Bridge To Being

Your Creative Sparks: We all VOLUNTEERED to have this HUMAN experience, and we need to REMEMBER the ORIGINAL ENERGY of this planet. The “PROGRAMMING” is there to have our spirits FORGET - to DISCONNECT from our heart, the land, our guides, our ancestors, and from Spirit in general. WAKE UP and remember. Get QUIET. Go WITHIN yourself. Sit in STILLNESS. You will be REMINDED, especially out in Nature. The journey to get here screened out fear, transmuting and raising the frequency to one of awe and wonder. We find Lobsterbird and Cheeky in Taiga, an ancient valley. Lichens dominate the tundra, where the medicine is natural spring water, moss, horse and reindeer and dog. The smell of smoke rises from tipis dotting the landscape. Our magical friends stir up visions of ascension, a healing of spirit and lineage and Gaia herself, as the sun shimmers, rainbeads sprinkle and thunder speaks. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue Coming soon! Links and resources: Lobsterbird’s new book: Level Up: Power Pr

Your Creative Sparks: We can access INFINITE SPACE through a BODY because the body IS infinite space Our PURE and NATURAL STATE would be in a constant, FLUID dialog that is VIBRATION. Don’t we all want to RECONNECT with our infinite VASTNESS? BREATH helps us access that SPACIOUSNESS. Our five-part series exploring the fundamental building blocks of life concludes with the fifth element, known as ether or space. We invite you to dissolve your preconceived notions about form and structure. Malia radiates with the light of the entire cosmos, spinning galaxies with her hands, describing concepts to Lobsterbird that are beyond words. “When I close my eyes and put my hand on you, I dissolve into the infinite space that you are embodying.” Let go of your identity so we can be pure energy, embodying and expressing infinity. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue coming soon! Links and resources: Lobsterbird’s new book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde Sharing medici

Your Creative Sparks: FIRE comes as a reminder that WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL. Making the choice to GO WHERE WE ARE CALLED often feels like BURNING. People are AFRAID of the fire of PASSION igniting their lives and changing everything. Our five-part series exploring the fundamental building blocks of life – their constitution, their character, our assumptions about them, and our relationship to them. Tune into the energetic - and often misunderstood - gifts of Fire with Lobsterbird and Kelli, also called Daenerys, Mother of Dragons. Reunited under the mighty Redwoods as the fires rage across Northern California, these business partners and cosmic twins peel back the mystery and majesty of the flame. Join the ancient council in the Grove of Titans and tap the wisdom that awaits you there - and everywhere. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue Daenerys has past lives where she worked with and commanded dragons. Do people have a sense of their past lives? Kelli’s experience with Akashic Records reading

Your Creative Sparks: LESSONS from the land, elements, and animals… Are we paying DEEP ATTENTION? The EARTH is a *body* - and an extension of OUR BODIES. We must learn to HONOR and RESTORE what we RECEIVE from the LAND. Our five-part series exploring the fundamental building blocks of life – their constitution, their character, our assumptions about them, and our relationship to them. Come galloping across the landscape, bouncing in the saddle, embracing your deepest desires and dreams disguised as fear. Lobsterbird shares wisdom gleaned from shaman and barking reindeer, as well as deep grief from the heart of the earth herself. Rattle your cages. Sound the call. Take in the untainted medicine of Mongolia and beyond. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue What I learned about myself from a horse named Rogue. I was wholly unprepared for this. [3:36] Fear and excitement are two sides of the same coin. They reside in and fire off in the same part of the brain. What might happen if you told yourself t

Your Creative Sparks: CAUSES and CONDITIONS are never as LINEAR as our mind wants them to be. The bad news is, YOU’RE FALLING, and there is no parachute. The GOOD NEWS is there is no ground. The greatest source of CONFLICT is UNFULFILLED EXPECTATIONS. Our five-part series exploring the fundamental building blocks of life – their constitution, their character, our assumptions about them, and our relationship to them. Pull up a rock and ponder at the popup clouds with Lobsterbird and Pat, on retreat in the mountains of Colorado. Marvel at how an engineering mind and tibetan buddhist practice coalesce in an atmosphere of curiosity, respect and care. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue Where do clouds come from? Everyday magic. Just because you can figure it out with some scientific theory does not make it any less cool. [5:11] On the other hand, we can become utterly convinced over something that is completely delusional. [12:50] More about the paradox of Pat. Firefighter. Transportation engineer.

