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Spiral Deeper
35. THE SACRED IN ALL ~ Staci Ivori on Holding space, Communication, Tarot, Ritual, and Witchiness

Spiral Deeper

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2024 134:33


In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with Staci Ivori. Staci Ivori (she/her), is an Intuitive Guide, trauma informed Facilitator, Ritualist, Reiki Practitioner, and Tarot Advisor. She resides in Brooklyn, NY, where she lives as an empathic creatrix. Her mission is to create brave spaces that foster growth, reclamation, and re-connection. Along with attunements, initiation, and anti-bias training, she is versed in conflict management, community building and repair. A steadfast advocate for inclusivity, decolonization, and racial equity within her spiritual wellness communities. And is a celebrated instructor at various gatherings and nonprofit organizations around the globe. She is deeply committed to her healing work and expanding our perspectives on integrous practices. Staci Ivori offers 1 on 1 tarot sessions both virtually and in person, workshops and women's circles. You can find her this upcoming winter at The Origins Gathering in Costa Rica, the Spirit Weavers Gathering in summer, and facilitating healing weekends with Woman Within International. Connect with her on the interwebs @stacivori on Instagram! We recorded this conversation at the very start of October with the intention for it to air on Halloween / Samhain (Sow-wen). It is such a great conversation if you are a facilitator and/or healer yourself, or are stepping into this, wanting to hold space, practice communication and witchy sacred vibes. In our episode today, we talk about her origin story, triggers and tantrums, holding space and safe space, sharing our voice and feelings, honesty in showing up as our adult selves with compassion and awareness, her involvement in producing and holding space at the Spirit Weavers Gathering, coming out of the spiritual “broom closet”, the classes that she teaches in and out of Spirit Weavers, feeling a charge or trigger within us and Non-Violent Communication, the Dark Feminine and sacred rage, myth and Goddesses, Tarot, and ritual. We also talk about PLAY and FUN and DECADENCE and reality TV, and end our conversation about Autumnal and Samhain rituals. Thank you, Staci and enjoy the juiciness! CODE SPIRALOFFLOWERS FOR 20% OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH IN THE FLOWER PORTAL ROOT TO CROWN WAITLIST FOR SPRING COHORT Sign up for Gaby's NEWSLETTER Connect ~ With our guest Staci | IG @stacivori With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky With Spiral Deeper | Website and IG @spiral.deeper Partners ~ Thank you to our partners! Moon Juice - Code ‘GABY.AZORSKY' Activist Manuka Honey - Code ‘GABY15' The Retreat Newspaper - Code ‘GABY100' for your first issue free Music by Gaby's incredible partner, Connor Hayes. Spiral Deeper Icon by Kami Marchand. If you would like to advertise on Spiral Deeper and collaborate, please email gabyazorsky@gmail.com for packages and information. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen ~ it means so much. Thank you for your support!

Spiral Deeper
32. BEING A SELFISH BITCH ~ Embodiment, healing people pleasing, and feeling our true desires with Andrea Bordeaux

Spiral Deeper

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2024 140:57


In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with Andrea Bordeaux. Andrea is an Intuitive Visionary Guide, a channel of Sacred Knowledge, and an Energy Healer. As a survivor of intense trauma, she possess a deep well of knowledge with difficult life experiences, and through her healing journey was able to unlock and fortify her Divine gifts. Andrea is a passionate advocate for Women and understands that the spiritual healing of Women is the key to our liberation, and therefore the restoration of Earth and all of it's inhabitants. Andrea offers high level mentorship, intuitive guidance sessions, inner child healing, and in the future will be having retreats. Gaby first saw her walking the land at the Spirit Weavers Gathering in June, and she was (is) RADIANT. She taught a class titled Selfish Bitch Embodiment, and Gaby thought: “Yup, I'd like to invite her onto Spiral Deeper.” In our episode today, we talk about how she lives nomadically in her bus and her morning routine and how structure supports her on the road. We vulnerably hear about her childhood, how she grew up in a military family, experienced abuse and bullying, and how that lead her to speaking her voice and standing up for herself. We talk about her marriage and how that brought her to facing her own “shit”. We talk about one of her offerings which is a class called Selfish Bitch, and all the things that come with that: saying “no”, identifying as a “people pleaser”, social conditioning, victimhood, radical responsibility for ourselves, voicing our desires, knowing ourselves, working with Human Design, and so much more. Event in Los Angeles on Oct 24 at Riverbank HERE JOIN THE FLOWER PORTAL HERE Connect ~ With our guest Andrea | Website and IG @andreabordeaux and Youtube With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky With Spiral Deeper | Website and IG @spiral.deeper Sign up for Gaby's newsletter Partners ~ Thank you to our partners! Moon Juice - Code ‘GABY.AZORSKY' Activist Manuka Honey - Code ‘GABY15' The Retreat Newspaper - Code ‘GABY100' for your first issue free Music by Gaby's incredible partner, Connor Hayes. Spiral Deeper Icon by Kami Marchand. If you would like to advertise on Spiral Deeper and collaborate, please email gabyazorsky@gmail.com for packages and information. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen ~ it means so much. Thank you for your support!

