Ep. 98 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Scorpio :: Slow and Deep is the Medicine

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3

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#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Scorpio :: Slow and Deep is the Medicine

It’s Scorpio season and we’re taking it slow this new moon and week of Halloween & Samhain. Today Venessa and Megan talk about how this Scorpio moon is calling us to deepen our intentions and dares us to find a place in our life experience where we can take it slow.

We share some of what we’ve been struggling with on a personal level, and the surprising remedies this moon has offered us. We discuss Scorpio’s influence on our 2nd chakra & reproductive organs, and how the medicine of Slowness facilitates deep healing & transformation in these areas (and assists other remedies such as our “hormone balancing” herbal allies and foods to work even better, or at all).

From Slow Food to Slow Making, this moon and season we are inviting you to literally carve out moments of stillness and savor the medicine. 

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Show Notes

• How we’re moving from extroverted time of spring and summer, into introverted slower time of fall

• The importance of building in down time

• Scorpio’s gifts of the medicine of Slowness

• We can choose one specific area where we’re going “too fast” or feels out of control, and bring the medicine of Scorpio 

• The natural feelings of apprehension and anxiety that can come when faced with releasing or letting go of old habits, beliefs, etc

• Megan’s highly extroverted weekend hangover and how she’s recovering

• The movement of energy down into root chakra, the power of breath for slow and deep medicine, release of stagnation for healing

• How syncing back into natural rhythm and flow allows for greater healing and the importance of carving out space for natural flow in this high paced world

• Megan’s medicinal balm this season: driving slow

• How hormonal remedies may not work if you don’t slow down and connect with yourself in a deeper way, and the 

• How symptoms and dis-ease is often an invitation: What is going on in there? What is out of alignment in my body and life experience? What is this imbalance or challenge related to? How we need to slow down to ask ourselves these questions.

• Slow Food and cooking: Getting down and deep with your food

• How Megan calls bullshit on the excuse “I don’t have time for that” and the other stories that hold us back 

• Ask yourself What do you want to savor? And start there!

• How Intentionality can open up portals to greater awareness and deeper experience

• The dangers of chronically high stress hormones like cortisol

• The ways Venessa and Megan are inviting the medicine of Slowness this week

• Megan’s Samhain Bathsalts : Epsom salt with basil, camphor, vetiver essential oils

• Herbal allies & food remedies mentioned: Vitex (Chaste berry tree), Fire Cider, Kitchari

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Ep. 97 How Working With Your Well Ancestors Can Support Healing & Change Your Life with Maris Bergrune

“Ancestral lineage healing is a potent process of healing and vitalization for your ancestral lineages, and by extension yourself.” ~ Maris Bergrune

Maris Bergrune is an ancestral lineage healing practitioner, Norse ritual animist, and ritual healer. She helps people become deeply well with their ancestors and access Northern European wisdom traditions and transformational ritual. 

Today, Maris and I are talking about ancestral lineage healing, what it is, how Maris got into this work, and why it’s critical to develop a connection to our “well ancestors” for reparation work within our line so we can know what it means to be resourced by our wise and well ancestors.

Maris shares how to get in touch with your helpful ancestors and build healthy connection with them to clarify your unique gifts and give you a sense of belonging in the world. We cover the difference between ancestral lineage work and soul history work, the importance of boundaries and protection in this work and how to breakthrough intuitive blocks when connecting to the Ancestors.

Musical clip at interlude: Ár Var Alda sung by Maris from her collection of Songs from Old Norse Eddic Poetry. You can find this one and more at www.livingvoicemedicine.com

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• What is Ancestral lineage healing and how does working with one’s ancestors work to support someone in the present? What can unfold?

• How Maris got into this work after 

• *You specialize in seiðr (pronounced say-ther) a Northern European trance-mediumship practice

• Why we need to be clear about connecting with our “well ancestors” and work within a well-boundaried system

• What it looks like to have a “rooted spiritual home”

• How the well Ancestral collective in our lines do the reparation work that leads to healing

• How to become well-resourced and connect to the gifts within each ancestral line

• What is a “well ancestor” and how do we get in touch with them.

