Nika Annon, Radio Host of create your bliss

Nika is the host of CREATE YOUR BLISS, a radio show on Podbean and KUPR. The show airs every Friday of the month on Podbean at 12pm/est on and at 2pm on KUPR. 

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CREATE YOUR BLISS ARCHIVED SHOWS

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS peter donovan, Founder of Soil Carbon Challenge

Peter Donovan has a background in livestock herding, holistic management, community development, and ecological monitoring.

He is the founder of the Soil Carbon Challenge, a project to recognize creative farmers and ranchers who can grow water-holding, fertility-enhancing soil organic matter, based on accurate and practical measurements over 3-10 years.

So far the Soil Carbon Challenge has established over 300 plots in North America with committed and innovative producers.

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS WALTER JEHNE

Walter Jehne, a soil microbiologist, has worked on various aspects of pastures and soil, very much looking at the sustainable cycling of nutrients in soil, and how we can actually maintain bio-productivities with lower inputs. As oil declines, this is going to become critically important. Walter has worked on innovation strategies and helped form Healthy Soils Australia, a not for profit organization where leading scientists and farmers are working together to try to address our imperative; to restore key natural landscape processes and through that our soil, water, food security.

nika annon interviews didi pershouse

Didi Pershouse is a cross-pollinator, helping to connect the dots between soil health and human health. She is the author of The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities. As the founder of the Center for Sustainable Medicine, she developed a practice and theoretical framework for systems-based ecological medicine—restoring health to people as well as the social and ecological systems around them. 

After 22 years of clinical work with patients, she is now working with the Soil Carbon Coalition on a large-scale citizen-science program that engages schools, conservation districts, farmers, and the public in understanding the intersections between soil, water, public health, and climate resiliency. She develops learning resources on whole systems landscape function—in particular how to measure, understand, and work with the carbon and water cycles that make life on this planet possible. She also teaches workshops on self-care and peer support for community leaders. 

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS kristine maltrud

ArtSpark’s CEO/Founder, Kristine Maltrud, is a life-long dance and theater artist, director and producer with a passion for the arts and creativity.  She is committed to arts support networks and mechanisms, including new business models that work for artists and creators, the intersection of art and technology, social impact investing, philanthropy, and creative entrepreneurship.  Kristine has been a community facilitator for over 20 years, including leadership development, strategic planning, fundraising, curriculum development and program evaluation.  The inspiration for ArtSpark came from many years of being successfully funded as an artist in NYC – which often turned out to be gigs that paid pennies per hour.  www.art-spark.org

Nika Annon Interviews Barrie Grace Andrews

Barrie Grace Andrews has incorporated sound healing into her massage therapy practice since first studying Acutonics in 2005, integrating it with Shiatsu, western medical and oncology massage, CranioSacral Therapy, Usui Reiki, aromatherapy, reflexology, prenatal and sports massage. Acutonics is now the centerpiece of her eclectic and intuitive approach to healing.

Barrie has a BA from Colgate University, Magna Cum Laude with honors in Anthropology and Sociology, and studied Astroarcheology with early pioneers in the field, and with music professor Joselyn Godwin, translator of hermetic texts on music of the spheres and sacred vowels. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the University of Wisconsin and currently teaches printmaking and encaustic painting.  She has over 1800 hours of massage and Acutonics certifications, including working with astrology, facial soundscapes, and training to teach.

She is pioneering “Community Acutonics”, an innovation linking multiple participants in their healing journeys with sound. She loves teaching Acutonics with an emphasis on ethical and mindful clinical applications at Sage Acutonics and Massage (www.AtMySage.com) in her center, OCHO, in Questa, NM. She invites Acutonics students to come visit, participate in Community Acutonics, and to earn clinic hours. 

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS Cynthia lane

Cynthia Lane attended college on the West Coast where she discovered many kindred souls seeking deeper meaning and expanded purpose in their lives. Some of these friends turned her attention to teachings from the East—first Zen, and then masters from India. After a focused exploration of some of the life-enhancing modalities available at the time, she learned the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique offered by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Berkeley.

