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Apricot JamJohan HausenJohan has a martial arts background which eventually brought him to the Five Immortals Temple where he spent more than 5 years under the tutelage of Li Shifu. There he studied a variety of subjects including Tai Ji, longevity exercises, Dao Yin (guiding and leading of Qi), alchemy, swordsmanship, martial arts, Feng Shui, Yi Jing (The Book of Changes) divination, Daoist healing, and entering the 24th Dragon Gate lineage. Johan currently works as a Chinese medicine practitioner, taiji and qigong teacher in a psychosomatic clinic near Cologne. He also co-founded Purple Cloud Press with the mission statement to preserve the...2024-02-101h 15
Apricot JamJulia & Jonathan - Heartward SanctuaryJonathan (Jed) H Edwards, LAc practices East Asian Medicine with a focus on internal medicine. A longtime student of divination traditions from the Yijing to Jyotisa (Vedic astrology), he also deals with subtle/spiritual aspects of health. He finds that disease often falls away when people reorient their lives to include an understanding of karmic currents or the patterning of fate.
Jonathan makes his home at Heartward Sanctuary, a center in the NC Piedmont that he co-founded with his partner. His writing can be found at Seeds from the World Tree on Substack. For clinical consultations and divination, visit ...2023-04-151h 24
Apricot JamTyler Phan & Lisa Rohleder 2Lisa Rohleder has been a licensed acupuncturist in Portland, Oregon, since 1994. She founded Working Class Acupuncture (https://workingclassacupuncture.org/) in 2002 with the goal of providing low-cost acupuncture to the community through a cooperative, grassroots, financially self-sustaining model. She’s currently one of the executive directors of the POCA Technical Institute (https://pocatech.org/), the only accredited acupuncture school dedicated to training community acupuncturists. She writes about the overlapping topics of acupuncture safety, acupuncture regulation, trauma informed care, and community acupuncture at https://acusafetynerd.com/
Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he e...2023-03-041h 49
Apricot JamRobert CoonsRobert Coons is a resident of Toronto where he teaches Tai Chi, Meditation, and Tea Ceremony. He studied with secular Daoist disciple Hai Yang, and various teachers in China such as Yin Qin (Yang Style Taiji), He Caitong (Taiwan Cha Dao), Yu Jiang (Xin Yi Liu He Quan), and others. Today he continues to cultivate the Golden Elixir and is very happy to talk to you, so send him an email or visit his substack Immortality Study. You can also buy his tea at tcmsix.com/shop/
And check out his newest online class: https://courses.qigongmeditation.o...2022-05-071h 42
Apricot JamLisa Rohleder & Tyler PhanLisa Rohleder has been a licensed acupuncturist in Portland, Oregon, since 1994. She founded Working Class Acupuncture (https://workingclassacupuncture.org/) in 2002 with the goal of providing low-cost acupuncture to the community through a cooperative, grassroots, financially self-sustaining model. She’s currently one of the executive directors of the POCA Technical Institute (https://pocatech.org/), the only accredited acupuncture school dedicated to training community acupuncturists. She writes about the overlapping topics of acupuncture safety, acupuncture regulation, trauma informed care, and community acupuncture at https://acusafetynerd.com/
Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he e...2022-04-231h 34
Apricot JamLoan TranLoAn Guylaine TRAN is a 24th generation disciple of the Daoist Complete Reality Dragon Gate Pure Yang lineage of Mount Wudang, under the name Sincere Phoenix 誠鳳. First an activist and professional project manager for humanitarian organisation with a focus on women’s rights in the context of anti-trafficking and prostitution, her spiritual quest took her through year-long immersions in Buddhist and Yogic practices throughout Asia, before leading her into a 9 years Daoist apprenticeship at the Five Immortals Temple, Wudang, China. She now teaches Daoist arts of Energy and Spirit and practices Chinese medicine and Daoist healing, with an ever-renewing intere...2022-04-0953 min
Apricot JamIsaac SaulIsaac Saul is an independent political journalist and the founder of Tangle, a politics newsletter that summarizes the best arguments from the right and left on the big news of the day.
