Our Nature: Conversations about the relationship between nature, spirituality, and well-being - EP: 23 Embracing Water to Know Ourselves, Featuring Water Healer Jobi Manson

EP: 23 Embracing Water to Know Ourselves, Featuring Water Healer Jobi Manson

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04/22/20 • 99 min

Our Nature: Conversations about the relationship between nature, spirituality, and well-being

There’s no better way to celebrate Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary than by sharing an episode that focuses on the life giving element of water. Jobi Manson is a water healer, a creative director, photographer, entrepreneur and designer. She believes that “nature is the key to a creative life” and helps guide people into their creative expression through water immersion. Jobi calls these experiences “Sefari’s” or rebirth water experiences. Think of them as adventures into one’s creativity by inviting in water’s inherent wisdom. For Jobi, water is the most powerful and essential element within all forms of life, one that helps us feel and move our emotions with ease. She’s led Sefari experiences for people such as the Founder of Toms Shoes to the Founder of Conscious City Guide, among others. In this episode we discuss: what makes water so unique and healing, how water can be the key to unlocking our creativity, what happens during a Sefari experience, Jobi’s path from surfer to Sefari guide, the serious accident that changed everything for Jobi (wait until you hear more about this profound experience), how we can better understand our emotions and feelings in order to be with them differently, and how we can more easily flow with the waves of our lives.

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EP 22: How Nature Can Be Our Greatest Teacher With Biomimicry Student Azita Ardakani

This week, I’m speaking with Azita Ardakani all about biomimicry, which according to Azita, is about revealing nature’s strategies to solve problems or create new innovations. She’s currently studying biomimicry at Arizona State University, but prior to this, Azita had an incredibly successful career living in New York City as the founder of Lovesocial, a communications agency that landed her on the Forbes 30 under 30 list. I don’t want to give too much away because I think Azita should share her story in her own words, but Azita chose a radical path and left her agency and life in New York for an extended moment of pause and contemplative connection with the natural world. Her story is nature’s story - resilient, complex, full of opposites, and ever expansive.

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EP 24: Bath Ritual and Meditation with Water Healer Jobi Manson

Welcome to a very special episode of Our Nature. On the last episode of the podcast, I spoke with Water Healer Jobi Manson about water, and its power to transform us through its inherent wisdom. Jobi leads people into their creative expression through water immersion experiences in the ocean, which she calls “Sefaris.” She came to this practice through her own transformational relationship with water after a life changing accident almost left her permanently paralyzed. In order to have the proper context for this episode, I encourage you to go back and listen to Jobi’s incredible journey on the last episode of Our Nature, episode 23, if you haven’t already. Originally, we had the idea to record a part 2 of that episode after I had been on a Sefari so you could all get a glimpse into what that experience was like, but because we’re social distancing right now, that wasn’t possible. So I wanted to offer the next best thing, perhaps an even better thing! A chance for all of you to experience water’s creative power through a bath ritual and meditation hosted by Jobi Manson. What I love about this offering is that we have an opportunity to connect with the most powerful element in nature from wherever we’re sheltering in place (as long as you have access to a bathtub). It was always my hope for Our Nature to provide simple, practical things you can do to connect with the natural world and in turn, yourself, in the most accessible way possible. And, this feels like one of those offerings. Please visit ournaturepodcast.com for full show notes.