35 years ago, Cynthia Jurs met a 106-year-old lama high in the mountains of Tibet and asked him a question that changed the course of her life. 

In her new memoir, applauded by elders including Joanna Macy, David Abrams, Jack Kornfield and her beloved long-time teacher Thich Nhat Hahn, Cynthia recounts her decades-long quest of burying Earth Treasure Vases to bring care to areas of the Earth most in need of protection and healing.

Join us for an inspiring conversation about:

• trusting intuition and magic
• letting curiosity lead the way
• looking to the stars for guidance

and collaborating with the help that is always available.

Cynthia’s journey invites us to open to guidance from the natural world and trust the wisdom of the Earth at this pivotal time of collective awakening.

Cynthia Jurs website: www.GaiaMandala.net

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

The most current research on the brain has shown us that when you understand how your brain works, you can influence how it operates to increase your emotional and mental well-being. 

In this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by Ursula Pottinga, PCC, professional coach and co-leader of an intensive neuro-transformational coach training program I completed this year. 

Ursula has been coaching leaders for years on how to increase the value of their impact using BeAbove Leadership’s Map of the Seven Levels of Personal, Group, and Organizational Effectiveness.

The 7 Levels increase in resonance and effectiveness from:
Hopelessness
Fear
Frustration
Courage
Engagement
Innovation
Synchronicity

Based on Dr. David Hawkins's Map of Consciousness and Dr. Dan Siegel's mindfulness and neuroscience research, this map can help you recognize your own default position and gain insight and practical tools to raise your personal level of resonance and effectiveness.

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The story that launched the ethos:

• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Lynda Caesara is a structural body worker who’s spent decades working with imbalances in the body. She helps people come back into optimal health through both physical and energetic alignment. 

In our conversation Lynda speaks to managing our electro-magnetic fields and offers five essential practices for connecting to and harnessing energy in the body. Done consistently, these practices will support you in creating a clear and grounded energetic field so you can access the full power of your life force.

We explore:

• working with the body's innate capacity to heal
• understanding fear and our nervous system responses
• clearing stagnant energy to restore the free flow of our chi, or life force
• connecting with large coherent fields to shift from dissonance to harmony in our being

She also walks us through a five step daily attention practice to declutter your personal energetic space:

1. Connecting with your centre
2. Grounding into the earth
3. Clearing your energy field
4. Cultivating clear boundaries ~ and why they are essential to true intimacy
5. Attuning to your chakras (including the eighth and ninth)

The Decluttering Project: FREE Zoom Mentoring Calls
One way of decluttering your energetic field is decluttering your physical world. When you let go of items that no longer serve you, you invite light and airiness into your living space and uncover your environment’s natural beauty and charm. 

If this is something you’re ready for and you'd like some help, I’m offering a series of FREE zoom mentoring calls this fall with a focus on tackling one area of clutter in your world and creating some beauty in its place.

The next call is Saturday, October 5th @10 to 11 AM MDT.
REGISTER here

LINKS:
Lynda is not currently taking on new clients but if you want to know more about her work, she points to this excellent podcast interview (hosted by one of her long time students) that explores her work in even greater detail:
Mindfulness Exercises Podcast with Sean Fargo

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

On today’s show I’m talking with Rogers Masson, a friend and remarkable human, who opens up about his journey with PTSD, and the transformative effects he experienced through psychedelic assisted therapy. 

We talk about why trauma is such a challenging thing for us to navigate, and ways to orient to it that support integration and wholeness.

Rogers speaks about how the effects of MDMA (aka: Ecstasy) were significantly more healing for him than traditional therapy and also shares a negative impact in his treatment that moved him to draw on his 30 year career as a music producer to found a company dedicated to creating sound environments that greatly enhance the healing power of these medicine sessions.

Join us for an exploration of:

• the stigma of expressing emotions for men
• the cost of compartmentalization in our lives
• how to be with intense experiences so they are not stored as trauma
• how trauma anchors young parts of us in the past
• giving fragmented parts of self a home in present time
• creating wholeness through cultivating new stories of our past experiences

Find Rogers' work here: Psysonics Website

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Steve Taylor is a transpersonal psychologist, researcher and author of 15 best-selling books on psychology and spirituality.

Our conversation begins with one of his earlier books: “Disconnected: The Roots of Human Cruelty, and How Connection Can Heal the World” which explores the continuum of human nature from psychopathy to spirituality and then we turn toward his most recent book “The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening” which delves into eight qualities of spiritually awakened people: 

• dis-identification from the ego
• gratitude
• presence
• altruism
• acceptance
• integration with the body
• detachment
• embracing mortality

Steve shares practical exercises and meditations that help us cultivate these qualities, and offers insight into why practicing them leads to deep connection with yourself and others and through that, genuine happiness and fulfillment.

Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University, and the author of several best-selling books on psychology and spirituality.

