Earth Priestess Podcast: Myth, Eros & the Sacred Feminine

By Angela Nikita CaraReligion & Spirituality Spirituality

Earth Priestess Podcast: Myth, Eros & the Sacred Feminine episodes

April 21, 2021 Grief is as Powerful as Love with Trixie Hennessey
Trixie is a Registered Therapist and SoulStrong Intuitive Coach and mentor. Trixie is well respected in the field of eating disorders and known for her work with grief. She has received post Masters training in Neurosequential Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Emotion Focused Family Therapy and her clinical training has been focused on evidence-based attachment and interpersonal neurobiology techniques. Trixie is also a certified End-of-Life Doula.
She brings huge passion and leadership to SoulStrong and is lit up by helping others turn their soul’s mission into a movement that leads them directly to the best versions of themselves. ❤️
In this episode, we talk about how grieving gives us the opportunity to slow down in order to release any shame we have held in the past about our pain and to heal through holding ourselves, and each other, tenderly.
41 min
February 23, 2021 "Let the World Kiss You": Chameli Ardagh's love of the great mystery
Chameli Ardagh is a yogini and women’s wisdom keeper. Her love of decoding and experimenting with ancient wisdom teachings through her own practice in yogini circles all over the world has crystallized maps of spiritual awakening and leadership that are accessible, practical and honoring of women today. Rooted in earth honoring, devotional women’s spirituality and goddess centered tantric yoga, she is especially appreciated for her love of mythology and storytelling as a key to spiritual awakening and embodiment.
What she shares:
~ Where therapy work meets spiritual wisdoms.
~ Looking from the attachment lens to bridge psychology and Goddess wisdom
~ How we all have attachment disorders with our environments and earth.
~ Women’s circle's & physical body as portal to ancient feminine wisdom.
~ How to toss everything up in the air so all can reclaim freedom if we don’t fit into the boxes our society has focused on.
~ And, for those who identify as women to celebrate so not to have more erasure of the feminine! She says how the focus on women wouldn’t be relevant to have women’s spirituality unless it’s been repressed it has!
~ Therapist as Priestess beating the drum while you enter the unknown like the Goddess Inanna.
49 min
February 12, 2021 Entrepreneur, Wife, Mother of Two (and My BFF) Recovers from Perfectionism After Facing Cancer Head-on
Jillian Lawrence is a female leader in business, who is passionate about making the world a better place. She loves leading purpose-driven female entrepreneurs to create their impact by understanding social marketing and what role feminine energy plays in the new advertising space.
Spending most of her life living in what she calls "Default-Mode", this mother of two is no stranger to anxiety, depression, and lack of self-expression. After a cancer scare in early 2019, Jillian discovered her Purpose and has been driven to empower other women to take control of their life and live in what she calls "Dream-Mode"; choosing to consciously live life by dreaming the future and taking inspired action to create it.
Timestamps :
She describes what she means by "Default-Mode" - feeling like life was happening to her - anxiety, depression, passionless, questioning the purpose of life (3:00)
She describes "Dream-Mode" - more conscious of mind and body, expression, freedom, passion, enjoyment (4:20)
How Perfectionism can mask anxiety (11:20)
For women who are out of touch (no pun intended) with their sexuality: Jill talks about how seeds need to be planted early on when it comes to Sexuality. What do we need to know about pleasure and how to pleasure ourselves? And how can these knowings help when our bodies and minds are going through something tough? (30 mins)
45 min
February 09, 2021 Ep.22 Sensuality, Self-worth and Magnetism: Remembering our feminine gifts with Claire de Haas
I am delighted to share this fun conversation that I had with a new friend, Claire de Haas, about decision-making, intuition & embodying more of the feminine.
Claire de Haas is a Feminine Embodiment Coach guiding women to own their feminine worth by cultivating more depth and sensual power. With this work we are developing a new system of relationship and value with the senses of your body.
She nourishes women in their journey to appreciate their feminine qualities and tap into their feminine power. Many women repress their feminine energy and constantly walk the fine line to ‘fit in’ this masculine dominated world, either in their professional or personal life.
She views the body as the key to liberation and during my sessions makes use of the 4 pillars of Embodiment: Sound, Breath, Awareness, and Movement.
35 min
January 17, 2021 Ep.21 Freedom, Ecstacy and The Erotically Awake Feminine with Sally Kempton
I am so thrilled to share this special interview with you with the brilliant Sally Kempton.
