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Liz Kelly
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  • Picking Up the Drum with Sophie Messager
    In this particularly rich conversation, I’m joined by Sophie Messager, author of the new book The Beat of Your Own Drum (Womancraft Publishing). A former reproductive physiologist with a PhD, Sophie traded her microscope for a medicine drum after experiencing the transformative power of an empowered birth. Her decade-long journey as a doula, birth educator, and author of Why Postnatal Recovery Matters deepened her exploration of the rhythms surrounding women’s transitions.Now a holistic life transition mentor, Sophie guides women through significant life thresholds – from birth to perimenopause and beyond. Her unique combination of scientific expertise and spiritual insight allows her to serve as a compassionate space holder for those seeking to harmonise their analytical and intuitive selves. On this episode we explore:The complex and intersecting themes of sacred feminine wisdomThe journey of reclaiming women's power, and the transformative role of drumming in spiritual practicesSophie’s personal experiences from her Catholic upbringing to her journey as a doula and holistic life transition mentorThe historical context of women's roles in drumming and spirituality, and how reclaiming this practice can be an essential step for women in owning their voices and power in a patriarchal society.Key TakeawaysSacred Feminine wisdom is applicable in all areas of life.Understanding women's power from a feminine lens is crucial, and women’s sacred stories can help us do this.Sophie fascinating journey from science to holistic practices, and how it demonstrates that we can hold space for both.Drumming can be a powerful tool for women's empowerment.While the history of women and drumming is often overlooked, it’s real – and your birthright to know about.While women often feel scared to drum due to ancestral trauma, trusting yourself is the key to spiritual growth and personal evolution.Creating your own drum can be a transformative experience – but you can also start with a storebought one. You don’t need lessons or a prescriptive path to start.Chapters00:00 Introduction to Sacred Feminine Wisdom03:05 Exploring the Journey of the Sacred Feminine05:21 Sophie Messager's Spiritual Background11:09 Reclaiming Spirituality Beyond Catholicism19:52 The Role of Birth and Death in Feminine Wisdom24:32 Embodying the Divine Feminine27:26 Navigating the Journey to Menopause28:24 Embracing Cycles and Rest30:25 The Journey to the Drum31:51 Drum Microdosing: A New Practice37:28 Reclaiming the Drum: Women's History42:42 The Power of Drumming in Birth49:40 Empowerment Through Intuition and Expression✨ Explore. Connect. Come Home to Her. ✨If you’d like to know whose ancestral lands you currently reside on, you can look up your address here: native-land.ca.If this podcast or my book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine has inspired you, I’d love for you to leave a review—it helps others find this work and keeps these conversations flowing.Stay connected with me and our growing community:🌸 Follow along on Instagram @hometoher for reflections and details on upcoming episodes.🌿 Join the Home to Her Facebook group to share stories, ask questions, and explore the Sacred Feminine in community.Want to go deeper? Visit www.hometoher.com to:· Download your free eBook 5...
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  • Seeking the Spiritual Mother with Rebe Huntman
    On this episode, I'm joined by Rebe Huntman, a memoirist, essayist, dancer, teacher, and poet who writes at the intersections of feminism, world religion and spirituality. For over a decade she directed Chicago’s award-winning Danza Viva Center for World Dance, Art & Music and its dance company, One World Dance Theater. Huntman collaborates with native artists in Cuba and South America, has been featured in Latina Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune, and has appeared on Fox and ABC. She is also the author of a new memoir, My Mother in Havana, about her explorations in seeking not only her human mother, who died when she was 19, but also a deeper relationship with the Divine Mother.On this episode we discuss:How Rebe’s path to the Sacred Feminine revealed itself through her evolving relationship with Latin dance – including how she discovered that the dances themselves were originally invitations to the godsRebe’s transformational journey in Cuba, including her experiences meeting the Orisha Oshun, and Our Lady of Charity of El CobreHow Oshun, who originates from the West African Yoruba tradition, and Our Lady, who is considered an apparition of the Virgin Mary, are syncretized – and how this merging can give us a more holistic vision of mothers and women in generalRebe’s evolving relationship with her deceased mother, and why it’s both normal and natural to call on our deceased loved ones for supportNotes related to this episode:You can learn more about Rebe and her book at her website, www.rebehuntman.com.You can also find her on social media: Instagram @rebehuntman; Facebook @rebehuntmanauthor.We discussed the books the Chalice and the Blade, by Riane Eisler, as well as Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.Other related episodes include:Transforming a Paradigm of Domination with Riane Eisler - https://youtu.be/LSk4JRd6B8gHealing the Mother Wound with Bethany Webster (audio only) – https://player.captivate.fm/episode/6b4fbdc5-b85a-4dd0-ad63-ea2501eb493cExploring the Divine Feminine in African Traditional Religions with Lilith Dorsey (audio only) - https://player.captivate.fm/episode/89f7cc91-8038-431f-8459-4cf57d172e35Here are a few more details about this show and my work:If you’d like to know whose ancestral tribal lands you currently reside on, you can look up your address here: https://native-land.ca/ You can also visit the Coalition of Natives and Allies for more helpful educational resources about Indigenous rights and history.Please – if you love this podcast and/or have read my book, please consider leaving me a review, and thank you for supporting my work! You can also access the audio version of this episode here, or wherever you access your podcasts: https://home-to-her.captivate.fm/For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher. To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group, also @hometoher.And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available on Audible and wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on...
