OM By The Beach - Fascinating People in the Hotseat

Excerpts from my book with the same title. Copyright © 2017 Josef Schinwald, MDiv

Introduction 9:41 Minutes

Have you Ever Wanted to Learn Meditation? 

My name is JOSEF SCHINWALD and I can relate. In my early twenties, I traveled the world. I was usually accompanied by books like the Tao Te Ching, the Upanishads, or some new novel, i.e. Herman Hesse’s Prince Siddhartha. 

I lived in India, Thailand, Korea, and Japan for many years because I was attracted to these cultures, their philosophies, religious practices, and customs. 

Later on, in my early thirties, I got a master's degree in Oriental Philosophy, close to a little town called Rhinebeck, upstate New York, where I lived 5 years near the beautiful Hudson River with my family of 5. 

Zen Buddhism was my new target of interest and, in particular, the Zen stories and Koans, while writing my thesis.

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Mark Schwimmer designs programs in Cognitive Behavioral Techniques that strengthen mindset, promoting confident mindful skills for peak results and wellness.

Trained in hypnosis, NLP, and a Master Facilitator of the MythoSelf(tm), Soma-Semantic Model(tm), Mark leads each of his clients to their Somatic Signature(tm). They experience a realization; a position where their life works exquisitely, regardless of where they are or who they are with.  He is a master at teaching his clients to make great decisions, especially in times of stress, or urgency, often present as life changing needs arise. He is President of the New York Awareness Center, and runs numerous programs, professional trainings and workshops around the world.
 
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"Whether you know it or not, you are in control, and can exercise much greater control over your thoughts, your beliefs, your actions…..the things you do, the things you say to yourself and others, the things you think, all the things that determine the quality of your life." - Mark Schwimmer

Questions asked

• What is your definition of self? 
• Would you please describe the Ladder of Perception?

Website and Social Handle

His website for more information is: http://newyorkawarenesscenter.com/
His FB profile: https://www.facebook.com/mark.schwimmer

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Helen Edwards – Movement Speaker, Advisor, Event Creator, Yogini and International Author of, Nothing Sexier Than Freedom & Your Inner Evolution. Co-creator and leader of four successful Yoga Retreats.

Helen has taught life skills, networking, and conscious behavior classes in shelters since 2008. She has a background as a Vision Therapist and working with kids with autism.  She has worked with the Phoenix-Prison Yoga Project (PYP) working with incarcerated adults and teens. Owner of Sexy Freedom LLC and host to the Sexy Freedom Media Podcast.

Bullet Points

• How do you let go of other people's opinions and self-judgments? You have to protect your throne which is the mind, body, and spirit, and the reason I call it the throne is ... I just nurture the warrior, I protect, I protect myself...
• What is the world and life itself for Helen Edwards? Where do we come from, why are we here, and what is our purpose? How do you relate freedom and sex? Life is a game, it is all about action, everything else is an attribute to the success of the game, I am here to win... I am a playful spirit, life is fun, it is the yin and the yang of the game... I think the purpose is the acceptance of human experience because there is resistance to the greatness of life... Freedom is the sexiest thing in the world... 
• Tell us more about your kind of Yoga and Retreats. It is the connection between mind, body, and spirit. All the different yogas, ... yes it is for me to bring into yoga as many as possible the people, ... spirit can do what spirit wants, the ultimate goal is the unity of it, the different types I have so I can get different people in...  to create change in whatever way you want to change...
•  Let us talk about your book and then your podcast? When I began writing the book it was really only about sex and then after some 100 pages I got an editor and  she asked me those questions, so there was a lot of questions I had to answer, the book is about self-worth, self-love, and self-awareness, I wanted to talk about anything I wanted to talk about... the podcast I started some 4 years ago and it now has 3500  monthly downloads... 

Her website and how to contact her:

Her fabulous website for more information is https://sexyfreedom.com/
Her bestselling book on Amazon: Nothing Sexier Than Freedom 
Sexy Freedom Media Podcast:  https://anchor.fm/sexyfreedom

Social Handles:
https://linktr.ee/sexyfreedommedia https://sexyfreedom.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwDFi9c3t6tkqy6zOCCkYaA https://www.facebook.com/SexyFreedomMedia/

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Jonathan Troen, Chief Life Officer.
Jonathan's mission: To help people find the joy inside of themselves.

