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Today on Female Frequency Podcast we vibe with artist, activist, and Guggenheim fellowship winner Betsy Damon. With a focus on women's agency and knowing water, Betsy uses feminine principles of collaboration and creativity to help her realize massive projects. “As an artist, my work reveals water’s true nature, as a verb. Water is creation,” she says.
Discover the personal stories behind her pioneering projects like when she is on a road trip with friends across Canada and the car screeches to a halt! Betsy shares the struggles and successes behind projects like The Living Water Garden in Chengdu, China, where art and sustainable water treatment come together. Hear about her collaborations with figures like Jane Goodall and her efforts with 'Keepers of the Waters,' an organization dedicated to community-driven water stewardship.
Damon lived during the feminist movements of the 1960-present with studies at Skidmore and Columbia University. Her work evolved from public street performances to large-scale ecological art projects. Betsy’s artistic vernacular speaks to agency, place, communities, and water ecosystems. Her memoir, Water Talks, published by Steiner Books, empowers communities to know, restore and preserve their waters.
Three Highlights in this episode:
Learning from The Milky Way and River Betsy shares fellow artists she finds inspiring such as Judy Chicago. Her call to action: She challenges us to listen to the water.Join us as Betsy Damon shares the process behind her exhibits, grant writing, and ecofeminist approach that benefits our bodies, communities, and beyond. Listen, read the book, and let’s make a difference together!
Research Betsy Damon’s projects on www.betsydamon.com. Purchase her memoir, Water Talks here: www.amazon.com/Water-Talks-Empowering-Communities-Preserve/dp/1938685385
Go to www.thefemalefrequency.com for artists workshops and consulting. Subscribe on Youtube @femalefrequencyproductions to be inspired and get into action!
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I have a song in my heart in this solo episode, and it goes like this: “I’ve got my mind on my money, and money on my mind.” The younger generation, armed with books, the internet, and social media, sees more women like them succeeding because women are now openly discussing financial matters in these mediums and with each other. This shift is crucial, yet old, sticky patterns linger—especially those around money. These patterns hold us back, muting us and casting shadows on our potential.
I'm reminded that it’s a wild world out there. With women's history suppressed, it hit me like lightning: Women making money is challenging the status quo.
Struggles for financial independence are closely linked to broader issues of exploitation and inequality. Just as the earth has been exploited for profit, women have been undervalued in economic systems. By reclaiming financial power, we challenge patriarchal norms and pave the way for a more just and sustainable future.
Think of trailblazers like Sara Blakely, the inventor of Spanx, and Serena Williams, a tennis legend and savvy investor challenging norms. They speak out, revealing women's struggles. Sara’s recent REEL asked, "Do you know when women in the U.S. could get a business loan without a male co-signer?" The answer—1988—highlighted how women's economic empowerment disrupts power structures. It also raises questions about how women artists started their own businesses. Then there are Jerry Gogosian’s REELS, warning artists to avoid art school unless they have endless money, as it’s seen as a waste.
As we navigate these complexities, we can rewrite the narrative, creating a world where women's economic contributions are celebrated and valued. It's not just about making money—it’s also about reclaiming our voices, our agency, and our place in shaping a more equitable society.
Join me on this journey of discovery and empowerment. Together, let's blaze a path towards a future where every woman can thrive economically, creatively, and spiritually.
Highlights You Will Learn: Women making money is challenging the status quo. Sticky feelings about money are systemic. As recently as 1988, women needed a male co-signer for business loans—just 36 years ago! Pro-tips on how to sell your artwork.Go to www.thefemalefrequency.com for artists workshops and consulting. Subscribe on Youtube @femalefrequencyproductions to be inspired and get into action!
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Welcome to the latest solo episode of the Female Frequency Podcast, where we dive into the intersection of art, spirituality, and feminine power through an ecofeminist lens. Today, I invite you on a journey to call in our truth and challenge the status quo, reconnecting with Mother Earth and redefining our creative energies.
Throughout history, traditionally feminine qualities—such as receptivity, softness, and creativity—have been undervalued and ignored, yet they are essential to the health and vitality of our society and environment. In this episode, we emphasize the importance of tuning into the vibe and reclaiming these qualities in a patriarchal world.
