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Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Scholar Acharya Shunya The first female lineage-holder of her distinguished Vedic tradition, Acharya Shunya is an internationally renowned scholar, teacher, author, speaker and scholar of nondual wisdom (Advaita) from India, and a classically-trained master of Yoga and Ayurveda. She is the Founder of The Awakened Self Foundation and the nonprofit Vedika Global, Inc., platforms headquartered in Northern California, that empower, educate, and inspire a global community of students through online courses, workshops, and retreats. These conversations are furthered by Shunya's top-rated podcast, "Shadow To Self." An award-winning author of international repute, Shunya's most recent book, Roar Like a Goddess: Every Woman's Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous, and Peaceful was published by Sounds True September 2022 and is now available worldwide. Learn more at AcharyaShunya.com, AwakenedSelf.com and

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Zen master Dr. Ginny Whitelaw Dr. Ginny Whitelaw is an 86th Generation Rinzai Zen master, a Chosei Zen priest, and founder of the Institute for Zen Leadership. With more than 25 years developing whole leaders, she is the author of Resonate and The Zen Leader, and co-developer of FEBI, a personality assessment linking mind and body and behaviors. Formerly, Deputy Manager for integrating NASA's Space Station Program, she has a Ph.D. in biophysics, and a 5th degree black belt in Aikido.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Author Linda Shay. Linda Shay is a Dolphin Ambassador for Joyful Living, author, pioneer in the field of Dolphin Energy Healing, spiritual mentor, and founder of Dolphin Heart World.  In 1996, a magical encounter with a wild Hawaiian spinner dolphin changed Linda's life forever. Shortly afterwards, this former banker said "Yes" to Dolphin’s mysterious invitation to be one of their ambassadors on land, and to do dolphin energy healing as her career. The unique gift Linda is the custodian of is the Dolphin Attunement Journey, a new spiritual path for humanity created by the Dolphin Consciousness. For 25 years, Linda has been collaborating with the Dolphin Consciousness to help humans heal their hearts, transform their consciousness, and find their JOY!  DolphinHeart.World

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Author Z Budapest. Z Budapest is author of the acclaimed The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries (1989) originally published in 1975 as The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows. This book served as the first hands-on guide to lead women into their own spiritual/Goddess heritage. The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries contains just about everything you need to know and then some for actualizing a goddess-centered lifestyle. This interview is for any woman seeking to know more about themselves, women’s spirituality, and the goddess movement. Zsuzsanna “Z” Budapest was born in Hungary in 1940 and emigrated to the United States in 1959. She grew up respecting and appreciating Mother Nature as god. Following her family’s spiritual tradition, she ultimately started the Women's Spirituality Movement. She also founded the Susan B. Anthony Coven Number l, the first feminist witches' coven, which became the role model for thousands

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Body language expert Lavina Plonka Body language expert Lavinia Plonka has helped people improve their movement, behavior, relationships and careers for over 40 years. Her unique expertise connects the dots among posture/movement, emotions and the mind. Lavinia’s training and professional career have included theater, dance, yoga and the martial arts. She has taught The Feldenkrais Method® for 30 years and is also an Assistant Trainer. Lavinia is a level CL4 teacher of the Alba Method and an Emotional Body Instructor. She was an artist in residence for the Guggenheim Museum and movement consultant for theater and television companies around the world, from the Irish National Folk Theater to Nickelodeon. A faculty member of the Shift Network, Lavinia’s popular workshops explore the intersection between movement, emotions and the mind. She is currently the director of Asheville Movement Center in Asheville, NC. Lavi

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with eco-spiritualist Chris Omni Chris Omni is an eco-spiritualist, two-timeTEDx speaker, three-time First Place 3-MT (3-Minute Thesis) Winner, Black women's health researcher, published author, documentary filmmaker, international presenter, community mobilizer, and former health motivation columnist. Chris holds a bachelor's degree in Human Services and two master's degrees - Public Health and Liberal Arts. Chris is a doctoral candidate at Florida State University where she is researching Black Joy in Green Spaces through the methodologies of auto-ethnography, narrative inquiry, photo-elicitation, and nomadic inquiry. Most recently, Chris's TEDx Talk, "Granny's Garden: How to Grow Black Joy," featured the first, public, poetic theorizing of Black Joy! Chris deeply values the unapologetic use of her voice and agency to speak life, love, and Light to all people with a particular emphasis on Black people. She views her

