North Node: The Yoga & Astrology Podcast

This solo episode with Becky is a bonus episode - it's an excerpt from a recent ceremony Becky hosted for charity online at the beginning of December. 

The words work beyond the mind, speaking directly to the body, the nervous system, and the soul.

You may be called to listen in stillness, to lie down, to close your eyes, or simply to let the transmission wash over you. 

Enjoy x

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As the year comes to a close, Becky and I sit down to reflect on what 2025 has asked of us — and what it’s taught us about our capacity to change and adapt. We talk honestly about forced action, big decisions, and the slow shift away from self-sacrifice, resentment, and quiet martyrdom toward choosing dharma: following what feels true, energising, and alive, rather than what looks good on the outside. We explore how old patterns have fallen away — over-giving, collapsed boundaries, perfectionism, performing and proving — and what it’s been like to stop explaining ourselves and start trusting the path we’re on.

Much of this conversation centres on nervous system healing and redefining success. Choosing regulation over achievement, presence over pressure, and emotional safety over being liked. We reflect on how our work and businesses seem to grow only as fast as our nervous systems can hold, and how clarity comes when we protect what matters, simplify, and trust ourselves a little more. This episode is a gentle end-of-year pause — honouring what’s ended, what we’re carrying forward, and the quieter confidence of stepping into what’s next.

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In this episode, we explore ritual as one of humanity’s oldest technologies for care, meaning, and belonging. Long before productivity and self-optimization, ritual existed to mark transitions — births, deaths, initiations, losses, endings, and new beginnings — so we were never meant to move through important moments alone.

Drawing from yoga philosophy, astrology, and depth psychology, we look at why ritual is essential for the nervous system, the psyche, and the soul. Ritual slows time. It creates a container when life feels uncertain or overwhelming. It signals to the body that something meaningful is happening — and that support is present.

Through an astrological lens, ritual mirrors the cycles of the planets, the moon, and the seasons: beginnings (new moons), growth and devotion (waxing phases), release and closure (full moons), and rest (dark moon). Without ritual, transitions blur, grief lingers unfinished, and new chapters begin without grounding. With ritual, endings are honored, thresholds are held, and beginnings are consciously entered.

This episode also speaks to the quiet loss of ritual in modern life — and how reclaiming even simple, personal rituals can reconnect us to greater forces: nature, lineage, spirit, and the unseen rhythms that shape our lives. We close by reflecting on ritual as an act of devotion — not performance — and an invitation to live in relationship with change, rather than rushing through it.

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This solo episode with Becky dives beneath the Christmas lights and tinsel to reveal the much older magic this season is built on. We go back to England’s native spiritual roots, the pre-Celtic, land-based, water-honouring traditions that shaped the Wheel of the Year long before the Church arrived.

Discover:

• why England’s original spirituality wasn’t actually Celtic
• the sacred role of underground water, springs and wells
• how the Wheel of the Year formed from the Sun, the land and survival
• how and why the Church hijacked Solstice festivals
• the difference between the 21st and 25th December
• the witchy, shamanic roots of our modern Christmas traditions
• and why being conscious at this time of year matters more than ever

This isn’t about rejecting Christmas, it’s about remembering the truth beneath it. The old magic. The returning light. The women, witches and waters that carried these traditions long before they had names.

A cosy, thought-provoking, deeply grounding episode to accompany you through the darkest nights and into the return of the Sun.

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This episode is a deep dive into the fascinating truth that the body is the subconscious mind — and whatever emotions we don’t process, the body stores. Drawing on trauma psychology, polyvagal theory, somatics, and yoga philosophy, we explore how emotions are biological events rather than abstract thoughts, and how the vagus nerve shapes emotional memory and stress patterns throughout the system. We look at why unprocessed emotions can eventually express themselves as chronic tension, inflammation, digestive issues, fatigue, and other symptoms that feel physical but have emotional roots.

