Menstrual Magic Moon Day: Tuning into Magical Messages from our Body, with Maya

Herbalism, Abortion Care, & Fertility Awareness for Collective Liberation & Reproductive Autonomy, with Cera (Menstrual Magic Moon Day)

In this Menstrual Magic Moon Day conversation, I interviewed my friend Cera — a clinical herbalist, medicine maker, abortion doula, and fertility awareness educator living on Ohlone land in the East Bay, California. Cera shares their path into herbalism, abortion support, and cycle tracking, weaving in stories of ancestral guidance, plant allies, self-love, connecting with the elements of nature, and community care. We talked about: 💫 Early menstrual experiences, including first bleed stories and how cycle care has evolved over time 💫 Offering menstrual blood to the earth 💫 Cera’s fateful path into fertility awareness 💫 Hydration and movement supporting cervical fluid 💫 Removing an IUD after a long bleed - opening up a healing journey 💫 Becoming a clinical herbalist and studying with Atava Garcia Swiecicki 💫 Deep dive into yarrow: protective qualities, wound care, breaking fevers, and supporting cycles 💫 Foxglove lore, heart medicine, and the doctrine of signatures 💫 What herbalism, fertility awareness, and abortion support have taught Cera about bodies and embodiment 💫 Cera’s first abortion doula client and the ancestral dream that prepared them for the work 💫 Moving towards body love and acceptance in a culture that teaches body shame 💫 Cera’s decade-long moon ceremony practice and why moonlight is medicine 💫 Connection to the wind and the story behind the name “Wise Winds” 💫 Self-care rituals including castor oil packs, nail care, and the nourishment of food as medicine 💫 Privacy and security practices in abortion doula work and online communications 💫 How community networks strengthen reproductive autonomy and access to care Resources & Links: • Cera’s website: https://wise-winds.com/ • Instagram: @cera.wisewinds • Bay Area Abortion Support  • Holisticabortions.com • Digital Defense Fund To learn more, take classes, and/or get 1-1 support, check out: www.infiniteearthbody.com Follow to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey: https://www.facebook.com/InfiniteEarthBody/ https://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody/ Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective  Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4 Chapters: 00:01:00 Welcome & Grounding 00:02:00 Introducing Cera 00:03:00 How's Your Body Feeling Today? 00:04:00 First Period Story 00:06:00 How Menstrual Cycle Experience Has Evolved 00:07:00 Offering Menstrual Blood to the Earth 00:09:00 Cycle Day Check-In 00:10:00 Path Into Cycle Tracking & Fertility Awareness 00:14:00 Deciding to Remove IUD 00:17:00 Navigating Three-Month Bleed 00:18:00 Favorite Part of the Cycle 00:20:00 Path to Becoming a Fertility Awareness Educator 00:22:00 Becoming an Abortion Doula 00:25:00 Path to Becoming an Herbalist 00:27:00 Lifelong Learning with Plants 00:29:00 Yarrow Stories & Uses 00:32:00 Foxglove Dream & Plant Lore 00:35:00 Lessons About Bodies from Abortion, Herbalism & FAM 00:37:00 Personal Body Journey & Learning to Love the Body 00:40:00 Moon Connection & Ceremony 00:47:00 Relationship with the Wind & Wise Winds 00:50:00 Self-Care Practices: Castor Oil Packs 00:53:00 Technology, Privacy & Security 00:56:00 Security in Abortion Doula Work 00:58:00 Food as Medicine & Closing Reflections 00:59:00 Where to Find Cera

Menstrual Magic Moon Day: Tuning into Magical Messages from our Body, with Maya

For this new episode of the Infinite Earth Body podcast - Menstrual Magic Moon Day, my dear friend Silvia interviewed me! I was excited to share my stories about: 💫 how my period started as an embarrassing shameful experiences 💫 how I evolved into loving my cycle 💫 why I didn't want to stay on hormonal birth control 💫 my path into tracking my cycle with fertility awareness 💫 how I used to rant at everyone about cervical fluids 😂 💫 my journey into becoming a holistic sexual reproductive health and fertility awareness educator 💫 how I'm always going deeper in my experience of cycling and honoring the messages from my body to learn more, take classes, and/or get 1-1 support, check out: www.infiniteearthbody.com Follow to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey: http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody  http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/  Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be  Chapters: 00:02:45 Maya’s First Period Story   00:04:30 Navigating Shame and Secrecy   00:06:00 Early Birth Control Experiences   00:07:15 Discovering Fertility Awareness   00:11:10 From Blood Flow to Full Cycle Embodiment   00:12:30 Cloth Pads, Menstrual Cups & Community   00:14:50 Becoming a Fertility Awareness Educator   00:17:45 From Shame to Celebration   00:18:20 Tracking with Confidence & Healing the Inner Child   00:19:15 Maya’s Favorite Cycle Phase   00:20:10 Cervix as Portal & Energetic Connection   00:21:00 Womb Awareness & Uterine Embodiment   00:22:30 Cycles as the 5th Vital Sign 00:23:30 Looking Ahead to Menopause as Rite of Passage

Menstrual Magic Moon Day with Silvia: Fertility awareness as a tool of resistance

