The Mama Psychedelia Podcast (Mackenzie River)
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| 02 Mar 2022 | 1. For the Daughters -Siân Marie Pilkington | 01:06:03 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, with Siân Marie Pilkington, we take a journey through her matriarchal life. As a woman who walks women through sacred rites of passages and altered states of consciousness, from menarche to birth, miscarriage to menopause, she embodies the radical elements of the wise woman way. A woman of wordcraft, mother of four daughters, deep rooted energy worker, green witch, long term birth companion and retreat facilitator, she is a spiritual midwife. She tends to the divinity of family led birth, serving mamas resisting the modern disturbance of the mysteries, perpetuating healing to humanity from the root, when life begins. Together we discuss spirit baby communication and the etheric gifts of children, Siân’s Celtic roots and being raised up in a familial village in England, the enchantment of the ancient ways, reclaiming radical birth and traditional birth keeping and so so much more. Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. Resources: Where you can find Siân’s offerings: | |||
| 09 Mar 2022 | 2. The Universe Within Herself -Eden Tierra | 01:18:11 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, with Eden Tierra, we dive deep together exploring the Maiden to Mother initiation and walking a medicine path. Eden shares stories of intuitive sovereign living, ceremonial healing, and the mysticism of the natural world. We discuss plant medicine consciousness, Ayahuasca as the divine mother, the power of surrender in: life, entheogenic journeying, pregnancy and birth. Touching on the realness of our multifaceted existence as humans on this earth. From shedding layers in preparation for parenthood, shadow work and navigating fear narratives, to deep gratitude for life and all it’s beauty. Eden leads a life rich in remembrance, trust, reverence for great spirit, her beloved family and one deeply connected to conscious breath as a profound integration tool. | |||
| 17 Mar 2022 | 3. Mushwomb Medicine -Mikaela de la Myco | 01:33:37 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, with Mikaela de la Myco, we touch on a vast array of juicy topics that I hold dear to my heart, it is a pleasure to soak in Mikaela’s genius in all it’s forms. She walks us through her family line, and gives us an in depth look into her Afro-Indigenous, Mexican, and Italian roots, and her strong ancestral connections that continue to guide the way she leads her life. Mikaela is a committed mother, educator, herbal medicine women, entheogenic facilitator, and community care provider. Together we explore historical folk medicine and plant medicine allies, with an emphasis on cultural competency, familial healing, as well as cultural relevancy to our own unique DNA and gene expression. Mikaela talks herbalism in regards to yoni steaming and natural pregnancy prevention, she shares about her deep connection with mushroom medicine, Psilocybin journeying in pregnancy and the role of mothers in our current psychedelic revolution. We chat about community ceremonial approach vs therapy models of use with this sacred medicine, mushroom consciousness and raising children, pleasure in parenthood, the intimate dance of birth, life, and death, and so so much more. You don’t want to miss this woman’s wisdom. Chills all the way through. For all of our relations. | |||
| 23 Mar 2022 | 4. Kanga and Roo: A Surrogacy Story -Michelle Maclean | 01:06:00 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, with Michelle Maclean, we chat about her 17 year (and counting) path as a birth worker, her own birthing experiences, and her journey as a surrogate, carrying life that wasn’t her own. We explore the psychedelic nature that comes through giving birth: the hormonal high, the other plane of existence we enter as birthing beings, the expansion. Michelle is a birth and postpartum doula that has been serving families living on the Unceded territories of the Coast Salish nation, also known as Vancouver since 2005, having attended about 1400 births. She is a proud mother of two and surrogate to one. Her vast experience in the birth space has opened her heart in supporting birthing people on all types of journeys, from home water birth to high risk hospital. Michelle co-facilitates a Trans and Queer pregnancy and birth group, teaches prenatal education, she is a mentor Doula, and was a Holistic Doula trainer at Pacific Rim College in Victoria for 9 years. Birth and death is where her heart lies and she will continue to support families in welcoming new life and releasing it for as long she can. This conversation touches me in so many ways, may you receive her magic and her overflowing heart, as we ride the waves together through beauty, challenge, and transformative growth. Michelle is a real life super woman for all that she does and is. | |||
| 30 Mar 2022 | 5. Mental Health Healing through Mycelial Magic -Zuri Snow | 01:17:01 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, with Zuri Snow, we touch on variety of topics deeply interwoven through the mycelial web of consciousness. A touching conversation on mental health healing with psilocybin and other earth medicines, free birthing, sovereign led living, holistic childbirth continuity of care, normalizing altered states in western culture, mental health and diagnosing of children, and so so much more! Zuri is a holistic childbirth consultant, a student birthkeeper, an earth medicine advocate, and an unschooling mother of two wildling toddlers. She is passionate about bringing “the sacred” back into the rites of passage that define our human existence, and inspires this through practical ritual, earth-based wisdom, and accessible education. She is currently focused on assisting families through the transformational initiation of pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum through education, advocacy, and soul counselling, both in person and virtually. Her work emphasizes reclaiming sovereignty through connecting to the intuitive wisdom that lies within us all. She is passionate about de-stigmatizing the use of entheogenic medicines for mothers and families through storytelling. If you have a personal story you'd like to share anonymously, you can email zuri.mamabearth@gmail.com. Each share helps to break the stigma and normalize the use of these sacred medicines during such transformational times. | |||
| 13 Apr 2022 | 7. Tending the Akashic Garden -Aurora Di Vine | 01:10:24 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia with Aurora Divine, we have such rich conversation on her life’s journey with entheogens, healing, and birth keeping. We hear stories of her deep rooted ancestral connection to psilocybin, herbalism, mycology, and iboga, and some deeply soul touching ceremonial experiences, initiations, and perspectives. | |||
| 06 Apr 2022 | 6. Portal Divino -Selma de Bilbo | 00:57:57 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Selma de Bilbo, a mother, birth companion, Matrona midwifery student, and keeper of the sacred. Together we return to Selma’s entrance into motherhood and the initiation it brought forth on the path of medicine work and mothering other mothers through pregnancy, birth and postpartum. She shares with us her experiences of ceremony in pregnancy and beyond, working with sacred plants as teachers, trusting in life’s unfolding, and how we relate to death. Selma’s wisdom and radiant heart shines through her stories and I am grateful to share them with all of you. | |||
