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This is a practice for grounding into the earth and connecting into the space (and spaciousness) of the Ancestors. 

This is a complementary, bonus episode to go along with the previous episode: Pitru Paksha: Dark Moon Fortnight For Ancestral Healing + Practice 

Pitru Paksha (or Pitri Paksha) 

The Pitris are our ancestors, and so  Pitru Pashka means “Fortnight of the Ancestors”.  This window of time is devoted to a ritual tending to or honoring of the ancestors known as Tarpana, which means to gratify or satiate.

The practice varies, but in Vedic culture, largely follows these guidelines:

• Honoring the ancestors on the New Moon of each month, or this two week “dark moon fortnight” (from Full to New Moon) in the month of late September (sometimes into October).
• Uses 3 ingredients as offerings, a mantra, and a body of water or the earth
  • These ingredients are: Black Sesame Seed, Milk, and Water

In this episode, I  give a brief explanation of the importance and purpose of ancestor rituals, then provide some examples, offer practice, and suggest some journal prompts to ponder during this time of year. 

Visit www.thewildtemple.com for the full practice 

Warmly,
Brooke

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This is our new season our new incarnation, focusing now on the dharmic revolution and the sacred technologies of tantric alchemy, Ayurveda, yoga and herbal wisdom to help step you into your self-mastery and soul purpose.

I'd like to start us off with this thought that it is a revolutionary act, to stand up for who you are, and be who you are meant to be in this world in a time where we have inherited suppression, capitalism, patriarchy, reductionist thinking reductionist understand understanding of our world and how we act within the world.

This idea of revolutionizing your life and your being into a place of wholeness and connection and feeling supported and loved by those around you, as well as yourself is truly a revolutionary act.

And it's in doing this deep dive of understanding yourself that it allows you to step up for yourself to stand in your truth, to use your voice as a sword to wield the ways that you want to see yourself in the world and how you want the world to be.

It's a revolutionary act to do these things. And so this incarnation of the Wild Temple podcast is really focused on supporting you in your Dharma to stand in this revolution, and dharma means here soul purpose, or soul mission, which can be different stages or chapters in your life.

It's also the ways in which we align with nature so that nature supports us.

The Bhagavad Gita teaches that it is better to do our Dharma poorly than to try to do someone else's well.

Unfortunately, we're still like sheep in society, where we're mimicking what other people are doing, even if it's impartial, even if it's not aligned with who we are. Maybe you see that they're accomplishing something, they're reaching great heights, or you don't have the inspiration or insight to do you. And so this revolution is about finding the ways that you can do YOU in your uniqueness, with YOUR voice and  perspective- in a way that gives back. 

It's not taking, it's not consuming. It's not feeding hungry ghosts, but it's giving back it's empowering you and others all around you. This is the dharmic revolution.

Please leave us comments and reviews. Share if you like, so that this podcast can serve others. Thank you from Brooke and the Wild Temple team. 

Enjoy today

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This is the last episode of the Mythic Apotheca season! Next episode will begin our Second Season, the Dharmic Revolution! Subscribe to stay tuned, and share with a friend or colleague!

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In today's episode, we'll be talking with Chanti Tacorante Perez, a Cuban American Creatrix ritualist and author who believes that images speak a profound language.

With a master's in depth psychology currently in the process of getting her PhD. Chanti, is an amazing artist, the creator of the Yantra deck as well as many courses of study- including the power of rest in her virtual temple yantrawisdom.com.

Our new, most comprehensive apprenticeship called The Wild Sage Apprenticeship- which uses the dharmic revolution as a methodology that weaves all of the Wild Temple professional programs together for a 1:1 and intimate group guided experiences, Launches Nov. 1! Book a call by Sept. 4 and register to receive a Wild Alchemy Apothecary, Flower Essence Kit, 2 months extra content access and reduced rate!

To Schedule a call by Sept 4:  http://brookesullivan.as.me 

Check out the program at https://www.thewildtemple.com/wildsageapprenticeship

✨ Today we air from Skaneateles, “skinny atlas,” NY in a small room at the bottom floor of a castle. Technically this room is a wine cellar but it also has this incredible magical quality to it…

The ceiling is a muted blood color with metallic gold flower prints that bring to mind elegance but also ancient bloodlines and the arched door of this cool stone room is a set of iron bars complete with a heavy padlock and skeleton key.

