Rooted Healing
The Rooted Healing podcast seeks to deepen our kinship with the living landscapes around us and within us. This is a space where stories heal with words that weave us closer to our wild and inter-relational nature, bringing us closer to the expansive minds, topics and ideas that help us heal, re-imagine and co-create the world we love to be alive in. We explore and celebrate psychedelic and animistic culture, cross-cultural wisdom exchange, belonging, ceremony, community and nature-led healing. We also run psilocybin retreats, ancestral gatherings, and online courses in deep ecology. Visit rootedhealing.org to learn more.
Episodes
46 episodes
We Belong: Songful Invocations with Bonnie Medicine
Mairead, the creatrix behind Bonnie Medicine, is a singer, song weaver, and medicine musician from the ‘Bonnie’ isles of Scotland. Rooted deeply in her Celtic heritage and a profound connection to ...
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Exploring African Animistic Spirituality with Philiswa Makhaye
In this episode, we are joined by Philiswa Makhaye, a traditional Zulu healer from South Africa. Initiated as a Sangoma at the age of 12, Philiswa has dedicated her life to ancestral communion, intergenerational healing and ancient earth-based ...
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Marina Delamar's Healing Encounter with a Lost Emperor Penguin
In this heartfelt episode, we are joined by the wonderful Marina Delamar, an artist, educator, and ceremonialist who explores life through the twin lenses of death and beauty. With a lifelong connection to the natural world and its more-...
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Folk, Paganism, Psychedelics and Wyrdlore with Dr. Andy Letcher
In this rich and winding conversation, we are joined by Dr. Andy Letcher — Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, former Programme Lead for the MA in Engaged Ecology at Schumacher College, and author of Shroom: A Cultural History of t...
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Fungi Futures: Ethnomycology for Social Innovation with Darren Le Baron
In this episode, we dive deep into the mycelial network with world-renowned educator and ethnomycologist Darren le Baron. Known for his transformative Shroomshop Masterclasses and groundbreaking work ...
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Grief, Trauma and the Healing Power of Words with Poet Hayley Frances
Hayley Frances is a poet and poetry therapist from Birmingham. Her debut collection, Administer the Laughing Gas (VERVE Poetry Press), is a raw and unfiltered exploration of grief, trauma and...
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Reviving Welsh Indigeneity with Owen Shiers
‘Cynefin’ (pr. kuh-neh-vin) is the creative vision of West Wales native folk musician, Owen Shiers. Fascinated by music and history, it aims...
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Ceremonial Consciousness and Nature's Synchronicities with Dr Matthew Zylstra
Dr Matthew Zylstra is a systems ecologist passionate about deepening the human-nature relationship for the healing of people and planet. He has 20 years of international experience in social-ecological research and outdoor education...
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Episode 44
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Song-Dreaming the Land Back to Life with Sam Lee
Mercury Prize-nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector and activist, Sam Lee, plays a unique role in the British music scene, breaking boundaries between traditional and contemporary music a...
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Episode 43
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How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis with Osprey Orielle Lake
Founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey Orielle Lake works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymaker...
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Episode 42
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1:11:16
Honouring Thresholds, Emerging from Death Dens and Weaving New Earth with Isla Macleod
Imbolc Blessings! It is Isla Macleod’s deepest wish to inspire and support a remembrance of what is sacred in our lives, guiding us back home to the natural world. She is a renowned ceremonial...
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Episode 41
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More-Than-Human Kinship: Interspecies Communication with Dr Saskia von Diest
Dr Saskia von Diest is the founder of Ecofluency, an organisation that offers consulting, teaching and facilitation in the science, art and practical magic of Nature communication worldwide. She has a P...
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Episode 40
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Finding Vitality in Place: Remembering Ourselves Home with Seth Hughes
Seth Hughes is driven by a determination to remind humans of their intrinsic relationship with the natural world. He believes passionately that the modern human is both lost and disempowered, suffering from a kind of collective amnesia ab...
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Episode 39
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Solstices, Ceremonies and Psilocybin with Aisha von Nahmmacher
This is a different kind of episode, introducing you to Aisha von Nahmmacher, who works with me on rooted healing and we, last minute as ever, decided to record a bonus episode of sorts in honour of the solstice and to mark our full cycle of wo...
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Episode 38
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Our Earth Needs Us to Grieve with Nici Harrison
In this episode I am joined with Nici Harrison, our first ever repeat guest, which marks 2 years of the podcast. After our first ever episode, ‘
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Episode 37
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1:21:45
Bioregional Life-Ways with Ben Stopford
This episode focusses on the cultivation of belonging through bioregionalism, a life-way that Ben Stopford has explored on a deep level in North Wales. Ben is a facilitator, gardener and gatherer, offering the creation of wild-culture gar...
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Episode 36
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Do As The Mushrooms Do: Medicinal Allies for Humanity's ReConnection with Elle Kennedy from Bristol Fungarium
As the world changes, and we rapidly have to alter the way we navigate our existence, Bristol Fungarium, the UK's only organic certified medicinal mushroom producers, believe we can learn much from the...
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Episode 35
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1:12:38
Our Future is Local: Debunking the Myth of Progress with Helena Norburg-Hodge
Linguist, author and filmmaker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures; a pioneer of the worldwide localisation movement, raising awareness about the power of ‘going local’ a...
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Episode 34
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If They Can, We Must: Erotic Ecology and Social Re-Membering with Lindsay Branham
Lindsay Branham is a revolutionary eco-doula, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and a social scientist, dedicated to leveraging media and technology to end human rights abuses and ecological disconnec...
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Episode 33
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1:14:22
Chanting Ourselves into Community with Jill Purce
Jill Purce is a renowned voice teacher, Family Constellations therapist and author, who pioneered the international sound healing movement through her rediscovery of ancient vocal techniques and the spiri...
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Episode 32
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Healing the Masculine and Reviving the Hearth with Lawrence Joye
As a founding member of YES&: Conscious Living, Lawrence Joye co-curates and runs events and retreats as well as offering 1:1 and Group Developmental Coaching. He is an initiate ...
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Episode 31
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1:06:56
Ancestral Lineage Healing and Eco Guardianship Birthing Belonging with Kirra Swenerton
Kirra Swenerton M.S. is an edge-walker, healing artist and scientist. Kirra teaches nature reverence, ritual and restoration ecology, bridging the worlds of science and the sacred, merging rigour and e...
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Episode 30
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1:24:26
Ancestral Practices meet Modern Science: Healing Chronic Disease with Elisa Fusi
Elisa Fusi is an Italian molecular biologist, visionary herbalist and writer, with a research focus on human pathology, mycology, neuroscience and ecology. With an ongoing investigat...
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Episode 29
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Finding Presence Through Play, Art and Reiki with Violeta Abitia
Violeta Abitia is an artist, energy healer and reiki master who leads reiki courses and children’s art and mindfulness programmes in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico. Violeta seeks to dec...
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Episode 28
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Rising Technology with the Essence of Humanity with Nathalie Nahai
Nathalie Nahai is an expert in psychology, persuasive tech & human behaviour, drawing upon a rich background in psychology, web design and the arts, to offer a unique vantage point from which to e...
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Episode 27
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