Female Frequency Podcast

Every bone in your body is a creative bone. Shiloh Sophia, creative trailblazer and co-founder of MUSEA: Center for Intentional Creativity and Consciousness, will tell you: art isn't the point – it's the pathway – and we all have it within us. Creativity is not only a catalyst for divine consciousness, it's the conduit. The iconoclast dedicates her life to teaching others how to access our innate power to enter into deeper relationship with nature, heal, and remake our world. For over two decades she's proudly walked off the beaten path: from eschewing smug art school views, to hosting her own first art exhibit, to showcasing the artworks of hundreds of women in the galleries she's opened since. Explore the way she's teaching others how to bring creativity, and the divine feminine, into their lives. Learn more about her intentional workshops, inviting deeper experiential consciousness and embodying the vibrational energy, agency and intentions of life forces in our environment. Along with breaking the molds of dominant art structures, Shiloh restores our enchantment and romance with sacred feminine forms. The Center for Intentional Creativity activates diverse fields of creative consciousness tuning as the many hats Shiloh wears, including painter, poet, and cosmic cowgirl.

4 Things you'll learn in this episode:

1. MUSEA - stands for museum, university, sanctuary, ecosphere and atelier/apothecary. The 6500 sqft Center for Intentional Creativity, tucked in the redwoods of Sonoma, is home to vital forms of creative empowerment and consciousness activation.
2. Using organic materials, such as natural earth pigments, oyster shells and biodegradable paper, Shiloh writes love letters to the earth.
3. Women represent 50% of artists, but less than 3% of women artists are represented in galleries and museums, as of 2020.
4. How creativity can enhance heart-brain-hand coherence, allowing you to enter deep flow states.

To explore the Center for Intention Creativity and Consciousness offerings or take a complimentary creativity course, learn more at musea.org

To find out more about Jodie Nelson and Female Frequency workshops go to pressreign.com and [email protected]

"You gotta find the river. You gotta jump in." Liz Childs Kelly, bristling with aliveness, rewilds us to discover the divine feminine inside us and all around us. The researcher and educator, host of Home To Her podcast and award-winning author of Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine shares her own feral journey. From wearing a pair of red patent leather pumps as the uncomfortable CEO of her business consulting company, to a soul-baring encounter with Polynesian navigators that changed the course of her life forever. Liz tuned into the female frequency to find her herstory. You're invited: stray from hyperational, linear paths to discover deeper, more curious and complete ways of being in the world. We dive into how patriarchal strictures have robbed us of so much richness and our divine heritage. We reroot relationships, find magic in the everyday, and ground-truth powerful connections to place. We explore a different language of the body and its signal processing for us to rejoin the sacred feminine. We reculture words and retrace etymologies that honor the goddess and the bitch! Join us in a movement to recall and reconnect with the ancient, divine force whose creative wisdom empowers us to heal ourselves, our communities, and our planet from within.

4 Things you'll learn in this episode:

1. Pacific Islander wayfinders could sail thousands of miles on open ocean voyages without the use of any modern instrumentation because they exist in such deep relationship with the natural world — reading the wind, swells, birds, clouds, stars, "attuned to the wisdom of their own hearts."
2. Learning the language of the body requires us to quiet the mind to listen to the indwelling presence of the divine feminine god within us.
3. The bone that both Liz Childs Kelly and I have to pick with the patriarchal descriptors of the oldest known image of a woman giving birth, found in the Musée d'Aquitaine in Bordeaux, France.
4. Before its vulgarization, "son of a bitch" was used to refer, respectfully, to the followers of the goddess Diana.

To explore deeper sacred feminine connections and practices, listen to Liz Child Kelly's podcast: home-to-her.captivate.fm; read her book: hometoher.com/home-to-her-book; join her course: hometoheracademy.com

To find out more about Jodie Nelson and Female Frequency workshops go to pressreign.com and [email protected]

What if the mountains, rivers and plants are, in fact, our living ancestors? What if the land and forests are relatives, and not "resources" to extract and exploit? How would that knowledge inform the way we act moving forward?

