On this podcast, Vision and Nature Quest leader Catriona MacGregor, reminds us that the “sacred is only a moment away” when we connect with the nature of our surroundings. She writes, in her upcoming book Partnering with Nature, “We are cut off from nature, and separate from the animals and plants that surround us making us strangers in our own home.” She shares a personal experience of how she uses her spirit animal to guide her in life.
Listen to this fascinating woman and how her work is making a positive impact on the planet…
Catriona MacGregor
Catriona MacGregor’s mother was from Scotland and her father was from England. She has a Keltic knowledge of nature and traditions. She founded Awen Grove, which among other things provides Youth Quests to children ages 9-16 and provides scholarships to young people to help them advance their interests and skills. Her book “Partnering with Nature: The Wild Path to Reconnecting With the Earth” will be available on Earth Day 2010.
My very special guest, Catriona MacGregor, author of the upcoming book due out on Earth Day 2010 called “Partnering with Nature,” shares her deep knowledge of the healing powers of nature beginning as a small child. She explains how enriching our relationship with our external nature enriches our relationship with our inner nature. Imagine that there are answers and wisdom available to us right in our own back yards.
Open your mind and heart and take a journey into the mysterious and amazing world of nature we live in by listening to this 12 minute podcast.
Catriona MacGregor
A visionary bridge builder between nature and humankind, Catriona helps people connect to nature and their own spirit through vision quests, shamanic journeys, spirit animal discovery, and nature-based coaching. She started her path early by founding SOS Save Our Seals at 12 years of age. She is a wise woman who weaves her many life experiences, spirituality, and intuition into a tapestry of hope.
A catalyst for positive change, Catriona is an authority on environmental trends in the United States and internationally. For over twenty years, she led and supported environmental initiatives in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the United States. She has been a voice for animals and wild places all of her life.
Catriona is also the coauthor of Healing the Heart of the World: Harnessing the Power of Intention to Change Your Life and the Planet, along with Carolyn Myss, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Masaru Emoto, Fritjof Capra, Thich Nhat Hanh, et al.
Her new book “Partnering with Nature: The Wild Path to Reconnecting with the Earth” will be released on Earth Day 2010.
Dr. Tina van Leuven is my special guest who shares the very natural, yet profound, way she helps people reconnect with the healing power of their own bodies and inner wisdom. She shares her story of how she was inspired to study a number of healing sciences including massage therapy, aromatherapy, and energy medicine. She is also an an Aura Soma colour care practitioner. She explains Aura Soma work on the podcast, and how it helps people remove fears so they can touch into their magnificence.
Listen in to this 19 minute podcast…
Dr. Tina van Leuven
Tina founded her company, InnerDelight, with the vision of being a catalyst for global transformation by empowering as many people as possible to experience the joy from awakening their inner light. She has a Ph.D. in Healing Science and is also qualified and experienced in many energy releasing techniques. Tina is a trainer in TAT ®(Tapas Acupressure Technique), Zpoint, and Assemblage Point Correction, as well as a life coach, and an aromatherapist. The work of InnerDelight is expressed in the motto: “Experience the connection that changes everything.”
To learn more about the amazing Tina, please check out her website, InnerDelight.com.
She has an ‘Embracing your Divinity‘ series starting in March, in collaboration with Whispering Energy. More info at WhisperingEnergy.com. It is all about clearing up whatever obstacles stand in our way to living our lives as the Divine creators we really are.
Are you ready for the magnificent life you deserve?
My special guest, Patricia Laplante-Collins, shares her story and inspiration for creating Paris Soirees. She invites people of various ages and cultures into her home to create a community event that helps us rise above our differences and enjoy our similar interests. She believes there is no need to be alone, and when we come together and learn from each other then we hold each other afloat…nice image! She cooks a dinner for her Soiree guests so they really feel the feeling of home even if they are traveling abroad alone.
Listen in to this 16 minute podcast to learn more. You may be flying to Paris after you hear it…woohoo!!
Patricia Laplante-Collins
Patricia grew up in Atlanta and learned to be a gracious hostess from her Mother and Grandmother. All throughout school, she has been involved in social activities including being the Social Chairman of her freshman class at Atlanta’s Spelman College. She has been hosting events through her experience at Sarah Lawrence College, as an Art History student in Florence, Italy, and as a young advertising professional in New York with D’Arcy, Masius Benton & Bowles. She is also the founder of African American Literary Soirees. This is her 11th year doing the Paris Soirees…imagine all the fascinating people she has met.
