In this Menstrual Magic Moon Day conversation, I interviewed my friend Cera — a clinical herbalist, medicine maker, abortion doula, and fertility awareness educator living on Ohlone land in the East Bay, California. Cera shares their path into herbalism, abortion support, and cycle tracking, weaving in stories of ancestral guidance, plant allies, self-love, connecting with the elements of nature, and community care.

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For this new episode of the Infinite Earth Body podcast - Menstrual Magic Moon Day, my dear friend Silvia interviewed me!

I was excited to share my stories about:

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This episode features Silvia Canelón (she/her), a queer Latina data scientist and body literacy advocate based in Philadelphia. Silvia weaves together her passion for reproductive justice, relational power dynamics, and fertility awareness to support reclaiming autonomy through cycle tracking.

In this episode, we explore:

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In this episode, I interviewed my beloved friend, aesha rasheed, an incredible body worker and healer, ritual worker and spiritual organizer in service to community wellness, earth stewardship and in support of movements for liberation.

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In this episode, I interviewed my beloved friend and creative collaborator, Ev Marquee, and amazing Visual Artist, Self-Healing Guide, and Guardian devoted to embodied transformation and the ascension of Pachamama. 

With years of study in quantum healing, psychology, and ancient shamanic traditions, she guides and teaches others how to heal, protect their energy, and embody their highest selves.

Through energy work mentorship, past life regression, guided quantum healing, and creative offerings, her work is devoted to beauty, sovereignty, and the activation of our personal Heaven on Earth. 

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In this episode I interviewed my dear friend and creative collaborator, désirée freda, an artist and self healing guide. offering frequencies of embodied joy, beauty, and peace through sacred song, intuitive movement and quantum healing, past life regression and earth based ritual.

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In this episode of Infinite Earth Body, I interviewed my beloved friend and embodiment teacher, MawuLisa Thomas-Adeyemo. MawuLisa is a community based healing midwife, somatic bodyworker, embodiment coach, song weaver, lover of nature & Spirit, a lifelong student of the Healing Arts, and an initiated Diviner & Orisha Priest.

We talked about:

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:06:00 What does healing mean to MawuLisa

00:08:00 MawuLisa’s personal journey of healing through decolonizing spirituality

00:10:00 What embodiment means to MawuLisa

00:13:00 How MawuLisa’s work as a healer began with running rape crises centers

00:19:00 Working with trauma patterns at the level of the body

00:20:00 Working with Generative Somatics

00:22:00 Working with the gut brain and the heart in addition to the head brain

00:23:00 How MawuLisa maintains self-care and joy through doing trauma healing work

00:29:00 How everyone is impacted by the trauma of colonization and being disconnected from our bodies and nature

00:33:00 Honoring our trauma patterns as part of our body’s wisdom through parts work

00:37:30 How individual healing and collective healing and movements for liberation are completely connected

00:40:00 MawuLisa’s understanding of the what Somatics means

00:42:00 How earth based spirituality is part of social justice work

00:48:00 Learning from the wisdom of nature, including learning strategy from ants

00:51:00 How we can all tap into seeing what is holy and sacred all around us and honor the divinity in oneself and everything

00:53:00 What it means to MawuLisa to be a spiritual midwife

00:58:00 The power of repetition and practice

01:02:00 The importance and power of song as medicine for MawuLisa

01:06:00 How music is connected to the movement for liberation

01:10:00 Ways that MawuLisa finds pleasure in her body

01:17:00 MawuLisa sings the ancestor song

In this episode of Infinite Earth Body, I interviewed my dear friend and Qi Gong Teacher, Terna Tilley-Gyado. Terna is also a life coach and Jin Shin Jyutsu - Facilitator Healer, and has experience working as a clinical trauma responder, writer, performer, and has master’s degrees in counseling and global mental health, among many other realms of deep study and practice.

Terna shared about:

• Tapping into deeper awareness and subtle energies in your body

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00:00:00 Intro, Terna Bio, and Welcome

In this episode of Infinite Earth Body, I interviewed my long-time friend, Stacy, an amazing community organizer, abolitionist, healer, musician, and educator.

We talked about:

You can connect with Stacy and listen to her music here:

http://www.instagram.com/erengbergstacy

https://stacyrene.bandcamp.com/album/and-so-it-is

https://open.spotify.com/artist/36VcsF7u2ETcf4yMmi35Cq?si=Ih5GihwxTtqEfvJ4A67oSw

https://www.facebook.com/stacyrenemusic

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Thanks to Mara Lazer for help with editing!

Chapters:

00:02:30 Stacy sharing about the connection between feeling nervous and the gut

00:04:30 Finding pleasure through rest & singing

00:07:30 Breaking out of generational body trauma

00:10:00 Movement practices outside of ableism & trying to look a certain way

00:12:00 Self-soothing with singing, even in public!

00:14:30 Voice as a manifestation of your spirit

00:15:30 Finding freedom of expression through the voice

00:24:30 Everything is a practice, just keep showing up over and over

00:27:30 Stacy’s journey through organizing healing community spaces, working as a healer, navigating boundaries & self-care

00:35:30 Going through the major life transition, death-rebirth process into motherhood

00:41:00 When Maya and Stacy were first learning about fertility awareness (cycle tracking)  for contraception

00:46:00 Stacy supporting Maya on the path of popular education

00:51:30 Stacy’s experience with the magic of the menstrual cycle, birth, & feeling tapped into goddess energy

00:54:30 The healing powers of water & sauna

00:58:00 Where to find Stacy online & hear her music

In this episode, I interviewed Mercedez, who's mission is to create a safe space for massage that's accessible in all the ways she can make it: compassionate, understanding, trauma informed, consent based, queer, and all gender friendly, body positive, and disability friendly.

Mercedez aims to to make receiving bodywork a priority and not a privilege as a woman of color, a person who has experienced trauma, body shaming and queer phobia herself.

We talked about:

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https://www.massagebymercedez.com/

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Thanks to Mara Lazer for help with editing/producing!

00:00:00 Opening & Intro

00:04:00 How Mercedez got into massage therapy

00:05:00 What Mercedez has learned through her journey as a body worker

00:06:00 How Mercedez tries to make her bodywork sessions accessible to all genders, bodies, and abilities?

00:09:30 Healing through giving and receiving body work

00:12:40  What healing has looked like for Mercedez

00:14:00 Mercedez’s experiences in fat liberation activism

00:17:50 Care work with all ages, from birth to end of life

00:22:00 Mercedez’s experience with end of life care for her Grandma

00:28:00 Mercedez’s story from childhood growing up with fat positive family experiences, then facing fat phobia in school

00:31:00 Exploring questions of gender identity and sexuality as a young queer child and coming into more comfort in her body in a young adulthood through the support of community

00:33:00 How body work can change your experience in your body, even feet!

00:34:00 How grief can change how you feel in your body

00:37:00 Feeling in awe of what the body can do despite injuries and changing abilities

00:38:00 Feeling pleasure in your body through community, getting your heart rate up, eating, being in water, decadent baths

00:43:00 How to connect with Mercedez to book or sponsor a massage

00:45:00 Closing