• How Ancestral lineage healing helps one to connect with personal identity, gifts, and purpose

• How Ancestral healing work has changed Maris’ life and grounded her in this planet and purpose, after years of feeling like she didn’t belong

• How the wellness of ancestral line or lack thereof is having an impact on our current life experience

• How Maris felt “spiritually homeless” until getting in touch with her ancestors

• Spiritual seeking and avoiding cultural appropriation 

• How one can create a direct connection to Ancestors, even in cases of disconnection from a family lineage, such as in adoption, displacement, or other situations

• How the point is more about how we interact with the world on a daily basis - being connected and relational with the world than it is about creating rituals

• The difference between Ancestral lineage healing work and soul history work

• The concept of cosmic time, dimensions and how our ancestors are present in the present moment

• Specific practices and tools through Daniel Foor’s Ancestral Medicine book

• The importance of boundaries and protection in this work

• How to breakthrough intuitive blocks and how Maris works with clients to connect to their Ancestors

• Helpful and complementary practices to add to healing work, such as body work, nutritional changes, energetic healings, and more

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Website | Facebook | Soundcloud

Ancestral Healing Sessions

On-line Gather at the Well: Norse Ritual Animism

On-line Foundational Ritual Skills and Ancestral Healing

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Ancestral Medicine by Daniel Foor, PhD

Maris’ blog article on intuitive perception

The Egyptian Book of Gates tr. Erik Hornung

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Ep. 96 Metaphysical Anatomy: Releasing Trauma & Stress in the Body with Evette Rose

As an Author, Life Coach, Trauma Release Practitioner and Personal Development Teacher Evette Rose strives to support people in their healing journeys.  She is the founder of Metaphysical Anatomy and Rapid Growth Healing Technique. Evette is best known for her work in helping people resolve trauma from their past, and freeing them to live successful and fulfilling lives. Evette’s work is drawn from personal experience moving from a difficult past into a well-balanced life and career. She has traveled around the world twice and taught personal development seminars in more than 43 countries and helped thousands of people world wide. 

Evette learned many techniques to powerfully shift the trauma of abuse, until she hit a wall and stopped getting results. This is when she realized that trauma does not necessarily start in our life, there is ancestral, conception, womb and birth trauma that also has an impact on our emotional and mental state.

As a result of discovering her own healing ability along with what she learned over the years she completely changed her life. She felt inspired to share what she learned with those who were ready for big breakthroughs and transformation.

Her book Metaphysical Anatomy was written to support alternative practitioners as well as guide the general public to sharpen their skills, knowledge and self-help techniques. 

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Evette’s intention with Metaphysical Anatomy

• How her painful life experiences led to a path of healing, writing her book and creating techniques for releasing trauma

• Pain as a call to action

• How we’re avoiding that place of silence

• How trauma affects the body and disease, and the body’s innate intelligence in coping and dealing with trauma

• How we often associate shame with a natural release process and instincts, and how this is detrimental to our wellbeing

• The easiest first step when you feel triggered or stressed

• “Completing a trauma” and what’s happening in the body 

• The strong link between diet and mental imbalances

• How depression and feelings of suicide are often not 

• Evette’s #1 tool for addressing a traumatic event and trigger

• How we can change our neuronal pathways and change our brain

• How our brains are shaped by the patterns we experience

• We are expressions of our ancestors

• How to get started with Rapid Growth MAT Training

• How psychic abilities develop when we do this work

• How to unlock ourselves on a biological level

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Connect With Evette Rose

Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

Resources + Links Mentioned 

“My last suicide letter” - Evette’s personal video

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Ep. 95 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon In Aries :: Hitting the Reset Button, Healthy Confrontations, Sleep Hygiene

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3

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#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon In Aries :: Hitting the Reset Button, Healthy Confrontations, Sleep Hygiene

DISCLAIMER: The quality of my (Venessa’s) audio is subpar today because, well, sometimes technology decides not to cooperate! Apologies for the less-than-enjoyable listening experience, and we wish you a nourishing full moon <3

Happy Full Moon in Aries! Today Venessa and Megan are talking about the influences of this Aires moon that supports us in looking at where we’re putting too much emphasis on conflict and resistance (and things that give you a headache!), and pressing that reset button for healthier confrontations. We talk about the power of this time for shifting our vantage point and perspective for more acceptance and spaciousness. We discuss Aries’ influence on our head, sleep, and the importance of getting enough rest at this fiery junction. If you’re feeling elevated tension or burnout, prioritize that SLEEP! We share our fave ways of doing all of the above, and & offer some full moon reflection prompts to support you in this lunar cycle.