Jonathan is a Life Mastery Coach, and co-founder of Austin Yoga Tree and the Life Mastery Collective. His latest creation is the Self Love Revolution. Jonathan spent 20+ years in the entertainment industry. He was living the life of his dreams, meeting the biggest stars in the world, except he wasn't happy. He couldn't figure why. He began studying people: how they lived, what motivated them and how they defined success. His studies brought him to one conclusion: Most of us are mean to ourselves, and all we really want is to be loved. He also discovered that when we seek love from outside, it is fleeting. Lasting love comes from inside of us. And since we’re not taught to love ourselves, this creates a problem. Jonathan created the Self Love Revolution specifically to share the methodology he created after 15 years of research and practice. Jonathan's belief: We all deserve success. We all deserve to be loved. And we all deserve to be treated kindly, especially by ourselves.

Bullet Points:

• How is Mindfulness a part of the Self-Love practice? In a way it is really all of it, there are acceptance meditations, and gratitude mindfulness meditations, and forgiveness meditations... At the end of the day we review the day and we can know what we did and that is an opportunity.
• How can we let go of or replace those voices that keep telling us you're not good enough and won't amount to anything?  There are the thirteen saboteurs, the perfectionist, the procrastinator, the defender, the victim, blame is one of the saboteurs, the people pleaser, a lot of them work together... Have compassion of that inner judge that is afraid... We also have the inner team, the inner army, the future self, the child self, the intuitve one, the courageous one, the fun one...
• With regard to the Four Pillars of Self-Love, can you elaborate more? Acceptance, Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Self-Love. Here is where Jonathan shows his brilliance. Do not miss it, lots of takeaways, you can implement on a daily basis and grow...

Website, Social Handles:

For his masterclass, interviews, private coaching, and more information visit https://selfloverevolution.com/
https://www.austinyogatree.com/

Social Handles:
fb.com/JonathanTroen
IG: @JonathanTroen
youtu.be/0bIeXBE1R5A
Email: [email protected]

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Ryan Souther is a certified shamanic life coach and art therapist, and he goes by Llama Su, on various online platforms.

He has written a book of poetry and a couple of books of haiku which is a type of short-form poetry originally from Japan. He had numerous art exhibitions in the northwest. Humboldt County, California has been his place of residency. He has a ten-year-old son with the name of Marley.

Questions:

• Tell me, what was your life like before you turned to Wisdom Tradition?
• What was it like to start an apprenticeship in the temple of the Jedi order in your early 30s?
• Studying Joseph Campbell together with the books by Alan Watts certainly is a great combination. And Carl Jung, this is a fabulous trio to get to the root of good and evil, and the like... What do you find so fascinating studying these great thinkers and influencers?
• What kind of meditation do you do and then tell us more about your poetry Haiku and your art?

Authors and Gurus mentioned:

Huston Smith
Philip Novak
Joseph Campbell
Alan Watts
Carl Jung
Ram Dass

Social Handle:

Facebook

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Courtni “StarHeart” Hale

Traditional and Authentic Shaman, 15 years training, including Native American Medicine Teachers, Herbalists and Holistic Health. Personal Consulting, monthly Kambo Medicine, Medicine Retreats, Soul Retrieval, Readings.

Executive Director, The Center for Natural and Traditional Knowledge

Leader/ Organizer, and Speaking events include:
World Economic Forum (4 Steps Into The Vortex: Biology of Personal Power)
EcoVillage Event (including Pete Seeger, Carole Hart)

University of Delaware's Doctorate Progam, American University, School of International Service, with two Bachelors, one in Latina American Studies, the other in International Relations

Bullet Points of the Episode (I combined Part I & II, it was such an interesting flow of conversation):

• What was your training like? Her shamanic journey, experiences, and training
• Medicine Wheel - a lineage of shamans, thousands of years going back - what is the meaning of it for modern people? Medicine Wheel explained, the lineage of shamans...
• Her Ayahuasca Retreats, yoga, meditation as preparation, and then journaling and some more yoga and meditation to follow up so one can digest the new reality that, of course, is not the same anymore, experiences, spirit world, the mother goddess...

People, books, articles mentioned:

Patricio Dominguez
The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
The World's Religions by Huston Smith
Medicine NM: Finding the Force by Courtni Hale

Her website with links to Ayahuasca Retreats, video clips, and additional information https://findingtheforce.com

Her popular Facebook group with 1200+ members https://www.facebook.com/UrbanShaminNM/

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Phil Reynolds, The Mind-Body Mentor, states that he loves his fiancé, helping his tribe succeed, and present moment awareness. There is only NOW.

