Elena Danaan

Born in France, I studied Fine Arts and Archaeology in Paris and spent twenty years of my life as a field archeologist in Egypt (in Karnak temples, Cairo, Denderah and the Valley of the Kings), and in France with Neolithic, Celtic and Gallo-Roman cultures. With a university degree in Egyptian religion, I also had the privilege to be trained locally in traditional Egyptian Magic.

Magic has always been part of my life. From a young age I was aware of my vocation and discovered early that I could heal and foretell. During my twenties I travelled frequently to Brittany to spend time with local Druids. The true nature of my path was revealed to me in the heart of Broceliande. After years of travels around the world as an archaeologist, I moved to Ireland and embraced my true calling.

Druidess from the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Celtic celebrant for all life rites, healer, shaman and runes seeress, I also work in graphic arts as an illustrator and a painter. Using natural resources from the West coast of Ireland, I create jewellery and magic wands, and fashion Celtic cloaks

Fully-certified Druid and Celebrant from the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, experienced Shaman and Channeller, I help people to find their own power and reconnect with their spiritual path, guiding them through life and facilitating their self-growth. As a starseed, my task is to help others awakening to their true nature and power, as well as to the awareness of their own personal mission.

Celebrant & Druidess

As a qualified druidess from the order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, I lead the grove “Solas an Iarthair” in West Kerry, facilitating ceremonies for the eight Celtic festivals of the year. I am a celebrant for all rites of life and passage, having trained and qualified with River Jones. Being a druid is a vocation, a passion, a privilege and a way of life, in service to the community of all living beings

Runes Wisdom

I honour the heritage of my maternal great grandmothers from the Baltic island of Gotland, where magic interweaves the traditions of Saami and Norse cultures since time immemorial. I was taught the art of runes as a Völva - traditional Norse seers and wise women, daughters of Freya - receiving my first set of runes from my grandmother at the age of nine. Their wisdom has since blessed my path

Healer

My competencies as a reiki practitioner and Celtic druidess join with sound therapy and traditional shamanism to promote healing. The first step is to determine the right method for the individual and then proceed, using different tools such as aura reading, reiki, sound healing, protection work, shamanic cleansing, deep shamanic journey, and druid energetic healing, based on the different components of the body and the elemental forces of nature

Celtic Journeys

A series of guided meditations based on Celtic Spirituality. Each first Sunday of the month, at Re Nua Natural Health Clinic, Goat street, Dingle Co. Kerry. I offer a series of workshops once a month, as well as a weekly course, to explore the symbols used in Irish druidry and become attuned to the sacred festivals of Celtic tradition. Discover the links between these ancient and sacred symbols  and our being and bodies

An Artist

Laureate of the National School of Fine Art in Paris, I marry my numerous artistic talents with my knowledge of archeology and druidism, to create unique and beautiful representations of the Celtic lore and myths

https://www.elenadanaan.org/

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Stan Shikuma

From Hiroshima to hope

http://fromhiroshimatohope.org/

https://www.facebook.com/FromHiroshimaToHope

https://tsuruforsolidarity.org/

Stanley N Shikuma - Board Member of From Hiroshima to Hope

Stan Nobuo Shikuma, Direct Action/Arts Action Committee

Stan is a Sansei activist, organizer, artist, and recently retired nurse living in Seattle, WA. His father’s family farmed strawberries in Watsonville, CA before WWII; his older brother was only 4-years old when the family was removed to a concentration camp near Poston, AZ. His mother’s family owned a dry cleaner and laundromat in Shelton, WA when they were sent to the concentration camp at Tule Lake, CA. Stan serves on the boards of the Tule Lake Committee, Seattle Chapter of the  Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and Regional Taiko Groups-Seattle (RTG-Seattle). He co-edits the Seattle Nisei Veterans Committee & NVC Foundation monthly newsletter; participated in the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) 2019 Delegation to Okinawa as a member of the Seattle Chapter; served as a Unit Rep in the Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA) before retirement in early 2019, has worked on the North American Taiko Conference for twenty years, and performs regularly with Seattle Kokon Taiko. Stan is organizing the taiko contingent for the National Pilgrimage to Close the Camps.

Stan Shikuma, Tule Lake Committee, is a Sansei who grew up in Watsonville, California. His family members went to Poston and Tule Lake. Mr. Shikuma helped organize the first Asian American Studies course at Stanford, and he also worked on redress and reparations. He has attended every Tule Lake Pilgrimage since 1979, learning much about the largest confinement center for Japanese Americans during World War II. Mr. Shikuma performs with Seattle Kokon Taiko, sits on the Advisory Board of the North American Taiko Conference, directs Kaze Daiko (a youth group), and coordinates RTG Seattle, an alliance of nine local taiko groups). He also co-chairs the Seattle Area Chapter of JACL’s Power of Words Committee, changing history one word at a time.

Stanley N Shikuma is a writer, taiko (Japanese drum) artist, and community activist. He performs with Seattle Kokon Taiko and directs Kaze Daiko (a taiko youth group), and has also been a performer, composer, and percussionist on new opera, silent film scores, Butoh dance, and puppet theatre. As a social activist, Stan writes and lectures on Civil Rights, Japanese American history, and Taiko. Affiliations include work with the Tule Lake Pilgrimage, Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), Seattle Nisei Veterans Committee & NVC Foundation, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), Regional Taiko Groups-Seattle, and Taiko Community Alliance.

