This week Shanna and Rian speak with Marilee Nelson, co-founder of Branch Basics, a company on a mission to “help people create healthy homes and experience the power of pure” by educating people on the importance of removing toxins from their home and offering a line of products that safely and effectively replace these dangerous household products. Most people do not know everyday household products are causing health issues and negatively impacting the body’s ability to fight off anything else that may be going on in the body by outgassing a chemical soup that is wreaking havoc on our immune system. Marilee powerfully shares how eliminating toxins from her home environment prevented her from having a kidney transplant in her 20s and, years later, saved her son from the detrimental affects of having been exposed to high grade pesticides in a chemical accident he had when he was ten years old.

Whether you or a loved one are currently dealing with debilitating health issues or not, removing toxins form the home is critical to keeping our immune system operating optimally. Tune into this episode to learn not only the power of removing these toxic items from your home but where to began applying this process of “tossing the toxins” from your home.

Marilee is a Board Certified Nutritionist, Certified Building Biologist, Building Material Specialist and is on the advisory board for Documenting Hope. For 30 years, she has worked with the chronically ill, children with disabilities, and the mold and chemically injured. She lives in the Texas Hill Country with her husband.

To learn more about Branch Basics, visit their website. 

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SoLive Co-host, Shanna Schulze, is a franchise attorney with Shumway Van and she also serves as Executive Director of So Live, Inc.

SoLive Co-host, Rian Overcash, is an independent wellness consultant who specializes in nutragenomics and functional medicine coaching. You can follow her on Instagram at @habitmethodhealth.

Ricardo Gonzalez-Jurado is the owner and operator of the sacred Samadhi Yoga Retreat, a 30-acre nature preserve in the Texas Hill Country dedicated to silence and yogic education for children and children at heart. Through the Samadhi Yoga Retreat, Ricardo and his extended team of practitioners are dedicated to teaching children and adults the philosophy of yoga with the intention of planting seeds of harmony, balance and love. One of the most fascinating features of the Samadhi Yoga Retreat is a three story cedar pyramid designed and built by Ricardo as a tribute to silence and teaching yoga philosophy to all that inquire (we had the opportunity to attend a sound healing class hosted in the pyramid!). The retreat center is available for yoga retreats, meditation, and other wellness events with a focus of connection, silence, and well-being.

In this episode, Shanna and Tracey chat with Ricardo about his journey from El Salvador to the Texas Hill Country (via Guatemala, Belize & Houston!), his early exposure to yoga as a child and the impact this ultimately had on him creating the Samadhi Yoga Retreat (and by creating we mean literally building the three story pyramid and accompanying buildings!). He also shares the three philosophies that guide his life as well as the overall philosophy of yoga so you may want to grab a pen and paper before settling into this wisdom packed episode.

Because we love you and want you to easily take these powerful philosophies into your own life, we’re sharing his three life philosophies here:

1.) I Am Because We Are (focusing on community, unity and sharing with one another)

2.) “When you learn, teach. When you get, give.” - Maya Angelou

3.) "If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for a hundred years, educate children.” - Confucius

Definitely tune into the episode to hear how he came across these particular philosophies (the first one might bring a tear to your eye; we know it did for us!) as well as to expand on the full meaning of them.

You can also watch our SoLive team's experience at Samadhi Yoga Retreat on our SoLive The Video Series channel on YouTube HERE!

For More Information about Samadhi Yoga Rereat, visit their website, www.samadhiyogaretreat.com.

For more information on SoLive, visit us at www.soliveinc.org. You can also follow SoLive on Facebook and Instagram(@soliveinc).

SoLive host, Shanna Schulze, is a franchise attorney with Shumway Van and she also serves as Executive Director of So Live, Inc. and owner of Tribal Equine.

SoLive co-host, Tracey Keller, is is an Eating Psychology Coach and personal trainer. You can follow her on Facebook at RISE2IT.

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SoLive Executive Director, Shanna Schulze, and Wellness Committee Member, Rian Overcash, sit down with Alamo Botanicals co-founder, Nancy Burrow, and their Chief Science Officer, Josh James, to talk about the incredible success Alamo Botanicals is having by bringing the many benefits of hemp/CBD based products to consumers who need it. Though CBD products have become quite mainstream in the past few years, there’s still an educational gap to cross in helping consumers new to the product understand how it differs from marijuana. If you fall into this  category and/or want to understand more about the many benefits these products offer and would like to know about a company you can feel safe and confident purchasing these products from, this episode is for you, as Alamo Botanicals is a leader in the industry! And they’re right here in San Antonio, TX!

