High Energy Health Podcast

A Fierce Heart: Spring Washam and Mirjam Paninski in Conversation

Considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based meditation practices to diverse communities; Spring Washam is a well-known teacher, healer, and visionary leader based in Oakland, California.

She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment and The Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Awakening from the Underground.

Spring is one of the founding teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center, an organization that offers Buddhist teachings with attention to social action and multiculturalism. She is a member of the teacher’s council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, offering teachings on Buddhist philosophy, Insight meditation and loving-kindness practices. Spring is also the founder of Lotus Vine Journeys, a one-of-a-kind organization that blends indigenous healing practices with Buddhist wisdom for transformative retreats in South America.

She has practiced and studied Buddhist philosophy in both the Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism since 1999. Spring is also a shamanic practitioner and has studied indigenous healing practices since 2008.

For more information about Spring Washam: https://www.springwasham.com/

And for more on guest host Mirjam Paninski: https://www.mirjampaninski.com/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #eft #eftuniverse #highenergyhealth #fierceheart #strength #courage #wisdom #harriettubman

Choosing Freedom and Joy After Trauma: Mary Firestone and Mirjam Paninski in Conversation

Mary Firestone survived the unthinkable. In 2018 she lived through the Montecito mudslide that dropped 200 million gallons of rainfall in 15 minutes, washing away her home. Trapped alone in her bathroom while pregnant, not sure if her husband and four-year-old son were still alive, she wasn’t thinking that her trauma was a gift in disguise. Yet, as she began her journey to healing, this is exactly what she discovered.

In her book, Trusting the Dawn, Firestone draws from both her own real-life experiences and her background in clinical psychology to offer a radical, integrative handbook for not only healing from trauma but awakening to even more joy and meaning because of your experiences. Stories of triumphant survival and interviews with experts bring to life an extensive resource guide and a holistic toolkit filled with a wide variety of pathways to healing―from movement therapies like yoga, to aromatherapy and flower essences, to traditional talk therapy and support groups, to pharmacology and Chinese medicine, to mystical healing methods, and much more.

Central to Firestone’s teachings is the idea that your trauma, in whatever form it slayed you, can become an initiation into a fuller, more illuminated, and more joyful life. Trusting the Dawn is a call to action to see that you are more complex, multi-dimensional, connected, and powerful, not in spite of what you’ve been through, but because of what you’ve endured.

Mary Firestone is a graduate of Princeton University and has an MA in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University. Her own transformative epiphanies led her, along with her sister Lucy, to create their company Firestone Sisters Inc. in 2012, with the aim of providing others with healing and growth opportunities. She's been featured in Goop, Well+Good, and Forbes.

Mary's website is: https://www.maryfirestone.co/

Mirjam Paninski is filling in as host of High Energy Health while Dawson is traveling.

Her website is:  https://www.mirjampaninski.com/

 

#eft #eftuniverse #highenergyhealth #mindtomatter #blissbrain #joy #trauma #freedom #trustingthedawn

Symbols of You: Linda Mackenzie and Mirjam Paninski in Conversation

Linda Mackenzie, a multi-book author, radio host, world renowned psychic, bio-energetic healer and hypnotherapist founded HealthyLife.net Radio in 2002 which reaches millions of worldwide listeners a month. She has appeared on hundreds of radio shows, almost all network/cable TV channels and in several award-winning documentaries. Linda’s new book, Symbols of You: A Self-Discovery Reference Guide, combines knowledge of Ancient Wisdom and modern-day teachings to provide the reader a personal journey through hundreds of symbols on 42 topics. When exploring these symbols, from Acupressure to Western Elements, the reader's connection to consciousness becomes 'up close and personal.' The book has fun discovery exercises and easy-to-read charts that are designed to help people identify their own symbols and find a deeper meaning of themselves, their family and friends. Fill-in charts are available in the book to amass the reader's symbols in one place. Filled with timeless facts Symbols Of You is also a reference book that can be used over and over again throughout the reader's lifetime.

In this fun conversation, Linda and Mirjam discuss Linda’s new book as well as topics such as mindfulness, intuition, and insight into life.

