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The Queer Spirit
Care Chat: Ancestors with Pavini Moray
Care Chats are short mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts + minds. Pavini Moray returns to the podcast with TanyaMarck + Nick for this seasonal chat about Ancestors. We share stories about our relationship to and practices for connecting to our ancestors of blood, spirit and queerness. Connect with Pavini at www.PaviniMoray.com and on IG @pavinicoakwellmoray Links + Resources + Invitations: An invitation to the private Queer Spirit Community to continue the conversation and connect with other listeners. Join us for FREE virtual Care Circles meditation + chanting + breath work circles online. We meet monthly on...
2025-10-01
23 min
The Queer Spirit
Care Chat: Ancestors with Pavini Moray
Care Chats are short mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts + minds. Pavini Moray returns to the podcast with TanyaMarck + Nick for this seasonal chat about Ancestors. We share stories about our relationship to and practices for connecting to our ancestors of blood, spirit and queerness. Connect with Pavini at www.PaviniMoray.com and on IG @pavinicoakwellmoray Links + Resources + Invitations: An invitation to the private Queer Spirit Community to continue the conversation and connect with other listeners. Join us for FREE virtual Care Circles meditation + chanting + breath work circles online. We meet monthly on...
2025-10-01
23 min
Delusional! Big Dreams, Real Stories with Michelle Coyle
Faith Over Fear: How Dr. Pavini Moray Landed a Penguin Book Deal in 30 Days
Send us a textDr. Pavini Moray shut down a successful company not because it failed, but because it didn’t feel right. Dr. Pavini had no backup plan. Just a one-way ticket to Belize, and a wild idea to write a whole book in 30 DAYS.In this episode of Delusional, Dr. Pavini shares what happens when you walk away from everything on purpose. We talk about the identity crisis that comes with quitting, the freedom of collapse, and the spiritual clarity that helped tur...
2025-08-12
46 min
The Nourished Nervous System
Tending the Bones: Ancestral Connection to Heal Transgenerational Sexual Trauma with Dr. Pavini Moray
Send us a textIn this episode of The Nourished Nervous System, I welcome back Dr. Pavini Moray, a somatic coach and author with over 30 years of experience. Dr. Moray introduces their new book, 'Tending the Bones: Reclaiming Pleasure After Transgenerational Sexual Trauma,' which guides readers through a 13-month somatic journey involving ancestral rituals and embodiment practices. The discussion highlights the significance of building relationships with well ancestors for healing, the transformative and connecting power of ritual, and the critical role of understanding and reclaiming pleasure. Dr. Moray explains how...
2025-01-16
36 min
Satiated Podcast
How To Step Into Self Leadership and Grieve Past Selves with Pavini Moray
Happy Satiated Saturday! When you're struggling with binging or restricting, all the power can feel like it is in the food. Like the food has some captivating hold that no matter your best attempts to break it, nothing seems to work. Often this is because your food coping mechanisms aren't about the food. So the more focus there is on the food, the further away you might feel from the root cause of your food behaviors. One root cause can be feeling like your ability to step into self leadership has been taken away. W...
2024-11-10
42 min
Courageous Possibilities
Episode 8 : Holding Power with Heart with Dr Pavini Moray
In this episode, Jo delves into the concept of embodiment with Dr. Pavini Moray, exploring how this approach can help us create a more connected world. Dr. Moray, who identifies as a fat, queer, trans-bodied person, shares how embodiment is a radical choice for them. They acknowledge that many individuals do not feel safe to be embodied, but for them, this journey has fostered greater self-trust. They believe that focusing on needs—personal, collective, and relational—can have the most significant impact on humanity. In collaboration, can we meet everyone’s needs as best as possib...
2024-10-23
42 min
On and Off Your Mat Yoga Podcast
Becoming a Leader That People Love and Respect, with Pavini Moray
If you want to make a real impact in the world, you need to step into your leader self. To discuss how to do this, I'm joined by Pavini Moray, an author with over 30 years of experience as an educator, activist, somatic coach, and serial entrepreneur holding a Ph.D. in somatic psychology. Pavini supports humans and organizations in developing thriving relationships, and their perspective on leadership will truly change your life. Tune in this week to discover what it takes to become a leader that people love and respect and what it means to be a...
