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Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Pegi Eyers. In her new book Ancient Spirit Rising Pegi Eyers examines the loss of our vital ethnocultural connection to tribe and place, and why there is a trend to borrow identities from other cultures. Join us for a provocative and informative discussion on white privilege, cultural appropriation and how modern spirituality has become a giant consumer marketplace! Pegi's research has uncovered improved strategies for intercultural competency with Turtle Island First Nations through social justice solidarity, anti-oppression work, allyship and reconciliation.  And as the paradigm shifts today to earth-connected sustainable community, in a fascinating twist Ancient Spirit Rising re-frames the Pagan and Goddess Spirituality movements as a response to the directive from Indigenous Elders to recover our own ancestral wisdom. From the wealth of resources available today, we can restore our ecocentric worldview and find

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Astrid Grove & Lorene Wapotich. Astrid Grove is the founder and organizer for Red Earth Herbal Gathering.  She celebrates life with her husband, her two daughters, her two cats and her many chickens.  Her passion lies in facilitating and supporting women's empowerment through midwifery, hands on healing, plant medicine and sacred ceremony. To learn more about her offerings, go to www.astridgrove.com Lorene Wapotich, MEd, will be co-facilitating the red tent at Red Earth this year as well as co-facilitating the community wide coming of age ceremony. She is an author and the founder and director of Feet on the Earth Programs, a non-profit organization in Boulder, Colorado. Her work focuses on creating regenerative culture and community by mentoring children into healthy young adults through deep nature connection and community-based rites of passage. Lorene recently completed a memoir and is currently working o

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Taya Shere (Taya Mâ). Taya is the co-founder of Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, co-author of The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Paths of Jewish Women's Spiritual Leadership, and faculty at Starr King School for the Ministry and the Chaplaincy Institute, where she trains emergent clergy across faith traditions. She teaches Ancestral Lineage Healing, offering individual sessions virtually, and in-person workshops across the country. Taya is also a Somatic Experiencing practitioner and offers online courses in Embodied Presence, Pleasure as Prayer, Conscious Menstruation and Ancestral Healing. Her Hebrew Goddess chant albums — This Bliss, Wild Earth Shebrew, Halluyah All Night and Torah Tantrika — have been heralded as "cutting-edge mystic medicine music." She makes home, music and other magic in Berkeley, California, on occupied Ohlone lands.   

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal Health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Tracey Turner-Keyser. Tracey, is the founder of Full Circle Family Counseling, PLLC. Tracey is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPCS), Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist (BC-DMT), Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME), Embodied Movement Yoga instructor and an American National Forest Therapy Guide (ANFT). Tracey takes all of these modalities to create a unique approach to healing families, children and individuals with developmental complex trauma; PTSD, physical/sexual/mental trauma, Reactive Attachment Disorder, depression, anxiety, and more. Tracey combines her spiritual wisdom  and Forest Therapy connection to trees with Dance Movement Therapy, yoga and psychotherapy with a holistic perspective addressing mind, body, spirit. Tracey helps empower the family to acknowledge each other despite shame, guilt, anger and sorrow that may have been inflicted at any point.   this episode Q&am

Susun Weed answers 120 minutes of herbal health questions.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Ayn Cates Sullivan. Ayn is an award-winning and bestselling author focusing on mythology and folklore for the modern age. Dr Sullivan obtained her BA with honors at Hollins University, her Masters and Doctorate in Literature from Columbia University and King’s College London. She later obtained a Masters in Spiritual Psychology and works with individuals who are interested in remembering their Inner Grail. She also works with a select group of emerging writers each year. Ayn Cates Sullivan’s series, “Legends of the Grail” successfully launched in 2017, selling out on the first day to an enthusiastic audience and wide acclaim. The first volume, Legends of the Grail: Stories of Celtic Goddesses, is a collection of ancient Irish myths, and the missing or untold stories of women recounted in first person. The second and newest volume, Heroines of Avalon & Other Tales, is a collection of Celtic and Arthurian myth

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Nancy Vedder-Shults.  Alongside such luminaries as Alice Walker, Starhawk, Lynn Andrews, and Sue Monk Kidd, Nancy Vedder-Shults, Ph.D. was named a Wisdom Keeper of the Goddess Spirituality Movement in 2013. She is the author of The World is Your Oracle: Divinatory Practices for Tapping Your Inner Knowing and Getting the Answers You Need (Fair Winds Press: April, 2017), an innovative divination book that presents 40 multicultural techniques for out-of-the-box thinking.  Nancy is also the thealogical columnist for SageWoman Magazine, and a blogger for Feminism and Religion and Nature’s Sacred Journey on Patheos Pagan. Nancy honed her speaking and writing skills in the emerging field of Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her focus on empowerment began. Her muse nudged her out of academia to record Chants for the Queen Heaven, a CD of Goddess chants from around the world. Check out her

