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Vegetation: Meditation in Community5. This American Rice: Eric Abel Esquivel-GutierrezWe are grateful to have you at our virtual table where we center food as connection, storytelling as medicine, and pleasure as resistance! Grab a plate because we are diving right in!
This episode features Eric Abel Esquivel-Gutierrez (any pronoun with respect). Eric is an Actor, Teaching Artist and Health Educator reborn and currently based in Oakland, CA. He is knowledgeable in creating safe, nonjudgmental and fun spaces where human beings of all ages can connect and learn from one another. For the past eleven years Eric has worked with various Bay Area youth-centered organizations using theatre...2023-02-071h 09
Vegetation: Meditation in Community4. This American Rice: D. AnayaPull up a seat and grab a plate! At this virtual table we center food as connection, storytelling as medicine, and pleasure as resistance! We hope you are hungry.
We are grateful to have D. Anaya as our special guest on this episode of This American Rice. She is the Founder and Creative Grief Guide at Adventures of Grief Girl, Co-host of Grief after Dark Podcast, and Indie Publisher, AGGink. As a Grief Guide, D. uses over 35 years of performance arts research and experience in visual arts, storytelling, poetry, puppetry, physical theatre, painting, photography, book making and jo...2022-11-151h 07
Vegetation: Meditation in Community3. This American Rice: Mike SagunWe are so glad you have joined us to convene around the virtual table where we center food as connection, storytelling as medicine, and pleasure as resistance!
This episode features Certified Professional Men’s Coach, facilitator, and teacher, Mike Sagun. Mike facilitates EVRYMAN's FUNDAMENTALS program -- a monthly virtual experiential intensive program that helps men develop and strengthen emotional intelligence and he leads men's retreats all over the United States. His work is simple: he helps men feel. Mike is currently launching a brand new retreat in Mexico in February 2023! This exclusive experience will be an opportunity fo...2022-11-011h 08
Vegetation: Meditation in Community12: Grief as Medicine | Series 3: Winter SolsticeThank you for joining us for another episode of the Vegetation podcast. This is episode 2 of the Winter Solstice Vegetation session with our magical co-conspirator, Jen.
Our introspection on (re)generation continues and we begin to explore the connections among grief, eldership, and the shadow self. Can we challenge ourselves to begin to see grief as a medicine that can hold us? What if we believed that grief could be an expansive space where we could allow for a deeper understanding and connection to love and humanity?
We know these are some deep questions and...2022-10-1827 minVegetation: Meditation in Community11: (Re)generation | Series 3: Winter SolsticeAnnnnnnd we are back! We have been on sabbatical for the past two months and we are so excited to share an all new series of the Vegetation podcast. In this series we travel back to 2021 Winter Solstice and our Vegetation session with one of our favorite co-conspirators, Jen (she/her).
Jen is a speech therapist by trade and a deep feeler by inheritance. She is interested in seeing the world through a lens of emotions, loves a ritual, and cherishes the ever-growing connections to the Grandcestors.
Together, we begin to explore (re)generation: the c...2022-10-0436 min
Vegetation: Meditation in Community2. This American Rice: Hannah YGCCThis episode feature’s Tharavada Yoga’s own Hannah (she/her/ella). Hannah Cordero Chen is a daughter to Mexican immigrants, public health leader, philanthropist, and is an aspiring curandera and community healer. During the pandemic she has been exploring what the concept of “(w)holistic care” really means, especially for herSelf. Through the sharing of personal stories we learn how Hannah has transformed her goal of ‘trying to be happy all the time’ to just letting herSelf feel whatever comes up. . . and learning that light and darkness can coexist. Hannah believes that by allowing more curiosity and ease into her life...2022-07-191h 01
Vegetation: Meditation in Community1. This American Rice: Jamie PGKAThis is a new flavor of the Vegetation podcast: This American Rice! We are so glad you have joined us to convene around the virtual table where we center food as connection, storytelling as medicine, and pleasure as resistance.
Each episode features one of our favorite co-conspirators who will share personal stories about the (sometimes messy) intersections of culture and identity, personal practices, and a delicious recipe we can all enjoy together. By sharing these simplest of pleasures we are weeding out the legacy of manifest destiny.
To kick off This American Rice, we have...2022-07-0556 min
Vegetation: Meditation in Community10: Privilege and the Barriers to Connection with the Self | Series 2: Origin StoryWe close out the Origin Story series by exploring the role that privilege plays in accessing mindfulness and Self-care practices, especially for people living in the intersections of facets like race, sexual preference, gender Self-identification, and economic status. We know that there are so many facets that make us each unique and that impact our healing and Self-care practices.
There is no hierarchy, timeline, speed in the healing process. All of us can approach this Self-work in any way that works for each of us. This is truly a life-long journey, and our ancestral heritage and epigenetics can serve as...2022-06-2127 minVegetation: Meditation in Community9: Here for the Cultivation | Series 2: Origin StoryThis is episode 5 of our Origin Story series. We invite you to join our Future Selves as we reflect and comment on the Vegetation session from exactly a year ago, where we first connected with many of the themes that are still fundamental to our practice and our mission today.
