The Rose Hip Road Trip: Recent Episodes
The Institute for Earth-Based Living about Earth-based healing
Earth-Based Restoration is how we return to our own ecological identities so that we can allow the Earth to restore us. Surrender to the cycles of your body and the Earth so that ALL can be restored!
On this week's episode, I speak with farmer Chris Bolden-Newsome, co-director of the Sankofa Community Farm in West Philadelphia, PA. Chris uses sustainable agriculture and spiritual practices as means to liberation, decolonization, and cultural recovery for people in diaspora – especially the African Diaspora. In this conversation, we discuss:
• Farming in cooperation with spirit • Natural agriculture • Living in communion with the soil • Okra as a food that connects and restores all people of the African Diaspora • Diaspora as scattering of seeds • The relationship between colonizing plants and colonizing people • The difference between feeding the soil rather and feeding the plants • Why the South is important in the recovery of African and black cultures and traditions • The expansiveness of African and Catholic cosmologies • The spirit in the plants of the African Diaspora
On this weeks episode, I speak with Medicine Woman, Jacque Maldonado, owner and proprietor of The Prana House New Age Apothecary in West Chester, PA. Jacque comes from a long line of medicine women and now seeks to share her knowledge with the masses. In this episode, Jacque and I discuss:
- How taking on responsibility for her mom's illness led to the work that she's doing now
- Growing up in a coven of women and being the "weird" one in school
- What it's like educating the masses about Earth medicine
- Having a life that's integrated into the cycles of the Earth
- Navigating a healthy Earth-based lifestyle and business in a world that isn't set up for it
To learn more about Jacque, her work and the Prana House, visit www.thepranahouse.com.
This week, I speak with artist Terrance Vann in Wilmington, Delaware in a neighborhood that houses one of his best-known murals. We have an expansive conversation that explores:
• How the power of love can overcome every worry • Why meditation is necessary for art and life • Art as a spiritual practice • The connection between Natural Black hair, Nature, and power • The source of white supremacy • The value of human energy • Hope for the future
To learn more about Terrance and see his work, find him on Instagram at @terranceism and order prints at www.terranceism.bigcartel.com.