The Woo
The Woo
Podcast Description
Welcome to "The Woo," hosted by Lynsey Ayala, the visionary behind BreadxButta. As a fifth-generation curandera with Puerto Rican roots and a Bronx upbringing, Lynsey has dedicated her life to sharing ancestral healing practices and plant medicine wisdom. This podcast is a heartfelt exploration of following one's calling, trusting in spirit, and honoring the golden thread of ancestral wisdom. Born from Lynsey's decade-long journey with BreadxButta, each episode delves into personal stories, spiritual insights, and transformative experiences. Join us, with a diverse array of guests, as we navigate the intersections of tradition and modernity, offering listeners an immersive experience that celebrates our shared heritage and the paths that connect us.
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The podcast focuses on themes of spiritual calling, ancestral wisdom, and personal transformation. Episodes include discussions on astrology, herbal medicine, and adulting in the modern world, with a particular emphasis on how these practices intersect with contemporary life.
The Woo is where spirit and soil intersect.
Hosted by Nuyorican spiritual herbalist, educator, and founder of Yabisi, Lynsey Ayala Rinaldi, this podcast explores the living relationship between plant medicine, spirituality, and diasporic traditions.
Rooted between the Bronx, New York and Brazil, Lynsey weaves together African diasporic cosmologies, Orisha wisdom, clinical and spiritual herbalism, and embodied healing practices to guide listeners back into relationship—with the land, the body, and the unseen forces that shape our lives.
Through solo transmissions and shared conversations, The Woo moves across topics like ancestral remembrance, ritual practice, psychosomatics, sacred plant medicines, and the everyday ways we can integrate these traditions into modern life.
This is a space for those who feel the call to remember—
to reclaim lineage, deepen their practice, and walk a path rooted in both spirit and earth.
What if the body is our first ancestral archive?
In this episode of The Woo, Lynsey explores Cancer season through the waters—moving between astrology, Yemayá, psychosomatics and the ancestral stories that continue to live within our bodies.
We talk about Cancer and the Fourth House as territories of home, memory, lineage and belonging; Yemayá as the great mother of the waters; and what her teachings on nourishment, compassion and mothering can reveal about our own healing.
Lynsey also shares a patakí of Yemayá and reflects on a question that sits at the heart of this episode: What if the parts of us that are struggling don’t need more punishment—but more safety, nourishment, and time?
From there, we move into the body.
The womb. The breasts. The belly. The chest. The nervous system. The waters.
We explore psychosomatics, inherited grief and resilience, the body as a living archive of lineage and why ancestral healing can sometimes feel so deeply physical. We also return to the ocean—especially for those of us throughout the African and Caribbean diaspora—and consider the waters as a keeper of memory, grief, survival and remembrance.
This episode is an invitation to listen differently.
To the body.
To the waters.
To the ancestors.
And to the parts of you that may simply be asking to be witnessed.
Grab your tea, go for a walk, sit beside the water, and come meet me at the crossroads of spirit and soil.
IN THIS EPISODE:
Cancer season, the Moon & the Fourth House Yemayá and the medicine of mothering What is a patakí? Psychosomatics & the body as ancestral archive Inherited grief, resilience & epigenetics The lineage living in the body The Atlantic Ocean, diaspora & remembrance Simple practices for tending the ancestors Journal prompts for Cancer season
CONTINUE THE JOURNEY
🌊 Read Lynsey’s Cancer Season & Yemayá essays on Substack
🌿 Explore Botánica Yabisi
🏡 Enter the House of Remembrance Membership
📚 Learn more about the School of Remembrance
💌 Join the Yabisi newsletter for teachings, workshops & gatherings
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