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Dreaming the AncestorsKeening, the Cailleach, and Harnessing the Medicine of Grief ~ Sionnáin (Michelle Shannon)In this episode, Sionnáin shares wisdom about the Irish caoine (keen), which is an old grief ritual performed at funerals by rural Irish women called the Mná Chaointe. This tradition reminds us that grief is a sacred, somatic, and communal experience that belongs to everyone. Although the tradition has largely died out in Ireland, it’s being remembered and revived by women like Sionnáin to help us move through personal and collective grief, so we can harness the medicine of grief in these times.Sionnáin also shares wisdom about the Cailleach, who’s an ancient...
2025-12-081h 03Dreaming the AncestorsReviving the Village, the Roundhouse, and the Ancestral Council ~ Veronica StanwellIn this episode, Veronica Stanwell joins me to explore the importance of gathering in council and community to meet these increasingly chaotic times. Together, we dive into what it means to reconnect with the roundhouse—the circular dwelling of our British and Irish heritage—and the profound wisdom that emerges when we become receptive to the ancestors’ guidance.Veronica also talks about the ancestral immersions she hosts in the Welsh rainforest, where participants gather in a reconstructed roundhouse to experience ancestral village life. We explore what happens when we sit in council with both our human and non-hu...
2025-10-071h 02
The Simple Ayurveda Podcast282 | Mothering YourselfMothering yourself isn't about your relationship with your mother, it's about your relationship with yourself. It's tapping into feminine wisdom- both the soft and tender AND the fierce protector. Learn More About: A Taoist view on source as the great mother How many of us are reclaiming the ways of our ancient wise and well ancestors The simplicity of dropping elaborate protocols and tuning into nourishing food and sleep Recognizing disempowering stories Attuning to your needs moment to moment This episode was based on a listener question. Send your questions and th...
2025-09-0123 minDreaming the AncestorsHealing Intergenerational Legacies of Female Deprivation ~ Michaela from Rooted Feminine WellnessIn this episode, Michaela from Rooted Feminine Wellness talks about women’s bodies, women’s health, and matriarchal healing. Together, we dive into some of the stories and beliefs that have been passed down through the lineage about our bodies, and explore what it means to break free from legacies of female deprivation.To live in a way that truly honors and nourishes our bodies is revolutionary, and heals generations of patriarchal oppression and colonial wounding. Michaela talks about this in an Irish context, and encourages women to re-write the story of starvation and unwellness, to one wher...
2025-07-1447 min
The Reclamation Hour PodcastEp 21 How the Witch Wound Impacts Our Spiritual Gifts, Paths, and IntuitionIn this episode of The Reclamation Hour, we explore the witch wound and how it affects our ability to trust our intuition, access spiritual gifts, and heal across generations.
We dive into the ways religious conditioning, colonization, and archetypal trauma like the crazy wound have disconnected us from our intuition—and how community, somatic work, and ancestral healing can help us reclaim it.
We explore:
What the witch wound is and how it blocks spiritual growth and our spiritual gifts
The impact of religious conditioning and ritual trauma
How pa...
2025-05-2349 min
Enter the PortalAncestral Feminine Healing for These Times with Tara Brading ⎸Enter the Portal EP#39“The ancient grandmothers hold the medicine we need most in these times.” — Tara BradingWhat does it mean to truly remember who we are—not just in our personal stories, but in the deep, ancient currents of our ancestral lineages? In this powerful and soulful episode, Jenna welcomes the luminous Tara Brading, a devoted teacher of ancestral, feminine, and earth-based wisdom, to explore the layered journey of reconnecting with our roots, reclaiming our medicine, and becoming good ancestors for future generations.Tara shares the visceral moment that cracked her open at Stonehenge—an encounter with the ancien...
