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Rooted Healing
Rooted Healing heals and connects inner and outer landscapes through courses, gatherings, ceremonial retreats and our podcast. Our intention is for these conversations to nourish and heal with stories that weave us closer to our wild and inter-relational nature. Learn more at rootedhealing.org and receive a free workshop in embodied deep ecology when you sign up for our roughly-monthly nourishing newsletter.
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Episodes
Rooted HealingSAMHAIN: Ancestral Communion and Re-enchantment, with Isla Macleod
As the forests surrender their leaves and the darkness deepens, we arrive at Samhain, a threshold of death, renewal and remembrance. A time when the boundaries…
Rooted HealingGypsy Birth, Cultural Erasure & Pregnancy Loss, with Clare Cox
What happens when the knowledge that once held birth within a community is lost? And what do we lose when the women who carried that knowledge are forced to…
Rooted HealingAUTUMN EQUINOX: The Gifts of Impermanence, with Isla Macleod
In this seasonal offering, Isla Macleod invites us into the quiet threshold of the Autumn Equinox, a time of harvest, balance and the gradual burrowing of…
Rooted HealingLAMMAS: Sharing What Has Ripened, with Isla Macleod
As the first harvest begins to ripen and the long days of summer slowly soften towards autumn, we arrive at Lughnasadh (Lammas), which is an ancient festival…
Rooted HealingSUMMER SOLSTICE: Ripening into Life, with Isla Macleod
In this seasonal immersion with Isla Macleod, we arrive at the luminous threshold of Summer Solstice, a time of abundance, celebration and ripening. Together…
Rooted HealingReceiving Life: Kincentric Rewilding, Myth and Harvest with D. Firth Griffith
D. Firth Griffith is a writer, teacher and land-based practitioner whose work sits at the intersection of ecology, myth and lived relationship with the natural…
Rooted HealingBELTANE: Making Love with Creation with Isla Macleod
In this seasonal immersion with Isla Macleod, we step into what it means to meet this fertile, abundant, eros-filled threshold where the land has fully…
Rooted HealingMultiplicity and Wholeness in a Fragmented World with Sima Basel of Grassroots Village
Sima Basel is a Palestinian-Ukrainian therapist and the co-founder of Grassroots Village, an emerging eco-village in the mountains between Oman and the UAE. We…
Rooted HealingSPRING EQUINOX: Emergence, Balance and Ritual Ideas with Isla Macleod
Spring Equinox greetings dear ones, In awe of the sun’s return, I’ve been marinating in the gusty sea breezes moving across the farm. Gentle wind with the…
Rooted HealingIMBOLC: Tending the Returning Light with Isla Macleod
After another long pause, this episode arrives from a place shaped by profound loss. A convergence of grief has moved through our lives, and for those…
Rooted HealingPalestine as Teacher: Politicised Somatics with Zeena Ismail
In this powerful conversation, Veronica sits with Zeena Ismail - a Palestinian somatic practitioner, trauma educator and writer - to explore what it means to…
Rooted HealingThe Ecological Self with Deep Ecologist John Seed
In this rich and timely conversation, we sit down with legendary rainforest activist, eco-philosopher and elder of the Deep Ecology movement, John Seed. For…
Rooted HealingHealing Britain's Temperate Rainforests with Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
“We are rainforest people living on a rainforest island… and the greatest challenge is truly remembering that.” In this episode, we sit down with Merlin…
Rooted HealingThe Path of Sensuous Softening with Maile Kalokura
In this episode, we welcome Maile Kalokura, a Somatic Educator, Shamanic & Evolutionary Astrologer and founder of Kalokura Astrology & the Golden Rose Temple…
Rooted HealingWe Belong: Songful Invocations with Bonnie Medicine
Mairead, the creatrix behind Bonnie Medicine, is a singer, song weaver, and medicine musician from the ‘Bonnie’ isles of Scotland. Rooted deeply in her Celtic…
Rooted HealingExploring African Animistic Spirituality with Philiswa Makhaye
In this episode, we are joined by Philiswa Makhaye, a traditional Zulu healer from South Africa. Initiated as a Sangoma at the age of 12, Philiswa has…
Rooted HealingMarina Delamar's Healing Encounter with a Lost Emperor Penguin
In this heartfelt episode, we are joined by the wonderful Marina Delamar, an artist, educator, and ceremonialist who explores life through the twin lenses of…
Rooted HealingFolk, Paganism, Psychedelics and Wyrdlore with Dr. Andy Letcher
In this rich and winding conversation, we are joined by Dr. Andy Letcher — Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, former Programme Lead for the MA in…
Rooted HealingFungi Futures: Ethnomycology for Social Innovation with Darren Le Baron
In this episode, we dive deep into the mycelial network with world-renowned educator and ethnomycologist Darren le Baron. Known for his transformative…
Rooted HealingGrief, Trauma and the Healing Power of Words with Poet Hayley Frances
Hayley Frances is a poet and poetry therapist from Birmingham. Her debut collection, Administer the Laughing Gas (VERVE Poetry Press), is a raw and unfiltered…
Rooted HealingReviving Welsh Indigeneity with Owen Shiers
‘Cynefin’ (pr. kuh-neh-vin) is the creative vision of West Wales native folk musician, Owen Shiers. Fascinated by music and history, it aims to give a modern…
Rooted HealingCeremonial Consciousness and Nature's Synchronicities with Dr Matthew Zylstra
Dr Matthew Zylstra is a systems ecologist passionate about deepening the human-nature relationship for the healing of people and planet. He has 20 years of…
Rooted HealingSong-Dreaming the Land Back to Life with Sam Lee
Mercury Prize-nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector and activist, Sam Lee, plays a unique role in the British music scene, breaking boundaries…
Rooted HealingHow Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis with Osprey Orielle Lake
Founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey Orielle Lake works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and…
Rooted HealingHonouring Thresholds, Emerging from Death Dens and Weaving New Earth with Isla Macleod
