The Queer Spirit

Care Chats are short mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts + minds. 
Join TanyaMarck + Nick for this inspiring chat about Music + Sound Care. We share about our passion for music and how we co-create our Sound Care tracks for QS Circles.   Shout out + gratitude to our teachers + mentors in music + sound:   - family, teachers + coaches   - Lynda Arnold  https://www.divasonic.com   - Silvia Nakkach  https://silvianakkach.com   - Mx Puja Singh https://www.mxpujasingh.com    - Shireen Amini  https://shireenamini.com   - Morgan Vanderpool  https://www.instagram.com/morganicmovement   Gracias for the gifts you share with us!     Links +...

Welcome to our CareCast!

This year we're are posting recordings of our monthly CareCircles to the podcast - this is our "CareCast."

The Queer Spirit Community gathers on the 1st Saturday of each month for practices in guided meditation, breath work + movement. These practices are faciltated by TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) and Nick Venegoni (he/they). They are curated + inspired by the planetary + astrological + pagan wheel of the year energies in mind.

~ This month we explore our relationship to PRIDE: what blocks might we have to pride? how do we honor and express s...

Care Chats are short mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts + minds. 
Join TanyaMarck + Nick for this heart to heart chat about LGBTQ+ Pride!   Links + Resources + Invitations: An invitation to the private Queer Spirit Community to continue the conversation and connect with other listeners.  Join us for FREE virtual Care Circles meditation + chanting + breath work circles online. We meet monthly on the 1st Saturday, 3rd Sunday + 4th Sunday.  Follow us on BLUESKY + IG! Join our mailing list to get news, Care Circle + podcast updates sent directly to you. QS Resources: News, Education + Care.

Care Chats are short mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts + minds. 
Join TanyaMarck + Nick for this heart to heart chat about Discipline + Care as Saturn moves into Aries.

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QS Community Care Circle recording of May 18th, Chant + Breathe.

This year we're are posting recordings of our monthly CareCircles to the podcast - this is our "CareCast."

We invite you get comfy, grab some hydration and join us in chanting together.

The Queer Spirit Community gathers on the 3rd Sunday of each month for practices in devotional chanting, toning and song, as well as breath work + movement. These practices are faciltated by TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) and Nick Venegoni (he/they). They are curated + inspired by the planetary + astrological + pagan wheel of...

Care Chats are short, mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts.
Join TanyaMarck + Nick + Dean Spade for this juicy chat about what it means to liberate love + beauty + queer joy during challenging times. 

Dean Spade (he/him) has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation, anti-militarism, and police and prison abolition for the past 25 years. He’s the author of "Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law", and "Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)." His new book is "Love in a F*cked Up Wor...

Welcome to our CareCast!

This year we're are posting recordings of our monthly CareCircles to the podcast - this is our "CareCast."

We invite you get comfy, grab some hydration and join us together in queer community.

The Queer Spirit Community gathers on the 1st Saturday of each month for practices in guided meditation, breath work + movement. These practices are faciltated by TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) and Nick Venegoni (he/they). They are curated + inspired by the planetary + astrological + pagan wheel of the year energies in mind.

~ For this month we're w...

Care Chats are short, mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts.
Join TanyaMarck + Nick + Hadassah Damien for this heartfelt chat about navigating our relationships to money, challenging capitalism and funding queer joy.

Hadassah Damien (she/her) runs Ride Free Fearless Money, an anticapitalist financial education project for queer people, movement folks, and creatives. She is also a design strategist, innovation facilitator, award-winning LGBTQ+ artist, and longtime entrepreneur and business owner.
She works with people who want to solve financial sustainability problems in ways that are values-driven. Over the 10 years at her practice, she’s coached ov...

QS Community Care Circle recording of April 20th, Chant + Breathe.

This year we're are posting recordings of our monthly CareCircles to the podcast - this is our "CareCast."

We invite you get comfy, grab some hydration and join us in chanting together.

The Queer Spirit Community gathers on the 3rd Sunday of each month for practices in devotional chanting, toning and song, as well as breath work + movement. These practices are faciltated by TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) and Nick Venegoni (he/they). They are curated + inspired by the planetary + astrological + pagan wheel of...

Welcome to our CareCast!

This year we're are posting recordings of our monthly CareCircles to the podcast - this is our "CareCast."

