Elaine Germano educates and advocates for midwifery in the USA. — Want to become a midwife? http://www.midwife.org/ — Want to find a midwife? www.findamidwife.org

Louise Montello is a practicing psychoanalyst, music therapist, and award-winning author of Essential Music Intelligence. She has a workshop coming up in April at Kripalu: The Voice of Trauma: A Sound Approach to Healing the Wounds of Childhood Trauma.

We speak to Nurit Nardi about why she does not call herself a healer, and how she helps people to heal themselves. Besides her background in the performing arts, Nurit holds a Master of Arts in Transpersonal Psychology, and is a licensed Massage Therapist. She combines energy-based psychotherapy with somatic and diverse bodywork modalities.

“Herbal Medicine is People’s Medicine.” Herbalist Susun Weed explains the uses of several plants that grow wild in your lawn. We get a very brief history of the Wise Woman’s role in the history of human healing, and learn about slowing down enough to  listen to plants.

We talk with Dr. Carol Robin, DC, CCN, holistic healthcare practitioner, intuitive health and healing guide. Her focus is to empower people to be actively involved in their own healing process. She hosts of a series of web-seminars featuring a range of nationally known healers.

Barbara & Phil Mansfield tell us about their late son Killian, his big heart, and the foundation he created. The mission of the Killian Mansfield Foundation is to empower children with cancer and other serious illnesses through integrative health care dedicated to treating the whole child—mind, body and spirit.

Nora Saks & Sarah Pappas, interns at the Poughkeepsie Farm Project, share their love of good food and passion for food justice.

Cathy Stubbs, director of Everybody’s Yoga and Terry Ariano, an instructor there, talk about yoga as a healthy and accessible practice for everyone.

Elise Pittelman discusses her experience as a participant in and practitioner of The Journey.

Amy Shoko Brown talks about Healing Through Creativity