Infinite Earth Body Podcast

In this Menstrual Magic Moon Day conversation, I interviewed my friend Cera — a clinical herbalist, medicine maker, abortion doula, and fertility awareness educator living on Ohlone land in the East Bay, California. Cera shares their path into herbalism, abortion support, and cycle tracking, weaving in stories of ancestral guidance, plant allies, self-love, connecting with the elements of nature, and community care. We talked about: 💫 Early menstrual experiences, including first bleed stories and how cycle care has evolved over time 💫 Offering menstrual blood to the earth 💫 Cera’s fateful path into fertility awareness 💫 Hydration and movement supporting cervical fluid 💫 Removing an IUD after a long bleed - opening up a healing journey 💫 Becoming a clinical herbalist and studying with Atava Garcia Swiecicki 💫 Deep dive into yarrow: protective qualities, wound care, breaking fevers, and supporting cycles 💫 Foxglove lore, heart medicine, and the doctrine of signatures 💫 What herbalism, fertility awareness, and abortion support have taught Cera about bodies and embodiment 💫 Cera’s first abortion doula client and the ancestral dream that prepared them for the work 💫 Moving towards body love and acceptance in a culture that teaches body shame 💫 Cera’s decade-long moon ceremony practice and why moonlight is medicine 💫 Connection to the wind and the story behind the name “Wise Winds” 💫 Self-care rituals including castor oil packs, nail care, and the nourishment of food as medicine 💫 Privacy and security practices in abortion doula work and online communications 💫 How community networks strengthen reproductive autonomy and access to care Resources & Links: • Cera’s website: https://wise-winds.com/ • Instagram: @cera.wisewinds • Bay Area Abortion Support  • Holisticabortions.com • Digital Defense Fund To learn more, take classes, and/or get 1-1 support, check out: www.infiniteearthbody.com Follow to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey: https://www.facebook.com/InfiniteEarthBody/ https://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody/ Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective  Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4 Chapters: 00:01:00 Welcome & Grounding 00:02:00 Introducing Cera 00:03:00 How's Your Body Feeling Today? 00:04:00 First Period Story 00:06:00 How Menstrual Cycle Experience Has Evolved 00:07:00 Offering Menstrual Blood to the Earth 00:09:00 Cycle Day Check-In 00:10:00 Path Into Cycle Tracking & Fertility Awareness 00:14:00 Deciding to Remove IUD 00:17:00 Navigating Three-Month Bleed 00:18:00 Favorite Part of the Cycle 00:20:00 Path to Becoming a Fertility Awareness Educator 00:22:00 Becoming an Abortion Doula 00:25:00 Path to Becoming an Herbalist 00:27:00 Lifelong Learning with Plants 00:29:00 Yarrow Stories & Uses 00:32:00 Foxglove Dream & Plant Lore 00:35:00 Lessons About Bodies from Abortion, Herbalism & FAM 00:37:00 Personal Body Journey & Learning to Love the Body 00:40:00 Moon Connection & Ceremony 00:47:00 Relationship with the Wind & Wise Winds 00:50:00 Self-Care Practices: Castor Oil Packs 00:53:00 Technology, Privacy & Security 00:56:00 Security in Abortion Doula Work 00:58:00 Food as Medicine & Closing Reflections 00:59:00 Where to Find Cera

For this new episode of the Infinite Earth Body podcast - Menstrual Magic Moon Day, my dear friend Silvia interviewed me! I was excited to share my stories about: 💫 how my period started as an embarrassing shameful experiences 💫 how I evolved into loving my cycle 💫 why I didn't want to stay on hormonal birth control 💫 my path into tracking my cycle with fertility awareness 💫 how I used to rant at everyone about cervical fluids 😂 💫 my journey into becoming a holistic sexual reproductive health and fertility awareness educator 💫 how I'm always going deeper in my experience of cycling and honoring the messages from my body to learn more, take classes, and/or get 1-1 support, check out: www.infiniteearthbody.com Follow to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey: http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody  http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/  Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be  Chapters: 00:02:45 Maya’s First Period Story   00:04:30 Navigating Shame and Secrecy   00:06:00 Early Birth Control Experiences   00:07:15 Discovering Fertility Awareness   00:11:10 From Blood Flow to Full Cycle Embodiment   00:12:30 Cloth Pads, Menstrual Cups & Community   00:14:50 Becoming a Fertility Awareness Educator   00:17:45 From Shame to Celebration   00:18:20 Tracking with Confidence & Healing the Inner Child   00:19:15 Maya’s Favorite Cycle Phase   00:20:10 Cervix as Portal & Energetic Connection   00:21:00 Womb Awareness & Uterine Embodiment   00:22:30 Cycles as the 5th Vital Sign 00:23:30 Looking Ahead to Menopause as Rite of Passage

