raw: season 2
Featuring
Emeritus Professor Stephen Myers, Judy Jacka OAM, and natural health researchers and practitioners.
by Greta Puls.
The Nature Cure is a series of interviews with leaders, researchers, and practitioners, of natural healing therapies. The podcast features stories of early twentieth-century pioneers of the nature cure.
Stephen Myers –
The Nature Cure
episode 1
An effective homeopathic treatment for Plantar Wart led Emeritus Professor Stephen Myers to become an international leader in complementary medicine education and research. Stephen discusses the history of the nature cure.
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Written and hosted by Greta Puls
Design Aaron Puls
Audio engineering AJP Productions
Podcast website https://www.rawthepodcast.com/
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Judy Jacka is a pioneering figure in Naturopathy in Australia. Greta interviewed Judy in January 2019, by phone, from her home in Melbourne. Judy was still practising as a healer at the age of 80, at the time of this interview. Sadly, Judy passed away in March 2022, at age 83.
Vale Judy.
Judy Jacka OAM –
A life’s work
episode 2
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Written and hosted by Greta Puls
Design Aaron Puls
Audio engineering AJP Productions
Podcast website https://www.rawthepodcast.com/
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Magnetic
Island Retreat
episode 3
Greta meets Dorothea Snook’s youngest daughter, Maree, on her way to a yoga retreat based on Mrs Snook’s cleanse alkaline diet. How will a group of modern-day women fare with eight days of eating a strict diet of vegetable juices and fruit meals, from the 1930’s-era diet?
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Gut Instinct: Mrs Snook’s Diet – contains the full three-month alkaline diet featured on the retreat
Aishani Retreats by Shaktiprem
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Written and hosted by Greta Puls
Design Aaron Puls
Audio engineering AJP Productions
Podcast website https://www.rawthepodcast.com/
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Alistair McTaggart –
Magic Mushrooms
episode 4
Australia’s native magic mushrooms already play an important role in the global psilocybin medical industry, and mycologist Dr Alistair McTaggart thinks there may be some unique mind and health properties in Australia’s native magic mushrooms, yet to be explored.
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Written and hosted by Greta Puls
Design Aaron Puls
Audio engineering AJP Productions
Podcast website https://www.rawthepodcast.com/
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Sheila Wilson –
Hot hands
episode 5
Reflexologist, energy healer, and viral British reality TV star, 85-year-old Sheila Wilson discusses her life and energy healing work, growing up in wartime London, and interviewing the Beatles. Sheila and Greta talk about auras, love, and the soul.
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Written and hosted by Greta Puls
Design Aaron Puls
Audio engineering AJP Productions
Podcast website https://www.rawthepodcast.com/
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Alice Caporn –
The Nudist Naturopath
episode 6, part 1
Alice Caporn, PhD, born 1875, was an Australian nurse who settled in Boston, USA, in 1919, and became a leader of what was termed the ‘modern health sciences’ movement. A passionate advocate of sunshine therapy and nudism, she trained as a naturopath and osteopath in the US.
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Alice quotes from the Secret Garden in her writings. More info on: The Secret Garden & Christian Science
More about Alice: https://www.gretapuls.com/book-store
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Written and hosted by Greta Puls
Design Aaron Puls
Audio engineering AJP Productions
Podcast website https://www.rawthepodcast.com/
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Alice Caporn –
Town Hall address, 1939
episode 6, part 2
Greta meets Dorothea Snook’s youngest daughter, Maree, on her way to a yoga retreat based on Mrs Snook’s cleanse alkaline diet. How will a group of modern-day women fare with eight days of eating a strict diet of vegetable juices and fruit meals, from the 1930’s-era diet?
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Town Hall address published in Alice Caporn’s Modern Living Magazine: https://www.gretapuls.com/book-store/modern-living-magazine
More about Alice: https://www.gretapuls.com/book-store
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Written and hosted by Greta Puls
Design Aaron Puls
Audio engineering AJP Productions
Podcast website https://www.rawthepodcast.com/
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A science and technology writer, podcaster, and author of the book
Gut Instinct: Mrs Snook’s Diet