Synopsis
What does it mean to be fully embodied on the human spiritual journey? Join author and healer L.R. Heartsong as he explores the challenges and gifts, from health and well-being, to finding our path of wild heart and authenticity in nature, all while deeply inhabiting the ordinary sacred. This is the evolutionary soul.
Episodes
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Evolutionary Times
22/05/2020 Duration: 33minReturning to the ESP podcast after two months of other projects, L.R. Heartsong shares his perspective on the current "global pause" as an evolutionary period; reflecting on the nature of evolution, both personal and collective, and the opportunity we currently face. Let's not return to "normal," he suggests, let's evolve.
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Soul Embodiment, with guest Dr. Sue Morter
20/03/2020 Duration: 01h03minA special video edition of Embodied Soul Podcast, with L.R. Heartsong and his guest, Dr. Sue Morter: international speaker, bestselling author of "The Energy Codes: The 7-Step System to Awaken Your Spirit, Heal Your Body, and Live Your Best Life," and host of the Gaia TV series, “Healing Matrix.” In this inspiring dialogue, Dr. Sue shares her insights into the importance of building "soul circuitry" on the human journey. She also shares how "embodiment" helps us develop a deep sense of self, which seems especially important during the currently challenging environment of fear and uncertainty regarding coronavirus. This conversation is a beautiful weaving of what Heartsong calls the three "E"s: Embodiment, Evolution, and Empowerment. Join these two teachers and healers for an inspiring and timely discussion on what it means to be fully embodied on the human journey. As River (L.R. Heartsong) puts it, "Let's create some goodness in the world."
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Creating Goodness
11/02/2020 Duration: 31minRiver shares his personal philosophy of creating goodness in the world, as a creative spirit and an embodied soul. Further reflecting that the heart is where our divinity meets our humanity, and that devotion is a form of love and expression for the soul.
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Food, Soul, and Healing in 2020
03/02/2020 Duration: 29minRolling into 2020, the year of clear vision and intent, L.R. Heartsong launches his newest offering: Sage, Salt & Fire, a blog focusing upon food, healing, and soul. Exploring the Art of Nourishing Body and Soul, while building a beautiful, healing relationship with food! As River says, "Let's create some goodness in the world."
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Ancestor Medicine, Part 2
08/11/2019 Duration: 25minFollowing up on "Ancestor Medicine" (Episode 18), L.R. Heartsong shares further thoughts on the true inheritance we receive from our lineage. Using his metaphor of our bodysoul as an inherited house, he offers that we have to go beyond cleaning, claiming, and renovating/rebuilding; the real work is to replace the wiring itself and turn the lights on—by creating all new soul circuitry in our biofield.
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Ancestor Medicine
08/10/2019 Duration: 30minL.R. Heartsong returns to the ESP podcast after a hiatus, reflecting upon the increasing prevalence of "ancestral medicine," and ways of working with our lineages. He offers that a primary way we can embody the gifts and 'medicine' of our intergenerational stories is by recognizing this inheritance as a gift, and committing to the ongoing work of becoming 'clear' in bodysoul through various practices.
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Little Birds and Evolutionary Soul
31/07/2019 Duration: 30minA fledgling tumbling from its nest provides the catalyst for River (L.R. Heartsong) reflecting upon the ways we emerge into a larger, more embodied life of soul – sometimes willingly, sometimes not. In healing the split between body and spirit, or fusing vibrant health and soul, the whole is actually greater than the sum of the parts.
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Weeds, Wandering, and Wild Grace
22/06/2019 Duration: 31minSummer Solstice. A wandering walk, contemplating weeds in the sidewalk and the resiliency of nature, inspires River (L.R. Heartsong) to reflect on the soul imperative to grow, no matter where we are planted or have taken root... along with trusting in divine precision, mysterious timing, and wild grace.
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A Coherent Heart
11/06/2019 Duration: 31minEastern traditions have long held the heart as the master organ of the body, the emperor (empress) over all other systems, and latest research in the West shows this to be true—as measured by the factors of heart variability rate and the ability of the heart's energetic field to "entrain" the brain. When a heart emits "coherent" rhythms, a flood of health-inducing, beneficial effects cascades through the body. Join L.R. Heartsong as he explores what it means to have a "coherent" heart, along with its vital role in healing the body and assisting us in belonging to the 'more-than-human' world on a soulful and embodied spiritual level.
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Healing the Biofield
14/05/2019 Duration: 31minThe human biofield is our template for health. A spring walk along the river prompts River to reflect upon 'soulful nourishment' as well as the ways we restore and sustain the human biofield. Human beings are inherently bioelectrical, and the human biofield is our template for health. If we truly wish to heal, or regenerate the body, or simply remain healthy, maintaining the integrity of the biofield is essential.
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Regenerating the Body
24/04/2019 Duration: 31minYou can regenerate your body, both on a cellular and energetic level. Following the last ESP episode's introduction to Evolutionary Health, River reflects upon the health crisis that propelled him to rebuild his own body and health—including the biofield or 'lightbody'—and the components for achieving that: physical building blocks, as well as energetic and quantum. Also, a discussion on the emerging field of vibrational medicine.
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Evolutionary Health
31/03/2019 Duration: 32minEmerging from a website and email meltdown, River reflects on how destruction and chaos are often the catalysts for evolution; and how the unexpected total overhaul of SoulQuests was an invitation from the Universe to support his new, Evolutionary Health 9-week signature course. Are you ready to get 'clear' on ALL levels in support of your soul purpose? Then let's dive in!
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The Evolutionary Soul
15/02/2019 Duration: 30minL.R. Heartsong discusses how he came to identify as a "conscious evolutionary," alongside his own growing spiritual realization that "all things are becoming." If we are consciousness experiencing itself, what might that mean for the way we experience and live our lives?
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The Ordinary Sacred
15/02/2019 Duration: 31minMulling on a pause in his workday, L.R. Heartsong reflects upon how the sacred has largely been banished from modern existence, and ways we might re-invite it into our life.
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Food and Healing, Part 3
15/02/2019 Duration: 30minIn this three-part show, L.R. Heartsong encapsulates the basics of a healing diet, along with a discussion on the energetics of food, including how it was raised and produced, and speaks of the power of gratitude and the "soulful kitchen".
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Food and Healing, Part 2
15/02/2019 Duration: 32minIn this three-part show, drawing upon a twenty-five year journey with food and healing, L.R. Heartsong deepens his discussion of what constitutes a healing diet, from the microbial biome level to energetics.
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Food and Healing, Part 1
15/02/2019 Duration: 29minIn this three-part show, drawing upon a twenty-five year journey with food and healing, L.R. Heartsong begins exploring the connection between how we nourish the body physically and the spiritual journey, contending that they are not separate and what we eat matters... deeply.
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The Shaman of Stars
15/02/2019 Duration: 29minL.R. Heartsong wrestles with the word "shaman," raises the "woo woo" factor, talks about working with "disincarnate entitites," and the concept that "all things are becoming." He closes with a post, "The Shaman of Stars," from his recent book, TO KNEEL AND KISS THE EARTH.
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The Body Knows
15/02/2019 Duration: 28minL.R. Heartsong reflects on his time living in the English countryside, and how being immersed in that landscape deepened his understanding of "embodiment" and the Deep Imagination, as well as belonging to place.
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Connecting with Place: In the Amazon
15/02/2019 Duration: 28minL.R. Heartsong reflects on his monthlong stay in the Peruvian Amazon, studying with indigenous Shipibo shamans, and the immersion in the living web of forest as a profound conversation with place and soul.