The Mama Psychedelia Podcast

In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Sami Love. Sami has been working in the field of Psychotherapy for over 7 years, and started her coaching business rooted in Mental Alchemy over 3 years ago; a space where she has found the freedom to weave her western education with her spiritual journey and knowledge. She has been gifted with many life changing teachings through her 5 years of walking with Sacred Plant Medicines in Peru and other countries around the world. She has now been living in Peru for over 2 years working intimately with plant teachers such as Ayahuasca, Huachuma, Bobinsana, and Tobacco. After a profound 6 months spent in the Amazon Jungle working with plants medicines she moved to the Sacred Valley, where she met her life partner and started working helping him in running their retreat centre, Anahata Ayahuasca. Together, they now work side by side in ceremony with their Indigenous Shipibo Maestro; a healer who has been walking  with Ayahuasca for over 40 years. Witnessing and supporting the healing of others is her soul mission in this life time. She is especially passionate about supporting and standing by women and they rise into their fullest expressions. Two of her projects she holds near and dear to her heart are: REWILD for women, and Sisters of the Moon.

In September of 2022, after giving birth to her daughter, life took yet another beautiful shift. Sam and her partner chose to bring their daughter into the world in a more alternative way, rooted in community, ceremony, and trusting/following the guidance of her intuition. It has been an initiation that has transformed her from the inside out. Motherhood is now the most important roll in her life, and she feels so honoured and blessed to be learning and growing through this new chapter in life.

I feel Sami’s passion for autonomous family led birth, in my bones, and am grateful to have received her reflections around the current birthing paradigms that exist both in and outside of the medical system. Sam tells us about meeting the spirits of her children before they came in through psychedelic visions, she shares her conception stories, bridging the worlds of psychology and spirit, experiencing miscarriages, and the beautiful sovereign pregnancy she experienced carrying her daughter that led to her surprise breech birth at home in Peru. We talk about societal fears of birth, filtering out what is true and what is not, when being bombarded with opinions as a pregnant women, and staying connected to intuition and truth within.


Resources: Where you can find Sami: 

IG: @alchemy.of.awakening https://www.instagram.com/alchemy.of.awakening/
Website for Anahata Ayahuasca Center: http://anahataayahuasca.com
Offerings: https://linktr.ee/Alchemyofawakening

Mackenzie's Offerings: 
IG: @mamapsychedelia
https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/

Support the Mama Psychedelia Mission:
PAYPAL to this address: [email protected] for my
Hunny Womb Birth Keeping
Costa Rica Home Birth Support Fund for Costa Rican & Low Income Families

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https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb
IG: @hunnywombdoula
https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/

Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify)

 In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast we dive into Adelina’s own journey of coming to a plant medicine path, leaving medical school and finding the healing arts. We explore deeply what multi generational healing looks like, tending to the traumas of the family bloodline, nervous system regulation & ceremony integration. Adelina shares her journey of stepping into motherhood and all that that entailed for her, how ayahuasca can give us avenues to walk down on our healing journey but will not “fix” or “save” us. She shares on her devotional path of study and exploration with the Shipibo lineage in Peru, and what exactly a master plant dieta is. She shares on her pregnancy, her own womb healing, especially post abdominal surgery as a child, and her beautiful birth experience. I love the way Adelina expresses her wisdom.

Adelina is a mentor and spiritual practitioner that is deeply dedicated to the feminine healing arts and the wisdom spirits of the sacred master plant teachers. She has held several long standing apprenticeships with deeply immersed elders, shamanic teachers, and Curanderos/as. She specializes in modalities such as Trauma Bodywork, Somatic Experiencing, Ayahuasca Integration, Mind-Body Therapy, Sound Healing, Breathwork, and Dance Movement Therapy.

