Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host

One of the three pillars of the Emergent Human podcast is optimizing

health. Part of my own process in doing so is being a member of an

organization known as Lifeforce. I joined Lifeforce after reading the book “Life Force” by Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis in order to get the support I needed to take my health to the next level. I am happy to announce that Lifeforce is now a show sponsor. Lifeforce’s membership provides you with at-home diagnostics, access to functional medicine doctors, health coaches, advanced nutraceuticals, hormones, and peptides. Lifeforce creates a customized plan tailored to your goals and blood work results to help you optimize your health. Their diagnostic is one of the most affordable, convenient and comprehensive blood tests out there. If you’ve been looking for a more personalized approach to improve your health in the new year, check out Lifeforce at https://www.lifeforce.com/ and use code EMERGENTHUMAN15 for 15% off your first purchase.

I would like to welcome Amiel Handlesman on today show to discuss his work on embodying the self-authoring mind in everyday conversations.

Amiel helps leaders navigate complexity and grow as human beings. His clients use new conversation microhabits to make clear commitments, deliver what they promise, and do this with more ease. As a writer and speaker, Amiel frames complex challenges like democracy, climate change, diversity, and “race" as practice fields for self-authorship. He has written five books including Practice Greatness, Reimagining American Identity, and How to be an Anti-race Antiracist. His free online mini-course, Nine Ways to Make the Ask, helps you use the Enneagram to make skillful requests. Amiel holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Duke University. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife and two sons.

https://amielhandelsman.com

https://amielhandelsman.com/9-ways-to-make-the-ask/

https://amielhandelsman.medium.com/

We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI

TIMELINE

0:00 Introductions and sponsor info

2:10 Michael asks Amiel about the kinds of deep questions that he’s been wrestling with since a very young age, and what that journey has looked like for him.

9:25 How do you discern who is the right mentor or teacher to follow at a particular time?

11:41 Michael invites Amiel to walk us through ‘The Self-Authoring Mind”, which is a way of developing one’s own capacity for following your authentic path. vs ‘The Socialized Mind’ which is living out other people’s ideas of how you should live your life.

20:29 Amiel describes the differences between states, stages, and peak experiences, and then shares why this matters. They then begin to discuss the art of listening and conversing.

31:43 Amiel begins to break down the different ways in which he works with his clients, starting with develop the capacity for speaking as well as working with emotions.

44:12 Michael asks Amiel to share about the range of clients he’s worked with, followed by giving some examples of the kind of work he does with supporting clients’ listening capacities.

1:01:15 Amiel concludes by describing an online mini-course of his - ‘9 Ways to Make the Ask’ - that he co-teaches, as well as some of his books that are available to purchase.

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host.

One of the three pillars of the Emergent Human podcast is optimizing

health. Part of my own process in doing so is being a member of an

organization known as Lifeforce. I joined Lifeforce after reading the book “Life Force” by Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis in order to get the support I needed to take my health to the next level. I am happy to announce that Lifeforce is now a show sponsor. Lifeforce’s membership provides you with at-home diagnostics, access to functional medicine doctors, health coaches, advanced nutraceuticals, hormones, and peptides. Lifeforce creates a customized plan tailored to your goals and blood work results to help you optimize your health. Their diagnostic is one of the most affordable, convenient and comprehensive blood tests out there. If you’ve been looking for a more personalized approach to improve your health in the new year, check out Lifeforce at

https://www.lifeforce.com/ and use code EMERGENTHUMAN15 for

15% off your first purchase.

Prime grew up in Texas, where he attended the Marine Military Academy. A few years later he would enter the Marine Infantry before advancing as a MARSOC Marine Raider, with a specialty as a Marine Corps Water Survival Instructor. He uses tools and techniques, which he brings from this background, as well as what he has learned from training thousands of individuals and teams to create personal breakthroughs. His F.R.E.E. Your Mind Guidebook is the result of these findings, in which a framework was created to coach world class athletes, business executives, and military Special Operations candidates looking to perform at a higher level. He is the co-founder of the Underwater Torpedo League and Deep End Fitness. Prime currently resides in Carlsbad, CA.

LINKS:

https://www.primehall.com/

https://utlnation.com/

https://www.deependfitness.com/

We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host

Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.

Today’s guest is Nicole Berschback

Cole Berschback is co-founder of Total Potential, an author, Unbeatable Mind Coach, Registered Dietitian, and certified yoga instructor. She has spent the past 20 years working in health and wellness. Several formative events led her to a deep passion for families and all that is possible when we approach the family as an opportunity, not an obstacle. She supports group and 1:1 coaching to help individuals experience the best of themselves with the people they love most. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband and three amazing children.

