Sumi Dishes on Korean Food and Being Satisfied on Long Beach Island
Bridge to Being
Today’s episode is going to be a little unconventional, kind of like our Lobsterbird. We are going to be getting a bit quantum in this episode with her mother, Sumi, who is also a known food psychic. Modern Magic has brought Sophia back to her childhood home on Long Beach Island, where Sumi shakes a ham at her and answers deep questions about banchan (Korean tiny side dishes), fortune, and how our quality of life might be tied to the quality of tradition and culinary provision from the land. Your Creative Sparks: KOREAN FOOD is very tied to the LAND and to the SEASONS. GOOD FOOD is...
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The Trauma of False Reality
Bridge to Being
What happens when your worst childhood nightmare becomes a reality? Can you see through the illusion, the reality of what is real/not real? On the heels of three weekends of epiphanies and enlightenment, amid Colorado mountain beauty and koi pond and pumpkin patch, that is exactly what happened. Fly away with Lobsterbird as she shares her experience in a tender place, an *inverse conscious unconscious creation* in which her worst nightmare serves to heal her worst nightmare. Your Creative Sparks: TIME and SPACE are not as they seem. In fact, they are not even REAL. There is a BELL CURVE to...
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Ticks: Lobsterbird Solo on Sacred Ground
Bridge to Being
In her first solo walk with us in months, Lobsterbird travels along a magical path lined with multi-colored mushrooms, catching us up on her adventures through the many realms of spirituality, entrepreneurship, pilgrimage, the quantum field and more. Join us on the border of the forest of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, where the New Jersey Devil is in fact said to live, as Lobsterbird faces parasitic hunters in order to return home with the healing elixir she discovered along her hero's journey. Your Creative Sparks: COLLABORATE with FEAR. Think of it as a fun art project. We are going...
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The Looking Glass of Your Love Frequency with Julie Pierce in Ireland
Bridge to Being
Lobsterbird returns to us from the rolling land, a myriad of greens and wildflowers, so many fields that just ARE. They aren't getting mowed, and they are perfectly perfect anyway. The animals are keeping them. Grasses are growing where they need to grow. The flowers are reaching up. With Julie Pierce, we reflect on our truth and being-ness - one can only behold that which is within. When we look through this mirror with radical acceptance and love, we enter a portal that beams with our radiant heart. Your Creative Sparks: The origin of the YOUME TREE. I see you, and therefore I can see me....
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Balanc-ing, Spiraling Up & Gyrokinesis with Maryanne Chaney in Ireland
Bridge to Being
Mystery is present in the lush, fertile spirals of Ireland. Soulful conversation flows between Lobsterbird and Maryanne Chaney as they sit upon thousands of blades of grass and are licked in the face by furry creatures. Above is a gorgeous sky of blue filled with fluffy, cotton clouds. And below? Who knows? Could be worms… bugs… poop? What does poop have to do with a state of grace, balanc-ing and spiraling up? Only everything. And how much are you willing to let go to find out?
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The Art of Yoni Dancing with Lyoni Fisher in Bali
Bridge to Being
Today we are transmitting from the beautiful, sensual land of Bali in Indonesia, introducing *Yoni Dancer* fresh from the Bali Pilgrimage. Lyoni experienced the “arc of healing” which represented lifetime of healing in only ten days. The crucible of pilgrimage allowed her to discover she could be her authentic self, in all her unique glory, and still be accepted, embraced and loved. She also discovered a new language of energy, one that is felt in the body and personified in the dance.
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#50 Fantasy Art, Creative Flow, and Faerieland with Alyse Longenecker in Bali
Bridge to Being
Alyse did guided Faerie tours in the forest at the age of ten, and she has refused to allow society to culture the fantasy out of her. A visionary painter, much of her work is based in Nature, with a lot of hidden details and imaginative symbolism. On the tail of the Bali pilgrimage, Lobsterbird shares reflection with Alyse on the science of magic, our interconnectedness, the art of flow, and creating space for enchantment. Join us at the campfire, gazing at the stars and upon the shores of the sacred lake.
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#49 Audioblog Storytime!, Part 3: Where the Heart Is
Bridge to Being
This hero’s global journey leads her Home. But where is Home? Home is a place where we build our world with our breath, letting the walls be an air of spaciousness and freedom for all beings, including animal beings, plant beings and human beings. We can be at home amid the symphony of crickets, cicada and geckos, under the pitter patter of rain on a thatched roof. “I can find Home where I am - Where the Heart is. I now finish this story to release it and let it go, because there is a new story to be to
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#48 Audioblog Storytime!, Part 2: The Great Lobster Rescue Begins!
