This Guided Meditation is a part of our Holistic Lifestyle Guide Feelings of Fall: Move with the Rhythm of Fall, a holistic lifestyle guide to moving with the rhythm of the seasons as nature intends. Fall is a transition season, envoking feelings of grief, but also joy. It is correlated with the Sacral and Root Chakras and the element of air, this meditation is aligned with these rhythms. It supports you in combating the upward and outward moving energy of this season, that can cause overthinking, nervousness and heavy feelings, with a balanced sense of grounding. If you enjoy this practice and feel called to embody these natural rhythms deeper, make sure to check out the guide for more seasonally practices, recipes, and teachings and wisdom from myself and three other wellness leaders with knowledge passed down through generations and across cultures.

There is a fire that burns in each of our hearts.

There are aspects of life that nourish it and aspects that can diminish it.

Our modern world tends to challenge the nourishment of our heart fire. 

But, tuning into your heart fire and tending to it regularly is just as important for the upkeep of your health and well-being as eating well and exercising are.

In this meditation we will focus on the habits and experiences that nourish your heart fire, those that light you up, that create warmth throughout your being, that make you feel truly alive and allow you to shine your light into the world around you. These are the things that nourish your heart fire and they are what allow you to live from a place of deep love, understanding, compassion and gratitude~ to move through the challenging times with more ease and to cultivate joy, excitement, pleasure

This  guided mediation is intended to support you through tending to your heart fire. I invite you to return this practice regularly.

This meditation is a part of Senses of Summer, a holistic lifestyle guide to moving with the rhythm of the seasons as nature intends. Summer is the season of joy, excitement and pleasure. It is correlated with the Heart Chakra and the element of fire, this meditation is aligned with these rhythms. If you enjoy this practice and feel called to embody these natural rhythms deeper, make sure to check out that guide for more seasonally practices, recipes, and teachings and wisdom from myself and three other wellness leaders with knowledge passed down through generations and across cultures.

Senses of Summer Holistic Lifestyle Guide:

Soundtrack: Ambient Journeys, Vol. 1 (La Selva) - Dirtwire

A Guided Meditation for Spring Rebirth & Renewal with MK

Journey through the heart, into the Underworld and return renewed...

This meditation will take you through your heart, to the tender parts– some may call this our Underworld. In the Underworld, we face our shadows, our fears. This meditation journey will guide you through the darkness and back to the light, where you will be re-birthed, ready to come back to the topside world with new wisdom and understanding of feelings and experiences you have kept in the dark.

Challenging feelings or memories may arise for you during this journey. Allow them the space to exist. Cry if you need to, scream if you need to, move your body if you need to.

For this practice, it is best to begin lying on your back in a comfortable position. Grab a blanket, pillows or whatever you may need to be comfortable before you get started. When you are ready scan the QR Code for your recording of the Underworld Journey Guided Meditation.

In this episode Nick Meador from Soul Lift Cacao discusses…

how has journey with chronic fatigue led him to cacao, the differences between chocolate, cocoa, cacao and ceremonial cacao, traditional practices and uses, the importance of acknowledgement and giving credit when working with ceremonial cacao outside its original context, the supply chain, fair trade and growing practices and preparation, active compounds found in cacao and what support they offer to us, the importance of acknowledgement and giving credit when working with ceremonial cacao outside its original context and more.

We give thanks to the herbs we discuss in todays podcast, including Rose, Cinnamon, Star Anise, Lavender, Cordyceps, Chamomile, Licorice Root, Wood Betony and Oat Tops as wells as Cacao. We also want to honor and give reverence to the traditional cultures that have shared their wisdom and knowledge about the healing benefits of Cacao.

Resources: 

More info about Nick and Soul Lift Cacao

http://soulliftcacao.com

Upcoming Cacao Tours in Guatemala:

https://soulliftcacao.com/blogs/pages/ceremonial-cacao-tours-and-retreats

Guided Ceremonial Cacao Tasting in Portland, OR

https://soulliftcacao.com/collections/ceremonial-cacao-ceremony-events

How To Avoid Cultural Appropriation When Sharing Cacao

https://soulliftcacao.com/blogs/news/how-to-avoid-cultural-appropriation-when-sharing-ceremonial-cacao