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Show Notes

• Where are we putting too much emphasis on conflict when we need to be “accepting” and shifting perspective/vantage point

• This Aries full moon will elevate tensions (headaches in many different senses), so pay attention to your body and give yourself needed rest...take a nap! It’s time for us to make sure we are getting enough sleep and rest

• Ways to optimize sleep, bed time rituals, brushing teeth/tongue/ taking care of teeth and mouth health; related to sleep and brain health

• Aries ruled by Mars = Cardinal energy - initiative energy; choose to start a healthy habit or break one that is no longer serving you; aka HIT THE REFRESH BUTTON

• FIRE - we all have that vital spark, life-force, but we need to take care of it! Replenish at night

• Physical/Organs connected to Aries: Head, teeth, tongue

• Good oral hygiene before bed; brain “washing” immune system “glymphatic system”

• Sleep support herbs + tips: chamomile, skullcap, hops, mugwort, Passionflower vine extract and valerian in evening (note: valerian needs 2-4 weeks of regular use to work optimally); magnesium tea (CALM magnesium in cup of warm water); essential oils - some may help w/sleep such as valerian or lavender

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Ep. 94 Digging For Root Causes Thru Functional Nutrition with Katie Hess

I had a pull to share this episode I had previously recorded with Katie Hess on her The Flowerlounge Podcast, with the Feed Your Wild audience. Katie and I discuss how my mom’s breast cancer inspired my devotion to food as medicine. We talk about ancestral nutrition + feeding your wild with some unique approaches to figuring out what to eat in today’s crazy food world + how to get healthier.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Functional Nutrition: from disease-centered model to person-centered model

• From Bandaid for symptoms vs. digging for root issues

• How Venessa’s mom’s cancer inspired her to devotion food as medicine

• Epigenetics + our power of shift + deactivate our genetic patterns

• Ancestral Nutrition + role of Akashic Records in healing methods

• Clearing the clutter as a first step to getting healthy

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Connect With Katie Hess + The Flowerlounge Podcast

Website | Instagram

Katie on Feed Your Wild Ep 44 The Transformative Power of Flower Essences with Katie Hess of LOTUSWEI

Night Blooming Cereus Elixir (flower essence)

Wildly Rooted Resources

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Ep. 92 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Libra :: Forging New Alliances With Your Body, Herbal Support for Veins

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3

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#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Libra :: Forging New Alliances With Your Body, Herbal Support for Veins

Happy New Moon in Libra! Today Venessa and Megan are talking about the influences of this Libra moon that supports us in forging new and loving alliances with your body for a melodious and compassionate partnership. We talk about the power of this sweet new moon in promoting reflection and intention-setting around relationships, collaboration, and self-nourishment. We discuss Libra’s influence on our veins, challenges with stagnation and flow, and our fave herbal support for varicose veins and cardiovascular movement. Finally we share our own personal body talk practices, & offer some new moon reflection prompts to support you in this lunar cycle.

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Show Notes

• Energy of Libra - Willing to fight for what is right and just - not just for the world, but for their bodies and selves. 

• Relationship to body and organs “self” as other, repairing relationships, see self in others - others as a mirror. 

• Now is a good time to start any new alliance, especially with your own body!

• Partnerships forged under this energy will be fair, poised, and truly melodious. 

• Sweet new moon in Libra, promoting reflection and intention-setting around relationships, collaboration, and self-nourishment. 

• Exploring feelings of betrayal by body, out of control, self-attacking

• Importance of Presence, tapping for re-centering

• Getting clear about what kind of environment you need to do this deep work

• Writing exercises & prompts for body love

• Using gravity forces to support your blood flow

• Herbs that can help with congestion and move flow such as angelica, garlic, yarrow, cinnamon, horse chestnut, ginger

• Creating new alliances with our bodies that feel compassionate, loving, and supportive - what would that look like? How would you talk to yourself?

• Questions to Inquire this New Moon:

  • How can I establish healthy boundaries around me and within my self from a place of love and compassion? What resources do you need to establish those? How can you set the stage and the ecology to do this work for this new moon?

  • What are the ways that i can make a commitment to myself and invite greater connection and intimacy with my body?

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Ep. 91 Liminal Dreaming :: Surfing the Edges of Consciousness with Jennifer Dumpert

If our reality - and hence our life experiences - are shaped by our perception and limitations of our imagination, then what can our dreams teach us about consciousness and our Selves?

In this episode, we’re talking with Jennifer Dumpert, a San Francisco-based writer, lecturer, and consciousness hacker to help us answer this question. She’s the author of the recently released Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep. Jennifer teaches the practice of Liminal Dreaming—surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dream states.

We discuss liminal dreaming as the doorway between waking and dream consciousness, how it differs from other kinds of dream & sleep states, and the healing benefits of liminal dreaming and yoga nidra being applied globally. We also talk about one of my favorite topics - imagination as a faculty of perception (and perhaps the most important one!) and what’s actually happening in the brain and body when we experience common collective experiences such as sleep paralysis, falling sensations and jerking, and “hallucinations.”

