School of Paradise

School of Paradise

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School of Paradise episodes

  • S01E09 - Bruce Parry

    Welcome everyone to the inaugural first edition of the School of Paradise Podcast!

    Bruce Parry is a documentary filmmaker, extraordinaire indigenous rights and paradigm perpetuator.

    Connect with Bruce Parry:


     Follow Bruce on INSTAGRAM

     Like Bruce on FACEBOOK

     Subscribe Bruce’s YOUTUBE CHANNEL

     Visit Bruce’s WEBSITE

     Visit TAWAI - A voice from the forest Film WEBSITE


    Connect the School of Paradise:

     Visit our WEBSITE

     Follow us on INSTAGRAM

     Like us on FACEBOOK

     Listen to our PODCAST


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    THANK YOU FOR YOU!


    EPISODE STRUCTURE

    00:00 - INTRO

    03:05 - What is required to bring more solutions into embodiment to the benefit of all beings?

    04:35 - Most individual & most collective people you’ll ever meet

    13:30 - Its great to keep everything in a state of mystery and in an open question

    20:30 - Everything is a paradox

    36:27 - This whole paradigm paradigm of money, ownershipm, land it’s just stuff we made up and we can flip the switch

    40:12 - If I had unlimited resources & time I would…

    53:00 - Next steps, trips, tribes

    1 hr 5 min
  • S01E08 - Rebecca Dennis

    Welcome everyone to the inaugural first edition of the School of Paradise Podcast!

    Rebecca Dennis is the UK’s leading breath work expert and an amazing, wonderful beautiful, joyful , radiant person. In this podcast we talk about the magic of the most powerful infinite, nutrient, gift and prize that we all have and we carry with us through every moment of our life: the breath! 

    Rebecca has 2 published books:

    LET IT GO - Find out how you can literally breathe yourself calm

    BREATHE - A practical, audio guide to breathwork


    Connect with Rebecca Dennis:

     Follow Rebecca  on INSTAGRAM

     Like Rebecca  on  FACEBOOK

     Visit the Breathing Tree  WEBSITE


    Connect the School of Paradise:

     Visit our WEBSITE

     Follow us on INSTAGRAM

     Like us on FACEBOOK

     Listen to our PODCAST


    Don’t forget to like  comment  and subscribe  for more amazing insights!

    THANK YOU FOR YOU!


    EPISODE STRUCTURE


    00:00 -  INTRO

    01:54 - Journey in a nutshell

    10:50 - Breath-work exercise: the importance of stepping down, pausing and slowing everything down

    15:10 - The more present we are with the breath the more we appreciate it

    17:18 - We all have your little ecosystems within us

    24:20 - The breath is the closest experience to the ocean of essence

    27:00 - Babies and toddlers are our best gurus in breath

    35:00 - Book inspiration

    46:00 - Breathe so deeply that the mind can’t the mind cannot get hold

    48:00 - Slowing the breath down and bringing the breath lower

    50:00 - Break through experiences - relieving grief, trauma, anger, depression

    01:08:50 -  Solar Plexus Breathing Exercise

    1 hr 16 min
  • S01E07 - John D. Liu

    Welcome everyone to the inaugural first edition of the School of Paradise Podcast!

    John D. Liu is a brilliant filmmaker sharing the power and potency that we each carry within us when we come into harmony, resonance and alignment with mother nature’s magnificence. John shows how any piece of the most desertified, mistreated and unappreciated land and ecology can be regrown into a thriving fully functional ecosystem aka Paradise! He also runs and actively participates in many organisations to help perpetuate the solutions that are around us in Mother Nature.

    Connect with John D Liu:

     Follow John on INSTAGRAM

     Like John on FACEBOOK

     Read John’s  ARTICLES/PAPERS/REPORTS

     Visit the Ecosystem Restoration Camps WEBSITE

     Visit the Foundation for Common Land  WEBSITE

     Subscribe John’s YOUTUBE CHANNEL


    Connect the School of Paradise:

     Visit our WEBSITE

     Follow us on INSTAGRAM

     Like us on FACEBOOK

     Listen to our PODCAST


    Don’t forget to like  comment  and subscribe  for more amazing insights!

    THANK YOU FOR YOU!


