Under the Bodhi Tree

The psychedelic experience for many, can act as a whirlwind experience, pulling us out of the comfort of our familiar reality and offering an altered view of ourselves and the nature of the world around us. Due to the expansive and ineffable nature of these substances, it would serve most to invest time into creating intentionality around interacting with plant medicines. Writer, lecturer, podcaster and philosophical psychonaut, James Jesso, as a strong member in the psychedelic community, explores building a psychological model around the psychedelic experience, to aid others in their integration and digestion of these peak states of consciousness. James has a fantastic outlook on altered states, and eloquently articulates the benefits that may be received from an intentional, and respectful relationship with these medicines. We also explore the potential dangers in relating to these entities in an unconscious way. For anyone interested or even resistant to the world of psychedelics or any altered states of consciousness, this one's for you


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If you've ever entered into the world of the healing arts; massage, yoga, meditation, therapy of any kind and the medicinal world, you'll love this conversation. Gabs and I sit down this week and explore the challenges that come up in the role of the therapist or facilitator that many of us feel. We explore potential holes in the current framework in our society in regards to giving away our own bodies healing agency. We talk about taking accountability for your body and health, and what that means from the perspective of the client, as well as the therapist. How do we encourage others to take steps to care for their own temples and what is our responsibility as guides along the path. We talk about bringing sacredness into our practices and finding passion for what we're doing. Lastly, but not least, we play around with the practice of Zen Thai Shiatsu and the abundance that the practice has brought us. Its a fantastic exploration of the healing world, and we reference the documentary "heal" a few times, so you can find the link below (I believe it's on netflix as well). Thank you all for listening and supporting!

To check out the trailer for heal click here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Hpm-6Inxc

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or golden yoga bodywork on facebook!

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What is consent and how do we make a culture of creating and honoring boundaries in our society? These are the questions we'll address today. I truly believe that consent is the foundation of strong healing relationships. When we ask for what we want, and allow space for our friends and partners to do what feels right for them, we can start to see the quality of experiences that we share with others increases dramatically. When we can trust that someone is with us because the WANT to be, and not cause they have a hard time saying no, we can fully surrender into an experience and enjoy a mutually pleasurable connection. Consent extends to all walks of life, not just sexuality and we'll find that as we implement the process of consent into the mundane parts of life, it naturally drips into our sexual experiences, offering a safe space to explore boundaries, deeper intimacy and a strong sense of eroticism and playfulness.

Lets create a culture of consent!!

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Hey all! This meditation is a super nice one that dives deep into the wisdom of the forest around us. We will use this guided visualization to bring to offer a perspective shift for our lives. By embodying the essence of the forest around us, we can tap into the always available wisdom of the trees, and bring integrate it into our daily lives. Enjoy this grounding meditation to settle the nervous system!

May the presence of trees that surround us, inspire us into deeper wisdom

Song: Deep Theta 9.0 (pt.3)
Steven Halpern

This week I have Jon aka "handshake" on the show. being a good friend, coupled with working for NASA, I had to pick his brain and hear his perspectives on the planet, on our affect on the planet, and the deeper world that he sees through his scientific mind. We explore viewpoints on reality and how we can create a sustainable way for humanity to keep living with the earth. It is now that we have time to act, and Jon's realism and positive energy helps give me hope, that at least our beautiful planet will be ok in the end, and hopefully our human race can pull our act together and share this earth with all of the other beings who walk among us. Jon, thank you for a lovely chat. Sorry for any sound problems! this one is over the phone this week! thanks for joining, sending love to you all :)

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We are all faced with decisions in our day to day. To make our best decisions and find our highest path, negiotiation can come in to play as a powerful tool. As we negotaite, we can learn to see into what our actual desires are and what motivates us in what we want in life. Most of us, through negotiation view a compromise as a sufficient option. This week I'd like to invite you to entertain the idea that we can aim for, and arrive to win-win solutions through many if not all of our negotiation processes. If this sentence is already triggering you or bringing up resistance, then this is the podcast for you. In this short journey together, I will support your growth into letting go of your superficial needs, to reach a greater depth and therefor reach higher rates of "win-win" solutions, and happy, healthy relationships.

