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Sacred Stream's Isa Gucciardi

Sacred Stream's Isa Gucciardi

Susun interviews Isa Gucciardi. In the mid-nineties, Isa began developing Depth Hypnosis as she entered into clinical practice. Her studies, both in academia and in the field, of cultural and linguistic anthropology, comparative religion, and transpersonal psychology formed the basis of her approach with clients and students. As the body of work that grew out of her clinical practice became larger, she began teaching others so that more people could benefit from the techniques she had developed. In order to accommodate the number of classes that grew out of this process, she co-founded the Foundation of the Sacred Stream, which is now a school for consciousness studies in Berkeley, California, serving hundreds of students each year. Isa teaches and speaks nationally and internationally, and she has published numerous articles, podcast episodes, videos, and the books Return to the Great Mother and Coming to Peace. She maintains a private practice with institutions and individuals in Depth Hypnosis and Coming to Peace processes. Isa speaks five languages and has lived in eleven countries. She is the mother of two children and lives with her partner in San Francisco.



this episode Q&A includes:
• low blood cell count - low compared to who?
• red meat- why you need heme?
• hart time losing weight..
• if by virtue of us wanting something, is it adding to my health?
• addiction to diet coke- how to wean yourself off using natural sweetners..
• life is not about order, it is about chaos..
• Reinventing Eve..
• when your heart is greiving it is in the process of expanding..

Awakening Shakti Sally Kempton

Awakening Shakti Sally Kempton

Susun interviews Sally Kempton. Sally Kempton is a widely respected teacher of meditation and spiritual wisdom, known for her capacity to kindle meditative states in others, and to help students work with meditative experience as a framework for practical life-change. A former swami in a Vedic tradition, she has spent over four decades delving deeply into meditation and self-inquiry. Sally is the author of the best-selling book, Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga, and ofMeditation for the Love of It," which Spirituality and Health magazine called "the meditation book your heart wants you to read". Her audio program, Doorways to the Infinite: The Art and Practice of Tantric Meditation, is a powerful introduction to advanced meditation practice. She is on the faculty at Esalen and Kripalu, teaches meditation on the websitesYogaglo.com, and and at Gaia.com, and leads retreats and workshops in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Her website is www.sallykempton.com.

Medicine Woman Shonagh Home

Medicine Woman Shonagh Home

Susun interviews Shonagh Home.
Shonagh Home is a shamanic therapist, teacher, author and poet Her specialized private sessions and retreats assist clients to break chronic, self-defeating patterns, and move into empowered personal sovereignty. She is an international public speaker on the subject of visionary shamanic-spirit medicine, a voice for stewardship of the honeybees, and an expert on traditional foods. She is author of Ix Chel Wisdom: 7 Teachings from the Mayan Sacred Feminine, Love and Spirit Medicine, Poetic Whispers from the Green Realms, and Honeybee Wisdom: A Modern Melissa Speaks.
www.shonaghhome.com

The Empowered Woman Laura Parker

The Empowered Woman Laura Parker

Susun interviews Laura Marie Parker.
Laura is a Birth Shaman, a Wise Wombyn Sex Educator, the creator of The Empowered Woman, a Community Created Herbalist (CCH) and a self-published Novelist.
She brings complimentary medicine to birth and family whole-health through teaching about herbs as people’s medicine, working with story medicine, and working with individuals to have their own unique empowering journeys through birth. Laura is the author of The No-Time Tango: A Traveling Memoir. She also writes a monthly herbal zine called “Tales from a Gypsy Momma”, which weaves the wisdom of herbal medicine and folk wisdom with her journey through life and mothering three boys.
Laura believes that nourishment is life. What we choose to nurture and nourish becomes the environment we live in. In honour of nurturing her vision for making her world a better place to live, she created The Empowered Woman, a nourishment series of classes and services for the Maiden, Mother, and Crone that inspire women to deeply nourish themselves and to write their own stories.



this episode Q&A includes:
• fermented kava kava...
• unable to sleep due to itchiness- menopause, shedding skin, molting..
• alopecia- stinging with stinging nettle..
• sinus infection- calendula, to the heart of the matter..
• most people are intuitive with dosing herbal medicines if they allow themselves to be..
• asthmatic cough..
• do we do our children a disservice by doing everything for them? • root canal..

Spiritual Storyteller Vera de Chalambert

Spiritual Storyteller Vera de Chalambert

Susun interviews Vera de Chalambert.
Vera is a spiritual storyteller and Harvard-educated scholar of comparative religion. She speaks and writes about spiritual culture, mindfulness and the emergence of feminine wisdom in our times. Her work explores the meeting place of theology, spirituality and social change and is informed by inter-spiritual insights from the world's great wisdom traditions. Vera works with clients all over the world and offers coaching, mentorship and spiritual direction. She has been invited to speak internationally at colleges and conferences such as SAND Science and Nonduality Conference in the US and Europe, Sister Giant in Washington DC and the Dawn of Interspirituality Conference in Costa Rica. Vera holds a Master's degree from Harvard Divinity School.



this episode Q&A includes:
• glamour is shapeshifting...
• why is it important to use fresh skullcap when making tincture?
• herbs for the face- olive oil, honey, calendula, violets, pumpkin...
• high priestess- dianic wicca, one who has been initiated as a witch will be of service to others..
• lady Iona- goddess of the fae..
• rash on the back of hand...
• motherwort causes capillaries to grow around the heart and the uterus..

