“A singular and substantive voice in the realm of Americana music… Russell represents the future of the genre.” – Alibi Russell James Pyle is a national touring Musician and Ecopsychologist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Russell is one of a kind–an ambient folk troubadour, Buddhist, ecopsychologist, flyfisherman, avid hiker, comic book enthusiast, and with deep roots in the Pamunkey tribe. You will find that all of these elements flow through Russell and are expressed articulately through his artistry. You can support Russell’s new album through Kickstarter! We cover a lot of ground, Russell’s shift into a more contemplative way of being, …
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026: In Rhythm with Life: Alana Levandoski on Being a Contemplative Artisan and Collaborating with James Finley
“The thing about Alana [Levandoski] is that she’s gifted. She’s not just gifted as a musician, which she is, but she’s gifted as a lyricist…she teased these words, kind of like mantras, highly evocative mantras. She strung them together in a developmental expansion. So it was really a stroke of creative insight. It was really lovely how she brought it together.” – James Finley (via interview with Ordinary Mystic) After Alana Levandoski attended and graduated from the Living School for Action and Contemplation, Alana experienced a rebirth as an artist, finally opening to a way of integrating her spirituality, her …
025: The Priest of the Woods and the Fullness of the Earth with Stephen Blackmer
“But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer.” – Luke 5:16 Stephen Blackmer is founding executive director of Kairos Earth and chaplain of Church of the Woods. Steve comes to this with 30 years of conservation experience, having founded and built conservation organizations including the Five Rivers Conservation Trust, Northern Forest Alliance and Northern Forest Center. A midlife shift led him to Yale Divinity School and ordination as a priest in the Episcopal Church, carrying the question in his heart and mind: “How can being a priest deepen my work to conserve the Earth? What does the Christian tradition …
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