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Karina Aldredge of Sacred Elements on Creating Sacred Space In Your Home [episode 19] Jun 25, 2020

Show notes

Karina Aldredge shares with us the therapeutic experience of being with and tending to the plants, and her experience of being a vessel to receive and share messages from the Earth. You'll also hear about:

How there's never been a better time to make a Sacred Space in your home
The #handsontrees movement
How Karina's intuition has supported her as a Mother
What happened when nature moved into Karina's home

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
Learn to trust your intuition
Activate your Earth magic
Expand your healing & divination skills
Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
Embody & express your creative power & truths
Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members only forum (that's not on FB!).

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Karina Aldredge is a mother, a plant person, a writer, a teacher, a space holder, and the creator of Sacred Elements and the Sacred Elements Guidebook. She teaches how to thrive in a new way while connecting with nature daily from inside your home. Karina is widely known for her time lapse videos on TikTok, that reveal her house plants unfurling with the light. She also inspires people to connect with nature with the #handsontrees movement.

In our interview, Karina shares with us how her work Sacred Elements was born from a necessity, and a desire for moments of tranquility and connectedness. She speaks to the therapeutic experience of being with and tending to plants - and how her voice and expressions change, when she is speaking to the plants.

In this episode, we talk about:

The Sacred Elements Guidebook
How every motion a bee makes is intentional, and affecting us all
When we are healthy, happy and grounded in the present moment - we affect those around us
The Transformational experience of having our hands in the soil
How the idea for creating a Sacred Space was birthed from a necessity
Natural World Therapy
What happened when nature moved into Karina's home
How nature lights up our sensuality
Resetting like a clock with nature and ecotherapy
The unseen connections that we can experience anywhere, anytime
The power of putting hands on trees
Finding your sacred element
How there's never been a better time to make a Sacred Space in your home
Making shifts and changes as a collective
Holding space for both slowing down, and being self-motivated
What happened when Karina followed the call to start a Tik Tok account and share the messages of plants
Being a voice and a vessel for the Universe and nature
How Karina received the downloads to her questions
Nature is everywhere, and we are nature
Experiencing intuition as a full body exhale
How Karina's intuition has supported her as a Mother
Experiencing the world through our senses

Bonus Secret Episode! Karina Aldredge shares about how to care for houseplants - and she knows - she has over 200 of them, in this week's secret episode!

Links:

Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret
Get the Sacred Elements Guidebook
Learn more about Karina Aldredge's offerings // www.sacredelements.world/
Connect with Karina Aldredge's on Instagram @sacredelements // https://www.instagram.com/sacredelements/
Connect with Karina Aldredge on TikTok @sacredelements // https://www.tiktok.com/@sacredelements
Explore the Karina Aldredge's YouTube channel
Explore Karina Aldredge's Pinterest

References:

ASMR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASMR
Forest bathing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_therapy
Check out one of our favourite Tik Tok time lapses from Karina https://bit.ly/2AonStd
Karina's hashtags: #findingbeautyaroundmetoday and #handsontrees

Theme music is "It's Easier" by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and "Meeting Again" by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info/

Learn to trust your intuition and activate your Earth magic + sign up for our delightful newsletter at https://www.earthspeak.love

Follow Earth Speak on Instagram @earthspeak https://www.instagram.com/earthspeak

Herbalist Lauren Haynes on conscious business and co-creating your dreams with the land [episode 17] Jun 18, 2020

Show notes

Lauren Haynes of Wooden Spoon Herbs shares how she's grown her business and how a conscious business can support a community. You'll also hear about:

How Lauren manifested the home of her dreams - by speaking her dreams out loud
What happened when Lauren quit her waitressing job, and worked on Wooden Spoon Herbs full-time
Getting comfortable with spending money on your business
Knowing when and how to seek help in growing your business

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
Learn to trust your intuition
Activate your Earth magic
Expand your healing & divination skills
Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
Embody & express your creative power & truths
Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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Lauren Haynes is a Clinical herbalist, and the founder and mother to Wooden Spoon Herbs - a conduit between the plant realm and one's personal practice, offering guidance on the plant pilgrimage to all who seek it. Lauren is currently living in Georgia, where she runs her business from her cabin in the woods. Lauren sells herbal medicines on her online apothecary, which is relaunching with it's rebrand this June! Check out Lauren's stockists on her website.

