Rooted Healing

As the world changes, and we rapidly have to alter the way we navigate our existence, Bristol Fungarium , the UK's only organic certified medicinal mushroom producers, believe we can learn much from the fungi world. Their core work is to grow local mushroom strains that have developed over millions of years in an attempt to be mindful about their impact on the local flora and fauna.  With up...

Linguist, author and filmmaker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures; a pioneer of the worldwide localisation movement, raising awareness about the power of ‘going local’ as a key strategy for restoring ecological, social and spiritual wellbeing.  Helena’s books include ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’ , an eye-opening...

Lindsay Branham is a revolutionary eco-doula, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and a social scientist, dedicated to leveraging media and technology to end human rights abuses and ecological disconnect.  She is the Founder of Novo film, which inspires imaginative solutions to seemingly insurmountable challenges, as well as a PhD student at Cambridge University exploring nature connectedness at the somat...

Jill Purce is a renowned voice teacher, Family Constellations therapist and author, who pioneered the international sound healing movement through her rediscovery of ancient vocal techniques and the spiritual potential of the voice as a magical instrument for healing and meditation.  Her 1974 book ‘ The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul ’ was a seminal influence, helping inspire the birth of the...

Kirra Swenerton M.S. is an edge-walker, healing artist and scientist. Kirra teaches nature reverence, ritual and restoration ecology, bridging the worlds of science and the sacred, merging rigour and ethics with herbal wisdom and ancestral traditions, uplifting vulnerable creatures and revitalising wild places.  Kirra specialises in land and water tending, deposession and curse unravelling, plant...

Elisa Fusi is an Italian molecular biologist, visionary herbalist and writer, with a research focus on human pathology, mycology, neuroscience and ecology.   With an ongoing investigation on folk medicine, ancestral rituals and indigenous cultures all over the world, Elisa has studied and lived with different indigenous groups in Madagascar and across Central and South America.  She later obtained...

Violeta Abitia is an artist, energy healer and reiki master who leads reiki courses and children’s art and mindfulness programmes in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico.  Violeta seeks to deconstruct the patterns that take us away from what she calls the most sacred experience granted to every human being on this planet: "Awakening". Woven into this episode is music from Miguel Angel Sui...

Nathalie Nahai is an expert in psychology, persuasive tech & human behaviour, drawing upon a rich background in psychology, web design and the arts, to offer a unique vantage point from which to examine the complex challenges we face today. Her best-selling book: Webs Of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion has been adopted as the go-to manual by business leaders and universities ali...

A Spring Equinox episode to inspire new beginnings and plant seeds of change... Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Network and Transition Town Totnes, and author of The Transition Handbook, The Transition Companion, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, 21 Stories of Transition and most recently ‘ From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want ’.  He is...

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology.  It would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories.  Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine invites masculine mythic and religious archetype...

One of the world's leading environmental campaigners, Alastair McIntosh is an Isle of Lewis-raised writer, broadcaster and campaigning academic best known for his work on land reform on Eigg, in helping to stop the Harris superquarry; also for developing human ecology as an applied academic discipline in Scotland. He holds a PhD on liberation theology and contemporary Scottish land reform fro...

A special Winter Solstice episode with the glorious medicine singer-songwriter Fia , from Sweden, who has a unique way of weaving music that empowers the listener to drop deeper into themselves and find their own medicine. Since the release of her debut album "Made of Stars" in 2016, Fia has been touring worldwide and continues to touch hearts wherever she goes.  Fia diligently creates m...

Sarah Janes is a writer, researcher and avid lucid dreamer. Her first book Initiation into Dream Mysteries, Drinking from the Pool of Mnemosyne is coming out this year in the US and early next year in Britain. It explores the ancient history and philosophy of dream therapy and sleep medicine, beginning in deepest antiquity through to ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece. Sharing more than a decad...

