Bespoken Bones Podcast

Ancestors Song Dec 17, 2020

A message from Pavini about Bespoken Bones Dec 17, 2020

Episode 80: On feeling at home, loving, and letting go Nov 14, 2020

Sean Saifa Wall, a somatic practitioner and an intersex activist, speaks about dreaming, celebrating life and death, loving and letting go, and feeling at home.

Episode 79: The stigma of drug use and blackness Oct 25, 2020

Ifetayo Harvey, Founder of the POC Psychedelic Collective, speaks about drug use, slavery, vulnerability, depression, and the epidemic of untreated trauma that people are trying to address and self-medicate.

Episode 78: On oppression, justice, love, patience and what its like to receive the gift of music Oct 13, 2020

Dia Luna, a California native painter, songwriter, and seer, speaks about what it’s like to receive the gift of music, its process and how it brings people together.

Episode 77: The relationship between the body, the nervous system work and the ancestor work Sep 30, 2020

Clementine Morrigan, a writer, creator, and facilitator of the popular workshop Trauma-Informed Polyamory, speaks about spirituality, sexuality, love and relationship, and how it intersects with trauma.

Episode 76: The Practice of Slowing Down Sep 16, 2020

Tai Fenix Kulystin, a white, queer, fat, trans genderqueer coach dedicated to building better relationships, releasing trauma, and exploring spirituality, speaks about the erotic and the practice of slowing down.

Episode 75: Healing the ancestral wounds Aug 02, 2020

Oscar Pérez, a ritual leader, spiritual teacher, and mentor speaks about shamanic traditions, unintended grief and rage, and healing.

Episode 74: On eldership, ancestral work, blackness, and healing arts practice Jul 21, 2020

Naya Jones, a geographer, healing arts practitioner, and ritual artist, speaks about eldership, ancestral work, justice, and the healing arts.

Episode 73: Decolonizing Aliveness Jul 04, 2020

Sobey Wing, a multi-racial settler, President of Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Society, and Chair of the Cross Cultural Protocols Working Group of Youth Passageways organization, speaks about multi-racial identity, the rites of passage movement, decolonial love and what led him to his life towards various communities who shared a purpose

Episode 72: Using our bodies to liberate our bodies Jun 20, 2020

Laura Levinson, a movement artist and healer, speaks about the erotic, the ungovernability of pleasure and of our raucously alive bodies, death, and grief.

Episode 71: Dwelling in the mystery of not knowing Jun 05, 2020

Michelle Embree, a professional Tarot card reader and teacher, speaks about Tarot reading and the connection between storytelling and healing.

Episode 70: What is the meaning of life? May 22, 2020

Mars Gradiva, an ancient interstellar traveller, idea vessel and a professional enthusiast making queer liberatory astrology, tackles the meaning of life, the Zodiacs and the consequences of vulnerability and our safety.

Episode 69: Magic, art modelling, tokenism, cultural restraints and the activism around gender and sexuality May 08, 2020

Jezmina Von Thiele, a Romani and Sinti writer, dancer, art model, healer, academic, activist, and educator, speaks about taking back the power of her heritage by modelling and using it for a way to empower one’s self.

Episode 68: On weaving the threads of adornment, feminism, storytelling, archaeology, and blackness Apr 22, 2020

Ayana Omilade Flewellen, a Black Feminist, an archaeologist, a storyteller, and an artist, talks about archaeology and the enslavement and sexual exploitation of black women.

Episode 67: On the connection of grief work, erotic embodiment and the intersection of birth and sex work Apr 08, 2020

Katie Spataro, a full-spectrum doula, a somatic sex educator and a holistic pelvic care provider speaks about her healing practices, ancestral lineage, the intersections of birth work and sex work, and the intimate connection of grief and pleasure.

Episode 66: Playing with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a black feminist Mar 09, 2020

Ra Malika Imhotep, an open-hearted collaborator on a number of projects at the intersections of creative expression and Black liberation shares her experiences and talks about what it means to play with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a black feminist.

Episode 65: "This harm can be held in a circle and I can address the person who caused this harm with support.": On sexual trauma, restorative justice and empowerment. Feb 23, 2020

Marisa Taborga Byrne, a survivor of incest, shares her experience about the magic of healing from sexual trauma. She also speaks about holistic sexuality, the Global Sexual Healing Revolution and how restorative justice helped her heal the trauma.