| 20 Apr 2022 | 8. Honey for my Heart -Luna Itzell | 01:08:49 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I have the pleasure of speaking to a woman that has really been a major catalyst on my own healing journey, Luna Itzell. An ayahuascara of 20 years, a truly sensational vocal talent accompanied by her husband Helder in all their musical endeavours, and a mother of a 19 year old daughter. Luna has one of the brightest hearts I’ve come to know in this life, her service in ceremony is remarkable, the weaving of her song medicine with the sacred medicine of the Amazon Ayahuasca, the divine healing space that she creates for us all to remember who we truly are. Luna tells us about her journey of coming to plant medicine in her early 30s to heal from her own fertility journey and mental, physical, emotional disturbances. How that journey led her to motherhood and medicine work as a life path. She shares pieces here and there on several sacred medicines of the earth and their spirits, living a ceremonial life in reverence of creator, and how this has served her in her 19 years of mothering. What she shares here is truly a blessing to anyone entering parenthood or needing a reminder amongst the challenging times. She tells us about her father’s influence in entering medicine ceremony for the first time, some of his own journey as a young man in Oaxaca, Mexico, as well as her thoughts on mother’s sitting in ceremony throughout their pregnancies. This is one you don’t want to miss you, Gracias Luna por todo. For walking me back home in some of the most transformational vulnerable moments in my adult life, and for reminding me that “everything is okay.” After all we are all guided here, thank you for sharing your soul’s wisdom. | |||
| 27 Apr 2022 | 9. Jungle Mama -Estonia Elizabeth | 01:03:45 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview jungle mama, Estonia Elizabeth. A Kenyan woman who has made home here in Costa Rica over the past 4.5 years. In our conversation today we dive into Estonia’s upbringing between Kenya and Texas, stepping into a role of nurturing from a young age, as well as her journey of moving to the Central America solo with her backpack & hula hoop. She shares with us her experiences with intuitive led pregnancy, how she protected her energy from the outside world’s unsolicited birth advice, and how she allowed her inner knowing to lead the way. The stories of her empowering home free births of her two suns, supported by sisters and her lover, how she traversed the altered states of natural birthing, the highest high of the human experience. Tapping into womb wisdom and her path forward of guiding women on their own journeys of sovereign motherhood. | |||
| 04 May 2022 | 10. Cosmic Conception of Miracles in Many Forms -Nikki Cosmic | 01:34:33 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I chat with Nikki Cosmic, a wise + wild woman, creatrix, dream weaver and loving Mama to 7 beautiful children, 3 of which she birthed herself. Building a life filled with pleasure in the lush mountains of Costa Rica with her blended family of 10. Ancestral nourishment, Shamanic Parenting, Human Design + Family Constellations, Entheogenic medicine, Herbalism, and laughter encompass most of what she loves to offer to this world. Together we talk about her move to Costa Rica from to US, how she met her now beloved partner in an Ayahuasca ceremony, their families converged into one, along with his ex partner and baby mama of 4 kids, (Nikki's bestfriend & now "sister wife") and how beautifully it all works. Plant medicines and the growth they have assisted with in her life as a women and parent. She talks about how she came to conscious parenting practices, re-parenting herself and paved a new way for her children, as well as how she found healing, forgiveness, and joy through psychedelic exploration since her youth. We discuss sacred sexuality, healthy practices for staying sane and well as a mama, and he also shares with us some of her own conception & birth stories. All the divine synchronicities that have led her to where she is now, her connection to ancestral nourishment and of course how microdosing with mushrooms has brought a deep presence and playfulness to the relationship she fosters with life and her children. This episode is full, inspiring, and so heart-fully true. | |||
| 11 May 2022 | 11. How We Breathe is How We Live -Robin Clements | 01:29:48 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia, I welcome the first papa to the show, Robin Clements, a dear brother and teacher of mine in the realms of conscious breath and life. In this conversation we hear some of Robin’s life journey coming to conscious connected breath, love and fatherhood. He shares with us his own experiences as a birth partner and witness of his beautiful wife Eden (mama on episode 2 of the show) and his experience welcoming his two angelic babies to this earth. He talks about breath as a guide for regulation, realization & transformation. We dive into prayer, ceremony, elder wisdom, and Breathwave as a supportive measure and profound integration tool for pregnancy and parenthood. We talk about the reality that can exist within spiritual communities, of seeking the next heightened experience, and how much medicine exists within presence with our bodies and attuning with our innate wisdom within. Robin began to bridge science and spirituality at four years old when he received open heart surgery. His gift is guiding people back to the light of truth within their own heart. With twenty-three years of experience guiding Breathwork, Robin has refined the art of consciousness connected breathing into a gentle practice for anyone. His breath ceremony circles are grounded in life experience and held in prayer, insight and compassion. His teaching techniques offer gentle power and humility to emerge for all levels of participants. He has been shaped by many lineages including, Transformational Breath, Re-birthing, Shiva Rea, Lakota, Anishinaabe, Navajo, Mexica, Huichol, First Nations and several bodywork certifications. He is the Founder and Sr. Teacher Trainer of Breathwave, co-author of the international best seller Fearless Presence, he holds a Doctor of Divinity and is a surfer and a proud father. | |||
| 18 May 2022 | 12. Spirit Baby Bonds & Meditative Medicine -Alexandra Pellatt | 00:52:51 | |
In this episode of the Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview one of dear friends Alexandra Pellatt, it’s such a joy to release stories of people that I hold so dear to my heart, and that have moved me deeply in my life. Alexandra is a mama, holistic Doula, fertility support practitioner, and movement educator. We met in our first holistic Doula training together about 4 years ago, and bonded over our love for babies, birth and beyond. In Alexandra’s episode, we talk spirit baby communication & connection, communion with spirit children that do not come through in the physical, lose that choose to leave a pregnancy and not incarnate, and those that return to come into human form. We talk about her conscious conception and deep pregnancy journey with her son Sebastian, and her two previous pregnancies with babies that did not come through. Alex shares her experience of having a very inward meditative labour & birth, how her son’s energy grounded her into having a deep practice with meditation & hypno-birthing practices in pregnancy. We talk about the death and rebirth that comes with stepping into parenthood, how the postpartum time can be nourishing with the support that is needed to allow for this. We talk about breastfeeding and the high of Oxytocin. We talk about miscarriage and the stigma it carries and how we can better show up and support for this initiation and loss that is far too come and often isolating. | |||
