Best Saidi Podcasts (2026)

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Imagination, Dreamwork, and the Sacred Encounter with Rodger Kamenetz

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What is sacredness and how can I find more of it in my life? Rodger Kamenetz teaches us a spiritual practice that leads us toward a deeper experience of life. His latest book is Seeing into the Life of Things: Imagination and the Sacred Encounter. Short clip of the convo available here: https://youtu.be/rM8OGWNenhg Rodger starts by talking about wh…

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Winter Solstice Dreams of Transformation, Water, and Wholeness

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Winter Solstice is the time of year to go within. How have your dreams been nudging you into a new alignment? Today is a rare all call-in show! No guest, just YOU. We host six dreamers on the show today starting with Sylvia from Ontario who describes a dream where a crow climbs into bed with her, comforting her. Then Steve shares about the latest i…

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Everyday Narcissists with Susan Schwartz

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Are you a narcissist? How would you know? Or maybe you are in a relationship with one. We talk to Jungian analyst Dr Susan Schwartz about dreams related to narcissism and about how to be in relationship with those everyday narcissists in our life. Dr Schwartz starts by defining narcissism as outer bravado and inner fragility. She lists some of the …

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Dream Animals and the Asklepian Temple with Laura Payne

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Animals in dreams always seem to have a special meaningfulness. Today we talk about how dreams of certain animals were viewed at the Asklepian Temple in ancient Greece where people could go to be healed by their dreams. Learn about a modern interpretation of this ancient technique from our guest psychotherapist, mindfulness teacher, and Dream Boat …

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Adaptive Nightmares with Prof Wojciech Owczarski

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Learn how dreams help us process trauma with our guest Gdansk Professor Wojciech Owczarski who studies the dreams of Auschwitz survivors, modern Ukrainian refugees, and nursing home residents. He finds that dreams help us cope with trauma, adapt to new life situations, and feel optimistic for a better future. Nightmares help us deal with unresolve…

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Turning Toward the Uncomfortable with Rachel Schafer

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There are many ways to open the door to the unseen world: sound or singing, stillness, or movement, nature immersion. We speak to Rachel Schafer about dreaming into love. Rachel speaks about body centered awareness and the value in turning toward what is uncomfortable in our lives. Video short from this show: https://youtu.be/QjkTV5d94II She ta…

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Spiritual Elderhood with Illana Berger, PhD

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Aging through the lens of night dreams, living dreams, and earth dreams. Dr. Illana Berger guides seekers through life’s initiations through Zen practice, Indigenous wisdom, dreams, and soul-centered transformation. Dr Berger starts out by speaking about koans and how dreams are like them: things to ponder not riddles to solve. We talk about the ar…

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Diving Before Dawn: Dream Journaling with Sandi Madison

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Dreams are crazy, but aren’t they also guidance? Our guest, Sandi Madison, helps us find sense in the nonsense of our dreams and argues that the best self-help book we can ever read is our own dream journal! We talk about the importance of keeping and reviewing a dream journal, and Sandi shares some of her recurring themes that show how she has mat…

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Understanding Your Mind with Jesse Lyon

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Meet Jesse Lyon, a clinical hypnotherapist with an extensive background in trauma, anxiety, dissociative disorders, and the neurodivergent community. He’s a viral social media influencer with over two million followers, captivating hearts worldwide. We talk start by talking about how dreams speak in the language of the subconscious mind and often r…

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A Jungian Approach to Dream Groups with Sara Saidy

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Every night our dreams invite us to enter the mystery that is our soul, and they guide us toward wholeness, purpose, and destiny. Today we talk with Sara Saidy about the power of dream groups which she describes as alchemical containers. She calls dreams love letters from the soul. Sara starts out by defining the imaginal realm and how we access it…

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Should You Let AI Interpret Your Dreams? With Harry de Bont

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AI dream interpretation platforms are getting ever more popular. We talk today with Harry de Bont, the developer of AUT-Dream, about how best to approach these tools and why his platform is an improvement over Chat GPT. We talk about what he calls the Anthropic Universe Theory (AUT) and argues that the primary purpose of dreams is to comment on…

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The Soundtrack to Your Dreams with Michael Mollura, PhD

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Today’s guest composes music to his patient’s dreams, capturing feelings and moods and deepening the psychotherapeutic process. In this replay from two years ago, we meet Dr. Michael Mollura who is a PhD licensed clinical psychologist and also an award-winning music composer for TV and movies. Michael started by scoring music to his own dreams and …

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Dreamifesting with Kelly Sullivan Walden

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Why just manifest your dreams when you can dreamifest them? Harness the power of your nighttime dreams to make your daytime dreams come true! Eleven-time author and popular podcaster Kelly Sullivan Walden, aka Doctor Dream, joins us for a magical romp through her ideas around why it’s so hard to create the lives we want, and how dreams will help us…

