OF THE EARTH with Mariana Rittenhouse

Today I have my good friend Kendra Cunov on the podcast and I’m excited for you to hear the interview because I think it is a great one! I always love my conversations with Kendra as she’s a deep lover of the Earth and we hold similar values, so it’s fun to dig in and go a little deeper each time.Kendra is a coach & facilitator that has been doing amazing work in the fields o

If you’re in my community you might have heard that my plans for this year involved working for a couple of months and then taking a sabbatical for a year starting in April/May. I planned to wrap things up work-wise in a good way, leave everyone well trained and ready for a year of running Ponderosa Tea House alone, and run a last in-person event, my retreat in Colombia…then, I

Hello loves!! Welcome to 2024! I am so happy to be in this new year–it feels abundant, expansive and full of adventure. But today, I want to let you in on a little secret:I worked my butt off for it!!2023 was a year with so many painful patterns, overdue clearings & deep inner work…it honestly kind of rocked me!On the outside it looked like nothing but expansion: new Tea house,

Today I’m talking to a dear friend & sister, Allison Strickland. We first got to know each other many years ago when we were in a shamanic apprenticeship together to support our personal healing journeys. So much life has happened since then as I’ve settled into my work teaching the ways of the Earth through Tea, and Allison has created a thriving practice of helping people kno

Today I’m talking to one of my students, Jess Cummings, about her journey with Tea. It is one of the most humbling transformations I’ve witnessed in my years of helping people find their true selves through the practice of Tea.Two years ago Jess was excited to finally begin her journey with Tea. She was setting up the perfect, beautiful space before the first class of Start You

I’m not going to lie, this podcast wasn’t an easy one for me to record! There was something blocking me from sharing my story…so instead, I got on Instagram and asked people to submit questions about my Tea journey so I could be interviewed and it would help things flow better.I realized quite soon why sharing my story felt edgy right now…it’s because, believe it or not,

I am so excited about today’s episode, {my first interview episode!!!}, with my brilliant sister, friend & healer, Elisha Tichelle.Elisha has lived many lives, including that of a professional dancer, tenured professor and currently a profound mystic teaching people the brilliance & importance of the nervous system to live our best lives.A few months ago as I was enrolling for my

In the last two episodes I talked about some personal experiences I’ve had with my life falling apart and the ways I had to change and shift as a person in order to get through them.What I didn’t talk about was how scary that time was and how unsupported I felt in so many ways, and how I got around it.We’ve all been there. Maybe you lost your job, got divorced, made a bad inv

As I mentioned last week, Freedom is a COMPLEX topic…I’ve even heard from some of you since that it’s an episode you have to listen to again, and I get it! It has been a slippery fish I’ve been trying to catch on my own journey.The truth is, finding my freedom, learning to receive it AND also not taking away other people’s freedom has been one of the main tasks on my jour

Freedom is a natural birthright of all Life on Earth…it’s something Humans crave, seek & even kill for.But, even when we receive what we believe to be freedom, are we really free?The Oxford Dictionary defines freedom as:the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.This definition feels OK to me, but to me there’s a sneaky part of in i