The Mason Taylor Show

This is a special episode, part 1 of our Pregnancy Prep and Our Childbearing Year. For months my beautiful partner Tahnee and I (especially her though) have been asked about our approach to pregnancy thus far. So on the 39 week mark of growing our baby we sat down together to share with you all the ins and outs of how we have prepared in this 2 part podcast. Tahnee especially dives deep in this episode into how she has cleansed her body over the years leading up to conception via deep organ detoxification. What you'll learn:

• The role the liver plays in pregnancy and why cleansing it is critical
• How to embody detox and nourishing practices into your lifestyle so your body is always prepared for pregnancy (or just to have a rocking hormonal system)
• Simple techniques for removing heavy metals from your system so your baby doesn't get overloaded
• Why men must prepare for pregnancy just as much as the woman for the sake of the child
• Simple yet powerful techniques for cleansing and healing the gut so you can bring your micro biome back into balance
• How the gut bacteria a woman has passes over to be her child's immune system
• Why you must look back into your past for clues into what you need to cleanse and nourish in your body
• Our top herbs for cleansing the parasites out of your system
• The best and most effective order for deep organ cleansing
• A breakdown on the best tonic herbs to restore strength to your system so it is ready for the child bearing year
• How learning to release tension assists conception and creates ease in pregnancy

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.

Jason Bawden-Smith has been on a mission to get to the core of his own and society's degenerating state of health for decades. After discovering his metabolic syndrome was largely caused by an addiction to technology and disconnection to nature he began to uncover the effects that our technological culture is having on our bodies and cells. His journey is described in detail in his new book In The Dark – New Ways To Avoid The Harmful Effects Of Living In A Technologically Connected World. We go deep into the contents of the book and his story in this incredible interview. In this interview you will discover:

• What the blue spectrum of light is and how it effects your life
• How exposure to blue-light at night throws the body's circadian rhythm
• Simple nature based methods to restore electrical and biological health
• The way UVA and UVB effects your body and when you should be exposed
• A simple yet unorthodox method to lift your testosterone through sunlight
• Why grounding is critical to your health
• How wearing glasses at night keeps your cells happy
• How the mitochondria of the cells rely upon light and electrical based nutrition to function
• The technologies available to help bring balance to your electrical and EMF environment
• And lots more

Jason holds both a Bachelor of Applied Science in Environmental Health and a Master's Degree in Environmental Science from the UNSW. During his short career in academia Jason published eleven peer-reviewed papers including three in prestigious Medical Journal of Australia. Jason is an author and speaker and has presented at numerous national and international environmental conferences. His company JBS Technologies (JBS) is a biophysics research and business development company. JBS looks at issues of human well-being through the lens of a physicist, applies the findings akin to an engineer and shares the solutions like a Company. 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.

Set in the shadow of Mt Wollumbin (Mt Warning) in the Northern Rivers of NSW at Jimi's healing sanctuary, this interview was a lot of fun and went deep into the philosophy of healing. Jimi loves the healing path, and after years of studying and walking various ancient lineages (spliced with modern insights) has maintained what I can only describe as an impressive professional sovereignty that sees him going deep into the paths of learning the art of healing while not losing his identity within them (something that is rampant in the healing world), giving him the ability to stay malleable, insightful and cross-pollinating that many traditions as he continues to ask the deep questions that revolve around the mystery of healing. Very quickly we're talking about the relevance of "old world" healing techniques such as leeching, which opens us up to the conversation around medicine without boundaries; the different schools and transitions have a piece of the medicinal puzzle, but not all of it, and we must look beyond their individual boundaries. This approach requires moving around, looking at how health and healing look from the many perspectives that exist in the world so we can expand the approach on healing the human body, and we go RIGHT into the philosophy of this approach. The biggest insight we dive into though is how curiosity and love of learning, like a child, allows for this broader approach to healing to be possible. Beyond all the above, in this interview you will learn:

• How to develop an ongoing capacity to come back into balance again and again
• How to overcome the minds desire to "arrive" at a destination in your health.
• These essence of Taoism, including the art of action less action
• The concept of age-ency, and how to not identify with age through your actions
• Jing, qi and shen philosophy
• How to take the "fascination" away from healing philosophy to make it accessible to the western mind
• The best qi tonics for cultivating qi
• The magic of royal jelly and what it can do for your body and jing
• Jimi's relationship with the modern medical model
• Why we sometimes feel any and hurt by modern medicine
• The religion of science
• What it means to be a medical minority

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.