    EPISODE STRUCTURE


    00:00 - INTRO

    03:23 - The Foundation for Common Land & The Ecosystem Restoration Camps

    05:55 - A Dream Come True - Earth Restoration Peace Camps

    12:05 - The Sinai Peninsula & The Loess Plateau Restoration

    16:05 - The Earth Systems

    21:45 - Ecology & Human Intervention

    23:24 - Potential for great harm or great good

    33:33 - Steps to grow individual and collective Consciousness 

    42:55 - As human impact on earth systems has increased the choices become more and more constrained 

    45:36 - Half the man your father was

    47:15  - United States of America importing everything from China and exporting all its pollution back 

    48:45 - Environment & Ecological Systems

    1:08:00 - Distortion of the Green Movement/Agenda

    1:44:00 - Reclaim individual sovereignty 

    1:53:08 - The eternal systems, the basis of life

    1:58:12 - The Maya, The Illusion

    2:01:20 - When I look at buildings, I see ruins

    2 hr 6 min
  • S01E06 - Kathrin Huzelmann

    Welcome everyone to the inaugural first edition of the School of Paradise Podcast!

    Kathrin Huzelmann is a great friend, amazing healer, medicine woman, cranial sacral therapist, chocolate maker and all round beam of sunshine wherever she goes! 

    After qualifying from University of Hamburg Dental School in 2002, Kathrin trained to be a dental hypnotherapist in 2004 and got a PhD awarded in 2006. She has worked in mainly private practices for over ten years, and is a member of the International Team of Implantology (ITI), the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology(IAOMT),British Society of the Study of Cranio Mandibular Disorders (BSSCMD/ Jaw ache), German society of modern clinical hypnosis (DGZH), British Dental Association (BDA) and the General Dental Council (GDC).


    Connect with Kathrin Huzelmann:

     Visit Kathrin’s WEBSITE


    Connect the School of Paradise:

     Visit our WEBSITE

     Follow us on INSTAGRAM

     Like us on FACEBOOK

     Listen to our PODCAST


    Don’t forget to like  comment  and subscribe  for more amazing insights!

    THANK YOU FOR YOU!


    EPISODE STRUCTURE

    00:00 - Intro

    01:44 - What’s Kathrin up to

    4:49 - What work lights Kathrin up the most? Chocolate Recipes, Songs & Dentistry

    7:00 - If something goes wrong with any of your teeth you don’t just want to fix them

    13:27 - What happens if you don’t have the trust within yourself that you can heal yourself

    23:00 - Wisdom Teeth & Anxiety

    24:40 - Indigenous Traditions + Toasts, Porridge and Pancakes (Non Foods)

    27:45 - Teeth are like trees

    30:50 - Fruitarian for 1.5 years (with no acid erosion)

    32:10 - Tips for dental care

    32:24 - Chew your food 30 times before you swallow

    34:47 - Tooth Powder and Oil Pulling

    59:05 - How would the whole world look one day if everyone had their dental artificial amendments removed?

    1:07:55 - What is Kathrin’s vision of Paradise?

    1 hr 34 min
  • S01E05 - Chris Park

    Welcome everyone to the inaugural first edition of the School of Paradise Podcast!

    Chris Park is a wonderful being and druid elder that has been on the path of Druidry for a long time, dedicating and devoting his life to reawakening, regrowing, rebuilding and sharing every part of that from families, communities, ceremonies, knowledge and stories. Chris embodies the spirit of the land and what the Druid essence is about.


    Connect with Chris Park:

     Follow his INSTAGRAM

     Like Chris on FACEBOOK

     Visit Chris WEBSITE


    Connect the School of Paradise:

     Visit our WEBSITE

     Follow us on INSTAGRAM

     Like us on FACEBOOK

     Listen to our PODCAST


    Don’t forget to like  comment  and subscribe  for more amazing insights!


    THANK YOU FOR YOU!


    EPISODE STRUCTURE


    00:00 - The School of Paradise

    17:45 - Intro

    21:50 - Chris 

    24:25 - All arts come from magic and first song were prayers

    31:00 - Beekeeping 

    39:39 - Most people have been divorced from the landscape and have an abstract occupation

    53:20 - Chris Vision of Paradise

    59:11 - Economy rules and that’s what culture is supported by but beneath that there is Mother Nature

    1:01:00 - Paradise is a moment

    1:07:29 - Storytelling 

    1:16:18 - How to tell stories 

    1:19:32 - The Coracle Journey - A Unique Pilgrimage for Peace

    1:24:42 - Foraging, Wild Foods and Acorns

    1 hr 30 min
  • S01E04 - Doug Evans

    Welcome everyone to the inaugural first edition of the School of Paradise Podcast!

    Doug Evans is an expert in sprouts and a master on how to use them to change your diet and super-charge your health.

    This amazing "Sprout Guru” wrote The Sprout Book, a transformative plan to empower readers to embark on a plant-based way of eating that’s low-cost and accessible. Among the mind-blowing nutritional qualities of sprouts:

    — they have 20-30 times the nutrients of other vegetables and 100 times those of meat

    — they pack cancer-fighting properties and help to protect us from cardiovascular disease and environmental pollutants

    — they aid in digestion

    — they are a simple way to grow your own vegetables and compatible with all diets


    Connect with Doug Evans:

     Follow his INSTAGRAM

     Check out his BOOK: here  and here


    Connect the School of Paradise:

    Sign up for ou NEWSLETTER: 

     Visit our WEBSITE

     Follow us on INSTAGRAM

     Like us on FACEBOOK

     Listen to our PODCAST


    Don’t forget to like  comment  and subscribe  for more amazing insights!


