351 The Divine Feminine

Today I spend some time sharing my thoughts about the divine feminine. Sparked by a contradiction that I observed during the most recent presidential election, I wanted to share what I believe to be the divine feminine, how it shows up in our lives, and how we can cultivate it for ourselves and in our community. If you have thoughts about this and want to talk or brainstorm please reach out!

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350 Cristina Bornstein “Energy Healing and Self Care”

Today on the show I get to speak with Cristina Bornstein who has worked in the field of energy healing for over 25 years. Her main modality is Eden Energy Medicine (The Eden Method) but also includes techniques from her shamanic studies and her own intuitive experiences with earth and universal energies. She believes that Energy Medicine is an amazing complementary care support system and an
empowering self-care tool. Using different modalities Cristina gently empowers you to tap into your inner wisdom and power to facilitate a deeper sense of health, happiness, and emotional balance to help you live radiantly. Each session or self-care class is customized and Cristina “follows the energy” as Donna Eden would say, which creates a sacred and safe healing space.

Cristina is passionate about self-care believing we are our own health advocates! This is why being the Director of Monthly Self-Care Classes with the Holistic Health Community is perfect match. Cristina also serves on the HHC board and offers energy medicine sessions at the HHC Healthcare Day.Cristina specializes in Self-Care Guidance, Chakra Transformations, Stress Management, Soul Retrievals and Self-Care Empowerment. She offers in person and skype sessions.

We talk about her entry into energy medicine which started very young, how she learned to follow her intuition, and where it has guided her along the way. It has brought her to some of her most transformative teachers, including Shamanic Studies with John Perkins and expeditions to the Ecuadorian rainforest, Guatemala, and Colombia to learn and live with indigenous tribes — to Donna Eden whose work really connected the dots across so many other areas of studies Cristina was drawn to over the years — and finally or perhaps more accurately, a return to nature as her teacher.

She shares thoughts on self care as well as simple suggestions of things to do at home or at work to support different emotional states and experiences or just to proactively nourish yourself with some care. As a part of the Holistic Health Community’s Self Care Program, she’s organized an event happening tomorrow, Tuesday, November 26th at the Institute for Family Health’s Pine Street location where I’ll be offering Tending to the Heart Sound Bath at 6pm. As with most HHC offerings it is by sacred reciprocity. “Though there is no charge for services, we encourage sacred reciprocity by making a donation, by offering volunteer service or by doing an act of loving kindness toward someone in need.”

We also mention a special fundraiser for the Holistic Health Community happening this Sunday, December 1st, at Lifebridge in Rosendale featuring a sound bath with Ricarda O’Connor. If you have the ability to support this vital community organization, this will be not only a gift to them, but a gift to you to receive from this sound experience.

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349 Madeleine Grace “Sonic Elixirs”

Today on the show I get to welcome Madeleine Grace, creator of Sonic Elixirs. She is a improvisational vocalist and a practitioner of touch therapy using fascial release techniques, Ayurvedic Marma therapy and Thai yoga to offer comprehensive sessions to help clients remember their inherent wholeness. Her intention is to contribute to the vitality of the world through space holding and ecstatic creativity.

Madeleine shares pieces of her story on how she came to her work and her music, including a pivotal moment in college when a lightbulb went off aligning her course with her heart. We talk about her idea of wholeness and how she creates spaciousness and connection in her life and the lives of others. Of course voice and sound are a big part of our conversation, and we get to listen to her latest release, Notes from the River on Spotify… and learn about its mystical creation process. We philosophize about love and the feminine and masculine and talk about an upcoming collaboration between Madeleine, Vinny Collandrea, Ben Brown and myself happening this Saturday at 7pm in Woodstock. You can learn more and register for Soundscapes of the Heart here. Discounted tix available until 11.20.

Here’s Madeleine on Bandcamp and Instagram.

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348 “Post Election Thoughts” with Marielena Ferrer

It’s our monthly conversation about Spirituality and Politics and we’re talking about how we feel and what we’re doing post election. Whew… this is not an easy conversation, but we get by with a little help from the Tarot. Marielena pulled the The Judgement card in advance of the show and then The Universe, The Lovers, The Empress, The Emperor and The Hanged Man during the show. Tune in to hear our thoughts and reach out if you want to add to this conversation going forward.

Marielena shares this essay from Pablo Helguera.

Here’s your Full Moon Report from Tanaaz.

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347 Sophie Strand “The Masculine, The Feminine and Everything In Between”

Today on the show, I welcome Sophie Strand, a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Give her a salamander and a stone and she’ll write you a love story. Sophie was raised by house cats, puff balls, possums, raccoons, and an opinionated, crippled goose. In every neighborhood she’s ever lived in she has been known as “the walker”. She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially – between beings, ideas, differences, mythical gradients.

Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous projects and publications, including Spirituality & HealthAtmosBraided Way, and Art PAPERS. She is the author of The Flowering Wand,The Madonna Secret, and the forthcoming memoir The Body Is a Doorway as well as the creator of the popular Substack “Make Me Good Soil.”  You can follow her work on Instagram @cosmogyny. 

We get to hear Sophie talk about The Flowering Wand, why she wrote it and how she relates to the masculine – how is it different from the patriarchy and why that is important. Is the harm patriarchal or more broadly dominant culture? How does she feel about disturbing the dominant culture system? The inspiration for The Flowering Wand was born of her interrogation of the Jesus story which she retells in The Madonna Secret with an honoring of the roots of Rabbi Yeshua and the rightful placement of Mary Magdalene as a peer by his side. Why have women’s stories been left out – are we getting better at telling them? Hmmm, consider our current election as a reflection point. How does Sophie relate and respond to the cultural limitations or expectation placed on women? How does she tend to her self? How can we tend to the earth…egregore?

Sophie has an upcoming workshop, Myths as Maps: Ecological Storytelling, happening on November 16th and 17th. We have limited time to dive into the vast subject of myth and how we can perhaps more appropriately work with myth through the creation of our own vs. an adoption of others from a much different time and place. Her daily practice is an effort to create her own myth and is a profound inspiration in how we can be better collaborators with all the beings we dance with on earth.

Thanks Sophie, I look forward to reading The Body is a Doorway when it comes out in March 2025!

Following our conversation, I turn to Kim Krans’ Archtype cards for some inspiration in how to navigate the potential challenges that may arise this week following the election. The Bridge is the response. It’s a perfect gift of contemplation for these times.

For those needing some inspiration in how to tend to oneself, one’s child or perhaps one’s inner child, here is the article I shared from Susan Weber on how to see the world as good.

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346 “Infertilities” and “Missed-Conceptions”

For many years I’ve imagined a group art experience where folks can share through some artistic means their story in trying to become a parent. As someone who experienced 6 miscarriages, much heartache and also opportunities to grow and learn about myself in my journey to becoming a mother, it’s something I feel is often kept in the shadows. Today I am officially announcing this show for the Spring of 2025, May 7-11 in Kingston, NY to bring it into the light. It’s an open call to anyone who has a story about trying to conceive, adopt, or become a parent in one of the many ways one can. Whether you completed that journey, are still in the midst of it, or have let that path go, you are welcome. Unless you have gone through it yourself, it’s hard to know the true magnitude of how this impacts us, physically, mentally, financially. It’s my hope that people can feel seen and receive support as they express their stories and help illuminate what so many suffer through alone through this community art show.  If you’d like to participate, please feel free to fill out this brief form, or send me an email with any questions.

About a year or so ago, I found a book that convinced me I was ready to do this show. It was in a pile of books at Radio Kingston free to take. On today’s show I’ll share stories from that book, Infertilities, a curation edited by Elizabeth Horn, Maria Novotny and Robin Silbergleid. NOTE: these stories may be activating for those who have a personal connection to the subject matter.

Here’s your New Moon report. “Channel some of this creative, fertile Haumea energy by focusing on what you wish to create. Channel it towards solutions and hope for a brighter future.”

Get your tix to The Goddess Party this Friday!

Today’s playlist that was mostly not listened to 🙂

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345 Samhain and the Change of Seasons with Jenny Mulak and Beth Carestia of The Goddess Party

Today I got to sit down with two of the Goddesses from The Goddess Party, Jenny Mulak and Beth Carestia. We talk about the turn of the seasons and what arises for us as we move through Autumn into the dark of Winter. Other topics on the show today, piercing the veil, Samhain meaning and rituals, Goddesses, Divine Feminine, ancestors, tarot and archetypes. Get your tickets for the next The Goddess Party performance on November 1st at Basillica Hudson before they’re gone…

Jenny Mulak is a healer, a problem solver, an herbalist, flower practitioner and energy worker, a writer, a recovering rule follower, and a curious student of spiritual teachings.  Jenny is the founder, alchemist and earth steward behind Cosmic Mother – a botanical skincare and herbal potions line – handcrafted with plants from her garden and local farms. She is delighted to make her home in Shokan, NY with her partner, Ariel, and their two rescue pups.

It is here that she recovered from her years of corporate life – where she was good at her job as a program manager, but never satisfied as she wasn’t even close to being aligned with her life’s purpose.  As she continues to strip away years of programming and societal and familial conditioning, the plants support her every step of the way.

