THE MASON TAYLOR SHOW
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The Spirit Of Booze: Old World To New World with Charles Casben
One of the more epic episodes for you today gang. Recorded in an old world gin bar in Redfern, Sydney, Charlie Casben, a wonderful bartender and sommelier who owns Moya’s Juniper Lounge and drinks good booze well…
I worked for years with Charlie back in the day when I was tender bar and I knew that in that time I only scratched the surface of his knowledge around the wonderful world of herbalism, botanicals and alcohol. As I got more into the health game I became more and more bored with the flatland commentary that health “leaders" had about alcohol simply being bad and wanted to go deeper into the nature of this substance and continue to do the work to bring an integration between the world of health and booze; I got considerable closer in this interview. If you’re ready to take your health to another level then grab some good booze and strap in for a ride into the old world as we explore the journey herbs and botanicals have taken till we see the current culture emerge around bars and booze, and where we’re going to be able to take it so that a true progression is possible in the way we move forward as an integrated culture.
One of the more epic episodes for you today gang. Recorded in an old world gin bar in Redfern, Sydney, Charlie Casben, a wonderful bartender and sommelier who owns Moya’s Juniper Lounge and drinks good booze well…
I worked for years with Charlie back in the day when I was tender bar and I knew that in that time I only scratched the surface of his knowledge around the wonderful world of herbalism, botanicals and alcohol. As I got more into the health game I became more and more bored with the flatland commentary that health “leaders" had about alcohol simply being bad and wanted to go deeper into the nature of this substance and continue to do the work to bring an integration between the world of health and booze; I got considerably closer in this interview. If you’re ready to take your health to another level then grab some good booze and strap in for a ride into the old world as we explore the journey herbs and botanicals have taken till we see the current culture emerge around bars and booze, and where we’re going to be able to take it so that a true progression is possible in the way we move forward as an integrated culture.
In this interview we dive deep into:
- The place of alcohol within a modern health context
- Challenging the dichotomy of alcohol restriction within a health fortifying regime
- History of alcohol and its early uses
- Using bitter aperitifs for functional stimulation of digestion
- The wonderful benefits of beer in old and new world culture
- Alcohol as a preservation system
- Fermentation & distillation explained in depth
- Alcohol as a delivery vessel for healthy plant constituents
- The dynamics between the old and new world’s uses of alcohol
- The medicinal properties & historical use of gin, tonic and lime
- Production of fortified wine and its botanical benefits
Taught the basics of cocktail bar tending at fifteen with his sister by a father who's aim was to teach the value of understanding and appreciating good liquor. Cocktails remained a hobby until at eighteen while studying a physics degree he embarked on what was to become a fifteen year career in hospitality. Serving over the bar at several venues in Sydney and abroad wine became the next challenge and certification with the Court of Master Sommeliers the next goal. While studying wine the decision was made to pursue the goal of opening a small bar in Sydney and after several years searching for a suitable site, Moya's Juniper Lounge opened its doors in March 2016.
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/
Deeper Into Physical Practice with Benny Fergusson
Had to have one of my favourite humans on the show for a second time. As I move deeper into my personal work with Benny Ferguson I wanted him to dive deeper into the unique and potent movement principles that he teaches. Through his teachings people all over the world move beyond movement fads and find a system that gives them access to releasing tension, increasing mobility, embodying strength and cultivating flexibility; all in a way that works uniquely with their body. With a focus on understanding gravity and how it flows through the body Benny and I go deep into the physiology and intention evolutions that come with developing a personal practice that leads to a body that is tension free and ready to engage with life in a dynamic and personalised fashion. Strap yourselves in and be ready to take your movement practice to another level as we chat and laugh our way through a beautiful discussion about movement and the human body.