Alamo Botanicals is a fascinating company at the cutting edge of this industry. They have achieved this through their pioneering efforts in continuously studying the hemp plant’s properties and developing products to better deliver these newly discovered benefits to both humans and animals. Alamo Botanicals stands apart from many other companies who sell hemp based products in that they manufacture their own line of products in-house, allowing their product line to be vertically integrated from seed to shelf, ensuring the highest quality. To help consumers better understand what is in each product, they also have QR codes linking consumers to third party studies certifying an analysis of the product’s ingredients. They also stay at the cutting edge of the industry by providing third party manufacturing services and product development for others who working to bring these types of products to their specific industry such as dentists, veterinarians and estheticians.

Though Alamo Botanicals was created only a few short years ago in 2017, the company experienced immediate success, where, over the years, customers continue to share story after story on how a particular product has positively impacted their life. Tune into this episode to get a better understanding of the science behind the hemp plant, its’ many benefits and the multiple ways in which products are designed to deliver these benefits.

To learn more about the Alamo Botanicals or to find a dispensary near you, visit their website. Social Media: Facebook and Instagram. You can also watch our experience at Alamo Botanicals on our SoLive The Video Series channel on YouTube HERE!

Thanks so much for joining us! If you enjoyed this conversation, please subscribe to “SoLive Podcast” and rate and review wherever you listen to podcasts. Doing so, helps us get this information to more people who stand to benefit from it. For more information on SoLive, visit us at www.soliveinc.org. You can also follow So Live on Facebook and Instagram (@soliveinc).

This week we talk with Becky Rosenthal about the lost art of Shiatsu, a Japanese form of bodywork that uses the practitioner’s fingers (Shiatsu translates to “finger pressure”), thumbs and palms to apply pressure to certain areas of the body called meridian channels, where the focus is on bringing the body back to homeostasis by working with the “energy body”. To help demystify this process of reading and working with stuck energy, Becky shares how shaking Shanna’s legs during their session revealed the need for Shanna to dance more! (You have to tune in to find out!)

Becky blends her palpable understanding of the physical body from her background in health education and massage therapy with the deeper, intuitive art of knowing how energy flows through the body from her training in Shiatsu along with a mindful practice of compassionate listening from her background as an ordained Buddhist to offer clients a multi-layered approach to determining and addressing what is going in their physical and emotional bodies. As with many wellness practices and modalities, anyone can benefit from Shiatsu but Becky says it really opens the door to begin a healing process, so the people who benefit the most are those who are ready to commit to a healing journey.

According to Becky’s favorite quote and a strong tenant to her practice, “stopping, calming and resting are preconditions for healing”. With today’s world being so fast paced and highly stressful, along with the effects of isolation from 2020, people are, unknowingly, energetically locked in freeze or flight modes which is causing the body to not digest food (and life) in the most optimal ways. Booking a Shiatsu session with Becky begins this process of healing by stopping, calming and resting, at least for the time your with her and in her space, which she has intentionally created to honor these needed elements of healing. Often people come to Becky by referral, having no understanding of what Shiatsu is or what can come from the session; they just know someone they trust said to they benefitted from it. We hope SoLive’s personal experience can serve as a beneficial referral for you, should it resonate.

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You can also watch Tracey's experience at Becky's Shiatsu and Massage Studio on our SoLive The Video Series channel on YouTube HERE!

For More Information OR To Book a Session with Becky, visit her website or call at (210) 264-2525.

For more information on SoLive, visit us at www.soliveinc.org. You can also follow SoLive on Facebook and Instagram(@soliveinc).

SoLive host, Shanna Schulze, is a franchise attorney with Shumway Van and she also serves as Executive Director of So Live, Inc.

SoLive co-host, Tracey Keller, is is an Eating Psychology Coach and personal trainer. You can follow her on Facebook at RISE2IT.

This week we speak with Jeanne Philippus, owner of J. Philippus Art Studio & Gallery in San Antonio, TX about the power of art and healing. Her studio offers 90 minute classes in glass art, resin on charcuterie boards and acrylic pouring to individuals, groups, couples and parties, where all classes can be made kid friendly. Jeanne’s intention is to create a safe space for participants to creatively express who they are. Even though she guides and leads participants in these glasses, she says there are no rules to follow. She simply wants people to give themselves permission to sit and create. Whether you’re an experienced artist or a complete newbie, these classes help you discover your inner artist and so much more!

