Earth Medicine, Bioregionalism, Sacred Cacao & Plant Wisdom Keeping | Renée McCready (2020)

In this episode from Season 1 (2020) we have Renée McCready joining us.

Also known as Lady Pachamama, Renée is a plant wisdom keeper, ceremonialist, shamanic healer and therapist, she’s a kitchen witch, yoga teacher, an earth doula, bio-regionalist, and a practicing animist. Renée runs various workshops, sacred cacao ceremonies, mentoring programmes and her personal practice from the forest highlands of Regional Victoria, Australia, which just so happens to be her home.

She offers ceremonial work with sacred cacao and other plant medicine, spiritual nutrition and education around food as medicine, plant and earth wisdom work, ancestral healing, embodiment work, and more. It’s part of her mission to help people recalibrate and realign back to their own original human blueprint, which is something that we’ll touch on during this episode, but essentially what we’re speaking to here, is our roots within nature, our remembrance to our ancestral lineages that had a reverence and solid connection to the land beneath their feet.

This ties in nourishing that mind-body-soul connection that we all have, and tapping into our own unique personal medicines, our passions, our heart and of course our purpose, our great reason for being here. As you might guess from her bio, there was a lot to unpack and explore, touching on many of these themes, and it was a pleasure to welcome Renée to the show.

 

EPISODE NOTES:

Why living in the forest is the perfect environment for Renée

Respecting the power of the native plants we share our living spaces Honoring our sacred connections to the ancestors and their land

Working as an Earth Doula

Creating year-round health using the wisdom of the Earth

Grocery Story magic: Learning Earth medicine on a deeper level at the grocery

Learning and healing from the wisdom of our ancestors and the land

Tapping into the Old Ways

Using your intuition Sacred cacao, or trend going in the wrong direction?

Dealing with skeptics

 

TIMESTAMPS:

[6:08] Opening the Container: Renée opens the container by inviting us to slow down

[9:14] What is the Original Human Blueprint?

[12:55] Renée's journey into the Old Ways

[17:48] Living in the forest

[18:25] Plant wisdom-keeping that respects the land

[21:53] Sovereignty: Respecting the sacred connections in and around our living spaces

[24:54] Lessons from the transitions of plants

[29:05] Food as a medicine throughout the year

[31:37] Grocery store plant magic

[51:18] Learning and healing from the land of our ancestors

[1:01:25] Tapping into the power of the Old Ways

[1:21:00] Are we honoring the cacao in modern times?

[1:27:30] How to respond to skeptics

[1:38:00] Closing the container with a sacred sound