Passing4normal

Nature is change. Permaculture experts Penny Livingston-Stark and James Stark explore how to facilitate change with more ease when we Align with Nature. The natural world provides all the examples and support we need to adapt to any changing circumstance, both internal and external, real or in metaphor; whether we dwell in the forest or in the middle of the city.

Amber Gray is tireless in helping to restore resilience in the most extreme circumstances through body-based therapy and education. As a somatic therapist and psychotherapist, she works with survivors of war, disaster, political torture, domestic violence, ritual abuse; all forms of extreme interpersonal and social trauma where bodies have been made to lock down in fear or terror. She also trains relief teams, worldwide. Amber says, “Our bodies are the site of all human experience,” so this is where the healing can and must take place.

Meditation mentor, Camille Maurine, and intuitive astrologer, Rachel Lang, Spark Fire as they discuss passion, pleasure, and finding your purpose. Uncovering your passion motivates action that can burn through fear, reluctance, and ambivalence. Riding the wild currents of your own passion requires a play of both courage and tenderness. Listen to find out how.

Deena Metzger and Amanda Foulger engage with community in every aspect of the healing and teaching work they each do. The support needed for change comes from both seen and unseen communities: helpful people, ancestor spirits, plant and animal spirit guides. In walking hundreds of people through transformative change, Deena and Amanda share how they teach others how to locate the multi-dimensional support they need, and to trust the support they receive.

Sharon Weil talks with Corinne Bourdeau, social change media producer and marketer, about how a captivating issue-oriented film can have a huge effect on the beliefs, hearts, and actions of the public. Bringing her innovative expertise to such films as: The Cove, Fuel, Bottle Shock, Buck and the current release, Boyhood, Corinne knows what it is to seed change on a large scale with a small budget!

Sharon Weil talks with James Stark about permaculture, tending the inner garden, and the wisdom of living in alignment with nature. He is co-founder and co-director of Regenerative Design Institute, a permaculture school that “grows people, and the new community leaders for our times.” He co-directs the Ecology of Leadership and Ecology of Awakening programs at RDI. A community visioning leader, James shows us how to tend the inner soil so the seeds of our visions can grow in the world. This conversation was so lively, it continues on to next week!

Sharon Weil talks with Deena Metzger, esteemed storyteller, poet, author, teacher, healer, about Revisioning Medicine, healing the individual and the Earth. Drawing deeply upon story, spirit, and the healing practices of indigenous traditions, she presents a new vision for the culture of medicine and the global integration of healing.

Sharon Weil talks with Claire Hope Cummings, renowned environmental lawyer, journalist, and author of the seminal book about GMO’s, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. Claire’s expertise on food, farming and genetic modification technology provides us with new insight as to why GMOs are perilous for agriculture.

Sharon Weil conspires with Robert Litman, movement and breath teacher of The Breathable Body, about how all change, internal and external, is initiated by breath. Certain held breathing patterns put us into constant fight or flight response, putting enormous stress on the body, expressed as anxiety, asthma, sleep apnea and more. Can we really change our world by changing how we breathe?

Passing 4 Normal Podcast, hosted by Sharon Weil, is a show about Change. Her guests are remarkable, everyday heroes who create and adapt to change in their own unique and inspiring ways…and inform how you can too! Join us for lively discussions, fascinating insight, and valuable information about the one certainty in life…Change. This acclaimed podcast has inspired the book, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change (available on amazon)

Sharon Weil engages in a lively and playful conversation with Camille Maurine, women’s embodiment teacher and co-author of "Meditation Secrets for Women, Discovering your Passion, Pleasure and Inner Peace." Camille knows that women need a sensually embodied approach to meditation and spiritual practice that is full of the life force of Eros. Hear her secrets for women on how to access inner power and the higher realms through the heightened senses of the body. If you like this episode, you might enjoy "Changing the Conversation about Women" with Naama Bloom. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/passing-4-normal-podcast-season-4-episode-1-naama-bloom