Get ready to explore your inner forests as we dive deep with Osprey Orielle Lake—international activist, changemaker, and author of The Story in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. A game changer in the canon of ecofeminism, Osprey draws on decades of her experience as founder and director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) to bring forth the embodied solutions and stories we need to hear now more than ever. Osprey's work teases out the root causes of our modern disease—the harmful dominant worldviews of patriarchy, white supremacy, human dominion over nature, and separation from a living Earth. She maps possible paths forward by retracing our origin stories back to ancient, life-sustaining principles. The Story in Our Bones looks to the marrow of things. Literally, we are made of stardust. We evolved from our elemental, plant, and animal ancestors as part and particle of one miraculous lifesystem. Osprey reminds us that within our bones "is a place of world-making, of creativity," regenerative energy, and healing forces. From the atomic to the cellular views, Osprey takes us into more expansive knowledge systems that restore our kinship to this animate cosmology. How can remembering our earth lineage, the awe within our bodies, influence our policies, social structures and daily choices? Learn how we can be a life-enhancing, rather than life-destroying, species by returning to our origins and lifting women's voices. Join us in summoning a new paradigm for being in the Anthropocene and beyond.

4 Things you'll learn in this episode:

1. How both Osprey and I have been influenced by female iconography: sculptures that have led us to be curious and ask more questions about sacred connections. Osprey recounts that what started it all for her was a black clay statue of a goddess holding a stalk of corn in one hand, and the moon in the other. The circular nature between women, earth, protection, and planting began to emerge for her at the age of 8.
2. Systemic gender inequality means that women are impacted "first and worst" by environmental degradation, but women are also proving to be the keystone to the solutions we need.
3. In the Itombwe Rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a community of women earth defenders have created nurseries and reforested swaths of devastated lands with hundreds of thousands of trees – all by hand, without any technical equipment, in the course of 8 years.
4. 80 percent of the biodiversity left on earth is in the lands and hands of indigenous peoples who are stewarding them.

To buy her book and go deeper, visit: ospreyoriellelake.earth. To stimulate further thought and action, check out the reader's guide: ospreyoriellelake.earth/readers-guide

To find out more about Jodie Nelson and Female Frequency workshops go to pressreign.com and instagram.com/pressreign

Angelica Trimble Yanu's artworks embody an epic journey of healing through honoring her Oglala Lakota roots in profound ways. In this tender conversation, she shares how her printmaking and site-specific sculptures reclaim sacred relationships to the earth as they carry the creative lives of her ancestors through layers of time and space. Angelica's art is collaborative – with family or dynamic landscape (and the Great Spirit that lives in all the mountains, hills and lakes). Her works reference sacred sites in South Dakota, and implicitly resist a history of displacement, silencing and erasure. Her intentional titles draw from the poems of her sister, a native poet, to continue a tradition of cultural transmission. She refines her palette to the four Lakota colors to harness the power of their cosmology, as invocation and homage. Weaving the rich visual and oral languages of Lakota knowledge systems in her art, Angelica restores the wisdom, stories and voices of her ancestors for this contemporary moment. Explore the way her creative practice forges paths for healing, forgiveness, and grace. Discover how, beneath it all, is a fierce life celebration.

4 Things you'll learn in this episode:

1. Until the late '70s, it was illegal for Lakota peoples to create, hold ceremonies, or speak their language.
2. Find out how the sacred directions are included in her color palette. She was taught that the ancestors are drawn to the color red, often used in regalia and beadwork for this purpose. Angelica also uses red in her art as a powerful call to them.
3. The star tattooed on her throat, signifying the Lakota peoples, the Star Nation, is a reminder of "where we came from," and to continue learning the language and speaking from a place of truth.
4. The historical, contemporary and futurist converged when Angelica had to learn how to use AI tools to scale her work to fit the expansive space of the flagship Google store.

Explore Angelica Trimble Yanu's art and discover a sense of awe: instagram.com/angelicayanu and angeltrimbleyanu.com

To find out more about Jodie Nelson and Female Frequency workshops go to pressreign.com and instagram.com/pressreign

From goddess to harlot — Dr. Joanna Kujawa ballbusts the patriarchal myths that strip women of their sexuality, and ultimately, their spiritual power. In her scintillating scholarship, The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge, the spiritual detective unravels ancient esoteric traditions honoring connections between female sexuality and divine power — and how they were pushed to the shadows. For Joanna, religious portrayals of women were too idealized, desexualized (or debased), and incomplete; this spurred two decades of research to recover a long lineage of priestesses who invoke the primordial alchemy of eros. Learn how "bliss consciousness" forms a path to cosmic consciousness, our greatest creative prowess. Discover what it means to live at your "highest octave" and operate from your highest self. Go beyond archetypes. Dr. Kujawa insists: honor yourself, you are the other goddess, and embrace transformative power.

