Natalie Ross on Folklore & Rituals of Imbolc, a Celtic Holiday on the Wheel of the Year REPLAY

01/26/23 • 32 min

Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends

Natalie Ross, Earth Speak co-founder, shares about the traditions around the Celtic holiday called Imbolc that signifies the beginning of spring. From Natalie:

"My ancestral lineages are Celtic and Nordic. What I’m sharing is part of my investigations into my own ancestral roots to discover who are the people in my lineages who were Indigenous to a land, and what were their beliefs and customs. If you enjoy this, please let us know!"

You’re going to hear about:

What Imbolc is and why it was one of the 4 most important celebrations of the year
How the Wheel of the Year isn’t actually Celtic
Brigid, the multi-faceted goddess associated with Imbolc

I’ll also share several ways you can celebrate Imbolc in your own practices and rituals.

This whole episode transcript is posted on our website in the show notes at www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/folklore-and-imbolc-38.

If you’re wanting to connect more with others who practice Earth magic, then join us in the Earth Speak Collective membership. We’re doing community rituals and co-creating a culture of Earth-honoring and magical connection. You can join the Collective at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective.

Links:

Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective
Support the Earth Speak Podcast and purchase our T-shirt https://www.earthspeak.love/shop
Natalie's new program, Confident Offer http://www.natalie.net/confidentoffer?utm_campaign=confidentofferbeta&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=organic&utm_term=earthspeak

Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret

We would LOVE to see how you choose to celebrate Imbolc. Please tag us @earthspeak in your Imbolc posts on Instagram, so we can celebrate with you.

Thank you to Scarlet Crow and Emily Sprague for our theme music.

See the show notes for this special episode here

Natalie Ross, Earth Speak co-founder, shares about the traditions around the Celtic holiday called Imbolc that signifies the beginning of spring. From Natalie:

You’re going to hear about:

What Imbolc is and why it was one of the 4 most important celebrations of the year
How the Wheel of the Year isn’t actually Celtic
Brigid, the multi-faceted goddess associated with Imbolc

I’ll also share several ways you can celebrate Imbolc in your own practices and rituals.

This whole episode transcript is posted on our website in the show notes at www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/folklore-and-imbolc-38.

Links:

Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective
Support the Earth Speak Podcast and purchase our T-shirt https://www.earthspeak.love/shop
Natalie's new program, Confident Offer http://www.natalie.net/confidentoffer?utm_campaign=confidentofferbeta&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=organic&utm_term=earthspeak

Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret

We would LOVE to see how you choose to celebrate Imbolc. Please tag us @earthspeak in your Imbolc posts on Instagram, so we can celebrate with you.

Thank you to Scarlet Crow and Emily Sprague for our theme music.

See the show notes for this special episode here

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Emotional Alchemist Naomi Love on Trauma-Informed Somatic Womb Healing [REPLAY]

Naomi Love shares the role of the space holder to be trauma-informed and create a safe environment for healing work to happen. You’ll also hear about:

What is somatic womb healing?
Creating space for integration
What happens when facilitator training is not trauma-informed
Cultivating resilience to meet what arises

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Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
Embody & express your creative power & truths
Experience safe space without agenda or judgment

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Naomi Love helps people to track patterns that keep them held in repeating disharmonious cycles in the way they think, feel, experience and relate with life. She guides people home to their true nature and share with the KEY's to setting themselves free from the old paradigms.

In this replay episode, Naomi shares about what is womb healing and how to facilitate ceremony in a trauma-informed way. Access to the Temple of the Womb Apprenticeship closes on January 11th, 2023. Learn more and connect with Naomi at the Wise Womb Medicine Path and at www.naomilove.org.

In this episode, we talk about:

Living on the diverse lands of Hawaii
What is somatic womb healing and how Naomi developed her teachings
Tracking patterns and trauma within the body
Getting out of the mind and into the body
Differentiating between emotion and the ego
Learning to receive and relate in healthy ways
The stomach as the most vulnerable aspect of the body
The role of the space holder in creating a safe environment for healing work to happen
Why do womb work?
Agency vs power over
The miracle of birth and creating life
Healing ancestral trauma
Feeling out of resonance with your truth
What happens when facilitator training is not trauma-informed
Creating safety for yourself and others with energic hygiene
Why opening space is different to holding space
Toxic positivity
Cultivating resilience to meet what arises
Getting to the root of your trauma
Bringing the focus back to healing
Creating space for integration
Being in right relationship with your role as a facilitator
Learning to feel safe with touch in a non-sexual way
Feeling connected to the cosmic web of creation
Coming back to your true nature
How Naomi came to study and teach womb work and cacao ceremony
Communing with plants
Honoring the spirit of the medicine of cacao
Ask the Oracle
Getting clear on your offerings
And more!

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Founders Natalie & Shawna on Somatics, Liberation & What's Been Happening During Hiatus [episode 99]

In this catch-up chat, Natalie & Shawna share about liberating oneself from imposter syndrome. You’ll also hear about:

What's coming next for Earth Speak?
Somatics and liberation
Making a living doing the work you never expected to be doing but are perfectly positioned for
Natalie shares about her new program Confident Offer

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
Learn to trust your intuition
Activate your Earth magic
Expand your healing & divination skills
Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
Embody & express your creative power & truths
Experience safe space without agenda or judgment

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Natalie Ross helps magical entrepreneurs tweak their marketing, so they can reach more of the people they're meant to serve. She helps them go from feeling overwhelmed and not knowing how to talk about what they do to creating content that's fun and brings in more sales. She also produces the Earth Speak podcast and runs a community about connecting more deeply with self, others, nature and spirit.Learn more at www.natalie.net, and sign up for her new program, Confident Offer.

Shawna finds inspiration from all aspects of life but most notably nature and human connection. She brings experience and awareness from being a white assuming mixed-race black woman living in America. As a student of Psychological Ethnic Anthropology, she enjoys liberating folks from aspects of what make them feel othered by society.Learn more at @shawna.cason and @folkflorist

In this episode, we talk about:

What’s changed for Natalie and Shawna, and what they’ve been up to during hiatus
Reflecting on the journey and the wintering of Earth Speak
Following the threads and doing what lights you up
Shawna shares about volunteering at a butterfly garden
Natalie shares about her work with rescue bunnies
Feeling safe enough to get paid
Learning and re-learning how it feels to be content, happy and joyful
Making a living doing the work you never expected to be doing but are perfectly positioned for
The myth of perfection
That the path to your purpose may not be linear
Creating space to integrate and be more of who you truly are
Polyvagal theory and liberating yourself from imposter syndrome
Threat vs safety
What happened when Natalie reached her critical mass safety
Embodying the new
How we inspire others by doing what lights us up
What is coming next for Earth Speak?
And so much more!

Secret Episodes! Get access to past secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret.

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Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective
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