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SOUNDFOODMEDICINE OF THE BEES with Kate HinkensBee venom has the potential to shift the ways we treat chronic illness. Humans have been using bees for over 10,000 years, and yet modern medicine has forgotten its powerful, healing benefits. Today we welcome the brilliant Kate Hinkens for a life-changing conversation on the synergistic medicine of the hive.* Kate is the founder of Stinglab, an organization dedicated to the research and therapeutic application of honeybee intelligence for human and planetary health. Kate healed herself from a debilitating chronic Lyme disease using bee venom and has now made it her mission to share the medicine of the...2024-09-171h 21
Voices of EsalenSnow Raven, Live at Esalen - Shamanistic Spirit, Arctic BeatboxSnow Raven, also known as Suor, a performer from the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Arctic Siberia, now residing in the United States, performed live at Esalen Institute this winter, during our Go Within Series. Snow Raven is renowned for her unique blend of traditional shamanic practices and modern electronic music, which she uses to connect with and teach about her indigenous culture.
Snow Raven's artistic practice is rooted in neo-shamanism. She believes in the interconnectedness of all things. This philosophy extends to her use of technology, which she views as a natural extension of human innovation. She has collaborated...2024-06-2747 minSOUNDFOODINTO THE MYSTIC with Brent BolthouseThis week we welcome Nitsa’s partner Brent Bolthouse in celebration of the masculine and fathers of all forms. Brent is an American entrepreneur, event producer, and photographer. He’s the founder of The Bungalow Hospitality Group and the creator of Neon Carnival. From adoption at birth, to struggling with addiction as a teen in Joshua Tree, getting sober at 16, accidentally shaping Hollywood nightlife in the 90s and 2000s, entrepreneurial roller coasters, becoming a father and now cocreating a life together-- our conversation is rich in love, vulnerability, humor and reflection. We cover...2024-06-132h 07
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks Featuring Jacqueline Suskin: Writer, Poet, EducatorJacqueline Suskin is a writer, poet and educator now based in Detroit, Michigan. She has released many poetry books, two artistic creation books, and is now teaching young people in Detroit at the intersection of art and nature. Yet the move to Detroit is recent. Only a little bit ago, she was stewarding art and a farm in northern California. Before that, Jacqueline was based in Los Angeles, where we met, when she was supporting herself with a made-up job she created called ‘Poem Store.’ Jacqueline describes Poem Store as an experiment. It was an experiment in which...2024-02-291h 24SOUNDFOODTHE RITUAL OF BEING with Geneviève Medow-Jenkins Today we celebrate our origins and micro-moments of magic. We welcome Nitsa’s oldest friend Geneviève Medow-Jenkins to SOUNDFOOD. Born 9 days apart, Geneviève and Nitsa spent their earliest years together at Esalen Institute — a retreat center and hot springs community perched over the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California. Geneviève reflects on how fundamental this wild landscape and Esalen in all its dimensions have been in shaping her current work as a creative director and founder of Secular Sabbath; an ambient music experience incorporating wellness and art, inspired by the societal need to celebrate a day o...2024-02-221h 25Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks Featuring RHYE (Michael Milosh): MusicianMichael Milosh (RHYE) is a lifelong musician from Toronto, Canada. He learned to play cello at 3 years old, having had a father who dedicated his life to teaching and playing music. RHYE is the musical project of Mike’s that has garnered the most worldwide success, but as I reveal in this bath, I have been listening to his music since I was 18, when I first heard his song ‘The City’ under the moniker, Milosh.In this bath, we uncover so much about how Mike makes music, why Mike makes music, and what music has unlocked in his li...2024-02-221h 16Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Chantel JeffriesIn this Tub Talks, I get to soak in the unique wisdom of Chantel Jeffries. Chantel is known in the world for seemingly disparate things: being a DJ, investor, entrepreneur, and social media creator. She is simultaneously a mystery. However, this bathtub conversation is a treasure chest of knowledge that I’ve never heard her share before. As we learn more about Chantel, we learn more about how interconnected all of these industries actually are. She articulates her multidisciplinary work approach as perceiving every ‘job’ as a fractal, in which all things are related to everything else. They all...2024-02-1358 min