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Apricot JamLindsey Wei
Lindsey Wei, Daoist Name -Wei Cheng Ling, 魏诚灵, is a 24th generation lay disciple (俗家弟子sújiā dìzǐ) of the Chun Yang Sect of Wudang Daoism. She trained Traditional Chinese Gong Fu in a remote mountain temple in the Wudang Mountains, Hubei Province, China under her master Li Song Feng for over 9 years before returning to the US in 2010 to start her martial teaching career. She is a practitioner of Tai Ji Quan, Qi Gong, Ba Gua, Double Edge Straight Sword (Jian), as well as other weapons arts. Her passion is combining ancestral skills and indigenous world views of how to steward the earth, ex...2022-03-121h 31
Apricot JamKen Crouse part 2Ken Crouse is a native of Wilkes County, NC where he has lived formost of his life. He grew up working on a farm that raised cattle,tobacco, corn, other grains, and a large vegetable patch. Havingalways had a love of plants, he went on to study horticulture andmycology and got involved in the nursery and landscaping business.Twenty-five years ago, Ken and his wife Cindy bought a place in themountains known as Peaceful Valley. At about this time, Ken wasintroduced to the concepts of permaculture and...2022-02-261h 31
Apricot JamScoutleader WileyScoutleader Wiley is a semi-nomadic theory and ritual artist. She does not like touching slimy things, and her favourite food is potatoes. She was raised by two artists amongst the underground hip-hop and house dance community in Brooklyn, NY. She now plays freak-folk guitar music for her friends and writes systems poetry for the internet. She is the Maestra Magica at Metamodern Magick, a collaborative education platform that seeks to integrate the wisdom traditions of pre-modernity into the post-conventional world.
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Apricot JamHenry AndrewsHenry Andrews stumbled into interactive theater and performance in 2015, and became enamored of its ability to invite people into meaningful authentic experiences. He performed with Barron Scott Levkoff’s Mystic Midway over the next several years and became involved with several other interactive projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. These experiences eventually combined with his interests in metamodern philosophy, Gravesian developmental theory, and Batesonian warm data in the form of HELLAMETAMODERNISM, an experiential approach to metamodernism. With an intentionally ridiculous name derived from an art project for an interactive theatrical party, HELLAMETAMODERNISM is a still-emerging set of concepts th...2022-01-291h 35
Apricot JamAmba SepieAmba J. Sepie works in the realm of cultural ecology, soul medicine, and decolonisation. She is also a research fellow at the University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand, teaching, writing and collaborating on projects grounded in traditional knowledges and respect for Earth’s sentience.
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The Revelation ProjectEpisode 109: Lukas Wolf and Taran Rosenthal - Reclaiming Curiosity & The Invitation of Chinese MedicineI believe conversations are an art form and can be incredibly potent medicine for transformation. The best conversations I’ve had are the ones that occur without an agenda, are filled with curiosity, and a deep listening for the invitation into a deeper inquiry where wisdom can often arise and nourish everyone who engages.
To me, this conversation feels like one in which my guests and I embark on a conversation that deepens, opens, and expands - nourishing all of us as we go with plenty of laughter and just the right amount of irreverence.
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Apricot JamJosh Paynter part 2We're back at it with Josh Paynter, diving deeper into his specific Taoist lineage. It's an incredible and wild ride. Please enjoy responsibly.
Josh has been dedicated to Chinese studies for nearly thirty years. He received a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Bard College with a focus on Daoist traditions, including studying at Yunnan University in Kunming, China. His Master’s Degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine is from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He haa also completed training at Memorial Sloane-Kettering in acupuncture for the treatment of cancer patients.
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Apricot JamDare Sohei part 2Dare Sohei (they/them/cat) is an animist artist, practitioner, facilitator. Their work dances with the integration of animist/indigenous lifeways with liberatory anti-oppression principles and non-dual somatics, which can be pithily summed up as Death Practice.They are based in Chinook Lands aka Portland, OR, USA.www.bodyaltar.orgwww.patreon.com/animistarts
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theapricotjam@gmail.com2021-12-181h 51Apricot JamJosh PaynterJosh has been dedicated to Chinese studies for nearly thirty years. He received a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Bard College with a focus on Daoist traditions, including studying at Yunnan University in Kunming, China. His Master’s Degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine is from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He haa also completed training at Memorial Sloane-Kettering in acupuncture for the treatment of cancer patients.
