Amber (aka; Sheilajit) is a performance artist who weaves her deep connection to the earth and the cosmos into dance and music. Her reflections on the ways she channels the wisdom and medicine of the cosmos is a wonderful reminder to us all; we are not just our physical bodies, we are the 13.8 Billion year long story of the Universe.

How are you working to collaborate with this Cosmic Body?

Dan and Amber discuss how such a journey takes shape in her life, and its impact on the way she views herself and the world we share.

Curated by: 

April Bell, founder of Tree of Life Legacies, a storytelling and wisdom-keeping project based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Want to be part of the “live” experience each week? Open to talking to others about your unfolding journey? Longing to hear how others are finding their way? Join us every Sunday morning for the Soul Forum Live. 

Sunday’s | 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. 

First Sunday of the Month @ 10:30 a.m.

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Soul Forum Podcast Team: 

Co-hosts:

April Bell, Founder at Tree of Life Legacies and Co-creator of StoryCatcher® for iOS 

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Soul Forum: A conversational journey across the landscape of the collective soul. 

In this series - SoulBody - we explore the wisdom and wonder within our own bodies that can provide a pathway into the experience of soul. The season begins with reflections on the body each of us inhabits and ends with reflections on the wider earth or cosmic body. There is plenty of reasons to trust that any access to a relationship with the divine, or mystery, or the very essence of life, is primarily accessed through the body. Can we reverse the idea that the sacred has figured out how to incarnate, or become flesh and bone, and explore how our sense of the sacred manifests from within every body? How might you honor and explore the body that invites you into wonder?

Welcome to Soul Forum.

In the previous two episodes, Karen and Dan discussed the different ways she finds her soul within the earth body. In this conversation, April speaks with her about the origins of her journey from waking up in domestication to becoming feral, wild and free; all while learning to coexist with the earth body, developing a more symbiotic relationship with this beloved planet we all call home.

-More About Our Guest-

If you’re interested in learning more about the Post Doom Bloom Women's Circle and/or the Post Doom No Gloom Discussion Group, you may contact Karen at her email below. Also below are two articles by Karen which she asked to be shared with our audience.

Email: [email protected]

YouTube: Karen Perry: Post-doom BENEFITS of Collapse Acceptance and "Getting Real About Collapse" - Karen Perry, live with Jordan Perry & David B.

Curated by: 

April Bell, founder of Tree of Life Legacies, a storytelling and wisdom-keeping project based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

_________________

*Soul Forum Recording & Open Discussion* 

Want to be part of the “live” experience each week? Open to talking to others about your unfolding journey? Longing to hear how others are finding their way? Join us every Sunday morning for the Soul Forum Live. 

Sunday’s | 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. 

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Soul Forum Podcast Team: 

Co-hosts:

April Bell, Founder at Tree of Life Legacies and Co-creator of StoryCatcher® for iOS 

SoulForumPodcast.com

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Series Sponsor:

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Soul Forum: A conversational journey across the landscape of the collective soul. 

In this series - SoulBody - we explore the wisdom and wonder within our own bodies that can provide a pathway into the experience of soul. The season begins with reflections on the body each of us inhabits and ends with reflections on the wider earth or cosmic body. There is plenty of reasons to trust that any access to a relationship with the divine, or mystery, or the very essence of life, is primarily accessed through the body. Can we reverse the idea that the sacred has figured out how to incarnate, or become flesh and bone, and explore how our sense of the sacred manifests from within every body? How might you honor and explore the body that invites you into wonder?

Welcome to Soul Forum.

When all you imagine of yourself is integrated into the rhythms, patterns, and sustaining energy of the planet, where do you derive your sense of soul? In this second episode, Karen continues to explore her perspective on the character of this most intimate relationship and how it informs her self-understanding, and her deepest engagement with world. As the episode concludes, her life as an environmental activist begins to shift as she copes with a planet in crisis and discovers a hidden grace in the inevitability of climate collapse.

-More About Our Guest-

If you’re interested in learning more about the Post Doom Bloom Women's Circle and/or the Post Doom No Gloom Discussion Group, you may contact Karen at her email below. Also below are two articles by Karen which she asked to be shared with our audience.

Email: [email protected]

YouTube: Karen Perry: Post-doom BENEFITS of Collapse Acceptance and "Getting Real About Collapse" - Karen Perry, live with Jordan Perry & David B.

