Sometimes the only thing we can do to heal the human tangle of suffering is to just breathe. 

That is the lesson of AIR. 

Through the indigenous spirit story ‘The Hummingbird Pin’ and breathing meditation, Micheline Berry and Miguel Rivera guide you through an immersive journey into the intelligence of AIR and how air nurtures the interdependent template of exchange between our own bodies and every green thing around us. 

In the RIFF following the journey, we explore notions of our reciprocal relationship to our non-human kin and breathing as a powerful practice of self-regulation with SOLEFUL hosts Michelle Woo and Tony Patrick.

Produced by Micheline Berry. Edited and Sound Design by Miguel Rivera. Mix and Mastering by Rick Santizo. Original Theme Music by David Ralicke. 

Special Thanks to Earthstar Studio for their sponsorship of this episode. 

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Humberto Ak’abal is a poet that combines in his work the indigenous consciousness (its languages, its spirituality, and music) and the consciousness of new countries that for 500 years have been known in some parts as Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and in others as Guatemala or Mexico. Writers like Ak’abal that originate from that ancient world deeply guarded in the mountains, forests, and shorelines of our immense continent, demand that we go into that other reality we do not know, that we understand that the culture, that indigenous soul lives and breathes right beside us, in the same time as ours, with the same life as ours, loving and understanding the same continent that we love but do not understand and do not see. - Carlos Montemayor

Read & Sound Design by Miguel Rivera

A poetic invitation into the Macroverse -- for now. Written and Read by Tony Patrick.

Your 3 billion year-old elemental intelligence can be a source of refuge. With each breath, know you can metabolize and transform the effects of trauma, exhaustion and stress. A nugget Written and Read By Micheline Pierrette Berry. Music: "Movement 1 Ether" from the album Sound Tools for Sacred Movement by DJ Drez

Ambient soundscapes composed of original elemental recordings, music and sound design derived from Somatic Journey Episode 3. Sound Design by Miguel Rivera

At a time when much of the planet is on fire, literally, Miguel Rivera and Micheline Pierrette Berry continue their immersive journey into the elemental intelligence of FIRE, while also touching on the dire necessity for humans to learn how to tend to this metabolizing elemental force of nature.

Through the origin story “The Gift of Fire” and following somatic fire meditation & breath work, you will be invited to connect deeply to Fire as an inherent transformational device to be tended with care.

Following the journey, we meet up at the RIFF (Resonance, Imagination, Forgiveness and Fun) with SOLEFUL hosts Michelle Woo and Tony Patrick who share personal stories of fire building as we contemplate:

-Fire as community builder

-Fire as a space

-Fire as narrative technology

-The human obligation to caretake the elements of the planet

-Fire as relative

-And a final spontaneous dharma nugget from Michelle’s 5 year old daughter Lil. <3

Produced by Micheline Berry. Editing and Sound Design by Miguel Rivera. Mixing and Mastering Rick Santizo. Original Theme Music by David Ralicke. 

Special Thanks to Earthstar Studio for their sponsorship of this episode. 

Through an intimate account of a near death experience, Mingyur Rinpoche teaches us that flow is a way of life. Part 2 of an excerpt read by Michelle Woo

Edited and sound design by Miguel Rivera

Excerpt from In Love with the World: What a Buddhist Monk can Teach you About Living from Nearly Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov, 2019, page 43.

The poems of Deborah Miranda bypass the filters imposed by colonization and certain patterns in contemporary culture, open up paths for the reader to directly connect with primordial elemental energies of the world we live in. Allowing us to feel and express the sense of beauty and renewal when we are in direct relation to the land and its beings around us. “Raised by Humans” Tia Chucha Press. Read by Miguel Rivera

Ambient soundscapes composed of original elemental recordings, music and sound design derived from Somatic Journey Episode 2.

Sound Design by Miguel Rivera

Your guides Miguel Rivera and Micheline Pierrette Berry return to continue your immersive journey into regeneration and renewal. Through an earth-based origin story “In the Beginning” and bone meditation, instigate a deep sense of belonging and connection to the wild within and around you. 
Following the journey, hosts Michelle Woo and Tony Patrick lead a heart centered conversation known as the RIFF (resonance, imagination, forgiveness and fun) to explore emergent themes of:
-re-framing our connection to nature
-the crisis of imagination and belonging 
-ways to make the shift into relationship with the planet
-close encounters with an animate earth

Episode 2 was produced by Micheline Berry
Editing and sound design by Miguel Rivera
Mixing and mastering Rick Santizo
Original theme music by David Ralicke