Discovering Beauty

April 25, 2018Leave a comment

Discovering Beauty Around, Within, and Always! with Rachel Awes

Have you ever wondered how to simply BE YOU? To discover the innate beauty and magnificence within you? Listen in as Dr. Julie and Rachel Awes invite you to authentically be your fullest self. Imagine being treasured — simply for the rise and fall of your chest, the dreams in your heart, and the distinct YOU — who you miraculously off the world every gloriously messy day!

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Rachel Awes works as a psychologist, art playgroundist, and author, who loves listening to the beauty in people and animals and all living colors—and she truly embodies color, as she is also an ambassador for the Swedish clothing company, Gudrun Sjoden. She is currently working on her fourth book, a fiction story about the importance of showing up as yourself in this world, for middle grade readers and for everyone’s inner child. Her prior writing has been nonfiction prose, infused with loads of her colorful drawings, all designed to affirm the human heart. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with her husband and tortoises, complete with wild bunnies in her yard, and is a recent evolving nester, with her 19 and 21-year-old college-attending sons, living at home in between semesters and adventures. Her most tender and mighty hope is to hold up a mirror for many, reflecting a hearty truth of your boundless worth. You can see more from Rachel at her website at rachelawes.com and her books and art prints at rachelawes.etsy.com.

A New Republic of the Heart

April 7, 2018Leave a comment

A New Republic of the Heart with Terry Patten

In the midst of today’s global crises, many of us are disheartened. We recognize the need for radical change, both in ourselves and in our social and political institutions, but we don’t how to enact it. Terry Patten provides a practical approach to “being the change” that begins with the individual and yet can affect the whole system, as inner and outer transformation are entirely interdependent. Wholeness has potent agency. In our age of fragmentation, the most subversive things we can do are to embody love, integrity, and practice.

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Terry Patten speaks and consults internationally as a community organizer, philosopher, and teacher. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the integral project of evolving consciousness through practice, and facing, examining, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. He is the author, most recently, of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries.

Mastering Alchemy

March 28, 2018Leave a comment

Mastering Alchemy with Jim Self

In light of the changing times and shift of consciousness on the planet, understanding the process of alchemy is good medicine. Author Jim Self suggests alchemy means altering the frequencies of our thoughts to change how we perceive and interact with the world and begin to experience a new, higher level of consciousness. To master alchemy, join us for a conversation of the new energy tools and our new emerging capacities.

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Jim Self is an international teacher, speaker, and author who has been leading seminars on personal energy management and the tools of Mastering Alchemy for almost 30 years. He is one of the few spiritual teachers to keep pace with the on-going Shift in human consciousness, constantly co-creating the Mastering Alchemy programme with the Teachers of Light. He is the author of A Course in Mastering Alchemy.

Spiritual Anatomy

March 21, 2018Leave a comment

Spiritual Anatomy: Realigning Body and Soul with Ginny Nadler

On this show, you’ve heard guest experts talking about mind over matter, the biology of belief, and so many other spiritual tools and practices that tap into our body’s inherent energetic and healing powers. But have you ever heard matter over spirit? There is an important connection between the energetic roadblocks that are deep in our cellular structure and the flow of spiritual energy and wisdom. Ginny Nadler invites us to unravel our deeply entangled distortions and bring our body and soul back into alignment.

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Ginny Nadler is the author of Spiritual Anatomy: Realigning Body and Soul and founder and CEO of Core Body Wisdom®, which delivers the highest quality wellness initiatives and care to individuals, businesses, healthcare providers and organizations. The core of Ginny’s approach is Structural ReAlignment Integration® (SRI) which draws on her years as a wellness educator and body alignment specialist to support individuals with stressed and in pain structures to be pain free and rediscover freedom in movement. Ginny studied yoga in the B.K.S. Iyengar Tradition for years before deciding to seek more creative ways to discover where imbalance and distortion arise in human structure and psyche with a focus on releasing trauma in the pelvic floor. She cofounded the first comprehensive wellness center on the East Coast and also created The Urban Global Healing Center where she participated in and helped develop a wellness program for young women incarcerated and offered a wide range of wellness education services. Ginny works with the worldwide Pocket Project Training with 150 others from 39 countries, exploring cultural agreements and global collective trauma (that live within us all). She also consults with individuals to help awaken them to the trauma that exists in their cell structures and collaborates with practitioners of other modalities seeking a deeper framework for their own approach to movement, trauma, and pain management.