| 26 May 2022 | 13. Channelling My Children - Allison Tree | 00:54:04 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast with Allison Tree, we dive into her journey of evolution through mothering. Allison is a mama of three, she moved to Panama from the USA with two of her boys, and free birthed her third son when she settled into her life there . Allison is a massage therapist, herbalist and birth keeper. She started her birth path off as a Doula, and found a deeper level of education in traditional midwifery was what was being called for in her community and thus she moved forward with those studies with Whapio and the Matrona. Together we discuss her own personal medicine experiences with Yopo & Ayahuasca, connecting with future children in ceremony and dream states, the potency of addressing our shadow with the assistance of plant medicine ceremonies before becoming parents, placenta encapsulation & healing benefits and so much more. Enjoy! | |||
| 01 Jun 2022 | 14. Integrating Life's Pivotal Experiences - Atiyeh Baradaran | 01:13:38 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I chat with Atiyeh Baradaran, an Iranian-Canadian psychotherapist. Atiyeh works with a wide range of approaches, from Dr. Gabor Maté’s compassionate inquiry to sacred plant medicine, traditional ceremonies, yoga & meditation, music, dance and somatic healing. She currently lives in Baja California Sur, and has a private online practice where she offers therapy sessions through zoom to clients from all over the world. She truly believes that the real healing from trauma only begins when we truly feel Held, heard and accepted in exactly where we are. Atiyeh is a survivor of trauma herself. She was born and raised in Iran, as the youngest of 3 siblings, during the time of war and ongoing dictatorship in the country, and amidst severe health issues in her primary family. Losing her father to death at the age of 13, and immigrating to Canada at 15 away from everything and everyone she knew, are among some of the life events that have brought her into her long and ongoing journey of consciously healing. She has dedicated her life to help and guide others doing the same work as well, and is very passionate about it. Website www.beheldcounselling.com FB: www.facebook.com/Beheldcounselling IG: @beheldcounselling www.instagram.com/beheldcounselling You can also email her directly at: atiyeh.b@gmail.com Mackenzie's offerings: https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb IG: @mamapsychedelia https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/ @hunnywombdoula https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/ (For more of her music, check out her Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wf55RQ8QUEzAA2SeXDWSh?si=H-tnVLtzR2OoHnLU1ztOpw | |||
| 10 Jun 2022 | 15. Sound Bowls, Breakthroughs, & Babies -Taylor Valera | 00:57:48 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Taylor Valera, “the sound bowl mom,” she’s a mother to two, her two year old son and newborn daughter. Along with being a mama, Taylor is a plant medicine advocate, sound bath practitioner and reiki master, who shared her wisdom on healing through her personal experience and guided thought. I love Taylor’s authentic vulnerability in this conversation, as well as her beautiful platform. In this discussion, Taylor touches on her own pregnancies, the joys and challenges, her spiritual journey with sound, reiki, herbs and plant medicine such as psilocybin and cannabis. We talk about ancestral healing on her mother line, the taboos of medicine work, her own experience of being a women of colour in the psychedelic space, along with so much more. Taylor shares how mushrooms have brought deeper presence into her parenting, and healing to her heart and her history. Taylor shares how her pregnancy unfolded from disconnection after a hurricane in New Orleans in her early pregnancy to deepened connection along the journey. We discuss Taylor’s vision of having a home birth with her second child, and although she ended up transferring for her birth, she had an incredible support system, and profound lessons of surrendering to what is came through, on the other side came a healthy babe and mama. Thank you Taylor for all that you shared with us. Resources: Where you can find Taylor:
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb IG: @mamapsychedelia https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/ @hunnywombdoula https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/ Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. (For more of her music, check out her Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wf55RQ8QUEzAA2SeXDWSh?si=H-tnVLtzR2OoHnLU1ztOpw | |||
| 16 Jun 2022 | 16. Rituals, Rites of Passage, & Raising Earth Connected Kids - Jennifer "Juniper" Montgomery | 01:29:18 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I Interview Jennifer “Juniper” Montgomery. Can you imagine if the entrance into menstruation was celebrated and honoured? If rites of passage were normalized in our most transitional moments of change in life? We will be diving deep into these realms today. Jennifer is a homeschooling, homesteading, homebirthing mama raising 4 children (as well as many varieties of plants and animals) in Appalachia. She is a Matrona certified doula and a birthkeeper and childbirth educator. Some of her greatest passions are physiologic birth, the creation of family, forging new ways for neurodivergent minds, natural and holistic living and healing, and breaking those pesky cycles that prevent loving evolution. In our chat today, we explore some of the ritualistic ways she’s created deeper connection and celebration in her family unit, the importance of community, staying connected and welcoming playfulness and presence with children as they enter teenage-hood, breaking taboos in the birth world, home/unschooling, as well as raising children on the spectrum and how we can better support them to shine in their unique brilliance on this earth. One of my favourites themes in this episode is on menstrual magic, cycle syncing within the family and how to support each other in the home, the sacredness of menarche and the first bleed, how grief comes up for kids during this stage of life and we can support them in navigating it while staying true to themselves, as well as raising children in a way where they are connected to their bodies and to nature. This mama has so much wisdom to share, and I know you will get so much out of it. FB: Jennifer Montgomery, WNC Birthkeeper https://m.facebook.com/110720604168383/ IG: @asheville_birthkeeper https://www.instagram.com/asheville_birthkeeper/
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb IG: @mamapsychedelia https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/ @hunnywombdoula https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/ (For more of her music, check out her Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wf55RQ8QUEzAA2SeXDWSh?si=H-tnVLtzR2OoHnLU1ztOpw | |||
| 23 Jun 2022 | 17. We are the Gates of Life and Death -Omolewa | 00:52:33 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Omolewa, a Mother, Host of The Entheogenic Midwife Podcast, Massage Therapist, Holistic Doula, Psilocybin Spiritual Consultant, Placenta Alchemist, Owner of Bush Goddess Fleurs & Herbs. A healer of many forms based in Jamaica, offering herself in service primarily to mothers & elders. Together we explore her own journey of raising daughters, elevating the goddess, having her own “belly births,” caesarean section healing & coming into birth work. She shares many nuggets of wisdom on self care, accountability, how medicine work can serve as an empowerment tool along with coming into greater compassion with oneself and others. Our discussion of all things power plants and healing is one that you do not want to miss. Thank you for sharing your voice here Omolewa. Mackenzie's offerings: https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb IG: @mamapsychedelia https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/ @hunnywombdoula https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/ (For more of her music, check out her Spotify) https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wf55RQ8QUEzAA2SeXDWSh?si=H-tnVLtzR2OoHnLU1ztOpw | |||