Links:

http://www.thetotalpotential.com

We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI

The Emergent Human Presents:

Gina Worful on Creating Health from a Cellular Level

Gina's Info:

Personal empowerment is my passion! The greatest challenge to long lasting health is navigating the overwhelm and noise and breaking through self sabotage.

My greatest strength is empowering people to know and trust their body from the inside - out. We might do this through creating a tailor made nutrition program based on their unique biochemistry or give them the method to eliminate food cravings and break through self sabotage.

From this place of connection and trust with their body, health becomes effortless and empowering.

My innovative courses teach people how to:

- create health from a cellular level, instead of band-aiding symptoms

- trust their body's wisdom to make food choices, instead of using a restrictive diet

- easily overcome stress eating and food cravings, without using willpower

- create confidence and self trust that will last a lifetime

Expertise: registered dietitian, weight loss success, personal empowerment coach, mindful eating, intuitive eating, health optimization and performance, food cravings coach

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/gina.worful/?hl=en

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginaworful/

https://www.mygutsyhealth.com/gina

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host.

Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today: https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/

Today’s guest is Victoria Rose.

Victoria is a pre- and perinatal psychology and health educator, birth visionary and traditional birth witness, registered massage therapist, Reiki Master for fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum, ceremonialist, contemporary vegetalista, and ayahuasca preparation and integration guide..

LINKS:

- Website: https://luminousbirth.earth

- IG: @luminousbirth

- Facebook: www.facebook.com/birthingluminousbeings

- Email address: [email protected]

- Riosbo Ayahuasca Retreat and Research Centre: https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/riosbo-ayahuasca-research-center

- Sacred Birthing School: https://sacredbirthingschool.weebly.com

- APPPAH: https://birthpsychology.com

We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host

Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com

Today’s guest is Victoria Rose

BIO & LINKS

Victoria is a pre- and perinatal psychology and health educator, birth visionary and traditional birth witness, registered massage therapist, Reiki Master for fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum, ceremonialist, contemporary vegetalista, and ayahuasca preparation and integration guide.

She has apprenticed with elder and birth pioneer Barbara Essman, founder and director of The Sacred Birthing School on Kaua’i Hawaii - with whom she’s completed several trainings and certifications in conscious conception, pregnancy and birth, birthing the next generations, and conscious death. She’s an active member and student of APPPAH, the Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health.

Victoria has been studying ancient tradition amazonian medicine for nearly a decade, which has included spending extensive periods of time living and working alongside her beloved master teachers and their families in the Peruvian jungle. Among her vast experience sharing the healing of this wisdom tradition around the world, she’s had the privilege of working as a ceremony and retreat facilitator at Riosbo Research and Healing Center located in the heart of the Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve along the bank of the Nanay River in the Amazon rainforest, where the first-ever government-funded scientific research studies looking at the impacts of Ayahuasca on mental health and DNA expression are being hosted.

Victoria is the founder of Luminous Birth - a living transmission that directly supports the highly sophisticated beings that are currently incarnating on planet earth. Luminous Birth an authentic weaving of modern scientific discovery and ancient wisdom and exploration of the prenatal origins of human and societal health.

Victoria works predominantly online, supporting women and couples all over the world to navigate the psycho-spiritual dimensions of birth. She provides radical birth preparation and education that equips them to conceive, grow, and birth their babies IN LOVE, free of industrial obstetrical mediation and intervention.

One of her main areas of work is guiding adults back to transcribe the living memories of their own birth and pre-birth, conception and pre- conception experiences, in order to reclaim the energetic excellence of their own true essence, remember their power and purpose, and revitalize their health, life, work, and relationships. She believes this is the work of our time: coming back into right-relationship with nature, and consciously engaging as active participants in our lives.

Victoria is a whole-hearted believer that in order to create a new world we must birth a new humanity, and we must remember the that health of women determines the families, which determines the health of communities, and therefore the health of our world.

We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host

Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com

Today’s guest is Melanie Sliwka

Her passion and mission is to guide humanity to better health and happiness and reduce suffering. She believes that this can be accomplished through physical and mental training and trials. Supportive fueling, recovery, and self-care are at the heart of these efforts. Through the actions of Unbeatable Mind training and SEALFIT, she has been witness to thousands of people doing just this, living better lives. Living lives of service, passion, and health aligned with each person’s unique offering.

She started her journey as the CEO of the first Crossfit equipment company, The Garage Gym Store. For the past 12 years, she has trained and worked with many Navy SEAL team guys, thought leaders, and top-performing executives. This experience has given her the unique mental and physical mentorship to help her assist others in this unique journey of an uncommon life.

