The Mason Taylor Show

Tahnee and I are back at it this week in part 2 of the adaptive parenting series. This week we dive into the things we've been doing to keep Mum, Bub and Dad healthy throughout these first 8 months. We'll cover more of our developing personal philosophy around parenting and how we ensure we're making the best choices for our family, not just following the "rules." It was heaps of fun diving into the nature and energetics of being a young family and how this little family ecosystem can become sustainable and enriching for the whole tribe. So come talk baby food, vaccines, immunological development for the little ones, mumma regeneration tactics, the importance of parents keeping up their physical practice and heaps more as we dive into the world of adaptive parenting.

• Diving deeper into nourishing kidney/jing essence post-partum
• 'Leaking Jing' and the ways men and women can hault it's depletion
• An athlete's recovery post performance VS a Mother's recovery post birth
• Storing and releasing stagnant emotions in our organs
• Post partum priorities and what's truly relevant verse following sterile guidelines
• The disempowering culture of 'getting your body back' after birth
• Magnesium, iodine and use of trace minerals
• Post partum herbalism and the discerning between tonics and medicine
• The use of Chi Nei Tsang (Taoist abdominal massage)
• Conscious nutritional strategies for bolstering immunology and resilience
• Exploring the grey area of vaccination and avoiding the pro / anti stances
• Baby swaddling and the use of pacifiers
• Creating structural integrity in your babies fascia
• Routine VS spontaneity

Resources:

Incurable me - K. Paul Stoller

Vaccinations: a Thoughtful Parent's Guide: How to Make Safe, Sensible Decisions about the Risks, Benefits, and Alternatives - Aviva Romm

Vaccines and Autoimmunity - Yehuda Shoenfeld (Editor), Nancy Agmon-Levin (Editor), Lucija Tomljenovic (Editor)

http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118663438,subjectCd-MD17.html

An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune - Moises Velasquez-Manoff

Weston A Price Foundation – Ancient Dietary Wisdom for Tomorrow's Children https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/traditional-diets/ancient-dietary-wisdom-for-tomorrows-children/

Enjoy!

Links and show notes can be found at http://masonjtaylor.com/blog/

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Tahnee and I are back at it again discussing our experience in becoming new parents. After the huge success of our last 2 part series, we have been inundated with requests for a follow-up, and so here we are with an 8 &1/2 month old bubba sharing all we've learn and felt since last time. There are many gems in this chat around physical health, however, the bulk of the conversation lies in the juicy psychology of making the mental and emotional shift to being parents. This has been by far the greatest aspect of our journey as new parents and we're just grateful to have an opportunity to reflect upon it.

In this chat you will learn:

• The new world of post-partum parenting and nourishing jing
• Breast massage and post-partum ovarian breathing
• Placenta encapsulations practices and varying methods
• The long term significance of exposing new babies to natural elements
• The wild brain of the new Mother verse the executive brain
• Acceptance and reflecting on your new role as a parent
• Challenging the cultural dynamic of the fathers and mothers roles in parenting
• Nurturing and cultivating Yin around your babies infancy
• Post-partum work/life balance
• Sewing the seeds early to mold a long term relationship with your children as babies
• Crying as a sign of expression and communication rather than danger
• Finding fusion in rhythm between you and baby

Tahnee McCrossin is a student of the body, weaving the ancient healing traditions of Yoga and Taoism with somatic exploration and modern scientific understanding into an integrated system that supports longevity and self-healing of the body-mind-spirit. Through her work as a yoga and meditation teacher, chi ne tsang practitioner and health researcher, she is striving to reunite the modern body-mind with the spiritual and psychological wisdom of the ancients. She is grateful to be a current student of Mantak Chia, Paul Grilley and Michael Tierra.

Websites: Mama's medicine (placenta encapsulation) http://mamasmedicine.com.au/ Books: Mutant Message Down Under – Marlo Morgan Respectful Parenting – Janet Lansbury Enjoy!

Links and show notes can be found at http://masonjtaylor.com/blog/

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Part 2 of this social media epic and we're going deeper. Tristan and I couldn't contain the amount of info we wanted to share with you in one interview and this episode contains all the juice that flowed forth as we started to jam. Get ready to change the relationship you have with social media.

