Erotic Devotion (formerly home-body podcast)

Dara Metcalfe is a Reiki Master Teacher & Certified Transformational Life Coach. She has two decades of experience in Reiki, Massage Therapy, and in holding Healing Circle Ceremony. She co-owns  a space in Atlanta, GA called Future Perfect Healing. She is also my Reiki teacher and a magical human being over all. In this episode we talk about energy healing for the self and as a professional, journeys around money and running a business (twice!).

We discuss

• Aligning your gifts with your community’s needs 
• How healing her own trauma unlocked her more of her personal power + gifts
• The ongoing balance between owning a business + being an energetic practitioner
• Prioritizing joy + restorative time alone
• Reclaiming time as a business owner
• Working through financial wounds + learning to charge what you deserve
• Shame + family dynamics around financial healing (including losing her first business)
• Different modes of healing and how to discern which is what you need

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If you enjoyed the episode, check out —
Episode w— Blake Beckham
Episode w— Asia Suler
More about our guest —
Future Perfect
Dara's personal IG
Future Perfect's IG
Mentioned in the episode —
Without a Net : Middle Class + Homeless with Kids in America, book by Michelle Kennedy
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Nicole Qualls is a perinatal support specialist and a certified lactation counselor. I have no doubts that she is a rising voice in this field that we should pay attention to. She’s working towards helping others in their transitions into new parenthood with education, compassion, care. And she’s diving into the system to provide systems of support for parents who don’t have enough access to resources. 

we discuss

• How Nicole got initiated into motherhood + this work
• Up close + personal with perinatal mood disorders
• Her journey from being a birth doula to a postpartum doula
• The challenges of recovering from birth trauma
• How having children can also be a catalyst for healing
• The postpartum advice she would give to her younger self
• The importance of having community after giving birth
• Lack of accessibility around postpartum support 
• How to honor new phases in your life when you become a parent 
• 3 things she does that nourish her and keep her available to serve others

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If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Episode w— Meryl Arnett
Episode w— Sabia Wade

More about our guest —

Nicole’s website
Nicole’s IG

Mentioned in the episode —

HavenHygge House
Milk + Honey Co.
Shari Aizenman
Postpartum Support International

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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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In this solo episode, Mary Grace dives into a mapping practice for releasing grief + the responsibility of choosing your story.

We discuss

• The importance of digesting heartbreak + grief
• How to make a map of descansos
• Choosing the stories that we inhabit
• Why grounding is important for manifestation + impact 
• How meaning-making asks us to accept responsibility for our life
• The relationship between acceptance + freedom
• Determining the stamina needed for our desires

LINKS 

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —
Episode on Deep Alignment for Beautiful Futures

Mentioned in the episode —
Women Who Run with the Wolves
Radical Acceptance

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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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Dance artist, educator + somatic practitioner Blake Beckham highlights the power of pleasure + play in our learning processes. We explore the aesthetics of failure, how creative work is never done and finding ease to unlock new pathways.

we discuss

• The evolving role of the artist
• What the Feldenkrais method teaches us about how learning happens
• Deconstructing narratives around pain and how it applies to embodiment
• Experimenting with the aesthetics of failure
• Intentionally queering dance in a way that dismantles normative ideals
• The similarity between the scientific method + the creative process
• A moment of perceived failure in her own life that she considers a success
• How letting go of “should” can lead to a greater sense of freedom
• The simple acts + attention that contribute to healthy partnership 
• How reiki has helped her become more curious + open to the metaphysical

BLAKE BECKHAM is a choreographer, performing artist, educator and producer in Atlanta, GA. She co-directs The Lucky Penny, a non-profit arts organization that serves as a production outlet for Blake's choreography and a platform for  experimental performance projects. 

Beckham has produced her own choreographic works since 2001. Her most recent pieces have been widely celebrated for their deft craft, ambitious scope and emotional impact. These include OneAnother (2016), Dearly Departures (2014), Threshold (2012) and PLOT (2011). These recent works are emblematic of Beckham’s ongoing interests in blending striking stage design with cinematic imagery, visceral emotion and unadorned physical effort. 