Heart of Oneness

March 14, 2018Leave a comment

Heart of Oneness with Jennifer Kavanaugh

The news media is full of stories of violence, poverty, inequality and injustice. At the same time, we are surrounded by the beauty of the natural world, and daily life is full of acts of compassion, kindness, friendship and love. What is real? Do we really find it hard to live together, in our families, communities, or in the world at large? Science, religion, nature, and our own experience teach us that the whole of creation is a web of interconnectedness inviting us to live in relationship, balance and harmony.

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Jennifer Kavanagh gave up her career as a literary agent to work in the community. She is a microcredit practitioner, facilitates conflict resolution workshops and is active in the Quaker community. She has published seven books of non-fiction and one novel. She is a Churchill Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Transformative Near Death Experiences

March 7, 2018Leave a comment

The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences with Penny Sartori and Kelly Walsh

As a society we are all taught to fear death. Yet for those who have touched it, and returned to tell the tale, the message they’ve brought back is a story of unconditional love, divine understanding, and how a true universal connection awaits us on the other side. Can we benefit from these experiences? Authors Penny Sartori and Kelly Walsh believe we can. The Near-Death Experience inspires people of all cultures and faiths to see how the love experienced during an NDE has the capacity to heal minds, bodies, and souls.

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Dr Penny Sartori PhD, RGN is an expert in NDEs, having been an intensive care nurse for 17 years and having undertaken the UK’s first long-term prospective study on them, for which she was awarded a PhD. She wrote the bestseller The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences (2014), which was serialised in the Daily Mail, as well as What is A Near-Death Experience? She has had her work featured, and been interviewed, across national and international press and radio. She lectures across the world, and currently teaches at Swansea University.

Kelly Walsh is the founder of the Positivity Power Movement and Love Care Share charitable foundation. Her life’s work has been inspired by an NDE she had in 2009 following a suicide attempt, and subsequent spiritual experiences she has had since. The words she shouted out following her experience- ‘like – minded souls would collaborate to change the world’ – have been the driving force for the creation of this book and the work she now does. Her experience also inspired her to create a children’s character, Positivity Princess from Planet Positavia, who is on a mission to create a more loving, caring, sharing world.

The Secret Nature of Matter

February 21, 2018Leave a comment

The Secret Nature of Matter with Richard Gordon

When we shift a fundamental belief, we automatically shift our attitudes, thoughts, feelings, and decisions. New attitudes bring new priorities, and when that happens everything changes. So, what if you could shift your belief about love and intent and discover how they operate beyond the boundaries of the brain? What if you could infuse your love and intent into any physical object, and then transfer it to other people and objects? Learn about the secret nature of matter with Richard Gordon.

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When Richard Gordon was evolving the acclaimed Quantum-Touch healing technique that today is practiced by 1,400 certified practitioners around the globe in 50 countries, doctors were saying it was impossible to permanently align the occipital bone at the base of the skull and “pelvic torsion”—twisted hips where one is higher than the other. Let alone do it without manipulating the patient! Yet, it became readily apparent that Gordon’s Quantum-Touch methodology could do just that.

Now, that easy-to-learn, seemingly-miraculous correction has opened an astonishing doorway on the Nature of Matter. Gordon demonstrated he could pass this healing energy from person to person or from object to object, using a series of simple experiments that anyone could do by following the directions in his newest book The Secret Nature of Matter.

