Bespoken Bones Podcast

By Pavini Moray

Religion & Spirituality Sexuality Spirituality

What's Bespoken Bones Podcast about?

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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Bespoken Bones Podcast episodes:

12.17.2020
Ancestors Song
12.17.2020
A message from Pavini about Bespoken Bones
11.14.2020
Episode 80: On feeling at home, loving, and letting go
Sean Saifa Wall, a somatic practitioner and an intersex activist, speaks about dreaming, celebrating life and death, loving and letting go, and feeling at home.
10.25.2020
Episode 79: The stigma of drug use and blackness
Ifetayo Harvey, Founder of the POC Psychedelic Collective, speaks about drug use, slavery, vulnerability, depression, and the epidemic of untreated trauma that people are trying to address and self-medicate.
10.13.2020
Episode 78: On oppression, justice, love, patience and what its like to receive the gift of music
Dia Luna, a California native painter, songwriter, and seer, speaks about what it’s like to receive the gift of music, its process and how it brings people together.
09.30.2020
Episode 77: The relationship between the body, the nervous system work and the ancestor work
Clementine Morrigan, a writer, creator, and facilitator of the popular workshop Trauma-Informed Polyamory, speaks about spirituality, sexuality, love and relationship, and how it intersects with trauma.
09.16.2020
Episode 76: The Practice of Slowing Down
Tai Fenix Kulystin, a white, queer, fat, trans genderqueer coach dedicated to building better relationships, releasing trauma, and exploring spirituality, speaks about the erotic and the practice of slowing down.
08.02.2020
Episode 75: Healing the ancestral wounds
Oscar Pérez, a ritual leader, spiritual teacher, and mentor speaks about shamanic traditions, unintended grief and rage, and healing.
07.21.2020
Episode 74: On eldership, ancestral work, blackness, and healing arts practice
Naya Jones, a geographer, healing arts practitioner, and ritual artist, speaks about eldership, ancestral work, justice, and the healing arts.
07.04.2020
Episode 73: Decolonizing Aliveness
Sobey Wing, a multi-racial settler, President of Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Society, and Chair of the Cross Cultural Protocols Working Group of Youth Passageways organization, speaks about multi-racial identity, the rites of passage movement, decolonial love and what led him...
06.20.2020
Episode 72: Using our bodies to liberate our bodies
Laura Levinson, a movement artist and healer, speaks about the erotic, the ungovernability of pleasure and of our raucously alive bodies, death, and grief.
06.05.2020
Episode 71: Dwelling in the mystery of not knowing
Michelle Embree, a professional Tarot card reader and teacher, speaks about Tarot reading and the connection between storytelling and healing.
05.22.2020
Episode 70: What is the meaning of life?
Mars Gradiva, an ancient interstellar traveller, idea vessel and a professional enthusiast making queer liberatory astrology, tackles the meaning of life, the Zodiacs and the consequences of vulnerability and our safety.
05.08.2020
Episode 69: Magic, art modelling, tokenism, cultural restraints and the activism around gender and sexuality
Jezmina Von Thiele, a Romani and Sinti writer, dancer, art model, healer, academic, activist, and educator, speaks about taking back the power of her heritage by modelling and using it for a way to empower one’s self.
04.22.2020
Episode 68: On weaving the threads of adornment, feminism, storytelling, archaeology, and blackness
Ayana Omilade Flewellen, a Black Feminist, an archaeologist, a storyteller, and an artist, talks about archaeology and the enslavement and sexual exploitation of black women.
04.08.2020
Episode 67: On the connection of grief work, erotic embodiment and the intersection of birth and sex work
Katie Spataro, a full-spectrum doula, a somatic sex educator and a holistic pelvic care provider speaks about her healing practices, ancestral lineage, the intersections of birth work and sex work, and the intimate connection of grief and pleasure.
03.09.2020
Episode 66: Playing with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a black feminist
Ra Malika Imhotep, an open-hearted collaborator on a number of projects at the intersections of creative expression and Black liberation shares her experiences and talks about what it means to play with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a...
02.23.2020
Episode 65: "This harm can be held in a circle and I can address the person who caused this harm with support.": On sexual trauma, restorative justice and empowerment.
Marisa Taborga Byrne, a survivor of incest, shares her experience about the magic of healing from sexual trauma. She also speaks about holistic sexuality, the Global Sexual Healing Revolution and how restorative justice helped her heal the trauma.
01.24.2020
Episode 64: Ancestral rites of passage with Darcy Ottey
Darcy Ottey of Youth Passageways to how genuine rites of passage that allow young adults to "sit at the big kids table" once they make it through, as well as how to discern effective rites that welcome youth into adult...
01.10.2020
Episode 63: What happens after you are buried alive? Art, ancestors and black erotic power
brontë velez goes deep: going underground, psychedelics, blackness, sex, remembering and demanding healing. What happens when you start with where you want to end and work your way back.
12.26.2019
Episode 62: Doing the old time spirit work
Artist and Medium Kook Teflon lives a life of connection with spirit. In this interview, she speaks on working in good ways with the spirit of Alcohol, dolls and living altars, & rewriting family stories.
12.12.2019
Episode 61: We are all made of stars: Time travel ancestry
Billed as "Your guide to the night sky and friendly neighborhood time traveler, queer elder Stargazer Li writes: "Stargazing isn’t about feeling small in the face of such vastness. It’s about seeing and experiencing our story as part of the...
11.20.2019
Episode 59: Trans Day of Remembrance 2019
In this episode, Pavini ritually reads the names of the trans dead of violence in 2019.
11.12.2019
Episode 58: Queer and Trans Ritual Magick as Living Art
Ylva Radziszewski and Kiki Robinson of the Living Altar discuss ritual art as magical activism, queer self-initiation, and accessing ancestors (especially transcestors and queer ancestors) thru the trauma of Roma diaspora and assimilation.
