Eniplace Podcast

Irasha Talifero is a longtime elder of the Ojai Valley, a council trainer in the Way of Council tradition, and a lifelong practitioner of deep listening. For decades, she has brought the practice of council into schools, prisons, communities, and circles of all kinds, helping people cultivate presence, honest speech, and the capacity to truly hear one another. Podcast edit and mixing by Finn Fores...

Ze'Lee Sparks can do and be many things. She is an a artist, musician, fire spinning dancer, and master of both play and rest. Ze'Lee is the host at the party making sure everyone is having a good time. She is a seeker, a truth teller, and a courageous lover of humanity.  Podcast edit and mixing by Finn Forest Green, www.finnforestgreen.persona.co Original music for the podcast intro and outro by...

In this episode I speak with Willy Souly, dancer, choreographer, professor, and martial artist. We talk about why it’s important to make art, about understanding traditional West African dance and music through their cultural and historical roots, and Willy’s ongoing inquiry around belonging.  To learn more about Willy Souly and his work, visit wilfriedsouly.com        For more about the podcast g...

In this episode, I speak with Nico Nelson — photographer, creative doula, and someone who belongs deeply to the earth. We talk about what it means to be seen, The tenderness of wanting, Trusting what feels true, And the small choices that quietly shape the larger arc of our lives. Podcast edit and mixing by Finn Forest Green, www.finnforestgreen.persona.co Original music for the podcast intro and...

Elizabeth Herring is an artist from Ojai, California who has lived and made work in places such as Berlin and New York. In this episode, as we go on a tour of her idiosyncratic studio world, we talk about postmodernism, karaoke, the strange world of the internet, and printing things out.   For more about Elizabeth, visit her website, eclaireherring.com Podcast edit and mixing by Finn Forest Green,...

I speak with Dr. Tobi Fishel phd an integrative health pyschologist along with her spouse, Marc Weigensberg, md, a Holistic pediatric diabetologist. We speak about dream sharing, deep listening practices, ritual and ceremony, and the indigenous medicine inside of Hebraism. For more information about Tobi and Marc, you can visit their respective websites, tobifishelsacredjourneying.com and marcweig...

Lucy Taylor is the founder of Project Fly LA. Project Fly LA is a non-profit that serves Los Angeles children by creating a support system, which provides the tools necessary to enhance their self-esteem and to better prepare them for their education.  To support Project Fy LA, Visit projectflyla.org Podcast edit and mixing by Finn Forest Green, www.finnforestgreen.persona.co Original music for th...

Serra Benson is the 3rd grade teacher at Oak Grove School in Ojai, ca. She is also a dance aerialist and a local plant aficionado. We go for a walk through one of the most sacred parts of Ojai as she shares about the medicine of the plant world and other teachings from 3rd grade. Podcast edit and mixing by Finn Forest Green, www.finnforestgreen.persona.co Original music for the podcast intro and o...

This is the second of a two part series of conversations with Karen Hesli recorded in January 2025 during the Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles. In this episode, she tells the story of being in Matilija Canyon during the Thomas fire of 2017. We also talk about living on unceded Chumash land and what it means to be a steward of this land. Please visit eniplacepodcast.com to see the poem Kare...

This is the first of a two-part conversation with Karen Hesli. She was the director the Krishnamurti School in Ojai during its genesis, when I was a student there. We talk about the art of inquiry, leadership, growing older, and the privilege of being alive. To read the poem that Karen shares at the end, please go to eniplacepodcast.com For movement strategies and embodied practices, go to @robyne...

In this episode titled, The Value of Different Voices, I speak with the musicians who made the music for this podcast, George Karpasitis, Avila Santo, and ONYILOVE. We talk about the traditions and practices that brought us all together and our varying perspectives around these practices based on our experience and relationship with them. We ask the question, what is cultural appropriation and wha...

In today’s episode titled, A Sound That We All Carry Inside of Us, I speak with Awo Falokun Fasegun and Iya Fayomi Osundoyin Egbeyemi, my Babalawo and Iyanifa from the Yoruba spiritual practice called Ifa. In this conversation, Baba and Iya give some insight into the significance of the Yoruba word, Eniyan, and therefore the meaning behind the title of the podcast, Eniplace. Iya Fayomi is a priest...

In this introductory episode, Dr. Giavanni Washington interviews myself, the host, Robyn Nisbet. We talk about people, traditions, land, ancestors, embodied and artistic practices, all things important to the Eniplace Podcast. For more information about the podcast, go to eniplacepodcast.com. For movement strategies and embodied practices, visit my youtube channel @robyneniplace. To learn more abo...