Curated by: 

April Bell, founder of Tree of Life Legacies, a storytelling and wisdom-keeping project based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

_________________

*Soul Forum Recording & Open Discussion* 

Want to be part of the “live” experience each week? Open to talking to others about your unfolding journey? Longing to hear how others are finding their way? Join us every Sunday morning for the Soul Forum Live. 

Sunday’s | 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. 

_________________

Soul Forum Podcast Team: 

Co-hosts:

April Bell, Founder at Tree of Life Legacies and Co-creator of StoryCatcher® for iOS 

Main Logo Artwork:

Series Sponsor:

_________________

Soul Forum: A conversational journey across the landscape of the collective soul. 

In this series - SoulBody - we explore the wisdom and wonder within our own bodies that can provide a pathway into the experience of soul. The season begins with reflections on the body each of us inhabits and ends with reflections on the wider earth or cosmic body. There is plenty of reasons to trust that any access to a relationship with the divine, or mystery, or the very essence of life, is primarily accessed through the body. Can we reverse the idea that the sacred has figured out how to incarnate, or become flesh and bone, and explore how our sense of the sacred manifests from within every body? How might you honor and explore the body that invites you into wonder?

Welcome to Soul Forum.

Is there some way to expand your sense of body to include the very planet that sustains us? In the next three episodes, we sit down with Karen Perry as she takes us on a journey into her experience of moving away from domestication and into the wild. There, she begins to find a way into a deeper connection to the soul of the planet. For many, it is their relationship with nature that creates their most spiritual moments. Can it be that there is some access to soul body held within earth body?  

-More About Our Guest-

If you’re interested in learning more about the Post Doom Bloom Women's Circle and/or the Post Doom No Gloom Discussion Group, you may contact Karen at her email below. Also below are two articles by Karen which she asked to be shared with our audience.

Email: [email protected]

15 Benefits of Collapse Acceptance

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YouTube: Karen Perry: Post-doom BENEFITS of Collapse Acceptance and "Getting Real About Collapse" - Karen Perry, live with Jordan Perry & David B.

Curated by: 

April Bell, founder of Tree of Life Legacies, a storytelling and wisdom-keeping project based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

_________________

*Soul Forum Recording & Open Discussion* 

Want to be part of the “live” experience each week? Open to talking to others about your unfolding journey? Longing to hear how others are finding their way? Join us every Sunday morning for the Soul Forum Live. 

Sunday’s | 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. 

_________________

Soul Forum Podcast Team: 

Co-hosts:

April Bell, Founder at Tree of Life Legacies and Co-creator of StoryCatcher® for iOS 

Main Logo Artwork:

Series Sponsor:

_________________

Soul Forum: A conversational journey across the landscape of the collective soul. 

In this series - SoulBody - we explore the wisdom and wonder within our own bodies that can provide a pathway into the experience of soul. The season begins with reflections on the body each of us inhabits and ends with reflections on the wider earth or cosmic body. There is plenty of reasons to trust that any access to a relationship with the divine, or mystery, or the very essence of life, is primarily accessed through the body. Can we reverse the idea that the sacred has figured out how to incarnate, or become flesh and bone, and explore how our sense of the sacred manifests from within every body? How might you honor and explore the body that invites you into wonder?

Welcome to Soul Forum.

The path of an artist is typically an uncommon one. In this episode, April sits down with Brian to unwrap the winding path that has led him to commit his life to a big goal that involves saving our planet in a conscious way.

-More About Our Guest-

Brian Enright's mission is to create works of art that inspire value and hope for individuals, communities and future generations; educating us about the beneficial impact of working with reclaimed materials.

All of our actions are interconnected and vital to our survival on this planet. Awakening as many people as possible to this reality is, therefore, increasingly important. By utilizing objects that would otherwise be discarded in landfill or forgotten places, he sheds light on the hidden potential of our refuse to literally take on a second life. He seeks to educate through his work on how better product design can and will eventually eliminate the end of lifespan for many man-made objects, an indispensable step in creating a sustainable environment worldwide for generations to come.

Enright and his art clearly demonstrate that simple changes in our thinking can effect positive changes in our culture and environment.

