Some miracles took place this week. In the podcast you hear me casting a spell to break my bonds with feelings of inadequacy, unappreciation and disconnection around my relationships having had a wake up call that had shown me that my perspective wasn't the only one in the mix. 

Magically, having cast the spell and broke these bonds, the next day, as I was recording this podcast, I found myself chatting to three people over messenger who I don't normally connect with, and it made my heart sing. It absolutely felt like a little Christmas miracle and has given this festive season an extra bit of sparkle. 

The Winter Solstice is all about community, and in this week's episode I talk about how I've come to realise the importance of community, how it's a vital investment for the future, and also - in the words of Heather Sanderson - community it’s an ongoing conversation around how we share space. Planet Earth is all our space, so how we negotiate living on her and sharing this space in the future, feels like it's the key to whether we thrive or have to fight to survive. 

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen to it here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com

I'd love to know what you think! If you want to get in touch with me about anything on the podcast then email [email protected] or you can follow me on Instagram and Bluesky @kriyaarts or at the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook.

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When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough; When light is on the wild-wood stream, and wind is on the brow; When stride is long, and breath is deep, and keen the mountain-air, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is fair!

Ent’s Marching Song - Tolkien

This week I’m chatting to my dear friend Gordon Field, who talks to trees and travels through portals. His reality is quite different to mine, and yet there are similarities. I too am picking up on the sentient relationship that’s possible with Mumma Earth when you open yourself up to the plausibility of such things. And my take on it is that all of our inner worlds are different and unique, so each of us will therefore have a bespoke world experience of how we connect to and communicate with nature. What’s become simplified over the years, extracted down to those with ‘green fingers’ talking to their house plants, in indigenous cultures, is a fully fledged dynamic relationship with active two way dialogues and guidance being sought by humans from plants and the land. I miss that guidance personally and am very happy to be welcoming it back in. 

In this podcast we reference;

The Sun and the Serpent by Paul Broadhurst & Hamish Miller 

The Spine of Albion by Gary Biltcliffe, Caroline Hoare

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen to it here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com

I'd love to know what you think! If you want to get in touch with me about anything on the podcast then email [email protected] or you can follow me on Instagram and Bluesky @kriyaarts or at the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook.

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Whilst on my holibobs I used my portable equipment to create a podcast for you this week as I walk my way around Guernsey and muse on the year I’ve had, especially thinking about my health. It has been a big and busy year. It’s been an ‘8’ year in numerology, which is the number of ‘life-force energy’ and therefore burnout was a likely side-effect of living through such a powerful year. I tried hard to be a fit receptacle, by exercising, doing my morning practice and eating the right foods, but all in all I’ve been burnt out for most of the year. I don’t have all the answers for what the root cause of this might be, but explore some possible reasons whilst on my rambles, as I walk around the island and take in the views. 

Ceremony is one of the things that helps me to refill the well. Even if it feels like a drag or I’m not in the mood, I never regret it once I’m there and leave every one of them feeling rejuvenated and healed. I share how, for me, ceremony acts like punctuation in what would otherwise be a never ending sentence of life. Ceremony allows me time to stop, breath, re-evaluate, check I’m still heading in the right direction and correct my course if I’ve gone astray. 

As I made this recording on the road I’m afraid there isn’t an accompanying video for my Patreon supporters, and the sound quality isn’t studio level, but I think it has a different ‘in the field’ quality that I hope you’ll still enjoy. 

Books I mention in this episode;

Venus by Lisa Lister

Wicca, A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cuningham

Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen to it here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com

I'd love to know what you think! If you want to get in touch with me about anything on the podcast then email [email protected] or you can follow me on Instagram and Bluesky @kriyaarts or at the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook.

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Molly O’Brien is an old friend of mine and an incredible and highly experienced midwife. Molly has more than 20 years of clinical practice experience and has attended over a thousand births. She’s also a hypnobirth and birth preparation teacher, an associate university lecturer, has created courses for midwives, campaigned for midwife led birth units and has been a passionate student and enabler of normal physiological birth. 

Her favourite work was in the home environment and in a Midwife Led Birth Unit. It’s allowed her to attend hundreds of undisturbed physiological births and this has given her the opportunity to make a systematic exploration of midwifery skills and observations that can help resolve long difficult labours caused by a suboptimal position. The techniques and strategies that emerged from this time helped her revolutionise her own practice. She began to regularly witness dramatic progress as she put them to use in “difficult labours”. Now she teaches the course she developed for Birth Professionals, ‘Biomechanics for Birth’. 

Molly taught me the importance and power of sisterhood, from meeting her when I was in my late twenties. I remember sitting with her around the kitchen table, sitting with a group of women, spanning four decades between us all, and us talking about women’s issues in a way I’d never experienced before. Molly brought wisdom and insight to that conversation that taught me, for the first time, how powerful age and experience is, and how we’d all been sold up the river by being tricked into fearing age and turning on our fellow sisters, rather than supporting and embracing each other in our journeys. It changed the way I treated other women after that. 

