Islands of Coherence

Joining us on 21CV this week is the cofounder of Origin of Health, Andreas David Christou! Using his Masters degree in Human Movement Sciences and his Bachelors degree in Nutritional Science, Andreas has created a platform that trains, educates, and inspires people to start moving their bodies holistically and intuitively. Integrating embodied movement flow with strength training philosophy, Origin of Health seeks to help clients to cultivate wholeness of mind, body, and spirit. In his podcast debut, we cover a whole gamut of topics such as how his developed primal movement patterns open up our energy system, how we can better listen to our bodies, the effects of stress through a holistic lens, and the role of nutrition and environmental factors alter the expression of our genes! 

You can keep in touch with Andreas' platform or schedule a virtual training session with him over at originofhealth.net or his social media handles 
@originofhealth
@movementandreas

Biodynamic farmer, beekeeper, and author, Jacqueline Freeman joins the show this week to talk about how we can strike up a conversation with nature, connect to our intuition, and learn from honeybees! Jacqueline is the author of 'A Song of Increase: Listening to the Wisdom of Honeybees for Kinder Beekeeping and a Better World' and has been tending to honeybees for 20 years! Having given talks all across the world on how to have a more harmonious relationship with the bees, Jacqueline has created an accessible platform helping people combine spirituality and farming that has helped thousands of people tap into their own intuitive farming practice. 


SHOW TOPICS

What is biodynamic farming?
Starting a conversation with nature
Developing our intuition
Lessons from working with honeybees
The issues with conventional mainstream beekeeping
The confusion and harm of our conventional food systems
Everything is filled with spirit
Trusting the swarm and the medicine of getting stung

LINKS 
spiritbee.com

This weeks guest is author, Dismantling Racism Trainer, Yoga teacher, and licensed clinical social worker, Michelle C. Johnson. In this discussion we dive into her most recent book, 'Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief' to talk about how we can best embrace our grieving process and learn how to stop numbing out intense experiences. This is a powerful conversation perfect for this time of year when we are encouraged to let go of things that no longer serve us. If you want to keep in touch with Michelle's work the links will be down below, complete with her 'Finding Refuge' Podcast and links to her books. 

The second edition of 'Skill in Action' is now just getting shipped out so I highly encourage you to pick yourself up a copy if at all involved in the practice of Yoga. 

SHOW TOPICS:
-Importance of creating space for grief
-The role of community in healing
-Creating a safe container for feeling our pain
-Why you should let yourself fall apart
-Using breath as a tool for entering the body
-What is ancestral trauma and how is it passed down?
-White supremacy and ancestral trauma
-Healing our ancestral lines


Links: 
Michellecjohhnson.com
Skill In Action 2nd Ed. - https://www.shambhala.com/skill-in-action-1631553347.html
|https://linktr.ee/skillinaction

This weeks guest is Jahan Khamsehzadeh Ph.D, author of the new book, 'The Psilocybin Connection: Psychedelics, the Transformation of Consciousness, and Evolution of the Planet - An Integral Approach' releasing Spring of 2022. Jahan completed his dissertation on psychedelics in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He's earned his masters in Consciousness and Transformative Studies from John F. Kennedy University and has gone on to train within the Mazatec mushroom tradition. He is currently working as a facilitator for legal psilocybin mushroom ceremonies in Jamaica with Atman Retreats.

In this episode we talk about all things psychedelic mushrooms, from their rich history of coevolving with humans to our current expansion into using them as therapeutic medicines. You can keep in touch with Jahan's work by heading over to psychedelicevolution.org and preordering his book over on Amazon. (Links below)

SHOW TOPICS:
- Jahan's journey into this work
- How to approach mushrooms with intention for healing
- Integrating your experiences
- Holding space for other people's journeys
- Where mushrooms and meditation intersect
- The importance of connection, community, and communion
- The history of humanity's relationship with mushrooms
- How mushrooms made their way back to our culture
- The potential of working with plant medicines

LINKS: 
psychedelicevolution.org
Book:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1623176549?tag=randohouseinc7986-20

Joining us on the show this week is the incredibly inspiring Chantel Johnson to talk about all things homesteading! Founder of OGIC (Former Off Grid in Color), Chantel has created a platform of addressing racially charged social justice with the art and lifestyle of homesteading. OGIC is an educational program that seeks to empower communities with information on how to become more self-sustainable by localizing their food sources, starting their own homesteads, and learning how to connect more deeply with the land. On top of educating, OGIC also provides ethically raised meat to the North Carolina area and also serves communities with doula programs. 

