The Other Side of Things

00:00 Opening Perspective 00:37 Meet Mary Knysh 03:33 What Is Music for People 06:32 Presence Over Performance 10:52 40th Anniversary of Music for People 14:40 Music Came Before Language 18:46 Sound as the Language of the Soul 24:33 Culture vs Nature and Music 32:06 Awe and Neuroplasticity 36:55 Mary's Listening Tree Framework 42:57 Heart Note and Coherence 48:40 Invitation to Join Art of Improvis...

00:00 Welcome to the Show 00:42 Meet Sharalee Hoelscher 02:58 Michael’s Rolfing Journey 04:03 What Rolfing Really Is 08:32 Gravity as Therapist 12:38 Posture Shapes Psyche 15:29 Gliding and the Midline 22:16 Connective Tissue Explained 27:11 Feeling Fascia in Motion 29:55 Embryology and Forming Life 34:28 Bringing It Back to Practice 34:58 Gravity Heals Through Movement 35:36 Embryology Movement C...

0:00 Welcome to the Show 00:36 Meet Andrew Ecker 02:03 Ancestry and Roots 03:49 Life Assignment and Loss 04:58 Gritty Healing Work 06:46 Host Tribute and Sacred Seven 09:05 Opening Prayer 13:19 Relational Spirituality Defined 14:00 From Religion to Red Road 18:22 Trauma Addiction and Liberation 27:15 Energy and Emotional Density 28:56 Drumming in Memory Care 33:00 Displacement and Manifestation 35...

00:00 Introduction to The Other Side of Things 00:40 Welcoming the Guest: Rebecca Wild Bear 01:31 Rebecca's Background and Work 03:27 The Importance of Wilderness Therapy 06:29 Challenges of Modern Culture and Soul Work 11:56 Writing and Living Wild Yoga 16:45 Personal Stories and Vulnerabilities 30:03 The Concept of Wild Yoga 35:19 Embracing Vulnerability 35:52 The Never-Ending Journey of Healing...

00:00 Introduction 01:15 Who is C. Michael Smith? 04:59 What is the Dialogic Method for Jung and Shamanism in Michael's work. 08:23 The ancient history behind understanding the world of Spirit 09:00 Jung's description of an archetypal possession and the need for exorcism 12:39 How Michael was drawn to this deep work of Jung and Shamanism  14:02 Jung's Memories, Dreams and Reflections and Mircea El...

00:37 Introduction 01:39 Who is Sean Blackwell? 03:59 Our mutual connection to Holotropic Breathwork. 05:32 Sean's Bipolar Episode and Hospitalization. 07:22 Working with his partner's nieces psychotic episodes. 07:57 Dr. John Weir Perry and Dr. Loren Moser's influence on Sean. 09:38 Sean has done 60-70 retreat with people around the world. 13:16 The overlap of spirituality and psychosis in Sean's...

00:00 Introduction 01:04 Who is Linda Star Wolf, Ph. D. 03:35 Star Wolf gives us a beautiful opening blessing 06:57 History of Michael and Star's relationship 11:50 The Spiral Path - the transformational process that requires change! 15:30 The origin of the word Shaman and it's true meaning as Shamaning... 19:16 Trusting when things need to end... 20:42 We all need the right amount of heartbreak....

00:00 Intro 01:05 Who is Dick Russell? 04:47 What is My Mysterious Son about and why Dick wrote it. 06:15 Other ways of looking at Schizophrenia and Otherworldliness . 08:44 Michael's soulchosis/spiritual emergency at 18 and how he worked through it. 10:55 Dick's first contact with Jung and Hillman 12:50 Hillman asks Dick to write his Biography - which turned into 3 large volumes! 14:30 Hillman's...

00:00 Introduction 01:13 Who is Gabi Varga? 06:05 A Holistic Approach to Fitness 10:51 The Imprint of Trauma on our Bodies 12:18 Nurturing Our Nervous Systems 20:38 When Clients Feel Safe Even Tears May Come 23:16 Understanding What Dysregulation of The Nervous System Is 37:15 Fight, Flee, Freeze or Fawn Responses. 40:41 What Trauma-Sensitive Personal Training May Look Like 52:00 Where to find out...

00:00 Introduction 01:00 Who is Michael Meade? 03:20 What Michael is tracking post election? 04:00 Manu and the Fish - a story about the origin of human consciousness 08:00 Moving from the Law of the Fishes to the Law of Manu 10:30 How do we feed that 'little fish' in our own life. 11:00 When we are following our calling we can deal with big heavy duty issues! 12:00 The fish is the most ancient sy...

00:00 Introduction 01:17 Who is Alyssa Morin? 02:22 Michael's early trauma 03:35 Gwyneth Paltrow Love, Sex and Goop 04:00  What is Somatic Sex Education?  05:00 Alyssa's background in Zen, Soulwork and being a minister's daughter. 06:00 Alyssa's journey to SSE and what it is. 09:35 Let me dive into everything during her first Saturn Return 11:00 Caffyn Jesse and healing circumcision trauma 13:00 Z...

00:00 Introduction 01:40 Who is Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer? 03:10 All The Honey 04:20 How did you become a poet?  07:50 What opened your heart as a child? 08:19 A poem a day. 09:20 "I wrote the first bare line...pure wisdom...pure foolishness" 10:40 Poetry and dealing with darkness and her son's death. 14:00 Turning Towards What is True.   14:43 It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be true.  ...

00:00 Introduction 01:37 Who is Kevin Lucas? 03:47 Who is Shannon Rogers? 05:40 How Kevin found stem cell therapy. 09:45 How Shannon found stem cell therapy. 15:18 Michael's experience with stem cell therapy. 19:00 You are not your diagnosis! 20:45 What is stem cell therapy and how does it work? 27:20 The rest of the world has been doing this for the last 50 years! 27:50 In 2015 law changed for us...

00:00 Intro 01:55 Who is Jessica Fern? 04:00 What is love? 06:00 I wrote this book for love. 08:00 Jessica's finding the language of polyamory 10:00 Paradigms, Mindsets and Social Lenses 11:50 Emotional Wiring from our Conditioned Mindsets 14:00 Polyamory - different ways of understanding many loves 16:15 What are polyintimates? Emotional connections vs. physical 18:00  How to approach difficult d...

00:00 Intro 06:04 How we met and how he finally published his book 07:30 Madness and Alternative states of reality 11:00 Mad in America and Others Stories 13:04 A Fight To Be - his book 14:07 Ron's 23rd Birthday in the Psych Ward 16:26 "You don't look schizophrenic." 17:00 Auntie Ray, Ron's Mentor 17:33 Fugitive Literature 18:28 Insulin Shock 19:01 "Coming Out" as a psychiatric survivor AS a psych...

Happy Halloween and welcome to my new podcast! I will still be doing my other podcast: Musitations™: Exploring Music, Meditation, Creativity and Wisdom, however, this is the beginning of a much deeper and larger conversation on many challenging topics where we need to begin to move from the friction of contradiction to the possibilities of creative paradox.  Introduction: No one knows everything,...