In this episode of Light Transitions Radio, we were honored to talk about the intersection of community and individual development with one of the most respected thinkers and teachers in the culture, Karl Steyaert.
Karl Steyaert is a cultural catalyst and visionary, passionate about co-creating learning experiences and communities that contribute to peace, justice, and sustainability. With over 20 years of experience teaching and facilitating groups, he has taught and helped catalyze community in settings ranging from university classrooms and corporate boardrooms, to ecovillages and urban gardens.
Since 1998, Karl has directed, designed and taught university courses and programs interweaving the themes of sustainability, community, and consciousness, through the University of Michigan, the University of Massachusetts, the Findhorn Community in Scotland, and Auroville ecovillage in India.
Also, as a Certified Trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) he has led trainings in conflict resolution and communication for corporate, non-profit, and intentional community clients in North America, Europe, and Asia since 2003. In addition, since 2009 he has been facilitating Restorative Circles, an approach to restorative justice grounded in NVC.
In this episode of Light Transitions Radio, we spend time with one of the true visionaries in the field of sound and music healing, Don Campbell. Imagine how our lives would be different if we could use the music we love to create the perfect soundtrack for any goal or task? Don shares how to creatively tap the power of sound to improve our own and others’ lives.
Don Campbell, author of 23 books, is widely known for his bestsellers, The Mozart Effect® and The Mozart Effect® for Children, which have been translated into 24 languages. Equally popular are the accompanying 16 Music for the Mozart Effect®, recordings, which dominated the Billboard Classical charts for over three years.
His latest book, Healing at the Speed of Sound, is based on over a decade of new research, and shows how we can use music-and silence-to become more efficient, productive, relaxed, and healthy.
Don Campbell is a leading lecturer and consultant to healthcare organizations as well as corporations and parenting groups. He works with audiences of symphony orchestras on how music can affect learning, health, and other aspects of our lives. He is Acoustic and Musical Director of Aesthetic Audio Systems, an innovative company that provides quality music to healthcare facilities and has served for the past ten years on the Board of the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado. In 2006, he was honored as “Signature Sinfonian” with the Award for Outstanding Service to Music and Education from Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity. He has also been awarded “Director Emeritus” of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and now provides the pre-concert lecture series and directs the SuperListening™ Club.
In Don’s unique view, music is not only a rich and rewarding aesthetic experience, but also an easily accessible bridge to a more creative, intelligent, healthy, and joy-filled life. His singular mission is to help return music to its central place in the modern world, as a resource for growth, development, health, and celebration.
We were honored recently to spend time with the dynamic Lilou Macé, who took time out of a busy European travel schedule to speak with us. Through her various web and video projects, she is actively working to help people fulfill their potential and manifest spirituality. We are inspired by her work and know you will be as well.
Lilou Macé is a French-American author, webTV host and international Internet video blogger since 2005, and a prominent proponent of ‘practical’ spirituality. She is a co-founder of an global Internet community, The 100-Day Reality Challenge that counts over 6,000 members (co-creators) in 125 countries.
Lilou believes that we can fulfill our life potential and manifest our dreams by focusing our thoughts on what we want, listening to heart, love ourselves, be courageous, playing big and applying juicy insights, tools and practices which she shares daily on video. Her mission statement indicates that she aims, amongst other things, to “inspire millions of people to explore their unlimited potential and make spirituality an everyday thing”.
Many websites describe her as a “10-million-view YouTube phenomenon”. Using social networking sites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Twitter, Facebook, her newly born webTV and her bubbly personality, Lilou has built an online following of millions around the world. Her webTV channels receive nearly a million video views a month around the world.
Her international guests includes Dr. Wayne Dyer, Neal Donald Walsch, Gary Zukav, Don Miguel Ruiz, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Dr. Carl Calleman, James Redfield, Caroline Myss, Julia Cameron, Barbara Marx Hubbard, John Gray, Sonia Choquette, Mooji, Pr Bill Tiller, Dr. Joan Borysenko, Dr. John Demartini, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Drunvalo Melchiezedek, Gay Hendricks, Michael Losier, and many more.
In April 2009 she self-published ‘I Lost My Job and I Liked It: 30-Day Law-of-Attraction Diary of a Dream Job Seeker‘ after loosing her job on the 16th of February 2009, as Internet Marketing Director, in London, England.
Lilou’s Youtube videos (over 1,600 videos with over 10-million views) document her participation in life, on her 12-month around the world Juicy Living Tour and the 100-Day Reality Challenge, as well as features world famous authors, speakers, artists, entrepreneurs that Lilou qualifies as ‘Juicy’. These guests presents their thoughts and message in a fun, educational and inspiring format.
Lilou is now travelling around the world interviewing people to offer online everyday inspiration on the Juicy Living Tour, an “on the road” internet program based on discovering “everyday inspiration” through the spiritual exploration. The purpose of the “on the road” tour is to inspire people globally to focus on positive living and thinking in times of financial, social, and economic chaos.
