Grief Magic: Rituals, Tarot & Creativity for Seasons of Loss

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#69 Astrology for social change Virginia Rosenberg Dec 14, 2019

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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

//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!//

#68 Textile magic and fibre shed practices with Ash Alberg Nov 22, 2019

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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.

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#67 Why I am becoming a Death Doula Nov 15, 2019

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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!

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#66 My interview with Jennifer Gleeson Blue on emotional bodies and natural movement Oct 25, 2019

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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.

Thank you!//

#65 My interview with Eryn Johnson on breathwork and body love Oct 18, 2019

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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.

Thank you!//

#64 My interview with Marissa Correia on cyclical living and womb wisdom Oct 06, 2019

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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/

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#63 Embodied Magic has begun + we now have a book club + sliding scales are back! Oct 02, 2019

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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

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#62 My interview with Rosemary Roberts on fertility tracking and reproductive justice Sep 27, 2019

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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

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#61 What Wild Embodiment means to me Sep 15, 2019

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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.

Thank you!//

#60 My interview with Samantha Wallen on restorative writing and searching for home Aug 04, 2019

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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.

Thank you!//

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