It’s the “so much more” that Jeanne says people unexpectedly respond to once they’ve attended a class (and has them coming back for more!). The 90 minute classes provide an opportunity to slowdown and be present as the process of creating art naturally and effortlessly pulls participants into what they’re doing. This heightened focus allows the class to become a form of meditation, where space is created for aspects of inner healing to begin taking place. It allows people to get out of their own way by effortlessly stepping out of their stressful thoughts into the present moment. And in some instances, it opens up space for buried traumas to surface and be healed. Jeanne truly believes you can turn something broken into something beautiful, but it takes time. Her art studio offers a permission slip for others to take the necessary time to begin this process of inner healing through an outer expression of art. This is all by intention as Jeanne prayed this would be a place of healing prior to opening her studio. The response to her classes overwhelmingly affirms this!

Tune in to hear Jeanne’s personal story of using art to heal her own trauma of losing her first husband early in their marriage as well as how it inspired her to open an art studio focused on helping others heal though the power of art.

The studio is open from 11:00am to 6:00pm, Monday through Saturday. For a list of classes, check out her website: JPhilippusart.com (or call the studio). You can follow her on social media here: Instagram and Facebook.

Thanks so much for joining us! If you enjoyed this conversation, please subscribe to “SoLive Podcast” and rate and review wherever you listen to podcasts. Doing so, helps us get this information to more people who stand to benefit from it.

You can also watch our experience at the J. Philippus Art Studio on our SoLive The Video Series channel on YouTube HERE!

For more information on SoLive, visit us at www.soliveinc.org. You can also follow SoLive on Facebook and Instagram(@soliveinc).

SoLive host, Shanna Schulze, is a franchise attorney with Shumway Van and she also serves as Executive Director of So Live, Inc.

SoLive co-host, Tracey Keller, is is an Eating Psychology Coach and personal trainer. You can follow her on Facebook at RISE2IT.

Garrett Salpeter is the founder and CEO of NeuFit, an innovative wellness company that uses electrical stimulation, through its NeuFit method, to help patients “achieve breakthrough results by recovering faster from injury or surgery, reducing, not just managing, chronic pain, and reaching new levels of fitness and performance.” At the heart of the NeuFit method is The Neubie, a FDA approved and patented device that safely utilizes direct current signals and the power of the nervous system to re-educate a patient’s muscle. This re-education process, as well as the ability to identify where the re-education needs to take place, are key to creating the breakthrough results patients are experiencing with the use of the Neufit method and the Neubie device. The ability to do this is also what sets this method and device apart from anything else on the market. Garrett has truly created something that’s revolutionizing the rehabilitation and fitness world!

Tune into this fascinating interview to learn more about the wide ranging applications the NeuFit method and Neubie device have for speeding up recovery from injury or surgery as well as reducing chronic pain, neurological and neuromuscular issues associated with debilitating illnesses like Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis (M.S.) and auto-immune disorders, to name a few. And if you’re a high performance athlete or simply want to reach new levels of fitness and performance, tune in to find out how this method and device can support you in those goals!

To learn more about the NeuFit method and The Neubie, or to find a provider near you, visit their website. 

Social Media: Facebook and Instagram (@neufitrfp).

Thanks so much for joining us! If you enjoyed this conversation, please subscribe to “SoLive Podcast” and rate and review wherever you listen to podcasts. Doing so, helps us get this information to more people who stand to benefit from it.

You can also watch our experience at NeuFit on our SoLive The Video Series channel on YouTube HERE!

For more information on SoLive, visit us at www.soliveinc.org.

You can also follow So Live on Facebook and Instagram (@soliveinc).

SoLive Co-host, Shanna Schulze, is a franchise attorney with Shumway Van and she also serves as Executive Director of So Live, Inc.

SoLive Co-host, Rian Overcash, is an independent wellness consultant who specializes in nutragenomics and functional medicine coaching. You can follow her on Instagram at @habitmethodhealth.

