A podcast exploring inner work for outer change and the process of coming home to our nature as Nature hosted by transformational coaches. Navigating the fertil...
Manda Scott is a force of nature. She’s the creator of the acclaimed Accidental Gods podcast and an award-winning writer of approaching 20 books. She is perhaps most known for her excellent Boudicca series which brought to life a rich and vivid portrayal of the Earth-connected cultures that existed in Britain before the invasion of Rome. I devoured those novels back in the early 2000s being drawn to them initially because I discovered Manda had “dreamed” these novels into being. This creative upwelling had been gifted her through her decades of shamanic practice and her connection with what she refers to as the “Gods of the Land”. As well as a very gifted author, she is also a teacher of 21st Century shamanic practice and works with people around the world to hone these capacities for deep connection and deep listening through her Dreaming Awake school. All of these threads of her life are coalescing currently into what she describes as “thrutopias”, the living stories that will support us to move from our current trauma-based culture to an initiatory culture that prioritises relationship over control and mutual flourishing over profit. Her latest novel, Any Human Power is just that; a necessary story for our times that acts as a guide, a support and a beacon of hope for a species and a planet that is crying out for a better story to live by.In the podcast, we discuss the calling that beckoned her on this life path, the thrutopia movement, the limbic hijacking we are currently experiencing, cutting-edge socio-political technologies for systems transformation and above all, the power of a good story well told.I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. And just before you listen, I just wanted to mention that at the very end of the interview, I ask Manda if there is anything else that needs to be shared. She closes her eyes, turns inwards and asks the Gods of the land. There are long pauses as she listens and shares what comes. I have left them in because it feels important to share this process and practice to illustrate how it works in the world and to normalise this form of active receptivity as something we can all learn to do. In fact, I believe this human capacity of deeply grounded attunement could be one of the most important to rediscover and live from.To find out more about Manda and her work and to read Any Human Power, please visit MandaScott.co.uk. To learn more about 21st century shamanistic practice visit dreamingawake.co.uk and to listen to Manda’s excellent podcast visit AccidentalGods.life. Thank you for reading Being Earthbound. This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beingearthbound.substack.com
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Nurturing The Fields of Change with Jessica Bockler
Jessica Bockler is an applied theatre practitioner and transpersonal psychologist. She’s one of the founding directors of the Alef Trust which is a global leader in transformative education and training in consciousness, transpersonal and spiritual psychology and offers Masters, PhD and professional certificate programmes.As well as academic excellence, Alef is also taking an active role in supporting transformational changemakers around the world. Through their Nurturing the Fields of Change community programme they are facilitating more embodied, more connective and more deeply transformative approaches to change work and activism across a range of fields including agriculture, social justice, climate and conflict resolution to name a few. Jessica has the great gift of bringing people together in spaces of mutual support and creative emergence that have the potential to support a new regenerative paradigm and a way of being in the world that fosters peace, growth and healing.In this conversation, we explore the huge potential this community of transformational changemakers offers its membership and the wider world. I hope you enjoy it.If you are looking for a community like Nurturing the Fields of Change, we’d love to welcome you. You can find out more and register at:https://fieldsofchange2024.sutra.coIf you know others who may be interested in this episode and the NFC community please share it with them! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beingearthbound.substack.com
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Russell Allen Scott - Co-evolution and the Power of Relating in Cultural Transformation.