This episode features Silvia Canelón (she/her), a queer Latina data scientist and body literacy advocate based in Philadelphia. Silvia weaves together her passion for reproductive justice, relational power dynamics, and fertility awareness to support reclaiming autonomy through cycle tracking. In this episode, we explore: ✨  Silvia’s story of her first period, growing up in Venezuela ✨  What the symptothermal method is — and how it changed her life ✨  Fertility awareness as a form of resistance and self-determination ✨  Becoming a Body Literacy Advocate ✨  Navigating contraception under political uncertainty ✨  Practical ways cycle tracking helps with stress, planning, and emergency contraception ✨  The joy and power of knowing your fertile window ✨  Building inclusive, community-rooted approaches to fertility awareness education Connect with Silvia: • Website: www.silviacanelon.com • IG: @cycle.curious Follow to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey: http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody  http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/  Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be  Chapters: 00:00:00 Body Literacy as Empowerment 00:00:50 Welcome & Grounding 00:01:50 Guest Introduction: Silvia Canelón 00:02:55 Silvia’s First Period Story 00:06:00 Menstruation Over the Years 00:09:00 Intro to Symptothermal Method 00:10:00 How Silvia Found Fertility Awareness 00:12:30 Learning to Chart & Finding a Queer-Inclusive Educator 00:15:00 Educator Training Journey & Becoming a Body Literacy Advocate 00:19:15 Fertility Awareness as Resistance 00:21:00 “Apocalypse-Proof” Birth Control 00:22:00 Reversibility & Empowered Choice 00:23:00 Favorite Parts of Charting 00:25:15 Emergency Contraception & Charting 00:28:30 Final Reflections 00:29:45 Where to Find Silvia

In this episode, I interviewed my beloved friend, aesha rasheed, an incredible body worker and healer, ritual worker and spiritual organizer in service to community wellness, earth stewardship and in support of movements for liberation. We talked about: ✨aesha’s journey with chronic pain ✨How pain can lead to either disassociation or be a portal into deeper self-awareness ✨How pleasure and pain are connected ✨aesha’s experiences both offering and receiving body work ✨How body work can open up enhanced states of connection ✨The interconnectedness of all things and tapping into states of oneness ✨The microbiome as a way that bodies connect and interact ✨Healing through Energy work and Aesha’s experience as a Reiki practitioner Follow to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey: http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody  http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/  Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be  Chapters: 00:00:00 Grounding & Opening Invocation 00:02:40 Embodiment as spirit expressed through our flesh 00:04:00 How chronic pain was a doorway for aesha deeper into herself 00:06:00 The Threshold Between Pain and Pleasure 00:10:00 How pain can be a pathway to dissociation or connection depending on choice and agency 00:13:00 Working with Therapeutic Pain in bodywork 00:15:30 How practicing body work is a meditative state of attunement  00:20:00 How body work can be an enhanced telepathic state of oneness 00:22:00 How our microbiome is connected to our energy body 00:28:00 How our microbiomes exchange and interact with each other through touch 00:30:00 aesha’s experiences with Energy Work & Reiki 00:33:00 Exploring our connections to states of oneness and how humans can be disconnected  00:38:00 How trauma can lead to numbness and disconnect 00:46:00 Exploring different pathways to connect to oneness 00:47:00 what Aesha loves about her body and ways she experiences pleasure 00:57:00 How we our somatic expressions of earth’s wholeness