Website: EnrightSculpture.com

Curated by: 

April Bell, founder of Tree of Life Legacies, a storytelling and wisdom-keeping project based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

_________________

*Soul Forum Recording & Open Discussion* 

Want to be part of the “live” experience each week? Open to talking to others about your unfolding journey? Longing to hear how others are finding their way? Join us every Sunday morning for the Soul Forum Live. 

Sunday’s | 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. 

_________________

Soul Forum Podcast Team: 

Co-hosts:

April Bell, Founder at Tree of Life Legacies and Co-creator of StoryCatcher® for iOS 

Main Logo Artwork:

Series Sponsor:

_________________

Soul Forum: A conversational journey across the landscape of the collective soul. 

In this series - SoulBody - we explore the wisdom and wonder within our own bodies that can provide a pathway into the experience of soul. The season begins with reflections on the body each of us inhabits and ends with reflections on the wider earth or cosmic body. There is plenty of reasons to trust that any access to a relationship with the divine, or mystery, or the very essence of life, is primarily accessed through the body. Can we reverse the idea that the sacred has figured out how to incarnate, or become flesh and bone, and explore how our sense of the sacred manifests from within every body? How might you honor and explore the body that invites you into wonder?

Welcome to Soul Forum.

Brian Enright is an artist who works with found materials; the stuff none of us tend to notice. It is an art form that can remind us that there is a deeper story that is hidden beneath the surface.

While we tend to focus on our individual soul and its expression, is there a way to tend to the story held within our collective soul?

Brian uses the discarded to explore what that collective story might look like, what it tells us about ourselves, and the worlds we create. How might each of us tend to the collective story of our shared soul that runs silently under everything we touch, and see, and feel?

-More About Our Guest-

Brian Enright's mission is to create works of art that inspire value and hope for individuals, communities and future generations; educating us about the beneficial impact of working with reclaimed materials.

All of our actions are interconnected and vital to our survival on this planet. Awakening as many people as possible to this reality is, therefore, increasingly important. By utilizing objects that would otherwise be discarded in landfill or forgotten places, he sheds light on the hidden potential of our refuse to literally take on a second life. He seeks to educate through his work on how better product design can and will eventually eliminate the end of lifespan for many man-made objects, an indispensable step in creating a sustainable environment worldwide for generations to come.

Enright and his art clearly demonstrate that simple changes in our thinking can effect positive changes in our culture and environment.

Website: EnrightSculpture.com

Curated by: 

April Bell, founder of Tree of Life Legacies, a storytelling and wisdom-keeping project based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

_________________

*Soul Forum Recording & Open Discussion* 

Want to be part of the “live” experience each week? Open to talking to others about your unfolding journey? Longing to hear how others are finding their way? Join us every Sunday morning for the Soul Forum Live. 

Sunday’s | 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. 

_________________

Soul Forum Podcast Team: 

Co-hosts:

April Bell, Founder at Tree of Life Legacies and Co-creator of StoryCatcher® for iOS 

Main Logo Artwork:

Series Sponsor:

_________________

Soul Forum: A conversational journey across the landscape of the collective soul. 

In this series - SoulBody - we explore the wisdom and wonder within our own bodies that can provide a pathway into the experience of soul. The season begins with reflections on the body each of us inhabits and ends with reflections on the wider earth or cosmic body. There is plenty of reasons to trust that any access to a relationship with the divine, or mystery, or the very essence of life, is primarily accessed through the body. Can we reverse the idea that the sacred has figured out how to incarnate, or become flesh and bone, and explore how our sense of the sacred manifests from within every body? How might you honor and explore the body that invites you into wonder?

Welcome to Soul Forum.

Shifting from the idea of the individual soul to a possible collective soul is a tricky one. In this episode, Dan sits down with Brian Enright, who works as an artist, to discuss his experiences and perspectives as he attempts to create community art.

There is something about the process that feels like it might provide a window into the way each of us might tap into some sense of a collective soul. Where do we look or listen or journey to tap into a sense of soul that is beyond or beneath the individual perspective?

We hope you find the conversation provides some insights as you look a little deeper into the nature of our collective soul body.

-More About Our Guest-

Brian's mission is to create works of art that inspire value and hope for individuals, communities and future generations; educating us about the beneficial impact of working with reclaimed materials.

