Creative Nature Podcast: Recent Episodes
Yarrow Magdelena
Are you wanting to make sense of these strange times, connect with nature in a deeper way and find your own philosophy?
Then we probably have a lot in common. My name is Yarrow and I’m a queer writer, gardener and artist who loves to daydream.
Leaning into ritual, being a lover of the wild and making my own magic has helped me through all kinds of tough stuff, which is why I am so passionate about sharing what I’ve found here.
Follow along for explorations of beauty, the human experience and what it means to not go back to normal.
The world is a lot, but then what's new? In this episode I wanted to share a few ways in which I am staying grounded this summer, including excellent book selection, gentle rituals and activism that is doable and kind on my nervous system. I hope it's a helpful space for you to think about your own summer and orient towards the pleasure & joy that is available to you.
Here is info about the tech day I mentioned: https://pinkwellstudio.com/magic/
Thank you so much for listening!
Love,
Yarrow
Patient and appreciated listeners, I am bring you another wonderful conversation with Lara Irene Vesta. I hope this find you well, with a bit of sunshine on your face and a quiet moment to dive in. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Writing beautiful books from bed
- Growing wild gardens that tend to themselves
- Rites of passage and spiritual sinkholes
- Finding ways to stay connected to enchantment when things are hard
Lara Irene Vesta is a writer, artist and educator exploring sacred stories and lineage traditions. She is the author of the Moon Divas Guidebook, Wild Soul Runes and Year of the Dark Goddess: A Journey of Ritual, Renewal and Rebirth. Her current creative practice is reclaiming offline life, renewing faith and remembering ancestral crafts and skills. She shares this journey in the Olden Practice newsletter and through by-donation classes at the Wild Soul School.
https://www.laravesta.cohttps://www.oldenpractice.com Olden Practice Substack
Newsletter:https://laravesta.substack.com
Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/larairene
Year of the Dark Goddess Book Links:Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Year-Dark-Goddess-Journey-Renewal/dp/1578638275
Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/year-of-the-dark-goddess-lara-vesta/1144014419
Thank you for listening,Yarrow
This episode is such a heartfelt deep dive into grief, creativity & enchantment with the wonderful Narinder Bazen. Here is some of what we talked about:
- The space that death awareness inhabits in our lives
- Making simplicity & minimalism our own
- Thresholds & finding a place in the world
- Meaning making and ritual through hard times
Narinder Bazen is an artist, death midwife, enchanted life guide and death midwifery trainer, living on unceded Penobscot land. (Maine, USA) Her greatest passions include helping to midwife new paradigm death care and grief care and living as a minimalist full of enchantment because of all of the bounty found in nature. When she's not guiding new death midwives, she's spending time painting with watercolors, writing, and playing with her dog Oak.
https://www.narinderbazen.com/
You can sign up for the next Spark session over here: https://yarrow.substack.com/
Thanks for listening!
Love,
Yarrow
I've been such a fan of Christi's work and especially her book Mystical Stitches for ages and so it's a real joy to bring this beautiful interview to you! Here is what we talked about:
- Finding one's own voice with shapes, colours and composition
- Rituals and creative process
- Writing books and sharing skills
- The beauty, magic and resilience of textiles
Christi Johnson's personal work combines cosmic visions and botanical beauties, a hypnotic dance of symbols stitched slowly and methodically into fabric. She is the artist behind Mixed Color, a textile studio based in the foothills of the Catskills, NY which provides functional pieces that are thoughtfully made, as well as educating others in creativity and textile arts. Through books, kits, and online courses on embroidery and garment making, Christi guides her students through the skills they need to embrace self expression through handcrafts. She is the author of, Mystical Stitches (Storey Press, 2021), which explores embroidery as a tool for personal empowerment and magical embellishment to bring more meaning into stitches. www.mixedcolor.net
Here is the ethical marketing workshop I mentioned: https://pinkwellstudio.com/ethical-marketing-workshop/
Thank you so much for listening!
Love,
Yarrow
In this episode I am sharing five sweet & simple things I'll be doing to make the month ahead more beautiful. Think home spa, love letters, self-commitment and flowers. I hope you'll feel inspired!
You can join my monthly Spark Sessions for extra ritual support via my Substack here: https://yarrow.substack.com/
and here is more info about the upcoming donation based workshop on ethical marketing: https://pinkwellstudio.com/ethical-marketing-workshop/
Love,
Yarrow
This episode is a dream come true for my nerdy heart - I had a chance to talk to Dr. Isabella Rosner, whose podcast Sew What? I've been a fan of for years. We talked about how she got into textile histories, her PhD research and work at the Royal School of Needlework, about what textiles can teach us about what it means to be human and making time to create.
Dr Isabella Rosner is the Curator of the Royal School of Needlework and Research Associate at Witney Antiques. She recently completed her PhD at King’s College London, researching Quaker women’s needlework, waxwork, and shellwork circa 1650 to 1800. Passionate about schoolgirl samplers and early modern women’s needlework, Isabella hosts the “Sew What?” podcast about historic needlework and those who stitched it. She is a 2023 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.
https://sewwhatpodcast.com/
Thank you for listening!
This episode is my first interview with a guest in about eight months and I could not feel more excited & honoured to speak to Chaney Williams. There was so much in this conversation that was a balm to my soul - we talked about life-changing moments and accidents, listening to the whispers of your ancestors and our bodies, quiet spaces to create and dreaming new dreams. I hope you love it as much as I did!
Chaney Williams (she/they) is a full spectrum doula, ritualist, and writer. She lives in Kentucky and has been a southerner since birth. Chaney strongly believes that all people deserve access to trauma informed, intersectional, sex positive, reproductive care. For Chaney, writing specifically their poetry and creative non-fiction essays are confessional in nature because they create what they know and what haunts them because it is the way they make sense of the world they exist in. It is how she finds belonging in the universe and connects to her ancestors, future descendants, and the collective.
https://chaneywilliams.squarespace.com/
https://chaneywilliams.substack.com/
Stitching Together Community: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/
Thank you for listening,
Yarrow
In this episode I'm sharing more about an oral history project I'll be running this year - I want to find out how people with disabilities, like myself, used needlework to explore a sense of place and heritage during lockdown. I'm excited to explore topics like resilience in isolation, material and making vs consumption, connection with family stories and more.
This of course relates to my Stitching Together project, which you can find out more about here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/
Thank you, as always, for listening!
Love,
Yarrow
Happy new year!
In this episode I'm talking about how I am centring mental health & wellbeing in my creative practice this year - removing barriers, creating space for accessible participation & dreams, finding the sweet spot of gentle accountability and indulging wildly in flow states!
More info about my web design work is here: https://pinkwellstudio.com/
and you can join Stitching Together here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/
Thank you for listening!
Love,
Yarrow
Perhaps an odd day to publish a new episode, but I thought this might be nice to share today for anyone who also feels a little overwhelmed with the festivities at a time of so much uncertainty and upheaval.
Finding and exploring one's creative voice is something I have been thinking about a lot this year - I explored stripping back the media overwhelm, identifying core messages and symbolism and, as always, unraveling perfectionism.
I hope this episode gives you something interesting to think about too!
Here is more info about the Stitching Together community: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/
Love,
Yarrow
If you're like me, having gentle accountability to slow down & be creative makes it much more likely for you to do things that bring you joy. Maybe you too feel that you need it more than ever.
After a bit of a break I am bringing my Patreon back, because I miss our creative time together and also because I am excited to share my research on radical needlework with you. In this episode I am sharing the new structure for my Patreon/Stitching Together in 2024 - a community space focussed on making, mending, writing & wellbeing.
Learn more here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/
Thank you for listening!
Love,
Yarrow
In this episode I am talking about what slowness means to me in my practice right now and how I've learned to still appreciate the process when chronic illness and disabilities slow me down. I'm taking a longer view on things, thinking about how slowness makes space for observations and stories to be woven into my work and how stitching and carving supports my wellbeing in so many ways. I'm also asking questions about devotion, the value of time and the beauty of simplicity and simple aesthetics.
I hope that if you've ever felt too slow you'll find comfort in listening!
Here is more info on Stitching Together in 2024: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stitching/
Love,
Yarrow
In this episode I am talking about taking a specific question into the darker time of the year, thinking about what spiritual practices I want to commit to this season, trying something new & gathering tools that are meaningful to me.
You can join my Substack here if you like: https://yarrow.substack.com/
Love,
Yarrow
In the second instalment of my Getting Ready for Winter series I am sharing things that have helped me pay more attention to what I love - making, cooking, wandering and having conversations. As the days grow shorter many of us feel we want more of those things, but it can be so so hard to make time. If you feel the same I hope this episode will offer you some ideas & inspiration.
You can join my Substack here: https://yarrow.substack.com/
Love,
Yarrow
Hey friends,
I'm so excited to be back here with a little series on getting ready for winter, seasonal rituals & living a soft & creative life.
In this first episode you'll hear more about how I inhabit my home and make it a place of easy, playful and accessible creative expression.
You can join my Substack & the Spark sessions I mentioned over here: https://yarrow.substack.com/
Love,
Yarrow
This episode is such a wonderful note to end on before I am heading into a little break - it was a true joy to talk to Justine & Larisa who wrote the wonderful book called The Grieving Therapist. I hope listening will feel as comforting as it did for me. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Diving deep into collaborative creative projects
- Processing pandemic grief and making meaning from what happened
- Exploring what change might come from loss
Justine Mastin, LMFT, LADC is a psychotherapist, author, and so much more. Justine runs Blue Box Counseling, a private practice in Minneapolis, MN and is an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor. She literally wrote the book on Therapeutic Fanfiction—Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life—and she offered support to healers in The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When it Feels Like the End of the World. Justine also co-hosts both the Starship Therapise and Dark Side of the Mat podcasts and has presented a TEDx talk.
TedTalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmtZU0_xmKY&t=1s
Larisa Garski is the chief of clinical staff for Empowered Therapy in Chicago IL. Larisa is the co-author of The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When it Feels Like the End of the World, and Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life. Larisa has also contributed to numerous other books on pop culture and psychology, co-hosts the Starship Therapise podcast, and is an AAMFT-approved supervisor.
The Grieving Therapist book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724011/the-grieving-therapist-by-larisa-a-garski-lmft/
Starship Therapise podcast: https://www.starshiptherapise.com/podcast/
Thank you for listening!
For this episode I had the honour of talking to Joelle of Butch Yoga again - we had a great first chat for episode #159 and so in this one we got to dive a little bit deeper. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Finding time for stillness in one's body
- Bringing in joy, self-compassion and playfulness
- Letting things move through our bodies
Joelle is a non-binary butch lesbian who is really into queering spirituality. Joelle started practicing meditation and yoga in 2007. Then in 2009, they completed an Master of Arts in Cognitive Studies with a focus on Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, and Neuroscience. That means before Joelle was on a yoga mat, they were in lecture halls studying the mind, but their professors didn’t teach how to work with the mind to find happiness—and then Joelle found in most yoga classes they teach practices to work with the mind and body, but don’t usually go in depth with the concepts! And it’s been rare for Joelle to find queer yoga spaces, and even rarer to find other butches in those spaces—so Joelle created Butch Yoga as a space for butches and gender non-conforming friends to study and practice spirituality together. More about Joelle: Joelle is a white Latinx Jewish person who has been living on Mayan land in Guatemala for 7 years with their 3 cats
https://www.instagram.com/butchyoga/
https://butchyoga.com/
Thank you for listening!
Hi sweet listeners,
I am delighted to bring you a charming, inspiring and joyful conversation with the wonderful Melissa Word. I have loved her Grief Threads program so much and could listen to her talk about bodies, grief and art forever. Here is some of what we explored:
- Approaching dance & movement in a totally new way
- Listening and learning from our grief
- Opening our arms wide wide wide to what art can be
- Finding secret information inside ourselves
Melissa Word is an artist, dancer, writer and somatic facilitator. Her work takes the form of live performance, workshops, textile collages, drawings and newsletters. She specializes in creating transformative group experiences for people who want to feel more creative and connected to themselves–quilting classes for grief, movement classes for anxiety relief and body image repair, voice work for expanding consciousness. She is a current arts educator with the Alliance Theatre, and formerly with the High Museum of Art and Boys and Girls Club of Atlanta. Her pedagogy is based in somatic inquiry, presence and mindfulness practices, experimental voice work, intersectional discourse, liberatory social movements, and the perennial power of play.
https://www.melissaword.com/
https://www.instagram.com/melissawordstudio/
Thank you so much for listening!
In this episode I am sitting by the river with you to think about the summer ahead. Three different ideas made me feel that approaching it as a season of creative recovery would be a really good idea on so many levels. I am also sharing two practices that might help you get intentional about the next few months in your own way.
I decided not to start a private podcast in the end, but might do in the future.
Thank you for listening!
Love,
Yarrow
I recorded this episode by the river this morning and talked about the why & how of small ritual quilts. My little waffle includes thoughts on the meaning of ritual and what has changed for me three years after publishing my book Rituals, what I love about working with reclaimed materials and how I use these small ritual quilts in my day to day for beauty & inspiration.
The workshop on May 21st I mentioned is over on the Making app, you can sign up here: https://themakingapp.com/
here are the ritual quilts I am currently offering: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/art/
and here is the Create & Launch program I mentioned: https://pinkwellstudio.com/create-launch/
Enjoy!
This is an episode I recorded by the river this morning, I am talking about what might happen when we die - why I think it's an important question, what dreams have to do with it and what I love about not actually knowing.
I hope it gives you some food for thought!
Here is the Create & Launch program: https://pinkwellstudio.com/create-launch/
and here is my Patreon for the season of recovery series: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/
Thank you for listening!
Love,
Yarrow
Happy spring or autumn to you, dear listener! This episode is a really wonderful one to help us dive into a new season - I spoke to Phelicia of Queen and Crow about such wonderful things like:
- Being called to be tender in all we do
- Letting flowers hold us through periods of grief
- Being polyamorous with the plant world
- Finding small everyday rituals and resisting the ways capitalism wants to sell things back to us
I hope you'll enjoy this conversation as much as I did!
Phelicia Okon Magnusson is a queer black herbalist and flower essence practitioner based on the Big Island of Hawai’i. Her work centers folks of color who are affirming their wholeness by healing inter-generational trauma, moving though narratives of shame, reclaiming pleasure practices, exploring sexuality and returning to their intuition and resilience in the face of ongoing oppression. Phelicia's work is open to everyone and is an embodied exploration of building reciprocal relationships with land and plants to tend healing and facilitate transformation and acceptance.
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queenandcrow/
Website: https://www.queenandcrow.com/
email: phelicia@queenandcrow.com
Tiffany, the tarot led, plant inspired embodiment coach Phelicia mentioned: https://www.lovechildbotanix.com/
Here is the new Patreon offering I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/
and here is the marketing immersion week: https://pinkwellstudio.com/marketing-immersion/
Thank you for listening!
This episode feels like it was really touched by the beautiful full moon I saw rising over the Scottish sea yesterday! I was chatting to my friend Rowan Walker earlier today, who was also on episode #126 recorded back in 2021. We caught up on creative practice, building intimacy with the tarot and overcoming road blocks and perfectionism. It was a total delight and I hope you'll enjoy listening too!
i’m rowan. i’m an agender white settler of Irish, Lithuanian, Scottish and Sicilian trancestry born on Turtle Island/North America. i’m the creatrix behind of hawthorn and yew, a sacred cauldron of plant kin relationship, ritual, and education. i facilitate community spaces for queer and trans folks for healing re-connection and collaborative learning. through the pathways of ritual + relationship, i seek to spiral ever closer to holy embodied aliveness, and to help others do the same.
ofhawthornandyew.com
Working the wands program: https://ofhawthornandyew.com/workingthewands/
Previous episode: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/podcast/126-plant-friends-ritual-anarchy-with-rowan-walker/
//If you enjoy listening and would like some support for your practice please consider joining my Patreon. In the Practice // Space community you’ll get access to recorded workshops, ritual guides, journaling prompts and movement & creative practices to explore in your own time. I also host monthly intention setting sessions and quiet co-creating sessions on Zoom around each new moon. Join here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/
Thank you!//
Hi sweet listeners,
I hope this finds you well and possibly still tucked into bed on a warm sunny morning.
I have some updates on my Patreon - it's been alive and supporting me for five years now and it felt like it needed some re-energizing. I'm eternally grateful for your support and the little chunk of reliable monthly income really makes all the difference in being able to keep my podcasts going and offering accessible spaces on Zoom to creative folks.
So, for this new chapter I have created a living archive of movement, ritual and creativity practices that you can access as a Patreon and I am also offering new moon creative space sessions again alongside intention setting sessions on every first Sunday of the month. Please consider joining us <3
https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/
Thank you!
It's been about three years since shit hit the fan, can you believe it? I wanted to record this little reflection waffle to mark this milestone - tune in to hear me chat about how the pandemic has changed my relationship to home, work, creativity, landscape and people.
Here is the Finding Movement podcast I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/finding-movement-podcast/
Thank you for listening!
This conversation was the first interview I did in a while and it was such a beautiful way to drop back into conversation! I spoke to the wonderful fellow Venus in Scorpio Joelle of Butch Yoga. Their practice and way of being in the world is so joyous, I really hope you'll love listening as much as I did. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Sitting with big spiritual questions
- Not finding a home in mainstream yoga spaces
- Embodying butch identities beyond stereotypes
- Integrating spiritual practices into our lives
Joelle is a non-binary butch lesbian who is really into queering spirituality. Joelle started practicing meditation and yoga in 2007. Then in 2009, they completed an Master of Arts in Cognitive Studies with a focus on Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, and Neuroscience. That means before Joelle was on a yoga mat, they were in lecture halls studying the mind, but their professors didn’t teach how to work with the mind to find happiness—and then Joelle found in most yoga classes they teach practices to work with the mind and body, but don’t usually go in depth with the concepts! And it’s been rare for Joelle to find queer yoga spaces, and even rarer to find other butches in those spaces—so Joelle created Butch Yoga as a space for butches and gender non-conforming friends to study and practice spirituality together.
More about Joelle: Joelle is a white Latinx Jewish person who has been living on Mayan land in Guatemala for 7 years with their 3 cats 😻😻😻 https://www.instagram.com/butchyoga/
Thank you for listening!
What a beautiful start to the podcast year! I am delighted to send a conversation with the insightful and generous Gabriela De Golia your way, which I hope will offer you some comfort on a cold January day. This was truly balm for my soul. Here us some of what we talked about:
- Finding out what spirit and spirituality means to us
- Liminal space, dreamwork and divination
- Daily prayers, making time and finding spaciousness
Gabriela De Golia is a spiritual care provider, writer, multi-media artist, and learning facilitator. She serves as the foundress and facilitator of The Betwixt & Between LLC, a small business that centers on offering spiritual care for liminal times. A former community organizer who now works as a spiritual director, tarot reader, dreamworker, and mentor for those yearning to become attuned to sacred magic, Gabriela works at the crossroads between spiritual care and collective liberation efforts. They are passionate about supporting individuals and groups in honoring the divinity nested within and beyond themselves. In so doing, she hopes her work can help usher a new and beautifully liberated world into existence.
https://www.thebetwixtandbetween.com/
Thank you for listening!
I'm sending this episode from my little winter cave to yours! It's been such a joy to speak to A.J. Bond again, who was also my guest on episode #137. We covered a lot of tender ground and there was so much there that really touched and delighted me. I'm wishing you a gentle transition into 2023 and hope you'll enjoy listening to our reflections on:
- Earnestly looking for deep meaning in life
- Shame, belonging and wanting to please
- Holding messy parts together
- Self-expression and creativity
A.J. Bond is a Toronto-based writer, filmmaker, and shame educator. As a gay man and former child actor, A.J. is no stranger to shame. After experiencing a life-changing “shame breakthrough” in therapy several years ago, A.J. dedicated himself to educating others about our “master emotion” through Shame Ed classes and one-on-one coaching. A.J. is certified as a shame-healing practitioner by the Center for Healing Shame in Berkeley and has also trained in Nonviolent Communication and Authentic Relating. A.J. is the host of the podcast Discomfortable, exploring shame and other difficult emotions. Visit www.discomfortable.net for more info.
Visit www.discomfortable.net for more info about A.J.
