Lilja Þorsteinsdóttir is a Psychologist from Iceland who specialises in group psychedelic integration, healing trauma (and the emotional and physical symptoms in women), harm reduction, and treating addiction and chronic pain and illness. She has created a safe platform full of courses to help people get in touch with their playfulness and creativity, increasing people’s self-understanding and connection with thems elves and the world around them. She offers needed perspective on both the healing potential of psychedelics in psychotherapy and the risks involved. She calls for all involved in facilitation and participation to practice reciprocity with the cultures, medicines and lands that these healing practices derive from.

Book References

How To Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel A. van der Kolk
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Dr. Gabor Maté
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Joya Berrow & Lucy Jane are award winning documentary directors, most notable for their craft of directing authentic human stories with impactful narratives focusing on climate justice, land and ocean regeneration and amplifying marginalised voices in the climate movement. They capture stories that go beyond the typical mainstream media around the climate crisis that often leaves us feeling paralysis and despair. These are stories that can demonstrate and model grass root change and impact in a really beautiful, emotive and real way.

Find their films at therighttoroam.com and follow along on instagram @therighttoroamfilms and @Joyaberrow

Watch EVE via The Guardian

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References:
Films
Food Chains
Gather
Seed: The Untold Story
Fanastic Fungi
Honey Land
Books
Pleasure Activism - Adrienne Maree Brown
Why We Sleep - Dr. Matt Walker
The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel Van Der Kolk
If Women Rose Rooted - Sharon Blackie
Podcast
Beyond The Virus Of Fear And Guilt w/ Dr. Zach Bush MD - Aubrey Marcus

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Karolina Karen is a Tantra Facilitator who shares her healing journey into Tantra and how we may all harness the Tantric art of living and loving holistically. Listen in for practices and insight to help us unblock suppressed emotions, access full pleasure, deepen our relationships, use the medicine of authentic communication and embrace Tantric philosophy in order to help us deconstruct social, cultural and self-made limitations in order to open up the mind, body and soul for a more connected and sensual life - without bypassing the full range of our emotions and lived experience.

This is a special episode recorded in person so if you’d like to tune into the cosy space and watch us in conversation, captured really beautifully by Fernando Sarquis, you can find the filmed version on our YouTube channel - and don’t forget to subscribe whilst you’re there.

Follow Karolina's journey @elfbless on Instagram.

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Andrew Askaripour, also known as Fifth God, is a multidisciplinary creative and ceremonialist from Long Island, New York. With a strong passion for health, spirituality and ceremony, and with a focus on projects and writings that carry themes of self-exploration, vulnerability, ancient wisdom, and self-development, Andrew seeks to depict and work with those who are radically striving for a greater sense of Peace not only within their own lives, but within their communities and relationships as well. Andrew is the host of the Masters of Ceremony Podcast, where he merges the worlds of hip-hop, photography and film, ancient wisdom, plant medicine, and more, in order to educate, inspire, and strengthen his human family. 

Andrew guides us through his path of ceremonial healing and apprenticeship, which he often refers to as the Path of Remembrance. His insight and stories are food for the soul and this conversation is a must listen if you engage or are interested in engaging with ceremony, whether with plant medicines or without.

Find Andrew's work at FifthGod.com and tune into the Masters of Ceremony podcast.

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Bruce Parry is an award winning documentary and film maker, indigenous rights advocate, author and is an explorer of the inner, local and distant realms. His documentary series for the BBC including Tribe, Amazon, and Arctic have shown Bruce exploring extreme environments, living with remote indigenous peoples and highlighting many of the important issues being faced on the environmental frontline. He is the maker of the film Tawai - A voice from the Forest, which takes a philosophical and sociological look at life, through an immersive odyssey to explore the different ways that humans relate to nature and how this influences the way we create our societies. 

Bruce is currently immersed in a project in the UK where he is a part of a small community whose aim is to craft a manifesto for egalitarian living, exploring new ideas around hierarchy, ownership, healing, conflict resolution and decision making, to find ways of living respectfully, regeneratively and wildly with each other and the surrounding local environment.

