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A candid moment outside feeling inspired to guide you into a space of gratitude for your life and all that it encompasses. Gratitude is a simple fine-tuning of one's perception to bear witness to the multitude of blessings present in seemingly 'typical' daily occurrences, people or environments around you. It is a way to bring magic to the mundane. To lift up your spirit.

Artwork: Golden sun. Pioneers of progress: Herschel. 1919.

Lie down, get comfortable, and listen to this simple 15 minute guided journey back into balance through releasing tension and breathing into your softness. Reconnect to your inner self and to your intuition. Allow yourself to receive this relaxation, and be filled with gratitude for life again.

Artwork by Andrey Belichenko & Mariya Boukhtiyarova.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses human torture trafficking. If you feel this is not something you're in the space to hear, please honor that, and refrain from listening.

Today I conversed with Chrissie Fire Mane; a mother, shamanic psychotherapist, freedom pioneer, musician, poet and visionary. She is the founder of The MANA Movement, an initiative essentially centred around helping people return to their essence to become present, peaceful, revolutionary beings in the world. She holds this vision and stewards this project in 4 main areas - through an online intensive course called The Manifestrix, Mana Retreats in the Andes of Peru, a high-vibe Superfood blend, and through giving back - or what she calls 'Ayni' - which is a beautifully profound Quechua word and way of life that loosely translates to 'sacred reciprocity' - and how we need to remain in this harmonious exchange of giving as greatly as we receive.

As an extension of this Ayni - a new branch and initiative of Chrissie's work emerged. This being, Project Angel, which serves to rehabilitate victims of human torture trafficking, and to reclaim their souls into the light. As she says, 'we are only as fast as our slowest member' - meaning we must bring the deepest, darkest, most twisted alleyways of humankind back to the light.

She radiates hope and holds this frequency so strongly yet gently. She is such a mama energy. We also speak on understanding our unique role in this time of crisis, maintaining momentum and hope, and the metaphysical power of connecting with supportive groups in this time of isolation.

Listen, and receive.

Connect here:

https://www.themanamovement.org/

https://www.themanamovement.org/project-angel

In this conversation i'm communing with Brittany Jane - a Somatic Ecologist, Dancer and Accredited 'Wayapa' Practitioner, whose work aims to merge the embodiment and ecology.

Brittany has over 15 years of experience in dance and embodiment complemented by 7 years as a sustainability educator where she delivered bachelor and post-graduate tertiary courses for hundreds of students in over 8 countries. She holds a Master of Environment in Somatic Ecology where her thesis explored the use of somatic dance in connecting and communicating with the natural world. She is currently completing her Doctorate.

Her research aimed to address the root cause of today’s overwhelming ecological challenges, that being human’s disconnection and disembodiment from nature.

She co-founded an organisation called 'Wildsong', which offers deep nature connection programs for children and adults that serve as a catalyst for connecting people to their wild self and the ecological communities they belong to. She also offers women's only re-wilding immersions named 'Sovereignty'.

We explore:

- The much needed fusion of the academic and somatic worlds for impact and recognition

- The power of moving from the mind to the body, and 'bringing the body on board' so we can live whole lives rich in deeply felt experiences

- De-coding and exploring our own ancestral lineages as a way of empowering ourselves and lessening the need to grasp at or appropriate Indigenous cultures that are not our own as a result of lack, disconnection or trauma

- Key practices for micro-dosing somatic nature connection in your life and moving emotions through your body

- Play as a business ally

+ so much more!

Connect to her here:

https://www.facebook.com/wildsong.org

https://www.instagram.com/wildsong_

In this conversation i'm speaking to Laura Wighton, a healer, author and mother, all about her experience of conception, pregnancy and freebirthing her baby girl into the world.

As she says:

"Making your own decisions based on your own innate discernment around how you wish to birth is an act of sovereignty and autonomy that is a fundamental human right.

