Marc Bekoff on Rewilding our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence

In wildlife conservation work, rewilding refers to habitat restoration and the creation of corridors between preserved lands to allow declining populations to rebound. Marc Bekoff, one of the world’s most engaging animal experts and activists (he worked alongside leading writers and activists including Jane Goodall, Peter Singer, and PETA cofounder Ingrid Newkirk), here applies this to human attitudes.

He argues that unless we start rewilding ourselves, becoming profoundly reconnected to nature and fundamentally shifting our consciousness, our conservation efforts will have limited impact. As we become re-enchanted with the world, we dissolve artificial boundaries and truly connect with both nature and ourselves. 

Learn more about Marc Bekhoff: marcbekoff.com  and with Jane Goodall http://www.ethologicalethics.org/

Traci Slatton & Sabin Howard, the Art of Life

Traci Slatton

A rare excerpt from "The Power of We," Maryanne's show with her husband David Raynal, interviewing husband-and-wife team Traci Slatton and Sabin Howard on their collaboration The Art of Life, that reads like a novel and looks sumptuous.

Writer and healer Traci surveys figurative sculpture from the earliest times to the present and details the work of contemporary master Sabin Howard. Sabin creates sculptures of the human figure that embody heroism and strength and inspire us to be our own best selves. His life-size or larger bronzes express human feelings--anger, eros, being armored, being open, courage--and our bodies “get” the feelings in a way that is beyond language. Check out the rotating slideshow on his website. 

We dare you to keep from smiling and feeling larger and happier when you look at his man and woman with their arms outstretched! Join for a candid talk on how two artists manage marriage and how to give our passionate best to each other, be true to ourselves, and give our gifts to humanity. 

Learn more: www.tracislatton.com     www.sabinhoward.com     parvatipress.com

Adrienne Golday & Shayne: Regretland, a Journey to Riches

Shayne and Adrienne Golday

Two powerful, intuitive women today. Adrienne Golday & her daughter Shayne, are both rated Top Healers/Mediums/Intuitive Business Advisors...providing insight in all areas: love, health, money & biz! Adrienne is up first, author of Regretland, a Journey to Riches.  You might know what it feels like to live in Regretland...dragging, joyless, stuck...and how good it feels to move out!

She knows the territory, and wrote the book to mirror everyone's life, as it helps us to heal old emotional wounds and release yesterday's baggage. She'll move us into taking new actions to re-create happiness and discover the sacredness of life. Join us for a journey into a timeless universe!

Then Maryanne talks with Shayne, who has appeared as a medium for celebrities and is the designer of Praying Ladies, lovely gemstone figurines meaning "All people, all religions, all one! Through prayer, healing occurs, and the impossible becomes I'M POSSIBLE!" Watching her mother help police find missing children, Shayne was inspired to create the Praying Lady Club to share the power of prayer with everyone, unifying all religions.

Learn more: www.goldayhouse.com www.consultantshayne.co Adrienne Shayne Golday Regretland

Dr. Amy Banks, Four Ways to Click: Rewire Your Brain for Stronger, More Rewarding Relationships

Research shows that we cannot reach our full potential unless we are in healthy connection with others. There are four distinct neural pathways that correspond to the four most important ingredients for healthy and satisfying relationships: calmness, acceptance, emotional resonance, and energy.

Dr. Banks gives us the tools we need to strengthen the parts of our brain that encourage connection and to heal the neural damage that disconnection can cause. Find out how to rewire our brains for healthier relationships and happier, more fulfilling lives!

Dr. Amy Bank is on the Wellesley Center's website, http://www.wcwonline.org/Active-Researchers/amy-banks-md

Gregg Braden & Shaman Durek on conscious creation of our future

Gregg Braden and Shaman Durek

There's a time when every crisis can become transformation; when simply surviving can become joyous, conscious thriving. In our lives that time is The Turning Point. In our world that time is now! Gregg Braden, author of The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes, synthesizes easy-to-understand science and real-world circumstances. He'll reveal simple strategies of resilient thinking for our finances and lifestyles, and for resilient living for our families and communities as we navigate the greatest shift in power, wealth, and resources in the modern world.

