Episode 8: Healing with Flower Essences with guest Liz Migliorelli Liz Miglorielli is a herbalist, flower essence practitioner, magick maker and witch.  She is the proprietress of Sister Spinster flower essences, teaches a variety of medicine making classes in addition to her Folk Medicine & Magic of Old Europe, and offers in-person and online consults. I first heard about Liz while hiking with a midwife friend; the friend told me about a class being offered at Ancestral Apothecary about connecting with the folk healing traditions of Old Europe.  My whole being lit up when I heard that–that feeling inside when everything goes YES! I want some of that! I stumbled upon Liz’s work again at Homestead Apothecary, my favorite place for herbal-magical everything, where I bought a few of her flower essences.  As you might imagine, I loved them, so when I saw an opportunity to take a flower essence making class with her I signed up.  That class didn’t happen for logistical reasons, but since I had a refund coming to me I and I really really wanted to meet her, I booked a one-on-one appointment . . . and after a wonderful session convinced her to let me record not one but two podcasts! In this second podcast with Liz we talk about flower essences: what they are, why they’re awesome, and how to use them! They are one of my favorite healing tools that are safe, simple yet effective for folks to use in everyday life. If you missed my first episode with Liz about the importance of connecting to our ancestral European wisdom  for our own well-being, as well as the well-being of our world, you can listen here.   by

Exploring Our Ancestral European Wisdom: Episode 7 with Liz Migliorelli Liz Miglorielli is a herbalist, flower essence practitioner, magick maker and witch.  She is the proprietress of Sister Spinster flower essences, teaches a variety of medicine making classes in addition to her Folk Medicine & Magic of Old Europe, and offers in-person and online consults. I first heard about Liz while hiking with a midwife friend; she told me about a class being offered at Ancestral Apothecary about connecting with the folk healing traditions of Old Europe.  My whole being lit up when I heard that–that feeling inside when everything goes YES! I want some of that!  I stumbled upon Liz’s work again at Homestead Apothecary, my favorite place for herbal-magical everything, when I bought a few of her flower essences.  As you might imagine, I loved them, so when I saw an opportunity to take a flower essence making class with her.  That class didn’t happen for logistical reasons, but since I had a refund coming to me I and I really really wanted to meet her, I booked a one-on-one appointment . . . and after a wonderful session convinced her to let me record not one but two podcasts! In this first podcast with Liz we talk about connecting with our European roots and why that’s important not only for our own well-being, but the well-being of our world.  Liz shares her own journey in opening up to her intuition, dreams, plants and ancestors, and offers ways to begin exploring for yourself. In a few weeks I’ll release our second recording, all about flower essences–what they are, why they’re awesome, and how to use them!   by

Episode 6: Seeds & Cycles with April McMurtry A Bay Area native, April McMurtry is a multipassionate artist and educator, mama of two daughters, and the creatrix of the New Moon Calendar Journal.  I met April several years ago when she was gifted a bodywork session with me.  This Spring she contacted me about her New Moon Calendar Journal, and it was a mutual lovefest that ended in us both wanting to interview each other! So in this episode you get to hear us geek out about the moon, cycles, seeds and why her calendar journal is so amazingly awesome! You can see more about April and her creation at Radiant Thread, where you can also sign up for her moonletter, offering insights into living in tune with the cycle.     See more about April, the New Moon Calendar Journal, and the Moonletter at Radiant Thread <3   by

Creating Beauty, episode 5 In episode 5 of my Ripe Fruit Women Podcast we mix it up! I talk with special guest Jenna Forder, artist, creative facilitator, doula and mamapreneur/owner of Big Spirit Studio. We discuss art, creativity, the necessity of beauty and how we can make beauty out of brokenness. We also share information about our upcoming personal altar building workshop, Devotion ~ Vision ~ Celebration, happening in Oakland June 12-13.   by

Taking Down the Wall Between Pleasure & Life (episode 4)   In this episode I talk about why we must connect to our pleasure in order to live the dream of a joyful, connected and love-filled life. ~~~ If you’re ready to learn how to navigate life from your compass of pleasure, join me for my 21 day online course, Wild, Tender Goddess: Taking Down the Wall Between Pleasure and Life, starting June 1st.  You’ll receive daily lessons in your inbox~short but potent steps to transform through pleasure~as well as a private Facebook group and 2 group coaching calls for extra support. You can start growing the seeds of your heart’s desire now! This course is offered at a variety of payment levels to make it accessible to all women <3.  May we all have enough and know we are enough!   by

Last episode we discussed the first four elements of creating a strong foundation to grow our seed dreams: groundedness, energy flow and humor. This episode we’ll cover the last four:  self compassion and witnessing, titration, co-creative relationship and personal practice. Love, Ursula P.S. All the awesome stuff I mentioned: Dove, One Beautiful Thought Campaign http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/03/16/dove-one-beautiful-thought_n_6880918.html   This guy did one push-up a day for a year . . . http://deepexistence.com/take-the-one-push-up-challenge/   Mario Martinez, The Mind-Body Code http://www.biocognitive.com/   Tami Simons of Sounds True interviews Mario Martinez http://www.soundstrue.com/store/weeklywisdom?page=single&category=IATE&episode=10111   Feminine Power http://femininepower.com/online-course/free-online-class/   Women on the Edge of Evolution http://www.womenontheedgeofevolution.com/conference/   Jean Shinoda Bolen, The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and the World http://www.millionthcircle.org/JSB/mc.html   by

Last week I invited you to begin contemplating your place in the natural world, and why pleasure is the key to growing the seeds of love, beauty and intimacy already present inside you. This week and next I am going to lay out what creates a strong foundation.  A strong foundation will give you sustenance to draw on–you can think of this as making the ground of your body and soul fertile and ready to grow your dream seeds. Enjoy part 1 of Fertile Ground!   Notes from the show: Here is a picture of the altar I built, “The Holy Wow”

For over ten years I have been asking myself these questions: How is it that women access healing and empowerment around their erotic energy? What is the portal that they feel permission to enter? And what makes it meaningful, appealing, safe?  ~ In those 10+ years I have grown so much. I trained and worked as a bodyworker and doula. I explored the world of sacred sexuality through personal experience, workshops and a sacred intimacy practice. I gave birth to two children, got married and became part of a women’s circle that has made an unbelievable amount of personal growth possible over 4.5 years. You have grown, too, and the world has changed right along with us.  All of us, women and men, can see that a new way of being is needed, one where personal power is in harmony, and ultimately in service to, planetary well-being. However, I see women having a specific experience, one where they feel the beginnings of that new way and want to bring it forth, but aren’t sure how: We are carrying seeds.   Seeds of love, intimacy, health, well-being and interconnectedness. We can’t give these seeds to other people to grow for us–we must grow them in the fertile ground of our own bodies and souls, and that ground is made fertile by the fundamental presence of our own erotic energy.   It is time to claim our pleasure to ripen our potential for love, joy and intimacy, creating a healthy, happy self, community and world. ~ In service to the cultivation of your fertile ground, I have three things to share with you today. The first is episode one of my new podcast, Ripe Fruit Women.  It’s the […]