Meet Your Host: Tami Simon
Founded Sounds True in 1985 as a multimedia publishing house with a mission to disseminate spiritual wisdom. She hosts a popular weekly podcast called Insights at the Edge, where she has interviewed many of today’s leading teachers. Tami lives with her wife, Julie M. Kramer, and their two spoodles, Rasberry and Bula, in Boulder, Colorado.
Sandra Ingerman is an internationally renowned shamanic teacher and the author of many books. Her published works include The Book of Ceremony, Walking in Light, and Awakening to the Spirit World. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami speaks with Sandra about the upcoming online course Healing with Spiritual Light: The Shamanic Power of Transfiguration to Heal Ourselves, Each Other, and the Earth. Specifically, Sandra comments on transfiguration as a spiritual practice, highlighting how it can be a portal to both physical and environmental healing. Tami and Sandra talk about the inherently transforming power of light, as well as some of the scientific evidence around transfiguration. Finally, Sandra emphasizes the imperative to engage with transfiguration in the face of climate change and considers the future shape of human culture.
Greeting the cardinal directions is a common practice in shamanic cultures. There is no one right way shamans greet the directions. Honoring the directions was often based on weather patterns in the local area, specifically which direction the wind entered the land.
Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner’s Guide
With Shamanic Journeying, readers join world-renowned teacher Sandra Ingerman to learn the core teachings of this ancient practice and apply these skills in their own journey. Includes drumming for three shamanic journeys.
Spiritual Retreat Can Lower Depression Raise Hope In Heart Patients
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- University of Michigan Health System
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- Attending a non-denominational spiritual retreat can help patients with severe heart trouble feel less depressed and more hopeful about the future, a new study has found.
Attending a non-denominational spiritual retreat can help patients with severe heart trouble feel less depressed and more hopeful about the future, a University of Michigan Health System study has found.
Heart patients who participated in a four-day retreat that included techniques such as meditation, guided imagery, drumming, journal writing and outdoor activities saw immediate improvement in tests measuring depression and hopefulness. Those improvements persisted at three- and six-month follow-up measurements.
The study was the first randomized clinical trial to demonstrate an intervention that raises hope in patients with acute coronary syndrome, a condition that includes chest pain and heart attack. Previous research has shown that hope and its opposite, hopelessness, have an impact on how patients face uncertain futures.
The findings were published in the July issue of Explore: the Journal of Science and Healing.
The retreat group was compared to two other groups: one received standard cardiac care and the other participated in a lifestyle change retreat run by the U-M Cardiovascular Center that focused on nutrition, physical exercise and stress management.
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The Hidden Worlds By Sandra Ingerman
I have always loved working with children. Since the 1980s I have been teaching children of all ages how to perform shamanic journeys as this is such a powerful way to help children and young adults feel empowered by challenging life situations. Over the years I have also worked with children who needed healing work to retrieve their lost soul essence, to remove a spiritual blockage causing an illness, or to help children deal with nightmares.
I felt it was important to write a book that included not just how power animals can assist children of all ages, but also life practices that are the same taught to children in shamanic cultures. For how to navigate challenges of life, to live a life of harmony with nature, and where children are acknowledged for their gifts and strengths are all taught as early as possible to children living in indigenous cultures. Our children are our future and deserve a way to work with the personal and planetary challenges they are facing.
So I set my intention to write a beautiful book that would incorporate the practice of shamanic journeying and how to live in harmony with nature.
When I submitted The Hidden Worlds to my agent she said, This is the worst book I have read of yours. My agent was born to be a mother, and she knew this book would not capture the imagination of readers. It was too heavy on spiritual lessons with not enough of a story to draw the readers in.
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Ancestors: The Shamans Cave
Healing Patterns Passed Down Through our Ancestors In this weeks show Renee Baribeau and Sandra Ingerman will talk about how many of the behavior patterns we wish to heal are carried down through our ancestors and family.
