LOVE SPACE

Our first show back after a long break features this timely conversation with host, aryn evans, and fan-favorite, Sam Bianchini, our dear friend and teacher, architect of magical spaces, wisdom keeper, and talented creative light.  aryn and Sam are back to speak about the gift you give to the world by being your authentic self and standing more fully into your power.  YOU are the medicine.  We covered:

• How to Create Authentic Community 
• The Role of Our Humanity in Space-holding
• Standing in Power and Creating Impact 
• Overcoming the Fear of Being Seen 
• Playing Small and Taking Up Space 
• Expanding the Definition of Activism 
• Embodiment as Activism
• Small Subversive Acts of Change 
• Creating the Culture and Community We Want through Dreaming
• The Gift of Joy and Wonder 
• Choosing Love over Fear 
• Contentment and Radical Healing 
• Belonging and Gratitude // The Original Thanksgiving Address 
• Embracing Wholeness and Perfection 
• Walking in Activism and Community 
• The Power of Pleasure and Joy

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To listen to our first interview together:
Ep. 22 - Remember Your Worth with Sam Bianchini  (spotify) (apple podcasts)

In this episode, Aryn shares the importance of making (and keeping) friends as an adult and shares her insights and experiences on where to start.  Intentional and aligned friendships come from being intentional and reflective about the qualities you desire in a friend and the qualities you bring to a friendship.  Aryn highlights the significance of authenticity, honesty, and managing expectations in friendships. She provides practical tips on where to find friends, such as through social media, shared activities, and community-building projects. Aryn also emphasizes the importance of consistency and creating opportunities for collaboration to foster meaningful friendships.

Takeaways:

• Be intentional and reflective about the qualities you desire in a friend and the qualities you bring to a friendship.
• Authenticity and honesty are key in building meaningful friendships.
• Manage your expectations and be open to different types of friendships and levels of availability.
• Find friends through shared activities, community projects, and collaborations.

Topics:

• Introduction and the Importance of Making Friends
• Qualities You Want in a Friend
• Reflecting on Your Own Qualities (Remembering Your Assets)
• The Importance of Authenticity and Honesty
• Managing Expectations in Friendships
• Different Ways to Meet New Friends
• Consistency and Building Community
• Finding Friends through Shared Activities
• The Importance of Friendships and Creating Community
• Building Friendships through Collaboration
• Conclusion and Call to Action

Please follow, subscribe, rate, and review the show -- or better yet, share this episode with someone you love.  You can connect with us on Instagram @aryn.love @lovespacepodcast or send Aryn an email with suggestions for future episodes at [email protected].   Sending you big love.  

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How open is your mind, really?  Sometimes even the most "open-minded" of us can find ourselves stuck in an old story, or blocking ourselves from receiving support, answers, or divine guidance.  In this solo episode of Love Space, host Aryn Love discusses the importance of having an open mind and being receptive to spiritual guidance.   Aryn also explores the concept of finding inspiration and wisdom in unexpected sources, such as listening to people we may not initially consider "wise" enough to learn from, emphasizes the value of approaching life with a beginner's mind and letting go of preconceived notions.  Finally, Aryn shares some insights on releasing our attachment to expectations and encourages listeners to embrace the beauty of unexpected twists and turns in life.  This episode explores:

• the importance of keeping an open mind
• finding inspiration and wisdom in unexpected sources
• the value of a beginner's mind 
• being open to guidance
• letting go of preconceived notions
• learning to collaborate instead of dominate our partners and friends
• letting go of old stories that keep us stuck
• releasing expectations and letting ourselves be surprised
• the parable of the drowning man
• how Creator can work through others to help us
• the spiritual practice of "Two Way Prayer"
• the importance of deep listening
• making space to receive divine inspiration and guidance

Please follow, subscribe, rate, and review the show -- or better yet, share this episode with someone you love.  You can connect with us on Instagram @aryn.love @lovespacepodcast or send Aryn an email with suggestions for future episodes at [email protected].  Thank you for sharing the love.  XX

Trust is perhaps the most important foundation of any relationship, but what about the sacred relationship we have with ourselves?  Cait Taylor joins Aryn to talk about building trust with ourselves, feeling worthy, and asking for what we need.  