Blake earned a BA in English and Dance from Emory University, where she received The Sudler Prize for highest achievement in the arts. She attended Ohio State as a University Fellow, to complete her MFA in Choreography. She has held teaching appointments at Emory University and Agnes Scott College. In 2012, Beckham received a Community Impact Award from Emory University's Center for Creativity & Arts.  In 2013, she was honored to receive the Tanne Foundation award in recognition of her outstanding artistry. Her work has been supported through residencies at Theater Emory (2013, 2014) and Performance Works Northwest (2014). Her accomplishments as director of The Lucky Penny have been recognized with honors from The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (SEED Fund Award), Center for Civic Innovation (Civic Impact Award), ArtsATL (Kindle Award), Creative Loafing Atlanta (Best Of) and more. 

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —
Episode w— Michael J Morris
Episode w— Aaron Samuel Davis
Episode w— Stephanie Miracle

More about our guest —
Blake Beckham’s website
Blake’s email or [email protected]

Mentioned in the episode —
Hez Stalcup
Pamela + Her Sons
Feldenkrais
Reiki

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Mary Grace's website
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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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Retired chiropractor Dr Crystal Jones is shifting the narratives + paradigms around healthcare, wellness, inclusivity, listening and self-advocacy. Professionally, Dr Jones has worked in many different modalities, including: chiropractic, reiki, yoga, doula work (for both birth + death); and they bring this radically full background into their exploration of presence, which leads us to find our YES. 

We discuss:

• Making decisions based on desire + joy
• The value of being, listening + believing in healing environments
•  The primary role of witnessing one another + the world
• Leaving room for who we are without our titles + responsibilities
• Why fulfillment needs to be an integral part of success
• How the breath can help you make decisions and choose your 
• Uncovering unconscious biases in the work place
• Deconstructing money as “I love you” and other stories

Dr Jones desires to create a practice that was based in radical vulnerability, revealing and allowing. They are  certified and have practiced in many modalities and see those languages of healing as tools that evoke awareness - rather than services to be offered. Through their deeply devoted practice to presence I create brave space for people to be with fullness of themselves. Dr Jones’ mission is to disrupt this narrative of brokenness with the power of intentional presence.

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If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Episode w— Rachelle Knowles
Episode w— Yarrow Magdalena

More about our guest —

Dr. Crystal Jones’ website
Dr Crystal Jones’ Instagram

Mentioned in the episode —
The Places that Scare You, book by Pema Chödrön

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Subscribe to the home—body podcast on Apple + Spotify
Mary Grace's website

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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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In this episode, Mary Grace shares career failures, dissolutions + turbulence and why it’s important to locate ease within our work. 

We also discuss —

• The value of being at the bottom
• What happens when we bypass failure
• The possibility of vocational ease
• Prioritizing your essence over achievement
• The unhealthy romanticization of our goals 
• The harm of over-sacrificing for your dreams
• Ease is actually about joy.
• The myth of work = stress.

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If you enjoyed the episode, check out —
Episode w— Andrea Ranae
Episode w— Vyana Novus

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Mary Grace's website
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Send us a message! 💫

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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Welcome to the very first episode of the home—body podcast. My guest is Atlanta-based meditation teacher Meryl Arnett who shares with us about how meditation has changed her life and opened her up to new levels of intuition and creativity. 

As a business owner and a parent, Meryl also shares about embracing your limitations and what becomes available when you stop trying to do it all. 

We discuss:

• Why even a spiritual business has to run as a business
• Juggling motherhood, entrepreneurship and a personal meditation practice  
• Learning to value stillness + how to get okay with being uncomfortable.
• How to value community over competition as a small business owner 
• How you (+ your business) can't be everything to everyone.
• Appreciating mental diversity and different ways to meditation depending on your neurochemistry
• The evolution of self care + productivity after becoming a parent
• The challenges of postpartum depression + anxiety
• Why work-life balance needs a re-frame 
• How to address the fear of saying "No" + embrace your limitations
• How meditation has opened her up to becoming a more mystical person 

Links!
Meryl's Website
Meryl's Instagram
Sacred Chill West
Tara Brach
Dirty South Yoga Fest
Mary Grace's website
Mary Grace's Instagram

NOTE: As with all things new there is a technological learning curve. In post-production, we found that the mic picked up some static from somewhere, and we eliminated it as best we could. But Meryl's thoughts were so good that I still wanted to share the episode through moments of imperfect sound.

Send us a message! 💫

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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thanks for listening. peace, be well. 🙏