SOUNDFOOD Nitsa Citrine

“Being a Champion is a Condition of the Heart”
We are honored to welcome a warrior for universal empowerment, Cesalina Gracie to SOUNDFOOD.
Jiu-jitsu visionary, Olympics host, entrepreneur and multi-hyphenate athlete, Cesalina hails from the legendary Gracie martial arts lineage. Today she joins us from Los Angeles, home base for Women in Power -  Cesalina's school where she teaches the art and philosophy of jiu-jitsu to girls and women.
In May 2023 Cesalina made history for being the 8th Brazilian woman to summit Mount Everest -the world's highest mountain- during the deadliest season in the mountain's 102-year climbing history. She accredits her success to her jiu-jitsu training and mindset
In this episode Cesalina shares her journey of finding her own path within an esteemed martial arts family, how jiu-jitsu has taught her how to feel powerful and safe in any situation, including the most confronting, life threatening moments climbing Mount Everest, and why she is committed to sharing this methodology with others. We speak about the ripple effects of her mission: how teaching women self defense and healthy boundaries from a young age can inspire generations to discover their own inner strength and confidence, move with grace, from instinct to reflex, and into a champion state of mind.
Thank you Cesalina for sharing the deep strength of the feminine and your light with us!
 
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Cesalina Gracie: IG | Website
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If you’re interested taking classes with Cesalina in LA, email info@cesalina.com for weekly schedule + to sign up.
 
MENTIONED
Mitsuyo Maeda
Gracie family & jiu-jitsu
Carlos Gracie
Rorion Gracie & UFC
Gracie University
Everest Base Camp
Mike McCastle
Gary Snyder
 
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Gather around our proverbial table for a deeply nourishing conversation about food, family, and creativity.
Our guest this week is holistic nutritionist and chef Sarah Britton  who’s been publishing whole food recipes on her My New Roots since 2007. Our discussion touches upon the full spectrum of nourishment: beginning with Sarah’s childhood, her creative evolution in relationship to food, beauty, self care,  working in professional kitchens like the esteemed NOMA,  hosting Golden Circle Retreats in Bali and Tuscany, and how she was guided to write her books and grow her platforms.
Sarah shares her experience writing and shooting her first book while pregnant in Copenhagen, how she leans into her fine arts background to approach the dinner plate as a canvas of sorts, and why she has developed more kid-friendly, functional whole food meals for everyone to enjoy. 
Thank you for feeding us in so many ways, Sarah!
 
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Sarah Britton: IG | Website
Host @nitsacitrine @soundfoodspace
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MENTIONED
My New Roots
My New Roots Grow
Garance Doré
My New Roots Cookbooks
Naturally Nourished
Mikkala Marilyn Kissi
Living Yolates
Golden Circle Retreats
Golden Circle Retreats IG
NOMA
My New Roots Newsletter
My New Roots Grow Blossom Program *Use the code SOUNDFOOD to receive your first full year for $99 (a $170 value)
 
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MIKUNA: enter SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off regenerative plant protein from Mikunafoods.com
LIVING TEA:  SOUNDFOOD for 15% off all tea nourishment livingtea.net
SUPERFEAST: enter CITRINE for 10% off our favorite tonic herbs + superfoods superfeast.com
OSEA: enter CITRINE for 10% off oseamalibu.com sea-to-skin magic
 
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Today we explore the crucial connection between personal and planetary health.
Join us in conversation with educator, activist, and whistleblower, Kelly Ryerson aka The Glyphosate Girl whose advocacy work is unveiling a public health emergency.
Kelly works at the intersection of agriculture, nutrition and health. She regularly collaborates with regenerative farmers, scientists, policy makers, and media to address the growing agrochemical damage to our soil and cells. She started the site Glyphosate Facts and has contributed to several documentaries, including Common Ground.
Kelly shares her journey, from her personal health crisis to uncovering how chemicals like glyphosate and atrazine are at the root of many modern health issues. She offers ways to minimize our exposure to glyphosate and other toxins and encourages us to eat organic, filter our water, and stay open to new information.
Bless you Kelly!

 
CONNECT
Kelly Ryerson: IG | Website
Host @nitsacitrine @soundfoodspace
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MENTIONED
Common Ground
Rodale Institute
Almond Field Day
John Roulac
Glyphosate Facts
Luoping Zhang
Dirty Dozen
Farm Bill
Tyrone B. Hayes
Reunity Resources
Moms Across America
HRI Labs
Avocado Green Mattresses
Living Libations
Harmonic Healing
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
 
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NOURISH
This podcast is made possible by your donations and the symbiotic support of our partners:
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LIVING LIBATIONS: enjoy 15% off all botanical beauty alchemy with this link https://livinglibations.com/soundfood (discount automatically applied)
MIKUNA: enter SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off regenerative plant protein from Mikunafoods.com
LIVING TEA:  SOUNDFOOD for 15% off all tea nourishment livingtea.net
SUPERFEAST: enter CITRINE for 10% off our favorite tonic herbs + superfoods superfeast.com
OSEA: enter CITRINE for 10% off oseamalibu.com sea-to-skin magic
 
