Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Liliana (she/her) is a first generation Xicana Indigena, cosmic channel, psychic medium and artist. 

In this episode, Eryn and Liliana talk about:

• Liliana’s journey with spirituality and healing
• How Reiki connected her to her intuition and helped her open her psychic channel
• Tarot as part of her journey
• Discerning a gut feeling from your ego
• How Liliana recommends folks start to connect with spirit and understand what spirit is for them
• Being both connected to spirit and grounded in the Earth
• The art of letting go of what you can’t control
• Cultivating the ability to hold a whole range of feelings

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/liliana-perez 

Connect with Eryn on their Instagram and check out moon sign, released everywhere May 20th! Donate $20+ to Octavia’s GoFundMe & then email me your mailing address to get a free copy. Giveaway details here & GoFundMe link here!

Connect with Liliana on her website and Instagram.

Lauren (she/her) supports creative individuals with artistic blocks or wounds move through those barriers and into their authentic flow. In this episode, Eryn and Lauren talk about:

• Lauren’s journey with art, creativity, and spirituality
• Working through artistic wounds
• Taking the pressure off of making art
• Why we get blocked from feeling blocked from getting messy, creative and curious
• Making art under capitalism
• Feeding our creativity
• Creating an art practice that supports your mental health and connection to self and intuition ‘
• Her big feelings coloring book
• Unlearning toxic new-age beliefs
• How affirmations can be supportive without being spiritual bypass-y

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/lauren-schwind

Connect with Eryn on their Instagram and check out moon sign, released everywhere May 20th! Join the waitlist to get updated when HOLY is back!

Connect with Lauren on her website and Instagram. Support the Big Feelings Coloring Book on Kickstarter!

Raina LaGrand (she/her) is a somatic therapist and coach providing trauma-informed and liberation-oriented care to help anxious and sensitive people embody confidence and cultivate secure relationships.

In this episode, Eryn and Raina talk about:

• Raina’s journey
• Liberation through joy, play, pleasure, and movement
• Centering choice
• Living honestly and authentically
• Finding a balance with our feelings when we value feelings so much & also don’t want to get stuck in them
• Developing discernment
• Reparenting our parts
• Not making creativity a to-do list item
• Building confidence in security in relationship
• Big and small ways to be honest about who we are
• Digging into the work of relationships with other people who want to do that, too
• Allowing ourselves change and fluidity

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/raina-lagrand 

Connect with Eryn on their Instagram and check out moon sign, released everywhere May 20th! Check out the Religious Trauma workbook and their article in Salty World Mag.

Connect with Raina on her Instagram and website, or through email at [email protected].

Hannon (they/them) is a white nonbinary queer creative and care worker. They are a facilitator of introspective space, a former residency creator, and currently steward their bathing project, Tender Tank, drawing baths in conversation with bather’s internal tides.

In this episode, Hannon and Eryn explore:

• Hannon’s journey with healing and coming to care work
• Reclaiming care work and feminized labor
• What home means to them and how connection to ancestors is part of that
• The spaciousness and freedom of queerness
• Offering space for self-inquiry through the tender tank project
• Being in right relationship with all that’s around you
• Their connection to spirituality
• What does it mean to worship?
• Releasing control
• The lifelong project of relationships

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

Connect with Eryn on their Instagram and join their email list to be the first to know when moon sign is released late May! Check out the Religious Trauma workbook and their article in Salty World Mag.

Connect with Hannon on their Instagram and their website.

Sophia (she/her) is a Channeler, Explorer of The Akasha, and Conduit. Hailing from a family of root-workers, she operates as a conduit for frequencies that bridge you to your soul's remembering and connecting you to the wholeness of your Supreme Self.

In this episode, Eryn and Sophia talk about:

• How Sophia’s spiritual journey and life has unfolded and changed over the pandemic
• Accepting your weird magic
• Finding acceptance and grace
• Being more of yourself
• Hyper individuality and accepting help
• Libra/Aries polarity
• Communicating with angels
• Learning the language of her guides
• The healing modality she channeled over the past few years to help us attune to trust
• Spirituality as just part of life

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/sophia-hornyak 

Connect with Eryn on their Instagram and join their email list to be the first to know when moon sign is released for regular orders late May! Check out the Religious Trauma workbook and their article in Salty World Mag.

