The Serpentine Path

In today's episode I share my juicy conversation with my dear friend and sister, Ama Loryn Fujinami. Ama is an artist and educator with formal training in couples and family counseling as well as spiritual lineages in Taoism, Tantric Jyotish (Vedic astrology), and Germanic Healing Knowledge. She desires to bring the biological wisdom of our bodies to the forefront so that people can experience truly nourishing relationships and a fruitful life. She uses her practice of astrology to offer a wider perspective of the meaning of human life and our potential to be conscious creators of reality.

In this episode we get into:

• Healing the long-term impacts of the divorce wound and fractured family units
• The biological definition of “territory”, how it is experienced differently by men and women, and how it impacts our relationships
• Motherhood as a process of biological and spiritual maturation and individuation
• Our shared process of unlearning hyper-independent Girl Boss™ feminism and healing our relationships with men
• Keeping the sexual polarity alive in long-term relationships and parenthood journeys
• The devaluation of feminine labor and the never-ending work of mothering
• Moving through blocks and fears of being provided for by male partners
• The feminine libido as a sacred tool of protection medicine
• The spiritual discernment required when choosing a man for long-term partnership and fatherhood
• The gift and responsibility of FEMININE HONESTY when moving into partnership and a motherhood journey
• The birthing and mothering of creative projects as a divine feminine gift + calling in a male partner who fully supports the feminine artist path
• Health sovereignty and reclaiming your wellness outside the confines of an institutional authority

May this episode bring you deeper into your own sacred expression of your biological truth and your heart's desire

RESOURCES TO FURTHER EXPLORE THESE TOPICS

Dr. Sasha Tesic -- Biorelations Course

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In this extended episode with Christina we get into:

• The various factors that contributed to Christina’s exploration of a sexual and gender queer identity including a violent experience with an ex male partner, the participation in radical leftist spaces online and in-person, and her genuine desire to be a good “ally” to her gay and trans friends
• Her process of healing her 12 year long struggle with highly irregular menstrual cycles
• How coming back into a biological understanding of her version of womanhood coincided with her desire to leave her same sex relationship and to pursue relationships with men again
• The level of honesty that is required to admit that you want to become a mother in a traditional relationship with a man

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In today's episode I share my juicy, nuanced, and enlightening conversation with Christina Willis. Christina Willis is an Ancestral Astrologer who uses both the Kemetic and Sidereal zodiacs. Her work centers indigenous African cosmology and astronomy frameworks specifically from the Dogon, Kemetic, and Dagara lineages of west and north Africa, as well as the Jyotish tradition of India. Christina uses astrology to “un-gaslight” the citizens of the earth and confirm that “yes, your mom was really like that!”

In this episode we get into:

• The karmic contract that she took on in this lifetime to be as FREE as possible and to create even more FREEDOM for the future generations
• How she interweaves indigenous African astrology and cosmology with Vedic teachings of the sidereal zodiac
• All of the astrolo-tea about what has been going on in the stars over the past few months and how it all impacts our relationships, spiritual purpose, and dharmic path in this life
• How our ancestors would not recognize the way that we currently relate in our romantic and sexual dynamics
• The lack of spiritual and sexual initiation processes in our modern culture and the collective damage that it has created
• Questioning the role and purpose of “romance” in committed partnerships that are based upon shared a spiritual path
• What a healthy and intact version of sexual education would ACTUALLY entail
• The conscious use of sexuality as a means to connect more deeply with God
• How we can move into higher levels of sexual and spiritual maturation and collectively grow up as a culture

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In this extended episode, Becca and I talk about:

• Becca’s beautiful experience in a recent women’s ceremony with the medicine of Huachuma, a grandfather spirit from the South American Andes

• The immature feminine (yin) nature of gossip, cattiness, and competition amongst women vs the mature feminine (yin) nature of relationship building and community tending

• The legacy of the European witch hunts and the wounds that women still carry, centuries later

• The necessity of integrity, boundaries, and self-interrogation while navigating roles as a participant, facilitator, and guardian of women’s spaces

• The illness that we create in ourselves when we attempt to take on the weight of another woman’s story

• How codependency shows up in female friendship dynamics and stops us from being able to cultivate healthy feminine relationships

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In this episode I share my conversation with a dear friend, sister, and fellow plant walker, Becca Loevy. Becca is a seeker and her primarily language is dance. Her desires are rooted in healthy nomadism, conscious community building, and finding pathways back to the land. She currently lives and works at Smokebrush, a community-based arts and agricultural organization in Manitou Springs, CO and together, with her community, weaves animal care, movement practices, and conscious farming into a beautifully woven basket of collective well being.

