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This week's podcast features:
- This week and on the Mystical Positivist we continue our conversations with a panel of guests who are all presenters at the Conscious Family Festival 2015 event coming up in Santa Rosa on Saturday June 13, 10am—5pm at the Finley Community Center at the corner of College and Stony Point avenues. The diversity of the work that our panelists offer at the Conscious Family Festival bespeaks the amazing array of contributions that the Festival is bringing together.
In the first hour we’ll speak in person with Myosho Virginia Matthews, Zen Teacher and Mother. Myosho finds her life support in the three pillars of family life, spiritual practice and her work as dancer/choreographer/teacher. Also in the first hour, we’ll be speaking by telephone with Regina Sara Ryan, author, editor, and seminar/retreat leader. A former Catholic nun, Regina has studied contemplation and mysticism throughout her adult life. In the second hour, we will speak by telephone with Theresa C. Dintino, a 20 year practitioner of earth-based spirituality, who was initiated in 2011 as a diviner in a West African tradition, and Jill Nephew, founder and creator of Life Constellation, a software platform for discovering, articulating and sharing life wisdom.- Myosho Virgina Matthews finds her life support in the three pillars of family life, spiritual practice and her work as dancer/choreographer/teacher. She has been a student of Rinzai Zen master, Kyozan Joshu Sasaki for 40 years, taking ordination in 2000 and dedicating the last 14 years to co-creating family Zen practices and leading women’s retreats. Concurrently she has had a professional dance career and has taught dance to all ages, from 3 to 73. She is the director of The Downtown Dance/Art Space in Sebastopol where she teaches dance, Pilates mat class and offers meditation through Dharma Heart Center. She is a graduate of The Buddhist Chaplaincy Program and is featured in the book, The Unknown She: Eight Faces of Emerging Consciousness. She is in a committed 43 year marriage and the mother of 3 grown sons.
- Regina Sara Ryan is an author, an editor, and a seminar and retreat leader. A former Catholic nun, Regina has studied contemplation and mysticism throughout her adult life. After leaving the convent in 1971, she explored other religious traditions and was inspired by the lives of the great women of Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Sufism who had lived these ways. Since meeting her own spiritual teacher, the Western Baul master Lee Lozowick in 1984, Regina continues to follow what she calls a path of “unashamed devotion” in which she works to bring her life of contemplation into action. Her books include: Wellness Workbook, co-authored with John W. Travis, M.D.; The Woman Awake: Feminine Wisdom for Spiritual Life; and Praying Dangerously: Radical Reliance on God. Regina is the managing editor for Hohm Press/Kalindi Press, and a writing coach for aspiring authors of all ages. She lives in Paulden, Arizona with Jerome Pramuk, her husband of 42 years. While she has no biological children, Regina is a former HeadStart, elementary school, and homeschool teacher dedicated to all children, and brings to the Festival her passion for bringing sacred form into all aspects of our lives.
- For more than 20 years Theresa C. Dintino has studied and practiced an earth-based spirituality. In 2011, she was initiated as a diviner in a West African tradition. She currently helps others reclaim their personal lineages through her divination work. Theresa is the author of The Strega and the Dreamer, a work of historical fiction based in the true story of her great grandparents, and Ode to Minoa and Stories They Told Me, two novels exploring the life of a snake priestess in Bronze Age Crete. Her latest title, just released, is Welcoming Lilith: Awakening and Welcoming Pure Female Power. For more on Theresa or her work, visit thestregaandthedreamer.com and ritualgoddess.com.
- Jill Nephew is the founder and creator of Life Constellation, a software platform for discovering, articulating and sharing life wisdom. She is very passionate about hacking social interactions so that every voice is heard, every life imagined into, and everybody spirited - young and old. Her work is deeply informed by the actual wisdom part of wisdom traditions, and highly constrained by the latest research and scientific understanding of human social dynamics and cognitive evolution. She brings to her work a 30 year meditation practice, extensive training in physics and scientific modeling, and a career in developing complex software systems and models to tackle some of the world’s hardest problems.
- Myosho Virgina Matthews finds her life support in the three pillars of family life, spiritual practice and her work as dancer/choreographer/teacher. She has been a student of Rinzai Zen master, Kyozan Joshu Sasaki for 40 years, taking ordination in 2000 and dedicating the last 14 years to co-creating family Zen practices and leading women’s retreats. Concurrently she has had a professional dance career and has taught dance to all ages, from 3 to 73. She is the director of The Downtown Dance/Art Space in Sebastopol where she teaches dance, Pilates mat class and offers meditation through Dharma Heart Center. She is a graduate of The Buddhist Chaplaincy Program and is featured in the book, The Unknown She: Eight Faces of Emerging Consciousness. She is in a committed 43 year marriage and the mother of 3 grown sons.
More information about The Conscious Family Festival can be found at:
- Conscious Family Festival Website: www.consciousfamilyfestival.org
- Conscious Family Festival on Facebook: www.facebook.com
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