Caitlin’s life in the Rocky Mountains is slow & intentional.  She enjoy hikes with her dog, cooking, reading, ecstatic dance, and hosting community gatherings.  She wears many hats in life as a civil rights investigator, PhD candidate, trauma-informed plant medicine facilitator, yogi, and military veteran. Her greatest passion is to integrate life’s lessons—the big and small—with the intention of living and loving with more ease.

In this episode, we covered:

• Cait's lifelong journey with PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder)
• Re-building trust with ourselves
• Supporting and validating our experiences instead of gaslighting ourselves
• Feeling worthy 
• Asking for what we need
• How we learn to discern who in our lives we should go to for support
• Living in community
• Lessons from plant medicine

and so much more.  You can connect with Cait on Instagram @caitlindyan and with Aryn at @aryn.love and @lovespacepodcast.  Please follow, rate and review the show, and send an episode to a friend.  Thank you for sharing the love :)

For the first time ever on Love Space, host Aryn shares their own story & journey with healing, in this special episode, featuring an interview from Emily Blackwell's podcast, the Embodied Poddie.  Aryn & Emily are real life homies, teachers, and collaborators who are celebrating their upcoming (sold out!) retreat together in Michigan this week (November 10-12, 2023) with more offerings to come!

In this episode, Aryn & Emily covered:
--how rock bottoms can clear a path forward,
—morning pages as a tool for getting unstuck,
--how play can be a powerful healing practice,
--Aryn's own personal journey,  with everything from divorce, to finding their purpose,
—the study of plant medicines,
—everyday rituals for intentional living,
--our sacred relationship with the earth, our bodies, and our communities
--the impact of language and how we speak, 
--reciprocity and earth-honoring practices,

and so much more.  

To connect more, you can find us on Instagram @aryn.love, @emilyblackwellyoga, and @lovespacepodcast.  Please subscribe, rate, and review the show, and thank you for spreading the love !

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Emily Blackwell joins Aryn for a heartfelt conversation about the power of being ourselves--so fully--in all of our humanity...embracing the full range of emotion--the good, the bad, and the ugly.  

What would it feel like to truly express the fullest, truest version of yourself?   Or more importantly, how much harm are we causing ourselves when we deny and stuff down our true feelings?   

When we authentically express ourselves, and welcome in our shadow, our hurt, our anger-- we can more fully accept others, and live more authentically.  We covered:

• What life looked like before Emily found yoga 
• The modern phenomenon of email apnea
• Pleasure and pain as portals 
• Breath awareness and our nervous system
• Why we love a big SIGH
• Unlearning the habit of silencing ourselves
• The cathartic power of sound and movement 
• Tantric wisdom, and how our divinity lies in our humanity
• "Sacred Rage" and letting it all out

To help us integrate this conversation (at 35:00) Emily guides us in a beautiful visualization meditation to close our conversation.  

Emily Blackwell is an International E-RYT 500-hour Yoga and Meditation Teacher, Educator, Mentor, and Breathwork Facilitator based in Chicago. Her mission is to use her classes to educate others on how to integrate somatic tools, breath awareness, and the wisdom of Yogic and Tantrik philosophies to realize and embody the power that lies within.

Through her workshops, membership, classes, and adventurous retreats, Emily creates a space where participants can come and uncover their own ability to cultivate true inner peace and unconditional self-love.

• Free Breathwork Practice 
• Learn more about Emily’s membership, The Sacred Space, and subscribe before May 31 to join at $20/mo.  
• Join her mailing list to stay updated on upcoming events, retreats, and to learn how you can work with her.
• Check out her podcast: The Embodied Poddie
• and Connect with her on Instagram @emilyblackwellyoga

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In this solo episode, Aryn explores how to start seeing other people...with a little more love:

• Love vs. Codependence
• Accepting others where they're at
• Seeking to understand, not to be understood
• What does it really mean to put love into action?
• Patience, Service, and Holding Space
• Curiosity over judgment
• The invisible battles we fight
• Boundaries and Discernment
• Setting your own standards for how YOU show up on your path
• Why we should stop saying "I'm the worst"
• Everyday meditations and practices we can use in stressful places
• Sending others love and support (even from afar)
• Fears around scarcity and safety

You can connect with Aryn on Instagram @arynevans and @lovespacepodcast.  Please follow, subscribe, leave us a rating, and send this episode to a friend.  Thank you for sharing the love!

