Rio Cosmico

• The Winding Path of the Self Taught Intuitive Herbalist with Veladya Chapman

  In this episode, we are joined by Veladya Chapman, Goddess guide, herbalist, homesteader, womb wisdom keeper, and so much more. I smiled and laughed a lot during this conversation and in the editing process and hope you will too in the listening. In this episode we explore: • Veladya’s multicultural heritage • What Goddesses inform Veladya’s path and work, including how Kali comes to guide women who work with other women, and Oshun’s connection to our deep emotions • Her childhood making herbal perfumes and potions to sell instead of lemonade, and the path of the intuitive self taught herbalist • Overcoming bullying and racial dynamics in the south, the pain and energetic expense that bullying and judgement can cause us, and the efforts to move forward anyway • How playing the role of Annie as a black young woman served as an early opportunity to own that being different is fabulous • How the witch, medicine woman, coroner and outcast are roles that young witches in musical theater are often cast in • Working as an actress on broadway, getting that out of the way, and feeling like there was something more than the electric feeling of being in front of an audience • Holistic nutrition school being a transformative time and space to make big changes in her way of life. • The ever changing landscape of our close herbal allies • The magic of pao d’arco and the magical way it came into her life for gut health and candida overgrowth • How tarot archetypes show up in an herbalist’s world • What’s growing in her garden and the path land stewardship veladyaorganica meg flora wellness tenesse • Transitioning from a vegan diet back to meat eating, and needing to come out to the vegan community that she helped grow • Recognizing faerie wisdom channelled by other modern guides • Veladya’s motherhood journey and it’s unexpected challenges, like being asked to become a mother before ready, a year of mourning maidenhood and letting go of the belief that things will come easily • What she turn’s to in times of creative or mothering burnout …and more! ▼LINKS▼: Thank you for listening, it is a pleasure getting well with you! If you would like to learn more about Veladya’s work please visit: https://www.veladyaorganica.com View Veladya’s popular Youtube “Why I’m not Vegan Anymore”: https://youtu.be/N-nXzXGCDf4?feature=shared Listen to host Yaya’s own journey from being vegan to eating meat again in Episode 1 of our old podcast Earthside Survival Guide: https://youtu.be/H45CmVJs14I?feature=shared Intro music by Luis Mojica: http://www.luismojica.com Featured Music: “Mycelium” by Dean Jones & Jacky Davis (Included with the permission of the artists) Podcast art custom created for us by Geens Archenti Flores: https://www.instagram.com/geenssarchenti/?hl=en Learn more about our school Escuela del Río Cósmico here: https://www.riocosmico.org Listen to the bonus conversation with Veladya and support the show in producing new episodes by joining us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/riocosmico If you would like to donate, or donate again, to our BIPOC Scholarship fund, we are currently accepting donations to provide financial assistance for the 2024 cohort of our folk medicine apprenticeship here: https://www.riocosmico.org/pages/donate

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• Music is Everywhere, and We are All the Hummingbirds of These Times w/ Artist, Therapist, and Educator Claudia Cuentas