If you’d like to find out more about Molly’s work go to https://www.optimalbirth.co.uk/

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen to it here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com

I'd love to know what you think! If you want to get in touch with me about anything on the podcast then email [email protected] or you can follow me on Instagram and Bluesky @kriyaarts or at the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook.

Please consider supporting me through patreon.com/JolieRose and like, follow, and review wherever you get your podcasts from. Share about Nonsense in the Chaos far and wide! The more people who hear about the podcast the better.

Thank you for all your support -x-

In this week’s episode I introduce you to the archetypal soup that is collective consciousness, or ‘The Dreaming’, within which we’re all infinite and connected to everyone and everything else. It is from this place that we’re all one. And in this place we can discover and own the atmosphere that we personally bring to the party, connecting into the archetype we’re here representing on earth. 

We are all individuals, but are also facets of an inner-divine-jewel. A sparkling gemstone of divine beauty that’s made up of all the archetypal energies that together create both the outer and inner universes. This episode explores how to discover the foothills of this work and begin to awaken your relationship with your own archetypal power. 

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen to it here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com

I'd love to know what you think! If you want to get in touch with me about anything on the podcast then email [email protected] or you can follow me on Instagram and Bluesky @kriyaarts or at the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook.

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Heather describes the menstrual cycle as “Death to birth, dusk to dawn, waxing to waning. In every cycle there’s an opportunity to capture a gem, if you’re willing to pay attention and integrate. Every cycle is a trip – offering you a peek behind the veil. Your work is to integrate this into the everyday. Every menstrual cycle offers the same opportunity; it’s a trip around your psyche, a map for self enquiry, a microdose experience of a rite of passage. Learn how to cross these thresholds skillfully and consciously by harnessing the power of your cycle, preparing you for the bigger whoppers in life - whether you are consciously inviting them in, or they land in your lap in a seemingly unsolicited way.”

I strongly urge everyone to listen to this episode, whether you bleed yourself or not. Everyone in the world is living in houses, working with, or hanging out with people who are experiencing this cyclical part of nature, and by understanding it better, not only is it a window into someone else’s experience of life, which is always fascinating, but there’s so much we could be learning from living life in a cyclical, rather than linear, way. Many men are coming over to the cyclical side of the force and are reaping the benefits of a life that’s more integrated, bite sized, and in tune with their surroundings (the cosmos, the seasons, and the women in their lives). And if you’re someone who does bleed… Definitely listen to this! 

Trigger warning: I talk about infertility

In this episode we mention:

Nine Passages of Women and Girls by Gail Burkett

Menstrual Mentor @kitty_maguire_menstruality 

Michael Meade Storyteller

Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller

Venus, Venus, Venus by Lisa Lister

From What is to What If by Rob Hopkins

Money by David McWilliams

You can follow Heather’s work on Instagram @libby_cup and Facebook 

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen to it here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com

I'd love to know what you think! If you want to get in touch with me about anything on the podcast then email [email protected] or you can follow me on Instagram and Bluesky @kriyaarts or at the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook.

Please consider supporting me through patreon.com/JolieRose and like, follow, and review wherever you get your podcasts from. Share about Nonsense in the Chaos far and wide! The more people who hear about the podcast the better.

Thank you for all your support -x-

Thick fog is creeping through the garden surrounding my little cottage on the tiny island of Sark, in the channel islands, and in the distance I can hear the haunting sound of the foghorn, warning sailors and fishermen, with its desolate song, to avoid the rocks that stick up in shards and crags around this dragon filled, cavernous, rock. The clocks have gone back and the darkness creeps in. The wind howls around the house and the veil… The veil feels so…  Flimsy.

In this week’s podcast I’m exploring the Celtic celebration of Samhain, and how this time of year is an opportunity to honour our ancestors, tend to and connect with our grief, and welcome the intimacy this time of year fosters between our everyday outer world and the ‘other’ realms that surround us. Celebrating the potency of working with and deepening our understanding of cycles, so that we might incorporate moments of peace, reflection, and rest, into the otherwise never ending sentence of life. 

Join me as I step into the darkness and embrace the shadows. Utilising this opportunity to pause and reflect, at a time of year when we’re invited to mulch, dream, and descend into the underworld, before returning renewed and reborn in the spring.

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com You can get in touch with me on Instagram @kriyaarts or the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook

Please like, follow, and review. Also, please consider supporting the podcast by becoming a patron on my Patreon page... patreon.com/JolieRose. And share far and wide please! The more people who hear about the podcast the better.

Huge love to you all and I hope you enjoy listening to this week's episode!