Why Fair Trade Cacao Isn’t Actually Enough

https://soulliftcacao.com/blogs/news/why-fair-trade-cacao-chocolate-isnt-as-fair-as-ceremonial-cacao

MK’s tea: Serene Sleep Tea (ON SALE)

https://barefoodandbarefoot.com/product/serene-sleep-loose-herbal-tea-blend/

Barefoot Alchemists Elixir Bar & Apothecary:

https://barefoodandbarefoot.com/elixir-bar/

https://www.instagram.com/barefootalchemists.elixirbar/?hl=en

Jesse Rose’s Offerings:

https://www.rootedspirit.love

About Nick:

Nick Meador is a mindful entrepreneur who has been on a path of facilitation, leadership, and self-development for a decade. In 2015, Guatemalan ceremonial cacao changed his life by helping him overcoming chronic fatigue syndrome. In the years since, Nick has traveled throughout Central America connecting with cacao farms, collectives, and experts. He founded Soul Lift Cacao with the mission to create a positive impact in the world by helping Mayan collectives share their cacao in the U.S. and beyond. Nick created the Soul Lift Cacao Method to provide an ethical and responsible way to share ceremonial cacao in modern settings, and to create safe, trauma-informed containers for transformational journeys. He started bringing home and sharing cacao from Guatemala by suitcase before opening his Cacao Cafe in Portland Oregon. 

Bare Roots Retreat: 

More info here ~ Apply here  

In this episode we are blessed to be joined by guest and Goddess sister, Nylah Brooks. We explore harvesting our sacred power and connection to all that is by reawakening to our roots. Nylah sheds some wisdom and light on deities, goddess and planetary embodiment and how we can remember our worthiness as we walk a conscious path of communion with all things. 

Together we reflect on the medicine embedded within intentional ritual, water worship, solar activation and the vital role of blessing our bodies with love from the Earth Join us as we collaborate in sisterhood and share our experiences on reawakening to our connection to the Natural world the way our ancestors have and how it is our birth rite threaded deep into our DNA 

There is an abundance of genuine love, yin energy and giggles tying this episode together and it is our purest hope you can feel the beauty, joy and gratitude radiating from us and out to you! 

About Nylah Brooks: Nylah is a light worker born into the states with West African and Indigenous blood. She is an advocate for the land and community systems that are focused on creating abundance, health and education to liberate souls and re-instill collective consciousness. She is a Holistic Health Guide formally trained in Culinary Nutrition at The Culinary Institute of America. She worked for 8 years as an a professional in the restaurant industry. Where she focused on educating local community through intentional meal, supporting farmers who are stewards of the land and going back to natural preservation techniques Nylah was then introduced to the world of holistic healing where she began to focus more on becoming a studying herbalist with mentorship and hands-on knowledge. This stemmed into her opening her intentional business, The Herbal Alchemist which is a spiritual cosmetic company working with plants and Ifa principles. Currently being of service to local farmers and small Portland based business at farmers markets She also just finished editing her first tarot book, The Flower Attunement Tarot by Felicia Howe, focused around healing through flower essences. Finding time to uplift the voices of the BIPOC and LGBTQ communities by providing safe space for ritual and education of plant medicines. Through food she found herself and healing work. She feels it is her obligation as she obtains more knowledge to help others do the same and in turn help mother Earth. In other words, Ren Fa Di (Join as one) 

Connect with Nylah: Instagram @hrb.alchemist 

Episode Resources: 

Medicine Stories Episode, Harvesting Light: Alchemy of the Sun 

Sajah Popham & Evolutionary Herbalism Book 

Find & follow us: 

Jesse Rose: rootedspirit.love, @rootedspirityoga 

MK: barefoodandbarefoot.com, @barefoodandbarefoot

Bare Roots Retreat: 

More info here ~ Apply here 

This episode is the beginning of a series precious to our hearts called Sacred Plant Series: Overused & Abused. Out of a deep love & reverence to the Earth we will be bringing light to some power plants that need our support. Over this series, we will be interviewing various guests who hold deep connections to these plants to shed some light on how we can work with them consciously, as well as alternatives 

In this episode we begin our Sacred Plant Series journey by brushing the surface of ethical wildcrafting, preserving future plant populations, and ways we can appreciate our allies. Part 1 of this series also brings light to our first two power plants that are overused in our culture, Coffee & Tobacco. We encourage some deeper critical thinking questions like who is actually harvesting the plants, are we supporting them/are they getting fair wage, what are the conditions these plants are growing in, are the plants being treated with respect? Because it all matters 