For more about Linda: http://www.lindamackenzie.net/

To purchase Symbols of You: http://www.lindamackenzie.net/books/SymbolsOfYou.htm

And to learn more about High Energy Health’s guest host Mirjam Paninski: https://www.mirjampaninski.com/

 

#eft #eftuniverse #symbolsofyou #highenergyhealth #mindtomatter #blissbrain #selfdiscovery 

The Science of Embodied Practice: Stephen Altair and Dawson Church in Conversation

Author, mystic and meditation teacher, Stephen Altair launched Australia’s first health and lifestyle interactive television channel and has published 10 books. He collaborates with Dentsu Science Lab Japan, using EEG and HRV to measure the effect of shifts in consciousness on anxiety and stress in healthcare professionals. With Professor Gino Yu he works on the Phusikoi Project to collaborate with other mystics to grow community. He also works with Darren Tasker, co-founder of Vest Community Platform on The Wisdom Path, supporting trust, love and wisdom in VC funding. As a baby he was trained by his Godmother, a Mother Superior of the Carmelite Order, in the Centering Prayer. Later he studied with Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche to integrate awake awareness with modern science on the path to self-realization.

Here he and Dawson share their perspectives on:

• The “Great unknowing” and visualizing angels
• Stephen's background
• Meeting the Dalai Lama
• Documenting over 30,000 lucid dreams over 15 years
• Science and spirituality being split for centuries and how they are not coming together
• Both unified field theory and neuroscience reveal a unified field of consciousness
• A non-dual indivisible state
• The experience is like being in love constantly
• Mediating hours a day for 40 years
• Seeing everyone as the buddha, and the ground looks like a mandala
• Stephen being tested in various labs
• Making conscious check-ins your daily practice
• How can we help humanity integrate with the unified field of the universe?

For more about Stephen: https://raisingourvibration.net/

And for more about Dawson: http://www.dawsongift.com/

#raisingourvibration #eft #eftuniverse #mindtomatter #blissbrain #science #meditation 

 

 

What Makes You Thrive: Emily Francis and Dawson Church in Conversation

Emily A. Francis has a BS in exercise science and wellness, with a minor in nutrition and a master’s degree in human performance. Since moving to the Mediterranean island of Malta, she has been writing a regular column in the local tourism magazine, Oh My Malta, where she interviews local farmers, fishermen, and chefs. She also reviews restaurants for a collaborative weekly column titled, “A Chef and a Foodie On Tour,” and works as a contributing writer for Malta’s Gourmet Today Magazine.

Emily and Dawson are close friends, and there’s a lot of laughter as well as pauses for you to journal in their discussion, which covers:

• Emily's move to Malta 
• The question: “Who would you be if you could describe yourself any way you like?”
• And, “What would you do if money were no object?”
• Foods as personalities 
• Another key question, "What do you need to thrive?"
• Why we have so many excuses for not doing what we love; make a list of all of yours - and burn them!
• Why Mediterranean people have average 10 year longer life expectancy than US
• New book: The Taste of Joy
• Who am I? What do I stand for, what are my boundaries?
• What do I want for my life?
• What am I willing to do in order to get it?

For more about Emily: https://www.emilyafrancisbooks.com/

For more about Dawson: http://www.dawsongift.com/

#thetasteofjoy #malta #eft #eftuniverse #mindtomatter #blissbrain #whatmakesyouthrive #food 

Connecting With Self and Others: Nancy Sokol Green and Dawson Church in Conversation

Nancy Sokol Green is a former classroom teacher, trainer of teachers, and author of Connection Mode. She developed Brain Highways, an innovative educational program used in many schools throughout the United States. The exercises used in the program rewire the brain to live in “connection mode,” which fosters curiosity, focus and compassion. Over 20,000 children and adults have gone through the Brain Highways program since 1999.

Nancy's website (https://www.brainhighways.com/) has many free videos and an online screening that shows us how to get into connection mode.

