Center Her Power

On this episode:

Today's Guest

Lottie V. Spady , Community Educator, Wellness Media Maker, and Practicing Herbalist is the founder of Earthseed Detroit, an educational community health program that is focused on imagining and co-creating the afro-future of our health through love, wellness, respect, and deep joy. Earthseed Detroit centers social justice, community empowerment, health, local access and affordability through healthy media making, herbalism for healing, medicinal plant identification, foraging, gardening and the creation of wellness supports such as tea blends, tinctures, elixirs and salves.  Founded in 2014, Earthseed Detroit evolved from fifteen years in Detroit activism, non-profit management, and program direction with workshop facilitation working specifically with children, teens and adults to promote, educate, and empower communities at the intersections of media justice, food justice, environmental justice, community health, and civic engagement. Lottie currently teaches “Do It Yourself Community Health” classes in seasonal plant identification, herbal formulations and medicine making, and wild edible cooking. Other courses include  herbs and tarot, plants as spiritual allies, and self-development through vision collage. She also holds sacred space for nature based healing retreat work, camping/glamping, outdoor education and botanical studies in rural Michigan.

IG - @Earthseed Detroit

www.earthseeddetroit.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e_WyUHIa0Q&t=18s

Sanaa Green is a Divine Feminine spiritual teacher who helps women ascend through Divine Feminine connection. As a Priestess of Lemuria, she helps people connect through Nature, Sound and Belly Dance.  The Center Her Power podcast demonstrates various paths to enlightenment. In 2007, Sanaa began teaching Healing Belly Dance that has evolved in Belly Dance for Earth and Soul, Dance of the Priestess. She reflects and nurtures the divine potential of others. As a descendant Her purpose is to support the reestablishment of the Divine Feminine into our collective consciousness to help balance the legacy of hyper masculinity.

She is a Tantrika, Belly Dance Teacher, Urban Nature Lover, Reiki Master, Feng Shui Consultant, Environmental Educator, Community Activist and a contributing Creative in the Wisdom Institutes’ Passing The Torch Preserving the The Flame non-profit, transformational Womynst program.

Sanaa has been spiritually trained in Black Hat Sect Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui, Reiki, Belly Dance, Dagara Elemental Rituals and more. Her academic training includes; Masters work in Ecopsychology at Naropa University and a BA in Communications from Howard University.

To connect with Sanaa:

website: www.centerherpower.com

Instagram: @centerherpowerpodcast

Twitter: centerherpower1

Facebook: In The Center of Her Power

#divinefeminine #blackhealer #blackgirls #blackwomen #herbalism #blackherbalist #blackLemurian #wishcraft #healing #goddess #detroit #activist

Tantra To Transmute Trauma, A Personal Story

On the first episode of season 2 of Center Her Power Podcast features an experience I (Sanaa Green) had over the last 2 months.  I remembered a Tantric practice and it has changed my life!

You will hear:

How can you tell if your root chakra is flowing?

This is the book I referred to in this section of the episode: 

Anatomy Of The Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power And Healing by Caroline Myss, PH.D.

Host, Sanaa Green

Bio

Sanaa Green is a Divine Feminine spiritual teacher who helps women see their sacred essence through her podcast, Center Her Power and through Belly Dance for Earth and Soul, Dance of the Priestess. She reflects and nurtures the divine potential of others. Her purpose is to support the reestablishment of the Divine Feminine into our collective consciousness to help balance the legacy of hyper masculinity.

She is a Tantrika, Belly Dance Teacher, Urban Nature Lover, Reiki Master, Feng Shui Consultant, Environmental Educator, Community Activist and a contributing Creative in the Wisdom Institutes’ Passing The Torch Preserving the The Flame non-profit, transformational Womynst program.

Sanaa has been spiritually trained in Black Hat Sect Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui, Reiki, Belly Dance, Dagara Elemental Rituals and more. Her academic training includes; Masters work in Ecopsychology at Naropa University and a BA in Communications from Howard University.

Sanaa combines knowledge of energy and nature offers these learnshops plus others upon request:

Belly Dance for Earth And Soul - The dance of the priestess combining, knowledge of the chakras

Spiritual Mysteries of the Earth Elements

When God Was A Woman - The journey of the Divine Feminine from power to desecration and back.

To connect with Sanaa:

website: www.centerherpower.com

Instagram: centerherpowerpodcast

Twitter: centerherpower1

Facebook: In The Center of Her Power

Please share, like, subscribe to the podcast!