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Phyllis Curott. As one of America’s first public Witches and an Elder Wiccan Priestess, attorney Phyllis Curott became an outspoken advocate in the courts, media, and interfaith movement, handling groundbreaking religious liberty cases for Witches and Pagans.  Named one of The Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year by Jane Magazine,  she was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Clergy and Scholars, served as Vice Chair of the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions and created the historic Inaugural Women’s Assembly. Her trailblazing, international bestselling books, including Book of Shadows and WitchCrafting helped make Witchcraft accessible to the world. Her latest book, WICCA (made easy), Awaken the Divine Magic Within You, was released in November, 2018, with a companion online class coming in July of this year, and the 20th Anniversary Edition of Book of Shadows will be available from Phylli

Sean is an herbalist, gardener and medicine maker. You are invited to call in to this almost monthly show to ask questions and expand the discussion of herbal medicine and what's going on in our world and even the world around us.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Eugenia Merkoulov. Eugenia Merkoulov follows in the footsteps of five generations of Slavic medicine women. Born in Ukraine and raised outside of New York City, she was fortunate to experience a holistically-minded and rich multicultural upbringing. Eugenia's primary intention is to assist individuals in connecting with their core being so that they may live in alignment with their highest expression. In her offerings, she fuses healing wisdom from the Eastern European traditions with that of the Yoga system, cross cultural energy work techniques, and planetary herbalism. ?Eugenia holds a double BA in Environmental Studies and Political Science, a Permaculture Design certificate, Hatha Yoga certificate, second degree Usui Reiki attunement and most recently completed a foundational Ayurvedic program. Currently, she is pursuing a double MS in Herbal Medicine and Holistic Nutrition.  

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lynn Andrews. Author of the internationally acclaimed Medicine Woman Series, Lynn Andrews who has spent the last 30 years studying with shamanic women on three continents. This best selling author shares her ancient teachings of shamanic training. Lynn Andrews brings spiritual tools and compelling techniques for healing from the spiritual realm to the modern everyday physical world. Her techniques use the power of thought to take you beyond self limitation to other realities. Through live shamanic gatherings and many other media outlets, Lynn uses a wide variety of experiential tools to lead her audiences deeper into themselves. this episode Q&A includes: • cavities- are they preventable? • concentrating oils and harvesting hypericum after heavy rains... • hormones, liver, menopause.. • check out Susun's Happy Knees Course.. • at some point you have to make people uncomfortable and not eat

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lucinda Herring. Lucinda has worked at the cutting edge of the green funeral movement for more than twenty years, beginning with others in the 1990s to quietly care for loved ones after death. Today she is one of the leading voices for more healing and ecological ways to care for our dead. Herring is a home funeral/green disposition consultant and guide, an interfaith minister, and a licensed funeral director in the state of Washington. She speaks regularly about her work, and through her company Limina LLC--Thresholds Consulting and Ministry, she offers Advance After-Death Care planning, home funeral/green disposition education and trainings, and celebrant/ministerial services for families and communities who are reclaiming their innate right to care for each other and the earth at the end of life. Lucinda is also a storyteller and festival maker, committed to bringing art, beauty, ritual and celebration to all of

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Isa Gucciardi. In the mid-nineties, Isa began developing Depth Hypnosis as she entered into clinical practice. Her studies, both in academia and in the field, of cultural and linguistic anthropology, comparative religion, and transpersonal psychology formed the basis of her approach with clients and students. As the body of work that grew out of her clinical practice became larger, she began teaching others so that more people could benefit from the techniques she had developed. In order to accommodate the number of classes that grew out of this process, she co-founded the Foundation of the Sacred Stream, which is now a school for consciousness studies in Berkeley, California, serving hundreds of students each year. Isa teaches and speaks nationally and internationally, and she has published numerous articles, podcast episodes, videos, and the books Return to the Great Mother and Coming to Peace. She maintains a private p