In this interview we discuss how a foot injury helped Lauren to quit her waitressing job and take on Wooden Spoon Herbs full-time. We also chat about Lauren's evolution from a plant enthusiast to a business woman and the evolution of Wooden Spoon Herbs from a side hustle to Lauren's dream of providing medicine to thousands of people for years to come. We also get into the nitty gritty of knowing when and how to seek out help in growing your business.

In this episode, we talk about:

Loving the land we call home - whilst holding grief for Indigenous peoples, stories and places
How Lauren manifested the home of her dreams - by speaking her dreams out loud
Co-creating dreams with the land
Being rewarded by taking intuitive leaps of faith
How Lauren quit her waitressing job and took on Wooden Spoon Herbs full-time
How to tend to and nourish the lifeforce of your business
Offering your business the resources it needs to thrive
Why Lauren questioned - "Do I still have integrity if I'm not putting the herbs in the jar?"
Wooden Spoon Herbs as a matchmaker for plants and people
How growing a business can support a community
Cultivating a direction for you and your business
Asking for help and hiring a business coach
How to inspire love and care for your business - in the people that work for you
Lauren chats about resting hard and working hard
An exciting rebrand for Wooden Spoon Herbs
And more!

Bonus Secret Episode! Get the secret episode with Lauren Haynes on attuning to the energetic communications of plants, at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret.

Links:

Get the Body Speak: Intro to Somatic Therapy workshop at https://www.earthspeak.love/shopnow
Learn more about Lauren Haynes' offerings at woodenspoonherbs.com
Connect with Lauren Haynes on Instagram @woodenspoonherbs // https://www.instagram.com/woodenspoonherbs/
Connect with Lauren Haynes on Facebook @woodenspoonherbs
Follow Lauren on Pinterest at www.pinterest.com./wooden_spoon/
Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret

References:

Skullcap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutellaria
Sumac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhus_typhina
Sassafras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassafras
Blue Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_moon
Mother Earth News https://www.motherearthnews.com/
'Joy' a film about the life of Joy Mangano, the woman who invented the Miracle Mop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(2015_film)
Lauren's interview with Raw Milk Podcast https://bethkirby.com/passion-into-profit/
1% for the Planet https://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/
Patagonia https://www.patagonia.com/home/
United Plants Savers https://unitedplantsavers.org/
Amy Porterfield Podcast https://www.amyporterfield.com/amy-porterfield-podcast/
Gold Digger Podcast, Jenna Kutcher https://podcast.jennakutcher.com/
The Fourfold Path to Healing, Thomas Cowan https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Fourfold-Path-Healing-Therapeutics-Meditation/dp/0967089794/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_US=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=TBJA1XVJANZK&dchild=1&keywords=the+fourfold+path+to+healing&qid=1590217869&sprefix=the+fourfold+%2Caps%2C519&sr=8-1

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Theme music is "It's Easier" by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and "Meeting Again" by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info/

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Somatic Therapist Luis Mojica on healing energetic patterns of trauma [episode 17] Jun 11, 2020

Show notes

Luis Mojica shares how a practice of healing, centered in somatic therapy, can empower you to release a lifetime of pain, suffering and trauma held within your body. You'll also hear about:

Luis' experience of being born as intersex, with both male and female expressions
Music as a vehicle to the wisdom within
How memories of trauma, pain and suffering are held by the body

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
Learn to trust your intuition
Activate your Earth magic
Expand your healing & divination skills
Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
Embody & express your creative power & truths
Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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BODY SPEAK WORKSHOP: Intro To Somatic Therapy - Join Luis as he teaches a workshop on healing trauma held in your body. Learn more and sign up here: https://www.earthspeak.love/body-speak-workshop

Luis Mojica is a musician, Witch, and Holistic Therapist trained in nutrition, herbalism, psychology, and Somatic Experiencing. He draws upon his own experiences with trauma, and his many modalities within his business Holistic Life Navigation, to help others heal from trauma and connect to their truth. Luis is currently offering online group sessions and workshops. Sign up to his waiting list to work one on one!

