The waiting list is officially OPEN for the Ritual Retreat, our first international experience that will be in Costa Rica from November 6 - 13, 2023!

Hello, future ancestors!

Lately I've been in sloth training, and that means slowing down while learning how to still feel safe doing so.

It's been over three months since I've returned from my sabbatical, and coming back to Los Angeles was a lot to take in after being unplugged. And so many of you may know that I ended up spending time on a farm watching over nine goats, five chickens, five cats and two dogs for my friend Montez as she was out of town. I tried to use that time to refocus on coming back strong, but instead I preferred to hang out with the goats. I would highly encourage you to listen to my last solo episode about lessons in farm sitting if you'd like to hear more about that experience. And what many people don't know is that I actually left the farm to work at an event in Florida where I was asked to help coach a training for about 100 aspiring speakers. But I ended up with Laryngitis that whole entire week.

Main topics discussed:

• Scaling a business: is it worth it?
• Finding congruency between hedonism and spiritual living
• Trusting that less is more as a collective desire
• How to release responsibility for other people’s suffering
• Why I’m hosting an international retreat centered on storytelling and sensuality

The waiting list is officially OPEN for the Ritual Retreat, our first international experience that will be in Costa Rica from November 6 - 13, 2023! 

Join Jumakae and friends for a week immersed in the Caribbean coast and rainforest alongside other women and gender expansive folks as we reconnect with ourselves as a future ancestors through mindfulness, movement, and the power of storytelling at the Goddess Garden.

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I am with Karissa. She supports families in documenting the beautiful milestones of life as their personal biographer. Karissa's intention with her camera is that her subject, whether it be a family, an entrepreneur or a woman giving birth feels seen. Much more than a collection of moments, photographs become part of a family's historic archive. And as a creative entrepreneur, Karissa has supported small businesses with strategy, branding, and marketing. Her creative nature and personal journey have led her to incorporate energy healing, meditation, sound healing, and other personal healing modalities into her work. And more importantly, Karissa is the one person I have trusted into the sacred spaces I've created for my own students, my own clients with the retreats that I have facilitated. So if you are curious, who it is that takes my photos and takes the photos of my clients and then comes to the retreats to capture this magic, it is this woman, Karissa.

Main Topics Discussed:

• The Importance of doula work in communities of color
• Grief after giving birth and acknowledging emotions
• Balance between documenting moments and being present in the moment
• Combining passion for photography with doula work
• The Importance of Rituals in Rest and Connecting with Self

Conclusion: Balancing work and personal life can be a struggle. It's important to acknowledge and respect your own needs in order to live harmoniously.

Action Integration: Give yourself permission to feel the things that come up for you. It's okay to not be okay. And it's okay to invite people to come in and help support you with love and compassion.

Learn more about Karissa Raya:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karissamraya/

Ritual Retreat: 8 magical nights of transformation in Costa Rica | November 6 - 13, 2023

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In this episode of Your Story Medicine, we explore the disconnection between people and death and how it has led to fear and suffering with our guest, Mary Telliano. This episode invites us to reflect on our own mortality and examines death in a new light that allows us to connect with ourselves and our loved ones, and to celebrate the sacredness of the moment. Mary has a mission; to rebrand death. Through training other death doulas, to education on grief, as well as the Anam Cara Podcast. Mary is midwifing the rebirth of dying well. In order to rebrand death we must first normalize it. Mary is connecting people to the universe that resides within them, and serving as a reminder that death is here, it is something we get to experience and it is ready to be carried in a new light. 

Main Topics Discussed:

• Death as our greatest life coach (and preparation for our own)
• Honoring the choices of our loved ones in transition
• Healing our relationship to loss
• When to call upon a death doula
• Choosing our legacy as future ancestors

Conclusion: Death is not the enemy; it is a mystery to be embraced. We can use our understanding of death to live life more fully. Cherish the moments, be present, and create a life that you want to be remembered for.

Action Integration: Reframe the way you view death, and seek to establish that death is a natural part of life that can be approached with clarity, intentionality, and care.

Learn more about Mary Telliano:

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/mary_telliano/

Doors are open to Bud to Blossom, my 5 month mentorship program for radical healers, coaches, and consultants that are ready to share their story medicine, grow their legacy through the art of speaking, and do the work to makes their ancestors proud.

Apply here: https://www.yourstorymedicine.com/budtoblossom

Wanting to connect with your ancestors? Download my free meditation: https://bit.ly/ancestorinthemaking

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Kristen Nichole, a south Florida-based movement artist, social and community psychologist, and entrepreneur. In 2019, Kristen earned a certification in group fitness instruction from the American Council on Exercise and a certification in pole instruction from XPERT while completing graduate school. In 2020, Kristen earned a Ph.D. in community and social psychology with an expertise in identity development and storytelling from North Carolina State University. Kristen is the founder of Polecology, a platform for liberation through the art and psychology of sensual movement.