2025-04-1554 minDreaming the AncestorsWelsh Spirituality and Cultural Appropriation ~ Gwilym Morus-BairdIn this episode, we dive into the topic of Welsh spirituality and cultural appropriation. For anyone interested in honoring their Welsh or English heritage in heartfelt and respectful ways, this episode is for you as we talk about the importance of distinguishing these two distinct cultures.There’s currently a lot of interest in the “Celtic” traditions, which often leads people to the Welsh traditions; a culture full of myth, tradition, and spiritual teachings that bring forth a meaningful sense of ancestral connection in the modern world. However, there’s often a lack of understanding about “Celtic” spirituality...
2025-04-0254 min
Sol ConnectionsEp. 8 | Astro Church | Tied Together: Pisces, Reclamation & Collective Joy as ResistanceIn Ep. 8 of Sol Connections, hosts Emily, Aryn & Dani explore the expansive archetypes and patterns of Pisces, the Nine of Pentacles, Tulsi, and the myth of the flight of Aphrodite. They discuss the astrological influences shaping current events, including the Lunar Eclipse in Virgo, Jupiter in Gemini, and Venus retrograde. The conversation touches on collective resistance sparked by the disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE, the closure of This Is It!, Wisconsin’s oldest gay bar, and Mardi Gras, Carnival, and St. Patrick’s Day celebrations as acts of collective joy and resistance.The episode concl...
2025-03-201h 54Dreaming the AncestorsAnimism, Archeology, and The Ancient Pretani People of Britain ~ Sam MacLarenThere’s a lot of interest at the moment in connecting with our ancient past, and reviving the “Old Ways” of our earth-honoring ancestors. And while there’s so much we can learn from the past, it can be all too easy to romanticize or misinterpret our ancestral history. In this episode Sam weaves together archeology, animism and academia to demystify Britain’s ancient peoples, offering grounded insights into our native spirituality free from romantic projections. She shares beautiful wisdom about the nine elements that were honored in different Indo-European cultures, likely including the Pretanī people of ancient Brit...
2025-02-2150 minDreaming the AncestorsSacred Kingship, Initiation, and Healing the Division between Men & Women ~ Niall GrahamIn this episode, Niall is deeply vulnerable in sharing about his own mental health journey and his discovery of what it means to be a man. He discusses the significance of the Mother Wound for men, and men’s deep longing to be initiated by the feminine. He also expresses the need for strong men who are committed to their inner healing, and becoming the men that the world needs.Niall recognizes the disconnection between men and “feminine” principles, such as compassion and emotion. This is something that’s been programmed and bullied into men, locking down decades...
2024-12-111h 03Dreaming the AncestorsAlchemy, Folk Medicine, and Tending the Sacred Waters ~ Charlotte PulverIn this episode, Charlotte weaves together the story of alchemy and her journey to revive the folk medicine of her lineage. Her ancestors were apothecarists for many generations before being persecuted for their knowledge; a tradition that Charlotte has lovingly reclaimed.Although her lifelong interest in making medicines brought her to many different cultures around the world, it was in returning to the British Isles and rooting into her own heritage that she found her deepest calling.She passionately describes connecting to the consciousness of plants as a gateway to the ancestors, and how making...
2024-11-1442 minDreaming the AncestorsRewilding, Ancestral Lifeways, and Ecological Repair ~ Lucy Ní hAodhagáinIn this episode, Lucy Ní hAodhagáin (they/she) shares how living in conscious relationship with the land has the power to revive our innate wildness, our sense of belonging, and the wisdom of the ancestors. In Lucy’s early life in Belfast, they would journey into the wild to feel a sense of safety and connection. Over time, their passion for the natural world and ancestral ways of life awakened them to the sacredness of the plants, animals, and even their own body.In recognizing that we are inseparable from nature, Lucy teaches that decolonization and ecol...
