The Queer Spirit Nick Venegoni, TanyaMarck Oviedo

Madre Jaguar (she/they) is a Queer, Non-Binary Birth Doula, Oracle and Curandera of Mayan, Pipil, Nahual and Garifuna descent. Born in Los Angeles, CA to Salvadoran immigrants and raised in Mexico. Their practice is rooted in their ancestral heritage and indigenous traditions of Mexico and Central America.
Episode Highlights
We learn about Madre Jaguar via some sweet nuggets of their story and how they answered their call to magic.  Madre shares about some of the tools and medicines she works with regularly (mushrooms + tarot) and the impact they have on their life and practice.  The three of us drop in together and share a platica (heart to heart) where we navigate what’s showing up on our hearts + how we are navigating + responding to current energies Madre Jaguar is called to draw a tarot card and share a reading for the collective. Web links
Find Madre Jaguar online at IamMadre.com
You can also connect with them on Instagram @Madre.Jaguar
 
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J.P. DerBoghossian (he/they) is the founder of the Queer Armenian Library - the world's first library devoted to literature, film, and television by, about, and for Queer Armenians. He serves on the Board of the International Armenian Literary Alliance and is a past President of the Armenian Cultural Organization of Minnesota. He hosts the podcast This Queer Book Saved My LIfe which is a 2024 GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Podcast. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow and his essays have appeared in We Are All Armenian (University of Texas Press), The Sun Isn't Out Long Enough (Anamot Press), and Emerge (Lambda Literary). He started his career in television broadcasting and then transitioned to a ten-year career in higher education where he ultimately served as the Chief Diversity Officer for Normandale Community College and Saint Paul College. With This Queer Book Saved My Life he returns to his broadcasting roots, as he additionally hosts The Gaily Show for AM950-KTNF in Minneapolis. He holds a Master of Public Affairs degree from the University of Minnesota. He resides with his partners, splitting their time between Minneapolis, MN and Barronett, WI.   Episode Highlights
Season 7 premieres with our first cross-pollination episode, where we share space with other queer podcasters and creators.
We start by floating into a round of: I will share mine (show you mine), if you share yours (if you show me yours) - a lovely space where we each share books/authors that have impacted our queerness. We reflect and share about the books and the aspects of our queerness that are awakened. TanyaMarck & Nick get into some queer spirit medicine and drop into some breathwork + movement + toning with the intentions of bringing and sharing all of theses beautifully awakened frequencies with our bodies and systems sprinkling it all with gratitude. Thank you to books and their authors: Home at the End of the World, by Michael Cunnigham; The Velvet Rage, by Alan Downs; The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, by Ann Rice writing as A.N. Roquelaure; & Tales of The City, by Armistead Maupin. Web links
Find J.P. online at ThisQueerBook.com
You can also connect with them on Instagram @thisqueerbook  
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Join us for our season finale: Nick (he>they) + TanyaMarck (they/them) share about their queer story and connection.
Episode Highlights
We flow into and explore the potency of cultivating queer connections. We take a dip into queer spirituality.  And finally we are honored to share and announce upcoming queer spirit offerings in 2024. Web links
Follow us on Instagram @thequeerspirit Find TanyaMarck online at TanyaMarck.com and on IG @tanyamarck
Find Nick online at QueerHealingJourneys.com and on IG @holisticqueerhealing Join the private Queer Spirit Community to continue the conversation and connect with other listeners. 
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Ruth Camillia (they/she/ella) is a bilingual, bicultural, healing arts practitioner, reiki master, akashic records practitioner, and tarot reader. With maternal Indigenous roots from Los Altos de Jalisco, México, they integrate curanderismo and other ancestral practices into their daily life and work. As an intuitive and trauma-informed practitioner, Ruth believes healing is sacred.
Episode Highlights
Ruth shares their queer journey and story in the most delightful ways. And we explore aspects of Queerness alongside them. We get curious about and drop into the Akashic Records. Ruth collaborates on a reading for Nick. Ruth offers a Tarot reading for the queer collective  -  it’s cute + juicy.  Thank you magic and animal medicines of: hawk + black phoebe  + Akashic Records, Cosmic Tarot by Norbert Losche, Sanskrit tools and practices  Queer spirit fingers to Leah Garza @crystalsofaltamira + Linda Howe @drlindahowe + Salva @salvatattoo. Web links
Find Ruth online at RuthCamillia.com
You can also connect with them on Instagram @ruth_camillia


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*Audio Note: Volume and clarity varies during some parts of this interview.
Rekara Gage (she/her) is an herbalist who focuses on the importance of ritual, safety and community when it comes to personal healing and growth. Her approach to wellness is based in food medicine and spirituality, emphasizing new ways to add plant medicine to the routines that you already have in place. She loves helping people reconnect with their intuition and do things with meaning, making everyday feel special. In her practice, it's important to provide access and information to the public so that they can make the best health choices for themselves. Rekara is a student of Traditional Western Herbalism with Julie James at Green Wisdom Apothecary and School of Herbal Studies in Long Beach.
Episode Highlights
Thank you to our grounding plant medicines and their energies: dandelion root (clarity), mullein (lung support + moisture), tulsi ( aids with stress + clear headed + relaxation) , and elecampane (breathwork). Rekara shares with us about her healing journey and how the medicines and magic of storytelling, food, movement, plants, family, community and curiosity play active roles in finding herself and herbalism. We learn about the medicines of ritual and practice that Rekara partakes in throughout her personal herbalism journey, and how they are connected to her culture. We learn what herbalism is: understanding plant medicine (the chemistry), how we can benefit from plants being here, how we can learn from them, and how they support us. Rekara reminds us that when working spiritually with herbs and plants, important aspects to explore and consider include: connection, intention and being open to answering the call to mindfully interact and work with them. Rekara drops an herbal tea recipe that will nourish our queer hearts, bodies, spirits , and souls.  Thank you to these plants  for sharing their medicine and energies: Rose (color + reminder of boundaries + protection + safety)  Tulsi (aids with stress + clears the mind)  Damiana (spicy + sassy + libido + reminds us who we are) Cinnamon (unsung hero that moistens us + grounding + supportive)   Web links
Find Rekara online at Re-ngage.com
You can also connect with her on Instagram @rekaraneal & @rootedherbalcollective
Find Green Wisdom Herbal Studies & Apothercary & IG @greenwisdom
 



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Crystal Mason (they/them) is an artist, activist, dreamer, consultant and coach. They believe in the power of community and necessity of hope.
Jason Wyman (they/them) is Queerly Complex. Using appreciative inquiry, deep listening, and creative conjuring, Wyman taps the Cosmic Mysteries in all to reveal moments of Chaos Poetry. They live, love, and create on Yelamu / San Francisco, and share a home and family with their husband and pride of house and feral cats.
Episode Highlights
Crystal + Jason share their personal queer-stories and drop some queer wisdom nuggets Sweetness alert: We get cozy + comfy while Jason + Crystal take us for a saunter and share about how they met and their connection. We learn about the medicine + magic of dreaming in public and how sharing those dreams with others can lead to co creation and action. Crystal leads Nick + TanyaMarck through a dream practice that includes a share/reflection of what we experienced. Behind the scenes and during our shared time, Jason has been alchemizing some chaos poetry which they share with us; it’s very queer + yummy. We learn about the offerings and practices that both Jason + Crystal share with our collective. Jason's chaos poetry from our collective dreaming practice lead by Crystal:
Take  a deep breath...
Take a deep breath & soften your gaze...
Take a deep breath & flow...
Flow like a river as it snakes its way through the jungles... 
      through the forests...
      through the deserts...
      through the valleys...
      through the mountains...
      through the prairies...
      through the lands of your ancestors & ancestors of these lands, including those unnamed & unknown...
Listen for the birds, the animals, the critters, the wind blowing from the Southwest, from the energies of dreams & wishes...
Smell the flowers & the lush green flora thriving all over this world...
Flow on this river & arrive in queer paradise...
Where the water glistens & glitters...
And queer beings of all bodies-- 
      clothed & naked...
      serene & making love...
      joyous & free...
      alone & in community--
Celebrate completely...
"I do not want to leave..." 
"Me neither..." 
Remember... 
This dream is within you always & in all ways...
You can come back here...
Take a deep breath...
Lay in your hammock...
Dream queer dreams...
Here we will always be free. 
 



Web links
Find Crystal online at CrystalMason.net & on Instagram @ham_job1
Find Jason at QueerlyComplex.com & on Instagram @queerlycomplex
And their collective work at TreeOfChange.net   



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