Vision Questing & Soul Reclamation: Wilderness Fasting to Connect with Soul & Spirit | Renée Danú

Vision Questing & Soul Reclamation: Wilderness fasting to connect with Soul & Spirit.

Renée Danú joins us for another episode and season of Birdsong.

Renée is a plant wisdom keeper, animist herbalist, ritualist & ceremonialist, green witch, forest tender, medicine woman, shamanic practitioner, teacher, mentor and writer. Her work as an earth doula, bio-regionalist and wild crafter is deeply supported by the forest she lives in and tends to, providing her with an abundance of local plants to alchemise into botanical medicines that are part of her Apothecary she calls Wild Kin. ​

Renée sees herself as a continual apprentice of the earth wisdoms, Druidism, specifically the path of ovate and hedge druidry, and all botanical ancestors in the container of the old ways, animism and folk herbalism. She is an ardent student of the most learned teachers of herb craft, the plants themselves. Her journey of study & continual learning is in deep reverence, rites of passage & initiation and has spanned upwards of 30 years. ​

She offers ceremonial work with seasonal plant kin and their otherworldly botanical consciousness aligned to the old ways, bioregionally in deep reverence and totality.

She offers apprenticeships in the Plant & Earth Wisdom Pathway, she calls an "Earth Doula-ship™" as well as the Shamanic Pathway and Ceremonial Crafting. She also offers Botanical Consciousness Counsel, as well as in person and on-line courses, and also 1:1 Shamanic + Plant Spirit Healing Sessions.

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Renée's Links:

WEBSITE: https://www.kinofthefiaindanu.com

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/kinofthefiaindanu

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/kinofthefiaindanu

EMAIL: info@kinofthefiaindanu.com

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TIMESTAMPS:

[2:30] Renée shares about her transition to Kin of the Fiàin Danú: Kindred of the Wild Great Mother

[5:00] Ancestral connections and the culture of Renée’s blood

[8:40] The reclamation of different parts of self and ancestry

[12:00] Self devotion, part’s theory, and having conversations with the sacred other

[13:00] Of blood, bone, spirit, and inspiration

[16:52] Vision Quest: Nature-based Shadow Work

[21:07] Wisdom: Becoming bigger than the fear itself

[23:33] Hearing the call and Heeding the call

[26:00] The foundational architecture of deep sovereignty and “fathering” the soul home

[28:04] The multi-dimensionalities of preparing for Vision Quest

[30:58] Dropping into the Heart and listening to the land

[33:00] The story of sweat lodge and claustrophobia as medicine

[36:30] How to introduce yourself to a new bioregional environment

[39:00] Renée’s earth-based practices and herbal medicines that helped her prepare for Vision Quest

[44:30] Being mindful of bringing in too many distractions into the Quest circle

[45:30] The mysterious deepening of an intimacy with earth

[47:00] What level of trust and safety do you have in your body?

[49:00] Sungazing medicine, powerful reparenting, and walking ourselves home

[53:00] Curiosity is the antidote to fear

[57:00] Integration and the “crème da le crème of self development”

[58:45] The classic return of the hero's journey

[59:40] Holding the gold / protecting the treasure: discernment on our sacred sharings

[1:03:30] The Fading: being carried by something much greater than our sense of self

[1:07:00] Shamanic insights on relating with the elementals

[1:09:45] Nature as a mirror: The story of the snake and worm

[1:17:00] The imagery, visions and symbologies that grab our attention

[1:22:00] Starting our day with a question of aliveness: What is alive in you today?

[1:23:00] What do we mean by “hollow bone” and how do we cultivate it?

[1:30:00] Revisiting old teachings with new perspectives

[1:31:15] Soul initiation: our second birth is a fall towards death and the underworld

[1:35:45] Renée’s many offerings and how Vision Quest might influence her work