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Rooted HealingIMBOLC: Tending the Returning Light with Isla MacleodAfter another long pause, this episode arrives from a place shaped by profound loss. A convergence of grief has moved through our lives, and for those subscribed to the Rooted Healing newsletter, you’ll already have some sense of what’s been unfolding. It is a true honour to welcome back the wonderful ceremonialist Isla Macleod. Isla returns now with something entirely new: an immersive, seasonal offering created to honour the Wheel of the Year through ritual, story, and practice - rooting us in the living seasons and landscapes, and the liminal thresholds within and between them.
2026-01-3117 min
Rooted HealingPalestine as Teacher: Politicised Somatics with Zeena IsmailIn this powerful conversation, Veronica sits with Zeena Ismail - a Palestinian somatic practitioner, trauma educator and writer - to explore what it means to belong, to heal and to stay rooted in the midst of ongoing displacement and collective trauma.Zeena’s work weaves politicised somatics with land-based practice and systemic literacy, inviting Arabs and diaspora communities into embodied repair through her six-month bilingual programme, Where Do We Begin. They explore the intersections of trauma, resistance and reclamation - how bodies hold the weight of occupation, and how safety, grief and aliveness can coexist....
2025-10-2655 min
Kinward Podcast(Re)kindling the Home Fire with VERONICA STANWELL & BEN STOPFORD of Deepen Your Roots | Kinward 29 🌑“It IS an illusion that everything is broken,” says Ben Stopford late in this spacious conversation with two collaborators deeply rooted in the British Isles: himself and Veronica Stanwell of Rooted Healing.At any hearth where we gather, Ben reminds us, we can invite each other to turn towards what is deeply beautiful. And we must, because “these things need tending.”Yes: our thriving, our loving, the “more beautiful world our hearts know is possible”—these things are not in some far off future maybe someday. They’re all around us, and we can choose every day to not...
2025-10-212h 04
Dreaming 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
Unshod with D. Firth GriffithRemembering Our Rootedness with Veronica Stanwell of RootedHealingIn this Unshod yarn, Veronica Stanwell of RootedHealing and Daniel explore the themes of community, intentional/slow living, and the importance of stories and ceremonies in our lives. We dialogue about the challenges of modernity, the impact of technology in our little and mammal lives, and the need to reclaim our roots.Veronica shares her experiences living in community in the Southwest of the British Isle, while she also emphasizes the significance of slowing down and participating in embodied practices, from story to ceremony. The conversation centers on the interplay between storytelling and ceremony, and t...
2025-08-181h 30
Rooted HealingThe Ecological Self with Deep Ecologist John SeedIn this rich and timely conversation, we sit down with legendary rainforest activist, eco-philosopher and elder of the Deep Ecology movement, John Seed. For over four decades, John has stood on the frontlines of ecological protection -spearheading rainforest-saving campaigns, offering experiential deep ecology workshops, and co-creating the powerful ritual known as The Council of All Beings with Joanna Macy.We explore the concept of the Ecological Self - a radical shift in identity that sees the tree, river, stone and storm not as separate from us, but as expressions of a shared being. A...
2025-05-2754 min
Rooted HealingHealing Britain's Temperate Rainforests with Merlin Hanbury-Tenison“We are rainforest people living on a rainforest island… and the greatest challenge is truly remembering that.”In this episode, we sit down with Merlin Hanbury-Tenison, a rainforest guardian, author, conservationist and founder of the Thousand Year Trust - exploring the healing potential of restoring Britain’s ancient temperate rainforests.From his home at Cabilla, a sanctuary on Bodmin Moor where native thousand year old Celtic oaks still grow, Merlin is leading a soulful mission: to reweave ecological resilience with cultural memory, and to bring people back into relationship with our Atlantic rainforests. We also e...
2025-05-151h 12
Rooted HealingThe Path of Sensuous Softening with Maile KalokuraIn this episode, we welcome Maile Kalokura, a Somatic Educator, Shamanic & Evolutionary Astrologer and founder of Kalokura Astrology & the Golden Rose Temple. With a passion for deepening self-awareness and activating a sense of aliveness in the body, Maile guides us through the art of softening - into presence, authenticity and embodied truth.She shares her personal journey of confronting power dynamics and radical initiations that led her to rediscover the strength in vulnerability, the power of boundaries and the beauty of slowing down, sensuously. Through her studies in...
2025-04-041h 03
Rooted HealingWe Belong: Songful Invocations with Bonnie MedicineMairead, the creatrix behind Bonnie Medicine, is a singer, song weaver, and medicine musician from the ‘Bonnie’ isles of Scotland. Rooted deeply in her Celtic heritage and a profound connection to story and place, her music is a prayer—an offering of freedom, unity and truth, inviting us into remembrance and harmony with all beings.Over a year ago, Mairead’s music became a core thread of the Rooted Healing Podcast, weaving its way through many episodes and into the audio chapters of our year-long course, Deepen Your Roots. It was a joy to finally meet her in perso...