2024-06-24
37 min
The Nourished Nervous System
A Somatic Approach to Leadership and Power with Pavini Moray
Send us a textIn this episode, I welcome Pavini, a queer, trans human who utilizes their diverse background as a park ranger, Montessori teacher, sex therapist, and startup CEO to thrive in their current roles as a somatic coach, author, and advocate for embodying leadership to smash the patriarchal norms in the workplace. Pavini shares their journey through various professions, highlighting the impact of their Montessori education background on their teaching and writing. They discuss the importance of embodiment and somatic practices in leadership, self-care, navigating the workplace's power dynamics, and the eth...
2024-05-23
45 min
Culture and Leadership Connections Podcast
Pavini Moray: Embracing Authenticity and Play
The Somatic Leadership JourneyBio:Pavini Moray has started, failed, and succeeded in many businesses. A serial entrepreneur, they have built private practices, a worker collective, and a for-profit company. Pavini is a somatic leadership coach, specializing in helping relationships be easy. Moray holds an M.Ed in Montessori curriculum design, as well as a Ph.D. in Somatic Psychology. Pavini has authored, How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect.Links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pavinicoakwellmoray/Website: https://www...
2024-04-26
40 min
The Future of Leadership
Harnessing Somatic Leadership with Dr. Pavini Moray
Are you listening to what your body is telling you? And what has that got to do with how you show up as a leader? My guest, somatic leadership expert and educator Dr. Pavini Moray, and I explore how tuning into the body's signals can guide better decision-making, boost leadership empathy and prevent burnout. Our conversation also covers the significance of creating trauma-informed workplaces and developing skills to process triggers. I love this idea of the body as a continuous source of wisdom and insights. Helping us to process what's going on internally and giving...
2024-03-19
53 min
Rebel HR Podcast: Life and Work on Your Terms
How to Hold Power with Somatic Leadership with Pavini Moray, PhD
Send us a textEver wondered how your body can guide you to become a more effective leader? If yes, then prepare to embark on an intriguing exploration of leadership through a somatic lens with our insightful guest, Pavini Moray, PhD. Paveni, a proponent of somatic leadership, takes us on her personal journey, unraveling the wisdom hidden within our bodies. Together, we delve into how body signals can be an untapped resource in making decisions, leading empathetically, and maintaining a genuine presence.We tread deeper waters as Pavini and I navigate the complex notion of...
2024-02-21
37 min
60 Mindful Minutes
Power and Embodiment with Pavini Moray
Unlock the keys to power and leadership in this engaging interview with somatic educator and coach, Pavini Moray. Learn how your body holds the secrets to becoming an inspirational and socially conscious leader in this conversation based on Moray's new book, How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect. Guest Bio Pavini Moray (they/them) has started, failed, and succeeded at many businesses. As a serial entrepreneur, they have built private practices, a worker collective, and a for-profit company. These experiences have shaped them into an e...
2023-10-12
46 min
60 Mindful Minutes
Power and Embodiment with Pavini Moray
Unlock the keys to power and leadership in this engaging interview with somatic educator and coach, Pavini Moray. Learn how your body holds the secrets to becoming an inspirational and socially conscious leader in this conversation based on Moray's new book, How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect. Guest Bio Pavini Moray (they/them) has started, failed, and succeeded at many businesses. As a serial entrepreneur, they have built private practices, a worker collective, and a for-profit company. These experiences have shaped them into an e...
2023-10-12
46 min
Press Play On The Sensational Full Audiobook Now, Curious Minds!
How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect--30+ embodiment practices to empower your team and lead with intention by Pavini Moray
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685291to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect--30+ embodiment practices to empower your team and lead with intention Author: Pavini Moray Narrator: Pavini Moray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Disorders & Diseases Publisher's Summary: Essential skills for today's leaders: learn how to embody your ethics, earn your team's trust, and dismantle toxic work culture Leaders and managers everywhere are learning the importance of creating safe, satisfying workplaces rooted in principles of social justice. But many of us who...
2023-10-10
8h 40
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How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect--30+ embodiment practices to empower your team and lead with intention by Pavini Moray
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685291to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect--30+ embodiment practices to empower your team and lead with intention Author: Pavini Moray Narrator: Pavini Moray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: Essential skills for today's leaders: learn how to embody your ethics, earn your team's trust, and dismantle toxic work culture Leaders and managers everywhere are learning the importance of creating safe, satisfying workplaces rooted in principles of social justice. But many of us who...
