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Snake Priestess Podcast
Hosted by Rebecca Cavender · EN
Join Rebecca to explore the world of snake priestessing and snake medicine.
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Episode 10: Humble Heart & Land Connection with Rebecca Cavender
Feb 12, 202500:34:31Tap to summarizeIn this powerful episode of The Snake & The Land, Rebecca Cavender takes us on a journey into the intimate, spiritual relationship we can cultivate with the Earth and its elements. She shares reflections on the deep wisdom of nature, exploring how we can learn from the land, animals, and plants around us. From embracing animism and recognizing the life force in all things to finding community with the land and our ancestors, Rebecca inspires us to slow down, listen, and reconnect with the natural world. Key Highlights: The Humble Heart: Rebecca discusses the importance of approaching life with humility and reverence for the Earth, recognizing that the land is not ours to own, but that we belong to it. She encourages listeners to apprentice with the land, becoming humble students of nature’s cycles and rhythms. The Land as Our Teacher: The land teaches us respect, patience, and the ability to listen without assuming or seeking something in return. This practice extends to our relationships with people and other beings. By learning to feel the spirit in nature, we learn to see the beauty and essence in all life forms. Feeling Not Alone: Despite the busyness of life, Rebecca reminds us that we are never alone. Nature is filled with life and spirit, waiting to connect with us. Whether it’s the wind on your skin, the sun warming you, or the pulse of the earth beneath your feet, these elements are always present, offering their quiet support and wisdom. The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Rebecca draws on personal memories of her mother and grandmother, who both practiced animism by connecting deeply with their gardens and plants. Rebecca reflects on how this deep connection with nature can lead us to the wisdom of our ancestors, which still lives within us. Practical Tips for Reconnecting with Nature: For those living in urban spaces or feeling disconnected, Rebecca suggests starting small by nurturing a plant and engaging with it. She shares how even plants can teach us the power of presence, connection, and respect for life. The Call to Listen to Nature’s Rhythms: As we move into the Year of the Snake, Rebecca invites listeners to tune into the cycles of the Earth and listen to the wisdom that surrounds us. The Snake, in particular, symbolizes transformation, renewal, and shedding what no longer serves us. A Personal Touch: Recorded on a snowy night in North Vancouver, Rebecca shares the beauty and power of the land she’s on, honoring the Squamish people whose ancestral land it is. She speaks with deep gratitude for both the land and her listeners, inviting them to walk with her on this journey of reconnection. Episode Conclusion: Rebecca wraps up with an invitation to journey alongside her in the coming episodes, offering more stories and connections that will help listeners remember who they are and embrace the wisdom of the land and the snake. Quotes from This Episode: "We belong to the land, none of this belongs to us." "The elements are here, they are alive, and they’re always reaching out to us." "You are not alone; life is so animated and so filled with spirit everywhere." "Maybe you start with a plant. It might feel silly, but you’re not alone. They’re alive." Next Episode: Stay tuned as Rebecca dives deeper into the teachings of the Snake and continues to explore ways we can connect with the land, our ancestors, and the wisdom within. Connect with Rebecca: Website: https://rebeccacavender.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebecca.a.cavender/ Free Snake Goddess eBook: get it here
Transcribe →Episode 9: Returning the Soul to the Wild with Ellie Cleary
Aug 27, 202401:01:57Tap to summarizeI’m excited for you to connect with Ellie Cleary today—an amazing intuitive astrologer, embodiment priestess, and coach who lives half the time in England, and half the time in India. We delve into the connection between snake and astrology—specifically, astro-cartology— which is a type of astrology that looks at geographical places connected to your birth chart. This leads us into a discussion around movement, around travel—and Ellie shares how we must leave home to find out who we are. There’s a quest, a rite of passage. And yet, we can look across our globe and see the complications that have arisen from this quest, too. Those of us of European descent have ancestors who left home—sometimes in a call to find themselves, sometimes to escape the oppression they faced—only to recapitulate patterns of dominance and oppression in other lands and to other people. Ellie talks vulnerably about being half English and how she feels the time has come where there’s a “reaping of karma” from being the “industrialized colonizers” that “repressed, annihilated, and destroyed so many indigenous cultures” and how the lands she comes from are crying out about this—as the UK is one of the most biodiverse poor countries in the world. We discuss how out of integrity many of our ancestors were. But that snake can show us how to come