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Fire Hose or Garden Hose? Psychedelics vs Dreamwork with Darren Jakubec, MD

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Our guest has hosted hundreds of patients on ketamine-assisted psychedelic trips and has gone on a few of his own, yet his experience is that dreamwork can be even more profound. In this show, a replay of a popular show from August 2024 Katherine talks to Dr. Darren Jakubec, an emergency-room anesthetist who runs a pain clinic in northern British C…

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Life after Death before Death with Nirakara Vani

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How does a near death experience affect your life’s path? Hear one man’s story about how death before death can be a spiritual rebirth. So too, in dreams, death can be a gateway to awakening. Our guest this week is Nirakara Vani of the Philosophical Entertainment podcast. It’s another deep dive into the realms of dreaming, death, birth, and …

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Many Ways to Explore a Dream with Five Dream Practitioners

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Does your dream have only correct interpretation? No! I believe that there are many valuable ways to explore a dream and many layers of meaning. This week the Dream Journal hosts four dream guest experts who offer a range of ways to explore dreams to get you thinking about how to expand your thinking about dreaming. Join me, Katherine Bell, with my…

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Heliopsychology with Annani Kelley

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Do sunspots, solar flares, and geomagnetic activity affect our dreams? Our guest, Annani Kelly, is finishing her PhD research on a study involving 92 participants and over 4700 dream reports. Annani talks about some of the effects of solar activity on health which has been well studied over the years. Hers is the first study which investigates such…

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Akinke Lucas and the Divine African Feminine

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Today we speak with Akinke Lucas about dreaming ourselves whole. We start by talking about Akinke’s travels in Africa and Indonesia, then about how to tell the difference between helpful tricksters and not-so-helpful demons. Akinke describes masculine vs feminine, conscious vs unconscious, mind vs soul, and speaks about how the birth of humanity wa…

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Soul Reconciliation with Amy Jo Ellis and the Court of Atonement

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Can’t see your way through a difficult situation? Try asking all Souls concerned to discuss issues until they understand why things happened, because once the Soul understands, forgiveness takes place. Today we speak with Amy Jo Ellis, founder of the Court of Atonement. Amy Jo describes herself as a reluctant spiritual medium who was thrust into th…

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Dreaming Helps Integrate Psychedelic Experience with Adam Miezio

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Can dreaming help us integrate psychedelic experiences? How dreams and visions can both take us to the boundaries of consciousness. Today’s guest Adam Miezio talks about how dreams and psychedelics both access the unconscious and that taking powerful psychedelics can be like tilling the soil of consciousness. He describes what he calls divine influ…

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Dreaming, Art, and Empathy, a Dream Journal Redux with Renzo Del Castillo

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Katherine speaks with poet Renzo Del Castillo about building connections and empathy through creation, art, integrity, and love in a replay of a popular show from a year ago. Renzo is the author of the award-winning, best-selling debut poetry book “Still” (available in Kindle version for 99 cents). The poems that make up the book were conceived dur…

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Angels and Radiant Aging with Poet Jenny D’Angelo

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Light, truth, and direct experience. Today we will talk about angel healing with local poet, author, and mystic Jenny D’Angelo. Amidst a shower of poetry, Jenny shares about her history with Dorrie D’Angelo, the Angel Lady of Carmel and about how she hopes to model vibrant elderhood for those around her. She talks about how to tune into the angels …

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Dream Deeper to Sleep Better with Leah Ann Bolen

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A New Kind of Hero’s Journey with Donna Glee Williams

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We all know that dreams can galvanize your creativity. Today in this replay of a popular show from almost two years ago, we speak with Donna Glee Williams, PhD, who has published three dream-inspired fantasy novels which seek to reimagine the hero’s journey. Her latest book is called The Night Field. We also play music by Lynn Morgan Rosser. Donna …

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Dreams as Sacred Liturgy with Darby Christopher

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How can we meet our dreams on their own terms and use them as liturgy for sacred gatherings? A conversation about Natural Spirituality with Haden Institute’s Darby Christopher. We talk about what makes gatherings sacred including the idea of going slow and leaving room for silence. Darby goes into some of her ideas on what she calls the dream Round…

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The Toltec Knowledge Base with Joel Schafer

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Expand your dreaming awareness by utilizing energetic and shamanic movements, breath work, guided recapitulation, and shadow reflection. Our guest is Shamanic Dreaming Arts teacher, Joel Schafer. Joel talks about the shamanic practices of the Toltecs which are described in novel form in the Carlos Castenda books and describes how movements called m…

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The Dream Cure with Theresa Cheung

