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Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Sarah Drew. As the visionary author of the GAIA CODEX, Sarah Drew catalyzes powerful blueprints for the future deeply rooted in the gnosis of the past. Her professional experience includes early forays into creating content for virtual reality platforms as the CEO and co-founder of Serpmon in the 1990s and subsequently working as a producer and creative director on media projects that have explored the edges of digital technology and visionary narrative. Sarah has been a featured speaker at the graduate level and at organizations such as Google and ABC Deepak Homebase and she is currently a popular teacher and mentor for women worldwide on topics such as Feminine Wisdom, Evolutionary Culture and Regenerative Technology.A lifelong explorer of culture and consciousness, Sarah has traveled from the jungles of the Amazon to the high peaks of Bhutan where she has had the honor of studying and living with key lineage tea

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Licia Berry. Licia Berry is a 30-year veteran educator and practitioner - in public schools, state agencies, non-profits and the business sector - and in her international clientele, where she mentors women leaders utilizing psychological, neurobiological and indigenous approaches. Licia is a pioneer, author, educator and speaker on utilizing the Whole Brain state to access ancestral memory and holistic approaches to health. She is the Founder of the Daughters of EarthT Project, a Women's Leadership Institute, and the author of the 2016 #1 international bestseller, I AM Her Daughter -the Healing Path to a Woman's Power and the upcoming Aquarian Gospels, a guide to creating relationship in a partnered, power sharing way. Her websites www.LiciaBerry.com, www.DaughtersOfEarth.com and partnered with her husband of 33 years at www.JuicySacredLiving.com

Sean is an herbalist, gardener, medicine maker. and fellow journeyer. Listeners are invited to call into this monthly together on the first Thursday to ask questions and expand the discussion of herbal medicine and current events in the world.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions follwed by a 30 minute interview with Mirabai Starr. Mirabai Starr writes creative non-fiction and contemporary translations of sacred literature. She taught Philosophy and World Religions at the University of New Mexico-Taos for 20 years and now teaches and speaks internationally on contemplative practice and inter-spiritual dialog. Her latest book, WILD MERCY: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics, was released Spring 2019. She lives with her extended family in the mountains of northern New Mexico. this episode Q&A includes: • People's Medicine Show on Blog Talk Radio August 2 at 7:30 pm ET. Call in with your questions 646-929-2463 and press one.. • surgery, antibiotics, comfrey.. • vertigo- is it an infection? Echinacea angustifolia tincture.. • back of the head ache and feeling drained- cranial sacral therapy and B12 supplementation.. • thyroid, cancer, raw brassicas, seaweeds/fucus.. • cyst- castor oil,

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions follwed by a 30 minute interview with Judith Piazza. With 40 plus years of exploration in the realms of sound, music, rhythm, and voice, including a B.A. in Music Therapy, Judith continues to explore the indigenous and soulful edges of vibration as sound medicine. She presently offers Devotional and Community Song, Frame Drum and Rhythm Workshops, Healing Sound Workshops, Performances / Prayerformances that weave her talents and skill on drums around the world, vocals, native flutes, didjeridu, guitar, and dulsitar TM. In addition, Judith works with youth and adults in Rites of Passage Threshold Retreats, is an initiated Council Trainer and Guide in The Ojai Foundation model (a circle practice that encourages authentic listening and speaking from our hearts), is a Universal Life Church Minister, and continues to explore Nature as Teacher, developing a Medicine Wheel of our Elemental Sound Nature. She has recently been named one of nine finalists in th

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Mare Cromwell. Called the "Voice of Earth Mother" by Rainbow Thunder Heart – a gifted Shoshone Elder, Mare Cromwell is a Gaia Communicator & Priestess, Author and Healer. Some might call her a Medicine Woman. She has devoted her life to the Great Mother and midwifing the New World coming in now. Her multi-award-winning books include: "The Great Mother Bible"; "Messages from Mother.... Earth Mother"; and, "If I gave you God's phone number.... Searching for Spirituality in America". Mare has studied with Native American elders for 23 years along with other gifted spiritual teachers. She is the visionary behind the 1000 Goddesses Gathering & Global Grid. Mare is currently teaching "The Great Mother Love Way" year-long course in 2019 and lives in western Maryland. www.marecromwell.com  

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of erbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Cristina Trujillo.  Cristina is an Alchemitrix, which signifies the ways she distills various lineages into her own platform (Phoenix House). These especially include the solar priestess lineage, sacred medicine work, and healing work with herbs and food. Responding to the needs of current times, she emphasizes the importance of integration, embodiment, and impeccability.  She is an adopted member of the Native American Church and is legally approved and protected by this ministry as a medicine woman and Sacrament carrier.  Cristina offers an impeccable container for ceremonial gatherings that honors authentic relationship, cultivates sacredness, and supports the restructuring of the cellular and light body matrix. Here, soul-family connection reignites. She also demystifies traditional practices that hold overlays unnecessary to our current times, bringing essential skills and inner navigation tools to help us a

