The Making & Mending Rituals Podcast

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#174 An invitation to stitch & make with me in 2024 Dec 15, 2023

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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

#173 Disability & slow process as devotional practice Dec 10, 2023

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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

#172 Making a spiritual home for winter Nov 26, 2023

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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

#171 How I am expanding my attention span to dive deeper into subjects I love Nov 15, 2023

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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

#170 Making a creative home (& I'm back) Oct 30, 2023

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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

#169 Exploring creative grief with Justine Mastin & Larisa Garski Jul 21, 2023

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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!

#168 Embodiment & movement with Joelle of Butch Yoga Jul 04, 2023

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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!

#167 Weaving grief threads with Melissa Word May 25, 2023

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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!

#166 Entering a season of creative recovery (a river episode) May 18, 2023

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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

#165 The why and how of small ritual quilts (a river episode) May 07, 2023

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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!

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