Had to have one of my favourite humans on the show for a second time. As I move deeper into my personal work with Benny Ferguson I wanted him to dive deeper into the unique and potent movement principles that he teaches. Through his teachings people all over the world move beyond movement fads and find a system that gives them access to releasing tension, increasing mobility, embodying strength and cultivating flexibility; all in a way that works uniquely with their body. With a focus on understanding gravity and how it flows through the body Benny and I go deep into the physiology and intention evolutions that come with developing a personal practice that leads to a body that is tension free and ready to engage with life in a dynamic and personalised fashion. Strap yourselves in and be ready to take your movement practice to another level as we chat and laugh our way through a beautiful discussion about movement and the human body.
NOTE: If you wish to skip my ranting intro talking about the media and pro-vaccine mob we had come down on us during the tour… skip to 30mins in.
In this interview we dive into:
- Our past gobsmacked stance on fascia and how we’ve integrated it into our lives since the first interview.
- How to reclaim natural human qualities that have been lost.
- Understanding the capacity of the nervous system to communicate information and how to enhance this.
- How the body works as an electromagnetic pump, and how the tone its core function.
- The way your physical structure and posture communicates with your outside world, children, family, friends and peers.
- The way we adopt physical structures and postural imbalances from our parents.
- Holding the intention to make your last breath a graceful one.
- The nature of uniting body and mind and what becomes possible when you begin this process.
- Tapping into just how much information the body/mind can take in in any given moment and how to become more proficient at being present to this.
- The connection between posture and disease and beginning to read the signs so we can make choices about the direction we take with our body and health.
- How to set multidimensional boundaries for your body, mind and spirit.
- Merging intention with physical practice.
- The many ways to relate to discipline.
- Discipline being the vehicle to c.
- Benny’s 3 word intention process.
- Overcoming/working with the self-critic.
- Movement amidst stillness and stillness amidst movement.
- Earning the right to move freely.
- Standing meditation and developing the ability to perceive and release tension.
- Releasing the tissue to gravity to restore tissue flow, strengthen joints and develop springiness.
- Fortifying tissue and joints now so that you may reduce injury in the future.
- Opening and closing the joins.
- Embodying animal like movement into human physiology without buying into the current animal movement trend.
- Create superior balance by standing still.
- Yep, we covered HEAPS, and there’s more.
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The Sauna Life with Sebastian Mierau
Staying healthy in a toxic world can be one of the most difficult aspects of this health journey, and that’s why we need some heavy hitting practices on our side to get in deep and keep our organs and tissue healthy. I’ve been doing infrared saunas since I was 16 years old, not knowing at that point just how fortunate I was to have integrated into my life one of the most ancient, time-tested and effective methods of detoxification and rejuvenation into my life.
Staying healthy in a toxic world can be one of the most difficult aspects of this health journey, and that’s why we need some heavy hitting practices on our side to get in deep and keep our organs and tissue healthy. I’ve been doing infrared saunas since I was 16 years old, not knowing at that point just how fortunate I was to have integrated into my life one of the most ancient, time-tested and effective methods of detoxification and rejuvenation into my life.
But this isn’t your every day chat about saunas… Sebastian Mierau is one of my best mates. We met in 2011 at David Wolfe talk when we were both a couple of health nerds diving deep into the lifestyle and researching deeply. Since then, after many adventures around the world, Sebastian has become the distributor of (what we knew all along to be the best saunas in the world) Clearlight Saunas in Australia and Europe. He took this on so that all us multidimensional health freaks could get easy access to this incredibly healing tool.
As a leader and innovator in the infrared sauna industry for the last 18 years, Clearlight Infrared by Sauna Works has been manufacturing infrared saunas that are both luxurious and effective. While their cabins are exceptional quality, they have spent the last 18 years researching and studying infrared therapy to bring you the most effective infrared sauna available; and they’re doing saunas like nobody else, including (much to my cell’s pleasure) being the leader in offering EMF and ELF free saunas.
