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  • Travel Afar, Journey Within

    Travel Afar, Journey Within
    2024/12/25

    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.
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  • Adapting Mind and Body for Conscious Evolution

    Adapting Mind and Body for Conscious Evolution
    2024/11/27
    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)
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    1 時間 15 分
  • I Meditate. So, What’s next?

    I Meditate. So, What’s next?
    2024/10/30
    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.
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    1 時間 19 分
  • Before Being Healthy, We Must Be Alive

    Before Being Healthy, We Must Be Alive
    2024/09/25
    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
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    1 時間 6 分
  • Deaf Poetry in the New consciousness--Expanding our Reality

    Deaf Poetry in the New consciousness--Expanding our Reality
    2024/08/28
    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)
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    1 時間 17 分
  • Befriending the Spirit Realm

    Befriending the Spirit Realm
    2024/07/31
    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)
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    1 時間 17 分
  • Make Your “Why” Matters

    Make Your “Why” Matters
    2024/06/26
    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)
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    1 時間 18 分
  • Leadership & Higher Realms of Possibilities

    Leadership & Higher Realms of Possibilities
    2024/05/29
    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)
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    1 時間 9 分