The Queer Spirit Nick Venegoni, TanyaMarck Oviedo
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- Health & Fitness
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The Queer Spirit podcast has conversations with artists, healers and activists who enliven, heal and empower the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Gender Queer+ communities.
Each episode we'll be interviewing a different guest who does work in the world to nourish the Queer Spirit in us all - authors, coaches, teachers, body workers, mystics, creatives, ritualists, diviners and MORE. We'll dive deep into sexuality, spirituality, yoga, energy work, shamanism, healing trauma, relationships, art, activism, gender identity, tarot, astrology, and magic. Hear how other queer folks have healed themselves and be inspired to continue your path to wholeness.
Hosted by Nick Venegoni (hethey) & TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them)
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Queer Books Save Lives with J.P. Der Boghossian
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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Just the Queer of Us with TanyaMarck Oviedo & Nick Venegoni
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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Exploring Queerness, Akashic Records + Tarot with Ruth Camillia
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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The Green Wisdom of Herbalism with Rekara Gage
*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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Creating Dreams out of Chaos with Crystal Mason & Jason Wyman
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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The Magic of Gender Exploration with Rae McDaniel
Rae McDaniel (they/them) is a non-binary speaker, author, therapist, Certified Sex Therapist, coach and Transgender Diversity & Inclusion Educator. Rae helps audiences gain the sheer audacity to be themselves in the world through play, pleasure, and possibility.
Their book Gender Magic is a first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender freedom with joy, curiosity, and pleasure for transgender and non-binary individuals, gender explorers, and those who love them.
Rae is also the founder and CEO of Practical Audacity, a Gender & Sex Therapy practice in Chicago, serving over 300 clients yearly.
Episode Highlights
During our shared time we explore what it means to be in flow with the unfolding journey of gender. Rae shares that coming out to their family took a couple of years - they were blessed and lucky to have built a supportive strong queer community prior to coming out. They share with us how pandemic quarantine removed a lot of the external barriers trans people navigate on the daily. During this time, Rae honored their trans identity by getting top surgery and working more deeply with testosterone injections. Rae drops some queer wisdom nuggets: How do we connect to ourselves, to each other? How do we bring more pleasure + joy + play into our lives right now even while holding all the heavy stuff? In their new book, Gender Magic, Rae poses that we position gender exploration and transition as just another part of self growth. Rae shares an excerpt from their book with us and it’s filled with such yummy nuggets of queer wisdom. Pleasure + Joy + Play remain integral ingredients of their growth. Web links
Find Rae online at campsite.bio/theraemcdaniel Connect with Rae on Instagram
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