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BONUS For The Fam - The Story Behind the Breath
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This special short bonus episode of The Ripple Affect offers an intimate glimpse into how OG breathwork practitioner Amy Glovin became a part of the hosts' lives. Originally cut from Amy's Sofa Series interview, this candid segment was too special to leave out. Your host Isa "Nibby" reflects on her personal connection with Amy, who shares the backstory of their friendship. It’s a heartfelt tribute for The Fam— you know who you are.
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Introduction to 'The Ripple Effect'
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You're listening to The Ripple Effect with your hosts Cheech and Nippy, a podcast that explores how individual change has the capacity to affect the whole. From neuroscience to donuts, we're two sisters with a deep curiosity for ancient wisdom and modern knowledge, and we're obsessed with learning alongside you because we don't know.
Bonus Episode: Amy Glovin's Story
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Let's dive in.
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Hey, welcome. This is Kiara Cheech, your host of the Ripple Effect podcast, and this is a special bonus episode just for the fam. In our last sofa series episode, The Power of Breath, we cut out this section on how OG breathwork practitioner Amy Glovin came to be a part of our lives, but we felt it was too special to leave on the cutting room floor.
Amy Glovin's Family Connection
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So as always, you're going to dive right into the conversation with your host, Isa, as she asks Amy to tell the story of how she came into our family's lives. This one's for you, fam. Right off the bat, you made a good point that You've known me since before I was even Earthside. So for our listeners that don't know, Amy has been in my family's life for a very long time. And I was asking her before we jumped on how she even met my parents because I didn't know that story. But do you want to start, start there? Sure. Absolutely. I, I was thinking about it this morning when I first met your mom.
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And many years ago, there was a local pizza house you know in Redway. It was called Papa John's, I believe. And she used to work there. And I can remember going in and just being enamored with how much light this human was emitting, her smile, the sparkle in her eyes.
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you know i I witnessed a very difficult customer hassling her who was in front of me and I marveled at how patient she was and she was rooted in her heart, didn't didn't buy into that sticky, yucky, finger pointing, blame energy that is just so uncomfortable when people come at you.
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And I just took ah a note of of that. And then when I got up to the counter, you know we had a really nice interaction. And that was like my first experience with your mom.
Heartwood Institute and Healing Arts
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And it was so filled with radiance. It was it was awesome. And from there, I think i I became more acquainted as I gravitated in my own healing journey. I had the privilege of meeting a Native American man named Rutherford Lone Man, who was up in the area to visit Hartwood. Which, for people who aren't familiar, Hartwood was an institute founded up here in Northern California in Humboldt County.
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And um if I'm not mistaken, you work you worked there for many years. I'm not sure if you were working there at the time, but maybe you could just do a little side note on Heartwood before we
Learning from Rutherford Lone Man
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continue. Sure. Heartwood Institute was a natural healing arts college that specialized in training massage practitioners and holistic healers. They were in business for almost 40 years and we trained, I had the privilege of working there for almost 40 years.
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and had quite an opportunity to train thousands of massage therapists and breathwork therapists, somatic therapists, and transformational therapists. So we ran quite a gamut of healing arts through the Institute, appealing to many people who had a wide variety of interests from shiatsu to deep tissue,
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to body-mind integrative techniques, breathwork techniques. It was all really rounded out by its commitment to honoring the divine in every human being. And it was started by a previous podcast guest of yours, your your Uncle Bruce, Bruce Berger.
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and his wife, Kayla. I was going to say, if you're following the podcast, you may recognize the name of that Institute and one of the founders being Bruce Berger, who you can hear his interview on the sofa series in in previous episodes. So thank you, Amy, for giving that wonderful definition and well-rounded information. Yeah. Thank you. Of what, of what was happening there over that 40 year span. And I just want to add that.
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It's also a beautiful location, very secluded and very special land that that institute was placed on. But back to your story. So you met Rutherford Lone Man. Yeah, and he took me under his wing. He took Hartwood under his wing and shared all kinds of information, you know, as far as helping people find their path to connecting to the source of all life.
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if you prefer, you could say, their connection to God, to spirit. He shared with many of us that lived up there on the hill at Heartwood, different ways of prayer and honoring the divine here on the Mother Earth. And through the Native American Church was where I met you your dad and got to know your mom even more so. And we really forged our friendship through that prayer.
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and the respect of of humanity through that prayer. So that's how I met your your parents. They were close with Rutherford as well, and I used to go to your house with him because he wanted to go visit you know his family there. And I used to run away from home when I needed a break from from life, and I would run away to your house.
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but I love that a notion of running away from home because I have such fond memories of you coming to visit on your running aways and you spoke about the ah light that my mom emitted when you first met her and in my childhood I That's how I remember you, you know is very full of life and love and smiles and laughter and just this really resilient attitude towards everything. with you know i When I think of the image of you, it's like that big smile, not only on your face, but in your heart and in your belly and just, so well,
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you know, kind of a surrendering attitude towards it all and and a deep trust for everything in a really lighthearted way. So I'm glad that you would run away to our house because you brought a lot of positivity in your running aways.
Gratitude and Community Invitation
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I like that.
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Okay, I think we did it. Listen, I don't know what we did, but we did it. Look, unattainable ideals are overrated. We're way more connected and deserving than society's false sense of separation dictates us to be. You're not just one person, you're enough. Your effort is enough and change is possible. Question the standard that says otherwise, because what if almost is good enough? Just by tuning in, you're a part of our clan.
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Not in a culty way though. We don't know how far this ripple can go, but we're going to keep showing up. And we'll never get to perfection, but we're all going to be okay if we let the process be the solution and we see the value in the attempt.
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A special thank you, love and credit to the magnificent Mia Casasanta for this beautiful music you're listening to right now.