Majestic Wisdom

In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with visual artist, author, teacher, and all-round creative force, Janet Morgan. Janet shares brilliant insights about how some of her best work started out with a failure, rejection, and/or making a mess. For Janet, this connects to the creative process, problem-solving, and finding her way through something that may feel like it’s not working, so that she can do what it is she wants or needs to do (in art and in life).

In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Deanna Green, yoga teacher and owner of Shambhala Yoga and Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY! Deanna shares how her journey with yoga started and how it has become an integral part of her work not only in owning a studio, but in her personal healing, and healing within the collective.

Through yoga, Deanna has discovered tools that helped her uncover her authentic Self, and she creates a safe space for others so we can all be “unapologetically ourselves.” Here, she talks about her growth through yoga, including many different kinds of challenges, how she meets them, and the flexibility that comes through self-inquiry. We talk about ways in which what she has learned “on the mat” translates into her life and the importance of sharing these teachings with others.

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to Deanna’s work and experience. We hope that this podcast will encourage you to explore where you feel safe, what authenticity means for you, and what you want to bring into the world.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Melodee Solomon. Melodee is a photographer, intuitive energy healer, breath work facilitator, and meditation teacher, who finds connection through their camera in many ways (and across many dimensions).

Here, Melodee shares their “accidental” journey into photography, how it has blended and merged with other healing practices, and how they have created new offerings within nature and community. This unexpected connection behind the lens has become a big part of Melodee’s medicine both personally and collectively.

This conversation also takes us deep into the heart space, where we explore healing around being seen, the unifying essence of beauty, and what it means for the world to co-create with multiple perspectives (and beings). Melodee talks about a new framework that is emerging at this time, and through their work.

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to Melodee’s work and experience. We hope that this podcast will help you discover what inspires your heart and what you notice in the world. There is so much potential and value in the union of multiple perspectives.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Dr. Elisabeth Sharp McKetta. Elisabeth is a storyteller who has authored ten books, including her first novel, She Never Told Me About the Ocean, which debuted in early 2021. She teaches creative writing at Harvard Extension School and Oxford University.   

By exploring why we tell stories, when we start, and how they work on an individual and collective level, Elisabeth shares insights gained through personal experience, and her work within memoir and myth, to take you on a journey of how story shows up in your daily life, around you, and through your being. 

Elisabeth also talks about the crucial element of layered stories that shaped her novel, what it's like to tell a story when you don't know who the audience is, and brings forward the concept of archetypal energies within storytelling. Together, she and Heather weave cycles of birth, death, and rebirth into the conversation and question if memoir and myth are separate at all, or merely threads of the same universal tapestry. 

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. We hope that this podcast will inspire you to think about the stories you were born into, those that have shaped you, and to tell the ones that want or need to be expressed through you.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Nadine Araksi who, among many other things, is a storytelling coach, writer, and co-founder of Kickstartology (an online coaching program that helps women transform their lives).

Sharing from her own experience, Nadine walks us through her approach to the stories we all carry: what they are, where they come from, how to examine them, accept them, or rewrite them, and why this is important to everyday life. We also talk about what's in a name, and Nadine's powerful journey of the stories she has stepped into with each surname she has held. As an Armenian in Canada, Nadine also shares in a story of genocide and recalls personal ancestral lore that has helped shape her and her healing path.

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. We hope that this podcast will inspire you to bring awareness to the thoughts and stories that you repeat, the ones that run your life, and see if you love them, or want to rewrite parts of your story.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Nathalie Biermanns, a Reiki Master who has been practicing and offering Reiki for 18 years and is the Founder of Hollywood Reiki Studio in Los Angeles, California.

Nathalie is passionate about being a positive contributor to the collective and we talk about the work she's been called to do with bringing Reiki to corporations, in particular, and her inspired vision for the future of our world. A future that is no longer destructive, but nourishing. One that we can start to build today by making the time to heal. Nathalie also shares part of her personal journey with Reiki, what Reiki is, the experience of her distant sessions over Zoom (and how Reiki works from afar).

