Welcome to The Business Bruja! Where reclaiming our intuition, sacred medicine, embracing our magic, healing ancestral patterns and creating our soul inspired business meet! I’m Vanessa Codorniu and my purpose is to create space for real talk on spirituality, social justice, healing, business, love, creativity and our collective re-awakening. I look forward to our RISING. Vanessa@theBusinessBruja.com
Episodes
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Season 4: Basta con el Bullshiteo on this Universal 7 Year
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Felicidades as we enter the Gregorian Calendar's New Year of 2023, we are at the start of a new era. Of course Brujitx know that the New Year starts earlier and for some later in the Spring. In any case, we are always moving through seasons and cycles and 2023 invites us into the Universal number 7.
Many of us love the number seven and know that it's a Neptunian influenced number bringing us into our spiritual knowing, solitude and the embodiment of what is our own personal and collective truth.
In this episode, I share about 2020 and 2021 being a time for many to slow down, go deep, reclaim their spirituality and heal, heal, heal. Removed from distractions many of us in our communities reclaimed tools and our healer/brujiyx selves. 2022 Brough us out in the world and we began to deal.
The essence of this new Universal Year doesn't tolerate BS gladly and the collective is invited to redefine and actualize what spirituality means to them. A trend occurred where folks went from their first meditation to creating their business often without doing much work. It's beautiful to know deep in your soul that this is your calling- and 2023 is going to bring TONS of clarity. Many will commit to the long game of a spiritual business and practice and others will recognize that it's a personal path of healing and wellness.
In the middle we drop into an impromptu meditation to invite some answers and return to continue the conversation.
I know that many that listen are legit spiritual folks who are interested in healing and supporting our communities and we cannot deny the increase in fake spirituality and "shiny thing syndrome" in our world when capitalism and consumerism has deemed spirituality and such a huge moneymaker at this time.So take it con take it easy and trust your inner knowing. You've go this and we are growing: Together!
I shared about BRUJA RISING an intimate membership group that offers two events a month; New Moon Gathering and setting of intentions and a Full Moon Bruja Oracle Office Hour- where I open the Akashic Records, speak on astrology and then answer attendees questions from their own guides and Records! For new folks it's $29.99 a month and for students of The School of the Healing Artes it's $21.99. Would love to see you there! Tomorrow, 1/6 we have a 1pm EST Full Moon Bruja Oracle Office Hour!
If there is a question or issue email me at muzeworks@gmail.com
Much amor,
V
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Uncovering Our Cultural Soul Gifts Through Ancestral Hypnosis Healing
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Blessed Winter Solstice mi gente!
As I wind down and prepare to be more consistent for 2023, I am excited to share a conversation I had with Lisa Bonnice of The Shift Network on The Ancestral Healing Summit 2021.
2020 threw us into personal and collective instability and many folks were called to dive deeply and begin to heal inherited mindsets, ways of being and reclaim their intuition and inner knowing. Ritual, ceremony, prayer, meditation, journeying are just some of the tools for ancestral healing. I've worked as a clinical hypnotist for over two decades and have created my own protocol called Ancestral Hypnosis Healing™
How do we apply hypnosis for ancestral healing and how can we learn to use self-hypnosis to clear some of the stories that are still keeping us from thriving and healing at this time.
In This Session:
- Why now is the perfect time to break ancestral chains and claim more of our true selves
- What is hypnosis and how can I apply self-hypnosis to support ancestral healing
- How we ancestral stories manifest in issues of self-confidence, choosing our love partner, career, business, money mindset and health
If you feel like you may benefit from this type pf session, reach out to book a free chat with Vanessa : BOOK A FREE CHAT
I will be offering Hypnotherapy Certification and Ancestral Hypnosis Healing Training in 2023. I will be setting up a waitlist for that soon!
We have several spots available for our March Spring Equinox email us for details.
To explore more offerings from The Biz Bruja go to : https://thebizbruja.com
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Reclaiming the Power To Hold Space for Soul Madness with Xavier Dagba
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
So excited to share this powerful conversation with Xavier Dagba from The Ancestrally Rooted Business Summit 2022! Exploring how we are breaking ancestral patterns and reclaiming our magia and medicina to thrive in our Ancestrally Rooted businesses!
Xavier shares overcoming the fear of indigenous wisdom and medicine passed down from his father and embracing his great-grandmother's spiritual presence to breaking the good-boy pattern and leaving his Phd program to embrace what wanted to come through him. Madness is defined as breaking from the structures that hold up our egos to go out into our spiritual truths.
We explore the meaning of purpose in our spiritual and business journey!