    THANK YOU FOR YOU!

    EPISODE STRUCTURE


    00:00 - Intro

    05:35 - The most important, life changing and magnificent things about sprouting

    08:40 - First steps on sprouting

    14:33 - In two weeks from junk food to vegetarian, vegan, raw vegan!

    15:20 - Organic Avenue

    17:05 - The Sprout Book

    22:45 - Doug’s vision of Paradise - Equanimity

    26:50 - The Chinese Farmer & the horses

    30:14  - Within every adversity lies the seed of a greater or equivalent benefit

    31:16 - Nature can be brutal but it never serves to be a victim

    33:00 - Messages in books, teachings quotes & maxims

    40:15 - Vipassana Meditation

    46:25 - A seed is a baby - a complete living organism

    50:56 - Sprouts are food!

    53:00 - Sprouts are vitamins!

    56:48 - Let sprouts be thy medicine and sprouts be thy food!

    1 hr 8 min
  • S01E03 - Kevin Nathaniel

    Welcome everyone to the inaugural first edition of the School of Paradise Podcast!

    Kevin Nathaniel is a visionary musician who, with voice and ancient African instruments, channels sound as a universal healing force. Together, breathing rhythms to the beat of our synchronised hearts, Kevin resonates songs of unity and the “big picture” of love in beautiful ways. A celebrated composer of healing music; a long-time practitioner of the healing arts of mbira, kalimba, circle song, shekere, dance, meditation, and yoga; a world-traveled music healer and performer, sharing the medicine of the ancient, the now, and the beyond, Kevin Nathaniel brings a fresh, deep experience of the beauty of sound.

    His journey has led him to today, where he is an innovative force in the development of a new kind of shamanic music, performing music festivals and ceremonies the world over. His recordings have developed a strong following not only among lovers of uplifting dance grooves, but also among the healing and natural medicine world, while healers have verified that his recordings and performances helped heal trauma, sleep disorders, physical pain, depression and anxiety. Kevin has worked with shamans, channels, doctors, healers, mystics, and medicine people from Africa, Asia, South and North America. 

    Kevin’s music is an invitation for us to come together, to share in song, laughter, positivity, movement, and prayer.

    Connect with Kevin Nathaniel:

     Visit his WEBSITE

     Follow his INSTAGRAM

     Like him on FACEBOOK

     Watch his videos on YOUTUBE

     Listen to his music on SPOTIFY

    Connect with the School of Paradise:

     Visit our WEBSITE

     Follow us on INSTAGRAM

     Like us on FACEBOOK

     Listen to our PODCAST


    Don’t forget to like  comment  and subscribe  for more amazing insights!


    THANK YOU FOR YOU!


    EPISODE STRUCTURE


    05:30 - Ubuntu Movement - Michael Tellinger

    09:38 - If we can’t laugh, we will become the weapons of fear

    13:05 - Song is prayer, Music is medicine and Dancing is our #1 affordable health care system

    15:00 - Sing more than you talk and dance more than you walk

    17:30 - There’s is no such things as dancing well, there is only dancing from your heart and dancing from expressing yourself

    31:00 - Social Media Rules

    33:22 - Kevin’s Vision of Paradise

    40: 25 - Smiling is not something that you do just with your face and your lips

    49:34 - How do we get to the healing for the world if we are chasing misery?

    54:50 - Locked in an elevator

    58:30 - What I learnt from my dad - look at each other from a totally unpainted bias perspective

    1:10:30 - Polyphonic Music

    1:15.32 - People who disagree are meant to dance together, because that is what creates richer overall melody

    1:32:20 - Hip Hop - leading people to awareness

    1:33:30 - You should feel free to break any rule that you’ve ever seen

    1:37:50 - The most massive awakening of Humanity

    1:46:55 - The first thing I do in the morning, sing a happy song and dance

    2 hr 8 min
  • S01E02 - Nicole Adriana Casanova

    Welcome everyone to the inaugural first edition of the School of Paradise Podcast!

    Nicole Adriana Casanova is a Boriken born student of Maestro Manuel Rufino, a Taino Elder who founded the Golden Drum cultural center in Brooklyn and many communities around the world. She is a graduate of the New School in New York City. Her cross-disciplinary study included Food Justice and Sovereignty, Environmental Economics and Psychology. 

