EP 168 — Hanna Mehrabani and Sahba Sizdahkhani: Persian Health Secrets
Spirit Gym with Paul Chek
Paul Chek
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 143 minutes
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Summary
When you apply cremes, soaps or liquids on your body, do you think about where all of the ingredients came from?
Hanna Mehrabani and Sahba Sizdahkhani describe the nuts and bolts of creating skin care products derived from organic soils in this fragrant Living 4D conversation.
Stay tuned for a special musical performance by Sahba, that fuses jazz and improvisation with Persian Classical Music.
Learn more about Hanna and Sahba on Instagram here and here. Listen to Sahba’s music on his website.
For Living 4D listeners: Save 10 percent on any plant-based, skin and self-care products Hanna sells on her Seeb and Solace website by using the code LIVING4D at checkout.
Show Notes
- How Hanna transitioned from fracking for the oil and gas industry to formulating skin/animal care products. (9:45)
- Hanna chooses between fearing everything or having faith and slow breathing. (15:45)
- Sabha’s journey to become a musician with a Persian focus. (21:56)
- Sahba expresses musically the experience of using their self-care products with a santur. (33:36)
- “Anything we put in or on our bodies is essentially soil. Soil is our skin. Soil is our body.” (41:05)
- Your skin care regimen allows your body to breathe or suffocates it. (52:44)
- Sahba expresses organic soil musically. (1:09:09)
- Washing your hands too much? (1:14:10)
- Pregnant women eat frankincense (designed to be consumed) in Iran. (1:30:00)
- How much saffron is enough? (1:40:01)
- Incremental detox. (1:54:11)
- Love and respect your liver! (2:07:42)
- “Fifty percent of what I’m feeling is collective anxiety, and the rest is mine.” (2:12:28)
- Paul performs a song he created with Angie. (2:21:01)
Resources
- Paul’s Living 4D conversations with Dr. Monica Gagliano, Ari Honarvar, Dr. Zach Bush and Alicia Rose
- Chloramines and drinking water
- Mugwort
- The work of John Coltrane and Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When I left fracking basically I went back to Iran for five years in 2011 and through that place |
| 0:10.7 | through Iran I started traveling through Iran and Middle East and Africa and started scouring |
| 0:21.1 | for ancient farming practices where I could get my wild-crafted sacred |
| 0:30.1 | ingredients for what I had in mind for my formulations and that's when I started to realize that |
| 0:38.2 | anything that we put in our bodies and onto our bodies is essentially soil. Soil is our skin. Soil is our body. |
| 0:46.6 | Soil is an indication of how everything is operating within our system. |
| 0:51.8 | Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Check. |
| 0:55.0 | Today's guests are Hannah Maravani and Saba Siddakani |
| 1:00.0 | talking about Persian health secrets. |
| 1:03.0 | Hannah was born in war-torn Iran, |
| 1:06.0 | where the stress of constant bomb blasts |
| 1:08.0 | and the ever looming threat of dying |
| 1:10.0 | left her with a serious case of PTSD at a young age, as well as issues with her skin and other health problems. |
| 1:17.6 | Her parents emigrated to Canada where she got a degree in Earth Sciences and became a geologist working in the petrochemical industry until she |
| 1:26.2 | had an awakening. In today's episode, Hannah tells the incredible story of her journey from |
| 1:31.5 | PTSD through working in the fracking industry and |
| 1:34.8 | traumatizing the earth to ultimately realizing her love for Mother Earth. |
| 1:39.0 | Upon this awakening she found a deep desire to return to the land of her birth and explore |
| 1:44.7 | the more traditional aspects of soil husbandry, farming, and the use of fresh organic herbs and |
| 1:50.3 | spices to create ancient healing recipes. Her journey to around lasted several years before moving to New York |
| 1:58.0 | where she met her husband the businessman and musician Sabah Sedacani. |
| 2:02.0 | This meeting was to be the beginning of the next leg of |
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