2023-10-10
8h 40
Download Incredible Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases
How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect--30+ embodiment practices to empower your team and lead with intention by Pavini Moray
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685291to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect--30+ embodiment practices to empower your team and lead with intention Author: Pavini Moray Narrator: Pavini Moray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Disorders & Diseases Publisher's Summary: Essential skills for today's leaders: learn how to embody your ethics, earn your team's trust, and dismantle toxic work culture Leaders and managers everywhere are learning the importance of creating safe, satisfying workplaces rooted in principles of social justice. But many of us who...
2023-10-10
8h 40
Access Essential Full Audiobooks in Business & Economics, Management & Leadership
How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect--30+ embodiment practices to empower your team and lead with intention by Pavini Moray
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685291to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Hold Power: A Somatic Approach to Becoming a Leader People Love and Respect--30+ embodiment practices to empower your team and lead with intention Author: Pavini Moray Narrator: Pavini Moray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 40 minutes Release date: October 10, 2023 Genres: Management & Leadership Publisher's Summary: Essential skills for today's leaders: learn how to embody your ethics, earn your team's trust, and dismantle toxic work culture Leaders and managers everywhere are learning the importance of creating safe, satisfying workplaces rooted in principles of social justice. But many of us who...
2023-10-10
8h 40
Everyone's Talkin' Money
The Secret to Finding Joy in Saving Money | Jeanette Pavini
Raise your hand if you are guilty of this…you hit the buy now button without even thinking. I know I certainly am. But what if all those buy-now purchases are moving you further away from your dreams and goals without you consciously being aware of it? In today’s episode with money-saving expert Jeanette Pavini, we move from mindless spending to mindful spending and uncover the secret to finding joy in saving money.What You'll Learn Learn the 3-step strategy to creating a money-saving system you can win with What’s stopping you fr...
2021-03-30
44 min
Wtf Show with Vimol Kogar
Wtf Show With Vimol Kogar Feat. Pavini Sethi S1 E13 23rd Jan 2021
Wtf Show with Vimol Kogar Presents Pavini Sethi S1 E13 23rd Jan 2021 Plenty of talent in this podcasts with a distinguished portfolio as Postgraduate Research Assistant at University Of California at Berkeley followed by European Sustainability Expedition Project Manager at the US Green Chamber of Commerce then Project Manager at at her own Startup called Ecolotech. Fantastic future for this promising young professional. Catch Pavini Sethi on Wtf Show with Vimol Kogar on 23rd Jan 2021. Available on Spotify Itunes Simplecast Youtube.
2021-01-21
22 min
What's the Word?
What's the Word? with Jaime McFaden - Ep02 - Jeanette Pavini - "CONTROL"
Jaime interviews author and Emmy award-winning journalist Jeanette Pavini this week! Jeanette will share tips of how to get in control of your personal finances “We have more control, especially in our personal finances than we think we do”The Joy of $aving’ on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2WhYM6FWebsite: www.JeanettePavini.comFaceBook: Jeanette Pavini: The Joy of $aving CommunityInstagram: Jeanette.PaviniTwitter: @jeanettepavini
2020-12-30
15 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
A message from Pavini about Bespoken Bones
2020-12-17
05 min
QueerHustle
QH005 - How to Use Business to Help Others with Dr. Pavini Moray
In this episode of QueerHustle, Michelle sits down with sex therapist, educator and founder of Wellcelium, Dr. Pavini Moray. Wellcelium is a sexual wellness edtech company providing pragmatic skills for thriving relationships and sexuality through online learning. Michelle and Dr. Pavini talk about the importance of queer entrepreneurship, being a leader and role model in the LGBTQIA+ community and Dr. Pavini’s passion for helping people realize the full power of their sexuality.
2020-12-11
27 min
QueerHustle
QH005 - How to Use Business to Help Others with Dr. Pavini Moray
What We Covered:01:01 – Introducing today’s guest, Dr. Pavini Moray who speaks to the importance of queer entrepreneurship, the difference between capitalism and entrepreneurship and the work they’re doing with Wellcelium 06:13 – Dr. Pavini speaks to the importance of representation in sex education for marginalized groups and individuals 11:10 – Dr. Pavini’s entrepreneurial journey and the origins of Wellcelium 13:52 – What it has meant to Dr. Pavini to be a leader and role model in their community and how Dr. Pavini shapes their mindset 16:48 – Dr. Pavini opens up about their experience as a public leader a...
