This episode explores the history of the term vulva, and the ways in which reproductive anatomy has changed over time. Some themes include etymology, zoomorphism and anthropomorphism, and mythology. With constant advancements revealing new anatomy to us all the time, this podcast provokes questions about how we choose to name our anatomy today. Tra…

Join me for an overview of the practice of menstrual ritual, both historically and in the contemporary. I cover the role that menstrual ritual has had in a variety of cultures around the world, and it can even be said that menstruation has influenced life itself. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UJfULPlD5lsEIrSToZz8xaKNTvh5BlWz/view?usp…

This episode discusses earthen plasters, natural building materials used for centuries to finish interior and exterior surfaces of structures. These materials often come from the area directly around the building and are made of clay, sand, fibers, and other natural additives. Episode transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1obG_vuIVvksm41DWEsT…

This episode discusses the relationship between common gene variations, clotting risks, and birth control use. Gene variations, such as the Factor V Leiden mutation or the MTHFR variation, can impact the body's natural clotting processes, potentially increasing the risk of blood clots. The major risk factors are discussed before talking about the f…

This episode introduces residential solar power with a focus on photovoltaic technology or solar panels. Solar panels harness the sun’s energy and turn light into electricity. The episode begins with the parts of a solar power system before moving into the basic calculations needed to assess your home system needs. Transcript: https://drive.google.…

This episode defines and explains the concept of body literacy and the history of the body literacy movement. It lays out a framework for understanding and several core tenets of body literacy before moving on to a discussion of the various issues in contemporary reproductive politics. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uo_ASSO20VmsyrVNT7…

This episode introduces you to the concept of a food forest as an agricultural design focused on resilience, food security, and ecological harmony. The episode begins with an overview of historic Indigenous food forests before covering the basic steps to consider before building out your design. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sSPnFKYN…

Learn the difference between PMS and PMDD, the history of the debate about the condition, and get accurate and updated information about the underlying causes and how to treat it Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lx9LraGMseoL6w9vvyOafE0Kte7bnYXR/view?usp=sharingBy Someone, Somewhere

Learn about the worldwide history & use of Vitex agnus-castus. Vitex has agricultural, medicinal, and trade use benefits. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18GSO5vcGbGfDBREz9pE93RUnv9yJPCok/view?usp=sharingBy Someone, Somewhere

Explore the ancient, intricate, and complex symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi. These interrelationships are essential to cultivating healthy soil, restoring and maintaining thriving habitats, and to increase harvest yields Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12eJDxrvrmnZT1qHvac-6RiSDqsgz1SSP/view?usp=sharing…

This episode is an introduction to critical menstrual studies. Critical menstrual studies is the study of the menstrual life cycle as a category of analysis. All of menstrual life, which is a trajectory that begins before first menstruation, and continues afterwards post-menopause, is deeply impacted by systems of power and cultural knowledge produ…

Explore how permaculture design and bio-architecture concepts can make your home or building more energy efficient, secure, cost efficient, and healthier for its occupants and the greater ecology. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1edIjlWUUEgjTODiY38nVPWFDokfi5h_v/view?usp=sharingBy Someone, Somewhere

A deep dive into the principles of informed consent. In this episode I discuss how to talk to your doctor to get your needs met, and ideas about the future of just reproductive care. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iErbpXEAv4LiEKzVVpM949nSqQxxy2wH/view?usp=sharingBy Someone, Somewhere

Season 3 Episode 9 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels Today we chat with Glasgow, Scotland based Ailie Robertson. When we recorded this interview, she was planning on releasing a new collection of technical exercises for t…

Dive into eight common myths about agriculture today. Topics discussed include industrial agricultural practices, the true costs of producing food, and how imperialism and climate change intersects with the global food system. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U4Vyj4bVDlvx4UZgiKgN-mUxrgBSjdv0/view?usp=sharing…

Season 3 Episode 8 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels Fellow Massachusetts resident and founder of Harp and Wellness Nicole Anderson joins me to discuss the benefits of Therapeutic Harp Music and her work with Seniors. We …

Season 3 Episode 7 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels Trine Opsahl talks with us from her home in Denmark. We discuss her early adventures in music eventually leading to the Harp, her involvement with the International Har…

Season 3 Episode 6 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels Today we have a phone conversation with Chiara Capobianco, who is known as “The Unconventional Harpist”. We will discover why, talk Harp, discuss her journey from Italy…

Season 3 Episode 5 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels Christina Tourin is the director of The International Harp Therapy Program and founder of Rainbow of Sound/Color My World Harp Circles. In this episode we talk about Th…

Season 3 Episode 4 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels Kristin Rebecca talks about her music, her upcoming album Realm of Enchantment and we listen to some of her beautiful songs. To learn more about Kristin… Website: https…

Twelve tips to make you a better charter, and to make charting easier on you. These tips focus on the need for fertility awareness education to include strategies for manageability and long term sustainability throughout your menstruating years. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cR9UhNI517rjFX7Vhy8KZaqE-jQEz0eT/view?usp=sharing…

Season 3 Episode 3 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels A conversation with Julia Mascetti about her Harp driven Art Pop project The Lonely Harps Club. Also selections from her new cd Long Game. To learn more about Julia… We…

Season 3 Episode 2 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels A conversation with Therapeutic Musician Laurence Furr and music from his cd Deep Peace. To learn more about Laurence Furr… Website: https://www.laurencefurr.com/ Faceb…

Season 3 Episode 1 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels Season 3 opens with The Willow Trio, a Glasgow-based Clarsach trio featuring Romy Wymer Sophie Rocks Sam MacAdam Conversation and music from their debut EP Oyster Catch…