Your Creative Sparks: WATER can be ALTERED in its STATE from liquid to solid to gas. Our BODIES are about 70% water... get it? Challenge your ASSUMPTIONS. Anything can CHANGE, and it’s ALLOWED to change. CHANGE in the WORLD will come through the BODY. Our five-part series exploring the fundamental building blocks of life – their constitution, their character, our assumptions about them, and our relationship to them. Meander along with us as Lobsterbird marks time and space with the illustrious Deborah Black, reflecting on the flow of their lives as performers and artists, how studying embodied practices has altered their paths, and how this momentum is leading to significant change in themselves and the world. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue We often get into habits with time. When we change those habits, a lot starts to come through the channel of creative flow. Water – what time does it hold in it? 6:00 There are many different kinds of water time… snow falling time, still water time, rip

Your Creative Sparks: We can ENVISION with more CLARITY when we QUEST into the unknown. One thing that NATURE TEACHES us is how to be in FLOW, able to respond JOYFULLY to life’s UNPREDICTABILITY. Not only can you alleviate physical problems by immersing yourself Nature, but you can tap into ANCIENT WISDOM, where REAL HEALING can occur. Immerse yourself in the ancient realm of the Pisgah National Forest with Lobsterbird and Sonya Louise. Explore vision quest, earth medicine, forest bathing and more as these two shapeshifters wander together under craggy rock overhangs, among the stone people, squirrels, and fern angels, skittering over fluorescent mosses and through the faerylands. BEing in Nature bridges the practical physical aspects of ourSelves with the deeper, older elemental Spirits within. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue “Divine disorder” gave Sonya the permission to follow the call in her heart, removing her from struggle and striving and all the things she thought she HAD to do… All

Your Creative Sparks: Does too much COMFORT and CONVENIENCE actually STIFLE our growth? What is good about humans is that WE CAN ADJUST TO ANYTHING. Larger than language, it is our ACTION that helps people UNDERSTAND US. Part four and the “final” episode of our West African adventure! Lobsterbird talks with Ida-san, a man whose life took a dramatic turn at 50 years old, when he decided to challenge himself by going out of his comfort zone in a monumental, transcontinental move from Japan to Burkina Faso. What inspired him? And will it inspire you? Let your imagination take flight as we talk about making a big move, going where your heart is leading you, and finding the path to your greatest personal impact in the world. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue At 49 years old, Ida-san was a busy entrepreneur. He had worked as a hairdresser for thirty years and had grown his business to four salons with about 40 workers. One fateful day, he heard about a disaster in the mountains of the Philippines,

Your Creative Sparks: There is great SATISFACTION in the SMALL SUCCESS toward a vision. We just need TEN PEOPLE of common will to make a DIFFERENCE. The circle of GIVE and TAKE… It has the power to CONNECT the WORLD. Part three of four on our West African adventure with Lobsterbird finds us in the office of Cheick, the organizer of the NyamaNyama International Art Festival. Here we discuss the ethos of why he created the festival and what it could mean for the future of Diébougou and beyond. Pull up a chair as we pull together something extraordinary. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue Before the NyamaNyama International Art Festival became a *festival*, it was just an activity organized to create awareness: to make the people of Diébougou aware of the need to take care of the environment, and to make other people aware of the city of Diébougou. [2:45] The vision for NyamaNyama came from a conversation between Miyu (see episode 26) and Cheick in transforming the issue of garbage in the city. C

Your Creative Sparks: Your life’s PHILOSOPHY can be as SIMPLE as doing what is right in front of you. Sometimes CLARITY begins with knowing what we DO NOT WANT. Why worry, when IT ALL WORKS OUT in the end? Part two of four on our adventure in West Africa. Hang out with us on the porch under the hot African sun, while Lobsterbird endeavors to ply open the hearts behind the hands of Saori and Miyamoto. Undisguised and unpretentious as they come, these two volunteers simply followed the flow of life to Diébougou and found happy meaning among the singing children. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue How did Saori come to be in Africa? By airplane!, of course. This artist draws with the children of Diébougou. [2:20] Saori’s philosophy of life is quite simple. She does what is in front of her. When asked what she WANTS to do in life, her response is that she is far more clear on what she DOESN’T want to do, like to go business meetings or wear fancy, poofy clothes. [8:46] Saori doesn’t get caught up