#tantra #tantrika #lemuria #divinefeminine #trauma #blackgirls #blackwoman #goddess #blacktrauma

Season 1.5!  LOL!  I thought I was finished with season 1; however, this episode needs to be in season one!  Listen to the introduction for the explanation.

Part II - Learning Their Names

About The Host

Sanaa Green is a spiritual teacher who helps women see their sacred essence. She reflects and nurtures the divine potential of others. Her purpose is to support the reestablishment the Divine Feminine into our collective consciousness and to show the Divine as an accessible state of being in everyday life.

Genealogical research is not connected to any spiritual practice that I know of.  Although it can be a Spirit-filled work.  You don't have to be interested in West African spiritual practice in order to learn from this episode!

ON THIS EPISODE

Earlier this month on Instagram and Facebook, I sent a message to a friend whose mother passed. I mentioned Dia de Los Muertos as a way to offer comfort to her. The post said: "your mother left the world but not you." The Day of the Dead originated with the Aztec culture, and is now a Mexican tradition. Each year at the beginning of November, the living celebrate loved ones who have passed on. This day is becoming more mainstream with local municipalities sponsoring public events. It is a tradition of the Americas that predates US culture.

Africans also have traditions to honor those who have passed into another realm of existence. While I am not initiated into Ifa, the Yoruba spiritual practice that honors ancestors, I have done some research. I am really interested in the role it is playing in the ascension of people on this planet right now. It is a spiritual presence among many African Americans, and therefore it is part of our collective culture.

My guest on this episode and the next episode which is a continuation, is Oya Amakisi.

BIO OF OYA AMAKISI

As an intuitive creative thinker, Pan Afrikan Nationalist, activist, and passionate defender of human rights; Oya Amakisi’s work has spanned diverse platforms ranging from reparations, food/environmental justice, uplifting girl’s and women’s rights, youth development, advocating for political prisoners/prisoners of war to challenging police/extrajudicial murder.  She has used art and activism as a tool to heal, educate and empower by collaboratively working with the community to find solutions on a local, national, and international level for over thirty years.  Amakisi is the founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Women of Color International Film Festival.

Oya and I are both working under a grant with the Wisdom Institute called Passing the Torch Preserving the Flame. Which speaks to our shared commitment to remember our ancestors and be of service in the community. She has been collecting data on her family since she was 13 years old!

#ancesstors #geneology #blackancestors #enslaved #blackgirls #blackmen #blackgeneology #ancestraltrauma #1870census #geneologucalresearch

About The Host

Sanaa Green is a spiritual teacher who helps women see their sacred essence. She reflects and nurtures the divine potential of others. Her purpose is to support the reestablishment the Divine Feminine into our collective consciousness and to show the Divine as an accessible state of being in everyday life. 

This is the last episode for season one of the podcast!  My spirit guides are asking me to go within and I feel like a retreat!  I hope to see you next season!

Contact Sanaa : (after January 20, 2022) at [email protected] or @centerherpowerpodcast.

My guest on this episode is Sarah Mac.  She is a whirlwind of energy who can show creatives and coaches how to tell their own story and build successful businesses.

Here is how she describes her work:

My journey as a writer and mindset coach has been one of fully accepting who I am and sharing that with more consistency, skill and power. What does that even mean? It means: sharing my life stories and showing up publicly (no matter how much I was pooping my pants about it!) has enabled me to double my income 3 years in a row, hitting 6-figures through 100% organic social media marketing – first with my copywriting agency, Juicy Copy, and then through my coaching business, With Sarah Mac.

When I started my online business adventure as a writer, in the foothills of the Himalayas in India in 2015, I had no idea it would lead me here…!

I went from $15 per hour gigs, and teaching myself copywriting, to supporting thousands of digital entrepreneurs to sell offers in their dream businesses, including working with 6- and 7-figure entrepreneurs and best-selling authors.

I ditched an 8-year career working in film crews (followed by a massive burnout, 5 years of chronic fatigue and depression!) and booked a one-way flight to Bali to help my friends with their online business. After that fell apart – and I found myself broke, very ill and unemployed – it took me 3 months to replace my income as a freelance writer taking any job I could get (in between taking a LOT of naps!)

I wanted the freedom to set my own schedule, restore my health, travel where I wanted and contribute to projects I felt were really important. I was done with burnout, being creatively unfulfilled and being treated like a cute, dumb little girl. So I decided to focus on helping women entrepreneurs to make more money by sharing their stories through powerful content.

