Embodying Futures
Woo Knew.
In deep gratitude, we reflect on one of our most powerful conversations yet with Sania Khan, a Liberation Artist-Alchemist, Elemental Somatics Guide, Futurist and Multimodal Storyteller, where we explore what it means to live embodied futures. Sania's work centers around safety in the body and accessing the limitless creativity, joy, pleasure, sensuality, and imagination that are vibrating within us so that our inherent wisdom and cosmic knowingness can be shared with the world with full integrity. This week we learn about Sania's work and how she guides others through a journey of...
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Healing Through Pleasure
Woo Knew.
This week’s episode with Jess Lieu, who is a Somatic Sex Educator and Sexological Body Worker, is a really special one for us. Jess and Ellen met at a recent Death Doula Retreat with , and we’re honored to share this incredible episode. Jess has an infectious love for life and pleasure, we both felt it so deeply in this conversation where we dive into all the facets of pleasure. We explore the inextricable connection between death work and pleasure work. We talk about societal expectations around pleasure, and how often those expectations don’t align with our experiences....
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The Messy Liminal Space
Woo Knew.
We absolutely adore this week's guest on Woo Knew. Eva Liao is a Consciousness and Spiritual Growth Mentor who helps others experience more calm, happiness, and connection in their everyday lives. We were brought together through a divine connection and this conversation was so much fun. Eva just turned 39 and is starting a whole new chapter of her life in Austin, Texas where she lives in an Airstream trailer and fulfills her dream of starting an intentional community with a friend of hers. Eva's story is wildly inspiring, and in learning about her journey we got to excavate all of the...
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Sourced from Spirit
Woo Knew.
This week we had the incredible privilege and honor of sitting down with Xochitl Ashe, a Fifth Generation Peruvian Medicine Woman, Founder of Magical Medicine Journeys and Visionary Mentor for leaders, entrepreneurs, creatives and world awakeners, as well as Ellen's medicine mentor. Xochitl shares so much wisdom with us in this conversation and we're deeply grateful for all the ways her teachings have impacted our lives and practices. Through her mentorships, Xochitl helps others heal ancestral trauma and get back into deep connection with the Earth. She teaches us that through...
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Scorpio Lunar Eclipse
Woo Knew.
This week's episode is so divinely timed with the upcoming Scorpio Lunar Eclipse on Friday, May 5th. We had the honor of sitting down with Inez Singletary, an astrologer who is also versed in Qabalah and Tarot, creator of Many Moons Astrology, and mentor to our dear friend TanyaMarck. Inez explains how an eclipse is connected to the north and south nodes, and guides us through the transits for our upcoming Scorpio Lunar Eclipse. She helps us understand the collective energies coming up this week, how we can work with the nodes to receive guidance, and how these transits are inviting us...
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Becoming a Psychedelic Death Doula
Woo Knew.
There are so many things I’m grateful for on this journey, but walking alongside on her journey and witnessing her transformation has been a deeply profound honor. In this week’s episode, I received the gift of interviewing Ellen about her recent experience at the End of Life Training by . In our conversation, Ellen reflects that some experiences, no matter how short, are life changing. And I could feel this truth resonating so deeply for her. Ellen’s reflection takes us on a journey with grief, and fear as our co-pilot. She welcomes them in, and invites us to find new...
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Permission to Play
Woo Knew.
We had the most incredible conversation with Yumi Sakugawa (she/they) in this week’s episode! Yumi is a second-generation Japanese-Okinawan-American interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles and the author of several published books including, I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU, YOUR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BECOMING ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE, THE LITTLE BOOK OF LIFE HACKS, and FASHION FORECASTS. Yumi’s journey is filled with joy and connection, inspired by a fearless pursuit of creativity, play, magic and experimentation. In this very special conversation we explore the...
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Moving from Pathology to Ontology
Woo Knew.
This week we have the honor of speaking with Leah Garza, Creator of Crystals of Altamira, Akashic Records Reader, Veteran Teacher + Education Organizer. Leah teaches us about Decoloniality and Ontology, what these concepts mean, and why they're important to understand for our personal healing. “When I got into my PHD program, and I started learning these concepts I was like, ‘If only the public had access to concepts like Decoloniality, if only they had access to concepts like Ontology. For some people, that might totally shift.’ All of us who are seeking healing think that we...
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Ancestral Gifts
Woo Knew.
This week we had the honor of sitting down with Ruth Camillia. Ruth (they/she/ella) is a bilingual, bicultural, healing arts practitioner, reiki master, akashic records practitioner, and tarot reader. With maternal Indigenous roots from Los Altos de Jalisco, México, they integrate curanderismo and other ancestral practices into their daily life and work. As an intuitive and trauma-informed practitioner, Ruth believes healing is sacred. Ruth is a gifted healer and we're so grateful to connect in community together. It was so much fun getting to know Ruth and learning about their journey. Ruth...
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Control+Alt+Delete
Woo Knew.
We’re so honored to share this week’s episode with TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them)! TanyaMarck (lovingly nicknamed TM) is a beautiful soul and friend. They are the founder and alchemist of Vamanos, a breathwork and meditation facilitator, an intuitive practitioner, a medicine person, a witch, and a person in recovery. Sometimes we're not aware of how the universe is guiding us in the moment, but in looking back on the synchrinicities it becomes clear there are no coincidences. And that's what makes this conversation so special for all of us. Our connection is an incredible reflection...
info_outlineThere are so many things I’m grateful for on this journey, but walking alongside @tripwithellen on her journey and witnessing her transformation has been a deeply profound honor. In this week’s episode, I received the gift of interviewing Ellen about her recent experience at the End of Life Training by @going_with_grace .
In our conversation, Ellen reflects that some experiences, no matter how short, are life changing. And I could feel this truth resonating so deeply for her. Ellen’s reflection takes us on a journey with grief, and fear as our co-pilot. She welcomes them in, and invites us to find new ways to hold and walk with them, so that we can receive their greatest gift: Falling in Love with Life.
“I just realized it’s not in those crazy peak experiences that we’re always searching for that makes life worth living. It’s all these tiny little moments that are found in the everyday. Like literally waking up and seeing the sun outside. Or maybe not seeing the sun but seeing fog outside. I mean, that’s just as beautiful and mysterious and fascinating, you know?
Just being in this body and being in every moment is enough.”
Through this experience Ellen has connected with her soul purpose and it’s been an honor to witness. Ellen is a Shandong/Taiwanese-American psychedelic death doula who guides medicine journeys, breathwork, sound and somatic root healing. She companions people to face their fears and journey through death portals so that they can live and die, free.
She is a resident facilitator for DoubleBlind Magazine, and co-creator of the “Woo Knew.” Podcast.
Learn more about working with Ellen at Tripwithellen.com and connect with her on IG at @tripwithellen .
Ep. 95 Becoming a Psychedelic Death Doula streaming now on Apple and Spotify.
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Learn more about the End of Life Training by Going with Grace at https://goingwithgrace.com/ and connect with them on IG at @going_with_grace .
Going with Grace is an organization that “exists to support people as they answer the question ‘What must I do to be at peace with myself so that I may live presently and die gracefully?’ and to support family members in completing the affairs of their loved one’s life after a death.”
Going with Grace is founded by Alua Arthur, death doula and recovering lawyer.