Open hearted conversations with friends, practitioners, teachers, chosen family, guides and others; generously digging into the messiness of our humanity while highlighting our grounding, healing, thriving practices. RRA does not fit into a single box, it is an ever-expanding exploration and shifts with every conversation. Episodes will be as unique as the guest themselves; raw, open, hilarious, educational, inspirational and deep, we are non-conforming and we don’t expect our guests to be either. Let’s get weird.
02.16.2022 Episode #22 Today dear listeners we are bringing you yet another powerful episode. Join Aryn and licensed massage therapist, educator, facilitator of vibrational therapies, Akua Dani in conversation around transforming and deepening the language we use, breathwork, and power that our bodies hold. Akua's offerings have a strong emphasis on education/self awareness as foundational for lasting healing. We are so grateful to have her on the show and in real life, every Tuesday at the Casbah for "The Breath Remedy" Gratitude to our listeners as always for coming on this journey with us! Find us on the internet! Akua Dani //https://embodiedenergetic.wordpress.com // https://www.instagram.com/embodiedenergetics.co/ Aryn: @aryndrakelee // https://linktr.ee/ArynDrakeLee Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
02.09.2022 Episode #21 We are back with another incredible conversation with another friend & practitioner from the Casbah! Join Aryn and master massage therapist, Zachary Cameron as they go into the many levels of transformation that can come from practice of massage therapy, sound healing and so. much. more. Plus a tiny little sneak peek into West Adams Wellness Club, which we'll bring to you in FULL on another episode very soon. Gratitude as always for listening! Find us on the internet! Zachary Cameron: http://www.livepulse.la/#about// // https://www.instagram.com/livepulsela/?hl=en Aryn: @aryndrakelee // https://linktr.ee/ArynDrakeLee Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
2.2.2022 Episode #20 Happy 2222 portal Dear listeners! It is Black History Month, the Lunar New Year, Venus is finally came out of retrograde and Mercury is going direct tomorrow which is why today is the perfect day to go deep into it with Astrologer, Spiritual Life & Reiki healer, Monique Ruffin aka Moon Mama! We are so happy to have her in the conversation AND providing her offerings at the Casbah here in Los Angeles! Join Aryn and Monique as they explore Astrology and the characteristics of the signs & planets, understanding and living in an energetic system, embracing your seeker side, Astrological Reiki and SO MUCH MORE! Another good one that we hope you love as much as we do. Gratitude as always for listening! Find us on the internet! Monique "Moon Mama" Ruffin: https://www.moniqueruffin.com// // https://www.instagram.com/moniqueruffin/?hl=en Aryn: @aryndrakelee // https://linktr.ee/ArynDrakeLee Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
01.26.2022 Episode #19 Dear listeners today we are getting into it with Trained Trauma Specialist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Transforming Touch® Practitioner, and Founder of the Good Human University, Luana Rose! We are so happy to have her in the conversation. Join Aryn and Luana as they dive into what Somatic Experiencing is and how this modality can transform your life. There is so much good information in this one folks. Gratitude as always for listening and we hope you LOVE this one as much as we do! Find us on the internet! Luana Rose: https://www.luanarose.com/ // https://www.instagram.com/theluanarose/?hl=en Aryn: @aryndrakelee // https://linktr.ee/ArynDrakeLee Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
12.22.2021 Episode #18 Have you ever wondered, "How is Astrology experienced in the body?" Well lucky for you we are getting deep into it with astrologer, somatic guide and educator, Renee Sills. As a descendant of mystics and astrologers, Renee is a well of incredible information and we are so lucky to have her here to integrate this information because as Renee says, "astrology is used to create meaning and provide context for our human lives on Earth. We don't exist on this planet without our bodies. Therefore, any method for divining meaning, method or prescription for us, will be linked implicitly to our embodiment." Make sure you find Embodied Astrology on the internet (see below) for the Capricorn horoscopes that just dropped yesterday! Renee Sills: https://www.embodiedastrology.com // https://www.instagram.com/embodiedastrology/ Find us on the internet! Aryn: @aryndrakelee // https://linktr.ee/ArynDrakeLee Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