 Adelina walks a life of service as a medicine woman and a mother in the shamanic path of the beauty way. Her devotion is rooted in supporting women to clear and heal the traumas that are alive in their bodies-unraveling the stories of the bloodline and awakening to true liberation of creativity, voice, expression, and emotion. She believes in the medicine of embodiment, the wisdom of the feminine temple body, and the power of integration. She focuses on teaching a new language in regulating the nervous system in healthy and supportive ways so that life can be experienced in a path of love.  Forever a student, she bows in deep gratitude for life and all that is here to teach her.



Resources:
Where you can find Adelina:
IG: @adelinamvaughn https://www.instagram.com/adelinamvaughn/
Linktree : https://linktr.ee/adelinamvaughn
Website: www.adelinavaughn.com

Upcoming Offerings:
https://ayahealingretreats.com/event/noya-rao-remote-dieta-feb-16-26-2023/
https://ayahealingretreats.com/event/ayahuasca-women-retreat/


Mackenzie's offerings:
Email: [email protected]
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb
IG: @mamapsychedelia
https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/
@hunnywombdoula
https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/

Intro Music:
Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita - Tabadabang
from their 2022 album 'Echo'

Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify) 

 In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I talk with Jamie Satori, together we dive deep into the realms of Quantum Birth keeping, birth being the blueprint of all things, and birth as transformation. Jamie came to Doula work after her own traumatic birth 13 years ago, which later led to 3 redemptive empowered births, the 4th being a self directed birth here in Costa Rica. Her first birth ushered her onto this path of midwifery and mama hood. Moving to Costa Rica supported her in healing from the rat race of the West and her own history of addiction and substance reliance. We together share how we first connected and our early journey of working alongside each other. We touch on how the brainwaves of a birthing being move through them, oxytocin and ecstasy, and the altered state that is birth and death (death being the cervix to the next universe.) We also explore how birth is inherently a spiritual act of essence coming into physicality and Jamie’s own childhood connection to the sacred and how children are highly tapped into the intuitive realms and magic. We talk about supporting the rite of passage for the non-birthing parent and how important their role is on the journey of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum of a new life, and how as birth workers we can support sovereign family led birth and follow the family's lead and to trust their inner knowing. 
 
 Jamie is a mama to four and community midwife serving in Costa Rica's southern zone. Borderless Birth is her beloved brain baby and the container that holds her soul work. She is in her eighth year serving at the gateways of birth and death, and passions include the movement towards re-humanization and reclamation of being born, birthing and dying. Following the Quantum Midwifery way (as taught by Whapio of the Matrona), Jamie believes and teaches peak human experiences as altered states of consciousness deserving of ceremony and respect.

Where you can find Jamie Satori : 

 Website: www.borderlessbirth.com

IG: @borderlessbirth

Resources: 

-Melinda Smyth https://www.alignable.com/jacksonville-fl/ceo-cake-with-melynda-smith

-Sarah Kerr https://sacreddeathcare.com/about/

-https://birthbreathanddeath.com/

Your Host Mackenzie's offerings: 

https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb

IG: @mamapsychedelia
@hunnywombdoula
 
 
Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify)

In this Episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Juliana of Entheomama. Juliana is a mother, a Certified Somatic Sex Educator, Sexological Bodyworker, Doula, Trauma Informed Plant Medicine Integration Coach and Pleasure Activist. She is passionate about supporting people to connect more deeply with themselves and each other through integrating the teachings of somatic sexuality, trauma resolution and sacred plant medicines into their intimate lives so that their relationships can be a source of nourishment and healing for themselves and for the world. She is the creator of Boldly Embodied which is the current home of her work where she supports individuals and couples to boldly embody their love, their pleasure and their lives. Together we explore the intersection of sex & psychedelics, erotic trance and entheogenic communion. We talk pelvic health, internal & external body work for pre-conception & postpartum, how that can support the birthing process, and pleasure practice. We talk about attuning to more than the human world, how we are cosmic beings having a human experience, how being born into this world is our first taste of psychedelia, and so much more. I love hearing about Juliana's personal experiences in this line of work, and the birth story of her first, born in Peru when she was 20 years old. So much wisdom to be received in this chat.


