raffaello reflects on his journey to Yoga, Tantra, Daoism and other spiritual practices, and his current endeavours as an ISTA teacher and practitioner.

We are excited to host Diego Torán on this episode of the Mangu.tv podcast series. 

Diego has worked in all music industry fields for 30 years helping artists find their inner voice. Since he moved to Ibiza during COVID he has focused on all research related to sound healing and working with artists whose music becomes a tool for achieving higher states of consciousness. He has created the music label/recording studio House Of Frequency and is fully committed to enriching the possibilities for the live music scene on the island. He believes that psychedelics are an amazing tool for reconnecting with ourselves and for creativity but they need to be addressed with more cautiousness. He feels "we are starting to commit the same mistakes as in the 60s," and also that there are other amazing tools to find and keep these states of inner connection with more safety.

Diego discusses the notion of musical frequencies and conscious music listening as a tool for healing. He shares his passion for representing musicians with a positive intention behind their music. Diego also speaks about the potency of listening to music live and his hope in restoring the island’s live music scene, as well as his work organizing a live music festival in Ibiza this summer. 

Diego and Giancarlo talk about the current psychedelic renaissance and the importance of using plant medicines consciously. They discuss regenerative living in all forms and the future of Ibiza and our planet's ecosystem.

We are delighted to share this special episode on the Mangu.tv podcast series in which Jo Youle aka The Reset Rebel interviews Giancarlo Canavesio.

Giancarlo is a neo-culture entrepreneur involved in regenerative films, he is the brainchild behind Mangu. tv which is home to this podcast series as well as other commissioned films based around sex, regeneration and psychedelics. He is at the forefront of Ibiza’s agricultural scene and recently launched Terra Viva, a fully regenerative agricultural farm when he and his family moved to Ibiza from New York a few years ago. As well as Tierra Viva he is currently regenerating the Sa Penya district of the old town of Ibiza, with a vision to breathe life back into the area. 

Giancarlo discusses his journey through trauma, healing, psychedelics, cosmic consciousness and regeneration. He speaks about his interest in positive transformation as well as sharing his personal story, and how hitting rock bottom in 2002 was a catalyst for change. Through rehabilitation, psychedelics and discovering a deeper connection to consciousness he was able to drop his egoic armour and find inner authenticity and peace.

Jo and Giancarlo discuss the future of regenerative practices in Ibiza, and ways they feel the wider community can support and live sustainably by buying food locally and eating consciously. Giancarlo shares his vision to help people in discovering their vulnerability and the courage to feel vulnerable, and therefore grow – that’s regeneration for him.

We are delighted to host a dear friend, Tao Ruspoli, on this episode of the Mangu.tv podcast series.

Tao is a filmmaker, photographer, musician and co-founder of the Bombay Beach Biennale an experiment in integrating art, philosophy, performance and community building. In 2001 Tao transformed an old school bus into a mobile digital video studio and spent several years living and travelling in the bus making short films and documentaries with an eclectic collective of fellow travellers. He then made the feature films, Fix (2008), and Being in the World (2010), both with Mangusta productions. After divorcing in 2011 which led to his last film, Monogamish (2014), Tao made his way to the desert discovering a love for both the high desert near Joshua Tree and the low desert in Bombay beach. In Bombay beach, he has gathered a community of artists who are using their insight and creativity to transform a town that was most often described as ‘post-apocalyptic’. The New York Times called The Bombay Beach Biennale ‘the anti-burning man’ in so far as their goal is pretty much to leave a trace.

Tao joins Giancarlo for a well-overdue catch-up. The conversation follows psychedelics, consensual non-monogamy, community & radical living. Tao shares his thoughts on authentic living, his love for eccentric people and places, and how that led to the co-founding of The Bombay Beach Biennale. Their vision at Bombay beach is to ‘privilege art as a meaningful tool for community building, social change and political activism’.

We are delighted to welcome Jerónimo M.M. back to mangu.tv for an episode of psychedelic confessions.

Jerónimo is the social innovations director for the ICEERS foundation, his work is focused on integrating plant medicine into western society. He is fascinated by the fact that the same plants can be a blessing in some societies and a curse in others, and works to safely integrate medicinal plants into western civilisation with the same value and respect as in their cultures of origin.

Jerónimo speaks about his introduction to the world of mind-altering substances, the first of those being cannabis. He discusses the positive impact this had on his creativity and the moment the rose-tinted spectacles fell off, so to speak. He then delves into MDMA and LSD, with stories that follow a similar suit of awe and then eventual disinterest before reaching Ayahuasca and Coca leaf in their indigenous contexts, which led him to the work he is doing today.

Giancarlo and Jerónimo discuss mystical and transformative experiences.  Jerónimo talks through personal experiences and discusses how looking at the culture of origin for psychedelic medicines can help to unlock their most beneficial and least harmful uses.

We are delighted to host Tamara Groen on the Mangu.tv podcast series. Tamara is a breathwork facilitator, tantrica and bodyworker. She loves supporting and inspiring others to grow naturally. She organizes and facilitates workshops, retreats, and experiential journeys for others to explore living a more conscious life.

In her offerings, Tamara draws from the lineages of Anahatha & Tantra Kriya Yoga and ISTA.  She is a transformational breathwork and trauma release practitioner, and a Thai & tantric massage bodyworker. Tamara creates conscious containers for FREEDOM, relaxation, trust and SAFETY.

Tamara talks about her life, and journey to becoming a Tantrica through yoga, tantric dance, Vipassana and breathwork among other practices. She speaks about tantra's different colours and variations, and how tantra is a way of gathering tools for life and understanding oneself.

She discusses the Five Elements Tantra Massage and how it is used to open the energy body. She also speaks about the potency of group workshops, with safe spaces to experiment, activities on jealousy, boundaries and discomfort and harnessing sexual or creative life force energy.

Giancarlo and Tamara discuss de-armouring and its benefits, as well as the importance of educating future generations about sacred sexuality, and breaking the taboos and social norms around communication, pornography and sex.