Sam Gandy is an ecologist, writer and researcher with a PhD in ecological science from the University of Aberdeen and an MRes in entomology from Imperial College London. He has been involved with the cutting edge of psychedelic research, working as Scientific Assistant to the Director of the Beckley Foundation, and as a collaborator with the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London. S...

Ebyän Zanini Chimba is a decolonial and ecofeminist activist, teacher, and multi-disciplinary artist. Her most recent collaborative piece, the internationally acclaimed short film “Amoriri” has reached the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people across the globe. Ebyän weaves worlds through her words and workshops that inspire, heal, and revolutionise—drawing us closer to ourselves, each other,...

Annie Spencer is a renowned ceremonialist and beloved elder. She is a leader of vision quests and rites of passage, with a background in humanistic psychology and earth-based spiritual traditions, having been apprenticed in Native American practices in the 1980's and more recently in Guatemalan Mayan teachings, and Annie weaves these with the traditions of the land in Britain. She is also a w...

Chris Park is a Druid, ecological artist, musician and storyteller, immersed and versed in the ancient lore and wisdom traditions of the Isles of Britain. He teaches ancient technologies, experimental archaeology, educational projects, eco-building, professional storytelling, folk music and raising the awareness of the heritage of beekeeping, where he is also a host on the Living Beeing Podcast ,...

Tree Carr is an author, dream guide and death doula, who works in the esoteric realms of dreams, death and divination.  Her published books ‘DREAMS: How to Connect With Your Dreams to Enrich Your Life’ and ‘Conscious Dreamer’ are both deeply insightful, fascinating reads, weaving science with anecdotal dream guidance from someone who has clearly ventured across her own inner landscapes with deep c...

Christiana Eva Schelfhout is a musician and healing arts practitioner, who has had her own deep apprenticeship with chronic mental and physical illness, which has lead her on an expansive path of exploration and discovery around the world, drinking from wellsprings of traditional knowledge. Much of her extensive time in training and facilitation has been spent as a Trauma Informed Yoga Instructor...

Sofia Abramian is an enchanting Mother, Doula and women’s facilitator, who calls for a shift in consciousness around womens' self worth and natural birth, reminding us all that ‘our bodies are a measure of the universe’ and that we have the wisdom, strength and innate ability to celebrate womanhood, birth and motherhood as a deeply central, spiritual aspect of the human experience, reviving t...

Lilja Þorsteinsdóttir is a Psychologist from Iceland who specialises in group psychedelic integration, healing trauma (and the emotional and physical symptoms in women), harm reduction, and treating addiction and chronic pain and illness. She has created a safe platform full of courses to help people get in touch with their playfulness and creativity, increasing people’s self-understanding and con...

Joya Berrow & Lucy Jane are award winning documentary directors, most notable for their craft of directing authentic human stories with impactful narratives focusing on climate justice, land and ocean regeneration and amplifying marginalised voices in the climate movement. They capture stories that go beyond the typical mainstream media around the climate crisis that often leaves us feeling pa...

Karolina Karen is a Tantra Facilitator who shares her healing journey into Tantra and how we may all harness the Tantric art of living and loving holistically. Listen in for practices and insight to help us unblock suppressed emotions, access full pleasure, deepen our relationships, use the medicine of authentic communication and embrace Tantric philosophy in order to help us deconstruct social, c...

Andrew Askaripour, also known as Fifth God, is a multidisciplinary creative and ceremonialist from Long Island, New York. With a strong passion for health, spirituality and ceremony, and with a focus on projects and writings that carry themes of self-exploration, vulnerability, ancient wisdom, and self-development, Andrew seeks to depict and work with those who are radically striving for a greater...

Bruce Parry is an award winning documentary and film maker, indigenous rights advocate, author and is an explorer of the inner, local and distant realms. His documentary series for the BBC including Tribe, Amazon, and Arctic have shown Bruce exploring extreme environments, living with remote indigenous peoples and highlighting many of the important issues being faced on the environmental frontline...