Erotic Devotion (formerly home-body podcast)

In this episode, I discuss the need to re-define and re-prioritize our ideas and values around maintenance in this coming year for the sake of our attention, our dreams and our planet. 

"Maintenance is a function of Kindness."

we discuss —

• Framing care of the land from being part of the land.
• Recent documentary, music and books I’ve been enjoying.
• Long term relationships (of any variety) as a practice of enduring kindness.
• Releasing the sense of obligation to uphold traditions for their own sake
• Planting seeds and maintenance as an act of trust
• How can we step into the role of gardener more in how we approach life?
• Can we bring enthusiastic responsibility to our relationship to the land care of the Earth? 

Mentioned in the episode —
East Forest x Ram Dass (music)
The Biggest Little Farm (documentary)
The Earth Path, book by Starhawk

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Morgan wider is a stylist and speaker who helps women gets free from the rules and limitations they have around their bodies and wardrobes. In this episode, she shares the psychology hiding behind our clothes and how to show up as our most confident selves.

"You are worthy of being seen. Right now. In this moment…You are worthy of being seen, and use your wardrobe to allow people to see all the beauty that you have."

We discuss

• How she used to wear clothes in order to hide herself
• How clothes can function as a tool for personal transformation
• How clothing can demonstrate belonging or otherness
• Our subconscious rules and body beliefs that show up in how we dress 
• How size is an imaginary concept 
• How our wardrobe can help us get comfortable with being seen
• The imposter syndrome around feeling good and beautiful
• The excuses we make to not show up as our confident selves
• Where to start when we experience choice paralysis

LINKS
If you enjoyed the episode, check out —
Episode w— Dr Tiffany Johnson

More about our guest —
Morgan's website
Morgan's IG
Morgan's book, The Worthy Wardrobe

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In this episode, Dr Tiffany Johnson shares her research into equity and inclusion in the workplace. What are the essential ingredients for innovation and equity? She discusses how we can more mindfully approach our work and how yoga has helped her with burn out + worthiness. 

We discuss —

• • The micro foundations of equity and inclusion in the workplace
  • The most potent ingredients to a vibrant and equitable workplace
  • The importance of systemic accountability
  • How acceptance is crucial for a community to be creative + innovative
  • How academic culture perpetuates our work culture
  • The narratives, stereotypes and additional expectations often facing POC in academia
  • How yoga nidra has helped her with burn out
  • Undoing the narrative of working for worthiness
• Dr. Tiffany Johnson is a work and wellness researcher, writer, and teacher. She certified to teach stillness and movement based yoga (RYT 200), meditation under the guidance of Octavia Raheem, Meryl Arnett at Sacred Chill {West}. She also is certified to teach Empowered Wisdom Yoga Nidra and Accessible Yoga . She is devoted to embodied tools because they consistently (re)connect her to whole self...and she's passionate about sharing these practices with workers all over, with a special place in her heart for workers in non-profits, academia, and small businesses.
  Tiffany teaches Organizational Behavior at a university in Atlanta and she does research related to work(places), equity, and wellness. Her work has been published in major management outlets and she translates her research to the public by consulting organizations on work and wellness related topics, and leading retreats for women of color in academia.
  Last, but certainly not least, she is the founder of The Institute for Good Work, an organization that offers subsidized support to Black and Brown members of academia and non-profit organizations to do their work in ways that keep them healthy, whole, and free from burnout.
  
  L I N K S
  If you enjoyed the episode, check out —
  Episode w— Meryl Arnett
  Episode w— Tracee Stanley
  More about our guest —
  Tiffany ‘s website
  The Institute for Good Work on IG
  
  Mentioned in the episode —
  The Yamas + Niyamas, book by Deborah Adele
  Octavia Raheem
  Meryl Arnett
  Dr. Chelsea Jackson - Roberts
  Yoga Nidra training with Tracee Stanley + Chanti Perez
  Radiant Rest, book by Tracee Stanley
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  join our free home—body Portal
  Mary Grace’s website
  Learn more about 1:1 sessions

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Candlefire — a private fireside chat for this Equinox season 🕯️ Tune in.

Underworld MAven — Learn the ropes, recipes, and symbols from the guides, guardians, lovers and pussy powerhouses. Turns out, something that you really need is hidden down here (but if you come and get it) 🌑 Learn more & join now.

Free resources —

Take grace’s free class EROS : INITIATOR ❤️‍🔥 — Learn what the Erotic actually is, why it's the answer to what's not healing in your life, and who it’s calling you to become — someone delighted and powerful

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Pamela Barba works with individuals to create brands that reflect their authenticity. She does this through her skills in design, coaching and also teaching. In this episode we talk about her unique perspective coming from an immigrant, small business family and how it has shaped her creative ideas around branding strategy and activism. 

