Tea Break With

Viviane Casimir

The "New Consciousness" is an important concept to grasp in this 21st century. It's all about self-transformation and reconnecting with your true nature if we want to move humanity forward. This podcast offers experts' reflections and directions from fields of science, business, spirituality and wellness. Enjoy!

  1. 12/25/2024

    Travel Afar, Journey Within

    The title of this episode is drawn from a Zen Buddhist text. As we close the year, I aim to do so with a meaningful opening to the world and the planet, inspiring a vision of unity and peace.  In today's new consciousness, traveling has become much more than relaxation, entertainment, or cultural exploration. A new dimension has emerged—travel as a catalyst for personal transformation and positive impact. Specific travel agencies now offer experiences designed to create change in your life while leaving a meaningful footprint where you go.  As my guest, Jennifer Holmes, eloquently puts it, travel is about "making connections that build bridges between cultures, transforming your inner world, challenging your assumptions, igniting your passion for positive change, and possibly altering the course of your life."   Together with Jennifer, we'll delve into this transformative vision of travel.  How can this new paradigm of traveling align with your deeper life mission? Let's explore how stepping into this conscious way of travel can spark profound personal and global transformation. "One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.'' -- Henry Miller     Jennifer Holmes enjoyed a 20+ year career in the public sector with the State of Wisconsin, serving in a leadership role first in the Department of Corrections and then with the Department of Transportation. She has also worked in the business sector both as a Tour Business Manager with Feld Entertainment where she toured and conducted business globally with Monster Jam, Marvel Universe Live, and Disney on Ice, and with Ravn Alaska as Manager of Airports. Jennifer decided to take early retirement and realized that she could combine her passions for travel and creating a positive impact for the planet and start a travel agency rooted in meaningful, purposeful vacation travel. This is how Joyous Journeys was born. Now Jennifer spends her time helping others achieve their travel dreams.  Besides the wonderful clients she has, Jennifer also partners with non-profits, life coaches, speakers, and others to create retreats and group trips that align with her mission of connecting hands and hearts with love globally through travel. During her spare time, when she's not traveling herself, you can find her on or in the water, or at one of her volunteer assignments with the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, the National Kidney Foundation, Donate Life, and various ocean and beach cleanup organizations.

    1 hr
  2. 11/27/2024

    Adapting Mind and Body for Conscious Evolution

    Life is made of continuous changes, both in nature and in human reality. Throughout history, humans have adapted to the planet's transformations. So why is there such a focus on neuroplasticity today? Because, amid the profound shifts occurring in our environment and in social, political, cultural, and spiritual realms, our capacity for neuroplasticity is more crucial than ever. While neuroplasticity itself is not a new or mysterious concept, understanding its impact on our lives and mind-body evolution is essential. In this discussion with Isabelle Annick, a Healing Artist, Wellness Practitioner, and Educator, we explore how enhancing neuroplasticity can empower us to actively participate in conscious evolution. So, let's take our mind-body connection to another level. "Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously thought not possible." (Michael Gazzaniga) Isabelle Annick is a Healing Artist, Wellness Practitioner and Educator.  She sources from her multidisciplinary training and life practice in the fields of Yoga, Energy Healing, Sacred Sound, Somatics and Clinical Hypnosis, to weave individual and group experiences for well-being, personal development and creativity in the face of change. Her approach focuses on felt-sense dynamics addressing memories, traumas, perceptions and beliefs, for the purpose of reframing and integrating the natural seasons and life cycles woven in the complexity of the human experience. She is an advocate for counterculture practices rooted in silence and deep listening, symbiotic relationship with the rhythms of the natural world, and going beyond spirituality to develop the necessary maturity and consciousness the modern world beckons. You can sign up for her newsletter or events at https://bio.site/Isabelle.Annick, and follow her on IG @womb_heart_fire

    1h 15m
  3. 10/30/2024

    I Meditate. So, What's next?

    Meditation is simply a tool not an end. In these challenging times, the need for inner peace, grounding, and centering in our lives—and for our mental health—has never been greater. But what exactly is meditation? In the West, the concept of meditation has often been adapted and diluted in various ways to serve personal wellness and achievement goals. However, meditation goes far beyond wellness. At its core, it is a practice that awakens you to your true nature and aligns you with your life's mission. In this special podcast episode, I humbly offer answers to some of the most common questions I've received from clients and my community. Why has meditation become so popular today? I meditate, so what's next? Let's explore these questions from a Myoku perspective, a Zen mind-body practice designed to bring inner peace and self-realization. The 21st century is about connecting with the "Self", rediscovering our true nature, expanding consciousness, and contributing to conscious evolution for humanity and the planet. It's about embracing oneness as a new worldview—an awakening that is transforming our mindset, our relationship with ourselves, the environment, and the universe. Viviane  is the host of the podcast and founder of Myoku, a Zen mind-body alignment practice designed to cultivate inner peace and self-transformation for a meaningful life. She is a member of the Kwan Um School of Zen (USA) and her Buddhist name is Myong Oh. After teaching at university and working on Wall Street in New York City, Viviane chose to pursue her passion to inspire others to awaken, develop their inner leadership, embark on their transformative journeys to their life mission, and contribute to conscious living for a better world. Viviane is an affiliate of several international organizations, including Humanity's Team.org. Through her Myoku coaching, Viviane blends meditation practice with breathing techniques and martial arts movement to cultivate the chi, develop fluidity and grounding/centeredness. She has conducted Myoku workshops in the USA, Canada, France, and Norway. She holds a 2nd Dan in Kyokushin Karate (IKO) and a Tai Chi Chuan certificate from the New York Shaolin Center. Additionally, she is a Usui Reiki Master with a background in kinesiology. Her writing portfolio includes numerous articles on meditation and spirituality published in online magazines like Sivana East, as well as a few novels blending Zen and fantasy. One of her works, The Three Desert Stones, inspired by her childhood in Morocco, is available on Amazon. (www.myokucenter.com / myoku77@gmail.com)