It is always an honor and privilege to spend time with the filmmaker and seer Keith Wyatt. In this episode of Light Transitions Radio, we talk with Keith about personal and planetary evolution, and his own incredible journey this past year and a half.
After a a galvanizing period shepherding a global consciousnesses movement – Awakening As One – Keith began to develop some stunning insights into the nature of hope, fear, and spiritual evolution. The result is his latest film – The Quickening.
A significant evolution in perspective in relation to his first three films, The Quickening explores how hundreds of millions of people are waiting for events to unfold in the year 2012. Events that they believe will bring either the birth of a harmonious new reality or the end of the world. But what if those events were actually to take place THIS YEAR, in 2011?
This is a must-listen interview, and of course, we invite you to watch The Quickening below:
In this episode of Light Transitions Radio, we talk about exciting new developments in wind power generation with the CEO of Master Flo Technology, Edward Desaulniers.
Master Flo is an environmentally-inclined manufacturer of the Vortex Wind Funnel Turbine and printing press accessory equipment. The wind funnel’s patented “Conical Frustum” design is bird-safe due to its high surface area design. It also almost eliminates shadow flicker associated with 3 blade propeller style turbines. It comes complete with Grid Tie Inverter and Turbine Controls.
A graduate of the University of Concordia University Economic Department , Edward Desaulniers started his environmental career in the Graphic Arts industry, including three years at Xerox. For the past decade, focused on reducing the environmental impact the printing process has on the world.
However, knowing he could do more, in 2009 he started Master Flo Wind with the acquisition of the vortex wind turbine. He hopes his passion to electrify the world with clean, bird-safe technology will more broadly transform the planet.
In this episode of Light Transitions Radio, we explore the power of intention with guest Elisabeth Manning.
In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we sometimes lose perspective on the power of simply being. Being, allowing, and receiving. Elisabeth notes that significant work on intention, imagination and conscious creation can be found in our daily lives. The work is now.
Elisabeth Manning is a visionary for a higher humanity and a thriving earth home for our children. With backgrounds in consciousness studies, law of attraction, psychology, energy medicine, and addiction recovery, Elisabeth assists all individuals wanting to birth the best version of themselves through simple practical tools of intention and imagination.
Elisabeth is especially passionate about conscious new parents creating the ideal environment for the New Children who want to come through them. Learn more about her work at www.consciousconception.net.
It was our pleasure to spend this episode of Light Transitions Radio listening to and speaking with Alana Woods. Her work on sound healing is important in these times, as we all must focus on deep listening – and hearing the music of our own souls. We begin the interview with an excerpt from “A Familiar Room” on Alana’s CD “Music to Heal the Family Soul.”
Alana Woods has spent her life using her knowledge of music and sound (hearing inner music) to help her own life and to help others. She is classically trained in art and music. Her background includes playing piano music to heal herself as a child during the first twenty years of her life, plus intensive study with pioneers in the fields of music/healing/consciousness.
She evolved her own work, and in 1998, after spending a month in Greece teaching on an island and traveling, she had an experience in a Greek temple grounds that turned her focus to “prescriptive sound”, known in the world now as Music Medicine.
She has traveled and taught in Greece, Ireland and the U.S. Her background also includes a profession as a Unity Minister, Clinical Aromatherapist, and Certified Music Practitioner. A researcher, sound consultant, teacher and musician on harp for 35 years, she has also had a private practice as sound therapist, working with an acoustic sound table with different adverse populations of people, including a dying center, and mentally challenged children and adults. She has attended healing schools in this country and has journeyed to India for spiritual studies and initiations.
Alana is also a storyteller-harpist, telling “Musical Tales for the Inner Being”, tales of transformation, which is a healing art form for the “child within us all”. She has had a long time interest in pre-and perinatal psychology, development of babies before birth and early years of life, inspired from her own birth story.
Can we help each other heal? Is it possible to "meet-up" and achieve positive transformation? In this episode of Light Transitions Radio, we talk with Astara Cindy Wright, who has been guiding individuals in self-supporting healing spaces to empower their own energy systems.
Astara is a life long student of Esotericism, the study of the energetic structure of the universe and of man’s place within it. This interest was triggered by out-of-body experiences (OBE) and encounters with non-physical beings at age 14. While growing up, Cindy lacked teachers to explain her experiences. So, she began searching on her own to find the answers she needed. Her curiosity led to books by spiritual masters such as Seth, Robert Monroe, Ruth Montgomery, Jeanne Dixon, and Edgar Cayce among others. Their words laid the ground work in Cindy’s pursuit for understanding. Yet, she continued to struggle with how to integrate this knowledge into her daily life.
A shift occurred in 1998, when she became a Licensed Massage Therapist. This decision started her on a path as a healer. While focused on her profession, she continued to study shamanism, herbology, energy healing, and nonphysical dimensions.