Ever wonder why some cultures experience extreme cased of longevity and boast more people living beyond 100 than anywhere else? Then dive into this epic new episode with Amanda Archibald as we adventure through the "bleeding edge" of health and wellness.

Amanda Archibald's unique training as an analyst and a nutritionist (RD), combined with her culinary expertise, has enabled her to develop a new lens through which we can understand the food and health conversation. Amanda's trailblazing work is redefining the food, nutrition and cooking education footprint in ways that are understandable, meaningful and fundamentally achievable for all Americans. Her cutting edge work in Culinary Genomics, unveiled in 2015, has created a new frontier, essentially uniting the fields of Genomic Medicine with the Culinary Arts. Through this work, Amanda is placing food, chefs and the kitchen at the epicenter of healing and igniting a new nutrition conversation for the world.

Through her nutrition and culinary expertise, Amanda has spoken extensively at nutrition, medical and agricultural conferences. As an analyst she has presented at conferences as diverse as The Fancy Food Show, World Wide Food Expo and the Institute for Food Technology. Her work has been broadly showcased in the media to include The Food Network, Food Management Magazine, Today's Dietitian , Kiwi Magazine and beyond.

When not working, Amanda is an avid cyclist, hiker and participant in all snow sports. She passionately embraces enjoys her Rocky Mountain lifestyle, residing in Boulder and Summit County, Colorado.

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.

Delving into the birthing realms this week with the wonderful Sheryl Sidery. Sheryl has been practicing midwifery since 1985. The experience of her first birth lead her into this beautiful line of work. She felt alone and unsupported. She felt that no one was aware of what an enormous life changing experience becoming a mother is, and so she became a midwife. She wanted to be truly "with woman" as she embarks on motherhood – feeling strong, confident, transformed and joyful. For her, that's what midwifery is all about. Her primary philosophy is that pregnancy and birth is a period of great transformation, one that is necessary for parenting. She finds that having one-to-one midwifery care throughout pregnancy, birth and early parenting provides the best start to life with a newborn. In this interview we cover:

• The current state of the modern medical birthing system in Australia
• How women's bodies are designed to have natural births when supported
• Keys to ensuring birthing occurs without intervention
• The biggest myths when it comes to conscious birthing
• Why home births are the new black
• How to prepare a woman's body for an easy birth
• And so much more.

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.

Exploring the exciting realms of life extension and immortality, Janni Lloyd joins me on this episode to bring a new and refreshing mind set to the human potential. The views and opinions on whether humans can extend their lives are vast, but we enter into a whole new paradigm shifting place when we begin to discuss openly whether humans have the capacity to extend this indefinitely. It is a fun topic and we delve deep in this interview.

Dr Janni Lloyd's interest in health began in 1973 when she commenced her medical degree at the University of Western Australia. With a special interest in the psyche and emotions, she later moved into holistic medicine via Aura Soma Colour Therapy.. In 1992 she began studying and living Healthy Longevity / Healthy Life Extension and the philosophy of Physical Immortality from many different perspectives - psychology, spirituality, holistic medicine and medical science. In recent years she has lead seminars and written several books on this subject.

In this episode you will learn about: - The emerging science of ageless living - The new ways of thinking emerging about living as an immortal human - The role gratitude plays in life extension - Key practices for adding years to your life - How to slow cellular degeneration - Connections between colour and life extension - Mind-set changes that extend life and halt aging - And heaps more!

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.

Col Clayton is the inspiring fellow I've got for you today on the show to delve deep into the beauty of our breath, it's physiological effects and, perhaps most importantly, it's capacity for opening the doors for us as humans to innately live via our passions (and not settle for anything less) when learnt to do correctly as a child (and yes, for you big kids it can be relearnt). Col is a graduating with a degree in Fine Arts and went on to study Health Promotion at Newcastle University Centre for Epidemiology and has a Masters in Clinical Rehabilitation. He became interested in breathing and breathing patterns after coming across it's use in cranio-facial development, it was like finding a light at the end of a tunnel and sparked a 4 year (continuing) journey into the apparently simple but incredibly complex study of breathing and it's implications for the body and mind. Col continues to work with his own breathing, paint, draw and teach kids and their parents about the fundamentals of breathing and it's ability to help young and growing kids and adults wanting to move towards their own realisation of the fullness and practice of listening to the wisdom within, the breath and that which allows us to live. He does this through his business Happy Kids Klinic. Diving into the essence of the breath and how it effects all aspects of our life, you will learn in the interview:

• Why facial and jaw degeneration is directly linked with the breath
• Why Weston Price was only half right in his observations of twins
• The truth about sleep apnea.
• Why breathing, not alkaline water, is the best way to bring your blood pH into balance
• How to personally regulate your breath and blood pH with 2 powerful techniques
• A simple practice to begin resetting your breath to one that will bring more energy and vitality
• Why some sleep doesn't regulate many people and the breath connection
• The effects of mouth breathing on kids and adults and how to begin fixing this

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.

Today I've got the incredible Adya Cadden on the show all the way from Costa Rica. Adya's insight and (what I consider) deep wisdom will be pouring through your head set, so get ready to get inspired.

After over 20 years along her journey of studying various forms of healing modalities, yoga and energy work she has embodied a deep understanding and insight into the path of journeying through the vast inner realms of the body to revealing the mysterious healing that lies within.

Adya's sharing has been deeply influenced by her work with yoga therapy, art therapy, prenatal yoga, birth support as a doula, earth art creation, herbal medicine, and the women's prayer of the moon dance ceremony. She shares with us here how they amalgamate into an approach to life that has allowed her capacity to flow and heal herself to come forth, and how she teaches others to do the same.

She's got an epic and awe inspiring story about the 20m fall she had from a cliff years ago and how this became the catalyst for this epic path that she walks today; its a good one, jump on and get inspired by this gang. Resources: Adya's mentorship: http://sacredseed.com.au/sacred-seed-mentorship/ Adya's yoga teacher training: http://sacredseed.com.au/yoga-teacher-training/ Sydney based midwife: http://www.sherylsidery.com/

Juliet Allen is a sexologist, sex and relationship coach, educator and columnist. She is the woman you turn to when you feel like your sex life is a flop. I'm the woman you talk to when you want mind-blowing orgasms and great sex every day. And I'm the woman you come to when you're ready to truly explore and own your sexuality and power. An empowering, fascinating and cheeky chat with a woman who is not afraid in any way to talk about sex and the transformational impact that it has in our lives. What I liked most about Juliet is that unlike many in this field who focus on the easiest way to get people attention, solely focusing on mind-shattering orgasms and hot sex (as it should be in a a way because this is integral to a healthy life), she holds her integrity strong and does not waiver from putting the spotlight solidly on the need to heal traumas and distortions that are associated with our innate sexual nature. Sit back, break into your erotic nature and get ready to expand into the healing and activating world of sexuality. Resources: Juliet's Website: http://www.juliet-allen.com/ Hot Sex and Powerful Intimacy e-course: http://www.juliet-allen.com/powerful-sex-e-course/ How To Have Great Sex Every Day book: http://www.juliet-allen.com/book/ Recommended Reading: Wild Nights - David Deida Sex For One - Betty Dodson The Secret Practices Of Quodoushka - Amara Charles Extra resources: Yes, fetuses masturbate http://www.salon.com/2013/06/20/the_science_of_masturbating_fetuses/

Mark Breadner is the longest serving teacher and yoga educator in Australia, having trained over 1000 Yoga teachers globally. He has a distinct capacity to facilitate rapid growth, developed over 45 years of Yoga practise, teaching and training. This interview delves into his discoveries about what the true essence of yoga is and how this applies to the modern world beyond the current state of modern yoga.

His message of connecting to the heart through yoga is profound and practical. Dreaming wild is one of the core aspects of Mark's practice and his take on our dreams being trapped inside of us being a source of dis-ease is inspiring and transformational. Mark draws upon the essence of Yoga, and contemporises its teachings so the everyday person can re-birth the dreams they have always had, but may have forgotten.

The deep poverty consciousness surrounding the yogic community is discussed, as well as the projects he's got going right now that aid as an example of how to balance creating a sustainable income doing what you love and ensuring that you are contributing back to the global and local community through dreaming wild.

Enjoy!

Links:

Mark's site:

http://markbreadner.com/

Global Yoga Teacher Challenge:

http://markbreadner.com/global-yoga-teacher-challenge/

Mark's Yoga Teacher Training

http://markbreadner.com/yoga-teacher-training/