| 04 Jul 2022 | 18. Reclaiming Connection to my Indigenous Blood Line -Ariana Fotinakis | 01:18:32 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Ariana Fotinakis. Ariana is a breath worker, baby mama of one, and business woman, of Aamjiwnaang First Nations (Ontario) and Greek descent, now residing on the Unceded territories of the Coast Salish people, some call Vancouver. Together we explore her journey of reconnecting to her indigenous roots & and raising her daughter connected to her lineage. She shares openly her story of never envisioning herself as a mother, and coming to a place in her life of choosing a need to mother, to pass the torch and her legacy of healing to the next generation, and stepping into it after two powerfully transformative ceremonies, one with breath work and one with psilocybin that prepared her to step into that initiation. Ariana shares how she’s finding balance in being connected to her sacred work in this world and being a new mama, finding deep purpose in both. And we discuss how breath wave, amongst many other gifts, has brought regularity to her menstrual cycle which ultimately led to her conception, has assisted her in shedding many layers that were not serving, and how working with psilocybin mushrooms has similarly served her deeply in coming to be the person she is now. We talk about her childhood of being psychically tuned in and being in relationship to ancestors and nature, we explored her teenage-hood and early adult years and moving out of alcoholism and finding an “addiction to” fitness & mindset which brought her into a space wholeness within herself. I love hearing Ariana speak, and I know you will too. | |||
| 11 Jul 2022 | 19. Rising from the Ashes of the Witch Wound -Saera Burns | 01:12:31 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Saera Burns, a mama of 2 soon to be 3, who’s currently traversing through her birthing window, in between worlds, awaiting her third to come through. Saera is an Ambassadress of the Unseen: Clairvoyant, Theta Healing practitioner, Soul Physician and teacher of the mystic arts. She has been exploring her fascination with the Great Mystery since a child, through Spirit Guide connection, plant communication, and participating in diverse ceremonies. Currently living on unceded Coast Salish territory known currently as Salt Spring Island with her husband and two daughters in a beautiful community. Saera's passion for the complex nature of the Soul has led her to teaching and supporting clients in over 6 countries with theirs. You can find her on the dance floor, holding ritual space, singing to the wild or communing with plants. In our chat together, Saera shares with us her connection to her lineage, her childhood and tapping into her gifts with the unseen realms, explore telepathy, communication with guides, ancestors, spirits, plant medicine and so much more. Saera speaks to some of her own journeys with medicines & molecules such as Ayahuasca and DMT and how they were allies in her stepping into her work in this world and preparing for her stepping into mothering, but how ultimately these mystical realms have been deeply rooted in her being from a very young age. She talks about the ritual of calling in her children, the sacred contract with her partner early on in stepping into partnership and parenthood, along with many insights into what ritual means to her and how it is deeply interwoven in her life and mama hood, we talk about the visions of her birth, and how her previous two births varied in free birthing for her first & having regulated midwifery care for her second, her children’s connection to birth, as well as who she sees present their and her incredible mother blessing story by the ocean. As a mystical being myself, this conversation was richly validating and inspiring, I hope you enjoy. Mackenzie's offerings: | |||
| 26 Jul 2022 | 20. Psilocybin & Treating Soul Wounds -Becca Evans | 00:48:10 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Becca Evans of Mycoforia, | |||
| 07 Oct 2022 | 21. Mothers are the Bringers of the Future -Linda Hamilton | 01:54:01 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview birthkeeper Linda Hamilton. Linda is a mother of 7 and grandmother and the founder and previous director of the non-profit organization “Birth Without Boundaries”. She continues to be an advocate for peaceful birth practices and honouring of the 42 day postpartum nest, and is currently writing a book exploring her life’s work. Linda has lived between Costa Rica and Pennsylvania since 2001 and has been supporting many families during their pregnancy journeys in person and remotely. | |||
| 26 Oct 2022 | 22. Moms on Mushrooms -Tracey Tee | 00:57:58 | |
In this episode of the Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview a mama named Tracey Tee, this episode is highly recommended for anyone out there that may find themselves skeptical or wondering how this could possibly be integrated and supportive in parenthood. For anyone who may not consider themselves “spiritual” or “hippy dippy” and who may consider themselves to be leading more of a conventional life, Tracey acts as an incredible bridge between suburban society and the sacred. Tracey talks about how magic mushrooms have completely altered the way in which she views the world, how beneficial this work with mushrooms has been in her mothering, how she’s able to co create a beautiful life alongside her daughter and see her in her wisdom and fullness. How psilocybin can support us in loosening our type grip of control in life, and learning to trust more deeply. How powerfully healing these can be a therapeutic healing context, but also just a ton of fun, reminding us of our joy and creativity. I loved hearing her personal journey, and how wisdom and humour were deeply woven. | |||
| 06 Nov 2022 | 23. Ovulation is a Super Power -Chloe Skerlak | 01:07:48 | |
This episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast is with Chloe Skerlak, a Justisse Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner and Certified Full Spectrum Fertility Awareness Educator. This episode goes beyond personal story telling, and is deeply educational for menstruating folks and those who wish to better under our cyclical nature and the power that it holds. | |||
| 09 Dec 2022 | 24. Eros & Entheogens -Juliana Rose Goldstone | 00:57:38 | |
In this Episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Juliana of Entheomama. Juliana is a mother, a Certified Somatic Sex Educator, Sexological Bodyworker, Doula, Trauma Informed Plant Medicine Integration Coach and Pleasure Activist. She is passionate about supporting people to connect more deeply with themselves and each other through integrating the teachings of somatic sexuality, trauma resolution and sacred plant medicines into their intimate lives so that their relationships can be a source of nourishment and healing for themselves and for the world. She is the creator of Boldly Embodied which is the current home of her work where she supports individuals and couples to boldly embody their love, their pleasure and their lives. Together we explore the intersection of sex & psychedelics, erotic trance and entheogenic communion. We talk pelvic health, internal & external body work for pre-conception & postpartum, how that can support the birthing process, and pleasure practice. We talk about attuning to more than the human world, how we are cosmic beings having a human experience, how being born into this world is our first taste of psychedelia, and so much more. I love hearing about Juliana's personal experiences in this line of work, and the birth story of her first, born in Peru when she was 20 years old. So much wisdom to be received in this chat. | |||
