We all know that our bodies need sleep – it’s how we repair and restore, and support the huge number of processes our body constantly undergoes to keep us alive and well. So, for this episode, our very own Em talks us through all things restorative sleep, and how to get more of it! Plus,…

Chakra means ‘wheel’ in Sanskrit, and there are seven chakras — the wheels of energy or vibrating light — in your astral body. The chakras and planets in astrology have a significant relationship: one of the seven planets (Vedic) rules each chakra, and every chakra displays the nature of its ruling planet.

For Episode 40, Tarra talks us through how the different chakras also relate to various aspects of your life, and how every chakra relates to specific functions carried out by your body.If any energy centres, or chakras, become blocked or imbalanced, the interrupted energy flow can cause specific mental, physical, and spiritual problems.

Plus, as always, we start the episode with a life update from both of us – our wins, challenges and obsessions from the past couple of weeks.

In this episode:

– The specific colours and symbols that reflect the vibration of each of the seven chakras

– The primary difference between the lower and higher chakras

– How and why the chakras can become blocked

– Strengthening and cleansing the subtle body energy in order to take full advantage of the energy that can be poured into you through your chakras

– The chakra that can provide emotional strength, like letting go of fear and anxiety

– The chakra related to creation, pleasure and sensuality, and how, when blocked can contribute to infertility

– The chakra that relates to willpower, and what blocks this energy centre

– The chakra that is also known as your personal power or warrior chakra

– The chakra that can enhance your material and spiritual life

– The chakra that gives you a feeling of empowerment, and helps you to embrace your uniqueness

– The chakra that is ruled by Saturn, and the significance of this

– The chakra connected to insomnia and deafness

– The importance of activating your third eye and awakening your intuition

– The chakra that helps you to uncover your soul purpose

– The chakra that, when blocked, can make you unwilling to be open to other ideas, thoughts, or knowledge

– The chakra blockage related to psychosis and dissociation from the body

– Remedies to promote balance in your chakras, and help create alignment in your physical body

Our Current Obsessions:Em’s: Rottnest Express annual pass Tarra’s: Kundalini yoga

Recommended Listening:Episode 39: Self Sabotage

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With the excitement of 2023, we have been creating intentions and visions for the year ahead. But how can we build awareness around whether or not we are holding ourselves back? In this episode, we explore self-sabotage: which can be defined as a disconnect between your values and your behaviour.

Plus, we kick off the episode with a life update. Em has finally finished her Saturn return! Hear about how Em navigated this time filled with blessings and profound challenges, and the wisdom she has emerged with.

In this episode:

– How you can use your close relationships to build accountability for your goals

– Creating space for your goal setting

– Creating rituals in your life to check in with your visions regularly

– How perfectionism can hold you back from reaching your goals

– Why it is important to have a clear vision of your life

– Life scripts, and how they can help anchor your dream life

– The collective uncertainty of the last couple of years, and how this could be holding you back

– Focusing on the feeling, and not the outcome, when setting a goal

– The importance of revisiting our goals, and letting go of goals that are no longer in alignment

– Defining what safety and security feel and look like to you, and how to start incorporating more of each into your life

– The roles shame, judgement, and joy can play in self-sabotage

– How dopamine deficiency plays a role in some nervous and mental health conditions, and in self-sabotage and procrastination

Our current obsessions:

Em’s: ClickUp

Tarra’s: Kinesiology with Rachel

Recommended Listening:

Episode 20: Saturn Returns

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Krista Sanderson is a Vedic meditation teacher passionate about supporting others through the gift of this technique after it profoundly impacted her own life.

Vedic Meditation is an ancient Indian meditation technique dating back thousands of years. Practised for twenty minutes twice daily, this technique utilises mantra – the origins of the word ‘mantra’ coming from two Sanskrit words; “man” (mind) and “tra” (vehicle) – to remove stress from the nervous system and calm the mind.

In this conversation with Krista:

– Krista’s two decades in hydrogeology and her experience with the burnout lifestyle associated with the mining industry, and how life events led her to explore meditation

– How Vedic meditation has so effortlessly enabled Krista to live the life she loves, and why it led to her completing her teacher training in India (during the pandemic, no less!)