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Join us as we examine the (not-so-radical) notion that if we plan less, and live more freely in the present moment, our lives will unfold in the most beautiful ways -- without the need to force specific outcomes.   We explored:

•  the frequency of human emotions, also known as the "map of consciousness" - and the work of Dr. David Hawkins
• how you can manifest anything you truly desire for your life, 
• the energetics of this post-internet era, and how things continue to change more rapidly than ever, 
• loving yourself exactly where you are, 
• how you can experience more peace and acceptance, and where to begin...

With a background in psychology, a master's in creative and experiential arts therapy and trained as a psychedelic-assisted therapist, Australian-born Avá-Joy Sloan self-describes as a meditation teacher with a passion for dancing and poetry.

In 2017, Avá founded Laprana– an integrative, experiential companioning practice supporting individuals in opening into the infinite present moment, to discover for themselves, the sacredness of all of life. With a home base in Melbourne Australia, Avá is currently living a nomadic life, companioning individuals around the world to connect to the present moment through the innate medicine of the natural world in combination with contemplative, creative, and experiential forms of self-inquiry. 

Avá sees a future where exploration into the depths of one's own being is the norm, taught and understood from an early age. Until then, Ava plans to continue companioning individuals to fearlessly break beyond self & societally imposed illusions and limitations of mind to find a greater sense of purpose, joy and lasting inner peace.

You can read Ava's poetry, find her latest offerings and connect with her for 1:1 online sessions via her website www.laprana.com.au. 

In this episode, we learn "the science of a beautiful life" through the wisdom of tantra, and how to fully practice "the joy of being in the world."  Sam Bianchini joins me to talk activism, spirituality, collective healing, and so much more:

• growing up in Baltimore & Philadelphia 
• acting and creating since birth
• what she learned from identifying as an athiest
• the moment she came back to faith in something bigger
• her life changing "year of gratitude"
• Sam's decision and inspiration to become an egg donor
• how to listen to our intuition, and discern spiritual guidance from fear and trauma patterns
• learning to listen to our bodies, and healing our nervous system
• individualist vs. collectivist culture 
• the root cause of stress and suffering
• the ancient wisdom of Tantra Yoga and why it's so much bigger than s-x
• re-connecting with the true self, and remembering our worth
• why we need each other
• the link between Activism and Spirituality
• Harriet Tubman, Tricia Hersey (The Nap Ministry) and Rest as Resistance
• power, pleasure, and the patriarchy
• calling out vs. calling in
• how unexpress emotions get trapped in the body
• embodying our purpose every single day

"For over a decade, Sam has devoted her life to working with indigenous wisdom keepers from around the world, and praying with Native North American Red Road Traditions , The Mexica, the tribes of the Amazon, and more. She is a ceremonial facilitator, psychedelic guide for personal journeys and group connection, sound healer, international yoga teacher+educator guiding  200hr Yoga Teacher Trainings and Continuing Educations all around the globe, an herbalist, and ceremonial musician.  She is also an actress and director and writer, working in film and theatre around the country.  She’s a poet, activist, mentor, and much more.  Sam loves Tom Waits, Tom Robbins, and hiking with her dog, Guy, in their home of Los Angeles, CA.  She is (most importantly) a friend."
 
You can find Sam Bianchini on Instagram @samdarlin.  Please be sure to rate and review the podcast, follow @arynevans and @lovespacepodcast on Instagram, and send this episode to a friend.  Thank you for connecting with us and sharing the love! x

More resources:

• CARE WORK: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (book)
• BE LOVE NOW: The Path of the Heart by Ram Dass & Rameshwar Das (book)
• REST IS RESISTANCE by Tricia Hersey (book) & the Nap Ministry

2023 is the year we stop hustling and start savoring.  This year, I'm committed to practicing more patience, and to quit rushing my way through life.  In this solo episode, I share some of the best lessons I've learned about patience, and the practical tips that have helped me stop being so impatient--with others, with myself, and with my life, including:

• Patience as a muscle we can strengthen with practice
• The power of the sacred pause
• Why we rush through our day
• Learning compassion for others, and ourselves
• How impatience can lead to regret
• Making daily tasks into rituals
• Enjoying more and stressing less
• The gift of failure, heartbreak, and unanswered prayers
• Deepening our trust in divine timing
• Questions to ask ourselves when anxiety creeps in
• Finding more peace and acceptance

and more.  What are you committing to in 2023?  Let us know and follow us on instagram @arynevans and @lovespacepodcast.  

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