| 03 Jan 2023 | 25. Birth & Death are Twin Sisters -Jamie Satori | 01:57:21 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I talk with Jamie Satori, together we dive deep into the realms of Quantum Birth keeping, birth being the blueprint of all things, and birth as transformation. Jamie came to Doula work after her own traumatic birth 13 years ago, which later led to 3 redemptive empowered births, the 4th being a self directed birth here in Costa Rica. Her first birth ushered her onto this path of midwifery and mama hood. Moving to Costa Rica supported her in healing from the rat race of the West and her own history of addiction and substance reliance. We together share how we first connected and our early journey of working alongside each other. We touch on how the brainwaves of a birthing being move through them, oxytocin and ecstasy, and the altered state that is birth and death (death being the cervix to the next universe.) We also explore how birth is inherently a spiritual act of essence coming into physicality and Jamie’s own childhood connection to the sacred and how children are highly tapped into the intuitive realms and magic. We talk about supporting the rite of passage for the non-birthing parent and how important their role is on the journey of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum of a new life, and how as birth workers we can support sovereign family led birth and follow the family's lead and to trust their inner knowing. Where you can find Jamie Satori : Website: www.borderlessbirth.com IG: @borderlessbirth Resources: -Melinda Smyth https://www.alignable.com/jacksonville-fl/ceo-cake-with-melynda-smith -Sarah Kerr https://sacreddeathcare.com/about/ -https://birthbreathanddeath.com/
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb IG: @mamapsychedelia | |||
| 15 Jan 2023 | 26. The Medicine of Motherhood -Adelina Vaughn | 01:19:19 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast we dive into Adelina’s own journey of coming to a plant medicine path, leaving medical school and finding the healing arts. We explore deeply what multi generational healing looks like, tending to the traumas of the family bloodline, nervous system regulation & ceremony integration. Adelina shares her journey of stepping into motherhood and all that that entailed for her, how ayahuasca can give us avenues to walk down on our healing journey but will not “fix” or “save” us. She shares on her devotional path of study and exploration with the Shipibo lineage in Peru, and what exactly a master plant dieta is. She shares on her pregnancy, her own womb healing, especially post abdominal surgery as a child, and her beautiful birth experience. I love the way Adelina expresses her wisdom. | |||
| 04 Feb 2023 | 27. Birthing Breech Babies Freely -Sami Love | 01:37:36 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Sami Love. Sami has been working in the field of Psychotherapy for over 7 years, and started her coaching business rooted in Mental Alchemy over 3 years ago; a space where she has found the freedom to weave her western education with her spiritual journey and knowledge. She has been gifted with many life changing teachings through her 5 years of walking with Sacred Plant Medicines in Peru and other countries around the world. She has now been living in Peru for over 2 years working intimately with plant teachers such as Ayahuasca, Huachuma, Bobinsana, and Tobacco. After a profound 6 months spent in the Amazon Jungle working with plants medicines she moved to the Sacred Valley, where she met her life partner and started working helping him in running their retreat centre, Anahata Ayahuasca. Together, they now work side by side in ceremony with their Indigenous Shipibo Maestro; a healer who has been walking with Ayahuasca for over 40 years. Witnessing and supporting the healing of others is her soul mission in this life time. She is especially passionate about supporting and standing by women and they rise into their fullest expressions. Two of her projects she holds near and dear to her heart are: REWILD for women, and Sisters of the Moon. | |||
| 16 Apr 2023 | 28. Who Doulas the Doula? -Bri Aberdeen | 01:46:30 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Bri Aberdeen. Bri started her journey of learning about her life giving body at the age of 22 and soon after became a practicing birth and postpartum doula. She’s been serving in this capacity ever since and in her 30 years on earth she’s always been inspired by mamas, who make this world go round. Bri has definitely found throughout her walk on this path that she’s needed to balance out birth work with life, and other pursuits, sometimes needing to take a pause to integrate all that her doula practice reveals. This is something we dive into conversation together about, amongst an array of topics. How to integrate birth experiences as a professional in this field, how the Doula can Doula herself, the importance of the self care & nervous system regulation for the birth worker to show up fully in someone’s birth space. Through her journey of study in birth and her own body, when her own time came she was able to birth without fear, totally in her power. She feels passionately about sex education and birth education and that everyone deserves access to understanding birth and how to support the process beyond birth into postpartum. Doula training is life training. We will all certainly be close to at least one person in our lives who brings life into the world! Relational care is revolutionary my friends. Throughout our conversation we talk in depthly on the path of doula hood, becoming doulas before having children of our own, body literacy and taking charge of our own education, along with Bri’s personal journey, the trip in which she conceived her daughter, her relationship with psilocybin, and surprise free birthing her baby at home on her own! | |||
| 15 May 2023 | 29. Healing Hypothyroidism with Ceremony, Plant Medicine, & Prayer -Stéphanie Liévana | 00:59:35 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Stéphanie Liévana, a mama of one, living in a small off grid ‘town’ in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Stéphanie is a dear sister and inspiration in my life, walking the path of a medicine woman. In our time together Stéphanie shares some of her life’s journey. She was born in Brazil and grew up in Mexico, in her twenties she found herself in Baja. Along the way she fell in love with her beloved partner and ultimately got pregnant, after being diagnosed with hypothyroidism as a child and being told by several doctors, she would never be able to conceive and have a child naturally. She credits this experience to her own healing journey, coming off of medication, finding plant medicines and devoting to a new way of being. She has always been deeply connected with children, and over the past several years found deeper connection with the spirits of Ayahuasca, Peyote, Tobacco & Santa Maria. Ceremony has become an important part of her life, as well as community, El Santuario is a beautiful land that she stewards with our dear sister Ayara Sollua and family, a beautiful Red Tent and Temezcal resides on this sacred land. Stéphanie’s heart is so beautiful and there is so much wisdom here that she shares with us along with the story of her magical birth experience. Her son Lazuli is her greatest teacher and inspiration. *In moments the audio is a little broken up as Stéphanie's Internet was not the strongest* Grateful she could tune in as most of her time is spent offline | |||
| 05 Jun 2023 | 30. Between the Sacred Realms -Lindsey Wise | 01:34:08 | |
In this Episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Lindsey Wise.
