This episode features Silvia Canelón (she/her), a queer Latina data scientist and body literacy advocate based in Philadelphia. Silvia weaves together her passion for reproductive justice, relational power dynamics, and fertility awareness to support reclaiming autonomy through cycle tracking.

In this episode, we explore: ✨ Silvia’s story of her first period, growing up in Venezuela ✨ What the symptothermal method is — and how it changed her life ✨ Fertility awareness as a form of resistance and self-determination ✨ Becoming a Body Literacy Advocate ✨ Navigating contraception under political uncertainty ✨ Practical ways cycle tracking helps with stress, planning, and emergency contraception ✨ The joy and power of knowing your fertile window ✨ Building inclusive, community-rooted approaches to fertility awareness education

Connect with Silvia: • Website: www.silviacanelon.com • IG: @cycle.curious

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Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be

Chapters: 00:00:00 Body Literacy as Empowerment 00:00:50 Welcome & Grounding 00:01:50 Guest Introduction: Silvia Canon 00:02:55 Silvia’s First Period Story 00:06:00 Menstruation Over the Years 00:09:00 Intro to Symptothermal Method 00:10:00 How Silvia Found Fertility Awareness 00:12:30 Learning to Chart & Finding a Queer-Inclusive Educator 00:15:00 Educator Training Journey & Becoming a Body Literacy Advocate 00:19:15 Fertility Awareness as Resistance 00:21:00 “Apocalypse-Proof” Birth Control 00:22:00 Reversibility & Empowered Choice 00:23:00 Favorite Parts of Charting 00:25:15 Emergency Contraception & Charting 00:28:30 Final Reflections 00:29:45 Where to Find Silvia

In this episode, I interviewed my beloved friend, aesha rasheed, an incredible body worker and healer, ritual worker and spiritual organizer in service to community wellness, earth stewardship and in support of movements for liberation.

We talked about: ✨aesha’s journey with chronic pain ✨How pain can lead to either disassociation or be a portal into deeper self-awareness ✨How pleasure and pain are connected ✨aesha’s experiences both offering and receiving body work ✨How body work can open up enhanced states of connection ✨The interconnectedness of all things and tapping into states of oneness ✨The microbiome as a way that bodies connect and interact ✨Healing through Energy work and Aesha’s experience as a Reiki practitioner

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Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be

Chapters: 00:00:00 Grounding & Opening Invocation 00:02:40 Embodiment as spirit expressed through our flesh 00:04:00 How chronic pain was a doorway for aesha deeper into herself 00:06:00 The Threshold Between Pain and Pleasure 00:10:00 How pain can be a pathway to dissociation or connection depending on choice and agency 00:13:00 Working with Therapeutic Pain in bodywork 00:15:30 How practicing body work is a meditative state of attunement 00:20:00 How body work can be an enhanced telepathic state of oneness 00:22:00 How our microbiome is connected to our energy body 00:28:00 How our microbiomes exchange and interact with each other through touch 00:30:00 aesha’s experiences with Energy Work & Reiki 00:33:00 Exploring our connections to states of oneness and how humans can be disconnected 00:38:00 How trauma can lead to numbness and disconnect 00:46:00 Exploring different pathways to connect to oneness 00:47:00 what Aesha loves about her body and ways she experiences pleasure 00:57:00 How we our somatic expressions of earth’s wholeness

In this episode, I interviewed my beloved friend and creative collaborator, Ev Marquee, and amazing Visual Artist, Self-Healing Guide, and Guardian devoted to embodied transformation and the ascension of Pachamama.

With years of study in quantum healing, psychology, and ancient shamanic traditions, she guides and teaches others how to heal, protect their energy, and embody their highest selves.

Through energy work mentorship, past life regression, guided quantum healing, and creative offerings, her work is devoted to beauty, sovereignty, and the activation of our personal Heaven on Earth.

We talked about: 💫Overcoming depression, dissociation, and body image distortion 💫The power of mirror work for self-acceptance and self-love 💫Softening, crying, feeling more, and the healing power of tears 💫Imagination as a part of spiritual practice 💫Working with Masculine vs feminine meditation practices 💫Creating whole new worlds and safe spaces in our minds 💫Energy work and past life regression 💫Being in the body as a spiritual practice 💫Being a new earth creatrix 💫Coming back to prayer after a history of rejecting religion

You can connect with ev here: http://www.instagram.com/evmarquee https://www.evmarquee.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@newearthgoddess

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Intro/Outro Music - Feel the Earth by Maya Tokunaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO7vTAbpbG4&feature=youtu.be

Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:00 Overcoming dissociation and body image distortion 00:06:00 The power of mirror work for self-acceptance and self-love 00:08:00 Coming into softening, crying and feeling more 00:12:00 Self-care practices to support embodiment 00:14:00 Ev’s journey with different styles of meditation 00:16:00 Imagination as a part of spiritual practice 00:17:00 Masculine and feminine practices 00:23:00 Energy work 00:25:00 Past life regression 00:38:00 Moving up spiritually vs coming down into the body 00:40:00 Being a New Earth creatrix 00:41:00 Art as a spiritual and healing practice 00:43:00 Self-care in water and humming 00:47:00 The importance of storytelling 00:48:00 How prayer has been a gamechanger after a history of rejecting religion 00:52:00 Closing