In this instalment, we pick it up and run with the following topics:

• Creative exercise as part of upgrading attention span and cognitiion
• Social media excess and the distortion created by it
• Psychiatry and pharmaceutical withdrawal
• Navigating past trollers in the cyber world
• Letting go of social media's unwritten laws and rigor
• What we see VS what is reality through the social media lens
• Vulnerability in the social media world

Tristan has been a Regression Therapist for ten years. He brings his in depth background in Psychotherapy, Meditation, Quantum Healing, Cell Biology, Epigenetics, Kinesiology, Psychopharmacology, Sexual Health, Diet, Detox, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Taoism, Shamanism, Entheogens, Chi Gung, Kung Fu and Modern Medical Science to his clients, talks and workshops. He currently shares his skills as a therapist, life coach and counsellor.

Throughout his twenties Tristan has studied internationally in the healing arts. He is passionate in reminding people, that the human capacity for healing is limitless. Tristan helps to open his client's minds to how many natural super abilities that we all possess to enhance our life that have been squashed out of the mainstream belief system by reductionist scientific dogma and disempowerment religions. Tristan's healing treatments, seminars and workshops are primarily focused around clearing trauma and sharing why this is so important to all of us. Trauma is the biggest cause of ill health in our world because it often will permanently change the body's physiology, emotions and spiritual outlook if not released. Much of modern medicine looks at putting a 'band aid effect' over the current effect of trauma as opposed to clearing it, back at the creation point. Website links: Tristan Bray Website Tristan Bray Facebook Instagram: #anopportunitytoheal

Enjoy!

Links and show notes can be found at http://masonjtaylor.com/blog/

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The world of social media is here, it's pervasive and it is not going away; but how do we integrate with it in a healthy and sustainable manner? It's this questions that lead me to sitting down with Tristan Bray to explore some of the physiological effects that Instagram & Facebook have when in excess and some very interesting distinctions that can help us to stay centred in navigating this vast, polarising, deep, shallow, complex, silly and meaningful virtual world. Get ready to get some wake up calls around the nature of this virtual world and learn the dynamic ways that it is being used by people and organisations around the world. Social media often sits on a knifes edge between being medicine for the world or poison (like many herbs based on their dose), let's explore where that dynamic line exists.

In the first of this 2-part episode, we delve right into:

• Anxiety in today's generation and the internal & external influences driving its presence
• The fight or flight 'maladaptive response syndrome' in the 21st Century
• How dopamine plays into addictions within the realms of modern technology ­
• Scientism and modern cultures quest for scientific validation
• Epigenetic changes in response to perceived stressors
• The concept of purposelessness
• The Nocebo Effect
• Sexuality, shame and the effects of internalised sexual emotion

Tristan has been a Regression Therapist for ten years. He brings his in depth background in Psychotherapy, Meditation, Quantum Healing, Cell Biology, Epigenetics, Kinesiology, Psychopharmacology, Sexual Health, Diet, Detox, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Taoism, Shamanism, Entheogens, Chi Gung, Kung Fu and Modern Medical Science to his clients, talks and workshops. He currently shares his skills as a therapist, life coach and counsellor.

Throughout his twenties Tristan has studied internationally in the healing arts. He is passionate in reminding people, that the human capacity for healing is limitless. Tristan helps to open his client's minds to how many natural super abilities that we all possess to enhance our life that have been squashed out of the mainstream belief system by reductionist scientific dogma and disempowerment religions. Tristan's healing treatments, seminars and workshops are primarily focused around clearing trauma and sharing why this is so important to all of us. Trauma is the biggest cause of ill health in our world because it often will permanently change the body's physiology, emotions and spiritual outlook if not released. Much of modern medicine looks at putting a 'band aid effect' over the current effect of trauma as opposed to clearing it, back at the creation point. Website links: Tristan Bray Website Tristan Bray Facebook Instagram: #anopportunitytoheal

Enjoy!

Links and show notes can be found at http://masonjtaylor.com/blog/

This podcast is brought to you by SuperFeast, the online store bringing you the greatest immune enhancing, hormone balancing and performance lifting tonic herbs.