2020-12-11
27 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Healing the ancestral wounds
Oscar Pérez, a ritual leader, spiritual teacher, and mentor speaks about shamanic traditions, unintended grief and rage, and healing.
2020-08-02
47 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
On eldership, ancestral work, blackness, and healing arts practice
Naya Jones, a geographer, healing arts practitioner, and ritual artist, speaks about eldership, ancestral work, justice, and the healing arts.
2020-07-21
53 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Decolonizing Aliveness
Sobey Wing, a multi-racial settler, President of Kathara Pilipino Indigenous Arts Society, and Chair of the Cross Cultural Protocols Working Group of Youth Passageways organization, speaks about multi-racial identity, the rites of passage movement, decolonial love and what led him to his life towards various communities who shared a purpose
2020-07-04
50 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Using our bodies to liberate our bodies
Laura Levinson, a movement artist and healer, speaks about the erotic, the ungovernability of pleasure and of our raucously alive bodies, death, and grief.
2020-06-20
54 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Dwelling in the mystery of not knowing
Michelle Embree, a professional Tarot card reader and teacher, speaks about Tarot reading and the connection between storytelling and healing.
2020-06-05
43 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
What is the meaning of life?
Mars Gradiva, an ancient interstellar traveller, idea vessel and a professional enthusiast making queer liberatory astrology, tackles the meaning of life, the Zodiacs and the consequences of vulnerability and our safety.
2020-05-22
1h 12
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Magic, art modelling, tokenism, cultural restraints and the activism around gender and sexuality
Jezmina Von Thiele, a Romani and Sinti writer, dancer, art model, healer, academic, activist, and educator, speaks about taking back the power of her heritage by modelling and using it for a way to empower one’s self.
2020-05-08
1h 01
Bespoken Bones Podcast
On weaving the threads of adornment, feminism, storytelling, archaeology, and blackness
Ayana Omilade Flewellen, a Black Feminist, an archaeologist, a storyteller, and an artist, talks about archaeology and the enslavement and sexual exploitation of black women.
2020-04-22
55 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
On the connection of grief work, erotic embodiment and the intersection of birth and sex work
Katie Spataro, a full-spectrum doula, a somatic sex educator and a holistic pelvic care provider speaks about her healing practices, ancestral lineage, the intersections of birth work and sex work, and the intimate connection of grief and pleasure.
2020-04-08
48 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Playing with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a black feminist
Ra Malika Imhotep, an open-hearted collaborator on a number of projects at the intersections of creative expression and Black liberation shares her experiences and talks about what it means to play with grief, the erotic, sex and ancestors as a black feminist.
2020-03-09
53 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
"This harm can be held in a circle and I can address the person who caused this harm with support.": On sexual trauma, restorative justice and empowerment.
Marisa Taborga Byrne, a survivor of incest, shares her experience about the magic of healing from sexual trauma. She also speaks about holistic sexuality, the Global Sexual Healing Revolution and how restorative justice helped her heal the trauma.
2020-02-23
45 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Ancestral rites of passage with Darcy Ottey
Darcy Ottey of Youth Passageways to how genuine rites of passage that allow young adults to "sit at the big kids table" once they make it through, as well as how to discern effective rites that welcome youth into adult community through offering identity, belonging and sense of purpose.
2020-01-24
42 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Buried alive: Art, ancestors and black erotic power
brontë velez goes deep: going underground, psychedelics, blackness, sex, remembering and demanding healing. What happens when you start with where you want to end and work your way back.
2020-01-10
1h 07
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Doing the old time spirit work
Artist and Medium Kook Teflon lives a life of connection with spirit. In this interview, she speaks on working in good ways with the spirit of Alcohol, dolls and living altars, & rewriting family stories.