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks Featuring Raquelle Stevens: Bestselling Author, Film Producer, and EducatorAt 18 years old, Raquelle Stevens came to Los Angeles on a whim. Her family was moving from Chicago, and she felt called to take the risk alongside them, understanding that what is beyond our comfort zone is often what is good for us. Raquelle’s story is one of following the signs. It begins with a good side-of-the-road car cry on Highland, in which she prayed, “God, if this is where I am meant to be, I pray that I would make the best friends I’ve made in my entire life and that you would make it real...2024-02-0645 min
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks Featuring Illangelo: Music Producer, Carlo MontagneseCarlo Montagnese, known in the music industry as Illangelo, has been exploring his musical landscape since childhood. He is best known for his work with the Weeknd in creating The Trilogy, and songs like “The Hills” which has accrued billions of streams. Hitting major mainstream professional success relatively young, Carlo moved to LA from Canada to continue collaborating with interesting artists. However, a good life in LA didn’t come easy. He describes the beginning as a ‘disaster,’ when he had been hyperfocused on the goal of ‘making it’ in Hollywood.Yet, it was while living in Los Angeles th...2024-01-3158 min
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Orville Peck: Country Music ArtistToday we're diving into the remarkable journey of Orville Peck, who is best known as a one-of-a-kind country artist who's been captivating hearts with his soulful music and creative, inclusive spirit.Our story with Orville begins with an unexpected connection that occurred during the heart of the pandemic. He and Genevieve met via Diplo at Joshua Tree Acres, where Secular Sabbath holds the annual May retreat. Peck remembers this experience well, as his music is often inspired by the desert, specifically the hauntingly beautiful Joshua Tree landscape. This environment has become a source of solace for Orville...2024-01-231h 00
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Pablo Piekar: Esalen Massage Therapist + Executive CoachIn this podcast episode, Pablo and I dive into his history with Esalen Institute and beyond. Pablo Piekar came to Esalen Institute in the late 1980’s for what was supposed-to-be a Gestalt workscholar month. He ended up staying there for 16 years, working as a Esalen Massage Therapist and workshop facilitator.Back in Argentina, he was a licensed psychotherapist at 22 years old. But when he arrived at Esalen, someone told him he was going to heal people with his hands instead, and that he was going to teach people how to give massages. When he said he didn't kn...2024-01-161h 21
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Nitsa Citrine: Creative + AlchemistFor our season finale of Tub Talks, we soak with my first friend ever in life, Nitsa Citrine. Nitsa and I became friends upon her birth, 9 days after mine. Our parents all met at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, and created us there, with her mother famously even sharing her breast milk with me from time to time. We have been fostering friendship for over 30 years; allowing Nitsa and me to share our earliest childhood memories that molded us and our relationship into who we are today. Nitsa and I discuss our unconventional upbringings, drawn up by strong-personalitied parents...2023-06-151h 25
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Emily Birmingham: Big Sur local with Nepenthe lineageSoaking in an indoor bath on the cliffs of Big Sur with Emily Birmingham brings me into deep nostalgia and remembrance of the history of our home. Emily’s family has been calling Big Sur home for the past 4 generations, starting with her great grandparents migrating to Northern California before Highway 1 was even a road. Emily and I have known each other since we were children, growing up adjacent: with me at Esalen, while Emily was at Nepenthe. Being from a small isolated island-like space, Emily and I discuss how there are unwritten rules of engagement that are...2023-06-061h 18
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Aska Matsumiya: Musician + Film ComposerThis week we sit in a hot tub for the first time with musical composer and artist, Aska Matsumiya. Aska is at the end of her third trimester of pregnancy as we bathe. Her belly is full and ripe, and the baby is ready to come out any day. Aska shares her experience on approaching early motherhood for a second time, 20 years after the birth of her first and only daughter, Bebel. Immigrating from Japan to California with her family as a young lady, Aska remembers her experience of cultural and linguistic differences between the two nations from childhood...2023-05-3057 min