This episode teaches you how to properly incubate chicken eggs, and how to care for baby chicks once they’ve hatched to ensure their survival. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dVjkzQxgBeISkngYVYVduyLIo9_Iwb_V/view?usp=sharingBy Someone, Somewhere

Season 2 Episode 13 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels This is the final episode of Season 2. Coming soon: Season 3! In March of 2021 Loreena McKennitt wrote an article called “Is the streaming experiment failing artists?”…

I explore the history of the birth control pill through the lens of the exploitation that underlined its development. By focusing on the pill’s so-called pioneers, I trace the experiments that were conducted on the mentally disabled, as well as Puerto Ricans, Haitians, and Mexicans which paved way for FDA approval. I also speak about the Nelson Pil…

Season 2 Episode 12 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels On this episode; Kathleen Finnegan. We talk about playing Harp at Renaissance Festivals, Faeries, Motherhood and we listen to music from her latest cd There in the Qui…

Season 2 Episode 11 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels This weeks episode features Robbin Gordon-Cartier. We talk about Cultural Diversity, an Instagram group promoting Harpists of African descent called Ennanga Harp, her …

Season 2 Episode 10 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels Harpist Keziah Thomas joins us from her London studio with her Concert Harp. She will play two selections from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov‘s…

Season 2 Episode 9 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels This episode features a fascinating conversation with Amy Camie: Her musical background The Harp as a healing instrument The healing power of music Her research and her…

Season 2 Episode 8 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels Jessica Browning lives on a sailboat in the Caribbean with her husband, newly born son and two Harps. She joins us, from the boat, to talk about her new cd Into Me Sea.…

Season 2 Episode 7 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels This episode features Merit Zloch from Berlin, Germany. We talk about her latest CD Stand der Dinge and feature some music from it. We will also discuss her musical inf…

Season 2 Episode 6 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels This episode features Verlene Schermer. She talks about the Harp as a healing instrument, offers tips for Harp newbies, and more. We will also listen to some of her lov…

Season 2 Episode 5 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels This week’s episode features a very enjoyable conversation with Rachel Hair from Glasgow, Scotland. We will feature tunes from her latest CD Sparks, with Ron Jappy. We …

The permaculture design principle of zones, sectors, and slopes can be used to maximize the efficient flow of energy on your site. Zones are abstract, conceptual boundaries that can be used to plan and maintain natural and human ecosystems. Permaculture zones are mindful of the larger ecology and how to care for it. Transcript: https://drive.google…

Season 2 Episode 4 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels This week’s episode musically is very different from previous ones. The extraordinary Eduardo Betancourt talks about playing Venezuelan Fusion on the Harp, his musical …

Season 2 Episode 3 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels Today’s episode features Deborah Henson-Conant in her Boston studio with her Harp. She talks about taking music lessons when she was a child. She shares a story about h…

Season 2 Episode 2 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels Lisa Lynne talks to us about her early days as a Rock Musician, her introduction to the Harp at a California Renaissance Festival, adjusting to the pandemic, the Harp a…

Season 2 Episode 1 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels For the first episode episode of season 2 we are delighted to spend some time with Maeve Gilchrist. We chat about her background, online lessons & workshops, and we enj…

This episode covers how to use fertility awareness charting for pregnancy achievement. I cover how to use the 3 fertility signs to get pregnant, how to calculate proper expected due date, and how the charts can be used during the pregnancy to ensure health and safety. I also discuss the specifics of intravaginal insemination for pregnancy achieveme…

Season 1 Episode 14 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels This week’s episode “Harpy Holidays!” Is the final episode of Season 1, featuring Winter and Holiday music from many of the fine Harp players who appeared in Season 1.…

Why have we lost our collective knowledge of contraception? This episode walks you through the most common methods of fertility control throughout the ages, and discusses how knowledge chains were broken in order to exert control over reproductive function at the societal level. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dr97NdKUd5Lzp0aAaZt9qWSWB…

Season 1 Episode 13 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels On today’s episode we talk with Cynthia Cathcart about the beautiful Wire Strung Harp. Cynthia is a Wire Strung Harp teacher and author. She has written books for the …

Season 1 Episode 12 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels On today’s episode, a pioneer in the field of Historical Harps and a pioneer in the field of online Harp lessons. We chat with Cheryl Ann Fulton about her Harps, her H…

Season 1 Episode 11 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels On this episode we meet a very talented composer and multi instrumentalist from France. Coriolan talks about what influences him and his music. He also shares some of …

Season 1 Episode 10 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels On this episode I share the music of a few of my dear friends, and some of my music as well. To purchase the Music of The Harper and The Minstrel: https://music.apple.…

Season 1 Episode 9 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels On today’s episode we talk with Jenna Greene about the influence of Faeries and Magic on her music and her life, the backstory on some of her songs, her ongoing and upc…

Season 1 Episode 8 Opening the Harp Chakra - The Podcast Bringing you beautiful, healing, magical Harp Music ...and talking with the artists that create it... Hosted by Jay Michaels Let’s Meditate *****DISCLAIMER***** Please DO NOT drive while listening to this episode!!! It has been a stressful year. On today’s episode we relax with a Guided Medit…

Migraines are a debilitating and chronic condition that often goes overlooked. This podcast explores the underlying causes of migraines, and provides several options for home treatment to reduce the frequency and intensity of migraine attacks. Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XM6VLK7kDVB7M8VAa1gWqz5WCpHjAPFj/view?usp=sharing…