2019-12-26
54 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
We are all made of stars: Time travel ancestry
Billed as "Your guide to the night sky and friendly neighborhood time traveler, queer elder Stargazer Li writes: "Stargazing isn’t about feeling small in the face of such vastness. It’s about seeing and experiencing our story as part of the tapestry of a much bigger story. It’s about dancing with the spiraling currents of time, rather than trying to direct the flow. It’s about coming IN to our bodies and IN to the moment. It’s about vastly expanding our experience of NOW." In this episode, we go deep into place magick, ti...
2019-12-12
58 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Meeting transcestor Lou Sullivan with joy and pleasure
What a gift Lou Sullivan is and was to trans community! In this interview with Zach Ozma, editor of the newly released"We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The selected diaries of Lou Sullivan" we dive into erotic freedom and old-school pleasure activism.
2019-11-26
00 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Episode 59: Trans Day of Remembrance 2019
In this episode, Pavini ritually reads the names of the trans dead of violence in 2019.
2019-11-20
28 min
For The Wild
PAVINI MORAY on Unlocking Eros and Sacred Reciprocity ⌠PART 2⌡ /145
Listen in to Part Two of this intimate conversation as Ayana and Pavini share their reflections on the forest as a teacher of wild love, the field of eros within and beyond the realm of sex, the cyclical nature of death as communion, and strategies for connecting with ancestors of blood and heart. Support the show
2019-11-13
46 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Queer and Trans Ritual Magick as Living Art
Ylva Radziszewski and Kiki Robinson of the Living Altar discuss ritual art as magical activism, queer self-initiation, and accessing ancestors (especially transcestors and queer ancestors) thru the trauma of Roma diaspora and assimilation.
2019-11-12
59 min
For The Wild
PAVINI MORAY on Alchemizing Trauma and Ancestral Healing ⌠PART 1⌡ /144
Join us for Part One of Ayana and Pavini’s conversation as they delve into deep dialogue on the necessity of relational repair, trans and queer belonging, navigating states of trauma, and breaking settler mentalities within healing spaces.Support the show
2019-11-08
47 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
"Our grief does not need healing. Our healing needs our grief."
Shauna Janz of Sacred Grief riffs on the necessity of grief fluency and it can help you feel a sense of belonging.
2019-10-28
53 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Hunter's Moon with Murphy Robinson
Murphy Robinson of Mountainsong Expeditions shares of her journey on the Appalachian trail led her from life-long vegetarian to practicing the ancestral skill of the sacred hunt.
2019-10-13
47 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
"I want to be an ancestor who makes mistakes." On dying consciously, fierce activism and tender learning to the end.
Activist and witch Colleen Cook speaks about her terminal cancer, her experiences with dying, sexuality and community. Colleen provides a gorgeous example of how to die as you live, and how to live as you die. This is the season finale. Bespoken Bones returns Oct. 13, 2019. Make sure to watch for our new show "The Well-Pleasured Podcast" an erotic liberation gameshow, launching September, 2019.
2019-07-16
1h 00
Bespoken Bones Podcast
The gender revolution will be podcasted!
Join Dr. Alex Iantaffi, gender radical, ancestral reverence practitioner and host of Gender Stories Podcast as we discuss liminality, the intersection of patriarchy and liberation, and praying through queer sex.
2019-07-05
57 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Your Earthly Queer Nature Belongs Here
In this episode, So & Pinar of Queer Nature share about queer love and learning to belong through weaving webs of accountability with other beings and the land-based practice of cultivating resilience. Intro music in Quechua by Renata Flores Rivera.
2019-06-19
1h 13
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Creating art with ancestors
What if we can work with ancestors to create art that inspires and liberates? Seth Eisen speaks about his approach that marries notions of community-driven, often overlooked history with an interdisciplinary performance celebrating the legacies of queer ancestors.
2019-06-03
51 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
The erotic and the ancestors of liberation: Renewing our Activism
In this episode, Starhawk discusses how to stay nourished in our fight for justice.
2019-05-19
55 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Connecting with your animal companions beyond the veil
Animal communicator Claudia Hehr discusses the special relationship between animals and humans, how to connect with animal ancestors, and dealing with grief and loss of animal companions.
2019-05-06
43 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
DId you eat your ancestors for breakfast? Microorganisms, your oldest lineage
Environmental Microbiologist and ancestral animist Siv Watkins discusses the power of our relationships with the smalls, and solving ecological crisis through evolution.