Richard Gordon is considered a pioneer in the field of energy medicine, with more than 40 years of experience. He is the author of four best-selling books, now published in 17 languages. Gordon attended the Christos School of Natural Medicine, had been on faculty at Heartwood Institute and the Holistic Health Institute. With certified practitioners of his work in over 50 countries, Richard’s work was praised by Dr. C. Norman Shealy (founding President of the American Holistic Medical Association) as “The first technique that may truly allow us all to become healers.”

Richard Gordon, founder of Quantum-Touch Organization, is a visionary and a pioneer. With 37 years of experience in the field of energy medicine, Richard is the bestselling author of Quantum-Touch: The Power to Heal, now published in 17 languages, and Your Healing Hands – The Polarity Experience, available in 10 languages.

Consciousness of Mother Earth

February 14, 2018Leave a comment

The Wisdom and Consciousness of Mother Earth with Anneloes Smitsman

Disconnection from ourselves, each other, the earth and the sacred in all life is something we hear a lot about on The Dr. Julie Show. Advice from visionary thought leaders and experts on the topic are entering the mainstream more and more. But we’ve never heard the voice of the mother—Mother Earth that is. Listen in as we explore the wisdom and support that our planet, as a caring and conscious mother, shares for our collective flourishing.

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Anneloes Smitsman (PhD(c), LLM) is a writer, storyteller, visionary, legal strategist, educator, and system developer for transformational change and whole system learning & innovation. She holds a Masters degree in Law & Political Science from Leiden University (the Netherlands), and is finalizing her PhD as external researcher at Maastricht University (the Netherlands). Her PhD thesis is titled “Into the Heart of Systems Change”. She is the CEO & founder of EARTHwise Centre. She was born and raised in the Netherlands and lived there until 1996. She then went to live in South Africa, Australia, and more recently Mauritius. Anneloes played a key role in various social change movements; providing legal and transformational strategies for how to leverage and unite local efforts with international frameworks through a shared Vision. Examples are: Le Morne UNESCO Maroon Cultural Heritage in the fight against slavery and oppression; Standing Rock and Dakota Access Pipeline; Divestment from Fossil Fuels campaigns; the Bhutan Dialogue to support healing and reconciliation for the Bhutan refugee situation; and the We Stand With Africa campaign to catalyse collective support for the famine crisis.

Anneloes developed the Education for Sustainability programme when she worked as Founding Director at ELIA-Ecological Living In Action. She continues to lead this programme today from EARTHwise Centre under the Youth Future Stewards programme. This has served as a model for whole-curriculum implementation of sustainability education for the transformation of conventional educational systems.

Through her love, wisdom and insight Anneloes inspires and supports people to actualise their true potential, and work collaboratively for a world and future where all of us can flourish. Buy her book: Love Letters from Mother Earth.

My Revolution Begins in the Body

February 14, 2018Leave a comment

My Revolution Begins in the Body

By Eve Ensler

My revolution begins in the body
It isn’t waiting anymore
My revolution does not need approval or permission
It happens because it has to happen in each neighborhood, village, city or town
at gatherings of tribes, fellow students, women at the market, on the bus
It may be gradual and soft
It may be spontaneous and loud
It may be happening already
It may be found in your closet, your drawers, your gut, your legs, your multiplying cells
in the naked mouth of taut nipples and overflowing breasts
My revolution is swelling from the insatiable drumming between my legs
My revolution is willing to die for this
My revolution is ready to live big
My revolution is overthrowing the state
Of mind called patriarchy
My revolution will not be choreographed although it begins with a few familiar steps.
My revolution is not violent but it does not shy away from the dangerous edges where fierce displays of resistance tumble into something new