Sebastian has become extremely well versed in the benefits and dynamics of infrared saunas benefits and therapy and this interview we dive into:
- The history of saunas and their evolution
- The difference between traditional and infrared saunas
- How the infrared sauna wavelengths help eliminate stress and deeply relax the tissue
- The mind blowing ability this technology has to detox the body of insidious, disease-causing toxicity
- Surprising ways sauna restores your body’s ability to lose weight
- Why saunas give you the best skin ever
- The research behind sauna increasing life-span, toning the heart and thwarting morbidity
- Ways to say goodbye to chronic pain
- How you can restore and boost metabolism and overall immunity by getting your sweat on
- Ceramic v carbon heaters and why you must consider which your sauna uses
- The specific healing wavelengths utilised in these epic saunas
- The resonance frequency of infrared and how it interacts with the water in your calls
- How low EMG (mG) and ELF (Vm) saunas are now possible and how saunas that don’t can damage you
Part 2 Pregnancy Prep and Our Childbearing Year with Tahnee McCrossin
The mammoth episode many of you have been waiting for. This is part 2 of our childbearing series, and the one where Tahnee and myself dive deep into the practices, philosophy, diet, herbalism and more that went in to creating the year in which Tahnee was childbearing little Aiya. This podcast was recorded during the first week of the bubba's life, so the sharing experience of the birth is fresh; something Tahnee was wishing to be able to infuse into this intimate sharing of how she chose to approach nourishing her body during pregnancy.
The mammoth episode many of you have been waiting for. This is part 2 of our childbearing series, and the one where Tahnee and myself dive deep into the practices, philosophy, diet, herbalism and more that went in to creating the year in which Tahnee was childbearing little Aiya. This podcast was recorded during the first week of the bubba's life, so the sharing experience of the birth is fresh; something Tahnee was wishing to be able to infuse into this intimate sharing of how she chose to approach nourishing her body during pregnancy.
Here’s briefly what we cover in the episode plus some more extensive notes than usual from Tahnee for those who are on their own pregnancy journey:
- Pregnancy + Home Birth Plans
- Our Pregnancy diet
- Best supplements during pregnancy
- The best tonic herbs and medicinal mushrooms during pregnancy
- Best herbs during pregnancy
- Symptoms of pregnancy
- Pregnancy cravings / changes
- Exercise during pregnancy
- Lots of additional pregnancy tips
- Home birth prep and planning
- Pregnancy book resources
Pregnancy Prep and Our Childbearing Year with Tahnee McCrossin
This is a special episode, part 1 of our Pregnancy Prep and our Childbearing Year. For months my beautiful partner Tahnee and I (especially her though) have been asked about our approach to pregnancy thus far. So on the 39 week mark of growing our baby we sat down together to share with you all the ins and outs of how we have prepared in this 2 part podcast. Tahnee especially dives deep in this episode into how she has cleansed her body over the years leading up to conception via deep organ detoxification.
This is a special episode, part 1 of our Pregnancy Prep and our Childbearing Year. For months my beautiful partner Tahnee and I (especially her though) have been asked about our approach to pregnancy thus far. So on the 39 week mark of growing our baby we sat down together to share with you all the ins and outs of how we have prepared in this 2 part podcast. Tahnee especially dives deep in this episode into how she has cleansed her body over the years leading up to conception via deep organ detoxification.
What you’ll learn:
- The role the liver plays in pregnancy and why cleansing it is critical
- How to embody detox and nourishing practices into your lifestyle so your body is always prepared for pregnancy (or just to have a rocking hormonal system)
- Simple techniques for removing heavy metals from your system so your baby doesn’t get overloaded
- Why men must prepare for pregnancy just as much as the woman for the sake of the child
- Simple yet powerful techniques for cleansing and healing the gut so you can bring your micro biome back into balance
- How the gut bacteria a woman has passes over to be her child’s immune system
- Why you must look back into your past for clues into what you need to cleanse and nourish in your body
- Our top herbs for cleansing the parasites out of your system
- The best and most effective order for deep organ cleansing
- A breakdown on the best tonic herbs to restore strength to your system so it is ready for the child bearing year
- How learning to release tension assists conception and creates ease in pregnancy
Resources:
The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush by Andreas Moritz
Triple Treasure Parasite Cleanse
Tonic herbs – he shou wu and eucommia
Health in a Technologically Connected World with Jason Bawden-Smith
Jason Bawden-Smith has been on a mission to get to the core of his own and society’s degenerating state of health for decades. After discovering his metabolic syndrome was largely caused by an addiction to technology and disconnection to nature he began to uncover the effects that our technological culture is having on our bodies and cells. His journey is described in detail in his new book In The Dark – New Ways To Avoid The Harmful Effects Of Living In A Technologically Connected World. We go deep into the contents of the book and his story in this incredible interview.