  Welcome to Río Cósmico, a podcast about healing brought to you by Yaya Erin Rivera & Río Cósmico Homestead. In this short and sweet episode we are joined once again by Peruvian born, bilingual and bicultural artist, licensed marriage and family therapist, researcher and educator, Claudia Cuentas. Claudia is currently in private practice in Portland Oregon, and specializes in the intersectionality of art, trauma recovery, cultural identity, indigenous knowledge and the decolonization of healing. In this episode we share a personal update on where we are at on our own healing journey as it relates to what we share through the podcast and the school. We go on to continue the conversation from episode 9 about navigating the way layers of family, history, and culture show up in our bodies and relationships as patterns to be healed, and how it is that this healing actually takes place. Be sure to listen all the way to the end where you can hear more of the original healing songs we discuss in this episode. Together we also explore: • The multiverse within and it’s many layers • Music’s ability to transmute and transform energies in the body, changing the very composition of the matter that we are working with • Viewing the body as made up of channels of water, and how music can open channels and unblock life force energy so we can flow, feel our feelings, find release, and allow ourselves to come back into balance. • How music is actually everywhere • Advice and encouragement for those who desire to write their own original songs • The story/ inspiration behind 2 of Claudia’s favorite songs from her album Alma. The first is titled simply "Aguita", and is a medicine song for the waters. the second song is called Canta Colibri, and is about finding our voice and being fiercely joyful and fully present again after trauma. ▼LINKS▼: If you would like to learn more about Claudia’s work please visit: https://www.claudiacuentas.com and @claudiacuentasoficial on Instagagram. Intro music by Luis Mojica: http://www.luismojica.com Featured Music: Aguita & Canta Colibri by Claudia Cuentas from her album Alma. Podcast art custom created for us by Geens Archenti Flores: https://www.instagram.com/geenssarchenti/?hl=en Learn more about Medicine Mandala, our year long Folk Medicine Apprenticeship click here: https://www.riocosmico.org Learn More about our commitments to our learning community by visiting https://www.riocosmico.org/pages/diversity-equity-at-rio-cosmico Support the show in producing new episodes by becoming a member of our Library of Earth Magic on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/riocosmico Thank you for listening, it is a pleasure getting well with you!

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• Solidarity is Our Second Nature with Peruvian Born Artist, Therapist & Educator Claudia Cuentas

  Welcome to Río Cósmico, a podcast about healing brought to you by Yaya Erin Rivera & Río Cósmico Homestead. In this episode we are joined by Peruvian born, bilingual and bicultural artist, licensed marriage and family therapist, researcher and educator, Claudia Cuentas. Claudia is currently in private practice in Portland Oregon, and specializes in the intersectionality of art, trauma recovery, cultural identity, indigenous knowledge and the decolonization of healing. In this episode we explore: • The mixture of food, music, and political activity Claudia was raised with • Learning about life, commitment to family, and indigenous movements for social justice in her grandmothers kitchen • Aymara and Quechua values around reciprocity and solidarity, how life gives life exponentially • Coming to the united states at 18 without expectation of staying • Navigating family pressures and expectations of us while believing in the visions for our lives that art can show us • Being shaped by working every imaginable job and the vulnerability of being in a country undocumented and needing to find a way to to help family and pay for studies, learn english and pursue a career • When things began to come together and integrate into a vision supported by the ancestors • The western paradigm of specialization and how it disconnects us from our wholeness, and the faith required that the ancestors are supporting us every step of the way • What it’s like to receive a healing session from Claudia • How our activism or creative projects may feel fulfilling, but often it is our family that is there for us when times get tough or at the end of our lives • Approaching things through the political lens versus through the lens of what is healing • Healing as following the golden thread of curiosity and wanting to learn more • Finding teachers from her own lineage and regions to learn how to do healing work in community and with women • the necessity for us of forgiving our fathers, in order to be the versions of ourselves we most want to be and how when we go through the process we prevent those fractals from recreating themselves in our lives now and being passed to future generations • a somatic therapists working definition of PTSD • some mechanics of intergenerational trauma and how it can show up, and the non linear nature of the healing process • studying psychology while simultaneously working deeply with indigenous teachers and the way that enables her to filter everything through the lens of the indigenous perspectives • trauma as shock to the body, events that take us beyond our capacity. • nervous system re-organisation and accepting how reality affects our energy • understanding and decoding what it is in our bodies, where it comes from, and how we can transform & recycle that energy… and more. ▼LINKS▼: Thank you for listening, it is a pleasure getting well with you! If you would like to learn more about Claudia’s work please visit: https://www.claudiacuentas.com Intro music by Luis Mojica: http://www.luismojica.com Featured Music: Tobaquito by Claudia Cuentas from the album Alma. Podcast art custom created for us by Geens Archenti Flores: https://www.instagram.com/geenssarchenti/?hl=en Learn more about our school Escuela del Río Cósmico here: https://www.riocosmico.org Support the show in producing new episodes by joining us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/riocosmico If you would like to donate, or donate again, to our BIPOC Scholarship fund, we are currently accepting donations to provide financial assistance for the 2024 cohort of our folk medicine apprenticeship here: https://www.riocosmico.org/pages/donate