Your Creative Sparks: Often we look at PROBLEMS and think the answer is to throw money at it. But ART can help connect the HEART at a deeper level, where real SOLUTIONS can be discovered. IDENTITY can be FLUID. One gets to decide WHO they want to be and WHERE they want to be in the world. “HALF PEOPLE” can be the PIONEERS to build a bridge between cultures. The ways in which we RELATE to each other can be more important than the things we endeavor to DO for each other. It’s midday in Burkina Faso, and the heat says we can’t work anymore. We are responding to the earth, not the clock, to tell us when to take a break. It’s a lesson to not force things, but to connect deeply and move the body with the heart. Why not recline on the mats with us?, as Lobsterbird and Miyu Leilani discuss our common suffering, the meaning of identity on personal, global and social levels ~ and what is asked of us as global citizens. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue When it comes to humanitarian causes, there seems

  Your Creative Sparks: There are many artful PATHWAYS to the experience of UNIFIED CONSCIOUSNESS. The MEDICINE of DIVERSITY - we distill “Spirit” down into different forms, but it’s all the SAME ESSENCE. The ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE is a metaphor for what is happening RIGHT NOW. Let’s dive right off this bridge to being! The Crows lead Lobsterbird and Sylvie to Jackrabbit Bend: a surreal little cove with laughing waves, dead trees growing like dancing beings, and Salvador Dali’s third eye. Snuggle in the sand with Sylvie as we engage in some serious Earth Magic, celebrating the capacity of every being to belong and become free, mending the rift between worlds. We are definitely not in Kansas anymore! Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue In this surreal location, Lobsterbird and Sylvie connect over Salvador Dali, whose art symbolized that the world is not as it seems. While he was able to portray the world as it really is, he portrayed it in a way that most people can’t really see it. [3:13] Sylvie fou

Your Creative Sparks: Every time I LISTEN to this inner voice, MAGIC and miracles happen. How the SQUIGGLY PATH leads us FULL CIRCLE, and into hidden connections with ancient places, people, and art forms. The Kontomble help me appreciate Nature and appreciate MY OWN NATURE. In council with the Kontomble: Sitting on a rock in a little clearing; holding crystals; being stabbed in the arm by an antler wand; and talking to little people. Sophia returns to Crestone, Colorado and the San Luis Valley. Here she tells the story of how her evolution has brought her full circle AND into magical new realms, where Shamans talk to Reindeer and Nature Spirits tell jokes and take us on journeys into environmental healing and social justice. Get in the flow of this glorious mountain space with the valley view stretching out and the aspens ablaze in fiery pink. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue The plan from the Universe is far more expansive than anything our monkey minds come up with. How I found myself tal

Your Creative Sparks: Holding EMOTIONS happens in the BODY. We FREEZE in the middle. Giving women the time and space to tell the STORY of their BODY can help them to identify THEMES and LESSONS… the what, the why, and the LOVE. Jessi’s BIO process creates a biographical SCULPTURE, a TANGIBLE reminder that you have SURVIVED. Dirt is Love. Dirt, jiggle, sweat and vocalizing connection bring us deep into this balmy, beautiful day in Union Square Park. Following on the heels of two notable celebrity suicides, Jessica Browne-White of DreamscapesInk meets our Lobsterbird for a conversation around depression, shadow and the emotional body. Jessi is the colorful and exuberant creator of BIO (Body Image Object), an artistic process in which women’s body stories are collected and cast into sculptures that create a healing transformation for the participants. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue Jessi is a hero just because she showed up for this interview. Having dealt with depression for most of her life

Your Creative Sparks: Looking into perceived DIFFERENCES CAN MELT them all away. We come from ONE SOURCE. Whatever OUTER LAYER you wear is not an acknowledgement of separation. If I feel a DISCONNECT, it’s from something that is INSIDE OF ME. Guided by Spirit to sunny San Diego, Lobsterbird spends her Happy Birthday! learning to “Speak and Write to Make Millions.” Here we find her with sister goddesses Dee and Ayofemí, sharing their work and wisdom in a sweet little vortex on the lawn of the Hilton La Jolla, with the grass rolling green over the golf course. The course of conversation also rolled into how to handle racial issues with sensitivity while creating a greater unity consciousness. #paradoxalert Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue How did I get here? It’s my year of saying NO. And I don’t even like golf courses… Sometimes we have to go out of our way to breakthrough limiting beliefs. [2:06] Ayofemí is a creative artist, student of Chinese medicine, and African dancer. Her trademark coa