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Apricot JamKen CrouseKen Crouse is a native of Wilkes County, NC where he has lived formost of his life. He grew up working on a farm that raised cattle,tobacco, corn, other grains, and a large vegetable patch. Havingalways had a love of plants, he went on to study horticulture andmycology and got involved in the nursery and landscaping business.Twenty-five years ago, Ken and his wife Cindy bought a place in themountains known as Peaceful Valley. At about this time, Ken wasintroduced to the concepts of permaculture and...2021-11-201h 25
Apricot JamMonica RodgersBringing an infectious warmth and playful levitywherever she goes, Monica Rodgers is a tirelessadvocate for the full actualization of women,inspiring women everywhere that saying “YES tothe MESS” is the missing link to self-love andpersonal awakening.
From Monica: Patriarchy impacts all people, regardless of gender, all over the world.
This unjust construct is defined by the dictionary as a "system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it” has caused inestimable harm throughout the centuries, and yet we learn a...2021-11-061h 31
Apricot JamKathy YangHello audience! (Lukas here) I just wanted to apologize straight away for the sound quality of this episode. We will do our very best to maintain better standards in the future. It's a great conversation with someone I've admired for a long time so I think you'll enjoy it regardless.
Thanks for listening!
Some background from Kathy herself:
I have been practicing Chinese martial arts, Tai Chi, and Qigong for over three decades. I began training at the age of six under the guidance of my father Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming.
I...2021-10-232h 07
Apricot JamDare SoheiDare Sohei (they/them/cat) is an animist artist, practitioner, facilitator. Their work dances with the integration of animist/indigenous lifeways with liberatory anti-oppression principles and non-dual somatics, which can be pithily summed up as Death Practice.They are based in Chinook Lands aka Portland, OR, USA.www.bodyaltar.orgwww.patreon.com/animistarts
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Apricot JamZoey GongZoey Gong is a Traditional Chinese Medicinal (TCM) chef and nutritionist. Born in Shanghai, China, she grew up with the wisdom of medicinal cooking. She now resides in New York City, where she hosts pop-up medicinal dinners and educates the public on TCM food therapy. With a background in both western and eastern clinical nutrition, she founded Five Seasons TCM in 2021, a boutique wellness brand that shares and modernizes the knowledge of TCM food therapy.
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Apricot JamMichael Garfield
Artist and philosopher Michael Garfield helps people navigate our age of accelerating weirdness and cultivate the curiosity and play we'll need to thrive in it. As host and producer of both Future Fossils Podcast & The Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Podcast, Michael acts as interlocutor for a worldwide community of artists, scientists, and philosophers — a practice fed by and and feeding back into his fifteen years of synthetic and transdisciplinary "mind-jazz" performances in the form of essay, avant-guitar, and live painting. Bearing the standard for a new generation of mystic-scholars and refusing to be enslaved by a single perspective, creative medium, or i...2021-09-252h 01
Apricot JamTyler Phan part 2Like many guests we had so much to talk about we had to have a part 2.
Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country ethnography o...2021-09-191h 31
Apricot JamCarrie MelmothBio: Carrie Melmoth is based in Southampton (UK). She generally tries to elude definition, but the following statement are nevertheless true. She sometimes writes about Philip K. Dick (with particular empahsis on him as a neoplatonist). She spends much of her time reading and walking parks and meadows and by the sea (sometimes at the same time because audiobooks exist). She is fascinated by tarot, and by signs and symbols in general - metaphors are moreish! She is in a (very protozoan) band called Venn. Websites are a faff but she has a tumblr that performs the same function: ht...2021-09-111h 19
Apricot JamSophie StrandBio:
Sophie Strand is a poet, historical-fiction writer, and essayist based in the Hudson Valley with a focus on the intersection of spirituality and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming from Inner Traditions. She has three chapbooks: Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers to Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan) Her writing has been published by The Dark Mountain Project, www.poetry.org, Unearthed, Braided Way Magazine, Creatrix Magazine, and Your Imposs...2021-08-211h 33
Apricot JamTyler PhanTyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country ethnography of Chinese medicine in the United States, examining the historical marginalization of Asian/Asian Americans through policy and legislation, which...2021-08-071h 32
Apricot JamBrandt StickleyBrandt Stickley is an Assistant Professor in the College of Classical Chinese Medicine, National University of Natural Medicine, and a Visiting Professor at Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine, Pacific Rim College, Five Branches University, Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences, Yo San University and Maryland University of Integrative Health. As a Senior Instructor and Board member of Dragon Rises Seminars he teaches Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis. Brandt is a graduate of Cornell University and the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has worked closely with Dr. Leon Hammer for 20 years, and is considered an authority on the mod...2021-07-311h 33
Apricot JamWes TaskerBio: Wes Tasker has been practicing various martial arts since 1981 and is currently focused on Baguazhang, Xingyiquan, Qilinpai and Pekiti Tirsia Kali with some supplementary training in Boxing and Catch Wrestling. He also studies Chinese Medicine in relation to martial arts training, traumatology and orthopedics. His philosophical and spiritual areas of study include but are not limited to Buddhism, Neidan (Daoist internal alchemy), and Western Philosophy.
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Apricot JamJeremy WolfJeremy Wolf, along with being one of the host's older brother, is a lifelong learner and educator. Jeremy has been a high school teacher, pre-service teacher trainer, college professor, little league coach of nearly every sport, and has had a side-hustle in nearly every industry. As a part of a multi-generational family of educators and helpers, Jeremy's world view has been focused on community and mind/body health. His current areas of research/interest are neurobiochemistry, the connection between the brain and mind, homebrewing beer, and the universal connectivity of mythology.
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Apricot JamEd NealEdward Neal, MD, MSOM is trained in both Western and Chinese medicine. He has been involved in the practice, research and teaching of Chinese medicine for over 30 years. As part of this work, he has consulted with the World Health Organisation on matters of traditional East Asian Medicine and has been a visiting scholar at the University of San Diego medical school. He is currently the medical director of the Apricot Grove Project and director of the Xinglin Institute. These organisations study traditional forms of knowledge to find innovative solutions to current global challenges.
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Apricot JamMushtaq Ali Al AnsariBio:
Who is Mushtaq Ali al Ansari?
This is a question that is infrequently asked, mostly because the answer is rather boring.
If asked (enough) he will tell you that after long study, he may have begun to learn the basics of a couple of martial arts, but that he has no rank that is worth mentioning.
He has been involved in Sufism for the entirety of his adult life, though being the worst of his teacher’s students, he did not receive his Ijaza (permission to teach) until 1999.
He...2021-07-031h 04
The Integral Stage METAPODCASTThe Apricot Jam w/ Taran Rosenthal & Lukas WolfFor episode 28, Layman is joined by Chinese medicine practitioners and hosts of the Apricot Jam podcast, Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf. The Apricot Jam podcast we explores "interdependence and consciousness through conversational jazz ... and brush(es) up against the intersections of art, movement, medicine, philosophy, and spirituality." With Layman, they discuss the conversational aesthetics of the emerging meta-discourse community; their discussions with Tyson Yunkaporta, Jim Rutt, and other leading voices in these spaces; the role of their training in Chinese medicine and philosophy in their approaches to life and their podcast venture; spirituality, healing, and embodiment; subtle...2021-06-291h 31
Apricot JamNigel DawesNigel Dawes has been practicing and teaching East Asian Medicine for 35 years. He lived and studied in Japan for 5 years followed by hospital internships in China in the 1980’s. Prior to moving to the United States, he founded the London College of Shiatsu in 1987, and in addition to acting as director and lead instructor, began lecturing at various Oriental Medicine (OM) schools in England, France, Israel and the U.S. Since 1994, New York City has been his home, where he has continued his involvement in undergraduate and graduate OM education and administration, political work in the field, clinical practice, re...2021-06-261h 34
Apricot JamAmy EdelsteinBio: Amy Edelstein, educator, author, and public speaker is a powerful communicator of ideas and beliefs that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in. In 2014, she founded Inner Strength Education, a non-profit organization that has empowered 15,000 Philadelphia high school students in mindfulness and systems thinking and 1,400 Philadelphia teachers in self-care strategies. Inner Strength received the coveted Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)-recommended designation in 2018. ISE's new mobile app Inner Strength, free for all teens and developed to promote teen mental health, launched in April 2021. Amy was awarded a Philadelphia Social Innovation Award f...2021-06-191h 24
Apricot JamNoor Kyle GeorgeBio:
Noor Kyle George has been meandering a Sufi-esque path for over a decade and, along the way, somehow grew into a teacher in spite of herself when her teacher invited her to do so. She is a co-founder and co-faciliator of The Nine-Sided Circle, a mostly-virtual, no-mystery school in which the wisdoms of esoteric traditions and members’ life experiences are drawn upon in support of the pursuit of human adulthood and conscious Awakening. She co-hosts live public talks via Zoom every week -- anyone interested can join by connecting with The Nine-Sided Circle on Facebook or si...2021-06-121h 26
Apricot JamTyson YunkaportaBio:
Tyson is Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at Deakon University in Victoria, Australia.