In this fascinating interview, Laurie Higgins-Kerley shares the unique way she blends her love for horses and spirituality into a one-of-a-kind offering for individuals on the path of inner healing and expansion. She shares two significant personal experiences that caused her to ask “Who am I beyond this?” and “Where do I go from here?”, questions many of us can relate to when facing the perceived parameters and challenges of our respective lives.

The initial questioning set her on a lifelong path of studying and certifying in multiple spiritual modalities including Shamanism, Medicine Wheel teachings and ceremonies, drumming circles, and Kundalini Yoga, all of which continues to deepen her understanding of who she is and allows her to facilitate workshops, retreats and coaching that aids others in their own journey of the soul.

The loss of her husband in 2008 posed as one of the most challenging journeys of her soul. However, in a true “phoenix rising from the ashes” transformation, it led to both her most unique offering—the healing power of horses—and her next chapter—creating Dove Creek Equine Rescue, a non-profit focused on rescuing, rehabbing, retraining and rehoming horses.

Laurie sees Dove Creek Equine Rescue as a beautiful circle of horses and humans giving back to one another, where this circle began with a few horses on the ranch left to her by her late husband offering her a powerful heart space to begin feeling moments of peace during the grieving process. Each time she left the ranch after spending time with the horses she felt the magnitude of their presence like a balm to her slowly healing soul. This initial handful of horses offering her healing in one of the most challenging chapters of her life has since led to the full-time rescue operation it is today, complete with volunteers showing up daily to care for and connect with the horses. The circle of healing between horses and humans continues in this organic fashion in all that she does through Dove Creek Equine Rescue and the workshops, retreats and coaching she offers through Led by Horses.

Speaking of retreats, SoLive had the pleasure of attending a private weekend retreat at the ranch called “Phoenix Rising”, where Shanna and Tracey share a bit about their respective experiences while also leaving the mystery open for others to discover by booking a retreat of their own! See their experience on our SoLive The Video Series YouTube channel HERE! 

Bio: Laurie Higgins-Kerley is the founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit organization, Dove Creek Equine Rescue. This organization provides a variety of programs, which focus on the healing partnership between horses and humans. As a certified coach through multiple platforms, Laurie has been facilitating workshops for more than 20 years. In addition to coaching with horses, her practices include Medicine Wheel teachings and ceremonies, drumming circles and yoga. Through her mastery of multiple modalities, Laurie has created a truly unique offerings at Dove Creek Equine Rescue resulting in one-of-a-kind experiences for those ready to live their best Life!

Learn more about the workshops and retreats Laurie and her team lead at Led by Horses.

Phone: 1-806-236-2660; Email: [email protected]; Instagram & Facebook 

Support Dove Creek Equine Rescue by becoming “A Hero of the Herd” HERE.

Tosh James is back on the podcast sharing his new program called Life 120, which is all about resetting and restoring our gut health. This program was created through a combination of utilizing juice and food regimens he’s been using with clients suffering from debilitating health issues as well as a personal prompting from the Holy Spirit that intuitively guided him through the various phases of what is now known as Life 120. This program is meant to help anyone, whether you’re currently suffering debilitating health issues or feel fairly healthy, to optimize how your body processes food. It does so by stripping out all chemical laden foods from your diet and only allowing real, organic food. But not to worry, there are built in cheat days where you can have your go to favorites! The goal is to create an eating lifestyle that primarily incorporates real, organic food so your body returns to processing food in the way it was designed to do so. Once your diet (lifestyle) is primarily oriented on consuming real, organic food, your body will no longer hang onto whatever type of food you decide to consume during your cheat days (which is what it’s likely doing now). Tosh shares the exact regimen in our interview as well as the personal results he experienced.

As mentioned in the interview, we wanted to share where you can find and purchase organic food. If you're local to San Antonio, check out The Farm Connection, a private buying club (similar to a co-op) that offers local, organic food products. If you're not local to San Antonio, we suggest looking for a co-op or private buying club in your area to source your organic food.

For more information on Life 120, visit www.toshjames.com to download LIFE 120 PDF, or you can contact Tosh’s office at (512) 410-9330 or email him at [email protected]. Life 120 Journal: Prescription For A New Life can also be purchased on Amazon!

Tosh James is the founder of an elite wellness consulting firm called Le Connoisseurs where he’s an advisor to Biologix, a safe and effective, nontoxic regimen that has been successfully helping people with a wide range of ailments including cancer. You can learn more about this in our original interview with Tosh from Season 2, Episode 7 titled: Body Engineering Therapies w/ Tosh James. You can also hear testimonials from clients (Regan, Barb & Rosario) who have taken his regimen in Season 3 of our podcast.