Nature has been Jenny’s greatest teacher and healer.  She is passionate about sharing with others how living in harmony with the cycles of Nature can connect us back to ourselves and the embrace of the cosmos and Mother Earth.

Beth Carestia has been living in the Kingston area for over a decade and has come to love our sweet community. She’s a proud Rosendale Ukulele Group member and an O+ alum with The Goddess Party. Most recently she hosted the O+ Comedy show, a major personal highlight. Also know as a local Tarot Reader and an all around shenanigan having woman, she brings joy wherever she goes.

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344 O+ Gratitute and “The One” Archetype with Marielena Ferrer

On this month’s installment of Spirituality and Politics with Marielena Ferrer, we share our favorite moments of the O+ Festival and gratitude for those who helped to make it happen.

Then Marielena and I discuss “The One” archetype that I mentioned a few weeks ago. It’s one of Kim Kran’s Archetypes that delves into nonduality, one love and unus mundus.

Don’t forget the Full Moon this Thursday!

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343 Holly Troy “I am Divine Love”

Holly Troy is an artist, writer, teacher and musician, whose work explores forms for “deep play.” Her passion is to create positive transformation through imagination, movement, pranayama, co-creation, and playful embodiment.

Holly envisions a world where people have the tools and resources to be their authentic selves as conscious creators contributing to a renaissance of human potential that uplifts all of humanity and every being on the planet.

Holly came of age as a musician on the Lower East Side, New York City in the 80s and 90s. She earned her yoga teaching certificate from Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in 1996. She holds a degree in Creative Writing and Studio Art from Hunter College. Her painting has been the subject of solo shows in the USA and is held in private collections across the US, Europe and Australia. She is based in upstate New York.

You should also know that she hails from an illustrious lineage of fortune tellers, yogis, folk healers, troubadours and poets of the fine and mystical arts. Shape-shifting Tantric Siren of the Lunar Mysteries, she surfs the ebbs and flows of the multiverse on the Pure Sound of Creation. Her alchemy is Sacred Folly — revolutionary transformation through Love, deep play, Beauty, and music.

She believes creativity, love, kindness, radical authenticity, and self-care are imperative for a just and sustainable world.

She’s leading a workshop this weekend, I am Divine Love,  as a part of the O+ Festival on Sunday, at the Good Work Institute at 4:30pm.

Today Holly shared the background in developing this workshop and what to expect. We talk about the themes of Love, true self, play, fun, and presence, and Holly shares about her lineage and how she became who she is now, someone who is forever exploring and choosing to see the world through love and play.

“There’s going to be pain in life but suffering is optional…”

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342 Kate Valentine “A Woman of a Certain Rage”

Kate Valentine is one of the instigators of the feminist neo-burlesque movement. The Va Va Voom Room was her weekly variety show running at the beloved cabaret space Fez Under Time Café in NYC. Her hilariously deadpan mistress of ceremonies character Miss Astrid traveled all over the globe entertaining audiences with her quick improvisational wit.

Concurrently, Ms. Valentine wrote and starred in many sketch comedy shows and directed and created works of experimental dance theatre. Directing credits include The Terrorism of Everyday Life, which won a Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival.

Get tickets to this Sunday’s, October 6, 2024, performance of A Woman of a Certain Rage, 8pm at the Orpheum in Saugerties. It is Kate’s first full length solo show. A romp, a rant, a bloodletting, about living in a female body in the 21st century. A vivisection of the American medical system. Your Doctor is in and he has been diagnosed with white male privilege. Ms. Valentine is filling your prescription for dismantling the patriarchy!”

This 70-minute show utilizes raw personal stories, physical comedy, dance, and pure undiluted female energy. A Woman of a Certain Rage is a call to action — to project our Rage out into the world and to utilize that heat to propel us into a dynamic harmonious future.

Today Kate shared about why she created this performance, and some of the background around the content of the performance including the physical and emotion experiences that led to a deeper awareness of the harms she’d experienced in life. A goal for this show is to help galvanize support for the long overdue passage of the ERA through.

You can find and follow Kate on Instagram  for updates on performances and more.

Happy New Moon Solar Eclipse on Wednesday.

https://foreverconscious.com/intuitive-astrology-libra-solar-eclipse-october-2024

And

https://www.moonomens.com/new-moon-solar-eclipse-in-libra-2024/

“Solar Eclipses also remind us that confusion, disorientation, and chaos often precede clarity: they invite us to deepen our introspection and encourage us to come back to alignment before continuing to move forward.”

We listened to music from these ladies.

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