The Energy Matters Podcast Caroline Ruderman

 On today's episode of Energy Matters, The Organic Gourmet's Leslie Cerier joins us to talk about luscious living with food. Leslie is a self-taught vegetarian chef, cookbook author, teacher, and public speaker. She gives us insights on intuitive cooking, how to maintain our creative flow, and really honoring what our body wants and doesn't want. This slow mindful pacing has informed her career choices, her book writing, and recipe creation. Tune in for a great show! 

Today on Energy Matters Arden Sundari, yoga therapist and yogini, returns to explore the connection between the polyvagal nervous system and our ancestral ties. She begins to unpack epigenetics (the non-coding DNA) and how we inherit 14 generations of personality and behavioral patterns. Arden begins to examine how we can transform these inherited patterns through calming our nervous system. She also connects this work to our current race relations in our country. Tune in a great show!

Today on Energy Matters, Caroline sits down with Willie Crosby, founder, grower, and educator of Fungi Ally. Willie talks about he began growing mushrooms and how his business evolved into supporting others to cultivate and forage their own. From spawn to foraging to grow kits, we cover a range of ways to do that. Willie also speaks to the rise of popularity of mushrooms in our culture, from a culinary perspective as well as our spiritual evolution. Tune in for a great show! 

This week on Energy Matters, Caroline chats with return guest Sunshine Beeson! Sunshine breaks down the qualities of our Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine and the shadow sides to both. Understanding these archetypal energies allows us to heal ourselves and understand a healthy polarity in our relationships. Tune in for a great show! 

On this week's episode of Energy Matters, Caroline sits down with Chris Sturk, who offers sound therapy for yoga and meditation. Chris talks about his lifelong love of music and how that transitioned into sound healing. He talks about how he sets intentions, when instruments "want" to play, and how binaural beats work. In addition to offering live sound journeys in gardens or at music festivals, Chris recently released an album of binaural beats called Sounds for Wellbeing. Grab your headphones and tune in for a great show!

On today's episode of Energy Matters, Caroline and summer co-host Marietta Skeen sit down to talk with death doula and hospice volunteer Lynn Simonds. Through dealing with her own mother's passing, Lynn learned how to deal with grief through music and song writing. This paved the way for her training as a death doula many years later. Lynn talks about how she understands some of the ancient practices of keening, hired mourners, and how primal sounds can assist in the grieving process. There's a lot of basic education on alternatives to traditional funerals as well. Tune in for a great show!