Episode 64: Ancestral rites of passage with Darcy Ottey Jan 24, 2020

Darcy Ottey of Youth Passageways to how genuine rites of passage that allow young adults to "sit at the big kids table" once they make it through, as well as how to discern effective rites that welcome youth into adult community through offering identity, belonging and sense of purpose.

Episode 63: What happens after you are buried alive? Art, ancestors and black erotic power Jan 10, 2020

brontë velez goes deep: going underground, psychedelics, blackness, sex, remembering and demanding healing. What happens when you start with where you want to end and work your way back.

Episode 62: Doing the old time spirit work Dec 26, 2019

Artist and Medium Kook Teflon lives a life of connection with spirit. In this interview, she speaks on working in good ways with the spirit of Alcohol, dolls and living altars, & rewriting family stories.

Episode 61: We are all made of stars: Time travel ancestry Dec 12, 2019

Billed as "Your guide to the night sky and friendly neighborhood time traveler, queer elder Stargazer Li writes:

"Stargazing isn’t about feeling small in the face of such vastness. It’s about seeing and experiencing our story as part of the tapestry of a much bigger story. It’s about dancing with the spiraling currents of time, rather than trying to direct the flow. It’s about coming IN to our bodies and IN to the moment. It’s about vastly expanding our experience of NOW."

In this episode, we go deep into place magick, time travel, positions, and the alchemy of stardust.

Episode 59: Trans Day of Remembrance 2019 Nov 20, 2019

In this episode, Pavini ritually reads the names of the trans dead of violence in 2019.

Episode 58: Queer and Trans Ritual Magick as Living Art Nov 12, 2019

Ylva Radziszewski and Kiki Robinson of the Living Altar discuss ritual art as magical activism, queer self-initiation, and accessing ancestors (especially transcestors and queer ancestors) thru the trauma of Roma diaspora and assimilation.

Episode 57: "Our grief does not need healing. Our healing needs our grief." Oct 28, 2019

Shauna Janz of Sacred Grief riffs on the necessity of grief fluency and it can help you feel a sense of belonging.

Episode 56: Hunter's Moon with Murphy Robinson Oct 13, 2019

Murphy Robinson of Mountainsong Expeditions shares of her journey on the Appalachian trail led her from life-long vegetarian to practicing the ancestral skill of the sacred hunt.

Episode 55: "I want to be an ancestor who makes mistakes." On dying consciously, fierce activism and tender learning to the end. Jul 16, 2019

Activist and witch Colleen Cook speaks about her terminal cancer, her experiences with dying, sexuality and community. Colleen provides a gorgeous example of how to die as you live, and how to live as you die.

This is the season finale. Bespoken Bones returns Oct. 13, 2019.

Make sure to watch for our new show "The Well-Pleasured Podcast" an erotic liberation gameshow, launching September, 2019.

Episode 54: The gender revolution will be podcasted! Jul 05, 2019

Join Dr. Alex Iantaffi, gender radical, ancestral reverence practitioner and host of Gender Stories Podcast as we discuss liminality, the intersection of patriarchy and liberation, and praying through queer sex.

Episode 53: Your Earthly Queer Nature Belongs Here Jun 19, 2019

In this episode, So & Pinar of Queer Nature share about queer love and learning to belong through weaving webs of accountability with other beings and the land-based practice of cultivating resilience.

Intro music in Quechua by Renata Flores Rivera.

Episode 52: Creating art with ancestors Jun 03, 2019

What if we can work with ancestors to create art that inspires and liberates? Seth Eisen speaks about his approach that marries notions of community-driven, often overlooked history with an interdisciplinary performance celebrating the legacies of queer ancestors.

Episode 51: The erotic and the ancestors of liberation: Renewing our Activism May 19, 2019

In this episode, Starhawk discusses how to stay nourished in our fight for justice.

Episode 50: Connecting with your animal companions beyond the veil May 06, 2019

Animal communicator Claudia Hehr discusses the special relationship between animals and humans, how to connect with animal ancestors, and dealing with grief and loss of animal companions.