Resources: Where you can find Juliana: 

Website: www.boldlyembodied.com
IG: @boldlyembodied https://www.instagram.com/boldlyembodied/
       @entheomama https://www.instagram.com/entheomama/

Mackenzie's offerings: 
Providing Birth Keeping Services & Breathwork Facilitation
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb
IG: @mamapsychedelia
https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/
@hunnywombdoula
https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/

Intro Music Snippet of "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wf55RQ8QUEzAA2SeXDWSh?si=H-tnVLtzR2OoHnLU1ztOpw

This episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast is with Chloe Skerlak, a Justisse Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner and Certified Full Spectrum Fertility Awareness Educator. This episode goes beyond personal story telling, and is deeply educational for menstruating folks and those who wish to better under our cyclical nature and the power that it holds.

 Infused with joy, laughter, and play, Chloe teaches fertility awareness education to women and people with cycles so they may regain their sexual and reproductive sovereignty, become advocates for their own health, and live vibrant, healthy lives. She is also the founder of the Cervix Portrait Party (yes - taking photos of your cervix is a thing!) and is passionate about teaching body literacy to pre-teens and teens. Chloe also loves salsa dancing, full moon bathing, and playing the ukulele. 

Together we dive in to all the juicy details of the cycle. Fertility Awareness for hormonal free contraception, body literacy, as well as how it can be used for intentionally conceiving. We touch on menarche to menopause, how fertility tracking is taking your sexual health and "birth control" into your own hands. We talk about the reality of abortion laws, and emergency contraception measures, as well as the inner seasons of the cycle, how to leverage your energy and awareness when you are most vital, and how connected we are to the rhythms of the moon. I love this episode and love what Chloe stands for. Check it out. 

Where you can find Chloe: 

IG: https://www.instagram.com/chloeskerlak/
Website: https://www.chloeskerlak.com/social
 discount code: KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
for emergency contraception 101

Mackenzie's offerings: 
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb
IG: @mamapsychedelia
https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/
@hunnywombdoula
https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/


Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wf55RQ8QUEzAA2SeXDWSh?si=H-tnVLtzR2OoHnLU1ztOpw

 

In this episode of the Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview a mama named Tracey Tee, this episode is highly recommended for anyone out there that may find themselves skeptical or wondering how this could possibly be integrated and supportive in parenthood. For anyone who may not consider themselves “spiritual” or “hippy dippy” and who may consider themselves to be leading more of a conventional life, Tracey acts as an incredible bridge between suburban society and the sacred. Tracey talks about how magic mushrooms have completely altered the way in which she views the world, how beneficial this work with mushrooms has been in her mothering, how she’s able to co create a beautiful life alongside her daughter and see her in her wisdom and fullness. How psilocybin can support us in loosening our type grip of control in life, and learning to trust more deeply. How powerfully healing these can be a therapeutic healing context, but also just a ton of fun, reminding us of our joy and creativity. I loved hearing her personal journey, and how wisdom and humour were deeply woven.

Tracey Tee has been actively involved in the momosphere for over 10 years, first co-
creating and staring in the nationally touring cult-hit comedy show for moms: The
Pump and Dump Show while simultaneously co-producing Band of Mothers Podcast
and serving as co-founder and CEO of The Pump and Dump Show’s umbrella brand:
Band of Mothers Media. During the pandemic, and during her own journey with
psilocybin Tracey began to feel called to support moms in a deeper and more
meaningful way. In 2022 she launched an online microdosing course created
exclusively for moms called (haha) M.O.M. which stands for “moms on mushrooms.”
Tracey’s goal is to bring moms together through the sacred use of plant medicine for
a shared journey of personal growth and healing.
Moms on Mushrooms is 100% the most fulfilling, challenging and aligned pursuit
Tracey has ever embarked upon, and she is dedicated to crafting a supportive
container for mothers that embodies the Divine Feminine, gives reverence to our
elders and original cultures, and hopefully acts as an example of a redefined way to
engage in a New Earth, consciously created model of “doing business.”