Sharon Weil talks and laughs with Amy McEachern, moving and organizing consultant and owner of Creative Moving. Amy has planned and orchestrated over 800 home moves, and has deep and delightful insight into what is needed at this time of extreme, and unsettling change. “Transforming lives, one box at a time.” If you like this episode, you might enjoy "Clutter Intervention" with Tisha Morris. http://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/clutter-intervention-with-tisha-morris

Sharon Weil talks with Jacques Verduin about his transformational programs with incarcerated men in San Quentin Prison. Guiding Rage into Power (GRIP) provides the tools that enable prisoners to create change from the inside out and "turn the stigma of being a violent offender into a badge of being a non-violent Peacekeeper” They discuss some underlying causes of violence, and how mediation, community, and forgiveness practices can bring about a change of heart in a very tight space. Released inmates who have graduated from the program work with challenged youth and are models and teachers to their brothers and sisters who are still incarcerated.

Sharon Weil continues her discussion with Robert Litman, breath and movement educator. This time they discuss how rather than an emotional issue, anxiety is a breathing issue that triggers an emotional response. Quite a revelation! More than 20% of the population suffers from anxiety, and Robert shows how this can be regulated by breathing exercises. If you like this episode, you might enjoy "ChangeAbility: Meditation for a Modern World" with Lorin Roche. https://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/changeability-meditation-for-a-modern-world-with-lorin-roche

Passing 4 Normal Podcast, hosted by Sharon Weil, is a show about Change. Her guests are remarkable, everyday heroes who create and adapt to change in their own unique and inspiring ways…and inform how you can too! Join us for lively discussions, fascinating insight, and valuable information about the one certainty in life…Change. This acclaimed podcast has inspired the book, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change (available on amazon) If you like this episode, you might enjoy "So No One Faces Cancer Alone" with Julia Forth and Dr. Shannon La Cava. http://soundcloud.com/sharon-weil/so-no-one-faces-cancer-alone-with-julia-forth-and-dr-shannon-la-cava

Sharon Weil talks with Michael Stocker, bio-acoustician, naturalist, and musician, about water, oceans, natural sound, and human-generated noise pollution in the ocean. His organization, Ocean Conservation Research, studies the impact and finds solutions to its detrimental effect on marine life. Did you know that dolphins call each other by name? Sound and sound perception are ways in which we locate ourselves in place, and underwater noise pollution is creating stress and dislocation in whales and dolphins. Michael is a fascinating and passionate advocate for natural sound, and all the beautiful creatures and environments that produce it.

Sharon Weil and Rebecca Mark, writer, poet, professor at Tulane University, delve into her unique practice of unearthing the Muse. Hers is a whole body approach to writing, one that moves seamlessly from words, to movement, to drawing, and back again as a way of generating deep creativity and giving voice to the unexpected. Using Continuum, the result is a fluid, magical unfolding of imaginal realms; the process itself is the real discovery. For writers, artists, and deep dreamers, alike.

Permaculture Designer and Educator, Penny Livingston-Starksays, “We have the technological solutions, why aren’t we using them?” She’s talking about solutions for climate health; organic food, water collection, and soil/carbon sequestration. Sharon Weil talks with Penny about some of these solutions, as well as her guiding solution; a deeper heart connection with nature, with one another, and recognizing the Earth as our Mother.

Sharon Weil, and movement artist and educator, Fred Sugerman, speak a common language when they talk about the space between performing arts and healing arts, and how they are connected. Both teachers of fluid movement (for Sharon, Continuum Movement, for Fred, it’s his creation, Medicine Dance), Fred discusses how authentic, fluid, and expressive movement can cultivate “presence”, and lead to self-discovery, change body dynamics, and can create beautiful and empathic art. Fred tells us how to be a shape-shifting artist of change, led by Nature, curiosity, and the sensations of the unseen.

Sharon Weil talks with Ann Gentry, founder/owner of Real Food Daily restaurants in Los Angeles, California about plant-based diets, and how she elevated vegetarian cooking to high cuisine. They talk about the role food plays in our lives, and how changing the way we eat can literally change everything about us. Their lively discussion sorts out confusion over which healthy diet to follow, food fads, and the truth about gluten-free eating. Author of several cookbooks, she shows us how to create a healthy, meat-free diet you can live with that is delicious, nutritious, and accessible.