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In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with Liz Migliorelli, also known as Sister Spinster. Liz is a Flower Essence Practitioner, herbalist, educator and storyteller who lives in the Hudson Valley of New York on Munsee-Lenape-Esopus lands. Liz’s work is informed by the old folk magic and medicine of her ancestors. 

Liz has an active clinical practice where she works with folks one-on-one in collaboration with the plants. Her work as a clinical and community herbalist involves medicinal herbs, flower essences, personal ritual and nutritional recommendations in a harm-reduction framework. For over ten years, she has been teaching classes on medicine making, folk magic traditions, storytelling, hearth-culture, ancestral remembrance and mythopoetic herbalism. 

A few sentences from her website which made me smile: Liz belongs to a lineage of spinsters, apple romancers and herb-cunning folk. She is an animist who is in cahoots with birch trees and serpentine saints. Some of her favorite divination tools are beeswax, murky waters and chickens. She sings to flowers, grows a lot of garlic and makes regular offerings to Venus. She is fiercely devoted to Enchantment in all realms.

I learned about Liz from a friend Micah, hi Micah!, who suggested I check out Liz’s work when I was visiting them and their partner (my good friend Blair) in Berkeley earlier this year. If you listened to Almost Heaven Radio!, you may recall me mentioning Blair and Micah as the people who also introduced me to Waxahatchee! 

I have loved flower essences for years, since first being romanced by them in my early twenties. After I learned of Liz and her work, I enjoyed reading every page on her website, her course descriptions, her flower medicines and formulas. I decided to order one of hers called Saturn Return, which is not currently available to order, and found it incredibly supportive during March of this year. 

In our conversation today, we talk about Liz’s upbringing in New York, plants and enchantment, how she started studying herbalism, the folk way, and flower essences, and of course we talk sooo much about flower essences, ceremony and ritual, intuition, vibrational remedies, plant allies, and her clinical practice. 

Thank you Liz!

Root to Crown ~ 

I’m so excited to tell you about Root to Crown, an 8 week live course and foundational evolution of our three energy centers - Root, Heart, and Crown - with myself, Gaby Azorsky, and guest experts. 

In Root to Crown, you are held through seasons of change, coming into your own being, body, heart and voice, with a spiral map back to you - your center. This is a soft home for landing with spiritual and tactile knowledge and tools; creating space for you to feel safe in your being. From here, we can honor the cycles within and around of compost, seed, grow, and fruit. Root to Crown provides comprehensive resources and tools that are spiritual and mundane, grounded in my core practices and learnings. 

Enrollment is open, and we begin on October 9th. After opening the doors last week, there are just 12 spots left, so if you feel called but unsure, please reach out and we can chat! Find all the details on my Website⁠ :) 

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With our guest Liz and Sister Spinster | Website 

With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky

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In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky shares a solo-cast! 

I’m so excited to tell you about Root to Crown, an 8 week live course and foundational evolution of our three energy centers - Root, Heart, and Crown - with myself, Gaby Azorsky, and guest experts. 

In Root to Crown, you are held through seasons of change, coming into your own being, body, heart and voice, with a spiral map back to you - your center. This is a soft home for landing with spiritual and tactile knowledge and tools; creating space for you to feel safe in your being. From here, we can honor the cycles within and around of compost, seed, grow, and fruit. Root to Crown provides comprehensive resources and tools that are spiritual and mundane, grounded in my core practices and learnings. 

With weekly live calls, home practices, community, and guest teachers who are my mentors and friends, this space is soft and earth-held. Receive the becoming of yourself. 

Enrollment opens soon, and we begin on October 9th. You can take a sneak peak at the link in the show notes using the password RootsDeep. You can also listen to interviews with our three guest teachers on episode 3 with Ali Ofstedal, 8 with Kristen Cassie, and 10 with Melanie Esperon. 

If you have any questions, you can schedule a complimentary curiosity call on my website. I hope to see you there! 

ENROLL IN ROOT TO CROWN ~ WE BEGIN OCTOBER 9

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In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with MJ Renshaw. MJ is an energy healer, medium, breathwork facilitator, and the founder of The Being Method. She left her career of being an Osteopath to chase after her dreams of blending science and spirituality into a course. MJ wanted everyone to know all the amazing overlaps that she had found between science and spirituality. MJ truly believes that everyone is here to live their authentic lives, and one of her biggest passions and goals is to inspire everyone to follow their dreams. 

I have been following along MJ’s journey for years, watching her family and her business blossom and bloom. I was excited to share in conversation with her to talk about love, money, family, God, breath, and gratitude…which we talk about all today. 