All of our actions are interconnected and vital to our survival on this planet. Awakening as many people as possible to this reality is, therefore, increasingly important. By utilizing objects that would otherwise be discarded in landfill or forgotten places, he sheds light on the hidden potential of our refuse to literally take on a second life. He seeks to educate through his work on how better product design can and will eventually eliminate the end of lifespan for many man-made objects, an indispensable step in creating a sustainable environment worldwide for generations to come.

Enright and his art clearly demonstrate that simple changes in our thinking can effect positive changes in our culture and environment.

Website: EnrightSculpture.com

Curated by: 

April Bell, founder of Tree of Life Legacies, a storytelling and wisdom-keeping project based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

_________________

*Soul Forum Recording & Open Discussion* 

Want to be part of the “live” experience each week? Open to talking to others about your unfolding journey? Longing to hear how others are finding their way? Join us every Sunday morning for the Soul Forum Live. 

Sunday’s | 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. 

_________________

Soul Forum Podcast Team: 

Co-hosts:

April Bell, Founder at Tree of Life Legacies and Co-creator of StoryCatcher® for iOS 

Main Logo Artwork:

Series Sponsor:

_________________

Soul Forum: A conversational journey across the landscape of the collective soul. 

In this series - SoulBody - we explore the wisdom and wonder within our own bodies that can provide a pathway into the experience of soul. The season begins with reflections on the body each of us inhabits and ends with reflections on the wider earth or cosmic body. There is plenty of reasons to trust that any access to a relationship with the divine, or mystery, or the very essence of life, is primarily accessed through the body. Can we reverse the idea that the sacred has figured out how to incarnate, or become flesh and bone, and explore how our sense of the sacred manifests from within every body? How might you honor and explore the body that invites you into wonder?

Welcome to Soul Forum.

In her early 30s, Marjorie was a super-capable single-mother doing all she could to keep life flowing for herself and her young children. Then the unimaginable happened, she discovered she had a brain tumor. Although the operation to remove the tumor was a success, Marjorie was left with her physical capacity deeply compromised. This forced her onto a  new path which included the hard won lessons of self-compassion and self-forgiveness. Along her journey,  she discovered the opening to embrace owning her own value with true grace and humility. As you listen to Marjorie share about her unique journey, which she’s also written about in her recent memoir, maybe consider the ways you allow yourself to step a little deeper into self-love and self-acceptance as you traverse the gentle, and not so gentle, paths life has laid before you. 

-More About Our Guest-

Nearly thirty years ago Marjorie found herself in a hospital bed after brain surgery to save her life, paralyzed on her right side. The years since then have been a healing journey as she has regained her ability to walk, with support. Little did she know those years ago that one day she would be the author of five Easy Walks walking books focused on helping others, including those with mobility issues, to get out and enjoy the outdoors. Her most recent book, a memoir, is available on Amazon: My Liturgy of Easy Walks: Finding the Sacred in Everyday (and some very strange) places.

Website: MarjorieTurner.com

Curated by: 

April Bell, founder of Tree of Life Legacies, a storytelling and wisdom-keeping project based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

_________________

*Soul Forum Recording & Open Discussion* 

Want to be part of the “live” experience each week? Open to talking to others about your unfolding journey? Longing to hear how others are finding their way? Join us every Sunday morning for the Soul Forum Live. 

Sunday’s | 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. 

_________________

Soul Forum Podcast Team: 

Co-hosts:

April Bell, Founder at Tree of Life Legacies and Co-creator of StoryCatcher® for iOS 

Main Logo Artwork:

Series Sponsor:

_________________

Soul Forum: A conversational journey across the landscape of the collective soul. 

In this series - SoulBody - we explore the wisdom and wonder within our own bodies that can provide a pathway into the experience of soul. The season begins with reflections on the body each of us inhabits and ends with reflections on the wider earth or cosmic body. There is plenty of reasons to trust that any access to a relationship with the divine, or mystery, or the very essence of life, is primarily accessed through the body. Can we reverse the idea that the sacred has figured out how to incarnate, or become flesh and bone, and explore how our sense of the sacred manifests from within every body? How might you honor and explore the body that invites you into wonder?

Welcome to Soul Forum.

