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Today I’m with my very special guest, Judith Poelarends. Judith is a master essence practitioner and owner of Alaskan Essences. Her career began in the Netherlands as a scientific researcher on animal health, which led her to her greater calling as an animal communicator, working with the medicine of flower essences. As her path in the healing arts broadened, she met her partner, Steve Johnson, the founder of Alaskan Essences and moved to Victor, MT. Since Steve’s death in in 2017, Judith took up the reigns as director of the company. Every year, she makes a solo pilgrimage to Alaska, to create the essences.
Learn more at https://alaskanessences.com
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Today, I’m with my very special guests Olivia Simone and Iman Nazemzadeh. Olivia and Iman are both artists in the fields of acting, writing, and filmmaking, based in Los Angeles. In this conversation, we get to experience a tea ceremony with Iman, as we talk about the gift of tea in each of their lives. As Buddhist practitioners, we touch on how tea supports their spiritual engagement, emotional wellbeing, and the health of their relationship.
Learn more on Iman and Olivia's Instagram and the Global Tea Hut Website
Iman https://www.instagram.com/iteaceremony/
Olivia https://www.instagram.com/livsimone/
Global Tea Hut https://globalteahut.org/
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Join Dina for her upcoming Flowers and Sound Workshop in Woodside, CA
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Today I’m on the glorious Mendocino Coast in the garden of my very special guests Winnie Pitrone and Andy Mackey. Winnie is an organic flower grower who creates floral bouquets that are sought-after around the country, as her work emanates joy, reverence for the garden, and a deep connection with Nature. Andy is an organic horticulturist who uses mostly hand tools, as he honors Nature as the main gardener. In our conversation we talk about what it means to lead a life in harmony with Nature and in concert with the life cycle of flowers.
 Learn more at https://www.floraofthefields.com/
Flora of the Fields Movie: https://vimeo.com/777903610
Visit www.dinasaalisi.com to learn more about Dina, buy her books, and discover how you can cultivate wellbeing with the energies of nature.
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Today I’m in Santa Barbara, CA in the garden of Cynthia James. Cynthia is a visual artist who works with oil paint on canvas to portray nature in a magical realist style. She spent 20 years living in Tulum, Mexico when it was still a remote jungle village. In our conversation, we talk about how this experience inspired her to focus on the surreal qualities of nature in her art and confront environmental issues such as the disappearing bees.
Learn more at https://cjamesfineart.com
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I’m at the Griffith Park Bird Sanctuary in Los Angeles with my very special guest Azalea Lee. Azalea is a crystal healer and flower essence practitioner in the greater Los Angeles area. She’s the author of The Crystal Workshop: A Journey Into the Healing Power of Crystals. In this conversation we talk about the profound energy of crystals and how we can connect with this energy through our deeper capacities of intuition and trust in our own inner wisdom.
Learn more at https://place8healing.com
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Today I’m in a majestic oak woodland at Huckleberry Botanic Preserve in Oakland CA with my very special guest Obi Kaufmann. Obi is an award-winning author, artist, and naturalist, whose books include the California Field Atlas, The Forests of California, The Coasts of California, and The Deserts of California. In our conversation we talk about his hopeful and integrated vision of California’s future.
Learn more at http://www.californiafieldatlas.com/
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