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  • The Flow State of the Feminine with Ixchel Munay
    On episode 100 of the Home to Her podcast, I'm joined by Ixchel Munay, who has spent more than 20 years walking the path of plant medicine, conscious living and supporting thousands of people around the world in her immersions and sessions to come home to themselves. Through her work, Ixchel draws upon her initiations with yoga, meditation, tantra, shamanism, magic, somatic therapy, dance, breath work, NLP, non-violent communication, permaculture, natural medicine, neuroscience and more. She’s spent nearly the past 20 years of her life based in Bali, the mystical land of her father’s ancestors. For the past four years she’s been spending half the year in Costa Rica devoted to creating Yacumama ("Mother of Water") - a regenerative community land project that hosts transformational experiences.On this episode we discuss: Ixchel's introduction to the Sacred Feminine via her experience meeting Amma, the hugging saint, and her work with a tantric master in BaliHer experience with plant medicines and the value they offer us currently, as well as why it's so important to approach them medicine with respect and via a credible teacherWhy she believes the feminine is the flow state that athletes describe, and how when we step into it, our divine path unfolds much more easilyThe ways women have been disconnected from our bodies, particularly through birth control and medicated childbirth Her work with Yacumama, and her vision for it in terms of land regeneration and as a cultural center to preserve and teach indigenous ways of beingNotes related to this episode: You can learn all about the upcoming programs at Yacumama here, including an upcoming wellness retreat for women, here: https://www.yacumama.love/ and on Instagram @yacumamaecovillageYou can connect with Ixchel via social media via her website, www.livingwisdom.one, and Instagram @ixchel.munay Ixchel and I talked about our experiences with Amma, the hugging saint. You can learn more about her here: https://amma.org/We also discussed the concept of a guru as a path to the Divine Feminine, a topic I explored with past podcast guest Arundhati Subramaniam: https://youtu.be/9reaJg3iTtwAnd here are a few more details about this show and my work:If you’d like to know whose ancestral tribal lands you currently reside on, you can look up your address here: https://native-land.ca/You can also visit the Coalition of Natives and Allies for more helpful educational resources about Indigenous rights and history.Please – if you love this podcast and/or have read my book, please consider leaving me a review, and thank you for supporting my work!You can also access the video version of this episode on YouTubeFor more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher. To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group, also @hometoher. And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available on Audible and wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated!Visit www.hometoher.com to learn more about your host, download a free meditation and sign up for my
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  • Women Who Future with Sande Hart
    On the latest episode, I'm joined by Sande Hart, a mother, grandmother and founder of The Global Woman's Village woman's organization, formally known as S.A.R.A.H. (The Spiritual and Religious Alliance for Hope) now in its 23rd year. She is also the Author of The Liminal Odyssey, The Alchemical Power of The Spaces In-Between, (also a Nautilus Book Awardee)Sande is actively engaged in leadership in the peace, compassion, community building, and women’s re- and in-powerment sectors. Her most recent work is in service to the role of women in this evolutionary impulse we are in during these transitional times. She served on the Women's Task Force for The Parliament of The World's Religions and developed and produced the first-ever Women's Village at the 2023 international conference. She founded and served as Director for the international organization The Charter For Compassion’s Women and Girls sector as creator and director of the 9th sector of the international organization focused on compassion. And she is the Founder of Compassionate California, which recently became established into law by the governor’s office as the first Compassionate State in the world.During our conversation, we explore: Sande's multi-decade journey toward recognizing the presence of the Sacred Feminine in her life, including the flickers of Her presence along the wayHow Sande came to fully recognize Her through her work shepherding the Women's Village at the Parliament of the World's Religions.The evolution of her non-profit organization S.A.R.A.H., including her more recent focus on "women who future," and what this language means to herThe powerful message that she received while visiting Auschwitz, which brought us both to tears during the culmination of this inspiring episodeNotes related to this episode:You can learn more about the Global Woman's Village at https://www.sarah4hope.org/You can also learn more about Sande and her book at her website: https://www.sandehart.com/ We discussed the work of Carol Lee Flinders during this episode, including her books "Enduring Grace" and "At the Root of This Longing."Sande mentioned the song by George Harrison "My Sweet Lord"I also mentioned the beautiful Adrienne Rich Poem, poem 13 in her collection of 21 love poems: https://allpoetry.com/poem/10381457-Twenty-One-Love-Poems-XIII-by-Adrienne-RichWe also discussed the Parliament of the World's ReligionsFinally, Sande mentioned the following quote by Henry David Thoreau: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”And here are a few more details about this show and my work:If you’d like to know whose ancestral tribal lands you currently reside on, you can look up your address here: https://native-land.ca/You can also visit the Coalition of Natives and Allies for more helpful educational resources about Indigenous rights and history.Please – if you love this podcast and/or have read my book, please consider leaving me a review, and thank you for supporting my work!You can also access the audio version of this episode here, or wherever you access your podcasts: https://home-to-her.captivate.fm/For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher. To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group, also @hometoher. And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available on Audible and wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated!Visit www.hometoher.com to...
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  • Transforming a Paradigm of Domination with Riane Eisler
    On the latest episode, I'm joined by legendary systems scientist, futurist and cultural historian Dr. Riane Eisler. Riane is the recipient of many honors, such as the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award earlier given to the Dalai Lama, and is the author of many books, including The Chalice and the Blade, now in its 57th US printing and 27 foreign editions, The Real Wealth of Nations, hailed by Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu as "a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking," and Nurturing Our Humanity, Oxford University Press, 2019, co-authored with Douglas P. Fry. Riane’s innovative whole-systems research offers new perspectives and practical tools for constructing a less violent, more egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable future. She is the President of the Center for Partnership Systems, which provides practical applications of her work, and Editor in Chief of the online Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies published at the University of Minnesota. On this episode, we discuss: Riane's early childhood experience as a Jewish refugee whose family fled Austria to escape the Nazis, and how that experience, as well as the loss of many family members during the Holocaust, caused her to question her understanding of God The difference between cultures of domination and partnership cultures, which she outlines in her groundbreaking work The Chalice and the Blade, and the shifts she's seen in culture since the book was first publishedThe subtle pervasiveness of dominator culture, and how we can find it rooted in our language, as well as all the underpinnings of societyRiane's focus on violence in the home, and how it directly correlates to violence in other aspects of society Plus, we riff on the magic of snakes and their ancient connections to the Divine Feminine (always a favorite topic of mine!)Notes related to this episode:You can learn more about Riane, her many books and her extense work at her website: https://rianeeisler.com/ You can learn more about the Center for Partnership Systems at https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/riane-eisler/ During this episode, Riane mentioned parapsychologist Thelma Moss, as well as the ancient Anatolian civilization Catal Huyuk. She also mentioned the evangelical Christian organization Promise Keepers.And here are a few more details about this show and my work:If you’d like to know whose ancestral tribal lands you currently reside on, you can look up your address here: https://native-land.ca/You can also visit the Coalition of Natives and Allies for more helpful educational resources about Indigenous rights and history.Please – if you love this podcast and/or have read my book, please consider leaving me a review, and thank you for supporting my work!You can also access video episodes on the Home to Her YouTube channelFor more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher.To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: / hometoherAnd to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my...
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