Earthside Survival Guide

SSG022 Soul Family, Healing Trauma, and Empowering People Through Tarot with Lindsay Mack

In this episode, we are joined by Lindsay Mack, host of the popular weekly podcast, Tarot for the Wild Soul. Lindsay is passionately dedicated to honoring and helping to bring space, light, and healing to those who are experiencing mental, emotional or physical suffering. She is also the creator of Soul Tarot, a reinterpretation of the Tarot as a healing tool, one that can assist us in differentiating the noise of our brain from the truth of our soul. In this episode we also explore: Differentiating between soul family and biological family, who Lindsay’s people are and what they need Healing trauma with tarot vs operating from habitual social dynamics Themes intuitive are seeing in private practice Choosing guides who share information in a way that feels safe and empowering to us Unpacking some of the less popular cards in the deck Learn more about Lindsay Mack by visiting her online at: www.lindsaymack.com @wildsoulhealing (Instagram) Tarot For the Wild Soul Podcast Visit Our Patreon page to support the podcast, receive discounts on Lindsay’s courses, and for bonus content from this episode: Our Patreon page

SSG020 Authenticity, Kundalini and Coming Out of the Culture Closet with Kirti Srivastava

For Episode 20 we are joined by the founder of the DilSe Spirit School and a pillar of the local movement community, Kirti Srivastava. Kirti uses creativity and spirituality to ignite access to source divine. A dancer, yogi, and an educator for over 20 years--she looks to connect our human existence to our spiritual calling. As a first-generation American, Kirti weaves constructs of race and identity into her spiritual work, resulting in deep conversations around appropriation, patriarchy, and the responsibility of human beings on this planet.  She currently works as a yoga philosophy teacher, promotes peach through self-love as a personal trainer integrating mindful fitness, brings arts and spirit into school culture as an educational consultant and facilitates individual and group energy healing practices through breath, sound, and movement as an established movement medicine practitioner here in San Diego, CA. We dedicate the first ⅓ of the episode time to learn more about Kirti’s background to better understand who she is. With her upbringing in a community that was had an abundance of white supremacists, she realized--early in her life--what skin color, pedagogy, and learned behaviors meant. In this episode we also explore:  Racism and creating your path as you grow into who you are meant to be Authenticity: Coming out of your cultural closet as the “real you” What it means to pass down patriarchy, how to stop ancestral patriarchy, stepping off the path of creating the “perfect wifey resume” What Hip Hop Kundalini is and the benevolence of Kundalini energy (by whatever name you choose to call it) Doing what you’re born to do and living life orgasmically  To learn more about Kirti Srivastava by visiting her online at Kirti’s Instagram: DilSe.kirtidance www.DilSeCulture.com

SSG018 Durga Meditation, Chandi Path and the Practice of Tantra with Laura Amazzone

In this Episode we are joined for the second time by teacher, yogini, priestess and Goddess scholar Laura Amazzone. Laura is the author of the book, "Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power," and has published numerous articles in academic journals and anthologies in the fields of Tantrism, Hinduism and Women’s Spirituality. She has also contributed entries to the Encyclopedia on Hinduism and the Encyclopedia of Goddessses of World Culture.  Laura teaches in the Yoga and Philosophy program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, online at Mystery School of the Goddess and privately, offering classes, rituals, and workshops on the Goddesses, history and ritual practices of the Kaula, Shakta and Sri Vidya traditions into which she has been initiated. In this episode, we dedicate the first 1/3 of the episode time to sharing a full Goddess Durga Vizualization practice that you can tune in with any time you feel a need to call in a protective, loving aspect of the divine mother. We also explore: • The animist roots of traditional Tantra, stone circles and faerie rings and cultural sensitivity  • Why Tantra is sometimes called a path of paradox and adversity and the importance of going deep and staying the course when our practice asks us to look at our shadow.  • Experiencing a power that can’t be given away, can’t be taken away, can’t be lost or stolen • Why and how we practice, and the benefit of the Kula (dedicated practice group) And more. To learn more about Laura’s offerings, please visit www.lauraamazzone.com Music in this episode: Devi Ma by Mother Medicine The Universe Strand by Santiparro

SSG017 Kambo, Chronic Conditions, and Sexual Healing-With Caitlin Thompson

In this episode, we are joined by certified Kambo practitioner and founder of the San Diego based nutritional supplement company EntheoZen Caitlin Thompson. In this conversation we explore: • adult themes including an in depth discussion of consent or lack thereof in the natural word and what this means for us as humans • how medicines call to us to participate in our healing • non-pharmacuetical approaches to treating autoimmune disease, chronic pain, herpes, and other onging conditions • how are plant medicines and animal medicines different, and why animal medicine may be more effective for those seeking healing around their sexuality • can frog medicine love • mapping different states of conciosness  • taking responsibility for our own mental health • hope for those who have trauma and have given up on meditation You can learn more about Caitlin’s work here: www.entheozen.com www.medicinefrogkambo.com Music in this episode: Del Suelo y las Estrellas by Regeneratrix

SSG016 Vulnerability, Stillness, and Intimacy with Death with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison

For episode number 16, we are joined by Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, a jungian psychotherapist, recognized teacher in the Soto Zen lineage of the White Plum Asanga, and the academic advisor for the Buddhist students in the Master in Pastoral Care and Counseling program at the New York Theological Seminary.  Koshin is the cofounder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, the first Zen-based organization to offer fully accredited  clinical chaplaincy training in America, and the co-editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care. In this episode we explore: • Dignity amidst being treated poorly • Listening with every cell of your body • Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen buddhism, and his female teacher Prajnatara, and other explorations of the feminine wisdom that lies at the intersection of Buddhism and Tantra, and how like most lineages, it comes down to a practice of how to be in relationship.  To learn more about Koshin and The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, please visit www.zencare.org Books Mentioned: Awake at the Bedside by Koshin Paley Ellsion and Matt Weingast In the Body of the World by Eve Ensler Music Credit: The Heart Sutra