Cannabis & Spirituality: The Energetics of Healing with Plant Consciousness

Shamanic practitioner and UNI host, Gabriela Parada, explores the energetics of working with benevolent cannabis spirit for healing and spiritual insight - from a shamanic perspective. 

Gabriela discusses: 

• A channeled message from benevolent cannabis flower 
• How to mend our commodified relationship with cannabis 
• Relating and communicating with plant intelligence
• Cannabis' spiritually medicinal qualities
• Why people report anxiety when using cannabis 
• The importance of reciprocal and ceremonial relationships with plants and cannabis 
• Boundaries with plants and the energetics of plant spirit 

About Gabriela: Gabriela is a Salvadorian-American healing arts practitioner. Her work is rooted in Tibetan Buddhist mindfulness, while blending sound healing, ancestral practices, and herbalism. She began her spiritual offerings as a meditation teacher at MNDFL in New York City, and has since led workshops, guided healings, retreats, and held spiritual mentorship sessions in NYC, Portland, Mexico, and online. She’s currently focused on shamanic medicine work: holding space for dreamwork, shamanic journeying, and plant medicine. While she’s teaching, she also continues her path as a student through the study of core shamanism and curanderismo — earth-based cosmologies that honor her indigenous and Mesoamerican roots. Gabriela is available for private sessions and group ceremonies. 

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Private Sessions with Gabriela: 

• Guided Cannabis Ceremonies
• Plant Medicine Preparation Sessions

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In this episode, Gabriela chats with Holistic Birth Coach Adriana Parada on how and why the industrialized medical system was not built with the body of a woman, or the optimal well being of a baby, in mind. Gabriela also explores birth and creation from the lens of unity consciousness and how that perspective can help us unlock key codes about creativity and life itself.

Timestamps: 

• 00:40 - Introduction , Context, About the Retreat
• 02:23 - Why this topic is relevant for every human's feminine energy
• 04:25 - Adriana introduces herself and her work
• 05:24 - What is physiological birth
• 08:43 - The difference between a doula, midwife, etc. and why Adriana chooses to work outside of that system
• 16:59 -  Discussing the judgement and “purity” complex that is sometimes projected or propelled in conversations about natural birth
• 21:56 - The top most concerning things about birthing within the hospital system and how it disrupts the physiology of birth
• 39:05 - How to support physiological birth and what is needed 
• 40:57 - Cord cutting and vernix
• 45:13 - Importance of mind/body/soul approach to birth
• 48:21 - Gabriela shares how shamanic and spiritual practices can assist women in preparation for birth and people/life in general
• 1:07:17 - Dark feminine, shadow work, trusting the unknown
• 1:08:58 - More about the retreat

***DAR A LUZ RETREAT! If you enjoyed this episode, check out the Women's retreat that Gabriela and Adriana are hosting in May 2023 in Sayulita MX. 

• www.wmbsis.com/future-mothers-retreat-spring-2023
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• Join us for a remembrance of the spiritual ecology within us all in an intimate circle of sisterhood. You’ll leave with a fresh sense of renewal, embodiment of your intuition, and a reawakened empowerment so you can make informed decisions no matter what birth plans you choose.

Learn more about Adriana's services here: 

• www.instagram.com/wmbsis
• www.wmbsis.com

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• www.gabrielaparada.com
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Why do we only treat the physical manifestation of a problem? Can we begin to address the energetic imprints in ALL of us that lead to this type of dis-ease in the collective?

These words flowed out upon digesting the tragic news of the school shooting in the USA recently. I express this POV for those of us who see things more energetically and abstractly. Shared with so much love and respect for all. <3 

In this episode, we chat with dance therapist, movement coach, and artist Sophie Mars about what it means to be “embodied.” Embodiment is such a new age-y buzzword these days, so we explore grounded perspectives on what that actually means in day to day life.

We also talk about:

• Awareness of the spiritual ego
• Vipassana retreat experiences
• Sophie’s Kung Fu practice
• Spontaneous memories of being born sparked through presence
• The emotional body and mindfulness of emotions
• How to express anger in a healthy way
• Altered states of consciousness during menstruation
• Sophie’s intuitive hypothesis about the link between ADD / ADHD and the emotional body
• How a busy lifestyle can be a distraction from feeling
• Dance therapy
• Technology as a potentially transformational tool for healing

If Sophie’s perspective resonates with you, you can find her courses, coaching, and art here:

https://sophie-mars.com/home

https://sophiemars.com/

Relevant links: 

• Teal Swan's spiritual perspective on periods
• Gabriela's recommendation for Vipassana retreats
• Bharatanatyam Dance
• Show Music: Brain Bottle
• UNI Patreon
• UNI Newsletter
• Meditation and Spiritual Mentorship with Gabriela 