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Aurore Henze. Aurore is an ayurvedic naturopath and the author of the Beyond Natural Cures book series focusing on Body Mind Health.  She studied with a body/mind psychologist for 3 years and was in therapy herself for 6 (on-going). She home-birthed (midwife Aviva Romm, MD), breastfed and home-schooled her three children, now adults and is set to release a new book in the BNC series that focuses on the sadomasochism epidemic in our society, how to recognize it and how to heal it.  She is a Women's advocate and is building a network of Women Empowered through Health. She founded the Medical Human Rights Association, created an Orgonomic Yoga practice and a unique healing method she calls "Auroreveda" based on Ayurveda, Anthroposophy and Orgonomy (body/mind).  She was in practice for 20 years, which included an attachment clinic specializing in autism, a wellness spa for psychosomatic skin disorders protocol based on

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Pegi Eyers. In her new book Ancient Spirit Rising Pegi Eyers examines the loss of our vital ethnocultural connection to tribe and place, and why there is a trend to borrow identities from other cultures. Join us for a provocative and informative discussion on white privilege, cultural appropriation and how modern spirituality has become a giant consumer marketplace! Pegi's research has uncovered improved strategies for intercultural competency with Turtle Island First Nations through social justice solidarity, anti-oppression work, allyship and reconciliation.  And as the paradigm shifts today to earth-connected sustainable community, in a fascinating twist Ancient Spirit Rising re-frames the Pagan and Goddess Spirituality movements as a response to the directive from Indigenous Elders to recover our own ancestral wisdom. From the wealth of resources available today, we can restore our ecocentric worldview and find

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Astrid Grove & Lorene Wapotich. Astrid Grove is the founder and organizer for Red Earth Herbal Gathering.  She celebrates life with her husband, her two daughters, her two cats and her many chickens.  Her passion lies in facilitating and supporting women's empowerment through midwifery, hands on healing, plant medicine and sacred ceremony. To learn more about her offerings, go to www.astridgrove.com Lorene Wapotich, MEd, will be co-facilitating the red tent at Red Earth this year as well as co-facilitating the community wide coming of age ceremony. She is an author and the founder and director of Feet on the Earth Programs, a non-profit organization in Boulder, Colorado. Her work focuses on creating regenerative culture and community by mentoring children into healthy young adults through deep nature connection and community-based rites of passage. Lorene recently completed a memoir and is currently working o

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Taya Shere (Taya Mâ). Taya is the co-founder of Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, co-author of The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Paths of Jewish Women's Spiritual Leadership, and faculty at Starr King School for the Ministry and the Chaplaincy Institute, where she trains emergent clergy across faith traditions. She teaches Ancestral Lineage Healing, offering individual sessions virtually, and in-person workshops across the country. Taya is also a Somatic Experiencing practitioner and offers online courses in Embodied Presence, Pleasure as Prayer, Conscious Menstruation and Ancestral Healing. Her Hebrew Goddess chant albums — This Bliss, Wild Earth Shebrew, Halluyah All Night and Torah Tantrika — have been heralded as "cutting-edge mystic medicine music." She makes home, music and other magic in Berkeley, California, on occupied Ohlone lands.   

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal Health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Tracey Turner-Keyser. Tracey, is the founder of Full Circle Family Counseling, PLLC. Tracey is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPCS), Board Certified Dance Movement Therapist (BC-DMT), Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME), Embodied Movement Yoga instructor and an American National Forest Therapy Guide (ANFT). Tracey takes all of these modalities to create a unique approach to healing families, children and individuals with developmental complex trauma; PTSD, physical/sexual/mental trauma, Reactive Attachment Disorder, depression, anxiety, and more. Tracey combines her spiritual wisdom  and Forest Therapy connection to trees with Dance Movement Therapy, yoga and psychotherapy with a holistic perspective addressing mind, body, spirit. Tracey helps empower the family to acknowledge each other despite shame, guilt, anger and sorrow that may have been inflicted at any point.   this episode Q&am

