Environmental activist Robin Greenfield explores why separation is the biggest threat to humanity and how to become a servant to all.

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Check out Robin’s newest book, Food Freedom, and learn more about sustainable living

In this episode, Chris and Robin have a vulnerable conversation about:

• Living a life of sustainability and protecting the earth
• The illusion of separation as a core threat to humanity
• Healing our relationship with ourselves and others
• Truth as Robin’s ultimate inspiration and considering what the world could look like if we were all transparent
• The need for healing, taking responsibility, and righting any previous wrongs
• Celebrating progress in all forms, from small steps to major breakthroughs
• Non-violent communication and practicing from both the heart and mind
• Being born into chaos, giving ourselves grace, and learning along the way

“My objective since the beginning of my awakening has been to bring my life into alignment—to live my beliefs to the deepest level that I can: simply living on this earth in a way that doesn’t destroy the very home that we have, plants, animals, my fellow humanity.” –Robin Greenfield

About Robin Greenfield:

Robin Greenfield is a truth seeker, activist, social reformer, author, and servant to Earth, humanity, and our plant and animal relatives. Robin Greenfield lives simply and sustainably to be the change he wishes to see in the world and in active resistance to destructive and exploitative systems. His life is an experiment with truth and integrity. He is dedicated to liberation and basic rights for all. Check out Robin’s website to learn more about his many projects. You can also pick up one of Robin’s numerous books HERE.

“If we don’t have wholeness and completeness within, we’re going to create a shattered society around us.” –Robin Greenfield

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In this episode, Chris and Joel have a heart-to-heart about:

• Joel’s profound experience of losing his brother to a drunk driving accident

• • Living each moment with the inner knowing that it could be our last
  • Joel’s guitar pedal and gear company, Chase Bliss
  • Following your bliss and seeing doors open in front of you
  • Mixing together analog technology with digital control in the guitar industry
  • Parallels between the process of creating guitar pedals and the process of music creation
  • Working through introversion and finding comfort in community
  • Holding onto a positive outlook for the future
  “We’ve gotta get out of these echo chambers and see the humanity in one another. After you share space with someone and you’re reflecting on it, you feel this goodness that is indescribable about that connection and community amongst humans. We just need to be around other humans.” –Joel Korte

  About Joel Korte:

  Joel Korte is the founder of Chase Bliss, one of the most creative, cutting-edge guitar gear companies. As a builder and innovator, Joel Korte is changing the way musicians shape sound from deep textured effects to the intersection of analog and digital creativity.

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Somatic singer and teacher Marisa Michelson shares information on the powerful work of connecting to the body through song and uninhibited self-expression.

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In this episode of The Indie Spiritualist, Chris and Marisa have a conversation about:

• Vocal ‘de-armoring’: working with voice, the body, and the psyche to release blocks
• Bringing somatic relationship and embodiment into the classical music world
• How Marisa discovered that singing could bring her into transcendent bliss
• Navigating information overload in our fast-paced, tech-driven age
• A roadmap to reconnect with the body and relearn the language of direct experience
• Letting spontaneity flow through the liberating practice of somatic singing
• A jaw-focused practice for releasing tension and unlocking full expression
• Trust and vulnerability to open up our bodies, hearts, and minds
• Simple somatic practices to weave into day-to-day life

About Marisa Michelson:

In addition to being a sought-after somatic singing teacher, Marisa is an award-winning composer of music-theatre, experimental musicals, oratorios and choral works, and was the founding director of the psychedelic singing ensemble Constellation Chor | an immersion in voice, movement, and spirit. Marisa has written four full-length musicals, two of which were produced off-Broadway by Prospect Theater Company. Her most personal composition project to date was her Desire|Divinity Project, a three part music-theater piece exploring the connection between sexuality and spirituality through an exegesis of the Song of Songs and a musicalization of Sappho’s poetry fragments. She currently travels around singing with the vocal quartet, Agrol Agra, which performs Hungarian folk songs and Bartok arrangements of said folk songs. Marisa is beyond grateful to live and work and teach on acres of land in Upstate New York (Ancram/unceded Mohican land). Marisa gives her gratitude to the trees, red-winged blackbirds, deer, hares, water and wind, dirt, bees, and non-human life for the profound support. Connect with Marisa on her website.

“It’s been such a gift for me to work with processes, particular exercises, and practices that are developing my understanding of how energies are moving through my body, how muscles are moving in coordination with each other, and how emotions are coordinating with the physical body, the nervous system, the energy body. Getting to go deeper into this is like learning a language that can then allow us to have more and more clarity in our own direct experience.” – Marisa Michelson

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