Russell Scott is someone who has had his feet in the inner and outer worlds of transformational change for many decades. He’s a highly experienced retreat leader and clearing therapist and is the author of an excellent book on the value of independent seeking on the spiritual path as a means to fully own and inhabit our experience. He also spent many years running an ecological retreat centre that ran courses on permaculture, ecological building and the like. So I was drawn to him as someone who values this synthesis of inner and outer work as a means to real cultural change. He’s a wise and kind soul and I hope you enjoy this podcast conversation as much as I did.Russell offers one-to-one clearing sessions and mentorship as well as group Coming Home (aka enlightenment intensive) retreats. He also offers facilitation training in these processes and I really recommend his book, Awaken the Guru In You. You can access all of his resources and offerings at his website www.awakentheguruinyou.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beingearthbound.substack.com
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Lynn Marie Lumiere: When Presence Meets Trauma. Transforming Self and World with non-dual psychotherapy
Lynn Marie Lumiere is a non-dual psychotherapist and has been one of a small group of curing-edge pioneers developing this field of psychology since the 1990s.She has over 40 years of psycho-spiritual exploration and transformational work experience and works with clients one-to-one and in groups from around the world specialising in couples and relationship work.She has been a regular speaker at the Nondual Wisdom, Psychotherapy and the Science and Nonduality Conference. She is a contributing author to The Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy and co-author of The Awakening West. She is also the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships which was published in 2018.What drew me to Lynn Marie and her work was the multi-faceted approach to psychotherapy she adopts, giving equal weight and attention to both nervous system and physiological regulation and healing, to the deeper recognition of our true non-dual nature through meditative pointing out and enquiry, and to the need for us to work through our psychological conditioning, wounding and developmental trauma. None of these alone, in her opinion, are sufficient to experience complete psychological and existential wholeness and well-being.It’s the weaving of this complex dance of modalities and approaches that makes her work unique and fascinating and I hope you enjoy our conversation.To find out more about Lynn Marie and her work as well as to access her books and courses please visit lynnmarielumiere.com To find out more about Earthbound and the embodied ecological coaching we offer please visit www.earthbound.fi This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beingearthbound.substack.com
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Tom Travers and Movement Plus: Finding balance, recovering from childhood trauma, and the power of embodied practice.
This is a conversation with Tom Travers. He is a colleague of mine working as part of a team of eight instructors and coaches in the fields of movement, health, embodiment, meditation, injury recovery and mindful longevity within the Movement Plus membership programme app.Tom has been working in the movement arts for over two decades. His personal practice is a fusion of meditative movement, somatic awareness and working with the Bo staff. Focusing on the mastery of foundational skills he weaves together breath, mantra and dynamic movement into each practice to support deep healing of the body/mind.This was a really sincere and intimate conversation exploring his recovery from childhood trauma, to the flourishing experience of life he now experiences and the gifts of that journey that can help the clients he works with. During the podcast we discuss left brain/right brain imbalance and its repercussions, recovering from childhood trauma and moving beyond victimhood, the universe presenting us with unexpected opportunities, the difference between concentration and awareness, and the importance of practice being fun and inviting rather than effortful and daunting.We also discuss the power and depth of trusting simple techniques for movement and meditation, the value of small daily practice vs. sporadic deep dives such as long retreats, the householder's path rather than the path of a renunciate, spiritual versus human awakening, the difference between faux and real intimacy and so much more.To discover more of Tom’s work and to try Movement Plus membership for free for 7 days please click here.To find out about the being-centric embodied coaching we offer please visit www.earthbound.fi This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beingearthbound.substack.com
A podcast exploring inner work for outer change and the process of coming home to our nature as Nature hosted by transformational coaches. Navigating the fertile edge between transpersonal psychology, embodied presence and holistic systems change.
The promise and premise of Being Earthbound is a healthy whole-systems approach to living in the world as Nature. Isn’t it only natural and fitting then that we engage our whole system in this process of transformation?
Finding the balance between our inner and outer landscapes feels like the great work of our times as we search for coherence, peace, flow and meaning in a domination culture that's badly off-kilter.
What does a fully embodied, fully integrated sense of self and world offer us as we seek to regenerate, reconnect and reintegrate towards cultures of care and away from the story of separation that's wreaking such havoc?
Johanna is a nature connection facilitator, Dan is a transpersonal psychology coach and breathwork instructor, and we are both trained and certified embodied meditation teachers and long-term permaculture practitioners.
For more information visit www.earthbound.fi beingearthbound.substack.com
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