The Side Woo Podcast
On The Elder and The Outcast with San Francisco-based Adobe Books Director Heather Holt

The Side Woo Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2023 75:07


This week on The Side Woo, we talk with Adobe Books Director, former SECA Coordinator, and long-time Bay Area native Heather Holt. The conversation looks at what it means to be queen of a scene, and what it was like on the outside after Heather left her former husband for a married man. Plus, bonus shout out to Valley Girl culture. About Heather Holt Heather Holt graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an emphasis in photography and performance. She currently oversees all aspects of Adobe Books organizational systems including volunteer scheduling, operating all aspects of business management, community relations, book scouting, curating, conflict management, grant writing and PR. Heather was formerly the ED of ArtSpan, the producers of SF Open Studios where she reversed a three year budget deficit and launched a strategic planning process with the staff, community served and BOD to strengthen and enrich the impact the organization has on sustaining local and regional California artists. Prior to ArtSpan, Heather worked at the SFMOMA from 2004-2010 as the SECA Coordinator - supporting the museum's art award and exhibition program for local, Bay Area artists. Heather volunteered as a Summer Teachers Assistant at Lilydale Spiritualist Community in Upstate NY and has participated as SEVA for the Spirit Weavers Gathering in Southern Oregon. She enjoys tarot, astral travel, meditation and writing. When she is not working, you will find her dancing midweek at the clubs, cooking and hanging out with her family. She lives part time in San Francisco, Sonoma Valley and Upstate NY. Show Notes Adobe Books SECA Award with SFMOMA About The Side Woo Host & Creator: Sarah Thibault Host: Elizabeth Bernstein Sound & Content editing: Sarah Thibault & Elizabeth Bernstein Intro and outro music: LewisP-Audio found on Audio Jungle, Sound Effect from Pixabay The Side Woo is a podcast created through The Side Woo Collective. To learn more go to thesidewoo.com For questions, comments, press, or sponsorships you can email thesidewoo@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thesidewoopodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thesidewoopodcast/support

The Good Dirt
92. Soil and Skin, the Terroir of Slow Beauty with April Gargiulio of Vintner's Daughter

The Good Dirt

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2022 50:03 Very Popular


April Gargiulo, founder of the skin-care company Vintner's Daughter, closes the loop between winemaking, soil health and sustainable skincare, as she tells the story of the slow beauty company she created to reflect her desire for quality, love for the earth, and production with an old-world mindset. April works from the foundation that fewer and better products are the remedy to a market built for overconsumption, and approaches skincare with the attitude of a winemaker: focusing on whole plants, active ingredients, quality sourcing, and soil health, resulting in a product made to an exacting standard of quality. For April, slow living means leaning into terroir, the unique flavor of a place that it carries due to the composition of the soil in which things are grown. Her intentionality and desire to engage with the details of the making process fuel her ability to serve her specific community, just as creators would have done in the pre-industrial age. Topics Covered: Slow Beauty Winemaking Holistic Skincare Routine Soil Health and Terroir from a Skincare Perspective Creating Products with a “Fewer, Better” Mindset Conscious Consumption Resources Mentioned:  https://spiritweaversgathering.com/ (Spirit Weavers Gathering) https://scienceandartofherbalism.com/ (Rosemary Gladstar) http://buddhisteconomics.net/ (Buddhist Economics) https://www.gargiulovineyards.com/ (Gargiulo Vineyards) Guest Info: Connect with April Gargiulo https://vintnersdaughter.com/ (Vintner's Daughter) Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vintnersdaughter/?hl=en (@vintnersdaughter) Follow Us: https://lady-farmer.com/blogs/the-good-dirt-podcast (Our Website) @weareladyfarmer on https://www.instagram.com/thegooddirtph/ (Instagram) http://almanac.lady-farmer.com/ (The Lady Farmer ALMANAC) Original music by John Kingsley @jkingsley1026 Statements in this podcast have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not to be considered as medical or nutritional advice. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and should not be considered above the advice of your physician. Consult a medical professional when making dietary or lifestyle decisions that could affect your health and well being.

