EP 32: The Revolution Within Featuring Synmia Rosine – Plant Medicine, Ancestral Healing and Birthwork

Episode Length: 1:22:54

This week, I’m speaking with the powerful Synmia Rosine, a birthworker who regularly practices and engages with plant medicine and ancestral healing. She’s a mother, an avid urban gardener, and a wise soul who turned to nature and indigenous wisdom to help heal physical and mental imbalances. Synmia’s story is one of great courage and resilience, which you’ll hear more about in this episode.

In the episode we discuss: Synmia’s process of returning to nature, how a series of toxic events forever changed the course of her life, how she got off prescription medication by seeking out indigenous wisdom, and the practice that brought Synmia out of a rut. We also touch on how to feel empowered no matter how tough your circumstances, why pregnancy and birth are divorced from community and how that negatively affects everyone, why ending racism is connected to saving the environment, and how to decolonize your diet. I describe Synmia as powerful because she is unafraid to embody her authentic self, and it was inspiring and expansive for me to witness this throughout our conversation. As I continue to find my voice, it’s truly an honor for me to share hers. Enjoy!

“Anytime that I’m out of sync, or need to be checked, I’m checking myself.” - Synmia Rosine x Our Nature
“It’s very important that we understand that what has happened this year is beautiful in a way that: this is not sustainable. This way of thinking. This way of farming. This way of eating. This way of loving...it’s not sustainable.” - Synmia Rosine x Our Nature
“We were all dealt a certain hand of cards, and some hands are better than others - for sure. But that’s none of our business. Our business is – acknowledging and accepting the fact that this is our hand, and how we can do better and prepare ourselves to make the best hand every time.” - Synmia Rosine x Our Nature
“It’s this false idea that living in the country, living off the land, having your own homestead, growing your own food is difficult, is for poor people, is time consuming, is not important - all these things – when that’s the only thing that’s going to bridge us to what’s real.” - Synmia Rosine x Our Nature
“I am not a healer. You have the power within yourself to heal you.” - Synmia Rosine x Our Nature
“You have a revolution within.” - Synmia Rosine x Our Nature
“The more you move. The more the universe moves.” - Synmia Rosine x Our Nature
“A big part of nature is community and a big part of community is all of us. And if one of us is suffering, then all of us are suffering.” - Synmia Rosine x Our Nature
“Nature’s in everything. We are nature beings.” - Synmia Rosine x Our Nature

Resources

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Show Notes

On how the fires and Covid-19 have affected Synmia
Why giving birth and growing your own food are the realist, most tangible aspects of life
How to start your own garden in the easiest way possible
On Synmia’s process of returning to nature and how a series of toxic events changed the course of her life
How Synmia got off prescription medication by turning towards indigenous wisdom
How the spiritual wellness community in California was not what it seemed
The practice that brought Synmia out of a rut
On how to feel empowered no matter how tough your circumstances
On finding her calling in birth-work and how she defines the term
Why Synmia encourages her expectant mothers to take their pregnancy back
Why Synmia believes it’s so important to normalize birth and remove cultural fear around the process
Why pregnancy and birth is so divorced from community and how that negatively affects everyone
The most important lesson I’ve learned by being the host of Our Nature
On the importance of finding guides and connecting with nature
Synmia’s perspective on how we can end racial injustice
Why ending racism is connected to saving the environment
Why community is essential for us to heal each other and our planet
How to decolonize your diet
Synmia practices for connecting with the natural world
The Last Five Questions

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The Last Five Questions

What is your favorite place in nature?
By the water…any body of water.
What is the animal, mineral or plant that resonates with you the most?
Comfrey - An herb that helps bones heal, it rejuvenates the soil. It’s really taught me that I don’t have to nit pick so much.
What is one thing we can do right now to connect with the natural world and bring more harmony into our lives?
12 minutes of silence...reflection.
What’s the greatest lesson nature has taught you?
Patience. Peace. Reflection. To slow down and that we are not a reflection of God only, first we are a reflection of nature.
Complete this sentence: Nature brings me…
Joy.

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