In this episode Luis speaks to being born with both male and female expressions, and his experience of growing up intersex. We chat about his spontaneous transformation at the age of 16, and how he answered the call to create and then share his music - and his success in doing so. Luis also leads us through a practice of noticing and unpacking the differences between the threat response and intuition, and how this is experienced within the body.

In this episode, we talk about:

Memories, stories and patterns held by your body
Healing from the energetic patterns of trauma
Tending to the energetic expressions of your body
Luis' experience of growing up as intersex, with both male and female expressions
Luis' spontaneous transformation at the age of 16
Self healing through introspection, and music as a healing tool
How our intuitive wisdom is waiting for a chance to be expressed
Sensation as the language of the body
How the body is wise, the body is the Earth
Identifying as a person of the Earth
Experiencing direct connections with plants, elements and other beings
Creative projects as having their own life force, and desire to be shared
Luis' immediate success in music, and the story of how he began touring with the band Rasputina
How every sensation in the body begins with a conscious thought
Luis guides us on an inquiry of noticing the difference between a fear response and intuition
Why you don't need a trauma story, to be traumatised
The nervous system as a highway
How trauma held within your body is preventing you from witnessing your intuition
The most radical thing we can do for ourselves, is to find safety in our own bodies
Why a regular practice of ground and clearing - can help you find safety in your body when you need it most
Orienting to your now, instead of orienting to your fear and trauma
Creating sustainable confidence in yourself
And so much more!

Bonus Secret Episode! Luis Mojica and Natalie chat about humans as vessels and channels for thought forms and magic, on this week's secret episode!

Links:

BODY SPEAK WORKSHOP: Intro To Somatic Therapy - Join Luis as he teaches a workshop on healing trauma held in your body. Learn more and sign up here: https://www.earthspeak.love/body-speak-workshop
Learn more about Luis Mojica's offerings at www.holisticlifenavigation.com
Connect with Luis Mojica on Instagram @holistic.life.navigation // https://www.instagram.com/holistic.life.navigation/
Connect with Luis Mojica on Facebook @holisticlifenavigation
Explore Luis Mojica's YouTube channel

Music by Luis Mojica

Learn more about Luis Mojica's music at www.luismojica.com/
Connect with Luis Mojica Music on Instagram @luis.mojica.music // www.instagram.com/luis.mojica.music/
Connect with Luis Mojica Music on Facebook @luismojicamusic
Explore the Luis Mojica Music YouTube channel

References:

Take the workshop with Luis, Body Speak: An Intro To Somatic Therapy https://www.earthspeak.love/shopnow
Get the free anti-racism resource https://www.earthspeak.love/shopnow
Somatic therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatics
Peter Levine, founder of Somatic Experiencing https://somatic-experiencing-europe.org/
Joni Mitchell Doco https://apple.co/3dsLw68
Scott Cunningham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Cunningham
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs https://amz.run/3FpH
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner https://amz.run/3FpG
Check out Luis' successful Kickstarter campaign https://bit.ly/3gD94HK
Rasputina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputina_(band)
Byron Katie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Katie
Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
Trauma Healing https://traumahealing.org/

Theme music is "It's Easier" by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and "Meeting Again" by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info/

Learn to trust your intuition and activate your Earth magic + sign up for our delightful newsletter at https://www.earthspeak.love

Follow Earth Speak on Instagram @earthspeak https://www.instagram.com/earthspeak

How to Regain Trust in Your Intuition with Natalie Ross [episode 16] May 28, 2020

Show notes

Natalie Ross shares about discovering your intuition after a lifetime of being told it doesn't matter or exist. You'll also hear about:

How mushrooms inspired her to finally find her path after years of feeling lost and uncertain
Whether it's safe to trust your intuition and why trusting is hard for many of us
What to do if the people in your life don't "get it"

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
Learn to trust your intuition
Activate your Earth magic
Expand your healing & divination skills
Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
Embody & express your creative power & truths
Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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Earth Speak founder Natalie Ross was interviewed by Stephanie Briggs for a series called Your Earth Journey about her journey to live guided by her intuition. Enjoy this conversation!