We discuss:

• Pamela’s background growing up in a small business family in Ecuador
• The shifting paradigm around how we talk about our work + who we are
• What is the most important ingredient in branding
• How important is loving what you do for your success
• Why every project isn't about income
• How fluidity is essential when you want to work for yourself
• Safety as a prerequisite to creativity
• What activism looks like for her
• How we internalize our problems and make them isolated to us alone
• Evolving  practices around social media
• How personal healing and transformation are related to your business

L I N K S

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Episode w— Amelia Hruby
Episode w— Johanna Renoth

More about our guest —

Pamela’s website

Pamela’s IG

Vamos Ladies IG

Mentioned in the episode —

Quiet, book by Susan Cain

The Big Leap, book by Gay Hendricks

Tribal Wisdom for Business Ethics, book edited by Grace Ann Rosile

SOCAP

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Underworld MAven — Learn the ropes, recipes, and symbols from the guides, guardians, lovers and pussy powerhouses. Turns out, something that you really need is hidden down here (but if you come and get it) 🌑 Learn more & join now.

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Take grace’s free class EROS : INITIATOR ❤️‍🔥 — Learn what the Erotic actually is, why it's the answer to what's not healing in your life, and who it’s calling you to become — someone delighted and powerful

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Somatic trauma therapist Andrea Glik explains why it isn’t helpful to pathologize everything about us, but it’s more important to increase our capacity for pleasure and presence. In this episode, Andrea walks us through attachment styles, the relationship between pain and pleasure and how lessons from kink can help us relate to more healthy sex. 

We discuss

• How to identify the resources and tools you already have
• Using the breath as a neutral tool for somatic experience
• Where to start when “be here now” feels unsafe
• How it is unhelpful to over pathologize and over diagnose experiences
• The relationship between pain and pleasure
• How our capacity for pleasure can signify healing
• Working through shame around pleasure, which can also be about worthiness
• Looking at attachment styles and how they affect relationships
• How to cultivate your capacity and consciousness around pleasure in your life
• What kink has to teach us about communication, consent, play and body awareness
• How the earth holds so much pleasure for us

LINKS

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Episode w— Langston Kahn
Episode w— Lindsay Mack

More about our guest —

Andrea's website
Andrea's IG

Mentioned in the episode —

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, book by Peter Levine

Pleasure Activism, book by Adrienne Maree Brown

Wired for Love, book by Stan Tatkin

Come as You Are, book by Emily Nagoski

Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory, book by Deb Dana

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Candlefire — a private fireside chat for this Equinox season 🕯️ Tune in.

Underworld MAven — Learn the ropes, recipes, and symbols from the guides, guardians, lovers and pussy powerhouses. Turns out, something that you really need is hidden down here (but if you come and get it) 🌑 Learn more & join now.

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Take grace’s free class EROS : INITIATOR ❤️‍🔥 — Learn what the Erotic actually is, why it's the answer to what's not healing in your life, and who it’s calling you to become — someone delighted and powerful

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In this episode, I say a huge thank you to our growing listenership; I am so in love with it. I also go deeper into the ways I'm being asked to show up, re-orienting my experience with time and letting our strengths shine.

In this episode, I discuss:

• Ways to support the podcast. Almost all of which are completely FREE.
• Admitting + committing to my gifts
• Committing to working on things that give me energy
• Universe letting me know that it will only support me in things that come from my heart and that is it
• Unpacking a spiritual + cultural narratives that, for me, created a lack mentality around time
• We can’t get paid back in time
• Fear-based fantasies that create our sense of emergency
• Our body’s idea of balance 
• Over-identifying with our weaknesses
• Learning to focus on our strengths and get more comfortable with your gifts

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EPISODE 2: Vocational Ease

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Narinder Bazen is a Death Midwife, Home Funeral Educator and Holistic Death Care Activist. In this episode we talk Kundalini yoga, the gaps in hospice care and how death midwifery helps create more intentionality + care during the final season of life.

We discuss

• How putting yourself under pressure can open up unlimited potential
• What is death midwifery?
• Gaps in hospice care
• The questions people are afraid to ask around death
• What she’s learned from tending to the dying
• Receiving support to do our best work
• Re-orienting her relationship to money as a spiritual person doing spiritual work
• Energetically reading homes + land for healing

Narinder Bazen serves in these curious times as a Death Midwife, Home Funeral Educator and Holistic Death Care Activist. She has worked with over a hundred individuals and/or families as a death midwife and home funeral educator. She is NEDA proficient and National Home Funeral Alliance proficient.