Jennifer also dives into oneirogens - what they are, how they work and how to use them, including herbs, sounds, smells, and technology we can use for enhancing dreams, divination, & healing. Jennifer is the founder of the Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of experimenting with mind. 

This was such a fun and fascinating interview, and I loved how Jennifer wove tons of practical tools and exercises into her book... That’s why I’m excited to announce that we’re doing an Instagram giveaway of Jennifer’s book Liminal Dreaming!

3 lucky winners will receive a free copy of her book - read below to find out how to enter (before it ends this week)!

:: BOOK GIVEAWAY! ::

We’re hosting a giveaway on Instagram through the Feed Your Wild podcast - your chance to win a free copy of Liminal Dreaming to 3 lucky winners.

Here's how to enter to win:

*Follow @wildlyrooted on Instagram

*Tag as many people as you want in separate comments, each tag will be an entry

*Sign up to Wildly Rooted Nourishment Notes Email List (click here) - if you're already signed up, simply follow and tag to enter

*You must be in the USA for shipping purposes - this is a domestic giveaway

*Giveaway ends this Wednesday 9/25, winners announced Thursday 9/26!

***CLICK HERE FOR MORE BOOK GIVEAWAY INFO***

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Jennifer got into dreamwork and why she’s focusing on “liminal dreaming”

• The difference between liminal dreaming and other dreams such as REM and lucid dreams

• Why hypnogogic and hypnopompic states are considered the spaces between and the doorway between waking and dream consciousness

• The various common collective experiences of these dream states, such as bodily jerks, whispering, hallucinations, sleep paralysis

• The similarities between liminal dreaming and the psychedelic mind-space, and how liminal dreaming can support people instead of taking psychedelics

• The healing benefits of liminal dreaming and yoga nidra, and examples of their use throughout the world

• What is actually happening in the brain during liminal dreaming states (hint: it’s chaotic J), and the different brain waves related to various phases of sleep such as theta, beta, alpha

• The best exercises and practices for surfing liminal dreaming and mental healing, creativity, and problem solving

• Imagination as a faculty of perception (and perhaps the most important one!)

• Whey senses like sight aren’t as reliable as they seem and how “we have to choose what to see”

• Exploring sleep paralysis and scary dream experiences as an opportunity to address and work with fear

• What are oneirogens, the various kinds of oneirogens used throughout the world (smells, sounds, herbs, technology), how they work and how to use them

• How you can join in on the fun with The Oneironauticum – Jennifer’s international dream group that works with oneirogens—any substance, practice, or experience that promotes or enhances dream states. Jennifer says it’s like a worldwide slumber party :)

• Supportive oneirogens for working with and healing trauma – such as one that the Xhosa people use to put one in touch with ancestors

• Oneirogens for getting in touch with inner peace: The scent Stargazer lily, rose

• Jennifer’s best hacks for remembering your dreams and how “attention is the magic sauce”

• How liminal dreamwork has impacted Jennifer’s life experience opening up her “liminal mind”

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Connect With Jennifer Dumpert

Website | Twitter | Facebook

Her book Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep

Resources + Links Mentioned 

Jennifer’s other website: http://urbandreamscape.com

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Wildly Rooted Resources

Get Wildly UNSTUCK: Mastering the Mindset of Health

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You’ll learn the top 5 things sabotaging your health goals and what to do about them (hint: it doesn't have to do with your willpower...) 

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To make a contribution, head to the Patreon page here.

If you would like to make a one-time contribution, you may use our personal PayPal Link here and offer any dollar amount you'd like : https://paypal.me/wildlyrooted  

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Ep. 90 The Art of Personal Mythmaking For Healing & Transformation with Janelle Hardy

Have you ever thought about working with your personal story and considering your story as a mythology? Janelle believes that we can heal and transform when we work with our personal mythologies instead of against them. Janelle supports creative, courageous, sensitive women + non-binary people in reclaiming their brilliance, vibrancy and strength via a transformation memoir-writing process called The Art of Personal Mythmaking.

A huge belief of mine is that we have the power to change our stories and that’s directly connected to our health and life experiences in our bodies. The work that Janelle does is navigating people through this personal memoir writing process that leads one through personal transformation.

Janelle also has her own podcast, The Personal Mythmaking Podcast, today she published my episode where we dive into a fairytale that I have loved since a little girl - The Little Mermaid!