12.1.21 Episode #17 We are coming to you with a very important astrological information download from anticapitalist astrologer and teacher, Kelsey Rose Tortorice! We are so lucky to have her on the show to help breakdown and decipher the star code through Nodal Transits. While nodes are not planetary bodies, they are very significant aspect of the astrological weather as they are the point in space in which the sun and moon will cross paths. Join us as we find out where we just were the past 18 months, where we are now, and where we are heading. There is so much here. We hope you get as much from this as we did! Gratitude as always for listening. Find us on the internet! Aryn: @aryndrakelee // https://linktr.ee/ArynDrakeLee Kelsey: @kelseyrosetort //kelseyrosetort.com Kelsey is an anticapitalist astrologer and teacher. As a being ruled by Jupiter, she is deeply engaged in the processes of expansion and understanding of self, other, relationality, and consciousness. She embraces the simultaneous difference and sameness of each human experience, and utilizes various modalities, frameworks, and spiritual teachings in honoring and navigating this apparent contradiction. Kelsey aims to accompany people on their journeys home to themselves, inviting deeper levels of autonomy and authenticity on the way. Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
11.17.2021 Episode #16 It's Aryn's birthday and we are coming at you with an incredible conversation with Reiki master and all around Spiritual Warrior, Daoud Abeid. Listen along as Aryn and Daoud drop into their own experiences of starting their journeys at different points in life, dismantling the "buzzwords" around spirituality, seeking out the practice that speaks to your soul and harnessing the spiritual technology needed for the spiritual war we're experiencing. This episode has everything, we hope you love it as much as we do. Gratitude as always for listening! Find us on the internet! Aryn: @aryndrakelee // https://linktr.ee/ArynDrakeLee Daoud: @daoudsun // https://www.daoudsun.com/ Daoud Abeid is committed to the healing and empowerment of our human family. For over 20 years he has worked as an educator, often in collaboration with the New York City school system and supported numerous local and international Non-Profit Organizations through speaking engagements and student mentorship. Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
11.10.2021 Episode #15 Hello Listeners! We are very very excited to bring you yet another special episode with author, home-birth advocate, wife and mother of three beautiful souls, Ashley Nicole! Join us while we discuss home-births, going back to Source, embracing aging, and the importance of calling in the elders, WHERE. ARE. YOU. AT?! We need your wisdom! We hope you have as much fun with this one as we did making it. Gratitude as always for listening. Find us on the internet! Aryn: @aryndrakelee // https://linktr.ee/ArynDrakeLee Ashley Nicole @ashleynicolesherman ASHLEY-NICOLE has a distinguished career in entertainment production. She has 20+ years of experience producing and freelancing for production and entertainment event companies, nationally and internationally. She's served as an Executive Producer for the Plymouth Jazz Festival (Trinidad, Tobago), the Thisday Music Festival (Lagos, Nigeria) and the EBONY Pre Oscar Celebration (Hollywood, California). She's managed The Grammys, Black Enterprise's Women of Power Summit and Stevie Wonder's 11th Annual House Full of Toys – to name a few. Some of the artists she's worked with include Earth Wind & Fire, Elton John, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, John Legend, Shakira and more. Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
10.6.2021 Episode #14 Hello Listeners! Today we are bringing another important conversation to the platform. Join Aryn and dear friend, Anna Lodder, an integrated schools advocate & parent, mother of two, and fellow seeker as they go deep into the growth that can come through the rupture. Anna says it all, "I want other people to feel and hear themselves in our conversation... We're not experts, we're friends having an experience of deepening our understanding of our place in the Universe." We hope you love this one as much as we do. Gratitude as always for being on this journey with us! Find us on the internet! Aryn: @aryndrakelee // https://linktr.ee/ArynDrakeLee Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