Sound Therapist Ani Williams

Sound Therapist Ani Williams

Susun interviews Ani Williams.
World-renowned recording artist, composer, author and sound therapist developed Songaia Sound Medicine in 1992. She studied Voice Analysis with Sharry Edwards of Sound Health Options, Planetary Tone healing with Oded Mansura of Israel, Fabion Mamon, sound researcher and author. Ani has more than two decades of experience training and serving clients worldwide.
Her website is https://aniwilliams.com



this episode Q&A includes:
• retina and glaucoma issues- 4 cups of infusion a day, well cooked leafy greens, cannabis is the herb for glaucoma, bates methods..
• first aid kit- motherwort, hypericum, yarrow, echinacea, skullcap, ointment are the bare bones..
• linden infusion is a far better anti-inflammatory than turmeric...
• bruised sternum- meadow sweet, yarrow or saint Joan's oil..
• building lax muscles- weight lifting, yoga- push yourself, but don't push yourself over the edge..
• high blood pressure and menopause- herbs, monitor, fluid intake..
• comfrey makes bones flexible..
• rohlfing- breaks fascia to rebuild rigid muscles- is this a good thing?
• grated zucchini pulls out infection..
• growing hypericum..

Fragments of Her Story Author Melissa Doordaughter

Fragments of Her Story Author Melissa Doordaughter

Susun interviews Melissa Dawson.
Melissa Doordaughter Was born in London, England in 1981. She studied anthropology and world religions in the smallest university in Europe. She has performed her poetry at Glastonbury musical festival, at Green Heart Ecological centre in Ibiza and at the Amsterdam International Festival of Poetry.
Her life has been significantly marked by her experiences as a victim of sexual abuse. She has spent a great part of her young adulthood seeking healing. This journey took her to organic farms around Europe, and back in 2003 she realised her own personal healing was deeply intertwined with the health of our children and the planet itself.
Her latest book- “Fragments of Her Story” is exactly that, a fragment of a bigger picture, a picture of her journey out of the hell realms and towards a life of joy and gratitude.
Melissa currently lives and works in Italy, where she works as a proof reader, teacher and translator.



this episode Q&A includes:
• making pine needle vinegar..
• try experimenting making herbal remedies, small amounts and see what happens..
• trauma- changing our minds using sound, color and writing your story..
• don't should on yourself..
• do you need a tooth implant with a bone graft?
• low iron levels and wanting off birth control..
• tremendous amount of stress...

'Biophilic Garden' author Isla Burgess

'Biophilic Garden' author Isla Burgess

Susun interviews Isla Burgess.
Isla has been through many ways of looking at the world and the plant world in particular. Erring on the view of plants as intelligent life forms capable of self expression and an MSc in Holistic Science in 2008 and 2009, set her on a ‘the journey of a lifetime’. Every day that Isla lives on this land in the wilds of Central Otago, New Zealand, Isla lives as a participant in this extraordinary place.
Following on from the very practical book Weeds Heal A Working Herbal, written in 1998, Isla wrote a second book that includes many of the experiences of living on this land among these extraordinary beings. That book is The Biophilic Garden Connecting People, Plants and Inscape was published last November.

Ancient Feminine Wisdom HeatherAsh Amara

Ancient Feminine Wisdom HeatherAsh Amara

Susun interviews HeatherAsh Amara.
HeatherAsh is the bestselling author of Warrior Goddess Training, Become the Woman You Are Meant to Be. She travels the world working with groups of women to integrate the feminine wisdom of the ancients into their modern lives.



this episode Q&A includes:
• hypothyroidism healing success without taking medication..
• central sleep apnea- what is the problem with the problem..
• wholeness and integrating our darkness..
• teachings from Elisabeth Kubler Ross..
• tincturing yellowdock root..
• preventing and treating ovarian cancer with ginkgo biloba tincture..
• retaining plant volatiles from mint family plants by making pestos and honeys..
• harvesting linden flowers..

'Personal Transformation' Helen McConnell

'Personal Transformation' Helen McConnell

Susun interviews Helen McConnell.
Helen is a Personal Transformation Specialist. That means she can help you make the really big changes you want to make in your life – relatively easily and effectively. She specializes in helping people identify and release outof-date and limiting beliefs and old, negative thought patterns – those are the things that block us from reaching our big dreams. The majority of people live by default and habit - succumbing to repetitive thought patterns and unconscious beliefs. How would you like to Live by Design - where you consciously create your life? Helen can show you how. It’s not only possible, but the means to do so are literally at your fingertips! She works her magic with individuals and groups – in person, by phone, and by Skype.