In 1996, Cynthia began to discover the indigenous traditions of the West, or the Americas. She spent several challenging years working with a Ho-Chunk teacher, who helped her clear many deeply-rooted spiritual and personal belief systems. During that period, she also opened to a profound and intimate relationship with the Earth: her wondrous creative nature, her healing and nourishing gifts and her deep wisdom. Cynthia felt like every cell in her body turned around 180 degrees as she learned to embrace life on Earth with a grounded kind of joy and openness that she had never before known.

Cynthia now runs First Light Transformations to help individuals open the door to clear, profound oneness with their infinite Source, and facilitates their ability to fully embody their Light-filled expression. She offers mentoring, retreats, individual sessions, workshops and teleconferences.

To learn more about Cynthia Lane and her programs, visit www.firstlighttransformations.com.

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS Carl o. hartman

Carl Hartman was born in New Jersey in 1936, raised mostly on a small farm outside of Trenton. After 20 years as a Methodist minister, he left the ministry to begin a different, spiritually "larger" life in New Mexico. In New Mexico, Carl worked in construction and then opened his own construction company. Currently, he is not involved in any "organized" religion but continues to study Native American and Andean shamanism. Carl finds himself most in his center when working with the sacred pipe, sweat lodge and native cosmologies. He continues to grow in this ever-expanding and mysterious multiverse.

Carl has an undergraduate degree in Literature and Philosophy from Dickinson College and graduate studies from Drew University Seminary. He’s married with 3 children, 7 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS elsa laflamme

Elsa LaFlamme is an artist, Jungian Life Coach and teacher. She taught Art and Humanities at North Florida Community College at Madison (1965-1968), Art and Art Education at the University of Texas at Austin (1968-1980.) After a move to Albuquerque, she taught Art Therapy at the University of New Mexico (1983-1998), and Counseling at Southwestern College, Santa Fe. She had a successful private practice (1981-2014). She has advanced degrees in Art, Art Education, and Art Therapy, and a PHD in Archetypal Psychology.

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS CAROL PARKER

Nika Annon interviews Carol Parker, Ph.D., a psychotherapist in private practice with a specialty in rites-of-passage work (vision quest) and transformation journeys in the Peruvian Andes. Carol has been a student of Andean Spiritual Cosmology since 2001, trained with the School of Lost Borders and Lakota Medicine people. She has published articles and book chapters on shamanic transformation and she is currently writing a book about her experiences with mountain spirits in the Andes. 

Breathing In The Sacred 7 w/Suzanne giesemann

Create Your Bliss w/Nika Annon interviews Suzanne Giesemann. Suzanne Giesemann is the author of 11 books, an inspirational speaker, metaphysical teacher, and evidence-based medium. She is a messenger of hope who captivates audiences as she brings love, healing, and comfort through her work. Suzanne’s gift of communication with those on the other side brings stunning evidence of life after death, as well as validating her teaching about the purpose of life, the nature of reality, and attuning to higher consciousness.

Her work has been recognized as highly credible by afterlife researcher Dr. Gary Schwartz, Ph.D., and best-selling author Dr. Wayne Dyer. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies along with such notable leaders as Raymond Moody, M.D., Jean Houston, Ph.D., and Larry Dossey, M.D.

Suzanne is a retired U.S. Navy Commander. She served as a commanding officer, as special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations, and as Aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11. Her unexpected and fascinating career transformation to her current work is the subject of the documentary, Messages of Hope, which has been featured at several film festivals.

Nika annon interviews vickie peck

Vickie grew up in remote ranch country in Arizona, riding her pony through the desert, happily immersed in wild nature. Naturally inquisitive, she chose to study biology, receiving her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Arizona. As a research professor at the University of New Mexico Biology department, she studied the molecular genetics of aging and she taught courses ranging from freshman to graduate levels. In 2000, she founded Bio-Logic LLC, a consulting company focused on building biosensors for detecting infectious diseases. After many years in a fast-paced career, she felt a need to return to wild nature and to go inward. In 2007, she took a deep dive into a remote village in the Amazon. She lived as her Indigenous hosts did. She had no electronics, no plumbing and no contact outside the village. She ate what her hosts ate. When she returned home, she felt healthier than she could remember. A truly remarkable experience!
 

