North Node: The Yoga & Astrology Podcast

Have you ever felt like life was trying to tell you something? A chance meeting. A repeated message. A place you can’t stop thinking about. A door closing unexpectedly… only for another one to open.

In this episode we explore the idea of “following the breadcrumbs” — the subtle signs, synchronicities, feelings, patterns and nudges that seem to guide us toward our dharma, purpose, and most aligned life.

We talk about how to recognise when you’re truly on path, why intuition often whispers before it shouts, and how modern life can disconnect us from our inner knowing. From a yoga, psychology and astrology perspective, we explore what it actually means to live in conversation with life itself.

We also dive into the deeper questions:
  Who — or what — are our “guides”?
  Are signs really external… or are they awakenings within ourselves?
  How do synchronicities work?
  And how can we become more open to receiving guidance, clarity and direction?

This episode is for anyone standing at a crossroads, craving deeper meaning, or learning to trust themselves — and life — a little more deeply.

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Have you ever caught yourself trying to force gratitude…

Telling yourself you should feel grateful,
that you shouldn’t want more,
that other people have it worse…

And somehow ending up feeling worse, not better?

In this episode, Laura explores what she calls “whipping yourself with the gratitude stick” — the subtle way gratitude can turn into self-criticism, suppression, and even shame.

Yes, gratitude is powerful.
 It can rewire the brain, shift perspective, and increase wellbeing.

But when it’s used to silence your instincts, your ambition, or your desire for something more aligned… it stops being healing.

It becomes limiting.

Blending psychology, neuroscience, yoga philosophy and astrology, this episode explores:

•  Why gratitude works (and when it doesn’t) 
•  Hedonic adaptation and the brain’s negativity bias 
•  The difference between shame and self-compassion 
•  Why contentment and ambition can coexist 
•  Santosha, tapas and the pull of your North Node 

Because you can be deeply grateful for your life…

…and still feel called toward more.

And that doesn’t make you ungrateful.
It makes you alive.

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In this episode  we explore the psychology and spirituality of masking. From people pleasing and identity performance to spiritual ego and autism masking.

Why do we hide parts of ourselves?
At what point does protection become performance?
And how do we begin returning to who we really are beneath conditioning, coping mechanisms, and the need to be accepted?

In this conversation, we explore:

• people pleasing and the fear of rejection
• the emotional exhaustion of constantly performing
• spiritual ego and the ‘healed’ identity
• the difference between authentic healing and performative spirituality
• autism masking and nervous system protection
• yoga philosophy and the layers of self
• astrology, identity, and conditioning
• authenticity, safety, and self-expression
• the courage it takes to be truly seen

This episode is an invitation to gently explore the masks you may have learned to wear with compassion.

Mentioned in this episode

• Yoga philosophy & the koshas
• Spiritual ego & identity performance
• Astrology as a tool for self-awareness and integration

Join Us In Person

Our very first North Node Activation Day takes place on 27th June in Worcester.

A day of yoga, astrology, embodiment, connection, and soul-led activation designed to help you reconnect with your authentic self beyond conditioning and performance.

Early Bird pricing is available until 15th May.

Read more and book your place here: https://north-node.co.uk/activation

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Do you actually like yourself… or have you just been taught to constantly fix yourself?

In this episode, we explore self-worth, body image, and the deeper layers of self-acceptance that go far beyond surface-level self-love.

Because for so many women, the issue isn’t a lack of confidence, it’s a lifetime of subtle conditioning that has taught us to mistrust our bodies, suppress our appetite, and believe we are always one step away from being ‘better’.

Through the lens of Eve, we look at how shame around desire and the body was formed, and how that still shows up today in body image struggles, fear of ageing, and the pressure to constantly improve ourselves.

We also explore how astrology and yoga can help you reconnect to yourself — rebuilding self-trust, understanding your desires, and learning how to feel at home in your own body again.

Because if you are disconnected from your appetite… how can you have an appetite for life?

This episode is for you if you’re tired of trying to fix yourself and ready to actually feel at home in who you are.

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We’re told to “feel our feelings”… but no one ever really shows us how.

So instead, we think about them. Analyse them. Justify them. Or push them away entirely.

In this episode, we explore what it actually means to feel — not in the mind, but in the body.

Because emotions aren’t problems to solve. They’re physical experiences moving through your nervous system. Sensations. Energy. Waves.

And when those waves are interrupted — through distraction, suppression, or overthinking — they don’t disappear. They stay in the body. Looping. Building. Waiting to be felt.

We talk about why you might feel stuck, overwhelmed, or strangely numb… even when everything looks “fine” on the outside. And how what looks like control can sometimes be disconnection.

This is your invitation to slow down, tune in, and dare to feel.