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with artist Katherine Skaggs.  Katherine Skaggs is an intuitive, visionary artist, spiritual teacher, shamanic practitioner, and painter of souls. Katherine is the author of the multi-award winning book, including COVR Book of the Year, Artist Shaman Healer Sage - Timeless Wisdom, Practices, Ritual, and Ceremony to Transform Your Life and Awaken Your Soul. She is also the author and artist of the newly released Masters of Light Wisdom Oracle, and the artist of the best selling, award-winning Mythical Goddess Tarot. Katherine Skaggs is a channel for higher consciousness through her sacred art and inspiring words.  Q & A topics in this episode include: Mini Stroke Blood pressure Comfrey infusion Waking up to go to the bathroom 

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with author Monica Hershaft. Responsible for healing thousands of people struggling with Chronic Mystery Illness, Monica Hershaft has established herself as a true trailblazer in the wellness space. Bestselling author, motivational speaker, holistic health practitioner and nutritional consultant, Monica founded one of the top-rated wellness centers in Los Angeles recently relocated to Scottsdale, AZ where she works 1:1 with patients to get their health back. Q & A topics in this episode include: Dogs with kennel cough - 31:52Pharmakeia - 39:30Adaptogens for stress - 54:23  

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with professional homeopath Suzy Meszoly. Patterns of Illness - The Root Causes of Our Suffering with Suzy Meszoly.   Our energetic state (mind, body, spirit) creates our conditions for life, even so far as being susceptible to a virus or having a "random" accident. Our energetic state determines our lifestyle, our job, who we choose to have relationships with and how we have those relationships. How we interpret the world and how we act in the world is determined by our individual and unique energetic blueprint  which is always changing as well, as we learn from experience, adapt, accept, transform and one might even say, evolve. * Q & A topics in this episode include: Pine trees that are edible or not Eupatorium serotinumKava root   

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Intuitive coach Devorah Spilman. Devorah Spilman has been a master storyteller for over 30 years. Today she is also an intuitive coach and helps writers, creatives and entrepreneurs to find the clarity and confidence to tell their deep, authentic story, to live their purpose and transform their lives. Her "In Story Group" takes people on a journey to find and manifest their soul's calling and bring their story, mission and message out into the world. Devorah has clients all over the world following their calling, writing books and building businesses based on the deep work that accesses their inner story and the power to integrate and use all parts of ourselves.   If you have ever been told you have to tell your story to succeed and then wondered how to do it, wonder no more. Devorah will take you within to find and tell your story and to access your soul's calling. Through her signature InStory process Devorah

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Author Misa Hopkins.   Misa Hopkins has been a pioneer in the field of Feminine Consciousness and sound healing for nearly 30 years and is a 6-times best-selling author. She has made multiple television appearances and is featured in the documentary—When Sparks Ignite. Misa's mystical initiations in both feminine and masculine sacred energies inspire her to further personal and planetary healing through balanced consciousness. Having healed from chronic and incurable conditions, she believes in each person's innate ability to heal and awaken into the life of their dreams. **

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Herbalist Linda Conroy.  Linda Conroy dedicates her life to connecting with the green world. She is a practicing herbalist, providing herbal education, workshops and apprenticeships, as well as individual consultations and her herb store. Linda also holds two masters degrees: MSS (Master of Social Service) and MLSP (Master of Law and Social Policy). Linda is a community organizer and the founder of the Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference. Her primary mentors are the plants who never cease to instill a sense of awe in her daily life. Linda’s primary human mentors are Isla Burgess, Susun Weed  and Marshall Rosenberg. She has also studied with Tieraona LowDog, MD, Stephen Buhner, Cascade Geller Anderson, Ryan Drum, Eaglesong and Sally King of Raven Croft Gardens, Matthew Wood, Suzanne Tabert and many others. She has studied as well as studies women’s mysteries with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Z. Budapest, Vicki Noble,

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Educator Bece Kidder.  Bece Kidder (pronounced BC) is a certified Level 2 Franklin Method Educator and a certified yoga teacher with over 500 hours of yoga teacher training, including two aerial yoga teacher certifications. Bece has been teaching yoga for more than 10 years, and has spent her 48 years on this earth enjoying all the many ways humans can move their bodies through life. Bece has taught yoga at several yoga studios in Portland, Oregon. Since the early days of COVID, she transitioned and now provides a safe, student-focused virtual yoga/movement studio via Zoom using the Franklin Method for embodying movement and enhancing performance, focusing on yoga, and improving the everyday bodily functions so key to our survival. Her classes are accessible for all body types, ages and genders.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Carolyn B. Coleridge, LCSW Carolyn is a licensed psychotherapist, who is a Spiritual life coach, an Intuitive and healer with 25 years of experience. Carolyn has appeared on CNN International demonstrating energy healing and also appeared on Chrisely knows Best. Carolyn was a former faculty member of the Pediatric Pain Program @ UCLA, a Complementary Alternative Medicine program, where she was a Reiki Master. Q & A topics in this episode include: Usnea tincture 'overdosing' Infection in the mouth Vitamin D   * 