We invite you get comfy, grab some hydration and join us together in queer community.

The Queer Spirit Community gathers on the 1st Saturday of each month for practices in guided meditation, breath work + movement. These practices are faciltated by TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) and Nick Venegoni (he/they). They are curated + inspired by the planetary + astrological + pagan wheel of the year energies in mind.

For April's circle we w...

Care Chats are short mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts. Join TanyaMarck + Nick + Jonathan Koe for this juicy chat about the importance of cultivating Creativity in Times of Dissolution.

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Jonathan Koe is a queer astrologer, diviner, and alchemist of the subtle realm. Their work aims to empower fellow shapeshifters, visionaries and intuitives in remembering their essence, cultivating skills in being present with the ever-changing nature of reality, and weaving sincere, loving kinships with the world – even when the world has broken our hearts.

Care Chats are short mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts. Join TanyaMarck + Nick for this queerly sweet chat about Managing Stress with Music + Art.

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Thank you to all the badasses below for sharing their medicine + magic with the world:

Salt-N-Pepa - Let’s Talk About Sex - remixed by TanyaMarck - “Let’s Talk About Stress”

Devo - Whip it

Depeche Mode - Black Celebration

Erasure - Cowboy album

Mx. Puja Singh (they/them) - virtual kirtan

QS Community Care Circle recording of March 16th, Chant + Breathe.

This year we're are posting recordings of our monthly CareCircles to the podcast - this is our "CareCast."

We invite you get comfy, grab some hydration and join us in chanting together.

The Queer Spirit Community gathers on the 3rd Sunday of each month for practices in devotional chanting, toning and song, as well as breath work + movement. These practices are faciltated by TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) and Nick Venegoni (he/they). They are curated + inspired by the planetary + astrological + pagan wheel of...

Care Chats are short mindful conversrations, where we share what's on our hearts. Join TanyaMarck + Nick for this queerly sweet chat about Gender Affirming Care.

Links + Resources + Invitations:

Welcome to our CareCast!

This year we're are posting recordings of our monthly CareCircles to the podcast - this is our "CareCast."

We invite you get comfy, grab some hydration and join us together in queer community.

The Queer Spirit Community gathers on the 1st Saturday of each month for practices in guided meditation, breath work + movement. These practices are faciltated by TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) and Nick Venegoni (he/they). They are curated + inspired by the planetary + astrological + pagan wheel of the year energies in mind.

For March's circle we...

Care Chats are short conversations we have about topics top of mind.  Listen to this little chat TanyaMarck + Nick have about boundaries.  

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QS Community Care Circle recording of February 16th, Chant + Breathe.

This year we're are posting recordings of our monthly CareCircles to the podcast - this is our "CareCast."

We invite you get comfy, grab some hydration and join us in chanting together.

The Queer Spirit Community gathers on the 3rd Sunday of each month for practices in devotional chanting, toning and song, as well as breath work + movement. These practices are faciltated by TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) and Nick Venegoni (he/they). They are curated + inspired by the planetary + astrological + pagan wheel of...

Welcome to our CareCast!

This year we're are posting recordings of our monthly CareCircles to the podcast - this is our "CareCast."

We invite you get comfy, grab some hydration and join us together in queer community.

The Queer Spirit Community gathers on the 1st Saturday of each month for practices in guided meditation, breath work + movement. These practices are faciltated by TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) and Nick Venegoni (he/they). They are curated + inspired by the planetary + astrological + pagan wheel of the year energies in mind.

For February's circle we...

Welcome to our first CareCast episode of 2025! 

This year we're are posting recordings of our monthly CareCircles to the podcast - this is our "CareCast."

We invite you get comfy, grab some hydration and join us in chanting together.

The Queer Spirit Community gathers on the 3rd Sunday of each month for practices in devotional chanting, toning and song, as well as breath work + movement. These practices are faciltated by TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) and Nick Venegoni (he/they). They are curated + inspired by the planetary + astrological + pagan wheel of the year energies i...

Welcome back to the Queer Spirit Podcast + Community!

We're excited to launch Season 8 with some new shifts and evolutions inside. Take a listen and hear about what's in store on the podcast, in our online community, and with our monthly offerings. 

As always, you can find all things Queer Spirit HERE. 