Listen as I share my personal story of embracing ecofeminism, which has provided me with the strength to navigate life's challenges. Discover why challenging the status quo is vital and why we must unmute this powerful frequency.
Show Highlights:
Unmute the Frequency: We confront the historical erasure of women's contributions and stories, celebrating the unique resonance and energy of the female frequency. Art as a Catalyst for Social and Ecological Change: Learn how art can drive social change and ecological awareness, featuring inspiring examples from artists like Judy Chicago. Spiritual and Artistic Empowerment: As member of the Lakota tribe, who reconnects with place and ancestors through her art, empowering herself spiritually and inspiring new forms of artistic expression and activism with Angelica Trimble Yanu. The Transformative Power of Creativity: Art can heal both the Mother Earth and ourselves by raising awareness about environmental issues and promoting social justice with Burcu Koleli. Embracing the Female Frequency: Discover how tuning into the female frequency—balancing intuition, empathy, and creativity—can transform our world and foster a more compassionate and connected society.Together, let's revive the love and reclaim our collective future. Join us as we keep the dialogue going, keep creating, and let your creativity shine in everything you do.
Visit www.thefemalefrequency.com and follow @thefemalefrequency for more creative workshops and inspiration. Subscribe on Youtube @femalefrequencyproductions
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Welcome to the latest episode of Female Frequency Podcast, where we transcend the ordinary and radiate in the extraordinary power of the full moon to unlock your creative potential. Join us on a lunar journey as we explore the profound question: What are you full of?
In this special episode, we bask in the glow of the full moon, aligning ourselves with its energy to become the main character in our own story. Just as the moon reflects the world around us, it also mirrors our inner selves, helping us tap into our deepest creative sources.
Drawing inspiration from ancient traditions and spiritual practices, we embrace the moon as a symbol of reflection, intuition, and creative inspiration. As I share a few personal stories and cultural insights, we uncover the myriad names and meanings of the June full moon, from Strawberry Moon to Rose Moon, each highlighting a unique aspect of the human experience.
Our exploration goes beyond the traditional confines of creativity. We reimagine creativity as a universal force that permeates all areas of life, from problem-solving and innovation to everyday ingenuity. By adopting a creative mindset, we transform routine activities into opportunities for personal growth and self-expression. This episode offers a transformative approach to creativity and self-awareness that values and uplifts the feminine, providing a meaningful alternative to the limitations of patriarchy.
To deepen your connection with the lunar energy, I guide you through a reflective exercise, encouraging you to visualize the full moon and explore your inner landscape. This exercise fosters self-awareness and reimagines creative flow.
We also pay tribute to pioneering women like Hilma af Klint and Nancy Holt, whose works challenge conventional notions of art and spirituality. Their legacies inspire us to blend the realms of fine art, design, and spirituality, erasing boundaries and nurturing a world where art truly exists for everyone.
This episode is short, sweet, and offers a transformative approach to creativity and self-awareness that values and uplifts the feminine, providing a meaningful alternative to the limitations of patriarchy.
4 Highlights you will learn:
How an ecofeminist approach can rewild your creativity Phases of the moon can mirror different phases of creativity Learn in one exercise how the values we give our self-awareness can transform our creative flow The legacies of mystic and painter Hilma af Klint as well as earth artist Nancy Holt inspire a world of connection into the rhythms of earth, spirit, and self.Let’s keep the dialogue going, keep creating, and let your creativity shine in everything you do.
Visit www.thefemalefrequency.com and follow @thefemalefrequency for more creative workshops and inspiration.
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When I asked ChatGPT what Madeleine Albright and Frida Kahlo have in common, it answered: "Both mastered the art of bold statements: Madeleine with her brooches, and Frida with her eyebrows!" I was appalled by this reductionist view. Albright, a human rights activist, broke glass ceilings with her work in politics and advocating for women's rights. Frida Kahlo is a trailblazing feminist whose art addresses issues of identity, postcolonialism, gender, and class. In reality, both women mastered art as political discourse.
In today’s episode of Female Frequency, we dive into the inspiring world of women who have used art to shape history and politics. We will explore how art influences and harnesses meaningful connections, recognizing its power to engage in political discourse, initiate big conversations, and mirror societal events. Madeleine and Frida both showed us that art is a comment on the status quo.