You can keep up to date with Chantel's platform by heading over to offgridincolors.com or her IG: @offgridincolor

She currently has an active Farm Raiser GoFundMe over at:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/land-and-labor?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all

SHOW TOPICS
- Inspiration for OGIC
- Tuning into Nature for Medicine
- Effects of marginalized populations being forcefully removed from their land
- Homesteading
- Intersection of homesteading and social work
- Creating a farming community or finding one to plug into 
- Land as generational wealth
- Doulaship

Joining us on the show is Thomas Myers, author of Anatomy Trains! Having spent 40 years as a bodyworker and studying under some of the most influential names in the practice such as Drs. Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and even the iconic Buckminster Fuller, Thomas has been healing and teaching all across the globe. His wildly popular Anatomy Trains system has been equipping thousands of therapists with a detailed map of the fascial connections throughout the body and deepening our understanding of how interconnected our parts truly are. For this discussion we cover what the fascial system is, how it affects not only our physical health but also emotional, and how we can best increase the resonance within our bodies to be more receptive and open to life. 

To keep in touch with his platform, head on over to Anatomytrains.com or follow him over on social media to see future education opportunities.

If you wish to support this show, subscribe to the channel and consider leaving us a five star review on Apple Podcasts! We also have a Patreon over at Patreon.com/21stcenturyvitalism

SHOW TOPICS
- What is the Fascial System and why is it important?
- How does Bodywork interact with the Fascial System?
- What is the Relationship between our Nervous and Fascial Systems?
- The Three Medicines - Time, Mind, and Space
- Social Media's Influence on our Bodies
- The Power of Human Touch
- Importance of Presence
- Bringing the Body into Resonance
- The Importance for a Therapist to not Know
- The Anatomy Trains System

Joining us on the show this week is pro-surfer turned regenerative farmer, Fergal Smith! Founder of the Moyhill CSA Farm in Clare, Ireland, Fergal's passion is in learning how to be the best steward of land that he can be. He does this by implementing regenerative processes into his farming that rebuilds the soil, reestablishes the natural ecology, and honors the natural rhythms of nature. In this episode we talk about what exactly this entails, the process of rampant desertification in many regions of the world, how we can better transition into a more global model of regenerative practices, and the sheer enjoyment of finding your place amongst nature rather than over it.

You can keep up to date with all of Fergal's updates and education opportunities by heading over to moyhillfarm.com or following them over on social media.

SHOW TOPICS
- Transition from Professional Surfer to Farmer
- Exploration of Regenerative Agriculture 
- Downsides of Organics
- Desertification and Stripping of Soil
- State of Industrial Agriculture
- Transitioning our Global Systems
- How to Support 
- Enjoyment of Land Stewardship
- Difference of Permaculture and Regenerative
- Spiritual Implications of Land Stewardship

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joining us on the show this week is live performance painter, Morgan Mandala! In this conversation we dial in the focus to take a dive into the world of live painting at music festivals, the atmosphere of collaboration, using the process of creating your art as a teaching, and the importance and marginalization of psychedelic art as a whole. Morgan is based out of Boulder, Colorado and travels the world attending festivals while creating immaculate pieces that communicate rich depths of the human experience. I'd suggest peeping some of her work before or during this episode to step into her world and have a better understanding of the level of work that she produces. 

Head on over to Morganmandala.com or her IG at https://www.instagram.com/morganmandala/ 

The ineffable Michael Garfield joins the show! Michael is a paleontologist/futurist who channels his creativity into hosting two podcasts, making incredible music, and painting. As the host of Future Fossils and the Santa Fe Institute's 'Complexity Podcast', Michael spends much of his time fusing philosophy, science, and art into a synthesis of ideation that is aimed at helping people orient themselves in a rapidly changing world. In this conversation we explore how humans have been evolving with technology, what happens when innovation becomes the problem, and how we can best navigate societal collapse. It's a nourishing buffet of optimistic outlook and critical evaluation of the very real issues that we're currently facing on the world stage. 

If you want to keep in touch with Michael's work, head on over to Patreon.com/michaelgarfield to keep up to date with all of his newest releases. There's also Michaelgarfieldart.com and the Future Fossils Podcast on facebook (which has a bustling online community that is always a treat to interact with)

In this weeks episode of 21CV we sit down with longtime practitioner of rolfing, Russell Stolzoff! Russell is the founder of Rolfing Works in Bellingham, Washington and is currently serving on the board of the Rolfing Institutes Executive Education Committee. For the uninitiated, Structural Integration (commonly referred to as Rolfing) is a bodywork modality that seeks to work with the body's myofascial system to alleviate body wide compensation patterns arising from the effects of gravity on the body through time.


Check out Russell's content over at https://www.rolfingworks.com/ and find a practitioner near you to experience the benefits of this practice!