Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Laura Holway brings a heart-centered approach to small business for creative humans. She helps creatives connect to their own wisdom, strengthen vulnerability and risk-taking muscles, recognize their stuck places, embrace experimentation, and create supportive practices.

In this episode, Laura and Eryn talk about:

• Creating sustainability in work you love - energetically, financially, creatively
• Being honest with yourself
• Working with the ego & discomfort thresholds
• Working with shifting identity
• Tools for developing self-trust and befriending yourself
• Giving yourself freedom to experiment
• Reparenting yourself
• When the glue of our lives is no longer available
• Working with fear and uncertainty
• Joyful & imperfect moments bumping right up against this situation
• Meeting that which you are afraid of
• Showing up imperfectly
• Finding the space of both/and

Explore Lindsay Mack's Tarot for the Wild Soul course - apply my code ERYN as a coupon code at check-out to receive my collection of 8 personal practice breathwork meditations and get a free spot in any one of my virtual breathwork ceremonies of your choice this year (held every 1-2 months).

Register for the Beltane breathwork ceremony. 

Follow Laura on Instagram and check out her website for her new free audio class, Shift.

Blog / show notes for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/laura-holway 

Happy Taurus season! In this week's episode, Eryn talks about Taurus energy and shares a collective tarot reading to explore invitations, challenges, self-care, and healing possibilities for the season ahead.

Explore Lindsay Mack's Tarot for the Wild Soul course - apply my code ERYN as a coupon code at check-out to receive my collection of 8 personal practice breathwork meditations and get a free spot in any one of my virtual breathwork ceremonies of your choice this year (held every 1-2 months).

Register for the Beltane breathwork ceremony. 

In this episode, host Eryn Johnson shares about her tarot practice, some tips for learning the tarot and deepening your intuitive relationship with the tarot, and some ways that she uses tarot in her life. At the end of the episode, she guides you through a visualization meditation to enter a tarot card.

I'm an affiliate for Tarot for the Wild Soul (This means I get paid when you sign up with my code. I would never share anything with you that I didn't truly love + believe in!). If you're signing up for the course, please consider using my code to support this podcast and get my bonuses - 8 breathwork meditations for personal practice + a free spot in any one of my virtual breathwork ceremonies this year. Click here to explore the course + enter my code ERYN at checkout.

Download my free 8-minute breathwork meditation. Download the free tarot visualization meditation. 

My interview with Lindsay Mack.

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/my-tarot-practice 

Nicole Mayefske of Big Mouth Tarot is a queer tarot reader and Reiki practitioner. In this episode, Nicole and Eryn talk about Nicole's journey with the tarot, her healing journey and how tarot has been part of that, healing around independence, embodying the Empress, the Page of Pentacles, Nicole's approach to the court cards, advice for those who are starting to work with the tarot or want to learn tarot, dropping into Fool energy, and why she is a total Miranda as a tarot reader. 

Blog for this episode (find the journaling questions here too): www.living-open.com/blog/big-mouth-tarot-nicole-mayefske 

Register for virtual donation-based Breathwork for Fear. Follow me on Instagram. 

Check out Nicole's website and follow her on Instagram.

Amber J. Finney is a spiritual practitioner, creative, conjurer, healer, lover, and alchemist. In this episode, Eryn and Amber talk about her  journey including stepping into motherhood and working with grief over the past two years, how a mystical practice can help us through grief, working with ancestors, the Queen of Pentacles, the Queen of Wands, stepping into your power and sharing your divine gifts with the world, developing an intuitive relationship with the tarot, her Aries season downloads for us, working with triggers, + Amber leads us in a short grounding meditation. 

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/amber-the-alchemist 

Register for Breathwork for Fear, an online donation-based class on April 7th. 

Check out Amber's website, Instagram, and Brown Girl Alchemizing podcast.

Eryn's Patreon and Instagram.

In this episode, your host Eryn explores Aries energy and shares a collective tarot reading for Aries season. She also reads a prayer and essay for support in uncertain times + talks about creating supportive practices for yourself.

Join the Patreon community to access an archive of self-healing practices - breathwork meditations, meditations, rituals, spells, tarot spreads, journaling prompts, and more. Join this week to receive a recording of a full-length dark moon breathwork practice!

Free 8-minute breathwork meditation for your daily practice.

Book your Aries season tarot reading.

Sarah Trivett's work is trauma resolution and holistic sexuality coaching. Listen to this episode to learn about nervous system bottom-up body-based trauma resolution. We talk about what trauma actually is in the body and how it gets locked inside the body, cultural somatics and the collective nervous system, co-regulation, the “fawn” response, establishing self-trust and self-consent for a greater sense of safety, releasing trauma stuck in the body, how we can journey to pleasure from a nervous system perspective, creating a foundation of embodied safety, and what tantra is and how it helps us heal. 

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/sarah-trivett-trauma-resolution

Register for the online Spring Equinox Breathwork Ceremony. Download the free 8-minute breathwork meditation.

Visit Sarah's website for her free 3-week sexual self-healing course and follow her on Instagram.

Willow Rising helps heart-led people cultivate empowering self-love from the inside out, through the magic of human design. In this episode, Eryn and Willow talk about:

• What self-care is to Willow
• How Willow works with human design
• Self-care for the different human design types
• Understanding your unique energy in your chart 
• Authorities and intuition in human design
• Slow magic
• The natural pulse of your motor center
• Periods of rest and work for different human design types
• Her relationship to pleasure and what’s really bringing her pleasure in her life right now
• What’s bringing me pleasure right now + more!

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/willow-rising

Register for the online Spring Equinox Breathwork Ceremony. Join the Patreon community.

Check out Willow's Instagram and self-care workbooks for your human design type.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Willow's first interview on the Living Open podcast
• Ev'Yan Whitney's interview on the Living Open podcast

Alia Walston is an intuitive channel of Christ Consciousness who works primarily with tarot and astrology. In this episode, Alia and host Eryn Johnson explore what Alia is learning living nomadically, stepping into your own authority and knowing you can trust yourself, untangling what’s yours and what’s programming, channeling Christ Consciousness, why we also need “love and light," the role of tarot and astrology in Alia's work, understanding the lunar nodes in your chart, Pisces energy, and taking up space.

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/alia-walston

Register for the online Spring Equinox Breathwork Ceremony. 

Check out Alia's website and Instagram.

Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is an artist, tarot reader, and business owner living in LA. In this episode, Sarah and Eryn talk about cultivating self-trust, how the Emperor year is showing up and unfolding for us, deprogramming binary thinking, our experiences working with the moon, the process of slowing down, working with the waning moon phase, when your experience doesn’t “match up” with the traditional cycle, working with our patterns, honoring our underlying needs, and simple ways to start a lunar practice or deepen a lunar practice. 

Check out Sarah's website to join her newsletter and sign up for Moonbeaming. Follow Sarah on Instagram.

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/sarah-faith-gottesdiener 

Join the Patreon community. Free 8-minute breathwork meditation for your daily practice.

Sarah's first interview on the Living Open podcast.