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Passing 4 Normal, hosted by Sharon Weil, is a show about Change. Her guests are remarkable, everyday heroes who create and adapt to change in their own unique and inspiring ways… and inform how you can too! Join us for lively discussions, fascinating insight, and valuable information. Sharon Weil is a filmmaker, healing artist, environmental activist, and the author of Donny and Ursula Save the World.
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Amber Gray is tireless in helping to restore resilience in the most extreme circumstances through body-based therapy and education. As a somatic therapist and psychotherapist, she works with survivors of war, disaster, political torture, domestic violence, ritual abuse; all forms of extreme interpersonal and social trauma where bodies have been mad…
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Sharon Weil talks with Magicians Without Borders' Tom Verner and Janet Fredericks. Together they travel to refugee camps and orphanages around the world bringing magic and laughter to some of the most war-torn, forgotten places on Earth. Magic brings the hope that change is possible, even from unseen places.…
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Sharon Weil talks with gifted intuitive astrologer, Rachel Lang, about using the portals of astrology and intuitive perception to bring about personal change, self-trust, and courage that can translate to social action that can change the world. She provides simple action steps to show us how.By Passing 4 Normal
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Amanda Foulger, calls in the spirits from the unseen world, which is very much a part of our own. Shamanic practitioner, teacher, and healer, Amanda Foulger talks with Sharon Weil about how we can return our world and our lives to the sacred by honoring the earth, plants, animals, and the spirits that inhabit them and guide us. There is a multi-dim…
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Jackie Welch Schilcher is the consummate creative artist, an accomplished Nashville actress, singer, writer, director, creativity coach and drop dead funny improv performer… now she is working with clay! Sharon Weil and Jackie travel fascinating territory in discussing how one form of creative expression translates into another, and what is at the …
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Sharon Weil talks with Adam Wolpert, painter, permaculturist and group facilitator about the moving patterns of relationship in nature, art, and group dynamics. As one of the founders of Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, Adam holds a fascinating, holistic perspective. “Every form tells a story,” Adam says, “the relationships are expressed by the …
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The tables are turned when Sharon Weil is interviewed by guest host, Rachel Lang. It’s the Thanksgiving show, and with deep gratitude, Sharon discusses her thinking behind the creation of the Passing 4 Normal Podcast, her ideas about personal bravery, creating change, and why it is she passes for normal. www.passing4normal.com…
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Sharon Weil and John Weeks, talk about how to integrate conventional medicine. John Weeks is a writer, organizer, and the executive director of the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health (ACCHC) His mission and that of his organization is to integrate disciplines of complementary and alternative medicine into mainstream medica…
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Sharon Weil talks with Beth Rosales, philanthropic advisor, about strategic charitable giving for social change. For more than 35 years, Beth has made a priority to “move money” towards strengthening social justice movements around the country, serving in senior capacities for progressive foundations including Vanguard Public Foundation, Funding Ex…
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Sharon Weil engages with author/activist-awakener, Paul Rogat Loeb. Paul Loeb wrote the book on citizen engagement and activism in Soul of a Citizen, The Impossible Will Take a Little While, and several other seminal books. A true awakener, Paul discusses the simple steps one can take towards greater, effective, grassroots involvement in social act…
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When Sharon Weil talks with renowned structural bodyworker, Harvey Ruderian, they travel far. As a long time practitioner and instructor, (Aston Patterning, Rolfing, Bio-Dynamic Cranial Sacral Therapy, Visceral manipulation) Harvey’s understanding of the physical body’s presentation of illness and injury leads him to listen more deeply to the under…
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Sharon Weil talks with Ann Gentry, founder/owner of Real Food Daily restaurants in Los Angeles, California about plant-based diets, and how she elevated vegetarian cooking to high cuisine. They talk about the role food plays in our lives, and how changing the way we eat can literally change everything about us. Their lively discussion sorts out con…
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Sharon Weil, and movement artist and educator, Fred Sugerman, speak a common language when they talk about the space between performing arts and healing arts, and how they are connected. Both teachers of fluid movement (for Sharon, Continuum Movement, for Fred, it’s his creation, Medicine Dance), Fred discusses how authentic, fluid, and expressive …