In this episode M.K blesses herself with the nourishing support of Mullein (Verbascum thapsus), Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca), Yarrow (Achillea millefolium, Cleavers (Galium aparine), Oat Tops (Avena sativa), Lavender (Lavendula officinale), Wood Betony (Pedicularis canadensis), Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata ), Powder Blend Mushroom Blend - Brian & Body by Host Defense 

Jesse Rose sipped on Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) & Dandelion Flower (Taraxacum officinale) that she foraged on her farm, and shares about her intimate relationship with them both 

It is our purest hope that this episode inspires and encourages you to establish a deeper relationship with some of these power plants & plants in general. Stay tuned for a deeper dive into each power plant and as always we are endlessly grateful you are on this journey with us and send so much light to your reconnection with the Earth, yourself, and the collective! 

Episode Resources: 

At-risk species list 

Species at-risk resources 

Native plant resources 

Find & follow us: 

Jesse Rose: rootedspirit.love, @rootedspirityoga 

MK: barefoodandbarefoot.com, @barefoodandbarefoot

In this episode Zach guides us through many different topics from being an artist to animal tracking, to sit spots and primitive skills. But within each of these topics there is one main thread: slowing down. He reminds us to go back to pause and move forward at a slower pace with more intention, returning to our roots, to nature and all of the lessons we can learn when we slow down and exist alongside of nature rather than outside of it, that primitive skills— making a bow, starting a fire, primitive cooking— are our birthrights, we are apart of the Earth and so much more. Personally this conversation lit up so many deeper parts of myself, igniting my primal roots that yearn to run barefoot through forests and streams, far removed from our modern society. But Zach also reminds us that we are not exempt to the rules of nature and all that we have created is natural in its own way as well.

MEET ZACH FISHER

Zach Fisher is a Wilderness Educator, Adventure Guide, and Artist living and teaching in the Hudson Valley, NY. Originally from San Francisco, CA, he made his way to the East Coast in pursuit of a career in the Arts only to be redirected to Tom Brown Jr and the Tracker Survival School in the Pine Barrens of NJ. Since then, he has developed a career as a practitioner and educator of Primitive Technology and Survival Skills, a seasoned Outdoor Guide, as well as a painter and musician. He is fully obsessed with the interconnectedness of living in deep connection with nature and expressing that experience through Art. His goal as a teacher is to foster a profound understanding and appreciation for our wild landscapes and the lives that they encompass. By sharing these experiences, he feels that we can not only shift our perspectives, but also our relationship to ourselves as an integral part of the natural world.

Connect with Zach:

https://www.earthlivingskills.com

Coming soon: vulpeswildarts.com

insta: @zachfisherart, @vulpeswildarts, @earthlivingskills

Bare Roots Retreat:

More info here

Apply here

Flow State Tincture {ON SALE while supplies last}

Rooted Tincture

Twin Star: Earth Spirit Class

Exalted Alchemy {Flower Essences}

Adventure Untamed

The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder

Connect with us:

IG @whats.the.teapodcast

Connect with Jesse Rose:

https://rootedspirit.love

@rootedspiritalchemy

Connect with MK:

https://barefoodandbarefoot.com

@barefoodandbarefoot

Hello Soul Fam! I am so excited to share this episode with my amazing and inspirational friend Rose. In this episode she helps us to movepast the trendy pieces of astrology and really start to dive deep into how we can use this in a whole-istic way as a self-reflective system. Moving out of "I am the way I am because my sun is in Virgo" (thats me) and into "I understand there is a polarity to each sign. How can I chose the one that points to the high road?" and "How can I apply the patterns I recognize within the characteristics of this system to improve my way of being, the version of myself I share with the world and how I interpret and exist within and among the world around me?" Personally, I have learned a lot through my ongoing and intimate discussions with Rose. She has helped to guide me through releasing lower energetic versions of myself and striving for the side of light.

Rose pulls up mine, Jesse's and the podcast's natal charts and references them throughout this episode. This will give you a taste of her style for reading natal charts which you may want to keep in mind because at the end of this episode Rose has a very special giveaway she will share! The details about how to take advantage of this giveaway will be discussed as we get close to closing out the episode, but make sure to head to our instagram as well for more details. As always you can find the link in the show notes.