- Kids Food Fight Inc. Owner and CEO. https://www.kidsfoodfight.com/

- Functional Medicine Practitioner, Medmel.com

- Author of 6 weeks to Cleaner Eating.

- Certified Unbeatable Mind Coach

- KOKORO Yoga certified trainer

- KOKORO 29 Graduate

We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host.

Today’s guests are Dr Stuart Sovatsky and Victoria Rose. Today is a trialogue on re-sacralizing conception, pregnancy, birth and family life.

Shout out to Apeiron Center for Human Potential which just launched our Limitless Body: A 16-Week Weight Loss Program, for those who’ve tried everything and are ready to finally achieve and sustain their desired results:

https://www.more-being.com/limitlessbody

Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website:

www.cosperscafidi.com

VICTORIA'S BIOS & LINKS:

Victoria is a pre- and perinatal psychology and health educator, birth visionary and traditional birth witness, registered massage therapist, Reiki Master for fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum, ceremonialist, contemporary vegetalista, and ayahuasca preparation and integration guide.

Victoria has been studying ancient tradition amazonian medicine for nearly a decade, which has included spending extensive periods of time living and working alongside her beloved master teachers and their families in the Peruvian jungle. Among her vast experience sharing the healing of this wisdom tradition around the world, she’s had the privilege of working as a ceremony and retreat facilitator at Riosbo Research and Healing Center located in the heart of the Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve along the bank of the Nanay River in the Amazon rainforest, where the first-ever government-funded scientific research studies looking at the impacts of Ayahuasca on mental health and DNA expression are being hosted.

• Website: https://luminousbirth.earth

• IG: @luminousbirth

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/birthingluminousbeings

• Email address: [email protected]

• Riosbo Ayahuasca Retreat and Research Centre: https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/riosbo-ayahuasca-research-center

• Sacred Birthing School: https://sacredbirthingschool.weebly.com

• APPPAH: https://birthpsychology.com

STUART'S BIO & LINKS:

Receiving its top Club Scholarship, Stuart was degreed in Religion & Ethics from Princeton University in 1971 with a thesis on Nietzsche & Advaita. He was first in the US to bring yoga to incarcerated youth & to the homeless mentally-ill, schools and police departments in the mid1970s & was first choice to clinically-direct the Ram Dass Prison Ashram.

He is the author of Advanced Spiritual Intimacy, Words From The Soul, Advanced Spiritual Intimacy, The History of Yoga in America in the Columbia University Desk Reference on Eastern Religion [contract] & over forty yoga & clinical articles & chapters & was interviewed by the Science Editor for The New York Times on kundalini-tantra. His academia.com articles are commonly in the top 1% of 23million.

https://princeton.academia.edu/StuartSovatsky

https://tinyurl.com/ydhzw8sr

https://www.stuartsovatsky.com/

Facebook https://tinyurl.com/ya5rw4yo

• Website: https://luminousbirth.earth

• IG: @luminousbirth

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/birthingluminousbeings

• Email address: [email protected]

• Riosbo Ayahuasca Retreat and Research Centre: https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/riosbo-ayahuasca-research-center

• Sacred Birthing School: https://sacredbirthingschool.weebly.com

• APPPAH: https://birthpsychology.com

We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.

Today’s show is brought to you by Somatic Psychotherapy Today. https://somaticpsychotherapytoday.com/

Dr. Roger Jahnke , OMD, is one of the most respected luminaries in the fields of evidence-based mind-body practice, wellness, integrative medicine, and Chinese medicine for self-transformation. He has dedicated his professional life to sharing the ancient holistic empowerment and healing traditions of China, distilled for contemporary times. As the director and chief instructor of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) in Santa Barbara, California, Dr. Jahnke and his IIQTC colleagues have trained over 3000 Tai Chi and Qigong Teachers and Practice Leaders internationally. With 35 years of clinical practice as a physician of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and 10 research tours to China’s temples and sacred mountain sites, Dr. Jahnke has emerged as a key spokesperson for and master teacher of Tai Chi, Qigong, and mind-body practice. His first book, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques to Release Your Body’s Own Medicine, delivered a revolutionary guide to self-care with simple medical Qigong practices, adaptable for every lifestyle. His second book, the groundbreaking The Healing Promise of Qi: Creating Extraordinary Wellness Through Qigong and Tai Chi, distills the best practices drawn from 25 traditional and modern forms of Tai Chi and Qigong, and offers guidelines to tailor a personal wellness and empowerment regimen to each individual's unique needs.