I hit 6-figures in my business having SO much fun… with travel to 15 countries in 5 years, (including Hawaii, Argentina, Portugal, Mexico and Guatemala) I created more freedom for song writing, performing and music video projects… and had the freedom & flexibility to spend more time with my fiancé while he was going through medical school in the US, with trips home to visit family in England whenever I wanted.

I’m SO grateful for the life that unfolded for me as a result of learning the skill of copywriting and being able to help wonderful people earn more money doing what they love through powerful marketing! And for the mindset tools that enabled me to move past my blocks, resistance, fears and self-doubts and make it happen!

www.withsarahmac.com

Instagram: @withsarahmac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzHwSUdOGYI

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speaking-up-and-overcoming-the-challenges-of/id1540128262?i=1000537111207

On this episode learn little know essential facts about your life and how to use astrology to make it better!

About Our guest:

KELLY’S BIO:

Kelly Beard has been a Shamanic Astrologer since 1996, specializing in cycles & patterns, including personal, social & collective cycles that affect everyone. She teaches that there are many planetary cycles that coincide with natural life cycles which allow us to co-create in mystical, as well as practical ways. Kelly is also a certified Earth Medicine Practitioner dedicated to creating sacred space & custom tools that support the individual’s lifelong journey of self-healing, ongoing education & transformational soul work. In 2022, she is launching her new Soul Sisters Circle with two different focuses. The monthly circle is dedicated to the *Individual Soul Work*, whereas the seasonal circle will be more *Community Ritual & Ceremony* that is dedicated to the Earth and All Life. You can find more at her website.

Astrology ~ www.KarmicTools.com

Earth Medicine ~ www.KellyMBeard.com

Youtube Channel ~ https://www.youtube.com/c/KarmicTools

Instagram ~ https://www.instagram.com/TheSacredSandbox/

December 12 event: "Spinning the Moon with Mother Oshun" Taught by YeYe Luisah Teish  and Kelly Beard

Register at: www.YeYeLuisahTeish.com

About The Host

Sanaa Green is a spiritual teacher who helps women see their sacred essence. She reflects and nurtures the divine potential of others. Her purpose is to support the reestablishment the Divine Feminine into our collective consciousness and to show the Divine as an accessible state of being in everyday life.

She is an Urban Nature Lover, Reiki Master, Feng Shui Consultant, Environmental Educator, Community Activist and a contributing Creative in the Wisdom Institutes’ Passing The Torch Preserving the The Flame transformational womynst program. All of these vocations are tools to express the Creator and fulfill her life purpose.

Sanaa uses her voice to speak resonate energy into the world through Center Her Power Podcast, as well as, a new, 15 minute, podcast called Mawu: Goddess Stories.  The Center Her Power Podcast features interviews with women who are embodying the divine Feminine in various ways.

Sanaa has been spiritually trained in Black Hat Sect Feng Shui, Reiki, Belly Dance, Dagara Elemental Rituals and more. Her academic training includes; Masters work in Ecopsychology at Naropa University and a BA in Communications from Howard University.

Sanaa offers these Learnshops:

Belly Dance for Earth And Soul - Connecting to the Earth as yourself through Belly Dance.

Journey to Purpose - How to discover your purpose and live in it.

When God Was A Woman - The journey of the Divine Feminine from power to desecration and back.

To connect with Sanaa:

website: www.centerherpower

Instagram: centerherpower

Twitter: centerherpower1

Facebook: In The Center of Her Power

This show honors the wisdom of Indigenous Americans of North and South America.  It is important for a woman of African decent living on Indigenous land to honor the history of the United States, especially around Thanksgiving. While the guest on today's show is not from North America and doesn't share the same history, she shares Indigenous wisdom from South America.

Q'ORIANKA

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alturasspiritualjourneys.com

ALTURAS SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS

Q’orianka is an Incan High Priestess,

Medicine Woman & Transformational Guide for awakened women who want to step into their sacred destiny and live with authenticity in their divine essence. She is a Peruvian native with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing earned in Canada. She comes from an ancient healing tradition of the Incan lineage. In her work as a priestess, she continues sharing these ancient spiritual practices and teachings as part of her ancestral legacy. She midwifes the rebirth of women around the world into a bright new life of purpose, and assists priestesses, healers and creatives step into the highest level of leadership through high ceremony based upon traditional Incan and Amazonian plant medicine in sacred retreats in Cusco, Peru and through online retreats and mentoring programs via Alturas Spiritual Journeys.com

Host

Sanaa Green is a spiritual teacher who helps women see their sacred essence. She reflects and nurtures the divine potential of others. Her purpose is to support the reestablishment the Divine Feminine into our collective consciousness and to show the Divine as an accessible state of being in everyday life.