2025-03-1546 min
Elemental BeingE17 – Veronica Stanwell: Returning to the Village – Re-Membering Ancestral Wisdom and Healing for Belonging in Modern TimesWith a deep-rooted passion for ceremony, song, and the wisdom of the land, Veronica Stanwell bridges the worlds of ancestral traditions and modern psychedelic-assisted healing. As a multidisciplinary healing arts practitioner and the founder of Rooted Healing, Veronica’s work is a testament to the transformative power of ritual, relational healing, and deep ecological belonging. With an MSc in Transpersonal Psychology and extensive experience in expanded states of consciousness, she explores how ceremony shapes personal and collective transformation.
In this conversation, we delve into the necessity of village-like spaces for true healing, the role of psilocybin-assisted practices in reconnecting us to...
2025-03-051h 14
Rooted HealingExploring African Animistic Spirituality with Philiswa MakhayeIn this episode, we are joined by Philiswa Makhaye, a traditional Zulu healer from South Africa. Initiated as a Sangoma at the age of 12, Philiswa has dedicated her life to ancestral communion, intergenerational healing and ancient earth-based spiritual wisdom.This conversation offers a rare glimpse into animistic spirituality, free from the limiting frameworks of non-animist worldviews. It continues a thread of enquiry explored in a recent episode with Dr Andy Letcher, who highlighted the animistic discourse as one of the most disruptive to the reductionist Western paradigm. Through Philiswa’s insights, we delve into the deep relationality be...
2025-02-171h 05
Rooted HealingMarina Delamar's Healing Encounter with a Lost Emperor PenguinIn this heartfelt episode, we are joined by the wonderful Marina Delamar, an artist, educator, and ceremonialist who explores life through the twin lenses of death and beauty. With a lifelong connection to the natural world and its more-than-human kin, Marina creates installations, shrines, and environments that invite transformation, reflection and storytelling.Drawing from her background in event management, outdoor education, animal husbandry, and animist principles, Marina collaborates with communities to co-create ceremonies and educational offerings that honour life, death, and the in-between. She is currently working at a nature school, while apprenticing as a...
2025-01-181h 13
Rooted HealingFolk, Paganism, Psychedelics and Wyrdlore with Dr. Andy LetcherIn this rich and winding conversation, we are joined by Dr. Andy Letcher — Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, former Programme Lead for the MA in Engaged Ecology at Schumacher College, and author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom. With doctorates in both Ecology and the Study of Religion, Andy is a singular voice in contemporary psychedelic research, animism, and the revival of folk wisdom.We explore the deep well of his research into the ritual and animistic use of psychedelics by British Druids, hints of myths and traditions of the Fly Agaric mu...
2024-12-161h 05
Rooted HealingFungi Futures: Ethnomycology for Social Innovation with Darren Le BaronIn this episode, we dive deep into the mycelial network with world-renowned educator and ethnomycologist Darren le Baron. Known for his transformative Shroomshop Masterclasses and groundbreaking work in mushroom cultivation, Darren shares his journey from growing gourmet and medicinal mushrooms to pioneering the UK's first accredited Mycology and Mushroom Cultivation course for schools and at-risk youth.We explore how ancient fungi medicine traditions intersect with modern psychedelic research, the role of fungi in community empowerment, and the potential of mushrooms to heal both individuals and ecosystems. Darren also discusses his innovative approach to permaculture and organic horticulture, w...
2024-11-251h 00
Rooted HealingGrief, Trauma and the Healing Power of Words with Poet Hayley FrancesHayley Frances is a poet and poetry therapist from Birmingham. Her debut collection, Administer the Laughing Gas (VERVE Poetry Press), is a raw and unfiltered exploration of grief, trauma and body autonomy, offering profound insights into the human experience. As the first Poet in Residence for Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Hayley’s work bridges the worlds of creative writing and healing, helping individuals navigate loss and re-encounter life through the power of words. With over 15 years of experience, she integrates poetry into healthcare settings, leading therapeutic workshops that foster emotional and relational awareness.This episod...
2024-10-151h 22
Rooted HealingReviving Welsh Indigeneity with Owen Shiers‘Cynefin’ (pr. kuh-neh-vin) is the creative vision of West Wales native folk musician, Owen Shiers. Fascinated by music and history, it aims to give a modern voice to Ceredigion’s rich yet neglected cultural heritage. Starting from his home village of Capel Dewi in the Clettwr Valley and travelling through the local musical landscape, Owen has unearthed seasoned songs and stories, some never before recorded, and given them new life in the present.The result of three years of research and work, his debut album ‘Dilyn Afon’ (Following a River) is distinct in its concept and ambition. From talki...