SOUNDFOOD
DAUGHTER OF THE SUN: Honoring Earth, The Feminine and Ancestral Lineage with Spirit Weavers Founder Mea Woodruff

SOUNDFOOD

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2021 154:47


We continue the celebration of Sisterhood this month on SOUNDFOOD as we shift into Spring. Our guest today, Mea Woodruff, is a mother, artist, visionary, leader in the feminine arts, Founding Mother of Spirit Weavers Gathering and land steward of Cedar Bloom Farm. Raised on a family ranch in Southern California, Mea has fostered a deep connection and reverence for nature through her relationship to plants, animals, community, preserving primitive skills, and living in harmony with the elements. In her work she has committed to honoring the land, in both her home in Kauai and on her farm in Oregon and pays homage to its ancestral, indigenous lineage.  In this multi-dimensional conversation we explore the power of food, holistic living, healing, meditation, angelic forces, forgiveness, motherhood and the continual, cosmic journey for authentic nourishment.   Mentioned In This Episode:    Dr. Linda Lancaster: Light Harmonics   Marina Abramović’s Journey with Dr. Linda: “The Art of Harmony” on PURIST   Podcast Episodes with Mea Discussing Cheree: Mythic Medicine Episode 6 Mythic Medicine Episode 70   Where to find Mea Woodruff & Spirit Weavers Gathering: 5 Day Virtual Event March 18-22nd  Spirit Weavers Gathering Mea @ daughterofthesun on Instagram Cedar Bloom Farm Mea’s Skate Playlist    Also mentioned in this episode: SUNDAY SUPPER with Allie Crow Buckley TUNE INTO SOUNDFOOD: WEBSITE  INSTAGRAM   TEXT US ON OUR TELEPORTAL   for high vibrational updates on all things SOUNDFOOD @ 1-805-398-6661    MERCURIAL MAIL  Subscribe to our newsletter HERE. Connect with our Host: @nitsacitrine Lastly, we would be so grateful if you felt inspired to leave us a review on APPLE PODCAST!

Little Rituals: Fashion & Magick
Rachel Lopez-Cerrato: Fashion as Ancestral Skill

Little Rituals: Fashion & Magick

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2021 35:30


Clothing gives external shape to our identities and the way we feel in our bodies, and poetry does the same for our thoughts and emotions. They’re both a kind of lived metaphor. In this introduction, I bring the two together with "Your One Good Dress," a poem by Brenda Shaughnessy. My guest is Rachel Lopez-Cerrato, a fashion and costume designer raised in Honey Brook, Pennsylvania and Guanajuato, Mexico. She comes from a lineage of grandmothers who were garment and textile factory workers, designers, and seamstresses, and that lineage deeply informs her work. Rachel believes in the magic of clothing and often designs garments she’s seen in dreams. We talked about all of that and also about the transformative nature of motherhood, as we’re both the parents of young kids. Rachel's ancestral skills practice was inspired by Spirit Weavers Gathering. She loves the publication Life As Ceremony.Her sweatsuit and jumpsuit are from Virgo.Learn more about Rachel and see her work at cerratoci.com and @cerratoci.You can follow me on Instagram @littleritualstarot and on twitter @tobeyward. The intro and outro music is Song of Sweetness by Potential Gospel. The podcast art is by Juliann Gates. This episode was mastered by Matt Fox. If you liked what you heard today, please leave a review.