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Abigail Barella. Abigail is an energy healer and astrologer originally from the Adirondack mountains of Upstate NY.   She immersed herself in nature to empower herself.  Raised in a matriarch under her storytelling beloved Grandmother.  Her career began as a birth doula and childbirth educator.  Finally in 2013 she created Sparkle and Shine Guidance with a focus on helping people to see their natural gifts and empowering individuals to share those gifts with their community.  She is a mother, auntie and medicine woman.  In her spare time she likes to hike, dance, cook and read.  this episode Q&A includes: • diagnosed with breast cancer- choosing what is wanted based on good information.. • quality of life or quantity of life- nourish with infusions and adaptogenis herbs.. • red clover tincture and red clover infusion are as different as raisins and champagne.. • mushrooms are some of the best herbs to p

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Linda Conroy. Linda Conroy the founder and one of the organizers of The Midwest Women's Herbal Conference. With a legal and Social Policy background one might find it a surprise to find that she dedicates her life to connecting with the green world. Linda is committed Herbal Educator and Practitioner, provider of Workshops and Apprenticeships for her local community and is a skilled 'wild food and medicine' gatherer. She offers workshops and consultations as well as handcrafted herbal wares through her business Moonwise Herbs. For more information see www.moonwiseherbs.com and/or wwwmidewestwomensherbal.com this episode Q&A includes: • knowing your value- it's not self care, it's caring for ourselves.. • scar tissue- castor oil, violet, calendula.. • growing herbs in small spaces.. • working with fasia after a car wreck.. • veganism, sibo, victim stories, chronic pain..  

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health quetions followed by a 30 minute interview with Sister Dandelion. Sister Dandelion is a cofounder and trustee of the Church of Modern Witchcraft. A poet and priestess, she has been practicing witchcraft and reading the Tarot for 25 years. She honors Z Budapest, Starhawk, and Susun Weed as her witchcraft mentors and foresisters. As a radical feminist, Sister Dandelion has organized and collaborated with women on issues such as male violence, reproductive freedom and women's health, lesbian liberation, and the creation of woman-loving culture in the context of a woman-hating system.  this episode Q&A includes: • first choice when there is an irritation to the uninary tract is corn silk.. • bloating and gas pain- aromatic seeds of any kind.. • gotu kola preparations.. • CBD extractions- it's complicated, but up for experimentation.. • bitter melon? • flooding.. • menopause..

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 miute interview with Sally Kempton. Sally Kempton is a widely respected teacher of meditation and spiritual wisdom, known for her capacity to kindle meditative states in others, and to help students work with meditative experience as a framework for practical life-change. A former swami in a Vedic tradition, she has spent over four decades delving deeply into meditation and self-inquiry. Sally is the author of the best-selling book, Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga, and ofMeditation for the Love of It," which Spirituality and Health magazine called "the meditation book your heart wants you to read". Her audio program, Doorways to the Infinite: The Art and Practice of Tantric Meditation, is a powerful introduction to advanced meditation practice. She is on the faculty at Esalen and Kripalu, teaches meditation on the websitesYogaglo.com, and and at Gaia.com, and leads retreats and workshops in the U.S.,

Sean is an herbalist, gardener and medicine maker. You are invited to call in to this monthly show to ask questions and add to the discussion

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Shonagh Home. Shonagh Home is a shamanic therapist, teacher, author and poet Her specialized private sessions and retreats assist clients to break chronic, self-defeating patterns, and move into empowered personal sovereignty. She is an international public speaker on the subject of visionary shamanic-spirit medicine, a voice for stewardship of the honeybees, and an expert on traditional foods. She is author of Ix Chel Wisdom: 7 Teachings from the Mayan Sacred Feminine, Love and Spirit Medicine, Poetic Whispers from the Green Realms, and Honeybee Wisdom: A Modern Melissa Speaks. www.shonaghhome.com

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Kathleen Hanagan. Kathleen is spiritual teacher, modern mystic, and psychotherapist, whose work integrates the essential wisdom of the great spiritual traditions with scientific knowledge, 30 years working intimately with individuals, couples, and groups, and her own quest for liberation. With the clarity that comes from one familiar with the territory of the heart, Kathleen shows us how to expand our awareness beyond the subconscious limitations of a culture that has lost its Soul.  She teaches us how to remain awake at every stage of the journey, so that we can do what we came to earth to do: to live wholehearted and prosperous lives of loving kindness, generosity and truth.   Her book, Loveseed: The Template for Birthing A New World, shows us how to create miracles through shifts in our perception, that allow us to trance-end the fear that creates personal and collective pain. Find out more at her website www.Ka