2024-06-1754 min
Spirit Horse RadioS02E01: Veronica Stanwell, Rooted HealingAs the founder of Rooted Healing, Veronica weaves her love for embodiment, ceremony, land, story and song into gatherings that heal and connect our inner and outer landscapes, including ceremonial psilocybin retreats, deep ecology courses and ancestral immersions.
Originally from wild Welsh lands, her deep enquiry into indigenous traditions of the Americas and Mother Europe guides her fascination with the fabric of life and our belonging within it. Alongside a decade in healing arts facilitation, Veronica is a researcher in Consciousness, Animism and Transpersonal Psychology with the Alef Trust.
She also hosts the Rooted Healing...
2024-04-121h 14
Rooted HealingCeremonial Consciousness and Nature's Synchronicities with Dr Matthew ZylstraDr Matthew Zylstra is a systems ecologist passionate about deepening the human-nature relationship for the healing of people and planet. He has 20 years of international experience in social-ecological research and outdoor education. With an MSc in Environmental Science and PhD in Conservation Ecology & Sustainability Education, his doctorate research explored how meaningful nature experiences and nature connectedness motivate pro-environmental behaviour and regenerative leadership, which - 10 years on - remains relevant today more than ever. Insights from this research and his publications have informed several global initiatives and university curricula. Matthew is Programme Director with the Kwendalo Institute and R...
2024-04-101h 23
Rooted HealingSong-Dreaming the Land Back to Life with Sam LeeMercury Prize-nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector and activist, Sam Lee, plays a unique role in the British music scene, breaking boundaries between traditional and contemporary music and the assumed places and ways folksong is appreciated. Sam's voice has helped challenge what old songs hold for us today. His latest critically acclaimed album Songdreaming comes out today, of which Sam has said:“I wanted to sing a vision of what a conversation between us and the land could be, to restore and inspire a practice of songful immersion in nature that brings with it healing, som...
2024-03-151h 11
Rooted HealingHow Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis with Osprey Orielle LakeFounder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey Orielle Lake works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralised, democratised clean-energy future.She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. She is the author of the award-winning book Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature and her most recently published book The Story is in o...
2024-03-091h 11
Rooted HealingHonouring Thresholds, Emerging from Death Dens and Weaving New Earth with Isla MacleodImbolc Blessings! It is Isla Macleod’s deepest wish to inspire and support a remembrance of what is sacred in our lives, guiding us back home to the natural world. She is a renowned ceremonialist and the author of the beloved book ‘Rituals for Life’. Through offering a container for transformation, held with the deepest love and respect, Isla helps others access forgotten treasures and their innate gifts to share with the world. Isla is devoted to unearthing our indigenous roots on Brighid's Isle, and exploring how we as humans can cultivate an intimate, meaningful, reciprocal relationship with the...
2024-02-021h 26
Rooted HealingMore-Than-Human Kinship: Interspecies Communication with Dr Saskia von DiestDr Saskia von Diest is the founder of Ecofluency, an organisation that offers consulting, teaching and facilitation in the science, art and practical magic of Nature communication worldwide. She has a PhD in plant pathology and has held two international collaborative postdoctoral fellowships to research intuitive farming. Ecofluency also promotes other human voices in the broader field of Nature communication, presenting multiple invitations into these deeper ways of knowing, for individual and collective transformation. Saskia has also trained in Family Constellations and in the Way of the Warrior Healer. Born during apartheid in a mixed-race family, she is committed to...
2024-01-231h 02
Rooted HealingFinding Vitality in Place: Remembering Ourselves Home with Seth HughesSeth Hughes is driven by a determination to remind humans of their intrinsic relationship with the natural world. He believes passionately that the modern human is both lost and disempowered, suffering from a kind of collective amnesia about their roots - but that they have an opportunity now to reconnect with the knowledge - and the simple joy - of our indigenous ancestors.Seth's professional background is in filmmaking but more recently he decided to adapt these skills for his own brand of digital storytelling. Sharing stories on social media of our ancestors - of foraging, of f...
2024-01-1555 min
Rooted HealingSolstices, Ceremonies and Psilocybin with Aisha von NahmmacherThis is a different kind of episode, introducing you to Aisha von Nahmmacher, who works with me on rooted healing and we, last minute as ever, decided to record a bonus episode of sorts in honour of the solstice and to mark our full cycle of work together.Aisha is a documentary producer currently delving into hidden ancestral practices in Britain and Ireland. She’s also a yoga teacher who fuses the mycelial realm regularly into her work, and she was the curator of our gathering Forestlings, which was a joyous, playful exploration of autumns’ delightful wisdom. So it...