Here is more info about the business retreat: https://pinkwellstudio.com/free/
Love,
Yarrow
Hey friends,
deepest exhale. Winter is here! I am sending this from a snowy Scottish landscape on a sleepy Monday evening. My guest Monique Francis is so dear to me, I love the way she embodies creativity and all the care and intention she brings to community. I hope this conversation will bring some joy you too. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Creativity as a refuge
- Exploring different arts & crafts with childlike wonder
- Building community online and offline
- DIY monastic life and not being part of transactions
Monique is a disabled and monastic creatrix who is grateful to be a guest on the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Salish peoples in so-called Vancouver, Canada. She's the founder of Fully Woven, a crafty care collective and Prioress of Sanctuary of the Arts, a contemplative arts community. She's also in the process of establishing a Free Little Art Gallery (FLAG) in her neighbourhood. Monique's had various roles throughout her life - Anglican sister, grief counsellor, somatic therapist - all of which have the common thread of being collaborative practices. She delights in a pared-down pace for her daily rhythm with her beloved dog and cat companions, and believes quite firmly a day is not complete until a mess has been made at her craft table.
fullywoven.com
Love,
Yarrow
Hey friends,
welcome to Sagittarius season. I can't believe we're here, but what even is time anymore? To celebrate I am sending you an episode with one of the literally dreamiest Sagittariuses your way. We covered a lot of fertile ground and, amongst other things, talked about the following:
- The intersection of queerness, creativity and spirituality
- Daydreams as portals
- Keeping a dream journal
- Creative community building & healing
Jess is an expressive eco-arts therapist and facilitator who is passionate about weaving together creativity, queerness, and spirituality. They have been imagining and creating ever since they can recall and have devoted their formal learning to fiber arts, ceramics, printmaking, and “trauma-responsive” art therapy. Informally, Jess has studied herbalism and permaculture, ritual and ceremony, dance and movement, and dreamwork. After years of facilitating creative groups and community spaces in person, Jess is opening "The Sacred Third Creative Well-being" this fall to expand their offerings to a wider, virtual community.
Here is more info about the beautiful free community offerings Jess mentioned: https://www.jesskennard.com/
Here is the creative winter retreat I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-winter-retreat/
Love,
Yarrow
Hey friends,
this episode is not a long waffle - just a little reminder that now is the time to put some nourishing and creative winter wellbeing resources in place. If you're nesting and thinking about time to rest and dream I am right there with you.
Here is the creative retreat I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-winter-retreat/
I would love to see you as we bring in the new year
Hey friends,
I am thinking of you and am sending you some love from my deep chill Sunday sofa. Also, a wonderful episode with Caroline Scruggs, whose creative energy is nothing less than otherworldly and delightful! Here is some of what we talked about:
- Crafting a sustainable, inspired creative practice
- Tuning into the landscape and the seasons
- The joy of doing things slowly and valuing the process
- Building confidence and self-trust
Caroline Scruggs is a professional songbird, thereminist, creativity coach and world traveler. A Virginia native, she has set out to live a life of authentic expression and creativity, and now she helps others do the same. She is the creator behind Uke Camp and Raise Your Voice, programs for humans of all ages, experience levels and walks of life, which help them ignite their creativity, raise their authentic voices, and tell their stories through song. She's a solo music artist as well, using the theremin, banjolele and loop station to create her signature sound of interesting harmonic lines, quirky vocal styling and thought-provoking lyrics.
https://www.carolinescruggs.com/
More info about my creative winter retreat: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-winter-retreat/
Hey friends,
in this solo episode I am taking you along today's stream of consciousness about just wanting to play - exploring how I relate to responsibility, curiosity and adaptation through deeply uncertain times and wondering why we often make playfulness and responsibility another useless binary. What I've come to feels simple and beautiful, like something tangle to orient towards that can guide me through winter and beyond.
Enjoy!
Hey friends,
happy belated full moon! I hope this new episode finds you well, safe and warm. I interviewed the wonderful, generous and wise Daphne Cohn earlier this year and loved listening back to our conversation just now. Daphne weaves community, lives in such devotion to creative practice and has a lot to say about being in the world. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Exploring what it is to live a life devoted to creativity
- Deepening through daily practice
- Being in the world while staying connected to ourselves and our spirit
- Taking stock after the last few years
daphne cohn is the co-creator of {within}: a gathering space for artists, host of the BEYOND podcast and creator of illumine: a free daily creativity hour to come and make in quiet and community. she practices soft courage, messy devotion and writing true. she holds sacred spaces for making honest art.
https://daphnecohn.com/
https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-portal/
Hey friends,
I'm excited to introduce you to a new evolution of my podcast for its 6th birthday.
In this episode I am sharing some emotional whereabouts and life updates as well as thoughts on what a craft sanctuary can be and what I am hoping to make with you moving forward.
Here are the free queer spirit sessions I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/queer-spirit/
And here is my creative community, now meeting twice per week: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-portal/
Thank you so so much for all your love and support through the years. This project means the world to me and I am excited for the next six years.
Love,
Yarrow
Hey everyone,
happy equinox! I hope you're doing okay and welcoming the shift into a new season. For this episode I was delighted to speak to Jamee Pineda again, who was also on episode #106. He is such a generous and kind guests and we covered a lot of ground, for example:
- Integrating pandemic lessons & centring public health
- Finding new ways to practice hilot and Chinese medicine in community
- Creating peaceful daily rhythms
- Looking to nature when we're thinking about our work and purpose
https://www.jamee-pineda-lac.com/
https://www.patreon.com/JameePinedaHealingArts
I am a hilot binabaylan, acupuncturist, and Chinese medicine practitioner. My practice is informed by my identity as a queer, trans, non binary, Tagalog person living in the U.S. With the combination of my lived experience and training, my goal is to help individuals and communities live their fullest lives by offering a decolonizing approach to medicine rooted in traditional and ancestral practices.
Hey everyone,
it's that time of the year again. My favorite time. Leafs turning, waves growing, candles lighting but also the sense of returning home to practice and learning and ritualised coziness.
As part of that I am offering 50% off all my courses as well as longer payment plans for the Livelihood Community and pay what you can access to the Creative Community I faciliate. This year I am raising funds for my studies and I would so appreciate your support!
https://pinkwellstudio.com/courses/
https://pinkwellstudio.com/livelihood-community/
https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-portal/
The sale runs till September 25th and you can find all the links below. In this episode I am sharing some life updates and details around what you can expect.
Hey everyone,
if like me you have been thinking about self-trust, belonging and landscape this year this episode Loraine Van Tuyl will have a lot to offer to you. I loved hearing her perspectives and ideas and am excited to hear hear what you think. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Working with inner and outer elements
- Understanding the ways in which our bodies mirror the creativity and abundance of the earth
- Cultivating relationship with our landscapes
- Making a home in the world in periods of change and transition
Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD, CHT, is a shamanic ecopsychologist and licensed clinical psychologist. She empowers sensitive and intuitive empaths, experts, and transformation leaders with unique holistic and nature-guided methods that help them to Re-TREE-t© in an inner sanctuary, ReNature© their denatured minds, and become the soul authority of their lives and spiritual missions. Loraine is the author of Amazon Wisdom Keeper: a Psychologist’s Memoir of Spiritual Awakening and Soul Authority: Liberatory Tools to Heal from Oppressive Patterns and Restore Trust in your Heart Compass (April 2022), which complements her online course, HEAL LOVE LEAD with SOUL AUTHORITY™.
To learn more about Loraine’s offerings, visit www.theSacredHealingWell.com
You can sign up for my weekend retreat here: https://pinkwellstudio.com/free/
Hey everyone,
this episode is just a short & sweet invitation to my upcoming virtual retreat weekend in September. It’s free, packed with workshops & co-working time and a great chance to meet like minded people.
You can sign up here: https://pinkwellstudio.com/free/
Hopefully see you there!
Hey friends,
I'm so glad to be back here reconnecting with you via podcast magic. This episode features the wonderful Lara Veleda Vesta, who was also a guest on episode #81. There is so much about Lara I appreciate - her wisdom around chronic illness and disability, her incredible story telling skills, her kindness and generosity and her willingness to be in awe of life.
Here is some of what we talked about:
- Building spiritual sovereignty, community and self-trust
- Relating to myths and archetypes through difficult times
- Expanding what ancestral practice can be
- Adapting our practices to changing needs and abilities
Lara Veleda Vesta, MFA, is an artist, author, storyteller and educator transforming chronic illness into a path of healing and reclaiming. She is the author and illustrator of The Moon Divas Guidebook, The Moon Divas Oracle and the newly released Wild Soul Runes: Reawakening the Ancestral Feminine. Her research interests include ancestral connection, mythtelling and disability as initiation, and she is currently creating a mythic book on death transitions. Her path of folk magic, ancestor lore and ritual practice is shared through classes at the Wild Soul School and with her patron community: www.laravesta.co
Free Queer Spirit Sessions: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/queer-spirit/
Hey friends,
it's an honour to bring another episode with Nancy Antenucci to you - she was also on episode #56, way back in the before times, and it was so cool to reconnect and see what Nancy has been up to. We covered a lot of beautiful ground and I love how generous and creative Nancy is in the ways she practices with the tarot and is creative in the world. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Finding rituals for uncertain times
- Embodying tarot archetypes for a deeper understanding of life, creativity & ourselves
- Letting go of workaholism
- Deeply appreciating slowness
Nucc (Nancy Antenucci) is a seasoned tarot reader as well as a teacher of visionary strategies. Her innovative take on tarot makes her a highly sought-after teacher. Besides her strong influence in the Twin Cities, she helped build and is a faculty member for a Tarot school in Chengdu, China. Her first book, Psychic Tarot, is a culmination of her teaching and mentoring, practical know-how, and unending passion of tarot. Her newest creation is “Tarot Rituals”has nearly 100 tarot ceremonies, ideas and experiences for the tarot lover. Nucc is the founder of Minnesota’s Twin Cities Tarot Collective, which produces the annual North Star Tarot conference.
www.betweenworlds.us
More info about the Queer Spirit sessions I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/queer-spirit/
Hey friends,
happy almost summer solstice! This episode with Tara Leaver is inspiring and uplifting, so I hope it adds to all the light around us
Hey friends,
this episode is an invitation to join me for the Summer Creative Portal - a sweet group with weekly creative co-working sessions on Sundays. If you're are an existing Patreon you're already IN and if you're not you can join us for the season ahead, no ongoing commitment. See if it works for you, come practice with us & meet some new folks.
The theme for summer is pleasure - I'll read to you about it, offer journaling prompts and hold space for an expansive exploration that trickles down into the most simple daily things.
In addition to the weekly sessions we have a space on Mighty Networks you'll be invited to as well
Hey friends,
ah, I am so proud to bring this conversation your way, I truly loved talking to Laura Mae Northrup, whose worked has been important on my journey in lots of different ways. We covered a lot of ground and I hope you'll feel inspired to check her book and podcast out after listening to this. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Psychedelic preparation & integration
- Looking at trauma through a spiritual lens
- Embodying integrity as a healing practitioner within capitalism
- Listening to survivors and witnessing each other heal
Laura Mae Northrup, MFT is an author, educator, somatic psychotherapist, and podcaster. Her first book Radical Healership (Feb 2022) is a spiritually-informed and anticapitalist guide for healing practitioners who seek to build a values-driven healing practice. She is the host and creator of the podcast Inside Eyes, an audio series about people using entheogens and psychedelics to heal from sexual trauma. Her work focuses on defining sexual violence through a spiritual and politicized lens, mentoring healing practitioners in creating a meaningful path, and supporting the spiritual integrity of our collective humanity.
You can learn more about her work here: www.lauramaenorthrup.com
Here is the Creative Portal I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-portal/
and here is more info about the two summer programs I am offering: https://pinkwellstudio.com/start-a-podcast/ and https://pinkwellstudio.com/create-launch/
Hi friends,
I'm sending a beautiful follow up episode with Darcy Leigh (who was also on #105) and Harry Josephine Giles your way. These two dreams so generously shared about their lives, visions, creative practice and their trans healthcare fundraiser. It's been a joy of a conversation covering much ground and I hope that you'll love it as much as I did! Here is some of what we talked about:
- Running Easter Road Press and self-publishing practices
- Activist burn out, riding pandemic waves & rebuilding queer lives
- Funding trans health and dreaming radical care
- Finding sources of power and magic
Harry Josephine Giles is from Orkney and lives in Leith. Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia was published by Picador in October 2021. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Stirling. Her show Drone debuted in the Made in Scotland Showcase at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and toured internationally. www.harryjosephine.com
Darcy Leigh lives half in Edinburgh, half in Brighton (it's complicated). She is very Jewish, very butch, and deep in DIY culture as well as queer history. Darcy also works as a university lecturer where she researches British colonialism and tries to make universities more accessible while also burning them down. https://butcharchive.com/
Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/butchfemmebodyhack
More info about the starter website I'm offering for the fundraiser auction: https://pinkwellstudio.com/webdesign/
Hey friends,
it seems like this was a week of many solo episodes (I also talked about embracing upper and lower limits around money over on my business podcast: https://pinkwellstudio.com/2022/05/19/77-embracing-upper-and-lower-limits-around-money/). - in this one I wanted to talk about the darker parts of the last few years and how loss can really become a portal to other, better, sometimes insightful things. I find this hard to talk about because I don't want to stray into victim blaming or spiritual bypassing, yet there are these things about pain and shock that I think are important to say out loud and that I wish I had known sooner.
Overall, and I know I've been talking about this a lot, I wish we'd do more good grieving, because that is where the magic is. That is where we grow and avoid making the same mistakes over and over again. That is also where we really get to know ourselves and each other.
This episode comes with a content note for suicide, death, hospitalisation, break ups, sexual assault and disability. I am not talking much about graphic details, but I am naming those things in the hope we can feel less alone in the experience of them. I trust you'll know if now is the time to listen or not.
Thank you for listening to my waffles
Friends!
Hello from the other side of this epic eclipse magic. While the dust is settling I wanted to share this beautiful, beautiful conversation I've had with Madeleine Keller, who is such a skilled and thoughtful folk herbalist. I really loved listening to them and I hope you will too. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Finding our way back to relationships with plants
- Reconnecting with ancestral practices
- Building health and resilience in community
- Being a village witch
Madeleine is a queer white non-binary zinester and folk herbalist residing on un-ceded Awaswas-speaking Ohlone territory, known to some as California’s Central Coast. They guide folks to connect to the plant world, demystify their bodies, and re-enchant their relationships to land and community. They regularly offer a variety of paid and free workshops intended to support community healing and assist in a couple community health/herbalism projects. They also love to write zines!
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/madeleinelkeller
- Newsletter: https://gmail.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=f6532effa674f0a25e3886d2d&id=c6e0d880e0
- Website: https://madeleinelkeller.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madeleine.herbalist/ The queer needleworker collective: https://queer-needleworker-s-collective.mn.co/feed
Hey friends,
how has this new moon eclipse magic weekend been treating you?
I'm bringing a conversation with my friend Jade Mars your way - you might remember that they've been on episode #10 and so it's been really cool to catch up and see what has changed in our thoughts and ideas over the years. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Zine writing, DIY publishing & sharing our voices
- Valuing all kinds of intimacy beyond heteronormative norms
- Care, affections & closeness with the non-human world
- The beauty of neurodivergent perspectives
Enjoy
Hey everyone,
ah I am so happy to share this conversation, truly. Ever since speaking to A.J. Bond I've been thinking about the ways in which shame shows up in my life and it's been really helpful and potential-gifting to find new ways to un-shame. This is an emotion I think we should all talk about more and I hope you'll love listening as much as I did. Here is some of what we talked about:
- The wild power of healing shame
- Honest communication, boundaries & navigating needs
- Developing relational skills with ourselves and each other
- Getting uncomfortable for the sake of growth
A.J. Bond is a Toronto-based writer, filmmaker, and shame educator. As a gay man and former child actor, A.J. is no stranger to shame. After experiencing a life-changing “shame breakthrough” in therapy several years ago, A.J. dedicated himself to educating others about our “master emotion” through Shame Ed classes and one-on-one coaching. A.J. is certified as a shame-healing practitioner by the Center for Healing Shame in Berkeley and has also trained in Nonviolent Communication and Authentic Relating. A.J. is the host of the podcast Discomfortable, exploring shame and other difficult emotions.
Visit www.discomfortable.net for more info.
Here is the sign up for the creative workshops I mentioned:
and here is more info about my business community: https://pinkwellstudio.com/livelihood-community/
Hey everyone,
excited to say that spring enrolment for my business community, now in its 5th year, is open
Hey friends,
I am getting into a bit of a spring podcasting groove and it's an honour to tell you a bit more about my beautiful guest Chase McMurren. Talking to him gave me so much to think and giggle about as well as a wave of comfort and inspiration. I hope you'll love this conversation as much as I did! Here is some of what we talked about:
- Meeting grief and heart ache with gentleness
- Supporting our artist hearts
- Caring for our elders
- Hot beverage as everyday rituals
- Slowing down to real delight
Chase Everett McMurren [he & him & his] is of Michif, Celtic, French and Ukrainian descent. Originally from Southern Alberta on traditional Blackfoot Confederacy territory, he’s been living in Tkarón:to | GichiKiiwenging for years | Toronto. His clan is the Turtle and his spirit name is Water Song Medicine Keeper. Chase is a harp-playing, home-visiting physician for long-living elders, and an integrative psychotherapist for artists. He is the Theme Lead for Indigenous Health in the MD Program and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Chase is a certified practitioner of Deirdre Fay’s Becoming Safely Embodied (BSE) approach. He serves as an Assessor and Clinical Supervisor for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and also provides supervision in the Psychotherapy Training Program offered through the Medical Psychotherapy Association Canada (MDPAC). Chase is training as a Nâtawihôwêw [not-a-way-who-ee-oo], or Medicine Man (in Michif) and is a senior student of the Hakomi Method. drchase.ca chase@drchase.ca Here’s the Megan Devine grief support video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zLCCRT-nE
Here’s a link to Angela Lansbury singing “Everthing’s Coming Up Roses”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1znyr0QQGE The free upcoming virtual business retreat: https://pinkwellstudio.com/free-virtual-spring-retreat/ The Creative Nature Coven: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-nature-coven/
Hey friends,
ah, what a joy this conversation has been! I know I am always gushing about my guests, but I just really am so lucky. Listening back to my chat with Samantha Zipporah gave me full body giggles and a renewed sense of hope. We covered so many topics that feel more alive and important than ever and I really hope you'll feel some of the radical love listening in too. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Reclaiming embodied sovereignty
- The relationship between oxytocin & anarchism
- Being IN love and creative flow
- Saying no as a commitment to yes
- The magic of fertility, cycles, birth & death
Samantha Zipporah is a fertility, sex, & cycle educator, author, & activist with over 20 years of experience. She is devoted to breaking the spells of oppression in reproductive & sexual health through collective healing, liberation, & education. A former birth doula, she provides radical love for navigating the womb continuum & reclaiming ancestral wisdom. Sam’s unique praxis weaves a balance of scientific data & spiritual presence to offer knowledge & embodied wisdom for claiming inner authority in fertility, sex, & cycles. Sam provides vital education for everyone from professionals to preteens and inspires individuals to claim their power through body literacy & sovereignty. To learn more about her books, writing, courses, & mentorships, please visit www.samanthazipporah.com
The free business weekend I mentioned: https://pinkwellstudio.com/free-virtual-spring-retreat/
Free creative workshops: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-workshops/
Creative Nature Coven: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-nature-coven/
Hey friends,
what a week! I am sending another solo episode your way, this time exploring making as a spiritual practice. I talk about seeking transcendence, developing an embodied understanding of rhythm & seasons, soothing nervous systems and spiritual sovereignty. You know, the casual stuff!
Enjoy
Hey friends,
I'm having a lot of thoughts these days, as I am sure we all do. I wanted to start a little series of solo episodes to share what's up for me and dive deeper into things we often don't talk about enough - grief, deepest fears, feeling alive regardless and wondering what's next.
This first one is about my month long retreat in the Highlands, which I am midway through at the moment. I'm sharing about solitude, integrating trauma and loss, making sense of things, what I find comfort in and what I am observing in the landscape.