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. We hope that this podcast will inspire you to receive the nourishment that you need for yourself, and to contribute in your own way to those around you. Together, we can shift the world.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Catherine Calderon. Cathy shares her deep, rich journey of dreaming with, connecting with, and working with horses and how it has unfolded throughout her life. Listening to guidance from Goddess or Spirit, she recently uprooted and moved to Florida from NYC to build Blue Harbor Farm.

Cathy offers insight into how horses work with humans (and vice versa) on the energetic, psychological, and spiritual levels and why working with them brings so much healing including vulnerability, moving from emotional incongruity to honesty, working with trauma, and more. She talks openly about challenges she's moved through in this work and setting up a sanctuary for horses and humans alike as well as the practices and treatments that have helped her along the way (many of which may surprise you!).

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. We hope that this podcast will inspire you to follow your heart's dream, reflect upon your own emotional honesty, and understand horses (and yourself) in new ways.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Kate Lewandowski. Kate has worn many career hats in her life. From wildlife researcher, veterinarian, landscaper, jewelry designer, dancer, yoga teacher, massage teacher, business manager to her current role as a breath coach and owner of Be Well Marquette in Marquette, Michigan.

Kate shares with us the common thread that she sees through her life's work and where saying "yes" has taken her even when she wasn't sure why or how to do what it was she was being asked to do. She takes us on a deep journey of the breath and how much information comes through in the way we breathe including how our internal and external worlds interrelate, how we behave, and how we store past moments in breath patterns. Kate shows us how the breath is a key to release and heal physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. We hope that this podcast will inspire you to say yes to what calls to you and to learn about the co-creation of life through your  breath.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Empress Ngala who has been exploring the art of self love and ritual for a number of years. She is a social worker by profession and is a certified yoga instructor, reiki practitioner, and is a student of spiritual herbalism, which looks at the way in which the spiritual energies of plants can support our daily living. She walks closely with those who came before her and works with others to cultivate and document their legacy.

Empress Ngala shares what self love means to her and how reclaiming herself (and her name) has allowed her to create meaningful connection with herself, others, and life. She talks openly about her deep healing journey around self worth, the importance of ritual, and working with and trusting her higher Self, the wisdom of those who came before her, and spirit.

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. We hope that this podcast will spark something within you that desires to reconnect, to be held, loved, and healed.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Holly Ramey. Holly has studied yoga, meditation, tantra, reiki and tarot for many years and has engaged on a deep healing path. This path has helped Holly look at, question, and continue to evolve more and more into her authentic Self.

Holly takes us on her journey of discovering the Tarot, why it resonated with her, and how she works with it (and other healing modalities) to help others (and herself) find insight and healing. She speaks openly about her life experience in working with the shadow and entering into the dark night of the soul in several meaningful ways, the medicine that came from these experiences, and how she shares all of this with others through ceremony, building community wherever she goes (even virtually), and holding space. Holly reminds us that there is always light and that we also need to venture into those internal places we may not want to go...

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. We hope that this podcast will help you also traverse between worlds, hold or cultivate the space you need in order to heal and open to the shadow energies that want to be seen, heard, and integrated into your being.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Tigrilla Gardenia. Tigrilla works as a Nature-Inspired Leadership Mentor and studies Plant Intelligence and the Effects of Plant Music on Human Health. She is an influential speaker and mentor, running courses and workshops on reconnection with the plant kingdom and champions connection to nature as the basis for long-term health, happiness and success.

Tigrilla shares with us what reconnection with the Plant Kingdom means to her and how, by seeing our own plant blindness and remembering our plantness, we can remember our part within a greater ecosystem (and that we, individually, are an entire ecosystem). She reveals scientific and other insights into what this reconnection means for humans and plants to co-exist, co-create and thrive (or flourish) and how this helps us discern what a crisis is and whether or not to take action.

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. We hope that this podcast will inspire you to connect with a plant near you and see what happens next... To find your own path to leadership and your unique purpose within the ecosystem of which you are already a part (and/or to find a new ecosystem if needed).

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Shakti Smith. Shakti is a Dynamic Embodiment Therapist, Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, Shamanic Reiki Practitioner, Massage Therapist, Yoga Teacher and Healer. She is also the Founder of Prema Soma Healing Arts in Brooklyn, NY.

