Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

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

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/aquarius-season-medicine-2021

Access your free Aquarius season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video.

Register for the Imbolc Breathwork Ceremony on 2/1.

Ordinary Time by Nikki Mayeux and Briana Ladwig.

Free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Kelly Diels is feminist educator, writer, and coach. She specializes in feminist marketing for culture-makers. In this episode, Eryn and Kelly talk about:

• Having a thriving livelihood while not replicating oppression in our businesses
• The female lifestyle empowerment brand
• Not exploiting ourselves in our own businesses
• Deprogramming the cultural authority voices in our heads
• Deconditioning ourselves of capitalist instincts
• Working with our money lineages
• Common business practices in wellness & coaching that are exploitative and what to do instead
• Marketing privilege and performing to create and grow a business
• Creating affordability and accessibility in our work
• Why doing business is not the same thing as promoting capitalism

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

Download the free healing meditation for ex-religious folks. Register for the Imbolc breathwork ceremony. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Connect with Kelly on her website and Instagram. Explore Flora and her free money and justice workshop.

Abi Robins (they/them) is a trained Enneagram Teacher & Yoga Therapist. In this episode, Eryn and Abi talk about:

• Their journey with yoga and the enneagram
• Cultivating resilience to do the work you love
• What the enneagram is and what it can teach us about ourselves
• How enneagram can reveal our patterns to us
• Enneagram as a gateway into shadow work
• How the enneagram can help us learn compassion
• How yoga and the enneagram work together to support healing
• How to find out your enneagram type without taking a quiz
• Their experience with their type 
• How you move along the lines in the enneagram

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/abi-robins-enneagram

Purchase the Religious Trauma Workbook & join us for the live Religious Trauma Breathwork, Storytelling and Q&A workshop this Thursday at 7 pm EST. Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Connect with Abi on their website and Instagram. Pre-order Abi's book, Conscious Enneagram.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Photo of an enneagram
• Wisdom of the Enneagram book 

Raven Rose is an herbalist, womb wellness and Kambo practitioner. In her practice, Moon Medicine, she helps people restore menstrual health and wellness with herbs, ancestor work, and Kambo. She offers one-on-one sessions, live and virtual workshops that help people connect with their cycles, herbal allies, ancestral blessings, intuition, and innate healing ability.

In this episode, Eryn and Raven talk about:

• Her journey with dreamwork, herbs, her body and ancestors
• What religion and spirituality was like in her family growing up
• How she works with ancestors, including through dreams
• How she has cultivated a relationship with her ancestors in her dreams & waking world
• Accessing cyclical wisdom through working with the menstrual cycle
• The gifts of the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle (often connected to PMS)
• Rituals around menstruation and all the different phases of the cycle
• How living cyclically shifts the collective away from patriarchy
• When your menstrual cycle isn’t “aligned” with the energy of the phases of the moon (ex. bleeding on the full moon vs. new moon)
• How to cultivate a more loving and trusting relationship with your cycle when it can be a source of pain
• Working with herbs throughout the cycle
• Kambo and how working with it has helped her
• Kambo as ancestral medicine
• How to know what plant medicine to work with

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

Purchase the Religious Trauma Workbook & join us for the live Religious Trauma Breathwork, Storytelling and Q&A workshop on January 14th at 7 pm EST.

Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Connect with Raven on Instagram and her website. 

Mentioned in this episode:

• This episode of Living Open on reclaiming the body & living in a way that supports the cyclical body with Marissa Correia

In this episode, your host Eryn Johnson shares what Living Open means to her + clips from past episodes where guests answered this question! All to celebrate 200 episodes of Living Open. Guest answers featured:

• Willow Rising

• Venessa Rodriguez

• Yarrow Magdalena

• Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

• Terrie Lewine

• Shakirah Tabourn

• Amanda Yates Garcia

• Caro Arevalo

• Aja Daashuur

• Diana Rose

• Dana Balicki

• Eliza Swann

• Zaneta Sykes 

Support the show & receive supportive monthly self-healing practices on Patreon! 

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& celebrate with us by leaving a rating and review on your podcast platform!

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

Access your free Capricorn season breathwork playlist + intro to breathwork video.

Get your copy of the Religious Trauma workbook.

Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Zaneta Sykes (they/them) is a queer sound ritualist, listening educator, tarot reader, and host of the new Art Witch podcast. In this episode, Zaneta and Eryn talk about:

• Zaneta's journey of healing with sound
• Healing through grief with art
• Their connection to community & how they’re healing through community especially as a multiracial person
• Belonging
• Creating the medicine you need
• Their creative process and what it feels like to birth creative projects in the world
• Deepening confidence in their work
• Sharing creative work with the world
• How making their art shifted everything for them
• Integration through dream space
• Listening in the dream space / connection to sound in dreaming

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/zaneta-sykes-sound-art-magic 

Get your copy of the Religious Trauma workbook! Now available. 

Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Check out Zaneta's work on their website, podcast, Instagram, and Patreon.

The quote "unused creativity is not benign" mentioned in this episode is by Brene Brown!

Davidia Turner helps others awaken their innate capacity for deep self healing and empowerment through her work as a Yoga & Embodiment Teacher & Intuitive Tarot Reader & Teacher. In this episode, Eryn and Davidia talk about:

• Her journey of waking up to her power and magic with witchcraft
• Connecting with the power that you do have even when many things are out of your control
• Spiritual bypassing
• Not taking the responsibility of holding space lightly
• Moving through fears of making mistakes to put yourself out there in your work
• Boundaries
• Not knowing
• The Kings of the tarot
• The magic of yin yoga & what the practice means to her
• How yin yoga helps us heal
• Unpacking pain versus discomfort
• Embodying archetypes
• Tarot as invitational and something that’s alive and available to us
• Getting out of your head with the cards!
• The invitations of the Queens
• Evolving the ways we talk to ourselves
• Self-trust

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

Purchase the Religious Trauma workbook, now available!

Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Connect with Davidia on Instagram, her website, through her weekly Zoom yoga classes and solstice workshop.

In this episode, your host Eryn Johnson talks about her journey with religious trauma, purity culture & healing. 

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/religious-trauma-minisode 

Purchase the Religious Trauma workbook, now available! 110 pages of prompts, reflections, meditations, rituals and somatic exercises to support you in healing from the impacts of dogmatic religion.

Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Mentioned in this episode: Undercurrent poetry community.

Dr. Terrie Lewine is a Philadelphia-based nonviolent communication teacher and facilitator, chiropractor, and owner of Back to Life Urban Sanctuary.

In this episode, Eryn and Dr. Terrie talk about her journey with nonviolent communication, what nonviolent communication is, what violent language is, belonging, communicating our feelings, the function of feelings, getting needs met, what are needs?, empathy in nonviolent communication & how empathy changes how we show up, impact & intention, carceral culture, meaning making & taking responsibility for the meaning we make.

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

Access the free Sagittarius season breathwork playlist (+ intro to breathwork video). Purchase the Religious Trauma workbook, now available!

Download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks.

Connect with Eryn on Instagram.

Check out Dr. Terrie’s website and Instagram

Mentioned in this episode:

• Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B Rosenberg

• Decolonizing Nonviolent Communication by Meenadchi (currently out of stock)

• Too Much? blog by Dr. Terrie