In this episode, I interviewed my beloved friend and creative collaborator, Ev Marquee, and amazing Visual Artist, Self-Healing Guide, and Guardian devoted to embodied transformation and the ascension of Pachamama.  With years of study in quantum healing, psychology, and ancient shamanic traditions, she guides and teaches others how to heal, protect their energy, and embody their highest selves. Through energy work mentorship, past life regression, guided quantum healing, and creative offerings, her work is devoted to beauty, sovereignty, and the activation of our personal Heaven on Earth.    We talked about: 💫Overcoming depression, dissociation, and body image distortion 💫The power of mirror work for self-acceptance and self-love 💫Softening, crying, feeling more, and the healing power of tears 💫Imagination as a part of spiritual practice 💫Working with Masculine vs feminine meditation practices 💫Creating whole new worlds and safe spaces in our minds 💫Energy work and past life regression 💫Being in the body as a spiritual practice 💫Being a new earth creatrix 💫Coming back to prayer after a history of rejecting religion You can connect with ev here: http://www.instagram.com/evmarquee https://www.evmarquee.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@newearthgoddess Follow us to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey: http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody  http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/  Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be  Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:00 Overcoming dissociation and body image distortion 00:06:00 The power of mirror work for self-acceptance and self-love 00:08:00 Coming into softening, crying and feeling more 00:12:00 Self-care practices to support embodiment 00:14:00 Ev’s journey with different styles of meditation 00:16:00 Imagination as a part of spiritual practice 00:17:00 Masculine and feminine practices 00:23:00 Energy work 00:25:00 Past life regression 00:38:00 Moving up spiritually vs coming down into the body 00:40:00 Being a New Earth creatrix 00:41:00 Art as a spiritual and healing practice 00:43:00 Self-care in water and humming 00:47:00 The importance of storytelling 00:48:00 How prayer has been a gamechanger after a history of rejecting religion 00:52:00 Closing

In this episode I interviewed my dear friend and creative collaborator, désirée freda, an artist and self healing guide. offering frequencies of embodied joy, beauty, and peace through sacred song, intuitive movement and quantum healing, past life regression and earth based ritual.   We talked about: 💫Healing through Dancing 💫Energy work and boundaries 💫How to release fear of embodying your authentic selves  💫How nature and the flowers are our teachers 💫Reminding all of us of our beauty as part of nature 💫We’re all here for a special reason on a hero’s journey 💫Coming back home to yourself  You can connect with désirée here: https://www.instagram.com/wildrosesister Follow us to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey:  http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody  http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/    Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo:  https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective   Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be    Thanks to Mara Lazer for help with editing! CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:00 How embodiment is an awareness of the consciousness throughout our body 00:06:00 désirée’s experiences of embodiment as a dancer 00:09:00 Ways désirée comes fully into her body and regulating her nervous system 00:10:00 Connecting with the energetic and astral bodies, and energetic boundaries 00:13:00 Nourishing the body 00:16:00 Healing through dance, energy work, and ancestral connection 00:19:00 How nature and the flowers are our teachers 00:21:00 How embodying our authentic selves is a responsibility 00:23:00 Some of désirée’s experiences in her body 00:27:00 Coming into her path to spread beauty, joy, and love 00:31:00 How to move through fear of fully embodying your authentic self 00:34:00 We’re all here for a special reason on a hero’s journey 00:40:30 How theatre, film, visuals, the curation and creation of beauty are all spells 00:42:00 What is the beauty path? 00:45:30 Being a self-healing guide  00:52:00 How healing is coming back home to oneself 00:54:00 Quantum healing 00:56:00 désirée sings her beauty way song 00:59:00 Ways désirée finds pleasure in her body

