Vital Vagina Podcast

IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS:

• How her body of work was born.
• The body has it's own intelligence.
• Holistic Pelvic Care is like Feng Shui for the pelvic bowl. Shifting the alignment to increase energy flow.
• How she integrated energy work into her more mechanical/symptom-based training
• Western Medicine has not had language for energy/chi.
• Energy work gets more to the root and is more gentle, hence more effective, and helps with trauma. (This was missing in both of our training systems.)
• We invite more practitioners to expand the box they were trained in!
• How she has balance motherhood and busy practice, and how challenging that can be when children are so bonded to the physical body.
• Why women's health bodywork has been so unknown.
• How we inherit and embody the gifts and wounds of our lineage, how the body keeps a record, and how to access the gifts and potentials inside our family wounds.
• Working with ancestor energy.
• "Stay open. Be respectful. Stay out of your ego. Get to work."
• The shut down and wounding feminine from the patriarchy exists in EVERYONE
• She defines feminine as the sacred ability to receive -- this is equally stripped away in all genders and sexes. Repairing this wound creates whole new patterns in the masculine. The work our time is to repair the feminine and heal our masculine forms. We talked about what this looks like.
• Our current wounded masculine systems behave like cancer. Integrating the feminine and restoring the sacred is the key to healing.

Special Guest: Tami Lynn Kent, MSTP.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS:

• The roots of chiropractic and Dr. Brett's journey to learning more about what made the early chiropractors so successful at helping people with such a variety of issues.
• This journey led him to realize that it was just important to train BEING as much as DOING, which led him to create a holistic chiropractic training movement.
• How he discovered that the majority of the qualities needed to be an amazing chiropractor are feminine
• Dr. Brett's hyper-masculine background and what led him to become more interested in feminine energy
• The difference between a chiropractic adjustment vs manipulation and concept of connection before correction... LISTENING before giving input
• How our wholeness is about taking ownership of both masculine and feminine energies, regardless of which energy is more dominant in your being
• Masculine energy is not negative, it's just gotten out of balance and is stuck. Like with our nervous system, it is not "bad" to go into a sympathetic state, it is when we get stuck there that it becomes unhealthy for everyone.
• Healthy masculine energy is dynamic and allows for integration and honoring of the feminine, as well as the needs of the others around us and our environment
• The pain of leadership and learning to receive support

The information in this podcast is not meant to be medical advice. The opinion of the guest is not necessarily Dr. Danielle's opinion. The intent of this podcast is to present a variety of information based on a variety of opinions and sources. If you need help with a specific medical issue, please see your practitioners directly and do your own research.
(Please always listen to both your instincts and multiple sources!)

Special Guest: Dr. Brett Jones.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS:

• Moving from stiffness to flow
• Circling up with the feminine
• What it was like for Kathy to wake up her inner feminine
• Beyond growth mindset is flow mindset
• Valuing the feminine as much as the masculine
• New moon rituals as healing medicine for feminine energy
• Her process living between mainstream and "alternative" worlds
• Letting go of labels that kill curiosity
• Her self-care center, Live Everything Mindful
• As a photographer, Kathy helps people stay in their bodies and express their true selves in her photo shoots

The information in this podcast is not meant to be medical advice. The opinion of the guest is not necessarily Dr. Danielle's opinion. The intent of this podcast is to present a variety of information based on a variety of opinions and sources. If you need help with a specific medical issue, please see your practitioners directly and do your own research.
(Please always listen to both your instincts and multiple sources!)

Special Guest: Kathy Carlisle.

In this epside, we discuss: We discuss:

• Aqiylah's background
• The simple, practical application of Reiki
• Our culture is touch starved, Reiki can help
• Demystifying vaginal steams
• Steams can help menopausal symptoms
• The power of plants
• Contraindications to steaming
• How reconnecting to the womb can be profoundly healing
• How modern gynecological care can encourage disconnection from the body

The information in this podcast is not meant to be medical advice. The opinion of the guest is not necessarily Dr. Danielle's opinion. The intent of this podcast is to present a variety of information based on a variety of opinions and sources. If you need help with a specific medical issue, please see your practitioners directly and do your own research.
(Please always listen to both your instincts and multiple sources!)

Special Guest: Aqiylah Collins.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS:

• Honoring the depths of pain that can come with infertility and childlessness
• The drive to create and mothering -- it is not necessarily linked to having children
• The feminine version of the hero's journey is the woman's quest to create
• The profound messages (YES and NO) the come from deep within the body
• Do not ever deny a woman her motherhood instincts, whether she has children or not
• The power of female creativity
• Being grateful for infertility because it allows a deeply conscious choice and the opportunity to single focus on a body of work
• The social pressure that makes females feel like mothering children is the only thing worth living for
• How infertility has created more creative fertility for each of us by learning to contain and channel that energy into deep work and partnerships
• Rising like a phoenix from the darkest nights of the soul

The information in this podcast is not meant to be medical advice. The opinion of the guest is not necessarily Dr. Danielle's opinion. The intent of this podcast is to present a variety of information based on a variety of opinions and sources. If you need help with a specific medical issue, please see your practitioners directly and do your own research.
(Please always listen to both your instincts and multiple sources!)

Special Guest: Shara Raqs.