Janelle shares her personal story and how she came to develop the Art of Personal Mythmaking process. Janelle discusses what she calls “the great forgetting” - the erasure of where one comes from and shares her exploration of family history of trauma, and discovering the multigenerational healing process through personal mythmaking. We also talk about the benefits of feeling stuck and powerful ways to move through flavors of resistance in all the ways it shows up.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• Janelle’s personal story

• The art of personal myth making

• Incorporating body, creativity, and fairytale

• Grieving the loss of family history, language, culture, and meaning - what Janelle calls “the great forgetting,” the erasure of where one comes from

• Janelle’s exploration of family history of trauma including addiction and abuse, and multigenerational healing processes

• The internal silencing that occurs from this trauma and patriarchal conditionings, and the dynamic of denying the embodied self

• Pain as a great motivator and how some of the ways that Janelle intuitively started seeking healing and shift were catalyzed by pain

• Why creative self expression and reconnecting with body are exceptionally important

• How language is critical in understanding our life experience and options for healing and understand the world

• What is the “art of personal mythmaking” and how it has the capacity to change the way we understand our life

• We can create our own mythology that is beautiful and shift the painful one 

• Our body as our only home and using our body as a physical ally

• The significance of ancient tales, fairy tales, and the value of their existence 

• You don’t have to work alone when you have the gifts of cultural heritage through story

• How to begin your own personal mythmaking and inviting your body into the healing process

• How we might have pulls and interests in things that are in our lineage or history despite not being in our current life experience

• The benefits of feeling stuck and powerful ways to move through flavors of resistance in all the ways it shows up (and the most common flavors of resistance!)

• The power of a memoir writing process

• The interesting difference that a study found between genders in aqcuiring new skills and perceived “readiness”

• How overwhelm is connected to a dysregulated nervous system

• How fiction is a wonderful way Janelle transports herself

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Connect With Janelle Hardy

Website | Instagram | Facebook

The Art of Personal Mythmaking - online course

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Resources + Links Mentioned 

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Jungian analyst, author and poet Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D

Somatic Experiencing Books - Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma* and In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness* by Peter Levine

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel by Wayne Johnston

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Ep. 89 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon In Pisces :: Feet, Flow, Fall, Feel: Stand Tall In Yourself This Harvest Moon

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3

This Episode's Theme...

#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Full Moon In Pisces :: Feet, Flow, Fall, Feel: Stand Tall In Yourself This Harvest Moon

We’re back! Venessa and Megan are happy to dive back into the depths of our beloved Moon Musings, kicking it off with this Harvest Full Moon in Pisces. The themes we cover of this episode and moon are all about staying rooted AND in flow, standing tall and in full alignment starting with our feet. We discuss the medicine of this transitional season and share tips on ways to support getting back into alignment and routines. We share our own personal updates, fall transition time practices, & offer some full moon reflection prompts to support you in this lunar cycle.

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Ep. 88 Woke Womb Work: Healing Generational Trauma & Reclaiming Yoni Power with The Brujas of Brooklyn

We’re speaking with Dr. Griselda Rodriguez-Solomon and Dr. Miguelina Rodriguez, aka The Brujas of Brooklyn. As Afro-Dominican identical twins, raised in Brooklyn, New York, they believe in the power of Spirit to cast spells that aid in collective healing. The Brujas of Brooklyn are healing generational traumas of gendered racism, which women of color often hold in our wombs, or Yonis. Their craft is therefore dedicated to womb-healing, or what they call Woke Womb Work. 

In this conversation, we talk about what bruja means to them and the reclamation of this word and way of being.  They share how they came into “Woke Womb Work” diving deep into the sacred realms of the Yoni and how it relates to socioeconomic and political events and forces.

The Brujas breakdown for us the disparities within reproductive justice, how intergenerational and transgenerational trauma impacts our genes and health today and how conscious work of healing unravels this injustice.

From bleeding, moon cycles, to Kundalini yoga to twerkshops, we're talking about the elements that go into their work and the practical magic that we can implement into our daily lives to empower us.

The Brujas share what they have gained from this work on a personal level, including the healings and gifts that have unfolded over the years through motherhood, dating and in their work in the classroom as professors.

Dr. Griselda Rodriguez-Solomon (Dr. G.) is a professor, doula and Kundalini yogi. She earned a PhD in Sociology with an emphasis on Gender Studies from Syracuse University. Dr. G. teaches courses throughout the City University of New York (CUNY) related to Racism and Birthing (In) Justice in the US. She is a published author and contributor for Hip Latina Magazine. The home-birth of her sun Talib changed her life forever.  