2023-12-2159 min
Rooted HealingOur Earth Needs Us to Grieve with Nici HarrisonIn this episode I am joined with Nici Harrison, our first ever repeat guest, which marks 2 years of the podcast. After our first ever episode, ‘the art of grief tending’ back in 2021, I have taken part in one of Nici’s online 3 month apprenticeship programmes, and more recently we have worked together on her grief retreat this year and have become dear friends… we are now merging our work into an exciting new collaboration next year. We dive into more nuanced topics, exploring how collective grief relates to our own sorrows, the psychedelic or liminal nature of deep grief...
2023-12-081h 21
Rooted HealingBioregional Life-Ways with Ben StopfordThis episode focusses on the cultivation of belonging through bioregionalism, a life-way that Ben Stopford has explored on a deep level in North Wales. Ben is a facilitator, gardener and gatherer, offering the creation of wild-culture gardens and the pollination of foraging for food, medicine and connection to place. He holds a PGDip in Sustainable Food + Natural Resources and is the founder of Conscious Roots and co-founder of The Kingly Stag. Ben's group work stems from 'The Work That Reconnects' and contemporary Rites of Passage (vision quest), all guided by a deep-rooted, nature-based philosophy. This episode is seed...
2023-11-081h 11
Rooted HealingDo As The Mushrooms Do: Medicinal Allies for Humanity's ReConnection with Elle Kennedy from Bristol FungariumAs the world changes, and we rapidly have to alter the way we navigate our existence, Bristol Fungarium, the UK's only organic certified medicinal mushroom producers, believe we can learn much from the fungi world.Their core work is to grow local mushroom strains that have developed over millions of years in an attempt to be mindful about their impact on the local flora and fauna. With up to 2 billion ash trees going to perish in the next 2 decades, anything we can do to mitigate the unforeseen consequence of introducing different genetics into a highly complex ecosystem...
2023-10-131h 12
Rooted HealingOur Future is Local: Debunking the Myth of Progress with Helena Norburg-HodgeLinguist, author and filmmaker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures; a pioneer of the worldwide localisation movement, raising awareness about the power of ‘going local’ as a key strategy for restoring ecological, social and spiritual wellbeing. Helena’s books include ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’, an eye-opening tale of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”. Together with a film of the same title, Ancient Futures has been translated into more than 40 languages, and sold half a million copies. Her latest book is ‘Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happin...
2023-09-2055 min
Rooted HealingIf They Can, We Must: Erotic Ecology and Social Re-Membering with Lindsay BranhamLindsay Branham is a revolutionary eco-doula, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and a social scientist, dedicated to leveraging media and technology to end human rights abuses and ecological disconnect. She is the Founder of Novo film, which inspires imaginative solutions to seemingly insurmountable challenges, as well as a PhD student at Cambridge University exploring nature connectedness at the somatic, sensory level. She is a Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace and was named the inaugural Envision Social Good Fellow by the Independent Film Project and the United Nations. Lindsay served as a media behaviour change specialist for UNICEF and Search for Common Gr...
2023-09-021h 14
Rooted HealingChanting Ourselves into Community with Jill PurceJill Purce is a renowned voice teacher, Family Constellations therapist and author, who pioneered the international sound healing movement through her rediscovery of ancient vocal techniques and the spiritual potential of the voice as a magical instrument for healing and meditation. Her 1974 book ‘The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul’ was a seminal influence, helping inspire the birth of the modern labyrinth movement. The BBC made an hour-long documentary film about Jill and her work called More Ways Than One: The Mystic Spiral. She produced over 30 books as General Editor of the Thames and Hudson Art and Imagination series, which...
2023-07-201h 01
Rooted HealingHealing the Masculine and Reviving the Hearth with Lawrence JoyeAs a founding member of YES&: Conscious Living, Lawrence Joye co-curates and runs events and retreats as well as offering 1:1 and Group Developmental Coaching. He is an initiate of the ManKind Project and offers Men's Coaching programmes and workshops as well as co-hosting Menspedition Retreats, which involve pilgrimage and rites of passage as a crusade into the depths and magnificence of our collective and individual masculinity. Lawrence has been facilitating The Work That Reconnects for a number of years and is excited to be weaving it into the spaces he creates for men. He finds deep fulfilment in...