Artists Sophie mentions: 

• Will Power Studios 
• Exposed Art Gallery, London (Sophie's performance is in Feb 2022)

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In this episode, UNI host and spiritual coach, Gabriela Parada, chats with E Light (Ellen Holmes) - a soul coach, multidimensional activator, and light language channel - about:

• E's Kundalini awakening
• E's cosmology and how Pleiadians could be the "benevolent human's star mothers"
• The importance of the physical body as part of your spiritual practice
• The empowerment that takes place when you fully own the fact that you create your reality
• Working with angels and guides
• DNA activations
• Spirit being genderless
• Light language is the language of the heart
• Crystalline consciousness
• Theta healing

Connecting with Gabriela: 

• www.gabrielaparada.com
• www.instagram.com/iamgabrielaparada

Connecting with E: 

• E's website
• E's Instagram

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Some of the key themes we chat about: 

• The power in recognizing triggers as opportunities to evolve
• The harm and hypocrisy in politicized Left/Right thinking
• The blind spots in the mainstream v@((ine narrative
• The shadow side of the pharmaceutical industry and “western” medicine
• Considering “reptilians” as an archaic consciousness not nefarious lizards
• The suppression and lack of authenticity in cancel culture
• Challenging the mainstream (0vid narrative
• Why some feminist & some social justice movements are not getting to the root cause
• How we’re conditioned since childhood to hand over our power to authority
• How our sense of safety, familiarity, trauma, and fear all relate to one another
• Why unhooking from the fear of death is so liberating
• The power in “flipping the switch” from victim mentality to creator mentality
• The power of unconditional love and conscious dialogue
• How everyone (even the seemingly “unconscious”) is playing a role in our collective evolution

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What we talk about:

• Learning to see money as energy
• Why it’s not too late to help co-create the future of crypto
• Following your own curiosity when it comes to crypto 
• The unique structure of Bitcoin and why it presents a strong use case as “digital gold”
• Abundance frameworks and why crypto is a catalyst for paradigm shifts in our culture
• Employee consciousness and the trauma of the M-F 40+ hour work week
• Self worth as it relates to waking up to employee consciousness
• Lack mentality and societal programming around money and work
• Healing deep money programming
• Water codes as related to money and abundance

If you like CryptoStarseed's POV check out their Twitter.

If you like Gabriela's POV check out her Instagram, she might be hosting abundance mentality workshops soon. 

Helpful Links/Resources: 

• Bitcoin Whitepaper — https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
• Great resource for beginners — https://banklesshq.com/opportunities/
• Good NYT article on why Bitcoin matters

In this hour, we chat about:

• Human Design and the 5 HD Types
• Energy exchange from the Human Design lens
• Reframing the collective conversation (or lack there-of) around death
• Extraterrestrials
• Healing depression
• Shifting our relationship to intrusive thoughts
• How HD helped Pea with her creative process
• More Human Design
• And ghosts.

Basically everything that a Scorpio and a Vedic Scorpio would casually talk about ;)

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If you’re interested in working with Pea, you can learn more here.

And if you love Pea’s perspective, check out her podcast Cheat Codes here.

Get your HD chart here: 

https://www.myhumandesign.com/get-your-chart/

https://www.geneticmatrix.com/ 

https://www.mybodygraph.com/

Learn more about HD here.

In this episode we discuss:

• What shamanism is and some of its roots
• Core shamanic principles and teachings
• Sacred sound and altered states of consciousness
• What lucid dreaming is and how to lucid dream
• The importance of a mindfulness practice as a part of dreamwork
• How we can experience healing through dreams

If you’re interested in working with Kai, you can learn more here:

https://www.alariahealing.com/

If you’re interested in shamanism, here are some book recommendations:

• The Beginner's Guide to Shamanic Journeying by Sandra Ingerman
• The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner
• Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health by Elena Avila

...and if you’re interested in lucid dreaming:

• Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life by Robert Moss
• The Woman's Book of Dreams: Dreaming As a Spiritual Practice Book by Connie Kaplan
• Dreams Are Letters from the Soul by Connie Kaplan
• Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Howard Rheingold

Movie recommendations:

• Embrace of the Serpent (fiction)

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

• Clarissa Pinkola Estes

In This Episode, Gabriela talks about: 

• “Absolute” truth vs “Relative” truth
• What it means to “do the work” around racial bias, from a macro level perspective
• Why we can’t create change with the same level of consciousness that created the problem
• Separation mentality within the collective mind and how we are unconsciously contributing to racist systems within the collective consciousness
• Remembering that WE are the system, the system is not only outside of us
• What unconditional love means during this time

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