Xantico House Podcast
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsHosted by Lola Venado, The Botanical Bruja®, the Xantico House Podcast* is dedicated to centering the work of multi-cultural BIPOC whose Medicine stories are often underrepresented in communities of herbalism, folk magik, cookery, and other healing creative arts. (*FKA Branch & Bone Medicine Show)
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Vadi Arzu Erdal: Bioregional Herbalist + Ethnobotanist Badass // Ep. 15
August 02, 2020 23:13 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBVadi is a bioregional herbalist and ethnobotanist badass currently inhabiting the liminal space between diaspora and homeland. They uprooted their life in Tucson, AZ to embark on an ancestral remembrance journey in Anatolia—exploring mixed Kurdish/Cypriot/Turkish roots, learning about cultural traditions, landscapes, histories, plant and people connections, and dancing in the medicine between worlds; past and present, inshallah, to form bridges in the years to come. Their core ethos...
Alisha Sommer: Visionary + Writer // Ep. 14
January 30, 2020 23:30 - 1 hour - 72.9 MBAlisha Sommer is a California Bay Area freelance writer, photographer, visionary. She has a gift for holding sacred space, deep listening, and seeing the ordinary in extraordinary ways. Alisha has founded and edited a print literary journal (Blackberry: a magazine), published personal essays, creative nonfiction, and poetry for a variety of online and print publications, ghostwritten, and taught at Squam Art Workshops. Currently, you'll find her co-hosting creative gatherings in Son...
J. Allen Cross: Witch + Occult Specialist // Ep. 13
July 31, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBGuest J. Allen Cross is a practicing witch of Indigenous Mexican and European descent. Born into a family of the mystically inclined, Joshua has been doing spiritual work all his life. Living in his home state of Oregon, he works as Psychic Medium/Occult Specialist for a well known Paranormal Investigation team. He writes articles for esoteric blogs such as Fire and Lux, and provides spiritual healing services to his local and Instagram community under his persona “The Silver Falls ...
Sanyu Estelle: Soothsayer + Word Witch // Ep. 12
March 01, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBSanyu Estelle is a pigmented (78%), womoonist (as constant and faithful as the tides), cissy (femme but hetero-ish), multisexual (it's a spectrum, seems unwise to call it), travel-apt (Earth is a country) and fashion forward (Funk Flag Flyage) SSJW (Sarcastic Social Justice Warrior). Sanyu says, “I’m your forebearers attainable unreality.” The blending of Taoism, astrology, and tarot Slam poetry and church building communication, commanding space, creating mood Loss of soverei...
Asha Frost: Anishinaabe Medicine Woman // Ep. 11
December 21, 2018 22:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBAsha Frost is an Anishinaabe woman from Neyaashiinigmiing, the Cape Croker First Nation community in Ontario, Canada. She is a Medicine Woman, Mentor, and Visionary who believes that we heal when we awaken to the beautiful medicine that we carry within. She facilitates healing in her practice through the use of Shamanic Healing, Homeopathy, and Indigenous Based Ceremony. Her purpose is to help people connect to the magic of Spirit within their lives. Her intention is to help awaken ...
Sen Elias: Root Doctor + Witch // Ep. 10
October 12, 2018 00:30 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBSen Elias of Crescent City Conjure in New Orleans. From a very young age, Sen could feel the tug of magic calling him to practice the occult. During his journeys, he has studied European Witchcraft, Southern Folk Magic, and Western Hermeticism; he is an initiate of the Alexandrian tradition. Sen is the owner of Crescent City Conjure, a magical business that maintains its reputation for authentic spiritual tools to be used in Witchcraft and Southern Conjure. Sen has dedicated his lif...
Aysen Farag: Indigenous Medicine Woman // Ep. 9
August 26, 2018 13:00 - 1 hour - 73.4 MBAysen Farag of Earth Dreams Totems in Toronto, Canada. Aysen, whose name means “Moonlight Reflected on the Water”, is an Egyptian-Sudanese medicine woman, an herbalist, plant spirit worker, and ceremony leader. She was born into a long lineage of indigenous African healers, and has been initiated as a wisdom keeper in the lineage of the Q’ero people from the Andes. She passionately shares her gifts in energy healing, sacred plant medicine, ceremony, and intuitive readings while work...
