Sanaa Green's guest appearances

Sanaa Green

Women Who Went for It! Podcast

Center Her Power

Natalie Walstein

Jennifer Farrell

Michelle Wong

Sharon Podobnik Peterson

Abiola Abrams

Dawn Delvecchio

Courtney McLeod

Jennifer Hofmann

Dylan Jensen

Tchiya Amet

Heather Miller

Leanne Kabat

Sara Wilson

Sharon Roemmel

Carol Gavhane

OwlTail

On This Episode: How priestess spirituality informs patriarchy  Last month I created a short video sharing my thoughts on the Supreme Court reversal of the Roe Vs. Wade law. All of a sudden, I saw the correlation between the Yoni and the power that feeds the patriarchy.  Today I want to explain the correlations. In the video, I was trying to be brief so the details were left out. I have read several books that talked about the fall of female led spiritual communities, but did not make the connection until I intuitively recalled the sacred connections available through my vagina. While reading When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone, I couldn’t completely relate the magnitude of what happened to women in the past because I was still wedded to Christian thought. I didn’t see myself practicing some “pagan religion”. Such was my indoctrination into the colonial system in which I was acculturated. The reality is, the Bible is a recount of the desecration of female led religions. Why is this important? According to Mama Zogbe in her book Mami Wata: Africa's Ancient God/dess Unveiled Vol. I Aryans and priests of Amon wanted a share of the lucrative trade routes established under the matriarchal temples in Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya. After the invasion of Amon, more invasions came by the Assyrians, then the Greeks, later the Persians, Turks and Romans. The invasion included raping the priestesses. When women are defiled, it impacts not only women, but the community. That’s why this tactic was used and continues to be used in modern warfare. What would later become the patriarchy, learned that certain priestess, used intimate sacred practices for multiple reasons, not just birth. Marguite Mary Rigoglioso, PH.D in her book; The Mystery Tradition of Miraculous Conception: Mary and the Lineage of Virgin Births, she posits that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a priestess from a long line of priestesses who practiced virgin births. Eventually, priests infused themselves into these sacred practices taking control of not only the trade routes, but women’s ability to choose to give birth or not. It became men who lead the priestesses and the men wanted to control the businesses and the transfer of property. In ancient times, property was passed from mother to child. Men of this time wanted to change that. Later women were devoid of knowledge of the powerful priestesses they once were and became servants to the colonial patriarchal system. Women were told that the miraculous event of giving birth was meant as a painful punishment. Or that the only functions of a vagina are to have children or to have sex.  Even if you don’t have sex with men, what we have come to believe is that what we can experience through our vaginas has been limited to purposes that serve the patriarchy.  Either way, we have been taught to see our vagina for a very narrowly focused purpose, centered on the desires of the patriarchy. Now the country is in the process of a spiritual awakening and women and others who have been oppressed under this system are waking up to our true divine nature. This is one of the key reasons a woman’s right to chose has been called into question. Whether you are Pro-Life or Pro-Choice, your right to control your body has been limited by this Supreme Court decision.   ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.  https://anchor.fm/app  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sanaa-green0/message