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Austin Bisnow: Lead Singer of Magic GiantThis week we soak with musician and newly inspired home ‘landscaper,’ Austin Bisnow. Austin and I have connected over taking walks with our dogs in the mountains. Today we spend time in the bath, where he shares his path to creating his band, Magic Giant and the magical story of meeting his life partner. Austin grew up in Washington D.C. and now lives in Los Angeles. He made stops in New York and Boulder, CO along the way. However, it wasn't until living in Venice, CA where, as he describes it, “he discovered he could be himself...2023-05-2356 min
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Elena Stonaker: Multidisciplinary ArtistThis week we soak in the tub with Elena Stonaker, a long-time collaborator and multi-disciplinary artist whose artwork you may recognize from many of our Secular Sabbath environments, such as our giant green snake and larger-than-life mushrooms. Elena is a full-time ethereal artist, living in her whimsical inner landscape. A lot of her art is born out of her bedroom. In this episode, Elena and I reminisce on the earliest moments of our personal friendship through exploring an unconventional way of socializing that has come to define us both, and a live drawing class that would be imbued into...2023-05-161h 03
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Vicki Topp: Esalen Legend + Bodywork PractitionerThis week on Tub Talks, we soak in with one of my Esalen and Big Sur elders, Vicki Topp. Vicki has practiced bodywork for many decades alongside our first Tub Talks guest, Deborah Anne Medow. Vicki shares her journey of landing in Big Sur, as well as her immersion into the world of bodywork (massage therapy and other practices). She even demonstrates her skill set on my body during the bath! In the immediate aftermath of an eye injury the evening before our soak, Vicki opens the conversation with her original concept of something she calls ‘alternative fut...2023-05-101h 40
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Lindsey Ross: Tin-Type PhotographerThis week we soak in the bath with Lindsey Ross, the modern-day woman behind the lens of the 19th-century wet plate photography: The Alchemistress. Over the last few years, you may have encountered her unique style of photography at a few of our events where she is typically covered in her classic overalls with her mobile darkroom van parked nearby and her unique pop-up portrait studio within reach. With nature as a focal point for many of her subjects, Lindsey’s work brings a sense of wonder, curiosity, and intrigue especially as the images reveal themselves on the glass pl...2023-05-0254 min
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Mars: Folk Herbalist + Cacao PractitionerThis week, we sit in the tub with Mars: Secular Sabbath collaborator, folk herbalist and earth lover. Mars inspires us by outlining the path she went through on her journey in coming back to herself and her culture through herbal healing. As she went on to help others heal themselves through her Dose of Diosa community, she guides people through remembering, a term which carries bespoke meaning for Mars.Through exposing the people around her to their states of remembering, Mars speaks to moments of sharing with women, bringing themselves back to nature through learning about the...2023-04-251h 16
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring George Augusto: co-founder of STAUDThis week we sit in the tub with George Augusto, co-founder of fashion brand: STAUD, and Los Angeles restaurant and cafe: Kitchen Mouse. He met his two co-founders in the midst of a multitude of other ventures. Ventures that eventually failed, and whose failure led him to where he is today. George discusses how these experiences of failure gave him moments to discover his gifts and strong suits. Failure is a source of success. George chronicles how getting a job as a production assistant on a commercial set was the moment that changed his life trajectory. He w...2023-04-1856 min
Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Sam Borkson: Friends With You artistThis week we soak in the bath with our close friend and co-founder of FriendsWithYou,Sam Borkson. He started the art project FriendsWithYou with Tury many years ago, in order to help people open their creative channels. He shares about how they use elements of fine art to bring cuteness and a smile to people’s faces. He sees art as a unifier: a way to impact others through storytelling. He creates art as love letters. In this episode, he does it all through even just this conversation. We will learn about his deep desire to save, to...2023-04-1156 minTub Talks by Secular SabbathBest of Tub Talks: Episodes 1-11This week on Tub Talks we revisit some of the most insightful