THE MASON TAYLOR SHOW
Potentially returning soon
The Mason Taylor Show has been resting, and it may well be on its way back. The archive of past episodes lives below in the meantime.
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Consciousness in the Kitchen with Simon Favorito
Creating a potent, personalised culture of health around food and the kitchen is one of my main focuses on this health journey and that’s why I’ve invited Simon Favorito to join us on this episode. I’ve had the honour of sharing a house with Simon years ago and have had an up close look at how effective he is a bringing the romance back to way we interact with food, how to use food addictions as an access for transformation and ensuring that all senses are engaged in the cooking process so that we can get the best possible health and happiness from our food.
Creating a potent, personalised culture of health around food and the kitchen is one of my main focuses on this health journey and that’s why I’ve invited Simon Favorito to join us on this episode. I’ve had the honour of sharing a house with Simon years ago and have had an up close look at how effective he is a bringing the romance back to way we interact with food, how to use food addictions as an access for transformation and ensuring that all senses are engaged in the cooking process so that we can get the best possible health and happiness from our food.
If you’re wanting to go deep into food culture and the emotions involved with cooking, and understand how pivotal it is for long term longevity, then this one is for you. Simon is a wealth of knowledge and leads with his heart as he walks the walk and talks the talk of creating a healthy culture surrounding food.
In this episode you will learn about:
- Creating awareness & enhancing traditional connections to food in a modern society dominated by stimulated superficial senses
- Recalibrating ourselves with the intrinsic language that wild foods communicate to us
- The influence of different food flavours on the innate emotions of humans
- The contrast of food practices in the west to that of traditional societies
- Honouring the lost culture of food gathering, preparation & consumption
- Addictions & the art of healing the deep-layered connections to poor food choice
- Returning the romance & poetry to the way we eat
- Breaking down the ‘calcified dogmas’ that binds the identify of people’s culture
- The differences between simply choosing healthy food vs deep intentional nourishment & awareness
- The dynamic dance of food aromatics and alchemy
- How our physical environment can influence food choice
- The interplay of tonic & culinary herbalism within traditional food systems
Simon Favorito has been working as a natural foods chef and holistic natural therapist for over 15 years with a drive to share how foods can change and shape our lives for the better. As a classically trained chef, kinesiologist and NLP trained practitioner Simon endeavours to share these life-enhancing benefits of natural food and healthy food culture through personalised coaching, event catering, cooking & fermenting workshops and more.
Resources:
Simon’s website
https://www.facebook.com/consciousfoodculture/
A Romance Of The Land with Jake Cassar
I've titled this episode as a romance purely because it was the only word I could find to describe the relationship that Jake Cassar has with the land. Jake is an environmentalist, bushcraft teacher, singer and musician who teaches people the art of connecting to the land using indigenous skills and bushcraft. Emerging beyond the simple health advice of "spend more time in nature," we talk deeply about how to deepen that time spent on the land you walk, in nature, by learning the song, dance, tracks, sounds and slopes of your terrain. Beyond this, the skills needed for ensuring your capacity to thrive when going bush are discussed in some detail. We talk tracking, foraging, finding water & shelter, hunting are more in a way that shows how these skills aren't simply great for helping you survive, but are an access for entering a deeper, more profound relationship with the environment you walk upon, one that connects you deeply and opens a new realm of health to emerge no matter what kind of lifestyle you are currently living.
I've titled this episode as a romance purely because it was the only word I could find to describe the relationship that Jake Cassar has with the land. Jake is an environmentalist, bushcraft teacher, singer and musician who teaches people the art of connecting to the land using indigenous skills and bushcraft. Emerging beyond the simple health advice of "spend more time in nature," we talk deeply about how to deepen that time spent on the land you walk, in nature, by learning the song, dance, tracks, sounds and slopes of your terrain. Beyond this, the skills needed for ensuring your capacity to thrive when going bush are discussed in some detail. We talk tracking, foraging, finding water & shelter, hunting are more in a way that shows how these skills aren't simply great for helping you survive, but are an access for entering a deeper, more profound relationship with the environment you walk upon, one that connects you deeply and opens a new realm of health to emerge no matter what kind of lifestyle you are currently living.
Stories are shared of the incredible experiences Jake has had on his survival missions, discussing health benefits that are truly astounding from simply being immersed on the land for days at a time. These include weight loss, body strength, sight, hearing and agility. This points to the vast healing that may occur simply through this intentional immersion in nature (with someone who knows what they're doing) that brings nutrient dense bush foods, wild water and dynamic movement through natural landscapes while having ALL the senses engage with the environment; something that does not happen in the Western world.
Enjoy the interview, please leave a rating and review as always so I know how you liked it.
Stay Enchanted,
Mason
Dancing The Patterns Of Permaculture with Tania Leilani
Tania Lailani has been rocking the permaculture path, a deep and special expression of gardening, for 25 years. She’s taught all over the world and is currently a custodian (and is living at) a 200 acre property in the Byron Bay Hinterland which is seriously one of the most incredible places I’ve ever been! It’s an amazing food forest and living system that has emerged and thrived from previously being a cow paddock 15 years ago based on her insights, wisdom and experience of working with the natural living systems of nature; with the Earth. This interview will inspire you like crazy to reconnect with the natural patterns of life and nature and generally live an incredible healthy, yet balanced life, no matter where you live.
Tania Lailani has been rocking the permaculture path, a deep and special expression of gardening, for 25 years. She’s taught all over the world and is currently a custodian (and is living at) a 200 acre property in the Byron Bay Hinterland which is seriously one of the most incredible places I’ve ever been! It’s an amazing food forest and living system that has emerged and thrived from previously being a cow paddock 15 years ago based on her insights, wisdom and experience of working with the natural living systems of nature; with the Earth. This interview will inspire you like crazy to reconnect with the natural patterns of life and nature and generally live an incredible healthy, yet balanced life, no matter where you live.
We talk about core permaculture and living principles, developing immunity, embodying energy efficiency for the most incredible life possible, immunity, vaccines, community, wild food and heaps more! Tania’s land is where I run my retreat from also, and you get an insight into why it’s so important to have a well tended to land to work with in these instances that support the work that we are doing as humans to heal, flourish and live the best life ever.
Strap yourselves in for this one, it’s truly enchanting and I know you will absolutely love it.
Tania doesn’t have a website, but if you sign up for my newsletter over at my website we’ll be doing some videos together to give you some further insights. If you’re up for coming and experiencing it for yourself come along to one of my retreat to immerse yourself in the elements and deeply feel what we are discussing in this interview.
Enjoy!
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