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In today’s episode, I share my nourishing and life exalting conversation with the prolific new grandmother, Cynthia Zak!

Cynthia is a teacher, ceremonialist, writer (author of five books), songwriter (author of more than 170 songs), musician, journalist, international yoga teacher, mindfulness and meditation expert and a seasoned entrepreneur. She is moved by the certainty that the mystical realms are very close to us and she dedicates her life to create songs, music, books, training systems, and a whole movement to bring the esoteric world to a tangible reality that everybody can access. Cynthia is a HeartMath institute therapist, birth/postpartum doula and death doula working with children and families in the grief process. She practices sufism, buddhism, kabbalah, shamanic techniques and is a master tarot reader PLUS being a mother of three marvelous human beings, Marlon, Allegra and Satya and Grandmother of Atilla.

In this episode we get into:

• Her gorgeous life-long path as a student of various mystic traditions, faiths, + creative spiritual practices
• The medicalization + pathologization of menopause and how she rebirthed herself into her divine crone expression as the family/community matriarch
• Her work as a birth and death doula and taking on the role as the community midwife who initiates her people through life’s sacred rites of passage
• Her process of becoming a grandmother and the responsibility that we all hold to co-create a new earth for the children that are coming through right now
• The birth of her book, “The Joy of Sleeping Alone”! A in-depth synthesis on the history of the bed, the science of sleep, and everyday rituals to expand our dream time practice

May this episode awaken your own inner grandmother medicine and orient you, your family, and/or community towards the collective rebirth of intact family culture!

MENTIONED

Meetings with Remarkable Men — FILM

“Dancing Along the Medicine Path of Life” with Allegra Preuss — Cynthia’s daughter 

CONNECT WITH CYNTHIA

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Buy her book! -- The Joy of Sleeping Alone

CONNECT WITH CLAIRE + THE PODCAST

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