conversations that we’ve had in the baths. Listen to our best moments with our first 11 guests as we look back on our favorite talks with Mia Moretti, Sophie Hawley-Weld, Austyn Weiner, B. Hayes, Loria Stern, Scout LaRue Willis, Krotchy, Mia Maestro, Kassia Meador, Niia Rocco, and my own mother Deborah Medow. Enjoy these little moments we’ve plucked from our deeper discussions, then dive into their full episodes next!To join Secular Sabbath membership, you can find us at secular-sabbath.com/membership. Joining grants you...2022-09-271h 04Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Mia Moretti: DJ + PoetThis week we are joined under the oak tree for a soak with DJ and artist, Mia Moretti. A Bay Area native, Mia grew up in an alternative household in Northern California where creativity flowed. Her childhood was colored by her parents’ culture of freedom and exploration, encouraging Mia to follow her dreams of moving in the big city rhythm. In her childhood home, there was always music and jamming, but as someone who didn’t play instruments or sing, Mia had yet to find her place. Moving to LA at 18, Mia found herself fully immersed and comfortable in the...2022-09-071h 15Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Sophie Hawley-Weld: Musician of SofitukkerThis week we warm up in the tubs with our new friend Sophie Hawley-Weld. One-half of energetic and colorful duo Sofi Tukker, she’s a creative mind who interweaves culture, identity, and fun into her musical journey. On today’s episode, we dive in deep about our connection to community, mental health and rituals on the road, and the development that happens behind the scenes within her music projects. She is thankful for growing up with a life full of opportunities where she could mix and mingle with an international community. The expectation at school was always to become a dip...2022-08-301h 11Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Austyn Weiner: Artist + PainterThis week we cozy up in the bath with Austyn Weiner, who we finally had the pleasure of hosting at her first Secular Sabbath earlier this summer. Austyn found herself fully immersed in our sensory soundscape on Shabbat. Now, she’s back for a more intimate conversation where we get to know her: a deep-thinking, witty-humored, large-scale oil painter. We dive into her thoughts on art, philosophy, and self-exploration. We discover what elements of connection have an impact in her life. From refining her creative practices to reshaping her outlook on the intricacies of familial relationships, this moment in ti...2022-08-231h 06Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Hayes Bradley: MusicianThis week we squeeze into the bath with Hayes Bradley, known musically as B. Hayes, to discuss his new ambient record “1-9”, his journey into his musical career, and the intimate moments in between it all. Growing up in the Palisades in Los Angeles with his mother and three brothers, music has always had an influence on his life. Hayes is the first in his lineage to actually work in music. He shares how this career path has been a series of trial and error for him, pushing him to consistently take creative risks. He has always explored the edge...2022-08-1647 minTub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Loria Stern: Baker + Entrepreneur + Food ArtistThis week on the Tub Talks podcast, the innovative chef/baker Loria Stern joins us in a thoughtful soak. Synthesizing her talents in the world of aesthetics, culinary arts, and nature, Loria explains her journey into forging her own career path over the last eight years. We get into the nuances of growing up as children of the hippie generation, the impact of that generation on their offspring, and how it ultimately shaped Loria’s food artistry and business for the better.Growing up in Ojai, Loria was exposed to big nature in a small-town atmosphere. Therefore, un...2022-08-091h 04Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Scout LaRue Willis: MusicianThis week on the Tub Talks podcast, I soak within the creativity of artist Scout LaRue Willis. Scout just released her first musical album and went on her first tour. Growing into ourselves is at the heart of our conversation, an art that many spend decades trying to decode. Scout has found that while the journey is never easy, the path to self-acceptance and growth lies in pushing through the discomfort of looking at the tough parts of ourselves.Growing up and thriving in a tight-knit family, Scout puts in the work to find her own unique...2022-08-031h 15Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Krotchy: Animation Artist + Model + CreativeOn Tub Talks this week, I converse with Sarah aka Krotchy aka Yonk: our multi-named, multifaceted creative friend who, in her words, makes art for ‘out-there’ kids that want to be inspired. Her mediums