Thank you MJ for your sweetness, golden love, and power! 

I’m so excited to tell you about Root to Crown, an 8 week live course and foundational evolution of our three energy centers - Root, Heart, and Crown - with myself, Gaby Azorsky, and guest experts. 

In Root to Crown, you are held through seasons of change, coming into your own being, body, heart and voice, with a spiral map back to you - your center. This is a soft home for landing with spiritual and tactile knowledge and tools; creating space for you to feel safe in your being. From here, we can honor the cycles within and around of compost, seed, grow, and fruit. Root to Crown provides comprehensive resources and tools that are spiritual and mundane, grounded in my core practices and learnings. 

With weekly live calls, home practices, community, and guest teachers who are my mentors and friends, this space is soft and earth-held. Receive the becoming of yourself. 

Enrollment opens soon, and we begin on October 9th. You can take a sneak peak at the link in the show notes using the password RootsDeep. You can also listen to interviews with our three guest teachers on episode 3 with Ali Ofstedal, 8 with Kristen Cassie, and 10 with Melanie Esperon. 

If you have any questions, you can schedule a complimentary curiosity call on my website. I hope to see you there!

ROOT TO CROWN SNEAK PEAK

Password RootsDeep

Connect ~

With our guest MJ | Website and IG @beingmethod

With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky

With Spiral Deeper | Website and IG @spiral.deeper

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Music by Gaby’s incredible partner, Connor Hayes.

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In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with Tonya Papanikolov. Tonya is the Founder of Rainbo — Rainbo is a space for optimizing your mind, body and spirit with fungi. Offering potent and high quality adaptogenic mushrooms to bring radical health and harmony to people and the planet — a Holistic Nutritionist and Educator, Kundalini Yoga Teacher, and is currently a MS Mind-Body Medicine student. As I mention in our episode, I first found her years ago through her blog and holistic nutrition sharing, The Well Woman. I remember loving her recipes and seeing how she looked at the world, and how soft and foresty her imagery was. 

Over the years through the inter-webs we have connected, and now we are both in the Los Angeles area. Which is so lovely! 

In our conversation today, we talk about water, the pineal gland, kundalini yoga, science and spirituality, her path and her origins, curiosity, starting her company Rainbo, creativity, collaboration, human design, mushrooms, and sensitivity. 

Reishi Babies Video 

Connect ~

With our guest Tonya | IG @tonyapapanikolov

With Rainbo | Website and IG @rainbomushrooms 

With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky

With Spiral Deeper | Website and IG @spiral.deeper

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Music by Gaby’s incredible partner, Connor Hayes.

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If you would like to advertise on Spiral Deeper, please email [email protected] for packages and information. 

Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen ~ it means so much. Thank you for your support!

In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with Ariella Daly. This is part two of a two part series! 

Ariella is a beekeeper and teacher. She is a voice in the wave of bee people devoted to the preservation of the bee and pollinators in their own sovereignty. Here because she believes in the wild, divine power of nature as both teacher and healer.  For the last 14 years, she has been a devoted student of the bee, bee animism, womb wisdom, and history and folklore around bees and bee priestesses of Ancient Greece. Ariella’s approach to beekeeping falls under the labels of natural and bee-centric beekeeping. She is primarily interested in the relationship between beekeeper and bees, what we can learn from the hive as a colony and what we can offer to the bees, both in a single hive and as a species. 

From Ariella’s instagram: 

Hymenoptera. The veil winged. She who carries souls between the worlds. Descended from stars. Born of bull. Born of lion. Melissae: the bee nymph and Mistress to Python.

The bond between bee and woman goes as far back as recorded history. She, of the in between places.

When the Melissae nymphs recused infant Zeus from his all-consuming father, they hid him away in a cave and raised him on sweet ambrosia: honey and milk.

When bees came to earth they arrived in a long comet of starts. Seven of them remain to this day in the heavens. The seven Bees. The seven sisters. The Pleiades. When the tiny cluster of stars rise in the spring, honey bees cover the earth and bounty returns to the land.

They say the first brewer was a woman and she brewed mead from her bees who told her the secrets of their intoxicating elixir.

The great Greek prophetess was of the bee. Most revered oracles of the west, their era spanning centuries. The priestesses of Delphi were called Melissae, meaning bee, and the Pythia offering prophecy, was called the Delphic Bee.

The bee offers the hum of life. The sound of creation. She, lover to flower and sunlight. Beloved companion of darkness. She who dances through the dim golden halls of her honeycomb cathedral.