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| 13 Sep 2023 | 31. The Greatest Hunter for the Truth: Iboga Medicine -Levi Barker | 00:53:13 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview the second papa to ever come on the show, Levi Barker, a father and steward of Iboga Wellness Center in Costa Rica who approached me with a desire to share his story. Levi came to Iboga about 14 years ago due to an opiate addiction. After coming to the medicine himself and finding solace and healing, he befriended a Bwiti medicine carrier who trained him, and 8 years later offered him the blessing to serve this medicine. Iboga holds incredibly potent powers in reminding people of their clarity and strength, and aids them in overcoming intense addictions, as well as being a form of treatment for common mental health obstacles such as depression (including postpartum depression) anxiety, and ptsd. Iboga is also now known for its supportive measures in boosting fertility & supporting those who may have been considered infertile to conceive human life. Levi shares some of the Bwiti lessons he’s walked with, simple universal truths about what it means to be a human and live here on earth. He speaks to how this medicine & his journey has impacted his parenting & how he feels this teacher can support those clearing out their subconscious closets before becoming parents or those who already are and want to go deeper. IG: @mamapsychedelia Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. (For more of her music, check out her Spotify) Support the Mama Psychedelia Mission: PAYPAL: Birthkeeperkenz@gmail.com Website: www.hunnywomb.com -Under Construction- | |||
| 03 Oct 2023 | 32. Mothering the Mother -Jess Shine | 01:40:57 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Jess Shine. Life has led her to her latest big leap: her 50 acre family homestead in Northern Idaho where she is dedicated to making their place on this earth better for the next generation. She says “I’ll die satisfied knowing that I made the world a better place, even if it’s just for my 3 littles.” They’ve got a a whole farm, milk cows, chickens, sheep, alpaca, mini donkeys, llamas, peacock, guinea hens, turkeys, cats, and, of course, dogs. Jess found a 10 year career in the hospital as a labor and delivery nurse abruptly dissolved a few years back. She was a nurse, a good one, and then overnight wasn’t — fired for following the law of informed consent and not checking a mother’s cervix when the mom told her she couldn’t. Seeing the hospital thru the view of policymakers changed the way she saw her work, and losing the career she built up over a decade rocked her to her core. She went from a really hard, exhausting, inflammation and stress causing job to village wise woman. She learned how to help others heal by healing herself, and sharing her findings through herbalism and homeopathy. Add in mindfulness practices, plenty of fresh air and sunshine, remove the toxins as best as one can, and top it all off with love. Jess Shine shows up as a companion for the births to which she’s called as a witness and a guide. She teaches natural healing and home health classes, and hosts free calls on zoom to help mothers find peace with their births and unwind their stories. Jess recently launched a program to help birth attendants and families understand the ins and outs of the hospital. In this episode together we explore the concept of mothering the mother: caring for mothers in our own community through pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and beyond — & equally important — nourishing the great Mother Earth. | |||
| 20 Nov 2023 | 33. Earth Mama's Medicine Bundle -Veladya Chapman | 01:25:43 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Veladya Chapman of Veladya Organica (previously known over the years as Earth Mama Medicine). Veladya is a mother and herbalist, living and homesteading in rural Georgia. Along with herbalism, Veladya studies and teaches breathwork, entheogens, womb wisdom and holistic nutrition. Her heart is expanded by guiding others towards elevated ways of being. She’s also a YouTube sensation (check her out). In our conversation together we explore Veladya’s history: from Broadway to Herbal medicine; the practice of Yoni Steaming; the mourning of maidenhood in early mothering; the transformation it is to become a mother; being an entheogenic guide; recoupling with her baby’s father; her birth experience with her first born — and so much more. Love chatting with this woman, and honoured to call her a friend and ally on the journey. She’s truly an inspiration. I’m sure you’ll agree. Resources: Where to find Veladya: IG: @veladyaorganica Wesbite links: Find her Offerings Shop: https://www.veladyaorganica.com/shop Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/@veladyaorganica?si=uTpojV4zuX66LUMn Your Host Mackenzie: IG: @mamapsychedelia @hunnywombdoula Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. (For more of her music, check out her Spotify) Support the Mama Psychedelia Mission: PAYPAL: Birthkeeperkenz@gmail.com Directly Supporting my Costa Rica Home Birth Fund for Costa Rican & Low Income Families Website: www.hunnywomb.com -Under Construction- | |||
| 29 Jan 2024 | 34. Mama meets Psychedelic Therapy -Micah Stover | 01:28:55 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Micah Stover. Micah is a psychedelic somatic therapist working with clients healing from complex trauma. Her work revolves around supporting women and mothers in their path to reclaim agency and embodiment from systemic patriarchal oppression. Micah has a book called Healing Psychedelics which will be published in October 2024 focused on her experience as a survivor of trauma and a therapist in the psychedelic space. She is a featured guest speaker and writer on podcasts like Ten Laws with East Forest and Back from the Abyss, as well as a contributing author for DoubleBlind and Women on Psychedelics. She hosts monthly retreats in Mexico, and travels across the United States to present and facilitate. Micah has a BA in philosophy with an emphasis on Buddhist studies and an MA in psychoanalysis and feminist theory. Micah is a mama to two beautiful boys and loves spending time with them in the ocean in her free time. | |||