On This Episode: How priestess spirituality informs patriarchy Last month I created a short video sharing my thoughts on the Supreme Court reversal of the Roe Vs. Wade law. All of a sudden, I saw the correlation between the Yoni and the power that feeds the patriarchy.  Today I want to explain the correlations. In the video, I was trying to be brief so the details were left out. I have read several books that talked about the fall of female led spiritual communities, but did not make the connection until I intuitively recalled the sacred connections available through my vagina. While reading When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone, I couldn’t completely relate the magnitude of what happened to women in the past because I was still wedded to Christian thought. I didn’t see myself practicing some “pagan religion”. Such was my indoctrination into the colonial system in which I was acculturated. The reality is, the Bible is a recount of the desecration of female led religions. Why is this important? According to Mama Zogbe in her book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615179363/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mami Wata: Africa's Ancient God/dess Unveiled Vol. I</a> Aryans and priests of Amon wanted a share of the lucrative trade routes established under the matriarchal temples in Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya. After the invasion of Amon, more invasions came by the Assyrians, then the Greeks, later the Persians, Turks and Romans. The invasion included raping the priestesses. When women are defiled, it impacts not only women, but the community. That’s why this tactic was used and continues to be used in modern warfare. What would later become the patriarchy, learned that certain priestess, used intimate sacred practices for multiple reasons, not just birth. Marguite Mary Rigoglioso, PH.D in her book; <a href="https://www.innertraditions.com/books/the-mystery-tradition-of-miraculous-conception" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The Mystery Tradition of Miraculous Conception: Mary and the Lineage of Virgin Births</a>, she posits that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a priestess from a long line of priestesses who practiced virgin births. Eventually, priests infused themselves into these sacred practices taking control of not only the trade routes, but women’s ability to choose to give birth or not. It became men who lead the priestesses and the men wanted to control the businesses and the transfer of property. In ancient times, property was passed from mother to child. Men of this time wanted to change that. Later women were devoid of knowledge of the powerful priestesses they once were and became servants to the colonial patriarchal system. Women were told that the miraculous event of giving birth was meant as a painful punishment. Or that the only functions of a vagina are to have children or to have sex.  Even if you don’t have sex with men, what we have come to believe is that what we can experience through our vaginas has been limited to purposes that serve the patriarchy.  Either way, we have been taught to see our vagina for a very narrowly focused purpose, centered on the desires of the patriarchy. Now the country is in the process of a spiritual awakening and women and others who have been oppressed under this system are waking up to our true divine nature. This is one of the key reasons a woman’s right to chose has been called into question. Whether you are Pro-Life or Pro-Choice, your right to control your body has been limited by this Supreme Court decision. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/app</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/sanaa-green0/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/sanaa-green0/message</a>

Sanaa Green on Patriarchy & Your Vagina

This is a story for your listening!   I (Sanaa Green)  am still gathering historical data about Mawu.  This story is shared here as a thought starter and as entertainment. It is in no way meant to be the authoritative account of this Goddess or the religious beliefs that are tied to her.   As a child, I loved to be read to!  As an adult, I still love to listen to a good story!  That's what this is, a good story with lessons that can be applied today.  Lessons on; humility, kindness, interconnectedness to others and the earth, using time and resources wisely and more. The Divine Feminine has many faces and has been depicted in a variety of ways depending on the culture.  This new series is simply offering accounts of views of the Divine Feminine from various cultural angles. This story was read from the book: Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood by Merlin Stone  Please share or like the podcast, if you enjoyed what you heard!  Host Sanaa Green is Spiritual Royalty, an Indigo Child, descendant of Madagascar and Lemuria, Reiki Practitioner, Ecopyschologist, Community Activist, Environmental Educator, Youth Development Coach, Teacher of Belly Dance for Earth &amp; Soul and Spiritual Thinker.  She is also a graduate of Howard University and a native of Detroit, Michigan.  Contact her at Sanaa@centerherpower.com or www.centerherpower.com    ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sanaa-green0/message

This is a story for your listening!   I (Sanaa Green)  am still gathering historical data about Mawu.  This story is shared here as a thought starter and as entertainment. It is in no way meant to be the authoritative account of this Goddess or the religious beliefs that are tied to her.   As a child, I loved to be read to!  As an adult, I still love to listen to a good story!  That's what this is, a good story with lessons that can be applied today.  Lessons on; humility, kindness, interconnectedness to others and the earth, using time and resources wisely and more. The Divine Feminine has many faces and has been depicted in a variety of ways depending on the culture.  This new series is simply offering accounts of views of the Divine Feminine from various cultural angles. This story was read from the book: Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood by Merlin Stone Please share or like the podcast, if you enjoyed what you heard! Host Sanaa Green is Spiritual Royalty, an Indigo Child, descendant of Madagascar and Lemuria, Reiki Practitioner, Ecopyschologist, Community Activist, Environmental Educator, Youth Development Coach, Teacher of Belly Dance for Earth &amp; Soul and Spiritual Thinker.  She is also a graduate of Howard University and a native of Detroit, Michigan.  Contact her at Sanaa@centerherpower.com or <a href="http://www.centerherpower.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.centerherpower.com</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/sanaa-green0/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/sanaa-green0/message</a>