In our conversation today, we talk about magick, animism, imagination, ancient cultures and mythology, natural beekeeping, the hive, how they sound and feel and look, how we listen and relate, swarms, sovereignty, the bees and the flowers, eros, the beloved, the rhythms of beekeeping, and dreams. 

*For 20% off your first month of The Flower Portal, use the code SPIRALOFFLOWERS through the end of August* 

Connect ~

With our guest Ariella | Website and IG @beekeepinginskirts

With her free lecture and other lectures, Messengers of Love 

With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky

With Spiral Deeper | Website and IG @spiral.deeper

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Partners ~

Thank you to our partners! 

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Music by Gaby’s incredible partner, Connor Hayes.

Spiral Deeper Icon by Kami Marchand.

If you would like to advertise on Spiral Deeper, please email [email protected] for packages and information. 

Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen ~ it means so much. Thank you for your support!

In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with Ariella Daly. This is part one of a two part series! 

Ariella is a beekeeper and teacher. She is a voice in the wave of bee people devoted to the preservation of the bee and pollinators in their own sovereignty. Here because she believes in the wild, divine power of nature as both teacher and healer.  For the last 14 years, she has been a devoted student of the bee, bee animism, womb wisdom, and history and folklore around bees and bee priestesses of Ancient Greece. Ariella’s approach to beekeeping falls under the labels of natural and bee-centric beekeeping. She is primarily interested in the relationship between beekeeper and bees, what we can learn from the hive as a colony and what we can offer to the bees, both in a single hive and as a species. 

From Ariella’s instagram: 

Hymenoptera. The veil winged. She who carries souls between the worlds. Descended from stars. Born of bull. Born of lion. Melissae: the bee nymph and Mistress to Python.

The bond between bee and woman goes as far back as recorded history. She, of the in between places.

When the Melissae nymphs recused infant Zeus from his all-consuming father, they hid him away in a cave and raised him on sweet ambrosia: honey and milk.

When bees came to earth they arrived in a long comet of starts. Seven of them remain to this day in the heavens. The seven Bees. The seven sisters. The Pleiades. When the tiny cluster of stars rise in the spring, honey bees cover the earth and bounty returns to the land.

They say the first brewer was a woman and she brewed mead from her bees who told her the secrets of their intoxicating elixir.

The great Greek prophetess was of the bee. Most revered oracles of the west, their era spanning centuries. The priestesses of Delphi were called Melissae, meaning bee, and the Pythia offering prophecy, was called the Delphic Bee.

The bee offers the hum of life. The sound of creation. She, lover to flower and sunlight. Beloved companion of darkness. She who dances through the dim golden halls of her honeycomb cathedral.

In our conversation today, we talk about magick, animism, imagination, ancient cultures and mythology, natural beekeeping, the hive, how they sound and feel and look, how we listen and relate, swarms, sovereignty, the bees and the flowers, eros, the beloved, the rhythms of beekeeping, and dreams. 

*For 20% off your first month of The Flower Portal, use the code SPIRALOFFLOWERS through the end of August* 

Connect ~

With our guest Ariella | Website and IG @beekeepinginskirts

With her free lecture and other lectures, Messengers of Love 

With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky

With Spiral Deeper | Website and IG @spiral.deeper

Sign up for Gaby’s newsletter

Partners ~

Thank you to our partners! 

Moon Juice - Code ‘GABY.AZORSKY’

Activist Manuka Honey - Code ‘GABY15’

The Retreat Newspaper - Code ‘GABY100’ for your first issue free

Music by Gaby’s incredible partner, Connor Hayes.

Spiral Deeper Icon by Kami Marchand.

If you would like to advertise on Spiral Deeper, please email [email protected] for packages and information. 

Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen ~ it means so much. Thank you for your support!

In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with Alyssa Benjamin. Alyssa is a creative strategist, brand and communications consultant. She is the creator and host of the podcast Our Nature, and currently works as a creative strategist at Google. 

She had been manifesting being on other peoples podcasts while hers is currently on hiatus, as she is feeling like she has so much to share - and so she was writing in her journal writing about wanting to bring these opportunities in, right when I emailed her to invite her on, of course. 

In our conversation today, we talk about where we were in our lives when we met years ago, her rock bottom, transitions, change taking time, relationships, manifestation, imposter syndrome, creativity, finding systems that work for you, and so much more. 

I really value how real Alyssa is in our conversation today, and always, showing up as herself. If you are feeling stuck or stagnant in your life, wanting “the job” or “the partner”, I highly recommend listening to this episode. 