    Nicole is a writer, poet, songkeeper and storyteller. Over the past decade, Nicole has been blessed to travel the world and study with great teachers, elders, and spiritual traditions. As a healer, she has administered to 1,000s of people and her passion is to shift from individual healing to collective healing. Growing up, Nicole’s best friends were trees and this organization gives her the opportunity to keep good on the promises she made in the wisdom of childhood. Root to Heaven in Nicole’s prayer for the Waters of the Earth. 


    Connect with Nicole Casanova:

    •  Follow Nicole’s INSTAGRAM
    •  Follow Root to Heaven’s INSTAGRAM
    •  Follow Root to Heaven’s WEBSITE

    Connect the School of Paradise:

    •  Visit the School of Paradise WEBSITE
    •  Follow the School of Paradise INSTAGRAM
    •  Like the School of Paradise on FACEBOOK
    •  Listen to the School of Paradise PODCAST

    Don’t forget to like,  comment  and subscribe  for more amazing insights!


    T H A N K   Y O U   F O R   Y O U !


    EPISODE STRUCTURE

    05:20 - Nature carries you  through;

    21:45 - What are you going to do with all of your power? I'll plant a million trees!;

    24:24 - Rehabilitating the ecosystems;

    28:20 - Recognising our false inheritances & looking at where our minds are colonised ;

    30:53 - To plant a tree is to plant an entire possibility of what the world can be;

    41:30 - How to create carbon drawdown within 30 years;

    1:08:55 - Part of unlearning is also learning to be wrong. 

    1 hr 44 min
  • S01E01 - Dr. Eugene Tssui

    Welcome everyone to the inaugural first edition of the School of Paradise Podcast!

    Dr. Eugene Tssui (http://www.eugenetsui.com) is not just an epic architect really taking things outside the box, literally and metaphorically, but also a champion athlete, a musician, a dancer, a fashion designer, and so many other things. He is so in tune with his heart,  his soul,  his spirit and that’s what really inspires the School of Paradise.

    In this episode we talked about learning and unlearning the limiting thoughts, patterns, and paradigms of the last few hundred years.

    From Paris to Mount Shasta, Maurice Ravel to Gengis Khan, in this episode you will understand why we say that Eugene is a powerhouse, always growing strong, unstoppable, with a joy for life and perpetuating, magnifying and multiplying that through all the work that he does, creating a beautiful community around him.


    Connect with Dr. Eugene Tssui:

    • Visit the Tsui Design And Research WEBSITE

    Connect the School of Paradise:

    •  Visit the School of Paradise WEBSITE 
    •  Follow the School of Paradise INSTAGRAM 
    •  Like the School of Paradise on FACEBOOK


    Don’t forget to like,  comment  and subscribe  for more amazing insights!


    T H A N K   Y O U   F O R   Y O U !


    EPISODE STRUCTURE

    06:33 - The Language of Mother Nature in Design;

    13:38 - One of the most destructive attitudes about architecture;

    16:55 - Ravel's Bolero & the Riots in Paris, France - 1921

    20:40 -  People don't want to talk about the truth;

    23:15 - How to find the line between being true to yourself and expressing your vision against the fixed rigid structures in people’s minds & organisations;

    28:35 - Robin Williams - It doesn't matter what other people think;

    35:10 - The bully mentality is everywhere, from the kindergarten, to the workplace, to the government;

    43:20 - The current architectural education system -  appearance rather than substance;

    47:56 - The safest building in the WORLD!;

    59:00 - The system mentality - planned obsolescence & resistance to finding answers;

    1:01:03 - Nature’s structures that help solving human challenges - spider webs silk, wasp nests, shells, strength to weight ratio;

    1:09:00 - Globalisation & Obesity;

    1:22:50 - Miracles & Unique Gifts to Share;

    1:34:57 - Vegan Lifestyle;

    1:37:55 - Boxing - whatever you think of, whatever you dream of, don't ever give up!

    1:44:00 - Fauja Singh, Gengis Khan - those who lead cannot have pride.

    1 hr 58 min
  • WELCOME to the School of Paradise!

    Welcome to remembering that you have always been in School of Paradise! Mother Earth is always inviting and patiently waiting with unconditional love and forgiveness  for us to step into the full magic of this real and all the kingdoms.

    School of Paradise is a journey and adventure of unlearning and opening up to the mystery of life. We are here to share the different shapes, forms, platforms, educational programes, tools that we picked up along the way that will bring benefit to our families, children, communities and ecosystems.

    In this podcast we will be interviewing our many friends, elders, guests, different experts and luminaries across different fields and understanding how are they bringing their unique gifts and perspective to fruition as a form of paradise.

    7 min

About School of Paradise

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School of Paradise podcast is here to share reflections of paradise - what we collectively consider to be a higher octave of nature’s wisdom, and alchemical arts and sciences across all fields of…