Daydreaming Wolves Podcast

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 a

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

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 wit

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

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 th

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,

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

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

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 ceremon

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

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

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 risin

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 stren

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.dreamfreed

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 a

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

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 re

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

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, mean