• Mona's background and how we connected
• Our mutual love of Seed Cycling
• What is Seed Cycling anyway?
• Hippocrates: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
• Seed Cycling can work for lots of different types of bodies
• The specifics on how Seed Cycling works and how to do it!
• The Seed Cycling 101 website and dry erase board we designed together

The information in this podcast is not meant to be medical advice. The opinion of the guest is not necessarily Dr. Danielle's opinion. The intent of this podcast is to present a variety of information based on a variety of opinions and sources. If you need help with a specific medical issue, please see your practitioners directly and do your own research.
(Please always listen to both your instincts and multiple sources!)

Special Guest: Mona Bowen.

WE DISCUSS

• Her background with childcare into motherhood
• Her early obsession with water birth
• Her water birth experiences
• All birth stories and experiences are valid; releasing guilt
  
• She shares her personal experience with miscarriage
• How we all need to talk more openly about birth loss in order to heal
• Yoni Eggs & Kegel's
• Her journey finding The Vagina Whisperer, Tami Kent
• Emotional release experiences
• The JOY of being able to hold your bladder!
• Energetic gestation of lineage and healing ancestral lines
• Her candid experience healing with Holistic Pelvic Care and Chiropractic

The information in this podcast is not meant to be medical advice. The opinion of the guest is not necessarily Dr. Danielle's opinion. The intent of this podcast is to present a variety of information based on a variety of opinions and sources. If you need help with a specific medical issue, please see your practitioners directly and do your own research.
(Please always listen to both your instincts and multiple sources!)

Special Guest: Sonya Wilder.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The pain of conventional medical training
• Liberation from silent agreements
• Spiritual healing, plant medicine, shamanism (and how to avoid shabby shamanism)
• Bravely being present with the body in order to feel and heal
• The general differences between how male and female bodies process energy
• The difference between sexuality and sensuality and why this is so important
• How the non-binary fits in to this work

The information in this podcast is not meant to be medical advice. The opinion of the guest is not necessarily Dr. Danielle's opinion. The intent of this podcast is to present a variety of information based on a variety of opinions and sources. If you need help with a specific medical issue, please see your practitioners directly and do your own research.
(Please always listen to both your instincts and multiple sources!)

Special Guest: Amron Bevels-Wilson.

WE TALKED ABOUT

• Conscious contraception
• Fertility awareness
• Body ecology
• How tracking your cycle can be an erotic journey
• The sacred YES

The information in this podcast is not meant to be medical advice. The opinion of the guest is not necessarily Dr. Danielle's opinion. The intent of this podcast is to present a variety of information based on a variety of opinions and sources. If you need help with a specific medical issue, please see your practitioners directly and do your own research.
(Please always listen to both your instincts and multiple sources!)

Special Guest: Samantha Zipporah.

WE DISCUSSED:

• Ev'Yan's backstory and how she found her way to this work
• What it was like when she and her mom talked about sex on Ev'Yan's podcast
• Women helping each other across age groups
• The inspiration behind and experience with her Sensual Selfie Challenge on Instagram
• Self-care, boundaries, and sovereignty within this political climate
• How flowing with time can be an act of resistance

The information in this podcast is not meant to be medical advice. The opinion of the guest is not necessarily Dr. Danielle's opinion. The intent of this podcast is to present a variety of information based on a variety of opinions and sources. If you need help with a specific medical issue, please see your practitioners directly and do your own research.
(Please always listen to both your instincts and multiple sources!)

Special Guest: Ev'Yan Whitney.

• The complexity and simplicity of astrology.
• The wisdom of the moons waxing and waning patterns.
• The connection between the moon and menstruation.
• The divine feminine as medicine for the hyper-masculine dysfunction. How this is related to hormones.

The information in this podcast is not meant to be medical advice. The opinion of the guest is not necessarily Dr. Danielle's opinion. The intent of this podcast is to present a variety of information based on a variety of opinions and sources. If you need help with a specific medical issue, please see your practitioners directly and do your own research.
(Please always listen to both your instincts and multiple sources!)

Special Guest: Dena DeCastro.

We Talk About:

• Knowing your own body
• The Fertility Awareness Method
• Intelligence as pattern processing vs reason and logic
• How the subtle female biorhythms are connected to the patterns in nature
• The creative process, like nature, is emergent
• Training subtle internal body awareness
• Belly Dance and Holistic Pelvic Care™
• Presence and vitality is power

The information in this podcast is not meant to be medical advice. The opinion of the guest is not necessarily Dr. Danielle's opinion. The intent of this podcast is to present a variety of information based on a variety of opinions and sources. If you need help with a specific medical issue, please see your practitioners directly and do your own research.
(Please always listen to both your instincts and multiple sources!)

Special Guest: Shara Raqs.

This podcast is not just for people with vaginas.

As the embodiment of feminine energy, the womb can teach us something about this mysterious feminine.

Also:

Everyone comes from this sacred space as a result of the alchemy between the feminine and the masculine. Everyone has within them a unique blend of all. Indeed, this is where we find our wholeness.

The vagina and the womb are taboo topics. Yet are literally our birthplace. The blood is considered gross, yet it nourished our creation.

Why do we carry so much shame -- and not reverence -- around the very place that was our initial heartbeat?

This podcast is intended to be a brave space to have vital discussions centering the vagina and the womb.

This conversation is for everyone.

The information in this podcast is not meant to be medical advice. The opinion of the guest is not necessarily Dr. Danielle's opinion. The intent of this podcast is to present a variety of information based on a variety of opinions and sources. If you need help with a specific medical issue, please see your practitioners directly and do your own research. (Please always listen to both your instincts and multiple sources!)