The Kinspirit Podcast

Recorded at the end of Summer, Narinder and I discuss our shared experiences growing up in religious fundamentalist communities and how it shaped our perspectives on life. We explore the beauty and romance in everyday living and the importance of calling forth the beauty in this world. Narinder also shares her journey as a death midwife and the role of death midwifery in society. We discuss the co...

Pain is mycelial. This episode is dedicated to sharing in prayers for Palestine and recognizing how we can each own our role in the global revolution our world needs. Key Takeaways of this Episode: Prayer is a form of energy work that allows us to imagine new possibilities and work towards change. We are interconnected as a global community and have a responsibility to support and stand in solidar...

How do you know if you have spiritual gifts? What are the signs that your spiritual gifts are coming online? In this week's episode of the Kinspirit podcast, I continue our mini-series on Spiritual Gifts by sharing some of the key signs that your spiritual gifts are coming online and how to work with them. I also share some key things to watch out for that will help you to stay grounded, disce...

Carly Mountain, author of Descent & Rising: Women's Stories and Embodying the Inanna Myth, joins the podcast to discuss the psychospiritual descent to soul and the wildly misunderstood sacred rites of passage that many women secretly experience. She emphasizes the importance of calling this wisdom back into the lives of women and normalizing the nature of both descent and rising as part of...

There's something that happens when we walk through a soul-level initiation: we discover that we may have extrasensory gifts. These gifts don't often feel like "gifts" at first. Sometimes they feel intense, like the veil is a bit thinner than we thought before. If you're like many people, you take to google to try and figure out what's happening to you. Perhaps you have d...

In this episode with Sarah Wildeman of Our Common, we explore the complexity of relationships and our connection to land and place. We discuss how important it is to witness each other honestly, hold space for generative conflict, and allow ourselves to process harms that may occur within our community bonds. We also delve into the ways in which our relationship with the land can teach us new ways...

Welcome back to the Kinspirit podcast! In this episode, we explore the concept of radical inherent belonging and the importance of living from a place of deep connection to the Earth. We discuss the role of the sun as an archetypal medicine and how it supports us in our journey toward our culture work. We also redefine the idea of Earth Stewardship, emphasizing that it goes beyond land tending and...

This week, David Bedrick, an elder dedicated to the work of Unshaming, joins me on the podcast to discuss what it means to step into the transformative potential of eldership. We explore the ache for elders in our culture and the necessity of imparted wisdom, courage, and insight. David shares his personal journey of finding his path and the role of elders in guiding and supporting him. Together,...

Hello new listeners! Welcome to the Kinspirit Podcast. Inside of Kinspirit, we are dedicated to the work of bridging the gap between the everyday and the sacred, exploring change, initiation, and crafting a better world. This podcast aims to inspire listeners to notice subtle shifts in themselves and in the culture that can lead to powerful outcomes and systemic change. By centering the soft body,...

Daje welcomes listeners back to the Kinspirit Podcast after a brief hiatus. She shares her decision to move back to New Mexico after initially planning to move to California. Daje also announces changes to the Thresholdkeeper Retreat and introduces the guest for this episode, Sabrina Monarch, an astrologer and host of the Magic of the Spheres podcast. They discuss the themes of Saturn in Pluto and...

Weaving a New Story of Courage, Power, and Purpose on the Earth Lately on the podcast, we've been transiting the realms of sacred rites of passage, thresholdcrossing and initiation. We've been exploring what it looks like to embracing our natural cycles of life / death / change / initiation and recognize the medicine that each of these stages offer us. In this episode, I sit down with my s...

I first heard the term psychospiritual descent to soul from Bill Plotkin, eco-depth philosopher and SoulCraft Guide who has dedicated the last 40 years of his life guiding people through nature-based soul descent. In the introduction of his book, Journey to Soul Initiation, he refers to himself as a "Cocoon Weaver", apprenticed by the archetype of Death. Reading Plotkin's work for th...

