Connection is the Medicine
Welcome to the Connection Is The Medicine Podcast!
I am your host Eaden Shantay. In this podcast, I interview beautiful souls about connection to self, community, nature and Spirit. We are living at a time when disconnection is leading to great conflict and suffering across the globe. I believe that we can make the greatest positive impact through connection and especially connection to our deeper selves.
This podcast is a part of the Connection is the Medicine Foundation, offering programming at True Nature in Carbondale, CO and Loma Sagrada in Nosara, Costa Rica, dedicated to inspiration, connection and self discovery.
EADEN SHANTAY
Eaden grew up in a family with a deep love for arts, live music, architecture, and nature. His father was an award-winning property developer, his mother a modern dancer. Eaden’s upbringing, as well as his path of healing, greatly influenced his life and desire to create sanctuaries (True Nature Healing Arts, Colorado, USA and Loma Sagrada, Nosara, Costa Rica) for restoration and personal growth.
Eaden has been passionately seeking growth, community, and sacred space for over 30 years. He has a knack for bringing together talented people to support the evolution of his vision. He also loves sharing yoga philosophy, meditation, and conscious living classes and workshops.
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Thank you for listening,
EADEN SHANTAY
Co-Founder | Co-President at:
CONNECTION IS THE MEDICINE
www.connectionisthemedicine.com
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Co-Founder of:
TRUE NATURE + LOMA SAGRADA
Connection is the Medicine
Land Whisperer featuring Brook LeVan
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Brook LeVan – Confessions of a Reluctant Land Whisperer
A poignant and inspirational conversation that invites listeners to reconsider their relationship to land, food, spirit, and the unseen realms that sustain life.
In this episode of Connection is the Medicine Podcast, host Eaden Shantay welcomes Brook LeVan—artist, rancher, alchemist, biodynamic specialist, and co-founder of Sustainable Settings, a 240-acre biodynamic ranch at the base of Carbondale, Colorado’s majestic Mt. Sopris (known to the Ute people as Wemagooah).
Highly recommended for anyone interested in biodynamics, land stewardship, indigenous wisdom, permaculture, or the spiritual dimensions of regenerative agriculture.
Brook speaks about relationship—with self, land, spirit, and the living intelligence of the Earth. The conversation weaves personal stories, spiritual inquiry, and practical regenerative wisdom.
Core Themes
• Evocation and Right Relationship: The power of acknowledging, asking, and thanking the land—foundational practices for building a mutually beneficial dialogue rather than extraction.
• Biodynamics: Rooted in Rudolf Steiner and Enzo Nastati’s works. Working with subtle forces, alchemical preparations that truly feeds human evolution.
• Dowsing, Divination & Intention: Tools and practices for listening to the unseen forces of nature.
• The Ute Curse: The violent removal of the Ute people in the late 1800s and the lingering energetic imprint on the region.
• Decolonizing the Mind: Brook offers a critique of cultural conditioning and encourages direct, embodied exploration of the world.
• Western Material Realism: separating into parts versus dynamic wholeness.
Memorable Ideas:
• Life as a co-created dynamic living systems.
• The disconnection in modern industrial culture is “by design”—the remedy lies in non-linear ways of knowing and agrarian intimacy.
• The evolution of Biodynamic agriculture: exploring the work of Enzo Nastati.
Brook’s most recent offering: Where the Old Woman Cooks and Biodynamic Preparation Making)
Writing: Confessions of a Reluctant Land Whisperer – Poetic Wanderings into Other Realms through the Unknown Arts
Guest Links:
• Sustainable Settings: www.SustainableSettings.org
• Biodynamic Source: www.BiodynamicSource.org
• Biodynamic Botanicals: www.BiodynamicBotanicals.com
• Build Soil or Die: www.BuildSoilOrDie.com
• Only Sprayed Once: www.OnlySprayedOnce.com
Additional Links:
Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org)
https://rsarchive.org/
Enzo Nastati (biodynamics 2.0): https://arcadellavita.it/ & https://enzonastati.it
Enzo Nastati on YouTube searxh “ARCA DELLA VITA”
Goethe-Institut (English sections) www.goethe.de/en (search for Goethe)
Georges Braque (Cubism): https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/georges-braque-803