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The sacred windows of our lives, whether postpartum or perimenopause or menarche or any significant transition, are portals of extra sensitivity.

In some ways, they are a gift in that we can almost recreate ourselves from the ground up, renewing, and discovering a new version of ourselves.

In other ways, they are tender, even vulnerable, times that require extra care and deep nourishment to replenish and rebuild from what is often more Vata dominant (from the Ayurvedic lens).

But what can that nourishment look like? And how can relationship to the earth, seasonal cycle and local food play a role?

This week's guest, "nurturer" Ashley Winkelspecht, bring all of this together in her work and practices where she tends and nourishes both postpartum mamas as well as her rural community in the form of meal prep (and growing and sourcing local food).

She also layers on additional practices to enhance the prana, vitality and healing potential of the nourishment she brings.

Listen in to hear all about it.

Resources:

• Free guided womb connection meditation and clearing
• Today's shownotes: Get links to Ashley's offerings
• Episode 49: Sacred windows of our lives with Ashlee Sakaishi Wilkin
• Episode 139: Cultivate resilience in Vata season w Molly McConnell
• Episode 156: Universal Mother principles w Christine Eck
• Episode 182: Deeply replenishing postpartum care with Coco Genevieve

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In these wild times, so many of us are seeking meaningful ways to engage with our emotions in generative, life-giving ways.

As women and female-bodied folks, we have commonly been socialized to dampen our intensity, our ferocity, our tenacity.

To sit in patriarchal spaces that center the power of a leader on a pedestal versus the power of the circle itself.

But what can a different way look and feel like?

In today's rich conversation with qi gong and martial arts teacher Jaye Marolla, we dig into these questions.

She shares about the practice she calls yin warriorship, what that means and can look like in a martial arts training space or in the world, and how needed it is.

And she also shares all about

• the practice of leading and teaching emergently
• how she crafts containers that are not "safe" but supported
• how intimacy and eroticism are woven into this work
• why she doesn't ascribe the the idea that trauma is the issue in our tissues (and what she sees this phenomena as instead)
• ways to explore your personal "yes" and "no"
• and more!

There is SO MUCH depth and wisdom here. I hope you love it.

Resources:

• Free guided womb connection meditation and clearing
• Today's shownotes: Get links to Jaye's work!
• Episode 140: Mugwort herbal spotlight & my initiation into plant medicine

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DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for educational purposes only, I am not providing any medical advice, I am not a medical practitioner, I’m an herbalist and in the US, there is no path to licensure for herbalists, so my role is as an herbal educator. Please do your own research and consult your healthcare provider for any personal concerns.

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I had a conversation with a friend recently, and the topic of presence came up. Not from the lens of meditation so much as from the lens of what's helping us move through the wild terrain of life these days.

We talked about how easy it is to get drawn into the past - distractions, addictions, spirals of longing, attachment to old stories, replaying what's already happened - or the future - worry, fear, anxiety, concern, responsibilities to come etc.

And how easy it is to go entire days, weeks even, without true embodied presence.

How often are we really, truly, present... in our bodies, in a moment?

Isn't it interesting though, how time can bend? When we are falling in love, or meditating, or maybe even trying hard to get words on to paper, it can feel like 5 minutes is forever. But most often, it's all moving so swiftly, we barely catch a glimpse of what's happening.

Distractions and stimulation is EVERYWHERE, and more so now than ever before.

But the truth is, healing and the possibility of new healthier pathways, ones that include conscious choice of something generative versus destructive, of a world we believe in even, is all only possible when we release the past and the future and cultivate more relationship with the present.

And not just the present moment mentally, but even more powerfully bringing our awareness into our bodies for somatic experience of embodied presence.

I riff on this and share a guided practice to embodied presence in this week's episode. It feels like needed medicine for so many of us right now.

Resources:

• Free: Womb connection & clearing meditation
• Today's shownotes: The healing practice (& power) of embodied presence
• Episode 77: Myofascial release for pelvic bowl and chest/breasts with Lindsay Courcelle
• Episode 219: What are spring tonics?
• Episode 220: The ancestral medicine of reciprocal relationship w Kendra Hoffman

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DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for educational purposes only, I am not providing any medical advice, I am not a medical practitioner, I’m an herbalist and in the US, there is no path to licensure for herbalists, so my role is as an herbal educator. Please do your own research and consult your healthcare provider for any personal concerns.