Rob Aptaker: Ritual and Ceremony For Life | The Healing Grove Podcast
08/21/23 • 44 min
This week I am excited to introduce you to my dear friend, Rob Aptaker.
Rob is one of those humans who always inspires me to be a better human myself. His gentle manner, sincere interest, and unwavering listening always compel me to more presence and humility.
You might be surprised to learn that Rob's own healing journey began as a struggle with rage, a starving ego, and an inability to find his place and purpose in the world. Like many of us, he struggled for years to fit in.
Luckily, Rob's early fascination with and access to the natural world allowed him the space to cultivate powerful connections to himself and something larger. He began to study the many uses of wild plants and fungi, and to learn wilderness survival practices. Ultimately, it was this spiritual affinity with nature--and his deeply held feeling that the culture he was living in was missing a vital element of meaning and connection--that led him to seek out Native American medicine people and ceremonial leaders as teachers.
For the past 45 years, Rob has taken part in ceremonies and cultural activities with Native People and elders from all over Turtle Island (North America). Spiritual fasts and ceremonies, along with conventional therapy and Mens' Work, have helped him to gain a measure of balance, meaning and purpose in life.
If you would like to contact Rob Aptaker, you can email him at [email protected]
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This week I am excited to introduce you to my dear friend, Rob Aptaker.
Rob is one of those humans who always inspires me to be a better human myself. His gentle manner, sincere interest, and unwavering listening always compel me to more presence and humility.
You might be surprised to learn that Rob's own healing journey began as a struggle with rage, a starving ego, and an inability to find his place and purpose in the world. Like many of us, he struggled for years to fit in.
Luckily, Rob's early fascination with and access to the natural world allowed him the space to cultivate powerful connections to himself and something larger. He began to study the many uses of wild plants and fungi, and to learn wilderness survival practices. Ultimately, it was this spiritual affinity with nature--and his deeply held feeling that the culture he was living in was missing a vital element of meaning and connection--that led him to seek out Native American medicine people and ceremonial leaders as teachers.
For the past 45 years, Rob has taken part in ceremonies and cultural activities with Native People and elders from all over Turtle Island (North America). Spiritual fasts and ceremonies, along with conventional therapy and Mens' Work, have helped him to gain a measure of balance, meaning and purpose in life.
If you would like to contact Rob Aptaker, you can email him at [email protected]
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The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1
Be the first to hear new episodes by following or subscribing to this podcast, or by signing up for my newsletter on my website.
➢ Website: https://www.kristinreihmanmd.com/
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➢ https://linktr.ee/kristinreihmanmd
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Ari Whitten: Using Breath To Enhance Energy | The Healing Grove Podcast
This week I would like to introduce you to Ari Whitten.
Ari Whitten is a best-selling author and the creator of the Energy Blueprint system. A chronic fatigue and energy-optimization specialist with a world-wide following, Ari hosts the Energy Blueprint Podcast, bringing together leading experts in the field of fatigue and energy enhancement for the education of all. Many of my favorite holistic health thought leaders are folks that Ari has featured there, so I thought it appropriate to ask Ari to share his learnings with us, and he did not disappoint.
With a Bachelor’s of Science in Kinesiology, two advanced certifications from the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and recent completion of coursework for a PhD in Clinical Psychology, Ari has plenty of book learning on the topic of energy enhancement. But he also comes by his knowledge the hard way: from lived experience. In his youth, Ari went down hard with Epstein Barr virus, developing the chronic fatigue that would give direction to and fuel passion for the rest of his career. He has spent the last 20 years obsessively researching the most effective and evidence-based approaches to energy enhancement, something which my patients with complex, chronic mystery illness need more than anyone--though everyone can benefit from the simple tools he shares.
To learn more about Ari Whitten, you can check out his website here: https://theenergyblueprint.com
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The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1
Be the first to hear new episodes by following or subscribing to this podcast, or by
signing up for my newsletter on my website.
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Danielle Pilarinos: Biomagnetism Part 2 - Demonstration and Protocols | The Healing Grove Podcast
Our guest this week is Danielle Pilarinos. You might remember Danielle from a previous episode where she talked about Biomagnetism. It aired on April 17, 2023. So many people found that conversation helpful, so I asked Danielle to come back and share more of her Biomagnetism wisdom with us. This time she demonstrated some of her favorite protocols for dealing with trauma to the body, headaches and brain fog, lymphatic and liver support, and more.
So who is Danielle Pilarinos? Danielle was a 26-year-old ultrasound tech when she came down with a mysterious and debilitating illness that baffled her doctors. After two hospitalizations with idiopathic rhabdomyolysis (that's doctor-speak for wide-spread breakdown of her muscles with no identifiable cause), she was told there was nothing else that could be done to end her suffering or halt the progression of her mysterious medical ailment. When she lost her ability to walk, she took matters into her own hands, and today she is healthier than ever, with no residual signs or symptoms of whatever the heck that was...all thanks to Biomagnetism.
So, what is Biomagnetism? Good question. Using magnet pairs placed on specific points in the body, it balances the electromagnetic field, improving circulation, oxygen delivery, detoxification, and ultimately lowering inflammation...not to mention ridding the body of all those pesky chronic diseases that have chronic inflammation as a root cause.
You can learn more about Danielle and Biomagnetism at: https://www.biomaghealth.com
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The Healing Grove Playbook is now available for purchase! You can use this collection of journal prompts to deepen your experience with the talks and keep track of your progress. Get it here:
➢ The Healing Grove Playbook: https://troutcreek.kartra.com/page/PlaybookVol1
Be the first to hear new episodes by following or subscribing to this podcast, or by signing up for my newsletter on my website.
➢ Website: https://www.kristinreihmanmd.com/
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