Join me as I profile Madeleine Albright, a collector, and a U.S. diplomat known for her strategic use of pins as a communication tool. Her exhibit "Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection" features over 200 pins, each with a story and message that reflects her wit, humor, and communication style. Learn how Albright’s pins served as powerful tools for cultural diplomacy and political discourse.
I’ll discuss Frida Kahlo, whose paintings are a profound exploration of personal and political struggles. Kahlo’s art is a bold statement against patriarchal norms, representing female autonomy and resilience. Her self-portraits and symbolic use of color provided commentary on identity and postcolonialism, breaking taboos and advocating for women's rights.
Additionally, I share pro tips on collecting art, highlighting three motivations for art acquisition and how artists can connect with potential collectors. Discover how colors, emotional connections, and personal values drive art collectors and how understanding these motivations can help artists foster lasting relationships with an audience.
4 Highlights from this episode:
Brooches & pins have been part of political discourse through history even in the era of the suffragettes. The significance of the "Read My Pins" exhibit and the stories behind Albright’s pin collection, particularly the famous serpent pin. Frida Kahlo’s use of art as a means of political discourse, addressing issues of postcolonialism, identity, gender, and class. Learn directly from Kahlo’s journals what colors meant to here and Kahlo’s contributions to feminist art.
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Rev. Frances Fayden is in the house, and we’re blowing the roof off patriarchal limitations to divine connection! As an interfaith minister, spiritual counselor and intuitive mentor, her greatest joy is enabling people to have sacred experiences of themselves and direct experiences with god – whether god appears as Mother Mary, Isis or Quan Yin. Frances champions connecting with the divine feminine through the deepest wisdom of our bodies and the earth. She shares her own journey of spiritual awareness, heartbreak, and reawakening. From the age of 7, she knew she wanted to be a priest but was told: girls cannot. Though she could read chakras and help people unblock emotions caught in the whirlpools of their energy centers. Though spirits talked to her. Years later, she joined an ashram only to be told: you do not fit. Now the Magnify Your Miracle podcast host helps countless women walk their inner path of healing, trusting in themselves, and manifesting their dreams in the world. Learn how the “Threefold Soul” of artist-mystic-healer (or creativity, ritual, and healing) can bridge heaven and earth. Explore the field of unconditional love within the female frequency. Plus! Rev Frances ends our conversation with an invitation to go within. Be guided in a special meditation to open your heart chakra and start feeling safe in yourself.
4 Things you’ll learn in this episode:
I met Rev. Frances Fayden for the first time in Paris. Frances first practiced the healing arts as a massage therapist/bodyworker when she learned that chakras talked to her. All the information we could ever want to learn about ourselves resides within our bodies. Creativity, ritual and healing all bring the unseen into the seen world, and move the invisible to the visible. “The occult” (meaning magic and mysticism) has been demonized for too long. “We’ve been conditioned to not trust ourselves, the earth, our bodies, anything feminine and that’s why we’re in this pickle we’re in on this planet. We need to reclaim the words, the practices, the energy to vibe with the earth.”To find guided meditations for your own direct divine experience, join a workshop, or get one-on-one mentoring, visit francesfayden.com
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Katie Hess has an adventurous self like non other! Katie is a creative entrepreneur bringing the unseen to the seen. The old ways aren't working anymore. The new path to transformation and liberation is through the energy and power found in flowers.
Katie is leading the new kind of flower movement, and I am on board 100%! As an expert in flower alchemy, author of Flowerevolution and founder of LOTUSWEI, Katie is turning the frequency dial up to help others reach their fullest potential and embrace their full-spectrum selves. From being fearless while public speaking to sleeping soundly or help dissolving self doubt there is a flower power remedy.
The old ways of healing and personal growth are no longer effective, but Katie brings a refreshing perspective: the answer lies in the energy of flowers. Discover how energy medicines, particularly flower essences, can liberate us and help us achieve fearlessness, self-assurance, and true personal leadership.
Four highlights inside are:
The Energy Difference: Allopathic medicine is a relatively young way of practicing medicine. Prescriptions from the earth have proven strengths for a more holistic approach to body, mind, spirit.
Environment Reflection: Katie shares profound insights about how our external environment mirrors our internal state, emphasizing the need for internal transformation to effect global change.