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Join us to call in the vernal equinox with renewed energy, strength and vision. As we transition from Winter to Spring, we move from formlessness to form, contraction to expansion, Yin to Yang, and the Element of Wood.
We welcome back dearest Colin Hudon, herbalist, acupuncturist, practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and founder of Living Tea for a wisdom-steeped dialogue on how to work with the energies of Spring in the year of the Wood Dragon.
In Taoist medicine, Spring is associated with the liver, gall bladder, and the wood element, which represents growth and an unstoppable force of energy. This is a time of rebirth, flexibility, perserverance, resilience, and letting go to grow. It is a season rooted in vision, creativity, planning and concrete action.  
In this episode we cover how the wood element manifests in our inner and outer worlds, how to learn from conflict and limitation, the power of observing emotions, how to recognize and repair elemental imbalances, when to detox, how to crystallize and execute clear vision, and ways to support our systems through the seasonal shift with diet, meditation, mindfulness and tea. Colin shares some exciting new offerings from Living Tea. 
Thank you Colin!
Listen over a bowl of Living Tea ~  enjoy 15% off all tea nourishment from livingtea.net with the code SOUNDFOOD 
CONNECT
Colin Hudon: IG | Website | Events
Host @nitsacitrine @soundfoodspace
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MENTIONED
Living Tea Ascension
The Way of the Five Seasons
Five Spirits
Mountain Gate Woodworks
The Five Elements
Living Tea Seasonal Tea Club
Living Tea Spring 2023 Tea Club
Living Tea Winter Wellness Blend
Living Tea Happy Heart Aphrodisiac
A Life of Tea Retreat
Spring Vitality Course
Tao Te Ching
Puerh Teas (Nitsa’s Faves)
EP. 84: Finding Sanctuary in Luminosity with Tracee Stanley
 
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NOURISH
This podcast is made possible by your donations and the symbiotic support of our partners:
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MIKUNA: enter SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off regenerative plant protein from Mikunafoods.com
LIVING TEA:  SOUNDFOOD for 15% off all tea nourishment livingtea.net
SUPERFEAST: enter CITRINE for 10% off our favorite tonic herbs + superfoods superfeast.com
OSEA: enter CITRINE for 10% off oseamalibu.com sea-to-skin magic
 
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Consider this truth: we are all a rest in progress.
This episode beams light upon the path to become our most rested and luminous selves. We are honored to welcome author, speaker, yoga nidra teacher, and community tender Tracee Stanley to SOUNDFOOD.
In this conversation, Tracee shares how her books came to be, the spiritual awakening in South Africa that ignited her soul purpose, how she came to study with the Himalayan masters and her ever-evolving journey inwards. We discuss the healing powers of deep rest, meditation, self-inquiry, spiritual ecology, ancestral reverence, nature as refuge, freedom, dark nights of the soul, and the transformative vibration of Truth.
Thank you for sharing your light, Tracee!
 
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Tracee Stanley: Website | IG | Podcast
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MENTIONED
Radiant Rest
Yoga Nidra
The Luminous Self
Devi Mahatmyam
Srividya Tantra
Kahlil Gibran
Way of the Peaceful Warrior
The Celestine Prophecy
Alison Beckner
Long Walk to Freedom
BioMat
Living Tea
Tracee’s Upcoming Events
Radiant Rest Podcast
 
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NOURISH
This podcast is made possible by your donations and the symbiotic support of our partners:
 
Offer a donation to us here
 
LIVING LIBATIONS: enjoy 15% off all botanical beauty alchemy with this link https://livinglibations.com/soundfood (discount automatically applied)
LIVING TEA: SOUNDFOOD for 15% off all tea nourishment livingtea.net
MIKUNA: enter SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off regenerative plant protein from Mikunafoods.com
SUPERFEAST: enter CITRINE for 10% off our favorite tonic herbs + superfoods superfeast.com
OSEA: enter CITRINE for 10% off oseamalibu.com sea-to-skin magic
 
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Today we celebrate our origins and micro-moments of magic.
We welcome Nitsa’s oldest friend Geneviève Medow-Jenkins to SOUNDFOOD. Born 9 days apart, Geneviève and Nitsa spent their earliest years together at Esalen Institute — a retreat center and hot springs community perched over the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California. Geneviève reflects on how fundamental this wild landscape and Esalen in all its dimensions have been in shaping her current work as a creative director and founder of Secular Sabbath; an ambient music experience incorporating wellness and art, inspired by the societal need to celebrate a day of rest.
In this laughter-filled conversation, we share childhood memories, relationship synchronicities, sacred moments of agency and how to find divinity in the mundane. Geneviève tells us about the conception of Secular Sabbath and how it has evolved through the power of community.
Thank you for reminding us to stay open to synchronicity, Geneviève!
 
CONNECT
Geneviève Medow-Jenkins: IG | Podcast
Secular Sabbath: IG | Website
Host @nitsacitrine @soundfoodspace
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MENTIONED
Tub Talks
Tub Talks with Nitsa Citrine
Esalen
Amanecer & Hidden Kitchen CA
Milosh
Secular Sabbath Membership
Secular Sabbath Retreat
Rhye
MAMA GALLERY
Gaga dance
Lihi Benisty
Malidoma Some’s books
The O.C.
The Hills
RFK Jr
Blade + Queen of the Damned
 
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NOURISH
This podcast is made possible by your donations and the symbiotic support of our partners:
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LIVING LIBATIONS: enjoy 15% off all botanical beauty alchemy with this link https://livinglibations.com/soundfood (discount automatically applied)
MIKUNA: enter SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off regenerative plant protein from Mikunafoods.com
LIVING TEA:  SOUNDFOOD for 15% off all tea nourishment  livingtea.net
SUPERFEAST: enter CITRINE for 10% off our favorite tonic herbs + superfoods superfeast.com
OSEA: enter CITRINE for 10% off oseamalibu.com sea-to-skin magic
 
P.S. We would be so grateful if you felt inspired to leave us a review on APPLE OR SPOTIFY!