Jason Bawden-Smith has been on a mission to get to the core of his own and society’s degenerating state of health for decades. After discovering his metabolic syndrome was largely caused by an addiction to technology and disconnection to nature he began to uncover the effects that our technological culture is having on our bodies and cells. His journey is described in detail in his new book In The Dark – New Ways To Avoid The Harmful Effects Of Living In A Technologically Connected World. We go deep into the contents of the book and his story in this incredible interview.
In this interview you will discover:
- What the blue spectrum of light is and how it effects your life
- How exposure to blue-light at night throws the body's circadian rhythm
- Simple nature based methods to restore electrical and biological health
- The way UVA and UVB effects your body and when you should be exposed
- A simple yet unorthodox method to lift your testosterone through sunlight
- Why grounding is critical to your health
- How wearing glasses at night keeps your cells happy
- How the mitochondria of the cells rely upon light and electrical based nutrition to function
- The technologies available to help bring balance to your electrical and EMF environment
- And lots more
Jason holds both a Bachelor of Applied Science in Environmental Health and a Master’s Degree in Environmental Science from the UNSW. During his short career in academia Jason published eleven peer-reviewed papers including three in prestigious Medical Journal of Australia. Jason is an author and speaker and has presented at numerous national and international environmental conferences.
His company JBS Technologies (JBS) is a biophysics research and business development company. JBS looks at issues of human well-being through the lens of a physicist, applies the findings akin to an engineer and shares the solutions like a Company.
Cross-Pollinating Medicine with Jimi Wollumbin
Set in the shadow of Mt Wollumbin (Mt Warning) in the Northern Rivers of NSW at Jimi’s healing sanctuary, this interview was a lot of fun and went deep into the philosophy of healing. Jimi loves the healing path, and after years of studying and walking various ancient lineages (spliced with modern insights) has maintained what I can only describe as an impressive professional sovereignty that sees him going deep into the paths of learning the art of healing while not losing his identity within them (something that is rampant in the healing world), giving him the ability to stay malleable, insightful and cross-pollinating that many traditions as he continues to ask the deep questions that revolve around the mystery of healing.
Set in the shadow of Mt Wollumbin (Mt Warning) in the Northern Rivers of NSW at Jimi’s healing sanctuary, this interview was a lot of fun and went deep into the philosophy of healing. Jimi loves the healing path, and after years of studying and walking various ancient lineages (spliced with modern insights) has maintained what I can only describe as an impressive professional sovereignty that sees him going deep into the paths of learning the art of healing while not losing his identity within them (something that is rampant in the healing world), giving him the ability to stay malleable, insightful and cross-pollinating that many traditions as he continues to ask the deep questions that revolve around the mystery of healing.
Very quickly we’re talking about the relevance of “old world” healing techniques such as leeching, which opens us up to the conversation around medicine without boundaries; the different schools and transitions have a piece of the medicinal puzzle, but not all of it, and we must look beyond their individual boundaries. This approach requires moving around, looking at how health and healing look from the many perspectives that exist in the world so we can expand the approach on healing the human body, and we go RIGHT into the philosophy of this approach. The biggest insight we dive into though is how curiosity and love of learning, like a child, allows for this broader approach to healing to be possible.
