Woman Who Rubs the Mountain

Woman Who Rubs the Mountain

Hosted by: Kendra Ward

a podcast and gathering place for stories of embodied ecology. What happens when we rub on the body of the earth, how does it brush back against us? There is a certain fidelity required when we return over and...

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The Stories of Everything: A Conversation with Carina Lyall about Hearing the Many Truths [Episode 24]

It was a joy to lean in with the host of the Becoming Nature podcast, Carina Lyall. Our conversation easily flowed between squirrel games (spoiler alert, they want all the walnuts), how certain stories come straight...
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The Land Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself [Episode 23]

Paths lead us forward in acts of collective mark-making, while also leading us backwards into memory, as well as inwards, deeper into ourselves. In this one-year anniversary episode of the Woman Who Rubs the Mountain...
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The Embodied Elements: Indulging Our Chlorophyll Reveries [Episode 22]

It’s been an entire turn of the seasonal wheel since the podcast began and I am excited to spiral back to the Embodied Elements Series with you. By embodied elements I am wondering, how is the season and its...
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Protecting Our Inner and Outer Wilds: A Conversation with Vanessa Chakour [Episode 21]

From a young age, author and herbalist Vanessa Chakour was struck by the archetype of Artemis as the original land protector and environmental activist. In her book, Awakening Artemis, Vanessa skillfully tells her...
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Longing For Our Wild Beginnings: A Conversation with Rachel Corby About the Complexities of Unconscious Human Harm [Episode 20]

Whether it’s a seashell collection that sits on your toilet, silky feathers tucked into your car’s dashboard, or rocks lining your kitchen windowsill, it is our human tendency to collect and extract everything around...
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Whispers From Dreamland: A Conversation About Being a Modern Druid [Episode 19]

Some of us might feel pretty darn intimate with the place where we live, but Fearn Lickfield, Director of the Green Mountain Druid School, is literally, ceremoniously, married to the land she calls home. In the latest...
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Plant Spirit Medicine for Initiatory Times [Episode 18]

Sink your taproot deep into the Earth and let's celebrate all that our plant kin have to share with us. Plant Spirit Wisdom teacher, Sara Artemisia, helps us relax into our birthright of kinship with the plants around...
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Timeless Knowings: A Conversation About the Darkness From Which All Life Springs & Normalizing Death [Episode 16]

Gather by the warmth of the wood stove for this special winter solstice episode of the Woman Who Rubs the Mountain podcast, where we explore radical introspection, loosening of uncertainty, and hibernating in the...
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Going Skin to Skin: A Conversation About Eco-Soma and Sensory Bonding [Episode 15]

Eco-Somatic Educator, Rivka Honeybee Worth, intertwines her love of dance and nature in a body of work she aptly refers to as Eco-Soma. The embodied practices of Eco-Soma are devoted to rebuilding healthy, reciprocal...
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Ferociously Present: A Conversation About Caressing the Fractures for New Knowings [Episode 14]

It was with utter delight that I recently shared a conversation with fellow intranaut and Ayurvedic medicine practitioner, Alana Layne Greenberg. I knew she would be game for turning off the lights so to speak,...
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Black Joy in Green Spaces [Episode 13]

In this episode, two time TEDx speaker and eco-spiritualist, Chris Omni, MPH, shines her bright light on us in a celebration of Black joy in green spaces. This is her poetic theorization of Black joy: “Black Joy is a...
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Soul Medicine for Personal & Collective Transformation: A Conversation about Living Through the Five Elements [Episode 11]

A skilled weaver of the sacred through both the ancient and the modern, acupuncturist Lindsay Fauntleroy possesses the rare ability to make the principles of subtle energetic healing accessible within our daily lives....
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