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This is a story about hugging trees. About the women who inspired the iconic environmental Chipko movement in India, which literally means to hug, and it\u2019s a story about the Bishnoi faith and the women leaders from that small spiritual minority in the Himalayan foothills, the ones who triumphed, and the ones who were murdered protecting the ancient trees that hold back the all-consuming desert and keep the mountains up. \nThis is the story of Amrita Devi, and Gaura Devi, who lived and fought for trees 300 years apart in the Marwar desert region of western Rajasthan.\nAbout Missing Witches\n\nAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do\nevery aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and\ncraft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know\nthe members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying,\nunexpectedly radical part of the project.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nThese days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online\ncoven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual,\nweaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy\nbook clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the\nworld.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nOur coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno\npagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and\nhave just been looking for their people.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nOur coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science,\nanti-ableist, and full of love.\n\n\xa0\n\nIf that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that\nwe've been missing YOU.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nhttps://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/