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World
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Apricot JamG William BarnardBio:
Dr. G. William Barnard, (B.A. Antioch University; M.A. Temple University; Ph.D. University of Chicago) is a Professor of Religious Studies, as well as a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. His primary areas of research interests are the comparative philosophy of mysticism, contemporary spirituality, religion and healing, and consciousness studies. Professor Barnard’s new book Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Visions and Embodying Divinity in the Santo Daime Religious Tradition, on a syncretistic, entheogenically-based new religious movement that emerged in Brazil in the mid-twentieth century, is currently in production with Columbia University Press. Professor Barnard is also the...2021-05-291h 25
Apricot JamTom BisioBio:
Tom Bisio began his study of the martial arts at age 14, achieving a BlackBelt in Isshin Kempo. He later trained in the Filipino Martial arts formany years before going on study to Chinese medicine and internalmartial arts. Tom made numerous trips to China and South East Asiawhere he studied both medicine and martial arts with many differentmasters. Tom has taught martial arts since 1979. During that time, heapprenticed with Chinese herbalists and experts in acupuncture, qigong, Chinese Medical massage (Tui Na) and bonesetting (ZhengGu). H...2021-05-221h 34
Apricot JamBonnitta RoyBio:
Bonnie is an integral process philosopher and Daoist Horse Whisperer. She hosts collective insight retreats at her home/farm, Alderlore Insight Center, and teaches a Master's course in Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal Psychology at The Graduate Institute, is an associate editor of Integral Review and an associate at Perspectiva.
What daily practice do you currently find most nourishing? In terms of "formal practice" I do a breath practice slow and deep (3 breaths per minute) I also do a gratitude practice when I wake up and when I go to sle...2021-05-151h 22
Apricot JamAmashé Etz Alon
Who is Amashé Etz Alon?
I am first and foremost a human being. Born in Northern Florida, and grown as a teenager in Southern California, I was raised with deep Jewish roots, and connectivity with the African American and Native American communities where I lived. I was also in the front wave of gender spectrum children daring to live openly, having expressed my Intersex/Intergendered nature from age four and becoming as an adult, one of the first Non-Binary Transgender rabbis of the Jewish people.
I began my training in Jewish spiritual leadership as...2021-05-081h 27
Apricot JamIntroCastWelcome to the Apricot Jam!
Join Chinese medicine practitioners Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf as we explore interdependence and consciousness through conversational jazz.
In each episode, we chat with interesting guests, riff on ideas, and see where the changes take us.
We never know what will emerge from these long-form improvisations, but we often brush up against the intersections of art, movement, medicine, philosophy, and spirituality.
We hope you enjoy the jam sessions!
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Apricot JamBrad KershnerBrad Kershner is a school leader and independent scholar, and the author of Understanding Educational Complexity (available from amazon and Brill). His research, teaching, and writing cover a wide range of interdependent topics, including education, leadership, parenting, race, technology, metamodernism, integral theory, meditation, complexity, and developmental psychology. Some of his public lectures are available on YouTube. You can learn more about his work and access recordings of his guided meditations on Patreon.
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