Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Lisa Fazio (she/her) is an Irish/Italian American herbalist, astrologer, writer, mother, grandmother, and educator.

In this episode, Lisa and Eryn talk about:

• Lisa’s journey with plant magic, astrology, and spirituality
• Secure attachment through plant relationship and physical & somatic anchors with plants
• Being in service to plants
• Working with plants on indigenous stolen land
• Finding home with plants
• Animism
• She reads us her poem, “how to love a polluted river”
• Lisa’s relationship to poetry
• Poems as living things
• How her spiritual practice has evolved from growing up Catholic
• Italian folk medicine!
• Plants and ancestral connection
• Simple ways to start to reconnect with ancestral lineages
• How ancestral work can disempower white supremacy

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/lisa-fazio

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Yana Tallon-Hicks, LMFT, (she/her) is a sex therapist specializing in LGBTQQ+, kinky, and non-monogamous relationships. She is also a consent, sex, and sexuality columnist and educator. Her work centers around the belief that pleasure-positive and consent-based sex education can positively impact our lives and the world.

In this episode, Eryn and Yana talk about:

• Yana’s journey with pleasure, queerness, kink, polyamory
• Integrating sex education facts with making our dreams about sex and sexuality feel real and settled
• Working with shame and other barriers from moving towards the sex lives and relationships with sexuality we want
• Talking about sex with your sexual partners
• Shame monsters!
• Attachment & sex
• Getting comfortable with our desires
• Shattering myths about good sex!
• Meeting and not meeting our own personal ideals of sex
• Dealing with our own personal baggage around sex in our bodies
• How to set big and small sexual goals that are aligned with your values
• Integrating sex into your daily life (if you want to)

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/yana-tallon-hicks 

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Kris (they/them) is a radical black queer Jamaican Obeah Enby and Olorisha in the Lukumì tradition. They are the owner of the Spiritual Abolitionist and the creatrix of The Spiritual Abolitionist Oracle Deck, the only handmade, black-centric, ungendered oracle deck in existence (currently available for preorder). They provide spiritual wares, “twerkshops”, and services that center the safety of black, queer, trans and intersex folx in spirituality and believe that there is no revolution without ancestral healing.

In this episode, Eryn and Kris talk about:

• Kris’ journey with spirituality, creativity, and ancestral connection
• What started Kris’ deconstruction from Christianity
• Ancestral healing as liberation, especially for Black queer & trans folks
• Connecting with queer & trans ancestors who aren’t going to reject you the way your living families may have
• Reparative care with ancestors
• Decolonizing our notions of ourselves
• Returning to spiritual pre-Christian roots
• Faith & doubt
• The process of creating The Spiritual Abolitionist oracle deck
• Poetry as a spiritual through line of their life
• Not being stuck in versions of yourself that don’t resonate anymore

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/spiritual-abolitionist

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Britta Love (they/she) weaves between the worlds of conscious sexuality and psychedelic ritual, with a through line of social justice and embodied consent. They became an advocate for sex worker’s rights as an undergraduate at the London School of Economics in 2007 and have been a writer and activist pushing for the decriminalization of drugs and sex work ever since. Britta is a certified somatic sex educator through the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education, has trained with Betty Martin’s School of Consent and is a certified circle keeper with the Planning Change Restorative Justice Certification Program under the tutelage of Kay Pranis.

Britta is currently completing a research-based memoir about healing and awakening through altered states induced by sex and drugs, based on her Consciousness Studies thesis at Goddard College, and is in the process of organizing a Sex Strike // Strike for Pleasure in response to the U.S. abortion bans.

In this episode, Eryn and Britta talk about:

• Britta’s journey with healing & sexuality
• Navigating consent in long term relationships
• The Betty Martin wheel of consent - “some of the most psychedelic, life changing work” for them
• Getting clear on what our desires are, what we want to take, what we want to allow
• Allowing versus enduring
• Understanding our patterns within the wheel of consent
• Not assuming people have easy access to their choice & their voice
• Receiving no’s
• Cultivating consent in psychedelic spaces
• Not transferring hierarchies of power

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/britta-love

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Yvette (they/she) is a somatic/movement psychotherapist focused on integrating the neurobiology of trauma into relational movement practices.