– Krista’s definition of Vedic Meditation, and the differences between concentration, contemplation and transcendental types of meditation

– The benefits of Vedic Meditation: the inner and outward strokes

– How the modern-day, 21st century “gotta” life plays a role in the accumulation and overload of stress in the body and mind, and how it’s ultimately unsustainable

– The importance of a healthy stress response, the science of stress vs. bliss chemistry, and how ‘premature cognitive commitments’ impact us

– How meditation can help us to free up cognitive ‘space’ and deal with life’s demands, and why Krista is so passionate about enabling this through her teaching

– Bija mantras and how they work, and how a bija mantra is prescribed as part of Krista’s 4-day Vedic Meditation training

– How Vedic Meditation removes and releases stress from the body

– Krista’s thoughts on the currency of “busyness”

– Advanced Vedic Meditation techniques, including rounding, and the importance of practising in a retreat setting

– Vedic Meditation as a non-outcome-based practise, and the initial discomfort for the ego, but the beautiful potency of this

– Tarra’s transformative experience on Krista’s latest meditation retreat

– The relevancy of Vedic Meditation for all types of people, and how far-reaching its benefits can be

– Krista’s advice for people who feel resistant, anxious or fearful about meditating, and how to get started with meditation

– The restrictive, “boxing” nature of the ego and intellect, and how confronting ego death can be

– Vedic Meditation as an enabler for experiencing life to the fullest, and feeling the bliss in the present moment

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Beauty is all around us. And becoming aware of the beauty in the world allows us to open more space for the beauty that inherently exists within us – our inner beauty – to flourish. So, for this episode, our very own skin witch Em talks us through some beautiful, witchy rituals for inner and outer beauty, plus shares her top tips for healthy skin and an inside-out glow.

And don’t miss a special guided meditation towards the end ♡

Plus, we start the episode with a cosmic update and life update from both of us.

In this episode:

– Beauty ideals, how beauty is commercialised and marketed to us, and what inner beauty really is

– A reminder of the importance of mindfulness

– Implementing ritual as a witchy, feminine embodiment practice

– The history of beauty rituals, including Navajo ‘The Beauty Way’ and Japanese wabi-sabi

– Choosing and setting up your inner beauty ritual space

– The importance of gratitude when it comes to inner beauty rituals

– All of the aspects of health, wellness and living that Em takes into account when analysing skin health from a naturopathic perspective

– How our skin, as our largest organ, communicates with us

– The emotional and mental blocks, beliefs and patterns underlying skin issues

– How understanding what our skin is telling us is important when mindfully, purposefully establishing a beauty ritual

– Em’s favourite morning inner beauty ritual for the heart

– Em’s nighttime inner beauty ritual

– Colour therapy for inner (and outer) beauty, and skin health

– A guided skin meditation

More reading:‘The Secret Language of Your Body’ by Inna Segal

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When we understand the way the universe works and operates, we open ourselves to conspiring with the divine, to align to our highest path and purpose. The Spiritual Laws of the Universe each teach us something about well-being, happiness, and success.  Every time we are not in line with the universal laws, resistance builds up and things become difficult. These laws are a formula for this reality.

Plus, we start the episode with a cosmic update and life update from both of us.

In this episode:

– The foundational law of the universe that sets up all the other laws

– How contradictory thoughts create inner conflict which is mirrored in your outer life

– Why spiritual growth is so important

– What can help you center yourself and align with source energy

– What you would can do to heighten your energy frequency

– Why happens if your thoughts are counter to your goals

– The importance of intentional action

– The formula for gaining more in your life

– The laws around compensation and comparison

– The law that can help you build resilience in challenging times

– Why everything in our world goes through cycles, yet everything has a rhythm or a pattern

– The two major types of energy within this universe.

Episodes referenced: EP18. Casting spells with words

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In this episode, we talk about feminine and masculine polarity; a hot topic right now, and one we believe to be incredibly potent when it comes to self-empowerment. Understanding polarity in relationships not only enhances our relationship with those around us, and particularly our significant other, but also our relationship with self, ultimately.

Exploring polarity can ultimately serve as another incredible self-exploration and self-mastery tool.

Plus, we kick off the episode with a cosmic update (hello, full lunar eclipse!) and life updates from both of us.

In this episode:

– How polarity can be defined, and why opposites attract

– Why looking at feminine and masculine from an energy perspective goes far deeper than gender; ultimately, because we all possess both

– Characteristics of the wounded feminine and the wounded masculine

– How polarity, and the wounded feminine and masculine, are playing out in the world right now, and why we believe this to be the case

– The Witch Wound, and historical and generational trauma – and societal expectations – around feminine and masculine

– Characteristics of the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine

– Divine pairing of feminine and masculine

– Polarity in relationships, and the importance of balance and flux

– How to increase feminine energy; characteristics to embody, and how to go about exploring them

– Increasing masculine energy, and ways to explore embodying more masculine characteristics

– Looking at how expressions of both feminine and masculine energetics play out in health and in the body

– Polarity as a Law of the Universe, and its capacity to support manifestation

– The empowerment and healing that can come from exploring polarity in all of our relationships – including the one with ourself

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Danielle Massi is a master shadow work practitioner, best-selling author, and motivational speaker. She believes that shadow work is the most healing modality in existence.