2024-09-2949 min
Flight of the FeminineHealing Misogyny within the Matrilineal LinesJoin Amanda and her special guest Tara Brading as they explore the impact of misogyny, as part of patriarchal and colonial imprinting, on the feminine psyche throughout the matrilineal lines, and how you can prepare and/or deepen the healing process of self reclamation and liberation. Amanda and Tara speak of the importance of honouring emotional processing, cultivating inner safety, and restoring safety within the sisterhood among women. Worthiness, inherited shame, awakening to authenticity and integrity, are among the tangible themes they invite you to compassionately and courageously sit with while you listen throughout this episode. Tara and Amanda provide...
2024-05-3157 minDreaming the AncestorsHarnessing imbas forosnai (divine inspiration) for sacred activism ~ Laura MurphyIn this episode, Laura Murphy shares wisdom about her sacred activism journey and the ways in which she harnesses the ancient Irish practice of imbas forosnai (divine inspiration) in her work to create social change. The Irish spirit is a revolutionary one, and Laura speaks about the intersection of spirituality and activism in Irish history, highlighting the lives of key figures from the Celtic Revival at the end of the 1800s and early 1900s.Laura’s writing and poetry is at the forefront of her work, and she has become a powerful voice for Ireland’s Mother and...
2024-05-171h 03Dreaming the AncestorsReviving the Proto-Celtic Language & the Ancient Ways of Woman ~ Carolyn HillyerIn this episode, Carolyn Hillyer shares wisdom about living on the wild lands of Dartmoor and her process of reviving and reimagining the Proto-Celtic language; a language spoken by ancient ancestors across various parts of Europe, including the British Isles. Carolyn’s work has awakened in me, and many others, a sense of what our Indigenous tongue might have been before the Anglo-Saxons came. There is a bone-deep ancestral remembering that happens in the presence of the Proto-Celtic language—in the speaking, singing and listening of it—that is difficult to put into words. During the epis...
2024-03-2856 min
The Menstruality Podcast118. Our Wombs and Cycles as Gateways to Reclaiming our Ancestral Wisdom (Tara Brading)Five years ago, when women’s educator, storyteller and songstress, Tara Brading was burnt out from the hustle culture of the non-profit world, she dropped everything and went on a pilgrimage to Ireland to connect with her Irish ancestral lineage. This trip changed her life, setting her on a path of studying mythology and honoring the earth based feminine wisdom left in her blood and bones.This episode is for you if you feel a call to reclaim the wisdom of your ancestors, to return to a way of living on earth which is...
2023-11-301h 06Dreaming the AncestorsWelsh Witchcraft & Women of Welsh Mythology ~ Mhara StarlingWales is a country full of legends and myths about the spiritual world; stories of sacred lakes, healing herbs, women of magic, and the mighty red dragon. The Land remembers these stories and the ancient ways of mystery and magic; traditions that have their roots in old Brythonic Britain.There are some fierce and magical women in Wales’s ancient mythology who embody the archetype of the Witch in a variety of ways. In this episode, Mhara shares deep wisdom about some of these mythic women (such as Cerridwen, Rhiannon, and Arianrhod) and the Welsh magical traditions at...
2023-07-041h 06Dreaming the AncestorsIrish Tree Wisdom, Plant Magic & Land Tending ~ Aoife Ní hEochaidh RéamainnIn the midst of rapid technological advancements, there is an ancient whisper that calls to many of us...a calling to return to the wisdom of the earth and the sacred technology of nature. A calling to reconnect with the land in the heartfelt ways of our ancestors. A calling to remember the medicine of the plants and trees, and how to heal ourselves as we heal the earth.In this episode, Aoife Ní hEochaidh Réamainn talks about working with trees and plants in sacred ways, her experiences of tending the land, and how being in in...
2023-04-2656 minDreaming the AncestorsPathways of Belonging & Courting the Sacred ~ Isla MacleodIn this time of displacement, disconnection and overwhelm, so many people are longing for meaningful ways to belong. The questions that we hold close to our hearts are things like: What does it mean to belong to this earth? What does it mean to have roots? What does it mean to belong to my lineage, my ancestors, my cultural heritage?For those of you who feel this longing to belong, you know how deep it goes. In this podcast episode with Isla Macleod, we explore some of the pathways to courageously heal our sense of un-belonging. We...
