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Turning Season Podcast Episode 43 with Erin Geesaman Rabke and Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 43: Beauty as Ballast, Grief as Guide, Body as Sacred Land (with Erin Geesaman Rabke and Leilani Navar)

October 30, 2024

I’m so happy to share this conversation with you. It’s between me and my dear friend, Erin Geesaman Rabke, about sustaining our tender hearts and our dedication to showing up for the web of life on Earth, through all the heartbreak, overwhelm, and discouragement that can happen when we care deeply about our world. We…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 42 with Paula Ramírez Diazgranados hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 42: Resilience & Mental Health in Humanitarian Response (with Paula Ramírez)

August 29, 2024

“How is it that those individuals who are in the front line, in the first response, can bring that awareness, that connection to their own selves through their own nervous system, owning again a quality of spaciousness in their body?” My wonderful guest for this episode, Paula Ramírez, supports mental health in contexts of war…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 36 with Leilani Wong Navar and Lydia Violet Harutoonian turningseason.com

Episode 36: Personal and Collective Healing in Chinese Medicine and Deep Ecology (with Leilani Wong Navar and guest interviewer Lydia Violet Harutoonian)

August 1, 2023

Our bodies are just like the rest of the living world: coursing with healing, life-affirming intelligence and capacity; and suffering the effects of being out of balance. The body is one setting for what Joanna Macy called “the three stories of our time”: Business as Usual, the Great Unraveling, and the Great Turning. We’ve explored…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 31 Deep Ecology Small Actions Big Resonance with Fernanda Lenz hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 31: Deep Ecology, Small Actions and Big Resonance (with Fernanda Lenz)

March 7, 2023

This Full Moon, a new deep conversation with someone rising to her own unique role in The Great Turning – the role only she can play, coming about through what she loves, what breaks her heart, her gifts, her circumstances, her stories. Today, meet Fernanda Lenz, an educator, facilitator, and visual documentarian in São Paolo,…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 27 Your Healing Story is a Love Story with Nisha Mody hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 27: Your Healing Story is a Love Story (with Nisha Mody)

January 7, 2023

Which is easier to feel in your own mind and body:  The sense of living in The Great Turning (aka, our transition toward a life-sustaining way of being human on earth), or the feeling of “Business as Usual,” a way of being human that values being productive, consuming, succeeding, and never feeling like you’ve done…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 19 Creativity and Changemaking in Art and Architecture with Sinéad Cullen hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 19: Creative Changemaking in Art & Architecture (with Sinéad Cullen)

September 10, 2022

I know Sinéad Cullen is not alone in once feeling inadequate for not being a fists-in-the-air, protest-in-the-streets kind of activist; for not taking a stand in that dimension of The Great Turning we call “Holding Actions.” I also know she’s not alone – and many of you listening will relate – in being deeply inspired…

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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 14 The Body is Our Gateway with Petra Bongartz hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 14: The Body is Our Gateway (with Petra Bongartz)

June 14, 2022

How do we get from, “We know we have to change,” to “We’re actually changing”? As a society, or even as individuals?  As you’ll hear my guest Petra Bongartz say at the beginning of this episode, we’ve known for a long time that we need to change – and yet, we haven’t changed. Why not?…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 13 Balancing All Seven Centers with Morgan Starr-Riestis hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 13: Balancing All Seven Centers (with Morgan Starr-Riestis)

May 16, 2022

How are you dealing with the stress of these times?  If you’re turning to (or curious about) talk therapy, yoga, other spiritual and energetic practices, or learning to regulate your own nervous system, you’ll be interested in my guest for this episode, Morgan Starr-Riestis, therapist at Mind Psy Guidance and creator of the Seven Centers…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 12 Courageous Intention on Behalf of Life with Adrián Villaseñor Galarza hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 12: Courageous Intention on Behalf of Life (with Adrián Villaseñor Galarza)

April 16, 2022

Adrián is one of the many people I am just so glad to know is out there, enacting The Great Turning in the ways that he is uniquely moved to do. He’s a longtime facilitator of the Work that Reconnects, in Spanish and English, in North, Central and South America. I feel like I can…

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