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Today we have another cross-pollination episode for you with our friends over at the Radicle Curiosity podcast, Lou Florez and Lynn Flanagan-Till.

Lou Florez (Awo Ifadunsin - he/they) is a diviner and metaphysical reader who facilitates spiritual connectivity and transformational empowerment throughout his myriad roles as a Priest, lecturer, author, medicine maker, and activist. His work is inherently interdisciplinary and intersectional—bridging the fields of herbalism, ecology, divination, poetry, psychology, religious studies, gender and sexual studies, mixed-media art, and perfumery. Lou investigates the emanating Spirit present within all these fields and incorporates them into experiences that ac...

Author, grief doula, sound healer, vocalist, and composer, gina Breedlove (she/they/Grace) is from the People's Republic of Brooklyn N.Y. gina is an oracle for the medicine of Grace and grief, and travels the world sharing the good news of grief-letting as a path to liberation.

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Amanda Yates Garcia (she/her) is a writer, witch, and the Oracle of Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The LA Times, The SF Chronicle, The London Times, CNN, BRAVO, as well as a viral appearance on FOX. She has led rituals, classes and workshops on magic and witchcraft at UCLA, UC Irvine, MOCA, The Hammer Museum, LACMA, The Getty and many other venues. Amanda hosts monthly moon rituals online, and the popular Between the Worlds podcast, which looks at the Western Mystery traditions through a mythopoetic lens. Her book, Initiated: Memoir of...

Jonathan Koe is a queer astrologer, diviner, and alchemist of the subtle realm. Their work aims to empower fellow shapeshifters, visionaries and intuitives in remembering their essence, cultivating skills in being present with the ever-changing nature of reality, and weaving sincere, loving kinships with the world - even when the world has broken our hearts. 

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Welcome to our second cross-pollination episode, where we share space with other queer podcasters and creators. Jonathan is the host of "Healing the Spirit" podcast.

Madre Jaguar (she/they) is a Queer, Non-Binary Birth Doula, Oracle and Curandera of Mayan, Pipil, Nahual and Garifuna descent. Born in Los Angeles, CA to Salvadoran immigrants and raised in Mexico. Their practice is rooted in their ancestral heritage and indigenous traditions of Mexico and Central America.

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J.P. DerBoghossian (he/they) is the founder of the Queer Armenian Library - the world's first library devoted to literature, film, and television by, about, and for Queer Armenians. He serves on the Board of the International Armenian Literary Alliance and is a past President of the Armenian Cultural Organization of Minnesota. He hosts the podcast This Queer Book Saved My LIfe which is a 2024 GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Podcast. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow and his essays have appeared in We Are All Armenian (University of Texas Press), The Sun Isn't Out Long Enough (Anamot Press...

Join us for our season finale: Nick (he>they) + TanyaMarck (they/them) share about their queer story and connection.

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Join the private Queer Spirit Community to continue the conversation and connect w...

Ruth Camillia (they/she/ella) is a bilingual, bicultural, healing arts practitioner, reiki master, akashic records practitioner, and tarot reader. With maternal Indigenous roots from Los Altos de Jalisco, México, they integrate curanderismo and other ancestral practices into their daily life and work. As an intuitive and trauma-informed practitioner, Ruth believes healing is sacred.

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*Audio Note: Volume and clarity varies during some parts of this interview.

Rekara Gage (she/her) is an herbalist who focuses on the importance of ritual, safety and community when it comes to personal healing and growth. Her approach to wellness is based in food medicine and spirituality, emphasizing new ways to add plant medicine to the routines that you already have in place. She loves helping people reconnect with their intuition and do things with meaning, making everyday feel special. In her practice, it's important to provide access and information to the public so that they...

Crystal Mason (they/them) is an artist, activist, dreamer, consultant and coach. They believe in the power of community and necessity of hope. Jason Wyman (they/them) is Queerly Complex. Using appreciative inquiry, deep listening, and creative conjuring, Wyman taps the Cosmic Mysteries in all to reveal moments of Chaos Poetry. They live, love, and create on Yelamu / San Francisco, and share a home and family with their husband and pride of house and feral cats.