4 Things you'll learn in this episode:

1. There is no scriptural evidence that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. Gnostic gospels do reveal Mary Magdalene to not only be Jesus' most advanced disciple, but also his erotic partner.

2. Sexuality is not sin. Sin is a consequence of choices based on acting from our lowest self – jealousy, fear, insecurity…

1. Creative paths require creative practice. Make yourself available. Get up, show up, invoke the powers, and plunge in.

2. Claim your path, whatever that may be. Claim yourself.

Explore her talks, workshops and buy her book, The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge at www.joannakujawa.com.

Joanna's Instagram is www.instagram.com/drjoannakujawa.theothergoddess

Find out more about Jodie Nelson and Female Frequency workshops at www.pressreign.com and www.instagram.com/pressreign.

How is your heart today? YogaTara, founder & director of the Isha Institute, tends deeply to the expansion of our incandescent hearts. In 1996, she turned from the hard science branch of biochemistry towards whole-body, whole-life sciences of yoga, ayurveda and somatic experience. Join us on this journey: from our first meeting in the rapids of the Marsyangdi River in Nepal, to her ongoing path of helping people access their capacity for healing and joy. She demystifies yoga: it's not about postures or breathing, or even enlightenment, but the harmony of the head, the heart, the hands. Gain insight into what she calls a "beautiful science of radical acceptance" and awareness as we discuss intuition versus impulse. Explore ways to access other forms of intelligence through female frequencies of slowness, softness and surrender – which is not without its own forms of daring and courage. Learn how Shakti, or manifestations of heart-centered, divine feminine energy in the world, can rebalance the masculine "top-heavy" bias towards intellect to help us find our true life flow rather than just hurtle ahead.

4 Things you'll learn in this episode

1. Heart intelligence, or pure awareness, will lead us on the pilgrimages that reveal our real life paths, usually off the beaten or certain tracks. But the heart never leads us astray.

1. Joy, and our immense capacity for joy, is the true outcome of yogic practice that aligns our various dimensions into a connected life ecosystem.

2. If Shiva is the masculine force of pure consciousness, then Shakti manifests as the dynamic, divine feminine energy that gives earthly forms to it.

1. How to grow the feminine powers of intuition and knowing through softness, heart listening, and openness.

You can find out about Yogatara's workshops on https://www.isha-institute.com and on her instagram @isha_inspired

To join a Female Frequency creative workshop or find out more about me, Jodie Nelson, hit https://pressreign.com. and on instagram @pressreign

Jody Sperling connects human bodies and earth ecologies in mesmerizing movement. As part of a communication team on a polar science mission in 2014, she translated climate phenomena into haunting dances at the edge of the earth – the arctic ocean to be precise. Ice Floe captures her performance on thin sheets of unmoored sea ice: the morphology and dynamics of a vanishing world. Jody shares her artist's journey aboard the science research vessel – and the origins of ecokinetics – in which human movement acts as conduits for environmental systems. Explore her drive to create transportive vehicles that embody natural phenomena, and the stories in their wake. Learn how her collaboration with ecoacoustics composer, Matthew Burtner, nurtured kinetic responses to deeper earth processes in American Elm and Arbor. Be astonished. As founder and artistic director of Time Lapse Dance, Jody and her all-female ensemble expand time-space for us to explore kinship with life forces within our more-than-human ecosystems.

4 Things you'll learn in this episode:

1. How sea ice is structurally akin to human bone in formation

2. The way Jody expands the technological genius of modern dance pioneer, Loie Fuller, into contemporary environmental forms

3. While women are taught to take up less space, the massive structures of her dance costumes provide apparatus for women to take up more space as they embody powerful, natural forces

4. Just how playful and provocative a "pile of garbage" can be when Jody Sperling and her troupe take their activation to the streets

Be sure to watch these Jody Sperlings performances on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2gkt8RPLqGal_CYBJ4-pEQ

To book a performance contact Jodie Sperling directly on https://www.timelapsedance.com/

To find out more about Jodie Nelson and Female Frequency workshops go to www.pressreign.com and instagram @pressreign