| 02 Mar 2024 | 35. Enlightened Birth: What Resides in the Root -Kate Coletti | 01:14:13 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I talk with Kate Coletti. Together we journey deep into the world of Birth & holistic pelvic care. Kate shares about her personal journey as a young body worker turned midwife then Mother, and her devotion to working with women in birth as well as in her hands on hands in body therapy practice. Kate helps women restore pelvic health through intravaginal manual therapy that softens and strengthens tissues, relieves symptoms, and clairvoyantly taps into the well of wisdom that resides in the root. We discuss the power this tender work holds for women holds pre pregnancy, postpartum, and in all stages of womanhood, in the way of healing trauma & greater supporting our physiology and alignment, which can often be life altaring, in how we exist in our bodies, how we birth, and in our sexual expression. Kate speaks to her book Enlightened Birth which is not yet released, and shares so much profound wisdom and beauty on Birth and how transformative birthing is no matter what way one chooses to birth. IG: @mamapsychedelia Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. (For more of her music, check out her Spotify) Remembering the Wild Woman Retreat -April 20th-25th, 2024 in Baja California Sur, Mexico: here is our payment portal here. Support the Mama Psychedelia Mission! Website: www.hunnywomb.com ((Under Construction)) | |||
| 11 Jun 2024 | 36. Microdosing with the Menstrual Cycle and the Moon -Leslie Draffin | 01:09:09 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I chat with Leslie Draffin. Leslie is a Certified Psychedelic Integration Guide, Somatic Embodiment Coach, and podcast host. She is passionate about helping people embrace their bodies, cycles, sex and psychedelics. She supports conscious souls who want to heal themselves through intentional microdosing, pleasure, womb reconnection & somatic trauma recovery. In 2022, Leslie left her 15-year career as a TV news anchor after struggling with anxiety, depression & PTSD. She credits microdosing with helping her heal and igniting her pussy-led purpose. In this conversation we explore the themes of embodiment, authentic expression, cyclical living, the archetypes of womanhood sex, rebirth and the power of plant medicines to reorient and transform our consciousness. It was an amazing chat with this powerful woman and I know that you will enjoy it! @hunnywombdoula Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. (For more of her music, check out her Spotify)
Directly Supporting my Costa Rica Home Birth Fund for Costa Rican & Low Income Families Website: www.hunnywomb.com -Under Construction- | |||
| 10 Jul 2024 | 37. Traditional Midwifery and Birth Medicine Ways of the Andes in Peru -Cynthia Ingar | 01:07:35 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Cynthia Ingar who is a Peruvian carrier and teacher of ancestral woman medicine and traditions. She is a medical anthropologist, Birth Guardian/Doula, Pregnancy-Postpartum Guardian, women’s health educator, and mother of two boys and a girl who were birthed at home. Cynthia is the founder and director of the Hampi Warmi Project (2008), a community-based Peruvian project bringing intercultural reproductive health to Andean women and girls by revitalizing ancestral woman medicine wisdom and practices, including Andean community midwifery. She teaches the “Wachakuy: Sacred Birth Way” Birthkeeper Program in the Andes of Peru every year in Spanish and English. The goal for this program and her work with Peruvian trained-midwives is to de-colonize midwifery in Peru. Cynthia lives with her family in the Sacred Valley, Peru. Such an inspiring journey Cynthia has been on. Enjoy this Episode. @hunnywombdoula Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. (For more of her music, check out her Spotify) Support the Mama Psychedelia Mission: PAYPAL: Birthkeeperkenz@gmail.com Directly Supporting my Costa Rica + Canada Home Birth Fund for Low Income Families Website: www.hunnywomb.com -Under Construction- | |||
| 22 Aug 2024 | 38. Transmuting Trauma -Kate Kincaid | 01:04:10 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast I interview Kate Kincaid. Website: www.katekincaid.com, www.tucsoncounselingassociates.com, www.somapsychotherapyslc.com, www.swlovefest.com Email: kjkincai@gmail.com Instagram: @okatekincaid or @tucsoncounselingassociates Directly Supporting my Costa Rica Home Birth Fund for Costa Rican & Low Income Families | |||
| 02 Sep 2024 | 39. Matriarchal Money Magic -Katya Nova | 01:12:56 | |
So many gems in this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast! I interview a woman who has inspired me for many years with her online presence and who has become a dear friend of mine through our shared connection with the lands of Costa Rica. This woman is a powerhouse mama, the bread winner of her family, the matriarch, Katya Nova! WEALTHY WOMAN VAULT 2.0: Mackenzie's Affiliate Link to Join Launching my Pre Conception Pregnancy Preparation 9 month journey Directly Supporting my Costa Rica Home Birth Fund for Costa Rican & Low Income Families | |||
| 18 Oct 2024 | 40. Replenishing Minerals for Radical Nourishment & Mental Wellness -Sena Marie | 01:22:56 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast I interview Sena Maria. Sena supports women to embrace a nourished, resilient and radiantly healthy state. She uses Mineral Nutritional Balancing to rebuild our mineral heritage and get to the root of our health issues. She believes that we are only as healthy as our cells and by supporting our bodies ability to create energy and eliminate toxins efficiently, we can return to the simple, natural joy of being alive. Sena’s degree in Psychology, career at Google and her subsequent studies of yoga, energy healing, shamanism, plant medicine, tools for building emotional capacity and integration, and Mineral Nutritional Balancing have led her to sit with many questions about what humanity may need at this time to heal from trauma + toxins, strengthen our families and create mineral-rich generations to come. She offers a woman-centric approach to healing with Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis utilizing it as a tool for deepening connection with one's self. Launching my Pre Conception + Pregnancy Preparation 9 month journey: learn more here https://fertilesouls.carrd.co/ Direct | |||
| 03 Dec 2024 | 41. Musical Mamahood Musings: The Language of the Soul -Karuna | 01:40:24 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast I interview Karuna (aka Sarah Love). Karuna is a passionate lover of life, she is a mother and a multi faceted creative soul. Currently rooted and raising her son on Kanaka Maoli land, on the precious island of Maui. She is committed to inhabiting the moment from a place of curiosity and authenticity. She believe in the power of love, and the remembrance of our inherent ancient wisdom, guiding us into wholeness and connection. She weaves sound in ceremonial space, and is committed to personal and collective healing. Karuna is especially passionate about working with women in ceremonial space. She serves women worldwide with products that support womb wellness through her heart-led company Cozy and Spice (check out her legendary Moondies) & one on one guidance and mentorship. As well as offering her musical medicine through sound journeys, live performance and recordings locally & globally online. It was a treat to drop into this space with Karuna, to explore the Muse, what comes through the sacred vessel of the voice, we speak about her musical journey and her journey of becoming the woman and the mama that she is today! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cozyandspice/ https://www.instagram.com/karunaspice/ Karuna's Music: https://open.spotify.com/track/5nqSPqBnWQDOygnkL2MkcO Website: find Karuna's Moondies and other sacred creations
