The Queer Spirit
Nick Venegoni, TanyaMarck Oviedo
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The Green Wisdom of Herbalism with Rekara Gage
The Queer Spirit
09/06/23 • 45 min
*Audio Note: Volume and clarity varies during some parts of this interview.
Rekara Gage (she/her) is an herbalist who focuses on the importance of ritual, safety and community when it comes to personal healing and growth. Her approach to wellness is based in food medicine and spirituality, emphasizing new ways to add plant medicine to the routines that you already have in place. She loves helping people reconnect with their intuition and do things with meaning, making everyday feel special. In her practice, it's important to provide access and information to the public so that they can make the best health choices for themselves. Rekara is a student of Traditional Western Herbalism with Julie James at Green Wisdom Apothecary and School of Herbal Studies in Long Beach.
Episode Highlights
- Thank you to our grounding plant medicines and their energies: dandelion root (clarity), mullein (lung support + moisture), tulsi ( aids with stress + clear headed + relaxation) , and elecampane (breathwork).
- Rekara shares with us about her healing journey and how the medicines and magic of storytelling, food, movement, plants, family, community and curiosity play active roles in finding herself and herbalism.
- We learn about the medicines of ritual and practice that Rekara partakes in throughout her personal herbalism journey, and how they are connected to her culture.
- We learn what herbalism is: understanding plant medicine (the chemistry), how we can benefit from plants being here, how we can learn from them, and how they support us.
- Rekara reminds us that when working spiritually with herbs and plants, important aspects to explore and consider include: connection, intention and being open to answering the call to mindfully interact and work with them.
- Rekara drops an herbal tea recipe that will nourish our queer hearts, bodies, spirits , and souls. Thank you to these plants for sharing their medicine and energies:
- Rose (color + reminder of boundaries + protection + safety)
- Tulsi (aids with stress + clears the mind)
- Damiana (spicy + sassy + libido + reminds us who we are)
- Cinnamon (unsung hero that moistens us + grounding + supportive)
Web links
- Find Rekara online at Re-ngage.com
- You can also connect with her on Instagram @rekaraneal & @rootedherbalcollective
- Find Green Wisdom Herbal Studies & Apothercary & IG @greenwisdom
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Creating Dreams out of Chaos with Crystal Mason & Jason Wyman
The Queer Spirit
08/16/23 • 60 min
Crystal Mason (they/them) is an artist, activist, dreamer, consultant and coach. They believe in the power of community and necessity of hope. Jason Wyman (they/them) is Queerly Complex. Using appreciative inquiry, deep listening, and creative conjuring, Wyman taps the Cosmic Mysteries in all to reveal moments of Chaos Poetry. They live, love, and create on Yelamu / San Francisco, and share a home and family with their husband and pride of house and feral cats.
Episode Highlights
- Crystal + Jason share their personal queer-stories and drop some queer wisdom nuggets
- Sweetness alert: We get cozy + comfy while Jason + Crystal take us for a saunter and share about how they met and their connection.
- We learn about the medicine + magic of dreaming in public and how sharing those dreams with others can lead to co creation and action.
- Crystal leads Nick + TanyaMarck through a dream practice that includes a share/reflection of what we experienced.
- Behind the scenes and during our shared time, Jason has been alchemizing some chaos poetry which they share with us; it’s very queer + yummy.
- We learn about the offerings and practices that both Jason + Crystal share with our collective.
Jason's chaos poetry from our collective dreaming practice lead by Crystal:
Take a deep breath... Take a deep breath & soften your gaze... Take a deep breath & flow... Flow like a river as it snakes its way through the jungles... through the forests... through the deserts... through the valleys... through the mountains... through the prairies... through the lands of your ancestors & ancestors of these lands, including those unnamed & unknown... Listen for the birds, the animals, the critters, the wind blowing from the Southwest, from the energies of dreams & wishes... Smell the flowers & the lush green flora thriving all over this world... Flow on this river & arrive in queer paradise... Where the water glistens & glitters... And queer beings of all bodies-- clothed & naked... serene & making love... joyous & free... alone & in community-- Celebrate completely... "I do not want to leave..." "Me neither..." Remember... This dream is within you always & in all ways... You can come back here... Take a deep breath... Lay in your hammock... Dream queer dreams... Here we will always be free.Web links
- Find Crystal online at CrystalMason.net & on Instagram @ham_job1
- Find Jason at QueerlyComplex.com & on Instagram @queerlycomplex
- And their collective work at TreeOfChange.net
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09/17/18 • 31 min
Gerri Ravyn Stanfield, LAc. is the author of Revolution of the Spirit: Awaken the Healer, a guide to liberate the healing super powers within each of us. Her fiction and essays have been published in The Rumpus, Manifest Station, and others. She is the executive director of Acupuncturists Without Borders, a nonprofit organization providing trauma relief in the wake of natural disaster and human conflict. She designs trainings for emerging leaders and healers in the US, Canada, Europe, Nepal, Israel/Palestine, and Australia. Ravyn uses her background in trauma recovery, neurobiology, psychology, writing and performance to coax more of the extraordinary into the world through the cracks in Western civilization. She has a private acupuncture practice in Portland, Oregon.