She also began to study indigenous healing practices with a teacher from Mexico, a journey that continues today. She is co-writing a book with her teacher, suggesting that contemporary science is not the first to discover deep principles of health, medicine and the cosmos. Vickie lives in an orchard in the Village of Placitas with her husband, some chickens and many wild creatures. She is currently leading an experimental farm project to explore place-based approaches for growing food while conserving water.

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS author Frank Hadley Murphy

Frank Hadley Murphy was born into an old New England family in Boston, Massachusetts. A seminary drop-out, he graduated from the American Tea Masters Association's tea mastership program and is senior student of Tea Master and Taoist priest, Roy Fong.  He has lectured internationally, includingfor the Santa Fe Opera in conjunction with their US premier of Tan Dun's "Tea: A Mirror of Soul", Mr. Murphy lives in Santa Fe, New MexicoMurphy is the author of The Spirit of Tea a radical departure from all other tea books, touching upon tea's transcendental nature.. 

He embarked upon a 2 week China Tea Intensive in the field with Tea Master Roy Fong in Zhejiang and Fujian Provinces, China. Mr. Fong is the owner of San Francisco's Imperial Tea Court. During the intensive the group attended classes at China's National Tea Research Institute; picked Dragon Well Tea on the Institute's private grounds; learned how to hand fire the leaves in woks; and then partook of the tea, brewed with Tiger Run Spring Water, while sailing across majestic West Lake---in a floating tea house.

Frank's second book "Tea Fried Brain: Notes from Saint Camellia's Church of the First Infusion" was released in April of 2014. The back cover of "Tea Fried Brain" reads as follows:  "In this controversial testament gleaned from twenty years working behind the scenes of the American Tea Community, free radical, Frank Hadley Murphy, takes us on yet another transformational adventure into the heart and soul of China tea. "Filtered through veils of mysticism and humor, the teas of China's Yunnan Province flower as sentient beings, entheogens and plant spirit medicines. "The entire book takes place within the Chama River Canyon Wilderness Area of north central New Mexico, this narrative may, like some teas, push the reader beyond their own comfort levels into the vast open expanse of the human heart."

He discusses his upcoming book A Mystical Life with us.

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS Niccole Toral

Create Your Bliss w/Nika Annon interviews Niccole Toral. Niccole is an earth-based curandera (healer) who has combined her North and South American heritage to create an integrative approach to personal transformation.

Niccole studied and apprenticed with indigenous healers from Mexico, the highlands of the Andes, and North American First Nations. She underwent intense spiritual initiations in these traditions, which became the matrix for her approaches to healing.

Some of her Earth Based Traditions include Vision Quest, a Wilderness Rites of Passage, the Andean cosmology of the Q’eros in Peru, and the Native American ceremonies of the Lakota.

Niccole holds a master’s degree in Transpersonal Counseling and Consciousness from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Supervisor. She lives in Santa Fe, NM. 

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS joule l'adara, sound healing bodyworker

Joule L’Adara, MFA is an experimental vocalist and a professional opera singer who has performed with the Metropolitan Opera and as a soloist in Carnegie Hall. She is also a sound healing bodyworker, a workshop facilitator, a public speaker, and a soon-to-be author. Joule joyously leads vocal empowerment play-shops through her company Sounding Circles, featuring her original 3-step facilitation method designed to unleash people’s self-expression, creativity, and personal power through their voices. She offers her unique classes through national and international workshops and retreats as well as through online coaching programs.

