Apricot Jam

Brandt Stickley is an Assistant Professor in the College of Classical Chinese Medicine, National University of Natural Medicine, and a Visiting Professor at Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine, Pacific Rim College, Five Branches University, Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences, Yo San University and Maryland University of Integrative Health.  As a Senior Instructor and Board member...

Bio: Wes Tasker has been practicing various martial arts since 1981 and is currently focused on Baguazhang, Xingyiquan, Qilinpai and Pekiti Tirsia Kali with some supplementary training in Boxing and Catch Wrestling. He also studies Chinese Medicine in relation to martial arts training, traumatology and orthopedics. His philosophical and spiritual areas of study include but are not limited to Buddh...

Jeremy Wolf, along with being one of the host's older brother, is a lifelong learner and educator. Jeremy has been a high school teacher, pre-service teacher trainer, college professor, little league coach of nearly every sport, and has had a side-hustle in nearly every industry. As a part of a multi-generational family of educators and helpers, Jeremy's world view has been focused on community an...

Edward Neal, MD, MSOM is trained in both Western and Chinese medicine. He has been involved in the practice, research and teaching of Chinese medicine for over 30 years. As part of this work, he has consulted with the World Health Organisation on matters of traditional East Asian Medicine and has been a visiting scholar at the University of San Diego medical school. He is currently the medical dir...

Bio:  Who is Mushtaq Ali al Ansari? This is a question that is infrequently asked, mostly because the answer is rather boring. If asked (enough) he will tell you that after long study, he may have begun to learn the basics of a couple of martial arts, but that he has no rank that is worth mentioning. He has been involved in Sufism for the entirety of his adult life, though being the worst of his t...

Nigel Dawes has been practicing and teaching East Asian Medicine for 35 years. He lived and studied in Japan for 5 years followed by hospital internships in China in the 1980’s. Prior to moving to the United States, he founded the London College of Shiatsu in 1987, and in addition to acting as director and lead instructor, began lecturing at various Oriental Medicine (OM) schools in England, Franc...

Bio: Amy Edelstein, educator, author, and public speaker is a powerful communicator of ideas and beliefs that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in. In 2014, she founded Inner Strength Education, a non-profit organization that has empowered 15,000 Philadelphia high school students in mindfulness and systems thinking and 1,400 Philadelphia teachers in self-care strategies. Inne...

Bio: Noor Kyle George has been meandering a Sufi-esque path for over a decade and, along the way, somehow grew into a teacher in spite of herself when her teacher invited her to do so. She is a co-founder and co-faciliator of The Nine-Sided Circle, a mostly-virtual, no-mystery school in which the wisdoms of esoteric traditions and members’ life experiences are drawn upon in support of the pursuit...

Bio: Tyson is Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at Deakon University in Victoria, Australia.   Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037 Contact: theapricotjam@gmail.com

Bio: Dr. G. William Barnard , (B.A. Antioch University; M.A. Temple University; Ph. D. University of Chicago) is a Professor of Religious Studies, as well as a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. His primary areas of research interests are the comparative philosophy of mysticism, contemporary spirituality, religion and healing, and consciousness studies. Professor Barnard’s new book Liqui...

Bio:   Tom Bisio began his study of the martial arts at age 14, achieving a Black Belt in Isshin Kempo. He later trained in the Filipino Martial arts for many years before going on study to Chinese medicine and internal martial arts. Tom made numerous trips to China and South East Asia where he studied both medicine and martial arts with many different masters. Tom has taught martial arts since 19...

Bio: Bonnie is an integral process philosopher and Daoist Horse Whisperer. She hosts collective insight retreats at her home/farm, Alderlore Insight Center, and teaches a Master's course in Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal Psychology at The Graduate Institute, is an associate editor of Integral Review and an associate at Perspectiva.    What daily practice do you currently find most nourish...

Who is Amashé Etz Alon? I am first and foremost a human being. Born in Northern Florida, and grown as a teenager in Southern California, I was raised with deep Jewish roots, and connectivity with the African American and Native American communities where I lived. I was also in the front wave of gender spectrum children daring to live openly, having expressed my Intersex/Intergendered nature from a...

Welcome to the Apricot Jam! Join Chinese medicine practitioners Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf as we explore interdependence and consciousness through conversational jazz. In each episode, we chat with interesting guests, riff on ideas, and see where the changes take us. We never know what will emerge from these long-form improvisations, but we often brush up against the intersections of art, move...

Brad Kershner is a school leader and independent scholar, and the author of Understanding Educational Complexity (available from amazon and Brill ). His research, teaching, and writing cover a wide range of interdependent topics, including education, leadership, parenting, race, technology, metamodernism, integral theory, meditation, complexity, and developmental psychology. Some of his public lec...