In 2003, Cindy found her true passion in Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine (EM). This led her to participate in many EM workshops as a student and teaching assistant. Here she learned to clear and balance the energy systems in the body. In 2005, she found the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). EFT is a form of energy psychology connecting our energy system with our emotions and beliefs.
Integrating these methodologies, Cindy started teaching in earnest what she had learned. By teaching others, she recognized her gifts for healing and achieved a higher awareness of her own personal growth. She now uses these techniques on herself and teaches them in groups and private sessions. These workshops teach how to release negative emotions and limiting beliefs. She is passionate about her gifts and empowering others to use these self-healing tools in their own lives.
To find out more about Cindy’s work, go to www.waysforchange.com for a list of services and calendar of upcoming classes.
It was an honor to spend the latest hour of Light Transitions Radio with Liane Legey, the co-founder of the Humanity Healing Network.
Liane Legey is the cofounder of the Humanity Healing Network and is General Manager of and sits on the Board of Directors for Humanity Healing International. Liane’s professional life has been incredibly varied. She is an anthropologist and degreed Economist who has worked for the Brazilian State Commerce Department, was a bank auditor, a radio talk show personality and newspaper feature writer in Brazil, a prominent tarot reader and astrologer for the state of Bahia, Brazil, an organic farmer, and a Death Row minister. She is the mother to four children.
Born in Salvador, Brazil, the oldest daughter to an internationally known doctor and Professor of Medicine, Liane was raised in a very devout Catholic family and originally wanted to be a nun. As a young adult, she worked for the Jesuit Priests from CEAS (a Non-Profit organization) as an Economist and Project Manager developing Humanitarian and Social projects to raise the standard of living among the poor in Bahia, Brazil. With the Jesuits and others, Liane has studied extensively in religious matters and esoteric knowledge. Among others, she is a member of the Order of Saint Michael.
Shortly after Liane moved to America, she was the victim of a drunk driver and nearly lost her life. During the months she spent unable to move while her body mended, she made a commitment to God that if she recovered, she would complete the 14 Acts of Mercy. The Acts of Mercy are actions and practices which the Catholic Church considers expectations to be fulfilled by believers, based on the Sermon of the Mountain and the Beatitudes (please see the House of Faith for a description of the 14 Acts of Mercy).
Under the nom de plume of Butterflygris, Liane became popular on YouTube for the creation of many educational and inspirational videos.
The last two of the 14 Acts of Mercy Liane completed were the Consolation of the Doubtful and the Comfort of the Sorrowful. These took the form of an inspirational Myspace page dedicated to Random Acts of Kindness. She did this not under her own name, but under the name RaK because it was the message and not her name she wanted to share herself. The site became very well known and topped 17,000 friends in the first year. It was through Myspace that she met Christopher Buck and together created Humanity Healing based on the concept of a multifaceted approach to healing by combining alternative healing modalities with spiritual growth and counseling.
“The survival of the fittest will one day be replaced by the flourishing of the most cooperative” ~~Bird Tribes, Native American
In this episode of Light Transitions Radio, we explore the cooperative spirit behind Next World TV, with it’s creator Bibi Farber.
An online video “magazine” that has grown to nearly 6,000 subscribers in its first 6 months, Next World TV builds awareness about moving toward a more self- sufficient and empowered, healthy and sustainable life. The site aims to give voice to a new dialogue involving how we think about food, time, work, money and community video.
The site is produced by Bibi Farber, a pop/rock singer/ songwriter/ guitarist from New York City. Growing up partially in Sweden, Bibi learned about “sustainability” simply by being in a culture that does not live as wastefully as the United States, where deeply held traditions of respect for nature and resources are not overwritten by a grotesque consumer culture.
In 2008 she became fascinated with the predicament of Peak Oil. The deeper message that “the era of growth is over” resonated deeply. Whether or not there are oil reserves that we can expend tremendous amounts of energy to extract are in the ground or not is beside the point to her: the cheap easy oil we based our entire economy, food systems and living arrangements – all the necessities of modern life — is soon to be gone forever.
She came away from her explorations of the topic with the sense that there needed to be a broader conversation on the issue. Shortly thereafter, the creator of BrasscheckTV handed her the keys to start Next World TV under the same umbrella. He gave one directive: it should all be about SOLUTIONS. Alternative energy, food choices, natural building, eco- villages, permaculture — find video content about constructive initiatives that deserve attention.”
She is thrilled and inspired by the surprising success of something she thought would mostly appeal to a fringe group of people.
Seeing first hand the explosion in demand for new ways of doing things and new ways of thinking about our culture prompted her to write the songs “The World Is Waking Up Right Now” and “Global Climate Change In All Our Hearts” available for download in June of 2011 (contact bibifarber@earthlink.net)
Bibi’s music has been heavily licensed in TV shows, over 300 uses to date, as well as national commercials, including Kodak and a Sopranos promo on A&E. Listen to more of her work at at www.bibifarber.com.
In this episode of Light Transitions Radio, we were honored to talk about the intersection of community and individual development with one of the most respected thinkers and teachers in the culture, Karl Steyaert.