Imbolc Blessings! It is Isla Macleod’s deepest wish to inspire and support a remembrance of what is sacred in our lives, guiding us back home to the natural…
Rooted HealingMore-Than-Human Kinship: Interspecies Communication with Dr Saskia von Diest
Dr Saskia von Diest is the founder of Ecofluency, an organisation that offers consulting, teaching and facilitation in the science, art and practical magic of…
Rooted HealingFinding Vitality in Place: Remembering Ourselves Home with Seth Hughes
Seth Hughes is driven by a determination to remind humans of their intrinsic relationship with the natural world. He believes passionately that the modern…
Rooted HealingOur Earth Needs Us to Grieve with Nici Harrison
In this episode, I am joined once again by grief worker, speaker and founder of The Grief Space, Nici Moon. Building on our earlier conversation, we explore…
Rooted HealingBioregional Life-Ways with Ben Stopford
This episode focusses on the cultivation of belonging through bioregionalism, a life-way that Ben Stopford has explored on a deep level in North Wales. Ben is…
Rooted HealingDo As The Mushrooms Do: Medicinal Allies for Humanity's ReConnection with Elle Kennedy from Bristol Fungarium
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…
Rooted HealingOur Future is Local: Debunking the Myth of Progress with Helena Norburg-Hodge
Linguist, author and filmmaker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures; a pioneer of the…
Rooted HealingIf They Can, We Must: Erotic Ecology and Social Re-Membering with Lindsay Branham
Lindsay Branham is a revolutionary eco-doula, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and a social scientist, dedicated to leveraging media and technology to end human…
Rooted HealingChanting Ourselves into Community with Jill Purce
Jill Purce is a renowned voice teacher, Family Constellations therapist and author, who pioneered the international sound healing movement through her…
Rooted HealingAncestral Lineage Healing and Eco Guardianship Birthing Belonging with Kirra Swenerton
Kirra Swenerton M.S. is an edge-walker, healing artist and scientist. Kirra teaches nature reverence, ritual and restoration ecology, bridging the worlds of…
Rooted HealingAncestral Practices meet Modern Science: Healing Chronic Disease with Elisa Fusi
Elisa Fusi is an Italian molecular biologist, visionary herbalist and writer, with a research focus on human pathology, mycology, neuroscience and ecology…
Rooted HealingFinding Presence Through Play, Art and Reiki with Violeta Abitia
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…
Rooted HealingRising Technology with the Essence of Humanity with Nathalie Nahai
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…
Rooted HealingPut Your Roots Down and Innovate with Rob Hopkins
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…
Rooted HealingRewilding Myths and Redefining Health with Sophie Strand
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…
Rooted HealingCrisis Calling us to Deepen Our Humanity with Alastair McIntosh
One of the world's leading environmental campaigners, Alastair McIntosh is an Isle of Lewis-raised writer, broadcaster and campaigning academic best known for…
Rooted HealingWe Are Singing Beings with Fia
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…
Rooted HealingAncient Dream Mysteries with Sarah Janes
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…
Rooted HealingPsilocybin and Beavers Rewilding Our World with Dr Sam Gandy
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…
Rooted HealingDecolonisation Through Devotion to the Earth with Ebyän Zanini Chimba
Ebyän Zanini Chimba is a decolonial and ecofeminist activist, teacher, and multi-disciplinary artist. Her most recent collaborative piece, the internationally…
Rooted HealingHealing Through the Land with Ceremonialist, Annie Spencer
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…
Rooted HealingDruidry with Wisdom Keeper Chris Park
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…
Rooted HealingLucid Dreaming, Dying and Waking with Tree Carr
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…
Rooted HealingHealing as Descension with Christiana Eva Schelfhout
Christiana Eva Schelfhout is a musician and healing arts practitioner, who has had her own deep apprenticeship with chronic mental and physical illness, which…
Rooted HealingNatural Birth and Motherhood as Initiation with Sofia Abramian
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…
Rooted HealingHarm Reduction and Psychedelic Integration with Lilja Þorsteinsdóttir
Lilja Þorsteinsdóttir is a Psychologist from Iceland who specialises in group psychedelic integration, healing trauma (and the emotional and physical symptoms…
Rooted HealingStories of Regeneration with Joya Berrow + Lucy Jane
Joya Berrow & Lucy Jane are award winning documentary directors, most notable for their craft of directing authentic human stories with impactful narratives…
Rooted HealingTantric Art of Living and Loving with Karolina Karwan
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…
Rooted HealingThe Path of Remembrance with Andrew Askaripour
Andrew Askaripour, also known as Fifth God, is a multidisciplinary creative and ceremonialist from Long Island, New York. With a strong passion for health…
Rooted HealingBruce Parry on Indigenous Perspective and Egalitarianism
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…
Rooted HealingSeeds of Spells and Art as Prayer with Jessie White
Jessie White is a self-taught Artist, an apprentice to the Earth and a part time gardener currently living on Salt Spring island, the unceded territory of the…
Rooted HealingAntarctic Awakening with Damon Stanwell-Smith
Damon Stanwell-Smith spent 3 years on the British Antarctic Survey base and since became an expert in remote-location research management in polar, temperate…
Rooted HealingDorrie Joy on Ancestral Crafts as Our Path to Belonging
Dorrie Joy is a multidisciplinary artist, ancestral craftswomen, herbalist, space holder and educator. She guides ancestral drum making workshops amongst many…
Rooted HealingThe Art of Grief Tending with Nici Harrison
Nici Harrison is a grief tender, transformational coach and founder of The Grief Space, which invites nurturing reverence for grief, loss and ultimately life…