In this interview, Natalie shares about:

Her lifelong affinity for plants
Healing from the effects of having young parents with their own baggage
How her outer reality as a child turned her attention to inwards
Dropping out of college 3 times & struggling through her entire twenties
How mushrooms inspired her to finally find her path after years of feeling lost and uncertain
Mycoremediation as a way to rehabilitate toxic ecosystems and soils
Getting a master's degree in soil science and still feeling like there's something more
How her first podcast, Dream Freedom Beauty, was born one hot summer's day
Hiding in the "broom closet" and not telling the people around her about her true interests
How society has a sickness of the spirit
The energetic language of intuition that doesn't speak in words and how to hear it
How your body is an energetic antennae
Intuition as a GPS that course corrects when you miss a turn
Speaking with plants and the nature of intuition
How to develop a relationship with your intuitive senses and come to trust them
Whether it's safe to trust your intuition and why trusting is hard for many of us
What to do if the people in your life don't "get it"
Why your intuitive guidance matters
How intuition is a pathway out of the dominant patriarchal society

Check out the secret episodes where your favorite podcast guests get weirder! Also find a guided journey led by Natalie to connect deeply with the spirit of the amanita muscaria mushroom at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret

Links:

Join our live weekly ritual calls in the Earth Speak Collective membership // https://www.earthspeak.love/collective
Follow Natalie's personal Instagram @knowyourenergy // https://www.instagram.com/knowyourenergy
Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret

References:

Connect with the rest of the "Your Earth Journey" series // https://www.embracingyourearthjourney.com/
Book: Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets // https://www.amazon.com/Mycelium-Running-Mushrooms-Help-World/
Book: The Secret Teachings of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner // https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Teachings-Plants-Intelligence-Perception/
Stephanie Benedetto Padovani // https://www.theawakenedbusiness.com/
Liv Mokai Wheeler and the Kontomble // https://www.ancestorbridge.com/

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Theme music is "It's Easier" by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and "Meeting Again" by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info/

Learn to trust your intuition and activate your Earth magic + sign up for our delightful newsletter at https://www.earthspeak.love

Follow Earth Speak on Instagram and tag us when you share @earthspeak https://www.instagram.com/earthspeak

Mushrooms Transform Your Reality with Dolly Hodgesmith + Leaving Mormonism [episode 15] May 21, 2020

Show notes

Dolly Hodgesmith shares about mushrooms as Earth's medicine for change and resurrection in both her life and the cultural consciousness. You'll also hear about:

Mushrooms as the gatekeeper to a new reality
How Dolly walked away from Mormonism and remembered herself
Healing and transforming with energetic medicines

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
Learn to trust your intuition
Activate your Earth magic
Expand your healing & divination skills
Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
Embody & express your creative power & truths
Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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In this week's episode we chat to Dolly Hodgesmith, from Medicine For a New World - where we discuss all things fungi and foraging. We speak to the power of using and connecting with energetic medicines, and you can find some of the essences that we chat about (including Amanita muscaria essence!), on Dolly's beautiful blog and online shop Polly Compost.

Dolly Hodgesmith is a mother, energetic medicine maker, fungi enthusiast, wildcrafter, workshop host, avid composter, and gardener. In this episode, Dolly speaks to the pivotal moments in her life that were guided by the mushrooms, and led her to relocate from the suburbs, to the woods of California with her Microbiologist husband, and two children.

In this episode, we talk about:

Dolly's website where she sells flower and mushroom essences
Connecting with the spirit of fungi
How Dolly walked away from Mormonism and remembered herself
Healing and transforming with energetic medicines
Dolly shares that "whenever I see mushrooms I feel like I'm on my path"
Saying yes to intuition and following the messages held within dreams
Winning the "cosmic lottery" and taking a leap of faith
The Back to the Land Movement, as ancestral remembering and ancestral healing
Mushrooms as the gatekeeper to a new reality
Foraging respectfully
Working with Reishi for anxiety and depression
Food as medicine, and why all edible mushrooms are medicine
Simple and fun ways to get familiar with fungi at home
The delights of composting
And more!

Bonus Secret Episode! Make sure to get the secret episode with Dolly Hodgesmith, on how healing comes through deep connection (guided by fungi), both for humans and the Earth at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret. Plus, when you sign up for secret episodes, you get the Plant Speak mini-course on how to grow relationships with Earth and nature spirits for support and guidance in your everyday life.