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Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Ayn Cates Sullivan. Ayn is an award-winning and bestselling author focusing on mythology and folklore for the modern age. Dr Sullivan obtained her BA with honors at Hollins University, her Masters and Doctorate in Literature from Columbia University and King’s College London. She later obtained a Masters in Spiritual Psychology and works with individuals who are interested in remembering their Inner Grail. She also works with a select group of emerging writers each year. Ayn Cates Sullivan’s series, “Legends of the Grail” successfully launched in 2017, selling out on the first day to an enthusiastic audience and wide acclaim. The first volume, Legends of the Grail: Stories of Celtic Goddesses, is a collection of ancient Irish myths, and the missing or untold stories of women recounted in first person. The second and newest volume, Heroines of Avalon & Other Tales, is a collection of Celtic and Arthurian myth

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Nancy Vedder-Shults.  Alongside such luminaries as Alice Walker, Starhawk, Lynn Andrews, and Sue Monk Kidd, Nancy Vedder-Shults, Ph.D. was named a Wisdom Keeper of the Goddess Spirituality Movement in 2013. She is the author of The World is Your Oracle: Divinatory Practices for Tapping Your Inner Knowing and Getting the Answers You Need (Fair Winds Press: April, 2017), an innovative divination book that presents 40 multicultural techniques for out-of-the-box thinking.  Nancy is also the thealogical columnist for SageWoman Magazine, and a blogger for Feminism and Religion and Nature’s Sacred Journey on Patheos Pagan. Nancy honed her speaking and writing skills in the emerging field of Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her focus on empowerment began. Her muse nudged her out of academia to record Chants for the Queen Heaven, a CD of Goddess chants from around the world. Check out her

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Phyllis Curott. As one of America’s first public Witches and an Elder Wiccan Priestess, attorney Phyllis Curott became an outspoken advocate in the courts, media, and interfaith movement, handling groundbreaking religious liberty cases for Witches and Pagans.  Named one of The Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year by Jane Magazine,  she was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Clergy and Scholars, served as Vice Chair of the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions and created the historic Inaugural Women’s Assembly. Her trailblazing, international bestselling books, including Book of Shadows and WitchCrafting helped make Witchcraft accessible to the world. Her latest book, WICCA (made easy), Awaken the Divine Magic Within You, was released in November, 2018, with a companion online class coming in July of this year, and the 20th Anniversary Edition of Book of Shadows will be available from Phylli

Sean is an herbalist, gardener and medicine maker. You are invited to call in to this almost monthly show to ask questions and expand the discussion of herbal medicine and what's going on in our world and even the world around us.

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Eugenia Merkoulov. Eugenia Merkoulov follows in the footsteps of five generations of Slavic medicine women. Born in Ukraine and raised outside of New York City, she was fortunate to experience a holistically-minded and rich multicultural upbringing. Eugenia's primary intention is to assist individuals in connecting with their core being so that they may live in alignment with their highest expression. In her offerings, she fuses healing wisdom from the Eastern European traditions with that of the Yoga system, cross cultural energy work techniques, and planetary herbalism. ?Eugenia holds a double BA in Environmental Studies and Political Science, a Permaculture Design certificate, Hatha Yoga certificate, second degree Usui Reiki attunement and most recently completed a foundational Ayurvedic program. Currently, she is pursuing a double MS in Herbal Medicine and Holistic Nutrition.  

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lynn Andrews. Author of the internationally acclaimed Medicine Woman Series, Lynn Andrews who has spent the last 30 years studying with shamanic women on three continents. This best selling author shares her ancient teachings of shamanic training. Lynn Andrews brings spiritual tools and compelling techniques for healing from the spiritual realm to the modern everyday physical world. Her techniques use the power of thought to take you beyond self limitation to other realities. Through live shamanic gatherings and many other media outlets, Lynn uses a wide variety of experiential tools to lead her audiences deeper into themselves. this episode Q&A includes: • cavities- are they preventable? • concentrating oils and harvesting hypericum after heavy rains... • hormones, liver, menopause.. • check out Susun's Happy Knees Course.. • at some point you have to make people uncomfortable and not eat

Susun Weed answers 90 minutes of herbal health questions followed by a 30 minute interview with Lucinda Herring. Lucinda has worked at the cutting edge of the green funeral movement for more than twenty years, beginning with others in the 1990s to quietly care for loved ones after death. Today she is one of the leading voices for more healing and ecological ways to care for our dead. Herring is a home funeral/green disposition consultant and guide, an interfaith minister, and a licensed funeral director in the state of Washington. She speaks regularly about her work, and through her company Limina LLC--Thresholds Consulting and Ministry, she offers Advance After-Death Care planning, home funeral/green disposition education and trainings, and celebrant/ministerial services for families and communities who are reclaiming their innate right to care for each other and the earth at the end of life. Lucinda is also a storyteller and festival maker, committed to bringing art, beauty, ritual and celebration to all of