10.28.2019
Episode 57: "Our grief does not need healing. Our healing needs our grief."
Shauna Janz of Sacred Grief riffs on the necessity of grief fluency and it can help you feel a sense of belonging.
10.13.2019
Episode 56: Hunter's Moon with Murphy Robinson
Murphy Robinson of Mountainsong Expeditions shares of her journey on the Appalachian trail led her from life-long vegetarian to practicing the ancestral skill of the sacred hunt.
07.16.2019
Episode 55: "I want to be an ancestor who makes mistakes." On dying consciously, fierce activism and tender learning to the end.
Activist and witch Colleen Cook speaks about her terminal cancer, her experiences with dying, sexuality and community. Colleen provides a gorgeous example of how to die as you live, and how to live as you die. This is the season...
07.05.2019
Episode 54: The gender revolution will be podcasted!
Join Dr. Alex Iantaffi, gender radical, ancestral reverence practitioner and host of Gender Stories Podcast as we discuss liminality, the intersection of patriarchy and liberation, and praying through queer sex.
06.19.2019
Episode 53: Your Earthly Queer Nature Belongs Here
In this episode, So & Pinar of Queer Nature share about queer love and learning to belong through weaving webs of accountability with other beings and the land-based practice of cultivating resilience. Intro music in Quechua by Renata Flores Rivera.
06.03.2019
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 queer ancestors.
05.19.2019
Episode 51: The erotic and the ancestors of liberation: Renewing our Activism
In this episode, Starhawk discusses how to stay nourished in our fight for justice.
05.06.2019
Episode 50: Connecting with your animal companions beyond the veil
Animal communicator Claudia Hehr discusses the special relationship between animals and humans, how to connect with animal ancestors, and dealing with grief and loss of animal companions.
04.19.2019
Episode 49: DId you eat your ancestors for breakfast? Microorganisms, your oldest lineage
Environmental Microbiologist and ancestral animist Siv Watkins discusses the power of our relationships with the smalls, and solving ecological crisis through evolution.
04.10.2019
Episode 48: Becoming an emotional grown-up: working with triggers, reactivity & ancestral wounds
Mary Mueller Shutan discusses how to make your own life more easeful through personal skillfulness with emotions and reactivity.
03.20.2019
Episode 47: Punk rock ancestors, queer creativity and being a gender-free godhead
Lynn Breedlove, lead singer of queercore Tribe 8 and the Homobiles shares his secret punk sauce for making a place in the world for your weird self.
03.10.2019
Episode 46: The intersection of race, sexual violence and healing
Annika Leonard of Priceless Incite discusses the intersection of sexualized violence and racial trauma through a personal and professional lens, and her strong commitment to surviving and supporting others in healing.
02.18.2019
Episode 45: Re-Membering our ancestral knowings with our plantcestors
Layla Feghali of River Rose Apothecary speaks here of how to regather ancestral memory and access our embodied memory.
02.03.2019
Episode 44: Race and racism in ancestral healing panel discussion
In this episode, amazing tenders of culture and ancestral healing M'kali-Hashiki, Langston Kahn, and Taya Shere discuss how race and racism intersect with the work of ancestral healing.
01.20.2019
Episode 43: On being Two-Spirit & Ancestor-honoring Dance
Roger Kuhn is an enrolled member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and Chair of the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS). Here we discuss dance, the upcoming...
01.05.2019
Episode 42: Tarot, Ancestors & brilliant Trans elders
Tarotist, artist and prolific Author Rachel Pollack says "As soon as you allow the power of mystery, you go into another level of existence." In this episode, Rachel walks us through her scholarship of the tarot, and the intersections with...
12.23.2018
Episode 41: "In the context of my ancestors, I make sense." Norse mystery, song as prayer, and seidr initiation
Maris Orelia of Living Voice Medicine sings, prays and trances in the Norse traditions of her ancestors. In this interview, she riffs on belonging, shares her ancient song medicine, and addresses the benefits of healing with ancestors.
12.06.2018
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 in the U.S./Mexico borderlands. For information on visit:...
11.20.2018
Episode 39: Your trans ancestors and elders hold your activist tender heart
Scholar and filmmaker Dr. Susan Stryker celebrates the continuum of trans history, and speaks to queering time through her relationships with both elders and ancestors in the trans community. This episode is in honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance.
11.07.2018
Episode 38: Deadnaming and the Good Death movement
In honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance (November 20) Bespoken Bones is showcasing Trans speakers and causes all month. In this episode, Anthony Easton discusses the act of deadnaming, and how the trans community might learn from the good...
10.23.2018
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 us. Join us...
09.26.2018
Episode 36: Radical education, revamping Catholicism, and Ancestral Eros
Practitioner of wonder Lindsay Sudeikis exuberantly riffs on her former life as a nun, the biblical erotic, and what it is to be in love with life while holding a hard line against oppression. She basically smashes patriarchy with every...
09.09.2018
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.
08.27.2018
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...
08.11.2018
Episode 33: Embodied evolutionary history, ancestral movement and deep feeling and healing
Ancestral Movement practitioner Simon Thakur discusses the evolutionary role of empathy, the adaptive qualities of disembodiment, and how moving like our ancestors can heal our grieving hearts.
07.27.2018
Episode 32: Unspelling White Supremacy through Ancestral Storytelling
UK storyteller and activist Elinor Predota discusses the importance of multiplicity of perspectives when learning the stories of our ancestors, who lived rich, multi-faceted lives. Storytelling can be a healing practice that allows the humanity and fullness of our ancestors...