Belonging
69. Motherhood, Grief, and the Grandmother Hypothesis with Amber Magnolia Hill

Belonging

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2020 73:03


Amber Magnolia Hill is the woman behind Mythic Medicine and the Medicine Stories Podcast for people who year for knowledge about herbalism, deepening ancestral connections, and remembering what it is to be human upon the earth. She helps folks drop the cultural lies, disconnection, and disempowerment, and remember that the old ways are in our bones. I first met Amber at the Spirit Weavers Gathering where she was teaching an herbal body oiling class. Her Medicine Stories Podcast has featured so many conversations that have really shifted my perspectives and given me a deeper understanding of being an ancestral being and a being on this earth. I invited Amber on the Belonging podcast, knowing I would release this conversation while I am in the tender moments of post-partum with my new baby because she has had so much to say about mothering and how mothers are not supported in our society. We talk about the desire to re-village, slowing down in these times and finding our way to a parasympathetic state, ancestral connection in motherhood, expressing and interacting with folks who are grieving, and the Grandmother Hypothesis. Find show notes for this episode here: https://beccapiastrelli.com/amber-magnolia-hill/ Follow Amber on Instagram: http://instagram.com/mythicmedicine Follow Becca on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beccapiastrelli/

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Out of the Fog with Karen Hager
Out of the Fog: Clearing Past-Life Issues in the Present with Morgan Yakus

Out of the Fog with Karen Hager

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2020 27:00


Hypnotist (and listener favorite) Morgan Yakus returns to the show with all you need to know about past-life regression. She’ll share her views on shifting and clearing patterns carried over from our past lives while staying grounded in our present experience.  Morgan Yakus is a human cartographer, hypnotist, wellness expert, and is certified in past life regression with Dr. Brian Weiss. She teaches clients tools they can use every day to help retrain the brain. Morgan is a resident practitioner at the annual Spirit Weavers Gathering and has hosted her series of Mind Waves workshops, events and retreats in NY, LA and London. Morgan has created hypnotic art experiences at festivals all over the world, and enjoys teaching regular meditation and workshops at the Soho House. She has written for and has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Elle UK, Mind Body Green, and Cosmopolitan Magazine, among others. Find out more about Morgan and her work at morganyakus.com.

Out of the Fog with Karen Hager
Out of the Fog: Clearing Past-Life Issues in the Present with Morgan Yakus

Out of the Fog with Karen Hager

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2020 26:17


Hypnotist (and listener favorite) Morgan Yakus returns to the show with all you need to know about past-life regression. She'll share her views on shifting and clearing patterns carried over from our past lives while staying grounded in our present experience.  Morgan Yakus is a human cartographer, hypnotist, wellness expert, and is certified in past life regression with Dr. Brian Weiss. She teaches clients tools they can use every day to help retrain the brain. Morgan is a resident practitioner at the annual Spirit Weavers Gathering and has hosted her series of Mind Waves workshops, events and retreats in NY, LA and London. Morgan has created hypnotic art experiences at festivals all over the world, and enjoys teaching regular meditation and workshops at the Soho House. She has written for and has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Elle UK, Mind Body Green, and Cosmopolitan Magazine, among others. Find out more about Morgan and her work at morganyakus.com.

Belonging
65. Rising as the Well Ancestor with Lindsay Mack

Belonging

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 60:01


In this episode of the Belonging Podcast, I am joined by Lindsay Mack — a queer intuitive Tarot teacher, writer, and the founder of the popular weekly podcast, Tarot for the Wild Soul. She is also the creator of Soul Tarot, a radical reinterpretation and intentional utilization of the Tarot as a healing tool, one that can assist us in differentiating the noise of our brain from the truth of our soul. I first met Lindsay at the Spirit Weavers Gathering where she was teaching Tarot and we've been tangentially weaving closer and closer together ever since. Lindsay asked to come on the Belonging Podcast to talk about her recent discoveries in her own ancestral healing process. She describes herself as a joyful survivor of childhood abuse, C-PTSD, and chronic pain/illness, and so I ask her to elaborate on that use of the word "joyful." We talk about the difference between being happy and experiencing joy and how unexpected moments of joy can come out of deep grief. We talk about being the caretaker for your child-self as an adult, the journey and intertwining of anti-racism work and ancestral work, how to work with ancestors if you don't know of any "well" ancestors and have patterns of abuse and addiction in your ancestry, and deepening into ancestry work through connecting with and learning about ancestral lands. Find show notes for this episode here: https://beccapiastrelli.com/lindsay-mack/ Follow Lindsay on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildsoulhealing/ Follow Becca on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beccapiastrelli/

