Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

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  • Ep. #174: Finding Your Path, Grounding into Who You Are + Transformational Breathwork with Aubrey Badia Howard

    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.

    1 hr 10 min
  • Ep. #173: Uncovering Your Power, Imagination and Tarot for Healing & Self-Care with Jerico Mandybur

    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.

    44 min
  • Ep. #172: Body Acceptance, Breathwork & Being Who You Are with Breathwork Meditation Guide & Pilates Instructor Chauna Bryant

    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!

    59 min
  • Ep. #171: Cancer Season Medicine

    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

    33 min
  • Ep. #170: Flower Essences, Belonging + Poetry with Chanelle Bergeron of Moon by Moon Apothecary

    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
    1 hr 5 min
  • Ep. #169: Reclaiming the Body & Living in a Way that Supports the Cyclical Body with Earth & Body-Based Cycle Educator + Womb & Pelvic Wellness Guide Marissa Correia of Cyclical Body

    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
    1 hr 2 min
  • Ep. #168: Working with Auras + the Intersection of Art and Magick with Eliza Swann

    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.

    1 hr 8 min
  • Ep. #167: Gemini Season Medicine

    In this week's episode, we're diving into all things Gemini season. Eryn talks about Gemini energy, shares some ways to embody and connect with Gemini, and shares a collective tarot reading to explore invitations, challenges, self-care, and healing possibilities for the season ahead. 

    Mentioned in the episode:

    • Download the free Gemini Season Breathwork playlist + video on how to do breathwork 
    • Book recommendations
    • Free tarot visualization meditation
    • Join the sliding scale Patreon for monthly self-healing practices (including practices for working with each phase of the moon)
    30 min
  • Ep. #166: Working with Discomfort and Trusting Desire with Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapist & Discomfort and Self-Trust Coach Fanny Priest

    Fanny Priest is a trauma-informed yoga therapist and a discomfort & self-trust coach. In this episode, Eryn and Fanny talk about:

    • Fanny's journey of healing through polyamory
    • Life as a healing process
    • The vital role of desire
    • The relationship between discomfort and desire
    • Pleasure as growth edge
    • Trusting desire
    • Believing yourself as worthy of healing
    • Opening doors to hidden parts of ourselves
    • Being yourself as an act of service
    • Holding a grounded, loving space
    • Trauma and healing through relationships
    • Having a business as a spiritual practice
    • A simple way to connect with your body and deepen trust with the body
    • Practicing being a channel for sensation

    Blog for this episode with links to things mentioned: www.living-open.com/blog/fanny-priest 

    Details & registration for Get Into Your Body. Free 8-minute breathwork meditation from Eryn.

    Check out Fanny's Instagram and download her free yoga nidra practice.

    1 hr
  • Ep. #165: Healing through the Body + Trauma-Informed Care with Jess Jackson of Soft Path Healing

    Jess Jackson of Soft Path Healing is a somatic spaceholder and writer who offers trauma informed care for the world we actually live in. She offers nervous system nourishment & tender, radical care for practitioners & survivors.

    In this episode, Jess and Eryn talk about:

    • Her journey

    • Musings about how our desire for systemic change happen in a more trauma-informed way

    • What trauma-informed care means/looks like/feels like to Jess

    • Tenets of trauma-informed care in her practice

    • Not attaching to a client having a specific outcome or experience

    • The “fix it” mentality in healing

    • Multiple levels of deprogramming that need to happen around healing 

    • Healing through the body, on a bottom-up level, not just from the top-down

    • A gentle somatic practice to try 

    • The wisdom in avoiding things 

    • Working lovingly with our patterns

    • Repressed memories & healing trauma

    • Craniosacral therapy and somatic processing

    • The role of the nervous system in healing

    • The wise ways the nervous system helps us survive

    Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/jess-jackson 

    Join the Patreon community. Download your free 8-minute breathwork meditation for your daily practice + be the first to know when Get Into Your Body opens next Monday, May 11th!

    Follow Jess on Instagram and check out her website.

    54 min

About Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

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Living Open is a podcast for mystics and seekers hosted by Philly-based writer and facilitator Eryn Johnson. Explore paths back to the self with this podcast, intended to be support on your unique…