Dr. Miguelina Rodriguez is an unapologetic gentrification critic, author and Urban Studies professor at LaGuardia Community College. She holds a PhD in Urban Planning and Public Policy from Rutgers University. Her dissertation was an ethnographic study on the ways in which first and second-generation Dominican immigrants experience/make sense of gentrification in Washington Heights. Dr. Miguelina Rodriguez thanks her Saturn's Return for shaping her life as a Yoni priestess. Womb Wellness is her life's work.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How power shifts in their Saturn return pushed them deep into womb work and spiritual awakening

• What bruja means to them and the reclamation of Yoni power

• The demonization of brujas and witches, and how their work as social scientists inform their teachings, spiritual practices, and service

• What is an “Unfuckablewith” woman and how this relates to womb work and the power of a bruja

• The importance of daily practical magic

• Woke womb work: how they dove deep into the sacred realms of the womb and how it relates to socioeconomic and political events and forces

• The Brujas breakdown the disparities within reproductive justice and the roots of trauma in enslavement and patriarchal society

• How intergenerational and transgenerational trauma impacts our genes and health today and how conscious work of healing unravels this injustice

• What the Brujas do in their personal and daily lives to take care of their wombs, bodies, and maintain a sense of groundedness and balance

• How sometimes the most revolutionary thing you can do is take a sacred bath and nourish yourself and the power of trust in generational healing

• What to do when you feel alone in your healing journey and growth

• How practicing presence is one of the most important aspects of personal work and why it’s good not to get too caught up in ritual

• Burnout in the spiritual and healing world… it’s real.

• How they navigate the traps of growing a business in a capitalist world and stay rooted in intuition

• What connecting with your cycle, blood, and body can communicate and why the Brujas are passionate about connecting folks to their rhythms and bodies

• The Brujas walk us through what goes on in their womb workshops and community events, from Kundalini and meditation to Red Tents and “twerkshops” :)

• The Shame we carry in our bodies and how to release it

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Website | Instagram | Facebook

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Ep. 86 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Leo :: Leading with HEART & Broadcasting LOVE

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3

This Episode's Theme...

#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: New Moon In Leo :: Leading with HEAR & Broadcasting LOVE

Venessa and Megan dive into the themes of this New Moon in LEO: Leading with HEART, Broadcasting LOVE & physically supporting the heart + cardiovascular system. We share tips on how to support your heart and heart-brain vibes with herbs and foods. We cover the concept of shen, share our own personal practices and ahas around heartwork, & offer some new moon reflection prompts to support you in this lunar cycle.

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Ep. 84 The Magical Mundane, Plant Allies As Guides, & Personal Sovereignty with The Botanical Bruja Lola Venado

“Don’t overlook the simple act of introducing yourself and asking for blessings... the spirits and ancestors are always ready to hear us.. We just have to speak.” ~ Lola Venado

We’re speaking with Lola Venado, The Botanical Bruja™, a folk herbalist, energy worker, kitchen witch, writer, speaker, and community gatherer. Lola’s work and creation as The Botanical Bruja™ and her business Xantico House inspire us to live more fully in the present moment, remember our own medicine, and to take respite in the little things.. Remember that these connections to the mundane are just as magical and special as the grander things in life. 

In this conversation, Lola shares what led her to the creation of The Botanical Bruja™ and Xantico House, and why reclaiming this term bruja (“witch”) is an important part of honoring her lineage and medicine path.

She shares how a health crisis 5 years ago snapped her back into her plant path & magic roots, how Lola navigated a large Mexican family dynamic as a highly sensitive person, and the remarkable journey she is taking, stepping deep into trust and relationship with a plant ally and new land... and it all started from a dream she had one night.

Lola offers recommendations for people making big moves and feeling ungrounded in doing so, and how to establish connection with the land and cultivate a relationship with Magic in the mundane. Lola naturally demonstrates the power of plática - or creating space for discussion and connection around our daily lives so that we can share our stories... because when we can share and listen to stories, not only can healing occur, but it provides inspiration to pursue one’s own medicine path and sacred journey in life.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How time in the kitchen was a time of love connection and peace growing up, and how it was a sanctuary within her tumultuous relationship between Lola and her mother

• How Lola’s mom’s DIY preference for potions, products, and remedios over store-bought items had an impact on Lola’s creation of The Botanical Bruja and Xantico House

• Why Lola hates making the distinction between food and medicine

• How plants have always been in Lola’s life, why bruja is still not an acceptable term in her abuela’s eyes, and how she is honoring and reclaiming her mother’s legacy and lineage of this path and bloodline

• How chemical sensitivities and a health crisis led Lola to her plant medicine path, magical roots, and business

