The Queer Spirit – Details, episodes & analysis

Jonathan Koe is a queer astrologer, diviner, and alchemist of the subtle realm. Their work aims to empower fellow shapeshifters, visionaries and intuitives in remembering their essence, cultivating skills in being present with the ever-changing nature of reality, and weaving sincere, loving kinships with the world - even when the world has broken our hearts. 

Episode Highlights

Welcome to our second cross-pollination episode, where we share space with other queer podcasters and creators. Jonathan is the host of "Healing the Spirit" podcast.

• We take an energetic stroll and explore the medicines of queerness, healing, astrology, collaboration & connection. 
• Add nuggets of grounding, breathwork & gratitude throughout our shared time. 
• We mix and marinade in queer joy, laughter, connection & community. 

Web links

• Find them online at JonathanKoe.com
  
• You can also connect with them on Instagram @jonathankoeofficial
• Listen to Healing the Spirit podcast here

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Madre Jaguar (she/they) is a Queer, Non-Binary Birth Doula, Oracle and Curandera of Mayan, Pipil, Nahual and Garifuna descent. Born in Los Angeles, CA to Salvadoran immigrants and raised in Mexico. Their practice is rooted in their ancestral heritage and indigenous traditions of Mexico and Central America.

Episode Highlights

• We learn about Madre Jaguar via some sweet nuggets of their story and how they answered their call to magic. 
• Madre shares about some of the tools and medicines she works with regularly (mushrooms + tarot) and the impact they have on their life and practice. 
• The three of us drop in together and share a platica (heart to heart) where we navigate what’s showing up on our hearts + how we are navigating + responding to current energies
• Madre Jaguar is called to draw a tarot card and share a reading for the collective.

Web links

• Find Madre Jaguar online at IamMadre.com
  
• You can also connect with them on Instagram @Madre.Jaguar

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Episode Highlights

• We discuss how TanyaMarck first learned about the power of connecting to the breath from their baseball coach as a child.
• We learn about their current breath work practice helping clients to release stuck energy and activating new insights.
• Nick and TanyaMarck share stories about discovering magic and spirituality through candles at church and connecting to the elements of nature, wind and fog.
• They talk about learning to be of service to family and community, and cultivating that service as a spiritual practice.
• They share about their connection with food as medicine and why they feel called to work with food magic.

Web links

• Find TanyaMarck's offerings here - linktr.ee/tanyamarckvamonos
• Connect with them on Instagram

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Brandi Stanley (she/her) makes a living out of making connections—science and art, fermenting and theology, permaculture and social movements, neuroscience and dance. If creativity is the ability to connect the seemingly un-connectable, that’s the art she practices. In love with the space between things—the intersections and the paradoxes—she's constantly looking for what insights can be gained when we mash the unexpected together and the growth that happens when we learn to hold complexity. These days, she does that by running a podcast and writing a newsletter, both under the name This Plus That, where she's interviewed guests like authors David Epstein & Charles Eisenstein, and well-known artists like Ashley Eliza Williams and Tyler Thrasher. When she's not working on the pod, though, you can find her obsessing over great food and fermenting everything in sight.

Episode Highlights

• Brandi shares how she left the world of marketing and branding, listened to her heart, and started her podcast and newsletter.
• We explore the practice of finding balance, connection, and opposites.
• She talks about her own healing journey of opposing forces in her body and how she cultivates balance in herself today.
• We discuss the gift of queerness in that we bridge the binaries and help others see connections between poles.
• We talk about the concept of holding opposites within ourselves and being capable of holding one side without having to jettison the other.
• Brandi shares her insight that the root of many emotional and physical ailments is inflammation, both in a material and immaterial sense.

Web links

• Find Brandi online at ThisPlusThat.com
• Connect with him on Instagram, Twitter & YouTube

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Kenji Oshima is an Intrerfaith Spiritual Director, Community Dharma Teacher and Life Coach specializing in high functioning adults with ADHD. When not geeking out over Sci-Fi you’ll find him volunteering for QTAPI groups, reading at the beach, or finding ease in alternative health care.

Episode Highlights

• Kenji shares how his diagnosis of adult ADHD started him on the path to becoming a life coach.
• He talks about his philosophies of bringing shift and ease to his own clients.
• We discuss how mindfulness and spiritual practice has supported his own journey which led to him becoming a spiritual guide and companion. 
• Kenji describes what “co-active” coaching is and how he works with it.
• We explore the concept of epigenetics and what we inherit from our ancestors.

Web links

• Find him online at CoachKenji.com
• Connect with him on Instagram & Twitter

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David Weissman is a documentary filmmaker, public speaker and longtime activist. He is best known as producer of the films THE COCKETTES, WE WERE HERE, and CONVERSATIONS WITH GAY ELDERS. David was also co-founder of QDoc—The Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival.

Episode Highlights

• David shares about how he became an accidental filmmaker while he followed his path of activism.
• We discuss how his style of interviewing to elicit personal story colors the depth of his documentaries on queer history.
• David talks about his Gay Elders Project and value of including queer elders in his documentary work.
• He also talks about using younger folks to edit Gay Elders Project, and the importance of intergenerational collaboration.
• David provides insights into his connection between activism and filmmaking.