Musician, Vocalist and Creator of the “Songwriter’s Soul Kitchen,” Vinx De Jon Parrette, is my special guest on this 16 minute podcast. The Songwriter’s Soul Kitchen is an artists sanctuary held at the home/studio of internationally acclaimed artist/educator, Vinx. He shares with Green Think his inspiration to create this vehicle for songwriters to come together in community and discover and re-discover their inner passion for music. Four times a year, musicians, producers, writers and singers escape to the quaint town of MacRae, GA where in his home, they collaborate, learn and encourage each other. Artists at every experience level are invited.
Listen in to this inspiring man with a mission to return music and musicians to nature…
Vinx
Vinx has a fascinating history and background including pursuing Olympic ambitions, working as a fitness trainer for the rich and famous like Stevie Wonder, and surviving the murder of his father. He has performed with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King to name a few. He joined the faculty at BERKELEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC in Boston and gives workshops there and elsewhere, and has organized many world events including an international DRUM/DANCE Festival. All this in addition to the Songwriter Soul Kitchen Retreats quarterly at his 1906 Georgia plantation home/studio.
I am pleased to bring this beautiful woman and spirit to share with you on Green Think. Cae Joseph Massena shares her multi-cultural and world perspective on the healing powers of music. She carries the Green Think message beautifully as she describes her journey inward to create her music, and the healing powers that she find there. Her goal is to make music that provokes the mind and feeds the soul.
Listen to one of the tracks from her upcoming debut E.P. “Daughter of the Dust” and her story on this 11 minute podcast.
Cae Joseph Massena
Cae draws on a variety of influences, ranging from the literary works of Toni Morrison and Leonora Miano as well as her personal struggles, to create her music and lyrics. This up-and-coming Franco-Haitian singer-songwriter is winning over audiences and earning rave reviews on the Paris music scene.
She is both bicultural and metisse, a lyricist, and a composer, a singer and a musician. With such a background, the harmonious mixture of influences to be found in her music where soul, folk, jazz and World music converge naturally.
Whether you are a woman or a man, you will want to know about Zestra, a natural botanical product that enhances women’s sexual satisfaction. My special guest, Rachel Braun Scherl, is the president of Semprae Laboratories, the company that produces Zestra. She shares research on women’s sexual satisfaction, looking at it separate and apart from relationships. The Zestra message to focus on inner sexuality aligns perfectly with Coach Betty’s focus of loving and caring for ourselves first…then we have so much more to give in our relationships, and for our planet.
Listen to this 18 minute podcast and be inspired to change your world from the inside out!
Rachel Braun Scherl
Stanford Business School graduate Rachel Braun Scherl teamed up with colleague Mary Wallace Jaensch over ten years ago to focus on developing and marketing women’s health products. They have provided guidance and expertise to Fortune 100 firms, including multiple divisions and operating companies of Johnson & Johnson, Wyeth, and GlaxoSmithKline.
In 2008, they purchased Zestra, and are committed to creating a company that provides essential sexual satisfaction health products and services to women. These two ladies are creating a safe enviornment for women to listen and explore their own sexual satisfaction and pleasure.
Imagining becoming more aligned with your true nature by the exploration of sexual satisfaction? Sound good…
This podcast looks back 5000 years to a medicine that my special guest, Raven Jones, found and healed his body from cancer with it. His physicians advised him to amputate his leg, as radiation therapy was unsuccessful. He searched for more answers, and found the natural healing power of Ayurveda. He is enjoying both of his human legs to this day.
Listen to this 14 minute podcast and his incredible healing story.
Raven Jones
It was five years ago that Raven ones was diagnosed with a deadly, rare sarcoma cancer and was advised to amputate his right leg. After trying conventional western therapy, the cancer returned a year later. This led him to search for an alternative healing in India where he learned the 5,000 yr old, traditional medicine of Ayurveda.
He is an Ayurvedic Practitioner living in Sebastopol, Sonoma, where he is completing a book about his journey to health. The book is also a guide for people with cancer and other health issues using Complimentary and Alternative Medicine.