Episode 49: DId you eat your ancestors for breakfast? Microorganisms, your oldest lineage Apr 19, 2019

Environmental Microbiologist and ancestral animist Siv Watkins discusses the power of our relationships with the smalls, and solving ecological crisis through evolution.

Episode 48: Becoming an emotional grown-up: working with triggers, reactivity & ancestral wounds Apr 10, 2019

Mary Mueller Shutan discusses how to make your own life more easeful through personal skillfulness with emotions and reactivity.

Episode 47: Punk rock ancestors, queer creativity and being a gender-free godhead Mar 20, 2019

Lynn Breedlove, lead singer of queercore Tribe 8 and the Homobiles shares his secret punk sauce for making a place in the world for your weird self.

Episode 46: The intersection of race, sexual violence and healing Mar 10, 2019

Annika Leonard of Priceless Incite discusses the intersection of sexualized violence and racial trauma through a personal and professional lens, and her strong commitment to surviving and supporting others in healing.

Episode 45: Re-Membering our ancestral knowings with our plantcestors Feb 18, 2019

Layla Feghali of River Rose Apothecary speaks here of how to regather ancestral memory and access our embodied memory.

Episode 44: Race and racism in ancestral healing panel discussion Feb 03, 2019

In this episode, amazing tenders of culture and ancestral healing M'kali-Hashiki, Langston Kahn, and Taya Shere discuss how race and racism intersect with the work of ancestral healing.

Episode 43: On being Two-Spirit & Ancestor-honoring Dance Jan 20, 2019

Roger Kuhn is an enrolled member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and Chair of the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS). Here we discuss dance, the upcoming BAAITS Powwow on Feb. 2, and the connection between sex and Earth.

Episode 42: Tarot, Ancestors & brilliant Trans elders Jan 05, 2019

Tarotist, artist and prolific Author Rachel Pollack says "As soon as you allow the power of mystery, you go into another level of existence." In this episode, Rachel walks us through her scholarship of the tarot, and the intersections with ancestors, queer and trans elders, and allowing belief in the unseen to impact your life.

Episode 41: "In the context of my ancestors, I make sense." Norse mystery, song as prayer, and seidr initiation Dec 23, 2018

Maris Orelia of Living Voice Medicine sings, prays and trances in the Norse traditions of her ancestors. In this interview, she riffs on belonging, shares her ancient song medicine, and addresses the benefits of healing with ancestors.

Episode 40: The place for our wounding is the dirt under our feet: Disability justice, embodied activism and taking care of each other Dec 06, 2018

In this episode, artist, poet, writer and facilitator Naomi Ortiz speaks to the intersection of place, ancestors, activism embodiment and disability justice. Naomi is a Disabled, Mestiza (Latina/Indigenous/White), raised in Latinx culture, living in the U.S./Mexico borderlands.

For information on visit: www.NaomiOrtiz.com

Twitter: @ThinkFreestyle

Instagram: NaomiOrtizWriterArtist

Episode 39: Your trans ancestors and elders hold your activist tender heart Nov 20, 2018

Scholar and filmmaker Dr. Susan Stryker celebrates the continuum of trans history, and speaks to queering time through her relationships with both elders and ancestors in the trans community. This episode is in honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance.

Episode 38: Deadnaming and the Good Death movement Nov 07, 2018

In honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance (November 20) Bespoken Bones is showcasing Trans speakers and causes all month. In this episode, Anthony Easton discusses the act of deadnaming, and how the trans community might learn from the good death movement and vice-versa.

Episode 37: Decolonizing our ancestral body: Answering the ancestral call towards liberation Oct 23, 2018

Spirit worker, medicine maker, priest and activist Lou Florez (Awo Ifadunsin Sangobiyi) speaks to being in community and in being conversation with our ancestors as we embody their blessings while disrupting colonizer culture as it lives inside of us. Join us on Oct. 28 in San Francisco at the Modern Witches Confluence!

Episode 36: Radical education, revamping Catholicism, and Ancestral Eros Sep 26, 2018

Practitioner of wonder Lindsay Sudeikis exuberantly riffs on her former life as a nun, the biblical erotic, and what it is to be in love with life while holding a hard line against oppression. She basically smashes patriarchy with every word that falls from her mouth.