Thanks for joining me everyone!

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SO im trying out something new, lets see how it goes, one or two Monday's a month, im going to try and put up a meditation on spotify to make it easier to listen to!

This meditation is a 13 minute sleep cast, a meditation to help bring you some grounding as you slumber off into your nights sleep. Whether you're trying to implement some meditation into your life, or just want some good ole sleep, this one will be a good start!

This one is without any accompanying music!
Enjoy :)

The tool of language has become an integral part of our human experience as we relate to one another day to day. While it can be a fantastic resource to connect to others, and express ourselves, we can see that language can be quite limiting. With a deeper understanding of language, we can gather use the subtleties to represent our truth and our physical experience to the best of our abilities and as we peer into the languages of other cultures, we can start to see their cultural perspective of reality. Needless to say, most of us simply graze the surface of what language has to offer us and miss out on the world that language is. This week I have my sister, Arianne Belzer on the show, for a beautiful and cheeky conversation about the complexity and wonders of language and how we can look into the roots of our language to better navigate our relationships with others, ourselves and the world we live in. I am excited to share this weeks episode as we go into the adventure of language. Thanks all for listening :)

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To check out Arianne's Latin Works, check out:
https://www.amazon.com/Fortuna-Fortibus-Favet-variae-patent/dp/1717513050/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=arianne+belzer&qid=1570416137&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Lucia-Puella-Latin-Arianne-Belzer/dp/1977790445/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=arianne+belzer&qid=1570416262&sr=8-2

Over the past few years, I've had countless conversations with old and new friends, family members, and even people sitting next to me on the bus. In many of these conversations, the topic of finding your place in the world, pops up. Time and time again, I find that so many people, as a result of our societal model, feel an overwhelming amount of stress, related to feeling like they "need to find the perfect job" or they have to "know" what they want to do with their lives. The current model is as such, go to school as a kid, through your schooling process, decide which occupational archetype youd like to fit into (with a very very base level idea of the reality of what it means to support yourself), pick your archetype, go to college for that, and spend the rest of your life, either trying to fit into that box, fitting into the box, or quiting and starting the entire cycle over. We, as a society, are a very outcome based and goal oriented population. We choose a career path, and stop at nothing to get there, only to find that when we've arrived, we've passed up more fitting opportunities along the way, and what we originally wanted, is no longer serving us. This week, ill offer an alternative and pratical model for finding our purpose and finding a way to make what we love sustainable. Its a big shift to get our head around, but if we can change the way we look at things, then we change the way things interact with us! Thanks for listening!

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if you'd like to check out the questions and empathy cards, check out:
https://www.amazon.com/Questions-and-Empathy/dp/B07DSDLRC1/ref=asc_df_B07DSDLRC1/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=316862106435&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17705919424243813809&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9021403&hvtargid=aud-799728744414:pla-593711200950&psc=1

Birth and Death are two shared experiences that connect every human being. In many ways, in western culture, we have removed the sacredness and wisdom from these two experiences as we have have sterilized the environments that they take place in, and we continually neglect welcoming them into our every day. When we expand our awareness and definitions of what birth and death are, we see that they occur from moment to moment every day. As one moment dies, another is born, as a tree is burnt down in the forest, it gives birth to fertile soil and new vegetation. These experience are two sides of the same coin, the coin of life. This week Jordan and I go into the depths as we explore the benefit and value of creating conversations around these ideas. Jordan shares her experiences working in prisons, and the effects of death that surrounds the life of an inmate, as well as her experiences in the delivery room as she explores the role of a "Birthing Dula" or a supportive and energetic guide to assist a smooth and enlightening transition for a mother, or family in the birthing process. This was a true treat to have such a beautiful discussion and I look forward to sharing it with all of you listeners! Sending love and light to all, and may you have a peaceful birth and death of today, of this moment, and of your life.

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https://www.amazon.com/Ina-Mays-Guide-Childbirth-Gaskin/dp/0553381156

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