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Rae McDaniel (they/them) is a non-binary speaker, author, therapist, Certified Sex Therapist, coach and Transgender Diversity & Inclusion Educator. Rae helps audiences gain the sheer audacity to be themselves in the world through play, pleasure, and possibility.
Their book Gender Magic is a first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender freedom with joy, curiosity, and pleasure for transgender and non-binary individuals, gender explorers, and those who love them.
Rae is also the founder and CEO of Practical Audacity, a Gender & Sex Therapy practice in Chicago, serving over 300 clients yearly.

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Welcome to Season 6 of the show! 

Nicholas Pearson (he/him) has been immersed in all aspects of the mineral kingdom for nearly 30 years. As one of the leading voices in crystal healing today, he offers a unique blend of science and spirituality alongside a grounded, practical approach to working with crystals. The author of several books, including Crystal Basics, he lives in Orlando, Florida.

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Season 6 of the podcast will launch next week on Monday, March 27th, 2023.

We're excited and grateful to share this season with TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) as a co-host on the show. You may remember them from the last episode of season 5 last year. 

We want to share about some of our online offerings…

First Saturdays Online Meditation + Breath Work
This is an opportunity and an invitation for us to be in and with queer community while we meditate + breathe together.


And If you’re seeking queer community, we invite you to join...

TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) identifies as a non binary, queer, native indigenous person of color who resides on Tongva + Kizh + Chumash land (colonially known as Long Beach, Ca). They currently are of service to their communities as a mentor + wellness facilitator. They are creator of Vamonos a healing arts practice rooted in and with well + being + of service. Vamanos builds community to explore and embody wellness via breath work + energy + mindful movement + mentoring + space holding.

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Brandi Stanley (she/her) makes a living out of making connections—science and art, fermenting and theology, permaculture and social movements, neuroscience and dance. If creativity is the ability to connect the seemingly un-connectable, that’s the art she practices. In love with the space between things—the intersections and the paradoxes—she's constantly looking for what insights can be gained when we mash the unexpected together and the growth that happens when we learn to hold complexity. These days, she does that by running a podcast and writing a newsletter, both under the name This Plus That, where she's in...

Kenji Oshima is an Intrerfaith Spiritual Director, Community Dharma Teacher and Life Coach specializing in high functioning adults with ADHD. When not geeking out over Sci-Fi you’ll find him volunteering for QTAPI groups, reading at the beach, or finding ease in alternative health care.

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David Weissman is a documentary filmmaker, public speaker and longtime activist. He is best known as producer of the films THE COCKETTES, WE WERE HERE, and CONVERSATIONS WITH GAY ELDERS. David was also co-founder of QDoc—The Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival.

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Bonnie Violet is a trans femme genderqueer spiritual drag artist, identity doula and digital chaplain; YouTuber, Twitcher & Host of A Queer Chaplain podcast with such series as Drag & Spirituality, TranSpirit & Faith Leaders. Co-host of Splintered Grace with her conservative christian aunt, and At the Castro Country Club recovery podcast. Director of 1st Annual Drag & Spirituality Summit to take place in Chicago in October 2022.
Bonnie Violet shares her experience of strength and hope with HIV, recovering from drugs, alcohol, and sexual assault in classrooms, community centers, churches, online and anywhere else she is invited.
As a queer chaplain...

Seth Eisen is a San Francisco-based artist, writer, director, dramaturg, archivist, and educator who engages LGBTQIA+ history as a living, breathing dialogue by researching lost legacies. His transdisciplinary aesthetic combines physical theater, dance, ritual, puppetry, drag, circus, installation, and video art. Blurring the edge between art, research, and activism, the work is a hybrid of visual art and immersive live theater. For 25 years Seth has staged performance pieces, original plays, street spectacles and installations and has curated and appeared in numerous collaborative projects created with other Bay Area artists.

In 2007, he founded the ensemble-based theater company Eye...

For nearly a decade, Mike Iamele has helped hundreds of GBTQ+ men to integrate shame and figure out what they subconsciously do every time they’re successful –– through a process called Sacred Branding®.
In 2014, Mike accidentally came out to millions when he wrote an article about falling in love with a man after identifying as straight––and 100,000 people shared it overnight.
He's also the author of Enough Already: Create Success on Your Own Terms (Conari Press 2015). Mike's shared his provocative and vulnerable take on sexuality + shame in hundreds of magazines and podcasts, including NPR, CBS, and Huffington Post.