In this episode, Eryn talks about her healing journey with her sexuality. Sort of in honor of National Coming Out day on Oct 11th, mostly just a coincidence. Content warning: homophobia, biphobia, religious trauma

Mentioned in this episode:

• @ericasmith.sex.ed
• @jenerous + the Bi Monthly newsletter
• @nikki.mayeux (scroll back to see the My Queer is Sacred project)
• @gabalexa
• @gabriellekassel who I forgot to mention but is a great follow! check out her post that i love on ways to explore your bisexuality.

Free Libra season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video. 

Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Order your copy of the Religious Trauma workbook. Love notes for ex-religious folks on pleasure.

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. 

Shohreh Davoodi (she/her) is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Certified Personal Trainer, and the host of the Redefining Health & Wellness podcast. In this episode, Eryn and Shohreh talk about:

• Shohreh’s journey
• Learning to look at our bodies in a different way
• Changing bodies
• Food shame & body shame
• Deprogramming diet culture
• Learning to trust our body’s signals, messages and needs
• Learned morality around food choices and bodies
• What diet culture is & how it’s linked with other systems of oppression
• Body acceptance & trusting your body
• How to channel your rage about diet culture
• What intuitive eating is
• What interoceptive awareness is
• Feeling out of control around food
• Emotional eating
• Queerness and bisexuality
• Bullshit gatekeeping in queerness

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/shohreh-davoodi 

Download your free Libra season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video. My books are open for private sessions for November and December - book here.

Find Shohreh on her website, on Instagram, and on Patreon. Listen to her podcast, Redefining Health & Wellness. 

Mentioned in this episode: 

• Sex Educator Erica Smith
• Intuitive Eating book (the 4th edition)
• The 10 principles of intuitive eating

Yarrow Magdalena (they/them) lives a soft, slow life in Scotland and creates rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. They also write, make textile art, host a podcast, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming.

In this episode, Yarrow and Eryn talk about: 

• How this pandemic has been for them and how they’ve been feeling this year
• Being a small business owner during this pandemic
• Writing a book during the pandemic as a devotional practice
• Ritual as support, what ritual means to them
• Making ritual accessible for yourself
• Connecting to spirit through consistent ritual
• What enchantment means to them
• Grief tending and death midwife work
• Heartbreak and grieving people who are no longer in our lives
• Not abandoning yourself 
• Abandonment wounds during this pandemic & wounds around being liked/being enough
• Their self-marriage ceremony
• Creating romance & intimacy with yourself

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/yarrow-magdalena-2

Apply for 1:1 creative support with Eryn (open until 10/5 and starts the week of 10/12). Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Explore Yarrow's podcast Daydreaming Wolves, new book Rituals - simple & radical practices for enchantment in times of crisis, and Patreon dream program (starts October 6th!).

You can listen to Yarrow's first interview on Living Open from last September here. 

Welcome to Libra season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Libra season, shares key lunar dates, and does a collective tarot reading to understand some of the invitations and challenges of Libra season.

Register for the virtual Fall Equinox Breathwork Ceremony happening tomorrow, 9/22, at 7:30 pm EST (recording will be sent to all).

Download the free Libra season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video.

Say hi on Instagram!

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/libra-season-medicine 

Diana Rose Harper is a tarot reader, astrologer, reiki master, writer, educator, and bodyworker. In this episode, Diana and Eryn talk about:

• Her journey of getting to where she is now 
• Imposter syndrome with astrology
• How astrology can help us figure out what the hell we want to do with our lives
• Understanding rising signs and why you need to understand the ruler of your ascendant
• What cycles are most important for you to understand in astrology and how to understand those cycles in your chart
• How to understand the themes of your year through annual perfections 
• Her perspective on moon signs + where the moon loves to be and where it’s less stoked to be
• Your primary luminary and what that means 
• Understanding planets in the context of houses
• Gifts of astrology
• Mars in Aries (where it will be until January) & Mars retrograde 

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/diana-rose-harper 

Register for the virtual Fall Equinox Breathwork Ceremony. Follow Eryn on Instagram.

Explore Diana's website and get her free workbook. Purchase Diana's talk from NORWAC, Fierce Compassion: Natal Astrology as Radical Self-Care. Follow Diana on Instagram and Patreon.

