In the tenth episode of The Nature of Invisible Things (TNIT), I am pleased to welcome artist, storyteller, and my spiritual mentor, Lara Vesta. She shares how she came to her spiritual path growing up in rural Southern Oregon. We discuss listening to Spirit and how we are always invited into deeper alignment and trust. Lara also shares how the pontification of spiritual practice isn’t enough and how important it is to weave webs of connection because we are not meant to do life, this human experience, alone. She also shares what she would do if someone gave her a magic wand and a challenging lesson learned through resistance.

Overall, this episode is a life-affirming conversation about death and much more.

Welcome, Lara!

And just a heads up, there were two instances where the audio cuts out during our recording that I didn’t catch until production. So, around minutes 21-22, you’ll notice some choppy audio.

Lara’s Bio

Lara Vesta, MFA, is an artist, author, storyteller and educator transforming chronic illness into a path of healing and reclaiming. She is the author of The Moon Divas Guidebook, Wild Soul Runes: Reawakening the Ancestral Feminine, and the forthcoming Year of the Dark Goddess (Red Wheel/Weiser 2024). Her research interests include ancestral connection, mythtelling and disability as initiation. She shares her path of ancestral animism, sacred art and story with her Patreon community and through by-donation classes at the Wild Soul School: laravesta.co.

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Current Wild Soul School Offerings:

Unlearn OnlineFoundations of Ancestral Animism

Other people and resources mentioned in this episode

Britten LaRue

Deva Munay

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The Nature of Invisible Things Podcast is hosted and produced by Erin Kelley; the artwork is by Erin Kelley, with music by Matthew Jaidev of Audio Soul Healing.

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