Out of the Fog with Karen Hager

Astrology is more than just "cosmic hot air and planets far from reach." Chani Nicholas's work focuses on making astrology practical and relevant in these difficult times. No spiritual bypass here. We'll talk about what it means to be an outsider in spiritual work, and how astrology can be a tool for social justice.

Chani Nicholas has been a student of astrology for more than 30 years and a counseling astrologer for 20. Her ideas and philosophies are constantly shaped by LGBTQI2S, POC, and feminist writers, artists, thinkers, activists, and community members, as well as by her many brilliant colleagues and folks she works with both in individual readings and group settings. Chani aims to make astrology practical, approachable, and useful. Find out more about Chani and her work at chaninicholas.com.

Stop planning, stop comparing, stop thinking...and just breathe deeply for a moment. Jason Gregory shares information about how we can overcome mental overload by periodically fasting the mind, just as we might fast to detoxify the body.

Jason Gregory is an author, philosopher, and teacher specializing in Eastern and Western philosophy, comparative religion, psychology, cognitive science, metaphysics, and ancient cultures. He is the author of Effortless Living, Fasting the Mind, Enlightenment Now, and The Science and Practice of Humility. Jason travels worldwide lecturing about the East, its science of mind, and the methods and practices that define the East, and how its philosophy is a cure not only for the individual's mind but also for the cultural, social, and religious problems in the world. Find out more about Jason and his work at jasongregory.org.

Relationships are sometimes difficult. But when your partner, ex, or parent has certain traits, cycles, and patterns, they can be nearly impossible. In fact, they can be emotionally abusive. Dr. Rhoberta Shaler offers insights, strategies, and support to stop the crazy-making and save your sanity.

As a relationship consultant, mediator, speaker and author, Dr. Rhoberta Shaler, The Relationship Help Doctor, provides urgent and ongoing care for relationships in crisis, at home and at work. Her mission is to help people stop tolerating abuse.

 

Dr. Shaler focuses on helping the partners, exes, and adult children of the relentlessly difficult people she calls "Hijackals®." She offers strategies for dealing with the constant uncertainty and jaw-dropping behaviors of toxic people. Author of sixteen books including Escaping the Hijackal Trap and Stop! That's Crazy-Making! How to Stop Playing the Passive-Aggressive Game. Find out more about Dr. Shaler and her work at forrelationshiphelp.com.

What is the science of spirituality, and how can we can use it to live a happier, more meaningful life? Dr. Anna Yusim will dive into spiritual topics like synchronicity, consciousness, interconnectedness and immortality and discuss how they can be integrated with a modern medical model.

Anna Yusim, M.D., is an award-winning, internationally recognized psychiatrist, keynote speaker, and best-selling author of Fulfilled: How the Science of Spirituality Can Help You Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life. She has a psychiatry practice in Manhattan where she has helped over a thousand patients. She studied biology, philosophy and neuroscience at Stanford University, where she worked with Dr. Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D. She then attended Yale Medical School and the NYU Psychiatry Residency Program. Along her journey, Dr. Yusim traveled, lived, and worked in over 50 countries, while studying Kabbalah, learning Buddhist meditation, and working with South American shamans and Indian gurus. She lives in Manhattan with her husband.

Jennie Lee changes how we look at love; from something to be acquired and preserved, to something to be realized and breathed. She believes in living love as an embodied meditation practice, and that this call to love in action is possible no matter what life presents. By making life a meditation of breathing love, not only will you find yourself, but you will find all the love you ever desired.

Jennie Lee is the author of Breathing Love: Meditation in Action and True Yoga: Practicing with the Yoga Sutras for Happiness & Spiritual Fulfillment. She is a certified Yoga Therapist and has been a spiritual lifestyle expert for more than 20 years, helping her clients conquer anxiety, depression, grief and stress, to develop lives of peace and balance. Jennie’s writing has been featured in numerous wellness magazines and blogs and she leads workshops and retreats worldwide. She is available for personal coaching via Skype internationally or in person on the island of Oahu where she makes her home. Find out more about Jennie and her work at jennieleeyogatherapy.com.

Author and coach Noelle Van Vlierbergen knows from personal experience that there are many roads to recovery, but it’s what you do when you get there that makes all the difference. She shares practical tools for embracing deep change and connecting to the present with honesty, heart, and moxie.