2023-06-271h 06
Rooted HealingAncestral Lineage Healing and Eco Guardianship Birthing Belonging with Kirra SwenertonKirra Swenerton M.S. is an edge-walker, healing artist and scientist. Kirra teaches nature reverence, ritual and restoration ecology, bridging the worlds of science and the sacred, merging rigour and ethics with herbal wisdom and ancestral traditions, uplifting vulnerable creatures and revitalising wild places. Kirra specialises in land and water tending, deposession and curse unravelling, plant medicine and psychedelics, dreamwork and ceremony and regularly speaks, teaches and writes about biocultural conservation of entheogenic plants and fungi, with a focus on Peyote and Sonoran Desert toad habitat protection. Kirra upholds the traditions of her British, Irish, Armenian and Italian ancestors a...
2023-06-201h 24
Rooted HealingAncestral Practices meet Modern Science: Healing Chronic Disease with Elisa FusiElisa Fusi is an Italian molecular biologist, visionary herbalist and writer, with a research focus on human pathology, mycology, neuroscience and ecology. With an ongoing investigation on folk medicine, ancestral rituals and indigenous cultures all over the world, Elisa has studied and lived with different indigenous groups in Madagascar and across Central and South America. She later obtained a diploma in Mayan Medicine issued by the Mayan Medicine Institute of Guatemala.After a near-death experience her quest for a more complete understanding of human consciousness became stronger. She founded an environmental organization called You Are Home and lat...
2023-06-061h 06
Rooted HealingFinding Presence Through Play, Art and Reiki with Violeta AbitiaVioleta Abitia is an artist, energy healer and reiki master who leads reiki courses and children’s art and mindfulness programmes in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico. Violeta seeks to deconstruct the patterns that take us away from what she calls the most sacred experience granted to every human being on this planet: "Awakening". Woven into this episode is music from Miguel Angel Sui Sanz, who is an indigenous musician who busks in San Cristobal de las Casas. This episode is a nostalgic taste of a chapter in Mexico, finally reaching ears after a year and a ha...
2023-05-1731 min
Rooted HealingRising Technology with the Essence of Humanity with Nathalie NahaiNathalie Nahai is an expert in psychology, persuasive tech & human behaviour, drawing upon a rich background in psychology, web design and the arts, to offer a unique vantage point from which to examine the complex challenges we face today. Her best-selling book: Webs Of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion has been adopted as the go-to manual by business leaders and universities alike, and her new book, Business Unusual: Values, Uncertainty and the Psychology of Brand Resilience, has been described as “One of the defining business books of our times”. Whether speaking to audiences of thousands, or leading executive round...
2023-04-041h 36
In Conversation with Nathalie Nahai106. Ceremony, Song & Belonging: On Rekindling Relationship In A Frantic World / Veronica StanwellIn today’s conversation, I speak with Veronica Stanwell - a multidisciplinary healing and creative arts practitioner who weaves soma, psyche, ceremony and song into intimate gatherings for connection, healing and growth.
Driven by a longing for a collective shift towards nature-awe, eco-imagination and rekindled interconnectedness, Veronica is the founder of Rooted Healing, an organization that helps heal and connect inner and outer landscapes through transformational gatherings in nature, cross-cultural wisdom exchange, and somatic and transpersonal workshops.
Offering legal and unique ceremonial Psilocybin retreats in the Netherlands, ancestral immersions in her homeland of Wales and many other gatherings that re-indigenise an...
2023-03-261h 05
Rooted HealingPut Your Roots Down and Innovate with Rob HopkinsA Spring Equinox episode to inspire new beginnings and plant seeds of change... Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Network and Transition Town Totnes, and author of The Transition Handbook, The Transition Companion, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, 21 Stories of Transition and most recently ‘From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want’. He is an Ashoka Fellow, has spoken at TED Global and at several TEDx events, and appeared in the French film phenomenon ‘Demain‘. He is a keen gardener, a founder of the New Lion Brewery in Totnes (an...
2023-03-2057 min
Rooted HealingRewilding Myths and Redefining Health with Sophie StrandSophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. It would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine invites masculine mythic and religious archetypes into more nuanced, complex ways of dealing with trauma, growth, and self-knowledge, rerooting them back into their original ecology.Sharing the culmination of eight years of research into myth, folklore, and the history of religion, So...
2023-01-2053 min
Rooted HealingCrisis Calling us to Deepen Our Humanity with Alastair McIntoshOne of the world's leading environmental campaigners, Alastair McIntosh is an Isle of Lewis-raised writer, broadcaster and campaigning academic best known for his work on land reform on Eigg, in helping to stop the Harris superquarry; also for developing human ecology as an applied academic discipline in Scotland. He holds a PhD on liberation theology and contemporary Scottish land reform from the Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster and is a Fellow of Scotland's Centre for Human Ecology, as well as a regular presenter for Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Scotland....
