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Becca Piastrelli on Ancestral Pilgrimage & Cultivating True Belonging + A Conversation with Stinging Nettle [episode 144] Jul 02, 2019

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Becca Piastrelli is a writer, podcaster, womxn's coach and ancestral folk medicine keeper. Her work centers around the invitation for womxn and female identified people of all backgrounds to come home to themselves. Becca's podcast, Belonging, explores aspects of ancestral wisdom, cultivating meaningful sisterhood, and living with the seasons and cycles of the earth and your body. This is the second to last episode of Dream Freedom Beauty before we become something new!

In this episode, we talk about:

How Becca dreamed and manifested a pilgrimage to Ireland
Reweaving severed threads that stem from colonization and immigration
Being in right relationship with the land
The medicine of place
How to reframe the conquering of pagan culture as an opportunity to seek deeper ancestry and heritage
How history is passed down by the victor or through word of mouth
Intention setting as an integral piece to connecting with ancestors
The importance of asking clear questions
Plantcestors that came to Becca in Ireland
The spirit of stinging nettle shares it's wisdom and invites us to come and play

Links:

Get more information on the Dream Freedom Beauty Funeral here.
Learn more about Becca's offerings at www.beccapiastrelli.com
Connect with Becca on Instagram @beccapiastrelli
Connect with Becca on Facebook @beccapiastrellipage
Tune in to Becca's podcast, Belonging
If Women Rose Rooted Sharon Blackie
Sister Spinster's Folk Magic and Medicine of Old Europe

The Green Reaper Elizabeth Fournier Digs into Green Burials [episode 143] Jun 01, 2019

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Elizabeth Fournier, affectionately known as "The Green Reaper", is small town Funeral Director in Boring, Oregon. She is the owner and undertaker for Cornerstone Funeral Services, operating on a goat farm alongside her husband, daughter, and many rescue goats. Elizabeth's compassionate service intersects with environmental conservation in her book, "The Green Burial Guidebook," a step-by-step guide to burial practices that consider both the environmental well-being of the planet and the economic well-being of loved ones.

In this episode, we talk about:

What green burial is
How the funeral industry is currently using earth-toxic methods for burial
The legal zoning for green burial in all 50 states
Rebuilding ancestral land sites
Elizabeth's connection to Mt. Hood and surrounding land
Rekindling ancestral practice and personal relationships with the deceased
Living by the moon
How she gained interest and experience in the funeral industry
A sneak peek into Elizabeth's books, The Green Burial Guidebook, The Green Reaper, and All Men Are Cremated Equal

Links:

Learn more about Elizabeth and her books at www.thegreenreaper.org/
Connect with Elizabeth on Instagram @elizabethgreenreaper
Explore Elizabeth's funeral service offerings at www.cornerstonefuneral.com/
Tune in to Elizabeth's Portland-based radio show, "Until we meet again"
Check out Elizabeth's episode on For the Wild

Meg of The Eco-Institute on Healing the Human-Earth Connection [episode 142] May 13, 2019

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Meg Toben is an Earth Activist Mama based in Chapel Hill, NC. She is a co-creator of The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain, a sanctuary space for nature connection, renewal, and healing the human-earth relationship. Megan has twenty years of experience as an environmental educator, and ten years as an executive director. Her love for art, ritual, Earth, and humanity inspired her to offer a nature-inspired space to all who are working to heal our world.

In this episode, we dig into:

How The Eco-Institute was born
Becoming an activist against climate disruption
Megan's experience in Standing Rock
A celebration for the Huaorani people of Ecuador
Challenges in cultivating community
How you can't buy purpose and authenticity
How complicit we can be at the expense of planetary demise
What The Eco-Institute has to offer
A prayer and fasting ceremony in the wilderness
Asking questions and being guided to reconsider everything
Conducting a listening tour and a reimagining council
A definition of permaculture
Details of the permaculture immersion program
Cultivating connection through soul work and dismantling ego

Links:

Learn more about Megan and The Eco-Institute at https://eco-institute.org/
Connect with The Eco-Institute on Instagram @the.eco.institute
Connect with Rising Earth Immersion on Instagram @rising.earth.immersion
Connect with Megan on Instagram @megantoben
Connect with The Eco-Institute on Facebook @the.eco.institute
Join The Eco-Institute for Rising Earth: A Semester of Transformative Permaculture Immersion
To learn more about upcoming programs and workshops, view The Eco-Institute Program Calendar
Learn about a kindred program, youthpassageways.org

The Space Is The Medicine, a Message From Nature [episode 141] Apr 25, 2019

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Today Natalie Ross shares another message from nature, recorded in a grove of redwoods in the Santa Cruz mountains, a territory originally occupied by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band people.

Natalie first takes you into the forest with her, attuning your senses to the surroundings, and then speaks a message directly from the spirit of the space. Finally, she talks about how to integrate what was shared into your own life and practices.

If you enjoy this, we recommend listening to episode 136, where Natalie shared a direct message from some trees on a mountain top.

Links:

Browse and bid on the silent auction items at www.dreamfreedombeauty.com/auction
Connect with Natalie on Instagram at @DreamFreedomBeauty
Listen to episode 136, a direct message from trees
Write a review in iTunes and have a chance to get it shared on the podcast!