In this conversation we spill the tea and share the origins of one of the biggest game changers we have discovered to help us live a more Self-loving and mindful life - the practice of Vegetation. We had always wanted to live that “meditative monk life,” and yet we kept feel...2022-06-0741 minVegetation: Meditation in Community8: In Service to the Self | Series 2: Origin StoryWelcome to episode 4 of our Origin Story series. We invite you to join our Future Selves as we reflect and comment on the Vegetation session from exactly a year ago, where we first connected with many of the themes that are still relevant to us today and named this sacred practice of Vegetation.
This episode, In Service of the Self is the direct continuation of the last episode where we talked about fear and healing around losing control of our bodies. Today, we dive into the ways our connection to the Self is colonized out of us, the ways that...2022-05-1735 minVegetation: Meditation in Community7: Moving Softly through Transformation | Series 2: Origin StoryWelcome to episode 3 of our Origin Story series. We invite you to join our Future Selves as we reflect and comment on the Vegetation session from exactly a year ago, where we first connected with many of the themes that are still relevant to us today and named this sacred practice of Vegetation.
Some of the themes that have arisen for us throughout this series have centered around our attempts to cultivate relationships with our ancestors, our parents’ homelands, and our cultural heritage, while also being submersed in discomfort about never fully fitting into the American life around us. We sh...2022-05-0338 minVegetation: Meditation in Community6: The Richness of Small Talk and Trusting Our Magic | Series 2: Origin StoryWelcome to episode 2 of our second series, Origin Stories. Today we invite you to join our Future Selves as we reflect and comment on the Vegetation session from exactly a year ago, where we first connected with many of the themes that are still relevant to us today and named this sacred practice of Vegetation.
In this episode, The Richness of Small Talk and Trusting Our Magic, we explore how we can cultivate relationships and Self-trust through both small talk and deep (ass) conversations with ourSelves and our ancestors. We are reminded that by making space to listen to the...2022-04-3042 minVegetation: Meditation in Community5: Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla - Somewhere in the Middle | Series 2: Origin StoryWelcome to Series 2 of Vegetation: Meditation in Community. We are so glad you are here. We are beyond grateful for the love and support we have received from our digital village since our launch, and are so excited to share Episode 1 of our new series, Origin Stories. In this series we invite you to join our Future Selves as we reflect and comment on the Vegetation session from exactly a year ago, where we named this sacred practice of Vegetation.
This week’s episode, Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla, begins the series with an exploration into what it was li...2022-04-0544 min
Grief After DarkMoving Through Grief With Jamie AsdorianThe first episode of our newest theme, Moving Through Grief, is a chat with Jamie Asdorian, a Tharavada Yoga Instructor helping us find our way back to self-trust and inner wisdom through slow, meditative practices. Jamie is also a practitioner of Vegetation, a unique type of meditation discovered through her yoga and life experiences and learnings. Jamie talks with us about ancestors, the roots of yoga, how connection is there for everyone costing a sum total of $free.50, and reminds us that everyone has worth. Sit with us!Find her on IG - @tharavadayogaFind her...2022-03-2255 minVegetation: Meditation in Community4: A Gentle Kick in the Ass | Series 1: Love Beyond the RomanticWelcome back to part 4, the last episode of the Love Beyond The Romantic series. In episode 1, Love Beyond the Romantic, we explored the connections between our own Self-love and the intimacy in our relationships. Episode 2–Authenticity and the Discovery of Self–had us diving deeper into what it feels and looks like to be a “caregiver” instead of a “caretaker” in relationships. And we hope you enjoyed and were nourished by last episode’s meditation guidance.
Last week’s meditation episode was the recording of our “dhyana”--silent, absorbed meditation; and this week, we re-join our past Selves to listen to w...2022-03-1545 minVegetation: Meditation in Community3: Guided Meditation | Series 1: Love Beyond the RomanticWelcome back to episode 3 of the Love Beyond The Romantic Vegetation series. In this episode, we are sharing the guided meditation channeled by Jamie during our Vegetation practice on December 31st, 2021.
We offer this to you, our Digital Village, as a support in your spiritual practices or sadhanas; and perhaps in your own Vegetation practice!
The guidance is approximately 22 minutes, with about 8 minutes of soft background music.
Time Stamps
1:40 - Vegetation Lead in
4:15 - Vegetation recording begins
5:00 - Meditation Guidance begins
11:16 - Pause in guidance, sof...2022-03-0829 minVegetation: Meditation in Community2: Authenticity and the Discovery of Self | Series 1: Love Beyond the RomanticWelcome back to part 2 of the Love Beyond The Romantic Vegetation series, Authenticity and the Discovery of Self.
In episode 1 we explored the connections between our own Self-love and the intimacy in our relationships, and why we may not be experiencing the deep friendships we long for. We also began to explore what it feels like to be a care”giver” instead of a care”taker” in relationships.
In this episode, we go deeper into what it feels and looks like to be a “caregiver” instead of a “caretaker” in relationships. For us, caregiving includes ensuring that we...2022-03-0143 min
Vegetation: Meditation in Community1: Love Beyond The Romantic | Series 1: Love Beyond The RomanticWe welcome you to our inaugural episode! The pilot! The first iteration of Vegetation: Meditation in Community. We have put all of ourSelves into creating this for our Digital Village and it means so much to us that you are reading these words right now.
In honor of February we wanted to talk about love beyond the romantic – all different kinds of love. In this episode we explore the connections between our own Self-love and the intimacy in our relationships. We talk about creating intimate friendships and why we may not be experiencing the deep friendships we lo...2022-02-2243 min