The Gris Alves’ Podcast Tales of Recovery

Tales of Recovery with Pat Sperry

My guest this week on Tales of Recovery is Pat Sperry, the founder of @beflourish Global Wellness Community.   I am excited to take part in Oceans of Love event which will happne right here in San Diego on December 3rd and 4th, 2022 facilitating a Grief and Praise circle.  

Pat is an Iyengar Yoga Teacher, Song Writer, has traveled the world in a heart pilgrimage (or pligrimage of the Soul as he tells us in the podcast ).  He has sat with many teachers and learned different spiritual disciplines like Qigong, Vipassana and Yoga among others.  Upon his return to California a few years ago, he created  BeFlourish, a community that offers transformational experiences which empower us to love BIG and live with purpose. 

 

You can find all the info for this immersion into well-being, where lineage-based spirituality meets ritual living, connected community, and whole-hearted play at https://www.peaceloveflourish.com/

 

You can follow @beflourish on IG as well as Pat @PatSperrylove and check out the peaceloveflourish.com page for all the info to the upcoming event Oceans of Love.   I hope to see you there in Dec!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tales of Recovery with guest Xochitl Ashe

Xochitl (So-chil) Kusikuy Ashe has been a teacher and guide in one-and-one mentorships, workshops, and ceremonies both in the U.S and internationally for the las 25 years. At 16 years old she became the first female of five generations of men to be initiated into the healing traditions of her Peruvian ancestral lineage.

She is a professionally trained herbalist and specializes in the ceremonial use of Cacao and Psilocybin Mushrooms. In her practice, Xochitl focuses on the healing of generational trauma and the ways in which that trauma impairs our ability to thrive, create wealth, and have a positive impact on the world.
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​Founder of Magical Medicine Journeys, an Indigenous women owned retreat company, that offers legal Mazatec Psilocybin Mushroom Retreats in Mexico. Xochitl’s mission is to honor the traditional indigenous knowledge and ceremony of sacred plant medicine and provide the most authentic and powerful life changing experiences.
She is faculty at Esalen Institute and The Microdosing Institute.

 

In this episode you can hear about Xochitl's story on her family of curanderos and we also talk about colonialism, generational trauma, the great shift in our culture that psychedelics are currently creating.  Of course you will also learn about the power of these healing spirit plant medicines. 

Thank you Xochitl for sharing your heart and wisdom with the Tales of Recovery Village!

You can find and follow Xochitl on Instagram @xochitlashe and if you want to work with her and attend her retreats you can go to her page www.xochitlashe.com

 

 

 

Aho!!

Tales of Recovery ~ Tending to the Body

Recuperando la Vida - Las Relaciones de la Vida

Tales of Recovery Why we DO DEATH CAFE RETREATS?

A few reasons why we work with the reality and gift of death, so we can LIVE a more conscious and sweeter life.

Tales of Recovery ~ Numbing, Cultural Anesthesia and Trauma

Numbing, Cultural Anesthesia and Trauma- one of the top three obstacles that get in the way of healing by SENSING and allowing emotions to flow through our bodies. 

 

How are you anesthesising? Is it worth it? I did it for years an years, an appropiate response to the pain I coud not handle back in my teens and early 20's.

I can say I am somwehat on the other side now and life is SO much better when I FEEL. All of it.  Even the scary intense emotions, 

There ca not be joy without sorrow, there can not be light without dark.  Our society hands out pain and anesthesizing pills like they were freaking cotton candy at the circus.  Could we stop and analyze this disempowerment for a bit? Can we take our humanity back? I think so.  Just think exactly WHO benefits from you being addicted to numbing? 

Let's grab all the compassion that we can and slowly, little by little, come back to our birthright of embodiment.  You can do it. We can do it as a village.

 

Open heart living is for the Courageous.  And we are all Courageous. 

Tales of Recovery~ Grief, Addiction and The Disctractions we use.

Grief and Addiction and Distractions and WHY are we not doing the work? 

It is not "us" vs "them" when it comes to addiction and the stigma that arises from criminalizing mental health issues.  We are all one. We all need to heal collectively.

We can stop avoiding the pain and grieve in community so we can HEAL and in turn feel more Alive.  Join me at South Park Yoga and Wellness this Friday August 5th, 2022 at 7:00PM for a Grief Workshop and Community Circle where we will learn so much about the obstacles we've learned and the distractions we use to avoid the deep and beautiful work of practicing grief.  

 

The Organs Weep the Tears our Eyes Refuse to Shed...

Recuperando la Vida con el Dr. Gabriel Bertona

Recuperando la Vida con mi amigo el Dr. Gabriel Bertona, un médico poco convencional.

Gabriel nos platica su camino de sanador integral, con tantas escuelas como medicina académica  en la UNAM,  Neurolingüística, Medicina China, Herbolaría, Biomagnetismo, Danzante del Sol, Yoga  y Qi Gong ante otras.  

Mas que Doctor, Gabriel es un revolucionario de la autonomía y responsabilidad de cada uno de nosotros para cambiar no solo nuestra salud dentro y fuera de la piel, sino también a nuestras comunidades y así dando esperanza al camino de la paz.

Platicamos de la cultura de la irresponsabilidad, el mercado que vende fantasías, las enfermedades que podemos evadir siendo conscientes de nuestros hábitos, y de cómo ir construyendo la posibilidad de ser libres y autónomos- que aunque todos nacemos con este regalo, aun así se tiene que construir.

Gracias Gabriel por compartir tu tiempo, pasión y luz con nosotros.  Que lo disfruten y que sea de beneficio a todos los seres que escuchen.

Aquí les dejo la pagina de Gabriel https://www.gabrielbertona.com y también lo pueden seguir en Instagram @gabriel.bertona  y https://sanantes.org/

 

 

Tales of Recovery ~ Making Sense vs THE Felt Sense

With anxiety and depression taking it's toll on our humanity, perhaps we can turn to the FELT sense instead of trying to make sense~ 

How our breathing, ancestral body practices and REALLY doing the work can help empower our selves (therefore our kids, families, friends) to realize we can jave agency over our bodies and minds. 

 

 

Recuperando la Vida con Lunita Velásquez

Agradecida con mi amiga Lunita  que regresa al Podcast a platicar de este gran tema que viene siendo los patrones que heredamos como Mexican@s...

¿Que soltamos y con que nos quedamos?  Como madres, parejas, hijas, amigas y demás- nuestra cultura y herencia es grande, rica y poderosa. ¿Pero como la vivimos con conciencia y dejando lo que ya no sirve?

Platicamos temas como el colonialismo, las autoexigencias que nos enferman, las religiones controladoras basadas en la culpa y el miedo, la medicina ancestral que quedo escondida y la conexión con el Gran Misterio.

Vámonos dando cada vez más permiso de evolucionar para vivir desde el Amor y la Fuerza del Corazón!