Out of the Fog with Karen Hager
Out of the Fog: Retraining the Brain for Lasting Change with Morgan Yakus

Out of the Fog with Karen Hager

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2020 27:00


Feeling stressed? Working through some blocks? Human Cartographer, hypnotist, and wellness expert Morgan Yakus talks about NLP, self-hypnosis, pattern interruption, and other tools to empower you to make lasting change. Morgan Yakus is a certified hypnotist, NLP practitioner, wellness expert, and is certified in past life regression with Dr. Brian Weiss. She is a resident practitioner at the annual Spirit Weavers Gathering and has hosted her series of Mind Waves workshops, events and retreats in NY, LA and London. Morgan has created hypnotic art experiences at festivals all over the world, and enjoys teaching regular meditation and workshops at the Soho House. She has written for and has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Elle UK, Mind Body Green, and Cosmopolitan Magazine, among others. Find out more about Morgan and her work at morganyakus.com.

Out of the Fog with Karen Hager
Out of the Fog: Retraining the Brain for Lasting Change with Morgan Yakus

Out of the Fog with Karen Hager

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2020 26:08


Feeling stressed? Working through some blocks? Human Cartographer, hypnotist, and wellness expert Morgan Yakus talks about NLP, self-hypnosis, pattern interruption, and other tools to empower you to make lasting change. Morgan Yakus is a certified hypnotist, NLP practitioner, wellness expert, and is certified in past life regression with Dr. Brian Weiss. She is a resident practitioner at the annual Spirit Weavers Gathering and has hosted her series of Mind Waves workshops, events and retreats in NY, LA and London. Morgan has created hypnotic art experiences at festivals all over the world, and enjoys teaching regular meditation and workshops at the Soho House. She has written for and has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Elle UK, Mind Body Green, and Cosmopolitan Magazine, among others. Find out more about Morgan and her work at morganyakus.com.

Tarot for the Wild Soul with Lindsay Mack
60. Embodying the Three of Cups with Staci Ivori

Tarot for the Wild Soul with Lindsay Mack

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2019 85:39


In today's episode of Tarot for the Wild Soul, we're talking to the amazing Staci Ivori, who is our embodiment of Three of Cups, and Queen of Wands! Staci is an intuitive guide, tarot reader, Reiki practitioner, herbalist and maker who teaches workshops, leads moon ceremonies, hosts circles, and facilitates women’s work all over the US. Three of Cups is an experience of communal joy and celebration. It’s an energy of ritual, ceremony, and expansion experienced amongst one another. It takes a lot of trust and communication to come to a truly open experience of Three of Cups, which Staci and I dive into thoroughly. In our conversation, we discuss what group work is, and how it can improve our lives, the medicine of covens, and what it means to have safe, sacred community. As is the Queen of Wands, Staci is an embodied witch; she lives her life in alignment with this level of depth, passion, power, and ability to connect with the deep waters, as well as the deep fires. Topics in this episode: • Shifting from Capricorn to Aquarius—The Devil to The Star and the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Leo (0:25) • Embodying the Three of Cups and the Queen of Wands in the Tarot (6:12) • What Staci does as a reiki practitioner, Tarot reader, and holder of women’s circles (14:54) • Staci’s Tarot journey + realizing the power of group work (16:13) • The magic that comes out of gathering in sacred space (21:35) • What does “women’s work” mean and working with the wound of circling with other women (25:09) • Holding space for group work for wherever people are at + without fixing anything (26:35) • The initiatory process of becoming a facilitator for sacred group work (35:57) • Circling at a weekend-long intensive gatherings (39:17) • Making safety a number one priority in sacred space (43:35) • Stepping into the Queen of Wands energy to become a facilitator and a healer of the dark feminine (50:45) • Shadow work, cycles, and transformation as an initiatory process and seeking + offering support to others through it (53:35) • What does it mean to have a coven? (57:45) • Staci’s experience at the Spirit Weavers Gathering + communicating triggers in group work (1:01:00) • The work of the Three of Cups in gatherings—being the change (1:08:33) • How to start small with women’s gatherings (1:10:58) Find full show notes for this episode: https://wildsoulpodcast.com/blog/three-of-cups-staci-ivori Staci's website: https://www.stacivori.com Staci's Instagram: @stacivori Sign up for TRAUMA AND THE TAROT here: https://lindsaymack.com/traumaandthetarot ABOUT THE PODCAST Hosted by intuitive tarot reader, holistic counselor and teacher, Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the Wild Soul is a weaving of deep conversations with folks who use Tarot in their lives, channeled energetic offerings, intuitive readings on the months ahead, and mini Tarot lessons. ABOUT LINDSAY Lindsay is an intuitive tarot reader, holistic counselor, teacher and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the founder of Wild Soul Healing and Tarot for the Wild Soul, as well as the host of this podcast. She has been studying and reading Tarot for over 20 years. As a joyful and healthy survivor of childhood abuse & PTSD, Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. It is an organic part of her healing work with the Tarot, and she is honored to be sharing these offerings to those who feel called to them. WEBSITE: www.lindsaymack.com INSTAGRAM: @wildsoulhealing MUSIC: www.bensounds.com

