Samara Kasai (they/them) is a tarot reader and meditation instructor who helps queer people of color remember that they are co-creating a life of infinite possibility, giving them the tools and empowerment to settle for nothing less. In this episode, Samara and Eryn talk about:

• Samara's journey of coming into tarot practice
• How they developed a relationship with the cards outside of guidebooks
• Using the tarot to break oppressive systems at a personal & collective level
• Working with the tarot to help reclaim marginalized identities & heal internalized oppression
• The academic industrial complex & the wellness industry
• Bridging justice and tarot
• Making money within capitalism, particularly as a black person
• Their relationship with their ancestors, how it supports them, what it means to them
• Gender in the tarot
• The Hierophant to deconstruct systems & structures, to subvert forced hierarchies in healing & wellness, to heal religious trauma & take folks off of pedestals 
• Co-creating experiences with clients in readings

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/samara-kasai

Connect with Eryn on Instagram and join the sliding scale Patreon to access a huge archive of self-healing practices as well as join WHOLE: a virtual breathwork + writing ceremony on August 25th. (More on WHOLE here.) 

Check out Samara’s Instagram and offerings: free mini course: Ditch the Tarot Guidebook, Six Week Program on Tarot for Liberation & their decolonize the tarot workshop.

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

Download the free Leo season breathwork playlist. Join the Lammas breathwork ceremony (this Saturday! Sliding scale + 10% to Morris Home).

Breathwork for the People's website & Instagram.

Davis Carr is tarot reader and astrologer based in unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe Nation (aka Ottawa, Canada). In this episode, Davis and Eryn explore:

• Davis’ journey of searching for something spiritual and finding tarot & astrology
• Her work & why it matters to her 
• Traditional astrology as the foundation of Western thought - her “traditional astrology” rant :)
• How astrology helps us heal
• Understanding patterns with astrology
• Learning parts of our charts when we’re ready for them
• How to find the medicine of your chart 
• Why you need to look at your rising sign in horoscopes not sun sign!
• Interesting takes on the moon sign around privilege
• Planetary rulerships in traditional astrology
• Trusting intuition in astrology & integrating your own medicine with what you learn from teachers and studies
• The Lovers & the Hermit
• Channeling and creative processes with the Magician
• Being beings in progress
• The higher self & the magic of the human experience

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/davis-carr 

Join Eryn's sliding scale Patreon community for practices for today's Cancer new moon. Register for the upcoming virtual Lammas breathwork ceremony with Eryn.

Connect with Davis on her website + Instagram. Download Davis' free guide to learn the 3 things you need to know to understand your birth chart.

Aubrey Badia Howard offers spirit medicine & transformational breathwork. In this episode, Eryn and Aubrey talk about: 

• Aubrey’s spiritual journey 
• The power of storytelling
• Getting grounded in who you are
• Healing with plant medicine
• The power of transformational breathwork
• Finding your path
• Working through fear
• Befriending our feelings + moving towards them
• Healing debilitating thought patterns
• Following your heart
• Trusting yourself
• Healing through relationship
• Working with core beliefs & the ways we play them out in our lives, and more

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/aubrey-badia-howard 

Register for the sliding scale online Lammas breathwork ceremony + connect with me on Instagram.

Connect with Aubrey on her website and Instagram.

The post I mentioned from podcast guest Jess Jackson.

Jerico Mandybur is a tarot reader, a modern spiritual guide, and a passionate advocate for creative healing through an intersectional lens. In this episode, Eryn and Jerico talk about:

• How imagination and play can be healing 
• Uncovering your power & what it means to Jerico to be in her power
• Jerico's process of writing a book and working on the Neo-Tarot
• Working with the tarot for healing and self-care
• Her Tower year
• Tarot birth cards 
• The 7 of Pentacles
• Viewing the world through a panentheist witch lens, and more

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/jerico-mandybur 

Join the sliding scale Patreon to access an archive of healing practices. Download the free Cancer season breathwork playlist + video. 

Visit Jerico's website, Instagram, and check out the Neo Tarot and the Daily Oracle. 

adrienne maree brown's books emergent strategy & pleasure activism.