We explore how the body creates the “shape” of specific emotions through muscular patterns, how fascia holds emotional charge, and why certain emotions tend to live in certain areas of the body — fear in the hips, anger in the jaw, grief in the chest, shame in the belly, and anxiety in the gut. We also unravel what it truly means to complete an emotional cycle, and how the body naturally releases old emotional imprints through shaking, crying, breath, stretching, movement, and somatic awareness.

This episode offers a compassionate reframing: your symptoms aren’t personal failures — they’re your body protecting you. And when we create safety, presence, and space, the body has an extraordinary ability to unwind the emotional patterns it has held for years.

A gentle, powerful invitation to understand your emotional landscape through the wisdom of your own body.

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In this episode, we explore the ego—what it actually is, why it shows up so strongly, and how to loosen its grip so you can live with more joy, connection, and mental clarity. Instead of seeing the ego as “bad,” we break down its true purpose and how it subtly drives our thoughts, reactions, relationships, and sense of self.

You’ll learn practical ways to soften ego-driven patterns like perfectionism, comparison, defensiveness, and the constant need to prove yourself. We discuss how an unexamined ego can contribute to anxiety, burnout, and emotional overwhelm—and how simple shifts in awareness can create more freedom, authenticity, and inner peace.

If you’re ready to understand yourself more deeply and move through life with less tension and more joy, this episode will meet you right where you are.

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Trigger Warning: Suicide and mental health.

In this solo episode, Laura opens up about a crisis she can no longer stay silent on: the emotional suffering of men and the rising rates of male suicide. She explores why so many men feel numb, disconnected, and isolated — and how years of being told to “man up” has left them without the emotional tools needed to cope with stress, shame, and heartbreak. With raw honesty and deep compassion, Laura shares her own personal experiences, what she’s witnessing in families and industries today, and the science behind why the nervous system shuts down when emotions feel unsafe. This episode is a call to action — to help men feel again, to teach emotional literacy at home, and to create relationships built on safety, understanding, and connection. Because none of us should have to hold our pain alone.

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In this episode, we explore the deeper truth of dharma and the ripple effect — not as a metaphor, but as the lived reality of being human.

We talk about how every one of us begins life in unity, arriving from Source and entering the world through our mother’s body. Childhood becomes our first initiation into separation, and the way we experience that separation shapes how we see ourselves, others, and the world.

From there, the spiritual journey is simply the journey home: back to connection, back to wholeness, back to remembering we were never truly separate at all.

We dive into what this means in real life. Being ‘spiritual’ isn’t about perfection or performance; it’s about intention, presence, and how we choose to show up in the everyday moments that ripple outward into the collective.

We touch on dharma — the soul’s blueprint for this lifetime — and how our purpose is less about what we do and more about how we return to unity within ourselves.

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In this episode, we explore compassion not as an idea to grasp, but as a vibration to embody. Through the lens of yoga philosophy and astrology, we look at how the heart opens when we stop trying to understand compassion and instead allow ourselves to feel it.

We’ll talk about how true compassion begins with the self — how the softness we offer our own imperfections creates ripples that heal our relationships, our nervous systems, and even our sense of purpose.

This is an invitation to practice compassion as a living, breathing experience — one that transforms not only how we relate to others, but how we return home to ourselves.]

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Every year, when the clocks fall back and the nights stretch long, we cross an ancient threshold, and into Scorpio season, into darkness, into the underworld of our own becoming.

In this solo episode, Becky unravels the true origins of Samhain and Halloween, the Celtic fire festival honouring death, rebirth, and the ancestors, and how the Church rebranded this potent portal as All Hallows’ Eve.

She explores the myth of the Jack O’ Lantern as the soul’s guiding light, the hidden symbolism of Adam, Eve and the serpent as descent into duality, and the deeper meaning of Scorpio season — where we’re asked to generate our own light from within.

This is an episode about death and transformation, ego and awakening, womb healing, ancestral remembrance, and the power of creating light in the dark.

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