Bridge to Being
As Part Two of this story unfolds, we discover the fantastical how this Lobsterbird landed on her spiritual path. On the heels of completing the Shikoku Pilgrimage, and having read “A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki, Sophia returned to a life that was fundamentally and dramatically changed. She was seriously considering moving into a monastery and becoming a nun. “A Wrinkle in Time” lands her instead in Maine, risking life and limb to release trapped lobsters back into the wild...
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#47 Audioblog Storytime!, Part 1: The Great Lobster Rescue Back Story
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The more we tell our stories, the further they move from the truth. Thankfully, this story was recorded close to the truth in a blog written back in 2015, after Lobsterbird returned from her first pilgrimage in Shikoku, Japan. Her entire reality was shattered and shifted. She returned home completely rudderless, left out in the spaciousness to rediscover what the world really is - and what our path is, and how to find it. This episode was recorded Live in Bali as part of a deep investigation of HOME.
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- Does too much COMFORT and CONVENIENCE actually STIFLE our growth?
- What is good about humans is that WE CAN ADJUST TO ANYTHING.
- Larger than language, it is our ACTION that helps people UNDERSTAND US.
Part four and the “final” episode of our West African adventure! Lobsterbird talks with Ida-san, a man whose life took a dramatic turn at 50 years old, when he decided to challenge himself by going out of his comfort zone in a monumental, transcontinental move from Japan to Burkina Faso. What inspired him? And will it inspire you? Let your imagination take flight as we talk about making a big move, going where your heart is leading you, and finding the path to your greatest personal impact in the world. Leave us a Rating & Review!
Your Travelogue
- At 49 years old, Ida-san was a busy entrepreneur. He had worked as a hairdresser for thirty years and had grown his business to four salons with about 40 workers. One fateful day, he heard about a disaster in the mountains of the Philippines, where many people lost their homes and many children became orphaned. What he learned about the strength and ingenuity of these children would change his life forever. [2:20]
- Ida-san decided he wanted to try himself. “I wanted to become strong, to challenge myself. What will happen in such a place? Maybe I will give up. Or maybe I will become sick. Or maybe I will just close myself in the room because I cannot speak to anyone.” Ida-san was inspired to find out what he was really made of. [7:04]
- In a new and harsh environment where no one spoke his language, Ida-san found himself wasting away, physically as well as personally. [10:14] After two months, he thought, “I gotta do something. If I keep being like this, I’m going to lose myself. I’m going to lose to myself, and I don’t want to do that.” What did he do to find his power, break the stalemate, and begin to feed himself and his soul? [12:12]
- How helping a little boy to fell a tree finally broke the language barrier and established new friendships. Ida-san explains, “I learned something. It’s not about the language. I can connect my heart with other people at the first point, through my action.” [13:48]
- Ida-san’s body began to adapt as well, and he became one that could eat and drink anything. Even a gecko. [16:16]
- Ida-san’s experience continued to develop within him new strength, ingenuity and persistence. At first dismissed as a foreigner, how did he finally convince a local expert in agriculture to teach his village how to grow rice? He eventually created a system that combined the best techniques from Burkina Faso and Japan. He also made thirty wells, constructed a school, and initiated many other impactful projects. [18:58]
- Ida-san sees a bigger role in his projects, working from inside the local community and understanding its history. How colonization created distrust between people, and Ida-san’s vision to re-establish that trust. “In trust, there is a strong, strong power that we can create.” [25:15]
- We don’t have to break the system we have today to make an impact on the future. How can we put the elements of Nature into our civilized society, so that the law of the earth informs our understanding and the choices we make? [30:40]
- And what does Ida-san say about Africa being the motherland? “We all humans came from Eve, the mother, the first person. We have to go back unto Eve. From there, we should listen to what she is saying once again.” [34:00]
Links and resources:
- Lobsterbird’s new book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde
- Episode 26 Africa: Land of Creation with Miyu Leilani
- Episode 27 Africa: Land of Creation with Saori + Miyamoto
- Episode 28 Africa: Land of Creation with Cheick
Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.
Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the CrossRoads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind GO Solo Travel & Vision Quest.
For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero’s Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.
✨The next pilgrimage takes us to Indonesia in November! If you want to build your business so you can make more money with more ease, and make a bigger impact with your work, shoot an email over to [email protected] for more details!✨
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