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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 39 with Tim Corcoran hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 39: The Earth Caretaker Way (with Tim Corcoran)

March 9, 2024

How to become an Earth Caretaker? If you can, one way to start is to “get off your butt and get out in the woods,” as Tim Corcoran has been known to say, and his young students love to quote. Hear about many other good starting places and ways to walk the path in this…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 37 with Alpha Lo hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 37: How Restoring the Water Web Relieves Drought, Fire and Flood (with Alpha Lo)

October 14, 2023

Alpha Lo caught my attention when I heard him say, “All we have to do is…” and then lay out a sweeping plan for how California can effectively restore rain, prevent both wildfires and floods, and regenerate the water cycle. He explained how we could reverse the negative effects on the water cycle caused by…

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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 35 with Gloire Mudekuza hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 35: Regeneration and Resilience for Refugees and Host Communities in Uganda (with Gloire Mudekuza)

July 3, 2023

Ready for a dose of Active Hope? Listen to Gloire Mudekuza, a young refugee, a social entrepreneur, a climate activist and a mentor in Uganda, making an impact in the refugee community. He is passionate about regenerative agriculture, climate action, and entrepreneurship. He is the founder and director of Plethora Social Initiative, a refugee-led organization…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 34 Afro-lachian Herbal Remedies Past Stories Current Conversations with Ruby Daniels hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 34: Afro-lachian Herbal Remedies, Past Stories & Current Conversations (with Ruby Daniels)

June 4, 2023

Register here for the (free!) Great Turning Summit: https://programs.schoolforthegreatturning.com/gtsummit In this planet-wide, diverse movement we can call The Great Turning, one of the threads I’m personally following is medicine. I’m all in for the shift to a life-honoring, life-sustaining approach to understanding illness, treating disease, and promoting health and healing.  Ruby Daniels is part of…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 33 with Joe Brewer hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 33: Becoming an Earth Regenerator (with Joe Brewer)

May 5, 2023

How about these goals:  What would that take? Joe Brewer has dedicated his life to this question, and to a “living laboratory” of bioregional regeneration and community collaboration. He is the founder of Earth Regenerators and co-founder of the newly established Design School for Regenerating Earth. I have learned so much from Joe. He’s been a…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 28 A Return to Beekeeping and Reweaving with Ariella Daly hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 28: A Return to Beekeeping and Reweaving (with Ariella Daly)

January 21, 2023

Here at the new beginning marked by the Lunar New Year, come back with me to the beginning of Turning Season Podcast, for what remains one of my favorite conversations yet, with dreamworker, beekeeper, and new mother, Ariella Daly. A warm hello to all of you who’ve starting listening since this show was born. I…

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Turning Season Podcast Episode 21 Water Wisdom for Deserts, Forests, and Cities with Charles Upton hosted by Leilani Navar turningseason.com

Episode 21: Water Wisdom for Deserts, Forests and Cities (with Charles Upton)

October 9, 2022

How much power do you think you have to affect rainfall, or to influence how vulnerable a landscape is to wildfire? Do we have any agency in our situation of “running out of water”?  Until recently, I didn’t think those things were in our hands at all. I’ve been excited to learn from water experts…

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