Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country...

Brandt Stickley is an Assistant Professor in the College of Classical Chinese Medicine, National University of Natural Medicine, and a Visiting Professor at Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine, Pacific Rim College, Five Branches University, Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences, Yo San University and Maryland University of Integrative Health.  As a Senior Instructor and Board member of Dragon Rises Seminars he teaches Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis.  Brandt is a graduate of...

Bio: Wes Tasker has been practicing various martial arts since 1981 and is currently focused on Baguazhang, Xingyiquan, Qilinpai and Pekiti Tirsia Kali with some supplementary training in Boxing and Catch Wrestling. He also studies Chinese Medicine in relation to martial arts training, traumatology and orthopedics. His philosophical and spiritual areas of study include but are not limited to Buddhism, Neidan (Daoist internal alchemy), and Western Philosophy. Big thanks to our sponsor The...

Jeremy Wolf, along with being one of the host's older brother, is a lifelong learner and educator. Jeremy has been a high school teacher, pre-service teacher trainer, college professor, little league coach of nearly every sport, and has had a side-hustle in nearly every industry. As a part of a multi-generational family of educators and helpers, Jeremy's world view has been focused on community and mind/body health. His current areas of research/interest are neurobiochemistry, the connection...

Edward Neal, MD, MSOM is trained in both Western and Chinese medicine. He has been involved in the practice, research and teaching of Chinese medicine for over 30 years. As part of this work, he has consulted with the World Health Organisation on matters of traditional East Asian Medicine and has been a visiting scholar at the University of San Diego medical school. He is currently the medical director of the Apricot Grove Project and director of the Xinglin Institute. These organisations...

Bio:  Who is Mushtaq Ali al Ansari? This is a question that is infrequently asked, mostly because the answer is rather boring. If asked (enough) he will tell you that after long study, he may have begun to learn the basics of a couple of martial arts, but that he has no rank that is worth mentioning. He has been involved in Sufism for the entirety of his adult life, though being the worst of his teacher’s students, he did not receive his Ijaza (permission to teach) until 1999. He has managed...

Nigel Dawes has been practicing and teaching East Asian Medicine for 35 years. He lived and studied in Japan for 5 years followed by hospital internships in China in the 1980’s. Prior to moving to the United States, he founded the London College of Shiatsu in 1987, and in addition to acting as director and lead instructor, began lecturing at various Oriental Medicine (OM) schools in England, France, Israel and the U.S. Since 1994, New York City has been his home, where he has continued his...

Bio: Amy Edelstein, educator, author, and public speaker is a powerful communicator of ideas and beliefs that can help us transform ourselves and the culture we live in. In 2014, she founded Inner Strength Education, a non-profit organization that has empowered 15,000 Philadelphia high school students in mindfulness and systems thinking and 1,400 Philadelphia teachers in self-care strategies. Inner Strength received the coveted Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning...

Bio: Noor Kyle George has been meandering a Sufi-esque path for over a decade and, along the way, somehow grew into a teacher in spite of herself when her teacher invited her to do so. She is a co-founder and co-faciliator of The Nine-Sided Circle, a mostly-virtual, no-mystery school in which the wisdoms of esoteric traditions and members’ life experiences are drawn upon in support of the pursuit of human adulthood and conscious Awakening. She co-hosts live public talks via Zoom every week --...

Bio: Tyson is Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at Deakon University in Victoria, Australia.   Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=59079037 Contact: [email protected]

Bio: Dr. G. William Barnard, (B.A. Antioch University; M.A. Temple University; Ph.D. University of Chicago) is a Professor of Religious Studies, as well as a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. His primary areas of research interests are the comparative philosophy of mysticism, contemporary spirituality, religion and healing, and consciousness studies. Professor Barnard’s new book Liquid Light: Ayahuasca Visions and Embodying Divinity in the Santo Daime Religious Tradition, on a...

Bio:   Tom Bisio began his study of the martial arts at age 14, achieving a BlackBelt in Isshin Kempo. He later trained in the Filipino Martial arts formany years before going on study to Chinese medicine and internalmartial arts. Tom made numerous trips to China and South East Asiawhere he studied both medicine and martial arts with many differentmasters. Tom has taught martial arts since 1979. During that time, heapprenticed with Chinese herbalists and experts in acupuncture, qigong,...

Bio: Bonnie is an integral process philosopher and Daoist Horse Whisperer. She hosts collective insight retreats at her home/farm, Alderlore Insight Center, and teaches a Master's course in Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal Psychology at The Graduate Institute, is an associate editor of Integral Review and an associate at Perspectiva.    What daily practice do you currently find most nourishing? In terms of "formal practice" I do a breath practice slow and deep (3 breaths per minute) I...

Who is Amashé Etz Alon? I am first and foremost a human being. Born in Northern Florida, and grown as a teenager in Southern California, I was raised with deep Jewish roots, and connectivity with the African American and Native American communities where I lived. I was also in the front wave of gender spectrum children daring to live openly, having expressed my Intersex/Intergendered nature from age four and becoming as an adult, one of the first Non-Binary Transgender rabbis of the Jewish...

Welcome to the Apricot Jam! Join Chinese medicine practitioners Taran Rosenthal and Lukas Wolf as we explore interdependence and consciousness through conversational jazz. In each episode, we chat with interesting guests, riff on ideas, and see where the changes take us. We never know what will emerge from these long-form improvisations, but we often brush up against the intersections of art, movement, medicine, philosophy, and spirituality. We hope you enjoy the jam sessions!   Big thanks to...

Brad Kershner is a school leader and independent scholar, and the author of Understanding Educational Complexity (available from amazon and Brill). His research, teaching, and writing cover a wide range of interdependent topics, including education, leadership, parenting, race, technology, metamodernism, integral theory, meditation, complexity, and developmental psychology. Some of his public lectures are available on YouTube. You can learn more about his work and access recordings of his...