We are thrilled to bring you this empowering conversation with Danielle, The Shadow Queen, for a fusion of science and spirit. Danielle opens up about her incredible story and journey, and gives us permission to embrace ourselves fully.

In this conversation with Danielle:

– The story of Danielle’s journey from shamed witchy child to psychotherapist, to cancer fighter and Shadow Queen

– How Danielle defines ‘shadow work’

– The difference between the unconscious and subconscious minds, and how both play into shadow work and healing

– Accessing the unconscious mind, regulating the nervous system, and utilising breath as medicine

– Getting started with shadow work through journaling

– How and why our ‘shadow sides’ come about, and whether these aspects of ourselves are inherently “evil” or “dark”

– Integrating instead of suppressing the shadow, and not denying our authentic selves for the sake of “love and light”

– How moving away from the ‘shiny’ and ‘perfect’ on social media is starting to lift the mask of the collective shadow, and encouraging us to show up more authentically

– The process of shadow work: the steps on how to actually ‘do’ the work

– The value in talking to, and befriending, your shadow

– Shadow work and past life regression, and alchemising wounds

– Overcoming triggers, and how to know whether shadow work is working

– Shadow work as a process (because healing is not linear), and overcoming each of the “new levels, new devils” layers by getting to the root cause

– Whether we can complete or perfect “the work”, and whether perfection really should be a goal anyway

– Dark nights of the soul, and Danielle’s thoughts on whether everyone experiences one (or multiple!)

– Danielle’s thoughts on near-death experiences and life’s trajectories

– Shadow work as a tool for manifestation, and the importance of shedding “energetic weight”

Work With Danielle:www.instagram.com/iamdaniellemassiwww.tiktok.com/@iamdaniellemassi iamdaniellemassi.com+ Danielle’s books: newly-released ‘Shadow Work: Face Hidden Fears, Heal Trauma, Awaken Your Dream Life‘, and ‘The Shadow Seeker’s Journal‘

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For this episode, our very own Emily unpacks all things menstrual health. On average, an Australian menstruating woman will have 450-500 periods in her life – the equivalent of 10 years’ worth of bleeding. So why do we receive such little education around the topic of menstrual health?!

Plus, we start the episode with a cosmic update and life update from both of us (and, yep, Em’s still in America!).

In this episode:

– What exactly a menstrual cycle is: how long it should ideally be, how it gives us an insight into our health, and its phases

– The different hormones and their roles throughout the menstrual cycle

– How you can still tune into the phases of the female cycle if you’re not currently experiencing a menstrual cycle

– What an ideal, healthy period looks like

– Why it’s important to track our periods – and full cycles – and what we should be looking out for

– What is and is not normal when it comes to our periods, and why

– Why we are so passionate about ending the generational normalisation of period pain

– PMS, or premenstrual syndrome, and what to look out for. Plus, why we may experience it in the first place

– Early and late periods, and how and why they come about

– How much we should ideally bleed each period, and how heavy and light periods come about

– Amenorrhoea: the absence of periods – and why they might go missing

– Post-pill syndrome

– How and why hormonal acne comes about

– Perimenopause and menopause, common symptoms of menopause, and how to support health during menopausal years

– How naturopathy can help to support menstrual health

– Em’s favourite tips for general hormonal and menstrual health

– Why it’s important to work with professionally-prescribed, practitioner-only supplements

More reading:‘What your cycle should look like‘ blog post by Emily‘Is my cycle normal?’ blog post by Emily‘The Period Repair Manual’ and ‘The Fifth Vital Sign’ by Dr Lara Briden +Kindara fertility tracking app+Listen to our ‘Menstrual Cycles & the Moon‘ episode!

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For this episode, we’re joined by our very own Tarra to learn about one of the most important branches of astrology; medical astrology.

Medical astrology is an ancient medical system that associates various parts of the body, diseases, and drugs as under the influence of the Sun, Moon, and planets, along with the twelve astrological signs.

Plus, we kick off the episode with a cosmic update and life update from both of us.

In this episode we discuss:

– How Ayurveda and Jyotish (Vedic astrology) are intimately linked

– The definition of astrology and what this science can help you with

– What medical astrology is and how can it access your heath potential

– Hippocrates the father of medicine and medical astrology

– What your rising sign can tell you about your physical body

– Each of the astrological signs and which parts of the human body they govern

– Saturn as the medical key of your chart

– What Mars and the South Node placement represent in your health

– The 6th house as the house of health

– How transits can impact your health

– The planets and the elements that they expressRemedies within medical astrology

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