Sally is a powerful teacher of applied spiritual wisdom, known for her capacity to kindle meditative states in others and help students work with meditative experience as a framework for practical life-change. She's the author of the best-selling books, "Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Yoga Goddesses" and "Meditation for the Love of It.” A former swami in the Vedic tradition, Sally has been practicing and teaching for over four decades. Her teachings combine profound knowledge of the texts of yoga and tantra with practical wisdom from contemporary psychology and integral thought.
In this episode:
-Sally gives us the traditional Tantric definition of Shakti.
-She explains why devotional practice relating to Shakti is considered absolutely necessary for spiritual progress in this tradition.
-She describes how the traditional practice of kundalini yoga as Sally learned it from her teacher, Swami Muktananda, show you how to recognize your true self and liberate yourself from suffering.
-She shares how she shifted from the usual way of yoga the value of if you want to make progress in your life, if you want to experience relief from emotional pain, if you want to work with your suffering in really skillful ways.
-She also answers my questions about the erotic Goddess Lalitha Tripura Sundari, known for opening this thousand petal chakra, she explained: “Sex models Eros. Eros is really the life force itself. It’s why we’re alive.”
53 min
December 30, 2020 Embodying Your Womanhood and Honouring the Wild Feminine Landscape with Tami Lynn Kent
Tami Lynn Kent is the founder of Holistic Pelvic Care for women and author of Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body, Mothering From Your Center, and Wild Creative. She is an international teacher and TEDx speaker. Her books have been published in Mandarin, French, and Dutch. She is also a mother to three beautiful sons. Tami is passionate about empowering women in health & teaching them how to cultivate their creative energy in all stages of life through her practitioner training programs and personal sessions. In this episode we discuss:- What is The feminine? It's very rare to find! Marion Woodman said "the feminine is the bridge between God and humankind" (5 min)- Tami shares about her personal journey of discovering the feminine through her perinatal time and how slowing down to baby time was awkward at first (9 mins)- The current invitation to sit with yourself and clearing out old patterns and how that process opens space for connection to the mystery (11mins)- Working with our masculine in this phase through body, structure and developing a stable internal system as the external structures break down (20 mins)- I ask Tami about shifting from shame to honouring (33 mins)- The true empowerment of The Feminine vs. The feminist movement & what was achieved within the broken model (36 mins)- Not apologizing for pre-menstrual feelings, the need for rest, and the desire to cocoon (38 mins)- What is our capacity for "downloading?" (41 mins)
44 min
December 28, 2020 Ep.20 Entrepreneur, Wife, Mother of Two (and My Best Friend) Recovers from Perfectionism After Facing Cancer Head-on
Jillian Lawrence is a female leader in business, who is passionate about making the world a better place. She loves leading purpose-driven female entrepreneurs to create their impact by understanding social marketing and what role feminine energy plays in the new advertising space.
Spending most of her life living in what she calls "Default-Mode", this mother of two is no stranger to anxiety, depression, and lack of self-expression. After a cancer scare in early 2019, Jillian discovered her Purpose and has been driven to empower other women to take control of their life and live in what she calls "Dream-Mode"; choosing to consciously live life by dreaming the future and taking inspired action to create it.
Timestamps :
She describes what she means by "Default-Mode" - feeling like life was happening to her - anxiety, depression, passionless, questioning the purpose of life (3:00)
She describes "Dream-Mode" - more conscious of mind and body, expression, freedom, passion, enjoyment (4:20)
How Perfectionism can mask anxiety (11:20)
For women who are out of touch (no pun intended) with their sexuality: Jill talks about how seeds need to be planted early on when it comes to Sexuality. What do we need to know about pleasure and how to pleasure ourselves? And how can these knowings help when our bodies and minds are going through something tough? (30 mins)

45 min
November 22, 2020 Ep. 19 The Protectress Artemis: Exploring the wilderness within and without with Zoe Helene
Zoe Helene is an artist and cultural activist best known for coining and popularizing the term Psychedelic Feminism and founding the environmental feminism group Cosmic Sister (@CosmicSister). She believes a true balance of power across the gender spectrum—globally—is the only way humans (and non-humans) will survive, and she sees Psychedelic Feminism as a realistic, practical yet hopeful approach to a much-needed shift of global consciousness.