branch out from animation filmmaking to music, modeling, and acting. Growing up as a self-proclaimed ‘goofy nerd,’ her career took off through social media in 2014 when she got spotted by Theo Wenner (son of Rolling Stone Magazine founder) and cast in his music video for Tame Impala and Mark Ronson. He then cast her as the first non-nude covergirl for Playboy, thrusting her into a new indu...2022-07-271h 05Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Mia Maestro: Actress + Producer + Tea AficionadoThis week on the Tub Talks podcast, we take to the baths with Mia Maestro, who hosts many of the tea ceremonies held over the years at Secular Sabbath in between her full-time acting career. While she has always been a lover of tea, her journey really started over a decade ago when she was surprised to find a deeper practice in the art of tea meditation. This philosophy of slowing down to regain focus, or set a new tone in one's body, has trickled into many facets of her life. Especially in both her career as an actress...2022-07-191h 00Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Kassia Meador: Surfer + Sound Healer + Polarity TherapistThis week on the Tub Talks podcast, I steep in the bath with Kassia Meador: professional surfer, sound healer, wisdom-seeker, and one of our very first ambient collaborators at Secular Sabbath. We learn about surfing and the cultures around it, riding waves: musically and in the ocean, and healing modalities like polarity therapy. This introspective conversation with Kassia takes us through many levels of education and learning: both inside and out. From her early years of growing up in Southern California, Kassia always had a passion for the waves. A pioneer in her industry, she always took a...2022-07-121h 04
SOUNDFOODEVERYTHING IN JOY | Creating Conscious Community with Mel NahasJoin us for a joyful and delicious stream of conversation with a true leader in the conscious community, Mel Nahas. Drawing from a reputable career in music and television and working with some of the industry’s most well-known networks, brands, and talents, Mel embraces her reflector Human Design as the co-founder and curator of the Conscious City Guide ~ an ever-evolving platform and resource for those wanting to embrace an awakened lifestyle. Mel’s passion for connecting people back to themselves, their communities and the planet is powerful; she has been sought out by some of the...2022-07-071h 24Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Niia Rocco: MusicianThis week on Tub Talks podcast we’re talking with Niia Rocco, a multi-faceted singer-songwriter full of artistry, humor, wisdom and a god-given voice. She became a close friend of Secular Sabbath after recording with us for a livestream during the early days of the pandemic. Since then, we have featured Niia at many Secular Sabbath experiences, soaking our bodies and minds in her angelic voice and ethereal sound bowls. In this whimsical, honest conversation about Niia’s lifelong relationship to making music, we cover all bases from what it takes to make music professionally, to a secre...2022-07-051h 00Tub Talks by Secular SabbathTub Talks featuring Deborah Medow: Esalen Legend + Massage TherapistEver wonder what it was like to spend nearly fifty years living, working, and raising a family at Esalen Institute? This week for our inaugural Tub Talks podcast we’re talking with Deborah Medow the mother of Genevieve Medow-Jenkins, the founder of Secular Sabbath a member-based community calling you to activate your sensory self through ambient music-centered experiences.This mother and daughter duo dive into the realms and intricacies of the Esalen community from decades past, unfold mischievous stories long forgotten, and reveal tokens of wisdom from Medow’s years of experience as one of the e...2022-06-201h 03
ALL OF USGeneviève Medow-JenkinsGeneviève Medow-Jenkins is a multidisciplinary creative, director, and creator of Secular Sabbath.Mental Health Resources* https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org* http://www.mhresources.org* https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline* https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline2022-04-041h 25
SOUNDFOODSUNDAY SUPPER with Allie Crow BuckleySUNDAY SUPPER the newest offering from SOUNDFOOD. The experience begins with an open format interview with our host Nitsa Citrine and the artist, accompanied by live performance art or sound immersion and closes with a Q+A where our community is invited into the dialogue. The invitation is to slow down, tune inward, and receive creative resonance on this sacred day of rest. We invite you to drop in with us and begin listening. Our first recorded SUNDAY SUPPER was hosted March 7th featuring the radiant Allie Crow Buckley. Allie joined us and an intimate gro...2021-03-1759 min