Transforming Blind Spots: Katie thought she was a patient person until she tried the impatience flower essence, revealing a blind spot. This flower's power provided energy medicine to help her see herself authentically: An impatient person!
Fearless as a Flower: We explore the powerful concept of moving from being "fragile as a flower" to "fearless as a flower," reclaiming our connection to the land and our inherent strength.
Katie shares adventure stories of collecting flowers from forests of British Columbia, to sacred sites in India, rainforests in Costa Rica, hot springs in Iceland and the jungles of Taiwan. Tune in as we talk about how lightning provided the light to find the elusive flower she was seeking!To help you live in your fullest expression, Katie is offering special pricing on select products! Go to my link: http://lotuswei.com/ffp
To find out more about Jodie Nelson and Female Frequency workshops, visit www.pressreign.com and instagram @thefemalefrequency
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Showing up as the main character in my life is the best choice I’ve ever made! Main character energy is about stepping into my power, owning my story, and embracing every aspect of who I am with unapologetic authenticity. It's about reclaiming my narrative, rewriting the script, and living each moment with intention and purpose. It's a journey of self-discovery, self-love, and self-expression—a journey that connects me with the natural world, my heart, and my creativity. It empowers me to shine brightly and live my truth, no matter the challenges or obstacles along the way.
In this week’s Female Frequency episode, I share my unique method of stepping into main character energy while staying grounded, spiritual, and creative. Through the lens of eco-feminism, I explore how reclaiming this energy is not just about personal empowerment but also about balancing and restoring our world.
Highlights you will learn:
Understanding main character energy through a feminist perspective.
Recognizing and challenging patriarchal conditioning in our lives.
How to alchemize negative conditioning of the natural world, particularly in how it relates to polarizing: The diminutive phrase "Fragile as a Flower" implies weakness or inferiority, especially in reference to femininity. But what if we reframed that notion to "Fearless as a Flower”?
Why ask yourself: “How can I be more creative?”
What is a Life Mapping exercise and how The Full Petal Project can help guide you with female frequency prompts to revisit your life events through the eco-feminist lens.Experience the transformative power of reclaiming your main character energy and join me for the Full Petal Project workshop on May 23, 2024. Seats are limited. Reserve your spot on pressreign.com now!
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Every bone in your body is a creative bone. Shiloh Sophia, creative trailblazer and co-founder of MUSEA: Center for Intentional Creativity and Consciousness, will tell you: art isn’t the point – it’s the pathway – and we all have it within us. Creativity is not only a catalyst for divine consciousness, it’s the conduit. The iconoclast dedicates her life to teaching others how to access our innate power to enter into deeper relationship with nature, heal, and remake our world. For over two decades she’s proudly walked off the beaten path: from eschewing smug art school views, to hosting her own first art exhibit, to showcasing the artworks of hundreds of women in the galleries she’s opened since. Explore the way she’s teaching others how to bring creativity, and the divine feminine, into their lives. Learn more about her intentional workshops, inviting deeper experiential consciousness and embodying the vibrational energy, agency and intentions of life forces in our environment. Along with breaking the molds of dominant art structures, Shiloh restores our enchantment and romance with sacred feminine forms. The Center for Intentional Creativity activates diverse fields of creative consciousness tuning as the many hats Shiloh wears, including painter, poet, and cosmic cowgirl.
4 Things you’ll learn in this episode:
MUSEA - stands for museum, university, sanctuary, ecosphere and atelier/apothecary. The 6500 sqft Center for Intentional Creativity, tucked in the redwoods of Sonoma, is home to vital forms of creative empowerment and consciousness activation.
Using organic materials, such as natural earth pigments, oyster shells and biodegradable paper, Shiloh writes love letters to the earth.
Women represent 50% of artists, but less than 3% of women artists are represented in galleries and museums, as of 2020.
