Episode 7 “ What The Hell is Astrology Anyway” Guest Michelle Ponce on The Divine Feminine.

(trigger ⚠️ Warning ⚠️) Today I have a beautiful kindred spirit Michelle Ponce Joining us today a deep divine Feminine lens around astrology. Michelle Ivette Ponce is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Spiritual Life Coach, and Celebrant. Michelle also is a Performance Artist and Community Organizer, Birthworker/Doula, and healer. Michelle's success is supporting women to now boldly step into their higher selves by inspiring change, healing trauma, and removing obstacles towards achieving desired goals. Michelle trained at Southwest Institute of Healing Arts as an Integrative Healing Arts Practitioner. She has over ten years of leading and building community and sisterhood through gatherings, ceremonies, events and performances. Her unique merging of traditional and ancestral wisdom, divine feminine energy, and movement and song, Michelle's voice reaches hearts and minds, calling us to remember to celebrate ourselves and the divinity within. Michelle's vision is in having vibrant, healthy and stable communities that grow and heal through nurturing connections with self, others, and Spirit. Her calling is to support healing in the community, especially women, to live empowered, healthy, and authentic lives with purpose. Michelle is passionate about traditional birthwork, and has trained in traditional birth companion and postpartum support for mothers and families. Growing up in Puerto Rico and New York City, Michelle inherited a passionate and exuberant self-expression that rhythmically celebrates life, community, family, healing and growth. Live drumming, Afro-Caribbean dance and singing, and Afro-diasporic culture and healing informs her enthusiasm for nurturing cultural and self-expression. Michelle offers ceremonies, performs poetry, leads workshops, as well as public speaking. She helps strengthen organizations and connections between birthworkers of color locally, nationally and internationally. Through coalition building and fostering spaces for Black and Indigenous People of Color to be empowered, heard, and healed, Michelle envisions dignity and balanced roles for traditional, spiritual, and emotional wisdom keepers in our communities. She is the co-founder and co-director of Arizona Birthworkers of Color, and currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona with her 5 year old son, Nafari.