My revolution is in this body
In these hips atrophied by misogyny
In this jaw wired mute by hunger and atrocity
My revolution is
Connection not consumption
Passion not profit
Orgasm not ownership
My revolution is of the earth and will come from her
For her, because of her
It understands that every time we frack or drill
Or burn or violate the layers of her sacredness
we violate the soul of our future
My revolution is not ashamed to press my body down
On her mud floor in front
Banyan, Cypress, Pine, Kalyaan, Oak, Chestnut, Mulberry
Redwood, Sycamore trees
To bow shamelessly to shocking yellow birds and rose blue setting skies, heart exploding purple bouganvillea and aqua sea
My revolution gladly kisses the feet of mothers and nurses and servers and cleaners and nannies
And healers and all who are life and give life
My revolution is on its knees
On my knees to every holy thing
And to those who carry empire-made burdens in and on their heads and backs and
hearts
My revolution demands abandon
Expects the original
Relies on trouble makers, anarchists, poets, shamans, seers, sexual explorers
Tricksters, mystic travelers, tightrope walkers and those who go too far and feel
too much,
My revolution shows up unexpectedly
Its not naïve but believes in miracles
Cannot be categorized targeted branded
Or even located
Offers prophecy not prescription
Is determined by mystery and ecstatic joy
Requires listening
Is not centralized though we all know where we’re going
It happens in stages and all at once
It happens where you live and everywhere
It understands that divisions are diversions
It requires sitting still and staring deep into my eyes
Go ahead
Love.

Performed by Rosario Dawson, Directed and Edited by Deborah Anderson, Presented by V20 and One Billion Rising

Lean Into the Counter Intuitive

February 7, 2018Leave a comment

Lean Into the Counter Intuitive with Bayo Akomolafe

The illusion of separation feels very real and painful as we experience escalating tensions around the world. Perpetual global crises move us into response with the same patterns we have always embodied. But what if the way we respond to crisis is part of the crisis? What are we missing in our well-established practices of change-making? What do we fail to see in our conventional efforts to enact a ‘better’ world? And what if we don’t even know how to ask the right questions yet? Join us for a riveting conversation with the author of the popular blog post, “The Surprising Nobility of S#*!: A Serious Response to President Donald Trump’s ‘S#*!hole’ Remarks about African Immigrants,” Bayo Akomolafe.

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Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.) considers his most sacred work to be learning how to be with his daughter and son, Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden – and their mother, his wife and “life-nectar”, Ijeoma. “To learn the importance of insignificance” is the way he frames a desire to reacquaint himself with a world that is irretrievably entangled, preposterously alive and completely partial. Bayo was born in 1983 into a Christian home, and to Yoruba parents in western Nigeria. Losing his diplomat father to a sudden heart complication, Bayo became a reclusive teenager, seeking to get to the “heart of the matter” as a response to his painful loss. He sought to apply himself to the extremes of his social conditioning, his faith, and his eventual training as a clinical psychologist – only to find that something else beyond articulation was tugging at his sleeves, wanting to be noticed. After meeting with traditional healers as part of his quest to understand trauma, mental wellbeing and healing in new ways, his deep questions and concerns for decolonized landscapes congealed into a life devoted to exploring the nuances of a “magical” world “too promiscuous to fit neatly into our fondest notions of it.” A lecturer, speaker, and proud diaper-changer, Bayo curates an earth-wide project for the re-calibration of our ability to respond to civilizational crisis – a project framed within a feminist ethos and inspired by indigenous cosmologies. He considers this a shared art – exploring the edges of the intelligible, dancing with posthumanist ideas, dabbling in the mysteries of quantum mechanics and the liberating sermon of an ecofeminism text, and talking with others about how to host a festival of radical silence on a street in London – and part of his inner struggle to regain a sense of rootedness to his community. In short, Bayo has given up his longing for the “end-time” and is learning to live in the “mean time”. In the middle, where we must live with confusion and make do with partial answers. His greatest vocation is however learning to be a satellite orbiting his greatest gift, his goddess Ijeoma, and knowing the blessings of her gravity. He speaks and teaches about his experiences around the world, and then returns to his adopted home in Chennai, India – “where the occasional whiff of cow dung dancing in the air is another invitation to explore the vitality of a world that is never still and always surprising.”