Episode 35: Communicating through trees: Healing trauma in community Sep 09, 2018

Dr. G Love aka Geryll Robinson discusses the value of communal ancestral practice and ritual to heal transgenerational trauma in community.

Episode 34: Queer Ancestral Sexual Healing Aug 27, 2018

In this episode, Nick Venegoni of the Queer Spirit podcast interviews me. We discuss the importance of desire and pleasure, and how it gets complicated in the presence of trauma. I riff on how to know if you’re not living your body, and getting comfortable being uncomfortable. Lastly, we explore the transmission of trans-generational trauma and its effects on the body and sexual well-being.

Episode 33: Embodied evolutionary history, ancestral movement and deep feeling and healing Aug 11, 2018

Ancestral Movement practitioner Simon Thakur discusses the evolutionary role of empathy, the adaptive qualities of disembodiment, and how moving like our ancestors can heal our grieving hearts.

Episode 32: Unspelling White Supremacy through Ancestral Storytelling Jul 27, 2018

UK storyteller and activist Elinor Predota discusses the importance of multiplicity of perspectives when learning the stories of our ancestors, who lived rich, multi-faceted lives. Storytelling can be a healing practice that allows the humanity and fullness of our ancestors to come into focus.

Episode 31: Learning boundaries with ancestors Jul 12, 2018

Bodyworker and ancestral healer Mika Banks speaks on how she had to learn boundaries to work effectively with the dead.

Episode 30: Breaking the spell of dis-belonging: on land, bones and ancestral boners Jun 28, 2018

Cultural geographer Christos Galanis speaks on ecosexuality as ancestral sexuality, and embodying the priniciples of sacred reciprocity, integrity and consent.

Episode 29: Plants, stones and bones: Ancestral healing allies from the natural world Jun 13, 2018

Plant and stone medicine healer Dori Midnight, speaks on ancestral and queer magic with the green bloods and rocks and crystals as allies in ancestral healing.

Episode 28: Where did they go? Finding the Queer and Trans Ancestors hiding in plain sight in our genealogy May 29, 2018

LGBTQ Historian and genealogist Stewart Blandon Traimon speaks on finding our ancestors who had special relationships with gender and sexuality in our family trees. Genealogy is an important parallel to ancestral reverence, and it's a special treat to dive in through a queer lens.

Episode 27: Mental health crisis as ancestral initiation May 15, 2018

Sangoma Gogo Ekhaya Esima of Sangoma Healing speaks on her initiation through mental health crisis and the importance of being humble on our knees before our ancestors.

Episode 26: Healing our relationship with Death Apr 30, 2018

Listen as death doula and ritualist Sarah Kerr of Soul Passages discusses how to prepare to be a good ancestor, have a good death, and face the truth that life is finite.

Episode 25: Astrology, Ancestors and the queerness of Uranus Apr 15, 2018

Archetypal Astrologer Rebecca Farrar speaks in plain English on ancestral connections within astrological birth charts, and the power of viewing your life through an astrological lens.

Episode 24: The past is present: Jung, ancestors and healing transgenerational sexual trauma Mar 31, 2018

Jungian therapist and author Dr. Sandra Easter discusses her work and book "Jung and the Ancestors Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web" on how we can heal generations of suffering by opening our hearts to feeling what is present in our lineages, our communities, and the land.

Episode 23: Art, queer ancestors and healing sex Mar 18, 2018

Listen as Artistic Director Seth Eisen discusses how art can bring queer ancestors OUT of the shadows and into the light in his new San Francisco collaboration OUT of SITE, and the multigenerational healing that can happen from diving deep into our queer history.

Episode 22: Queer mysteries and Leather ancestors Mar 01, 2018

Sexuality author and educator Lee Harrington of Passion and Soul speaks on the mighty queer dead, erotic ancestral practice, and kink and leather ancestral lineages.

Episode 21: Reclaiming the ancestral dreaming body Feb 15, 2018

Listen as embodied dream worker and ancestral lineage repair practitioner Seyta Selter of Innerlands speaks to the practices of dreaming with ancestors, and the healing power of erotic dreams.

