Food, Farming, and Health with 63rd St. Farmers Brian and Amanda Scott

What is Brainspotting with Thad Frye, LCSW

Thad Frye is a delightful and kind person who work in private practice with adults working through grief and loss, past traumas, major life transitions, anxiety, depression, self esteem issues and sports traumas and creative performance enhancement.

In our conversation here we explore:

How and why Thad started working with Brainspotting

What is Brainspotting and how it works

The relationship between Brainspotting and the body

What Brainspotting can treat

How Brainspotting is different from EMDR therapy

Where and how to find a Brainspotting therapist

This episode is vital for anyone looking to understand Brainspotting as a modality or who is seeking a basic understanding of the somatic interfaces of the mind.

Food, Farming, and Health with 63rd St. Farmers Brian and Amanda Scott

We learn:

Why Scott and Amanda chose to get into farming.

“If you're gonna work hard at anything in life, this is work worth doing.” - Brian

The story of how the 63rd st. Farm and CSA came into being.

We talk about permaculture: what it is and why it’s valuable for farming.

Why they chose to be a CSA (Community Support Agriculture).

“I don't really want to put a price tag on what this tomato costs because that's really tough. There's a price that we see in the grocery store, and then there's an actual what it does cost and then there's the ‘I love this tomato so much you couldn't put a price tag on it because it's beautiful.” - Amanda

The Importance of Relationships when it comes to food and farms and farmers.

“You know that there's an imbalance. And one way to get past the imbalance is to really engage with your farmer is to really end for the farmers to engage with their community.” - Brian

How Scott, Amanda, and their team take care of themselves as farmer

Important tips on choosing as CSA

Listen to Amanda’s tips and then check out: Localharvest.org

Entering the Moon Lodge to find Fertile Ground - A Conversation with Sara Brody, Doula and Women's Health Educator and Coach

In this episode we talk with Sara Brody, a doula, a reproductive health coach, and an evolving student of spiritual midwifery and founder of Moon-Lodge a platform for reproductive education and coaching.

Sara attended Birthingway College of Midwifery, where she gained much knowledge of the reproductive sciences, while also mastering important clinical skills and the ways of nonviolent communication. She’s traveled to Ina May Gaskin’s, ‘The Farm’ where she was able to learn how to trust the beauty of the reproductive process from the spiritual midwives themselves. She’s also apprenticed the art of midwifery by several midwives who have continued the tradition of the ancient apprenticeship model, passing down their knowledge to her, so I can continue to teach their lessons to the next people who decides to walk a similar path.

“I think the birth is such a dance between mama and baby, and it's two people trying to figure out how to make this this huge transition and, and opening that threshold the door of the life that's about to breathe their first gasp of air.“

In this episode we cover topics like:

How and why Sara created Moon Lodge, an educational resource about the female reproductive system.

What it means to prepare for parenthood physically, emotionally, and spiritually and why it’s so important.

“I've learned that the families have been my biggest teacher when it comes to my work now. And what I realized is that through pregnancy, for most of the people that I have helped, they are overwhelmed with being pregnant. And that although there might be a consciousness around all the, all the stuff that had that the transition is stirring in them, there isn't a lot of space to address it.”

What is “the new midwife” and what is her role?

“I think getting in touch, touch with your true sense of self before entering into a transition that is extremely life changing is an incredible way to prepare.”

You can learn more and connect with Sara at Moon-Lodge.com and on Instagram.

Reclaiming the Birthright of Embodiment - A Conversation with Hannah Kinderlehrer founder of Rise and Thrive Coaching

In this honest conversation, Noah and Hannah Kinderlehrer talk about the path to embodied wholeness and how to cultivate the qualities necessary to stay the course.

They explore the myth of “happily ever after” and how we, in our actual lives, can find ways to muster the strength to continuously face into the unfolding landscapes (and whatever mucky bogs we may have to traverse alongside the floral meadows).

Who is Hannah?

Hannah Kinderlehrer believes with all her heart that we are all whole as we are. She has studied dance for 32 years, graduated from Naropa University, and is a Certified Peacemaker and Certified Hakomi Practitioner. She has been a student of Buddhism for 16 years and is a holistic coach, leads teacher trainings, facilitates therapeutic women’s groups, chronic illness support groups, teaches embodied meditation, and Rites of Passage classes and works at Strength In Motion Wellness Center. Learn more about her work at riseandthrive.care

Topics we Cover:

How and why Hannah embraces the darkness and how she finds the light.

"The Dark is not scary. If I really go and rest in it. It's just dark."

How Hannah accesses the inner strength to dive into pain, discomfort, and resistance.

“It actually is impermanence, that has kept me sane, knowing that can I stay with us in the most surrendered receptive way possible, knowing it will change versus clamping down on it”

What it means to reclaim the birthright of embodiment

How to find the spark of strength within.

Hannah and Noah share some of the techniques they use to help people develop the skills involved in living from their strength.

“So it's a it's been a process it certainly has not been a overnight lightning bolt Eureka, I'm not sure if I've ever had one of those. Everything has come from building building building, working working working, and then opening opening opening, and surrendering and seeing what's there. And being able to recognize who I really am, which is a being that deserves love the same way this being gives love. “

The Importance of Community and How to cultivate it.

“We underestimate how much having community within our lives comes back and serves the people we are closest to.“

Please Enjoy! And if you find it worthwhile, please share it with a friend or family family member.

Dancing to our True Nature - A Conversation with Melissa Michaels, founder of GoldenBridge and Movement Mass

Melissa Michaels, Ed.D., is the Founder and Director of SomaSource® Educational Programs, Surfing The Creative® International Rites Of Passage Programs, and Golden Bridge, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving and empowering the lives of young people through rites of passage, mentoring, and community support based in Boulder, CO.

She creates movement based cross-cultural educational opportunities focusing on the potential that is available at major life thresholds. Mapping the journey from trauma to dynamic well-being, her work utilizes the expressive and social arts to establish body and heart as resources authentic expression. Rooted in rhythm and fueled by breath, this work inspires the sacred union between Spirit, flesh, psyche, and deed.

Melissa is a social artist, dancing and dedicated to our collective renewal through the liberation of the creative spirit.

In this conversation we explore:

How Melissa came to dance and movement as a healing practice.

“I really had many opportunities for experiencing something bigger than myself, but the dance also gave me a place to really go into the depths of my own suffering, and eventually wake into the majesty of my own being”

Why dance is such a powerful practice for healing.

“I finally found a way to stay present with the depths of my angst, and the ever expanding landscape of my own creativity.”

The importance of embodiment, and how to use the body as a resource for regulation and sequencing emotions and experiences.

“The dance has been a place where we've been able to move out of the reptilian conversations and move into really love infused, but psycho spiritually sound interactions.”

Dance as a tool for turning towards the discomfort and pain, which is an essential part of the healing process.

Melissa Experiences with Cancer and how her experiences dancing served her.

“Let's be kind to ourselves and anybody navigating through [cancer] or any kind of crisis, needs and deserves, extraordinary kindness, extraordinary protection, and nourishment and space and respect and agency.”

Where do we go from here? The collective movement forward.

“It's all about how do we build bridges between us and moving as collective forces for change for good. And so, to me, it's like, where is their soul resonance? And what are we trying to do together? And let's get to it.”

Golden Girls Global

Other Resources Mentioned:

Peter Levine & Somatic Experience (I highly recommend his book In an Unspoken Voice)

Bill Plotkin and his work. (I highly recommend his books: Nature and Human Soul, Wild Mind, and Soulcraft.