2019-04-19
55 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Becoming an emotional grown-up: working with triggers, reactivity & ancestral wounds
Mary Mueller Shutan discusses how to make your own life more easeful through personal skillfulness with emotions and reactivity.
2019-04-11
41 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Episode 47: Punk rock ancestors, queer creativity and being a gender-free godhead
Lynn Breedlove, lead singer of queercore Tribe 8 and the Homobiles shares his secret punk sauce for making a place in the world for your weird self.
2019-03-20
46 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
The intersection of race, sexual violence and healing
Annika Leonard of Priceless Incite discusses the intersection of sexualized violence and racial trauma through a personal and professional lens, and her strong commitment to surviving and supporting others in healing.
2019-03-10
52 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Re-Membering our ancestral knowings with our plancestors
Layla Feghali of River Rose Apothecary speaks here of how to regather ancestral memory and access our embodied memory.
2019-02-19
58 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Race and racism in ancestral healing panel discussion
In this episode, amazing tenders of culture and ancestral healing M'kali-Hashiki, Langston Kahn, and Taya Shere discuss how race and racism intersect with the work of ancestral healing.
2019-02-03
52 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
On being Two-Spirit & Ancestor-honoring Dance
Roger Kuhn is an enrolled member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and Chair of the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS). Here we discuss dance, the upcoming BAAITS Powwow on Feb. 2, and the connection between sex and Earth.
2019-01-20
54 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Tarot, Ancestors & brilliant Trans elders
Tarotist, artist and prolific Author Rachel Pollack says "As soon as you allow the power of mystery, you go into another level of existence." In this episode, Rachel walks us through her scholarship of the tarot, and the intersections with ancestors, queer and trans elders, and allowing belief in the unseen to impact your life.
2019-01-05
55 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
"In the context of my ancestors, I make sense." Norse mystery, song as prayer, and seidr initiation
Maris Orelia of Living Voice Medicine sings, prays and trances in the Norse traditions of her ancestors. In this interview, she riffs on belonging, shares her ancient song medicine, and addresses the benefits of healing with ancestors.
2018-12-23
43 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
The place for our wounding is the dirt under our feet: Disability justice, embodied activism and taking care of each other
In this episode, artist, poet, writer and facilitator Naomi Ortiz speaks to the intersection of place, ancestors, activism embodiment and disability justice. Naomi is a Disabled, Mestiza (Latina/Indigenous/White), raised in Latinx culture, living in the U.S./Mexico borderlands. For information on visit: www.NaomiOrtiz.com Twitter: @ThinkFreestyle Instagram: NaomiOrtizWriterArtist
2018-12-06
48 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Your trans ancestors and elders hold your activist tender heart
Scholar and filmmaker Dr. Susan Stryker celebrates the continuum of trans history, and speaks to queering time through her relationships with both elders and ancestors in the trans community. This episode is in honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance.
2018-11-20
47 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Deadnaming and the Good Death movement
In honor of the Trans Day of Remembrance (November 20) Bespoken Bones is showcasing Trans speakers and causes all month. In this episode, Anthony Easton discusses the act of deadnaming, and how the trans community might learn from the good death movement and vice-versa.
2018-11-07
30 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Decolonizing our ancestral body: Answering the ancestral call towards liberation
Spirit worker, medicine maker, priest and activist Lou Florez (Awo Ifadunsin Sangobiyi) speaks to being in community and in being conversation with our ancestors as we embody their blessings while disrupting colonizer culture as it lives inside of us. Join us on Oct. 28 in San Francisco at the Modern Witches Confluence!
2018-10-23
56 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Radical education, revamping Catholicism, and Ancestral Eros
Practitioner of wonder Lindsay Sudeikis exuberantly riffs on her former life as a nun, the biblical erotic, and what it is to be in love with life while holding a hard line against oppression. She basically smashes patriarchy with every word that falls from her mouth.
2018-09-26
1h 09
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Communicating through trees: Healing trauma in community
Dr. G Love aka Geryll Robinson discusses the value of communal ancestral practice and ritual to heal transgenerational trauma in community.
2018-09-09
47 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Queer Ancestral Sexual Healing
In this episode, Nick Venegoni of the Queer Spirit podcast interviews me. We discuss the importance of desire and pleasure, and how it gets complicated in the presence of trauma. I riff on how to know if you’re not living your body, and getting comfortable being uncomfortable. Lastly, we explore the transmission of trans-generational trauma and its effects on the body and sexual well-being.