Enjoy
Hey friends,
my heart is bursting with excitement to share this conversation with you - I spoke to the wonderful Stevie Leigh, a chat that was just what I needed to listen back to today. I hope it will feel as nourishing and grounding to you as it did for me. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Being connected to a web of ancestry, magic & community
- Finding, feeling and expanding the edges of our capacity
- Staying connected to our bodies through difficulty, discomfort and joy
- Holding grief with integrity
stevie leigh (they/she) is a somatic practitioner, writer, mystic, and care taker in many forms. In service to body autonomy and literacy, they help people find their way back to themselves. Supporting people in finding what they truly need in times of transition (birth, death, sexual revolution, trauma healing) is what guides them in their work. Stevie offers 1:1 somatic counseling, tarot readings, and their course RETURN: a trauma informed course exploring embodiment and emotional awareness. They are currently a guest on Tongva land in what is now called Pasadena, California and are curious about finding new (and old) ways to honor the people who stewarded the land before colonialism. Their somatic lineage includes teachings from birthwork, reproductive health work, SE, somatic sex education, generative somatics, and a deep focus in Hakomi. In their somatic practice, they weave together these threads alongside their own connection to ancestral knowledge and practices.
https://weaverandrose.com/
Join my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves
Hey friends,
I'm delighted to bring you a beautiful conversation with Emma Freeman - her creative practice has inspired mine so much and I love what she shared about her experience of the pandemic and what's important to her now. A balm to listen to! Here is some of what we talked about:
- Poetry as a healing practice
- Weaving with nature
- Deepening our relationship with the natural world
- Showing up for our creative practice and leaning into slow stitching
Emma Freeman is a queer mixed media artist, poet and teacher. She works with fibers, words, collage, slow stitching and nature to connect more deeply to herself and to this world. She is fascinated by the dance between art making and healing and loves exploring both within her practice. Her process is contemplative, slow, quiet and playful. Emma is sober, a highly sensitive person, deeply loves animals and also loves making up silly dance moves. She teaches online art classes in a variety of mediums and lives in Wisconsin in the United States with her two rescue beagles.
You can find Emma at https://www.emmafreemandesigns.com/
and here is more info about the Creative Nature Coven I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-nature-coven/
Hey friends,
wishing you a gentle and restorative new year if you are celebrating!
This episode is a little catch up and I am also sharing my favorite new year ritual - it's sweet & simple practice all about the Star card.
I have also talked about the Compass sessions, which I am hosting starting this Saturday for three weeks as part of the Creative Nature Coven. You can join us if you feel like you'd benefit from a creative space to land in the new year and want to be with others. It's $13 per month, sliding scale options available: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-nature-coven/
Here is more info about the Making app I mentioned: https://themakingapp.com/ and here is the Dreaming into 2022 class I'll teach over there: https://themakingapp.com/classes/dreaming-into-2022-with-your-journal--the-tarot/Y599 (you'll only be able to see this once you are logged in).
Sending love,
Yarrow
Hey friends,
I'm just coming out my little winter cocoon to tell you about the new Making app, which I loved joining. As you might know I left instagram last year for many different reasons, but one thing I have missed was seeing other people's creative processes and sharing my own. I had been hoping for a gentle and non-competitive space to do that and to be able to do a little comfort-scrolling without being bombarded by ads and shiny stuff.
I'm not being paid to say that I found exactly this in the Making app, I just wanted to see if you want to join me there so that we can swap notes on what we're working on - my username is @YarrowMagdalena
In January I'll also teach a class on dreaming into the new year, which you are super welcome to join: https://themakingapp.com/classes/dreaming-into-2022-with-your-journal--the-tarot/Y599 (please note you need to be logged into the app to open this link).
Hopefully see you there: https://themakingapp.com/about
Love,
Yarrow
Hey friends,
I cannot believe that it took my almost a whole year to share this beautiful conversation with you. I truly loved talking to Lex Ritchie of Day’s Eye Tarot and then... life happened, really hard. I hope that in some way it still comes your way at exactly the right time and that you'll get as much out of listening to Lex's generous sharing as I did. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Finding our own ways towards liberatory and healing practices
- Queerness, neurodivergence & liminality as a source of magic
- Navigating pandemic challenges
Lex Ritchie (they/them) is the tarot reader and folk magician behind Day’s Eye Tarot. A chronically-ill, neurodivergent, queer mystic, they approach tarot as a radical practice rooted in the hidden-in-plain-sight tradition of cartomancy of the working-class and backcountry kitchens of their ancestors, a skill gained through connection, practice, and cunning. They use tarot as a folk art to help you discover and nurture the root of your own authority to think, act, and create in and for your own life so that you can take the kind of intentional action you need to achieve your dreams.
thelexritchie.com
Learn more about the creative nature coven: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-nature-coven/
Free workshops: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-workshops/
Hey friends,
ah, we made it through the eclipse and now here we are, entering Sag season, moving towards the solstice. I am trying to be still, to look at the moon, to treasure beautiful conversations like this one. I spoke to the wonderful Ryn Silverstein, a person whose creativity, thought & spirit I really treasure. I hope you'll feel blessed by this conversation the way I did. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Longing as a beautiful guiding structure
- Queer ways of relating to the moon & the moon as an ancestral home
- The magic of jewish time & cycles
- Sustaining, growing and holding a creative practice inside and outside of institutions
Ryn Silverstein is a writer and priestess with a creative living practice that's embodied, queer, and ancestrally-rooted. They cultivate longing as devotional practice, creating space in the everyday for dreaming and enchantment. Honoring the moon as their ancestral home, Ryn tends to the connection the moon enables between our bodies, land bodies, and water bodies.
Ryn's upcoming class & newsletter can be found at https://www.archivefeverdream.com/work-with-me/
Free creative workshops by me: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/creative-workshops/
Hey folks, this new moon energised me enough to send a special extra episode your way - recorded today, fresh off the microphone! I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did, it's been a real joy to speak to Rowan and take some time to reflect on the pandemic, this time, our relationships, our bodies and a lot of other things. Here is some of what we talked about: * Herbalism and plant friendships for queer and trans folks * Pandemic reflections on slowing down * Staying connected to creativity and holy aliveness * Anarchism and ritual * Supporting ourselves and each other
i'm rowan. i’m an agender white settler of Irish, Lithuanian, Scottish and Sicilian trancestry born on Turtle Island/North America. i’m the creatrix behind of hawthorn and yew, a sacred cauldron of plant kin relationship, ritual, and education. i facilitate community spaces for queer and trans folks for healing re-connection and collaborative learning. through the pathways of ritual + relationship, i seek to spiral ever closer to holy embodied aliveness, and to help others do the same.
ofhawthornandyew.com Ancestral Reconnection for Witches and Radicals of Celtic Descent: https://ofhawthornandyew.com/offerings/celticreconnection/ Working the Swords for Change and Transformation https://ofhawthornandyew.com/workingtheswords/ insta: @hawthornandyew email: ofhawthornandyew@protonmail.com
Hey friends,
I'm excited to share this conversation with Jilna Shah with you - it's been really great to listen back as I was editing just now and I hope you'll get as much out of it as I did. Here is some of what we talked about, though there was so much more magic in here that goes way beyond lists:
- Orienting ourselves towards joy, community & social justice
- How we can lay transformative foundations within ourselves
- Navigating all the changes the pandemic brought
- Holding space for intergenerational healing and asking what becomes possible when we inhabit our bodies fully
I’m Jilna and I teach gentle movement and meditation in the community. I do this both online and in-person. My practice reflects my passion to co-create ways of moving and being that help people to connect more deeply with themselves and the things that matter most in the world. It involves understanding how different people are affected by their identities and life experiences, and encouraging them towards a greater sense of ease and joy. This practice is always evolving, especially as I learn a lot from the people who attend my classes and workshops.
I have weaved social justice, movement and meditation together for many years and I am motivated by the transformative impact that these practices can have both at an individual level and beyond in cultivating communities that are rooted in kindness and care.
http://www.jilnashah.co.uk/
Learn more about the Mending Together program: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/mending/
Join my free printmaking workshop: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/d8b1s4
Hey friends,
I have a sweet Sunday solo episode for you in which I am sharing:
- Some things that will change in this space & why
- What's up in my own practices at the moment and what I am loving in autumn
- An invitation to a free printmaking workshop, join over here: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/d8b1s4
- Creative Nature plans for 2022
- What the Mending Together program, which starts in a few weeks, will look & feel like, more info is here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/mending/
I hope you'll enjoy this check in, recorded in my reclining chair overlooking the forth bridge
Hey sweet ones,
this is just a brief little announcement episode to say that creative space sessions are back AND I am also offer queer art magic sessions starting this Sunday.
These are for patrons at any level and I would love to see you there
Hey friends,
I'm happy to celebrate the beginning of autumn in the Northern hemisphere with you all by sharing this absolutely delightful interview with Alice Sparkly Kat. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Relating to the plants and relating to our bodies
- Alice's book about postcolonial astrology
- How astrology can help us write new stories and re-imagine our beliefs and identities
- How to get started diving deeper into astrology
Enjoy!
Alice Sparkly Kat is an astrologer. They use astrology to re-chart a history of the subconscious, redefine the body in world, and reimagine history as collective memory. Their astrological work has inhabited MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Brooklyn Museum. They're the author of Postcolonial Astrology.
Alice's website: https://alicesparklykat.com/
The upcoming Stories weekend: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stories/
Mending Together: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/mending/
Hey friends,
this is a short & sweet episode to tell you more about the back to school sale I’m running till September 21st.
Everything I do, including my stories virtual retreat, mending together course, web design, business mentoring & all my courses is 30% off. I’m doing this for two reasons: Firstly after a challenging year I am creating more stability and predictability in my work as we’re heading into winter. I love what I do and I want to make sure I’ll schedule time off and work on one thing at a time with my whole heart. And secondly I’d like to offer you a substantial discount to make working with me more affordable. So it’s a win-win!
Tune in to hear more and feel free to check the book details out here: https://yarrowdigital.com/back-to-school-sale/
Love,
Yarrow
Hey everyone,
I'm so happy it's September. I kind of can't believe it's going to be 2022 in less than fourth month, but I am grateful autumn is coming. I'm excited to get cozy with books, light candles and sleep more. Deep fucking breath!
In this episode I am talking about my experience as a distance learner. Ten years ago I got my first degree from the Open University, the world's largest distance university, which was an amazing experience that I never regretted. I returned in October 2020 to study philosophy and really loved diving into a new subject this past school year. Distance learning isn't for everyone, but for me it's been a chance to learn in my own way (at home where I am cozy and so much less overwhelmed!), to avoid debt and to explore subjects I am genuinely curious about. Through the pandemic it has also built my confidence and helped me feel connected to something beyond my four walls.
I wanted to share my experiences and thoughts in case you're interested in distance learning too and because I wish more people knew about it as a valid option.
Here is more about the OU: https://www.open.ac.uk/courses
Here is my Stories weekend: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stories/
Here are the tarot readings I offer: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/tarotstories/
and here is my Patreon if you want to join the creative space session: https://www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves
Hey everyone,
mmmhhhh. Today is one of those spacious Sunday that allows for rambly solo episodes recorded in bed with tea & biscuits.
I know many of us have been holding out for summer for a long time and now that it's coming to an end the pressure to have fun and be out there can be tangible. And then there is the world with its news, the uncertainty of winter and the need to process at least a bit of what we have experienced this past year and a half. This episode is a permission slip to be where you're at and to remember that being sad is okay. You can be sad and still have nice experiences! You can also make time for grief and still feel joy!
Maybe this time is an invitation for us to expand our capacity to be with multiple, complicated and beautifully human feelings at once.
Love,
Yarrow
The Embodied Business Community: https://yarrowdigital.com/diy-business-school/
Stories Weekend: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stories/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves
Hey friends,
I'm reaching out with an episode that I hope will bring some comfort in these heavy times. Speaking to Risa & Amy of Missing Witches was truly such a joy and a great reminder of how powerful witchcraft is. I hope you'll enjoy listening as much as I loved asking questions. Here is some of what we talked about:
- How and why the Missing Witches project came to be
- What it means to live in feminist magic
- Witchcraft as a sense of personal power
- How nothing is mundane and everything is sacred
Risa Dickens has an undergraduate honours baccalaureate in English Literature and a masters in Communications Studies. She helped found Worn Fashion Journal writing feminist fashion history. Since then she has worked in community building, marketing and PR in tech for over 15 years. Amy Torok is an ESL teacher, counter-culture enthusiast, professional musician and visual artist/designer with a B.A. in English Literature and a post-graduate diploma in Journalism. Risa and Amy were on a similar track, community and event organizing in Montreal, when they met backstage at a ukulele showcase. Together they’ve worked their magic to create music, a coven, a podcast, and now a book. Both Risa and Amy live tucked into the woods of Quebec.
https://www.missingwitches.com/
The EBC: https://yarrowdigital.com/diy-business-school/
Stories Weekend: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/stories/
Mending Together: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/mending/
Hey dreamers,
ahhh. What a time to be alive.
I've been having a lot of feelings this new moon and I got my second vaccine on Friday. This led me to think about the vaccine/no vaccine "debates" that are circulating our collective consciousness and it frankly made me feel heartbroken to say the least.
Then the IPCC report on climate change came out today and I wanted to speak to that too... honestly, this episode is a stream of consciousness because that's all I got for you today.
I wish for us to become more intimate with grief and anger, with healthy conflict & with each other
Hey dreamers,
it's a sweet summer day over here, a perfect time really to be soft and think about the ways we want to love, hold & accept ourselves. I've known my guest Danette Relic for many years and have learned SO much from her, she truly is one of the best cheer leaders and permission givers I've ever met. Here is some of what we talked about:
- What it means to be in radical self-engagement
- How Danette got married to herself and how it has changed her life
- Permission, creativity & love
- Growing up just wanting to fall in love & be an artist
Danette Relic is a Canadian artist, self love coach and future author. Married to herself since 2001. From a young age Danette wanted two things: to be an artist and to fall in love. Her early art career moved from gallery spaces to round tables where she helped others explore their own creative voices through personal reflection, visual art and writing. Danette’s multifaceted work continues to illuminate the relationship between self love and creative expression with The Art of Self Marriage.
After a brain injury in 2018 challenged her capacity for reading and writing, she found the joy of using her voice to serve in new ways by starting The Soft Shoulder Podcast.
Danette's Self-Marriage program: https://www.radicalcreativesanctuary.com/self-marriage/
Danette's podcast: https://www.radicalcreativesanctuary.com/podcasts/
The feedback form for Creative Nature: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfi5b2NvkfCwH1KPjnFzGwPaTYX1UcLtts-WOfioASpY5RoPg/viewform?ml_subscriber=%7B$report_subscriber_id%7D&ml_subscriber_hash=%7B$report_subscriber_code%7D
The Mending Together program I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/mending/
The Embodied Business Community: https://yarrowdigital.com/diy-business-school/
Hey everyone,
this is a little exploratory solo episode, recorded on a break from watching Love Island, lol. I've been getting back into doing little readings for myself and others and I wanted to share a bit about how being away from instagram has changed things, how I make time for super low energy rituals at the moment and how it helps me tell better stories about what's going on for me. Tarot as casual narrative therapy basically!
Enjoy and as promised find all links here:
Free grief tending session: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/x8m2e7
Audio recorded tarot readings: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/tarotstories/
Feedback form for your fall/winter time wishes: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfi5b2NvkfCwH1KPjnFzGwPaTYX1UcLtts-WOfioASpY5RoPg/viewform
Handmade prints: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/prints/
Hey friends,
I've been living without social media and a smartphone for a while now and it's something that does seem to raise questions for people. Recently I dug my old iPhone back out because I wanted to share pictures of my garden and my cast post-surgery and it made me pause to see how it felt and if I had missed it. This episode isn't trying to convince anyone to ditch their phones or apps or whatever it is that makes them happy, especially right now. I just wanted to check in with myself, gather some reflections and then share them with you in case you're looking for that kind of food for thought right now.
Enjoy!
Free virtual business retreat: https://yarrowdigital.com/summer-retreat/
Free grief tending session: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/x8m2e7
Hey beloved listeners,
it is time for one of my slightly rambly solo episodes full of feelings and reflections!
This time I am sharing some thoughts about navigating the pandemic with its touch starvation, loneliness, endless space to think and wild dreams as a survivor. There is nothing particularly graphic in here, fyi. I talk about my experience in hospital, reengaging with the world, what I am wishing for in our future, what beautiful aspects I want to hold on to , accessibility and how I came to a more empowered place of reframing some experiences I've had. Some of this is really positive and hopeful, some of it is challenging, all of it is complex I guess.
Enjoy!
You can sign up for the free grief tending session here if you like: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/x8m2e7
Hey everyone,
I'm so happy to bring this episode your way! It's given me a lot of joy & hope to listen back just now and I hope you'll feel the same. Kes is an absolute creative community building dream babe and has also been on episode #27. Here is some of what we talked about:
- How the pandemic has changed creative lives
- Making things more accessible & opening up new possibilities
- Writing powerful trans women and radical sex workers
- Our love for life & non-human nature
Kes Otter Lieffe is a working class, chronically ill, femme, trans woman. She is an author, teacher and community organiser currently based in Berlin.
Kes is the author of a trilogy of trans feminist novels—Margins and Murmurations, Conserve and Control and Dignity. Her short story Synergy was published in ‘Our Entangled Future’ an anthology on social change and the climate crisis. Her short story Soft was published in the beautiful anthology on queer resilience, Glitter + Ashes. Kes is also the author of the colouring zine, Queer Animals, published by Microcosm, which will be made soon into a full colouring book.
Kes facilitates workshops on subjects including trans-competency, queer ecology and consensus and has taught in various contexts from squats to universities. She also runs writing classes and has an online course, Writing from the Margins.
Here is the sign up for the grief tending session I am offering on July 31st: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/x8m2e7
Hey everyone,
I'm happy to send a conversation with the wonderful Ravel Rose your way - I really loved talking to her and being reminded how important it is to take my time and listen to my body. Enjoy!
I would also like to invite you to a free grief tending session on July 31st - this is going to be a gentle way to meet up online and reflect on this past year with some journaling, meditation and ritual: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/x8m2e7
If you're a small business person you're also really welcome to join my free virtual summer retreat - a whole weekend of business dreaming, inspiring workshops and the chance to meet like minded people: https://yarrowdigital.com/summer-retreat/
Here is some of the magic Raven and I talked about for this interview:
- Shedding shame about our bodies
- Finding gateway plant friends
- Working with dreams as a way to navigate life
- How food can impact all aspects of our being
Visionary and medicine woman Raven Rose, was called to her path while in search of natural remedies to overcome her debilitating menstrual pain. On that quest she became a menstrual health herbalist, Kambo practitioner, and revived many of her ancestral medicines. In her practice Moon Medicine, Raven helps others restore balance to their menstrual cycles, through embracing a cyclical lifestyle, traditional healing practices, and restoring ancestral wisdom. moonmedicine.co
Hey friends,
can you believe it's June now? I am the slowest at emerging from my deep hibernation, so if you are also unfurling cautiously you are not alone!
I'm really happy to bring a beautiful conversation with Mary Grace Allerdice as well as a whole bunch of invitations for free summer magic your way. Mary was such a wonderful and generous guest and I loved listening back just now. So soothing! Here is some of what we talked about:
- Experiencing our bodies as a part of the natural world
- Working with both physical and emotional alignment
- All the things gardening can teach us
- Looking to the stars and understanding life as a circle
"I use astrology, divination, energetic healing + oracular practices to help others find their purpose, connect to wisdom + guidance, access their own healing, and bridge life's difficult moments or transitions. As a facilitator, I create sessions + programs that guide you towards a life that is in alignment with your own heart. I am also a dance artist, writer and podcaster who currently lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and garden." https://www.mgallerdice.com/ Free intro to branding workshop: https://yarrowdigital.com/intro-to-branding-workshop/ Free virtual summer retreat: https://yarrowdigital.com/summer-retreat/ Create & Launch program starting July 4th: https://yarrowdigital.com/create-launch/
Hey everyone,
mmmhhh. This is a good one! I've known Meghan for a while and really love her work & approach and hope you will too. This interview ties so beautifully with where I am at at the moment - appreciating that inner and outer seasons can be different and letting myself be where I am. I shared about this a bit in the intro and I hope that if you feel the same you know you are not alone. Here is some of what Meghan and I talked about:
- Trauma informed somatics and movement
- Gender inclusive work around cycles and seasons
- Living in a rhythm that does not fit into capitalist society
- The beauty of really listening to our bodies
Meghan Norean (she/her) is a womb witch and cyclical living guide weaving together cycle magic for regeneration of body + earth + community. She creates sacred space for womb-bodied beings to journey into remembrance + reclamation of their power through ritual, bodyfulness, meditation and archetypal energy work. Meghan works within a trauma-informed, healing-centered, somatic-based, anti-capitalistic framework in her online offerings. She can often be seen in the wild dancing, reading, performing spells and hand crafting womb-based embroidery.