Rewilding is a concept that has gained much popularity in recent years as the pandemic has peeled back the layers of industry and challenged our global relationships with consciousness, our priorities, and our politics. There are many conversations to be had about rewilding our external lives through learning to garden or farm, by taking a closer look at how fast we're moving as a world, and b...

In this episode of the Kinspirit podcast, I talk about the realities of queer / feminine rites of passage and the psychospiritual descent to soul. These realities are the secrets (or the mysteries) that many women carry and have been taught to silence themselves in the same ways we have been taught to hide and hush our blood, the realities of childbirth, and the ways of the psychic nature. When I...

There is a reason why we need Spring and Sunrises, Births, and New Beginnings. We can’t swim in the depths and death of the underworld forever. Our bodies crave the cyclical way. Our bodies crave the knowing that there will always be a second chance waiting for us around the bend somewhere and at some point in the future. Otherwise, what would be the point of living? Spring offers us that chance t...

In the circles that I weave in, there is a lot of talk about death. And not only the end-of-life kind of death, but the death of culture, ways of relating, identities, and ways of being, too. Ironically, I find this conversation to be so life-giving. As more and more people are shifting from the “concept” that something is wrong and into hands-in-the-soil style investigating, Death, Grief, Change...

Initiation is a sacred part of being with the human experience and an art for our culture to reclaim in the emergence of our age. Through the medicine of initiation we get to witness our capacity, our gifts, and the potency of our potential in the world. It’s through initiation that we learn how to meet the edges of life and grow in flexibility, inner-resource, and discernment. Karla embodies medi...

In today's podcast episode, I sit down with Ari Felix, writer, astrologer, world-builder, and dreamtender to chat about traversing the taboo realms of money, power, communion, and presence.⁠ From Persephone's descent into the underworld to exploring the ways we tend to over-identify with our seasons of death, darkness, strain, and shadow, Ari and I spare no amount of depth in this powerful non-lin...

When I was actively deconstructing my Christian faith back in 2016, I wondered, "Is it possible to evolve my faith, beliefs, and values without dissolving into bitterness, hatred, or deep regret? Can I stay soft in this process? Can I remember goodness?" Now, six full years later, after having this conversation with Josh, I truly believe so.⁠= Growing up Christian, I was taught some really harsh t...

Today's podcast episode is an invitation to perceive a more honest Winter through the lens of the Four Directions. In one of my most recent personal Substack posts, I wrote about how the stories we're often given about Winter, don't seem to line up to what Winter actually ends up feeling like in our bodies. And instead of continuing on cycles of feeling guilty for not resting enough, being "jolly"...

What does it mean to become ecological? This is the burning question behind today's podcast episode with Kelly Moody. These days especially, the word "ecology" has been cycling around internet, sparking many, many conversations about what it means to establish new relationships with each other and the land. In this episode, Kelly and I discuss why becoming ecological is not so much about what...

What does it look like to be current and liberated in your storytelling work? Can you taste the potency, joy, life, and potential of your medicine? In this episode with Megan Febuary, we talk about the power of story as world-building work and how when we allow ourselves to honor our bodies in the creation process, we grant ourselves the opportunity to draft works that offer powerful medicine that...

In this episode, Taria and I sit down to explore hunger, nourishment, sensitivity, and reciprocity with food. As a breast cancer and eating disorder survivor, a highly sensitive James Beard award-winning french-trained chef, nourishment guide, and gustatory synesthete, Taria moves through the world with a raw conviction and deep wisdom about how humanity's relationship with food is aching for a re...

Marie Eve Laflamme is an Eco-Depth Art Therapist who is on a mission to provide beauty seekers with a safe and imaginative space to go deeper into their relationship with Self. In this episode, Marie Eve shares her own journey of making meaning through spiritual and psychological crises, using her experiences to artfully shape a life and path of radical belonging with the Earth. In this episode we...

Recorded in the Spring of 2022, so much has since happened in both my and Rachael's lives. So much has evolved. This episode is a testament to the beauty of trusting change. Change comes to bring us an opportunity to grow in wisdom and depth. Change comes to bring us an opportunity to parse, understand, see, and love ourselves a little more deeply. Change comes to bring the outer structural shifts...