How creativity can enhance heart-brain-hand coherence, allowing you to enter deep flow states.To explore the Center for Intention Creativity and Consciousness offerings or take a complimentary creativity course, learn more at musea.org
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“You gotta find the river. You gotta jump in.” Liz Childs Kelly, bristling with aliveness, rewilds us to discover the divine feminine inside us and all around us. The researcher and educator, host of Home To Her podcast and award-winning author of Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine shares her own feral journey. From wearing a pair of red patent leather pumps as the uncomfortable CEO of her business consulting company, to a soul-baring encounter with Polynesian navigators that changed the course of her life forever. Liz tuned into the female frequency to find her herstory. You’re invited: stray from hyperational, linear paths to discover deeper, more curious and complete ways of being in the world. We dive into how patriarchal strictures have robbed us of so much richness and our divine heritage. We reroot relationships, find magic in the everyday, and ground-truth powerful connections to place. We explore a different language of the body and its signal processing for us to rejoin the sacred feminine. We reculture words and retrace etymologies that honor the goddess and the bitch! Join us in a movement to recall and reconnect with the ancient, divine force whose creative wisdom empowers us to heal ourselves, our communities, and our planet from within.
4 Things you’ll learn in this episode:
Pacific Islander wayfinders could sail thousands of miles on open ocean voyages without the use of any modern instrumentation because they exist in such deep relationship with the natural world — reading the wind, swells, birds, clouds, stars, “attuned to the wisdom of their own hearts.”
Learning the language of the body requires us to quiet the mind to listen to the indwelling presence of the divine feminine god within us.
The bone that both Liz Childs Kelly and I have to pick with the patriarchal descriptors of the oldest known image of a woman giving birth, found in the Musée d'Aquitaine in Bordeaux, France.
Before its vulgarization, “son of a bitch” was used to refer, respectfully, to the followers of the goddess Diana.
To explore deeper sacred feminine connections and practices, listen to Liz Child Kelly’s podcast: home-to-her.captivate.fm; read her book: hometoher.com/home-to-her-book; join her course: hometoheracademy.com
To find out more about Jodie Nelson and Female Frequency workshops go to pressreign.com and [email protected]
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What if the mountains, rivers and plants are, in fact, our living ancestors? What if the land and forests are relatives, and not “resources” to extract and exploit? How would that knowledge inform the way we act moving forward?
Get ready to explore your inner forests as we dive deep with Osprey Orielle Lake—international activist, changemaker, and author of The Story in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. A game changer in the canon of ecofeminism, Osprey draws on decades of her experience as founder and director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) to bring forth the embodied solutions and stories we need to hear now more than ever. Osprey’s work teases out the root causes of our modern disease—the harmful dominant worldviews of patriarchy, white supremacy, human dominion over nature, and separation from a living Earth. She maps possible paths forward by retracing our origin stories back to ancient, life-sustaining principles. The Story in Our Bones looks to the marrow of things. Literally, we are made of stardust. We evolved from our elemental, plant, and animal ancestors as part and particle of one miraculous lifesystem. Osprey reminds us that within our bones “is a place of world-making, of creativity,” regenerative energy, and healing forces. From the atomic to the cellular views, Osprey takes us into more expansive knowledge systems that restore our kinship to this animate cosmology. How can remembering our earth lineage, the awe within our bodies, influence our policies, social structures and daily choices? Learn how we can be a life-enhancing, rather than life-destroying, species by returning to our origins and lifting women’s voices. Join us in summoning a new paradigm for being in the Anthropocene and beyond.
4 Things you’ll learn in this episode:
How both Osprey and I have been influenced by female iconography: sculptures that have led us to be curious and ask more questions about sacred connections. Osprey recounts that what started it all for her was a black clay statue of a goddess holding a stalk of corn in one hand, and the moon in the other. The circular nature between women, earth, protection, and planting began to emerge for her at the age of 8.
Systemic gender inequality means that women are impacted “first and worst” by environmental degradation, but women are also proving to be the keystone to the solutions we need.
In the Itombwe Rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a community of women earth defenders have created nurseries and reforested swaths of devastated lands with hundreds of thousands of trees – all by hand, without any technical equipment, in the course of 8 years.