Links:

Learn more about Dolly Hodgesmith // https://pollycompost.com/
Connect with Dolly Hodgesmith's on Instagram @medicineforanewworld // https://www.instagram.com/medicineforanewworld/

References:

The Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel

Amanita Muscaria

Amanita Velosa

Terence Mckenna: The Stoned Ape Theory

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Theme music is "It's Easier" by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and "Meeting Again" by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info/

Learn to trust your intuition and activate your Earth magic + sign up for our delightful newsletter at https://www.earthspeak.love

► Follow Earth Speak on Instagram @earthspeak // https://www.instagram.com/earthspeak

Remembering Your Wholeness Through Loss with Michelle Cassandra Johnson [episode 14] May 14, 2020

Show notes

Michelle Cassandra Johnson shares about how grief has shaped her life and helped awaken her intuitive abilities. You'll also hear about:

Sensing the spirit and the energy of the wind
Why people forget their inherent wholeness
Signs that ancestors are near
How bypassing arises from trying to use logic to understand something that's energetic

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
Learn to trust your intuition
Activate your Earth magic
Expand your healing & divination skills
Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
Embody & express your creative power & truths
Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an activist, author, social justice warrior, intuitive healer and yogi. She travels around the country offering dismantling racism courses and Skill in Action: Yoga and Justice courses in communities, yoga studios, organizations, corporations and beyond.

In this episode, we talk about:

How sensing her friend's spirit after he passed helped awaken her intuition
Grief and healing from a head injury as a gateway to hearing the Earth speak
Loss as a gateway for opening to something new
Embracing seeming opposites to integrate duality (ie - right/wrong, good/bad, life/death, etc.)
Why people forget their inherent wholeness
Michelle's take on cosmic alien connections
What's underneath people's desire to leave the planet
Attuning and anchoring higher knowing onto the Earth plane
Why groundedness is necessary for responding to the suffering on Earth
Michelle's relationship with the spirit world - and how she connects with the other side
Being open to helping people transition through death
Sensing the living energy of the wind
Listening to messages from the birds and other animals
Being guided by a deer about where to plant a memorial tree
Signs and numbers that ancestors are near
Receiving messages from spirit through dreams with the support of mugwort
The divine timing of spirit
Being with the discomfort of not being able to make meaning of something like COVID19
How bypassing arises from trying to use logic to understand something that's energetic
Deciphering between healthy meaning making vs emotional or spiritual bypassing
The harmful narratives being spread about COVID19
Exploring how grief is connected to liberation

Bonus Secret Episode! Michelle Cassandra Johnson guides you on two meditations: one where you'll receive support from your well ancestors who have faced times of uncertainty and another one to connect with your spirit helpers and get grounded and centered at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret.

Links:

Learn more about Michelle's offerings // www.michellecjohnson.com
Connect with Michelle on Instagram @skillinaction, https://www.instagram.com/skillinaction/, and @mysticcassandra, https://www.instagram.com/mysticcassandra/
Connect with & Support Michelle on Patreon // https://www.patreon.com/skillinaction
Watch the Healing In Community Online Summit and Grief & COVID19 interviews on Michelle's YouTube // https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5CUvq0sI9c19l5kDKZecJQ/playlists
Michelle's project Race and Resilience // https://www.raceandresilience.com/
Share what is your biggest challenge or struggle around finding and expressing your voice // https://www.earthspeak.love/voice

References:

Healing In Community Online Retreat // https://www.michellecjohnson.com/hic-retreat
Listen to Michelle's other interviews on the show (also find these in your podcast feed, just scroll down or search for them):
- Episode 104: https://www.dreamfreedombeauty.com/michelle-johnson-on-collective-grief-merging-yoga-and-social-justice-and-dismantling-racism-with-breath-episode-104/
- Episode 138: https://www.dreamfreedombeauty.com/michelle-cassandra-johnson-on-integrating-spirituality-and-activism-episode-138/

Theme music is "It's Easier" by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and "Meeting Again" by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info/

Learn to trust your intuition and activate your Earth magic + sign up for our magical newsletter at https://www.earthspeak.love

Follow Earth Speak on Instagram @earthspeak https://www.instagram.com/earthspeak

Finding Your Creative Voice Through Clay with Mariana Mae [episode 13] May 07, 2020

Show notes

Mariana Mae shares about sitting at the feet of indigenous elder women who create with clay around the world. You'll also hear about:

Overcoming attachment to outcomes as a conscious creator
Walking softly with beauty as a way of life
Overcoming shyness and finding your voice through creative expression

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
Learn to trust your intuition
Activate your Earth magic
Expand your healing & divination skills
Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
Embody & express your creative power & truths
Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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Mariana Mae is an artist and visionary native to Coyoacan, DF, Mexico. Mariana offers her work under the wingspan of Easy To Breathe, locally in the Valley of Ojai, California. Since 2015, she's shared her clay work, cultural, educational offerings and series of women's workshops and ceremonial gatherings intimately and globally. Mariana's work is anchored in the heart of expression, empowerment, ethnicity and ethics in our own creative understanding and acceptance of Self.

I think you'll love Mariana's way of gentleness, softness, and beauty in the world as she does big work in a radically different way than the mainstream.

In this episode, we talk about:

Discerning between the external noise and your internal truth
The medicine of culture shock from moving internationally as a kid
Overcoming shyness and finding your voice through creative expression
How Mariana first found the magic of clay at age 7
Receiving the messages of the earth through the elements
Mariana's creative process & overcoming attachment to outcomes
Co-creating with the divine, soil, fire, water, and air to create art and usable vessels of pottery
Growing up in a Catholic household and then leaving religion
Going back to the womb of the mother, listening to the elements, and being guided by elders in temazcal (sweatlodge)
Walking softly with beauty as a way of life
How her project documenting indigenous women and traditions around the world was born
Harvesting and processing clay in the traditional way in Morocco with an elder woman
How trusting her gut prepared her to document an unexpected indigenous potter in the Amazon
The reality of privilege in the western world
Finding stillness and re-evaluating what matters during this pandemic time
What's going to happen after this, from the work that you're doing now?
The responsibility of being obedient, even as a rebel soul
Being servants and supporters of each other and the earth
Communicating across languages using the sounds of how clay speaks

Bonus Secret Episode! Mariana Mae on the birth of her pottery business, Easy To Breathe, and how it evolved from a side-gig in a garage to a full time thing at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret.

Links:

Learn more about Mariana's offerings and shop her clay creations at www.easytobreathe.com
Mariana on Instagram @easytobreathe // https://www.instagram.com/easytobreathe
Mariana's documentary project // www.sermujer.co
Share your biggest challenge around finding and expressing your voice // https://www.earthspeak.love/voice

Our theme music is "It's Easier" by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org and "Meeting Again" by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info.

Learn to trust your intuition and activate your Earth magic + sign up for our delightful newsletter at https://www.earthspeak.love

Follow Earth Speak on Instagram @earthspeak, and tag us when you share your favorite episodes! https://www.instagram.com/earthspeak

How To Speak With Earth & Nature Spirits feat. Natalie Ross [episode 12] Apr 30, 2020

Show notes

Natalie Ross shares about why trusting your intuition is a crucial key to cultivating a rich relationship with Earth and nature spirits.

You'll also hear about:

How to strengthen your analytical mind's belief in your intuition
Why body awareness is a powerful place to begin your intuitive journey
Learning to recognize the energetic signatures of nature spirits and better hear messages from trees

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Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

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Earth Speak founder, Natalie Ross, opens a sacred space with an invocation and then shares about what it means to speak with the earth and how you can do it, too. Enjoy the messages and energy of this episode, as it was recorded in a redwood forest on top of a mountain.

In this episode Natalie shares about:

How to better hear messages from trees
What it means to "speak the earth"
Invoking the spirits and beings you want to connect with
Interpreting intuition as a nonverbal language in your body
Why trusting your intuition is a crucial key to hearing the earth speaking
Specific examples of how you are nature, and your body is the earth
Why body awareness is a powerful place to begin your intuitive journey
The ancestral emotional and intuitive evolution you can draw upon
Clearing & healing energetic blocks to intuitive awareness
Acknowledging how society invalidates humans as spiritual beings
Tapping into the eternal flow of support
How you can speak with the earth
Tracking what you're noticing in your awareness
Why asking questions is a powerful spiritual practice
Learning to recognize the energetic signatures of nature spirits
Different channels of psychic perception
Cultivating a rich relationship with spirit guides and nature spirits
How to strengthen your analytical mind's belief in your intuition

Bonus Secret Episode! Take a guided journey to meet and get messages from the spirit of the amanita muscaria mushroom in this week's secret episode! Plus, when you sign up for secret episodes, you get the Plant Speak mini course on how to connect directly to and grow relationships with Earth and nature spirits for support and guidance in your everyday life.