To let the wave rise, move, and pass.

Because on the other side of feeling… is freedom.

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Episode 72: Why do we rush and what does it cost us?

Nature never rushes, yet everything gets done. So why do we?

In this episode, Becky and Laura explore the deeper drivers behind our constant sense of urgency. From patterns of self-worth and people-pleasing, to always placing ourselves at the bottom of our own list, they unpack why rushing has become such a normalised way of living.

They also explore how rushing isn’t just a habit, but a nervous system state — one that keeps us in cycles of stress, disconnection and overwhelm. And perhaps more importantly, why slowing down can feel so uncomfortable, even when we know we need it.

This is an invitation to reflect on your own pace of life, and to consider what it might look like to move with more awareness, intention, and trust.

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Easter is rarely questioned.

It’s presented as a fixed story, something that happened once, something to either believe in or dismiss, but when you begin to look at how it is timed, how it sits within the cycles of the sun and the moon, and how closely it mirrors the rhythms of the natural world, it becomes clear that there is something much deeper moving underneath it.

In this episode, Becky explores Easter as a layered, living pattern rather than a singular religious event, bringing together the Spring Equinox, lunar cycles, ancient fertility symbolism, and the ways in which older traditions were absorbed and reframed over time.

This conversation moves through Passover and the symbolism of the lamb, the threshold marked by blood, and what it means to stand at a point where something is ending and something else is beginning, without softening the parts of the story that feel uncomfortable or confronting.

It also revisits the story of Eve, as a symbol of life entering the body and consciousness choosing experience, alongside a more grounded perspective on Lilith that moves beyond surface-level reclamation.

The episode then explores the crucifixion through the lens of the body, including the wound at Christ’s side and the imagery of blood and water, and how this connects to deeper themes of creation, birth, and rebirth.

At the centre of it all is Mary Magdalene, not as a peripheral figure, but as the one who witnesses, recognises, and carries the moment of resurrection, and what it means that her role has been minimised, and is now being remembered.

This is an episode about thresholds.

About endings that are not final.

And about how these patterns are not separate from your life, but something you are moving through constantly, especially within the initiating energy of Aries season.

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What if joy isn’t something you have to chase… but something already mapped within you?

In this episode, we explore a deeper, more personalised understanding of joy through the lens of our personal experiences and of astrology. Moving beyond surface-level happiness.

We also touch on how planetary transits can influence your relationship with joy, not removing it, but refining and reshaping it over time.

This episode is an invitation to reconnect with your natural joy, in a way that feels true, sustainable, and aligned with who you are.

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Every year we’re told the new year begins on 1st January.

But in astrology, the real beginning happens somewhere else entirely.

When the Sun enters Aries, it marks the astrological new year. A moment aligned with the Spring Equinox, when day and night are perfectly balanced and light begins to grow again.

In this episode, I explore why Aries begins the zodiac and how the twelve signs form a beautifully structured journey through the human psyche. Rather than being random personality labels, the zodiac signs represent twelve archetypal stages of life. A curriculum we move through every year as the Sun travels through the sky.

You’ll hear how the zodiac is organised through masculine and feminine energies, the four elements, and the three modalities, creating a repeating rhythm of initiation, stabilisation, and transformation.

I also share how the astrological new year differs from the Gregorian and Chinese new years, and how you can work consciously with this moment of renewal, including why I personally wait for the Aries New Moon to set intentions for the year ahead.

If astrology is a map of the soul, Aries is the first spark...the courage to begin.

In this episode we explore how the zodiac helps us refine the human experience, one sign at a time, every year.

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Many of us spend so much time analysing, asking for advice, or waiting for certainty that we disconnect from the one place that actually holds the answer — ourselves.

In this episode we explore how to rebuild trust in your own inner guidance. Through the lens of yoga philosophy, psychology and astrology, we look at why decision-making can feel so difficult and how to reconnect with the deeper intelligence of the body and mind.

We talk about the yoga framework of the koshas — the layers of the self — and how learning to listen beyond the noise of the thinking mind can help you access a quieter, wiser knowing. We also explore the role of the nervous system, intuition, and why over-thinking often pulls us further away from clarity.

From an astrology perspective, we discuss how life is not always about finding the perfect choice, but about aligning with the lessons we are here to learn. Sometimes there isn’t one “right” path — there are simply experiences that help us grow, evolve and move closer to our true direction.

Because trusting yourself isn’t about guaranteeing the outcome.
 It’s about trusting that whatever happens, you will learn, adapt, and continue to find your way.

This episode is for anyone who feels stuck between options, second-guesses themselves, or is learning how to reconnect with their inner compass.

Your life doesn’t move forward when you find certainty.
 It moves forward when you learn to trust yourself.

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Laura:

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