Whether your birth plan is to birth in a hospital or it lies within the more radical spectrum of birth neither are wrong as long as it's your decision.

There truly is no greater choice than the choices YOU make, so make them with strength and confidence and out of love not fear."

We cover:

- Solidifying the birth experience that you actually want

- Deep choice and honour of your needs alongside rationality and a lot of research into your options

- Holistic self-care in pregnancy/birth

- Shedding light on the destructive ways societal programs limit us as women when entering into these initiations

- Sharing a new narrative of how mothers can be more self-sufficient, trusting and empowered within their own deep knowing and instincts in the pregnancy and birth experience

- Showing mothers the sacred responsibility motherhood is instead of feeling it as a sense of 'giving up' aspects of self or ambitions

- How important birthing babies in an empowered natural way is for the evolution of humanity and in honouring the souls that are choosing to come to Earth right now

- Her book 'Initiation' - written in the midst of her pregnancy and published as she was early postpartum

Connect to her here:

https://www.instagram.com/simplylaura_/

Check out/buy 'Initiation' here:

https://www.instagram.com/theinitiationbook/

https://www.balboapress.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/822845-initiation

A guided meditative prompt to connect with your creative spirit, visions and ideas. The intention is to allow you to feel inspired to re-ignite your creativity - in whatever form you love to express it - perhaps art, music, poems, dance, writing, food, pottery, jewellery, etc.

I hope this serves your creative process in all the ways it needs to!

Artwork by Perry Burns entitled 'Sky Garden'

Let all of 2020's patterns, highs, lows and lessons go. Bring in fresh ones for this coming year. This is a guided meditation to connect you with a higher sense of 'knowingness' about what to release and what to call in. Enjoy...

Artwork by Kinuko Craft entitled 'Chinese Angel'

Diving into the worlds of creativity, therapy, deep fields of awareness and natural connection with an incredible artist & art therapist Aphra Natley of 'A Sanctuaire'.

Some key elements we touch on:

- How her study of theosophy, magic & occultism inform her work

- Her work as an art therapist for people with special needs and the adaptability to the limitless ways we can work with people in a therapeutic way based on their unique needs

- The power of rituals around life that make us grow strong and resilient in spirit and creation

- Making art that holds the energy that we need and the transmission we need to receive

- Every word, line, art and creative process we make is etched into us, future past and present

- Contributing to the joy not the panic

- There is purpose and opportunity to be found in all experiences

- The missing piece of somatic and creative connection in psychotherapeutic models

- The therapeutic model of natural connection and respect and interaction and relationship with the world and all things in it

- Developing and deepening this respect for both ourselves and the world, not to change anything or to change ourselves, but to get in right relationship with what is

- Doing small things with great love

& much more magic in between.

Connect to Aphra & her work here:

https://www.instagram.com/asanctuaire/

https://www.asanctuaire.com/

"Discovering your human design is discovering your unique energetic fingerprint - the zone of genius you came onto this world to occupy. It’s about un-domesticating yourself from the culture. It’s about telling yourself a new story. It’s about putting your unique genius to use. It’s about learning to become less like everyone else and learning to welcome yourself into your own becoming." - https://www.wild-home.com/

Annabelle is a multidisciplinary creative who’s eye for beauty and desire for meaning has taken her around the globe and down many paths of ancient wisdoms - and to human design in 2018. She has spent two years learning the science of differentiation through her own lived experience.

In exploring our Human design 'types' we come to understand:

- our source of authority

- our 'strategy' for life

- when to work and when to rest

- how to make decisions

- our zone of genius

- our innate gifts/strengths

- areas where we hold energy from others

- qualities we can tap into

+ SO much more.

Annabelle does a reading for me in the conversation - so you're welcome to skip that part and simply book in with her, if you're inspired to!

https://www.wild-home.com/

You will be guided into a visionary state and will move through healing doorways to emerge lighter, more whole and true. Trust the process and enjoy the journey...

Artwork featured is by Gemma Danielle of Optimysticism.