ABOUT ROSE

Rose gave her first Astrology reading in her teenage years to her childhood best friend. She had no real idea what she was talking about, but the pull towards her future passion was strong even in youth. Astrology followed her around like a forgotten puppy, wide-eyed and waiting for more attention.. Until the chaos of 2020, when she turned to the stars for guidance and found that many astrologers had predicted events similar to what the collective was experiencing.. long before we were experiencing them. It was then that the validity of the Self-Discovery System revealed itself to her and she began studying with the hopes to deepen her relationship with the cosmos to share what she's learned with others. 

SHOW NOTES

Connect with Rose: 

For now, Rose chooses to remain anonymous to those who do not know her personally. But if you have any questions for her please feel free to send them through WTT Podcast via IG or email.

Connect with us: IG @whats.the.teapodcast, [email protected]

Bare Roots Women's Healing Retreat

The signs & their elements:

Water: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

Earth: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

Fire: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

Air: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

In this episode we talk about two new herbs:

Butterfly pea flower can be found in the Ajna Intuition Glycerite

Wild Dagga can be found in Euphoria Herbal Smoke Blend

Debra Silverman Applied Astrology 

Complete Book of Astrology: The Only Astrology Book You Ever Need by Chris Brandt Riske

Esoteric Astrology, Alice Bailey FREE PDF download

Connect with Jesse: rootedspirit.love @rootedspiritalchemy

Connect with MK: barefoodandbarefoot.com @barefoodandbarefoot

Heya beautiful beings!

We are oozing with joy to share this episode of WTT with you! Join guest Jessica Sailer and co-host M.K and I for a journey into self discovery through the lenses of holistic health. This is truly an empowering conversation if you are looking to go deeper into yourself and bring recognition to the patterns and cycles that make up our reality

On this episode of WTT we are honored to be joined by Jessica Sailer, owner of Function of Being, for a juicy conversation around holistic skincare and how when we connect to the largest organ in our body we become more in tune to our rhythms, patterns, and cycles

Jessica is a Licensed Esthetician and Functional Skin & Wellness Consultant who prioritizes restoring the function of mind, body, & beauty to harmonize and balance skin conditions with various modalities and philosophies. Skin care is so much more than trendy ingredients, products, fancy tools, beauty standards, and services. It is a practice of self-discovery & self-awareness

Jess reminds us to love and nurture our largest organ in the body that is highly intelligent and that we can view the skin through many different lenses when we are looking for treatment and healing on a deeper level. She encourages us not to compare ourselves and that no two treatment protocols are the same, making it important to practice discernment why purchasing products that do not target the individual

She uses her work as a vehicle into self-awareness and calls her work a “portal into self-discovery”. Her work is aligned with listening to the story the skin is telling you and that slow beauty begins within. Join us as we go into a journey of going within and honoring our cycles through simplistic skincare

Jessica sipped on Lilac, HoneySuckle and Schizandra berries. Jesse _ Plantain, Calendula, Sage, Rose & Reishi tincture. MK embraced  Burdock Root, Eleuthero Root, Green Tea, Licorice Root, Cleavers, Rose, Wood Betony & Tulsi

You can explore all of Jess’s beautiful offerings and connect with her below

As always, we lovingly encourage you to brew a cup of intentional tea and enjoy these magical moments of presence with us, embracing the wholeness of our being where we are

SHOW NOTES

Bare Roots Retreat Application & Information [June 23-27, 2022]: https://rootedspirit.love/bare-roots-retreat

Jessica Sailer Website: https://www.functionofbeing.com/

Jessica Sailer Email: [email protected]

6 Step Guide To Building A Holistic Skin Care & Well-Being Regimen:

https://www.functionofbeing.com/product-page/holistic-guide-to-skin-care-well-being

Body Awareness: Connect The Dots Between Your Skin & The Menstrual Cycle:

https://www.functionofbeing.com/product-page/guide-to-skin-health-cyclical-living

Fungi Ally: https://www.fungially.com/collections/all

Hawthorn Holistic Health: https://hawthornholistichealth.com/welcome

Connect with MK:

IG @barefoodandbarefoot, website: barefoodandbarefoot.com

Connect with Jesse Rose:

IG @rootedspirityoga, website: rootedspirit.love