Meghan’s work is informed by the lands that run through her blood, birth and love. She has Celtic + Germanic ancestral lineage. She was birthed on Turtle Island, the traditional lands of the Susquehannock, now known as Pennsylvania. She has spent the last 10 years living + working in Kolkata, India, the land of the Bengali people, where she met and fell in love with her partner.
Free offerings: https://meghannorean.com/free
IG: https://instagram.com/meghan.norean Here is the invite to the free business summer retreat I mentioned: https://yarrowdigital.com/summer-retreat/ and here is more info about the upcoming free branding workshop: https://yarrowdigital.com/intro-to-branding-workshop/
Hey sweet listeners,
it appears that it is indeed May, what a surprise! It took me a little while to publish this episode, but now that I did it feels perfectly times for the height of spring and the playful plant exploration offers itself to us everywhere. Kate Husted was a wonderful guest who shared so generously in a way that made me laugh, nourished me and left me feeling more curious and hopeful. Here is some of what we talked about:
- Making friends with the plants around us
- Working with anxiety in times of upheaval
- Running a free herbal clinic
- Unraveling systemic harm as a white settler herbalist
Kate Husted is a plant person, clinical herbalist, teacher, writer, and founder of The Herb Hut Free Clinic. Her non-profit organization provides free and mobile herbal medicine to underserved communities. Her online courses provide practical tools for engaging with the sacred, and healing our relationship with the natural world. She lives in the ancestral home of the Southern Ute people in Southwest Colorado.
https://www.katehustedherbalist.com/
http://www.theherbhutfreeclinic.com
Hey everyone,
I hope spring is making you feel hopeful and a bit lighter if you're in the Northern hemisphere. I'm happy to send another interview with the wonderful Eryn Johnson, who was also my guest in episode number 65, your way. Talking to Eryn is always a delight and I'm sorry it took me so long to publish this one! Here is some of what we talked about:
- Working with the grief that the pandemic has brought up
- Aligning our work with our values and what that can practically look like
- Releasing shoulds and shame to find our voice and express it
- How we can hold ourselves and each other through this time
Eryn Johnson (she/her) is a breathwork facilitator, tarot reader, and Reiki Master based in Fishtown, Philadelphia. She is also the host of the Living Open podcast for mystics and seekers, a storytelling tool here to support you on your healing journey. Her work focuses on breath and energy work for the heart, intended to help come back to yourself - back to your power, back to your magic, back to your heart. Back to who you were before everyone told you who and how to be.
https://www.living-open.com/
*Learn more about the Embodied Business Community: https://yarrowdigital.com/diy-business-school/
Take the web design course I mentioned: https://yarrowdigital.com/web-design-adventure-course/
Hey everyone,
I'm so happy to share this episode with you - a true joy to record. I hope you'll enjoy it too and check Jamee's work out below. Here is what we talked about:
- How Jamee came to the healing arts and how the pandemic has changed his work
- What decolonizing medicine means to him and why stinky food matters so much
- What gateways to ancestral connection we can explore
- The magic of food as ritual, as healing, as a practice of reclamation
There is a content note for colonial violence roughly 20 to 28 minutes into this episode, take care of yourself and skip this if you like.
I am a hilot binabaylan, acupuncturist, and Chinese medicine practitioner. My practice is informed by my identity as a queer, trans, non binary, Tagalog person living in the U.S. With the combination of my lived experience and training, my goal is to help individuals and communities live their fullest lives by offering a decolonizing approach to medicine rooted in traditional and ancestral practices.
Here are all of Jamee's links, including the sign up for the upcoming workshop: https://linktr.ee/Jameepinedahealingarts
This is the Embodied Business Community I mentioned: https://yarrowdigital.com/diy-business-school/
And here is the Web Design Course: https://yarrowdigital.com/web-design-adventure-course/
Hey everyone,
I'm excited to send this conversation with Darcy Leigh your way! I love Darcy's zines and I hope that all the imaginary permissions slips we've handed out to ourselves in this episode will make you feel excited to DIY more things too. Here is what we talked about:
- How Darcy co-founded a press and why stamps are permission giving magic
- How the butch archive came to be
- What it's like to write and share very personal stuff
- Creating our own creative processes to survive academia
Darcy Leigh co-runs @easterroadpress, an insurrectionary transfeminist press based in Scotland. She is into DIY everything, from her zines about butch bodies, to her DIY archiving and curation at butcharchive.com. Themes from her work include fatness, transness, tits, ambivalence, Jewishness and psychiatry. She lives half in Edinburgh, half in Brighton (it’s complicated), and appreciates pigeons, innovative zine folds and dark truths. When not in queer zine land, Darcy works in the ivory tower and is also committed to its destruction (aka, is a Lecturer in Law who researches the ongoing history of the British Empire).
This is the Easter Road Press Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/EasterRoadZines
Easter Road Press on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/easterroadpress/
Glasgow Zine Fest on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glasgowzinelib/
Here is the web design workshop I mentioned in the beginning: https://yarrowdigital.com/intro-do-diy-web-design-workshop/
Enjoy!
Hey everyone! It's spring (in the Northern hemnisphere)!
This episode feels so joyful and spring-like, it seemed like perfect timing for this week. My guest is Anjuli Sherin is a therapist and writer specialising in trauma recovery and the cultivation of joy. Here is some of what we talked about:
- The cycle of suffering and the circle of resilience
- Anjuli's path towards joy and what she learned along the way
- Limitations of the "Western mental health mindset"
- Building exquisite self-care as well as an intersectional approach wellness, joy and resilience
Anjuli was really generous and shared so much from her practice, creativity and experience - I hope there is lots in here that might provide some inspiration for you too.
Anjuli Sherin, M.A., is a Pakistani-American licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in trauma recovery, resilience building and cultivating joy. She has 15 years of practice working with immigrant, South Asian, Middle Eastern, Muslim and LGBTQI+ populations. Sherin received her B.A. in sociology and anthropology from Mary Washington University and her M.A. from CIIS. She has trained and mentored with leading figures in trauma recovery and energy psychology, including Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Staci Haines and Vianna Stibal. In addition to awards for academic excellence and community service, Sherin received the 2007 Emerging Leader Award from the E-women Network and has been featured in O Magazine as a finalist for the O Magazine/White House Leadership Project. Her new book is Joyous Resilience: A Path to Individual Healing and Collective Thrivingin an Inequitable World. Learn more at: www.anjulisherinmft.com.
Here is the link for the free web design workshop: https://yarrowdigital.com/intro-do-diy-web-design-workshop/
and here is more info on the Embodied Ritual Community:
https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/embodied-ritual-community/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes.
I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming.
You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com If you'd like to receive my newsletter you can sign up here. ⋒
Hey sweet listener,
in this short & sweet solo episode I am talking about self-massage and why I love it so much. Specifically I have shared:
- How much I miss touch during the pandemic and what helps me with it's absence
- Why I find consent with self important and how I practice better listening
- How I engage my senses in my rituals and how that helps me prepare for bed
I am also hosting a live workshop on Sunday, 14th of March at 6pm UK time that will be available to all members of the Embodied Ritual Community alongside another ritual kit for the moon cycle. You can join by becoming a Patreon at any level, learn more here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/embodied-ritual-community/
Hopefully see you soon!
Love,
Yarrow
Hey everyone,
I am excited to share this new episode with you - it's been recorded in September last year, but feels super relevant right now as we are navigating the change of season into spring and for most of us the anniversary of going into lockdown. My guest Avni Trivedi is a beautiful bodyworker and educator with so much wisdom to share about staying grounded and listening to our bodies! On this note I'd also like to invite you to a self-massage workshop I am offering in the Embodied Ritual Community in March, learn more and join here. For now I hope you'll enjoy this episode as much as I did! Here is what we talked about:
- How our bodies navigate lockdown
- Allowing ourselves grief
- The importance of touch and how we can reconnect with our own bodies
- Living cyclically and trusting our bodies' wisdom
Avni Trivedi is an experienced Osteopath, Doula, Zero Balancer and Women's Intuitive Health Expert. Having spent much of her life on a learning path, Avni is qualified in a multitude of disciplines including paediatric and women's health osteopathy, zero balancing, reiki and NLP and she is a birth doula. Avni works beyond the realms of traditional osteopathy, bringing in to play a mix of zero balancing and a carefully considered range of skills so that she can truly discover and treat the underlying health issues and imbalances that may be causing problems.
www.avni-touch.com @avnitouch on instagram and twitter
Learn more and join the Embodied Business Community here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/embodied-ritual-community/
Hey everyone,
thank you so much for all the wellbeing wishes for my broken leg, I really appreciate them
Hey everyone,
a hundred episodes! Wow. This feels really special and I am so grateful for your support. This is a celebratory episode, of course, but I also have a lot of updates to share. Listen in if you wanna hear about:
- How I broke my leg on NYE and what I am learning about healing & recovery
- The movement for trauma training I'll do next month
- My art practice and what printmaking magic you can expect in 2021
- Why I chose simplicity and presence as my words for the year and how I am working with them
- How I am gathering together all my past Patreon offerings into one community space on Mighty Networks that you can join
- What's next for the podcast
Honestly my key takeaway is that all the small things matter. All the journaling and looking out of the window and reading and dreaming, it all meant something and it all will continue to mean something across time and space and through whatever we have yet to go through. So thank you for coming along!
Here is more info about the Embodied Ritual Community: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/embodied-ritual-community/
Thank you so much for listening and happy new year!
Love,
Yarrow
Hey everyone,
here we are, we made it to the very end of 2020!
I wanted to record this episode to say thank you and also to give anyone who needs it permission to not make new year's eve resolutions. We've done enough by just making it through this year without abandoning ourselves and we deserve a gift to celebrate that instead of another to do. Of course if you have a resolution that feels good I am happy for you! But if you are celebrating alone today too and want to hear some thoughts about nice rituals and getting cozy then I hope this episode will feel nice to listen to!
Much love,
Yarrow
Embodied Business Community: https://yarrowdigital.com/diy-business-school/
Creative Space Sessions: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/weekly-creative-space-sessions/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host.
My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes.
I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming.
You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hiii!
First of all, thank you so so much for all your love, encouragement and support this year. I've been feeling it and it means the world to me.
In this last episode of 2020 I've been reflecting on what it means to let things be enough, at least for now. Going into the winter break I want to let go of all the shoulds and could haves and just allow myself to rest and digest. I hope you'll do the same!
Listen in for some updates and plans for 2021 as well as some thoughts on 2020 and being good enough.
Love,
Yarrow
https://www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host.
My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes.
I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming.
You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey loved listeners,
I seem to be in a good podcasting flow at the moment and am happy to bring another interview with the wonderful Sam Wallen your way. Writing has been so precious to me this year, so I am glad for any chance to talk about the practice and magic of putting words to paper. Without further ado here is what we talked about: Exploring what really wants to be written and telling the truth Writing as a restorative practice The importance of having our work received by the world How stories change our realities and shape the future
Samantha Wallen is a writer, writing coach, burgeoning deep ecologist, and poet at heart. She offers transformative writing workshops, group and private coaching programs, and retreats for writers, want-to-be writers, and non-writers alike so they can discover their voice, clarify the deep value, purpose, and focus of their writing, and develop structures for committing to a sustainable and nourishing writing life and practice. Sam’s mission is to restore the soul, one word at a time. Her work centers around what she calls, “Restorative Writing” and the “Restorative Writing Cycle.” Restorative Writing is writing that seeks to connect to the deeper meaning of life in order to revive and restore our relationship to the precious, invisible essence at the heart of the living world. It's writing that longs to be witnessed and known by others, and writing that uses words as a pathway to reach what lives beyond language so that we might reach others and bring deeper connection to, and understanding of, what it means to be human in these strange and unprecedented times. It’s writing that seeks to touch, express, and restore our souls, and the soul of our world.
Website: https://samanthawallen.com/ Free Gift: https://samanthawallen.com/freegift/
Upcoming Group Program: https://samanthawallen.com/beyondthejournalprogram/ Sign up for the free Christmas party I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/christmas-party/ Find my prints here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/prints/
Hey sweet listeners, thank you so much for your kind feedback on my past few solo episodes. I always thought interviews are where it's at, but this year I have actually really enjoyed listening to people ramble by themselves, so I thought I would do more of that too. In this episode I'm talking about how I am thinking of this time as a really long pyjama party by myself with lots of YA books, crafting, teenage feelings and Dawson's Creek, but also a healthy dose of adult cynicism. There are also some thoughts on what I actually want to invite back into my life when the pandemic is over and how I prepare to gently socially re-emerge when it's time. Here is more info about the creative space sessions I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/weekly-creative-space-sessions/
As always thank you for listening
Hey friends, I thought it might be nice to step away from the news for a moment in election week to reorient myself to something I really love - having honest conversations with magical people. Speaking to Mimi Young was really beautiful and I hope this conversation will bring some inspiration and comfort your way. Here is some of what we talked about: Connecting to Spirit Moving through this year with grounding and integrity Exploring what solitude really means Nurturing ancestral connections Healing the witch wound Mimi Young is a shamanic witch and founder of Ceremonie (@shopceremonie), an esoteric brand focusing on in-person and online core shamanic and occult education, Remote Shamanic Readings, and plant potions for skin and aura. Mimi works with a blend of modalities including core shamanism, plant spirit healing, chao magick, and Chinese esoterics, with a focus on healing through shadows, dream work, divination, ancestral connection, and psychic development. She is also a neurofeedback practitioner (@openmindsperformance), where she supports others in accessing their peak via neurological resilience. It's this intersection of ancient and frontier that she finds most fascinating and effective for human expansion. Though possessing psychic gifts her whole life, Mimi stepped into this line of work “by accident” while on bedrest for 5 months during her second child’s pregnancy. Having an alinear background in design, education, and clean tech, she sees her background as a way to relate, to be curious together, and to live our most aligned selves.
Ceremonie: https://shopceremonie.com/ @shopceremonie Open Minds Performance: https://www.openmindsperformance.com/ @openmindsperformance Mystery Mentorship: https://shopceremonie.com/mystery-mentorship If you'd like to join my Saturday Creative Space sessions you can become a Patreon here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/for-patrons/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey everyone, how are you doing and feeling? It's a lot, isn't it? This weekend is both Samhain and a blue moon in Taurus, so I wanted to send some love, some resources and some ideas your way. I am also sharing what rituals I'll do this weekend and I have an exciting announcement for low cost creativity sessions this winter.
Here are the podcasts I've mentioned: https://daphnecohn.com/podcasts/ https://forthewild.world/
Some books I am reading - Why we make things and why it matter by Peter Korn and If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
My book Rituals: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/book/
If you'd like to join the creativity sessions this winter you can become a Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves Wherever you are and whatever you do I hope you'll have some moments of rest and sweetness!
Love, Yarrow
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, I am sharing this solo episode on both my podcasts - Daydreaming Wolves and the DIY Small Business podcast because it feels relevant to both projects. I came across the expression voluntary simplicity this week and it's been intensely on my ever since. While I never resonated with "voluntary poverty" there is so much freedom and pleasure in keeping things simple. So in this episode I am exploring how I am valuing simplicity in my life - in the home I bought, the ways in which I allow my business to stagnate, in how I try to get better at letting things be what they are and be led by my values rather than dominant narratives. I am asking what it can look life to be right sized in the space we take up, to find our own kind of success and am also giving a little update on smartphone free life, in case you're interested. Let me know what you think!
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey everyone,
this is just a little seasonal check in - I am sharing what I am doing to prepare for winter, about my new home in Scotland, about my worries for the world and the things I am working on at the moment.
I recorded this sitting in bed on a Sunday afternoon while the dogs are sleeping and I hope it arrives in your space like a little soft cloud full of pandemic reflections
Hey everyone, I am sorry for the unexpected podcasting pause! Much has happened in the world, I have moved to a new home and I just didn't have the headspace to edit & upload a new episode in a little while. But I am back and excited to share thoughts and conversations in this way. Today I am sending a wonderful interview with Allison Carr to you - she recently wrote a really touching zine called Sovereign and so around that we explored finding our own truth, questioning authority and teachers and connecting with our bodies. Allison shared what somatic practices mean to her, what kind of experiences she has made in healing trauma and she also gave us a really great intro to poly-vagal theory. I am really excited to share this as the first episode of autumn and I think as we go into the darker part of the year in the Northern hemisphere there is so much to explore and treasure here. Enjoy!
Allison Carr is a queer witch, healer, writer, mother and licensed acupuncturist, currently living on the traditional territories of the of the Tanana Dene peoples, also known as Alaska. She is a 10th generation settler of Scottish, German and Scandinavian descent and is sustained by the land she lives on and her relationship with the plants that grow there. She is the creator of the Sacred Wheel Podcast, author of the memoir zine: Sovereign, and offers online sessions in compassionate witnessing and somatic regulation, as well as an online class about regulating your nervous system and the occasional class about magic.
Find out more about her at http://allisoncarr.net Instagram: @allisoncarrmagic Resilience Course: https://resiliencecrashcourse.teachery.co/the-resilience-course Order the Zine: https://allisoncarr.net/the-sovereign-zine-order-page/ I also mentioned my upcoming pay what you can writing program called Dream: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/dream-program/ which you can join through my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey everyone, I'm happy to be back with a beautiful interview episode - I talked to Katherine May (a fellow writer!) about her book Wintering, our experience of the pandemic, the creative process and many other interesting things. I dropped deep into her writing this summer and read her book in just three sittings, which is magic in pandemic attention span terms. I hope you'll receive some comfort and inspiration from hearing about her thoughts too! Here is some of what we explored: - What it means to accept seasons if Wintering - Being a wild swimmer and how it is the best thing ever - Being with the truth of loss, disappointment and failure - Self-acceptance and finding your people after an autism diagnosis later in life - Writing anti-self-help books
Katherine May is an author of fiction and memoir whose titles include Wintering, The Electricity of Every Living Thing, The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club, The 52 Seductions, Burning Out, and Ghosts & Their Uses. She is the editor of The Best, Most Awful Job, an anthology of essays about motherhood. Her journalism and essays have appeared in a range of publications including The Times, The Observer, Good Housekeeping and Aeon. Previously the Programme Director for Creative Writing at Canterbury Christ Church University, Katherine currently works as a literary scout for Lucy Abrahams Literary Scouting and a freelance editor for organisations including Faber Academy and Audible. She lives in Whitstable, Kent with her husband and son.
Twitter.com/_katherine_may_ instagram.com/katherinemay_ www.katherine-may.co.uk *** Here is my book Rituals, which I mentioned in the intro: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/book/ And here is the writing program called Dream: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/dream-program/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey everyone, I'm so happy to send this interview with Sheree Mack your way - it's been beautiful to talk to her and I got so much inspiration from the way she approaches creativity, nature and life in general. Here is some of what we talked about: How Sheree experienced the pandemic Wild swimming and reclaiming a place in nature as a black woman The magic of mixed media memoir Tending to grief through ritual and connection to nature Facilitating collaborative creative projects for women of colour My practice manifests through poetry, storytelling, image and the unfolding histories of black people. I engage audiences around black women’s voices and bodies, black feminism, ecology and memory. I facilitate national and international creative workshops and retreats in the landscape, encouraging and supporting women on their journey of remembrance back to their authentic selves. I'm currently writing a mixed-genre memoir around a black woman's body with/in Nature. As the Project Coordinator for a Heritage Lottery Funded project, I’ve been working with Northumberland National Park Authority, Durham Wildlife Trust and the National Trust, to offer opportunities to BAME communities to spend time outdoors to develop and deepen our relationship with nature.
https://www.patreon.com/shereemack https://earthsealove.com/ As promised here is the link to my book: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/book/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey loved readers,
I am feeling both shy and excited about this one, I am reading from my first book called Rituals - simple & radical practices for enchantment in times of crisis. I'm also sharing a few little life updates and a preview of my upcoming journaling program DREAM.