Join me in a deep exploration of one of human kinds more wonderful companion plants; cannabis. As a herbal medicine this plant, its many strains and it's phytochemistry are an obvious inclusion for medicine going forward in creating a holistic and integrated approach to healing the body. Shrouded with controversy and authoritarian suppression, cannabis has been dragged through an intense slander campaign for the past 100 years and has been denied to millions as a medicine we may incorporate into our lives and systems; but that is changing. Justin Sinclair is a patient advocate, herbalist and researcher who is on the front line here in Australia and internationally in bringing forth both the shift in cultural narrative around cannabis as well as the data and lore that blatantly tells us how deeply this plant can contribute to our wellness. We have the sovereign right to access medicine, especially when it offers no threat or harm. In this interview Justin and I explore this subject in depth. In this podcast you will learn about:

• Current efforts in changing the understanding of cannabis in mainstream media
• Cannabis prohibition and early propaganda campaigns in the 1930s
• Cannabis as an adjunctive medicine to chronic disease
• The discovery of the endo-cannabanoid system throughout the last 60 years
• The potent neuro-modulatory action of cannabis
• Is cannabis an adaptogen?
• Anandamide & Endorphin release
• How Genetic polymorphyisms in the endocannabanoid system may affect an individuals response to cannabis
• Lack of awareness in our current medical institution on the medicinal value of cannabis
• The standardisation of CBD and THC isolates
• Ethnobotany and cannabis use in traditional cultures

Justin has spent decades exploring the diverse field of herbal medicine, both from a scientific and traditional perspective. He journeyed back to Australia to commence his 'formal' studies in 1997 with the University of New England (BHSc Naturopathy) and then completed the Master of Herbal Medicines degree with the University of Sydney's Faculty of Pharmacy in 2004. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Naturopaths & Herbalists Association of Australia, and In 2015, he was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of United in Compassion (UIC) which supports the use of medicinal Cannabis in Australia and acts as a hub to support, disseminate and promote safe, equitable and compassionate access to medicinal Cannabis at every stage from cultivation through to finished product. In January 2017, he was appointed as the Head Scientist for the Scientific Advisory Board for UIC.

Websites links: The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence & Recommendations for Research (FREE PDF) Scientific Advisory Board on Medicinal Cannabis: www.unitedincompassion.com.au National Institute of Complementary Medicine: www.westernsydney.edu.au/nicm Justin Sinclair Website: www.tmconsultancy.com.au Recommended reading: Johann Hari - Chasing The Scream, The First and Last Days On The War On Drugs Enjoy!

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One of the more epic episodes for you today gang. Recorded in an old world gin bar in Redfern, Sydney, Charlie Casben, a wonderful bartender and sommelier who owns Moya's Juniper Lounge and drinks good booze well… I worked for years with Charlie back in the day when I was tender bar and I knew that in that time I only scratched the surface of his knowledge around the wonderful world of herbalism, botanicals and alcohol. As I got more into the health game I became more and more bored with the flatland commentary that health "leaders" had about alcohol simply being bad and wanted to go deeper into the nature of this substance and continue to do the work to bring an integration between the world of health and booze; I got considerably closer in this interview. If you're ready to take your health to another level then grab some good booze and strap in for a ride into the old world as we explore the journey herbs and botanicals have taken till we see the current culture emerge around bars and booze, and where we're going to be able to take it so that a true progression is possible in the way we move forward as an integrated culture. In this interview we dive deep into:

• The place of alcohol within a modern health context
• Challenging the dichotomy of alcohol restriction within a health fortifying regime
• History of alcohol and its early uses
• Using bitter aperitifs for functional stimulation of digestion
• The wonderful benefits of beer in old and new world culture
• Alcohol as a preservation system
• Fermentation & distillation explained in depth
• Alcohol as a delivery vessel for healthy plant constituents
• The dynamics between the old and new world's uses of alcohol
• The medicinal properties & historical use of gin, tonic and lime
• Production of fortified wine and its botanical benefits