80 percent of the biodiversity left on earth is in the lands and hands of indigenous peoples who are stewarding them.To buy her book and go deeper, visit: ospreyoriellelake.earth. To stimulate further thought and action, check out the reader’s guide: ospreyoriellelake.earth/readers-guide
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Angelica Trimble Yanu’s artworks embody an epic journey of healing through honoring her Oglala Lakota roots in profound ways. In this tender conversation, she shares how her printmaking and site-specific sculptures reclaim sacred relationships to the earth as they carry the creative lives of her ancestors through layers of time and space. Angelica’s art is collaborative – with family or dynamic landscape (and the Great Spirit that lives in all the mountains, hills and lakes). Her works reference sacred sites in South Dakota, and implicitly resist a history of displacement, silencing and erasure. Her intentional titles draw from the poems of her sister, a native poet, to continue a tradition of cultural transmission. She refines her palette to the four Lakota colors to harness the power of their cosmology, as invocation and homage. Weaving the rich visual and oral languages of Lakota knowledge systems in her art, Angelica restores the wisdom, stories and voices of her ancestors for this contemporary moment. Explore the way her creative practice forges paths for healing, forgiveness, and grace. Discover how, beneath it all, is a fierce life celebration.
4 Things you’ll learn in this episode:
Until the late ‘70s, it was illegal for Lakota peoples to create, hold ceremonies, or speak their language.
Find out how the sacred directions are included in her color palette. She was taught that the ancestors are drawn to the color red, often used in regalia and beadwork for this purpose. Angelica also uses red in her art as a powerful call to them.
The star tattooed on her throat, signifying the Lakota peoples, the Star Nation, is a reminder of “where we came from,” and to continue learning the language and speaking from a place of truth.
The historical, contemporary and futurist converged when Angelica had to learn how to use AI tools to scale her work to fit the expansive space of the flagship Google store.Explore Angelica Trimble Yanu’s art and discover a sense of awe: instagram.com/angelicayanu and angeltrimbleyanu.com
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From goddess to harlot — Dr. Joanna Kujawa ballbusts the patriarchal myths that strip women of their sexuality, and ultimately, their spiritual power. In her scintillating scholarship, The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge, the spiritual detective unravels ancient esoteric traditions honoring connections between female sexuality and divine power — and how they were pushed to the shadows. For Joanna, religious portrayals of women were too idealized, desexualized (or debased), and incomplete; this spurred two decades of research to recover a long lineage of priestesses who invoke the primordial alchemy of eros. Learn how “bliss consciousness” forms a path to cosmic consciousness, our greatest creative prowess. Discover what it means to live at your “highest octave” and operate from your highest self. Go beyond archetypes. Dr. Kujawa insists: honor yourself, you are the other goddess, and embrace transformative power.
4 Things you’ll learn in this episode:
There is no scriptural evidence that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. Gnostic gospels do reveal Mary Magdalene to not only be Jesus’ most advanced disciple, but also his erotic partner.
Sexuality is not sin. Sin is a consequence of choices based on acting from our lowest self – jealousy, fear, insecurity…
Creative paths require creative practice. Make yourself available. Get up, show up, invoke the powers, and plunge in.
Claim your path, whatever that may be. Claim yourself.
Explore her talks, workshops and buy her book, The Other Goddess: Mary Magdalene and the Goddesses of Eros and Secret Knowledge at www.joannakujawa.com.
Joanna’s Instagram is www.instagram.com/drjoannakujawa.theothergoddess
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How is your heart today? YogaTara, founder & director of the Isha Institute, tends deeply to the expansion of our incandescent hearts. In 1996, she turned from the hard science branch of biochemistry towards whole-body, whole-life sciences of yoga, ayurveda and somatic experience. Join us on this journey: from our first meeting in the rapids of the Marsyangdi River in Nepal, to her ongoing path of helping people access their capacity for healing and joy. She demystifies yoga: it’s not about postures or breathing, or even enlightenment, but the harmony of the head, the heart, the hands. Gain insight into what she calls a “beautiful science of radical acceptance” and awareness as we discuss intuition versus impulse. Explore ways to access other forms of intelligence through female frequencies of slowness, softness and surrender – which is not without its own forms of daring and courage. Learn how Shakti, or manifestations of heart-centered, divine feminine energy in the world, can rebalance the masculine “top-heavy” bias towards intellect to help us find our true life flow rather than just hurtle ahead.
4 Things you’ll learn in this episode
Heart intelligence, or pure awareness, will lead us on the pilgrimages that reveal our real life paths, usually off the beaten or certain tracks. But the heart never leads us astray.