back into integrity and travel/journey/move—without losing our soul and without exoticizing other cultures, so we don’t perpetuate internalized separation from what’s been repressed within ourselves. Ellie also touches on how patriarchal Christianity robbed the islands in the UK of the Goddess—so there was this search from many to travel out to seek even spirituality—despite the richness that is native to those lands, too. But it must be reclaimed so as not to cause harm, to take, to oppress, to colonize. In this rich conversation, we also move to how snake is a protectress and the dreams Ellie had to warn her when in an abusive marriage. Be sure to delve into this heartfelt, deeply important conversation. Connect With Rebecca: Golden Snake Temple Website Instagram FREE MINI EBOOK: Meet the Snake Priestess Discover the Snake Goddess & her history, how you can reclaim this medicine, and what the Snake Priestess offers you personally and collectively. Learn More About Ellie: I am a trained Astrologer (my specialty is Astro-Cartography and other types of locational astrology), Priestess and trained Coach, I am here as a guide for my clients’ own stories of homecoming, initiation and reclamation. Connect With Ellie: Website Venus Rising Podcast Instagram
Transcribe →Episode 8: Instinctual Discernment with Phoenix Amara
Aug 13, 202401:11:50Tap to summarizeWelcome to another powerful episode of the Snake Priestess Podcast. Today, you’re connecting with the fabulous Phoenix Amara—Author, Artist, Sacred Sexuality Teacher, and steward of a gorgeous white ball python, Stella. My experience of Phoenix is as a Divine feminine leader, priestess, and tantrika devoted to bringing union into the world. You’re going to love this joyous conversation, filled with lots of giggles since we had an extra surprise guest live with us: Stella! We start off the episode with the fascinating synchronicities that brought snake, and specifically Stella, into her life and what it’s been like for her to steward such a sensual, beautiful creature. As with all of the episodes, we weave along a sinuous path in our conversation together … from the sensitivity of snakes, shedding, kundalini, the Divine Feminine, symbolism, and movement. You’re definitely going to want to hear a couple incredible stories—such as what happened with Stella when Phoenix ended a long-term relationship… We also delve into the lessons that snake teaches us about trusting our instincts, discernment, and letting go… You’ll want to be sure, towards the end, to listen to Phoenix’s suggestions on how to grow, through snake medicine, this year. One of my favorite quotes in this episode from Phoenix is, “A snake Priestess befriends her fears.” YESSSS. Be sure to tune in to this sumptuous conversation! Connect With Rebecca: Golden Snake Temple Website Instagram FREE MINI EBOOK: Meet the Snake Priestess Discover the Snake Goddess & her history, how you can reclaim this medicine, and what the Snake Priestess offers you personally and collectively. Learn More About Phoenix: Author, Artist, Sacred Sexuality Teacher Phoenix Amara is an internationally recognized Prayerformance Ceremonialist, divine feminine guide & is the founder of the Temple Arts Alchemy Mystery School. In a world where people are aching to sink their teeth into deep and meaningful pleasure + intimacy, Phoenix is known as a Pleasure Alchemist helping bridge the divide between Soul, Sex & Art. With over a decade of experience facilitating transformational events, retreats, conferences, and sensual group experiences, she’s been featured on stages internationally and has been featured on media such as Huffington Post, Financial Post, and The Globe & Mail. In her new book, “Ascension of Gaia: Resurrection of the Sacred Sexual Feminine”, Phoenix reveals intimate details on her provactive journey of sexual healing, connecting this awakening of Feminine Erotic energy with humanities evolving relationship with Mother Earth to that of Lover Earth. Phoenix’s work is shared online through her yearly women’s leadership Queen’s Council Mastermind and her Temple Arts Alchemy Certification program – a New Earth Energy Modality weaving Archetypal Embodiment with ancestral healing, expressive art therapy and sacred sexuality. When she’s not being an Erotic Ritualist or playing mom to her 7-year old, you can find her creating immersive erotic ritual experiences, practising yoga, or making music. Connect With Phoenix: https://phoenixamara.com https://www.instagram.com/thephoenixamara/ Holy Eros Community Holy Eros Podcast
Transcribe →Episode 7: Healing the Split of Disembodiment with Eva Weaver
