Perinatal loss happens more than we know. SHE Quest Podcast is privileged to give SHE Quest’s long time member Trista Bloom the stage as she shares her story of giving birth to her first little girl, still. In this episode you will learn how grief can show up years after losing a loved one, how more Perinatal Loss stories need to be out into the world, and the steps Trista took to take her body and life back which included therapy, meditation and journaling. Please share this with all the mothers you know and love.

Meet Stephanie Bizzeth - an African Nova Scotian, born and raised in Cole Harbour. An Occupational Therapist currently working in mental health and addictions. A humble student in the practice of yoga, meditation, and shadow work. Through this journey she has been finding her voice and getting LOUD about anti-black racism. In this podcast, learn about Stephanie’s heritage and story growing up here in Halifax and being faced with systemic racism from early on all the way up to her Masters Degree. Learn powerful tools in dismantling racisms and moving forward in doing better. Conversation in grief, what yoga studios could do to include more diversity, and Stephanie’s important story.

Meet Kimiko Tao Fujimoto - a creative ritualist and mystic walker on the path of soul empowerment. As a Shakti Initiate, her offerings are held by the divine mother through service, intuition, and devotion. She is an Earth Priestess, who blends the arts of herbalism, shamanism, yoga, and sound medicine into embodied practices that awaken one’s innate evergreen magic. Her teachings bridge cross-cultural storytelling with ancient mysticism to ground the sacred into everyday living. She’s known for her wildflower presence, reminding us of the joys of running barefoot in the soil and flying with the stars. Kimiko is dedicated to holding space for others to channel their spiritual sovereignty with love, lineage, and legacy. Based in Montreal, Canada, Kimiko tends to her TEMPLE, a speakeasy for the spirit, where she offers Mystic Mentorship, Rituals, Kundalini Residencies, and Global Retreats through her School of Ritual.

SHE Quest Season 4 opener is blessed to feature Nikki Martin, Writer and full time Yoga Teacher living on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. Her love of words and stories, both reading and creating them, started very young and with the release of her first fictional novel ‘A Momentary Darkness’ in August 2018 comes the realization of a long time dream. Her passion for words and creating also shows up in her yoga classes. Through her own life experience, and through teaching, she has come to believe whole heartedly in the practice of Yoga as one that can offer space to heal, find strength, build new habits and that always provides an opportunity to take much needed time for ourselves. You can find her teaching at a number of yoga studios in the HRM or in her spare time somewhere near the ocean. In this episode you will learn, Nikki's tumultuous upbringing and what called her out of turmoil and into a spiritual life, her “enough is enough” moment when it came to her addiction and choice to live a sober life, her struggle to accept her blackness, and that no amount of action is enough and that there is a need to be called forth to relentlessly show up with brave honesty.

Check out Nikkis’s website with links to her blog, schedule, YouTube channel, events and more! Find Nikki on Instagram @nikki_possibilities, and find her book here!

We are ending Season 3 of the SHE Quest Podcast with a simple, 5 minute Grounding "Earth Keeper" Meditation. This meditation will help you infuse your being with power and stability, while also protecting your entire being. Take five minutes to create a field for healing that is supported by the earth itself. Feel a deep sense of rootedness before you begin your day.

In this week’s episode, Estelle interviews Beck Keen, Business Mentor for Coaches & embodied Durga! Beck discusses how her “successful” life - big house, perfect family, big corporate job - was not as fulfilling on the inside as it was on the outside. She shares with us the incredible, catalytic event that spurred the change that she had been craving. Listen now to hear her Durga Initiation.

This week’s podcast is a *bonus* episode on grounding to grow with art with Faith Evans-Sills a painter and creativity leader and visual artist in Charleston, South Carolina. In the episode you will learn how Faith uses paint as the foundation of who she is, what her art practice look like on a weekly basis. She breaks the taboo on what the professional artist weeks looks like. A great talk, for someone who would like to start an art practice but doesn’t really know where to begin!

In this episode, Estelle explores the world of our inner strength, our inner warrior, our inner mother, and ultimate compassion. You will be introduced to Durga, learn how Durga’s fire can help you empower your most radical aspirations and guide you through your life, and hear Estelle’s own Durga Initiation story. Estelle explores the notion of viewing our bodies as more than just robots living life, but rather as vessels to ferociously explore and experience deep self-transformation. Tapping into the primordial fire that is Durga’s power allows you to start seeing your heart and body as a fire pit that burns limiting beliefs and demons so you have ways to transcend whatever comes at you with your inner strength, courage, and ferocity.

Guiding Starlight for the Soul of Nova Scotia: Here’s How Art & Yoga Can Help

There is no right or wrong way to grieve. Slow work is grief work. In Part 2 of this special podcast series, Estelle shares with her audience and most tried, tested and true way to engage with some heavy shit. She shares wisdom and nuggets in poetry, breathing exercises, hand gestures, journaling prompts and so much more wisdom in the art of loss. Listen and widen your lens on grief.