Beyond all the above, in this interview you will learn:
- How to develop an ongoing capacity to come back into balance again and again
- How to overcome the minds desire to “arrive” at a destination in your health.
- These essence of Taoism, including the art of action less action
- The concept of age-ency, and how to not identify with age through your actions
- Jing, qi and shen philosophy
- How to take the “fascination” away from healing philosophy to make it accessible to the western mind
- The best qi tonics for cultivating qi
- The magic of royal jelly and what it can do for your body and jing
- Jimi’s relationship with the modern medical model
- Why we sometimes feel any and hurt by modern medicine
- The religion of science
- What it means to be a medical minority
The Centenarian Life with Amanda Archibald
Ever wonder why some cultures experience extreme cased of longevity and boast more people living beyond 100 than anywhere else? Then dive into this epic new episode with Amanda Archibald as we adventure through the "bleeding edge" of health and wellness.
Ever wonder why some cultures experience extreme cased of longevity and boast more people living beyond 100 than anywhere else? Then dive into this epic new episode with Amanda Archibald as we adventure through the "bleeding edge" of health and wellness.
Amanda Archibald’s unique training as an analyst and a nutritionist (RD), combined with her culinary expertise, has enabled her to develop a new lens through which we can understand the food and health conversation. Amanda’s trailblazing work is redefining the food, nutrition and cooking education footprint in ways that are understandable, meaningful and fundamentally achievable for all Americans. Her cutting edge work in Culinary Genomics, unveiled in 2015, has created a new frontier, essentially uniting the fields of Genomic Medicine with the Culinary Arts. Through this work, Amanda is placing food, chefs and the kitchen at the epicenter of healing and igniting a new nutrition conversation for the world.
Through her nutrition and culinary expertise, Amanda has spoken extensively at nutrition, medical and agricultural conferences. As an analyst she has presented at conferences as diverse as The Fancy Food Show, World Wide Food Expo and the Institute for Food Technology. Her work has been broadly showcased in the media to include The Food Network, Food Management Magazine, Today's Dietitian , Kiwi Magazine and beyond.
When not working, Amanda is an avid cyclist, hiker and participant in all snow sports. She passionately embraces enjoys her Rocky Mountain lifestyle, residing in Boulder and Summit County, Colorado.
Natural Birthing with Sheryl Sidery
Delving into the birthing realms this week with the wonderful Sheryl Sidery. Sheryl has been practicing midwifery since 1985. The experience of her first birth lead her into this beautiful line of work. She felt alone and unsupported. She felt that no one was aware of what an enormous life changing experience becoming a mother is, and so she became a midwife. She wanted to be truly “with woman” as she embarks on motherhood – feeling strong, confident, transformed and joyful. For her, that’s what midwifery is all about. Her primary philosophy is that pregnancy and birth is a period of great transformation, one that is necessary for parenting. She finds that having one-to-one midwifery care throughout pregnancy, birth and early parenting provides the best start to life with a newborn.
Delving into the birthing realms this week with the wonderful Sheryl Sidery. Sheryl has been practicing midwifery since 1985. The experience of her first birth lead her into this beautiful line of work. She felt alone and unsupported. She felt that no one was aware of what an enormous life changing experience becoming a mother is, and so she became a midwife. She wanted to be truly “with woman” as she embarks on motherhood – feeling strong, confident, transformed and joyful. For her, that’s what midwifery is all about. Her primary philosophy is that pregnancy and birth is a period of great transformation, one that is necessary for parenting. She finds that having one-to-one midwifery care throughout pregnancy, birth and early parenting provides the best start to life with a newborn.
In this interview we cover:
- The current state of the modern medical birthing system in Australia
- How women’s bodies are designed to have natural births when supported
- Keys to ensuring birthing occurs without intervention
- The biggest myths when it comes to conscious birthing
- Why home births are the new black
- How to prepare a woman’s body for an easy birth
- And so much more.