Based in New York City, Joule is on the distinguished teaching faculty of the New York Open Center, in addition to offering private sound healing sessions through the Open Center’s Wellness Department. She is also the premiere sound healing practitioner at Integral Yoga Institute NYC and at Brooklyn’s award-winning Green Spa. Joule works with seniors at the Dorot Institute, and teaches weekly classes at the Lower East Side’s Catherine M. Abate Health Clinic offered through the Community Healthcare Network. She is the US trainer for Feeltone Therapeutic Instruments based in Germany, an Acutonics Tuning-Fork Practitioner, she is certified in Facial Soundscapes (an anti-aging tuning fork protocol for the face), and offers trainings in Harmonic Healing featuring the Australian-based Elfen Energy Chimes. This year she is founding a new experimental opera company called the Guided Imagery Opera which will combine conscious sound, guided imagery, live music, story-telling and art. www.soundingcircles.com

Nika Annon interviews Lucy Gent Foma, author of Funded!: How I Leveraged My Passion to Live A Fulfilling Life and How You Can Too

Born in Santa Fe, NM, to a family of West African dance and drum artists, Lucy Gent Foma is a dancer, city planner, and writer who has lived in Senegal, Cameroon, Brazil, as well as the southwest and northeast of the United States. She has received merit-based funding to conduct research and implement projects in American and African cities alike. After graduating from Smith College, she was a Fulbright Fellow and a Rotary Scholar in Senegal before attending Cornell for her master’s degree. She currently works as a Transportation Scholar for the National Park Service and writes about parenting, planning and pursuing your passion. Her website is www.LucyGentFoma.com

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS PATRICK SINGLETON, CREATOR OF inner mind sourcing (IMS)

Nika interviews Patrick Singleton, creator of Inner Mind Sourcing (IMS). Patrick Singleton a certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Hypnotherapy Instructor with the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners, one of the oldest Hypnotherapy organizations in the Unites States.

He’s presented NLP ideas and methods at their annual International Hypnotherapy Conference in Glendale California, on three separate occasions since 1998.

In 2010, he moved his office out of the Hypnotherapy school and reduced his hours in order to devote more time to focus on teaching NLP and on his private practice. Since 2005, he’s taught and certified over a hundred students as Practitioners of NLP, and since 1995, has performed over 3,000 sessions in private practice.

In 2011 he left the Hypnotherapy school entirely in order to present his training material and methods under his own name. And in 2012 he changed the name of his business to Inner Mind Sourcing™, in order to reflect the growing uniqueness of the work.

He continues to develop and present classes and workshops under the new business name, and in 2012, he joined the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce and the Better Business Bureau under the name Inner Mind Sourcing™

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS author of the romance diet, destiny allison

Create Your Bliss w/Nika Annon interviews The Romance Diet author, Destiny Allison. The Romance Diet is a story for women and the men who love them—a feminist book with a male hero, an extraordinary story because it is so very ordinary.

The Romance Diet explores the undercurrents that determine gender roles, identity issues, and women’s equality. It has a strong application for married women ages 35-55, trauma therapists, rape crisis centers, couples therapists, and readers of women’s studies and gender studies.

Destiny Allison was a professional and award winning sculptor. Her work was collected by individuals, civic entities and corporations worldwide. When an injury required her to re-envision her life, Allison did what she always does. She applied her explosive creativity and dog-with-a-bone tenacity to new endeavors such as community building efforts and developing an innovative business model that transformed a bankrupt shopping center into a thriving community and commercial center. In 2011 she was named Santa Fe Business Woman of the Year.

Allison is also the author of the non-fiction book Shaping Destiny, winner of best independent non-fiction/memoir in the 2013 Global Book Awards, and two novels, Pipe Dreams and Bitter Root. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

www.DestinyAllisonBooks.com

Create Your Bliss w/Nika Annon interviews Kimerer LaMothe, PhD

Kimerer LaMothe, PhD is a dancer, choreographer, scholar of religion, and award-winning author of five books, including Why We Dance (2015) and What a Body Knows (2009). She taught religious studies at Brown and Harvard Universities, and has received fellowships for her work in religion and dance from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions. She has choreographed and performed two solo concerts, Genesis (2011, 2009) and On Fire (2004).