Launching my Pre Conception + Pregnancy Preparation 9 month journey: learn more here https://fertilesouls.carrd.co/ | |||
| 30 Dec 2024 | 42. Nourishing the Animal Body of a New Mother -Kearsley Tate Schweller | 01:14:49 | |
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast I interview Kearsley Tate Schweller. Kearsley (she/her) is a private chef, postpartum practitioner, author, & educator of Kearsley’s Kitchen. For over 10 years she has devoted her study & practice to the intersection of women’s medicine & traditional foods, braiding together a love for food, herbalism, physiology, hormones, & ritual. She describes her way of life as a “slow simmer” a delicate balance between actively engaging what inspires her and savoring the simple joys of life like wandering the woods, baking sourdough, painting watercolor pomegranates, cuddling her cats, & exploring the symbolic realms through dreams, color, & earth-based ritual. Through her classes, meals, & seasonal cookbooks, Kearsley helps others deepen their relationship to nourishment in many forms. In our conversation together, we touch of the reality at hand these past several months in Appalachia through the floods from Hurricane Helene and what Kearsley's role has looked like in her community there and in supporting new families in need of resourcing. We explore what true community looks like when the going gets tough, how we can all nourish each other and each have our unique role to play in making a difference, many hands can make light work. We will be attaching a link for fundraising for new families navigating the impact of these floods, if you have the means please fund community birth care. We touch on the reality that many birth workers face in burnout, and how we would love to see more maidens elevate themselves in roles of care, for mothers in community, mothers being at the center. We have an in depth conversation on nourishment and all the ways that can look, and chat about Kearsley's amazing course which has a new cohort beginning January 15th, called Mother Mammal: Nourishing the Animal Body of a Mother, go check it out. Fertile Souls: My Pre Conception + Pregnancy Preparation 9 month journey: learn more here | |||
| 22 Jan 2025 | 43. Quantum Midwifery -Whapio Diane Bartlett | 01:38:24 | |
In this episode I interview, Whapio Diane Bartlett. For over 40 years, Whapio has been a pioneer in the world of midwifery and birthkeeping, redefining how we understand and approach birth since 1985. As an Elder Midwife, educator, and mentor, Whapio has devoted her life to raising the consciousness of birth and transforming how families, caregivers, and communities honor this sacred process. She is one of my most cherished mentors, in this conversation we dive into the realms of what Whapio refers to as Quantum Birth, and some of her own journey of entering midwifery and becoming a mother herself. Whapio speaks to the naturally psychedelic qualities of pregnancy, birth and postpartum, the expanded state of being that this time brings, the brainwave shifts, and the consciousness altering journey. This is what Mama Psychedelia is all about. In 2001, Whapio founded The Matrona, an organization dedicated to providing affordable, accessible midwifery education to aspiring doulas, midwives and birthkeepers around the world. Through programs such as the Holistic Doula Training, The Illuminated Wise Woman, and the Birthkeepers Midwifery Cohort, Whapio has created a space for transformative learning that honors the art and science of birth while weaving in the essential elements of consciousness, spirituality, and wisdomkeeping. Whapio speaks passionately about the role of consciousness in caregiving and birth, believing it to be the missing element that could revolutionize maternal care and return the power of birth to families. As she often says, “The way we give birth is a mirror of the emotional and spiritual maturity on this planet. If we prioritize consciousness in birth, we will transform not only the experience of birth but the very fabric of how we live and relate to each other.” The Birthkeepers Midwifery Cohort, starting February 1st, is a year-long journey of discovery and transformation. This program consists of 10 comprehensive modules that guide participants through all aspects of midwifery, from pregnancy to postpartum. With a focus on the four pillars of learning: Anatomy and Physiology, Quantum Midwifery in Practice, Homeopathy and Wisdomkeeping—this program equips birthkeepers with both the knowledge and the intuitive skills to elevate their practice. Whapio’s teachings are rooted in a profound belief that birth is a portal to transformation. She says, “If we understood the magnitude of birth as a gateway to transformation, everything in the world would change. Birth is the blueprint through which we can heal the planet and evolve as a species.” Whether you are an aspiring doula, midwife, a seasoned birthworker, or someone seeking a deeper understanding of the power of birth, The Matrona’s Birthkeepers Midwifery Program offers an opportunity to learn from one of the most passionate and wise voices in holistic birth education. Join Whapio on February 1st to begin your journey into the heart of Birthkeeping. Discover More and Register Today. REGISTRATION FORM | |||
| 20 Feb 2025 | 44. Decolonising our Minds, Decolonising our Lives -Aimee Aroha | 01:40:57 | |
In this episode of the Mama Psychedelia Podcast I interview Aimee Aroha. This is a powerhouse of a woman right here! Aimee is a Mother of four, a mixed race Māori woman of Ngā Puhi and Te Rarawa descent, with Irish and Scottish ties. She is a qualified counsellor intentionally working outside the system as a Matri-centric Mentor, she works largely with women and families across the child bearing continuum but welcomes all people seeking to create lives of more authenticity and passion. The core principle of her work is a devotional decolonial perspective; exploring how colonised system seek to disconnect individuals, the collective and the Earth from eachother. Our conversation is largely centered around decolonizing the childbearing continuum, Aimee's message is a powerful one and I am beyond grateful to have dropped in to the depths of realness with her in this way. This conversation is full of so many gems of wisdom. Resources: Aimee's Info IG: @aimeearoha & @theliberatedlineage Purchase her Ebook on Off Grid and Tiny Living Your Host Mackenzie: Next wave of FERTILE SOULS: Pre Conception + Pregnancy Preparation 9 month journey: opens this spring https://fertilesouls.carrd.co/
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