2023-01-181h 05
Rooted HealingWe Are Singing Beings with FiaA special Winter Solstice episode with the glorious medicine singer-songwriter Fia, from Sweden, who has a unique way of weaving music that empowers the listener to drop deeper into themselves and find their own medicine. Since the release of her debut album "Made of Stars" in 2016, Fia has been touring worldwide and continues to touch hearts wherever she goes. Fia diligently creates music that bridges the worlds of spiritual healing, celebration, activism, ancestral wisdom, prayer and self-growth. In this episode, Fia talks about using the voice to direct energy, channelling voice-play from her homeland, singing together to ri...
2022-12-2142 min
Rooted HealingAncient Dream Mysteries with Sarah JanesSarah Janes is a writer, researcher and avid lucid dreamer. Her first book Initiation into Dream Mysteries, Drinking from the Pool of Mnemosyne is coming out this year in the US and early next year in Britain. It explores the ancient history and philosophy of dream therapy and sleep medicine, beginning in deepest antiquity through to ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece. Sharing more than a decade of research on Sleep Temples and Mystery Schools of the Esoteric Tradition, Sarah explores the evolution of imagination, memory, and consciousness throughout the ages and proposes that dreams have been fundamental in the...
2022-11-281h 20
Rooted HealingPsilocybin and Beavers Rewilding Our World with Dr Sam GandySam Gandy is an ecologist, writer and researcher with a PhD in ecological science from the University of Aberdeen and an MRes in entomology from Imperial College London. He has been involved with the cutting edge of psychedelic research, working as Scientific Assistant to the Director of the Beckley Foundation, and as a collaborator with the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London. Sam is also an innovation leader with Ecosulis, offering nature-based solutions and accelerating local and global rewilding projects. This conversation spans easing existential anxiety, psilocybin-assisted therapy and the hopeful reintroduction of beavers across Britain. C...
2022-11-1654 min
Rooted HealingDecolonisation Through Devotion to the Earth with Ebyän Zanini ChimbaEbyän Zanini Chimba is a decolonial and ecofeminist activist, teacher, and multi-disciplinary artist. Her most recent collaborative piece, the internationally acclaimed short film “Amoriri” has reached the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people across the globe. Ebyän weaves worlds through her words and workshops that inspire, heal, and revolutionise—drawing us closer to ourselves, each other, and the Earth. She “abides by the wisdom written in rock, wood, water, and in our hearts”, reclaiming the animist roots of her Nubian-Italian ancestral heritage.This is a beautiful, tender and insightful conversation on deeply needed topics. How can we d...
2022-10-251h 21
Rooted HealingHealing Through the Land with Ceremonialist, Annie SpencerAnnie Spencer is a renowned ceremonialist and beloved elder. She is a leader of vision quests and rites of passage, with a background in humanistic psychology and earth-based spiritual traditions, having been apprenticed in Native American practices in the 1980's and more recently in Guatemalan Mayan teachings, and Annie weaves these with the traditions of the land in Britain. She is also a well-loved storyteller, bringing alive the old myths of this land and connecting us with the earth and its magic as she creates spaces for wisdom and change to emerge. This beautiful conversation spans Annie's...
2022-10-061h 10
Rooted HealingRadically Human with SufeySufey is a renowned international women’s embodiment teacher, who focuses her teachings and courses on the ancient wisdom of the chakra system as a map to understand our bodies and the energies of life. She is an unschooling mama who fiercely walks an embodied path of nourishment, community, inspiration and spaciousness, giving a profound sense of what the feminine principle can feel like when we slow down, trust in life and befriend ourselves at the deepest level. In this episode, Sufey shares rawly about how she leads her courses and how the inspiration comes, the energetics of...
2022-09-261h 12
Rooted HealingDruidry with Wisdom Keeper Chris ParkChris Park is a Druid, ecological artist, musician and storyteller, immersed and versed in the ancient lore and wisdom traditions of the Isles of Britain. He teaches ancient technologies, experimental archaeology, educational projects, eco-building, professional storytelling, folk music and raising the awareness of the heritage of beekeeping, where he is also a host on the Living Beeing Podcast, bringing conversations together for the love of bees. He began working with the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids in 1997 and he hosts seasonal ceremonies within a sacred grove at home, and further afield as a Druid priest, celebrant and teacher.
2022-09-151h 16
Rooted HealingSeasons and Cycles of the Wild Feminine with Pia SeweliesPia Sewelies and Veronica Stanwell discuss what lead them to create Deep Remembering and how their paths wove together through their shared multidimensional healing journey around womb sovereignty and wild feminine reclamation. Pia is a facilitator for ceremonial and embodied awakening experiences. She is a yoga & somatic movement teacher, and a student of ancient shamanic healing rituals. Pia transmutes ancient practices and traditions into a modern-day language, bridging the gap for deeply transformative and nurturing transcultural experiences.She is the founder of Our Future Is Ancient - an organisation that is weaving a cross-cultural network...