What's Bespoken Bones Podcast about?

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Bespoken Bones Podcast episodes:

Ancestors Song

A message from Pavini about Bespoken Bones

Episode 80: On feeling at home, loving, and letting go

Episode 79: The stigma of drug use and blackness

Episode 78: On oppression, justice, love, patience and what its like to receive the gift of music

Episode 77: The relationship between the body, the nervous system work and the ancestor work

Episode 76: The Practice of Slowing Down

Episode 75: Healing the ancestral wounds

Episode 74: On eldership, ancestral work, blackness, and healing arts practice

Episode 73: Decolonizing Aliveness

Episode 72: Using our bodies to liberate our bodies

Episode 71: Dwelling in the mystery of not knowing

Episode 70: What is the meaning of life?

Episode 69: Magic, art modelling, tokenism, cultural restraints and the activism around gender and sexuality

Episode 68: On weaving the threads of adornment, feminism, storytelling, archaeology, and blackness

Episode 67: On the connection of grief work, erotic embodiment and the intersection of birth and sex work

Episode 66: Playing with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a black feminist

Episode 65: "This harm can be held in a circle and I can address the person who caused this harm with support.": On sexual trauma, restorative justice and empowerment.

Episode 64: Ancestral rites of passage with Darcy Ottey

Episode 63: What happens after you are buried alive? Art, ancestors and black erotic power

Episode 62: Doing the old time spirit work

Episode 61: We are all made of stars: Time travel ancestry

Episode 59: Trans Day of Remembrance 2019

Episode 58: Queer and Trans Ritual Magick as Living Art

Episode 57: "Our grief does not need healing. Our healing needs our grief."

Episode 56: Hunter's Moon with Murphy Robinson

Episode 55: "I want to be an ancestor who makes mistakes." On dying consciously, fierce activism and tender learning to the end.

Episode 54: The gender revolution will be podcasted!

Episode 53: Your Earthly Queer Nature Belongs Here

Episode 52: Creating art with ancestors

Episode 51: The erotic and the ancestors of liberation: Renewing our Activism

Episode 50: Connecting with your animal companions beyond the veil

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

Episode 48: Becoming an emotional grown-up: working with triggers, reactivity & ancestral wounds

Episode 47: Punk rock ancestors, queer creativity and being a gender-free godhead

Episode 46: The intersection of race, sexual violence and healing

Episode 45: Re-Membering our ancestral knowings with our plantcestors

Episode 44: Race and racism in ancestral healing panel discussion

Episode 43: On being Two-Spirit & Ancestor-honoring Dance

Episode 42: Tarot, Ancestors & brilliant Trans elders

Episode 41: "In the context of my ancestors, I make sense." Norse mystery, song as prayer, and seidr initiation

Episode 40: The place for our wounding is the dirt under our feet: Disability justice, embodied activism and taking care of each other

Episode 39: Your trans ancestors and elders hold your activist tender heart

Episode 38: Deadnaming and the Good Death movement

Episode 37: Decolonizing our ancestral body: Answering the ancestral call towards liberation

Episode 36: Radical education, revamping Catholicism, and Ancestral Eros

Episode 35: Communicating through trees: Healing trauma in community

Episode 34: Queer Ancestral Sexual Healing

Episode 33: Embodied evolutionary history, ancestral movement and deep feeling and healing

Episode 32: Unspelling White Supremacy through Ancestral Storytelling