Feral Intercourse: Conversations With Wild Women

Born with river blood, magic bones, and a moonlit heart, Lola Venado is a botanical bruja, word forager, gatherer of Moon circles and dinner parties. She believes comida es medicina and there’s nothing good food and drink can’t help heal. An ally to the salty and the sacred, she honors ancestral ritual, folk medicine, and story magik in her own way. When she's not traveling in her van to pray at the altars of forest, river, and ocean, Lola is cultivating everyday magic in the river city of Sacramento.⠀ ⠀ In this episode, Lola and Rachael Alaia discuss... ⠀ ↠ Remembering that not everyone in our people, liberation from needing to be "all the things,” and appreciating the mightiness within the small ↠ Illness and crisis as a catalyst for rebirth and transformation ↠ The lifelong evolution of self, accepting our multidimensionality, and owning who we are while also putting old versions of ourselves to rest ↠ Finding tenderness and creating space for the evolution of others around us ↠ The difference between putt

Ariana Felix is a Boricua born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Lancaster, PA. As an astrologer at Saltwater Stars, she helps humans navigate the relationship between self-awareness and the astral world. Ariana co-facilitates healing justice spaces such as Red Tent (a sacred space for local women) and Let’s Talk (a local support space for people of color). You can also find her writing unapologetically about healing justice, decolonization & community at Latinx Lancaster. Her work is deeply invested into integrating intuitive strategies for decolonization and the accessibility of radical politic. ⠀⠀ ⠀ In this episode, Ariana and Rachael Alaia discuss...⠀ ⠀ ↠ The power of ritual and an alternative perspective to the traditional heteronormative take on marriage ↠ Centering relationships as a practice of decolonization ↠ Unsustainable hyper individualized grieving versus communal grief as an agent for healing ↠ Intimacy, accountability, and collaborative alignment ↠ The harm that can come from premature reconcilia

This podcast features intimate dialogue between Rachael Alaia and thirty different women discussing how they are courageously exploring what it means to live imbued with the medicine of the Earth, in service from an apex of soul, and unapologetically authentic to their wild instinctual nature. ⠀ In this space, Rachael and her guests discuss topics like...⠀ ⠀ ↠ Archetypal studies and depth psychology⠀ ↠ Travel⠀ ↠ Relationships⠀ ↠ Body wisdom⠀ ↠ Deep ecology⠀ ↠ Emotional healing⠀ ↠ Practical magic⠀ ↠ Parenting⠀ ↠ Spirituality⠀ ↠ Shadow work⠀ ↠ Culture⠀ ↠ Justice⠀ ↠ Creativity⠀ ↠ Storytelling⠀ and more...⠀ ⠀ So, please—arrive, settle in, and allow the personal stories of Wild Woman to make their way into your heart, like a red thread weaving you within the story of the emerging collective.⠀ ⠀ Our opening song is "Tangerine" by Little Monarch.⠀ Our closing song is "I Will Shine" by Megan Woodland Hewitt of The Wild Hymns.⠀