Jul 30, 202401:00:45Tap to summarizeWelcome to another powerful episode of the Snake Priestess Podcast. Today, you’re connecting with Eva Weaver, who is a snake priestess, sex coach, and author. Eva hails from Germany but has been living in England for a long time. You’re going to love her unique perspective on snake medicine because not only has she been doing this work for a long time, she also stewards a gorgeous snake, Syd. Eva shares how snake first began coming to her and the visceral experience she had when she first saw the image of the famous Cretan snake goddess. Weaving threads together, we talk a lot about the sensory remembrance of handling a snake and the transmissions that come from them … even for people who may have had a fear of snake, but finally got to hold them and experience their sweet, beautiful, sensitive nature. What does being live with snakes bring? What is their medicine? Hear Eva also share about her experiences guiding people through rites of passage with live snakes. Eva also talks about the wounds of separation, the split that occurred between snake, sexuality, and spirituality, and how this connects to female disembodiment, why this was severed, and the ancient trauma that is connected. After talking more about how sexuality is often fuel for us and how this is interrelated with snake, Eva recites a beautiful serpentine poem that you’re not going to want to miss! Connect With Rebecca: Golden Snake Temple Website Instagram FREE MINI EBOOK: Meet the Snake Priestess Discover the Snake Goddess & her history, how you can reclaim this medicine, and what the Snake Priestess offers you personally and collectively. Learn More About Eva: Author, Snake Priestess, & Coach I believe passionately in the healing power and birthright to creativity and I’ve been interested in the connection between our bodies and how we express ourselves creatively and erotically for a very long time. My intention is always to support people to feel more empowered and alive and I bring my heart, passion and wisdom from my healing journey and my experiences as a performance artist, writer, art therapist, bodyworker & creativity coach to my work and offerings. Connect With Eva: https://www.evaweaver.com https://www.instagram.com/snakemedicine_evaweaver/
Transcribe →Episode 6: Hips Don't Lie & God is a Woman with Emerant Mairead
Jul 9, 202400:44:07Tap to summarizeWelcome to another powerful episode of the Snake Priestess Podcast. Today, you’re blessed by the presence of Emerant Mairead, a social change navigator, sensual embodiment coach, and snake medicine keeper extraordinaire. You’ll love this lively conversation where we dip deep into multiple topics like… The patriarchy Dualistic notions that shame pleasure experiences in the body How to navigate our inner wilderness Standing in our truth We widely explore the wisdom that inherently lives in our bodies, including our instinctual discernment that shows us how to navigate what feels right and true for us, without blaming or “righting & wronging” others. …Which leads us into a big discussion around the tensions & triggers that we see in our polarized world … and how this comes out as judgment towards others—especially around power and sexuality. AND how women often are a big part of judging one another. Emerant is a former exotic dancer and shares how powerful movement/dance is … and how so many of us are afraid to “move our hips” but like Shakira says, our hips don’t lie. When we see another who is embracing their connection to life itself through movement and vibrancy (embodying snake), then we’re experience all the projections and discomfort with that. I could go on and on about this fantastically woven episode, but I’ll leave this here for now so you can go listen!! Connect With Rebecca: Golden Snake Temple Website Instagram FREE MINI EBOOK: Meet the Snake Priestess Discover the Snake Goddess & her history, how you can reclaim this medicine, and what the Snake Priestess offers you personally and collectively. Learn More About Emerant: Trauma-Informed Director, Wise Woman, Sensual Embodiment Coach Emerant is a social change navigator committed to shifting paradigms around radical and embodied self-expression. Her mission is centred in assisting women on their way back home to their divine nature. Through remembering and reclaiming the subtle nature of our inner voice and reconciling their shadows. By weaving trauma-informed practice, folklore, wisdom, and truth into embodiment rituals she crafts spaces for you to feel liberated from your stories and shine freely. Connect With Emerant: Instagram
Transcribe →Episode 5: Belly to the Earth with Tami Brunk
Jun 24, 202401:08:01Tap to summarizeWelcome to another powerful episode where Tami Brunk and I delve into the world of snake medicine. We start off with Tami’s snake origin story, where she shares alluring experiences being a budding naturalist as a child and her wonderment of snakes, growing up on a farm in Missouri. Together, we explore mythic connections of bird/snake, snake/tree, and poison/medicine. Weaving stories and dreams, Tami shares the importance of the living sky, astrology, and the motifs we all experience of snake as a primal symbol of power, awakening, and medicine. We also discuss the dynamics of the masculine and feminine with snake and how snake became a protector for her … but also something she yearned to protect. Tami shares powerful symbols of the Gods & Goddesses with snake, their stories, the history of dreaming societies, and what we can learn from them. We especially spend time on Hygeia, a Goddess and the 4th largest asteroid in the sky, playing an important role in astrology. Connect With Rebecca: Golden Snake Temple Website Instagram FREE MINI EBOOK: Meet the Snake Priestess Discover the Snake Goddess & her history, how you can reclaim this medicine, and what the Snake Priestess offers you personally and collectively. Learn More About Tami: Shamanic Astrologer & Active Dream Teacher Tami Brunk, MS, BA is a Wholehearted Empath and Earth