Folk Medicine Practitioner Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman on the Role of the Dreamer and Visions for a Community [episode 61]
Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman is a Taino-Irish-American folk medicine practitioner specializing in sacred plant medicines for communication and relationship. Raised on a 100 acre Christmas tree farm in rural Connecticut shared with 4 generations of family, she was taught from a young age the importance of community stewardship and living in harmony with the natural world.
Erin holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and has taught art to Brooklyn teens, volunteered as an Interfaith Chaplain in maximum security NYC prison, facilitated women’s initiatory journeys and organized retreats with indigenous and emerging wisdom keepers since 2007. She currently resides at Rio Cosmico, a homestead, seasonal ceremonial micro village and Library of Earth Magic located in Kumeyaay territory in Southern California where she provides multidimensional support to others on the green road to a responsible, creative, liberated embodiment.
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A dream that Yaya Erin had which inspired her to reconnect with Earth Speak
Dreamwork and what can be revealed about ourselves
How Yaya Erin was moved to join the Village
On creating new structures of connection, outside mainstream social media
On creating empowered solutions
Reconnecting with your intuitive self
On the role of the dreamer
Finding healthy male role models
On embodying the masculine and being a goddess worshiper
Embodying your archetypes
On exploring and expressing the spectrum of who you are
On healthy intimacy
Love as karmic super-glue
On autism and learning to fake being ‘normal’
Uncoupling from a 10-year marriage
On knowing when it’s your time to talk and your time to listen
Recognizing your triggers, traumas, and unhealthy patterns
Creating connection in a disconnected and fragmented time
On co-creating a safe container with your Spirit team
The fractal nature of reality
And so much more!
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References:
Kristen Houser || episode 60 https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/kristen-houser-60
Blendily https://www.blendily.com
Native Land https://native-land.ca
Yaya Erin on Dream Freedom Beauty || episode 72 https://tinyurl.com/fp7sw3ed
Genetic Haplogroup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup
Rio Cosmico www.riocosmico.org
The Taino people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C3%ADno
Greek key motif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander_(art)
Sex Education (TV series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Education_(TV_series)
Werner Herzog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog
Elon Musk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
Archetype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archetype
Lady of the Lake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_the_Lake
The red road https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_red_road
Saraswati https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraswati
Clairsentience https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clairsentience
Pigment || Shop https://www.shoppigment.com/
Gaslighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
Clairvoyant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance
Dreaming With the Ancestors || Workshop https://www.riocosmico.org/courses/dreaming-with-the-ancestors
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