If you like you can buy my book here: www.yarrowmagdalena.com/book/ and if you have a minute I would also totally appreciate a review
Hey everyone, happy Friday! I'm bringing you a really nourishing and inspiring conversation with Quai Nystrom - we recorded it in mid March and it kind of feels like my last "normal" recording, it reminds me of #lastnormalpicture on instagram. I really love Quai's work, their approach to gentle & active participation in our day to day healing and all the wisdom they have to share about plants. I hope you'll get as much out of listening as I did!
Here is some of what we talked about: -The beauty of being curious about our experiences -Embracing little bits of healing in day to day life -Plants as allies on our trauma recovery journey -Finding ways to actively participate in our healthcare
Quai (they/she) is an herbalist, psychotherapist and perpetual learner. Their work focuses on healing trauma, easing anxiety and discovering the connectedness of emotional experience and bodies. In other words, she believes that if you want to adequately address struggles then you can’t talk about emotional experience without including the body. In their herbalism practice, Quai seeks to go to the roots. This means tending to the inner layers of each individual while applying awareness of what they navigate in the outer world. She tunes into identity, lived experiences and culture. Additionally, Quai’s work considers the resources and relationships to others and the environment that each person brings. Quai has been offering counseling and therapy for over 15 years and herbalism for the past 4. As an herbalist craft, ritual and utility inspires them to be a plant-person matchmaker. Quai is based in New York City, but her herbal work is sometimes done remotely. They aim to reach those who are interested in care-full, conscious use of botanicals and practices that go slow in order to go deep. Quai uses both they and she pronouns to honor androgynous, fluid and feminine aspects of their personhood. If this is new to you, you can read up on gender queer, non-binary, and gender fluid identities to learn more. http://discoverspace.me/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey everyone, happy Friday! I'm coming your way with a short solo episode - a few announcements about my book and upcoming programs as well as some resources and thoughts about staying engaged in anti-racism work beyond the current wave of protest. It's great that so many more of us are joining in conversations and in action and I hope that we can work together to make sure this movement is never dying down again. I'm talking a bit about how I would like to do better for the podcast, what has helped me stay engaged and also I would like to share a bunch of resources with you:
Books I mentioned: Why I no longer talk about race with white people by Reni Eddo-Lodge, My grandmother's hands by Resmaa Menakem, The Colour Purple by Alice Walker as well as Pleasure Activism and Emergent Stategy by adrienne maree brown. I also mentioned Black Minds Matter UK http://blackmindsmatter.co.uk/and the How to survive the end of the world podcast: https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/ Black owned bookshops & other businesses to support: https://www.ukblackowned.co.uk/ A reading from "The Well" by brontë velez on the for the wild podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20NFKSfxEcI
...this is just a small start, I am committed to bringing you more conversations and resources to continue this work. Thank you for listening!
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey everyone, I hope you're safe and okay and that you are supporting the fight against police violence and anti-blackness wherever you are in any way you can. I'm sending a beautiful conversation about tending to grief in times of crisis with Shauna Janz your way. It was so good to listen back to it just now and I'm just really grateful to be able to share it with you. Here is some of what we talked about: - Holding healing space for loss - Developing grief literacy and activism - Slowing down and becoming still to examine dominant narratives - Holding the both/and of these times - What it might mean to become embodied
Shauna Janz (she/her) is dedicated to tending belonging in our world - within ourselves, with each other, and with our other-than-human relations. She creates space for reaching into the rough and beautiful places that are a catalyst for transformation and healing, personally and collectively, through grief work, embodiment, ritual and ancestral healing. Shauna has been serving individuals, families, communities and organizations since 2008, and recently launched an online school of Sacred Grief. Her offerings are trauma-informed, somatic-based and anchored in the resiliency of the human spirit, healing justice and animist values. She resides in Victoria, BC, on the west coast of Canada - traditional lands of the Coast Salish people. She is a lover of inspiration and creativity, and can be found dancing, playing music, and walking in the wilds of nature and mystical communion. Her ancestors are from the lands of Scot Celtic, northern Germanic and Nordic cultures. www.shaunajanz.com www.sacredgrief.com We mentioned my zine called Our Bodies as Anti Capitalist Business Mentors which you can sign up for for free alongside a summer workshop series on small business mentors that I am offering here: https://yarrowdigital.com/free-workshops/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey sweet listeners, thank you so much for joining me for another episode! It's my honour to bring you a conversation with Adrienne Sloan, who spoke so beautifully about things that really matter to me right now. I hope this episode will bring you some joy and comfort as you go about your day. I also want to say that I am in full support of the protests against police violence and that I hope 2020 will be a year of lasting change beyond what we can imagine right now. I know my work as a white person isn't done by just naming my solidarity and I'm committed to showing up in better ways now and in the future. I'm currently completing my book Rituals and am therefore taking a break from social media, but I'll be back soon. Here is some of what Adrienne and I talked about: - Small rituals for daily connection with our ancestors - Staying present with our grief - De-centering human relationships as a way to deepen our sense of belonging - Cultivating practices for times of quarantine - Finding comfort in uncertainty -How Adrienne understands animism
Adrienne Sloan is a child of the 70’s, a wanderer between worlds who holds space for visionaries and creatives to embody connection with their ancestors and their deep-time kin. She is dedicated to the unraveling of human-centered narratives through exploration in the imaginal realms. Adrienne is the granddaughter of Jean Lorraine, Elizabeth Ann, Dorothy, Netta, Jenny, and Paloma. https://adriennesloan.com/ https://www.patreon.com/adriennesloan If you'd like to support the podcast and get access to my zines, my upcoming book and my programs you can become a Patreon here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/for-patrons/
Hey everyone, I hope this episode with the wonderful Emily Cross finds you well and safe. I really, really loved talking to Emily about her work as an end of life doula and a facilitator of living funeral ceremonies. Our conversation covers things like fear of death, natural burials, living with embodied death awareness and what it's like to participate in one of her living funeral ceremonies. If you feel curious and open to thinking about your own mortality and are in the right place to engage with thoughts around death I think you might really enjoy listening to this episode. If you like you can also consider joining the next virtual ceremony on June 5th, the link is below and here is a video that will give you a better idea of what to expect: https://youtu.be/da_NJjqwGtw
Emily Cross is an end-of-life doula, musician, and artist living in Austin, TX. After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where her visual artwork centered around mortality and loss, she moved to Austin and quickly became integrated within the arts and music scene. In 2015 she decided to pursue a career serving the dying, and earned professional certifications from the University of Vermont and from Quality of Life Care. She established Steady Waves End of Life Services in 2017 and brings her unique set of skills to her work with the dying and their families. You can sign up for the virtual living funeral ceremony on June 5th here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=15983494&appointmentType=14314217 https://steadywaveseol.com/ https://www.virtuallivingfuneral.com/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Happy Beltane & May Day sweet listeners! I recorded this episode with the wonderful Lara Veleda Vesta quite some time ago and felt bad for publishing it so late, but listening back to our conversation just now made me realise that the timing is just perfect - Lara has so much wisdom and beauty to share around rites of passage and working through really difficult times. I love her work and am honoured to be one of her student and to share her message.
Here is some of what we talked about: - What it means to be a Dís-ability Witch living with chronic illness - Myth as healer - Living in ceremony in big and small ways - Leaning into ancestral support and creative practices through difficult times - The magic of naming yourself - Rites of passage as death transformations
Lara Veleda Vesta is an artist, author and educator transforming chronic illness into a path of healing and reclaiming. She is the author of The Moon Divas Guidebook and The Moon Divas Oracle Book, illustrator of The Moon Divas Oracle Cards and The Runes Revealed, and is currently working on two books exploring death transitions: Dark Goddess, a handwritten, interactive rite of passage guide, and Coven Invisible, a memoir in myth. She has a patron community supporting this work, and to thank them she offers rituals, circles, mentoring and other gifts. Lara also teaches classes by donation at The Wild Soul School, where explorations include folk magic, ancestral connection, self-initiation and ritual practice. To learn more and weave/create: laravesta.co
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey loved listeners,
I hope you are finding some small comforts in Taurus season! I'm back after a virtual breathwork training last weekend and am feeling a bit more grounded and steady. In May I'll be offering a really simple, affordable group program called Unravel, which combines breathwork, journaling and ritual to explore grief. It'll be available to all Patreons and you can become one here: www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves- more details soon! The Embodied Business Community is also still open for enrolment and has a new payment plan that costs $24/month, you can learn more here: yarrowdigital.com/diy-business-school/
I hope you'll enjoy today's episode, which is a really interesting conversation with the wonderful Benebell Wen. If you're into tarot and would like to hear a different perspective grounded in deep research and wild curiosity this might be for you
Hey friends,
how are you holding up?
As promised I am publishing more episodes for your isolation enjoyment
Hey everyone, I hope you are safe and able to stay home. As promised I am sending more podcast episodes your way so that we can least connect through the cosmic internet vibes. This Sunday I am also hosting a donation based grief circle - we'll do some gentle breathwork, meditate together, journal and do some self-massage to ease the lack of touch. You can learn more, sign up and invite your friends here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/grief-tending/ I really loved talking to Kathleen for this episode and have received several tarot readings from her that I still treasure and listen to lots (they are currently on sale for $25). Kathleen is truly magical, very real, very creative and very wonderful.
Here is what we talked about: - Tracing our journey through life with tarot journals - Transforming harmful patterns in our lives - Creating a tarot deck and being in creative flow - The reality of building a small business under capitalism and worrying about money - Working with the memories we carry in our bodies
Although she thinks of herself as an eternal student, Kathleen has been working with the tarot for the past 19 years. Her father was a tarot reader in the 1970s but kept it secret from her until she bought her first set of cards at the initiatory age of 13. He refused to teach her the language of the cards, so she spent many years finding her own way with them. She has taught herself plant medicine and astrology over the course of the last 7 years, and now weaves her love for tarot, astrology, and plant medicine together in her work to support transformation in herself and clients. She is also trained in IET (Integrated Energy Therapy) and Reiki to nourish the space she holds for others. By learning to find the voice within after all these years, she now teaches others how to find their own inner wisdom and that we can be our own healer. https://www.daughterofwands.com Kathleen's tarot readings on sale: https://www.daughterofwands.com/offerings-1/recorded-tarot-reading https://www.instagram.com/daughter.of.wands/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, I recorded this woodland visualisation as a way to offer some easily accessible grounding practices in these uncertain and stressful times. I'm thinking of all of you and am really committed to releasing more episodes over the next few weeks so we can stay in some kind of dialogue and connection as we are practicing self-isolation and social distancing. Please reach out and message me if you have any wishes for practices or ideas you'd like me to cover. A reminder also that becoming a Patreon gets you access to the Embodied Magic program, my live classes and zines as well as recordings from past workshops that you can explore in your own time from home. Small businesses will appreciate your support now more than ever! I've lifted the different tier levels so that it's more accessible, any pledge will give you access to all I offer.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
I am celebrating five years in business today! "I trust myself to make this work" is still my favorite business affirmation and I am excited for the next five years. Working for myself has given me a lot of freedom, room for creativity, community, rest, inspiration and joy. Obviously it's also given me a lot of headaches and challenges, but at the end of the day I have never regretted it. I've recorded an episode sharing my biggest lessons - I talked about unlearning competition, having good boundaries, rethinking success, making time to work ON your business and listening to your body as a wise mentor. Enjoy! Thanks for supporting my work, being here, listening and sharing and for making all this possible. Love you, Yarrow
Happy new moon in pieces, wonderful listeners! This episode feels like a really wonderful treat to kick this moon cycle off with. It's been a deeply resonating, wonderful and insightful conversation with Brunem Warshaw of Well Deep Remedies. Here is some of what we talked about: - Making friends with neighbourhood plants - Weaving disability justice and anti capitalist values into healing work - Prioritising plant connections in the way we spent our social energy - Navigating feminized labour with the support of plants - Heartbreak and grief as a sacred practice
Brunem mentioned the books Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici. You can sign up for Brunem's newsletter here: https://www.subscribepage.com/f1n2m3
Learn more about their upcoming class on herbal support for emotional intelligence and relational work: https://www.welldeepremedies.com/herbal-support-for-emotional-intelligence-relational-work
And find Brunem on instagram: instagram.com/welldeepremedies Brunem is a Clinical Herbalist and wellness educator who weaves scientific and intuitive approaches together to support people in healing themselves with the assistance of plant medicines. Brunem is also a queer nonbinary femme with invisible disabilities who is descended from Irish and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors. Their clinical practice Well Deep Remedies has a particular focus on trauma and addiction recovery, queer/trans support, ancestral magic, and disability justice.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey everyone, happy Friday! I'm loving this episode so much and I hope you will too! Jess Grippo is so fun and wonderful to be around and she has really inspired me to finally f*cking dance again. In this giggly interview we talked about the following, amongst many other groovy things: - The joy of dancing in your own way and why it's so liberating - Letting go of ideas about what a dance practice should look like - Overcoming body image issues - Creative processes that are joyful and easy Jess Grippo is a dancer, performer, writer, creativity coach, and the author of Dance With This Book. After leaving her ballet career and being distanced from the dance world for years, she started making dance videos alone in her room. These DIY expressions would become the catalyst for reviving her creative expression and later transitioning her career back into dance - but this time, in her own way. Since then, she's been invited to speak and perform at TEDxNYU, Lincoln Center's Dance On Camera Festival, the New York Comedy Club, and more. Her programs and videos have been helping people for years to reclaim dance, feel at home in their bodies, and revive their creative expression. You can dance again: https://www.jessgrippo.com/you-can-dance-again-2020 jessgrippo.com Instagram/Tiktok: @jessgrippo
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Loved folks, I could not help but record a mushy solo episode for valentine's day. Sorry, not sorry! It's a pep talk on luxurious embodiment practices, easy rituals, documenting life and remembering that healing is always political. Wether you hate this day, celebrate it or ignore it I hope you can make yourself feel like you're bathing in softness sometimes and that we can talk and dream about deconstructing the binary of self- and community care together.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends,
this particularly beautiful Friday feels perfect to bring you an interview with Luna Dietrich, also known as the pussy witch
Hey appreciated listeners,
this episode is really close to my heart - I love working with my guest Rebekah Erev and really appreciate all that they do. Rebekah's work is so rich with imagination and reverence for the earth and the human experience and yet also really tangible and accessible. Here is what we talked about: - Making art and ritual accessible to more people - Caring for the earth and our ancestors - The story of how Rebekah created their oracle deck - Embodying the role of a jewish priestess - Celebrancy and holding space for life's milestones Rebekah about their work: I am an ordained kohenet (Hebrew priestess), feminist, queer, artist, intuitive, healer, lover, creativity coach and teacher. I live on the Salish Sea in Olympia, WA., the original village of the Steh-chass people. In my work I collaborate with unseen and seen beings to make art and ritual with the intention to recover and liberate the earth. I offer intuitive readings and workshops to help people manifest their most true expressions, listening to the wisdom of their bodies. I also make objects and create public ritual as performance / ceremony.
Here is the Your Most Treasured Commitment course I mentioned in the intro: http://rebekaherevstudio.com/your-most-treasured-commitment Here is Rebekah's website: http://rebekaherevstudio.com/ and this is their instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebekaherevstudio/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey everyone, happy new year, happy full moon eclipse! May you feel soft and blessed today I am sending a solo episode your way in which I am sharing my new year practices, some tarot ideas and inspiration as well as updates on what I am planning this year. Here are the questions for the journaling practice I shared: -What am I grateful for to 2019? -What were my major themes? -What do I want more of? -What do I want to clear away before I start a new chapter? And these are the questions for the tarot spread I shared: -What do I need to know about my next steps? -What can ground and support me right now? -What dream wants to be dreamed in 2020? -Which archetype will be my guide? -Which quality can I develop in myself?
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey beloved listeners, I am sorry there has been a little break and I am really excited to be back with another episode in this wild gemini full moon week! I felt very luck to get to speak to Virginia Rosenberg, whose work I first came across after taking a Qoya class and learning about her role as the resident astrologer. Her approach is so embodied, open, curious and creative and I loved chatting to her about everything from birth charts to Saturn returns! Here is what we talked about: - Astrology as an intuitive, embodied practice - Slowness and cyclical living - The wisdom of nature - Making a start in our own practices and creating a direct experience with heavenly bodies Virginia Rosenberg is an Intuitive Astrologer and Movement Artist for social change. Her passion is natural healing of self and society. Virginia believes that we are made to heal, and that healing is a matter of becoming more conscious of and connected to ourselves, each other, and the more-than-human-Worlds. Astrology and movement are age-old tools for reconnection, and she stewards these disciplines. Since 2010, Virginia has offered thousands of readings for clients worldwide. She teaches astrology, qi gong, and various forms of dance, leading retreats, classes, and workshops. Her writings on astrology, spirituality, and society have gone viral and are used as teaching tools in meditation and study groups. She is Resident Astrologer for Qoya. Her educational background includes post-colonial and women’s/gender studies, cultural anthropology, journalism, documentary filmmaking, Taoist philosophy and internal martial arts, myriad forms of dance, spiritual alchemy, ritual, ceremony, and energy work.
Visit Virginia's website at www.virginiarosenberg.com. She offers free New and Full Moon forecasts. You can also follow her on instagram at @virginiarosenberg
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey everyone, I am happy to send you another episode from cozy, rainy Scotland today. I spoke to Ash Alberg, whose work I had been admiring on instagram for years. Their work is so beautiful, tactile and deeply meaningful and I am so glad I got to spend some time with them to ask them about how it all came to be. Here is what we talked about: - What we can learn from the process of making, loving and sharing clothes - Textiles as an access point to sustainability and community care - Ash's textile practice and the knitty gritty of running a small textile business - Natural dying and fibre shed practices - The magic of plants and Ash's project from field to skin ash alberg is a queer femme and fibre witch who seeks to create beautiful and practical items using sustainable methods. equally importantly, they seek to nurture the skills, knowledge, and creativity of fellow fibre witches to achieve their goals. their side project, from field to skin, chronicles their adventures in the canadian fibreshed. after living on the east coast of canada and in the uk, ash now operates out of their home studio in canada’s heartland on treaty one territory with their coven pooch, willow. when not creating new knitwear designs, ash can be found sewing a handmade wardrobe, foraging for natural dyes and bones, and cooking up new herbal remedies with their favourite plant allies. ash can be found on instagram @sunflowerknit and @fromfieldtoskin. you can also find them at ashalberg.com and fromfieldtoskin.com.
About me and the Daydreaming Wolves podcast My name is Yarrow, I am honoured to be your host! I am a queer writer, body worker and comforter and I support people in navigating transitions, grounding into themselves and finding simple pleasure. The Daydreaming Wolves podcast is a mix of deep dive interviews on healing modalities that feel good and spark resilience and resistance, wild life stories and new ideas as well as reflective solo episodes and how to guides filled with everyday magic. You can learn more about my work at https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/ and sign up for the live tarot class I mentioned here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/tarot-as-a-light-in-the-dark-live-class/
Hey loved ones, this solo episode is pretty much what it says on the tin: an exploration of why I am training as a death doula as an extension of the grief celebrant training I am doing, some thoughts about death, loss and grief and how all this actually makes me feel really happy and grounded right now. I am also sharing a few updates about life in Scotland, about offerings for 2020 and about my communities.
Here is more info about the live tarot class I mentioned, its $44 till Dec 1st: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/tarot-as-a-light-in-the-dark-live-class/ If you have any feedback I would SO love to hear from you at hello@yarrowdigital.com and I also voiced a cheeky birthday wish: If you enjoy the podcast please can you leave a review? Thank you so much!
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey wonderful beings, happy Friday - almost new moon - finally Scorpio season! I hope this finds you well and that my conversation with the wonderful Jennifer Gleeson Blue feels as exciting and insightful to you as it did to me! It was really good to talk and wonder about natural movements, about patterns and how we are holding them in our bodies and about all the ways in which we can expand and grow into being our true selves. Fuck yes!