She and Dawson share about:

• Nancy's background
• Brain development
• Adults with "compensating with behaviors"
• Examples of these compensations are:
  • Rocking back and forth in your chair
  • Tapping on your finger, the chair, the floor
  • Excessive humming
  • Worry about tags on your clothing
  • Muttering or talking under your breath
  • Feeling everything acutely, like the pressure of the tags on your clothing
  • Texture of food drives people crazy
  • Can't make eye contact
  • Eyes move around or they tilt their head when they’re reading
• EFT tapping is one way to bring people back into connection mode
• Tapping is both replenishing and resolving 
• Ways of encouraging 3 years old to tap, different ways for teens

Again, you can find Nancy at: https://www.brainhighways.com/

And Dawson at: http://www.dawsongift.com/

#eft #eftuniverse #highenergyhealth #connectingwithself #brain #blissbrain #mindtomatter #children #tapping #brainhighways

 

 

The Politics of Being: Thomas Legrand and Dawson Church in Conversation

Thomas Legrand works in the field of sustainability for UN agencies, private companies, and NGOs. He has a PhD in Ecological Economics and focuses on forest conservation, climate change, sustainable finance, and organizational transformation. His spiritual journey began at the age of 23 with an encounter with native spirituality in Mexico, before embracing the wisdom of a wide range of traditions and practices, including meditation, energetic healing and Tai-chi-chuan. He lives with his wife and their two young daughters near Plum Village, the monastery of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in the Southwest of France. His spiritual search, his thought as a social scientist and his professional experience have gradually converged on the importance of spiritual wisdom in humanity’s ongoing transition. His book The Politics of Being presents a way to mainstream this understanding in the political and sustainability conversation.

Here he and Dawson reflect on:

• A connection to forests
• Thomas' story
• Thích Nhất Hạnh's “engaged spirituality”
• How do we organize societies for love and compassion?
• Parenting for secure attachment
• The cultural narrative of separation
• Models of social equality
• Choosing a more simple life
• How personal and social flourishing are two sides of the same coin 
• Being is becoming the best version of who we are, human qualities and virtues
• Individual policies being implemented in different countries
• Ways of living to shift to being much more fulfilling
• Being connected to our real needs as human beings
• Fulfilling work that has meaning and is in service to the world
• Health includes healing emotions and living as a spiritual journey
• Political systems would not be polarized, driven by ideologies
• People at every level would be involved in decision making
• An economy that secures the basic needs of everyone and reduces inequality
• Bringing all these values together into a coherent narrative 

For more about Thomas and his work: https://politicsofbeing.com/

And for more about Dawson and his work: http://www.dawsongift.com/

 

#eft #eftuniverse #mindtomatter #blissbrain #politicsofbeing #economics 

The Illusion of Self: Shai Tubali and Dawson Church in Conversation

Shai Tubali is a leading authority in the field of self-development and self-empowerment. In his writings and teachings, he skillfully combines psychology, philosophy, Yogic traditions and Eastern thought and practices, into powerful processes of inner transformation.

Shai has written 23 books, which have appeared internationally for the past two decades in five languages and have been published by major publishers. His most prominent writings have been awarded in the United States and in Israel and others have become best-sellers, inspiring many thousands on their inner journeys of mental, emotional and spiritual transformation.

A trained Yogi, with 20 years of studies in the field of Eastern thought and Yogic traditions, Shai Tubali has become one of Europe’s experts in the field of subtle bodies and, more specifically, the ancient chakra system.  His most established methods – the “Expansion Method”, “Power Psychology”, and “Chakra Psychology” – have been applied by psychologists and psychotherapists throughout Europe.

Since 2012, Shai Tubali lives in Berlin where he runs the Human Greatness Center. At his center, he leads yearly schools and holds seminars, training, and talks, all broadcast online drawing participants from all over the world.

