Daydreaming Wolves Podcast

Hey sweet listeners, thank you so much for joining me for another episode! It's my honour to bring you a conversation with Adrienne Sloan, who spoke so beautifully about things that really matter to me right now. I hope this episode will bring you some joy and comfort as you go about your day.  I also want to say that I am in full support of the protests against police violence and that I hope 2020 will be a year of lasting change beyond what we can imagine right now. I know my work as a white person isn't done by just naming my solidarity and I'm committed to showing up in better ways now and in the future. I'm currently completing my book Rituals and am therefore taking a break from social media, but I'll be back soon.  Here is some of what Adrienne and I talked about:  - Small rituals for daily connection with our ancestors  - Staying present with our grief  - De-centering human relationships as a way to deepen our sense of belonging  - Cultivating practices for times of quarantine - Finding comfort in uncertainty  How Adrienne understands animism  Adrienne Sloan is a child of the 70’s, a wanderer between worlds who holds space for visionaries and creatives to embody connection with their ancestors and their deep-time kin. She is dedicated to the unraveling of human-centered narratives through exploration in the imaginal realms. Adrienne is the granddaughter of Jean Lorraine, Elizabeth Ann, Dorothy, Netta, Jenny, and Paloma. https://adriennesloan.com/ https://www.patreon.com/adriennesloan If you'd like to support the podcast and get access to my zines, my upcoming book and my programs you can become a Patreon here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/for-patrons/

Hey everyone, I hope this episode with the wonderful Emily Cross finds you well and safe. I really, really loved talking to Emily about her work as an end of life doula and a facilitator of living funeral ceremonies. Our conversation covers things like fear of death, natural burials, living with embodied death awareness and what it's like to participate in one of her living funeral ceremonies. If you feel curious and open to thinking about your own mortality and are in the right place to engage with thoughts around death I think you might really enjoy listening to this episode. If you like you can also consider joining the next virtual ceremony on June 5th, the link is below and here is a video that will give you a better idea of what to expect: https://youtu.be/da_NJjqwGtw Emily Cross is an end-of-life doula, musician, and artist living in Austin, TX. After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where her visual artwork centered around mortality and loss, she moved to Austin and quickly became integrated within the arts and music scene. In 2015 she decided to pursue a career serving the dying, and earned professional certifications from the University of Vermont and from Quality of Life Care. She established Steady Waves End of Life Services in 2017 and brings her unique set of skills to her work with the dying and their families. You can sign up for the virtual living funeral ceremony on June 5th here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=15983494&appointmentType=14314217 https://steadywaveseol.com/ https://www.virtuallivingfuneral.com/ ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Hey friends, I hope you are safe and doing as okay as you can <3 I loved listening back to this episode with Alexis J. Cunningfolk - their work is so comforting to be around and continues to inspires my own practices. We recorded this last year, which now feels forever ago, and so much of what Alexis shared feels extremely  immediate and important today. Here is some of what we talked about:  - Centring re-enchantment in our work and our lives - Remembering ourselves back home - Working with plant allies and tarot archetypes - Self-care practices for difficult times - Embodying interconnectedness  Alexis J. Cunningfolk (she/they) is the intersectional herbalist and witch behind Worts + Cunning Apothecary. She is dedicated to the re-enchantment of the world and helps folks to re-member themselves back home to their magick through herbal healing, magickal arts, and sound therapies both ancestral and modern. Her work is informed by her queerness, mxd ancestry, and the fact that they’re a young hag just waiting for time to catch up. They host online and in-person courses for starry-hearted healers as well as offering in-person services grounded in building communities of inclusivity and justice. Connect to free resources and more at wortsandcunning.com. ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Happy Beltane & May Day sweet listeners!  I recorded this episode with the wonderful Lara Veleda Vesta quite some time ago and felt bad for publishing it so late, but listening back to our conversation just now made me realise that the timing is just perfect - Lara has so much wisdom and beauty to share around rites of passage and working through really difficult times. I love her work and am honoured to be one of her student and to share her message. Here is some of what we talked about:  - What it means to be a Dís-ability Witch living with chronic illness  - Myth as healer - Living in ceremony in big and small ways  - Leaning into ancestral support and creative practices through difficult times - The magic of naming yourself  - Rites of passage as death transformations  Lara Veleda Vesta is an artist, author and educator transforming chronic illness into a path of healing and reclaiming. She is the author of The Moon Divas Guidebook and The Moon Divas Oracle Book, illustrator of The Moon Divas Oracle Cards and The Runes Revealed, and is currently working on two books exploring death transitions: Dark Goddess, a handwritten, interactive rite of passage guide, and Coven Invisible, a memoir in myth. She has a patron community supporting this work, and to thank them she offers rituals, circles, mentoring and other gifts. Lara also teaches classes by donation at The Wild Soul School, where explorations include folk magic, ancestral connection, self-initiation and ritual practice. To learn more and weave/create: laravesta.co ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Hey loved listeners, I hope you are finding some small comforts in Taurus season! I'm back after a virtual breathwork training last weekend and am feeling a bit more grounded and steady. In May I'll be offering a really simple, affordable group program called Unravel, which combines breathwork, journaling and ritual to explore grief. It'll be available to all Patreons and you can become one here: https://www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves- more details soon! The Embodied Business Community is also still open for enrolment and has a new payment plan that costs $24/month, you can learn more here: https://yarrowdigital.com/diy-business-school/ I hope you'll enjoy today's episode, which is a really interesting conversation with the wonderful Benebell Wen. If you're into tarot and would like to hear a different perspective grounded in deep research and wild curiosity this might be for you <3 Here is some of what we talked about:  - Making friends with the tarot and experiencing it as an ally for decision making and growth - Psychology in tarot, seeking proof and engaging our rational mind  - Writing a book and staying committed to the creative process  - Sigil making and the tao of craft Benebell Wen is a practitioner of various metaphysical arts. She studies tarot, feng shui, the I Ching, numerology, and both Chinese and Hellenisic astrology. She is the author of Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth and Tao of Craft: Fu Talismans and Casting Sigils in the Eastern Esoteric Tradition. When not lecturing, teaching or writing on metaphysics, Wen practices law in California and New York. She is of Taiwanese descent and currently lives in Northern California with her husband James and their beloved cat. ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Hey friends, how are you holding up?  As promised I am publishing more episodes for your isolation enjoyment <3 This one is a beautiful conversation with Jessica Uys in which we talked about the following:  - The joy if ignoring common life and business advice - What it means to live an uncompromised life  - Working with the enneagram to better understand our patters rather than getting into a box - Intentionally creating community culture Jessica is a Coach, Facilitator & Researcher who believes in living an uncompromised life.   After 15 years in the corporate world of Consumer Insights, she’s spent the past 7 years as a “thinking partner”, helping people tune into what they really want,  look at themselves through a different lens and design their lives through conscious choice.   Jessica works intuitively, integrating her business experience alongside her work as an Enneagram Coach, BodyTalk Practitioner, Eating Psychology Coach and Breathwork Practitioner. Her corporate work includes both Enneagram team facilitation and research into organisational culture, diversity & inclusivity. Website: https://www.jessicauys.com Monthly Life Letters: https://www.jessicauys.com/life-letters Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicauys/ An offer from Jessica for listeners: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/catalog.php?owner=12793543&action=addCart&clear=1&id=646915 ----- As mentioned in the intro you are also welcome to join us for a grief tending session this Sunday:  https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/embodied-magic/grief-tending/