BIO: Xavier Dagba, Xavier is a trauma-informed life coach and a shadow work facilitator. He's passionate about helping people liberate themselves from the hidden forces that prevent them from living a life of purpose. For information reach out on https://thebizbruja.com
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Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
I felt moved to share this conversation from mid-2020. We've come so far, I am awed and honored by the amount of Latinx, Indigenous and BIPOC healers that have stepped into their visibility and creating massive waves of transformation en la tierra. Let's keep learning, let's keep co-creating and let's keep supporting each other. Honored to walk with you all.
Mucho amor, Vanessa
Broadcast on October 28, 2020 With Vanessa Gonzalez Codorniu
Hosted by Lisa Bonnice
With many souls leaving the planet during the pandemic we are left with lack of closure, heaviness and feeling isolated. Practices of communicating with our inner knowing, nature and those that have crossed over are ancient and can offer us practical ways to heal, grow resilient and heal ourselves, community, and those beyond the veil. As we prepare for collective and personal change, let's remember practical ways that can serve us through these times.
In This Session:
* What is Mediumship and how can I tap into it's healing potential
* How can we create spaces within/without and in community to find closure with the departed
* How can we heal our own ancestral stories through connecting and releasing those that have crossed over
* A mini-guided exercise
Follow Vanessa on instagram: @thebizbruja and her website: https://thebizbruja.com
This interview is part of the Beyond The Veil Summit, a free online event featuring Near Death Experiences, Mediumship & the Science of the Afterlife.
For more information, please visit https://beyondtheveilsummit.com.
This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved.
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Exploring Hypno-Reiki: A Powerful Healing Duo
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Friday Jul 15, 2022
The Curanderx Toolkit with Atava Garcia Swiecicki
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Atava Garcia Swiecicki shares her curandera journey that birthed The Curanderx Toolkit. She finally met a curandera in her 20s in the early 90s pre-wifi and internet and as she stepped on the land she felt like she had come home. Her dreams and Mexican, Polish, Hungarian and Diné ancestors guided her to her deep reclamation and now she guides others through her courses, services and new book! Atava shares the ancestral patterns she had to break in order to be who she is today and the inspirational medicina that have carried her in her life and sacred work.
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Shares how her Polish side of her family tended to the earth, creating habitats and connecting to nature.
- Doña Enriquetta was her first teacher. We talk about how many of us romanticize indigenous teachers or elders and the truth of how tough they actually are.
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The cleansing practices of her Polish ancestors are similar to Mexican traditions and the universal truths that run through all of our indigenous wisdom.
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Asking herself, “ How am I living in California with so many Latinx yet there’s not that many curanderismo courses?” inspired her to start teaching and eventually became a school.
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How our ancient indigenous practices have been hidden due to persecution and oppression. I bring up some differences I’ve experienced with East coast Latinx spirituality and West coast spirituality.
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Her experience of the powerful shifts that can happen when BIPOC and Latinx reclaim their wisdom and traditions.
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Atava gives guidance on how to connect with our medicina and ancestors.
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The pandemic and how we as a community began to heal and reclaim their ancestral wisdom.
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Rome wasn’t built in a day folks- The difference between repeating information online and actually embodying the medicina are different things. Atava was in apprenticeship for ten years before stepping out fully as an expert. The Curanderx Toolkit is a culmination of Atava and the other healers in the book’s journey until this point.
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Curanderismo is an everyday practice not a weekend hobby.
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The importance of forgiving, healing and integrating all of our ancestors even the ones that we may not like or may have done negative things in their life.
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Purchase the Book, on www.Heydaybooks.com with discount: la medicina. The Curanderx Toolkit: Reclaiming Ancestral Latinx Plant Medicine and Rituals for Healing
BIO:
Atava Garcia Swiecicki is guided by her dreams and her Mexican, Polish, Hungarian, and Diné ancestors. She received a BA in feminist studies from Stanford University and a master’s degree from the Indigenous Mind Program at Naropa University in Oakalnd. Atava has studied healing arts extensively for over thirty years and has been mentored by herbalists, curanderas, and traditional knowledge keepers. She works as a clinical herbalist and teacher. She is the founder of the Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk, and Indigenous Medicine on Ohlone territory in Oakland, and she currently lives in Tewa Pueblo territory in Albuquerque. Her personal website is ancestralapothecary.com, and the website for her school is ancestralapothecaryschool.com.
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Courage is the Path with Shama Dhanani
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Courage is the Path: Choosing to Continue to Move the Way
We want in the World
This conversation on my podcast is long overdue! We’ve had so many convos offline, bombas the conocimiento dropped and we kept saying, “we need to get on the podcast!” So excited to share this powerful soul and her inspirational journey!