Pilar Mejia: Healing Mentor + Slayer of Domestications // Ep. 8
July 14, 2018 01:30 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBPilar Mejia of I Heal Myself to Heal the World, a space where she writes to share about her healing journey as a mestiza woman from the lands we call Mexico. Her space is not about enlightenment or sharing fake spirituality. She says, "I don’t do “spiritual work”. Spirit knows what we need and who we are." Pilar is a Slayer of Domestications, focusing on finding our authentic selves and healing our ancestral trauma, speaking up about white supremacy and racism. She is a cannabis adv...
Renée Lopez: Photographer + Lifestyle Bruja // Ep. 7
June 20, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBRenée Lopez, of Miss Lopez Media, is a photographer and lifestyle bruja. A brown woman of color, originally from Yakima in Central Washington, Renée moved to Portland in 2006 for a fresh start, but after a few years she began recognizing the long-standing racial divide within the city. In 2015, she became involved in the Black Lives Matter movement, becoming good friends with Portland rapper Glenn Waco. This marked a shift from taking photographs as a hobby to using her camera as a ...
Alexis J. Cunningfolk: Intersectional Herbalist + Witch // Ep. 6
May 18, 2018 17:45 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBIn this episode: Navigating encounters with others as a Roma/European/Jewish/American Indian queer womxn How a koala helped her find her medicine path Having a sense of humor in herbalism and magick Burden of seriousness on BIPOC having to get it "right" to represent our people Exoticization of Roma folks, use of the word "gypsy" What intersectional and inclusive herbalism and magick means Boundaries in activism as self-care Connect with her: wortsandcunning.com, @wortsandc...
Teren Nicole: Artist + Energy Guide // Ep. 5
March 29, 2018 18:15 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBIn this episode: Mixed-race folks as bridges between peoples. Reconciling the duality of oppressor and oppressed. Untangling trauma and oppression in every level of existence including hair, particularly for black women. Answering the question: “What are you?”. Fetishizing of mixed-race people. Picking back up the ancestral wisdom that was lost along the way due to assimilation, persecution, colonization. Receiving energy awakenings through injury. Giving away of our power...
Navi Gill: Ayurvedic Alchemist + Spiritual Rebel // Ep. 4
February 28, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBNavi Gill is a Holistic Wellness educator, Ayurvedic Therapist, bodyworker, Lifestyle Consultant, and a Certified Yoga Teacher and Life Skills Coach. Her journey began as a child when she found herself immersed in books on healing, travel, astronomy, and nature, and began creating herbal remedies in her mother’s kitchen. Her curiosity to regain her family's indigenous healing practices took her back to India, allowing her to find her spiritual path and Ayurveda. It has become her dh...
Gregory Dorado: Dance Maker + Artist // Ep. 3
February 20, 2018 16:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBGregory Dorado is a dancer, choreographer, actor, writer and director of new original performance works and films. He is a graduate of The California Institute of the Arts and founder of SHIFT, a performance collective. His performance and film work include non-traditional immersive theatrical experiences that blur the line between dance, film, theatre and performance art. His work investigates universal human experience, community engagement, and his own identity as a queer artist ...
Naomi Doe Moody: Mystic + Self-healing Helper // Ep. 2
February 02, 2018 16:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBNaomi Doe Moody is a multi-racial mystic living off grid with her family in a yurt at a small herbal school in Vermont. She is humbly grateful to incorporate the wisdom and guidance she receives from her teachers, mentors, allies & ancestors. It is to these spirits, living and otherwise, human and non-human, and with deep love and great respect, that Naomi dedicates all that she offers to help others heal themselves. In this episode: Identifying as an indigenous black person of co...
Introduction // Branch & Bone Medicine Show: Ep. 1
January 31, 2018 04:00 - 8 minutes - 8.17 MBWelcome to the introductory episode of the Branch & Bone Medicine Show podcast with Lola Venado. In this short episode I offer an outline of what my focus is with this podcast, and share a bit of a background story, and a little bit about me. Hosted by Lola Venado, this podcast is intended to serve as a connection and support to those whose Medicine stories often go unheard, and to be a platform dedicated to spotlighting and amplifying the underrepresented voices of multi-cultural ...
Introduction // Branch & Bone Medicine Show: Ep. 1
January 31, 2018 04:00 - 8 minutes - 8.17 MBWelcome to the introductory episode of the Branch & Bone Medicine Show podcast with Lola Venado. In this short episode I offer an outline of what my focus is with this podcast, and share a bit of a background story, and a little bit about me.