Main Topics Discussed:

• Dance as a form of storytelling
• Finding liberation through the art and psychology of sensual movement
• How pole dancing can be so much more than just a performance to satisfy the male gaze
• Reclaiming your body autonomy
• Making pole more inclusive

Learn more about Kristen Nichole

Visit her website: www.thepolecologist.com

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thepolecologistphd

Doors are open to Bud to Blossom, my 5 month mentorship program for radical healers, coaches, and consultants that are ready to share their story medicine, grow their legacy through the art of speaking, and do the work to makes their ancestors proud.

Apply here: https://www.yourstorymedicine.com/budtoblossom

Wanting to connect with your ancestors? Download my free meditation: https://bit.ly/ancestorinthemaking

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Samantha Chung, affectionately known as “Simplifying Sam”. She is a mindset and manifestation expert on a mission to help more people wake up and live fully as their authentic self. It is her belief that we experience resistance, pain and suffering when we ignore who we truly are. Her coaching style seeks to uncover and discover who you were before your limiting beliefs, conditions, and fears so that you can step into the most powerful version of yourself and attract anything.

Main Topics Discussed:

• Aligning your work and your passion
• Why scarcity is a misunderstanding of where money and wealth come from
• Tapping into vulnerability as a superpower
• Reframing mental health as mental fitness
• Seeing alignment as a lifelong journey

Learn more about Samantha Chung

Visit her website: www.simplifyingsam.com

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/simplifying.sam

Doors are open to Bud to Blossom, my 5 month mentorship program for radical healers, coaches, and consultants that are ready to share their story medicine, grow their legacy through the art of speaking, and do the work to makes their ancestors proud.

Apply here: https://www.yourstorymedicine.com/budtoblossom

Wanting to connect with your ancestors? Download my free meditation: https://bit.ly/ancestorinthemaking

Hello future ancestors!

It’s been about three weeks since I’ve left the farm, where my last solo podcast episode about “integration” after my sabbatical was recorded - and I miss it so much.

So much to the point where I will literally wake up and smell FARM.

Main topics:

• Why is it that I started a business in the first place
• Getting a glimpse of what my life could be like as an elder
• The practice of equanimity in Buddhism
• What goats can teach about healthy boundaries, unconditional love, & how to be present
• What it meant to find sacredness in the mundane.

Doors are open to Bud to Blossom, my 5 month mentorship program for radical healers, coaches, and consultants that are ready to share their story medicine, grow their legacy through the art of speaking, and do the work to makes their ancestors proud.

Apply here: https://www.yourstorymedicine.com/budtoblossom

Wanting to connect with your ancestors? Download my free meditation: https://bit.ly/ancestorinthemaking

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Spring Washam. Considered a pioneer in bringing mindfulness-based meditation practices to diverse communities; Spring Washam is a well-known teacher, healer, and visionary leader based in Oakland, California. She is the author of A Fierce Heart: Finding Strength, Courage and Wisdom in Any Moment and The Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Awakening from the Underground. Spring is one of the founding teachers at the East Bay Meditation Center, an organization that offers Buddhist teachings with attention to social action and multiculturalism. She is a member of the teacher’s council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, offering teachings on Buddhist philosophy, Insight meditation and loving-kindness practices. Spring is also the founder of Lotus Vine Journeys, a one-of-a-kind organization that blends indigenous healing practices with Buddhist wisdom for transformative retreats in South America.

Main Topics Discussed:

• Discipline and consistency as devotion
• Is Ayahuasca an intoxicant?: Incorporating plant medicine into Buddhist practices
• Becoming a bodhisattva
• How Harriet Tubman is leading us to liberation today
• Living on a diet of dharma

Learn more about Spring Washam:

Visit her website: www.springwasham.com

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/springwasham

If you are in the season of receiving support to water the seeds you’ve been planting, then I invite you to apply to Bud to Blossom which will be the only way to work with me closely this year.

In this episode of Your Story Medicine, I welcome Jayda Shuavarnnasri, aka “Sex Positive Asian Auntie”, a Queer Southeast Asian sexuality and relationship educator. She works to liberate folks from sexual shame by creating space for authentic conversations about sexuality, relationships, identity, and healing. She is also the co-producer of Don’t Say Sorry podcast, which centers the experience of Southeast Asian women navigating relationships, mental health and sexuality.

Main Topics Discussed:

• How Thai and Buddhist culture influences sexual expression in women
• Using sensuality to reach liberation
• How to fall in love without falling into a co-dependent pattern
• Defining “solo polyamory”
• Getting clear on what intimacy means to us

Conclusion: We all could learn more about what intimacy means to us. We can’t just be pouring from our overflow. We also need space to deepen our well. Without stillness, we eventually end up pouring from a shallow cup. In what ways are you making the space to dig deep so that, when we pour, we’re not just operating from a place of service, from a desire to deepen our relationship with ourselves.

Action Integration: To choose silence is to choose oppression. Show up as a badass ancestor in the making and shift the story for your future lineage.

Learn more about Jayda Shuavarnnasri:

Visit her website: www.auntiejayda.com

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/jayda_kissed

If you are in the season of receiving support to water the seeds you’ve been planting, then I invite you to apply to Bud to Blossom which will be the only way to work with me closely this year.