Visionary helping humans grow an intimate and friendly relationship with the Earth and Sky. She is a fully Certified Shamanic Astrologer and past president of the Shamanic Astrology Mystery School, and fully certified Active Dreaming Teacher. Her life passion is to call in and re-awaken the Priestesses and Earth Mages through ceremonial work with Venus and her cycles and by marrying the worlds of Dreaming and Shamanic Astrology. She was the first, since 2010, to begin leading circles through the entire 19-month Venus Cycle as ceremony guided by the Inanna Descent Myth. She has conducted in-depth research into the Venus Return Cycle for women, and is co-founder of Venus Alchemy with Shamanic Astrology Mystery School Co-Founder Cayelin Castell. Through Venus Alchemy, Tami and Cayelin lead a dynamic global community of women and men through the entire 19-month Venus Cycle as a re-enactment of the Inanna Descent Story. The inspiration for this course emerged from Daniel Giamario’s research into the Venus Synodic Cycle, which linked the Venus Synodic Cycle and the ancient Sumerian Descent Myth of Inanna. Connect With Tami: https://www.tamibrunk.com/ https://www.instagram.com/tamibrunk
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EPISODE 4: All Our Relations with Jenny Šâwnohk, Red Stone Snake Woman
Jun 11, 202400:50:52Tap to summarizeI'm honored to join the very special Jenny Šâwnohk, Red Stone Snake Woman, who is an Indigenous (Cree) Healer, psychotherapist, and truth and reconciliation specialist. She wears many hats, including that as a motivational speaker, consultant, mom of three boys. Today, you're in for an incredible gift. This is the type of episode that you'd want to listen to multiple times because it is so rich with medicine. It’s a true privilege to be with Jenny in this powerful dialogue. Jenny shares, right off the top, that if we don't begin listening to snake medicine, we will destroy ourselves. She explains how snake medicine intertwines with the Indigenous 8th fire prophecy—which is about reconciling our relationship to the land & each other. This means pulling away from the western, eurocentric collective consciousness that’s damaged the Earth ... and instead invites us to gather on the path with indigenous people, because they have the original instructions on how to live with respect & honor. Jenny also poignantly shares about the following: The damage done to Indigenous people when pulled from the land Residential schools & the shame that was taught there—and how reconnecting to the land is part of the medicine to heal Snake medicine, the sacred hoop, and being Children of Mother Earth What snake represent with the sacred hoop How we must mend the sacred hoop with all the trauma that’s been done (specifically to indigenous people) Medicine Wheel 7 Grandfather teachings of humility, honesty, respect, courage, wisdom, truth, love Her role as Redstone Snake Woman The importance of being loving, compassionate, and supportive of one another & all our relations Snake as a transformative healer How snake teaches us to evolve Shedding skins We also talk about the importance of rooting to your ancestral ways that knew how to connect to the land, to snake, to drum, etc. All cultures, globally, pre-Christian, had these land-based views. Jenny encourages us to get uncomfortable and confront racism, white privilege, etc. to help mend the sacred hoop … and how we’re all responsible for this healing. We talk about snake as protectors and guardians of the sacred hoop. ...and how we must move away from treating the "land as a resource, instead of the source of life." Despite the trauma, damage, and harm that's been done, Jenny offers us hope, from within her deeply rooted indigenous views. ...And that our hearts and intentions are profoundly needed because our Mother's heartbeat is erratic. This is an incredibly rich, deeply medicinal conversation filled with much grace and reverence. My prayer is that as many people as possible listen in so we can heal together in reconciliation, love, and remembrance. Such gratitude and honor to Red Stone Snake Woman. Connect With Rebecca: Golden Snake Temple Website Instagram FREE MINI EBOOK: Meet the Snake Priestess Discover the Snake Goddess & her history, how you can reclaim this medicine, and what the Snake Priestess offers you personally and collectively. Learn More About Jenny: Healer, Speaker, Mentor Jenny Sawanohk, Mihko-Asiniy-Kinepik-Iswew, is a proud member of Moose Cree First Nation, the Mosoniy-Illilew. She was born and raised in Moosonee, Ontario, and the beautiful James Bay Lowlands and OMushkegowuk territory. She is honoured to reside on the unceded and ancestral territory of our Algonquin kin, the traditional land and water stewards of the Ottawa area, where she owns and operates the Misiwe Ni Relations Healing Lodge. This is where she also operates her private practice, Red Stone Snake Woman, as an Indigenous healer/psychotherapist. Jenny has an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and is a Master of Social Work graduate. She has extensive work experience in Child Welfare and Children’s Mental Health and is very passionate about Indigenous Social Work. She has created the first of its kind programming for Indigenous youth-in-care that aims to ensure they receive culturally sensitive and