2022-08-161h 02
Rooted HealingLucid Dreaming, Dying and Waking with Tree CarrTree Carr is an author, dream guide and death doula, who works in the esoteric realms of dreams, death and divination. Her published books ‘DREAMS: How to Connect With Your Dreams to Enrich Your Life’ and ‘Conscious Dreamer’ are both deeply insightful, fascinating reads, weaving science with anecdotal dream guidance from someone who has clearly ventured across her own inner landscapes with deep curiosity. Tree works closely with oneirogens (dreaming plants and herbs) as part of her conscious dreaming practice and facilitates workshops and ceremonies to connect people more deeply into their dream-work alongside explorations with plant consciousness. Tree’s w...
2022-08-081h 45
Rooted HealingBreath as a Bridge to Self Trust with Isabel TewIsabel Tew is a yoga teacher, life coach, a meditator and a breath explorer (an Oxygen Advantage Advanced Instructor). She is the creator of Breath Cards, as seen across London yoga studios, which are a pocket-sized tool to teach you a variety of breath practices that help you on your human journey. She talks about yoga as an art of becoming more subtle and how breath-work can act as bridge between the movement practice and deep meditation, whilst deepening your capacity to be your own teacher along the way. She also shares her love for Vipassana meditation and how sh...
2022-07-2054 min
Rooted HealingHealing as Descension with Christiana Eva SchelfhoutChristiana Eva Schelfhout is a musician and healing arts practitioner, who has had her own deep apprenticeship with chronic mental and physical illness, which has lead her on an expansive path of exploration and discovery around the world, drinking from wellsprings of traditional knowledge. Much of her extensive time in training and facilitation has been spent as a Trauma Informed Yoga Instructor and as a maker of healing songs and sounds. She regularly sits in ceremony and spends much of her time immersed in studentship with plant allies. She is the founder of Animate Healing and works with the...
2022-05-231h 36
Rooted HealingNatural Birth and Motherhood as Initiation with Sofia AbramianSofia Abramian is an enchanting Mother, Doula and women’s facilitator, who calls for a shift in consciousness around womens' self worth and natural birth, reminding us all that ‘our bodies are a measure of the universe’ and that we have the wisdom, strength and innate ability to celebrate womanhood, birth and motherhood as a deeply central, spiritual aspect of the human experience, reviving the icon of the fertility goddess, mother and life giver. We need more doulas like Sofia to remind us that birth matters and that the more we know about our bodies, the more we realise how pe...
2022-04-2351 min
Rooted HealingHarm Reduction and Psychedelic Integration with Lilja ÞorsteinsdóttirLilja Þorsteinsdóttir is a Psychologist from Iceland who specialises in group psychedelic integration, healing trauma (and the emotional and physical symptoms in women), harm reduction, and treating addiction and chronic pain and illness. She has created a safe platform full of courses to help people get in touch with their playfulness and creativity, increasing people’s self-understanding and connection with thems elves and the world around them. She offers needed perspective on both the healing potential of psychedelics in psychotherapy and the risks involved. She calls for all involved in facilitation and participation to practice reciprocity with the cult...
2022-03-2553 min
Rooted HealingStories of Regeneration with Joya Berrow + Lucy JaneJoya Berrow & Lucy Jane are award winning documentary directors, most notable for their craft of directing authentic human stories with impactful narratives focusing on climate justice, land and ocean regeneration and amplifying marginalised voices in the climate movement. They capture stories that go beyond the typical mainstream media around the climate crisis that often leaves us feeling paralysis and despair. These are stories that can demonstrate and model grass root change and impact in a really beautiful, emotive and real way. Find their films at therighttoroam.com and follow along on instagram @therighttoroamfilms and @Joyaberrow...
2022-03-0358 min
Rooted HealingTantric Art of Living and Loving with Karolina KarwanKarolina Karen is a Tantra Facilitator who shares her healing journey into Tantra and how we may all harness the Tantric art of living and loving holistically. Listen in for practices and insight to help us unblock suppressed emotions, access full pleasure, deepen our relationships, use the medicine of authentic communication and embrace Tantric philosophy in order to help us deconstruct social, cultural and self-made limitations in order to open up the mind, body and soul for a more connected and sensual life - without bypassing the full range of our emotions and lived experience. This is...
