On the Soul's Terms

Zoë Tryon is a renowned activist, speaker, and artist known for her work with indigenous communities globally. She is the Founder of One of the Tribe Journeys, a travel company that offers privately led, immersive experiences with indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon and Andes.  Through One of the Tribe, Zoë has led journalists, filmmakers and celebrities to witness places in the world few will ever see.  Zoë also founded the One of the Tribe non-profit to raise awareness for the issues facing indigenous communities and has acted as a cultural liaison between indigenous and Western leaders since 2006 when she first began living with the Achuar Tribe in the Amazon. Since then Zoë has lived and worked with the Achuar, Shuar, Kichwa, Sapara and Waorani peoples across Ecuador.  She has supported education, health and economic capacity building projects, advocated for environmental and constitutional rights, and worked closely with indigenous partners on the largest environmental lawsuit in history.Zoë speaks worldwide on the interconnected issues of environmental stewardship and corporate responsibility and how we can apply extraordinary wisdom from tribal cultures to our lives today. She is an ambassador for Amazon Watch, a champion for the Clearwater Campaign and a creative activist for the Creative Visions Foundation.  Her artwork is held in private collections around the world.Find out more at ZoeTryon.com or her Instagram Page @ZoeTyron.If you're interested in accompanying her on a once in a lifetime journey into the Amazon, go to One of the Tribe Journeys.Also - cuencasagradas.organd sacredheadwaters.orgJoin the Newsletter! Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

Zoë Tryon is a renowned activist, speaker, and artist known for her work with indigenous communities globally. She is the Founder of One of the Tribe Journeys, a travel company that offers privately led, immersive experiences with indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon and Andes.  Through One of the Tribe, Zoë has led journalists, filmmakers and celebrities to witness places in the world few will ever see.  Zoë also founded the One of the Tribe non-profit to raise awareness for the issues facing indigenous communities and has acted as a cultural liaison between indigenous and Western leaders since 2006 when she first began living with the Achuar Tribe in the Amazon. Since then Zoë has lived and worked with the Achuar, Shuar, Kichwa, Sapara and Waorani peoples across Ecuador.  She has supported education, health and economic capacity building projects, advocated for environmental and constitutional rights, and worked closely with indigenous partners on the largest environmental lawsuit in history.Zoë speaks worldwide on the interconnected issues of environmental stewardship and corporate responsibility and how we can apply extraordinary wisdom from tribal cultures to our lives today. She is an ambassador for Amazon Watch, a champion for the Clearwater Campaign and a creative activist for the Creative Visions Foundation.  Her artwork is held in private collections around the world.Find out more at ZoeTryon.com or her Instagram Page @ZoeTyron.If you're interested in accompanying her on a once in a lifetime journey into the Amazon, go to One of the Tribe Journeys.Also - cuencasagradas.organdsacredheadwaters.orgJoin the Newsletter! Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

Asclepius is the god of medicine in Ancient Greece. The gifted student of Chiron, he entered the dreams of his patients and healed from inside the Soul.One of the great 'Asclepiads' - the descendants of Asclepius (through master-student lineage) - was Hippocrates whom many consider the Father of Modern Medicine. This episode wanders through the entanglements of history and mythology to trace this lineage and discover how we have arrived at the current scientific model of modern medicine.This mythologem fits snuggly into today's Lunar Eclipse, primarily exploring the healing axis of Scorpio-Taurus with a square to the intensely rational Saturn in Aquarius.Special thanks to my personal Chiron figure, Brian Clarke, for his thesis entitled Fate & Disease: Myth, Astrology, Health.  If you'd like to know more on the topics discussed I highly recommend reading this article.Also referenced:Carl Kerenyi: Askleopis: Archetypal Image of the Physician's Existence James Hollis: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow UpJoin the Newsletter! Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

Today's episode follows on from the last (Episode 20) on the myth of Narcissus & Echo. This week I'm joined by an old friend and mentor - Margie Templeton. Margie spent 35 years in New York as a practicing psychotherapist beginning her career in the 1960s. She received sessions and guidance from Arnold Mindell and Max Schuuback: two of the early pioneers of Process Work.We discuss Margie's journey from growing up in the 1940s and 50s until her graduation from high school in the mid 60s and the options available for women at that time. Her path led her into studying psychology and then discovering the creative, artistic, eccentric world of Process Oriented Psychotherapy.At 32:25 we discuss Narcissism from a clinical, personal and social context with the intention of deepening our understanding of the phenomenon. It's a deep, winding and enriching conversation.Join the Newsletter! Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

Today's episode explores the ancient myth of Narcissus & Echo - paying close attention to Ovid's take on the myth from his book Metamorphoses.The word Narcissist is commonly used these days, but the myth itself remains in the background. Today it is brought into the middle of the discussion and looked to for ways to heal the condition of Narcissism as an individual ailment, as well as a modern cultural phenomenon.Rafael López-Pedraza's book Hermes and his Children is referenced in the episode.Artwork: Solomon Joseph's Narcissus and Echo, 1895Join the Newsletter! Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