Topics discussed:

• Shai's story and background
• Sudden enlightenment
• The self as an illusion
• The Ascension Method
• Using higher states of consciousness to heal traumatic memories
• The “expansion point”
• Starting with a confined sense of self, moving to a limitless state of self
• An ongoing state of limitlessness
• Getting in touch with “I am”
• From that tiny seed of presence, let it fill your body from head to toe
• When making a choice, you can ask: “How would I behave if I was free?”
• Creating a bridge between extraordinary and ordinary states of consciousness
• Integrating higher states with everyday life

For more about Shai Tubali: https://shaitubali.com/

And for more about host, Dawson Church: www.dawsongift.com

 

#eft #eftuniverse #mindtomatter #blissbrain #consciousness #selfdevelopment #chakras #energypsychology #enlightenment #ascensionmethod #meditation 

Slowness and Stillness: Michael Shea and Dawson Church in Conversation

Dr. Michael J. Shea is an expert in the fields of somatic psychology and craniosacral therapy. He holds a doctorate in Somatic Psychology at The Union Institute and leads seminars in the US and Europe. He is a formal student of the Dalai Lama, and for 10 years apprenticed with a medicine man named John Nelson on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. He is the author of a series of books on biodynamic craniosacral therapy.

Here he and Dawson talk about:

• 93% of Americans have an unhealthy heart
• 88% of Americans have metabolic disruption
• History of PTSD and obesity linked to being a Vietnam-era veteran
• If you have metabolic dysfunction, what is the first thing you do?
• How to read the labels and notice ingredients
• Manage your kitchen; learn to cook consciously
• The kitchen is the new ER
• Interoceptive awareness, noticing sensations in body, sensing your heartbeat
• The embodiment of the senses
• The polarization in the culture cuts us off from our bodies
• Visceroception - new word for the perception of when we’re hungry
• Benefits of becoming aware of your heartbeat
• When do you need physical adjustment like massage, chiropractic?
• How our bodies know how to heal
• The importance of prayer, poetry, song, calming the mind

For more about Dr. Michael J. Shea: https://www.sheaheart.com/

For more about Dr. Dawson Church: http://www.dawsongift.com/ 

#eft #eftuniverse #blissbrain #mindtomatter #immunesystem #balancingenergy #slownessandstillness 

 

 

The Healer Within: Roger Jahnke and Dawson Church in Conversation

Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD, is one of the most respected luminaries in the fields of evidence-based mind-body practice, wellness, integrative medicine, and Chinese medicine. He has dedicated his professional life to sharing the ancient holistic empowerment and healing traditions of China, distilled for contemporary times. He is the author of, The Healer Within and The Healing Promise of Qi.

He has trained over 3000 Tai Chi and Qigong Teachers internationally. With 35 years of clinical practice as a physician of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and 10 research tours to China’s temples and sacred mountain sites, Dr. Jahnke has emerged as a key spokesperson for and master teacher of Tai Chi, Qigong, and mind-body practice.

Here he and Dawson reflect on:

• Every indigenous culture in the world developed insights about the way the world worked
• Around the campfire a million years ago, science was observational science
• Who we now called scientists used to be called “Natural Philosophers”
• When you observe a person, you can see their degree of vitality
• Even eighteenth century, “vitalism” judged the vitality of a person
• In India, degree of “Prana” in Ayurvedic medicine
• Called “Mana” in native Hawaiian culture
• Ancient Chinese medicine observed “Qi”
• The ancients could see organs inside dead people, but recognized Qi is absent
• If you stay active, rest well, nourish yourself with a variety of natural foods
• Asked how you could train up Qi. So, they developed Kung Fu
• Qigong much later, fifteenth century, making medicine in the human system
• How do we boost our qi?
• Lengthen spine, yoga, breath, mindful body scan, tension release, and massage
• Long Deep Slow (LSD) breath
• The people doing Tai Chi in the park aren’t weird, it’s the people who aren't!
• Anxiety and depression reduce our qi and energy tremendously
• Yeong Shun is the Chinese wellness routine, includes apoptogenic superfood herbs

To learn more about Dr. Roger Jahnke, http://healthaction.net/ and http://instituteofintegralqigongandtaichi.org/

For more on Dr. Dawson Church: www.dawsongift.com

 

#qi #thehealingwithin #mindtomatter #eft #blissbrain #eftuniverse #chinesemedicine #qigong #wellness #taichi