Roots of Impact Podcast

In this episode we go all the way to Wageningen in the Netherlands and interview Heitor, a Brazilian PhD candidate at the Wageningen University where he focuses his research on Biodiversity and Ecosystem services.
He goes over the situation in Brazil and explains the reasons for the fires in the Amazon which include changes in policy, greater deforestation compared to previous years and the curre global agro food system.
He then takes us on a journey through Agroecology as a systemic solution to the imbalance in the current Agro food system.
He finally asks us and the audience to organize ourselves and to join organizations that are pushing this transformation forward, since by uniting we can leverage our strengths and accelerate the much needed change.

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Roni Lila, a musician and singer/songwriter from Israel shares with us her story of self-healing. After surgical intervention to remove a tumor in her spinal cord and dealing with severe nerve pain she became paralyzed. She then learned that under every physical pain there is an emotional pain, and this was the beginning of her self-healing journey. Now she is back to dancing and doing what she loves. Roni shares with us how she did it and helpful tips that we can implement on our individual paths.

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Karen’s journey started in her bedroom window where one day the forest was there and then another day the forest was gone. This left a mark in her. When she was older she decided to study Biology and she focused her work on landscape restoration. This work led her to Monteverde in Costa Rica, a place she fell in love with. However, her big shift was when her son was born and she had a realization that what needed deeper restoration were our human inner landscapes. She jumped in deep into this work.

Now she guides people to be their own inner naturalists using the metaphors of the wise Mother Earth, using an ancient rite of passage ceremony, the wilderness quest, a ceremony that has been practiced by all cultures. We all have ancestors that practiced wilderness quests. We are all indigenous to this Earth and through her, we gain deep wisdom into our life mission and into our medicine. Karen guides us in our Mytho-Poetic-Journey of life.

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In this episode, we talk to Annette, Chanel and Allan the facilitators of PermaYouth Americas which is a container or platform for youth around the Americas to connect, learn from each other and empower themselves to be leaders and change-makers in their communities based on the Permaculture ethics of People care, Earth care and Fair share.
PermaYouth Americas is a subdivision of the global PermaYouth.
Annette, Chanel and Allan tell us about their journey that led them to this work. They also explain why they think the youth are so important in this journey of human transformation. The youth are the people that have the creativity to design a new way of human existence.
Annette, Chanel and Allan describe themselves as the composted organic matter or soil that creates the space for the youth to flower and a new ecosystem to emerge.

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Today we have the honor of interviewing Leonard Jacobson an awakened spiritual teacher, mystic, healer and an author who is deeply committed to guiding and supporting others in their journey towards wholeness. Leonard teaches how to become fundamentally present and awaken into the truth of who you are.

Leonard was born in Melbourne, Australia and resides in Wayzata near Minneapolis, Minnesota offering workshops and retreats throughout the U.S., Europe, Australia and Asia. He is the author of five books: Words from Silence, Journey into Now, Embracing the Present, Bridging Heaven & Earth and In Search of the Light, a winner of the Indie Children’s book award.

He is the founder of the Conscious Living Foundation, a registered non-profit organization established to support the awakening of human consciousness and to make his teachings widely available.

As a mark of honor and recognition to his selfless efforts in spiritual awakening, in 2005, he was awarded the Peace Prize by Religious Science International, although he is not affiliated or associated with any religion or church. His teaching is both inclusive of, and transcendent of, all religions and spiritual traditions.

In this episode we talk about Leonard’s spiritual journey which includes various unexpected and spontaneous awakenings. We also discuss his teachings that consists of the two-step dance of awakening – the first step leads to presence and the second step, to mastery of the mind and ego.

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