Here is some of what we talked about: - How modern ways of movement are impacting our biology and emotional bodies - The initiation of motherhood - Healing through natural movement - Coming to really honour our bodies and learning about anatomy - Creating trauma sensitive movement spaces
Jennifer Gleeson Blue guides women to find their freedom, reinitiating their connection to their powerful, majestic and sacred bodies. In her online programs, group coaching, private sessions and workshops, she utilizes a powerful blend of consciousness work and natural movement to unleash the intuitive self while tending very practically to the physical body. She is a certified life coach and a restorative exercise specialist and has logged thousands of hours in the trenches of unravelling her own liberation. She can be found on Instagram, Facebook and at her website, jennifergleesonblue.com.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey beautiful listeners, I am so excited to have arrived back on Fridays being new episode days and also this one is very special - I talked to Eryn Johnson of Living Open about so many things that are currently in my heart. Eryn is wonderful, we giggled a lot and it was super fun to interview her after being on her podcast too.
Here is what we talked about: - Cyclical living and connecting with local bioregions - Breathwork and its transformational potential - Relating to our bodies with joy and pleasure - Becoming an entrepreneur and facing business questions - Non-violent communication and healing family patterns
Eryn Johnson is a breathwork facilitator, tarot reader, and Reiki Master based in Fishtown, Philadelphia. She is also the host of the Living Open podcast for mystics and seekers, a storytelling tool here to help facilitate soul expansion. The foundation of her work is energetic and based on the belief that there's nothing wrong with you- we are simply programmed from a young age to forget the truth of who we are. She uses Reiki, tarot, breathwork, and storytelling to bring you back to yourself - back to your power, back to your magic, back to your heart. Back to who you were before everyone told you who and how to be. Find her work at www.living-open.com and @erynj_ on Instagram.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey beautiful beings, thank you for listening to another Daydreaming Wolves episode, you are so appreciated! In this interview I spoke to Marissa of Cyclical Body about body fluency, cyclical self-care and embodiment - as you know all things I am curiously exploring at the moment. I am working with Marissa and am in her membership program, so it feels really exciting to share just a few of the things I am learning from her with you today.
Here is some of what we talked about: - Living in deeper harmony with our bodies - Our menstrual cycles as teachers - Finding more inclusive, authentic and open language around our bodies - Learning to really listen and following our stories - Shifting out of seeing our bodies as enemies - Finding gateways of embodied exploration
Here is what Marissa says about her work: I offer menstrual cycle education and holistic womb wellness guidance from an earth & body based perspective. My entrance into this work comes through birth work, studying with Whapio of the Matrona and Rachelle Garcia Seliga of Innate Traditions Postpartum. I was led to this path particularly through the ancestral elements of womb work, and at some point fell in love with the menstrual cycle and it’s been my teacher ever since. In the last year I have deepened into pelvic work through studying Holistic Pelvic Care with Tami Kent. I’m endlessly amazed by the wisdom of our bodies and the creative resilience moving through us. I am deeply informed by all the plant friends that have graciously found me on my path, as well as the territories that i’ve been held by – san diego, occupied kumeyaay land and recently lyons, colorado, occupied ute land.
You can learn more about her here: https://cyclicalbody.com/
And this is her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cyclicalbody/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey everyone, just a quick, sniffy note from me to say that Embodied Magic has begun, yay! We now have a book club and I brought the sliding scale offer back - tune in to hear more about what members receive each months and how you can join. Love, Yarrow
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey beautiful ones, thank you for joining me for another interview episode! This time I spoke to the wonderful Rosemary Roberts about how incredibly fascinating and complex our bodies are. This is a really great episode for anyone with our without ovaries to listen to - I learned a ton and am feeling excited and encouraged to really pay more attention to my body and its rhythms.
Here is what we talked about: - How Rosemary became interested in alternatives after being on the pill for a decade - What body literacy means to her and why it matters so much to make this work more accessible - Body literacy as an important aspect of preparing for an uncertain future - The relationship between permaculture, earth activism and reproductive justice - What a day in her forest school looks like (it made me want to give myself forest school afternoons)
Rosemary offers full-spectrum education and support for the reproductive continuum as a certified sexual/reproductive health and fertility awareness educator, as well as a childbirth and lactation educator, with a background in sociocultural anthropology, midwifery studies, permaculture and herbalism. She teaches group classes and works one-on-one with clients seeking to increase their body literacy and learn to chart their menstrual cycles to gauge reproductive and hormonal health, to effectively avoid pregnancy, and to increase their chanced of getting pregnant when they want to. She also consults around dietary, lifestyle and environmental factors that affect hormonal health. She is actively involved in reproductive justice support work, and passionate about accessibility and inclusion. She teaches in-person where she lives in Northern California as well as online, and has an upcoming live online class series on body literacy and using fertility awareness to avoid pregnancy.
Please visit www.wombsage.com for more information! You can find Rosemary's upcoming classes, for which listeners can get 10% by mentioning Daydreaming Wolves when registering here: https://www.wombsage.com/classes
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
What comes to mind when you are hearing the word embodiment? My thoughts are still changing all the time, it's very much an open exploration to me. This is a solo episode in which I am sharing about my current practices and reflecting a bit on the past year. I am also inviting you to write a zine with me, which I am really excited about! Here is the submission form: https://mrjzmkaz.paperform.co/ When I started my membership program over a year ago I was knee deep in my recovery from a sexual assault and wildly (sometimes desperately) interested in finding ways to reconnect with my body, reclaim joy and sensuality and find peace. Being in community has helped me so so much and day by day working with plants, journaling and drawing cards has been a source of comfort and pleasure for me. I feel truly grateful for everyone who has joined in. This non-judgemental sense of exploration in a sweet framework with lots of easy to use tools and regular check ins is what feels most supportive and exciting to me in this work, so I am bringing even more of it in.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey beautiful people, thank you for making time for another Daydreaming Wolves episode! Today I am sharing my conversation with my wonderful friend and co-masterminder Samantha Wallen about the transformative power of writing, what it means to loose and find home and many other wonderful things. Since I am in Scotland at the moment, kind of in-between worlds and life chapters, this feels very timely! :: A small but also big announcement from me: The DIY Business Collective is now open for enrolment and I am offering early bird pricing till August 10th with lifetime accessing costing $220, you can find out more here: https://yarrowdigital.com/diy-business-school/
:: Here is some more info about what Sam and I talked about: - How Sam became a writer and why it's so powerful to claim that title - Finding presence, stillness and deep reflection through writing - Enchantment and touching what lives beyond language - Loosing a home, growing new roots and reclaiming a sense of value - The radical potential of writing
You can sign up for Sam's One Word can set your Free Guide here: https://writeinpower.com/freegift/ Samantha Wallen is a writer, writing and book coach, and poet. She is the Founder of Write In Power, which offers transformative writing workshops, retreats, and private coaching programs. Sam’s mission is to restore the soul of our world, one word at a time. She is a Restorative Writing Mentor who helps you drop your agenda and write what wants to be written so you can restore what is precious inside you, and our world, by using words as a pathway to reach what lives beyond language. Restorative Writing is memoir-based writing that awakens your voice and heals your spirit. It slows you down and tunes you in to the heartbeat and deep purpose of your life. Restorative Writing deepens our shared conversation of aliveness–the ordinary, the mystical, the brilliant, and the wounded, forgotten, grieved and silenced parts. It brings all of us home to rest on the sacred ground of our shared human story so we can connect to and serve life more fully on and off the page.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, I am sending a really beautiful episode with the wonderful Bri of Tadpole Magic your way! This one I think is particularly cool if the recent eclipses got you curious about astrology, but you're maybe a bit sceptical or not sure where to start.
Here is what we talked about: - Learning from experiences rather than only from books - Making astrology touchable - Why being sceptical is totally okay - The value of archetypes for our relationships, careers and spiritualities - Why we think no one should let the internet tell them who they are
Bri is a witch, astrologer, writer for their blog, Tadpole Magic, and co-host of the podcast, Open Magic. They want magic, tarot, astrology, and all metaphysical practices to feel usable, to help provide language and perspective to your lived experiences, and to act as a doorway to tapping into your inner wisdom. They recently launched an astrological offering called Learning Your Astrology that is focused specifically on helping you navigate your personal natal chart through 12 weeks of one-on-one sessions and personalized exercises such as meditations, rituals, and spells. Bri deeply values the wisdom that each person holds within themselves and sees astrology as a means for us to recognize it within ourselves. https://www.tadpolemagic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/tadpole.magic/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
How to I introduce this episode and my wonderful friend Janelle? Honestly it's been such a joy to talk to and write with her - I can't wait to start her program and work some more with the free resources she is sharing. I guess this episode is much groovier than a normal interview, we are writing and laughing together and you can get pen and paper out and join us! Janelle shares her thoughts about why writing can be such a powerful tool for healing and transformation and she offers us a few really juicy exercises to try out. If you can't write right now you can also totally enjoy this episode on the go and explore what comes up for you in your beautiful mind or on paper later. Enjoy and let us know what you think!
Janelle Hardy is a writer, artist, host of the Personal Mythmaking Podcast and the creator/teacher of a 5-month transformational memoir-writing course called The Art of Personal Mythmaking. She’s a born and raised Yukoner, a solo mother, who has been working as a trauma-informed bodyworker in the hands-on healing arts fields for 13+ years and as an artist (writing, painting + dance) for 17+ years. Throughout that time she’s taught adults out of her living room, arts centres, universities and community colleges. For the past 4+ years she’s integrated all of her expertise, including a BA in Anthropology, an MA in Dance and a Diploma in Structural Integration, into supporting people in their creative healing work via the alchemy of transformational memoir-writing.
Sign up for the Outline Your Memoir workshop: https://www.janellehardy.com/outline-your-memoir/
Website: http://www.janellehardy.com/
The Art of Personal Mythmaking - online course: https://www.personalmythmaking.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janellehardyart/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janellehardybodylove/
Free gift (see below): https://www.personalmythmaking.com/writing-through-painful-memories
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https://www.personalmythmaking.com/10-impactful-writing-prompts
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey folks, happy Friday! Glad to be bringing you another tarot related episode - June seems to be a month of refreshing and re-inventing my practice, so I hope you are excited too!
This time I spoke with the wonderful Gina of Incandescent Tarot about all these beautiful things: - How Gina became a tarot reader and found the name for her business - Tarot as a creative, fluid, creative art and a tool for self-discovery - Learning to trust our own minds - Disagreeing with the cards and working with archetypes - Tarot maps as a way to navigate big life questions
Gina Wisotzky is a professional tarot reader, teacher, and intuitive with 18 years experience reading the cards. Her practice centers around cultivating, honoring, and giving voice to each individual's sense of intuition through classes, gatherings, and in-person sessions. Having experienced the power of tarot and intuition-building through many phases of her life, it's her joy to share these tools with others, reintroducing them as innate and accessible to all of us, no matter our backgrounds. She hosts two local meetups - The Durham Tarot Club & Craft Night - and is co-host of the podcast, Open Magic.
Website: incandescenttarot.com
Instagram: instagram.com/incdescenttarot
Facebook: facebook.com/incandescenttarot
Open Magic: openmagicpocast.com
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Happy Solstice, sweet ones! I hope you get a chance to celebrate the longest or shortest day of the year in a way that connects you to the magic of cyclical living and everyday ceremony. It feels so special to bring you a really beautiful interview with my former mentor Nancy Antenucci today - I adore her book, received so much great guidance from her and am always excited to read her newsletters.
Here is what we talked and laughed about: - Being a creative advocate - Speaking with our bodies and getting out of our heads - Tarot as a big mansion with a room for each card - What it can mean to be psychic - Writing to stay sane
Nancy Antenucci of Between The Worlds LLC (www.betweenworlds.us) is an innovator whose creative take on tarot, and how it can be woven into a variety of other work, including movement, performance art, and deep ritual, makes her a highly sought-after teacher and presenter around the country and internationally. She is the author of “Psychic Tarot – Using Your Natural Abilities to Read the Cards”. She founded Twin Cities Tarot Collective which produces the North Star Tarot conference, an innovative monthly Meetup and training for readers. She is currently branching into creative strategizing for start ups and mid sized businesses as well as creating multi-media videos bringing the divine into the everyday. She is a faculty member of the Arcana Company in Chengdu, China.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey sweet friends, I am so excited to bring you another beautiful conversation on this sunny last Friday of May!
I spoke to the beautiful, magical Dorothee of MoonTent about all this good stuff: - Adorning ourselves with flowers - Running a product based business - Developing a cyclical relationship with our bodies - Moon magic - Building community beyond social media
Dorothée Sophie Royal is an artist, writer, medicine maker, and mother. She is the founder of MoonTent, a media platform dedicated to wisdom from the heart of the feminine. She is the host of #moonwisepodcast which features monthly lunar forecasts and interviews with women of power. She was selected in 2018 as one of fifty women for #50WomenCan Change the World in Media and Entertainment. Born in Germany and raised in the U.S. and abroad, Dorothée has a deep love for the natural world and an appreciation for cross-cultural healing. After completing a degree at the University of Chicago and working in the film and nonprofit worlds, she found herself longing for a more holistic approach to life and went on to become a student of herbal medicine, nutrition and earth-honoring wisdom traditions. She is wildly grateful to her elders and teachers, her family and the mountains, rivers, trees and flowers that inspire her.
http://www.moontent.co/
https://www.instagram.com/moontentco/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey folks, I am delighted to bring you another interview episode with the wonderful Jade of Milk and Honey Herbs! As you know I adore talking to plant people who are finding radical and nourishing ways to support themselves and their communities!
Here is what Jade and I dreamed and giggled about: - What a herbalist's workday can look like - Discovering plants as allies for our health and wellbeing - Connecting with different bioregions - How we can give back to our environments - Simple herbal selfcare strategies - Running a community clinic - Teaching and building community through Patreon
Jade Alicandro Mace weaves a love of bioregionally abundant herbs and kitchen medicine into her work as a community and clinical herbalist. When she’s not teaching bioregional herbalism to students and apprentices, you can find her roaming the hedges with her harvest basket in-hand or at home in the kitchen brewing-up some potent food as medicine. She’s a mother to her 10 and 6 year-old daughters, partner, tender of chickens and cats and new puppy, blogger and writer, and half-gardener to her mostly wild gardens. In 2012 she co-founded the Greenfield Community Herbal Clinic, dedicated to affordable herbal care, and also maintains a long-distance clinical practice. Through her Patreon community she offers monthly online classes and plant study groups, and she teaches an online kitchen herbalism course each winter as well. She makes her home in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts, in unceded Nipmuk territory.
Website- https://www.milkandhoneyherbs.com/
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/milkandhoneyherbs/
Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/milkandhoneyherbs/
Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/milkandhoneyherbs
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey folks, this is a little solo episode with some ideas and inspiration for your Beltane celebrations. I am sharing a tarot spread I will be doing, ways in which I am exploring pleasure of my own understanding in May, some ritual ideas and I am reading some beautiful words on flower essences by Dori Midnight as well as a few lines from adrienne maree brown's book Pleasure Activism for your delight! Here are the questions for the tarot spread: What does being in full bloom mean to me right now? What does my body need to be in full bloom? What does my mind need to be in full bloom? What does my spirit need to be in full bloom?
Here is Dori Midnight's instagram love: https://www.instagram.com/dorimidnight/
This is where you can find adrienne maree brown's book: http://adriennemareebrown.net/
Here is the Healing Justice podcast episode about flower essences with Dori Midnight that I mentioned: https://healingjustice.podbean.com/e/28-practice-essences-for-everybody-making-your-own-medicine-with-dori-midnight/
Here is more info about the A Season of Radical Love program I am offering: http://www.daydreamingwolves.com/a-season-of-radical-love/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, I am sending another mini episode with some thoughts about magic for the full moon and the healing power of ceremony and ritual your way. I recently completed the first part of my celebrant training and am excited to explore and experience more rituals - especially self-marriages, friendship commitment ceremonies, re-namings and all kinds of transitions! If you feel you want to mark an important milestone in your life in some way and you need support for that, please hit me up! In the episode I also talked about the things I love doing on the full moon, how you can create your own rituals and how important it is that we are making space for grieve to stay emotionally engaged with climate justice (and all kinds of other things we believe in!).
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, it feels so good to be back! This Friday I am sharing a beautiful conversation with my friend Manisha Tare who is an incredible mentor, guide and healing professional. I love her thoughts and approaches to emotional healing and the many many things she is putting out there to help us come home to our bodies and be present with what is unfolding in our lives.
Tune in to hear more about: - Injuries as an invitation to pause and explore our experiences - Being in a body and making it a home - Living with chronic pain - Transitioning into work that is sustainable and aligned with who we are - Practices for grounding in times of transition
Manisha Tare serves an intuitive guide, healer & mentor for highly sensitive and empathic people who are on a journey back home to themselves. Through a combination of energetic, intuitive and somatic approaches, she guides her clients to connect to their inner knowing in order to heal & clear old emotional trauma at its core. Through their work together, her clients feel more grounded, have greater clarity and confidence in who they are, can ask for what they need, trust their decisions more, and direct their lives with increased inner trust. She works with clients virtually all over the world. To learn more about her background, approach, & philosophy, visit manishatare.com
Free Gift -- Using Your Body as Compass https://www.subscribepage.com/bodyasacompass
Consultation call to learn more about working together https://www.subscribepage.com/emotionalclarityassessment
IG: @manishatare
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Friends, I can't tell you how grateful I feel to bring you the 50th episode of Daydreaming Wolves just in time for the spring equinox and the full moon in Libra. Damn, it's honestly been so beautiful to have all these conversations with like minded people, to explore and dream together and to build community with you all. I feel you, even if it's just through the screen. In this anniversary episode I am talking about my rituals and dreams around the spring equinox (low energy spring cleaning, deeper tarot readings, flower essences, planting seeds and shaking winter off!), about practices for tough times and starting small and about finding faith and inner authority. I'm also reading from Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown, which is a book I think you might love too! And finally - I have re-designed DaydreamingWolves.com and am offering more mentoring PLUS The Magic of Embodiment program is now ongoing with new practices and sharing circles every first Sunday of the month. You can pledge $3 or more on my Patreon and receive access to the program, the past six modules, the community on Mighty Networks and the monthly group calls.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey folks, thank you so much for your patience with this episode, I have really missed podcasting! This time I was really excited to speak to Sarah Eliza Kelly who is a beautiful artist of many disciplines and who facilitates the Artist's Way groups. I think this episode is for you if you are feeling a little creatively stuck and want to try something new.
Here is what we talked about: - Loving many different creative expressions - Our experience of the book the Artist's Way by Julia Cameron - Movement, embodiment and unstimulated rest - Wanting a container and a commitment to feel free within - Morning pages and taking yourself on artist dates
Sarah Elisa Kelly is a visual artist, papermaker, dancer and published poet who has been exploring her own relationship to creativity and facilitating creative workshops for over ten years. She is a Movement Medicine apprentice teacher and is currently completing a PhD at the Royal College of Art. She is passionate about embodiment, radical rest, slow time and interconnectivity, and holds spaces that are affirmative and honest with an emphasis on permission and trust.
Sarah also offers a 13 week online support group for the Artist's Way starting March 3rd that I will be part of and we would love to have you join us too! The price is 30 - 100 GBP sliding scale and you can find out more here: https://www.subscribepage.com/theartistsway
Here is Sarah's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/my_medicinebox/
https://www.mymedicinebox.org/
http://www.sarahelizakelly.co.uk/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey folks, thanks so much for your patience while I had a creative hibernation break!
I really missed podcasting and am SO glad to be back.
In this episode I am talking about: - What I've been up to and how I started a whole new community - What self-care practices I love in January - The rituals I create around my card for the year and which one I chose - Things that feel good and inspiring and exciting right now - How I try to avoid getting sucked into January self-improvement
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host.
My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes.
I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming.
You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Loved listeners, this is my last episode for 2018 and I am so so happy to end with such a beautiful, honest and inspiring conversation. Danette was my writing coach many moons ago and her love and wisdom is still with me all the time! She is incredibly funny and wise and has taught me so much about life, writing and loving myself.
