Podcasts / For hosts
You are part of a larger whole. Most of what hurts comes from forgetting that.
Telfer braids IFS-informed parts work, Vedic Astrology, Ayurveda and nature-based soul work into one way of seeing any crisis, personal or cultural, as an ecotone: the edge where things fall apart and new life is most likely.
The one-sheet / At a glance
Great fit for shows about
- Parts work and IFS
- Ecopsychology and rewilding
- Sound healing and sacred geometry
- Dreams and depth psychology
- Ayurveda and holistic mental health
- Astrology as psychology
- Life transitions and midlife initiation
- Practitioners who want deeper tools
Your listeners walk away with
A fresh frame for a hard season (“there is nothing wrong; this is an ecotone”), one practice they can do that night, and a free assessment that names the terrain they are crossing.
Format
Audio or video, remote or in person. Interviews of 30 to 90 minutes. A short guided practice can be woven in live.
Listener gift
The free Ecotone Assessment: a written reading of the terrain you are crossing, plus free entry into the Ecotone Ecosystem.
Bios, photos and the reel
Everything for show notes and promotion is on the media kit page.
Episode ideas / Ready to record
Ten conversations
Pick the one your audience needs most.
Each one grows out of a course Telfer already teaches, so the conversation has depth and a practical landing.
- 01 / Inner Physics
You are part of a larger whole
Whole parts made of whole parts, from a cell to a solar system. Cymatics, toroidal fields and Buckminster Fuller’s tensegrity show that the same laws shaping galaxies shape the psyche, and why “survival of the kindest” beats survival of the fittest.
- What do sand patterns on a vibrating plate teach us about a life falling apart?
- What does a mother tree know about community that we forgot?
- 02 / Internal Family Solar Systems
Your planets are your parts
An IFS-informed framework, building on Richard Schwartz’s work, that reads the seven classical planets as archetypal parts orbiting the Self like the Sun. No bad parts, no bad planets.
- What happens when you treat Saturn as a protector instead of a punishment?
- How can a therapist ethically use a birth chart as a projective tool?
- 03 / Telfer’s talk of the same name
Destroying without malice
How to shed an identity you have outgrown without making an enemy of who you used to be. Crisis as an ecotone, the edge between two ecosystems where danger and new life are both highest.
- How do you know a chapter is ending and not just a rough patch?
- What does it look like to leave something with love?
- 04 / Dream Craft
Dreams are not a dictionary
Meeting the night world as a living conversation with psyche, soul and Earth: remembering, telling, hearing, deepening and living a dream.
- Why do symbol dictionaries miss the point of a dream?
- What do you do with a frightening dream figure?
- 05 / Holistic Mental Health Starter Kit
Anxiety is a power surge, depression is a tripped breaker
Telfer’s own story of lifelong anxiety and depression, and the simple Ayurvedic and nervous-system practices that help: calming breath, warm oil, earthing, tulsi tea, writing to someone you love.
- What is one thing a listener can do tonight when they are freaking out?
- Why is connection the opposite of addiction?
- 06 / Time Craft
Your day has seasons
Ayurveda as circadian medicine: the vata, pitta and kapha hours of the day, the twelve houses as a map for how you spend your time, and why caffeine is “energy on a credit card.”
- What is the best hour of the day for hard thinking, and why?
- How do the seasons of a year mirror the seasons of a life?
- 07 / Essays and social commentary
Earth is in an ecotone
Our collective crisis as a predictable, initiatory phase rather than proof that everything is broken, with parts work applied to a whole society.
- What would it mean for a whole culture to be in Self?
- Where does personal healing meet collective change?
- 08 / Colorado Ayurveda Conference, 2022
Bringing parts work into your practice
Why so much Ayurveda, astrology and yoga work turns into spiritual counselling, and how IFS-informed language helps practitioners meet clients’ parts with calm, confidence and curiosity.
- Where do a practitioner’s own protector parts show up in sessions?
- How do you hold a client’s crisis without trying to fix it?
- 09 / The Power of Sound
Your voice is the first medicine
In Ayurveda, sound and space arrive before time and light, so your own voice is the most basic healing instrument there is. A short low-toning practice can be led live on air.
- Why would sound come before light in the order of creation?
- What happens in the body when you tone, and why low rather than high?
- 10 / Multi Dimensional Essentials
Geometry is frozen music
From a single point to the line, the plane and volume; the Platonic solids; Fuller’s vector equilibrium; the torus of the heart’s field. Bold hypotheses, not dogma, ending somewhere practical: you are a field, and you can choose what you tune to.
- If space has a shape, what does that have to do with a human life?
- How do you stop syncing to everyone else’s frequency?
Past conversations / Listen in
The Energy Blueprint
The Limit of Physical Optimization: Psycho Spiritual Wellness Explained
Listen now ↗Harmonic Alignment
Destroying without Malice: Navigating Who You Are Becoming
Listen now ↗From the Ashes
All Models Are Wrong; Some Are Useful: Finding Ground When the Map No Longer Works
Listen now ↗Wellness Pro Podcast
Nature’s Healing Secrets: A Deep Dive into Indigenous Ayurveda
Listen now ↗Wildly Intentional
Navigating Life’s Transitions: Confronting Change and Embracing Authenticity
Listen now ↗Your show
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