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Healing Patterns Passed Down Through our Ancestors In this weeks show Renee Baribeau and Sandra Ingerman will talk about how many of the behavior patterns we wish to heal are carried down through our ancestors and family. When we are children we pick up ways of acting in the world and certain behavioral patterns from our parents. Our parents picked up these behaviors from their parents. It is now time for us to identify and heal some of these unhealthy behaviors. We will lead an exercise to cut cords with behaviors that no longer serve us.
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Life After Healing: An Interview With Sandra Ingerman
Some people say that we create our illnesses. I dont think thats a healthy perspective at all! Sandra Ingerman
Sandra Ingerman, author of Soul Retrieval and Medicine for the Earth, is a world-renowned practitioner of soul retrieval and shamanic healing. She is also the author of a book called Welcome Home: Following Your Souls Journey Home. In the following interview, I spoke with Sandra about Welcome Home. The book is about shifting attention from the wounding of the past toward creating a more passionate present and future.
Cat: In Welcome Home, you tell a powerful story about a woman with AIDS, for whom you did a soul retrieval. Your power animal said, The cause of her disease is apathy, and the cure is passion. Would you elaborate?
Sandra: I did that journey years ago, and I still get chills every time I think about it. AIDS was that womans third encounter with life-threatening illness. My animal said her lesson was to learn what happens if another life form has more passion for life than she does. AIDS took over her body.
This gave me a whole different way of looking at illness. On our planet right now, there are so many different physical illnesses. For example, viruses are mutating so fast that we cannot possibly keep up with them.
Cat: On the other side of life, I love your statement, Death is not a failure. Death is one way we heal.
Sandra Ingerman: Healing With Spiritual Light
Sandra Ingerman is an internationally renowned shamanic teacher and the author of many books. Her published works include The Book of Ceremony, Walking in Light, and Awakening to the Spirit World. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami speaks with Sandra about the upcoming online course Healing with Spiritual Light: The Shamanic Power of Transfiguration to Heal Ourselves, Each Other, and the Earth. Specifically, Sandra comments on transfiguration as a spiritual practice, highlighting how it can be a portal to both physical and environmental healing. Tami and Sandra talk about the inherently transforming power of light, as well as some of the scientific evidence around transfiguration. Finally, Sandra emphasizes the imperative to engage with transfiguration in the face of climate change and considers the future shape of human culture.
Sandra is known for gathering the global spiritual community together to perform powerful transformative ceremonies, as well as inspiring us to stand strong in unity so we do our own spiritual and social activism work while keeping a vision of hope and being a light in the world.
She is passionate about helping people to reconnect with nature. Since the 1980s thousands of people have healed from past and present traumas through the classic cross-cultural shamanic healing method Sandra teaches called Soul Retrieval.
For more, visit sandraingerman.com and shamanicteachers.com
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The Shamans Toolkit: Ancient Tools For Shaping The Life And World You Want To Live In
The Shaman’s Toolkit teaches us how to root out the beliefs that are limiting us, how to heal our inner lives and become the people we most want to be, and how to utilize ancient shamanic principles of manifestation to help shape the world we want to live in.
Ros As Second Messengers In 6
Reactive oxygen species are important for execution of physiological functions. However, excessive production of ROS is detrimental to the cell. Following an increase in ROS production, the cell’s redox equilibrium is shifted to a more oxidized state, affecting both the structure and the function of different molecules. This may lead to specific toxic processes, which compromise the redox status of the cell and can cause cell death. Due to high levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids in their membranes and the relatively low activity of endogenous antioxidant enzymes, cells in the brain are particularly susceptible to oxidative damage.
On the other hand, ROS are able to induce pore opening . Exposure of mitochondria to these species causes a decrease in the content of thiol residues in the membrane. It also leads to a collapse of the mitochondrial electrical transmembrane potential , which is prevented by the presence of antioxidant drugs like vitamin E and glutathione.
In conclusion, although we await further clarifications on the role of mitochondrial fission and mitophagy in PD, we consider this pathway as a promising new and attractive pharmacological target. Interestingly, recent evidence has identified new molecules involved in PD such as Parkin and PINK1, key regulators of mitophagy.
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