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Artist Maureen Walton

Artist Maureen Walton

Susun interviews Maureen Walton.
Maureen Walton has worked in many fields of the commercial and fine arts but spent the last 20 years as a professional mural artist focusing on creating in schools at both the elementary and college level. She traveled from her Marysville studio home to paint, from Kingston to Toronto and north to Bancroft. Since 2010 Maureen began to use her artistic skills to draft diagrams, yantras and illustrations of the inspirational messages that come to her of the feminine creation technologies This began in 2008 with her introduction to the Inca Luminous Structure Meditation Yantra . She is also called to express the path and work of the leading women in the Iroquois Peacemaker story. Maureen has two wooded acres with two yurts where she hosts small bi-annual retreats based on this womb teaching, calling in other teachers to collaborate with her. She just retired from her 20 year career of painting freehand murals and is focusing on her retreats. She has always been a feminist with a lot of questions.



Q & A topics in this episode include:
caller follow-up - acute pancreatitis
high blood pressure
Can a vegan diet and/ or fasting benefit heart health?
dry mouth
speaking anxiety
herbal flower collection
herb plant contaminated by insecticide
pendulum use
dried gotu kola
herbal and nutritional support after cancer
bone broth

Rev. Anne Zapf of Peyote Way Church

Rev. Anne Zapf of Peyote Way Church

Susun interviews Rev. Anne Zapf.
Rev. Anne Zapf is one of the founders of the multicultural Peyote Way Church of God in Southeast Arizona located in the Aravaipa Valley. Rev. Zapf has spent the last 40 years advocating and promoting religious tolerance as well as encouraging members to make ecologically enlightened lifestyle choices. She teaches and advises various organizations and individuals in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Born and raised in Philadelphia to a prominent musical family, she is also an accomplished singer. She attended Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO, and received her BS degree is Zoology. She and her husband Matthew Kent have three grown children. They trained with Master Potter Immanuel "Mana" Trujillo who created the nationally acclaimed Mana Pottery, which is on display at the Smithsonian Museum Institute of Native American Art.

Amazon Wisdom Keeper Loraine Van Tuyl

Amazon Wisdom Keeper Loraine Van Tuyl

Susun interviews Loraine Van Tuyl.
Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD, CHT is a licensed, holistic psychologist, shamanic & Depth Hypnosis practitioner, WomanSpeak circle leader, and award-winning author of Amazon Wisdom Keeper: a Psychologist’s Memoir of Spiritual Awakening. She believes that the most effective way to re-nature our spiritually-arid, de-natured, patriarchal world is by supporting women’s deep wells of wisdom and spiritual missions with personalized dreamteams of spirit guides. Her two decade devotion to highly sensitive women has led to the empowerment of hundreds of fierce and wise transformation trailblazers in psychology, holistic health, academia, the arts, social justice, environmental sciences, and entrepeneurship through her Soul Sanctuary Alchemy and Own your Genius Zone signature programs and her private facebook group, Empowering Gaia’s Goddesses & Global Gamechangers. She is a contributing author of Thrive Global, Rebelle Society, and Medium. She has presented and provided trainings to master- and doctorate level therapists and healers at the UC Berkeley Counseling Center, the American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and the Native American Health Center, and has provided expert guidance on numerous spiritual podcasts and radio shows, and to women’s groups nationwide.

Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Taya Shere

Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Taya Shere

Susun interviews Taya Shere (Taya Mâ).
Taya is the co-founder of Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, co-author of The Hebrew Priestess: Ancient and New Paths of Jewish Women's Spiritual Leadership, and faculty at Starr King School for the Ministry and the Chaplaincy Institute, where she trains emergent clergy across faith traditions. She teaches Ancestral Lineage Healing, offering individual sessions virtually, and in-person workshops across the country. Taya is also a Somatic Experiencing practitioner and offers online courses in Embodied Presence, Pleasure as Prayer, Conscious Menstruation and Ancestral Healing. Her Hebrew Goddess chant albums — This Bliss, Wild Earth Shebrew, Halluyah All Night and Torah Tantrika — have been heralded as "cutting-edge mystic medicine music." She makes home, music and other magic in Berkeley, California, on occupied Ohlone lands.

Wiccan Priestess Phyllis Curott

Wiccan Priestess Phyllis Curott

Susun interviews Phyllis Curott.
As one of America’s first public Witches and an Elder Wiccan Priestess, attorney Phyllis Curott became an outspoken advocate in the courts, media, and interfaith movement, handling groundbreaking religious liberty cases for Witches and Pagans. Named one of The Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year by Jane Magazine, she was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Clergy and Scholars, served as Vice Chair of the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions and created the historic Inaugural Women’s Assembly. Her trailblazing, international bestselling books, including Book of Shadows and WitchCrafting helped make Witchcraft accessible to the world. Her latest book, WICCA (made easy), Awaken the Divine Magic Within You, was released in November, 2018, with a companion online class coming in July of this year, and the 20th Anniversary Edition of Book of Shadows will be available from Phyllis’ website, www.phylisscurott.com starting at the end of May. She is currently creating a new Witch’s Tarot for Hay House with artist Danielle Earp, ready in Spring of 2020.



this episode Q&A includes:
• headaches- allying with skullcap..
• tinctures and vinegars are different..
• what are the best plants to make vinegars out of?
• protecting children from sunburns...

"Active Culture" Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman

"Active Culture" Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman

Susun interviews Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman.
Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman is a Plant Spirit Medicine Practitioner, Ritualist, Goddess Scholar, Mother and Artist. Best known as the director of Active Culture Family, Erin walks a path of community stewardship and service to Gaia through her rolls as lead facilitator of the Medicine Mandala Green Magic Apprenticeship program, and as Priestess of Bridge Temple, a remote off-grid mystery school, healing sanctuary, culture farm, and library of earth magic located on sacred land in the Cleveland National Forest of San Diego, CA.



this episode Q&A includes:
• relax blood vessels and deal with stress- fresh flowering motherwort tincture, passionflower for the spiritual heart, hawthorn..
• what the lowest dose of herbal remedy you can take for good effects..
• drugs are not bad, but overused..
• mouth infection in cat- yarrow..
• ear ache- cooked onion on ear method, hard to get to systemic infections with echinacea, garlic oil..
• malnutrition and cleaning yourself into bad health..
• crustaceans on seaweed are not vegan, life thrives on seaweed..

Feminist Witch Zsuzsanna Budapest

Feminist Witch Zsuzsanna Budapest

Susun interviews Z Budapest.
Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest was born in Budapest, Hungary, during a big winter storm on January 30, 1940. Her mother, Masika Szilagyi, was a medium and a practicing witch who supported herself and her daughter with her art, as a sculptress. Masika’s themes always celebrated the Triple Goddess and the Fates, and Zsuzsanna, “Z,” grew up respecting and appreciating Mother Nature as a god. Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women’s newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess. The California Institute for Integral studies in San Francisco recognized Z’s contribution to Women’s Spirituality Movement. Today Z lives in Santa Cruz, California, giving workshops and lectures but always making time to smell the roses. She is the founder and director of the Women’s Spirituality Forum, a nonprofit organization sponsoring Goddess spirituality retreats and festivals for women and young girls.



this episode Q&A includes:
• cervical spondylosis- affirmations and visulizations give us our life back, comfrey..
• castor oil pack to treat bone spurs..
• every atom in my body is new every 7-10 days- atoms make up cells..
• a poultice or fomentation..
• low iron- red meat, liver, nettle infusion- plant iron needs animal iron to circulate in the blood..
• yucca used as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis- desert southwest plant, preparations..
• soul retrieval by covering the body with the earth..

'Soulflower Oracle Deck' Lisa Estabrook

'Soulflower Oracle Deck' Lisa Estabrook

Lisa is an artist, graphic designer, mother, obsessive gardener and plant whisperer who has spent the last 30 years since graduating college trying to figure out how to live a healthy and joyful life. The creation of the Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle deck was the result of a two-year long personal journey of self-discovery and healing. It’s self-publication in the summer of 2016 launched Soulflower, Lisa’s heART based business with a growing range of products intended to support and inspire connection with ourselves and our planet through the power of art and flowers. Flower emPower! Her guiding principle is that the more we learn about ourselves, and take responsibility for our own healing (wholing) journeys, the more we will empower ourselves to live guided by the wisdom in our hearts rather than the voices in our heads. And this, she believes, is how we will heal this Earth.



this episode Q&A includes:
• baby with intermittent fever- what are the possibilities- treating bacterial and viral infections..
• torn off toenail on dog- plantain, yarrow..
• telling people what they like and don't like creates codependency..
• the less you say about others, the better off you'll be..
• most women have ended their periods by age 45-50- talking to your body..
• communicating with plants..
• making medicine from cleavers..
• annuals and perennials...
• wild lettuce- biennials and annuals..
• fennel seed tea to lower histamine..

Second Nature Project Jody Dunphy

Second Nature Project Jody Dunphy

Susun interviews Jody Dunphy.
Jody is an artist, designer and the creator of the Second Nature Project; an endeavor that resides at the intersection of art and activism. The project was born while she was earning her MFA in Applied Craft and Design at the Oregon College of Art and Craft + Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her practice is driven by a desire to share her fascination with plant life and inspire people to think about their relationship with the natural world. She makes jewelry and sculpture for holding plants and seeds that are dispersed via diverse channels: in galleries, on the street and through retail. Collaboration, engagement, ephemerality, labor and craft are underlying themes in the work she creates.
https://www.secondnatureproject.com/



this episode Q&A includes:
• carotenes found in things like nettles, sweet potatoes, tomatoes- help prevent damage from radiation..
• bacteria contamination on kratom and other issues from consumption of kratom..
• 42 year old wanting to conceive a baby- genetic material, miscarriage, infusions, animal fats and red meat..
• nutrients needed from red meat..
• AMA said over 15 years ago not to use hydrogen peroxide - destroys tissue, make wounds more likely to get infected.
• yarrow tincture stops pain, stops bleeding, powerfully antibacterial..
• antibiotics do not prevent infections..

'Invoking Animal Magic' Hearth Moon Rising

'Invoking Animal Magic' Hearth Moon Rising

Susun interviews Hearth Moon Rising.
Hearth lives in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, where she practices a nature-based craft. She is an ordained priestess in two traditions (Dianic and Fellowship of Isis) and has taught magic for over twenty-five years. She is the author of Divining with Animal Guides: Answers from the world at hand and Invoking Animal Magic: A guide for the pagan priestess.



this episode Q&A includes:
• routine pap smears- do you need them?
• uterine polyps- ultrasound and biopsy- do we need to appease others out of fear?
• yarrow as a dentifrice, why not to use glycerides, what part of the plant to use and why..
• middle ear infections in 4 year old- antibiotics are not working, how to use echinacea, and why tubes are a good idea..
• over 200 cold viruses- your child is not unhealthy for getting sick, teaching the immune system how to work..
• tincture of licorice or powdered preparation in water is highly antiviral..
• compound fracture in vertebrae- comfrey to heal the bone, hypericum to heal nerve damage..