Woman Who Rubs the Mountain

Woman Who Rubs the Mountain

Hosted by: Kendra Ward

a podcast and gathering place for stories of embodied ecology. What happens when we rub on the body of the earth, how does it brush back against us? There is a certain fidelity required when we return over and...

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Whispers From Dreamland: A Conversation About Being a Modern Druid [Episode 19]

Some of us might feel pretty darn intimate with the place where we live, but Fearn Lickfield, Director of the Green Mountain Druid School, is literally, ceremoniously, married to the land she calls home. In the latest...
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Plant Spirit Medicine for Initiatory Times [Episode 18]

Sink your taproot deep into the Earth and let's celebrate all that our plant kin have to share with us. Plant Spirit Wisdom teacher, Sara Artemisia, helps us relax into our birthright of kinship with the plants around...
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Timeless Knowings: A Conversation About the Darkness From Which All Life Springs & Normalizing Death [Episode 16]

Gather by the warmth of the wood stove for this special winter solstice episode of the Woman Who Rubs the Mountain podcast, where we explore radical introspection, loosening of uncertainty, and hibernating in the...
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Going Skin to Skin: A Conversation About Eco-Soma and Sensory Bonding [Episode 15]

Eco-Somatic Educator, Rivka Honeybee Worth, intertwines her love of dance and nature in a body of work she aptly refers to as Eco-Soma. The embodied practices of Eco-Soma are devoted to rebuilding healthy, reciprocal...
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Ferociously Present: A Conversation About Caressing the Fractures for New Knowings [Episode 14]

It was with utter delight that I recently shared a conversation with fellow intranaut and Ayurvedic medicine practitioner, Alana Layne Greenberg. I knew she would be game for turning off the lights so to speak,...
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Black Joy in Green Spaces [Episode 13]

In this episode, two time TEDx speaker and eco-spiritualist, Chris Omni, MPH, shines her bright light on us in a celebration of Black joy in green spaces. This is her poetic theorization of Black joy: “Black Joy is a...
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Soul Medicine for Personal & Collective Transformation: A Conversation about Living Through the Five Elements [Episode 11]

A skilled weaver of the sacred through both the ancient and the modern, acupuncturist Lindsay Fauntleroy possesses the rare ability to make the principles of subtle energetic healing accessible within our daily lives....
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Land Alchemy: Co-creating Relationship with the Spirits of Gaia [Episode 9]

Through land alchemy and working with flower essences, Camilla Blossom forms bridges of healing and reconciliation between humans and the spirited places where they live. Being in Camilla’s presence, you can feel a...
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Transforming the Mythology of Who We Were Raised To Be: A Conversation about Our History of Harm and Repaying the Unpayable Debt [Episode 7]

Generation after generation, we have been taught to stuff down and ignore the depth of suffering within our colonialist history. For writer and community organizer, Hilary Giovale, a series of unexpected ancestral...
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Dirt on Our Skin and in the Cracks of Our Hearts: A Conversation About Embodied Writing [Episode 6]

In this episode, word-diviner Jen Violi talks about getting beyond the intellectual exercise of writing, instead sourcing our creativity from the rich dirt of our bodies. Perhaps our bodies know something about...
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Global Web of Lovers: A Conversation about Cultivating Intimate Communities [Episode 5]

Goddess renegade. Midwife mastermind. Holy woman edge walker. But also Lover of All Beings. These were some of the descriptions that came to mind after my conversation with Lorie Dechar. What a gift it was for me to...
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Roots and Rootlessness: A Conversation about the Four Medicines Approach to Health [Episode 4]

Learning from traditional animist, ritualist, and ancestral guide, Erica Nunnally, is an opportunity to feel deeply grounded and immersed in practical, earthy wisdom. You can almost hear the trees singing, you can...
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