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Resources: Where you can find Tracey:

Website: momsonmushrooms.com
IG: @momsonmushroomsofficial

Mackenzie's Offerings: 
Providing Pre conception to Postpartum Services & Breathwork Facilitation
in Canada, Costa Rica and beyond.
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb
IG: @mamapsychedelia
https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/
@hunnywombdoula
https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/


Intro Music Snippet of "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wf55RQ8QUEzAA2SeXDWSh?si=H-tnVLtzR2OoHnLU1ztOpw

In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview  birthkeeper Linda Hamilton. Linda is a mother of 7 and grandmother and the founder and previous director of the non-profit organization “Birth Without Boundaries”. She continues to be an advocate for peaceful birth practices and honouring of the 42 day postpartum nest, and is currently writing a book exploring her life’s work. Linda has lived between Costa Rica and Pennsylvania since 2001 and has been supporting many families during their pregnancy journeys in person and remotely.

During our discussion, Linda shares a few of her own birth experiences, starting with what it was like desiring an unmediated birth in the 80’s at 19 years old when having her first, declaring after her 4th that she would never birth in a hospital again, on to the story of her glorious free birth of her daughter at home. Linda talks about the early days of being a birth companion in her communities as a young mother, her role in advocacy & activism, time shared with Ina May Gaskin & Michel Odent, living in the jungle of Costa Rica and supporting families in wild free birth settings in their full undisturbed power. She illuminates the importance of witnessing the sacredness that is taking place in birth and giving mothers the opportunity to harvest that magic, and how that sets them up for successful, connected mothering.

She tells a story of a client’s beautiful birth by the ocean, we talk about birth imprinting, and how the prenatal and birthing time impact each of us and how we relate to the world, and how many of our foundational subconscious beliefs are created at this time. She shares how we can all listen deeper to the baby’s intrinsic intelligence during the birthing process alongside their mothers.

Multi generational living, coming together with community, pulling together resources. And finally, one of my favourite topics, the importance of centering & honouring mothers in our communities so they can fully thrive in their role of power and guardianship, how we can serve mothers, and stop perpetuating cycles of self sacrificing behaviour so they can better serve the future.

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Resources: Where you can find Linda:

Linda's Website

Mackenzie's offerings:
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb
IG: @mamapsychedelia
@hunnywombdoula

Intro Music Snippet of "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify.

In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Becca Evans of Mycoforia, 
Becca is a holistic addiction counselor who specializes in using Buddhist frameworks alongside entheogenic medicines and Earth-based practices to guide and empower those experiencing addictive patterns. Becca is a believer in the benefits of harm reduction and self-defined recovery. As a neurodivergent and queer woman, Becca holds non-judgement and accessibility as priorities in her work with others. Becca is also a mother to 2 amazing children who are her biggest teachers. Together we discuss Becca’s journey of becoming an addiction counsellor in her early twenties and how in more recent years this has led her to bridging this realm of addiction counselling and integration work with psilocybin. She shares how  mushroom medicine has supported her personal journey with mental health, healing addiction, and postpartum. Her first deep journey bringing more insightful healing then years of therapy & treatment centers combined. We hear about her adolescence and upbringing as well as her early motherhood days, how her birth experiences differed, and how her parenting fundamentals have become unconditional acceptance, non judgment, and elevating self expression. We talk about the lack of connection many face with spirit & self, and how this common thread of disconnection exists amongst many folks that struggle with addiction, and how mushrooms can support.

