The Healer Series

The Healer Series host and creator, Miranda of Mariposa, is sharing a plant spirit meditation. She is a folk and clinical herbalist, creator of Mariposa Apothecary and Ad Astra Virtual Clinic and a mystical gardener.

The Listening Space Tickets: Within the Waters of Rest: A Sacral Womb Ceremony

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Kalpana Arias joins me on this episode of the Healer Series Podcast. I've been wanting to record a podcast with Kalpana for a while now because I think she's brilliant.

She is a technologist, urban greening activist, food-growing educator, writer, speaker and the founder of Nowadays On Earth, a social enterprise advocating for contact with nature in the digital age. Alongside Nowadays On Earth, Kalpana campaigns for urban nature and nature rights through urban rewilding projects and tech policy reforms, has been researching ecosomatics and technological ecologies for over 7 years, delivered a global TED talk, spoken at the United Nations and The Eden Project, and is a trustee for GROW charity. Kalpana is currently an environmental consultant for corporations and governments and works with leading charities, institutions, brands and grassroot change-makers.

Her work around advocating for contact with nature is deeply moving and inspiring to me. She explains ecosomatics, the climate crisis and technological advancement in such a forward thinking way while holding space for what's happening in the present. Kalpana asks and answers questions in a way that provoke thought and compassion while navigating toward solutions.

In this conversation we talk about:

• remembrance about tuning into the frequencies of who we are
• somatics and what it means to inhabit your body
• allowing our bodies to process through what is happening in our environment
• leaning into the growth edges of our societies transformation
• living through the climate crisis while holding polarities
• allowing the concept of being nature and also a technological evolutionary being guide one another
• tapping into our innate joy as a practice to sustain ourselves

Show Notes:

Keep in Touch with Kalpana -

@ariasaleja

@kalpana.arias

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After experiencing personal harm in the “manifestation” & healing “industries," I think it's so important to cultivate discernment in working with practitioners. And in order to offer that ability to you I have to share more of myself.

In this solo episode I talk about:

my experience with free + native (aka to be magnetic) & the manifestation movement

my take on new age + main stream spirituality & its dogmatic thought

the importance of being in integrity & transparent as a healing practitioner

the harm in practicing ancient wisdoms without reverence

Show Notes:

Unlearning Spiritual Oppression with Isabella Aponte

The Rush for a Slice of Paradise in Puerto Rico

Spiritual Elder Wisdom with Olatokunboh Obasi

The Twisted Roots of America's Medical Education & Healthcare Systems

If you'd like to get to know me even more or in a different way, here are some podcast episodes and a journal I've been a guest on:

The Pleasure Revolution Podcast: Slow Medicine

Sound as Color: Muse Journal

The Home-Body Podcast: Decolonizing Health with Plants

Heart Snuggles Podcast: Staying Connected to Your Ancestors + Plant Medicine

• the flexner report of 1910 and its impact on our modern healthcare system
• the demonization of African and Native Indigenous healing practices
• the narrow focus on healing the physical body only
• perpetuating harmful language to debunk ancient wisdoms
• the inception of the wellness industry

Intro music by Ianne Rivera of theonethread.com. Check out her sonic rituals for self-pleasure here: https://www.theonethread.com/digital-products.

Keep in touch with Miranda @mariposajournal and check out the next Virtual Astrology workshop with Bianca Filoteo on Chiron: The Wounded Healer.

The next Healer Series episode will be on the Akashic Records with Lauren Scungio.

Kyona of Ky-veda gives us an in depth perspective on Ayurveda (the ancient Indian lifestyle technology that is over 5,000 years old), Auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture, an ancient Chinese therapy 3,500 years old) and Peri-steaming (therapeutic use of water vapor in the pelvic region used in multiple countries dating back to ancient times). We talk about honoring the life cycles of nature, our inner rhythms and tangible practices to experience "self care elevated."

Keep in touch with her @kyveda or book a consultation on her website: http://ky-therapy.com/.

Show Notes:

• You can find previous audio journals here: https://www.mariposa-journal.com/journal.
• Upcoming workshops: Virtual Full Moon Ceremony on January 28th + Virtual Workshop: Herbs for the Heart with Amy Jirsa.
• Intro audio created by Ianne Rivera. Check out her sonic healing rituals.
• Steamy Chick is the per-steaming community Kyona and I met and we discuss in the episode.

Stay tuned for the next episode with Akashic Records Reader, Lauren Scungio.