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Explore the healing arts of Western Mass! The Northampton-area is home to some of the most diverse populations of energy workers, herbalists, body workers, cosmic warriors, yogis, and meditaters. Caroline Ruderman, a Reiki professional, sits down every week with a new guest! Original broadcasts aired on Valley Free Radio 103.3FM Northampton. For more about Caroline, visit https://ReikiNorthampton.com
Episodes
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Luscious Living with Leslie Cerier of the Organic Gourmet
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Friday Oct 01, 2021
On today's episode of Energy Matters, The Organic Gourmet's Leslie Cerier joins us to talk about luscious living with food. Leslie is a self-taught vegetarian chef, cookbook author, teacher, and public speaker. She gives us insights on intuitive cooking, how to maintain our creative flow, and really honoring what our body wants and doesn't want. This slow mindful pacing has informed her career choices, her book writing, and recipe creation. Tune in for a great show!
Sunday Sep 26, 2021
Healing Inherited Behavioral Patterns with Arden Sundari
Sunday Sep 26, 2021
Sunday Sep 26, 2021
Today on Energy Matters Arden Sundari, yoga therapist and yogini, returns to explore the connection between the polyvagal nervous system and our ancestral ties. She begins to unpack epigenetics (the non-coding DNA) and how we inherit 14 generations of personality and behavioral patterns. Arden begins to examine how we can transform these inherited patterns through calming our nervous system. She also connects this work to our current race relations in our country. Tune in a great show!
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Grow Your Own! Talking Mushrooms with Willie Crosby
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Friday Sep 17, 2021
Today on Energy Matters, Caroline sits down with Willie Crosby, founder, grower, and educator of Fungi Ally. Willie talks about he began growing mushrooms and how his business evolved into supporting others to cultivate and forage their own. From spawn to foraging to grow kits, we cover a range of ways to do that. Willie also speaks to the rise of popularity of mushrooms in our culture, from a culinary perspective as well as our spiritual evolution. Tune in for a great show!
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
This week on Energy Matters, Caroline chats with return guest Sunshine Beeson! Sunshine breaks down the qualities of our Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine and the shadow sides to both. Understanding these archetypal energies allows us to heal ourselves and understand a healthy polarity in our relationships. Tune in for a great show!
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Binaural Beats with Chris Sturk
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
On this week's episode of Energy Matters, Caroline sits down with Chris Sturk, who offers sound therapy for yoga and meditation. Chris talks about his lifelong love of music and how that transitioned into sound healing. He talks about how he sets intentions, when instruments "want" to play, and how binaural beats work. In addition to offering live sound journeys in gardens or at music festivals, Chris recently released an album of binaural beats called Sounds for Wellbeing. Grab your headphones and tune in for a great show!
Friday Aug 13, 2021
Death Doula, Keening, and Healing Through Music with Lynn Simonds
Friday Aug 13, 2021
Friday Aug 13, 2021
On today's episode of Energy Matters, Caroline and summer co-host Marietta Skeen sit down to talk with death doula and hospice volunteer Lynn Simonds. Through dealing with her own mother's passing, Lynn learned how to deal with grief through music and song writing. This paved the way for her training as a death doula many years later. Lynn talks about how she understands some of the ancient practices of keening, hired mourners, and how primal sounds can assist in the grieving process. There's a lot of basic education on alternatives to traditional funerals as well. Tune in for a great show!
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Finding Beauty Through Our Inner World with Nicole Goldsmith
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Friday Aug 06, 2021
Today on Energy Matters, Caroline talks with Nicole Goldsmith, esthetician and proprietor of Parallel Skin Spa. Nicole discusses how our internal world is the foundation of beauty. While doing waxing and facials, she folds in spiritual aspects into her work, including Reiki, crystal grids, sound healing. In turn, taking care of our external can help us feel confident and feed into that "soul glow." Nicole talks about the expansion of her spa into an event space for yoga and sound healing. Tune in for a great show!
Saturday Jul 31, 2021
Understanding Self Through the Five Elements with Nini Melvin
Saturday Jul 31, 2021
Saturday Jul 31, 2021
Caroline sits down with Nini Melvin and summer guest host Marietta Skeen. Nini discusses her work understanding ourselves within the 5 Elements of fire, water, wood, earth, air/metal. How we understand our unique "recipe" of these elements allows us to live fully and with more authenticity. With Nini's 40 years of shiatsu experience she shares how the meridians are in service to the heart and how this practical information not just those who want be a shiatsu practitioner. Tune in for a great show!
Saturday Jul 31, 2021
Seeing Your Potential with Sacred Roots Healing
Saturday Jul 31, 2021
Saturday Jul 31, 2021
On today's show, Caroline sits down with Jen Parmentier and Michelle Eastman of Sacred Roots Healing. Jen and Michelle talk about the dynamic they shared while growing and supporting each other in business and life. They also discuss the aerial yoga, seeing the potential in people, and the upcoming teacher training program. Tune in for a great show!
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Physical Therapy with Adam Brady
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Friday Jul 16, 2021
Today on Energy Matters, Caroline and summer co-host Marietta Skeen sit down with Dr. Adam Brady. Adam is a classically trained physical therapist that looks at healing the body mechanically as well as emotionally. He talks about the different maps of the body, the body's response to holding pain, and how some of his teachers got him thinking differently about the evolution of our healing hands. Adam recently opened a larger practice in Easthampton, MA and discusses how he's excited to have a work family. Tune in for a great show!