FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home
FAR OUT chronicles the shared human experience of returning home to ourselves.
What does it mean to heal and follow life’s guidance?
How do we cultivate faith and connection?
What meaning do we find and give in the experiences of being human?
Always in a casual, humorous and real way, you’ll hear about Alasdair and Julie-Roxane’s ongoing journey, others’ stories as they navigate healing, meaning and connection in our current world & impactful conversations with guides and thought leaders that have dedicated their lives to the important work of restoring wholeness for ourselves and the world around us.
We’ll explore our human stories through the lens of ancient spiritual traditions, shamanism and archetypal work.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 67 minutes
- Episodes
- 226
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2023
FAR OUT #162 ~ What Are You In Service To?
Summary:
Listen and explore:
- What do we mean by God?
- The value of personality theory in sharing our gifts and empowering others to do the same
- Is there anything more rewarding than service to something …
FAR OUT #161 ~ We Got Covid...
Summary: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. In this spirit, we sit down to explore our recent experiences with the corona virus.
Listen and explore:
- Alasdair's and Julie-Roxane's experience ha…
FAR OUT #160 ~ It's Hard to Make Friends as Adults
Summary: While Alasdair is resting in bed, Julie-Roxane sits down with Kelly, our friend and co-founder of Wild Within, to talk about the challenges (and joys) of making friends as adults.
Listen and …
FAR OUT #159 ~ Leading Retreats in Guatemala in the Times of Omicron: A Recap
Summary: We sit down with Kelly, our friend and co-founder of Wild Within, to discuss the recent craziness and lessons learned after leading two powerful retreats on Lake Atitlan, in Guatemala during…
FAR OUT #158 ~ Ceremony Is How We Remember to Remember
Listen and explore:
- Ceremony as a technology
- Opening up sacred space
- Self-led ceremonies vs. inherited ceremonies: the important role lineage and tradition can play in the effectiveness of a ceremony
- The…
FAR OUT #157 ~ What About Rest?
Listen and explore:
- The masculine and feminine as it relates to rest and work
- The cultural differences in how we rest between Europeans and Americans
- Rest as a mindset
- Different ways we rest
- The ways we s…
FAR OUT #156 ~ Dancing with the Mystery: 2021 in Review
Featured image from a street mural near Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.
Listen and explore:
- Two important things we do for a successful annual review
- The difference between goals and intentions and when each i…
FAR OUT #155 ~ The Seat of the Soul is Where the Inner World and the Outer World Meet
Join us in the New Year for Feed the Fire Within, a series of 6 facilitated online gatherings in January in which we will connect with our bodies, our intentions, and each other through cacao, embodi…
FAR OUT #154 ~ Being with Family: Challenges, Rewards & Reflections
Listen and explore:
- Julie-Roxane visits her family in France after 2 years away
- Kairos, chronos and the different qualities of time
- The virtues of demanding work and why we love intensity
- Julie-Roxane se…
FAR OUT #153 ~ Making Mistakes: It's Not "If," It's "When"
Listen and explore:
- "Correct it" - Julie-Roxane's recent mistake
- The fears we have of "coming clean" with our mistakes and why the truth is often exactly the opposite
- Mistakes are how we learn how to th…
FAR OUT #152 - Learning From Our Plant Relatives
Listen and explore:
- What does it mean to be in right relationship with plants?
- The plants we are relating to these days
- The dose makes the poison
- Who is in control ---the plants or us?
- Did plants terrafor…
FAR OUT #151 ~ Health: Curing Symptoms vs. Restoring Wholeness
Listen and explore:
- How Alasdair is feeling today
- How we prioritize health in our financial decisions
- Trusting in the wisdom of the body
- Hiring and firing your health team
- The different dimensions of heal…
FAR OUT #150 ~ Leveling Up: The Nonlinear Path of Progress
Listen and explore:
- Our recent Kambo inoculation and how our work with Kambo has been unfolding
- What happened after Julie-Roxane decided to "take a break from the medicine"
- The joy, energy and liberatio…
FAR OUT #149 ~ Narwhals, Wilderness & 10 Years of Burning Man with Ian Q. Rowan
Listen and explore:
- Why Ian hasn't cut his beard for 10 years
- The origin of the unicorn
- Fascinating facts about Narwhals you will want to know
- Why Inuits rely on Narwhals for survival and how the oil ind…
FAR OUT #148 ~ Going Our Separate Ways
Listen and explore:
- Updates: Experiments with a keto diet and our first dedicated medicine space!
- Marriage is like a base camp from which we can climb our own peaks
- How relationships can cramp our abil…
FAR OUT #147 ~ Work is Love Made Visible
Photo is of Trout Creek running through the forest we are currently living in.
Listen and explore:
- Our upcoming international trips and events
- The turning point Alasdair and Julie-Roxane have recently …
FAR OUT #146 ~ Soul, Initiation & Changing the Name of the Podcast
Listen and explore:
- How the podcast got its name and why we feel we've outgrown it
- What it means to be FAR OUT
- The long term benefit of blogging or podcasting consistently
- The role wilderness plays in c…
FAR OUT #145 ~ The Path of Least Resistance
Listen and explore:
- Julie-Roxane is finally a green card holder!
- Aligning with Truth and the path of least resistance
- The error in mistaking the path of least resistance as passivity
- The error in mistaki…
FAR OUT #144 ~ The Problem with Surrounding Yourself with Like-Minded People
Listen and explore:
- The problems with surrounding yourself with like-minded people
- What happened when Alasdair surrounded himself with like-minded people
- Echo chambers, bubbles and why social media magn…
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FAR OUT #143 ~ We're Not Selling the Camper After All [Life Update]
Featured image is of us enjoying the view from Cloud's Rest during our Wild Within Yosemite retreat.
Listen and explore:
- Why we chose not to sell the camper right when someone wanted to buy it
- The unexp…