E32 | Nadia Ramo | Listening to the Living World: Plants, Perception, & the Heart of Healing
“For me, the practice is to just sit and have council with the Earth.”
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A video version can be found below.
Nadia Ramo invites us into the living ecosystem of her healing arts practice—one rooted in reciprocity, embodied listening, and a sincere relationship with the more-than-human world. Through her words, a vision of health emerges that is not merely the absence of illness, but a process of realignment with the deeper intelligence of Nature.
We explore Nadia’s healing philosophy, including her unique weaving of Indigenous and Chinese medicine traditions, and how she draws insight from the meta-patterns of the natural world. She shares her personal journey of navigating serious health diagnoses, choosing to side-step the dominant biomedical model and instead listen more deeply—to her intuition, her body, and the Earth.
Together, we examine the language of symptoms, the medicine of perception, and the sacrifices often asked of us when turning toward the wildness of the living world. Through stories and potent reflections, Nadia speaks to the magic of healing as a relational act—one grounded in reverence, courage, and deep communication with the plant nations of Earth.
A Year to Live
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Thematic Show Notes
Healing as Alignment with Nature’s Patterns:
“Through observing nature — that is where the medicine comes from.”
Nadia describes the felt sense of her healing arts as an ecosystem in itself.
The relationship between meta-patterns in nature and the body’s movement toward balance.
A synthesis of Indigenous and Chinese medicine traditions.
Symptoms as Soul Signals:
“A symptom is a language of my body asking me to change something.”
Reflections on her personal journey through frightening diagnoses.
The limits of the biomedical model and the soul’s call for more holistic pathways.
Healing as a creative, intuitive, and relational process.
Plant Wisdom & Embodied Listening:
“Speaking with plants is a practice . . . It’s a devotion to understanding them, and in doing so, understanding myself.”
Plants as biochemical and spiritual allies in the healing journey.
The sincerity of nature and the reciprocal learning that unfolds through quiet presence.
Courage, silence, and discipline as gateways to the heart’s true voice.
Fear, Intuition & the Wild:
“If the thing I am fearing is not dangerous, then I should probably do it.”
Fear as an invitation rather than an enemy.
The sacrifice and longing bound up in reconnecting with Earth’s wild intelligence.
Honoring intuition as a muscle of both perception and action.
Community, Earth Council & Becoming Elders:
“For me, the practice is to just sit and have council with the Earth.”
Conversations around community living, ancestral ways, and the pain of disconnection.
Reimagining what it means to grow into eldership in a time of great transition.
The sincere labor of listening, showing up, and learning to belong.