Episode Highlights
- Ravyn talks about how her experiences of illness lead her on the path of becoming a healer.
- She discusses her inspiration for her book, "Revolution of the Spirit," as a way to record and remember alternative forms of healing.
- The connection of spirituality to medicine and other forms of healing.
- Exploring the ways that ancient healing practices, such as Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, have maintained their spiritual aspects.
- What it means to be a healer, and who can be a healer = “to make whole” by simply doing your thing.
- Exploring the concept of being a “global revolutionary healer” with your own soul fire.
- We discuss what is ailing our culture at large now - the interlocking systems of oppression and the greedy residue of colonization; and healing this by turning back towards the sacred.
- Alchemy as the art of change and transformation, and using it personally and globally.
- Bringing the power of alchemy to heal the queer communities.
- Taking a holy risk and moving toward what scares you.
Painting & Poetry: Art as Medicine with Keone Wales
The Queer Spirit
08/16/21 • 33 min
Keone is a queer, a heretic and a fool, here to help shift the paradigm and welcome the higher dimensions through play and joy. They bring dreams and visions for the collective through their paintings, poetry and story telling. For them, it’s all about energy; helping nurture our energetic connections with plants, trees and other beings. And also helping us clear blockages and bring medicine to our own energy bodies.
Episode Highlights
- Keone shares some poetry from their new collection, “Love Songs For Boys,” including their focus on the intersection of painting and poetry.
- We discuss nature vs. capitalism, messiness as a path to healing, and laughter as medicine.
- They talk about how the ancient forest near their home has inspired their poetry, and how patriarchy and white supremacy serves as a metaphor for the destruction of nature.
- Keone shares about how they found poetry to be a source of healing throughout their life.
- We explore the Fool archetype and its inherent beautiful, queerness.
Web links
- Connect with Keone on Instagram @keone1973
- Get a copy of "Love Songs for Boys" HERE.
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Comedy, Religion & Social Justice with Cameron Esposito
The Queer Spirit
03/30/20 • 29 min
Cameron Esposito is a Los Angeles-based standup comic, actor and writer. She has appeared both on TV and film, as well as at comedy and music festivals world wide. Cameron’s podcast, Queery, features interviews with LGBTQ+ luminaries including the likes of Roxane Gay, Trixie Mattel, Evan Rachel Wood, Lena Waithe & Tegan and Sara Quin.
Cameron is co-creator and co-star of Take My Wife, which garnered rave reviews from the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Vulture and Indiewire and is available on Starz. Her most recent special, Rape Jokes, raised almost $100,000 for RAINN. Her first book, Save Yourself, is available March 2020.
Episode Highlights
- Cameron shares about her newly released book, Save Yourself.
- We compare and contrast our experiences of growing up Catholic and queer.
- She shares her story about how she wanted to be a priest, from being an altar server to going on missions as a teen.
- Cameron’s social justice education opened her eyes to realize the path of priesthood was not for her, while simultaneously coming out queer.
- She shares that her primary spiritual fulfillment is found in her own community.
- We discuss how her interests in community, social justice and comedy combine into her standup work.
- We talk about the importance of language in public spaces as a way to respect communities of diverse identities.
Web links
- Find more at CameronEsposito.com
- You can also find Cameron on Instagram, Twitter & FaceBook
- Get your copy of the new book SAVE YOURSELF
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Indigenous Insights & Decolonization with Kanyon Sayers-Roods
The Queer Spirit
03/02/20 • 40 min
Kanyon Sayers-Roods "Coyote Woman" (Mutsun-Ohlone, Chumash, EuroMutt) is a two-spirit steward of Indian Canyon, an artist, activist and educator. Kanyon teaches truth in history and envisioning indigenous futures to diverse audiences. Kanyon's work has been featured at the De Young Museum, SOMArts Gallery, Gathering Tribes and many indigenous powwows and gatherings.