I think this is a very fitting place to be talking with Jessica Terry Burke. We are here at a surprise family gathering my sister has thrown her husband and are taking the time away from everyone to discuss finding Value and Worth in the stories that we personally have aligned with.

For both of us, it is a powerful opportunity to speak with another woman that appears to be (and operate) very differently on the surface, but deep down shares similar core values.

This is because she and I come from respectively, the viewpoint of the Christian faith from the West and the mystical viewpoint of Yogic spirituality  from the East. 

How she sees it: Christians have seen yoga as evil and the Yoga tradition feels the Church to be oppressive.

(We did not dissect this exact sentiment, however I feel it could be a great subject for a future discussion with her.)

Throughout our conversations over the years we have realized that we really aren’t so different from one another and that sharing our story to each other has only widened and healed old narratives. 

It is my hope this episode can give a window into the same for you, where we reveal a common language that can help us to heal old narratives and times that have not served us in the past along with:

1. What it means to be a strong woman in leadership roles-alone and alongside her husband 

2. Her journey of discovering the importance of being valued, not used

3. The structure and role community plays in their unique “roaming Christian pop up church” in Sacramento, where going Deep before Wide is key

*if you have any comments or curiosities about this episode, please reach out www.thewildtemple.com 

* And enjoy, like and share (in that order!) if it inspired you on some level…. as perhaps it can also inspire another ♥️

In this episode Brooke shares about:

Guru Purnima: This Full Moon time of honoring the "teacher" or "sage" within and around us

Myth of the Sages + The Wishfullfilling Tree 

• A Creation Story
• Birth of Sri Sukta (from the Rg Veda)
• Birth of MUD

Salvia Officinalis

• A paradox of a plant
  • Medicinal Uses
  • Lore
  • Spiritual Uses

How viruses, plants, Nature and people are Teachers 

Our goal in yoga (with asana, breathwork, plant medicine, alignment with Nature (via both Yoga + Ayurveda) is to awaken the Sage Within!

Discount code brooke2023 for Love Shine Play Festival in Asheville, NC July 20-23

• Sat workshop with Brooke: Tantric Technologies
• Sun panel with Brooke, Nishita Shaw, Kennae Miller, Sierra Hollister + Nichole Falco on the Future of Yoga as it relates to yoga, nature, herbalism + ayurveda
• Sun workshop with Brooke: Fire + Flowers: Myth and Magic

(see our website www.thewildtemple.com for info)

Link to www.thewildtemple.com for preregistration early bird link for The Shakti School of Ayurveda, where Brooke is level 1 + 2 herbal teacher + using our affiliate link supports our BIPOC scholarship program. 

Please enjoy, like and share! In that order if you wish, and thank you for listening:)

In this episode Brooke shares:

• The importance of Rhythm and connecting to the Moon
• Dark Moon Babies
• A moon song
• The Nakshatras: "Faces of the Moon" or archetypal "Mansions" of the movement of the moon in the night sky, as insights into the flow of Nature's Prana + Mental/Emotional states
• The Myth of Why the Moon Waxes and Wanes
• Rohini: The most beautiful wife of the moon
• Good + Bad Habits: Understanding the importance of each
• Healing Yoga: Understanding that a large part of authentic yoga is upheld by the practice of Svadhyaya (YS 2.1)
• Specific Plants + Flowers for "Moon tending" (supporting mind/emotions + deeply engrained habits or beliefs)
• Specific Tantra Yoga Techniques that help to break bad habits, cultivate good ones by strengthening one's intuition and ability to see in the subconscious realms

Please like, follow and share, to spread the word! And look forward to the next Moon Musing in a few weeks, where Brooke will post free practices on You Tube and posts on IG to continue this mysteriously beautiful psychoeducation.

Flower Essence Therapy has been gaining popularity as an emotional therapy. Dr. Bach, the forefather of flower essence therapy, was a leading edge activist for flower therapy as emotional therapy. On our Ireland retreat in 2019, I was inspired by my friend and flower essence colleague who shared the history and teachings of Dr. Bach. One quote, in particular, resonated with me: "Our emotional response determines how we heal."

