being earthbound

Lynn Marie Lumiere is a non-dual psychotherapist and has been one of a small group of curing-edge pioneers developing this field of psychology since the 1990s.

She has over 40 years of psycho-spiritual exploration and transformational work experience and works with clients one-to-one and in groups from around the world specialising in couples and relationship work.

She has been a regular speaker at the Nondual Wisdom, Psychotherapy and the Science and Nonduality Conference. She is a contributing author to The Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy and co-author of The Awakening West. She is also the author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships which was published in 2018.

What drew me to Lynn Marie and her work was the multi-faceted approach to psychotherapy she adopts, giving equal weight and attention to both nervous system and physiological regulation and healing, to the deeper recognition of our true non-dual nature through meditative pointing out and enquiry, and to the need for us to work through our psychological conditioning, wounding and developmental trauma. None of these alone, in her opinion, are sufficient to experience complete psychological and existential wholeness and well-being.

It’s the weaving of this complex dance of modalities and approaches that makes her work unique and fascinating and I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Most of us carry around negative core beliefs and conditioning, often from our childhood and often for the whole of our lives. A deeply judgmental inner authority voice telling us we're no good, not enough, always lacking in some fundamental way. This voice can hold us back in all kinds of very unhelpful ways, restricting our flourishing and development. But it needn't be that way! 

Holly Copeland and I discuss various fascinating approaches to releasing held conditioning and developmental trauma that allow for growth and healing to occur.

This is my second conversation with Holly. She’s a Human Potential Coach, neuromeditation teacher, Biofield Tuning practitioner and breath work coach, to name just a few of her skills. 

In this episode we explore the fascinating subject of psycho-vibrational healing through Biofield Tuning, breathwork and awareness practices. (Explaining along the way, what the human Biofield is and how we can work with it.)

We discuss the potential to work with psychological conditioning and trauma at the level of embodied, somatic enquiry and at energetic or vibrational levels and how the two modalities overlap and interweave. 

And how waking up to our natural awareness is both crucial to, and a natural consequence of this psycho-vibrational healing work.

What’s the difference between an ego-oriented traditional coaching model and transpersonal coaching? Why is it so effective at combining the ineffability of spiritual practice with the practicality of daily life? And why do I believe this form of coaching unlocks the foundations of what constitutes a flourishing human and a flourishing planet? I invited my teacher and mentor, Jevon Dangeli, to share his decades of experience pioneering transpersonal coaching to make the case for this incredible transformational process.

Holly Copeland spent 26 years working in wildlife and ecological conservation before health and meaning crises led to a dramatic shift in career and approach to her Life-centric call to service. 

This is a conversation with friend and colleague Holly Erin Copeland. Our paths first crossed as subtle energy meditation teachers and it became very apparent that our background, current practice and worldview intersected in really interesting ways. Our motivation to be part of and to help nature thrive, illness as a catalyst for deep transformation, and an unfolding experience of living through deep embodiment that opens up emergent ways of participating in life even in spite of the ever-mounting crises we face as species and as a planet.

In a world swamped by antithetical division, we desperately need those people and communities actively cultivating synthesis. Finding intersection, integration and common ground amongst so much seeming separation is a sacred calling and Will Meecham embodies that calling perfectly.

Raised a rational atheist he initially pursued meaning and purpose through academic knowledge and became a successful ophthalmologist while all the while feeling the call to self and world tugging at him in a very different direction.

Serious mental and physical ill-health led him to finally heed that calling and seek to heal himself while simultaneously exploring the possibility of healing the rift between science and spirituality.

What arose out of that exploration is his creation, Mindful Biology, a profound and elegant body of ideas and perhaps more importantly, practices, that open a doorway back into the living world and back to our true nature by experiencing our sensate body intimately, and through our bodies to feel ourselves as part of the beautiful whole of Life.

I first became aware of Mark Allen’s work and his model for Holistic Activism about a year and a half ago. I was immediately drawn in because of the many intersections I found between his work and our Earthbound coaching approach. 

How do we recalibrate the way we are in relationship with ourselves, each other and with the world? How do we affect regenerative change in the world? And how to do that through mutuality, healing and respect while also avoiding the exhaustion and burnout so many of us experience? Mark has spent many years as an activist and has seen first-hand the toll it can take on mental and physical health, relationships and the movements activists care about. He believes there is a better way and Holistic Activism is his vision for it. 

Bruce Parry is an explorer and documentary maker well known to the UK for the BBC documentary series he has made whilst living amongst many indigenous communities around the world.

His latest major film is Tawai: A Voice From The Forest which he made independently. It’s a fascinating film that listens deeply to some of the last remaining indigenous egalitarian communities on Earth so that our industrial culture might learn other ways of being that still persist to this day in which it’s possible to live fully in harmony with each other and with the whole of life. Ways which used to be much more common and could one day become so again.

Bruce has spent many years travelling around the planet but a few years ago decided to settle back in the UK and to a small Welsh homestead in need of regeneration. He hopes to share this project with others looking to learn from wiser cultures and yearning for a life fully reintegrated with nature. He also hopes the seeds of heart wisdom he has brought back from tribes such as the Penan and Mbendjele can germinate and thrive in Western Industrial culture at a time when it’s so needed.