Here is what we talked about: - How Danette got married to herself on a beach 17 years ago - Creating new traditions that are authentic and real - Getting clear on what we really want to do with our lives -Sustaining commitment to ourselves and our creativity in the long run - Why we love podcasting so much - Making awkward art
Danette Relic has been married to herself for almost 18 years and it has been by far the hottest and most profound relationship in her life. She is a personal life coach, artist + writer, based online at Radical Creative Sanctuary and at home in Toronto. Her mission is to help people transform their relationships with themselves. All of her work centers around self love - healing, dreaming, loving and creating from the core of who we are in a new, radical way. Heartbreak has been her favourite method of learning the importance of self love in her own life. After many spectacular lessons, Danette began writing her first book, Crash Bloom: the 7 Houses of Heartbreak, a creatively empowering guide to heal from a breakup without skipping over the beauty of your own emotions. The book is in the final stages but you can get a quick map of the 7 Houses of Heartbreak when you sign up for her newsletter. Danette loves to work with individuals who are ready to say yes to falling in love with themselves + their one precious life - even if it scares them. Her most popular coaching program, Radical Self Engagement creates space for her clients to ask what might happen if they treated themselves like someone they truly love - and develop the beliefs and practices to cultivate that change.
Radical Creative Sanctuary: http://www.radicalcreativesanctuary.com/
You can listen on her website: http://www.radicalcreativesanctuary.com/podcasts/
And itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-soft-shoulder-podcast/id1389476791?mt=2
Danette's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/radical_creative_sanctuary/
Her awesome friend Allison Tarr's witchy tech vibes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/techcoven/
Her awesome friend Elena Skoreyko's paper-cut illustration Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elenaskoreyko/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey wonderful listeners, I am a bit sleepy this week, so I will keep it soft and simple: I am sending a solo minisode on herbal oils and self-massage your way, because these are practices that are really supporting me right now. Cannot tell you how grateful I am to the plants all around me!
Listen to hear about: - How I infuse oils at home - What plans I love using - How I am using oils straight or turn them into a balm - My thoughts about essential oils - My favorite self-massage practices - The magic of affirmation labels
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey dream babes, thank you so much for your patience with this episode - I think it was totally worth it! I am sending you my conversation with Miel Rose, which was really wonderful and had both giggles and depth.
Here is what we talked about: - Yearning for intimacy with the landscape - Eclectic magic - Lemonbalm and Mugwort as allies - Sharing between plant and human bodies - How magic supports folks who live with experiences of isolation, chronic illness and suicidal ideation - Receiving support in building authentic devotional practices - Staying embodied in this time and place - Miel's beautiful year long class
Miel Rose is a rural, working class femme raised by hippies in the wilds of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. She is a textile artist, medicine maker, magic skills teacher, and an intuitive guidance giver who believes in her effectiveness as a wounded healer. She was raised with a strong anti-capitalist/anti-consumer ethic, which is to say that she believes in cultivating reciprocal relationships with the world around us vs. seeing the world as inert matter for our consumption. She believes in an intersectional view of systemic oppression, which is to say that she believes we are living within the death throes of a soul eating civilization whose main expressions are rape culture, colonization and genocide, white supremacy, hatred for queerness and gender variance, life destroying class disparity, and general ecocide, all of which are interlocking tentacles of the same beast. She believes that it is impossible to survive in this system without accruing some form of trauma, that personal traumatic happenings are related to systemic oppression, and that a “culture” that is based on systemic oppression is traumatizing in and of itself. She believes in centering trauma in magical work, and that committing to the process of healing our trauma is a magical act, one that ripples out through time and space.
Miel's website: Mielrose.com
instagram: @flameandhoneycomb
Etsy: etsy.com/shop/flameandhoneycomb
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Happy belated new moon in Scorpio, wonderful beings! I am bringing you a really beautiful, inspiring episode with my friend Elinor Predota. I think you will love this one if you are into story telling, the interconnectedness of spirituality and politics and alternative ways of building a business!
Amongst many other things we spoke about the following: - Understanding interconnectedness - Ancestral story telling - Engaging with our (white folks) history of violence and colonialism - Transforming guilt and shame into something more actionable - Listening to the landscape - Building a business against and beyond capitalism to create spaces of justice
Elinor supports people who long to make action for social justice an everyday part of their life and work, but who feel stuck, confused, or overwhelmed, to build their inner resources of resilience, awareness of self, society and environment, and confidence. Elinor offers one to one, group and DIY programmes which are grounded in a long and wide-ranging background in activism, community development, spiritual counselling, ritual work, storytelling, and facilitation of learning. Elinor’s work is rooted in the magic of creativity, of relating across difference, and of becoming alive to all that is present, within and without us, here and now.
This is Elinor's website: https://elinorpredota.com/
Elinor's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/elinorpredota
This is the Bespoken Bones podcast we mentioned: http://bespokenbones.com/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, Fridays are now Daydreaming Wolves podcast days, hurray!
Today I am sharing a movement + journaling audio workshop from the Magic of Embodiment program with you - people in the program really loved it and so I thought you might too. I will be sharing bits from the program on here occasionally because I love making things more accessible and want to offer you a peak behind the scenes. You might want to listen to this at home rather than on public transport or in the car, but all you need is pen and paper. I am sharing some very gentle movement practices you can do sitting or lying down and then there will be some journaling prompts to dive into. Enjoy!
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey beautiful beings, this question comes up a lot: How do we make space for self-care and ritual and magic if everything is falling apart and feels super hard? I don't have a perfect answer, but I gathered some ideas and questions for you in the hope that they feel comforting! Listen to me share about my morning and bed time routines as well as my love for self-massages and the wild art of infusing small things with big intentions.
In this episode I mentioned the free tarot for beginners workshop I am running on the 18th of November, you can sign up here: https://yarrowdigital.com/free-webinars/
Here is the new podcast I talked about: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/diy-business-magic/id1439315999?mt=2
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey beautiful beings, you might have noticed that I am now able to be a bit more consistent with the podcast, which is amazing and mainly due to the increase in Patreon supporters - thank you so much!!! For this episode I have interviewed another instagram crush that I had a beautiful tarot reading with myself - Krystal of Power Femme Tarot!
Here is what we talked about: - Finding a unique way of reading for ourselves and others - Tarot as an anti-gaslighting tool - Learning to trust ourselves again - Bringing a fierce queer, feminist and political lens to the tarot - Tarot magic for sacred sexuality
Krystal also talked about her friend Nick of https://queerofcups.com/ who is queer_of_cups on instagram and made a note after the recording: "The only thing I’d say differently is omit the term “stalker card.” Since my convo with Yarrow, @pinewoodtarot shared an IG story about how this term glamorizes and trivializes assault. As someone who unabashedly brings a queer feminist anti-racist justice-centered lens to my Tarot practice, I’m profoundly grateful to be called in so pointedly and compassionately by @pinewoodtarot. Thank you for the wakeup call!"
Krystal is a New Orleans-based queer femme witch, priestess of the Morrigan, crafter of sacred tools, and professional tarot reader and teacher. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies and her academic nature has led her to study tarot rigorously and joyfully since the age of 15. Krystal's lifelong personal and professorial commitment to feminism, queer politics, and social justice also shapes her approach to tarot. For Krystal, tarot bridges intuition and intellect as well as the spiritual and the political. Krystal uses tarot to crack open space for empowerment, individual and collective healing, and social change.
Website: powerfemmetarot.com IG: @powerfemmetarot
Patreon: patreon.com/powerfemmetarot
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, this is a sweet and simple episode in which I share my favorite tips for tarot beginners. Mainly its a pep talk for when you feel shy about approaching your deck!
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, happy almost new moon in libra! I have a really wonderful episode with my friend Fay for you today, which I think is perfect if you want to dream about the changing seasons and reconnect with plants.
Here is what we talked about: + The creative process of Fay's book + Intimacy with the changing seasons + Understanding cycles and applying them to our own lives to take pressure off ourselves + Grounding practices out in nature + Working with found objects + What we can learn from plants
Fay Johnstone is a Shamanic Herbalist, Reiki Master and a Plant Spirit Guide who is the author of Plants that Speak Souls that Sing: transform you life with the spirit of plants. Following a beautiful awakening to the spirit of plants while running a flower farm, Fay's work helps clients open their own intuition to the forces of nature, meet plant spirit guides and restore their sacred relationship with the Earth to feel confident and connected on their path. Applying Shamanic techniques, the alchemy of nature and spirit inspired guidance to nourish your soul, Fay can help you remember your magic, release old patterns of shame and grief, reawaken ancient wisdom within you and reclaim your power to become fully aligned with the truth of who you are. Fay offers healing, workshops and programs across the UK, online and from her home in Scotland.
Fay's website: www.fayjohnstone.com
Facebook Page Fay Johnstone: https://www.facebook.com/groups/210530382797771/
Facebook group Plant spirit People: https://www.facebook.com/groups/210530382797771/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey dreambabes, since it's officially the witchy season some of you have asked about tarot decks I use and love. It's a great time to fall in love with a new magical tool, so I wanted to share some tips for those who are on the lookout. This is a very short episode, a minisode if you will, and there will be more of these with practical advice coming your way soon!
Here are the decks and the shop I mentioned: Little Red Tarot Shop - http://littleredtarot.com
The Next World Tarot deck - https://cristyroad.bigcartel.com/category/next-world-tarot
Fountain Tarot deck - http://www.fountaintarot.com/
The Divina deck - https://www.spirit-speak.com/
The Wild Unknown deck - https://www.thewildunknown.com/
The Anima Mundi deck - http://www.thecreepingmoon.com/tarot.html
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Friends, this is such a wonderful and special episode - in fact, it's a grumpisode! I have long admired Sarah Chappell's wonderful sense of humour and her ability to embrace the whole range of human emotions, which is exactly what we did for this episode. We grumped away about stuff that bothers us, got a bit snarky and let it all out - in the hope that you might feel less alone. We felt a bit shy in the end and felt a gentle urge to say that we are also happy, grateful people sometimes, which was really interesting and, in my humble opinion, shows that we all need more permission to grump sometimes. So if you needed a permission slip, this is it!
Here is what we talked about: - Embracing the whole range of human emotions - Being grumpy about having no one as a sickness back up when you are working for yourself - Being grumpy about diet culture - Being grumpy about social media changing all the time and loosing "exposure" - Being grumpy about all the hard work we have to put in before creative work becomes sustainable - Life being hard but amazing - Wanting a stable, not overpriced forever home - Our favorite self-care practices for grumpy times -"Work/Life Balance", scaling a small business and trying to not constantly work
Sarah M. Chappell is an intuitive counselor and herbalist based in Asheville, North Carolina specializing in addiction and mental health. She draws on her study of tarot, flower and stone essences, herbal medicine, and reiki to help clients unravel their stories, create lasting shifts, and heal themselves. Sarah is the host of So You Wanna Be A Witch, the podcast for soul-centered entrepreneurs and the people who love them. You can find Sarah on the internet at sarahmchappell.com, and follow her on Instagram http://instagram.com/sarahmchappell, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/healyourselfwithsarahmchappell/ and Pinterest https://www.pinterest.de/sarahmchappell/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey dreambabes, I am incredibly honoured to bring you an episode with the wonderful Desiree Cervantes today! We first met online a few years ago and started to have really good chats about magic, cultural appropriation and identity this summer. Desiree is incredibly kind yet fierce, grounded, curious and magical and I am super happy she said yes to recording one of our conversations.
This is some of what we talked about: - Magic as a way to self-soothe - Coming out later in life - Cultural appropriation in spiritual communities - Working with ancestral traditions - Chaos magic and dealing with the unexpected - Shedding the idea that our worth as a person is defined by how desirable we are to men
Desiree Cervantes is a shaman, intuitive healer and witch. An indigenous femme, modern medicine woman and mother of two. She is passionate about wild spirituality, radical honesty and creativity as a tools for spiritual healing. Desiree helps wild-hearted souls connect with and reclaim their personal magic through intuitive counselling, clairvoyant readings, practical magic and mediumship. Connect with her on Instagram @spiritfireshaman and visit www.spiritfireshaman.com.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Happy new moon in Leo, witches! Thanks so much for your patience, I feel it was worth it as today's episode is with Tess, the City Witch who is an absolute dream babe who makes incredible zines and offers beautiful tarot magic. I recently had an emergency reading with them, which was super helpful, and I read the zine I have from them often. I hope our conversations gives you some joy and maybe a sense of not being alone in your weird and wonderful witchcraft, at least that's how I felt after talking to Tess.
Here is what we dreamed about: - Working with willow to process grief - How Tess was introduced to magic - Being disillusioned by binary based approaches to magic - Witchcraft on tumblr and sharing radical ideas through social media - Hexing your local rapist - Using your phone charger for magic - Working with the hermit card - Generosity and abundance in our communities
tess is a collective tarot reader, city witch, and zinester based in Ottawa, Canada. they are a cancer sun and moon, aries rising. they studied history and political science at the University of Ottawa and are an alum of lindsay mack's wild soul tarot teachings. influenced by anarchist studies on gendered labour and bodily autonomy, tess approaches tarot as a spiralic, revolutionary tool to assist the collective.
https://thecitywitch.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/cityxwitch/
https://www.patreon.com/citywitch/
:: About me and the Daydreaming Wolves podcast :: My name is Yarrow I am a queer writer, body worker, plant lover and ritual facilitator. My podcast and the community I’ve built around it is meant to support soft folks in reclaiming embodiment, creative expression, a connection to nature and everyday magic. On Daydreaming Wolves you’ll find a mix of deep dive conversations with beautiful people who are exploring things that feel good in their own way and solo episodes in which I am sharing how to guides and magical food for thought with you. If you like the podcast you might also like my Wild Embodiment membership - it’s a beautiful community on Mighty Networks that meets every month for soulful check ins, rituals and embodied writing. Everyone receives a monthly package filled with herbal recipes and video guides, play lists, journaling prompts, meditations, self-massage and writing practices as well as seasonal ritual ideas. You can learn more here: http://www.daydreamingwolves.com/the-magic-of-embodiment-program/ and you’re welcome to become a Patron to support the show here: https://www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves I also run a web design, tech support and small business mentoring studio over here: https://yarrowdigital.com/
Hey daydreamers, I am really sorry for the delay with this episode - the last few weeks were a bit intense and hectic and I really missed podcasting! I think the wait was totally worth it though because I interviewed my friend Janelle Hardy, who was an absolutely dream to talk to!
Here are some of the things we shared about: - Weaving story telling, body work and visual art into transformative healing - Personal Mythmaking as a tool for insight and empowerment - Her group program and how she helps people write their own memoir with ease through looking at myths and fairy tales - Podcasting as a way to build community and have meaningful conversations - What embodiment means to Janelle (her words really touched me!) - How we can unlearn body hate and restrictive movement patterns - Emotional body awareness
Janelle Hardy is a healer, single mother and artist. Her work is driven by the belief that when we tap into the power of our creativity, our bodies and our vibrancy, we gain vitality, courage and strength. We reclaim our wholeness and sense of purpose and identity. She works with women who long to feel like enough, and know it's possible. She combines 12+ years as a hands-on bodyworker with a background in Anthropology, Dance and the visual arts to offer one-on-one sessions as well as leading private healing retreats and The Art of Personal Mythmaking (a transformational memoir-writing course that facilitates healing, growth and joy.)
Here is Janelle's website: https://www.janellehardy.com/
The Art of Personal Mythmaking - a transformational memoir-writing course: http://www.janellehardy.com/personal-mythmaking/
Here is her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janellehardyart/
Her 100 days of What's Underneath paintings hashtag on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/100daysofwhatsunderneathpaintings/?hl=en
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
I am still riding the summer solstice waves and am super happy to bring you another podcast episode with the beautiful Natalie Ross of Dream Freedom Beauty.
Natalie and I had a really cool conversations about the following stuff of magical interest: - DIY Media and feeling less alone - The story behind the Dream Freedom Beauty podcast - Coming up against resistance as an entrepreneur - Overcoming self-doubt and being ok with imperfection - Working with privilege, being ok with being wrong and being called in - Embracing weirdness
Natalie Ross produces two podcasts (Dream Freedom Beauty and Self Care Club) that help empaths, intuitives, and healers untangle themselves from childhood conditioning that made them feel like they weren't worthy or enough as they are. Natalie has a fierce passion for connecting with the non-human inhabitants of Earth. Through the communities that have grown around her podcasts, she's recently discovered that humans can be pretty cool, too.
Dream Freedom Beauty podcast www.dreamfreedombeauty.com
Self Care Club podcast - listen + learn about the online gatherings - www.selfcareclub.net
Connect on Instagram: @DreamFreedomBeauty - https://www.instagram.com/dreamfreedombeauty/
@SelfCareClubbb - https://www.instagram.com/selfcareclubbb/
Grow Beautiful - @GrowBeautiful on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/growbeautiful
Staring at Plants - another predecessor to Dream Freedom Beauty website: http://www.staringatplants.com Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrwAsFyqj95c9qiZC2DViNw/videos?disable_polymer=1
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey loved ones, I am super proud to send another episode with the beautiful Jordyn Schwersky of mysticsister.net your way! It`s been a wonderful conversation about the following magical stuff: Working with tricky soil How Jordyn got into magic and the tarot through her mum Travelling with small tarot decks Healing skin problems with DIY herbalism Self-care for entrepreneurs Support for anxiety and depression Why regular tarot readings feels SO GOOD Jordyn Schwersky is an herbalist, tarot reader, writer, intuitive, and general witchy person. She founded Mystic Sister with the intent to offer tarot readings, herbal medicine, and a community where similarly minded people can reclaim their ancestral knowledge, open their hearts, and become whole. You can find out more at her website, https://www.mysticsister.net/.
You can also contribute to her Patreon (in exchange for some pretty awesome goodies at https://www.patreon.com/mysticsister
and follow her @mysticsister__ on Instagram.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Happy full moon, dreambabes! I have some exciting news to share and also wanted to record a solo episode on free resources for when you are struggling, craving some shifts or just feel a bit stuck. There have been some really cool conversations about keeping magic + healing accessible (because really, if its not accessible to poor people, its not radical but also how do we as facilitators pay bills? So many questions!) lately and I wanted to share some stuff that has really helped me, especially at times when I was super limited on both time and money.
Tune in to hear me talk about:
+ How after months of soul searching I finally got lots clearer on my focus for Daydreaming Wolves and why I stayed up till 1am to redesign the whole site
+ How I would love to invite you to think about how much structure and commitment you need around magic and self-care
+ What free resources I am super excited about at the moment
+ How I made space for nourishing input by decluttering newsletters and social media spaces
+ How I find it 100% okay to check peoples free stuff out even if you are not in a position to buy anything
+ Why just dancing to one song is making a huge difference for me right now and how I want to explore embodiment even more Here are some resources I talked about/wish I would have mentioned:
+ Books I am currently loving are Embody by Connie Sobczak as well as Body Positive Power by Meghan Jayne Crabbe
+ My free everyday magic course: https://online-awesomeness-school1.teachable.com/p/free-ritual-magic-course
+ Holly Lowerys work around eating disorder recovery and her podcast Well
+ Weird: https://www.hollylowery.com/well-and-weird/ (also great freebie to check out!)
+ The Food Psych podcast by Christy Harrison: https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych/
+ The Herbal Academys blog on herbalism full of recipes: https://theherbalacademy.com/blog/
+ Lindsay Macks podcast with lots of free tarot teachings: https://www.lindsaymack.com/podcast ...I hope there is something in there for you!
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Dreambabes, I am so honoured to send this beautiful conversation to you through the magic of Soundcloud and the internet! The other day I received a reading from my guest Chanelle that left me feeling truly seen, more confident and empowered to untie some knots I had been playing with for years. I love her take on everyday magic and the way she works with plants, sounds and essences.
Here is what we talked about: Seeking magic out as a child The morning as a sweet altar space for the rest of the day Re-enchanting ordinary life The magic of experimental sound collage Falling in love with flower essences Choosing a tarot card for the year
Chanelle A. Bergeron is a flower essence practitioner & an intuitive herbalist who weaves her knowledge of midwifery, astrology, tarot, & mysticism into her healing practice. When she is not in the apothecary, you will find her making improvised & atmospheric sound-collage music under the name of mille, dreaming of the water, and writing poems. She currently resides in Raleigh, NC with her brilliant partner, Minori Sanchiz-Fung.