What do you carry around with you every moment and every day that creates greater health and well being? Read on…
Stu Charno
Stu Charno, multi-talented artist and originator of a unique and innovative movement program called “New Body Habits” is my special guest on this 12 minute podcast where he shares his prescription for easy and simple ways to FEEL GOOD in your body. His inspiration for natural healing followed a diagnosis of MS treated by pharmaceutical injections with nasty side effects.
Listen in to see how this amazing man turned to simple practices for health and well being…you can learn them too!
Stu has been an actor, jazz pianist, and teacher of Shing Yi (a rare martial art) for the last 30 years. The “New Body Habits” program was developed from his knowledge of Shing Yi, and his desire to take the “martial” out of martial arts. His beautiful spirit and lively energy is bound to inspire you. “New Body Habits” has been tested on NBA players and will be launching to the greater world later this year.
Stay tuned to what is happening with Stu by going to StuCharno.com.
For the next week…I invite and encourage you to start your day and end your day smiling, for no particular reason, and see what happens…let me know what you notice…:)
Sing the song of love to yourself this Valentine’s Day. How many times have we heard that another can not love us until we love ourselves?
Coach Betty’s WOA Baby will take you back to the 1200’s…self-love is a concept that has been handed down through the centuries. Why is it so hard for us as humans to truly accept and love ourselves…just the way we are right here and now?
Listen in to this 3 minute podcast and see how easy it is to start…
How many ways can you find to love yourself in this moment?
Watch the trailer for the movie, Equinisity…you will not see programs like this anywhere else in the world. A life changing message of Oneness and Love found when reconnecting with the innocence and wonder of our inner child.
This is real footage of participants (I was one of the lucky ones) from all over the world who came together at the Gateway 2 Ranch in British Columbia, Canada to receive the E.A.R.T.H. (Equine Assisted Re-connective Therapy and Healing) program. The ranch is the home to author Liz Mitten Ryan, her husband, and their sixteen horses, dogs, cats and Tesoro, the steer. In this pristine setting, all things properly align for the highest earthly vision human beings can possibly experience.
My own personal journey at Gateway 2 was nothing short of miraculous. I confronted and faced fears from my childhood about how powerless I felt in the presence of these enormous animals. Within a week, I went from shaky and scared in the paddock on Monday, to falling off Luxy (the largest horse in the herd) on Tuesday, and by Friday I experienced a godlike feeling as I walked Epona (a beautiful mare in the herd) to the playground and through the obstacle course.
Liz Mitten Ryan
In addition to that miracle, there were energies on the land, amongst the rock formations, that actually helped heal my tailbone from the fall. I was named “most improved player” by my supportive tribe of fellow participants. When you open yourself to be vulnerable, get very quiet inside, and ALLOW…you are available to be healed by the Oneness of the universe. I am here to tell about it, but it is not only my story…please listen in to the following interviews with other participants and practitioners from Gateway 2 Ranch.
Annie Spiegelman, or the Dirt Diva, shares her story of moving from the parking lot pavement in New York City to playing with the weeds in Northern CA. She will inspire you to consider the many benefits of organic gardening. Her new book “Talking Dirt” helps you care for yourself, your relationships and your planet. Annie is a garden geek with style who will make you laugh as she drives home her point about stepping up and taking care of our environment.
Listen to this 11 minute podcast and learn the first common sense step to an organic garden.
Annie Spiegelman, the Dirt Diva
Raised in the asphalt jungle of New York City, with a can of Raid in her hand, Annie Spiegelman moved to the Bay Area over ten years ago and became a passionate environmentalist and Master Gardener.
She is the author of two previous books on gardening (and life):
“ANNIE’S GARDEN JOURNAL: Some Thoughts on Roses, Life, Weeds, and Men”
and “GROWING SEASONS: Half-baked Garden Tips, Cheap Advice on Marriage and Questionable Theories on Motherhood.”
Her third book entitled “TALKING DIRT” (Penguin Group), an organic gardening how-to guide, will be in bookstores nationally on February 23, 2010.
Spiegelman writes a popular garden column entitled Dirt Diva in the Bay Area’s Pacific Sun newspaper while also working in the film business as a First Assistant Director. She claims she spends her days dodging bullets from the cutthroat publishing business, the maniacal movie industry and her teenage son… And rarely uses medication.