Taught the basics of cocktail bar tending at fifteen with his sister by a father who's aim was to teach the value of understanding and appreciating good liquor. Cocktails remained a hobby until at eighteen while studying a physics degree he embarked on what was to become a fifteen year career in hospitality. Serving over the bar at several venues in Sydney and abroad wine became the next challenge and certification with the Court of Master Sommeliers the next goal. While studying wine the decision was made to pursue the goal of opening a small bar in Sydney and after several years searching for a suitable site, Moya's Juniper Lounge opened its doors in March 2016

Enjoy! Links and show notes can be found at http://masonjtaylor.com/blog/

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Creating a potent, personalised culture of health around food and the kitchen is one of my main focuses on this health journey and that's why I've invited Simon Favorito to join us on this episode. I've had the honour of sharing a house with Simon years ago and have had an up close look at how effective he is a bringing the romance back to way we interact with food, how to use food addictions as an access for transformation and ensuring that all senses are engaged in the cooking process so that we can get the best possible health and happiness from our food. If you're wanting to go deep into food culture and the emotions involved with cooking, and understand how pivotal it is for long term longevity, then this one is for you. Simon is a wealth of knowledge and leads with his heart as he walks the walk and talks the talk of creating a healthy culture surrounding food. In this episode you will learn about:

• Creating awareness & enhancing traditional connections to food in a modern society dominated by stimulated superficial senses
• Recalibrating ourselves with the intrinsic language that wild foods communicate to us
• The influence of different food flavours on the innate emotions of humans
• The contrast of food practices in the west to that of traditional societies
• Honouring the lost culture of food gathering, preparation & consumption
• Addictions & the art of healing the deep-layered connections to poor food choice
• Returning the romance & poetry to the way we eat
• Breaking down the 'calcified dogmas' that binds the identify of people's culture
• The differences between simply choosing healthy food vs deep intentional nourishment & awareness
• The dynamic dance of food aromatics and alchemy
• How our physical environment can influence food choice
• The interplay of tonic & culinary herbalism within traditional food systems

Simon Favorito has been working as a natural foods chef and holistic natural therapist for over 15 years with a drive to share how foods can change and shape our lives for the better. As a classically trained chef, kinesiologist and NLP trained practitioner Simon endeavours to share these life-enhancing benefits of natural food and healthy food culture through personalised coaching, event catering, cooking & fermenting workshops and more. Links and show notes can be found at https://www.masonjtaylor.com/podcast/ This podcast is brought to you by SuperFeast, the online store bringing you the greatest immune enhancing, hormone balancing and performance lifting tonic herbs.

Had to have one of my favourite humans on the show for a second time. As I move deeper into my personal work with Benny Ferguson I wanted him to dive deeper into the unique and potent movement principles that he teaches. Through his teachings people all over the world move beyond movement fads and find a system that gives them access to releasing tension, increasing mobility, embodying strength and cultivating flexibility; all in a way that works uniquely with their body. With a focus on understanding gravity and how it flows through the body Benny and I go deep into the physiology and intention evolutions that come with developing a personal practice that leads to a body that is tension free and ready to engage with life in a dynamic and personalised fashion. Strap yourselves in and be ready to take your movement practice to another level as we chat and laugh our way through a beautiful discussion about movement and the human body.

NOTE: If you wish to skip my ranting intro talking about the media and pro-vaccine mob we had come down on us during the tour… skip to 30mins in.

In this interview we dive into:

• Our past gobsmacked stance on fascia and how we've integrated it into our lives since the first interview.
• How to reclaim natural human qualities that have been lost.
• Understanding the capacity of the nervous system to communicate information and how to enhance this.
• How the body works as an electromagnetic pump, and how the tone its core function.
• The way your physical structure and posture communicates with your outside world, children, family, friends and peers.
• The way we adopt physical structures and postural imbalances from our parents.
• Holding the intention to make your last breath a graceful one.
• The nature of uniting body and mind and what becomes possible when you begin this process.
• Tapping into just how much information the body/mind can take in in any given moment and how to become more proficient at being present to this.
• The connection between posture and disease and beginning to read the signs so we can make choices about the direction we take with our body and health.
• How to set multidimensional boundaries for your body, mind and spirit.
• Merging intention with physical practice.
• The many ways to relate to discipline.
• Discipline being the vehicle to c.
• Benny's 3 word intention process.
• Overcoming/working with the self-critic.
• Movement amidst stillness and stillness amidst movement.
• Earning the right to move freely.
• Standing meditation and developing the ability to perceive and release tension.
• Releasing the tissue to gravity to restore tissue flow, strengthen joints and develop springiness.
• Fortifying tissue and joints now so that you may reduce injury in the future.
• Opening and closing the joins.
• Embodying animal like movement into human physiology without buying into the current animal movement trend.
• Create superior balance by standing still.
• Yep we covered HEAPS, and there's more.

