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When grieving, how do we dial into the Spirit World to connect with a passed loved one? Ilona shares her top tips for gaining direct access to the messages our loved ones on the other side have to offer us. She shares stories from the time after her father passed that brought clarity around how we can open ourselves up to receiving messages. 

Topics we discuss:

• what types of questions can we ask? (insider tip: don't ask your dead Dad about your love life)
• Portals of Communication (mediums, etc)
• Relying on your Well Ancestors to provide insight, validation, guidance
• Symbolic communication 
• Reiki animal channeling
• Astrology as the psychology of our ancestors
• Archetypes/Astrological charts to comfort grievers to find your center
• Beginner's tools for Connecting to Spirit 
• Intuition as a byproduct of getting comfortable being in your "meat suit" with stillness

Ilona Pamplona is an Astrology Informed Life Coach, Oracle Card Reader, and Word Nerd.
Follow Ilona on IG @ilonapamplona


Resources:
Sacred Contracts, Caroline Myss
Color Mage Oracle
Divine Feminine Oracle, Meggan Watterson
The Starseed Oracle, Rebecca Campbell
The Amenti Oracle, Jennifer Sodini
Elena's Book "Grieve Outside the Box"

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Jan Lucier, Shamanic Practioner, joins us this week to discuss what it means to straddle the physical world and the spirit world. We dissect the meaning of the word "Shaman", and how we as people in the modern world can employ the tools of shamanic practices to heal ourselves, our communities, and the world. We chat about how we can support a passing loved one both before and after death to ensure their soul successfully exits their physical body. 


Topics we discuss:

• Origins of the word "Shaman"
• Traditional Healing and its resurgence in today's world
• The path of Direct Revelation
• Moving from Religion to Spirituality
• Percussion as a tool to expand consciousness and "Cross-over"
• Psychopomp work (crossing souls over the rainbow bridge post-death)
• Shamanic Journeying 101
• Holding space for dying loved ones 
• Journeying/prayer/meditation as Preparation for dying
• How to tune into your Truth Chord (Intuitive YES)
• Devotion, Nature, Study - from the Celtic Medicine Wheel

Resources:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Jan's Website: healthwellnessprogramming.com
Jan's facebook - Windhorse Holistic Strategies

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Morgan Rose Simeone joins us again to chat about how we can tune into the rhythms of nature to more easily navigate the contrast that life offers us.  She shares how she is navigating spending time with her elder father as he lives through his last chapter of life.  Morgan discusses the struggles, the memory-making moments, how she creates boundaries,  and how she stays present and honest with herself while honoring her commitment. 

A must-listen for anyone embarking on the path of being fully present for their loved one's passing.

Affirmation: "I ground into the earth. I pause and breathe. I am here to receive the present moment. I surrender to the Now"


Morgan and Elena discuss:

• Seasonal tips to ground into the body and become fully present
• Eckhart Tolle's wisdom on the IS-NESS of our present reality 
• "The Power of Now"
• Being vulnerable while being social and staying centered
• Creating an energetic protection field 
• Surface level talks vs. deep and real conversations
• Being okay when the contrast of life breaks your heart
• The Sacred Pause -- 
• Committing to being present for her father during his later years
• Reincarnation & esoteric discussion topics for those closer to death
• Navigating guilt around being present for their loved one's preparation for death
• Creating a living memory tool kit of objects that clue you back into your loved ones
• Creating a memory web of life's mythology

Resources:
"The Power of Now" Book by Eckhart Tolle
The Sacred Pause -- Jack Kornfield

Morgan Rose Simeone:
The Spiral Membership
Instagram @morganrose.rituals

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Sound Alchemist and Life & Embodiment Coach, Gabriel Logan Braun, joins us today to share his personal journey using Music as Medicine to move through grief, and support those in recovery to move through trauma. He is a multi-instrumentalist loop artist who creates Sonic Womb experiences in Los Angeles.

Topics we discuss:

• Music is life, Grief is life
• Gabriel's first experiences using music to process life experiences
• Rites of Passage & Initiation and Life as a Ceremony
• Supporting his father's passing with music
• Humming as a gateway to release the voice while mindfully breathing
• Letting the vibrations have an effect on your nervous system
• Using the voice to heal the self
• In-tone-ation finding the Tone within
• Honoring your unique voice
• The body as a percussion instrument
• A daily music practice to move through emotion
• The sound of AUM (Om) as the sound of the energy of the Universe 
• Vocal Alchemy Sessions with Gabriel

Resources:
Work with Gabriel -- Vocal Alchemy Sessions
Live stream recordings on Youtube
Los Angeles Sonic Womb Events
Listen to Gabriel on Spotify
Porangui retreats & Workshops
Elena's Book "Grieve Outside the Box"

About Gabriel:
From his angelic tones to soulful beat boxing, Gabriel’s heartfelt and earthy sound comes through his music. As a multi-instrumentalist, he uses loop pedals, his voice, wind instruments, crystal bowls, percussion, harmonium and guitar to create experiences for people to celebrate the human spirit. He is devoted to sharing his music through solo performances, sound baths and a variety of collaborations with other soulful musicians.

