Being Earthbound Podcast Dan McTiernan

Jessica Bockler is an applied theatre practitioner and transpersonal psychologist. She’s one of the founding directors of the Alef Trust which is a global leader in transformative education and training in consciousness, transpersonal and spiritual psychology and offers Masters, PhD and professional certificate programmes.
As well as academic excellence, Alef is also taking an active role in supporting transformational changemakers around the world. Through their Nurturing the Fields of Change community programme they are facilitating more embodied, more connective and more deeply transformative approaches to change work and activism across a range of fields including agriculture, social justice, climate and conflict resolution to name a few. Jessica has the great gift of bringing people together in spaces of mutual support and creative emergence that have the potential to support a new regenerative paradigm and a way of being in the world that fosters peace, growth and healing.In this conversation, we explore the huge potential this community of transformational changemakers offers its membership and the wider world. I hope you enjoy it.
If you are looking for a community like Nurturing the Fields of Change, we’d love to welcome you. You can find out more and register at:
https://fieldsofchange2024.sutra.co
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Russell Scott is someone who has had his feet in the inner and outer worlds of transformational change for many decades. He’s a highly experienced retreat leader and clearing therapist and is the author of an excellent book on the value of independent seeking on the spiritual path as a means to fully own and inhabit our experience. 
He also spent many years running an ecological retreat centre that ran courses on permaculture, ecological building and the like. So I was drawn to him as someone who values this synthesis of inner and outer work as a means to real cultural change. He’s a wise and kind soul and I hope you enjoy this podcast conversation as much as I did.Russell offers one-to-one clearing sessions and mentorship as well as group Coming Home (aka enlightenment intensive) retreats. He also offers facilitation training in these processes and I really recommend his book, Awaken the Guru In You. You can access all of his resources and offerings at his website www.awakentheguruinyou.com


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Lynn Marie Lumiere is a non-dual psychotherapist and has been one of a small group of curing-edge pioneers developing this field of psychology since the 1990s.

She has over 40 years of psycho-spiritual exploration and transformational work experience and works with clients one-to-one and in groups from around the world specialising in couples and relationship work.

She has been a regular speaker at the Nondual Wisdom, Psychotherapy and the Science and Nonduality Conference. She is a contributing author to The Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy and co-author of The Awakening West. She is also the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships which was published in 2018.

What drew me to Lynn Marie and her work was the multi-faceted approach to psychotherapy she adopts, giving equal weight and attention to both nervous system and physiological regulation and healing, to the deeper recognition of our true non-dual nature through meditative pointing out and enquiry, and to the need for us to work through our psychological conditioning, wounding and developmental trauma. None of these alone, in her opinion, are sufficient to experience complete psychological and existential wholeness and well-being.

It’s the weaving of this complex dance of modalities and approaches that makes her work unique and fascinating and I hope you enjoy our conversation.

To find out more about Lynn Marie and her work as well as to access her books and courses please visit lynnmarielumiere.com 

To find out more about Earthbound and the embodied ecological coaching we offer please visit www.earthbound.fi


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This is a conversation with Tom Travers. He is a colleague of mine working as part of a team of eight instructors and coaches in the fields of movement, health, embodiment, meditation, injury recovery and mindful longevity within the Movement Plus membership programme app.

Tom has been working in the movement arts for over two decades. His personal practice is a fusion of meditative movement, somatic awareness and working with the Bo staff. Focusing on the mastery of foundational skills he weaves together breath, mantra and dynamic movement into each practice to support deep healing of the body/mind.

This was a really sincere and intimate conversation exploring his recovery from childhood trauma, to the flourishing experience of life he now experiences and the gifts of that journey that can help the clients he works with. During the podcast we discuss left brain/right brain imbalance and its repercussions, recovering from childhood trauma and moving beyond victimhood, the universe presenting us with unexpected opportunities, the difference between concentration and awareness, and the importance of practice being fun and inviting rather than effortful and daunting.

We also discuss the power and depth of trusting simple techniques for movement and meditation, the value of small daily practice vs. sporadic deep dives such as long retreats, the householder's path rather than the path of a renunciate, spiritual versus human awakening, the difference between faux and real intimacy and so much more.

To discover more of Tom’s work and to try Movement Plus membership for free for 7 days please click here.

To find out about the being-centric embodied coaching we offer please visit www.earthbound.fi


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Homesteading can be pretty hard on the body. We’ve been at it for a decade now, and I’m 47 this year, and it’s fair to say that I’ve had some pretty disruptive injuries over the last few years. A rotator cuff injury, a torn Achilles and a lower back injury that has recurred for years. So I made the decision last year to try and tackle the injury list but also my general flexibility, strength and fitness in a more holistic way that matched the years of holistic inner work I’ve been engaged in. And that led me to an organisation called Movement Monk, an online membership programme they run called Movement+ and an inspiring mindful movement and healing instructor called Benny Fergusson.

Movement+ is pretty much my ideal approach to fitness, physical and mental healing and longevity practice as it combines a truly holistic approach to the body, one that encourages me to really attune to my experience, to learn to make friends with my body and to explore and discover through movement instead of just following some dogmatic fitness regime. But there is also so much emphasis on our psychology and existential experience of being this body in this life that I knew it was exactly what I was looking for to help integrate all aspects of being me even further.

Benny’s own journey is one of being a national level Australian athlete to starting his own fitness businesses, then experiencing a sudden and highly debilitating spinal injury in the form of scoliosis that forced him to question everything about the way he had been working with his body and engaging with his life. This led him to a multi-year process of discovery including training in the Shaolin traditions, Tai Chi, Qigong, standing meditation, Indian martial arts, and many other modalities. And eventually, this new, much more connected and compassionate approach allowed his body to heal, which in turn gave him the skills and experience to help others in their physical and psychological healing.

He now leads a team of instructors offering recorded and live classes helping people recover from injury and pain, discover mindful and holistic approaches to fitness, and move forward with their lives with more confidence and well-being. The benefits of Movement + for me have been great so I can wholeheartedly recommend it to you, so if you feel inclined to find out more, you can access a free 7-day trial via the link. 

Here’s my conversation with Benny. If there is someone who you think might benefit by listening to this episode, please do share it with them.

Thanks,

Dan and Johanna



You can find out more about the embodied, being-centric coaching we offer at www.earthbound.fi


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Most of us carry around negative core beliefs and conditioning, often from our childhood and often for the whole of our lives. A deeply judgmental inner authority voice telling us we're no good, not enough, always lacking in some fundamental way. This voice can hold us back in all kinds of very unhelpful ways, restricting our flourishing and development. But it needn't be that way! 



Holly Copeland and I discuss various fascinating approaches to releasing held conditioning and developmental trauma that allow for growth and healing to occur.



This is my second conversation with Holly. She’s a Human Potential Coach, neuromeditation teacher, Biofield Tuning practitioner and breath work coach, to name just a few of her skills. 



In this episode we explore the fascinating subject of psycho-vibrational healing through Biofield Tuning, breathwork and awareness practices. (Explaining along the way, what the human Biofield is and how we can work with it.)



We discuss the potential to work with psychological conditioning and trauma at the level of embodied, somatic enquiry and at energetic or vibrational levels and how the two modalities overlap and interweave. 



And how waking up to our natural awareness is both crucial to, and a natural consequence of this psycho-vibrational healing work.

You can find out more about Holly’s Awaken, Heal, Breathe programme, her Biofield Tuning work, and you can book a free 30-minute discovery call with her at her website Heartmindalchemy.com

To listen to part 1 of this conversation please visit: https://www.earthbound.fi/podcast-holly-copeland-pt-1


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