The Storyteller's Goddess - Mawu Read by Sanaa Green

In this episode, Sara talks with Sanaa Green about her nonlinear journey from television production to environmental education. Today, Sanaa leads National Audubon Society's Wild Indigo initiative in Detroit, a community engagement program that seeks to build lasting relationships between urban communities of color and their local natural areas. Sanaa shares the beliefs she once had that temporarily held her back from going into work she enjoyed, how quiet time in nature connected her to her deeper sense of purpose and what it means to her to offer spiritually-connected, culturally-sensitive environmental programming.   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.   Sara and Sanaa Discuss:   How they got connected (an article Sara found on Google!)   Sanaa studying TV &amp; radio production   Getting an internship with an NBC affiliate   Realizing that she wouldn't be able to make the impact she wanted or have the excitement she wanted there   Working for a property management company in PR   Remembering that she enjoyed advertising   Considering going into entertainment law   Becoming a legal assistant to try it on   Realizing she didn't like it, but telling herself to "stay the course"   Leaving the job to care for her ill father   Following her heart into PR   Doing some freelance jobs and getting enough experience to work at an ad agency in New York City   Thinking she'd "really made it" but still not feeling fulfilled   Her "dark night of the soul"   Asking the universe to help her find her purpose   Studying feng shui and connecting with the environment and elements   Doing some feng shui consulting   Studying reiki   Trying to build a reiki practice but not getting it off the ground   Spending hours at the park to feel better   Taking a job as a camp counselor and kicking off her career as an environmental educator   Realizing that she had always thought that work had to be hard   Thinking she was "too old to start something new" and feeling self-conscious about that   Noticing doors were opening, despite her not having experience, and taking that as a sign   Going on a mission trip to Brazil   Returning there to teach English   Feeling homesick   Spending a lot of quiet time in nature   Connecting with her purpose and changing her mindset   Moving to Detroit   Teaching belly dance to help women connect with their divine feminine energy   Getting a job at an an environmental justice organization and working there for 5 years   Another epiphany after the death of her mother   Working on a project to turn a closed recreation center into a nature center   Getting the job at Audubon and launching their "Wild Indigo" program in Detroit   Her passion for creating programs for people to connect with and learn about nature   Audubon's focus on birds and how that focus can help us to see our connection to our own environment   Wild Indigo's focus on creating culturally-sensitive opportunities for people of color who live in urban areas to connect with nearby nature   What it means to offer culturally-sensitive programming   What it's like for her, as an African American, to work in a predominantly white field   Her spiritual approach to environmental work   Her family's history of spending time outside as slaves, and as cotton pickers   Taking care not to be tokenized   When Sanaa second-guessed her own intuition   Her mother's fears about her non-traditional career path   Sanaa embracing her feminine approach to work   Sanaa's book recommendations:      Making a Living Without a Job by Barbara Winter    The Reinvention of Work by Matthew Fox     Her biggest piece of advice for career changers   ...and more!   Sanaa's Full Bio: It took a while, but Sanaa Green is living and working on purpose! After studying TV and radio production at Howard University, Sanaa realized she would prefer the glitzy, fast-paced advertising world to a cold, dark TV studio. So, she set out to gain experience in promotions and public relations. After landing her dream job at an advertising agency in New York, she found herself exhausted and wondering, "If this was it, why am I so unhappy?" Now, 20 years after that realization, Sanaa is working as an environmental educator and loving her work!   Connect with Sanaa: Facebook: www.facebook.com/wildindigodetroit   Connect with Sara and Women Who Went for It: Facebook: www.facebook.com/womenwhowentforit  Website: www.womenwhowentforit.com  Nominate a Podcast Guest: www.saramcardle.com/podcast-guest  Email: sara.mcardle.coaching@gmail.com  Phone: 503.893.2043 Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart.