Resources: Where you can find Becca:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/mycoforia/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Mycophoria

Mackenzie's offerings: 
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb
IG: @mamapsychedelia
https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/
@hunnywombdoula
https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/

Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wf55RQ8QUEzAA2SeXDWSh?si=H-tnVLtzR2OoHnLU1ztOpw

In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Saera Burns, a mama of 2 soon to be 3, who’s currently traversing through her birthing window, in between worlds, awaiting her third to come through. Saera is an Ambassadress of the Unseen: Clairvoyant, Theta Healing practitioner, Soul Physician and teacher of the mystic arts. She has been exploring her fascination with the Great Mystery since a child, through Spirit Guide connection, plant communication, and participating in diverse ceremonies. Currently living on unceded Coast Salish territory known currently as Salt Spring Island with her husband and two daughters in a beautiful community. Saera's passion for the complex nature of the Soul has led her to teaching and supporting clients in over 6 countries with theirs. You can find her on the dance floor, holding ritual space, singing to the wild or communing with plants. In our chat together, Saera shares with us her connection to her lineage, her childhood and tapping into her gifts with the unseen realms, explore telepathy, communication with guides, ancestors,  spirits, plant medicine and so much more. Saera speaks to some of her own journeys with medicines & molecules such as Ayahuasca and DMT and how they were allies in her stepping into her work in this world and preparing for her stepping into mothering, but how ultimately these mystical realms have been deeply rooted in her being from a very young age. She talks about the ritual of calling in her children, the sacred contract with her partner early on in stepping into partnership and parenthood, along with many insights into what ritual means to her and how it is deeply interwoven in her life and mama hood, we talk about the visions of her birth, and how her previous two births varied in free birthing for her first & having regulated midwifery care for her second, her children’s connection to birth, as well as who she sees present their and her incredible mother blessing story by the ocean. As a mystical being myself, this conversation was richly validating and inspiring, I hope you enjoy.   

Resources: Where you can find Saera: 

Website: https://www.saeraburns.com/
Email: [email protected]
FB: https://www.facebook.com/deepsouljourneys/
IG: @saeraburns https://www.instagram.com/saeraburns/
Youtube: Saera Burns
Intro video:https://youtu.be/e7B8qfKVMJM

Mackenzie's offerings: 
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb
IG: @mamapsychedelia
https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/
@hunnywombdoula
https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/

Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wf55RQ8QUEzAA2SeXDWSh?si=H-tnVLtzR2OoHnLU1ztOpw

In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Ariana Fotinakis. Ariana is a breath worker, baby mama of one, and business woman, of Aamjiwnaang First Nations (Ontario) and Greek descent, now residing on the Unceded territories of the Coast Salish people, some call Vancouver. Together we explore her journey of reconnecting to her indigenous roots & and raising her daughter connected to her lineage. She shares openly her story of never envisioning herself as a mother, and coming to a place in her life of choosing a need to mother, to pass the torch and her legacy of healing to the next generation, and stepping into it after two powerfully transformative ceremonies, one with breath work and one with psilocybin that prepared her to step into that initiation. Ariana shares how she’s finding balance in being connected to her sacred work in this world and being a new mama, finding deep purpose in both. And we discuss how breath wave, amongst many other gifts, has brought regularity to her menstrual cycle which ultimately led to her conception, has assisted her in shedding many layers that were not serving, and how working with psilocybin mushrooms has similarly served her deeply in coming to be the person she is now. We talk about her childhood of being psychically tuned in and being in relationship to ancestors and nature, we explored her teenage-hood and early adult years and moving out of alcoholism and finding an “addiction to” fitness & mindset which brought her into a space  wholeness within herself. I love hearing Ariana speak, and I know you will too.

Resources: Where you can find Ariana: 
IG: @arianafotinakis https://www.instagram.com/arianafotinakis/

Mackenzie's offerings: 
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb
IG: @mamapsychedelia
https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/
@hunnywombdoula
https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/

Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wf55RQ8QUEzAA2SeXDWSh?si=H-tnVLtzR2OoHnLU1ztOpw