The Queer Spirit - Reconnecting to the Wild Spirit of the Land with Laura Perlin

Reconnecting to the Wild Spirit of the Land with Laura Perlin

07/16/18 • 30 min

Laura Perlin is a Tarot card reader, intuitive counselor, and ritualist. She works especially with personal and collective transformations, resolution of chronic & mysterious health challenges, and ancestral lineage repair. Her approach to healing work is rooted in anti-oppression practice and animist sensibilities. Laura grew up on Ohlone lands in the SF Bay Area and is of Jewish, Sakha (Siberian indigenous), Roma, and Finnish ancestry. She is a founding member of Embodiment Arts Collective, a healing arts and events space in San Francisco rooted in queer and outsider communities.

Episode Highlights

We discuss how Laura's work in national forests lead to mystical experiences by connecting to the presence of land in the wilds of nature, and the cultivating of relationship with other-than-human entities.
Ritual work as healing, and working with spirits, ancestors, plants and land.
Acknowledging the time and space that we’re in is sacred.
In ritual, the spiritual component is in the foreground.
Laura's work with people who are transforming and shifting to help with move through a new experience; as well as chronic and mysterious health issues.
Ancestral repair work.
How being in relationship with her ancestors helped her clarify and align with her life path as a healer.
Laura's pilgrimages to Siberia and the important process of re-indiginization she is dedicated to.

Laura's web links

Episode Highlights

We discuss how Laura's work in national forests lead to mystical experiences by connecting to the presence of land in the wilds of nature, and the cultivating of relationship with other-than-human entities.
Ritual work as healing, and working with spirits, ancestors, plants and land.
Acknowledging the time and space that we’re in is sacred.
In ritual, the spiritual component is in the foreground.
Laura's work with people who are transforming and shifting to help with move through a new experience; as well as chronic and mysterious health issues.
Ancestral repair work.
How being in relationship with her ancestors helped her clarify and align with her life path as a healer.
Laura's pilgrimages to Siberia and the important process of re-indiginization she is dedicated to.

Laura's web links

Previous Episode

Using Divination & Magic to Shape Your Life with HiC Luttmers

Offering Information, Insight, Empowerment, Enlightenment, HiC is a Tarot Conversationalist, Coach, and Ritual & Magic Consultant who has been working with the Tarot for over 18 years. His readings have been described as “a tarot reading, therapy session and life coaching session all in one.” He offers his services using the Tarot combined with healthy doses of numerology and astrology, a splash of i-Ching, a taste of Feng Shui, and practical application. Along with a heaping spoonful of magic and ritual, HiC assists you in crafting what can enhance and manifest your life in the fullest, most beneficial and blessed way possible by discovering practical, useful information that can be used to change your life for the better. HiC’s approach to a reading is creating a space that honours the person and allows them to open the door to, ultimately, have a conversation with themselves. Find out more about HiC’s offerings and how to contact him for a private session (in person, FaceTime, Skype and phone sessions available) at Tarotbyhic.net

Episode Highlights

We discuss the difference between a tarot reader vs. a tarot conversationalist, as an interactive dialog among the people and spirit for guidance.
Our futures are not set in stone - “We Create our own outcome and future.”
Looking at life situations from a different perspective to move closer to your desires.
Using divination to gather additional guidance about your life, instead of seeing it as a narrowing of life options.
The way HiC synthesizes the tools of tarot, astrology, I Ching, runes, Feng shui, magic and ritual to support his clients and to effect transformation in their lives.
Using rituals and magic as a point of focus to infuse energy and intention into their goals.
Using natural elements — like herbs, oils or crystals — to bring energies to help support your magical intentions.
The magical energies of food.
The benefit of working with a reader who has different life experience than yourself.
The influences of Buddhism and Egyptian Kemeticism on HiC's spiritual and personal growth paths.

HiC's web links

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Healing the Story of Your Body with Dr. Kirk Prine

Dr. Kirk Prine, CMT is a Body Story Life Coach, integrative bodyworker, Reiki Master, Ritual Master, former psychotherapist, primary facilitator of Flesh & Spirit Community and co-founder of The Missing Thread Mystery School for Entrpreneurs. He is also the author of "Erotic Body Prayer".

Episode Highlights

We discuss how life experiences get stored in the cells and the energies of our bodies, and how they effect the agreements we have with ourselves.
Kirk helps people unpack and clear those stories through the body to heal the mind and the body.
How queer people struggle with intimacy and how that shows up in our bodies.
Kirk’s own experience of abuse and trauma lead him on his path from survivor to thriver, and honing his ability to tune into more subtle energies.
How to begin to listen to the stories of your own body through sensations and feelings.
The ways in which body work and massage can help to release and transform our relationship with our bodies and ourselves.
The connection between the spiritual and the physical, and how it can bring healing to queer people.
The erotic and the spiritual are not separate, but one in the same.
Queer people came to be part of healing ourselves and the planet.
The path of the wounded healer as a helpful teacher to help us grow.

Kirk's web links