• How Lola navigated a large Mexican family dynamic as a highly sensitive person

• How the puzzle pieces begin to fall into place as you start to walk your path

• Lola’s take on the Energy of The Fool in the tarot - starting at zero, naive but open to possibility

• How this energy brought Lola to her most recent big move - which started with a dream and a connection to a plant

• Something that is really important to Lola in her work is preaching personal sovereignty, reconnecting us back to our innate wisdom

• Lola’s view on relationships, and how she sees beauty within all her relationships, even the shitty ones

• Takes us on a journey of her dream with ocotillo in the closet and the messages she followed

• Lola’s surprising discoveries about ocotillo and the connections to her main ancestral lands/ origin of her own maternal lineage in the desserts of Mexico as well as southern Arizona

• How the yaqui/yoeme tribe is the ancestral line of her ancestral maternal lineage located in Tucson where she now lives

• How following her curiosity and connection to plants has been answering the call

• Lola offers recommendations for people making big moves and feeling ungrounded

• Establishing connection with the land, creating ritual around introducing oneself to land, asking for blessings, getting intimate with the land and soil

• How to cultivate a relationship with Magic in the mundane based on reverence and connection

• The power of a plática and how you can expect a plática along with your remedy when working with Lola

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Connect With Lola Venado

Website | Instagram

Lola’s Podcast: http://www.branchandbonemedicine.show/

Resources + Links Mentioned 

The Flower in the Skull by Kathleen Alcalá

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Ep. 83 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Lunar Eclipse Full Moon in Capricorn :: It’s In Your Bones

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3

This Episode's Theme...

#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Lunar Eclipse Full Moon in Capricorn :: It’s In Your Bones

In this episode, Venessa and Megan dive into this lunar eclipse Full Moon in Capricorn: What are you made of? The truths carried in our bones, the skeletons in our closets, and breaking thru old systems by following your inner knowing & authority.

This full moon and eclipse season energy ushers us deep into our roots, and invites us to look at the stories we hold... What do you need in order for your body and spirit to release the old, and rebuild & restructure to support your inner authority? On a cellular level, what does your body need right now? We talk about the importance of systems and structures, how to look at our cravings as sign posts, and the beautiful medicine of pleasure activism.

We want to hear from you: Name 5 things that bring you pleasure! Let us know in the comments below!

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Ep. 82 Q & A :: Tending Your Fire, Acne Triggers, Gut Repair & Gut Instinct

Tune into our first full-on Q&A solo episode, answering questions from listeners like you. Today, I’m talking about the FIRE I’m feeling in the air and in the bellies of so many incredible folx, my highly satisfying first-timer experience at the exuberant Oregon Country Fair, and who is inspiring me lately.

I answer questions about acne triggers and what to consider, lots on the gut... including correlations between gut health and intuitive gut instinct, and how to repair the gut after extensive antibiotic use. I also share how to find trustworthy sources of information. 

If you enjoyed this Q+A episode and would like to see more, or have questions of your own, please let me know! Give us a shout out here or over on Instagram @wildlyrooted.

http://www.wildlyrooted.com/podcastconnect

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• My experience Oregon Country Fair!

• The power of chanting

• Share and spread your fire - to express yourself in the most honest authentic brave way you can

• Shout out to those beautiful artists, activists, souls that are doing their thing, unapologetically, inspired me

• Questions about my acne journey, specifically triggers for breaking me out (certain foods)

• The bathtub of toxicity example

• Is there any correlation between gut health and intuitive gut instinct?

• How to repair gut after extensive antibiotic use

• How to find trustworthy sources for information

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Resources + Links Mentioned 

Ayana Young, For the Wild http://forthewild.world/ 

Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda  https://jayalakshmiandananda.com/home 

Climbing PoeTree - Alixa Garcia & Naima Penniman

Ep 16 Meet the Wanderer, aka Your Vagus Nerve - Why You Should Care About the Largest Nerve In Your Body + How To Support Your Gut-Brain Connection!

Farming While Black: Restoring Sacred and Just Relationship with the Land & One Another with Leah Penniman

Feed Your Wild GUT program

Wildly Rooted Resources

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Ep. 81 Indigenous Right Relationship Building & Unspoken Truths Living Through Us with Pulxaneeks

Having just observed 4th of July, aka Independence Day in the US, this interview with Pulxaneeks (Pul-ha-neeks), founder of Heart to Heart Indigenous Relations Consultation is both timely and meaningful. Pulxaneeks’ work supporting us in remembering these kinds of connections, that we belong to Mother Earth, and what it means to be in right relationship with Mother Earth as well as with Indigenous people, is critical and important to highlight as it relates to all of these seemingly unrelated areas such as health.