INTERVIEW CONTENT:

00:00 Intro

01:50 Life history/Background

08:30 Subjectivity/Objectivity and Science

10:55 Childhood/Upbringing

14:00 Influence of Alan Watts, Yin/Yang, Duality, Integration, Acceptance

20:43 History & Corruption of Chinese Medicine; The Three Treasures (Physical Self, Mental/Emotional Self, Transcendental Presence); Mind & Heart are One

32:35 Channels and Organs; Mapping organs and associations; Consciousness; Choices, Cultivation and Trauma; Integrating Body/Mind/Spirit

37:55 Easiest first thing is Breath Practice; Breath as Biohacking

41:00 Where to follow Roger and find more info

LIST OF RESOURCES FOR DR. JAHNKE AND THE INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL QIGONG AND TAI CHI (IIQTC) – Both free and fee….

Free Resources

Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi - http://instituteofintegralqigongandtaichi.org/

Facebook Community - https://www.facebook.com/TaiChiAndQiGongWay/

Facebook Interactive Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/taichiqigongway

Qigong Library (videos, keynotes, articles) online - https://healthaction.infusionsoft.app/app/page/the-tai-chi-and-qigong-way

YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/TaiChiAndQigongWay/videos

For Fee

Discounted for Podcast Audience - Healer Within Medical Qigong Video Library - https://healthaction.infusionsoft.app/app/page/medical-qigong-video

Discounted for Podcast Audience - Breath Medicine Video Library - https://9mm4bsz2.pages.infusionsoft.net/

Amazon.com The Healer Within Kindle & Paperback - https://www.amazon.com/Healer-Within-Traditional-Techniques-Meditation/dp/0062514776

Amazon.com The Healing Promise of Qi Hardcover - https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Promise-Qi-Creating-Extraordinary/dp/0809295288

We close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI

Welcome to “The Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living. I am Michael Ostrolenk, a therapist, coach and educator and I am your host

Today’s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/.

A shoutout to my mentor, colleague and friend Stuart Sovatsky, a scholar of kundalini Yoga and author of “Advanced Spiritual Intimacy: The Yoga of Deep Tantric Sensuality”

Ostrolenk speaks to Christos Galanis (MFA) who is an interdisciplinary artist and human geographer who has spent the past 15 years or so tracking, and making visible, the various ’spells’ through which colonialism, human-supremacism, and narcissism inhabit and inhibit relationships - both individually and culturally. His recently launched business - Kairos - helps clients to integrate more meaning and beauty into their lives through individualised ceremonies and rituals. In addition to his academic publishing, lecturing, and ethnographic field-work, he also brings years of experience teaching workshops on walking, play, performance, kink, and eco-sexuality. A practicing Animist, he is a graduate of Stephen Jenkinson’s Orphan Wisdom School, and is completing a PhD from the University of Edinburgh.

LINKS:

Website: www.christosgalanis.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christmas7

We will close out today’s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song “Nothing in Between”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRqCc3LfDI

BOOKMARKS:

00:00 Intro

01:30 Christos' life-path, describing a spiritual awakening in his early 20s and a moment of grace one morning

06:30 What led from there to working with ceremony and ritual through Kairos, focusing on humans' capacity for creating beauty

10:30 Describing temporality as medicine and the meaning of time as Kairos, Chronos, and Aion in Greek.

15:15 Christos describes contexts where tuning into Kairos supports significant beginnings, endings, and transitions in life. How to slow down and allow your being to 'catch up' with what has already transpired in your life, where perhaps you didn't have the time and space to properly mark it

22:55 Christos shares the story of a significant rite of passage that he undertook, travelling to Spain to walk a pilgrimage to support the transition of a close family member's spirit who died tragically

26:40 Christos describes how his walking and movement practice is central to his maintaining a link to receiving input from Creation, which then serves as a source for the seeds of ceremonies and rituals.

30:30 Christos uses an example from Michael's own life to walk through what it might look like to work with Kairos with a prospective client. He describes how he supports the client to 'tune-in' to the un-rational, embodied intelligence that is Kairos in order to discover what the proper way to proceed might be. Christos also describes the importance of community and gathering together to witness, and to share stories.

36:40 Michael asks Christos to describe his relationship with beauty and how it's central to his work with ceremony and ritual. Christos then recounts a youtube video which documents a chimpanzee in a state of awe and exuberance as he interacts with a waterfall.

43:02 Michael and Christos discuss how important it is to bring more ceremony and ritual into our lives, especially for those who are not connected to any of the major world religions or ancestral traditions. Christos describes how ceremonies also ground us in place and connect us to our corners of the world and also to our non-human neighbours.

49:03 Christos gives info for how to reach him and work with him

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