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This episode might surprise you. I had no idea until I spoke with my guest Bruce Fertman that the way we’ve unconsciously learned to walk is actually doing us a disservice. In fact, most of us are making it harder than it needs to be. In this episode we discuss Bruce and his coauthor Michael J. Gelb’s new book Walking Well: A New Approach for Experiencing Comfort and Vitality in Every Step; a helpful guide that’s chock full of secrets, advice, and guidance on walking with pleasure, power, poise, and peace.

Bruce Fertman brings sixty years of study as a movement artist and educator to his work, having trained in gymnastics, modern dance, ballet, contact improvisation, the Alexander Technique, tai chi chuan, aikido, chanoyu (Japanese tea ceremony), Argentine tango, and kyudo (Zen archery). For the past thirty years Fertman has taught in Europe, Asia, and the Americas helping people experience the interconnectedness of physical and spiritual life.

In this episode Bruce discusses:

• How walking can be more than exercise
• Walking as a metaphor
• “Sleep walking” your way through life
• How walking can help you increase your awareness of your body
• Developing a new relationship with your body
• Walking and breathing
• Walking for inspiration
• Myths about walking
• Walking for vitality
• Tips on how to walk well
• Walking with “bear” feet
• Walking shoulder to shoulder
• Walking for transformation
• The connection between sitting, standing and walking

Bruce and Michael’s website: Walking Well

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Meredith Heller invites us to write as a path toward self-understanding and as a lifelong refuge of unwavering friendship with yourself. Meredith used the power of writing to heal and save her own life and in her latest book Writing By Heart she encourages us to do the same. I can’t imagine how anyone reading her book or listening to this episode would not feel moved to pick up a pen and start writing. Her no frills, rule breaking and creative approach to writing makes a process that’s typically daunting super accessible.

Meredith is a poet, author, singer/songwriter, nature lover, and educator. Her passion is empowering women to believe in themselves, trust their creative instincts, cultivate their curiosity, tap their wild wisdom, speak their truth, and ignite their hearts.

In this episode, Meredith discusses:

• How writing became a lifeline in her early life
• Writing poetry as a way to heal and express yourself
• Her use of the word “poetry” as an umbrella term
• How to make writing a practice to learn, discover, and access authenticity
• How her book is an invitation to explore
• The way her relationship with her emotions developed and evolved because of writing
• Living a “synchromystic” life
• Getting to know your body through writing
• The influence of shamanic practice
• Experimenting with different means for getting the words out of you

Meredith’s website

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After an emergency surgery that saved his life, Ed Cohen had a spontaneous healing experience that prompted him to ask the question: Why doesn’t medicine know about healing? In this episode Ed explores how Western medicine turned from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” and how this shift has affected both medical practitioners and their patients.

Ed Cohen has a Ph.D. in Modern Thought from Stanford, and for the last three decades, has been an award-winning professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of On Learning To Heal, or What Medicine Doesn’t Know and A Body Worth Defending.

In this episode, Ed discusses:

• His diagnosis with acute Crohn’s disease at the age of 13
• The surprising origin of the concept of immunity
• How having a chronic illness inspired him to understand healing
• His spontaneous post-surgery healing experience
• His desire to understand why medicine doesn’t know about healing
• The difference between healing and curing
• The concept of disease
• The history and evolution of medicine
• How his healing journey changed him
• The relationship between desiring to heal and being willing to learn
• How we are more than we imagine
• How he helps those struggling with chronic illness reframe their difficult circumstances

Ed’s website: https://healingcounsel.com/

Ed’s books: https://healingcounsel.com/publications/

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Erica M. Elliott, MD, is a medical doctor with a busy private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Referred to as “the Health Detective,” she has successfully treated patients from across the country with difficult-to diagnose health conditions. She served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In this episode, Erica discusses:

• Her search for her purpose and the surprising places her search led her
• How she came to teach on the Navajo reservation
• What living and teaching on the reservation was like
• How she crossed the cultural divide and connected with her students
• How her teaching approach became a pilot program for bilingual-bicultural education
• Her summer as a sheepherder in the Arizona high desert
• What her deep dive into Navajo culture taught her
• How the experience changed her
• Witnessing and experiencing miracles
• Her encounter with a mountain lion
• The prophecy she was given by a Navajo elder
• How she approaches practicing medicine

To purchase a copy of Erica’s book: https://www.innertraditions.com/books/medicine-and-miracles-in-the-high-desert
Visit Erica's website: http://www.ericaelliottmd.com/
Erica's blog: https://www.musingsmemoirandmedicine.com/

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Quinn Caya combines a variety of Western and East Asian approaches and techniques at his central Vermont clinic, Clear Path.

In this episode, Quinn shares:

• The mission that inspires his work in natural medicine
• Acupuncture basics
• The call that’s driven him since he was a child
• His preference not to use labels to describe his work
• The importance of treating the whole person
• An example of how he works with patients
• How Western medicine philosophy differs from Eastern traditions
• The role of the nervous system in the healing process

To learn more about Quinn and his practice, please visit his website, Clear Path

To contact Lucid Cafe host Wendy Halley, please visit her website: https://www.lucidpathwellness.com/