    1h 19m
  4. 09/25/2024

    Before Being Healthy, We Must Be Alive

    We all know that the era we live in is about breaking free from the dualistic mindset that traps us in suffering. However, this is not easy. The concept of "health" for example has become an obsessive focus in Western culture, to the point that we forget how to live—or even to live at all. Despite advances in quantum physics and neuroscience proving the "oneness" of the universe and in nature, we still approach the human body as a "machine" and attempt to control our health with strategic diets and lifestyles rooted in a dualistic view of life. But health is not merely the absence of disease, and the body is not a machine to be treated with a Cartesian mindset. Health is the powerful and harmonious integration of mind, body, spirit, and karma. What does this mean? Let's explore the dynamic of health and aliveness with Sarah Lascano, a Master Energy Medicine Practitioner and renowned mind-body expert who works with cancer patients and other health concerns. Let's realign "health" with our journey toward harmony in mind-body and Oneness in our lives. "The healing process is the awakening to the original wholeness of life." (Zen master Soeng Hyang Sarah Lascano is an Internationally Recognized Mind-Body Expert, Master Energy Medicine Practitioner and Speaker. She is the founder of Background impressive / how dod and creator of the RayZen Lightwork Technique. She is a recognized holistic and energy healing expert and has been featured in the media. It is her passion to help her clients recover their health when nothing else is working. She merges her medical experience and engineering training with expert healing to help people discover the root cause of their health problems and move forward in health freedom. Website :  rayzenenergy.com / sarah@rayzenenergy.com

    1h 6m
  5. 08/28/2024

    Deaf Poetry in the New consciousness--Expanding our Reality

    Let's revisit our connection to language and expand our understanding of reality. We all know that language shapes our minds and the way we perceive the world. What if, during this shift in consciousness we are experiencing, our standard language was challenged by Deaf poetry as a unique art form? Hearing poetry vs. Deaf poetry introduces a new way of relating to the world, the art itself, and ourselves. Join me and my special guest, Kenny Lerner, as we explore how language in motion (Deaf poetry) can help us transcend the traditional boundaries of spoken words and communication. The new consciousness of the 21st century is challenging all the borders that Western societies have built—culturally, politically, metaphysically, and beyond. Let's see how language can be challenged in turn, opening up something more empowering for all of us in our journey toward experiencing Oneness. "Poetry is stretching language to explore new ways." (Kenny Lerner) Kenny Lerner is a professor of history at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is also the hearing member of an ASL poetry duo called Flying Words Project along with his Deaf signing partner, Peter Cook. The goal of Flying Words is probably the same as all other poets, to play with language. As luck would have it, ASL is a language of moving pictures. So, Kenny and Peter juxtapose imagery you can see in creating their work. In a sense, Peter is like a three-dimensional living movie while Kenny's voice is the soundtrack that allows the hearing audience to see and understand the images. Much of their work focuses on social issues often combined with the beauty of the world around us. Of course, Kenny's understanding of history has always been integrated into their pieces. Kenny has been featured at the Poetry Days Festival (Dzejas Dienas,) in Latvia, the Annikki Poetry Festival, Tampere, Finland, The Whitney Museum in NYC, and many places in between.  Kenny can be reached at: kdlnge@rit.edu