Phil spent 10 years working in and leading campus ministries in non-denominational Christianity. Then after his first spiritual awakening began studying Q'ero Shamanism, Deeksha, Hermeticism, and other esoteric paths. He believes Enlightenment is available to the masses in this Age of Information not just for the few gurus of the past.

Bullet Points of the Episode:

• How would you define enlightenment, and when exactly did you notice that it was happening to you? I define enlightenment as being aware of your thoughts and even to the point where you see your thoughts as separate from yourself, present-moment awareness...
• What kind of Meditation do you practice? Deeksha, Breath Work, and others...
• How do you help people integrate those habits? Here he explains his masterclass mentioned below and how it enables to integrate spirit, mind, and body...

Books mentioned: 

• Eckhart Tolle, The Power of NOW
• Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life
• Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

How to learn more about Phil Reynolds, follow or contact him:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philreynoldsfitness
• Join the New Year's Revolution Phil Reynolds & Jen McKenna! Join me the week of January 18th, 2021 for my LIVE masterclass. 

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Lois Kramer-Perez is a Certified Practitioner in Feng Shui, Hypnosis, Past Life Regression, NLP and Energy Clearing, Lois merges these methods to create the unique program for sustainable change.

Lois Kramer-Perez, “Queen of the Shui” is the go-to expert when you are ready to receive passionate relationships, a peaceful home, and a life you love.

Her popular programs, “Feng Shui Your Space and Your Soul”, “ Neuro-Transformational Clearing Meditation Circle™” and “Take a 30-Second Vacation with Lois™,” teach people to use these tools daily to manifest sustainable change in their lives.

Bullet Points Of The Show:

Question: Can you tell us more about the Feng Shui Breakthrough? I wrote my chapter, chapter 15, "The Feng Shui Breakthrough" because I find my life has been filled with the unexpected. As I reflected on these past years, I could have never imagined this is where I would be...

Question: Can you tell us more about the five elements and how they relate to Feng Shui, your practice? Each element has layers of information: a season, time of day, family member archetype, color, shape, and characteristic which relates to an expression in human nature... How we enter our homes should feel effortless. What is happening inside of us is being reflected on the outside; therefore our space is a reflection of what is going in our lives... 

How to learn more about Lois Kramer-Perez, follow or contact her:

On her website, you will find a Clearing Meditation Class, Free Guided Meditations, and there are events and more classes, and other interviews https://loiskramerperez.com/

Contributor to an anthology called Tips, Tricks and Techniques from Today's Experts for You and Your Business. Chapter 15 "The Feng Shui Breakthrough"  https://loiskramerperez.com/book

Social Handles:
https://www.facebook.com/MamboFengShui
https://twitter.com/mambofengshui
https://www.instagram.com/mambofengshuilois
https://www.linkedin.com/in/loiskramerperez

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Excerpts from Smith, Huston. The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (PP.114-122). HarperOne. Kindle-Version. 

Covered here in 8:28 minutes:

In this episode, I cover the famous parable of the arrow smeared thickly with poison, and how the original Buddhism can be characterized by being empirical, scientific, pragmatic, therapeutic, psychological, egalitarian, and directed to individuals.

"In moving from Buddha the man to Buddhism the religion, it is imperative that the latter be seen against the background of the Hinduism out of which it grew. Unlike Hinduism, which emerged by slow, largely imperceptible spiritual accretion, the religion of the Buddha appeared overnight, fully formed."

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Excerpts from Smith, Huston. The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (PP.105-113). HarperOne. Kindle-Version. 

Covered here in 7:16 minutes:

In this episode, I cover the four passing sights, his search, leaving the palace, the forest, Raja Yoga, Hindu philosophy, asceticism, the middle way, the immovable spot, his enlightenment, 45 years of ministry, his death, his simplicity, the constant pressure in his lifetime to make him a god, his confessions about his difficulties to attain enlightenment, and how he made an outcast one of his disciples. 

"Buddhism begins with a man. In his later years, when India was afire with his message and kings themselves were bowing before him, people came to him even as they were to come to Jesus asking what he was.1 How many people have provoked this question—not “Who are you?” with respect to name, origin, or ancestry, but “What are you? What order of being do you belong to? What species do you represent?” Not Caesar, certainly. Not Napoleon, or even Socrates. Only two: Jesus and Buddha. When the people carried their puzzlement to the Buddha himself, the answer he gave provided an identity for his entire message. 

“Are you a god?” they asked. “No.” “An angel?” 
“No.” “A saint?” “No.” “Then what are you?” 
Buddha answered, “I am awake.”

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