Victoria Zaitz didn't find it strange that her grandmother could stop watches with her mind or talk to dead relatives; she sensed otherworldly beings even as a baby in the crib. This spiritual psychologist, intuitive development teacher and multigenerational psychic now helps people find their own intuition and courage in connection with feminine earth energies. With a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Psychology and a Masters in Women's Studies, Victoria talks about nurturing spiritual power in body-based practices, and repairing the split of body and spirit perpetuated by patriarchal religion. Victoria shares her own serpentine path to kundalini awakening of the "coiled" primordial life force within. We explore the many faces of the divine feminine, from Mother Mary to Kālī, Lakshmi, Brigid and more. We dive into Grandmother Spider medicine, animal guides and shamanic calling. Discover everyday ritual, manifestation and magic-making that reclaims the sacred feminine in ecology. Learn how to invite and embody earth goddess energy in your own life.

4 things you will learn in this episode:

1. The life force referred to as a "Kundalini Awakening" is often experienced as a coiled snake unfurling.

2. The divine feminine shows up in many forms, from Mother Mary to Kālī, Lakshmi, Brigid and more, across the world

3. Slow down to recognize the magic in the everyday

4. Connecting with spirit guides, like Grandmother Spider, can help manifest the life of your dreams.

Visit her website to book a session with Victoria. Stay connected with her on Instagram to find an intuitive workshop and gain transformative insight.

What happened to our goddesses and grandmothers? Meet Max Dashu, founder of Suppressed History Archives, who since 1970 has been compiling one of the most comprehensive cross-cultural collections of documentation on female heritage throughout human history. Her research digs into archeological records, petroglyphs, paintings, iconography, orature, and other visual testimonies to women as culture makers and agents for the earth. Listen as we unpack her newest work, Women in Greek Mythography: Pithias, Melissae and Titanides, and learn about oracular women and priestess traditions that preceded the Olympian pantheon. Max unearths older, nature-based matriarchal societies across the world that existed before ideas shaped by colonialism and statehood dominated the cultural imagination. We explore ancient manifestations of snake women, bird women, bee women – not as portends of trickery, but as portals of truths and divine forces of nature. She traces the way sexual politics and patriarchal representations limited what female forms and their stories could be: as sacral, venerated, lifegiving potency. Explore how her work prevents the erasure of women and their contributions. Join us to reroot, recontextualize and restore women's legacy from the misdemeanors of history.

4 things you will learn in this episode:

1. We traverse the Paleolithic to Roman and Classical periodsand find compelling visual evidence of women's contributions throughout time.

2. The Melissae women were connected to divine forces of nature through the bees.

3. How Venus Impudique got its name and how the iconic Venus of Willendorf represents so much more than just fertility.

4. How the female form was sculpted in the paleolithic period versus the defensive positioning depicted through the renaissance.

See her articles, webcasts, and open-access videos to go deeper.

In this illuminating conversation, eco fiction author Monica McDowell subverts archaic notions of the profound and the profane. Her award-winning novel, Girl With a Gift, is a riveting ecofeminist saga that weaves connections between women and spirituality in a moment of cultural and climate crisis. Whereas traditional patriarchal theology tends to honor the spirit and debase the body as "dirty,", Monica's modern work restores the sacred, divine feminine power to the corporeal and the earth. Gain insight into the ecological drive behind her liberation theology: how the honoring of women is the honoring of the earth. Dive into Monica's role as a whistleblower on sexual misconduct in her own church, and how that fueled her commitment to truthtelling as forms of dignity, healing and courage. Learn about a curious creative process that involves lucid dreaming, meditation, breathwork, and "turtle steps." See how a timely coming-of-age story can help us realize the everyday magic within ourselves to heal our planet.

4 things you will learn in this episode:

1. Learning to not judge yourself can be a great lesson. Instead, observe your own talents.

2. Obstacles come up during the creative process. She recognized certain signs and resistance in her body to ultimately craft her specific writing style – which sometimes meant just 5 minutes a day!

3. Monica's theology is based in ecology and the need to restore the feminine

4. Telling the truth is healing: Monica shares her whistleblowing experience.

Go to Monica McDowell's website to learn about her workshops and purchase her book: https://www.monicamcdowell.com/books

This episode is proudly sponsored by Earth Creative, using the power of the arts

to raise awareness about climate change to advance climate justice for all.