Episode 49: DId you eat your ancestors for breakfast? Microorganisms, your oldest lineage

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Episode 49: DId you eat your ancestors for breakfast? Microorganisms, your oldest lineage

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Apr 19, 2019

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Environmental Microbiologist and ancestral animist Siv Watkins discusses the power of our relationships with the smalls, and solving ecological crisis through evolution.

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Apr 19, 2019

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Bespoken Bones supports the development of radiant erotic wellness in past, present and future generations! The intention of this podcast is to create a rich, multi-disciplinary archive of research around the topics of ancestors, sexuality, trauma, and ecology.

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Episode 16: Trauma as call to prayer: Taya Shere waxes poetic on healing Jewish ancestral healing, participating in an embodied, holy life, and bliss as the prayer. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 000: Welcome to Bespoken Bones!: Introduction to the podcast, the host, and the ancestors! by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 008: Feeling pleasure and aliveness around sex: Somatic Sex Educator Caffyn Jesse speaks on self-regulation of the nervous system, ancestral trauma renegotiation and deep somatic pleasure. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 006: Breathing with our Ancestors: Renegade Sexual Mystic M'kali-Hashiki speaks on developing ancestral consciousness, and the integration of our erotic lives through breathwork practice. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 010: Choosing to heal your lineages: Dr. Judith Rich is a pioneering teacher in the field of transformation and consciousness. Listen as she speaks on making the deliberate choice to heal our lineages, and dealing with the repercussions, positive and negative, of accepting our... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 004: Lipstick, Green Man and ancestor-supported creative process: Artist Keith Hennessy speaks on how the ancestors move through him as he creates radical performance that challenges dominant culture. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
63 min listen
Episode 25: Astrology, Ancestors and the queerness of Uranus: Archetypal Astrologer Rebecca Farrar speaks in plain English on ancestral connections within astrological birth charts, and the power of viewing your life through an astrological lens. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
46 min listen
Episode 012: Ancestors guide me to my purpose and passion: New York City-based Shaman Langston Kahn speaks on how relating with ancestors can support the fullest expression of our Selves, and how we can work with the unseen in service to our greatest passions. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
62 min listen
Episode 005: Time travel, erotic states and trauma healing: Dr. Jenny Wade, author of Transcendent Sex, speaks on how erotic states of being are altered states, and can be used to create change and healing. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 013: "I can't help but do it.": Artist Clement Hil Goldberg speaks to the urgency of creating revolutionary glittering ancestral art, both as a prayer to encode our embodied knowing, and for the sake of supporting and blessing our queer descendants. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 007: Dancing with intention:: Heal ourselves and our ancestors through conscious movement by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 52: Creating art with ancestors: What if we can work with ancestors to create art that inspires and liberates? Seth Eisen speaks about his approach that marries notions of community-driven, often overlooked history with an interdisciplinary performance celebrating the legacies of... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 009: Plants are our ancestors: Atava Garcia Swiecicki of Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk and Indigenous Medicine speaks on connecting with our indigenous medicine, developing relationships with plants that support the healing of transgenerational trauma and plants... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 001: Pathways for the Blessings: Dr. Daniel Foor speaks on embodying the goodness of our older, bright well ancestors and how developing ancestral relationships can benefit our lives. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 35: Communicating through trees: Healing trauma in community: Dr. G Love aka Geryll Robinson discusses the value of communal ancestral practice and ritual to heal transgenerational trauma in community. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 14: Ancestors and Italian Folk Magic: Mallorie Vaudoise is a Brooklyn-based spiritualist of Italian descent. Listen as she speaks on the veneration of saints, the presence of ancestor worship in Catholicism, and adopting your very own soul, for the sake of receiving blessing. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 003 : Accessing the Realm of the Ancestors: Rashani Chandra Alexandre speaks on the role of ancestors in tantric Hinduism, and practicing ancestral consciousness. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 26: Healing our relationship with Death: Listen as death doula and ritualist Sarah Kerr of Soul Passages discusses how to prepare to be a good ancestor, have a good death, and face the truth that life is finite. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 23: Art, queer ancestors and healing sex: Listen as Artistic Director Seth Eisen discusses how art can bring queer ancestors OUT of the shadows and into the light in his new San Francisco collaboration OUT of SITE, and the multigenerational healing that can happen from diving deep into our... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 20: The magic of being fat: looking through an ancestral lens: Listen as Reverend Catharine Clarenbach of The Way of the River speaks on spirit in a fat body, connecting with ancestors through ancestral objects, and tending the unloved dead. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 31: Learning boundaries with ancestors: Bodyworker and ancestral healer Mika Banks speaks on how she had to learn boundaries to work effectively with the dead. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 34: Queer Ancestral Sexual Healing: In this episode, Nick Venegoni of the Queer Spirit podcast interviews me. We discuss the importance of desire and pleasure, and how it gets complicated in the presence of trauma. I riff on how to know if you’re not living your body, and getting... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 37: Decolonizing our ancestral body: Answering the ancestral call towards liberation: Spirit worker, medicine maker, priest and activist Lou Florez (Awo Ifadunsin Sangobiyi) speaks to being in community and in being conversation with our ancestors as we embody their blessings while disrupting colonizer culture as it lives inside of... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 15: Language is a spell: Chinese medicine, encoded ancestral wisdom and ephemeral dreams: Listen as acupuncturist and herbalist Erin Langley of Ancestral Acupuncture speaks truth on the intersection of ancestors and healing. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 17: To Love, Be Loved and Belong: Family Constellations for healing generational trauma: Family Constellation facilitator Peter Touchard speaks on how revealing unseen, hidden exclusions and entanglements within family systems can lead to resolution. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 22: Queer mysteries and Leather ancestors: Sexuality author and educator Lee Harrington of Passion and Soul speaks on the mighty queer dead, erotic ancestral practice, and kink and leather ancestral lineages. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 24: The past is present: Jung, ancestors and healing transgenerational sexual trauma: Jungian therapist and author Dr. Sandra Easter discusses her work and book "Jung and the Ancestors Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web" on how we can heal generations of suffering by opening our hearts to feeling what is present in our... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 40: The place for our wounding is the dirt under our feet: Disability justice, embodied activism and taking care of each other: In this episode, artist, poet, writer and facilitator Naomi Ortiz speaks to the intersection of place, ancestors, activism embodiment and disability justice. Naomi is a Disabled, Mestiza (Latina/Indigenous/White), raised in Latinx culture, living... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 21: Reclaiming the ancestral dreaming body: Listen as embodied dream worker and ancestral lineage repair practitioner Seyta Selter of Innerlands speaks to the practices of dreaming with ancestors, and the healing power of erotic dreams. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 28: Where did they go? Finding the Queer and Trans Ancestors hiding in plain sight in our genealogy: LGBTQ Historian and genealogist Stewart Blandon Traimon speaks on finding our ancestors who had special relationships with gender and sexuality in our family trees. Genealogy is an important parallel to ancestral reverence, and it's a special treat to... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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