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Turning Season Podcast Episode 16 News on Amazonian Women's Center, Plastics Treaty, Wildlife Sanctuary hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 16: News on Amazonian Women’s Healing Center, International Treaty on Plastics, and Reconnection Ecology at Wildlife Sanctuary

July 28, 2022

This is the first “news” episode of Turning Season Podcast. I had the idea to do short episodes like this while listening to a 5-minute NPR podcast a few months ago. It was a very quick, back-to-back series of stories with the sense: “Here’s what you should know.” It included something like, updates on war…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 15 The Non-GMO Project, Right Relationship, and How Powerful Each of Us Truly Is with Megan Westgate hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 15: The Non-GMO Project, Right Relationship, and How Powerful Each of Us Truly Is (with Megan Westgate)

July 14, 2022

Have you ever noticed that little butterfly on some packaged foods, labeled “Non-GMO Project VERIFIED?” Maybe you even look for the butterfly before you buy, and feel better about eating what’s inside because of it. That’s you exercising your power in one of the most intimate ways possible: how you take food into your own…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 11 Herbal Medicine and Systems Thinking with Judyth Shamosh hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 11: Herbal Medicine & Systems Thinking (with Judyth Shamosh)

March 18, 2022

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” – The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien That’s a favorite quote of my guest Judyth Shamosh, which she relates to seeing each person’s health as a whole system, and as part of even larger whole systems.…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 9 Resourcing in Pleasure with Ann Nguyen hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 9: Resourcing in Pleasure (with Ann Nguyen)

February 1, 2022

What do desire and pleasure have to do with The Great Turning? Oh so deliciously much. I asked Ann Nguyen to join the Turning Season conversation not only because she facilitates trauma resolution – which is a huge piece of personal and global healing – but also because she facilitates a deepened connection to Love…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 8 The Rainforest Defending Itself with Liz Downes turningseason.com

Episode 8: The Rainforest Defending Itself (with Liz Downes)

January 17, 2022

Have you ever donated to “save the rainforest?” I remember placing a globe-shaped piggy bank on the secretary’s desk at my elementary school in about 1991. The Kids for Saving Earth club asked people to drop their spare change in, so we could buy a $25 acre of rainforest, and protect it “forever.”  It’s been…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 4 A Permaculture Path with André Soares hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 4: A Permaculture Path (with André Soares)

November 4, 2021

The one where a grandfather & permaculture designer points out my “old paradigm” thinking. Click Play above to listen to this seasoned teacher, André Soares, founder of Ecocentro Ipec in Central Brazil, talk with me about: his more than 25 years in international permaculture design and teaching unlearning “business as usual” thinking healthy home design…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 2 Regenerative Smart Villages with Jay Wong hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 2: Regenerative Smart Villages (with Jay Wong)

October 6, 2021

Click Play now to hear my conversation with Jay Wong, who’s developing “regenerative smart villages” in Portugal. What would it look like to have residential, commercial, and agricultural life happening in a multi-generational community, one that handles waste, water, food and electricity sustainably? That’s a big question, and Jay’s learning about all aspects of the…

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Episode 1: Beekeeping and Reweaving (with Ariella Daly)

September 20, 2021

We can each be guided by what we love, and by what breaks our hearts. Ariella Daly’s heart is with the bees. If you’ve listened to The Dreamers’ Den series, you heard Ariella in Episode 31, speaking about dream mirroring, bee shamanism, and the dreamweave of the earth. She’s back now to to kick off…

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