competent identity-based healing opportunities. Jenny believes it is paramount that youth have access to the land, culture, elders, traditional healers and ceremonies. Birthed from this Calling, Jenny developed workshops that educate the professionals servicing Indigenous youth and their families. She provides this training on many different platforms throughout the province. It is through this work that Jenny became a Truth and Reconciliation Specialist, educator, advocate, and motivational speaker. Jenny has sat in the circles of many Elders and Knowledge Keepers. She has dedicated her life to studying traditional Medicine Work with Indigenous Healers. She is passionate about reconnecting to Ancestral Wisdom and Indigenous Ways of Knowing, the Medicine and Teachings from the Land, our beautiful Mother Earth, and with bringing back the Original Instructions to all Humanity. Jenny is a Feather Keeper and heArtist, and with Bird Medicine and in honouring the Winged Relations, she creates Spiritual Tools that help people heal and step into their soul purpose and calling. Through all of these roles, Jenny inspires people to see their light, understand their gifts, to reclaim their power and take their place within the Sacred Hoop and Eternal Web of Life. Connect With Jenny: https://www.redstonesnakewoman.ca https://www.instagram.com/redstonesnakewoman/
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EPISODE 3: Shedding Skins with Rev. Noel Tendick
May 28, 202400:45:08Tap to summarizeIn today’s episode, I am honored to be joined by Rev. Noel Tendick, an interfaith minister, martial artist, poet … and so much more. Noel and I have been connected for many years and I admire his brilliance and poetic heart—so it was really special to sit with him about snake medicine. We go wide and deep discussing: Belonging Concept of “ownership” & how this is the antithesis of snake medicine Intimate connection with land & all beings Cycles of creation & destruction What actually causes suffering How snake helps us navigate change Beauty of snake’s physical nature Serpent myths Aikido & snake medicine Being responsible for one another & the reciprocal balance of the natural world We also delve into why we may have a collective, primitive fear of snakes, how acknowledging the “shedding of our skins” matter, and how snake medicine is directly connected to our survival. One of my favorite quotes from Noel in this episode, when talking about change and letting go: “There’s devasting sorrow in the release; but fundamentally, I don’t know if it’s suffering, compared to resistance.” Make sure to stay to the end to hear about his cohabitation with a rattlesnake outside his door one summer in Montana… Connect With Rebecca: Golden Snake Temple Website Instagram FREE MINI EBOOK: Meet the Snake Priestess Discover the Snake Goddess & her history, how you can reclaim this medicine, and what the Snake Priestess offers you personally and collectively. Learn More About Noel: Healer, Interfaith Minister, Martial Artist, Poet My work is to help bring you back into your thriving center. We live in a diverse web, and there are many paths to healing, many guides to help you along your way. My foundation is to work from the level of spirit, however you define it. I’ve been practicing energy healing, in the form of Reiki, for 22 years. I’ve been studying core shamanism for 5 years. I attended interfaith seminary, studying the world’s spiritualities and how to tend their followers. I was ordained an interfaith minister in the fall of 2016, deepening an ordination I received 15 years earlier. And while I don’t currently offer massage, I am a trained massage therapist, carrying an awareness of the physical system with my spiritual healing practice. Connect With Noel: https://revbluesky.com
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EPISODE 2: Awakening Our Snake Power Featuring Dawn Baumann Brunke
May 14, 202400:54:04Tap to summarizeIn today’s episode, I am honored to be joined by Dawn Baumann Brunke, an author, animal communicator, and dreamer. She has written an incredible book, “Awakening the Ancient Power of Snake,” which I recommend to all of the snake priestesses I train. We discuss the surprising way in which snake medicine began coming to her, how dreams are connected to this work, the symbolism of snake in nature, myths, the fear many people have of snakes, and what snake teaches us. I know you will love this powerful episode … so let’s dive in! Connect With Rebecca: Learn more about Rebecca's Golden Snake Temple Website Instagram FREE MINI EBOOK: Meet the Snake Priestess Discover the Snake Goddess & her history, how you can reclaim this medicine, and what the Snake Priestess offers you personally and collectively Learn More About Dawn: Dawn Baumann Brunke is an author, animal communicator, tarot reader, and dream enthusiast. Her books look at connecting with animals, self, and spirit, and celebrate the power of dreams to help us better understand ourselves and our world. She also created a tarot deck, The Animal Wisdom Tarot (newer versions titled Spirit Animal Tarot). Dawn lives in Alaska. She offers animal communication sessions and workshops, as well as tarot readings. For more, see below! Connect with Dawn https://www.animalvoices.net/
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