9.29.2021 Episode #13 Hello Dear Listeners! After a little break we are back with a VERY special conversation with writer, doula, activist, and Black Feminist, Adrienne Maree Brown!! Join Aryn in a deep conversation around finding personal freedom within the patriarchy, embracing being the odd person out, and as Adrienne so beautifully says, "broadcasting truth". Gratitude as always for listening, we hope you enjoy this episode as much as we do! Find us on the internet! Adrienne Maree Brown : @adriennemareebrown // https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown Aryn: @aryndrakelee // https://linktr.ee/ArynDrakeLee Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
8.25.2021 Episode #12 Hello Listeners! We have another WEIRD.EARTH family conversation comin' at you with the wonderful Kate Carson!!! Kate graduated from Five Branches University in San Jose, California with a Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine. One of the most profound tenets of this medicine is its focus on the health of each patient individually. This allows for a large range of ailments, health goals, and healing. Kate has a special interest in the treatment of issues across the mental health spectrum, gut health, and family medicine. Aryn and Kate discuss all of this & more, including a special shout out to CISSY MAJEBE and her magical powers. We are so excited for you to join us for this enlightening and engrossing conversation. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do! Production Note: Cissy Majebe is at The Chinese Accupuncture Clinic in Asheville, NC Find us on the internet! Kate: @avisualapothecary and for booking please visit www.weird.earth Aryn: @aryndrakelee // www.rra.earth Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
8.11.2021 Episode #11 Hello Listeners! We're excited to bring you yet another conversation with a super special guest. Join Aryn in conversation with artist, designer, writer, teacher, and Tarot Reader, Sarah Faith Gottesdiener as they dive deep into the Hierophant Year and cover everything from altar safety (avoiding candle explosions) to rejection of the early intuition and growth and graduation into the "weird lady club." Sarah is a gem and we are lucky to have her with us. Gratitude as always for listening and supporting! Find us on the internet! Sarah: @gottesss // www.modernwomenprojects.com/pages/about#about_sarah Aryn: @aryndrakelee // www.rra.earth Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
8.04.2021 Episode #10 Dear Listeners, we are excited to bring you this special episode in conversation with NEW EARTH MEME POET, James McCrae. Join Aryn & James in an exploration of a positive relationship with social media and the benefits of memes (spoiler: there are many). How do we even discern the difference between reality and propaganda anymore? While coming to terms with the fact that the future is surely female in that yin-intuition energy way and it wants to be given room for its processes and discernment. You can share in the delight of his memes and other offerings @wordsarevibrations and @starseedaf. And we are super excited about his latest podcast Homesick Alien Club. Find us on the internet! Aryn: @aryndrakelee www.rra.earth Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
7.28.2021 Episode #9 After a Full Moon hiatus we are back with a very special episode that we've been waiting to bring you from the vaults of RRA! Join Aryn in conversation with Sarah Sahnoun, a multidisciplinary & multicultural entrepreneur, single mom & proud believer currently living in Paris. We are so lucky to have her on the show, to share her gems of wisdom as someone who has learnt the hard way that not having it all is actually the best way to learn how to make the best out of it all. Grateful and honored to be sharing a bit of her journey here with you. Find us on the internet! Aryn: @aryndrakelee www.rra.earth Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
7.14.2021 Episode #8 Dear Listeners, we are so excited to have you join us for this very special episode. Listen in as Aryn and Licensed Psychotherapist, energy healer, yoga teacher and VULNERABILITY PRIESTESS, Shirley Johnson dive deep into the collective psyche of black women and the challenges they face as they move to embrace and expand their own vulnerability. There is so much here, we hope you enjoy this one as much as we do! Find us on the internet! Aryn: @aryndrakelee and Shirley: @soulisticwellness and www.soulisticwellness.com. Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