In this episode, Sara talks with Sanaa Green about her nonlinear journey from television production to environmental education. Today, Sanaa leads National Audubon Society's Wild Indigo initiative in Detroit, a community engagement program that seeks to build lasting relationships between urban communities of color and their local natural areas. Sanaa shares the beliefs she once had that temporarily held her back from going into work she enjoyed, how quiet time in nature connected her to her deeper sense of purpose and what it means to her to offer spiritually-connected, culturally-sensitive environmental programming.   Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's <a href="https://www.saramcardle.com/7cs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart</a>.   Sara and Sanaa Discuss: <ul> <li> How they got connected (<a href="https://www.audubon.org/news/audubon-spotlight-sanaa-green-brings-detroits-communities-closer-nature" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">an article Sara found on Google!</a>) </li> <li> Sanaa studying TV &amp; radio production </li> <li> Getting an internship with an NBC affiliate </li> <li> Realizing that she wouldn't be able to make the impact she wanted or have the excitement she wanted there </li> <li> Working for a property management company in PR </li> <li> Remembering that she enjoyed advertising </li> <li> Considering going into entertainment law </li> <li> Becoming a legal assistant to try it on </li> <li> Realizing she didn't like it, but telling herself to "stay the course" </li> <li> Leaving the job to care for her ill father </li> <li> Following her heart into PR </li> <li> Doing some freelance jobs and getting enough experience to work at an ad agency in New York City </li> <li> Thinking she'd "really made it" but still not feeling fulfilled </li> <li> Her "dark night of the soul" </li> <li> Asking the universe to help her find her purpose </li> <li> Studying feng shui and connecting with the environment and elements </li> <li> Doing some feng shui consulting </li> <li> Studying reiki </li> <li> Trying to build a reiki practice but not getting it off the ground </li> <li> Spending hours at the park to feel better </li> <li> Taking a job as a camp counselor and kicking off her career as an environmental educator </li> <li> Realizing that she had always thought that work had to be hard </li> <li> Thinking she was "too old to start something new" and feeling self-conscious about that </li> <li> Noticing doors were opening, despite her not having experience, and taking that as a sign </li> <li> Going on a mission trip to Brazil </li> <li> Returning there to teach English </li> <li> Feeling homesick </li> <li> Spending a lot of quiet time in nature </li> <li> Connecting with her purpose and changing her mindset </li> <li> Moving to Detroit </li> <li> Teaching belly dance to help women connect with their divine feminine energy </li> <li> Getting a job at an an environmental justice organization and working there for 5 years </li> <li> Another epiphany after the death of her mother </li> <li> Working on a project to turn a closed recreation center into a nature center </li> <li> Getting the job at Audubon and launching their "Wild Indigo" program in Detroit </li> <li> Her passion for creating programs for people to connect with and learn about nature </li> <li> Audubon's focus on birds and how that focus can help us to see our connection to our own environment </li> <li> Wild Indigo's focus on creating culturally-sensitive opportunities for people of color who live in urban areas to connect with nearby nature </li> <li> What it means to offer culturally-sensitive programming </li> <li> What it's like for her, as an African American, to work in a predominantly white field </li> <li> Her spiritual approach to environmental work </li> <li> Her family's history of spending time outside as slaves, and as cotton pickers </li> <li> Taking care not to be tokenized </li> <li> When Sanaa second-guessed her own intuition </li> <li> Her mother's fears about her non-traditional career path </li> <li> Sanaa embracing her feminine approach to work </li> <li> Sanaa's book recommendations: </li> <li> <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Making-Living-Without-Job-revised-ebook/dp/B003O86L0I" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Making a Living Without a Job</a> by Barbara Winter </li> <li> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reinvention-Work-Vision-Livelihood-Time/dp/0060630620" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Reinvention of Work</a> by Matthew Fox </li> </ul> </li> <li> Her biggest piece of advice for career changers </li> <li> ...and more! </li> </ul> Sanaa's Full Bio: It took a while, but Sanaa Green is living and working on purpose! After studying TV and radio production at Howard University, Sanaa realized she would prefer the glitzy, fast-paced advertising world to a cold, dark TV studio. So, she set out to gain experience in promotions and public relations. After landing her dream job at an advertising agency in New York, she found herself exhausted and wondering, "If this was it, why am I so unhappy?" Now, 20 years after that realization, Sanaa is working as an environmental educator and loving her work!   Connect with Sanaa: Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wildindigodetroit/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/wildindigodetroit</a>   Connect with Sara and Women Who Went for It: Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/womenwhowentforit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/womenwhowentforit</a>  Website: <a href="http://www.womenwhowentforit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.womenwhowentforit.com</a>  Nominate a Podcast Guest: <a href="http://www.saramcardle.com/podcast-guest" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.saramcardle.com/podcast-guest</a>  Email: <a href="mailto:sara.mcardle.coaching@gmail.com">sara.mcardle.coaching@gmail.com</a>  Phone: 503.893.2043 Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's <a href="https://www.saramcardle.com/7cs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart</a>.