North Node: The Yoga & Astrology Podcast

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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Friendship is one of the most important, and often most confusing relationships in our lives.

Some friends stay for decades.
Some disappear after a season.
Some arrive like lightning bolts, changing the course of our lives before moving on.

In this episode we explore the idea that friendships are not random. Many of them arrive through soul contracts — agreements made at a deeper level of consciousness to support our growth, activate our purpose, or simply accompany us through a particular chapter.

We explore the idea that people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime, and how recognising this can soften the pressure we often place on friendships.

We also talk about how my own friendship circles have shifted dramatically since practising yoga and stepping more deeply into self-awareness and spiritual work. When our values evolve, our communities often do too.

In the second half of the episode we explore the astrology of friendship.

Ultimately this episode is an invitation to see friendships with more compassion and spaciousness.

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Parenting is often spoken about as raising a child — but in truth, it is equally the process of raising yourself.

Your children don’t just need feeding, protecting, and guiding. They activate parts of you that were hidden, unhealed, or asleep. They expose your nervous system patterns, your conditioning, your identity, and your capacity to regulate, repair, and grow.

In the early years, their needs are physical — keeping them alive, safe, and close. But as they grow, their needs become emotional and relational. They begin to lie, test boundaries, and assert independence. And it is here that parenting stops being about control, and becomes about self-awareness.

This episode explores parenting as a portal for self-actualisation. How your reactions reveal your inner world. Why your ability to regulate yourself shapes their nervous system. And how parenting invites you to move from unconscious patterning into conscious leadership.

Because parenting was never just about raising them.

It was about becoming who you were meant to be.

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In this episode, Laura explores triggers and transference — why do we get triggered and what can we do about it? Not just on the yoga mat, but in everyday life, relationships, parenting, and work. Using yoga philosophy, psychology, and lived experience, we unpack why certain people and situations activate us so deeply, how early experiences shape our sense of worth, and why love can start to feel conditional. We look at self-actualisation, nervous system responses, and how healing happens when we move from external validation to internal authority. This episode is an invitation to meet your triggers with curiosity rather than shame, and to see relationships as powerful opportunities for awareness, growth, and repair.

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In this episode, Laura shares a very personal and pragmatic reflection on the decision to close Soul Sanctuary after 12 years. A studio closing email can only say so much, here Laura speaks openly about the reality of running a heart-led business, the emotional and financial challenges that come with owning a yoga studio, and the lessons I’ve learned along the way. This is an honest conversation about perseverance, knowing when to let go, choosing family, and redefining success — shared for anyone who has ever built something with love, struggled behind the scenes, or had to make a difficult but necessary decision to honour their truth.

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In this solo episode, I explore February as a threshold, a moment where long-held inner processes give way to decisive outer movement.

We close the Year of the Wood Snake, a Yin year of shedding, strategy, and quiet preparation, and step into the Year of the Fire Horse, a rare and volatile Yang-fire cycle that accelerates destiny, visibility, courage, and change.

This episode weaves together astrology, elemental wisdom, nervous system awareness, and collective symbolism to help you understand not just what is happening — but how to move through it without burning out.

In this episode, we explore:

• What the Year of the Wood Snake has been asking of us (and why it may have felt slow, heavy, or confusing)
• Why the Fire Horse year brings acceleration, risk, leadership, and bold movement
• Saturn entering Aries — and why Saturn is in detriment here
• Neptune moving into Aries and the end of a long, foggy spiritual era
• The rare Saturn–Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries and what it signals collectively
• Why the last Saturn–Neptune conjunction coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall
• War symbolism, remembrance, and the poppy as a collective archetype
• The Solar Eclipse and New Moon in Aquarius on 17 February
• Aquarius themes of systems, community, responsibility, and the future
• Burnout as the shadow of Fire Horse energy
• Drishti: focus as destiny in a year where fire must be directed
• How to move from performance into mission

This is an episode about clarity, courage, and conscious initiation.

February asks us to stop waiting for certainty, and to begin acting from what we already know.

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In this episode, we explore the yogic principle of Saucha — often translated as cleanliness or purity — and why it has very little to do with perfection, and everything to do with clarity.

Saucha is one of the Niyamas in yoga, but it’s not a rule or a discipline. It’s an invitation to notice what we’re carrying — physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically — and what is quietly asking to be released.

We talk about how Saucha applies not just on the yoga mat, but in everyday life: in our homes, our bodies, our minds, our relationships, our digital worlds and even our patterns of worry.

This is a conversation about clearing space so life can move through us more freely.

In this episode, we explore:

• What Saucha really means in yoga (and why ‘purity’ is a misleading translation)
• The body as a vessel: food, energy and clarity
• Clutter, the home and energetic space
• Mental clutter, overthinking and thought hygiene
• Energetic attachments, boundaries and cord clearing — grounded and accessible
• Why worry is not care, but energetic pollution
• Social media, information overload and digital Saucha
• Email inboxes, unsubscribing and unfinished energetic loops
• Astrology and Saucha: how working with the Moon helps with energetic and emotional hygiene.

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In this episode, we explore drishti — the yogic practice of focusing the gaze — and how it extends far beyond the mat into the way we live, choose, pray, and create.

Drishti is not just about where the eyes look, but about where our energy, attention, and devotion are placed. In a world that constantly pulls at our focus, drishti becomes a spiritual practice of simplification, clarity, and conscious choice.

We talk about how focus itself can become prayer — how our actions, choices, and commitments can turn everyday life into a moving offering. This episode invites you to examine where your gaze is going — and whether it truly deserves your life force.

As we look ahead to the Year of the Fire Horse and the wider shifts of collective consciousness, we reflect on what it means to live with clarity, devotion, and openness, becoming vessels for what wants to move through us, rather than scattering ourselves across what doesn’t matter.

This is an episode about focus as devotion, discipline as freedom, and life as prayer.

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As we reach the end of the Year of the Wood Snake, we pause to honour what has been shed.

The Snake teaches us about quiet transformation—about loss, endings, and the slow, sometimes uncomfortable process of releasing skins that no longer fit. This year may have asked you to let go of identities, roles, relationships, or timelines you once thought were essential. Not as punishment—but as preparation.

In this episode, we reflect on what the Snake has helped you compost: the habits, beliefs, and attachments that would only weigh you down moving forward.

Because what’s coming next is very different.

The Fire Horse arrives with speed, courage, and raw life force. It asks for authenticity, momentum, and bold alignment with your true purpose. But the Horse cannot be ridden while carrying the old armour. You cannot gallop forward while gripping what belongs to the past.

This episode is an invitation to:

• Grieve what has ended
• Name what you are no longer available for
• Release what would hold you back
• And consciously choose what you are taking with you into the fire

This is about clearing the path—not rushing ahead.
 So when the Horse comes, you’re ready to ride.

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