In this episode of Infinite Earth Body, I interviewed my beloved friend and embodiment teacher, MawuLisa Thomas-Adeyemo. MawuLisa is a community based healing midwife, somatic bodyworker, embodiment coach, song weaver, lover of nature & Spirit, a lifelong student of the Healing Arts, and an initiated Diviner & Orisha Priest.   We talked about: Healing as coming into wholeness Trauma healing through somatics Maintaining joy & self-care through holding space for others and trauma healing work How individual and collective healing and liberation movement work are interconnected How earth based spirituality is part of social justice work Seeing the sacred and holy in all things, in ourselves and everything around us MawuLisa’s path as a spiritual midwife The power of song and music as medicine and part of movements for liberation Ways MawuLisa finds pleasure in her body   You can contact MawuLisa at:   Follow us to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey: http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody  http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/   Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective   Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be   Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:06:00 What does healing mean to MawuLisa 00:08:00 MawuLisa’s personal journey of healing through decolonizing spirituality 00:10:00 What embodiment means to MawuLisa 00:13:00 How MawuLisa’s work as a healer began with running rape crises centers 00:19:00 Working with trauma patterns at the level of the body 00:20:00 Working with Generative Somatics 00:22:00 Working with the gut brain and the heart in addition to the head brain 00:23:00 How MawuLisa maintains self-care and joy through doing trauma healing work 00:29:00 How everyone is impacted by the trauma of colonization and being disconnected from our bodies and nature 00:33:00 Honoring our trauma patterns as part of our body’s wisdom through parts work 00:37:30 How individual healing and collective healing and movements for liberation are completely connected 00:40:00 MawuLisa’s understanding of the what Somatics means 00:42:00 How earth based spirituality is part of social justice work 00:48:00 Learning from the wisdom of nature, including learning strategy from ants 00:51:00 How we can all tap into seeing what is holy and sacred all around us and honor the divinity in oneself and everything 00:53:00 What it means to MawuLisa to be a spiritual midwife 00:58:00 The power of repetition and practice 01:02:00 The importance and power of song as medicine for MawuLisa 01:06:00 How music is connected to the movement for liberation 01:10:00 Ways that MawuLisa finds pleasure in her body 01:17:00 MawuLisa sings the ancestor song

In this episode of Infinite Earth Body, I interviewed my dear friend and Qi Gong Teacher, Terna Tilley-Gyado. Terna is also a life coach and Jin Shin Jyutsu - Facilitator Healer, and has experience working as a clinical trauma responder, writer, performer, and has master’s degrees in counseling and global mental health, among many other realms of deep study and practice. Terna shared about: • Tapping into deeper awareness and subtle energies in your body • Healing as coming into wholeness and having fun • Coming home to be held by our ancestors • Feeling into our essential health & harmony, despite chronic pain and health challenges • How mental health issues are not only individual, but systemic, and a reasonable response to an oppressive world • Allowing ourselves to soften from chronic tension patterns from trauma • Connecting to ancient ancestral frequencies that all of us contain You can connect with Terna here: https://www.evolutionaryheart.com/ Follow us to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey:  http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody  http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/  Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo:  https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be  Thanks to Mara Lazer for help with editing! Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro, Terna Bio, and Welcome 00:04:00 Why healing means coming into wholeness to Terna 00:07:00 Healing through connecting to her Ancestors 00:10:50 Coming into Ifa  00:12:10 Terna’s journey of embodiment  00:14:00 Coming into the Art of Jin Shin  00:15:00 Coming into Qi Gong daily practice 00:16:00 Dealing with pain & tuning into essential health  00:17:40 Releasing guardedness from trauma, softening, and being able to feel more  00:20:00 Terna’s journey learning Qi Gong which became a stabilizing force to feel better consistently 00:25:00 The story of Jin Shin 00:27:00 An easy way to harmonize your energy body by holding your fingers 00:31:00 How are the physical body and the energy body connected 00:32:30 What Terna’s learned as a healer facilitator 00:37:00  Connecting to our wholeness through ancient frequencies 00:39:00 Different layers of mental health issues, tied to living in oppressive conditions, what we inherited, environmental, ancestral 00:42:00 Tips on connecting to our inherent health 00:47:00 Writing to get to come to know herself better and performance as reflecting from the spirit realm 00:50:00 Having fun and joy and pleasure as an essential part of what we came here to do 00:55:00 Exploring our inner dichotomies 00:59:00 Experiences as a 3rd culture people and coming into wholeness