This idea is beautifully woven into Tantric philosophy, which emphasizes the intricate connection between mind and body. Our personality, which is shaped by our thoughts and feelings, can be revealed by how we speak and act. Negative emotions inevitably hinder our body's ability to heal itself. That's where flower essences come in to support us with potent alchemy.

Flower essences can help to transmute negative emotions into positive ones. When we work with the flowers, we bring in waves of positive emotions to negate the negative acute or stored emotions to heal the body. They literally flood the body with positive energy (called virtues by Dr. Bach) that align with our vital essence and connect to and get strength from the light of the soul.

Interestingly, the Cherokee believed that for every illness, there is a plant to cure. This is a belief that has been echoed in the field of Flower Essence Therapy, where each flower is believed to specifically meet and transmute a particular emotion and/or mental state. It's amazing to see the similarities in ancient wisdom across different cultures and how they still hold relevance today.

Thank you for reading and may you find peace and healing through the power of flowers. Please see the transcript if you would like to skip forward into the 12 Flower Remedies for Emotions

Xobrooke

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The Wild Temple Mythic Apotheca with Brooke Shannon Sullivan

In this webinar, we dive into the importance of a home practice, how tantra yoga can help us overcome the challenges of our time, and how teacher trainings, retreats, and yoga immersions that offer a DEEP dive are better than the piecemeal approach to learning that western culture often brings.

It's so important for us to tell our stories.  In this podcast, Brooke shares her journey away from her yoga and tantra practices, and what eventually led her back to them.

Join us in our next Sage Roots 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training starting March 24, 2023
https://www.thewildtemple.com/sage-roots-200hr-ytt

Start studying tantric herbalism today with our online training, Yogi's Apothecary.
https://www.thewildtemple.com/yogis-apothecary-module-1


 

In this episode, Avril Bowens, Midwife and founder of The Midwife Method, and I talk  power.

We go into what empowered birth looks and feels like, the power of Nature, the power of Kundalini, rites of passage, and how civilization will benefit when the narrative and scenery of maternity care changes. We must move from the old patriarchal models of disempowerment (perpetuated behind closed doors and silent voices) into empowered women, babies, and the families that love them.  

I met Avril in Midwifery school in 2000. A wild, Native Irish woman who had been living in the Arctic Circle prior to moving to North Carolina, she inspired me from the beginning with her knowledge and grit. I love her spirit, wit, Irish lore, and the legacy of change she is creating.
 
Enjoy the listen, and keep your eye out for her Midwifery Summits, the first one will be launching Dec 13-15, 2023. https://www.midwifemethod.com/a/2147524702/dee2qXvF where she will do an interview with me on The Waves of Beauty and Bliss: Kundalini and the Power of Birth. xobrooke

Who is Avril Bowens?

Equal parts spiritual warrior, healed healer, and practical strategist, Avril Bowens is a midwife, mentor, mother, nurse, Birth Emergency Skills Training Instructor, birth advocate, farmer, and visionary. She is on a mission to help women and people have empowered pregnancy & birth experiences, along with a well-supported transition into parenthood - by bringing the midwife model of care to all women and people - online. 

Avril made her pivot from active practice to the virtual world after healing from a very traumatic motorcycle accident where she was given the opportunity to put all her knowledge of holistic therapies into practice to heal herself from the extensive injuries sustained.

She founded the Midwife Method in 2022 and launched Thriving through Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond Mentoring Program ~ a 12 month journey through the childbearing year providing all the elements of midwifery care, that can be delivered online, designed to complement and enrich the medical care people receive in their home communities so women feel informed, confident and fully capable.

Her big vision is to transform the current maternity healthcare system into a midwife-led system that promotes and supports physiological pregnancy and birth, provides true, informed choice, the option to birth at home or in a birth center, facilitates seamless collaborative care with higher level providers when necessary and honors & protects the sanctity of birthing of a family into being.

"When we change birth practices into a loving and powerful rite of passage, we will see those qualities reflected out into families, communities, culture, and all the systems in place. When we take back birth, we make a stand for the health of families as a primary objective to creating a better world for all."

-Avril Bowens, midwife, RN,  B.E.S.T InstructorFounderthe Midwife Methodshe/her/hers