Connect with Sophia on her website, YouTube channel, and Instagram.

Onyi Love (she/her) is a healing artist and priestess, and the founder of the company and brand ONYI LOVE. In this episode, Eryn and Onyi talk about:

• Onyi’s journey with spirituality and healing

• How Onyi views life and spirituality

• Lessons Onyi learned on her recent trip in France

• Listening to the universe

• Integrating and reflecting out your healing work into the world

• Grounding in your peace

• Opportunities to practice what we’ve been learning

• Resting and finding balance with yourself

• Tapping into ancestral traditions that connect you with peace

• Learning how to be in silence

• Not appreciating the subtle because we think our experiences have to be extreme

• Being a reflection of the version of earth you desire

• Using our reflections in other people to break through our own stuff

• Stepping into your courage

• Listening to your body

• Life as play

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

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Preorder their poetry collection, moon sign, now through April 15th!

Connect with Onyi on her Instagram and her website.

Brittany Carmona-Holt (she/her), aka The Birth Witch, is a full spec­trum doula, facilitator for a community-based doula training program, birth assistant to a community based midwife, Tarot reader, poet, reproductive justice advocate, amateur herbalist, and author of the book Tarot For Pregnancy: A Companion for Radical Magical Birthing Folks coming out this June.

In this episode, Eryn and Brittany talk about:

• Brittany’s journey to birthmark
• Her ego check around her own birth experience
• Her poetry
• Letting our creativity flow in seasons
• Tarot for pregnancy and how tarot can support pregnancy
• Ace through 10 as the pregnancy journey
• Contributing to the conversation without knowing everything
• Postpartum time & showing up for folks postpartum

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/brittany-the-birth-witch 

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Preorder their poetry collection, moon sign, now through April 15th!

Connect with Brittany on her Instagram and website. Buy her book, Tarot for Pregnancy: A Companion for Radical Magical Birthing Folks.

Mentioned in this episode: Ep. 112: Intuitive Birth and Trusting Your Body with Birthkeeper Clarke Lunara.

Tune into this episode for a collective tarot reading for the spring just after the spring equinox. We explore themes of desire, power, binary thinking, and more.

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Preorder their poetry collection, moon sign, now through April 15th!

Ari Felix (they/them) is a counseling astrologer, writer, poet, and bruje providing emoceanal support for apocalypse.

In this episode, Eryn and Ari talk about:

• Ari’s journey with astrology and healing
• Seeing everything as god
• Their religious background as the bones of their spirituality
• Ari’s words for folks who have rejected the religion they grew up with and want to cultivate connection to spirituality that is true to them
• Developing spiritual sovereignty
• Not replacing dogma with another dogma
• Applying critical thinking with your whole mind-body to everything
• The power and point of storytelling and myth
• Shedding orientation towards the destination
• Truth and certainty, truth as mutable
• Why Jupiter and Saturn need each other
• Learning about alignment through being misaligned

Blog for this episode: http://www.living-open.com/blog/ari-felix 

Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Preorder their poetry collection, moon sign, now through April 15th!

Connect with Ari on their website and Instagram.

Sanyu Estelle (she/her) is a Claircognizant Soothsayer also known as "The Word Witch" because of her deep love for word origins and word culture.

In this episode, Eryn and Sanyu talk about:

• What Sanyu has been learning, experiencing, and healing through during the pandemic
• The best defense as opening up
• Living amidst everything we that’s beyond our control
• Creating reality with our imaginations
• Dynamic neutrality
• Choice as a spectrum
• Quantum energetic tools like biocompassing
• Choosing to be the selves we most prefer
• The Hierophant’s journey
• Acting the way you want to feel
• Our 2022 lovers year!
• Creating a self-loving relationship
• Dreaming as support for being your authentic self

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/sanyu-estelle 

Register for Breathwork for Care on March 1st. Check out the Religious Trauma workbook. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Connect with Sanyu on her website and Instagram. Email her at [email protected].

Listen to Sanyu’s first interview on the Living Open podcast: Dreamscapes with Tara Burke and Sanyu Estelle