This episode features Silvia Canelón (she/her), a queer Latina data scientist and body literacy advocate based in Philadelphia. Silvia weaves together her passion for reproductive justice, relational power dynamics, and fertility awareness to support reclaiming autonomy through cycle tracking. In this episode, we explore: ✨  Silvia’s story of her first period, growing up in Venezuela ✨  What the symptothermal method is — and how it changed her life ✨  Fertility awareness as a form of resistance and self-determination ✨  Becoming a Body Literacy Advocate ✨  Navigating contraception under political uncertainty ✨  Practical ways cycle tracking helps with stress, planning, and emergency contraception ✨  The joy and power of knowing your fertile window ✨  Building inclusive, community-rooted approaches to fertility awareness education Connect with Silvia: • Website: www.silviacanelon.com • IG: @cycle.curious Follow to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey: http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody  http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/  Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be] Chapters: 00:00:00 Body Literacy as Empowerment 00:00:50 Welcome & Grounding 00:01:50 Guest Introduction: Silvia Canelón 00:02:55 Silvia’s First Period Story 00:06:00 Menstruation Over the Years 00:09:00 Intro to Symptothermal Method 00:10:00 How Silvia Found Fertility Awareness 00:12:30 Learning to Chart & Finding a Queer-Inclusive Educator 00:15:00 Educator Training Journey & Becoming a Body Literacy Advocate 00:19:15 Fertility Awareness as Resistance 00:21:00 “Apocalypse-Proof” Birth Control 00:22:00 Reversibility & Empowered Choice 00:23:00 Favorite Parts of Charting 00:25:15 Emergency Contraception & Charting 00:28:30 Final Reflections 00:29:45 Where to Find Silvia

Pain as a portal, pleasure, and connecting to oneness, with aesha

In this episode, I interviewed my beloved friend, aesha rasheed, an incredible body worker and healer, ritual worker and spiritual organizer in service to community wellness, earth stewardship and in support of movements for liberation. We talked about: ✨aesha’s journey with chronic pain ✨How pain can lead to either disassociation or be a portal into deeper self-awareness ✨How pleasure and pain are connected ✨aesha’s experiences both offering and receiving body work ✨How body work can open up enhanced states of connection ✨The interconnectedness of all things and tapping into states of oneness ✨The microbiome as a way that bodies connect and interact ✨Healing through Energy work and Aesha’s experience as a Reiki practitioner Follow to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey: http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody  http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/  Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be  Chapters: 00:00:00 Grounding & Opening Invocation 00:02:40 Embodiment as spirit expressed through our flesh 00:04:00 How chronic pain was a doorway for aesha deeper into herself 00:06:00 The Threshold Between Pain and Pleasure 00:10:00 How pain can be a pathway to dissociation or connection depending on choice and agency 00:13:00 Working with Therapeutic Pain in bodywork 00:15:30 How practicing body work is a meditative state of attunement  00:20:00 How body work can be an enhanced telepathic state of oneness 00:22:00 How our microbiome is connected to our energy body 00:28:00 How our microbiomes exchange and interact with each other through touch 00:30:00 aesha’s experiences with Energy Work & Reiki 00:33:00 Exploring our connections to states of oneness and how humans can be disconnected  00:38:00 How trauma can lead to numbness and disconnect 00:46:00 Exploring different pathways to connect to oneness 00:47:00 what Aesha loves about her body and ways she experiences pleasure 00:57:00 How we our somatic expressions of earth’s wholeness

Remembering that we are divine, powerful creator beings, with ev

In this episode, I interviewed my beloved friend and creative collaborator, Ev Marquee, and amazing Visual Artist, Self-Healing Guide, and Guardian devoted to embodied transformation and the ascension of Pachamama.  With years of study in quantum healing, psychology, and ancient shamanic traditions, she guides and teaches others how to heal, protect their energy, and embody their highest selves. Through energy work mentorship, past life regression, guided quantum healing, and creative offerings, her work is devoted to beauty, sovereignty, and the activation of our personal Heaven on Earth.    We talked about: 💫Overcoming depression, dissociation, and body image distortion 💫The power of mirror work for self-acceptance and self-love 💫Softening, crying, feeling more, and the healing power of tears 💫Imagination as a part of spiritual practice 💫Working with Masculine vs feminine meditation practices 💫Creating whole new worlds and safe spaces in our minds 💫Energy work and past life regression 💫Being in the body as a spiritual practice 💫Being a new earth creatrix 💫Coming back to prayer after a history of rejecting religion You can connect with ev here: http://www.instagram.com/evmarquee https://www.evmarquee.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@newearthgoddess Follow us to join us on this Infinite Earth Body Journey: http://www.instagram.com/infiniteearthbody  http://www.facebook.com/infiniteearthbody/  Join our Inner Circle to continue the convo: https://www.patreon.com/InfiniteEarthBodyCollective Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be  Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:00 Overcoming dissociation and body image distortion 00:06:00 The power of mirror work for self-acceptance and self-love 00:08:00 Coming into softening, crying and feeling more 00:12:00 Self-care practices to support embodiment 00:14:00 Ev’s journey with different styles of meditation 00:16:00 Imagination as a part of spiritual practice 00:17:00 Masculine and feminine practices 00:23:00 Energy work 00:25:00 Past life regression 00:38:00 Moving up spiritually vs coming down into the body 00:40:00 Being a New Earth creatrix 00:41:00 Art as a spiritual and healing practice 00:43:00 Self-care in water and humming 00:47:00 The importance of storytelling 00:48:00 How prayer has been a gamechanger after a history of rejecting religion 00:52:00 Closing