Episode 20: The magic of being fat: looking through an ancestral lens Jan 31, 2018

Listen as Reverend Catharine Clarenbach of The Way of the River speaks on spirit in a fat body, connecting with ancestors through ancestral objects, and tending the unloved dead.

Episode 18: Shamanism, sexual wounds and healing Dec 31, 2017

Listen as shamanic healer and teacher Christina Pratt, host of the Why Shamanism Now podcast and founder of the Last Mask Center speaks on holistic sexuality, the spiritual consequences of sexual violation, and the retrieval of soul parts for the sake of erotic wellness.

Episode 17: To Love, Be Loved and Belong: Family Constellations for healing generational trauma Dec 18, 2017

Family Constellation facilitator Peter Touchard speaks on how revealing unseen, hidden exclusions and entanglements within family systems can lead to resolution.

Episode 16: Trauma as call to prayer Dec 04, 2017

Taya Shere waxes poetic on healing Jewish ancestral healing, participating in an embodied, holy life, and bliss as the prayer.

Episode 15: Language is a spell: Chinese medicine, encoded ancestral wisdom and ephemeral dreams Nov 18, 2017

Listen as acupuncturist and herbalist Erin Langley of Ancestral Acupuncture speaks truth on the intersection of ancestors and healing.

Episode 14: Ancestors and Italian Folk Magic Nov 02, 2017

Mallorie Vaudoise is a Brooklyn-based spiritualist of Italian descent. Listen as she speaks on the veneration of saints, the presence of ancestor worship in Catholicism, and adopting your very own soul, for the sake of receiving blessing.

Episode 013: "I can't help but do it." Oct 19, 2017

Artist Clement Hil Goldberg speaks to the urgency of creating revolutionary glittering ancestral art, both as a prayer to encode our embodied knowing, and for the sake of supporting and blessing our queer descendants.

Episode 012: Ancestors guide me to my purpose and passion Oct 05, 2017

New York City-based Shaman Langston Kahn speaks on how relating with ancestors can support the fullest expression of our Selves, and how we can work with the unseen in service to our greatest passions.

Episode 010: Choosing to heal your lineages Sep 07, 2017

Dr. Judith Rich is a pioneering teacher in the field of transformation and consciousness. Listen as she speaks on making the deliberate choice to heal our lineages, and dealing with the repercussions, positive and negative, of accepting our ancestors.

Episode 009: Plants are our ancestors Aug 17, 2017

Atava Garcia Swiecicki of Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk and Indigenous Medicine speaks on connecting with our indigenous medicine, developing relationships with plants that support the healing of transgenerational trauma and plants and the erotic.

Episode 008: Feeling pleasure and aliveness around sex Aug 10, 2017

Somatic Sex Educator Caffyn Jesse speaks on self-regulation of the nervous system, ancestral trauma renegotiation and deep somatic pleasure.

Episode 007: Dancing with intention: Aug 02, 2017

5 Rhythms teacher and activist Sylvie Minot speaks on creating embodied safety and the joyful body, the ancestral war that can exist inside of us and how dance helps us hold that, and how we can dance ourselves and our ancestors free.

Episode 006: Breathing with our Ancestors Jul 27, 2017

Renegade Sexual Mystic M'kali-Hashiki speaks on developing ancestral consciousness, and the integration of our erotic lives through breathwork practice.

Episode 005: Time travel, erotic states and trauma healing Jul 20, 2017

Dr. Jenny Wade, author of Transcendent Sex, speaks on how erotic states of being are altered states, and can be used to create change and healing.

Episode 004: Lipstick, Green Man and ancestor-supported creative process Jul 12, 2017

Artist Keith Hennessy speaks on how the ancestors move through him as he creates radical performance that challenges dominant culture.

Episode 003 : Accessing the Realm of the Ancestors Jul 05, 2017

Rashani Chandra Alexandre speaks on the role of ancestors in tantric Hinduism, and practicing ancestral consciousness.

Episode 001: Pathways for the Blessings Jun 24, 2017

Dr. Daniel Foor speaks on embodying the goodness of our older, bright well ancestors and how developing ancestral relationships can benefit our lives.

Episode 000: Welcome to Bespoken Bones! Jun 24, 2017

Introduction to the podcast, the host, and the ancestors!

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