Using a few good stories, Dan works his way through a number of perspectives on what it means to imagine your spiritual life as an emerging spiral, or concentric circles, rather than a straight line. From the tree trunk, to the mythic story of Job in the Hebrew tradition, to discovering playground, to the Tenderloin in San Francisco, this episode invites you to explore the way your soul's journey might be unraveling and how you can pay attention to its curious dynamic.

-More About Our Guest-

Nearly thirty years ago Marjorie found herself in a hospital bed after brain surgery to save her life, paralyzed on her right side. The years since then have been a healing journey as she has regained her ability to walk, with support. Little did she know those years ago that one day she would be the author of five Easy Walks walking books focused on helping others, including those with mobility issues, to get out and enjoy the outdoors. Her most recent book, a memoir, is available on Amazon: My Liturgy of Easy Walks: Finding the Sacred in Everyday (and some very strange) places.

Website: MarjorieTurner.com

Curated by: 

April Bell, founder of Tree of Life Legacies, a storytelling and wisdom-keeping project based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

_________________

*Soul Forum Recording & Open Discussion* 

Want to be part of the “live” experience each week? Open to talking to others about your unfolding journey? Longing to hear how others are finding their way? Join us every Sunday morning for the Soul Forum Live. 

Sunday’s | 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. 

_________________

Soul Forum Podcast Team: 

Co-hosts:

April Bell, Founder at Tree of Life Legacies and Co-creator of StoryCatcher® for iOS 

Main Logo Artwork:

Series Sponsor:

_________________

Soul Forum: A conversational journey across the landscape of the collective soul. 

In this series - SoulBody - we explore the wisdom and wonder within our own bodies that can provide a pathway into the experience of soul. The season begins with reflections on the body each of us inhabits and ends with reflections on the wider earth or cosmic body. There is plenty of reasons to trust that any access to a relationship with the divine, or mystery, or the very essence of life, is primarily accessed through the body. Can we reverse the idea that the sacred has figured out how to incarnate, or become flesh and bone, and explore how our sense of the sacred manifests from within every body? How might you honor and explore the body that invites you into wonder?

Welcome to Soul Forum.

In this episode, Dan sits down with Marjorie who is a storyteller. The stories she tells emerge from a body that has faced both emotional and physical trauma that derailed her from the linear path most of us think we travel, and set her on one that feels more like a circle. There is nothing graceful about the journey, but there may be some strange grace that allows a greater sense of self in the world.

Don’t we all walk away a bit wounded as we face all that life holds? How does it have an affect on the character of your soul? Take a walk around the island with us, as we reflect on the wisdom Marjorie brings to the journey.

-More About Our Guest-

Nearly thirty years ago Marjorie found herself in a hospital bed after brain surgery to save her life, paralyzed on her right side. The years since then have been a healing journey as she has regained her ability to walk, with support. Little did she know those years ago that one day she would be the author of five Easy Walks walking books focused on helping others, including those with mobility issues, to get out and enjoy the outdoors. Her most recent book, a memoir, is available on Amazon: My Liturgy of Easy Walks: Finding the Sacred in Everyday (and some very strange) places.

Website: MarjorieTurner.com

Curated by: 

April Bell, founder of Tree of Life Legacies, a storytelling and wisdom-keeping project based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

_________________

*Soul Forum Recording & Open Discussion* 

Want to be part of the “live” experience each week? Open to talking to others about your unfolding journey? Longing to hear how others are finding their way? Join us every Sunday morning for the Soul Forum Live. 

Sunday’s | 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. 

_________________

Soul Forum Podcast Team: 

Co-hosts:

April Bell, Founder at Tree of Life Legacies and Co-creator of StoryCatcher® for iOS 

Main Logo Artwork:

Series Sponsor:

_________________

Soul Forum: A conversational journey across the landscape of the collective soul. 

In this series - SoulBody - we explore the wisdom and wonder within our own bodies that can provide a pathway into the experience of soul. The season begins with reflections on the body each of us inhabits and ends with reflections on the wider earth or cosmic body. There is plenty of reasons to trust that any access to a relationship with the divine, or mystery, or the very essence of life, is primarily accessed through the body. Can we reverse the idea that the sacred has figured out how to incarnate, or become flesh and bone, and explore how our sense of the sacred manifests from within every body? How might you honor and explore the body that invites you into wonder?

Welcome to Soul Forum.