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Why do we as a death-phobic culture offer the words "Let me know if you need anything" to those experiencing grief, loss, or huge life shifts? What exactly does "Anything" entail? In this SOLO episode, Elena breaks down the concept of learning how to ask for what you need as a grieving person, and how to genuinely offer help to those in mourning.

Topics covered include:

• why do people offer condolences in this way? 
• how do we discern those who are genuine 
• delegating our needs to those we trust
• what types of things can we ask for help with?
• being OKAY with receiving a "No" or rejection
• vulnerability in speaking your needs to someone you love
• worthiness around deserving support & receiving
• how ancestrally, a tribal culture leads to a more supportive community around grief
• being under-resourced as a society leads to lacking the ability to offer support

Resources:
"Grieve Outside the Box" book -- order on Amazon 

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What does it mean to befriend your anger? How can you alchemically transmute, release, and tend to it? Kat is a Poet, a Priestess, and a general witchy sister who guides us through ways to interpret and move through intense anger & rage. 

We discuss:

• alchemically transmuting anger & rage
• the pain of suppressing our intuitive power
• channeling our trauma through poetry
• Inanna the "Mesopotamian goddess associated with love, beauty, sex, war, justice, and political power"  
• Going through the 7 veils, restoring relationship with the interior
• Self-Mastery as inspired by Toltec Wisdom
• Great rage becoming a great passion to restore humanity
• Adopting the mind of Victory, Play, and Fun
• The inner space of the divine beloved
• the Masculine center of women's interior
• Ceasing the fight against the world by tending to your wounds
• Healing ancestral trauma & lineage healing
• Casting spells & the danger of dark magic when processing rage
• The Four Agreements

About Kat Grasso:
IG @theredroomcollective
IG @kat.grasso
https://bookme.name/theredroomlive



Resources:
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz 
Nina Palmieri 
Mastery of Love
Voice of Knowledge

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Future Chaplain and weaver of words, Andi Scarbrough joins us to chat about using mixed media to journal the loss of a loved one. How can we use the somatic experience of Journaling to build a field guide of grief as if we were Wildlife Documentarians? Exploring taboo subjects like the loss of a child and suicide, Andi shares how she has used dance, poetry, and vocalizing to process the alchemical fires of deep loss.  A must listen. 

We discuss:

• "Wildlife documentarian" style of Journaling your grief journey
• Weather tracking your emotional atmosphere 
• Neutral observer of the experience
• Time-stamping your grief
• Field notes road map inside and outside yourself towards your heart
• Engaging your senses to come into presence (essential oils, tea, candles, etc)
• Repetitive thoughts as a guide to enter journaling
• Free form writing, create a sacred space and "let it rip" then burn it
• Haiku as a way to keep the artist pipes from freezing
• "Being in the horror of it is just as fleeting as the beauty of it"
• Sharing Taboo moments publicly and how "trigger warnings" may not always serve
• Keeping memorabilia in a footlocker to remember
• Becoming a living scrapbook as a legacy of loving 
• Shamanic Journeying to process the suicides of Andi's Father and Grandfather
• "A death is as traumatic as it needs to be in order to trigger the changes needed within everyone around"
• Suicide as the taboo amongst taboos 
• Destigmatizing mental health support

Andi shares potent practices, prompts, and tools for listeners to engage with in their own journaling grief work. 

About Andi:

Holistic Hairdresser, Reiki Master, Breathwork Facilitator, studying towards Chaplaincy.

Follow Andi on IG @crown_works
crownworks.net
Ceremonial ritual services
In-person gatherings and breathwork coming soon

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Igniting the flame of Initiation when going through profound change. Cody Lovina, ER & Hospice Nurse, Birth Doula & Death Doula, is currently a Portal Priestess studying Tantra in Asheville, NC. We chat about moving through the initiation of heartbreak, allowing intuition to guide your healing process, and supporting loved ones through their passing. 