Shaman Durek is a Los Angeles based spiritual guide and gifted healer. As a Shaman, he acts as mediator or “bridge” between the spiritual and physical planes, applying ancient spiritual wisdom, coupled with decades of devoted study and practice, to help bring success, happiness and conscious healing into people's lives. He's heartful, no-nonsense, and fun!

Gregg was a keynote speaker and Durek gave a workshop in Ancient Shamanic Symbols at the 13th Annual CONSCIOUS LIFE EXPO in Los Angeles. You can find out more about that HERE.

Learn more:  http://www.greggbraden.com and shamandurek-verrett.squarespace.com

Mary O'Malley on The Gift of Our Compulsions

To some degree, we are all compulsive: think overworrying, overworking, overeating, alcohol/drug abuse. When we try to control these behaviors, they control us. They thrive in reaction. They heal in response. They won’t let go until they teach us how to engage with them, giving the attention and the compassion they need to heal. In the light of our compassionate attention, says Mary O'Malley, not only do our compulsions lose their power over us, they become a doorway into the healing we long for. 

Learn more about Mary O'Malley: www.maryomalley.com

Barb Schmidt, The Practice: Simple Tools for Managing Stress, Finding Inner Peace, and Uncovering Happiness

Wake up, live present, and let go! Easy to say...and it takes practice. Getting in touch with one's inner source of peace and following its guidance over the mind's often-unfounded concerns requires training and discipline. Knowing this truth intimately, Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life Founder Barb Schmidt shares her three-part spiritual discipline called The Practice, a toolkit to be used throughout the day to guide people who are looking for confidence, less stress, and deeper meaning along life's path. If that's you, or someone you know, tune in!

Learn more about Barb Schmidt: http://barbschmidt.com/

Arjuna Ardagh, Better than Sex

Millions of people today all over the world are having glimpses of who they really are: beyond endless thought and reactive feeling. Such a moment of "awakening" changes everything, and unleashes a wellspring of energy, humor and love. People say it's "Better than Sex."

International bestselling author Arjuna Ardagh claims that you don't need to be a yogi, or a guru, or a representative of an ancient tradition in order to effect the unfolding of that person's deepest gifts. Instead, he says, it simply requires "an open heart, an open mind, and the willingness to ask powerful questions." Learn about his Awakening Coaching that helps us discover our greatest potential, when directed at what is truly most important and alive for us.

Dawna Markova, Spot of Grace

How do you find your own spot of grace? Cancer survivor Dawna Markova was given six months to live over thirty years ago, and today she inspires us with her stories and the stories of countless others who share their unique gifts with us. Inspirational speaker and writer, she is internationally known for her groundbreaking work in helping people learn with passion and live on purpose.

As one of the editors of the Random Acts of Kindness series, she helped launch a national movement to help counter America’s crisis of violence. She is the champion of the part of ourselves that we often forget. She is the torchbearer that lights the small cauldron of hope in each of us. You don't have to discover penicillin, feed the poor in the streets of Calcutta, or be the first person to swim to Antarctica to make a remarkable difference in the world!

Learn more about Dawna Markova: www.dawnamarkova.com

Gary Douglas, Divorceless Relationships

What if you didn't have to divorce parts of yourself to make someone else happy? How do you stay in a relationship when it starts going sideways? How do you know when it's time to leave? Founder of Access Consciousness, a simple set of tools, techniques and philosophies that allow you to create dynamic change in every area of your life. Learn from Gary's wonderful stories about people who have faced these challenges and grown. Find out how everyone and everything you are in a relationship with can become more honest, more loving, sexier; create a divorceless relationship for yourself now! 

Learn more about Gary Douglas: garymdouglas.com     accessconsciousness.com

Anders Nilsson, The Gentle Way of the Heart

The Gentle Way of the Heart is a spiritual path for regaining a sense of who you are at a deep level. A renowned physics and chemistry researcher at Stanford University who has a deep conviction of the dance of spirit in the physical universe, Nilsson shares a practice of study, meditation and exercises.

You'll hear ways to create a personally unique and fulfilling life moment-by-moment without expectations or fear. Expand your authentic, gentle, kind self, grow a perspective of heart-felt acceptance and forgiveness, and enjoy the rewards of more harmony and love in your life.