From a childhood of being endlessly mocked for his weight, Zach Herman has been on a mission. Zach says:

“I began my journey to fitness in the worst possible way. I was shamed into it. As an indoor kid growing up, I didn’t have many friends. I turned to video games and food for comfort, leaving me out of shape and socially maladjusted.

Eventually, I found a connection in theatre: all the imagined worlds to live in and parts to play resonated with me. This, of course, didn’t help an overweight kid in his early teens already facing ridicule every day for being the fat kid; now, because people think any guy in theater and dance is gay, I was the fat, gay kid too. I couldn’t change their biases, but I could change myself.

It wasn’t a healthy start. I’ve hit every fad and fitness myth. I’ve starved myself, I’ve done endless cardio, I’ve bought the workout DVDs, I’ve been led down a path that doesn’t work for me time and time again.

Then I got smart. I got educated and certified by the International Sports Sciences Association. I started training in 2016, and most recently took it a step further with Precision Nutrition in 2019.

As for my social issues, going through drama school, performing abroad, showcasing and auditioning in New York City every week, I’ve found a rhythm. The work is never done, and I continue to work on myself and set an example for my clients.”

Chris Lewis is a 1999 Watkins Award Honoree.  He was one of the top recruits in the nation.  Chris was Named the 1998 Gatorade National High School Football Player of the Year.  He was a consensus Prep All-America quarterback and also was chosen for the Parade All-America First-Team.  Chris attended Stanford University and is considered one of the top 10 Quarterbacks in the history of the school.  He briefly played in the NFL.  Now Chris is a Corporate Exec working just as hard as he did on the field. 

This episode is about using ancient wisdom for a modern world. My guest is Jim Phillips who is a LIFE Strategist, speaker, and America’s Leading Authority on Living in Full Expression. He has been engaged in the business world for over 40 years, through his strategy sessions, coaching, writing and more than 20 International Business Conference presentations. Jim is a bestselling author with 3 books to his credit, including “The Key to LIFE; living in full expression.” Jim is a featured expert in “Becoming the Keys,” a movie in The Key Movies Trilogy” alongside other notables as don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements), Dr. Joe Vitale (The Secret) and Dannion Brinkley (Saved by the Light), Michael Bernard Beckwith, Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul), Marci Shimoff (The Secret), John Gray (Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus) and others. Jim believes there has never been a time in the history of humanity when there was a greater need to understand who we are and why we are here. He delivers this message through personal experience and his Seven Keys to LIFE (living in full expression) Mastery Program. Jim's work has been featured on CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, and hundreds of nationally syndicated television, newspaper, and magazine outlets including Thrive Global, Bodhi Tree Magazine, Whole Living Magazine, 11:11 Magazine and Inspire Me Today.

The Rev. Mark Thompson spent half of his life as a political activist in Washington, DC, before relocating to New York City in 2010.



His civil rights/political organizing includes: the 1984 and 1988 Jesse Jackson presidential campaigns; the movement forcing Georgetown University to divest from apartheid South Africa in 1985; weekly civil disobedience on Capitol Hill — for which Mark was jailed for 20 days — that helped win the first-ever congressional vote on DC statehood in 1993; the Million Man March in 1995, which Mark emceed; every anniversary of the March on Washington, each of which Mark emceed; the 2004 Al Sharpton presidential campaign; the 2017 Women's March; and is on the Senior Advisory Committee of the Institute for Politics, Policy and History at the University of the District of Columbia.

Radio and TV host, political analyst and commentator, UDC graduate, Mark was honored at the 104th Annual NAACP Convention in Orlando in July 2013 for “25 years of crusading journalism and outstanding leadership in furthering the work of civil and human rights.” Mark is a frequent analyst and commentator on cable news.

Mark anchored coverage of the dedication of the MLK Memorial. He broadcast Occupy Wall Street live, on location from New York's Zuccotti Park. His ministry, broadcasting and activism have taken him to the streets. He broadcast from Johannesburg and Soweto during the first-ever democratic elections in 1994 in South Africa, where he received the name, Matsimela Mapfumo, which means “firmly rooted soldier.” He has broadcast from every Democratic National Convention since 1992. For the past 10 years, Mark has been the only broadcaster to provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of the NAACP Annual Convention. He has also broadcast from the annual Women's March since 2017.



Mark talks politics, breaking news, social justice and human rights as the host of the award-winning "Make It Plain" daily podcast.

Nicole Borghi is AKA Sabotage Smasher, a Speaker Podcast Host and Soulful Coach using her Empathic ability to look within the Shadow Self (Inner Child) to understand the hidden issue. She empowers her clients to possess a meaningful relationship with “True-SELF”, others, nature and the spirit world. She assists them in moving forward beyond limiting beliefs, reduces stress & depression, unhealthy habits and rewiring the brain. Nicole guides clients on how to go within and seek genuine self-inquiry to thrust forward into a greater self-dynamic. She shares life hacks; simple steps to integrate into today's fast-paced society. Taking the teachings of the old world traditions and merging it into fun, fascination and real time magical transformation., join me August 19th 2021 at 12Noon as I will have the best conversation with the Sabotage Smasher herself :) 

ALDA X aka ARNOLD ALDANA and ANDRE ALDANA

ALDA X was formed in the midst of the Covid Pandemic, after Arnold was hospitalized with covid. Once he was released, Arnold and his brother Andre decided to start writing music together again and finding inspiration for what was to become their self-titled EP ‘ALDA X’.

With Andre’s lush and moody production style and Arnold’s story telling of his love life, drugs and LGBTQ+ matters with acceptance and the struggles he faced with his religious upbringing, this EP brings you into their world.