2022-02-0847 min
Rooted HealingThe Path of Remembrance with Andrew AskaripourAndrew Askaripour, also known as Fifth God, is a multidisciplinary creative and ceremonialist from Long Island, New York. With a strong passion for health, spirituality and ceremony, and with a focus on projects and writings that carry themes of self-exploration, vulnerability, ancient wisdom, and self-development, Andrew seeks to depict and work with those who are radically striving for a greater sense of Peace not only within their own lives, but within their communities and relationships as well. Andrew is the host of the Masters of Ceremony Podcast, where he merges the worlds of hip-hop, photography and film, ancient wisdom...
2022-02-011h 24
Rooted HealingBruce Parry on Indigenous Perspective and EgalitarianismBruce Parry is an award winning documentary and film maker, indigenous rights advocate, author and is an explorer of the inner, local and distant realms. His documentary series for the BBC including Tribe, Amazon, and Arctic have shown Bruce exploring extreme environments, living with remote indigenous peoples and highlighting many of the important issues being faced on the environmental frontline. He is the maker of the film Tawai - A voice from the Forest, which takes a philosophical and sociological look at life, through an immersive odyssey to explore the different ways that humans relate to nature and how...
2022-01-251h 09
Rooted HealingSeeds of Spells and Art as Prayer with Jessie WhiteJessie White is a self-taught Artist, an apprentice to the Earth and a part time gardener currently living on Salt Spring island, the unceded territory of the coast Salish people in so-called Canada. She creates unique visionary art as a form of prayer, planting seeds of spells to bring healing to our beautiful and sacred Earth. Her work, which is displayed at @seedsofspells on Instagram, is both diverse and inclusive, portraying a broad spectrum of the feminine vessel, as well as to bring us in deeper relationship to the larger Earth body from which we all belong. Inspired by th...
2022-01-181h 26
Rooted HealingEcho Giesel Widmer on the Art of Being WholeEcho Giesel Widmer works with Trauma Integration as a Healing Coach and an experienced 500 hour + Registered Yoga Teacher. She is the creator of Full Circle: The Art of Being Whole, where she leads 200 & 300 hour yoga teacher training programmes and she also guides a 4 week integration programme called The Path from Trauma to Tantra. Echo is also a poet and ecstatic dance DJ who creates community through writing groups and dances wherever she goes. Her approach is one that utilises the body as a tool of integration and a vessel of evolution through arts, poetry, dance, and voice to journey wit...
2022-01-0454 min
Rooted HealingPablo Flores on Astrology for RelatingPablo Flores is a renowned Chilean Astrologist who specialises in Astrological Therapy for children and adults. He is the author of the book 'Sanando Las Relaciones De Pareja' (Healing Couple Relationships), which reflects his multidisciplinary approach to healing with Evolutionary Astrology where he combines his education in Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy and his experience as a Freedom Healing Practitioner. He brings fresh insight that helps us exist in right relationship with others and most importantly with ourselves. You can find his many videos across YouTube and Instagram @pablofloresastrologoThe Rooted Healing podcast is hosted by Veronica...
2021-12-2136 min
Rooted HealingAntarctic Awakening with Damon Stanwell-SmithDamon Stanwell-Smith spent 3 years on the British Antarctic Survey base and since became an expert in remote-location research management in polar, temperate and tropical environments. He has worked in International marine consultancy for the United Nations Environment Program’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre and is is now head of Science and Sustainability for the Norwegian company Viking where he has spent the past 2 years creating first of their kind expedition ships. Damon shares insight around a career in conservation and how the wilderness - in particular Antarctica and the open sea - can shape us and teach us the ver...
2021-12-141h 16
Rooted HealingDorrie Joy on Ancestral Crafts as Our Path to BelongingDorrie Joy is a multidisciplinary artist, ancestral craftswomen, herbalist, space holder and educator. She guides ancestral drum making workshops amongst many other traditional crafts and her paintings are known for their deeply indigenous intimacy with the ephemerality of life, influenced by her almost 30 years of initiation and intimate training with indigenous women and elders in many areas of ancient craft and ceremony. Dorrie is a Mother of three and a Grandmother of two and her work is informed by her passion for sustainability, rooted in connection and reciprocity. This episode features snippets of spoken word and music from Dorrie’s col...
2021-12-0736 min
Rooted HealingThe Art of Grief Tending with Nici HarrisonNici Harrison is a grief tender, transformational coach and founder of The Grief Space, which invites nurturing reverence for grief, loss and ultimately life itself through grief circles, retreats, workshops, individual sessions and an apprenticeship programme, recognising that now more than ever, the world needs to remember the lost art of grief tending so that we may all open our hearts fully to life and use grief as a beautiful gateway for transformation. Recommended reading: The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Francis WellerThe Rooted Healing podcast is hosted by
2021-11-2957 min