You can find more about her offerings online at: www.moonbymoonapothecary.com
instagram: @moonbymoonapothecary
email: moonbymoonapothecary@gmail.com
bandcamp: mille.bandcamp.com
Minori’s website: www.minorisanchizfung.com
My dear friend Emma Scully who I mentioned in our interview: Instagram: @justherbals
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Sweet friends, I cannot imagine a more suitable episode to share with you on the Scorpio full moon!
My conversation with Jennifer was deep, beautiful and full of gems about the following: - Supporting survivors with breathwork, body based writing workshops and herbalism - Working through grief and trauma while nurturing resilience - The creative process behind the anthology Queering Sexual Violence and why its so important to make support for survivors more inclusive - The power of being truly witnessed - Psychedelic experiences and how they can completely alter the way we understand our lives - Working with poison medicine
Jennifer Patterson is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, words to explore survivorhood, body(ies) and healing. A queer and trans affirming, trauma-informed herbalist and Breathwork facilitator, Jennifer offers sliding scale care as a practitioner through her own practice Corpus Ritual and is a member of The Breathe Network and Breathwork for Recovery. She facilitates writing and Breathwork workshops at healing centers, LGBTQ centers, a Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish healing center, a needle exchange and harm reduction clinic, veterans hospitals, online with the Transformative Language Arts Network, sexual violence resource centers, the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do?, and at colleges and universities. She is the editor of Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti- Violence Movement (2016, https://queeringsexualviolence.com/), lectures across the country, and has had writing published in places like OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts, Nat. Brut, The Establishment, HandJob, and The Feminist Wire with new publications forthcoming. She is also the creative nonfiction editor of Hematopoiesis Press. A graduate of Goddard College’s MA program, Jennifer is finishing a book project focused on translating embodied traumatic experience through somatic practices and critical and creative nonfiction. You can find more at http://ofthebody.net/.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Happy new moon in Taurus, dream babes!
Thanks to our beautiful Patreons there is another episode to enjoy already! This time I spoke to astrologer, tarot reader and writer the Firebrand Witch. It`s been a touching, honest, beautiful and giggly conversation about all of these beautiful things: - Navigating the magical world as a non-binary person - Reclaiming the word witch - Doing magic at college - Astrology as an intuitive art that heals through creating narrative - Creative morning practices - Tarot as a reflective tool for survivors - Patreon as a way to support independent makers - Navigating the start of a new business - Identifying with tarot cards The Firebrand Witch is an astrologer, tarot reader, idea synthesizer and writer who is on a daily dash to make meaning of society and human beings through the magic of the planets and the cards. They are a mad agender cyborg witch with a heart of flames committed to supporting humans through their underworld journeys as they (re)discover their magic, meaning, and passion for being. They write weekly horoscopes and occasional reflections on healing and transforming over at thefirebrandwitch.com.
To learn more: http://thefirebrandwitch.com/about/
To book a reading: http://thefirebrandwitch.com/tarot-reading-store/
Instagram: @thefirebrandwitch
Facebook: fb.com/thefirebrandwitch
Twitter: @firebrandwitch
Patreon: http://patreon.com/thefirebrandwitch
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, how is everyone doing and feeling?
I have a beautiful episode with my friend and dream babe Amy Kuretsky to share - honestly, this one is wonderful and covers such a broad range of topics plus very many giggles!
Here is what we talked about:
- Amys story with chronic illness and how she got into herbalism, acupuncture, breathwork and the tarot
- Feeling healthy both in our bodies and our businesses and how that is deeply related
- How we can learn from plants
- How we try to stay connected to nature in winter
- Why we think its important to ask plants for permission
- How we are trying to make our work accessible through sliding scales and online offerings and still want to honour our own time and energy at the same time
- Why we love tarot as a tool to express what we cant quiet say yet
Amy Kuretsky is a wellness coach for mind, body, and business. As a creative entrepreneur herself, she doesn’t think that you have to choose between your health and your hustle. Her work is focused on helping female-identified and non-binary business owners heal what needs healing - whether that’s their anxiety and limiting beliefs one day or their business model the next. When she’s not coaching creative business owners she’s running a busy Chinese medicine clinic in Minneapolis, leading wellness retreats around the country, and getting woo-wooAF.
Here are some links you might want to check out: Amys website: https://www.amykuretsky.com/
Amys instagram: http://instagram.com/amykuretsky
Amy`s monthly breathwork offering: https://www.amykuretsky.com/monthly-medicine/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Friends, we made it to 10k listens, can you imagine?! Thank you so much! In this episode I just want to send you a really big thank you, tell you a bit more about my story and share some new things that I am currently working on. Tune in to hear about how I started out in web design, how Daydreaming Wolves came to be, what I wish I had known sooner and what I am wishing for in my fourth year. Wishing you a beautiful Sunday, dream babes!
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
For this episode I got to interview Otter Lieffe who wrote and self-published the incredible book of speculative fiction called Margins and Murmurations about struggle, sex work and time travel. As you know I think DIY media and representation are super important topics, so it was amazing to talk to her about the creative process and how healing it can be to imagine a different future for marginalised folks. We also talked about reframing PTSD, visibility, creating dignified working conditions for ourselves, community funding and the radical bodywork network. You can support Otter`s work and receive access to wonderful extras through her Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/otterlieffe
Otter is a working class, femme, trans woman, in and out of Brussels and Berlin where she runs a trans and queer-focused holistic clinic called Safer Healing (https://saferhealing.org/). Margins and Murmurations (https://otterlieffe.com/marginsandmurmurations/) is her first novel. She has been involved in grassroots activism for over a decade, in Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and North America and has at various times found herself involved in queer community organising, land reclamation, language teaching in migrant worker communities, playing samba in demonstrations and being too tired to get up the next day. She speaks between 3 and 5 languages and rarely sits still long enough to watch the seasons change. Written by a trans woman and sex worker, Margins and Murmurations puts gender, queerness and femininity at the centre of its twisting narrative. In this sensitive exploration of exclusion, Otter Lieffe calls us to renew our struggles against oppression and to proudly reclaim the margins that so many of us call home. Margins and Murmurations “This is the story of Ash, a trans woman and healer living in a corner of Europe controlled by a militarized state. Amidst the economic crash of the 2020s, this land, once a hub of diversity, saw the rise of a state-imposed monoculture of gender, sexuality, ability and race. Those that didn’t fit, known as the divergents, were imprisoned, expelled or worse. Ash and her best friend Pinar long ago escaped the City, left behind their days of fighting State oppression, and are eking out a calmer life in the forest, ravaged by the effects of climate change. One day, Jason, a resistance fighter, arrives abruptly into their life, reigniting personal and political drives and they find themselves drawn back into the fight.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Happy slightly belated new moon, you dreambabes!
I hope the eclipse season is treating you well, that you are being showered in beautiful insights and that healing feels like softly floating down a river on a stable and supportive leaf (idk where that came from, I had a lot of rose tea this morning). I feel super excited to bring you this gem of a conversation - its is a beautiful deep-dive into ideas, challenges and dreams around sharing, solidarity and engaging with money in sustainable, healthier ways. We also talked about the seduction of quick cash in the online business world, what it can mean to have social capital and access to resources and how the internet isnt as democratic as we may think it is. I have worked with Sophie personally and feel that my life is so much richer with her in it - I can feel why she is so passionate about her work and I really value her perspectives. Sophie Macklin is a queer femme witch, anti-capitalist abundance coach, and feminist priestess in love with the magic of valuing and care. She works with people on thriving within and despite capitalism as we all work to dismantle systemic oppression. She believes the current system for resource distribution is drastically unfair, and relies on the exploitation of land and people. She is interested in creating something different. Sophie is passionate about women and queers getting paid for their work, mutual aid, and all of us getting imaginative about new economies and new ways of being.
You can find Sophie`s website here: http://www.feministabundance.com/ And this is her instagram: http://instagram.com/sophieamacklin
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, happy almost blue moon to you!
I have a really special episode for you to celebrate this magical moon - Vanessa Sage came back on the show (listen to the first episode with her, #9, if you haven`t already) to talk about intuitive tarot magic and finding confidence, inspiration and comfort through the cards. We had a chat about finding the right deck, making little rituals out of readings, giving yourself permission to approach the cards with unwashed hair and uncertain questions, trusting your intuitive interpretations and finding your own voice as a reader.
Vanessa Sage’s work focuses on self-compassion, inner-bravery, and discovering the mystery in our everyday lives. She offers spiritual and business mentorship, Priestess training, and tarot readings to help you enchant your everyday, bring your imagination to life, and listen to your wild soul’s calling! She has a PhD in cultural anthropology, and spent many years studying Buddhism, pilgrimage, and alternative spirituality as an anthropologist of religion.
You can find her at http://vanessasage.com/ and sign up for the free Tarot Love Month program here: http://vanessasage.com/tarot-love-month/ Learn more about the Sage Intuitive Tarot School here: http://vanessasage.com/sage-intuitive-tarot-school-level-one/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
For this beautiful new moon I have the honour of sending an interview with Jessie Susannah Karnatz, aka $Money Witch$ your way! We talked about how she became a money witch, how she developed a powerful relationship with physical cash, how she formed a worker´s cooperative with fellow sex workers and how she managed to rebuild her financial and professional life after a divorce and an eviction. Jessie also shared some really beautiful and insightful thoughts on survival in late stage capitalism and how money can contribute to liberation in really tangible, practical and efficient ways. Jessie Susannah Karnatz, aka $Money Witch$, is an Intuitive Financial Coach, bookkeeper, and tax preparer bringing Capitalism-Critical Business Lady Swag to clients in the Bay Area and via Skype. You can find more information on her work at www.healyourfinances.com and on Instagram @money.witch. Jessie also has a Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg9QueTgSbQOxd5eBwGkR5g) and is offering a business basics course for not so basic business babes here: https://www.healyourfinances.com/businessbabes.html
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, I am so sorry for the slightly delayed full moon podcast episode! This one is super sweet and yet really powerful - Asali has shared a ton of beautiful insights about her own tarot, magic, creative and plant practices and how they saved her life. I received tarot readings from her during some interesting turning points in my life and really, really loved her fierce yet gentle guidance. We also talked about the tarot deck reviews Asali is doing, why she cares so much about community and representation and how she came to create tea blends that reflect some of the major arcana cards. Enjoy!
Asali is a Black queer femme community healer and earthworker writing (https://www.asaliearthwork.com/blog/), practicing (https://www.asaliearthwork.com/tarot/), and creating (https://www.asaliearthwork.com/shop) at Asali Earthwork. Her healing work is rooted in using self-care as a means to disrupt systems of oppression and prioritize care for her community.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, this time its just me - tune in to hear about how I am celebrating the winter solstice and NYE, what my business and life highlights for the year were and what I am hoping for in 2018. I am also sharing some ideas for small tarot rituals as well as herbal self-care and I am letting you know how you can receive Monthly Magic as well as regular tarot support from me in 2018 through my Patreon which you can find here: https://www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves But most importantly: thank you so so much for your ongoing love and support, I feel super lucky to have you in my life and I can`t wait to see what magic we can create together in 2018!
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
This episode is really close to my heart and extra special. Rachael Maddox is a trauma resolution educator, coach and guide whose work I have followed with joy and excitement for a long while. I believe with every cell of my being that her work is needed now more than ever and I am excited to share a bit of her with you! Tune in to hear about our visions for collective sexual healing and trauma resolution, what we can do when old trauma resurfaces, the tenderness of starting over and doing intimacy differently and why we feel it can help to think of trauma as a bad spell. We also had a chat about the similarities between consent in sex and consent in marketing, how we can create fair exchanges and why somatic approaches to healing are so important. Content note: We talked about family stuff, sexual trauma and violence, but there are no graphic elements. I highly recommend checking Rachaels kickstarter for her upcoming book Sex after Trauma out at bit.ly/sexaftertraumabook - there are amazing treats and youll be supporting work that is so needed in the world. Join Rachael on Instagram for a 30-day free course called The Reclamation :: Opening the Doorway to Delicious Sex After Trauma. instagram.com/rachaelmaddox and visit her website RachaelMaddox.com to sign up for the free video series we`ve mentioned.
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Happy full moon in Taurus you beautiful being!
My celebratory gift is a beautiful interview with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener who creates the Many Moon workbooks that have had a big impact on my life and my understanding of time and seasons. We talked about writing for our past and future selves, being a teenage witch, living in moon time, the creative and self-publishing process of the Many Moon workbooks and nurturing consistency in our magical practices. Enjoy! Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is a creative living in Los Angeles, CA. She designs, art directs and consults with small businesses, non-profits, and large companies around the USA. Sarah has run her feminist apparel company Modern Women for 10 years and her designs are carried in stores in Canada, the UK, and the United States. A student of the Tarot since 2004, Sarah has been reading Tarot cards professionally for the past 5 years. Sarah has taught classes on metaphysical subjects such as Moonbeaming, the Tarot, and Intuition for the past 4 years around the United States and Canada. She is the creator of the Many Moons Workbooks.
View Sarah's design site here: http://sarahgottesdiener.com/ View Sarah's spiritual musings here: https://visualmagic.info/ Book a Tarot session with Sarah here: https://visualmagic.info/contact/ Buy items from Modern Women here: http://modernwomen.bigcartel.com/ Follow Sarah on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gottesss/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
I know I always say this, but this interview was really special and feels so beautifully well timed for the season of ancestral connection! Langston Kahn is a shamanic practitioner based in New York who helps his clients with emotional clearing and building a connection to their ancestors. In this episode we talked about the concept of Inner Relationship Focussing, podcasting as an oral tradition, healing intergenerational patterns and connecting with ancestors, working with altars, self-care and our visions for collective healing. Enjoy! This is the blog post Langston mentioned: http://www.occupy-your-heart.com/blog/how-to-start-shamanic-journeying This is the class on healing triggers we talked about: http://www.occupy-your-heart.com/online-classes.html You can also find Langston on instagram and Facebook!
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
This week I had my beautiful friend and business guide Lisa Nagel on the show - we talked about keeping it real, simple and magical and how we can learn through joy rather than just through difficult experiences. We also shared some rituals that are pretty easy to do and have really helped us through challenging times, explored what it can mean to work with desire and surrender and talked about being at ease with the cycles of expansion and contraction. Lisa is such a sweet, wonderful babe and I am delighted to share her with you! In this episode we mentioned the concepts of mantras and chakras and as two white people we`d like to acknowledge that these are practices that have generously been brought to us in Europe by Indian teachers like Swami Sivananda who shared their wisdom with us despite the horrific experiences their communities have made through colonisation. Lisa Nagel is a card reader and healer currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She supports women through a unique blend of love filled card and energy readings by marrying the magical, spiritual and the practical to empower them, witness and heal their wild sensitive souls. She deeply believes in the inherent wisdom each soul carries and in making more space for sacredness in our lives.
Lisas website: http://www.wildsensitivesouls.com/
Lisas instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildsensitivesouls/
Her free full moon ritual kit: http://www.wildsensitivesouls.com/yourfreeritualkit
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
Hey friends, this episode is really, really beautiful - especially if you are into the tarot. Lindsay Mack has been such an inspiration to me as she has a really unique way of working with the cards in healing and creative ways. I got to ask her about self-care practices, plant friends, making wild career moves and healing from trauma and PTSD. Lindsay shared her view on soul cards, how her astrological houses have helped her better understand her experience, how she started her journey as a tarot reader after a major crisis, what eucalyptus means to her and why she wants to connect to the plants of her ancestry. We also talked about healing trauma as a present moment process around something that happened in the past, what our relationship to the word witch is and our perspective on generosity and unconventional online marketing. A little side note - the sound quality unfortunately is a little lower than usual in this episode as I had some tech issues, I hope you still enjoy it!
More about Lindsay: Lindsay Mack is a Brooklyn based intuitive counselor, holistic healer, tarot reader, and the founder of Wild Soul Healing, and Tarot for the Wild Soul. She offers and facilitates Intuitive Soul Readings, Intuitive and Spiritual Coaching, Mentorship, and Tarot Trainings for those who desire to heal, evolve and live fully on their true soul path. She is the creator of Soul Tarot, a way of interpreting, understanding and intentionally utilizing the Tarot as wild medicine for our soul's evolution. Soul Tarot is a fusion of channeled wisdom from her guides, her 22 years of experience reading and studying Tarot, and her own healing journey through abuse and PTSD.
Lindsay`s website: www.lindsaymack.com Her instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/wildsoulhealing/ Her Tarot for the Wild Soul course that we talked about: https://www.lindsaymack.com/tarotforthewildsoul
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
You babes are in for such a treat with this interview! I recently started Ren`s two year apprenticeship and absolutely love her undogmatic, enchanting, practical and flexible approach. We talked about her background, talking to plants and ancestors, working with the body and spiritual hygiene - it was a really beautiful chat and I am so excited to share it with you! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ren Zatopek is a traditional spiritworker. Spiritwork is the art of communicating with the seen and unseen identities, ideas, and spirits of life, then working with them to create meaningful change, or to restore their capacity for change. Ren has worked full-time for over a decade in Los Angeles as a community spiritworker. Ren is a graduate of the Institute of Psycho-Structural Balancing, a student of Rita and Griffin Ced and Orion Foxwood, an initiate of the Ced Tradition of Heretical Witchcraft and of Raven's Cry Grove, Ár nDraíocht Féin, and an apprentice with the House of Brigh. In 2016 Ren closed her private practice and began building an 8-year online program and community for free spirits all over the world with an interest in learning a non-dogmatic, flexible method of spiritwork that is accessible and useful to anyone regardless of cultural identity or lack of identity. Learn more about spiritwork and enroll in a free 2-month introductory program: https://www.renzatopek.com
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
I will be super honest here - Sarah had been an instagram crush of mine for a while before I was super brave and emailed her about coming on my show and thank Goddess she said yes! Sarah is super magical yet totally down to earth and has shared lots of gems about her way of reading the tarot, working with plants and letting go of habits that are no longer serving her. We also talked about authentic self-care, living in Asheville and reclaiming the word witch. I also highly recommend checking out her blog (all links below) and signing up for her self-care checklist. Enjoy!
Sarah M. Chappell is a transformational healer based outside of Asheville, North Carolina. She intuitively blends tarot, flower and stone essences, and herbal remedies to empower women to heal themselves. Her personal journey of healing depression and addiction has led her to believe that we each have the ability to create our own wellbeing, and that with tools and support we can unravel, shift, and heal our stories of suffering. sarahmchappell.com instagram.com/sarahmchappell facebook.com/healyourselfwithsarahmchappell pinterest.com/sarahmchappell
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
I had so much fun interviewing my friend Jade for this episode! We hung out on their bed and talked about DIY culture, making zines, being a writer and what it means to us to queer intimacy and relationships. I love their workshops and zines and am super excited to share their insights with you
I am extremely proud and excited to share this latest episode with you! I met Melanie St. Ours about a year and a half ago when I did a course on ancestral healing that she co-taught and looking back now I think that really was the gateway that got me into herbalism. This is a really beautiful interview in which she shared her perspective on chronic illnesses, asking for help, working with trauma and herbalism. Enjoy and check out her free Youtube series on the foundations of healing! Melanie St. Ours is a clinical herbalist specializing in mental health and women's health. She is the founder of Psyche & Soma LLC. Melanie's diverse training includes certification from the East West School of Herbology's Professional Herbalist Program, an honors degree in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and deep training in Myofascial Release and CranioSacral Therapy. Her approach to healing harnesses the power of imagination and storytelling alongside traditional herbal wisdom and practical health education. This is Melanie`s website: www.psycheandsoma.com And here is her Youtube channel with her free series on the foundations of healing: https://www.youtube.com/user/MelanieStOurs ⋒
Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
It`s been such a joy to interview my friend Amelia Bayes for this episode - we talked about relationships, sex ed, communication and uhm...gardening gloves. Amelia is a sex and relationship coach as well as a wonderful counsellor. Find them at http://www.vixencoaching.com/ (where you can sign up for their free resource library) and https://www.ameliabayescounselling.com/
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒
My first ever podcast episode! This is me chatting about my story, how I started my web design business and then Daydreaming Wolves, how I dropped out of uni three times before finally graduating and how I came to love plants so much. There are also some thoughts on the politics of healing, ethical tarot readings and accessibility. Enjoy!
⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