We discuss:

• moving through fear to leave the life you've known
• praying for purpose when change comes knocking
• Heartbreak as a major Grief teacher
• Menstruation as a gateway to clarified listening from womb space
• Integrating Sex Medicine, unclogging intuition
• Allowing Joy to be experienced during profound change 
• Giving a proper container for the ceremony of Death
• Tantric surrendering to the portals of birth, sex, grief, and death 
• Tools for relaxing your nervous system when supporting a passing loved one
• Having a cup of tea with the parts of ourselves that have been killed off
• Asking for help in meeting yourself

About Cody Lovina Hubbard:
Follow her on IG @love.weaver
1-on1 Sessions in person loveweaver.me
Personal affirmation & mantra songs

"I am Lovina, known to some as Cody or Coco. Joy is my super power. I have made Joy my baseline by allowing myself to  access and integrate all emotions.  I am designed to hold space for transformation. I have worked as a Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department and also as a Hospice Nurse. In these spaces I learned to hold loving, supportive, powerful presence in the face of extreme trauma and emotion. "

Resources:

• Spikenard Initiation Oil
• Rose, Cacao, Blue lotus & aphrodisiac herbs
• Essential Oil Wizardry
• Paul Selig - The Book of Truth

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Elena met Jeanie during her Griefcation™ in Bali, two months after her father passed in 2016. Jeanie was instrumental in teaching Elena the mythology of the Hero's Journey as taught by Joseph Campbell. How can we use the framework of the Hero's Journey to see ourselves within our own mythology? Can we use these stories to provide comfort and perspective as we embark on a grief journey, profound change, and life initiations? 

We discuss:

• a synopsis of the Hero's Journey (Joseph Campbell) The Hero with A Thousand Faces
• the mythology that spans cultures
• the threshold between the known world into the UNKNOWN world
• receiving the magical tools, knowledge, and blessings on your journey (you're not alone)
• the quest for the ultimate goal
• bringing the knowledge back to the world as a changed person
• going through multiple versions of the Hero's Journey in life
• The Fool's Journey
• Jeanie's near-death experience as her call to adventure 
• giving birth as a clarifying moment for Jeanie responding to her purpose 
• acknowledging help for anxiety and mental health support during challenging times
• Jeanie's tools to aid a hero's journey: gratitude, yoga, community 
• feminine power/shakti/ creative power and reclamation of birthing what we're being called to birth -- following our calling, as a duty to ourselves. 

About Jeanie Schuerman:
Follow her on IG @thejeaniebean
Visit her website at jeanieschuerman.com

Jeanie is passionate about sustainable development, art, nerding out and adventuring with her baby girl. She is certified as a registered yoga teacher (E-RYT 200) and a continuing education provider (YACEP, aka teacher of yoga teachers) with Yoga Alliance. She is the creator of Samadhi yoga. She has traveled to 27 countries and lived in six. She has spent her entire adult life teaching in one capacity or another, including teaching high school, teaching languages, teaching scuba, and teaching maternal/child health. She is currently deepening her relationship to life and holistic health as a graduate nursing student on her way to becoming a certified nurse-midwife (CNM). 

Resources:
The Hero with A Thousand Faces book by Joseph Campbell
Cacao Ceremonies and Music by @elahandausierra -- @ausierra.go.forth @elahscott

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Tahnee Taylor joins us from Australia to chat about taking time away to process grief. She carries a tapestry of wisdom with an intersection of Daoist and Yogic practices. Currently pregnant with her second child, she shares how pregnancy, birth, grief, and death go hand-in-hand. 

We discuss:

• how Tahnee and Elena met in Peru in 2015
• why Elena chose Australia for her Griefcation™ after her father passed
• Tahnee shares her personal experience of loss
• bringing in the confronting rituals of death
• birth practice as a preparation for dying awake
• taking the first 40 days after birth & death to process/transition
• healing generational trauma 7 generations forward and backward
• practical tools, and techniques to support the organs and their meridians
• the body as an integrated being and all organs are affected by grief
• receiving healing touch & being looked after by a therapeutic presence

About Tahnee Taylor:
Tahnee is a Yin Yoga teacher, chi nei tsang practitioner and herbalist who is devoted to learning and listening to the language of the body. She offers online classes, teacher trainings and more.

Visit her website at tahneetaylor.com
Follow her on IG @tahneeyoga


Resources:
The SuperFeast Podcast
SuperFeast - Di Dao Medicinal Mushrooms and Tonic Herbs
Mantak Chia, Chi Nei Tsang, and Microcosmic Orbit Practice

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