Bespoken Bones Podcast

Bodyworker and ancestral healer Mika Banks speaks on how she had to learn boundaries to work effectively with the dead.

Cultural geographer Christos Galanis speaks on ecosexuality as ancestral sexuality, and embodying the priniciples of sacred reciprocity, integrity and consent.

Plant and stone medicine healer Dori Midnight, speaks on ancestral and queer magic with the green bloods and rocks and crystals as allies in ancestral healing.

LGBTQ Historian and genealogist Stewart Blandon Traimon speaks on finding our ancestors who had special relationships with gender and sexuality in our family trees. Genealogy is an important parallel to ancestral reverence, and it's a special treat to dive in through a queer lens.

Sangoma Gogo Ekhaya Esima of Sangoma Healing speaks on her initiation through mental health crisis and the importance of being humble on our knees before our ancestors.

Listen as death doula and ritualist Sarah Kerr of Soul Passages discusses how to prepare to be a good ancestor, have a good death, and face the truth that life is finite.

Archetypal Astrologer Rebecca Farrar speaks in plain English on ancestral connections within astrological birth charts, and the power of viewing your life through an astrological lens.

Jungian therapist and author Dr. Sandra Easter discusses her work and book "Jung and the Ancestors Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web" on how we can heal generations of suffering by opening our hearts to feeling what is present in our lineages, our communities, and the land.

Listen as Artistic Director Seth Eisen discusses how art can bring queer ancestors OUT of the shadows and into the light in his new San Francisco collaboration OUT of SITE, and the multigenerational healing that can happen from diving deep into our queer history.

Sexuality author and educator Lee Harrington of Passion and Soul speaks on the mighty queer dead, erotic ancestral practice, and kink and leather ancestral lineages.

Listen as embodied dream worker and ancestral lineage repair practitioner Seyta Selter of Innerlands speaks to the practices of dreaming with ancestors, and the healing power of erotic dreams.

Listen as Reverend Catharine Clarenbach of The Way of the River speaks on spirit in a fat body, connecting with ancestors through ancestral objects, and tending the unloved dead.

Listen as shamanic healer and teacher Christina Pratt, host of the Why Shamanism Now podcast and founder of the Last Mask Center speaks on holistic sexuality, the spiritual consequences of sexual violation, and the retrieval of soul parts for the sake of erotic wellness.

Family Constellation facilitator Peter Touchard speaks on how revealing unseen, hidden exclusions and entanglements within family systems can lead to resolution.

Taya Shere waxes poetic on healing Jewish ancestral healing, participating in an embodied, holy life, and bliss as the prayer.

Listen as acupuncturist and herbalist Erin Langley of Ancestral Acupuncture speaks truth on the intersection of ancestors and healing.

Mallorie Vaudoise is a Brooklyn-based spiritualist of Italian descent. Listen as she speaks on the veneration of saints, the presence of ancestor worship in Catholicism, and adopting your very own soul, for the sake of receiving blessing.

Artist Clement Hil Goldberg speaks to the urgency of creating revolutionary glittering ancestral art, both as a prayer to encode our embodied knowing, and for the sake of supporting and blessing our queer descendants.

New York City-based Shaman Langston Kahn speaks on how relating with ancestors can support the fullest expression of our Selves, and how we can work with the unseen in service to our greatest passions.

Dr. Judith Rich is a pioneering teacher in the field of transformation and consciousness. Listen as she speaks on making the deliberate choice to heal our lineages, and dealing with the repercussions, positive and negative, of accepting our ancestors.

Atava Garcia Swiecicki of Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk and Indigenous Medicine speaks on connecting with our indigenous medicine, developing relationships with plants that support the healing of transgenerational trauma and plants and the erotic.

Somatic Sex Educator Caffyn Jesse speaks on self-regulation of the nervous system, ancestral trauma renegotiation and deep somatic pleasure.

5 Rhythms teacher and activist Sylvie Minot speaks on creating embodied safety and the joyful body, the ancestral war that can exist inside of us and how dance helps us hold that, and how we can dance ourselves and our ancestors free.

Renegade Sexual Mystic M'kali-Hashiki speaks on developing ancestral consciousness, and the integration of our erotic lives through breathwork practice.

Dr. Jenny Wade, author of Transcendent Sex, speaks on how erotic states of being are altered states, and can be used to create change and healing.

Artist Keith Hennessy speaks on how the ancestors move through him as he creates radical performance that challenges dominant culture.

Rashani Chandra Alexandre speaks on the role of ancestors in tantric Hinduism, and practicing ancestral consciousness.

Dr. Daniel Foor speaks on embodying the goodness of our older, bright well ancestors and how developing ancestral relationships can benefit our lives.

Introduction to the podcast, the host, and the ancestors!