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Decode your dreams and heal your life! Today’s guest is author and dream decoder Theresa Cheung, dubbed by Women’s Health “the British Grande Dame of psychic and spiritual studies.” We talk about precognitive dreams, visitation dreams, and how we can “live our dreams” by looking in waking life for the symbols we dream about. She describes dreaming …

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Helping the Dream Self with David Jenkins

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Our dream self is different in many ways from our waking self. They are often much more beleaguered and can behave differently than we imagine that our waking self would. We discuss why this is important, and how we can help them. In this replay show from December, our guest is David Jenkins, PhD, clinical psychologist and author of “Dream RePlay: …

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The Dreaming Way with Toko-Pa Turner 58:14

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In this special 300th episode of the Dream Journal, meet Toko-Pa Turner, a woman who has a wealth of experience helping people learn to court the wisdom of their dreams. She speaks about how “The Dreaming Way” is our natural heritage and provides inner guidance. She emphasizes that dreams and the imagination are as real as waking life and encourage…

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Different ways of Exploring Dreams with Six Dream Experts and Three Callers 55:24

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As we approach the 300th episode of the Dream Journal, I invite five dream experts to talk about their various approaches to dreamwork. All six will be presenters at the all-day in person IASD regional conference on March 1, 2025 in Whittier, California. Guests are conference host Geoff Nelson who talks about the spirituality of dreaming, Lauren Sc…

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Radical Resistance with Victor Lee Lewis 53:41

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Founder of the Radical Resistance Institute, our guest today is Victor Lee Lewis. He brings a unique, socially progressive vision to the work of personal growth, personal empowerment, and emotional health. An early advocate of Jeremey Taylor, he is also profoundly influenced by his dreams. Victor starts by telling how a dream he had in the early 19…

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Bonus: Eid in Nizwa Ft. Safiya Ambu-Saidi 19:38

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In this bonus episode, which was originally produced as a pilot for the show, Safiya and Fatema talk about the time they spent on the second day of Eid in Nizwa. Hosted and Produced by Fatema Al Darii (@fatemaseyes) Edited and mixed by Abdullah Al Maawali (@wanderingbrownguy) Artwork by Jamila Mohammed (@j6milart) On the Way Home is an Oman FM orig…

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Fatema: The Making of “On the Way Home” 24:58

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In this finale, Fatema answers questions submitted by the guests she hosted over the course of the show. Credits: Hosted and Produced by Fatema Al Darii (@fatemaseyes) Edited and Mixed by Abdullah Al Mawali (@wanderingbrownguy) Sound Engineered by Azzam Al Raisi (@thezamman) On the Way Home is an Oman FM original podcast. First aired on Oman FM 90.…

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Al Ghaliya: Living with Depression 29:34

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From Fatema’s living room, Al-Ghaliya talks about living with depression and how she dealt with it at different stages of her life. Credits: Hosted and Produced by Fatema Al Darii (@fatemaseyes) Edited by Azzam Al Raisi (@thezamman) Mixed by Abdullah Al Mawali (@wanderingbrownguy) Artwork by Jamila Mohammed (@j6milart) On the Way Home is an Oman FM…

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Habib: Catching Up with My First Employer 18:25

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After losing contact for over a year, Fatema hosts Habib who was her first employer after graduation. They chat and catch up about some of the major updates in Habib’s life. Credits: Produced and hosted by Fatema Al Darii @fatemaseyes Edited and Mixed by Azzam Al Raisi @thezamman Artwork by Jamila Mohammed @j6milart On The Way Home is an Oman FM or…

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Basma: Curly Hair Chronicles 20:30

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Having met only once in person, Basma and Fatema commemorate their second meeting with a discussion about their experience with their natural/curly hair in Oman. This episode features Basma Al Abri @basma3bri Produced and hosted by Fatema Al Darii @fatemaseyes Edited and Mixed by Abdullah Al Maawali @wanderingbrownguy Artwork by Jamila Mohammed @j6…

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Ayman: Dance, Art, and Insomnia 22:16

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In this episode, Ayman indulges Fatema’s curiosity about his experience with breakdancing, drawing, and storytelling. Credits: Produced and hosted by Fatema Al Darii (@fatemaseyes) Edited and Mixed by Azzam Al Raisi (@thezamman) Artwork by Jamila Mohammed (@j6milart) Follow Oman FM for the latest updates https://www.instagram.com/omanfm.om/…

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Shamanic Dream Journeys with Robert Moss 53:52

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Traveling without leaving home. A shamanic dreamer and author of over two dozen books, we speak today with Robert Moss in this special replay from April Fool’s Day. Robert describes himself as a story teller who helps people find their story. He begins with the tale of what happened when he was pronounced dead at age 3 and about how dreaming is pre…

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Ahmed: Literature, School, and Living with a Disability 31:39