- Shama shares how she experienced truth and a spark of awareness connecting with her friend while hiding in a dark closet at thirteen.
- How she knew she was designed for more than what an Islamic Indian home was preparing her for.
- First- generation Americans and their parents who seem to keep a timestamp from their time of emigration into the US. Turning away from Islam and arranged marriages.
- Courage is the path- I choose how I want to move anyway.
- Chasing stability and financial security and how when you’re fighting for survival you just do the next best thing to survive.
- How New Yorkers used to malign Queens and Staten Island.
- How she survived and thrived after workplace manipulation and racism.
- There are so many spoken and unspoken rules and labels, and the power of creating our own thing.
- Subtle and practical ways in which she was guided to embrace being a Shaman, meeting the panther.
- How most indigenous cultures practice similar ceremonies and dances and the reflection of oneness and the honoring of the specific medicine and its survival.
- Exploring She of a thousand names and the Father, Mother and Son rather than the Father, son and the Holy Spirit.
- Shama geeks out on migration patterns in history and how over 60% of the people in the US are German descendants and how the media was skewed to serve the majority.
- Sharing the ancestral patterns that needed to be healed in order to be who she is today and the experience of reparenting with a father who is healing.
- Plant medicine- the call, the guidance to do it or not and how it can serve.
BIO:
Shama Dhanani, a Hypnotherapist + certification trainer, soul coach & shamanic chakra energy teacher and owner of Shama’s Light Crystal Sanctuary & Spirit Tools Online Shop.
After 19 years in financial services understanding wealth mindsets and strategies, Shama merged her work with ancient and modern wellness practices considering the deeper knowledge of the body and patterns of mind, to support clients in creating a personal and practical pathway to fulfillment towards goals through a peaceful yet empowering present.
Shama guides you to create awareness beyond blind spots, to "unlearn" limiting thoughts, outdated beliefs and impositions that you allow to hold you back. Shama offers private sessions, workshops, group programs, wellness retreats and customized corporate wellness experiences to reduce stress and relax into your results.
As a creator herself, Shama offers handcraftEd Shamanic Energy Clearing tools including sage kits, smudging feather fans and wands adorned with crystals from her own online crystals and Spirit tools shop.
Shama’s mission is to share wellness and sustainable practices, to help support the reclamation of inner power, peace, joy of expression with authenticity. Creating a better world for our individual and collective future begins within.
Shama has taught with the Bank of America, New York Open Center, Cubico X HealthKick, Talk Radio NYC Our Daily Magic, Island Voice Youth Summit, Global Meditation Scope, Generation Meditation, Downtown Deeksha NYC and more. Clients range from CEO’s, Broadway professionals, legal teams serving our communities, stay at home moms to single dads, students and everyone in between.
Web address: www.ShamasLight.com
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/ShamansLight
Instagram: @ShamasLight.com
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Speaking Truth to Power with RECLAMA’s Cindy Y. Rodriguez
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
This was a long overdue meeting with Cindy Y. Rodriguez! To be transparent we were talking for a good 45 minutes before we hit record! You know she's gotta come back and we're going to continue diving deep! In this episode, Cindy shares what it was like growing up the only Peruana in West New York/New Jersey, a life-changing trip, exploring her ancestors and going from hiding about her ancestors to unapologetically proud of her roots!
- How her first trips to Peru were the seeds that have inspired her sacred work with RECLAMA.
- Straddling two worlds and how free she felt in Peru while she was with family in nature.
- How she questioned her path and wondered, “what will my thing be?” while on hikes and journaling, it was only later that she realized it was her thing!
- How her 8 year old has inspired her life and sacred work now and how she asks her people, “ what made your 8 year old happy?”
- Breaking the old habits of making others happy over our own needs
- Cindy and I come out of the hypothyroid closet and she shares her journey
- How she built a good relationship with her silent co-star, hypothyroidism
- Maybe it’s not your ascension symptoms, maybe it’s your thyroid
- The thyroid is centered in the Throat chakra of communication and the levels of self-expression and reclamation
- Breaking through the ancestral patterns of silence and being made to feel selfish
- Not about adding more but releasing what is not ours
Find Cindy on her website
Follow Cindy on instagram: RECLAMA
BIO:
By training, Cindy Y. Rodriguez is a writer, producer and storyteller who has worked in media for over 15 years but after feeling disconnected from herself and her roots in 2017, she took on a new role. She created a spiritual hiking and journaling community for women of color called Reclama to help them reclaim themselves in nature. When she’s not hiking, she’s working as a producer in public media or singing to her 24-year-old turtle. Cindy was born and raised in New Jersey by her immigrant Peruvian parents and identifies as indigenous.