Episode 26: Healing our relationship with Death

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Episode 26: Healing our relationship with Death

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Apr 30, 2018

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Listen as death doula and ritualist Sarah Kerr of Soul Passages discusses how to prepare to be a good ancestor, have a good death, and face the truth that life is finite.

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Apr 30, 2018

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Bespoken Bones supports the development of radiant erotic wellness in past, present and future generations! The intention of this podcast is to create a rich, multi-disciplinary archive of research around the topics of ancestors, sexuality, trauma, and ecology.

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Episode 000: Welcome to Bespoken Bones!: Introduction to the podcast, the host, and the ancestors! by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 007: Dancing with intention:: Heal ourselves and our ancestors through conscious movement by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 003 : Accessing the Realm of the Ancestors: Rashani Chandra Alexandre speaks on the role of ancestors in tantric Hinduism, and practicing ancestral consciousness. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 006: Breathing with our Ancestors: Renegade Sexual Mystic M'kali-Hashiki speaks on developing ancestral consciousness, and the integration of our erotic lives through breathwork practice. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 14: Ancestors and Italian Folk Magic: Mallorie Vaudoise is a Brooklyn-based spiritualist of Italian descent. Listen as she speaks on the veneration of saints, the presence of ancestor worship in Catholicism, and adopting your very own soul, for the sake of receiving blessing. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
47 min listen
Episode 24: The past is present: Jung, ancestors and healing transgenerational sexual trauma: Jungian therapist and author Dr. Sandra Easter discusses her work and book "Jung and the Ancestors Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web" on how we can heal generations of suffering by opening our hearts to feeling what is present in our... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 20: The magic of being fat: looking through an ancestral lens: Listen as Reverend Catharine Clarenbach of The Way of the River speaks on spirit in a fat body, connecting with ancestors through ancestral objects, and tending the unloved dead. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 28: Where did they go? Finding the Queer and Trans Ancestors hiding in plain sight in our genealogy: LGBTQ Historian and genealogist Stewart Blandon Traimon speaks on finding our ancestors who had special relationships with gender and sexuality in our family trees. Genealogy is an important parallel to ancestral reverence, and it's a special treat to... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 25: Astrology, Ancestors and the queerness of Uranus: Archetypal Astrologer Rebecca Farrar speaks in plain English on ancestral connections within astrological birth charts, and the power of viewing your life through an astrological lens. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 009: Plants are our ancestors: Atava Garcia Swiecicki of Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk and Indigenous Medicine speaks on connecting with our indigenous medicine, developing relationships with plants that support the healing of transgenerational trauma and plants... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 010: Choosing to heal your lineages: Dr. Judith Rich is a pioneering teacher in the field of transformation and consciousness. Listen as she speaks on making the deliberate choice to heal our lineages, and dealing with the repercussions, positive and negative, of accepting our... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 23: Art, queer ancestors and healing sex: Listen as Artistic Director Seth Eisen discusses how art can bring queer ancestors OUT of the shadows and into the light in his new San Francisco collaboration OUT of SITE, and the multigenerational healing that can happen from diving deep into our... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 15: Language is a spell: Chinese medicine, encoded ancestral wisdom and ephemeral dreams: Listen as acupuncturist and herbalist Erin Langley of Ancestral Acupuncture speaks truth on the intersection of ancestors and healing. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 004: Lipstick, Green Man and ancestor-supported creative process: Artist Keith Hennessy speaks on how the ancestors move through him as he creates radical performance that challenges dominant culture. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 013: "I can't help but do it.": Artist Clement Hil Goldberg speaks to the urgency of creating revolutionary glittering ancestral art, both as a prayer to encode our embodied knowing, and for the sake of supporting and blessing our queer descendants. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 17: To Love, Be Loved and Belong: Family Constellations for healing generational trauma: Family Constellation facilitator Peter Touchard speaks on how revealing unseen, hidden exclusions and entanglements within family systems can lead to resolution. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 001: Pathways for the Blessings: Dr. Daniel Foor speaks on embodying the goodness of our older, bright well ancestors and how developing ancestral relationships can benefit our lives. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 012: Ancestors guide me to my purpose and passion: New York City-based Shaman Langston Kahn speaks on how relating with ancestors can support the fullest expression of our Selves, and how we can work with the unseen in service to our greatest passions. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 21: Reclaiming the ancestral dreaming body: Listen as embodied dream worker and ancestral lineage repair practitioner Seyta Selter of Innerlands speaks to the practices of dreaming with ancestors, and the healing power of erotic dreams. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 27: Mental health crisis as ancestral initiation: Sangoma Gogo Ekhaya Esima of Sangoma Healing speaks on her initiation through mental health crisis and the importance of being humble on our knees before our ancestors. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 32: Unspelling White Supremacy through Ancestral Storytelling: UK storyteller and activist Elinor Predota discusses the importance of multiplicity of perspectives when learning the stories of our ancestors, who lived rich, multi-faceted lives. Storytelling can be a healing practice that allows the humanity and... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 35: Communicating through trees: Healing trauma in community: Dr. G Love aka Geryll Robinson discusses the value of communal ancestral practice and ritual to heal transgenerational trauma in community. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 33: Embodied evolutionary history, ancestral movement and deep feeling and healing: Ancestral Movement practitioner Simon Thakur discusses the evolutionary role of empathy, the adaptive qualities of disembodiment, and how moving like our ancestors can heal our grieving hearts. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 26: Healing our relationship with Death: Listen as death doula and ritualist Sarah Kerr of Soul Passages discusses how to prepare to be a good ancestor, have a good death, and face the truth that life is finite. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
43 min listen
Episode 16: Trauma as call to prayer: Taya Shere waxes poetic on healing Jewish ancestral healing, participating in an embodied, holy life, and bliss as the prayer. by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 42: Tarot, Ancestors & brilliant Trans elders: Tarotist, artist and prolific Author Rachel Pollack says "As soon as you allow the power of mystery, you go into another level of existence." In this episode, Rachel walks us through her scholarship of the tarot, and the intersections with ancestors,... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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Episode 34: Queer Ancestral Sexual Healing: In this episode, Nick Venegoni of the Queer Spirit podcast interviews me. We discuss the importance of desire and pleasure, and how it gets complicated in the presence of trauma. I riff on how to know if you’re not living your body, and getting... by Bespoken Bones Podcast
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