Living Goddess with Chameli Gad Ardagh

What becomes possible when you learn to recognize radiance in all things, including the people and parts of life you have been taught to judge or reject?

Chameli sits in conversation with Shann Vander Leek about living in awe, discovering the beauty woven into existence, and how authenticity and inner congruence open the way for radiance to shine through us.

Shann shares how four Goddesses emerged as guides on her journey into inner radiance:

Kali, who guides us through beginnings and endings, discernment, and the honest encounter with shadow.

Kuan Yin, who opens the heart through compassion and love.

Isis, who calls us to remember who we are and what we are made of.

Lakshmi, who awakens delight, beauty, and the capacity to see life with fresh eyes.

Together, Chameli and Shann explore what it means to wash our eyes clean so we can recognize the essence and beauty of life. They also venture into the complexities of compassion, exploring how it can become entangled with codependency, enabling, and the impulse to rescue, and how the Goddesses guide us toward a love that includes clarity, discernment, and boundaries.

A conversation about the courage to be authentic, the wisdom of the feminine, and the radiance that becomes available when we learn to see more deeply.

Chameli sits down with psychologist and writer, Ailey Jolie to explore how the culture we live in shapes our nervous systems, and why simply regulating ourselves isn’t enough when systems themselves dysregulate us. 

They discuss the relief and healing that can come when the systemic abuse of the female body is named, and how symptoms like anxiety and hypervigilance can be healthy signals signaling deeper truths. 

The conversation unveils how women have sometimes betrayed one another in the pursuit of power within a patriarchal system, and why finding healing in circle—where bodies and stories can mend together—holds transformative power.

**Before you dive into this episode, we want to make you aware that we will speaking about sexual abuse and sexual violence. Please take care of yourself and listen if you feel resourced or feel into if you may want to skip this episode.**

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Chameli speaks with Dr. Gertrude Lyons about her book Rewrite the Mother Code and her passionate invitation to expand what it means to mother. 

Dr. Lyons shares practices and insights from her own journey of motherhood, and from decades of coaching others, and together they explore what steps one can take to shift out of oppressive belief systems around mothering, and rewrite outdated mother codes to more creative and sustainable ones.

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Twenty years ago, Chameli and Helena Montelius came together for the first Women’s Temple, to remember the sacred within the body, to listen, to breathe, to pray in movement and stillness. 

In this special anniversary conversation, Chameli and Helena reflect on what has sustained their Temple group through all the changes of life, the births and endings, the ebbs and flows, the laughter and the tears. They speak about the nourishment of being in Temple together, about friendship, and about the power showing up again and again to remember what truly matters.

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Join us in celebrating the new year with a popular episode from our archives. The three giant goddesses, the Norns, from Norse mythology guide us in co-creating with Living Goddess. Through the practice of presence, we can root our visions and desires in the original instructions, so that the future can unfold from wisdom instead of being a carrot on a stick that keeps us leaning out of the intimacy with the goddess, and into an endless chase of never-yet-there.

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Join us in celebrating the new year with a popular episode from our archives. The three giant goddesses, the Norns, from Norse mythology guide us in co-creating with Living Goddess. Through the practice of presence, we can root our visions and desires in the original instructions, so that the future can unfold from wisdom instead of being a carrot on a stick that keeps us leaning out of the intimacy with the goddess, and into an endless chase of never-yet-there.

For deepening studies with Chameli

Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected]

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The Living Goddess podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek PodcastBath.com

Chameli sits down with Ellen Dee Davidson, author of Sacred Forest Bathing, to explore the ancient art of listening to the trees. With decades of practice in sitting, listening, and communing with the forest, Ellen shares her lived experience of how trees speak to us, through presence, sensation, and subtle messages.

Together, they explore how each of us can enter into a more intimate relationship with the natural world, learning to receive the guidance, healing, and companionship that trees so generously offer. This is your invitation to slow down, tune in, and discover how the forest can become a teacher, ally, and sanctuary.

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In this intimate conversation, Chameli sits with her dear sister Kim Rose Keller, a Sex and Intimacy Coach whose life and work have been devoted to love and the beauty of human connection. Together they explore the landscapes of intimacy, grief, and the gift of community, and what begins to matter most when the illusion of “later” falls away.

To learn more about Kim and her work: KimRoseKeller.com

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Chameli shares an update on where she is in her life and practice, about being in a season of ebbing, energy turning inward, about shedding and slowing down. She speaks about the courage it takes to become honest, to listen deeply, and to center the desire of the soul. What happens when we create space for simple beingness? Is it selfish to honor what the soul longs for, or is it, in truth, an act of service to our collective healing in its deepest sense?

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Like a pre-programmed car radio automatically playing the same handful of familiar stations, we tend to run on repeat a few familiar, but not always beneficial, thought loops and habitual activities. Chameli shares how the animals she lives with help her in her practice of cultivating senses below the senses, which allows for a more fine-tuned ability to perceive the often subtle signals from the soul.

Events with Chameli:

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This podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek. PodcastBath.com