    1h 17m
  6. 07/31/2024

    Befriending the Spirit Realm

    The planet's frequency shift, combined with geological and astrophysical phenomena, forces us to rethink our reality and our relationship with ourselves and the universe. This new consciousness, as it is called, beautifully bridges science and spirituality, and in doing so, opens our minds and triggers our sensitivity to the Spirit Realm. As many masters have explained, the shift happening on the planet makes the veil between the visible and the invisible thinner and thinner, allowing many people to experience the spirit realm in various ways. The latter has become more real in our modern society, despite being discredited in the past. But what does it really mean, and how can we befriend it for self-transformation, awakening, and to help this world? Let's explore what the spirit realm means with Vanessa Otadi, who was born with the gift and has compiled every lesson the spirit realm offered her to teach others and help them reconnect with their inner power and live a peaceful life. Like renowned psychics and metaphysical teachers such as Suzanne Giesemann and Patricia Cota Robles, Vanessa shares her mission to serve and coach gifted children in embracing their special gifts "Children are sent to Earth to help us see our divine potential. Let them teach us how to connect to the Universe and how to feel unconditional love instead of thinking we have to fill them with our humanity." (Vanessa Otadi) Vanessa Otadi is a teacher with a powerful voice, an author, a doula, and a mothering figure in her community. She graduated in Specialized Education and taught in primary and high school for ten years. From birth, Vanessa was gifted with the ability to communicate with the Spirit Realm. She can hear and see its inhabitants as if they were normal beings walking on earth. She spent most of her childhood and teenage years communicating with them and learning how to experience life spiritually. Vanessa compiled every lesson the Spirit Realm offered her and vowed to teach them to others. Drawn to children, she chose a special mission: to care for newcomers and coach them to embrace their special gifts. Now, she has a private practice where she helps families understand the uniqueness of their gifted children and how to live with the Spirit Realm more peacefully. Alongside her private consultations, she offers programs and books she has written to guide families through child education, from birth to early adulthood. https://vanessaotadi.ca

    1h 17m
  7. 06/26/2024

    Make Your "Why" Matters

    We all speak of "oneness" yet tend to divide our lives into categories like work life, family life, social life, personal life, hobbies, and so on. How can we achieve "oneness" in our own lives with such a mindset? There should be one life with a common denominator among all these categories. Let's explore the fundamental conscious "why" that we should all perhaps ask ourselves. We know that knowing our "why" in business and branding is very important, but it should not be limited to business – it should be part of our entire life. There is the marketing "why" that helps you stand out from the crowd of competitors, and there is the conscious "why" that helps you truly ground and align yourself with your business and, more importantly, with life in general. This is the latter "why" we refer to in this June episode. The conscious "why" is very important in the 21st century as it keeps you on track in your journey to self-realization and keeps you well centered to help this world. Let's explore this conscious "why" with Shiv Dutt, Tech Founder of Manifold Ventures, and discover what is his big "why" at the core of his inspiring mission with dashboards called MeaVana. What is MeaVana, and how can it support your daily life? "When you know why you do what you do, even the toughest days become easier." (Becky Allen) Shiv M Dutt (Tech Founder (Manifold Ventures and MeaVana--USA/India) grew up in India. He studied at Vasant Valley school, where he excelled at a range of activities, including basketball, chess, debate, music, and academics. He moved to the US in 2007 to study mathematics at Princeton University, where he studied with several world-renowned professors, including John Nash, Peter Sarnak, and John Conway.  Shiv worked for over a decade on Wall Street, including several hedge funds, Goldman Sachs, and fintech startups. He also worked on several startup ventures and created a top-3 self-improvement podcast. In 2021, Shiv left the world of finance to start his company, Manifold Ventures, which is currently focusing on developing the exciting and inspiring personal dashboard, MeaVana. Among his several hobbies, Shiv is a passionate chess player, swimmer, and meditator. https://meavana.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaNDKw2leIg

    1h 18m
  8. 05/29/2024

    Leadership & Higher Realms of Possibilities

    We already know that beyond gender and social attributes, there are energy types within all of us that are referred to as Feminine and Masculine. In a different context, we could call them Yin and Yang. However, knowing is not enough. We need to be in touch with them and use them not only to help us be aware of our hidden blocks but also to be empowered to journey through life and its challenges. We can also gracefully use them in our expansion phases in spirituality, personal development, and in business as well to reconnect with our inner conscious leadership and be in expansion. In this episode, Chizu Sakamoto sheds light on the fundamental differences between the ideological representations of masculine and feminine that generate polarities in our societies and that she calls the false, wounded ones, and the Divine energies of masculine and feminine that pertain to the higher levels of consciousness. Chizu's work is about enhancing the energy of the Divine Feminine Essence in all of us that heals the wounds and brings back Unity Consciousness with LIFE itself, helping us thrive peacefully and gracefully. The most powerful mentor we could ever have is within ourselves. It is called LIFE." (Chizu Sakamoto) Master Energy Coach & Embodiment Mentor, Chizu Sakamoto helps Consciousness Leaders & Entrepreneurs break through their glass ceiling and thrive in their soul-work the feminine way: with more confidence, intuition and mastering their energy flow. As a former PhD in Biology, she also understands the challenges to shift from a more traditional paradigm to full, uncensored Self Expression and now teaches others how to channel their Original Crystalline Language to facilitate Consciousness Expansion and multi-dimensional healing. Her mission is to reconnect everyone who feels the inner calling to Higher Realms and Possibilities by embodying their Innate Wisdom and Power so that they become their own Mentor and materialize their greatest Vision. www.chizusakamoto.com

    1h 9m

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The "New Consciousness" is an important concept to grasp in this 21st century. It's all about self-transformation and reconnecting with your true nature if we want to move humanity forward. This podcast offers experts' reflections and directions from fields of science, business, spirituality and wellness. Enjoy!