Chauna Bryant is a Breathwork Meditation guide and a Pilates Instructor. In this episode, Chauna and Eryn talk about:

• Her journey of coming into meditation and breathwork
• Being seen and putting yourself out there in your healing work
• Navigating shitty marketing and the shame of the fitness world as a pilates instructor
• Getting into your body and connecting to your body
• Body acceptance with breathwork
• Hiding behind busyness
• Growing up with religion, especially as a queer person
• New age spiritual communities perpetuating the same harm experienced in religion
• Finding belonging
• Being unapologetic about who you are & walking your own path
• Being okay with disappointing people, and more

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/chauna-bryant 

Check out Chauna's website to breathe with her and follow her on Instagram. 

Follow me on Instagram. Join the Patreon. Access the free Cancer season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video!

Welcome to Cancer season! In this episode, host Eryn Johnson shares a collective tarot reading for Cancer season + talks about the ways she is building accessibility, anti-racism work and reparations into her business. 

Download the free Cancer Season Breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video. Book a private pay-what-you-can virtual Reiki or breathwork session.

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

Mentioned in this episode:

• Thérèse Cator's Becoming Human series

• Me & White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

• Bear Herbert’s Freely: An Anticapitalist Guide to Business series

Chanelle is a flower essence devotee, an intuitive herbalist, monitrice, poet, & sound maker. In this episode, Eryn & Chanelle talk about: 

• Curiosity as an invitation to open to receiving
• Plants teaching us about simply being and receiving
• Healing a colonizer mindset with plants & taking to be in right relationship with plants and the earth 
• Really listening to our lives & to plants
• Working with flower essences as a process of energetically working with plants
• Belonging 
• The Page of Pentacles
• What flower essences have taught her
• How to connect to a flower or a plant
• How her relationship with plants influences her poetry
• & she shares one of her poems with us!

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/chanelle-bergeron 

Register for the Summer Solstice Breathwork Ceremony. Connect with me on Instagram. 

Connect with Chanelle on Instagram & her website.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Thérèse Cator's Becoming Human series
• Willow Rising's first interview on the podcast & second interview 
• Work with Willow 
• Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
• The Philly Coalition for REAL Justice

Marissa Correia is an Earth & Body-Based Cycle Educator + Womb & Pelvic Wellness Guide. In this episode, Eryn and Marissa talk about: 

• Her journey of coming into her work of menstrual education
• What is actually happening throughout a menstrual cycle in the body
• Living in a way that supports a cyclical body
• The energetics of the menstrual cycle
• The connection of the menstrual cycle to larger more macro cycles with the sun, moon, and seasons
• The relationship between the body and the cosmos
• Unlearning and reclaiming the body
• Learning to trust the body
• Moving away from the new age-y idea of getting away from the body
• Polarity between us and our own bodies

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/marissa-correia-cyclical-body

The Anti-Racism resources I mentioned + 75 actions to take for racial justice. 

Connect with me on Instagram & register for the Summer Solstice Breathwork Ceremony (currently with early bird pricing). 

Connect with Marissa on Instagram and her website.

Mentioned in the episode + resources that have helped me:

• The Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde
• Period Power by Maisie Hill
• Pleasure Activism
• Thinx

Eliza Swann is an interdisciplinary artist, intuitive, writer, educator, and community organizer. She is the founder of The Golden Dome School and the author of the book Anatomy of the Aura. In this episode, Eryn and Eliza explore:

• Her journey growing up as a mystic and artist
• The intersection of the art and mystical worlds
• Channeling art 
• Her process of creating art
• The nonlinear nature of energy healing
• How we can all work with auras
• What the aura is
• Deciphering projection versus intuition
• Giving ethical & accurate readings
• Untangling your energy from others
• Death card and working with Death energy
• The High Priestess & how strangely misrepresented she’s been
• The Fool as essence right now
• Tarot as a living organism

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/eliza-swann 

Download your free Gemini season breathwork playlist + video. Connect with me on Instagram & join the community on Patreon for healing practices to support your journey!

Connect with Eliza on Instagram and through the Golden Dome School. Get your copy of Anatomy of the Aura.