Episode Highlights
- Kanyon shares how she first started her business, Kanyon Konsulting, to provide education on decolonization and reindigenization for non-native people, particularly in the Ohlone territory (San Francisco Bay Area, California).
- Kanyon helps us understand what it means to do the work of decolonization and reindiginization.
- She shares about the practice and importance of land acknowledgement and recognition.
- We also talk about the practice of offering “land tax” donations to help native peoples get land back.
- Kanyon shares why it is important and helpful to get familiar with the native peoples in your own territory.
- We break down the label of “two-spirit” and other labels native folks use to talk about their queer experience.
Web links
- Find more at KanyonKonsulting.com
- You can also find Kanyon on Instagram, Twitter & FaceBook
- Weaving Spirits Festival of Two Spirits Performance - Yelamu (San Francisco), March 6-8th, 2020
- All My Relations podcast
- Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits
- Two Spirit Society of Indian Canyon
- Native Land map website | Mobile app
- If you are not Indigenous to the place you live, please consider paying your land tax/offer a gift to the people whose land you are on. - NYC: mannahattafund.org - Seattle: realrentduwamish.org - SF Bay Area: sogoreate-landtrust.com/shuumi-land-tax
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Stories of an Embodied Healing Journey with Syd Yang
The Queer Spirit
06/08/20 • 33 min
Syd Yang (they/them) is a mixed race queer/non binary healer, writer, intuitive artist and healing justice organizer who weaves together magic, prayer and intention as an energy healer in the world through their practice, Blue Jaguar Healing Arts. As someone who lives with depression and anxiety, and has recovered from eating disorders, their work finds its resonance in the stories we each hold at the intersection of memory, body, sexuality and mental health. Syd's work is rooted in Buddhist practice, is liberation minded and trauma informed. Syd is based in Los Angeles, CA.
Episode Highlights
- Syd shares about the discovery of energy and spiritual healing work on their journey of recovering from bulimia.
- We explore the significance of understanding the human body as a whole energetic entity and how that concept ties into recovery.
- Syd describes their transformation from being healed to becoming a healer.
- They discuss their initiation into the role as a healing practitioner in New Orleans through a powerful vision.
- Syd talks about overcoming their personal judgements regarding energetic and spiritual healers.
- We discuss the power of sharing the stories held in our bodies. Tied into that is the exploration of the power of vulnerability through storytelling.
- They share how eating disorders and self harm can show up as imprints of trauma, and as reactions to what is happening in the world.
- We explore the importance of being present with how one feels about their body, positively and negatively, and the strength of not running away from those feelings.
- Syd shares about their meditation practice and how it helped them witness the state of their body and their healing process.
- They talk about their connection with animals and plants, and how it creates new possibilities about how they can view their body in relationship to the natural world.
- They reflect on their clients sharing that the healing work they do together has led to deep transformation in themselves and their relationships.
Web links
- Find Syd at BlueJaguarHealingArts.com & ReleaseBulimia.com
- You can also find them on Instagram & FaceBook
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Relationship Coaching for Single Gay Parents with Ray Hippolyte
The Queer Spirit
06/04/18 • 19 min
Ray Hippolyte is known around the world as ‘The Inner AWESOME Relationship and life Architect’. He shows single parents how to ‘Out Their Inner AWESOME’ and Get the Life and relationship of their dreams by becoming ‘the ONE’ to find ‘the ONE’. Passionate, free spirited and full of life, Ray believes that finding unconditional love and acceptance is a journey that begins within. He teaches that great relationships begin with self-love. He believes that every single parent have a special purpose on the planet - to teach the world the art of unconditional love, by example. In 2002 Ray was diagnosed with HIV. He thought that his life was over. He fell into a dark, suicidal depression. And then something happened that changed the direction of his life forever. His sister – his absolute best girl friend in the world – was shot and killed. All at once he realized that life is short and it’s about taking action and fulfilling your dreams. He made a commitment to love himself unconditionally. He learned to let go of wounds associated with the traumatic experiences of his past. He learned to say no to the toxic people, activities, and things that had been keeping him stuck. And because he found the courage from within to do all of that hard work, he found his life’s purpose AND started his own family.
Episode Highlights
- We discuss how divorce helped Ray grow on his spiritual path.
- The ways Self love and forgiveness allows you to forgive others and recover from difficult situations.
- Incorporating daily rituals to strive towards greatness and using meditation to create emotion resilience.