Your Creative Sparks: CREATIVITY is the spark of ENLIGHTENMENT. MAKING ART is creating the opportunity for ENERGY to flow through the artist and out into form. We are ALL MAKING ART together, creating this giant canvas, this giant performance we call LIFE. The magical song of the Lobsterbird calls to us from the heart of the emerald forest, where she collaborates with Nature to help us bend our awareness around the concept of “Aesthetics”. There are ways of knowing other than our physical senses. Our understanding of who and what we are is deepening. Paying more attention to the energetic qualities of our existence is accelerating and elevating our human consciousness. Letting go of aesthetics is another key to expansion and enlightenment. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue This episode was inspired by our podcast manager trying to wrap her head around the concept of “Aesthetics”, as presented in a previous episode with Gerald Busby. [3:06] Sacred Survival School? Sonya Louise is helping Sophi

Your Creative Sparks: There’s a FINE LINE between CRAZY and GENIUS. Many an artist has walked it. APPEARANCES are not at all what they SEEM, and not as important as we make them out to be. In the Land of Infinite Possibilities, when you open yourself to the possibility that ANYTHING can happen, anything CAN happen! Of Legend and Lore and mystical Lands, in this episode we join Lobsterbird and Kelli Reese in glorious green Glastonbury, communing with two ancient tree creatures named Gog and Magog and preparing for the imminent pilgrimage. A new group of pilgrims are arriving to awaken and deepen their unique gifts and skills, to immerse in and surrender themselves to the flow of energy, and to open their hearts and their imagination to a new, magical perspective. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue The energy of the gnarled old oaks called Gog and Magog is extremely grounding. A fire nearly destroyed them, but something powerful and resilient remains. Death and Rebirth. [4:30] Driving by yellow

Your Creative Sparks: Contemplating DEATH can help you appreciate LIFE - and prioritize how you focus your time and ATTENTION. We all want to be WITNESSED at our true ESSENCE, which is something akin to LOVE. EVERYONE who comes in CONTACT with you takes SOMETHING away from it. They say “wherever you go, there you are” - but is that really true? How often are we actually *fully present* in the time and space we are in? A poignant popup from Where’s Waldo sets the stage for deep discussion on the value of being present in our daily lives. As JayMee trims the follicles of our Lobsterbird, they deconstruct time and space and the story of social justice, inquiring into how to help and what kind of help is really effective. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue If the name of the game is presence, we could just sit here and be *present*. Why do anything at all? [7:47] JayMee’s bizarre productivity hack: There’s nothing like a near-death scare to make you think about the bigger picture, give you energy,

Your Creative Sparks: Order and hierarchy are an ILLUSION, and perception is a CREATIVE act. ENLIGHTENMENT is the opposite of RATIONAL thinking and CRITICAL judgement. The LESS I know what I’m doing or how I’m doing it, the BETTER it goes. Every story has a protagonist and an antagonist. It’s easier to tell the story. The NEW paradigm is the dissolution of aesthetic boundaries. Lobsterbird visits her mentor and spiritual mirror, Gerald Busby in New York City, where we are jostled out of our limiting views with his *alarming* embodiment of his progressive ideas on consciousness, enlightenment, and the foils of life. “My job as a person is to realize that this life is a wide open space, like the plains of Texas.” Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue You can become aware of yourself as reactive, and choose otherwise. Acting in his first movie and surrounded by starlets, Gerald was so frightened he could hardly breathe. “Robert Almond said to me, ‘Don’t resist your fear. Use its energy to tell your

 Your Creative Sparks: Often there is a BREAKDOWN just before the BREAKTHROUGH. Our most difficult ORDEALS are actually ORCHESTRATED to bring us into our greatest OPPORTUNITIES. There is NO such thing as SPIRITUAL BYPASSING. No matter how enlightened you are, you are not above the lessons. The pilgrimage was amazing, but the journey leading up to it was not… Returning from a spiritual *high* at the Mayan ruins of Ek Balam (episode #15), our three American goddesses face some of their biggest fears when they become stranded in the middle of nowhere at night on a Mexican highway. Interwoven with clips recorded LIVE at the site of the breakdown, Lobsterbird and Kelli retell the tale and retrieve the treasure at recent a meetup in Manhattan. Your Travelogue They knew they needed gas. Why would they leave the restaurant without getting gas, even though there was a gas station right across the street? Kelli saw the gas station, but in the moment it did not occur to her to stop. It wasn’t long before the error hi