*For 20% off your first month of The Flower Portal, use the code SPIRALOFFLOWERS through the end of August* 

Connect ~

With our guest Alyssa | Website and IG @ournaturealways

With Our Nature Podcast | Website 

With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky

With Spiral Deeper | Website and IG @spiral.deeper

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Partners ~

Thank you to our partners! 

Moon Juice - Code ‘GABY.AZORSKY’

Activist Manuka Honey - Code ‘GABY15’

The Retreat Newspaper - Code ‘GABY100’ for your first issue free

Music by Gaby’s incredible partner, Connor Hayes.

Spiral Deeper Icon by Kami Marchand.

If you would like to advertise on Spiral Deeper, please email [email protected] for packages and information. 

Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen ~ it means so much. Thank you for your support!

In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with Hamsa Fae (she/they) to Spiral Deeper. Hamsa is a Vietnamese-French poet, performance artist, and model who is native to Los Angeles. She uses memory as medium for dreamscaping the tragedies and desires within the Asian American diaspora and trans ethereality.

Her poetry book, Blood Frequency, was shortlisted by C&R Press and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network in 2022. She has (forthcoming) publications in diaCRITICS, Vănguard, new words {press}, Yale School of Environment, and Fruitslice. Her solo-exhibition, Trans Aphrodisia, was in February 2024 at The Brown Building. 

In our conversation today, we talk about Reiki, traveling between realms of being, love letters, poetry, mystery, beauty, rotting, composting, self-expression and creativity, femininity, facilitating safe and inclusive spaces, the binary, language, trans myth, and at the end Hamsa graces us with a beautiful song. 

I learned so much from Hamsa in our conversation today, full of poetry, giggles, learning, and mystery. I feel grateful for her teachings and her art. 

Thank you Hamsa for your artistry, poetry, and sweet nectar of life! 

*For 20% off your first month of The Flower Portal, use the code SPIRALOFFLOWERS through the end of August* 

Connect ~

With our guest Hamsa | Website and IG @hamsalefae 

With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky

With Spiral Deeper | Website and IG @spiral.deeper

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Music by Gaby’s incredible partner, Connor Hayes.

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If you would like to advertise on Spiral Deeper, please email [email protected] for packages and information. 

Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen ~ it means so much. Thank you for your support!

In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with Paige Appel. Paige is a spiritual counselor, circle facilitator, and owner of the L.A. wellness studio Riverbank. We met through mutual friends and had been orbiting each other for a little while, finally sitting down for lunch together in May. 

In our conversation today, we talk about parenthood, motherhood, collaborative partnership, reflection, circle, gratitude, victim consciousness, “walking the steps to gratitude” , wanting and needing, healing, empowered self, working with healers and facilitators as ourselves and when it comes to seeking support, and instinct and intuition. 

Thank you Paige for your presence and wisdom/beginner’s mind-sharing! 

*For 20% off your first month of The Flower Portal, use the code SPIRALOFFLOWERS through the end of August* 

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Connect ~

With our guest Paige | Riverbank and IG @paigeappel 

With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky

With Spiral Deeper | Website and IG @spiral.deeper

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Partners ~

Thank you to our partners! 

Moon Juice - Code ‘GABY.AZORSKY’

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Music by Gaby’s incredible partner, Connor Hayes.

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If you would like to advertise on Spiral Deeper, please email [email protected] for packages and information. 

Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen ~ it means so much. Thank you for your support!

In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with Sasha Emoniee. Sasha is an Earth artist, alchemist, ceremonialist, flower and food centered herbalist, cook, Gardner, and creator of Commune, which is an extension of her body of work. Her work spans recipe writing, food styling + installation, herbal workshops, and nature education.

At the end of our episode, Sasha shares a very exciting project that she is working on - sharing fresh and dried herbs from her garden and ethically wildcrafted alongside Andrea from Herb Club LA at popups and local farmers markets around Los Angeles. Regeneratively and organically grown, to bring local herbs and plant medicine to the people directly. So stay tuned on that apothecary effort from them, it sounds AMAZING. 

In our conversation today, we talk about beauty, tea, living altars, rituals, integrating between nature and city, being from Northern California, earth cycles, herbs, generosity, community, her garden, and earth magick. 

Thank you Sasha for your vision and love! 

*For 20% off your first month of The Flower Portal, use the code SPIRALOFFLOWERS through the end of August* 

Connect ~

With our guest Sasha | Website and IG @sashaemoniee

With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky

With Spiral Deeper | Website and IG @spiral.deeper

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Partners ~

Thank you to our partners! 

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