- Letting go of fear in order to open up to a new relationship.
- The first of three steps to attract your perfect partner, and how to “be the one to find the one.”
Ray's web links
- Out Your Inner Awesome - relationship coaching
Mystical Weaving of Sexuality & Spirituality with Al Head & Shokti of Queer Spirit Festival
The Queer Spirit
07/15/19 • 30 min
The Queer Spirit Festival is a five day celebration of the love, passion and creative spirit of the LGBTQ+ community. Now in it’s third year, the festival will be held August 14-18, in Northamptonshire, England.
Al Head is a pagan energy worker who has been an lgbt activist and organiser since the early 1980s, as well as a peace, environmental and inclusion activist. They are also the author of “Queer Deity, Sacred Slut.”
Shokti is a spiritual activist and Faerie Witch. He is one of the crew who worked to birth Folleterre Radical Faerie Sanctuary in France and who brought Faerie gatherings to the UK in 2006. Shokti is the workshop programmer for the Queer Spirit Festival, bringing together dozens of facilitators and activists working on the cutting edge of queer community and consciousness.
Episode Highlights
- Shokti shares how his HIV diagnosis lead him to explore spirituality and through this path connected with his current community.
- Al tells the story of their spiritual journey from radical Christianity to exploring the intersection of sexuality, spirituality and politics, leading them to paganism.
- They share how the Queer Spirit festival first began as an idea out of Queer Pagan Camp, as a way of bringing different tribes of queer spiritual folks together.
- They describe what it’s like to attend the QS festival, what kind of workshops are scheduled and the different rituals and ceremonies which are offered.
- Shokti shares more of his ideas about the reclaiming of queer mystical power, and the weaving together of sexuality and spirituality.
- Al talks about how they use sex magic to help heal the land and brings these practices to the festival for restoring the energy of the earth.
- We discuss how learning about consent with people can improve our relationship to the earth.
Web links
- Queer Spirit Festival - Northamptonshire, England, August 14-18, 2019
- Find Queer Spirit Festival on FaceBook, Instagram & Twitter
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March '25 CareCast: 1st Saturday Meditation + Breath Work
The Queer Spirit
03/05/25 • 38 min
Welcome to our CareCast!
This year we're are posting recordings of our monthly CareCircles to the podcast - this is our "CareCast."
We invite you get comfy, grab some hydration and join us together in queer community.
The Queer Spirit Community gathers on the 1st Saturday of each month for practices in guided meditation, breath work + movement. These practices are faciltated by TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) and Nick Venegoni (he/they). They are curated + inspired by the planetary + astrological + pagan wheel of the year energies in mind.
For March's circle we worked with the planetary energies of Mars going direct, Venus going retrograde, and lots of watery Pisces juiciness.
We honor with Gratitude + Thanks the sacred Practices + Traditions + Peoples + Lands: Yoga, Ayurveda – Sanskrit, Mantra, Raga, Hindustani Music, Buddhism + Tibet + Meditation; Tongva + Kizh + Chumash + Ohlone; Tarot + Astrology + Magic + Witchcraft; the teachers who have carried this wisdom and shared it with us ~ Gracias.
As always, you can find all things Queer Spirit HERE.
Links + Resources + Invitations:
- An invitation to the private Queer Spirit Community to continue the conversation and connect with other listeners.
- Join us for FREE virtual Care Circles meditation + chanting + breath work circles online. We meet monthly on the 1st Saturday, 3rd Sunday + 4th Sunday.
- Follow us on BLUESKY + IG!
- Join our mailing list to get news, Care Cirlce + podcast updates sent directly to you.
- QS Resources: News, Education + Care.
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FAQ
How many episodes does The Queer Spirit have?
The Queer Spirit currently has 128 episodes available.
What topics does The Queer Spirit cover?
The podcast is about Meditation, Bisexual, Yoga, Health & Fitness, Tarot, Reiki, Transgender, Spirituality, Relationship, Magic, Psychology, Alternative Health, Witch, Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Lesbian, Shamanism, Podcasts, Gay, Gender, Queer, Sexuality and Astrology.
What is the most popular episode on The Queer Spirit?
The episode title 'Stories of an Embodied Healing Journey with Syd Yang' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Queer Spirit?
The average episode length on The Queer Spirit is 35 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Queer Spirit released?
Episodes of The Queer Spirit are typically released every 13 days, 23 hours.
When was the first episode of The Queer Spirit?
The first episode of The Queer Spirit was released on Jun 1, 2018.
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