In this episode of Infinite Earth Body, I interviewed my long-time friend, Stacy, an amazing community organizer, abolitionist, healer, musician, and educator. We talked about: Somatic voice work and finding freedom of expression Healing generational body trauma Stacy’s journey in healing work—from reiki, body work, to vocal sound healing The major death-rebirth process of transitioning into motherhood Cycle tracking for contraception  and radical education for embodiment The healing power of water   You can connect with Stacy and listen to her music here: http://www.instagram.com/erengbergstacy https://stacyrene.bandcamp.com/album/and-so-it-is https://open.spotify.com/artist/36VcsF7u2ETcf4yMmi35Cq?si=Ih5GihwxTtqEfvJ4A67oSw https://www.facebook.com/stacyrenemusic   Follow us to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey:  http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody  http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/   Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective   Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be   Thanks to Mara Lazer for help with editing!   Chapters: 00:02:30 Stacy sharing about the connection between feeling nervous and the gut 00:04:30 Finding pleasure through rest & singing 00:07:30 Breaking out of generational body trauma 00:10:00 Movement practices outside of ableism & trying to look a certain way 00:12:00 Self-soothing with singing, even in public! 00:14:30 Voice as a manifestation of your spirit 00:15:30 Finding freedom of expression through the voice 00:24:30 Everything is a practice, just keep showing up over and over 00:27:30 Stacy’s journey through organizing healing community spaces, working as a healer, navigating boundaries & self-care 00:35:30 Going through the major life transition, death-rebirth process into motherhood 00:41:00 When Maya and Stacy were first learning about fertility awareness (cycle tracking)  for contraception 00:46:00 Stacy supporting Maya on the path of popular education 00:51:30 Stacy’s experience with the magic of the menstrual cycle, birth, & feeling tapped into goddess energy 00:54:30 The healing powers of water & sauna 00:58:00 Where to find Stacy online & hear her music

In this episode, I interviewed Mercedez, who's mission is to create a safe space for massage that's accessible in all the ways she can make it: compassionate, understanding, trauma informed, consent based, queer, and all gender friendly, body positive, and disability friendly. Mercedez aims to to make receiving bodywork a priority and not a privilege as a woman of color, a person who has experienced trauma, body shaming and queer phobia herself. We talked about: her journey as a massage therapist how she makes her work accessible how body work can help heal trauma fat liberation the importance of care work through all of life seasons, from birth, post-partum, child care, elder care, and end of life care You can connect with Mercedez at: https://www.massagebymercedez.com/   Follow us to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey: http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/   Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo:  https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective   Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be   Thanks to Mara Lazer for help with editing/producing!   00:00:00 Opening & Intro 00:04:00 How Mercedez got into massage therapy 00:05:00 What Mercedez has learned through her journey as a body worker 00:06:00 How Mercedez tries to make her bodywork sessions accessible to all genders, bodies, and abilities? 00:09:30 Healing through giving and receiving body work 00:12:40  What healing has looked like for Mercedez 00:14:00 Mercedez’s experiences in fat liberation activism 00:17:50 Care work with all ages, from birth to end of life 00:22:00 Mercedez’s experience with end of life care for her Grandma 00:28:00 Mercedez’s story from childhood growing up with fat positive family experiences, then facing fat phobia in school 00:31:00 Exploring questions of gender identity and sexuality as a young queer child and coming into more comfort in her body in a young adulthood through the support of community 00:33:00 How body work can change your experience in your body, even feet! 00:34:00 How grief can change how you feel in your body 00:37:00 Feeling in awe of what the body can do despite injuries and changing abilities 00:38:00 Feeling pleasure in your body through community, getting your heart rate up, eating, being in water, decadent baths 00:43:00 How to connect with Mercedez to book or sponsor a massage 00:45:00 Closing  

For our first episode, my friend selma interviewed me and helped me introduce the podcast! We talked about the cycle seasons of our bodies and the wild journey of embodiment.  We explored how trauma patterns like disassociation, fight, flight, freeze, fawn are part of the genius of our bodies in helping us survive, but can be patterns that we’re stuck in that can cut off access to pleasure and joy. I shared about my experiences with anxiety, depression, reprogramming my nervous system, and learning how to be in better relationship with my body through auto-immune symptoms, and chronic health issues. Our bodies are incredible fascinating universes of consciousness, our cells, our unique fluid bacterial microbiomes, water, and space. Our bodies are interconnected with nature. Our healing has to happen individually and collectively, on the spiritual and physical dimensions.  Tune in if you like talking about bodies, healing, pleasure, and expanding through our connection to our bigger earth body.