Folk Medicine Practitioner Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman on the Role of the Dreamer and Visions for a Community [episode 61]

Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman shares about embodying your archetypes and creating the freedom to express and explore who you truly are. You’ll also hear about:

• Visions of a community, inspired by a dream
• On relating and healthy intimacy
• Reconnecting with your intuitive self
• On finding healthy male role models

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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.

In this episode, we talk about:

• 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 
• Tantra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra
• Saraswati https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraswati 
• Kali https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali
• Clairsentience  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clairsentience 
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva
• Shakti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakti
• Pigment || Shop https://www.shoppigment.com/
• Peyote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyote 
• 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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