Best of DFB: Mushroom Whisperer Tradd Cotter on How Partnering with Fungi Can Help Solve the World [episode 8] Apr 12, 2019

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In this Best of DFB we dive into the archives for an episode that holds so much wisdom on how humans can partner with fungi to transform the world for the better. Get ready to get majorly inspired!

We're talking with mushroom whisperer Tradd Cotter of Mushroom Mountain. Tradd reveals how mushrooms and fungi are seemingly miraculous powerhouses that can solve some of the world's most pressing problems. We talk about how to understand the needs and wants of organisms that use non-verbal language, and Tradd shares how he is growing mushrooms in a way that more closely mimics their natural environment while using less energy than traditional cultivation techniques. In this episode you'll learn:

The difference between a mycelium and a mushroom - and why it matters
How we can work with fungi to reduce our waste as a society
How fungi can play a key role in providing food, clean water and protection from mosquito-borne diseases in war-torn areas or in the aftermath of a natural disaster
A couple of fun ways you can start partnering with fungi and mushrooms in your own backyard (using birds as stealth bombers)
How commitment, observation and constant learning provide a solid foundation for your intuition to guide you in your life's work

"Think like a mushroom." -Tradd Cotter

Links:

Learn more about Tradd and growing mushrooms at www.mushroommountain.com
Connect with Mushroom Mountain on Facebook.
Watch Tradd's videos about mushrooms on Youtube.
Learn more about what a spitzenkorper is here.
Learn how to make a spore print here.
Check out this photo of a "gladiator" match between fungi and a fire ant.

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Behind the Scenes of Dream Freedom Beauty, Liv Mokai and the Kontomble Interview Natalie [episode 140] Mar 28, 2019

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Microbiologist Siv Watkins on Microbes + Animism = Microanimism [episode 139] Mar 23, 2019

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Siv Watkins is a Ph.D. environmental microbiologist specializing in the examination of microorganism activity. Through her studies and spiritual work, Siv has become deeply rooted in the philosophy of animism (consciously relating to microbes, plants, and non-human species). Siv offers three related services: knowing and understanding microbes a.k.a. "the smalls", a scientific consultation on the study of the smalls, and mental health support in academia.

In this episode, we talk about:

What microanimism is
How plant life is self-sustainable
Developing a relationship with the non-human world
Respectfully introducing yourself to non-human organisms and microbes
How intuition is frowned upon in science
How everything begins with microbes
Challenging the idea that microbes and people cannot relate to one another
Working with Daniel Foor to develop ancestral work in relation to microanimism
Identifying what you are in service to in the world
The importance of cultivating curiosity
How academia is a business at the expense of discovery
Learning how to be present through work with horses
Siv's sacred geometry face tattoo talisman
Guiding people to connect with the smalls

Bonus! Siv discusses the process of cultivating microbes (including bacteria and mushrooms) and best practices for respectful interplay in this week's secret episode!

Links:

Learn more about Siv and microanimism at www.microanimism.com
Enjoy a scholarly discussion in Graham Harvey's book, Animism: Respecting the Human World
Siv's sacred geometry face tattoo co-created by Aries Rhysing All Sacred Tattoo in Denver, CO
Connect with Siv on Instagram @microanimism
Connect with Siv on Facebook @microanimism

Michelle Cassandra Johnson on Integrating Spirituality and Activism [episode 138] Mar 14, 2019

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Jobi of Sefari on [episode 137] Mar 07, 2019

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Best of DFB: Nikki Silvestri on Seeds of Connection, Integration and Discernment as Tools, and Welcoming Your Shadow Back Home [episode 102 ] Mar 01, 2019

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In this Best of DFB, we revisit Nikki Silvestri. Nikki is a new Mama and speaker with equal parts vulnerability and razor-sharp analysis. She is the Founder of Soil and Shadow and working to create system change while improving relationships between communities. In this conversation we get into:

Why our good ideas don't flourish because we don't know how to work well together
How your change-making work can reflect abundance and not scarcity
How the process of shadow work makes you face your own worst nightmares
How once your life has changed you realize there isn't that much to be afraid of
What it takes to ask yourself new questions
How the seed of shadow work is allowing opposites to exist simultaneously that seem irreconcilable
Why we are obsessed with reconciliation as a society
Why suffering is a part of life and how you have to accept it as such
Why connection is the seed of everything, and how it creates possibilities that didn't exist before
How boundaries enable you to do your own work
How to welcome the shadow parts of yourself back home
How shadow work makes you a better leader by allowing you to see all of yourself
Why we need to speak to people in a language they understand when approaching shadow work
How anything you are attracted to or repulsed by is your shadow at play
How you can find yourself in the projection of your shadow
Why learning to properly integrate shadow work is so important
Discernment is how to stay on the good side of shadow work
Why it's necessary to uncover limiting beliefs
How being a mother shows you where you are managing your experiencing vs just experiencing
Why you are not the extreme versions of yourself
How practicing whole traditions leads to wholeness

Links

CLOSED // Go deep on a 3-month journey into shadow work with Nikki Silvestri at http://www.nikkisilvestri.com/shadowlab // Applications close July 2, 2018
Connect with Nikki and her Soil and Shadow offerings through her website at http://www.nikkisilvestri.com/
Follow Nikki on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nikki_silvestri/

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