Zoe believes that ultimately, psychedelics are about kindness—to ourselves and to others, including non-human life forms, the world’s soil and air and waterways. It’s about doing our best to become the highest version of ourselves, first as individuals, then as larger socioeconomic communities, then as a species that’s over-running the planet. The journey starts with ourselves, then moves ever outwards. It’s our responsibility, as apex predators, to be in a healthy relationship with each other and with the Earth.

Zoe's work has been featured in Forbes, BBC Travel, Outside Magazine, DoubleBlind Magazine, Bust Magazine, Playboy, VICE, Broadly, Tonic, LA Yoga, New York Magazine, Boston Magazine, ABC Australia, Radio New Zealand, and many other top-tier media venues.
In this episode we discuss:
- the gifts of the goddess archetype Artemis.
- the need for wilderness and wildlife to be more core in our politics and news.
- why she advocates for our right to journey with sacred plants and funghi as a way to jump-start rapid cultural evolution.
- she explains what she means when she emphasizes our responsibility as Earth’s apex predator!

58 min
August 03, 2020 Ep.18 Awareness in the Heart: Honouring lineage and landing in the body with Abneet Kaur Sandhar
If you'd like to consider the roots of the Sanskrit word Shakti a little deeper, Abneet Sandhar starts this conversation off with a grounding practice of rooting energetically into the earth with the help of Durga, the earth goddess of protection. She speaks about the Fire of Shakti meeting the cool water of Shiva and talks about how she believes that the world is coming into balance with masculine and feminine. "Our embodiment work is one of the most important things we can do right now for the collective", she suggests: "When the world is crumbling, it is the fire of our joy that is most needed, as this is what heals the split we've created between mind and body".
She talks about how we decolonize yoga through paying homage to origins and by anchoring the breath inside the body. She says we can keep it simple by remembering that yoga is about landing in the body.
We spoke about honouring our lineages through asking ourselves: "Where do my roots go?" and Abneet says we might ask: "How do I bring my flavour of lineage? Not to create division, but to bring more multi-facited, multi-cultural vibrancy to the world". We also discuss getting to know we we really are through connecting with parents to bridge those gaps in understanding where our parents come from and seeing if they have some unexpected wisdom that we might open to.
40 min
August 01, 2020 I Dream My Own Medicine: Transforming pain through the priestess arts with Seraphina Capranos
After suffering injury to her spine as a teenager, Seraphina Capranos was declared by the conventional medical system to lead a life of suffering in chronic pain. Determined to heal herself, she returned to her roots and began a professional study of natural medicine at Emerson College of Herbology (1998) leading her to study with renowned herbalist Susun S. Weed at The Wise Woman Center in NY (1999) and then soon after healers in the desert of New Mexico. She is passionate about educating and empowering people in the wisdom of natural medicine. Seraphina is a graduate of the Vancouver Homeopathic Academy (2005) and in addition to offering empowering, heart-centered classes in herbalism and homeopathy, she loves teaching mystical earth-based tools for living a fullfilled and vital life. I ask Seraphina here about how to weave women’s ancient wisdom to bridge heaven and earth when we as women face the pain that may accompany women's experiences such as miscarriage and hysterectomy. I love her reflections around the benefit of sisterhood and community during difficult times and how emotion being held and shared among those circling up can be an essentially part of the healing 💐
It reminds me how women are the medicine and how pain and suffering can expand into a greater capacity to love when held in truth and tenderness.
54 min