Thanks so much for joining us! If you enjoyed this conversation, please subscribe to “SoLive Podcast” and rate and review wherever you listen to podcasts. Doing so, helps us get this information to more people who stand to benefit from it.

SoLive Podcast host, Shanna Schulze, is a corporate and franchise attorney with Shumway Van and she also serves as Executive Director of SoLive. You can follow Shanna on Facebook and Instagram (@mrsshannaschulze).

SoLive host, Tracey Keller, is is an Eating Psychology Coach and personal trainer. Tracey works with clients on navigating their relationship with food and movement, helping them set up practices that will lead to success in their highest calling. You can follow Tracey on Facebook at RISE2It.

Join original SoLive cohosts, Shanna Schulze, Tracey Keller and Shanna Covey, as they reunite to discuss Shanna Covey’s recent trip to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Shanna Covey shares stories on funky manifestations around food as well as manifesting a delightful boat ride at sunset and what this means regarding the speed with which things can materialize. She also shares her perspective on seeing the collective fear that’s occurring as a purging and cleansing to make more space for love. She also speaks to our individual role in that transition. Overall this is an episode on the power of the mind as it relates to where we’re focusing our energy and attention and what we can do to make conscious shifts in how we’re using our own power to anchor where we desire to come from in how we express ourselves as well as what we desire to bring about in our experience.

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SoLive host, Shanna Covey, is a mindset coach who uses a spiritual lens to help people shift beliefs based in fear, lack and doubt to those based in self-love, abundance and faith. Through this work, she helps clients strengthen their mental-emotional wellbeing as well as their manifestation practice. She’s the author of A Call to the Heart: Shifting Out of Ego Into Spirit and host of the podcast, Always Shine Brightly. You can follow her on Facebook and Instagram (@ShannaCovey). She is also a Board Member with SoLive.

SoLive host, Shanna Schulze, is a corporate and franchise attorney with Shumway Van and she also serves as Executive Director of SoLive, Inc.

SoLive host, Tracey Keller, is is an Eating Psychology Coach and personal trainer. Tracey works with clients on navigating their relationship with food and movement, helping them set up practices that will lead to success in their highest calling. You can follow Tracey on Facebook at RISE2It.

Sarah Treat is certified clinical nutritionist with a masters in nutrition based in San Antonio, TX. She’s the owner of Sarah Treat Nutrition and Local Health Market. Through Sarah Treat Nutrition she works with clients one-on-one (and now through digital course offerings). She uses health and life coaching to help her clients reach their goals. From a health perspective, she uses functional nutrition to create comprehensive and effective lifestyle programs, whereas her life coaching component helps people through the emotional side of the journey. This powerful combo helps her clients create lasting results. Her goal is to “help people feel better so they can fuel their passions”.

Sarah and her husband opened Local Health Market in 2016 with the intention of creating a family owned health food store with a reputation in the community as THE place to go for health and wellness needs. In order to make choosing and living a healthy lifestyle easier for others to adopt and implement, they created Nourish, a healthy meal delivery system in 2017.

In this episode, Sarah shares how a health scare in her early 20s led her to taking control of her health by becoming a self-taught cook, pursuing a masters in nutrition and becoming a clinically certified nutritionist. She also shares how her and her husband began their entrepreneurial journey that has since led to creating Sarah Treat Nutrition and Local Health Market.

Check out her website for more information on her approach, offerings as well as a free webinar. Website: www.sarahtreatnutrition.com

You can follow Local Health Market on Facebook and Instagram, as well. Website: www.localhealthmarket.com

Thanks so much for joining us! If you enjoyed this conversation, please subscribe to “SoLive Podcast” and rate and review wherever you listen to podcasts. Doing so, helps us get this information to more people who stand to benefit from it.

SoLive host, Rian Overcash, is an independent wellness consultant who specializes in nutragenomics and functional medicine coaching. You can follow her on Instagram at @habitmethodhealth.

SoLive host, Tracey Keller, is is an Eating Psychology Coach and personal trainer. Tracey works with clients on navigating their relationship with food and movement, helping them set up practices that will lead to success in their highest calling. You can follow Tracey on Facebook at RISE2It.