Exploring Traditional Remedies and Indigenous Medicine in a Time of Pandemics

Tune in to hear more about how traditional cultures view
pandemics, epigenetics, mental health and Ayurveda, limitations
and advantages of Western medicine, indigenous Brazilian
remedies,  and more....


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Hosts:


Vikram Zutshi is a writer, journalist, social
commentator and filmmaker.


Lea Horvatic is a yogini, ayurvedic wellness
practitioner, yoga teacher and naturopath.


About guests:


James Spears


James Spears graduated from the International Institute of
Chinese Medicine in 2001. He has studied in five university
hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Hangzhou. From 2008
- 2011 he leads educational tours to China for post-graduates. He
has studied and practiced in the US, Vietnam, and Thailand.
 James has written the book Meridian Circuit Systems and
authors courses for advanced training in acupuncture. His current
research is on how acupuncture points connect to fascial plane
anatomy, and how this relates to traditional point functions. He
is passionate about exploring the physiology of how acupuncture
and herbal medicines work.


He may be reached through his website www.ihsociety.com


Frans Pagnier


Frans Pagnier is a Dutch national who has been living in Brazil
for the past twenty years. He was trained in the Unites States in
the Rolf method of Structural Integration. For the past ten years
he has been working extensively with a variety of indigenous
communities in the southwestern Amazon helping them build
capacity through fair trade of their handicrafts and herbal
medicine. He also manages his retreat center and Atlantic Forest
nature sanctuary in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro state. He has
been studying sacred plant medicine for over twenty years and is
a student of and initiate in the Afro Brazilian Candomblé
tradition.


Freedom Cole


Freedom Cole is a practitioner of Jyotiṣa, Āyurveda and Yoga
therapy. He is initiated into a traditional Jyotiṣa lineage which
traces back to the royal astrologers of Odisha, India. Freedom is
the author of two books and numerous articles. With his training
in Sanskrit, Vedic philosophy, modern psychology and two decades
of practice, he is able to translate the ancient principles into
practical clinical application.


https://shrifreedom.org/


https://www.scienceoflight.net/