Joy, and our immense capacity for joy, is the true outcome of yogic practice that aligns our various dimensions into a connected life ecosystem.
If Shiva is the masculine force of pure consciousness, then Shakti manifests as the dynamic, divine feminine energy that gives earthly forms to it.
How to grow the feminine powers of intuition and knowing through softness, heart listening, and openness.
You can find out about Yogatara’s workshops on https://www.isha-institute.com and on her instagram @isha_inspired
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Jody Sperling connects human bodies and earth ecologies in mesmerizing movement. As part of a communication team on a polar science mission in 2014, she translated climate phenomena into haunting dances at the edge of the earth – the arctic ocean to be precise. Ice Floe captures her performance on thin sheets of unmoored sea ice: the morphology and dynamics of a vanishing world. Jody shares her artist’s journey aboard the science research vessel – and the origins of ecokinetics – in which human movement acts as conduits for environmental systems. Explore her drive to create transportive vehicles that embody natural phenomena, and the stories in their wake. Learn how her collaboration with ecoacoustics composer, Matthew Burtner, nurtured kinetic responses to deeper earth processes in American Elm and Arbor. Be astonished. As founder and artistic director of Time Lapse Dance, Jody and her all-female ensemble expand time-space for us to explore kinship with life forces within our more-than-human ecosystems.
4 Things you’ll learn in this episode:
How sea ice is structurally akin to human bone in formation
The way Jody expands the technological genius of modern dance pioneer, Loie Fuller, into contemporary environmental forms
While women are taught to take up less space, the massive structures of her dance costumes provide apparatus for women to take up more space as they embody powerful, natural forces
Just how playful and provocative a “pile of garbage” can be when Jody Sperling and her troupe take their activation to the streets
Be sure to watch these Jody Sperlings performances on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2gkt8RPLqGal_CYBJ4-pEQ
To book a performance contact Jodie Sperling directly on https://www.timelapsedance.com/
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Victoria Zaitz didn’t find it strange that her grandmother could stop watches with her mind or talk to dead relatives; she sensed otherworldly beings even as a baby in the crib. This spiritual psychologist, intuitive development teacher and multigenerational psychic now helps people find their own intuition and courage in connection with feminine earth energies. With a Masters Degree in Transpersonal Psychology and a Masters in Women’s Studies, Victoria talks about nurturing spiritual power in body-based practices, and repairing the split of body and spirit perpetuated by patriarchal religion. Victoria shares her own serpentine path to kundalini awakening of the “coiled” primordial life force within. We explore the many faces of the divine feminine, from Mother Mary to Kālī, Lakshmi, Brigid and more. We dive into Grandmother Spider medicine, animal guides and shamanic calling. Discover everyday ritual, manifestation and magic-making that reclaims the sacred feminine in ecology. Learn how to invite and embody earth goddess energy in your own life.
4 things you will learn in this episode:
The life force referred to as a “Kundalini Awakening” is often experienced as a coiled snake unfurling.
The divine feminine shows up in many forms, from Mother Mary to Kālī, Lakshmi, Brigid and more, across the world
Slow down to recognize the magic in the everyday
Connecting with spirit guides, like Grandmother Spider, can help manifest the life of your dreams.
Visit her website to book a session with Victoria. Stay connected with her on Instagram to find an intuitive workshop and gain transformative insight. -
What happened to our goddesses and grandmothers? Meet Max Dashu, founder of Suppressed History Archives, who since 1970 has been compiling one of the most comprehensive cross-cultural collections of documentation on female heritage throughout human history. Her research digs into archeological records, petroglyphs, paintings, iconography, orature, and other visual testimonies to women as culture makers and agents for the earth. Listen as we unpack her newest work, Women in Greek Mythography: Pithias, Melissae and Titanides, and learn about oracular women and priestess traditions that preceded the Olympian pantheon. Max unearths older, nature-based matriarchal societies across the world that existed before ideas shaped by colonialism and statehood dominated the cultural imagination. We explore ancient manifestations of snake women, bird women, bee women – not as portends of trickery, but as portals of truths and divine forces of nature. She traces the way sexual politics and patriarchal representations limited what female forms and their stories could be: as sacral, venerated, lifegiving potency. Explore how her work prevents the erasure of women and their contributions. Join us to reroot, recontextualize and restore women’s legacy from the misdemeanors of history.