2018-08-27
33 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Embodied evolutionary history, ancestral movement and deep feeling and healing
Ancestral Movement practitioner Simon Thakur discusses the evolutionary role of empathy, the adaptive qualities of disembodiment, and how moving like our ancestors can heal our grieving hearts.
2018-08-11
56 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Unspelling White Supremacy through Ancestral Storytelling
UK storyteller and activist Elinor Predota discusses the importance of multiplicity of perspectives when learning the stories of our ancestors, who lived rich, multi-faceted lives. Storytelling can be a healing practice that allows the humanity and fullness of our ancestors to come into focus.
2018-07-27
48 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Learning boundaries with ancestors
Bodyworker and ancestral healer Mika Banks speaks on how she had to learn boundaries to work effectively with the dead.
2018-07-12
43 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Breaking the spell of dis-belonging: on land, bones and ancestral boners
Cultural geographer Christos Galanis speaks on ecosexuality as ancestral sexuality, and embodying the priniciples of sacred reciprocity, integrity and consent.
2018-06-28
38 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Plants, stones and bones: Ancestral healing allies from the natural world
Plant and stone medicine healer Dori Midnight, speaks on ancestral and queer magic with the green bloods and rocks and crystals as allies in ancestral healing.
2018-06-13
47 min
The Queer Spirit
Queer Ancestral & Sexual Healing with Pavini Moray
Pavini Moray, M. Ed., offers Somatic Sex Therapy and Ancestral Lineage Repair to a wide variety of clients from all around the world: they often work with queer and straight women, trans folks, queer couples, and genderqueer/gender-fabulous humans. In this episode, we discuss the importance of desire and pleasure, and how it gets complicated in the presence of trauma. Pavini talks about how to know if you're not living your body, and getting comfortable being uncomfortable. Lastly they explore the transmission of trans-generational trauma and its effects on the body and sexual well-being. Epi...
2018-06-04
32 min
The Queer Spirit
Queer Ancestral & Sexual Healing with Pavini Moray
Pavini Moray, M. Ed., offers Somatic Sex Therapy and Ancestral Lineage Repair to a wide variety of clients from all around the world: they often work with queer and straight women, trans folks, queer couples, and genderqueer/gender-fabulous humans. In this episode, we discuss the importance of desire and pleasure, and how it gets complicated in the presence of trauma. Pavini talks about how to know if you're not living your body, and getting comfortable being uncomfortable. Lastly they explore the transmission of trans-generational trauma and its effects on the body and sexual well-being. Epi...
2018-06-04
32 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Where did they go? Finding the Queer and Trans Ancestors hiding in plain sight in our genealogy
LGBTQ Historian and genealogist Stewart Blandon Traimon speaks on finding our ancestors who had special relationships with gender and sexuality in our family trees. Genealogy is an important parallel to ancestral reverence, and it's a special treat to dive in through a queer lens.
2018-05-29
33 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Mental health crisis as ancestral initiation
Sangoma Gogo Ekhaya Esima of Sangoma Healing speaks on her initiation through mental health crisis and the importance of being humble on our knees before our ancestors.
2018-05-15
57 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Healing our relationship with Death
Listen as death doula and ritualist Sarah Kerr of Soul Passages discusses how to prepare to be a good ancestor, have a good death, and face the truth that life is finite.
2018-05-01
43 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Astrology, Ancestors and the queerness of Uranus
Archetypal Astrologer Rebecca Farrar speaks in plain English on ancestral connections within astrological birth charts, and the power of viewing your life through an astrological lens.
2018-04-15
46 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Episode 24: The past is present: Jung, ancestors and healing transgenerational sexual trauma
Jungian therapist and author Dr. Sandra Easter discusses her work and book "Jung and the Ancestors Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web" on how we can heal generations of suffering by opening our hearts to feeling what is present in our lineages, our communities, and the land.
2018-03-31
44 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Episode 23: Art, queer ancestors and healing sex
Listen as Artistic Director Seth Eisen discusses how art can bring queer ancestors OUT of the shadows and into the light in his new San Francisco collaboration OUT of SITE, and the multigenerational healing that can happen from diving deep into our queer history.
