The Flow State of the Feminine with Ixchel Munay

On episode 100 of the Home to Her podcast, I'm joined by Ixchel Munay, who has spent more than 20 years walking the path of plant medicine, conscious living and supporting thousands of people around the world in her immersions and sessions to come home to themselves. Through her work, Ixchel draws upon her initiations with yoga, meditation, tantra, shamanism, magic, somatic therapy, dance, breath work, NLP, non-violent communication, permaculture, natural medicine, neuroscience and more. She’s spent nearly the past 20 years of her life based in Bali, the mystical land of her father’s ancestors. For the past four years she’s been spending half the year in Costa Rica devoted to creating Yacumama ("Mother of Water") - a regenerative community land project that hosts transformational experiences.

On this episode we discuss:

• Ixchel's introduction to the Sacred Feminine via her experience meeting Amma, the hugging saint, and her work with a tantric master in Bali
• Her experience with plant medicines and the value they offer us currently, as well as why it's so important to approach them medicine with respect and via a credible teacher
• Why she believes the feminine is the flow state that athletes describe, and how when we step into it, our divine path unfolds much more easily
• The ways women have been disconnected from our bodies, particularly through birth control and medicated childbirth
• Her work with Yacumama, and her vision for it in terms of land regeneration and as a cultural center to preserve and teach indigenous ways of being

Notes related to this episode:

• You can learn all about the upcoming programs at Yacumama here, including an upcoming wellness retreat for women, here: https://www.yacumama.love/ and on Instagram @yacumamaecovillage
• You can connect with Ixchel via social media via her website, www.livingwisdom.one, and Instagram @ixchel.munay
• Ixchel and I talked about our experiences with Amma, the hugging saint. You can learn more about her here: https://amma.org/
• We also discussed the concept of a guru as a path to the Divine Feminine, a topic I explored with past podcast guest Arundhati Subramaniam: https://youtu.be/9reaJg3iTtw

And here are a few more details about this show and my work:

• If you’d like to know whose ancestral tribal lands you currently reside on, you can look up your address here: https://native-land.ca/
• You can also visit the Coalition of Natives and Allies for more helpful educational resources about Indigenous rights and history.
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