His articles and essays have been published in over 100 academic journals, magazines and newspapers. He regularly appears in the media in the UK and writes blog articles for Scientific American, and Psychology Today.

 Steve Taylor Website

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Meg Wheatley is the author of 12 books, a social activist, a global leadership and organizational consultant, a Buddhist practitioner and a guide and trainer for Warriors for the Human Spirit. 

After a lifetime of activism and a deep understanding of how living systems work, she’s come to realize that life is no longer subject to the kind of interventions that used to be effective. 

In today's conversation we explore her newest book Restoring Sanity: Practices to Awaken Generosity, Creativity and Kindness in Ourselves and Our Organizations and what’s possible when we follow the threads of curiosity and the mystical in our relationships and work.

Join us for some clear-eyed wisdom about how to best participate in the world we are now living in, including:

• what it means to become a Warrior for the Human Spirit
• the conditions that enable us to work together in empowered ways
• harnessing the power of curiosity to access joy
• connecting with the guidance that's revealed in the natural world
• essential practices that help us to be a stable, compassionate presence in difficult moments
• embodying sane leadership
• creating Islands of Sanity in a toxic culture
• listening to the world's needs to clarify meaningful purpose and action

Links from our conversation:
Margaret Wheatley website
Warrior Songline
Restoring Sanity - 6 week online course begins April 18th, 2024
Wendy Palmer interview
Pema Chodron
Joanna Macy

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

In a world craving genuine connection, Meredith Heller's latest book, 'Writing by Heart: A Poetry Path to Healing and Self Discovery,' offers a sanctuary.

Leaving home at 13 to find her own way in the world led Meredith Heller through dangerous and heartbreaking terrain, but she didn't just survive; she thrived.

In our conversation today Meredith delves into the challenges of navigating adolescence, the beauty of becoming fully authentic and deeply connected to life through the initiation of adversity, and shares how her profound trust in the natural world supported her as she learned to use the transformative power of writing to grow and heal.

We explore the importance of creating a sacred space for storytelling and connection,  the use of writing as a tool for self-reflection and empowerment and Meredith offers us a beautiful guided writing exercise on the wisdom of atonement.

Tune in to uncover the therapeutic power of putting pen to paper.
 
 Meredith Heller website
“Firebird” spoken song on Meredith’s “About” page

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The story that launched the ethos:

• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

Join me for a conversation with Pete McLean where we explore the power of finding beauty in the darkest places and how you can keep coming back into a creative relationship with life—no matter what it throws your way.

We talk about:

• Tracking Yes: what it is, how it began and what it means to truly live it
• trusting the love that binds us and powerful ways to connect with its guidance
• dogs as spiritual teachers and what they show us when we’re paying attention
• tracking the threads of beauty and magic through the darkest places

I recently interviewed Pete on the podcast about his bone breaking 14 foot fall off of a scaffolding, and how that led to a series of interviews he did with fellow humans about how what they thought were some of the worst things ever turned out to be the best.

I was one of the folks he interviewed and this is our conversation. I think you're gonna love this conversation, Pete is as wonderful to be interviewed by as he is to interview. 

Pete's Podcast series on 14 Foot Falls

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Show Notes:
 
Pete McLean was doing carpentry work when a scaffolding collapsed and he fell 14 feet onto rocks, breaking several bones in his lower body.
 
Sometimes the falls come for us, and sometimes we choose to leap, but either way, Pete holds that our falls are the moments in our lives when something deeper in us is creating an opening to make itself visible and expressed in this world. 
 
Could it be that the thing that we spend most of our time keeping beneath the surface- because of fear or shame or some idea that it’s not OK- is presenting us with an opening to give it wings?
 
Join us for a conversation about how we might trust the falls in our lives as experiences in which our soul is calling us into greater courage, curiosity and possibility. 

Pete’s Website: Of Earth and Soul
Of Earth and Soul Podcast: 14 Foot Falls on Spotify
Iain McGilchrist - The Master and His Emissary

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• Tracking Yes - A Guide to Everyday Magic

In this insightful conversation with end-of-life counsellor Dr. Martha Jo Atkins, we explore the power of restoring our natural connection with death in a culture that is conditioned to resist it.

We delve into:

• the clarity that happens when we partner with death as an ally
• how to cultivate the presence to support our beloved humans and pets at end of life
• the value of ritual and ceremony in the dying journey 
• channelling creativity as a grounding force in challenging times
• how the medicine of kindness creates safety
• the unique ways that children are equipped to be with death
• the importance of creating spaces to feel deeply so that love can move with us

 
Martha Jo also shares about “D. School”, an initiative she designed to help us shift perceptions around death and offer guidance to those dealing with it.
 
Marked by personal revelations and heart-touching stories, this episode investigates how we can reframe our perspectives on death, making it less about loss and more about the transition of life.
 
* Martha’s next D-School begins in February 16th, 2024
Early Bird registrations ends: December 30th, 2023.

Martha Jo Atkins website
"Signposts of Dying" book

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