2018-03-18
47 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Queer Mysteries and Leather Ancestors
Sexuality author and educator Lee Harrington of Passion and Soul speaks on the mighty queer dead, erotic ancestral practice, and kink and leather ancestral lineages.
2018-03-01
45 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Reclaiming the ancestral dreaming body
Listen as embodied dream worker and ancestral lineage repair practitioner Seyta Selter of Innerlands speaks to the practices of dreaming with ancestors, and the healing power of erotic dreams.
2018-02-15
45 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
The magic of being fat: looking through an ancestral lens
Listen as Reverend Catharine Clarenbach of The Way of the River speaks on spirit in a fat body, connecting with ancestors through ancestral objects, and tending the unloved dead.
2018-01-31
48 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Disrupting oppression living in your body: accessing embodied healing
Listen as Tada Hozumi and I converse about embodied racism, the somatic freedom of becoming available for feeling and sensation, and the deep connection between trauma and magick.
2018-01-16
00 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Shamanism, sexual wounds and healing
Listen as shamanic healer and teacher Christina Pratt, host of the Why Shamanism Now podcast and founder of the Last Mask Center speaks on holistic sexuality, the spiritual consequences of sexual violation, and the retrieval of soul parts for the sake of erotic wellness.
2017-12-31
1h 05
Bespoken Bones Podcast
To Love, Be Loved and Belong: Family Constellations for healing generational trauma
Family Constellation facilitator Peter Touchard speaks on how revealing unseen, hidden exclusions and entanglements within family systems can lead to resolution.
2017-12-18
56 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Trauma as call to prayer
Taya Shere waxes poetic on healing Jewish ancestral healing, participating in an embodied, holy life, and bliss as the prayer.
2017-12-04
37 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Language is a spell: Chinese medicine, encoded ancestral wisdom and ephemeral dreams
Listen as acupuncturist and herbalist Erin Langley of Ancestral Acupuncture speaks truth on the intersection of ancestors and healing.
2017-11-18
43 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Ancestors and Italian Folk Magic
Mallorie Vaudoise is a Brooklyn-based spiritualist of Italian descent. Listen as she speaks on the veneration of saints, the presence of ancestor worship in Catholicism, and adopting your very own soul, for the sake of receiving blessing.
2017-11-02
46 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
"I can't help but do it."
Artist Clement Hil Goldberg speaks to the urgency of creating revolutionary glittering ancestral art, both as a prayer to encode our embodied knowing, and for the sake of supporting and blessing our queer descendants.
2017-10-19
41 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Episode 012: Ancestors guide me to my purpose and passion
New York City-based Shaman Langston Kahn speaks on how relating with ancestors can support the fullest expression of our Selves, and how we can work with the unseen in service to our greatest passions.
2017-10-05
1h 01
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Using the erotic to heal sexual abuse, dominator culture, ancestors and the Earth
Reverend Teri D. Ciacchi, Creatrix of Living Love Revolution, speaks on her personal and professional commitment to embodied healing & sexual wellness, and how she works with her ancestors to decolonize the body and restore goodness to the Earth.
2017-09-18
00 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Choosing to heal your lineages
Dr. Judith Rich is a pioneering teacher in the field of transformation and consciousness. Listen as she speaks on making the deliberate choice to heal our lineages, and dealing with the repercussions, positive and negative, of accepting our ancestors.
2017-09-07
43 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Plants are our ancestors
Atava Garcia Swiecicki of Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk and Indigenous Medicine speaks on connecting with our indigenous medicine, developing relationships with plants that support the healing of transgenerational trauma and plants and the erotic.
2017-08-17
46 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Feeling pleasure and aliveness around sex
Somatic Sex Educator Caffyn Jesse speaks on self-regulation of the nervous system, ancestral trauma renegotiation and deep somatic pleasure.
2017-08-10
33 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Dancing with intetion
5 Rhythms teacher and activist Sylvie Minot speaks on creating embodied safety and the joyful body, the ancestral war that can exist inside of us and how dance helps us hold that, and how we can dance ourselves and our ancestors free.
2017-08-02
34 min
Bespoken Bones Podcast
Episode 006: Breathing with our Ancestors
Renegade Sexual Mystic M'kali-Hashiki speaks on developing ancestral consciousness, and the integration of our erotic lives through breathwork practice.
2017-07-27
36 min