Learn more about Anders Nilsson: gentleway.me

Regina Cates, Lead with Your Heart: Creating a Life of Love, Compassion and Purpose

  Who doesn't want a life of love, compassion, and purpose? Regina shares how she moved away from a volatile, victimized frame of mind to a place of making conscious actions and decisions from a centered, heart-driven state. By following along with Regina's personal stories and practicing the exercises she's developed, we can all learn how to choose positive, heart-centered solutions for the difficulties in our life. Regina shows us that if we choose to act from a place of love instead of a place of fear, we make our lives and the lives of those around us better in the process...and it is totally doable.

Dan Willis, Bulletproof Spirit: The First Responder’s Essential Resource for Protecting and Healing Mind and Heart

Not a first responder yourself? Dan has practical, effective methods for recovering and sustaining yourself in situations that challenge your body, mind, and spirit. He has some amazing stories from his years as a SWAT commander. You'll learn methods to sustain wellness of not only emergency first responders, but those who live with them, those who train and manage them, those who counsel and assist them, and those who serve in other professions with them. 

Learn more about Dan Willis: www.FirstResponderWellness.com

Tamara Greenberg, When Someone you Love has a Chronic Illness

“First, the good news: We are all living longer lives. Now, the bad news: We are all living longer lives,” says Tamara McClintock Greenberg, Psy.D. Average life expectancies are 30 years longer than they were 50 years ago in the U.S. With long life comes a dramatically higher risk that we will develop chronic illness, and many of us simply don’t know what to do or say when a friend or a family member becomes frail.

Tamara shares wise and practical tips we need to navigate the complex psychological and physical terrain of offering support. Tune in to learn how to take the best care of yourself and your loved ones.

Learn more about Tamara Greenberg: www.tamara-greenberg.com

New Years 2013 with Maryanne and David

Maryanne and David give you a candid message to start the New Year...or any moment...off with a clear sense of purpose and delight. They share three basic steps to setting yourself up to succeed, and talk about how to unpack our underlying patterns of setting intention and sabotaging it. Learn how to ask...and recognize the answers. If you've ever wanted to know the secret of how these two people--a relationship expert and a businessman/writer, both lovers of the path of self-inquiry--have a happy, healthy, fulfilling, sustainable relationship, here are some of their open secrets!

Patricia Albere, Evolutionary Relationship

Wouldn't you rather interact in ways of love, trust and sharing rather than competition, aggression and jealousy? Patricia Albere is the founder of the Evolutionary Collective, a transformational education institute focused on discovering what’s possible through our connection, collective consciousness and creativity.

She shares the essential components that create an awakened "we space," transforming our understanding of what is possible in the space between us, and creating new fields of higher collective consciousness. Learn how to accept responsibility for the inescapable influence we have on one another, and commit to serving more than our individual selves. 

Learn more about Patricia Albere: evolutionarycollective.com

Peter McCarthy, Adrenaline Nation

Are you and your body pushing the limits...feeling bogged down, hardly able to think, getting sick oftener than you used to? Welcome to Adrenaline Nation! Using razor-sharp logic, comprehensive research, and just plain common sense, ex-bomber pilot Peter McCarthy demonstrates that stress has become an overwhelmingly negative factor in our lives.

Find out the most surprising cause of our adrenaline fight/flight reaction that most of us are in daily...and the cost of that sense of alertness over time. If you don't take charge of your health and take care of your stress, you are rolling the dice on your own health and survival.  He'll share some of his innovative and achievable solutions!

Peter's dream is becoming real; he and his team are launching the online Natural Health Network, bringing you practical, real-world health and environmental information from consultants and educators in over 1200 alternative and mainstream modalities worldwide.

Learn more about Peter McCarthy: petermmccarthy.com, and www.nhntv.com

Priscilla Warner, Learning to Breathe

Priscilla had panic attacks all her life that left her unable to breathe. When she heard about Tibetan monks who meditated so effectively they were able to change their brains, she wanted in. Meditating in the mall instead of the monastery, she made peace with her past and rewired her brain. This helped her face daily challenges large and small, resulting in a sense of peace, self-acceptance and understanding. In this honest and hopeful interview, she shares gentle and effective tools so you can, too! 

Learn more about Priscilla Warner: priscillawarnerbooks.com/learning-to-breathe