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• The Genius of Reflexive People Pleasing, Trauma as Goddess, and Other Strangely Liberating Truths with Somatic Therapist Luis Mojica

  Welcome to Río Cósmico, a podcast about healing brought to you by Río Cósmico Homestead. In this episode, host Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman is joined once again by somatic therapist, life coach, whole food nutritional counselor, father, and musician Luis Mojica for part 2 of a 2 part conversation. In this episode we explore: • Luis’s personal definition of trauma, informed by his own healing journey and his experiences as a professional Somatic Therapist • How trauma is not tied to the event • Somatic Therapy as indigenous wisdom that invites us to reorient ourselves back to the land • Familiarizing ourselves with the language of being “over-coupled” to help us navigate our reactivity to situations • The promise versus the real potential of the Somatic Therapy modality • The relationship between traumatic experiences and Goddess Kali • What is happening in the body when we become triggered • Understanding the fawn response and the survival genius of reflexive people pleasing • Possible intergenerational sources of our triggers • Positive and traumatic over-coupleings, or associations, and how they show up in our responses to life • When intergenerational trauma looks like past life memories or overreacting • How time and the seasons can help us process through complex traumas • The importance of allowing our natural rhythms of constriction and expansion to play their part in the processing of traumatic experiences • The difference between desire and capacity and how this may relate to our explorations of values driven polyamory Links: Access episode bonus content & learn all the benefits of becoming a member of our Library of Earth Magic on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/activeculturefamily Learn more about Luis’ Somatic Therapy work, visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com Featured Music: Mountains by Luis Mojica Podcast Intro music by Luis Mojica: http://www.luismojica.com Podcast art by Geens Archenti Flores for Rio Cosmico: https://www.instagram.com/geenssarchenti/?hl=en Learn more about Río Cósmico: https://www.riocosmico.org

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• The Endless Trail of Cosmos Unfurling: Exploring Surgery, Songwriting & The Tools of Somatic Therapy with Luis Mojica

  Welcome to Río Cósmico, a podcast about healing brought to you by Río Cósmico Homestead. In this episode, host Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman is joined by somatic therapist, life coach, whole food nutritional counselor, father, and musician Luis Mojica. In this episode we explore: • Being born with an intersex expression and the road to acceptance of both the body we are born into and the culture(s) we are born into • The lawlessness of our own inner mythological landscape • Experiencing the self as an endless trail of cosmos unfurling • The healing power of sound, songwriting & surgery • People we meet who evoke our deepest authenticity that we just can’t hide from • A witches story of reclaiming the land that is the body • Tantric wisdom goddess Matangi and recognizing her Shakti across cultures • Somatic Therapy as a tool for a more soulful, unapologetic embodiment • Exploring the racial tensions that can arise in intersectional communities through the lens of Somatic Therapy • Goddess in her form as the forest floor, and more. This episode culminates in an extended, multidisciplinary transmission of Goddess Diana energy. Books Mentioned in this Episode: The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell The Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss Goddesses in Every Woman by Jean Shinoda Bolen Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés Thank you for listening, it is a pleasure getting well with you! If you would like to access the bonus conversation with Luis on how to tell the difference between the voice of our intuition and the voice of our triggers, along with hundreds of other recipes, discounts, patrons only merchandise, workshops, rituals, and more, you can head over to our Library of Earth Magic on Patreon and explore all the benefits of membership today. Links: Access episode bonus content & learn all the benefits of becoming a member of our Library of Earth Magic on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/activeculturefamily Learn more about Luis’ Somatic Therapy work, visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com Featured Music: Diana by by Luis Mojica Podcast Intro music by Luis Mojica: http://www.luismojica.com Podcast art by Geens Archenti Flores for Rio Cosmico: https://www.instagram.com/geenssarchenti/?hl=en Learn more about Río Cósmico: https://www.riocosmico.org

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