SOUL  CRUSH
Soul Crush Ep.4 Spirit Weavers Gathering - Kundalini Shakti + the Path of the Feminine

SOUL CRUSH

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2018 73:38


My Soul Crush on episode 4 is a gathering called Spirit Weavers. I'll explore what it means to me to walk the path of the feminine, Kundalini Shakti, the father wound, addiction, death and the beauty and power of women coming together to create, command, heal and awaken to our innate gifts and ways of serving this world in reverence to the Earth we walk upon.  Spirit Weavers Gathering is a five day celebration of cultures past and present,  a remembering and practicing of basic human skills to ensure the survival of the body and the soul. Farming practices, working with fibers, weaving, creating ceremony, sharing meals at night and dreams in the morning, the making of plant medicines- singing songs, together as a community- these were the common knowledge ways and part of the simple pleasures of a life lived in balance and harmony with nature. Let us gather together as Women and share our skills in remembrance of the beauty path and an honoring of our Ancestors.   Please find us on iTunes and subscribe and give us a rating. Stay in touch with me on instagram @artofloving or on my website artoflovingyou.com.  

Medicine Stories
6. Naming Your Lineage & Deeply Releasing Fear - Amy Mea Woodruff

Medicine Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2018 110:49


When she was 7 months pregnant, Amy Mea Woodruff's best friend was murdered by a stranger in her home. Amy speaks about this experience publicly for the first time, sharing the alternative grieving pathway she quickly carved out for herself as she sought to nurture and protect the life growing inside of her while simultaneously mourning the loss of her beloved soul sister. Experiences from her past that had grounded Amy deeply into herself were an anchor throughout this process, including the conscious use of psychedelics and a longstanding practice of learning about and connecting with her ancestors.  Amy (aka Daughter of the Sun) is a mother, craftswoman, land steward, budding flower farmer, and the founder and organizer of the Spirit Weavers Gathering.   In the Intro: My experience with Spirit Weavers (from skeptic to enthusiast) My first psychedelic experience   In the Interview: Amy (Mea)’s two (& more!) names Claiming your lineage and invoking your ancestors by speaking their names aloud Amy shares the story of her best friend Cheree’s murder and her grieving and healing process My and Amy’s journeys with forgiving the people who caused the deaths of our loved ones Diving deep with Amanita muscaria & the time/space collapse (we also each speak about our relationship with cannabis) Naming the land that raised us and listening to indigenous women Amy’s feral childhood, Choctaw & Cherokee ancestors, and the wild foodways she grew up with The challenges and rewards of founding and running the Spirit Weavers Gathering Stewarding land and listening to nature   LINKS: Amy's blog post expanding on this conversation and sharing photos of Cheree and of her ancestors The Spirit Weavers Gathering Alela Diane Hawane Rios talk Lyla June on the For the Wild podcast- On Resistance and Forgiveness in the Final Years of Patriarchy Stay on the Spirit Weavers land in Southern Oregon via HipCamp Music by Mariee Sioux (from the song Wild Eyes) Mythic Medicinals herbals Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz Medicine Stories Facebook Group Medicine Stories Patreon