4 things you will learn in this episode:
We traverse the Paleolithic to Roman and Classical periodsand find compelling visual evidence of women’s contributions throughout time.
The Melissae women were connected to divine forces of nature through the bees.
How Venus Impudique got its name and how the iconic Venus of Willendorf represents so much more than just fertility.
How the female form was sculpted in the paleolithic period versus the defensive positioning depicted through the renaissance.
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In this illuminating conversation, eco fiction author Monica McDowell subverts archaic notions of the profound and the profane. Her award-winning novel, Girl With a Gift, is a riveting ecofeminist saga that weaves connections between women and spirituality in a moment of cultural and climate crisis. Whereas traditional patriarchal theology tends to honor the spirit and debase the body as “dirty,”, Monica’s modern work restores the sacred, divine feminine power to the corporeal and the earth. Gain insight into the ecological drive behind her liberation theology: how the honoring of women is the honoring of the earth. Dive into Monica's role as a whistleblower on sexual misconduct in her own church, and how that fueled her commitment to truthtelling as forms of dignity, healing and courage. Learn about a curious creative process that involves lucid dreaming, meditation, breathwork, and “turtle steps.” See how a timely coming-of-age story can help us realize the everyday magic within ourselves to heal our planet.
4 things you will learn in this episode:
Learning to not judge yourself can be a great lesson. Instead, observe your own talents.
Obstacles come up during the creative process. She recognized certain signs and resistance in her body to ultimately craft her specific writing style – which sometimes meant just 5 minutes a day!
Monica’s theology is based in ecology and the need to restore the feminine
Telling the truth is healing: Monica shares her whistleblowing experience.
Go to Monica McDowell’s website to learn about her workshops and purchase her book: https://www.monicamcdowell.com/books
This episode is proudly sponsored by Earth Creative, using the power of the arts
to raise awareness about climate change to advance climate justice for all.
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Welcome to the premier episode of Female Frequency Podcast!
Artist Burcu Koleli insists on joy in a world of overwhelming climate grief. This passionate intersectional, ecofeminist activist celebrates women in all their fearless forms and nature in her biodiversity. Listen as Burcu talks of “infinite ways of being included in the climate movement” and tackling pressing issues. Learn how community science tools, like plant and bird identification apps, can build and restore connections that spur action (get to know, get to love, get to protect). Explore how meditative brushstrokes, like bodyflow and breathwork, can be essential mindfulness practices to activate healing. Burcu’s commitment to inclusive social-environmental justice reflect fiercely in her artwork for sustainable brands, the WWF, Intersectional Environmentalist, UN Women, Rainforest Alliance, Planned Parenthood, Girls Rising, Climate Resilience Project, We Need To Talk (about period poverty and menstrual stigma), and more. Be inspired by one woman’s fresh approach to ecosystemic thriving.
3 things you will learn in this episode:
How she implements “the domino effect” and how it all begins from within.
Being creative is what allows her to calm her mind, and mindfulness is the magic behind her intentional brushstrokes. It’s a meditative practice!
Art is her communication tool to inspire action.
Connect and create with her at https://www.instagram.com/burcukoleli/
This episode is proudly sponsored by Earth Creative, using the power of the arts to raise awareness about climate change to advance climate justice for all.
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Welcome to the Female Frequency Podcast! I am Jodie Nelson, curator, artist mentor, divine channel, and host of Female Frequency.
I am here to bring you unbound forms of eco-feminism- reclaiming art, spirituality and feminine power to revive the earth. The world is unbalanced, the feminine is in a deficit. It is not only affecting women it’s also affecting the planet herself.
Those who have worked with me before know that I believe in the power of art. I am a bridge for the creative spirit, to the artists, trailblazers, outside-the-box thought leaders, magic makers.
I am launching Female Frequency, podcast with the Aloha Spirit, I have gone on extensive pilgrimages all over the world to sacred sites honoring the divine feminine, so I thrilled to I am excited to be called to Hawaii.
Each episode serves as a catalyst – offering wisdom along with practical steps to empower you to make a positive impact on the planet. Whether you’re an artist, empath or eco-warrior, there’s a story here to invite awe and help you embody the female frequency.
