Birdsong: Meditation for Anxiety, Connection & Somatic Wisdom With Dr. Chanti Tacoronte-Perez

The Mindful Minute has a NEW NAME and NEW LOOK! After 8 years, I have updated the name to more accurately reflect the content offered here. Welcome to Our Mindful Nature!

How many episodes can I devote to birds, you ask? Well, I haven’t found a limit yet…!

Today on Our Mindful Nature, we are talking about two of my favorite things - Oracle cards and Birds! 

Dr. Chanti Tacoronte-Perez is joining us to introduce a new somatic oracle deck titled Birdsong. 

Dr. Chanti is a Cuban-American artist-author, ritualist, and non-clinical depth psychologist. She believes that images speak a profound language; her life’s work is a translator of the unseen and an advocate for the imaginal. She holds two master's degrees in Engaged Humanities and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. In 2023 she completed her doctoral dissertation Navegando Liminal: Rituals to Translate the Image of the Wound. Her work and teaching follows and welcomes imagination, creativity, dreaming, and deep rest.

Within our conversation today, we explore:

‣ Divination⁠

‣ Somatic wisdom⁠

‣ What happens when we tune into the body rather than the guide books⁠

‣ Trusting the wisdom of our bodies⁠

‣ Translating the wisdom of the natural world⁠

‣ Dreams & the creative process⁠

‣ Migration, landlessness, and the meaning of home⁠⁠

At the end of today’s interview, Dr. Chanti guides a beautiful bird-meditation. So take a seat outside, make sure you have a bit of room to move, grab your journal, and join us!

You can learn more about Birdsong & Dr. Chanti here: https://www.yantrawisdom.com/birdsong-2024

And, you can listen to the first interview I did with Dr. Chanti on Dreams here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/26Jtx6aGnHoCmWYkLOE87T?si=7ORpTHYiRFeNhihI6oXM3A

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This podcast explores meditation, mental health and the power of connection, offering guidance for caregivers, healers, and therapists facing compassion fatigue, burnout, and other mental health struggles through self-care, self-compassion, and resilience. With a focus on anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, each episode provides tools like meditation, mindfulness, breathwork, and grounding to cultivate clarity and reduce stress. Listeners can also experience nature-inspired guided meditations, designed to bring peace and balance in times of distress.