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with psychic Vincent Genna A truly authentic and gifted psychic medium with the knowledge and experience of a psychotherapist and the big, charming personality of a showman, Vincent Genna combines his extraordinary psychic abilities, academic credentials, and genuine all-loving approach to provide healing for body, mind, and spirit. As a psychic therapist, Vincent uses his more than 39 years of training, research, and experience in the Metaphysical, Psychological, and Spiritual fields to dive deep into your psyche to release unconscious blockages, resistances, and self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors so you can fulfill the life of your dreams. Vincent offers his spiritual, metaphysical, and psychological insights in his first book, The Secret That’s Holding You Back released by G&D Media this June, 2022. Q & A topics in this episode include: Growing Elecampane  Dental surgery Gout in hand & foot Diarrhea

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Artist Kim Kitchen Kim Kitchen is a multidisciplinary artist working in audio and film as a result of a debilitating and transformative illness. She explores collective cultural understandings of the female body, its intersections with and presence within the natural world. This is evident through the inclusion of ritual in her work - particularly in To Re-convene // To Shoreline - which draws on her lifelong connection to the Primordial Mother, and to knowledge of her ancestral homelands of old Europe. This ongoing research and consciousness has deeply influenced her artistic practice, which has been largely tactile, focused on painting, sculpture, installation and performance. Currently, Kim engages her practice of critical inquiry of body/land relations and the self-reflexive relationship between ability and artistic production through largely multimedia approaches. With significant changes in mobility, old sp

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Life-Coach Margaret Nash. Margaret Nash is a Life-Coach, life-long seeker, hippie-at-heart and author of 7 books, living and working in San Miguel de Allende in the highlands of Mexico. She is also a trained hypnotherapist. Margaret certified in the 1990s as a Master Practitioner and Trainer in NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming), Hypnotherapy, and Time-line Therapy, and has been honing her craft on unsuspecting folk for nearly 20 years in England and Mexico. She coaches online and in person in San Miguel, helping people deal with surviving transitions, aging well, and finding their groove in life in their 50s, 60s, and beyond. Her background is in business training; she uses a practical, results oriented approach, combined with an esoteric flavor, in her training and coaching. You can find her website and blog at www.margaretnashcoach.com.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Composer Natalie Brown. Composer, educator, sound healer and multi-instrumentalist, Natalie Brown, has traveled the world performing, recording and teaching music. She was trained classically, starting violin at age 4 and has taught high school orchestra for 14 years. She is the founder and operator of Sounds Heal Studio, providing one-on-one and group sound healing sessions and workshops as well as practitioner training through the International Sound Healing Academy. Natalie is the lead teacher for the Americas for the Academy. She completed Nada Yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India. She also has training and certifications in Reiki, Craniosacral Therapy, Qigong and Acupressure. Natalie's podcast, Sounds Heal Podcast, explores using sound for health and wellness with interviews of top innovators & practitioners in the field. It has been recognized as the #2 music therapy/ sound therapy podcasts on the

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Astrid Grove and Leela Parker   It was an instantly deep and profound sisterhood between Astrid and Leela over 20 years ago. They first met in the herb garden and they were instantly connected through their love of plants and their commitment to ceremony. They have sat in sacred circle countless times, attended each other's births, and were initiated into their true path as daughters of the earth by the same mentor, Susun Weed. In the same spirit of calling the circle of women, Astrid and Leela are birthing this apprenticeship opportunity for a year-long deep dive into the skills of living in sisterhood as daughters of the earth. To learn more about The Wise Woman Sisterhood: www.thewisewomansisterhood.com To learn more about Leela, go to www.leelaparker.com To learn more about Astrid, go to www.astridgrove.com and www.redearthherbalgathering.com  

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with author Susan Campbell   Susan is a best-selling author of 11 books on relationships and is the creator and publisher of three entertaining and educational card games for teens, adults, couples, work teams, and singles. Her games promote more authentic relating among players. Susan's work with couples has been featured on national television, including CNN's News Night, Good Morning America, and The Dr. Dean Edel Show, and she has been published widely in popular magazines, such as Self, New Woman, and Cosmopolitan. In 2003-2004, she was the couple therapist on the reality TV show, Truth in Love, which aired on UPN, an ABC affiliate network. Q & A topics include: * Susun shares a personal experience with painful ending of a friendship then reads more of the story of Goldilocks dealing with moldhistamine reactionsherbs to help relieve a stuffy nnosemacular degenerationharvesting hypericum flowersraw food