Isabella Frappier is a sexual activist and pleasure mentor, focused on body literacy and sexual sovereignty. In this episode, Eryn and Isabella talk about:

• Isabella's journey with sex, pleasure and her body
• Her thoughts about what sex and pleasure actually are
• Finding pleasure in all kinds of emotions & in difficult times
• Healing through pleasure
• Seeing Eros in everything
• Sex magick
• Cultural appropriation in magic & spirituality
• Crafting your own intuitive magical practice
• Taking care of the nervous system
• Being eternal beings in bodies
• Being a recovering people pleaser, and more

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/isabella-frappier 

Register for the virtual Fall Equinox Breathwork Ceremony. Join the Patreon to experience SHIFT: 7 days of breathwork and journaling to hold you through the transition into fall (starts 9/14). Follow Eryn on Instagram.

Follow Isabella on Instagram and explore her website. 

Mentioned in this episode:

• @tourmaliiine's post on abolishing the cop in your head
• Gaby Herstik's book Inner Witch

Carolina Arevalo is a Peruvian visual artist. In this episode, Eryn and Caro talk about:

• A grounding and gratitude offering
• Her journey including trusting her intuition for the first time and transitioning to the arts
• Creativity and making art as healing
• Art as for everyone
• Releasing the need for art to be good and letting it just be expression
• Advice for reconnecting to creativity
• Rituals around creativity
• Giving yourself permission to try different things and see what works
• Spending more time feeding our creative and playful curiosity
• How it felt to show her work for the first time
• Being in exchange with the earth, with other people, with spiritual practices, outside of the extraction-based mentality of capitalism
• Her relationship with the plant kingdom & the fungi kingdom specifically (including nonbinary mushrooms!!)
• Working in unity with the earth
• The jungle inside of ourselves, being nature ourselves

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/caro-arevalo 

Download your free Virgo season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Follow Caro on Instagram, check out her website, and explore her course Rituals Around Creativity. 

Welcome to Virgo season! In this episode, your host Eryn talks about the energy of Virgo season, shares key dates, and does a collective tarot reading to understand some of the invitations and challenges of Virgo season.

Download the free Virgo season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video. 

Register for WHOLE, a virtual sliding scale breathwork + writing ceremony happening tomorrow 8/25 at 7 pm EST.

Tada Hozumi (they/them) is a practitioner, developer, and teacher of emergent methodologies for individual and collective healing that holistically integrate animism, somatics, and justice. They sometimes describe their animist-somatic work as cultural somatics. 

In this episode, Eryn and Tada explore:

• A lot of practice! Including a grounding & land acknowledgment.

• Bypassing and disassociation

• Ways to ground

• Our cultural and collective disassociation

• Cultural somatics

• Trauma passed down & passed down looks a lot like posture

• The vagus nerve 

• Bodies changing through disconnection from culture and roots

• Cultural attachment theory

• Taking folks off of pedestals and unhealthy relationships with teachers 

• The connection between the cultural soma (body) and the individual soma (body) 

• Supporting the healing of our collective body

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/tada-hozumi 

Connect with Eryn on Instagram and register for WHOLE: a virtual breathwork + writing ceremony on August 25th.

Connect with Tada on Instagram, their website and the Ritual as Justice School.

Cassie Uhl is an artist, author, empath, and the lead Goddess of her business Zenned Out. In this episode, Eryn and Cassie talk about:

• Her spiritual journey 

• Creating structure for creativity 

• Sustaining creative energy to actually birth something 

• Cassie’s practice with energy and why it matters to her 

• Working with energy intuitively outside of formal education and training 

• Being your own best teacher & honoring your connection to your guides, ancestors, etc. as your teachers 

• Ego and spiritual/healing trainings 

• Her connection to journeywork 

• How she works with her guides and deepens those relationships 

• Ancestral connection 

• Working with auras - what the aura is, cleansing and healing your aura, primary aura colors

• Her energy maintenance practices 

• Energy clearing & maintenance vs. processing 

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/cassie-uhl-zenned-out 

Connect with Eryn on Instagram and register for WHOLE: a virtual breathwork + writing ceremony on August 25th.

Connect with Cassie on Instagram and preorder her new books on her website.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Four years of the Living Open podcast (with the 10 most downloaded episodes ever)
• Elen Sentier on British Shamanism
• Ep. #89: Love and Lightwashing with Jordan Pagán
• Decolonial Atlas website 
• Celtic Cauldrons webinar from Energetic Justice
• Ancestral Altars (Europa Edition) with Sanyu Estelle