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Links and show notes can be found at http://masonjtaylor.com/blog/ This podcast is brought to you by SuperFeast, the online store bringing you the greatest immune enhancing, hormone balancing and performance lifting tonic herbs.

Staying healthy in a toxic world can be one of the most difficult aspects of this health journey, and that's why we need some heavy hitting practices on our side to get in deep and keep our organs and tissue healthy. I've been doing infrared saunas since I was 16 years old, not knowing at that point just how fortunate I was to have integrated into my life one of the most ancient, time-tested and effective methods of detoxification and rejuvenation into my life. But this isn't your every day chat about saunas… Sebastian Mierau is one of my best mates. We met in 2011 at David Wolfe talk when we were both a couple of health nerds diving deep into the lifestyle and researching deeply. Since then, after many adventures around the world, Sebastian has become the distributor of (what we knew all along to be the best saunas in the world) Clearlight Saunas in Australia and Europe. He took this on so that all us multidimensional health freaks could get easy access to this incredibly healing tool. As a leader and innovator in the infrared sauna industry for the last 18 years, Clearlight Infrared by Sauna Works has been manufacturing infrared saunas that are both luxurious and effective. While their cabins are exceptional quality, they have spent the last 18 years researching and studying infrared therapy to bring you the most effective infrared sauna available; and they're doing saunas like nobody else, including (much to my cell's pleasure) being the leader in offering EMF and ELF free saunas. Sebastian has become extremely well versed in the benefits and dynamics of infrared saunas benefits and therapy and this interview we dive into:

• The history of saunas and their evolution
• The difference between traditional and infrared saunas
• How the infrared sauna wavelengths help eliminate stress and deeply relax the tissue
• The mind blowing ability this technology has to detox the body of insidious, disease-causing toxicity
• Surprising ways sauna restores your body's ability to lose weight
• Why saunas give you the best skin ever
• The research behind sauna increasing life-span, toning the heart and thwarting morbidity
• Ways to say goodbye to chronic pain
• How you can restore and boost metabolism and overall immunity by getting your sweat on
• Ceramic v carbon heaters and why you must consider which your sauna uses
• The specific healing wavelengths utilised in these epic saunas
• The resonance frequency of infrared and how it interacts with the water in your calls
• How low EMG (mG) and ELF (Vm) saunas are now possible and how saunas that don't can damage you

Links and show notes can be found at http://masonjtaylor.com/blog/ This podcast is brought to you by SuperFeast, the online store bringing you the greatest immune enhancing, hormone balancing and performance lifting tonic herbs.

The mammoth episode many of you have been waiting for. This is part 2 of our childbearing series, and the one where Tahnee and myself dive deep into the practices, philosophy, diet, herbalism and more that went in to creating the year in which Tahnee was childbearing little Aiya. This podcast was recorded during the first week of the bubba's life, so the sharing experience of the birth is fresh; something Tahnee was wishing to be able to infuse into this intimate sharing of how she chose to approach nourishing her body during pregnancy. Here's briefly what we cover in the episode plus some more extensive notes than usual from Tahnee for those who are on their own pregnancy journey:

• Pregnancy + Home Birth Plans
• Our Pregnancy diet
• Best supplements during pregnancy
• The best tonic herbs and medicinal mushrooms during pregnancy
• Best herbs during pregnancy
• Symptoms of pregnancy
• Pregnancy cravings / changes
• Exercise during pregnancy
• Lots of additional pregnancy tips
• Home birth prep and planning
• Pregnancy book resources

Links and show notes can be found at http://masonjtaylor.com/blog/ This podcast is brought to you by SuperFeast, the online store bringing you the greatest immune enhancing, hormone balancing and performance lifting tonic herbs.