Daydreaming Wolves Podcast

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 othe

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 Atlant

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.  Here is the upcoming patreon podcast I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/ 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

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.yarrow

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/ //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!//

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 p

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 wi

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 th

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 -

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

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 ha

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 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: Libe