In this interview, we explore her work in Indigenous Allyship Training, whole-hearted understanding of what it means to be in right relationship with Indigenous peoples & what right use of privilege is & how to cultivate it. We talk about the power of asking heart-based questions and how many of us are waking up to the displaced and unprocessed grief that many of us carry from our own lineages.

Pulxaneeks reminds us that we’ve each been colonized at some point in our lineage, and the long term impact of this on our life experience and relationships. She shares how this affects being in Right Relationship with Indigenous People  and what’s at the heart of cultural appropriation. This conversation extends far beyond this hour-long dialogue, starting with a deep intake process that allowed me to reflect on these issues within my own life experience, and continues to provoke questions and awareness long after. I hope it inspires helpful reflections for you!

Pulxaneeks (Pul-ha-neeks) is from the Eagle Clan of the Haysla First Nation located on the northwest coast of the place now called Canada.

Her path of being a group facilitator, program designer & event producer was sparked 19 years ago & has been applied in a wide diversity of ways throughout her life.

Her background includes cultural based youth outreach with First Nations youth who are considered ‘high risk’, Elder Care & Child Care.

Her passion for contributing to the future generations has made her a community oriented entrepreneur & visionary of next paradigm change. This has resulted in her most recent development called “Heart to Heart - Indigenous Relations Consultation”, which is based entirely on the unique understanding that has come from being exposed to both Indigenous & Settler decent cultures.

Pulxaneeks is a living, loving result of the coastal Indigenous village that raised her & all that survived in the lineage she was born to. She honours the Elders, Mentors and huge family whose love she is a living result of and the Ancestors whose strength and resilience is flowing through her veins.

Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Pulxaneeks’ work is rooted in her roots

• The enlightening intake process Pulxaneeks asks all those with whom she’ll work with, and the power of asking questions

• How grief showed up for me as I engaged Pulxaneeks’ questions related to my own ancestors

• How many of us are waking up to the displaced and unprocessed grief that many of us carry from our own lineages

• What does it mean to be “in right relationship” with indigenous peoples and the land

• Starting out with ancestry and intergenerational trauma and how not all cultures have a place to bring the grief and trauma, allowing it to impact everything

• Considering how we have ALL been colonized in some way within our own lineages, and looking at the trauma that our own ancestors have carried over generations

• Pulxaneeks’ belief that things will come up when it’s time and ready, and the importance of having silence 

• Her advice to those that are not connected to their lineage or where/whom they come from

• How the trauma that you are experiencing in your current life is related to your lineage’s trauma

• How to recognize privelege, what is right use of privlege and alleviating the shame of having it

• Whole-hearted understanding of what it means to be in right relationship with Indigenous peoples

• What’s at the heart of cultural appropriation

• Call out culture and the need for community 

• The importance of being willing to be called out and do the work

• Why having a basic understanding of trauma and conscious communication is critical when engaging in ancestry work and Indigenous relationship building

• Pulxaneeks’ personal story and the helpful practices and therapies that helped her with her own trauma

• Her advice to devote a time at least twice a month to become “timeless together” and to hear one another deeply and fully

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Website

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Ep. 80 #UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Total Solar Eclipse New Moon in Cancer :: Nurturing Body Talk

Welcome back to FYW #UNFILTERED Moon Musings with Venessa & Megan!

What are #UNFILTERED Moon Musings?

These #UNFILTERED episodes are a hybrid of moon musings + convo + QA answering your top questions about holistic health, nutrition, herbs, moon cycles, and earth-based medicine. Connecting to the moon cycles can be a powerful way to tap into your inner wild and wise self…

BUT we need YOUR help! Send us your questions and comments by clicking here, we can't wait to hang out with you <3

This Episode's Theme...

#UNFILTERED Moon Musings :: Total Solar Eclipse New Moon in Cancer :: Total Solar Eclipse New Moon in Cancer :: Nurturing Body Talk

In this episode, Venessa and Megan cover the healing themes of this total solar eclipse New Moon in Cancer: emotional wellness, focusing on solar plexus and heart chakras, and the power of internal dialogues and cultivating nurturing body talk practices.

This new moon and eclipse season energy provides an opportune time to plant the seeds of our body talk intentions and work with our bodies rather than against them. What are you saying to your body on the daily? What are the steps you need to take for a new and empowering conversation to take place? We also share updates on our personal lives during Cancer season including big moves, a week offgrid, and Megan’s llama drama.

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