The Making & Mending Rituals Podcast

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#153 Finding & sharing your voice with Caroline Scruggs Oct 30, 2022

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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 harmonic lines, quirky vocal styling and thought-provoking lyrics.

https://www.carolinescruggs.com/

//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!//

#152 I just want to play for the rest of my life Oct 19, 2022

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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!

Thank you!//

#151 Making honest art with Daphne Cohn Oct 10, 2022

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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/

Thank you!//

#149 Starting new healing chapters with Jamee Pineda Sep 23, 2022

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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.

Thank you!//

My annual back to school sale with 50% off all my courses is here Sep 14, 2022

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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.

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#148 Bodies, belonging & earth with Loraine Van Tuyl Sep 06, 2022

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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: Liberatory Tools to Heal from Oppressive Patterns and Restore Trust in your Heart Compass (April 2022), which complements her online course, HEAL LOVE LEAD with SOUL AUTHORITY™.

To learn more about Loraine’s offerings, visit www.theSacredHealingWell.com

You can sign up for my weekend retreat here: https://pinkwellstudio.com/free/

Thank you!//

Join me for a free business retreat weekend? Aug 25, 2022

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Hey everyone, this episode is just a short & sweet invitation to my upcoming virtual retreat weekend in September. It’s free, packed with workshops & co-working time and a great chance to meet like minded people. You can sign up here: https://pinkwellstudio.com/free/ Hopefully see you there!

Thank you!//

#146 Navigating the underworld of chronic illness using myth & magic with Lara Veleda Vesta Aug 02, 2022

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Hey friends, I'm so glad to be back here reconnecting with you via podcast magic. This episode features the wonderful Lara Veleda Vesta, who was also a guest on episode #81. There is so much about Lara I appreciate - her wisdom around chronic illness and disability, her incredible story telling skills, her kindness and generosity and her willingness to be in awe of life. Here is some of what we talked about:

Building spiritual sovereignty, community and self-trust
Relating to myths and archetypes through difficult times
Expanding what ancestral practice can be
Adapting our practices to changing needs and abilities

Lara Veleda Vesta, MFA, is an artist, author, storyteller and educator transforming chronic illness into a path of healing and reclaiming. She is the author and illustrator of The Moon Divas Guidebook, The Moon Divas Oracle and the newly released Wild Soul Runes: Reawakening the Ancestral Feminine. Her research interests include ancestral connection, mythtelling and disability as initiation, and she is currently creating a mythic book on death transitions.

Her path of folk magic, ancestor lore and ritual practice is shared through classes at the Wild Soul School and with her patron community: https://www.laravesta.co/

Thank you!//

#145 Tarot Rituals with Nancy Antenucci Jul 09, 2022

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Hey friends, it's an honour to bring another episode with Nancy Antenucci to you - she was also on episode #56, way back in the before times, and it was so cool to reconnect and see what Nancy has been up to. We covered a lot of beautiful ground and I love how generous and creative Nancy is in the ways she practices with the tarot and is creative in the world. Here is some of what we talked about:

Finding rituals for uncertain times
Embodying tarot archetypes for a deeper understanding of life, creativity & ourselves
Letting go of workaholism
Deeply appreciating slowness

Nucc (Nancy Antenucci) is a seasoned tarot reader as well as a teacher of visionary strategies. Her innovative take on tarot makes her a highly sought-after teacher. Besides her strong influence in the Twin Cities, she helped build and is a faculty member for a Tarot school in Chengdu, China. Her first book, Psychic Tarot, is a culmination of her teaching and mentoring, practical know-how, and unending passion of tarot. Her newest creation is “Tarot Rituals”has nearly 100 tarot ceremonies, ideas and experiences for the tarot lover. Nucc is the founder of Minnesota’s Twin Cities Tarot Collective, which produces the annual North Star Tarot conference. www.betweenworlds.us

Thank you!//

#144 Making it as an artist with Tara Leaver Jun 20, 2022

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Hey friends,

happy almost summer solstice! This episode with Tara Leaver is inspiring and uplifting, so I hope it adds to all the light around us <3

Here is some of what we talked about:

Finding inspiration in the landscape
“Making it” as an artist and re-defining what that means
Finding the courage to share your work
Committing deeply to your practice without being a perfectionist

Tara is an artist and teacher based in Cornwall in the south west of England, where she lives in a clifftop barn and works from a studio at the bottom of the garden with a view of the sea. She started teaching art courses online in 2013, with a focus on helping artists uncover and develop their unique self expression more freely, beyond the influence and inspiration of others. Her courses have helped hundreds of artists around the world gain confidence, find clarity in their process and practice, and make art that reflects their individuality, whether for the pleasure of it or professionally {or both!}. A couple of years ago she gathered all her courses together in a membership called The Happy Artist Studio, which helps artists focus on their unique path supported by a wealth of material, guidance, and connection. Her own art has always been about expressing what freedom feels like, and over the past several years has been focused on her passion for sea swimming. She makes mixed media abstract landscape paintings, mostly on raw wood panel, and sells them in various galleries in the UK as well as online.

https://www.taraleaverart.com/

https://taraleaver.com/

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