In 2005, LaMothe moved with her partner, pianist Geoffrey Gee, to a farm in Hebron, NY, where they created Vital Arts, a homestead dedicated to the creation of earth-friendly art and ideas. Gee and LaMothe perform regularly in local venues, offering musical shows with their five children, ages 6 to 20. On the farm, the family takes care of two horses, two oxen, three cows, four cats, ten hens, and extensive food gardens.

 For more information about Geoffrey’s music, Kimerer’s books, their eldest son Jordan’s hand-forged knives, and life on the farm, please visit: www.vitalartsmedia.com

CREATE YOUR BLISS W/NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS Dr. Claudia Welch

Dr Claudia Welch is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, an Ayurvedic practitioner and educator, and the author of several books including Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness Through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine and Western Science and, How the Art of Medicine Makes the Science More Effective: Becoming the Medicine We Practice.

Dr. Welch lectures internationally on Oriental and Ayurvedic medicines and Women’s Health, bringing a depth of knowledge and a sense of joy to her presentations. She has served on the teaching faculty of The Ayurvedic Institute, Kripalu School of Ayurveda, Southwest Acupuncture College, and Acupractice Seminars.

CREATE YOUR BLISS W/NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS peggy huddleston & patricia ellsberg

Create Your Bliss w/Nika Annon interviews Peggy Huddleston, a pioneer in mind-body medicine. She is the author of Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster: A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques. Her writing and clinical work focus on what people can do emotionally and spiritually to speed their physical healing. Peggy's mind-body technique helps patients reduce anxiety before surgery and use 23-60% less pain medicine while healing faster. Patients have reported peaceful feeling before a surgery as well as after a surgery. Patricia Ellsberg, a social change activist, meditation teacher, spiritual coach and public speaker, joins Peggy and Nika during this enlightening discussion.

CREATE YOUR BLISS W/NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS SHAMANIC PRACTITIONER, LIV WHEELER

Nika Annon interviews Shamanic Practitioner, Liv Wheeler (www.AncestorBridge.com).  She is a bridge, a conduit of wisdom and guidance from the other side.  Liv helps people to connect with their loved ones, as well as spiritual guardians and allies on the other side.  A realm that she's particularly connected with is the Kontomble realm, the dimension of the 'little people'.  Liv is a voice for the 'little people', a Kontomble Voice Diviner.  Transmitting their wisdom and guidance to people on this side.  She does this through one-on-one phone sessions, as well as working with larger groups of people, who gather to hear from the 'little people'.  

CREATE YOUR BLISS W/NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS Ravi Das, Donald van Howten

Ravi Das, whose publications are under Donald van Howten, is an Ayurvedic practitioner, Feldenkrais® teacher and certified massage therapist instructor specializing in various types of soft-tissue methods, such as cranial & visceral Touch Of Awakening®. Van teaches in the US, Europe, Costa Rica & New Zealand and he has a private practice in Santa Fe, NM. He has been in the field of bodywork and personal development for 44 years and is an associate instructor at the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico. He is the author of "Ayurveda & Life Impressions Bodywork."

Van’s most current teaching combines principles and practices from Ayurveda, Osteopathic medicine and the Feldenkrais method® among others. Ayurveda & Life Impressions Bodywork® embraces the fact that we are Spirit that has become form. Our physical, emotional, mental and energetic aspects developed from embryonic stages to this moment hold information for personal growth. By exploring our form with great care, safety and support, movement, exploration and hands on connect we tend to arrive once more at the indwelling Spirit from whence we began.

Ravi Das teaches that we all have holding patterns that are habitual so that they leave a historical imprint on the membranes of the body. These membranes store our actions, experiences, emotions, and beliefs. They in turn represent our impressions of life in a "hard copy" of flesh. His work leads us to create new patterns. 