In this episode, Eryn and Yvette talk about:

• Yvette’s journey
• Their spiritual initiations
• Trying our actual selves on in spaces where we didn’t really know anyone
• How they went from wanting to be a nun to finding a more fluid & open spirituality
• Craving community with elders and decolonizing mentorship
• Retraumatization in spiritual communities
• Rooting into our power in healthy and helpful ways
• The role of somatics in our empowerment & disempowerment
• Not putting judgements on contraction or expansion
• Healing together in community

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/yvette-lalonde

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Flory Huang (she/they) is a deep feeler, seeker and seer with diverse experiences and skill sets that enable her to establish containers for deep inquiry, relation and being.

In this episode, Eryn and Flory talk about:

• Flory’s journey with spirituality & healing
• Holding hope, possibility, and change
• The space between the person you are and the version of yourself you know you can be
• Being perceived in our wholeness
• The somatics of possibility
• The contraction before the expansion
• How contraction teaches us about restedness
• The beloved ~ meta emotions ~
• Having roots within the swirl
• Hot takes on the “always expanding” culture of spirituality!

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/flory-huang 

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Ash Canty (they/he) is a Psychic Medium, Death Guide & Spiritual Life Coach. They support others in liberating their souls, deepening relationship with death and connecting folks with their loved ones on the other side.

In this episode, Eryn and Ash talk about:

• Ash’s journey with healing and spirituality
• Deepening our relationships with death & being in connection with death in a way that makes us more alive
• Living in the paradox of grief and praise
• Living with death in mind
• Being fully in this life & feeling liberation
• Letting go and being held
• The invitation to continue opening up even when death is inevitable

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/ash-canty

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Bex Mui, MEd, she/her, is a biracial, first generation, queer, lesbian advocate and equity consultant committed to the work of LGBTQ+ affirmation at the intersections of spirituality and sexual and mental wellness. A queer witch, energy worker, and spiritual organizer, Bex founded House Of Our Queer, a QTBIPOC-centered spiritual playspace where she shares affirmations for the queer and trans community.

In this episode, Eryn and Bex talk about:

• Bex’s journey with religion, queerness, and spirituality
• Allowing ourselves to have expansive “yes and” spirituality after/beyond dogmatic religion
• Taking what we’ve been harmed by and shaping them into something that serves
• Reframing what ritual is and can be
• Why Bex felt so called to create House of Our Queer
• Queering spirituality
• Reframing Jesus and reframing femmes and femininity in the bible

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/bex-mui 

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Connect with Bex on her Instagram and website. Order her book: House Of Our Queer: Healing, Reframing, and Reclaiming Your Spiritual Practice. 

Edgar Fabián Frías works in installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, among other forms. 

In this episode, Eryn and Edgar talk about:

• Edgar’s journey with creativity, spirituality, and healing
• The doorway that “confusing” art opens
• Existing in states that aren’t as valued by capitalism
• Bridging western medicine and other ways of healing and bodies of wisdom
• Staying connected with the dreamworld ( a love letter to dream witches)
• Divination witchery!
• Practicing tactical magic in the moment you need it
• Trusting what you receive in divination
• Reminding yourself of the support of the universe and ancestors
• Imagining and creating ancestor connection
• The power and magic of imagination
• Divination & art practice
• The interconnected cycles of creativity
• Vulnerability as a fertile space
• Feeding our wholeness especially when there is such pressure to constantly be creating

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/edgar-fabin-fras

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Euphemia, (they/them) is a somatic and pleasure coach, facilitator, and author. In this episode, Eryn and Euphemia talk about:

• Moving towards more aliveness
• The deep why behind somatics with a pleasure focus for Euphemia
• Ancestors & pleasure
• Cultivating other choices and ways of being besides the “fast” default
• Slow pleasure!
• Exploring your pleasure dial
• Spirituality in mundanity
• Connecting down to draw up
• Connecting with the body & pleasure even when there’s trauma and chronic pain
• Cultivating pleasure and embodiment practices to support us in moments when we feel less resourced and have less capacity
• Savoring practices
• What the book writing process taught them about creativity, the body, and pleasure

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/euphemia-russell

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