In this episode we get into:

• The displacement wounds of European descendants

• How Becca finally faced the medicine of loneliness and stopped running away from home

• Her journey to the path of deep relationship with our plant ancestors

• Learning how to respect and honor all plants as master teachers

• Why so many people of European descent feel such a call to learn from indigenous teachers who steward intact earth-based spiritual lineages

• The value of healthy nomadism as a means of unlearning colonization and how we heal our relationship to our animal kin

• The return of “extinct” plant ancestors and invisible peoples

• The delicate line between a medicine and poison and how to cultivate true relationship with the plants in order to move out of codependent dyanamics

• How to slowly reintegrate plant teachings into our daily lives

May this episode infuse all of the magic and medicine that our plant ancestors have to offer into your life!

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In this extended episode, Kasia and I discuss:

• Leaning towards what engages you while forming a new identity

• Navigating health journeys in the death/birth portal

• Allowing our spiritual paths + practices to grow and transform in order to meet the versions of ourselves that we are NOW

• Comparing the Bible with Buddhist texts and teachings around knowledge, the mind, and suffering

• The syncretic spiritual interweaving of Catholicism/Christianity and indigenous medicine ways

• How spirit babies can reorient our spiritual paths during the preconception phase

• Spiritual materialism, consumerism, perfectionism and never-ending seeking

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In today's episode I share my conversation with modern mystic, Kasia Stigglebout. Kasia is the founder of In Flow, a wellness brand helping women reconnect with their feminine rhythm through cyclical living. A former tech leader at Microsoft and TEDxSF, she now bridges ancient wisdom with modern wellness to help women unlock creativity without burnout. She also hosts The Other Way podcast, where she explores unconventional paths in work, health, and spirituality.

In this episode we get into:

• Kasia’s path of leadership within her family lineage as a a first generation immigrant of Eastern European descent
• The lack of ancestral connection that people of European descendent experience and the pain that we carry due to this lack of lineage continuity
• How feminine wounds of hyper-independence, self-reliance, and “not enough-ness” negatively impact our physical, emotional, relational, mental, and spiritual health
• The burnout that led Kasia into a life-changing transition from a decade-long highly “successful” career in tech into her studies of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• The impacts of the Industrial Revolution on the fabric of family culture and women’s reproductive health
• The unrealistic and biologically incoherent pressure for women to cram career, marriage, and the creation of a family into the same 15 year period
• The female hormonal matrix as the blueprint from thriving health, vitality, fertility, and longevity
• How Yin/Yang imbalances in nature are direct reflections of our own inner distortions as men and women in our modern culture
• The medicine of liminality that brings up into the depths of surrender and feminine softness
• How to utilize the untapped potential of our menstrual cycle to optimize creativity, productivity, and focus in our work and business-related endeavors

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In this extended episode we talk about how we all experience and embody yin and yang energies and the distortions (aka toxic masculine + feminine) that prevent us from being able to express these energies in a clean and reverent way.

Qiddist and I both share about how we realigned with the realities of biological sex after exploring alternative gender identities and dogmatic gender rigidity that exist within some lineages of radical feminism.

Qiddist seamlessly interweaves various schools of thought together in order to create spaciousness, play, and liberation in our ways of relating with ourselves and one another. Enjoy!

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In this week's episode I am honored to share my conversation with one of my teachers, Qiddist Ashé. Qiddist is a traditional midwife, alchemy educator, teacher of inside-out liberation, and co-founder of The Holy Well (previously known as The Womb Room). With a decade of experience in the world of female health and spiritual formation, she takes a deeply relational approach to facilitating transformation in bodymind, spirit, and the world. Her work is in service to the knowing that women in their aliveness create more liberation in the world.

In this episode we get into:

• The many lives, selves, and gifts that she embodies in this current lifetime as a medicine woman, educator, and farmer
• How Black speculative fiction informs her current work as a midwife, women’s health care practitioner, and land steward
• The true meaning of the word “APOCALYPSE” and the creative potential that exists when the world as we know it burns to the ground
• The audacious stance that freedom, joy, play, curiosity, and liberation are available to us at all times
• Antinatalist rhetoric within the environmental movement that blocks women’s ability to envision a future family through means of guilting, shaming, and degrading the sacred role of motherhood
• The contrast between the environmental movement of the Global North and the land/water protection and stewardship of traditional indigenous peoples

• How her work with the Black Oregon Land Trust that aims to reweave the inherent and beautifully necessary RELATIONSHIP between humans, animals, plants, and waterways
• The eugenicist methods of forced contraceptives that are still used—to this day—to control the populations of Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian, poor White, and immigrant communities
• The “existential okay-ness” that is required by an authentic midwife and medicine woman in order to walk alongside women through any experience that they are having in their lives
• The ceremonial work of midwifery and how we can revitalize the power of ritual and prayer in our health care offerings + practices

May this episode bring you as much joy and inspiration as it did to me!

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In this extended episode, Nicole shares about her process in resolving painful periods that landed her in the hospital on multiple occasions. We go deep into the shame around being a bleeding woman, the lack of reverence for our menstrual period, and the past life timeline healing work that can be done in order to find ease in our cycles.

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