Grief Magic: Rituals, Tarot & Creativity for Seasons of Loss

This episode is such a wonderful note to end on before I am heading into a little break - it was a true joy to talk to Justine & Larisa who wrote the wonderful book called The Grieving Therapist. I hope listening will feel as comforting as it did for me. Here is some of what we talked about: 

Justine Mastin, LMFT, LADC is a psychotherapist, author, and so much more. Justine runs Blue Box Counseling, a private practice in Minneapolis, MN and is an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor. She literally wrote the book on Therapeutic Fanfiction—Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life—and she offered support to healers in The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When it Feels Like the End of the World. Justine also co-hosts both the Starship Therapise and Dark Side of the Mat podcasts and has presented a TEDx talk.

TedTalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmtZU0_xmKY&t=1s

Larisa Garski is the chief of clinical staff for Empowered Therapy in Chicago IL. Larisa is the co-author of The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When it Feels Like the End of the World, and Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life. Larisa has also contributed to numerous other books on pop culture and psychology, co-hosts the Starship Therapise podcast, and is an AAMFT-approved supervisor.

The Grieving Therapist book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724011/the-grieving-therapist-by-larisa-a-garski-lmft/

Starship Therapise podcast: https://www.starshiptherapise.com/podcast/

Thank you for listening!

For this episode I had the honour of talking to Joelle of Butch Yoga again - we had a great first chat for episode #159 and so in this one we got to dive a little bit deeper. Here is some of what we talked about: 

Joelle is a non-binary butch lesbian who is really into queering spirituality. Joelle started practicing meditation and yoga in 2007. Then in 2009, they completed an Master of Arts in Cognitive Studies with a focus on Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, and Neuroscience. That means before Joelle was on a yoga mat, they were in lecture halls studying the mind, but their professors didn’t teach how to work with the mind to find happiness—and then Joelle found in most yoga classes they teach practices to work with the mind and body, but don’t usually go in depth with the concepts! And it’s been rare for Joelle to find queer yoga spaces, and even rarer to find other butches in those spaces—so Joelle created Butch Yoga as a space for butches and gender non-conforming friends to study and practice spirituality together. More about Joelle: Joelle is a white Latinx Jewish person who has been living on Mayan land in Guatemala for 7 years with their 3 cats

https://www.instagram.com/butchyoga/

https://butchyoga.com/

Thank you for listening!

Hi sweet listeners,

I am delighted to bring you a charming, inspiring and joyful conversation with the wonderful Melissa Word. I have loved her Grief Threads program so much and could listen to her talk about bodies, grief and art forever. Here is some of what we explored:

Melissa Word is an artist, dancer, writer and somatic facilitator. Her work takes the form of live performance, workshops, textile collages, drawings and newsletters. She specializes in creating transformative group experiences for people who want to feel more creative and connected to themselves–quilting classes for grief, movement classes for anxiety relief and body image repair, voice work for expanding consciousness. She is a current arts educator with the Alliance Theatre, and formerly with the High Museum of Art and Boys and Girls Club of Atlanta. Her pedagogy is based in somatic inquiry, presence and mindfulness practices, experimental voice work, intersectional discourse, liberatory social movements, and the perennial power of play.

https://www.melissaword.com/

https://www.instagram.com/melissawordstudio/

Thank you so much for listening! 

In this episode I am sitting by the river with you to think about the summer ahead. Three different ideas made me feel that approaching it as a season of creative recovery would be a really good idea on so many levels. I am also sharing two practices that might help you get intentional about the next few months in your own way. 

I decided not to start a private podcast in the end, but might do in the future.

Thank you for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

I recorded this episode by the river this morning and talked about the why & how of small ritual quilts. My little waffle includes thoughts on the meaning of ritual and what has changed for me three years after publishing my book Rituals, what I love about working with reclaimed materials and how I use these small ritual quilts in my day to day for beauty & inspiration. 

The workshop on May 21st I mentioned is over on the Making app, you can sign up here: https://themakingapp.com/

here are the ritual quilts I am currently offering: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/art/

and here is the Create & Launch program I mentioned: https://pinkwellstudio.com/create-launch/

Enjoy! 

This is an episode I recorded by the river this morning, I am talking about what might happen when we die - why I think it's an important question, what dreams have to do with it and what I love about not actually knowing. 

I hope it gives you some food for thought! 

Here is the Create & Launch program: https://pinkwellstudio.com/create-launch/

Thank you for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

Happy spring or autumn to you, dear listener! This episode is a really wonderful one to help us dive into a new season - I spoke to Phelicia of Queen and Crow about such wonderful things like:

I hope you'll enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

Phelicia Okon Magnusson is a queer black herbalist and flower essence practitioner based on the Big Island of Hawai’i. Her work centers folks of color who are affirming their wholeness by healing inter-generational trauma, moving though narratives of shame, reclaiming pleasure practices, exploring sexuality and returning to their intuition and resilience in the face of ongoing oppression. Phelicia's work is open to everyone and is an embodied exploration of building reciprocal relationships with land and plants to tend healing and facilitate transformation and acceptance. 

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queenandcrow/

Website: https://www.queenandcrow.com/

email: [email protected]

Tiffany, the tarot led, plant inspired embodiment coach Phelicia mentioned:  https://www.lovechildbotanix.com/ 

Thank you for listening!

This episode feels like it was really touched by the beautiful full moon I saw rising over the Scottish sea yesterday! I was chatting to my friend Rowan Walker earlier today, who was also on episode #126 recorded back in 2021. We caught up on creative practice, building intimacy with the tarot and overcoming road blocks and perfectionism. It was a total delight and I hope you'll enjoy listening too!

i’m rowan. i’m an agender white settler of Irish, Lithuanian, Scottish and Sicilian trancestry born on Turtle Island/North America. i’m the creatrix behind of hawthorn and yew, a sacred cauldron of plant kin relationship, ritual, and education. i facilitate community spaces for queer and trans folks for healing re-connection and collaborative learning. through the pathways of ritual + relationship, i seek to spiral ever closer to holy embodied aliveness, and to help others do the same.

ofhawthornandyew.com

Working the wands program: https://ofhawthornandyew.com/workingthewands/

Previous episode: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/podcast/126-plant-friends-ritual-anarchy-with-rowan-walker/

Hi sweet listeners,

I hope this finds you well and possibly still tucked into bed on a warm sunny morning.

I have some updates on my Patreon - it's been alive and supporting me for five years now and it felt like it needed some re-energizing. I'm eternally grateful for your support and the little chunk of reliable monthly income really makes all the difference in being able to keep my podcasts going and offering accessible spaces on Zoom to creative folks. 

So, for this new chapter I have created a living archive of movement, ritual and creativity practices that you can access as a Patreon and I am also offering new moon creative space sessions again alongside intention setting sessions on every first Sunday of the month. Please consider joining us <3

https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/

Thank you!

It's been about three years since shit hit the fan, can you believe it? I wanted to record this little reflection waffle to mark this milestone - tune in to hear me chat about how the pandemic has changed my relationship to home, work, creativity, landscape and people.

Here is the Finding Movement podcast I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/finding-movement-podcast/