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen to it here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com

I'd love to know what you think! If you want to get in touch with me about anything on the podcast then email [email protected] or you can follow me on Instagram and Bluesky @kriyaarts or at the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook.

Please consider supporting me through patreon.com/JolieRose and like, follow, and review wherever you get your podcasts from. Share about Nonsense in the Chaos far and wide! The more people who hear about the podcast the better.

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I met Rachael through us both creating work for Shangri-la at Glastonbury. I had the privilege of interviewing her on the Nomad Stage about her Wearable Waste installation. Rachael describes herself as an intervention artist, fashion educator and podcast host who focuses on sustainability, well being and finding alternatives to the status quo. She creates concepts and interventions that show sustainable alternatives in playful and subversive ways - that connect people to each other and their surroundings.

Rachael is another nature lover, who feels healed and revived from being in nature, and all her work spirals back to finding ways in which we can be guardians and protectors of the planet, rather than consumers and destroyers, looking for alternative ways to enjoy the lives we live, but not at a cost to the land or other people who aren’t immediately in front of us.

In the podcast we talk about;

Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk 

Adventure Revolution by Belinda Kirk

The Nature Principle by Richard Louv

You can follow and learn more about Rachael’s work at her website; shapers_of_society.org

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com You can get in touch with me on Instagram @kriyaarts or the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook

Please like, follow, and review. Also, please consider supporting the podcast by becoming a patron on my Patreon page... patreon.com/JolieRose. And share far and wide please! The more people who hear about the podcast the better.

Huge love to you all and I hope you enjoy listening to this week's episode!

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen to it here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com

I'd love to know what you think! If you want to get in touch with me about anything on the podcast then email [email protected] or you can follow me on Instagram and Bluesky @kriyaarts or at the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook.

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Thank you for all your support -x-

Resting is a revolutionary act in a world where we’re expected to always keep busy and work our backsides off. This week’s podcast is a call to arms, or a call to nap, to reclaim the precious time that is our lives and take back our right to take leisure without guilt or restlessness. We need to retrain our muscles of boredom, idleness and ultimately, imagination. These are all being stolen from us by the great distrator. Free yourself from the shackles of keeping busy and instead embrace the chaise lounge. 

In the words of David Hume, 

“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dozing, which I call thinking, is my supreme happiness.” 

Huzzah to that. Now I’m off for a little afternoon nap…

I mentioned in this episode that I’ll be interviewing a special secret guest at the Kooky Club on November 21st, which is being held in Candie Gardens, Guernsey. To find out more visit @kookyevents on Instagram. You can also get in touch with me on Instagram @kriyaarts or the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook. 

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com

Please like, follow, and review. Also, please consider supporting the podcast by becoming a patron on my Patreon page... patreon.com/JolieRose. And share far and wide please! The more people who hear about the podcast the better.

Huge love to you all and I hope you enjoy listening to this week's episode!

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen to it here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com

I'd love to know what you think! If you want to get in touch with me about anything on the podcast then email [email protected] or you can follow me on Instagram and Bluesky @kriyaarts or at the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook.

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Thank you for all your support -x-

Memma aka Sarah Day is a Bushcraft instructor, experimental archaeologist and ancient technologist. I’ve known Sarah for nearly twenty years, having met at Kentwell Hall Tudor Re-creation, a few years before her younger sister Rachel joined, who went on to meet my younger brother Nathan, and through their subsequent marriage, united our two households. 

Sarah now runs her own business, ‘Prehistoric Experiences’ which provides educational workshops in schools across the UK and for the public. Bringing the Stone Age to life in vivid detail, she travels from schools to history fairs and other public events, with an animal skin tent, within which you can join Sarah, or Memma, as she teaches you to knap flint tools or weapons, skin and tan an animal, or how to light a fire from sticks. She is a wealth of information and it was a joy to have this opportunity to pick and expansive brain.

You can follow Sarah’s adventures on Instagram and Facebook @memmathecavewoman

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com You can get in touch with me on Instagram @kriyaarts or the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook

Please like, follow, and review. Also, please consider supporting the podcast by becoming a patron on my Patreon page... patreon.com/JolieRose. And share far and wide please! The more people who hear about the podcast the better.

Huge love to you all and I hope you enjoy listening to this week's episode!

The music and artwork is by @moxmoxmoxiemox

Nonsense in the Chaos is available on all podcast platforms or you can listen to it here… https://nonsenseinthechaos.buzzsprout.com

I'd love to know what you think! If you want to get in touch with me about anything on the podcast then email [email protected] or you can follow me on Instagram and Bluesky @kriyaarts or at the Nonsense in the Chaos Page on Facebook.

Please consider supporting me through patreon.com/JolieRose and like, follow, and review wherever you get your podcasts from. Share about Nonsense in the Chaos far and wide! The more people who hear about the podcast the better.

Thank you for all your support -x-