Noelle Van Vlierbergen is a certified integrative health and addiction recovery coach, writer, founder of Sober Moxie and creator of Sadie’s Spark, an online resource that inspires women to ignite their lives. Sober since 2011, she shares her experience and lessons learned in her book titled The Sober Leap – Practical Wisdom to Create an Amazing Life After Addiction.

Noelle has been a corporate management and executive coach for over 20 years and understands the stress of striving to maintain sanity and balance in challenging environments. She works with professional women on the other side of addiction, to embrace a more holistic approach to mind/body wellness and stress management.

Find out more about Noelle and her work at sobermoxie.com.

Shamanic teacher Itzhak Beery believes that we are all shamans in training, and that this is especially vital in these uncertain times. There is a new global interest in the shamanic healing and medicine that lay dormant in the West for thousand of years. Many people are frustrated by in ability of Western medicine institutions to provide holistic answers and health solutions.

Itzhak Beery is a leading shamanic teacher, healer, speaker, community activist and author. For more than 21 years Itzhak bridges the spiritual and practical wisdom his indigenous teachers entrusted in him with a powerful contemporary approach relevant to our stressful and unbalanced modern times.

Itzhak teaches internationally and leads groups on healing expeditions to the Andes and the Amazon of Ecuador. He was initiated into the Circle of 24 Yachaks by his Quechua teacher in Ecuador and by Amazonian Kanamari Pajè. He has also trained intensively with other elders from South and North America.

The founder of ShamanPortal.org and cofounder of the New York Shamanic Circle, he is on the faculty of Kripalu Center, New York Open Center, The Shift Network, and staff teacher at Omega Institute. He received 'Ambassador for Peace Award’ from The Universal Peace Federation and the UN. His work has been featured in the New York Times, films, TV, and numerous webinars. Find out more about Itzhak and his work at itzhakbeery.com.

Cheryl Sylivant takes Picasso's famous quote "All people are artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up", and opens up abstract art viewing and making as a way of seeing and experiencing intuitive creative living energy. She opens the creative process as a path for permission to be present with the unknown, to feel being in the body, for growth, healing, and support.

Cheryl Sylivant learned about the brain and then later started to paint. Her first idea about art was to wonder what energy would look like on a canvas. That was over 20 years ago, and her work has moved from taking art instruction at the University of Pennsylvania, to 8 full-time months of studio painting at the Art Student's League of New York, to developing a travel working method in which she has painted bodies of work with oil on canvas in 5 continents in locations in Europe, areas of India, China, Morocco, places in South America and many in the United States.

Cheryl offers techniques to work with art as a way of living energy, as a practice, including intuition and self-acceptance. She believes that abstract art making is a spiritual and embodiment practice, and knows it changes the brain and helps open an ability to be present in the unknown. In addition to her paintings, she offers creative energy coaching, energy readings, and readings of art.

Cheryl learned color as a make-up artist. She has a BA in psychology, and studied art and art history at university. She has certificates in filmmaking, interior design, herbalism, intuitive coaching, and intuition practice.

Find out more about Cheryl and her work at artandlivingenergy.com.

For centuries the gender-divide and separation between the sexes has been prolific in our culture. But times are changing! The #MeToo campaign helped women express solidarity for the pervasive issue of sexual harassment and assault. Dr. Julie Krull is here to take the lid off of secrecy, shame and oppression and create the conditions for balance, equity and healing to come forward.

Dr. Julie Krull is a steward of the new earth, called to weave more light, healing, coherence and joy into our social fabric. She is a calming presence here to midwife the evolution of consciousness. Dr. Julie works on the leading edge of social change, making connections that inspire individual, collective and planetary awakening. She is a visionary healer, mystic and spiritual teacher. Using her 30-year experience as an integrative health practitioner and psychotherapist, she invites others to express their highest creative potential. Dr. Julie is the Founding Steward of GOOD of the WHOLE, Co-Founder of World of Love and hosts The Dr. Julie Show: All Things Connected. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Fractured Grace. Find out more about Dr. Julie and her work at juliekrull.com.

Paddy Fievet guides the listener into discovering his or her own answers to the age-old questions: Where am I? Who am I? What is my purpose? How will my purpose happen? What is Love? She offers guidance to a life enhanced by awareness, identity, purpose, spiritual artistry, and love.

A modern mystic, a facilitator, public speaker, blogger, teacher and artist, and a member of Spiritual Directors International, Paddy Fievet has studied spirituality, psychic arts, and metaphysical law in depth, earning a Ph.D. in Metaphysics from the American Institute of Holistic Theology.

Find out more about Paddy and her work at paddyfievet.com.