Through speaking of the relationship between physical movement, growth, and brain development, Shakti takes us on a journey of reconnection to ourselves, nature, and to others. She shares insights into what happens in our earliest moments of learning how to move, what that can mean psychologically and energetically as an adult, and what it means to exist and live with full body intelligence. Together we also discover connections to the human body and the plant world that surprised us!

Shakti shares her journey of communicating with trees and how powerful it is to witness others find this understanding in their own way and how all of this is beneficial for the collective. Learn about how you can start to reconnect to your body, spirit, and Self in many ways including her Medicine Dance class.

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. We hope that this podcast will inspire you to pay more attention to your body, what it means for you to connect, and how this awareness is beneficial in your everyday life.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with independent filmmaker, actor, director, producer, screenwriter and artist Gérome Barry. We talk about Gérome's personal journey of creating his first feature film, Swing Rendez-vous including how the idea was born and what it led him to do next...

Gérome shares his creative process, vision, ways of collaborating, and what he's been working on during confinement in Paris (and why).  We also discuss the possibility of full freedom when it comes to creating and what being able to create every day means to Gérome.

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. We hope that this podcast will inspire you to connect with and explore your creative impulses. To see what happens when you feel them, listen, and follow them through to the end.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Marina Levitina, director and chairperson of the Lough Grainey Nature Sanctuary in county Clare, Ireland. Marina is also a gifted teacher, healer, filmmaker, and practitioner of Sacred Plant Medicine. In this episode we talk about the dream and vision of Lough Grainey Nature Sanctuary as well as Marina's work to bring a connection with nature to children in many ways (some that you might not expect!).

Marina shares her personal journey, takes us in our imagination to the land of Lough Grainey and uncovers the myths and ancient connections that make this part of Ireland sacred. Marina even brings a special plant guest who sings for us through a Music of the Plants device.

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. We hope that this podcast will inspire you to connect with nature, feel into your own heart's path, and learn more about this Nature Sanctuary and others near you.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Ekaterina Rodin and Jordan MacKinnon, founders and farmers of The Humble Garden. Ekaterina and Jordan share their passion for working with the land, how they both started to be called to do so, and what it means for them. As organic farmers, they offer a unique (and perhaps unexpected) perspective on balance not just locally but on a macro-scale, trust, and lessons from listening to the land (and Jordan's 96-year-old grandfather). 

We also explore the idea of ancestral knowledge and connection, what it means to co-create, the support of community, and an exchange economy.

Heather then offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. We hope that this podcast will inspire you to connect with your land, food, the community and energy around you, and to find what balance means for you.

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Curious about how we prepared for the next episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast? Take a listen to this short clip. 

Episode 3 with Ekaterina Rodin and Jordan MacKinnon of The Humble Garden is coming soon. Be sure to follow or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Podcast Heather co-creates with Amy Eberhardt. Amy shares her journey of becoming. Through early inclinations of wanting to heal through touch to obstacles preventing this work to a career as a massage therapist and Integrative Health Practitioner at a major NYC medical center, Amy shares about her path and what it means to be of service to others.

Amy then shares openly about menopause and walks us through a ritual she created to honor this major gateway of life as well as societal beliefs we hold around the natural aging process for women (that just aren't true...). She incorporates threads of what it means for her to be an elder and offers insight into her own healing process and a broader scope of what we all carry collectively. 

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work. 

We hope that this podcast will encourage you to create ritual and the support you need or see missing for yourself and in your community.

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In this episode of Majestic Wisdom Heather co-creates with Interdisciplinary Artist and Environmental Visionary Stewart Hoyt. 

Stewart shares about powerful connections we can make in ourselves, our communities and our own back yard to create healthy ways of living interdependently. Stewart offers insight into his experience of Authentic and Ecstatic Movement and we talk about how being in touch with our bodies also helps us be in greater connection to nature, the land, and others around us. 

His vision for how we can optimize the ways we live embraces not only how to work with the impacts of (and hopefully offset) climate change but how cities and communities can optimize and align themselves to ensure great economic and environmental benefit. 

Heather also offers a plant spirit reading in relation to this work.

There is much wisdom shared here and we hope this podcast inspires you to deepen your own experience or calls to action.

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