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.
In Episode 2 of The Woo, Lynsey explores the medicine of Gemini season through the lens of astrology, Orisha cosmology, psychosomatics and ancestral remembrance.
Together we journey through the wisdom of the Ibeji (the sacred twins), the role of communication and community in preserving ancestral traditions and how Gemini expresses itself through the body—particularly the lungs, breath, nervous system and our capacity for connection. Lynsey also reflects on the one-year anniversary of Yabisi’s rebirth, the transformative fire ceremony that marked the closing of BreadxButta and the ways that death, rebirth, joy, and remembrance are woven together on the spiritual path.
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