She is an Urban Nature Lover, Reiki Master, Feng Shui Consultant, Environmental Educator, Community Activist and a contributing Creative in the Wisdom Institutes’ Passing The Torch Preserving the The Flame transformational womynst program. All of these vocations are tools to express the Creator and fulfill her life purpose.

Sanaa has been spiritually trained in Black Hat Sect Feng Shui, Reiki, Belly Dance, Dagara African Elemental Rituals and more. Her academic training includes; Masters work in Ecopsychology at Naropa University and a BA in Communications from Howard University.

This episode features another Winged, Women in Nature interview with Stefanie K. Dunning.  Her unique perspective on connecting to nature as a Black person is very thought provoking.

On This Episode

Stefanie K. Dunning is an Associate Professor of English at Miami University. She is a graduate of Spelman College and the University of California, Riverside, and a Ford Fellow. Her first book, Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same-Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture, from Indiana University Press, was published in 2009. Her latest project, Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture from the University Press of Mississippi was published in April 2021. In addition to her published books, she has been published in African American Review, MELUS, Studies in the Fantastic, and other journals and anthologies. She also has a podcast, called Black to Nature: the podcast, available for listening on all major platforms.

About the host:

Host Sanaa Green is Spiritual Royalty, an Indigo Child, descendant of Madagascar and Lemuria, Reiki Practitioner, Ecopyschologist, Community Activist, Environmental Educator, Youth Development Coach, Teacher of Belly Dance for Earth & Soul and Spiritual Thinker.  She is also a graduate of Howard University and a native of Detroit, Michigan.  Contact her at [email protected], www.centerherpower.com OR Instagram@centerherpowerpodcast

Genealogical research is not connected to any spiritual practice that I know of.  Although it can be a Spirit-filled work.  You don't have to be interested in West African spiritual practice in order to learn from this episode! 

ON THIS EPISODE

Earlier this month on Instagram and Facebook, I sent a message to a friend whose mother passed. I mentioned Dia de Los Muertos as a way to offer comfort to her. The post said: "your mother left the world but not you." The Day of the Dead originated with the Aztec culture, and is now a Mexican tradition. Each year at the beginning of November, the living celebrate loved ones who have passed on. This day is becoming more mainstream with local municipalities sponsoring public events. It is a tradition of the Americas that predates US culture.

Africans also have traditions to honor those who have passed into another realm of existence. While I am not initiated into Ifa, the Yoruba spiritual practice that honors ancestors, I have done some research. I am really interested in the role it is playing in the ascension of people on this planet right now. It is a spiritual presence among many African Americans, and therefore it is part of our collective culture.

My guest on this episode and the next episode which is a continuation, is Oya Amakisi.

BIO OF OYA AMAKISI

As an intuitive creative thinker, Pan Afrikan Nationalist, activist, and passionate defender of human rights; Oya Amakisi’s work has spanned diverse platforms ranging from reparations, food/environmental justice, uplifting girl’s and women’s rights, youth development, advocating for political prisoners/prisoners of war to challenging police/extrajudicial murder.  She has used art and activism as a tool to heal, educate and empower by collaboratively working with the community to find solutions on a local, national, and international level for over thirty years.  Amakisi is the founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Women of Color International Film Festival.

Oya and I are both working under a grant with the Wisdom Institute called Passing the Torch Preserving the Flame. Which speaks to our shared commitment to remember our ancestors and be of service in the community. She has been collecting data on her family since she was 13 years old!

Please Like, Subscribe, Write a review and/or contact us on Instagram @centerherpower.  Thanks in advance!

This is a Winged episode featuring one who is bonded to nature, Nayomi Cawthorne

About Nayomi

nayomi is a grower, land steward, and energy worker based in occupied Waawiyatanong, also known as Detroit, Michigan. She is the founder of Root to Bloom, where she offers agricultural consulting, reiki, yoga, and individualized somatic guidance. She has six years of growing experience at high rotation market gardens with herbs, flowers, and produce. Her systems based approach to agriculture centers soil health and food justice. She has trained with farmers and land stewards internationally and has served as a farm manager on three farms. She studied yoga and reiki in Mysore, India and Ayurvedic nutrition and massage in Rishikesh, India. She believes that through reconnection with self and land, we have greater capacity for joy, authentic expression, and collective freedom.

nayomi is femme and non-binary. She is the child of African and Japanese diasporas whose lineages merged on Turtle Island. She has inherited the work of land stewardship and embodiment from her ancestors who are healers, root workers, growers, teachers, warriors, and priestesses. She is thankful to call many places home and currently lives in occupied Waawiyatanong, also known as Detroit, Michigan.