Celebrating the Astrological New Year and the first new moon of the Year in Aries: The Story of the Zodiac. We go from the Oceanic realm, the dreamtime of Pisces into the Creative Fire of Aries which begins the cycle. Each sign as an element of compensation of the sign before it. And then, eventually, back into the ocean.Then, a take on what Astrology actually IS. The miracle of it surviving through to modern day and into the realm of Rationalist Materialism. The attempt to 'explain' how it works that often falls flat. And another way to think about it in imaginal terms (which doesn't mean not real).And finally - a passage from James Hillman and his speech to an Astrological conference in 1997, repeated in 2005. You can find that here.-------------------------------------------------Click to become a PatronWhat's that mesmerising soundtrack?  That's Marlia Coeur: Spotify | YouTube.Join the Newsletter! Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

James Mattingley returns to the show with another powerful poem:The Return by Geneen Marie HaugenSome day, if you are lucky,you’ll return from a thunderous journeytrailing snake scales, wing fragmentsand the musk of Earth and moon.Eyes will examine you for signsof damage, or changeand you, too, will wonderif your skin shows tracesof fur, or leaves,if thrushes have built a nestof your hair, if Andromedaburns from your eyes.Do not be surprised by prickly questionsfrom those who barely inhabittheir own fleeting lives, who barely tastetheir own possibility, who barely dream.If your hands are empty, treasureless,if your toes have not grown claws,if your obedient voice has notbecome a wild cry, a howl,you will reassure them. We warned you,they might declare, there is nothing else,no point, no meaning, no mystery at all,just this frantic waiting to die.And yet, they tremble, mute,afraid you’ve returned without sweetelixir for unspeakable thirst, withouta fluent dance or holy languageto teach them, without a compassbearing to a forgotten border whereno one crosses without weepingfor the terrible beauty of galaxiesand granite and bone. They tremble,hoping your lips hold a secret,that the song your body now singswill redeem them, yet they fearyour secret is dangerous, shattering,and once it flies from your astonishedmouth, they-like you-must disintegratebefore unfolding tremulous wings.-------------------------------------------------Click to become a PatronWhat's that mesmerising soundtrack?  That's Marlia Coeur: Spotify | YouTube.Join the Newsletter! Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

Tara Judelle is a world renowned yoga facilitator moved by bringing humans into their innate sense of freedom and purpose. After 30 years experimenting in all forms of movement, Tara co-created the School of Embodied Flow™ in 2014, making her one of the first yoga teachers to bring the work of Body Mind Centering and Tantra together.  From a background in literature, film writing, directing and dance, Tara brings students on a journey of discovery of their numinous self through laughter, meditation, embodiment, movement & inquiry.Tara was one of the first five teachers on the platform called Yogaglo which was one of the first online yoga platforms (launching in 2009).  Her deepest inquiry is how to bring the felt sense of capital S self into the felt sense of our embodiment to facilitate awakening. She is also interested in using the body as a gateway into flow states, and how to bring the meditative awareness into open eyed interactive awareness.  Teaching reciprocity and yielding is one of the things closest to her heart. Recently she has been studying more somatic psychology and Internal Family Systems, and looking at how the energy of what we could call Core Self radiates as a frequency that tends to heal/melt held patterns or parts.  "I suppose if I could do anything in the world it would be to help humans to remember their creative, dynamic felt sense of Self energy and to melt the masks that we have learned to take on. "-------------------------------------------------Click to become a PatronWhat's that mesmerising soundtrack?  That's Marlia Coeur: Spotify | YouTube.Join the Newsletter! Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

Stuart Gadenne joins the podcast to talk all things Norse Mythology.We delve into the attempts of the Gods to punish and silence the Trickster God Loki, and how that led to the inevitable end of times in Ragnarok. The parallels with Greek Mythology are also explored. And we look into the heart of the soul of Masculinity. What do these old tales have for us modern humans searching for a place in this world?Find out more about Stuart on his Instagram page @ragnarok.survival.actual.If you're enjoying what you're hearing please consider joining the Patreon community.Thank you to Marlia Coeur who has provided us with the soundtrack for the show. You can find her on Spotify and YouTube.Join the Newsletter! Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

Stuart Gadenne joins the podcast to talk all things Norse Mythology. We delve into the attempts of the Gods to punish and silence the Trickster God Loki, and how that led to the inevitable end of times in Ragnarok. The parallels with Greek Mythology are also explored. And we look into the heart of the soul of Masculinity. What do these old tales have for us modern humans searching for a place in this world?Find out more about Stuart on his Instagram page @ragnarok.survival.actual.If you're enjoying what you're hearing please consider joining the Patreon community.Thank you to Marlia Coeur who has provided us with the soundtrack for the show. You can find her on Spotify and YouTube.Join the Newsletter! Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.