Links:

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Theme music is "It's Easier" by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and "Meeting Again" by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info/

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Healing Period Pain With Herbal Smoke Blends Inspired By Ancestors with Herbalist Raven Rose [episode 11] Apr 23, 2020

Show notes

Raven Rose shares about connecting to plants and ancestors through dreamwork, plus:

Learning how to read tarot with the support of ancestors & dreams
Womb massage to release stuck energy
Raven's first ceremonial Kambo experience

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Expand your healing & divination skills
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Embody & express your creative power & truths
Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

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Raven is a menstrual health herbalist and medicine woman who helps people restore menstrual and womb health with herbs, traditional medicines, and ancestral lineage healing. Since overcoming her battle with endometriosis, Raven now offers Kambo ceremonies and herbal consults focused on weaving the connection between spiritual journeying and womb wellness.

In this episode, we talk about:

Invoking the spirit of Cedar
Connecting to your ancestral lineage through plant spirit medicine
Raven's personal story living with and healing endometriosis
Getting quiet enough to listen receive plant wisdom
Raven's Tarot card pull for this conversation: Son of Wands and Five of Swords
How to repel the weapons of fear mongers and restore your own fire energy
Asking yourself, "Is this stream of consciousness benefitting me?"
Tasting Jamaican soursop for the first time
Praying over an herbal smoking blend
Connecting to plants and ancestors through dreamwork
Listening from the heart space
Working with imphepho, a South African herb
Raven's homemade smoking blend recipe to call in ancestors (wild lettuce, lavender, and indigo lion's tail)
Developing a direct connection with the symbology of the tarot through dreamwork
Putting herbs under your pillow to receive messages
Raven's dream that led her to encounter a medicine man and her first ceremonial Kambo experience
Reintegrating back into city life after an intense healing journey
Womb massage to release stuck energy
An easy way to sense where energy is stuck in your body or ancestral lineage
A body oil massage recipe using aspen, pedicularis, monarda, and mugwort
How Raven used the power of dreamwork to triumph over her sexual trauma and endometriosis
Dream journaling advice to track your process and patterning
Herbs for dreamwork: mugwort, bacopa (Brahmi), tulsi, sinapis leptus curti, silene capensis
How Raven connects the dots between body ailments and ancestral trauma
Playing music and weaving as reciprocity for ancestors

Bonus Secret Episode! Raven talks about how she received the vision to pursue her spiritual business full time in this week's secret episode!

Links:

Learn more about Raven's offerings at https://moonmedicine.co
Connect with Raven on Instagram @moonmedicines
Connect with Raven on Facebook @moonmedicines
Learn about Raven's Ancestral Ritual and/or Womb Work
Book a Discovery call for Raven's Herbal Consultation or Kambo Ceremony
Reduce your period pain in 3 cycles with https://www.theendoguide.com/

References:

Raven's Herb Schools Artemisia and Rue and Voyage Botanica

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Learning to Trust Yourself + Herbal Bakes with Spencre McGowan [episode 10] Apr 16, 2020

Show notes

Spencre McGowan @gingertoothandtwine on how a trip to her ancestral lands of Sweden awakened her true love for baking and incorporating flowers and herbs into her bakes. You'll also hear about:

Deciphering intuition vs. anxious thoughts
The surprising bright side of FOMO
Getting to know houseplants as you would a friend or lover

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Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
Learn to trust your intuition
Activate your Earth magic
Expand your healing & divination skills
Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
Embody & express your creative power & truths
Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

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We are stoked to welcome herbalist, cook, writer, and founder of Gingertooth & Twine, Spencre McGowan!

Spencre works closely with medicinal plants and food to create nourishing meals that bridge the gap between healing foods and traditional western herbalism. If you're a kitchen witch or foodie, you'll love her most recent book, Blotto Botany: a Lesson in Healing Cordials and Plant Magic.

In this episode Spencre shares about how to live with crippling anxiety and still be a boss babe. We'll also discuss how plants can communicate with us as a form of support.

We also talk about: