The Awaken Podcast with Natasja Pelgrom Natasja Pelgrom

The Awaken Podcast special series, Women in Psychedelics is a podcast series that does an amazing job of telling the stories of fascinating women who are currently making an impact within the psychedelic and plant healing movement.
The intention of this series is to further amplify female voices within this space. Natasja is driven by bringing to the forefront untold stories, exclusive content, and inspiration. This is about offering and celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and sometimes unseen achievements of women in this psychedelic renaissance. A way to stand together embracing our diversity for a greater Eco-system.
Meet Jaguar Womban is a multidimensional healing artist, Medicine Womban, and Visionary Mother of The WombNation. She is an intuitive herbalist, ancestral channel, poet, and teacher who shares ways to connect to Mother Earth using plant medicine and ceremony. In both her private TEAsessions and The Circle of Light womban circle, Jaguar teaches how to use the unique self-care ritual of WombSteaming as a Ritual of Prayer and a Sacred Tool to awaken our innate Womb Wisdom and Divine Internal Guidance System.
Jaguar's journey into the mystical began when she was struck by a car while on foot and had a Death Experience (NDE) that left her in a coma with a diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injury. This began her healing journey of relearning walking, talking, reading, writing, and social skills. She was first shuffled through traditional western medicine and rehabilitation and after not attaining the healing she desired, sought out a path of her ancestral traditions. On her journey, she experienced a solo pilgrimage of spiritual and physical transformation and formed The WombNation to bring the power of these life-changing rituals and her unique Jaguar Medicine to womb carriers worldwide.
Jaguar is a Yoga Alliance certified Hatha Yoga instructor, Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) Yoga instructor, Thai Yoga bodywork practitioner, and attuned Healer. She has an MA in Creative Writing/Poetry and is a published, poet and powerful performer. In both her healing work and creative expression, she incorporates her study and practice of Shamanism, Sanskrit mantra, sound healing, breathwork, ancestral plant medicine, movement, and ceremony.

In this episode Jaguar Womban discusses:
Death as an initiation journeyNDE as an opening for dimensional workHer personal story of awakening and being in a psychiatric ward How to walk the path of our purpose with clarityCompleting the work of the embodied feminineWomb steaming / vaginal steam as a portal and dimensional workRemembering the medicine of the grandmothersThe quantum field of the WombThe history of wombteamPlantbaths and womb steam with teacher plants for healing and teachingsWhat are plant teachersThe frequencies of the plantsWomb work for ancestral work and honoring the cycles of lifeThe medicine of plant baths for those without a womb
Website: https://www.wombnation.org
Social Media handles: IG @JaguarWomban
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The Awaken Podcast special series, Women in Psychedelics is a podcast series that does an amazing job of telling the stories of fascinating women who are currently making an impact within the psychedelic and plant healing movement.
The intention of this series is to further amplify female voices within this space. Natasja is driven by bringing to the forefront untold stories, exclusive content, and inspiration. This is about offering and celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and sometimes unseen achievements of women in this psychedelic renaissance. A way to stand together embracing our diversity for a greater Eco-system.
Meet in this episode Elizabeth Bast is a Bwiti initiate, traditionally trained iboga provider, and a co-founder of SoulCentro Iboga Retreats. She is the author of the award-winning memoir, Heart Medicine: A True Love Story--One Couple's Quest for the Sacred Iboga Medicine & the Cure for Addiction. Bast is a recipient of a Women of the Psychedelic Renaissance grant from the psychedelic feminist nonprofit organization Cosmic Sister and a member of Cosmic Sister's Expert Advisory Circle. She studied at New College of San Francisco with an emphasis on Art and Social Change and completed the transformational coach training program for psychedelic integration with Being True to You. Elizabeth’s Bwiti name is Mbeye, which means the medicine of the river.

In this episode Elizabeth discusses:
What brought you to iboga medicine?Iboga is a powerful and medically sensitive medicine. What does it mean to be a medically responsible provider of iboga?The importance of a strong code of ethics as a medicine providerThe acknowledgment as a healer by the Bwiti eldersWhat is reciprocity with regard to indigenous communities and why is it important?The mind, body, and soul purge with IbogaHow can iboga help with relationshipsStory and vision for SoulCentro.Humility as a teaching forceLiving as a devotee and student of the medicineThe four pillars of Iboga: Addiction recovery, Trauma healing, Holistic wellness  and Visionary creativityMedicine coding, attire, and sacred colorsTobacco medicine, the teacher plantWebsite: www.soulcentro.com
Social Media handles:
https://facebook.com/enectarbast
https://instagram.com/enectarbast

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Meet Julian Vayne, a British independent scholar and author with over three decades of experience within esoteric culture: from Druidry to Chaos Magic, from indigenous Shamanism through to Freemasonry and Witchcraft.

In this episode Julian discusses:
Role of psychedelics sociallyRituals and Ceremonies and their structural understandingPsychedelics learning vs healingDifference between space holding and research with psychedelicsAnimism, metaphors, spirits, and the techniques of energy work possible in sitting workEleusinian mysteries and the cultures of the pre-colonial Americas Magic in Psychedelic Medicine Bridging research with sacrednessChallenges within the current psychedelic training programsPossibility psychedelic futuresWebsite: julianvayne.com
Social Media handles: @julian.vayne

Inspiration:
https://fungiacademy.com/sacred-space-holder-program/
https://www.breakingconvention.co.uk/
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Meet Angela Prusa, born and raised in Namibia Angela has been an advocate for the legalization of cannabis and hemp in her home country of Namibia for the past 6 years.
Founder of the Cannabis and Hemp Association of Namibia her passion is to educate on the potential of the cannabis plant to create sustainable industries empower marginalized communities in rural areas and mitigate climate change with hemp and to advocate for a legalization model that has social justice, repatriations, community empowerment, and local and indigenous knowledge and voices at its core.
Angela is a NADA Acupuncture Practitioner who focuses on Trauma and Addiction and works closely with communities in her home teaching them to be NADA Practitioners as well as supporting People who are homeless.
Roots Herbal is a cannabis brand that Angela has co-founded with her friend Talin Sellian and together they support hundreds of People with a range of ailments from anxiety to chronic ailments to mental health issues with cannabis as natural therapeutic medicine.
The focus of Roots Herbal is to closely support People on their health journeys with this plant and to empower People.
Their emphasis is on creating good quality cannabis medicine that is grown with reverence and respect to the plant and the earth, so only small-scale organic growing with spiritual practices incorporated such as growing with the moon cycles, ceremonial
offerings to the plant spirit, and the Earth and lots of love and prayers to create magical medicines to support people as well as investing into the communities that grow the medicine.
In this episode Angela discusses:
Journey on the path of healing and serviceReciprocityChanging this current paradigmWorking with the plants in a sacred wayOur daily life in ritual and gratitudeDecolonising the way we workCannabis as a medicineBeing a single mother and what that looks like for meThe reality of childhood trauma while being a motherAdvocating to create legislation so that it is anti-racist, decolonial, cares about Earth and Nature and Animal well-being around Cannabis and Hemp in Namibia.Social Media handles:
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Roost and Herbal

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Meet Henk Doller, has a Bachelor's degree HRM Trainer and Education and he started his career in 1995 as a commercial intermediary. He made the switch to the non-profit sector and as a team coordinator and trainer developed services and training in the social domain. Henk has also developed himself as a project leader for the Information Management Academy, responsible for setting up and executing interdepartmental courses in the field of government and ICT. Within these projects, he also provided modules aimed at training and strengthening personal skills. And since 2010 he serves as interim coach and trainer in the field of career, mobility, and management development.

In 2012 he was initiated in the Munay Ki healing system. It’s an energy healing system and cosmology of the peoples living in the Andes in South America and Inca shamanism. Over the years he’s had many teachings and a wide range of shamanic lineages and since 2013 leading groups and individuals 1-25 participants in Ayahuasca ceremonies and retreats. His Dutch roots eventually polled him towards Truffles containing psilocybin and have facilitated over the past 7 years indoor and outdoor ceremonies. As a retreat leader, he often combines his process with modalities such as Cocoa ceremony, meditation, silent walks, and sharing rounds. His deep passion to bridge both worlds, the mystical and organizational, is felt in all his endeavors. Henk has 26+ years of experience with one-on-one guidance and 20 years in guiding teams and groups.

In this episode Henk discusses:
What are the core principles of space holdingA spiritual journey with Plant MedicinesMunay Ki healing system initiationsHow plant medicines and psychedelics inform and influence leadership qualitiesThe practice of being a student of lifeWhat it means to have a judgment-free settingSacred feminine and masculine qualities in leadershipHow can a leader influence the systems they are in with plant medicines and psychedelics How to be present in relationshipsPlaying is being in the nowWalking many worlds, from cooperative to sacred medicine workThe practice of prayerHenk's Social Media handles:
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In this episode, Natasja Pelgrom the host of The Awaken Podcast is interviewed by  Beth Weinstein from the Psychedelic Entrepreneur Podcast, tune is as they speak about…
Natasja’s attraction to energy work, shamanism, meditation, and psychedelics at a young ageHow “Do no harm” should be a central tenet of all psychedelic facilitation workThe huge responsibility you have as a facilitator is to hold sacred the trust you are offered by the people you serveSerious issues that can arise when people wanting to work with psychedelics don’t report contraindications and how this can negatively impact them, their facilitator, and the whole psychedelic ecosystemThe growing problem of people doing short facilitator training and immediately jumping into facilitation long before they have the knowledge and experience to do soThe energetic differences between male and female facilitation styles“Cleaning” the system to help prepare people for a bufo experience so their innate healing capacity can be more easily activatedHow the cleaner you are, the more you trust, and the more you trust, the more deeply you can surrenderUsing a smaller “integration dose” after the main dose/s to empower and bring resilience to the psyche and nervous systemHow giving super high doses of medicine can be a sign that a facilitator feels they are “not enough”, which is picked up energetically by the client/sThe need for facilitators to be able to understand their own programming and hold space without their own issues interfering
Natasja Pelgrom is a visionary leader and mystical mentor, she is the host of The Awaken Podcast and the founder of Awaken The Medicine Within, retreats and programs that support people with psycho-spiritual approaches since 2017. Natasja is a highly intuitive guide and has held training, assisting, and facilitation roles in over 800 psychedelic ceremonies. Natasja was a founding member of the Synthesis Institute and the director of the psilocybin-assisted Wellness retreats. As a key curator of retreat programs, she oversaw the retreat team development and training. She currently advises and supervises executives in the (psychedelic) wellness industry. Natasja is also a mentor to leaders, coaches, therapists, and/or space holders, where she focuses on the mind, and heart coherence to prosper in their Self-leadership. Natasja’s multifaceted mentorship approach is paired with 20+ years of entrepreneurial experience


Natasja Pelgrom’s Links & Resources
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