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In this episode, Ahmed openly shares and discuses with Fatema his history and experience as a person with a physical disability. Credits: Produced and hosted by Fatema Al Darii (@fatemaseyes) Sound engineered by Azzam Al Raisi (@thezamman) Edited and Mixed by Abdullah Al Mawali (@wanderingbrownguy) Artwork by Jamila Mohammed (@j6milart) Originally …

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A New Kind of Hero’s Journey, Dream-Inspired Creativity with Author Donna Glee Williams 53:20

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We all know that dreams can galvanize your creativity. Today we meet an author who has published three dream-inspired fantasy novels which seek to reimagine the hero’s journey. Author Donna Glee Williams, PhD is our guest and her latest book is called The Night Field. Plus music by Lynn Morgan Rosser. Donna Glee describes her 17 year mentorship wit…

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A Seth-Inspired Alternative Sleep Schedule with David Cielak 56:09

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Trouble sleeping through the night? Maybe you are on your way to a superior sleep schedule which could enhance your creativity, flexibility, and dream recall. We talk with David Cielak about what Seth has to say about sleep and dreaming. Dave recommends five hours of sleep at night preceded by the important suggestion that upon awakening I will be …

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Awatif: From Highschool in Al-Buraimi to Life on the Road 26:49

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From their high-school homeroom to their current careers as adults, Fatema and Awatif reflect on where they were 9 years ago and where they are now. Credits: Written and Produced by Fatema Al Darii (@fatemaseyes) Edited and Mixed by Abdullah Al Maawali (@wanderingbrownguy) Sound engineered by Salim Al Barwani (@theessbeesound) Artwork by Jamila Moh…

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What Dreams Have to Say about Reality with Tina Tau 54:02

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Is waking life really a kind of theater which we make up along the way? The transformative potential of dreamwork, today with author and certified dreamworker, Tina Tau. Tina shares a dream in which she struggles to swim upstream, then suddenly stands up and realizes the water is not so deep. We speak about how this highlights that our understandin…

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Anima Dreams, Personal Neurobiology, and Hispanic Identity with John Valenzuela, PhD 51:31

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An anima dream series and personal neurobiology. Also Dreams about love and, just in time for Hispanic heritage month, Mexican American male identity formation. A conversation with John Valenzuela, PhD. John describes that the anima and animus figures we meet in our dreams are autonomous spiritual beings AND also parts of us and that the gender dis…

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Sara: An Ode To New Friends, Hiking, And Superpowers 27:26

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In this episode, Fatema invites the first friend she made in Muscat, Sara, to discuss superpowers, hiking, and the growing pains of academia. Credits: Written and Produced by Fatema Al Darii (@fatemaseyes) Edited and Mixed by Abdullah Al Mawali (@wanderingbrownguy) Artwork by Aya Al-Beriki (@just_sketchy) On The Way Home is an Oman FM original podc…

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Artificial Intelligence, Yoga Nidra, and More with Joanna Kowalewska 55:12

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Would you let a bot interpret your dreams? Should you? We speak with Joanna of Blue Lotus Queendom about the pleasures and pitfalls of using AI with dreams. Also what is Yoga Nidra and how does it support Dreamwork. Joanna gives many suggestions about how to use AI with our dreams but that list does NOT include asking the AI what your dream means. …

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Malak: Puns, Grief, and Growing Up Without A Father 26:04

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In this debut of On the Way Home, Fatema and Malak talk about and laugh through their experience of loss. Their friendship and shared understanding helped open up a conversation they rarely have with others in their life. Credits: Written and Produced by Fatema Al Darii (@fatemaseyes) Sound engineered by Azzam Al Raisi (@thezamman) Edited and Mixed…

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Fatema: Introducing On The Way Home 4:03

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Fatema Al Darii, the host and producer of On The Way Home, was interviewed on Oman FM by Azzam Al Raeesi about the release of this new podcast. Follow Oman FM on social media for the latest shows and updates: @omanfm.omBy Oman FM

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Episode 36: Taylor Drury - Grounding, Wobbling, and Other Dance Practices 1:01:12

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Taylor Drury is a Canadian born dancer, choreographer, and sometimes line-drawing artist with WobbleWorks. She is currently a full time company member with the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. In this conversation we talk all about her path to becoming a dancer, which was full of the unexpected, as well as the period of doubting and questioning t…

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Episode 35: Sakina Saïdi - Illustrating Identities and Growing into Your Own Voice 58:34

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Sakina Saïdi is a French-Moroccan artist and illustrator based in London. Born and raised in France by Moroccan parents, Sakina grew up learning about different cultures and traditions. Her experiences nurtured her style and desire to represent this beautiful mix of cultures that now characterizes her personality and art. In this conversation, we t…