Here are ways folks can connect with Nayomi:

website: rootobloom.earth

instagram: @lostcrafts

From Naomi's website:

About Liberation

We are deeply connected to all of Life. Our liberation from oppressive systems of power includes our reclamation of the power in traditional ways of being—ways that preserve life and celebrate joy, intuition, pleasure, interconnectedness, and difference. Through somatic awareness and mindful relationships to Earth we can cultivate tools for sustainable wellbeing. The body is a system within our ecosystem, connected and complete. Wellness includes practices to connect our minds, bodies, spirits, and land. Our ancestral memory holds tools for us to cultivate greater balance in our relationships to ourselves and our communities of human and other-than-human life.

Bio

Sanaa Green is a spiritual teacher who helps women see their sacred essence. She reflects and nurtures the divine potential of others. Her purpose is to support the reestablishment the Divine Feminine into our collective consciousness and to show the Divine as an accessible state of being in everyday life.

She is an Urban Nature Lover, Reiki Master, Feng Shui Consultant, Environmental Educator, Community Activist and a contributing Creative in the Wisdom Institutes’ Passing The Torch Preserving the The Flame transformational womynst program. All of these vocations are tools to express the Creator and fulfill her life purpose.

Sanaa uses her voice to speak resonate energy into the world through Center Her Power Podcast, as well as, a new, 15 minute, podcast called Mawu: Goddess Stories.  The Center Her Power Podcast features interviews with women who are embodying the divine Feminine in various ways.

Sanaa has been spiritually trained in Black Hat Sect Feng Shui, Reiki, Belly Dance, Dagara Elemental Rituals and more. Her academic training includes; Masters work in Ecopsychology at Naropa University and a BA in Communications from Howard University.

In this episode:

Kiyaa Lawrence Faluade (Iya Ifafunmilola) is the General Manager of Yogaskills Atlanta.  She was initiated to Ifa in 2018 and her life has changed dramatically every since.  She met and married her husband, became the Iya, mother of an Ifa temple and began to understand why she was given such unique names.  She hated her names as a child and now she has evolved to living into the meanings of all of her names.  

Iya Ifafunmilola Faluade talks candidly about this spirit-filled life path that has transported her to the realization of African roots, literally.  She knows who she is not through saliva spit into a DNA test tube, but through divination and her connection to Ifa.

About Her Business

YogaSkills is a method  of yoga practice created by Yirser Ra Hotep (Elvrid Lawrence) that emphasizes creating healthful and healing conditions in our body, mind and bio-electric energy systems as opposed to extreme gymnastic and contortionist postures that often cause injury, and result in useless competitive mindsets that plague the commercial Yoga industry today.

The YogaSkills Method is based on Kemetic Yoga™, the modern version of an ancient system originating from Kemet - the original name of the land now called Egypt. Kemetic Yoga  was developed from primary research conducted by Dr. Asar Hapi and Yirser Ra Hotep (Elvrid Lawrence) of Chicago during the 1970s.

The YogaSkills Method is a healing and regenerative yoga system that is characterized by a series of geometrically progressive postures that creates alignment of the spinal column and corrects defects in the skeletal-muscular system in order to relieve stress, increase blood circulation, nutrients and oxygen supply to vital body systems. It also allows cerebrospinal fluid to flow more efficiently and abundantly throughout the entire body and enhances our internal life force energy. Through utilizing YogaSkills, practitioners develop specialized yoga skills that can be applied in many lifetime events.

Upcoming Events

Learn Kemetic Yoga in Egypt - November 24 - December 5, 2021

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Healing Sun Kemetic Yoga Retreat and Teacher Training - January 19-27, 2022

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NEW Podcast Coming! 

Mawu: Goddess Stories

Sanaa Green is a spiritual teacher who helps women see their sacred essence. Her purpose is to support the reestablishment the Divine Feminine into our collective consciousness and to show the Divine as an accessible state of being in everyday life.

She is a Reiki Master, Feng Shui Consultant, Environmental Educator, and Community Activist. All of these vocations are tools to express the Creator and fulfill her life purpose.

I want to hear from you!  Please like, follow, subscribe to the podcast! 

Email me at: [email protected] 

Instagram - @centerherpower