The Evolving Adventure

Thank you for listening today, friends! It's a brief discussion of fate in the context of natural rhythms and circles/cycles of life, combined with an update on the curious sights and experiences I've had this week... tying into the idea that perhaps those wxperiences were fated... and if not, what aspect of me called them into this life experience? 

As always, connect with me at [email protected] with questions, comments and guest suggestions. Until next week, #optoutside and find a way to spend some time outside today; your mind, body and soul will thank you.

Thank you for listening! Today I'm sharing a story of a recent hike where I saw a coyote run through the grass a ways down the slope I was hiking. That experience prompted me to check into the Animal Medicine cards deck for an interpretation, and to see what message that coyote held for me... Lo and behold, the message made sense, and I was able to smile and move on from an interesting situation with the energy the trickster brings. What invitations does coyote bring to reflect upon our lives? Tune in today to find out

As always, contact me at [email protected] with questions, comments and guest suggestions. Here's to a magical experience when you get out to connect with nature today!

We're back today with some observations about how nature can help remind us to be present and to reduce the stresses we place onto ourselves with expectations. I mention Eckhart Tolle's book The Power of Now, and how remembering to breathe can help reduce the physiological stresses generated when what we're experiencing doesn't match what we hoped, anticipated or planned for. 

As always, connect with me at [email protected] with questions, comments and guest suggestions. Until next week, #optoutside and enjoy the magic to be found outdoors in nature.

Thank you for listening! Today we're discussing some of the sensual aspects of being in the forest - what can we see, smell, taste, touch, hear and experience beyond convenient categories. Using the senses is a wonderful way to engage with nature, and in today's case, connect my attempted cold plunge to the various sensory engagements I experienced getting to that point.

As always, contact me at [email protected] with questions, comments and guest suggestions. Enjoy, and #optoutside today!

Some butterflies caught my eye as I was cold plunging on the warmest day of 2022, so far. It didn't seem to be a coincidence that there were more than a few of them on the beach, so I decided to look into the meaning of butterfly energy. 

As always, connect with me at [email protected] with questions, comments and guest suggestions... and #optoutside today!

Thank you for listening today, friends!

It's a solo episode for May 2, sharing my experiencing of kindness and compassion from a mountain biker after my gnarly crash on the trails, and how that connects with the energy of deer. The topic for today is actually coming out next week, as a young deer appeared out my window just before I hit the record button, and, following the Just Wing It episode, I went with that. 

The deer interpretation is from the Sams & Carson deck of Medicine Cards

Some tips for driving now that it's animal movement season again:

Geico

From a law firm

Driving tips for rural roads

Thank you for listening today, friends!

I've seen so many birds out here lately - red-tailed hawks, osprey and osprey nests, eagles, crows, ravens, little forest birds, flickers, blue jays, pileated woodpeckers and turkeys - that I got to thinking about wings... then about how the advice "just wing it" can be a great way to approach some situations. Today's episode is sharing thoughts and experiences about the differences of planning everything versus going with the flow, how the best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men gang aft agley (Robbie Burns), and transitioning out of culturally-conditioned norms. As Wayne Dyer says, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Some of the links mentioned in the episode:

The poem To A Mouse by Robbie Burns

The River by Garth Brooks

Wayne Dyer

Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd

This week's episode continues where last weeks unexpectedly dropped off with NatureWise Mama. This is a more broad-ranging conversation covering a variety of topics including sleep as medicine, NatureWise Mama's adventures in the desert, on the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands, how to poop in the woods and using dirt for cleaning, a tiny bikini, the role of nature as a shaman, counting one's blessings and some of her favorite books. In no surprise for longtime listeners, NatureWise Mama asks me a few questions and we chat about group dynamics in the context of a BOSS course. 

As always, connect with me at [email protected] with questions, comments and guest suggestions. Opt outside today, and have fun!

Links:

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes 

Deep Survival

Thanks for listening, friends! Today we've got a special guest, Naturewise Mama of www.naturewisemama.com 

We have a wide-ranging conversation that actually - spoiler alert - got cut off, so prepare yourself for the upcoming part 2. Some of the topics discussed include

Lafayette, CO

Old Town Longmont, CO

Lafayette Florist

Colorado Athletic Club - Tabor Center

Attachment parenting

Turtle energy

Consciousness

Weaving consciousness into the mainstream and awakening

Being open to learning

Seeing the world we wish to see

Colorado clouds

Thanks for listening, friends! Today's topic is rewilding, a topic near and dear to my heart. If you've been listening along, you'll recall my BOSS course experience had a profound impact upon my worldview, outlook and life direction. Rewilding connects the dots between various experiences of my life, so I wanted to to share some of the ways one can get into the movement and reconnect with ancestral and primitive skills, technologies, methodologies and ways of being.

I mention a few of my favorite podcasts, authors and books throughout the course of the podcast. Daniel Vitalis had an amazing podcast called ReWild Yourself; his current venture is Wild Fed. It's been highly impactful for me to listen and learn as I go; I first heard of him on the Life Stylist podcast. 

RewildU is a great resource for rewilding topics, as is rewild.com, especially their detailed analyses of the misrepresentations of hunter gatherers in common culture, and the huge implications those sometimes-purposeful misrepresentations have on our perception of the role of hunter gatherers, tribalism, peacefulness, land use, and their lives of meaning. It's definitely worth checking out, and checking your media-conditioned presumptions before you read the articles. 

Christopher McDougall wrote Born to Run, a bestselling book that spurred the interest in ultramarathons, barefoot shoes, zero drop and the colorful characters in the ultramarathon world including Jenn Shelton, Scott Jurek and Barefoot Ted who promotes natural movement. 

Local plant books are a great way to reconnect to the wildness and beauty around you; Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies is what I'm currently reading.

Enjoy the episode, folks! As always, connect with me at [email protected] with questions, comments and guest requests. Cheers!