2022-11-2449 minDreaming the AncestorsModern-Day Druidry and Rites of Passage ~ Eimear BurkeIn this podcast episode I speak with Eimear Burke, a Druid and Seanchaí (storyteller) as well as the Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD). We talk about the importance of Rites of Passage and how Druidry can help to inspire and inform rituals to mark moments of significance in our lives.In the Western world we sometimes lose track of the most important moments in our lives—transitional and transformational moments such as giving birth, menopause, divorce or breakups, marriage or commitment, death of a loved one, an important achievement, getting sober, men...
2022-07-0149 minDreaming the AncestorsMidwifery, Motherhood & Scottish Folk Medicine ~ Nicola GoodallIn this conversation, I talk with Nicola Goodall about the importance of midwives in the birthing process for mothers, and the ways that Scottish folk medicine weaves into the ancient tradition of midwifery. Nicola shares her wealth of wisdom about the sacredness of birthing, and ways to support this important rite of passage for mothers. She also shares wisdom about the persecution of midwives during the Witch Hunts and the ways that these atrocities have impacted women’s medicine. Last but not least, we have a discussion about the importance of mothers being nourished and supp...
2022-05-0455 minDreaming the AncestorsReclaiming the Mythos of our Feminine Bodies ~ Jen MurphyIn this episode with Jen Murphy, we dive into the connection between mythology and the feminine body, with a special focus on the myths of ancient Ireland.As women, we are indoctrinated into so many false narratives about our bodies from a very young age...stories that can take us away from the true essence of who we are and our embodied wisdom.We are living in powerful times where we can re-write these stories and reclaim the power of living embodiment. Tales of the mythic feminine and her archetypal energies can help guide us...
2022-01-2255 minDreaming the AncestorsThe Wisdom of Women & Water ~ Dr. Karen WardIn this episode with Dr. Karen Ward, founder of Moon Mná, we talk about the sacred connection between women and water in the ancient Irish tradition.There's a vital connection between women, water and flow which is encoded into our bodies. We flow with the menstrual cycle, connecting us to the cycles of Grandmother Moon who holds sway over the tides. We flow with the rhythms of our sexual fluids. We carry sacred womb waters that hold our beloved babies in utero.These living connections are reflected back to us in nature. Lakes and wells a...
2021-09-2359 minDreaming the AncestorsReclaiming the Wisdom of the Goddess ~ Kathy JonesIn this episode with Kathy Jones, founder of the Glastonbury Goddess Temple, we speak about reclaiming the wisdom of the Goddess.For too long the Goddess has been forgotten, degraded and denigrated as patriarchal thinking has dominated our world culture. This has occurred in parallel with the oppression of women through the control of women’s bodies and physical expression, and the repression of women’s spiritual, emotional and creative energies.In these transformational times of change the sacred feminine is rising. The Goddess is calling us to step into our power as an act of l...
2021-09-0251 minDreaming the AncestorsIreland's Ancient Astronomers ~ Anthony MurphyImagine living in a time when there was no artificial light. When there was true darkness in the sky, when there were no high rise buildings blocking your view of the celestial realms. A time when you knew exactly where the sun would rise at different times of the year. When you could recognize the planets and the constellations, and you would sit outside during the night and watch their movements across the skies.In the modern world, so many of us have become disconnected with the skies. We’ve lost our bearings, so to speak. But An...
2021-07-211h 02Dreaming the AncestorsSacred Song Traditions of Ireland ~ Mary McLaughlinIn this episode with Mary McLaughlin we discuss Ireland's incredibly rich culture and heritage when it comes to traditional music and sacred song traditions.Sacred songs have been important to our ancestors throughout history from all around the world. They hold an important piece of culture and tradition as they are passed down through the generations. They have the ability to bring people together in community and connect with a shared sense of identity and belonging. They open our hearts to the stories of old and sacred currents of living wisdom.Mary is an Irish S...
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