7.07.2021 Episode #7 We're so happy to have you join us in this very special conversation with Aryn & Lealah Johnson, Mindfulness Coach! There is a lot laughter, self reflection and realization in this one... because among many other insights, we are talking about the children and the mirrors & prisms that they hold up for us. As always, so much gratitude to have you with us on this journey. We hope you love this one as much as we do. Find us on the internet! Aryn: @aryndrakelee and Lealah: @lealahlovegood and lealahd@gmail.com. Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
**Original Air Date: 6.19.2021 Republished due to Mercury complications: 7.03.2021** Episode #4 It's a Juneteenth bonus episode! Join Aryn in conversation with her dear friend, licensed Acupuncturist & Herbalist, Portia Wilson as they dive into the benefits of putting tiny needles into your body and the naps that follow. Together Portia and Aryn have co-created & co-founded, WEIRD EARTH, a brand new Acupuncture & Healing Arts Studio in Los Angeles. We hope you enjoy! For more on WEIRD EARTH find it on the web at www.WEIRD.earth (no .com or .co or any of that business). For hilarious meme stories + more offerings, catch us all on Instagram! Aryn: @aryndrakelee Portia: @deepergenius.acupuncture WEIRD EARTH: @weird.earth.la Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
6.30.2021 Episode #6 Dear Listeners, we are so happy to have you join us for this special foundational episode. Listen along while Aryn and multi-disciplinary Spiritual Teacher and practitioner, Evan McCormick lay the groundwork of QUADRATIC MAPS and give us all a lot of insight into where we are and where we're going in these bodies of ours. We hope you learn and enjoy this one as much as we did! Find us on the internet! Aryn: @aryndrakelee Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
6.23.2021 Episode #5 We are very excited to have you join Aryn in conversation with interdisciplinary, visual artist, writer, performer, professor, diviner & Reiki Master, Kenyatta A.C. Hinklel aka Olomidara Yaya. Listen & laugh along while Aryn and Kenyatta explore aspects of their inner knowing, healing historical trauma, & the advice they're getting from ancestors and guides who are no longer in this realm. I know we say this every week but, this is a special one! Find us on the internet! Kenyatta: @manifestationsof & www.manifestationsofyaya.com Aryn: @aryndrakelee Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
6.16.2021 Episode #3 Join Aryn in conversation with Somatic Facilitator, Ordained Priestess of Isis, Shakti Initiate and Yogini in the lineage of Shri Vidya, Certified Holistic Health Practitioner and MULTI-disciplinary healing artist with over 20 years of experience Esi Wildcat in a conversation about discovering your true path and taking a hard left from the corporate world of selling Botox to the realness of repelling people with your aura, yoni steaming, and the responsibility that comes along with being the only "seer" in your friend group. This is a special one folks, we hope you enjoy it as much as we do! Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
June. 9. 2021. Rituals, Remedies and Alchemy - Episode #2 How many modalities is too many modalities at once? How many spiritual advisors does one need? Join Aryn in conversation with her dear friend, entrepreneur, podcaster, and all around Mother of (Re)Invention, Jess Zaino as they dive into transcendental meditation, spiritual awakenings, self discovery, and oh yeah, that one time they caught up with the Dalai Lama. Hilarity ensues. We hope you enjoy as much as we do! Also, look out for Jess's podcast, "The Mothers of (Re)Invention" hitting platforms near you soon! Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
We're here and we're doing it... Rituals, Remedies & Alchemy's inaugural episode has launched in an eclipse portal during a retrograde, and we wouldn't have it any other way. Join Aryn in conversation with comedian and podcast extraordinaire Jessa Reed diving deep into the unknown of the present body moments and all future offerings. Check out more about our guest on instagram: @jessareedcomedy and listen to her podcast The Awakening OD which you can find wherever you listen to podcasts. Our gorgeous music, "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus is available on Spotify, add it to your playlist. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile.
We're here and we're doing it. Welcome to the intro for Rituals, Remedies & Alchemy, who we are and what we're doing. Enormous gratitude for my visuals creator, editor and partner in creation on this pod, Ari Basile. Intro and outro music: Faith's Hymn by Beautiful Chorus