Four years ago at forest school, Krysta met a woman she describes as a "magical forest nymph”. Someone who hunts, tans hides in the old ways, and can build almost anything from birch bark. This week, Lena comes to share her wisdom on the show.
It's a wandering, intimate conversation between two friends who found each other on the land: how ancestral skills get passed down and nearly lost, why birch is "the first tree" and the reason Lena believes she wouldn't be here without it, and how returning to hunting with her father repaired their relationship in ways nothing else could.
They talk soil and glaciers, woodland caribou and inland rainforest, teaching kids to build fairy houses, and the quiet grief of watching common knowledge slip away, plus a fair amount of Sasquatch.
Underneath the skills is the real thread: reconnection. To land, to lineage, to the parts of ourselves the modern world trained us out of.
Follow Lena: https://www.instagram.com/boreal.folkways/
Before the interview, Krysta shares her own updates:
✦ The Field is open: Free, for everyone. A new chamber in The Oracle where you can see your astrology, Human Design, and Gene Keys in one place, and bring in the people who shaped you to explore the energy between your charts. No purchase needed. → oracleapp.io
✦ The Birthing Room: Applications now open. Krysta's first-ever mentorship container: eight women, twelve weeks, guided support to birth your calling into the world, whether that's a book, a business, a podcast, or an art practice. If your Calling reading lit something up and you need help getting it out, this is that next step. Applications are open now. → https://magickmaven.com/pages/the-birthing-room
✦ Plus: the van dream, the desert calling, and why living by the ocean might just fix her whole life
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