Recommended Reading:

Feral - George Monbiot
The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber and David Wengrow
A Hunter‑Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century - Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress - Christopher Ryan

This episode contains the song of the Mbendjele women during Massana - find the scene here.

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Jessie White is a self-taught Artist, an apprentice to the Earth and a part time gardener currently living on Salt Spring island, the unceded territory of the coast Salish people in so-called Canada.  She creates unique visionary art as a form of prayer, planting seeds of spells to bring healing to our beautiful and sacred Earth. Her work, which is displayed at @seedsofspells on Instagram, is both diverse and inclusive, portraying a broad spectrum of the feminine vessel, as well as to bring us in deeper relationship to the larger Earth body from which we all belong.  Inspired by the Eros she feels for the web of life and the ancient art of our Neolithic ancestors, as well as the understanding that art belongs to everyone,  she aspires to awaken and empower others to express what the muse beckons from them regardless of skill or training.  

Jessie is the artist for the Sacred Cycles oracle deck which is curated to connect you with the ancient pulse of the Earth’s wisdom through your Sacred Cycles—Moon phases, menstruation, seasons, flora, and fauna, and the passage of time—to seek guidance, deepen your intuition, and honour your body’s wisdom.  You can also join Jessie on her Patreon.

References

Archaeologist and Anthropologist Marija Gimbutas

The Great Cosmic Mother by Barbara Moore and Monica Sjöö

The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller

The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby 

Activist and Author Joanna Macy

Rowen White on Seed Rematriation and Fertile Resistance - For The Wild Podcast

Jessie will soon be co-hosting on the Story Paths podcast.

Jessie also shares beautiful poetry alongside her art and this episode contains some spoken pieces she has created. She has contributed some addition spoken word pieces for our patrons. You can become a podcast patron from £1 a month in exchange for a variety of carefully curated content to enrich your healing and explorative journey. Visit Patreon.com/rootedhealing to help us cover the costs of the show.

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Damon Stanwell-Smith spent 3 years on the British Antarctic Survey base and since became an expert in remote-location research  management in polar, temperate and tropical environments. He has worked in International marine consultancy for the United Nations Environment Program’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre and is is now head of Science and Sustainability for the Norwegian company Viking where he has spent the past 2 years creating first of their kind expedition ships. Damon shares insight around a career in conservation and how the wilderness - in particular Antarctica and the open sea - can shape us and teach us the very essence of our human nature.

Free resources featuring Damon sharing insight and expertise can be found at viking.tv.

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Dorrie Joy is a multidisciplinary artist, ancestral craftswomen, herbalist, space holder and educator.  She guides ancestral drum making workshops amongst many other traditional crafts and her paintings are known for their deeply indigenous intimacy with the ephemerality of life, influenced by her almost 30 years of initiation and intimate training with indigenous women and elders in many areas of ancient craft and ceremony.  Dorrie is a Mother of three and a Grandmother of two and her work is informed by her passion for sustainability, rooted in connection and reciprocity.  This episode features snippets of spoken word and music from Dorrie’s collection of original art and traditional crafts called ‘Thirteen Secrets’, which follows a seasonal and cyclical spiral of becoming and belonging - weaving themes of grief, hope, forgiveness and courage beyond linear time and cultural divides, rooted in our shared memory.  

Snippets from Thirteen Secrets in this episode include ‘Dawn’ with Susie Ro, Ayla Schafer, Helen Knight and ‘Herbs’ with James Watts.

You can find Thirteen Secrets in book form via dorriejoy.co.uk and the accompanying album at dorriejoy.bandcamp.com.

Discover more of Dorrie’s work at dorriejoy.co.uk and find her on instagram at dorrie.joy.

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Nici Harrison is a grief tender, transformational coach and founder of The Grief Space, which invites nurturing reverence for grief, loss and ultimately life itself through grief circles, retreats, workshops, individual sessions and an apprenticeship programme, recognising that now more than ever, the world needs to remember the lost art of grief tending so that we may all open our hearts fully to life and use grief as a beautiful gateway for transformation. 

Recommended reading: The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Francis Weller

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