Web links

• Find him online at DavidWeissmanFilms.com

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Bonnie Violet is a trans femme genderqueer spiritual drag artist, identity doula and digital chaplain; YouTuber, Twitcher & Host of A Queer Chaplain podcast with such series as Drag & Spirituality, TranSpirit & Faith Leaders. Co-host of Splintered Grace with her conservative christian aunt, and At the Castro Country Club recovery podcast. Director of 1st Annual Drag & Spirituality Summit to take place in Chicago in October 2022.
Bonnie Violet shares her experience of strength and hope with HIV, recovering from drugs, alcohol, and sexual assault in classrooms, community centers, churches, online and anywhere else she is invited.
As a queer chaplain she is present with people in death and dying to self by helping to lace one’s narrative with a spiritual thread to remind them of their resilience, strengthen faith in self and create serenity in the now.

Episode Highlights

• Bonnie shares about her personal journey with drag and her trans identity being a result of a spiritual awakening.
• She talks about her work as a queer chaplain and identity doula to helps others through all transitions of life.
• We learn about Bonnie’s connection to her spirituality through sobriety.
• Bonnie talks about their work with death and dying.

Web links

• Find Bonnie online at www.aqueerchaplain.org
• And follow her on Instagram, TikTok & YouTube

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Seth Eisen is a San Francisco-based artist, writer, director, dramaturg, archivist, and educator who engages LGBTQIA+ history as a living, breathing dialogue by researching lost legacies. His transdisciplinary aesthetic combines physical theater, dance, ritual, puppetry, drag, circus, installation, and video art. Blurring the edge between art, research, and activism, the work is a hybrid of visual art and immersive live theater. For 25 years Seth has staged performance pieces, original plays, street spectacles and installations and has curated and appeared in numerous collaborative projects created with other Bay Area artists.

In 2007, he founded the ensemble-based theater company Eye Zen Presents that unearths and elevates the lost and hidden histories of queer ancestors so that we can better understand our lineages and ourselves. The company’s mission is to share queer cultural legacies with the general public and provides space for our local QTBIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities to gather and be in creative relationship with each other. Eye Zen creates multidisciplinary community-building events in traditional and alternative theater spaces, private homes, gardens, schools and community centers. Eye Zen’s most recent multi-year project OUT of Site, is a series of performance-driven queer history tours make the connection between the people and the sites where histories took place, bringing them to life in immersive, educational, and entertaining events around San Francisco. FabLab queer history program provides community members opportunities to learn queer history while developing creative interdisciplinary projects specifically focused on queer ancestors of color.

Episode Highlights

• Seth shares his path of creativity through his youth to becoming a performer and producer.
• We talk about why he began focusing his work on queer ancestors and how he brings these histories alive in the present day.
• We explore Seth’s simultaneous connection with spirit and his creative work, beginning in childhood.
• Seth talks about the art of puppetry and his work through that medium.
• He shares about the experience of caring for his brother, who passed from cancer, and how it transformed and inspired his life & work.
• We discuss the power of place when bringing queer history alive, in particular queer BIPOC ancestors

Web links

• Find Seth online at www.eyezen.org
• And follow him on Instagram & Facebook

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For nearly a decade, Mike Iamele has helped hundreds of GBTQ+ men to integrate shame and figure out what they subconsciously do every time they’re successful –– through a process called Sacred Branding®.
In 2014, Mike accidentally came out to millions when he wrote an article about falling in love with a man after identifying as straight––and 100,000 people shared it overnight.
He's also the author of Enough Already: Create Success on Your Own Terms (Conari Press 2015). Mike's shared his provocative and vulnerable take on sexuality + shame in hundreds of magazines and podcasts, including NPR, CBS, and Huffington Post.

Episode Highlights

• Mikes shares about his unique work with clients with mapping sensitivities and performs a live demonstration with Nick.
• We talk about how this practice can help you discover your superpowers in all aspects of your life from sex and relationships to having a better experience on the job.
• We explore the meaning of “sensitive” and how that connects to being alive.
• Mike illustrates how his work is about reclaiming who we are and releasing the shame around stamping out who we’re supposed to be.
• Mike shares about his own journey to find his purpose.

Web links

• Find him online at MikeIamele.com
• And follow him on Instagram @mikeiamele

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Kalyela J (she/her) is a Queer Spirituality Coach whose desire is to help the LGBTQ community experience love and peace with their spirituality and sexuality. She is considered a “Soulspeaker'' helping people heal their limiting beliefs so they can live into their purpose.

Through first-hand experience she knows the journey and challenges that a Queer person faces. For over 20 years as a gay woman she struggled with religious trauma, lack of acceptance from family, and internalized homophobia. As she encountered a spiritual awakening she found peace and inner knowing that being LGBTQ is a divine gift. Her soul purpose is to help you receive the same so that you can live a life of purpose love and freedom.

Kalyela resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, where in her free time she loves to read, spend time with her family and her fur baby. Her life’s mantra "Live Life with Intentionality.”

Episode Highlights

• Coach K shares her story of struggling with her queer identity while growing up in a conservative Christian community and how she eventually reconciled her faith and identity.
• We learn how she shares her work with her clients and how she became a soul speaker.
• We discuss religious trauma and its impact.
• Coach K describes her spiritual coaching work and its empowering effect on her clients’ lives.
• Coach K describes her definition of Soul Speaker.

Web links

• Find Coach K online at Kalyelaj.com
  
• And follow her on Instagram @queeronpurpose 

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