Through her Death Education classes in Atlanta and via virtual classrooms she’s taught hundreds of individuals everything they need to know about Dying in America.  I am passionate about Death Education.

In 2018, she created the Nine Keys Death Midwifery Apprenticeship where she trains others who are called to holistic death work and would like to walk with her for a little while to get there. Narinder is also an artist and a dog mom to little Oak. We live in Atlanta and enjoy it so.

LINKS

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Episode w— Lauren Haynes of Wooden Spoon Herbs

Episode w— Felicia Ruiz

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Narinder’s website

Narinder’s IG 

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Take grace’s free class EROS : INITIATOR ❤️‍🔥 — Learn what the Erotic actually is, why it's the answer to what's not healing in your life, and who it’s calling you to become — someone delighted and powerful

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we discuss

• The approach + alchemy of their consultation practice
• Bringing healing and intuition back into the body
• Dance as a practiced ritual than can be about connection + healing
• “Fake healing” through dance
• Exploring pleasure activism through dance
• Political witchcraft
• Ecosexuality + embodiment
• Yoga as a practice for liberation rather than about exercise or relaxation
• Questioning the role of the yoga teacher and colonization of the practice
• The relationship between aesthetics + ethics

LINKS

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Episode w— Alkistis Dimech
Episode w— Diana Rose Harper

More about our guest —

Michael's website
Michael's IG
Michael's Twitter

Mentioned in the episode —

View the full list on the episode webpage here. 

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We are more truly able to be pleased and to feel fulfilled when it's coming from this free place of desire. In this solo episode we look at our relationship with desire as a practice for the dark time of the year.

we discuss

• Moving into this dark part of the year with intention
• Ideas for curating your domestic experience of light
• Appreciating the difference between need + desire 
• Bringing desire to the forefront of your story as a key component to a full heart
• Elongating and enjoying the space of desire and not just the moment of fulfillment
• Preparation as life’s foreplay
• How surrender is a necessary element of true desire

LINKS /

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —
Episode on Deep Alignment
Episode  with Alkistis Dimech

Mentioned in the episode —
BLOG POST LINK: heart(h) home

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GIVEAWAY

Doing a giveaway through November 10! Leave a 5-star rating + review for the podcast on iTunes and also share one of your favorite episodes on social media + tag me. Send a screenshot of both to [email protected] and I’ll announce the winner (picked at random) on November 11. Winner receives both of my current online workshops and also a free 30-minute remote Reiki session ($135 value).

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Healing is a multi-dimensional experience. Today, Asia Suler shares from her heart about the sentience of the Earth, cultural trauma and how the Earth can help us heal low self-worth — a root cause for much disease and confusion. Asia Suler is a writer, teacher and concoctress behind One Willow Apothecaries - a resource for consultations, retreats, online learning + handcrafted earth medicine. Asia has such a beautiful, big heart and loads of wisdom to share from the depths of her own experience and her well of research. This is an episode you won’t want to miss!

We discuss

• The sentience of the earth + our inherent human goodness
• Illness with roots in the energetic + emotional
• Why Asia loves + recommends flower essences
• The effects of emotional stress, low self-worth + sensitive nervous systems
• The power of being affirmed by the natural world
• Healing cultural trauma and overwhelm
• The relationship between self-acceptance and work
• Social media + vulnerability as commodity
• Looking at our shadows with the heart of healing and honesty
• Why she believes that everything is a symptom of healing
• How she learned to regulate her insomnia
• Three herbs she recommends for us right now

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Episode w— Yarrow Magdalena
Episode w— Tami + Selima Lust

More about our guest —

Asia’s Website
Asia’s Instagram

Mentioned in the episode —

The Highly Sensitive Person, book by Dr Elaine Aron
Soulcraft, book by Bill Plotkin
Dreamgates, book by Robert Moss

Stay connected —
Mary Grace’s website
Feeding Your Demons, book by Tsultrim Allione
Join our free home—body portal 

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Underworld MAven — Learn the ropes, recipes, and symbols from the guides, guardians, lovers and pussy powerhouses. Turns out, something that you really need is hidden down here (but if you come and get it) 🌑 Learn more & join now.

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Take grace’s free class EROS : INITIATOR ❤️‍🔥 — Learn what the Erotic actually is, why it's the answer to what's not healing in your life, and who it’s calling you to become — someone delighted and powerful

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