CREATE YOUR BLISS W/NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS FOUNDER OF PRINCIPLE-BASED PARTNER YOGA™, ELYSABETH WILLIAMSON

Nika Annon interviews Elysabeth Williamson, founder of Principle-Based Partner Yoga™

Elysabeth has had a lifelong connection with Yoga and experienced spontaneous, intuitive movement into yoga postures throughout her childhood. She began formal studies at the age of seventeen, including many diverse Yogic traditions such as Kripalu, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Anusara, Kundalini, Kriya, and Power Vinyasa Yoga. Certi?ed as a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, Elysabeth incorporates a wide variety of healing modalities into her teaching including Thai Yoga massage, Cranial Sacral, Shiatsu and various meditation techniques.

Elysabeth has been teaching Yoga for over 25 years and is accredited through Yoga Alliance as an E-RYT 500, experienced, registered, Yoga teacher.

To learn more about Elysabeth Williamson, visit www.partneryoga.net

Create Your Bliss w/Nika Annon Interviews Author & Shamanic Healer, Itzhak Beery

Nika Annon interviews the author of The Gift of Shamanism, Itzhak Beery (www.itzhakbeery.com). Itzhak discusses his book and the many different forms of the “aha” moment of shamanic awakening, whether they arise from ceremony, near-death experiences, dream messages, or entheogenic substances. 

Itzhak's work has been featured in a variety of worldwide publications including the NY Times, radio and video interviews and he is often invited to speak on panel discussions, press conferences and festivals and to host and participate in Shamanic Webinars. 

He was featured in the feature film "The Hindenburg Omen" and Parashakti's "Dance of Liberation" documentary. He is also the featured shaman in the upcoming TV show "Soul Search."

Itzhak Beery, an internationally recognized shamanic healer and teacher, was initiated into the Circle of 24 Yachaks by his Quechua teacher in Ecuador and by Amazonian Kanamari Pagè. He has also trained intensively with other elders from South and North America. The founder of ShamanPortal.org and cofounder of the New York Shamanic Circle, he is on the faculty of New York Open Center.

Nika Annon Interviews Sex Therapist & Author, Gina Ogden

This week, Nika Annon interviews Gina Ogden a master therapist, supervisor, researcher, teacher, and author with four decades of helping clients, leading workshops, training health professionals, and keynoting conferences.  Her teleseminars reach a global audience and her ISIS Wheel retreats and trainings in the US and Mexico combine both nuanced thinking and relational magic.  She is recipient of the 2013 AASECT award for Professional Excellence--for pioneering the multidimensional ISIS Wheel as a model through which to expand the field of human sexuality.  

Gina discusses the belief in multifaceted sexuality that extends beyond the goal-oriented act of sex and into the realms of spirit, body, mind, and heart. During her sex therapy, a person has the opportunity to get up and literally step  into the Wheel to experience the essence of each quadrant — physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental. Through this process, one can explore multiple facets of their story and access body intelligence that shifts their experience. 

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS AUTHORS, Lewis Mehl-Madrona & Barbara Mainguy

Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D. and Barbara Mainguy, M.A., are the authors of Remapping Your Mind: The Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story.

Applying the latest neuroscience research on memory, brain mapping, and brain plasticity to the field of narrative therapy, Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara Mainguy explain how the brain is specialized in the art of story-making and story-telling. They detail mind-mapping and narrative therapy techniques that use story to change behavior patterns in ourselves, our relationships, and our communities. They explore studies that reveal how memory works through story, how the brain recalls things in narrative rather than lists, and how our stories modify our physiology and facilitate health or disease. Drawing on their decades of experience in narrative therapy, the authors examine the art of helping people to change their story, providing brain-mapping practices to discover your inner storyteller and test if the stories you are living are functional or dysfunctional, healing or destructive. They explain how to create new characters and new stories, ones that excite you, help you connect with yourself, and deepen your intimate connections with others.

The authors also explore how narrative therapy can help replace dysfunctional cultural stories with those that offer templates for healthier relationships with each other and the planet.

Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician and executive director of the Coyote Institute for Studies of Change and Transformation. The author of several books, including Narrative Medicine and Coyote Medicine, he lives in Augusta, Maine. http://www.mehl-madrona.com/

Barbara Mainguy, M.A., is a psychotherapist and education director for the Coyote Institute for Studies of Change and Transformation. She lives in Augusta, Maine.

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS WELLNESS & SPIRITUAL COUNSELOR, Andréa Takacs-Carvalho

Andréa Takacs-Carvalho is a Wellness and Spiritual Counselor, self-care mentor, shamanic practitioner, climate justice advocate, plant-base-diet proponent, life-long environmentalist. She is passionate about promoting the healing of people and our planet Earth. Andrea has been working on herself and her spiritual path for over two decades.   Her wisdom delivers possibility for changes that are immediate, profound, and permanent. Andréa is an Earth healer who honors Mother Earth and lives in balance with her, and she believes that our relationships with Nature is the core link between our personal health and the health of our planet.

She hosts a few Woman’s circles monthly helping women to connect with the Sacred Feminine, using her training Womb Awakening Apprenticeship Program.

To learn more about Andrea, visit: www.thegaiahealer.com/

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS MARGARET DE WYS, AUTHOR OF BLACK SMOKE

When Margaret De Wys learned she had breast cancer, the diagnosis shattered her comfortable life. Seized by fear, crushed by esistential loneliness, she couldn’t respond when her loved ones reached out to her. The illness propelled her away from her family and deep into the Amazon to work with Carlos, a charismatic Shuar master of medicina milenaria, an ancient mystical tradition with a highly sophisticated and precise technology of healing.

In this interview, Nika Annon interviews Margaret De Wys about her illness, travels abroad and work with traditional healers throughout the world. Margaret also discusses her book, Black Smoke, a woman’s journey of healing, wild love and transformation in the Amazon.

Margaret De Wys is a composer and sound installation artist whose works have been performed at venues including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum. Currently working with John of God (Joao de Deus) in Brazil and at Omega Institute in New York, she also takes groups to the Ecuadorian Amazon to work with the shaman who healed her of breast cancer. The author of Black Smoke and Ecstatic Healing, she divides her time between Upstate New York and Southeast Nigeria.

To learn more about Margaret De Wys, visit: http://www.blacksmokethebook.com/

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS TRANSMEDIA ARTIST & PRODUCER, KATY WALKER

Nika Annon interviews transmedia artist and producer, Katy Walker, of the documentary film 'Time is Art'. 'Time is Art' is a film about synchronicity and the rise of global collective consciousness. The film was inspired by acclaimed & visionary author José Argüelles’ studies in ancient indigenous wisdom. It explores the idea that modern humanity is immersed in an erroneous and artificial perception of time that deviates from the natural order of the universe. The documentary shows how society has become disconnected from the natural rhythms of the earth by focusing only on money, consumerism and exploitation while deep down inside, individuals crave the return to a foundation of culture, community, and creation.

Contribute to the documentary film campaign for 'Time is Art' by visiting http://igg.me/at/timeisart

NIKA ANNON INTERVIEWS NEPALI SHAMAN, BHOLA NATH BANSTOLA

Nika Annon Interviews Bhola Nath Banstola, an indigenous Nepali shaman who was born in Bholpur, eastern Nepal in 1966. He was called by the spirits at a very young age to become a shaman and was initiated by his grandfather. His shamanic call has given him the opportunity to travel worldwide learning, sharing and teaching wisdom passed by his ancestors.  Bhola awakens participants to the our ancestral history during private healing sessions and provides 5 days training courses in Nepalese Himalayan Shamanic Healing practices as well as weekend classes. In addition to training and weekend courses, he teaches at the European School of Shamanism in Paris, France. Bhola Nathan Banstola has been published numerous times in Sacred Hoop journal on shamanism and has made appearances on Italian television and interviewed on various radio programs worldwide. Currently, he is involved in rebuilding his community in Nepal that was hit hard by the earthquake.

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