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Permaculture Designer and Educator, Penny Livingston-Starksays, “We have the technological solutions, why aren’t we using them?” She’s talking about solutions for climate health; organic food, water collection, and soil/carbon sequestration. Sharon Weil talks with Penny about some of these solutions, as well as her guiding solution; a deeper heart …
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Sharon Weil and Rebecca Mark, writer, poet, professor at Tulane University, delve into her unique practice of unearthing the Muse. Hers is a whole body approach to writing, one that moves seamlessly from words, to movement, to drawing, and back again as a way of generating deep creativity and giving voice to the unexpected. Using Continuum, the res…
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Sharon Weil talks with Michael Stocker, bio-acoustician, naturalist, and musician, about water, oceans, natural sound, and human-generated noise pollution in the ocean. His organization, Ocean Conservation Research, studies the impact and finds solutions to its detrimental effect on marine life. Did you know that dolphins call each other by name? S…
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Sharon Weil and James Stark continue their conversation, this time talking about Communities. James views communities to be like ecosystems; dynamic, interdependent, and ever-changing in order to thrive. One of the challenges of any group, be it a village, neighborhood, an organization, or a personal relationship, is to allow for the intrinsic ongo…
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Sharon Weil talks with James Stark about permaculture, tending the inner garden, and the wisdom of living in alignment with nature. He is co-founder and co-director of Regenerative Design Institute, a permaculture school that “grows people, and the new community leaders for our times.” He co-directs the Ecology of Leadership and Ecology of Awakenin…
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Sharon Weil talks with Corinne Bourdeau, social change media producer and marketer, about how a captivating issue-oriented film can have a huge effect on the beliefs, hearts, and actions of the public. Bringing her innovative expertise to such films as: The Cove, Fuel, Bottle Shock, Buck and the current release, Boyhood, Corinne knows what it is to…
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Sharon Weil continues her discussion with Robert Litman, breath and movement educator. This time they discuss how rather than an emotional issue, anxiety is a breathing issue that triggers an emotional response. Quite a revelation! More than 20% of the population suffers from anxiety, and Robert shows how this can be regulated by breathing exercise…
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Sharon Weil talks with Jacques Verduin about his transformational programs with incarcerated men in San Quentin Prison. Guiding Rage into Power (GRIP) provides the tools that enable prisoners to create change from the inside out and "turn the stigma of being a violent offender into a badge of being a non-violent Peacekeeper” They discuss some under…
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Sharon Weil talks and laughs with Amy McEachern, moving and organizing consultant and owner of Creative Moving. Amy has planned and orchestrated over 800 home moves, and has deep and delightful insight into what is needed at this time of extreme, and unsettling change. “Transforming lives, one box at a time.”…
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Sharon Weil engages in a lively and playful conversation with Camille Maurine, women’s embodiment teacher and co-author of Meditation Secrets for Women, Discovering your Passion, Pleasure and Inner Peace. Camille knows that women need a sensually embodied approach to meditation and spiritual practice that is full of the life force of Eros. Hear her…
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Sharon Weil conspires with Robert Litman, movement and breath teacher of The Breathable Body, about how all change, internal and external, is initiated by breath. Certain held breathing patterns put us into constant fight or flight response, putting enormous stress on the body, expressed as anxiety, asthma, sleep apnea and more. Can we really chang…
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Sharon Weil talks with Claire Hope Cummings, renowned environmental lawyer, journalist, and author of the seminal book about GMO’s, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. Claire’s expertise on food, farming and genetic modification technology provides us with new insight as to why GMOs are perilous for agriculture.…
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Sharon Weil talks with Deena Metzger, esteemed storyteller, poet, author, teacher, healer, about Revisioning Medicine, healing the individual and the Earth. Drawing deeply upon story, spirit, and the healing practices of indigenous traditions, she presents a new vision for the culture of medicine and the global integration of healing.…
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