Daydreaming Wolves Podcast

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 wi

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 business

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,

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 unc

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

Hey friends, I hope you are safe and doing as okay as you can

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 C

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 bo

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 epis

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.c

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 Co

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.

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 expre

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

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

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