Hey everyone, I hope you are safe and able to stay home. As promised I am sending more podcast episodes your way so that we can least connect through the cosmic internet vibes. This Sunday I am also hosting a donation based grief circle - we'll do some gentle breathwork, meditate together, journal and do some self-massage to ease the lack of touch. You can learn more, sign up and invite your friends here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/grief-tending/ I really loved talking to Kathleen for this episode and have received several tarot readings from her that I still treasure and listen to lots (they are currently on sale for $25). Kathleen is truly magical, very real, very creative and very wonderful. Here is what we talked about:  - Tracing our journey through life with tarot journals  - Transforming harmful patterns in our lives  - Creating a tarot deck and being in creative flow - The reality of building a small business under capitalism and worrying about money - Working with the memories we carry in our bodies Although she thinks of herself as an eternal student, Kathleen has been working with the tarot for the past 19 years. Her father was a tarot reader in the 1970s but kept it secret from her until she bought her first set of cards at the initiatory age of 13. He refused to teach her the language of the cards, so she spent many years finding her own way with them. She has taught herself plant medicine and astrology over the course of the last 7 years, and now weaves her love for tarot, astrology, and plant medicine together in her work to support transformation in herself and clients. She is also trained in IET (Integrated Energy Therapy) and Reiki to nourish the space she holds for others. By learning to find the voice within after all these years, she now teaches others how to find their own inner wisdom and that we can be our own healer. https://www.daughterofwands.com Kathleen's tarot readings on sale: https://www.daughterofwands.com/offerings-1/recorded-tarot-reading https://www.instagram.com/daughter.of.wands/ ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Hey friends, I recorded this woodland visualisation as a way to offer some easily accessible grounding practices in these uncertain and stressful times. I'm thinking of all of you and am really committed to releasing more episodes over the next few weeks so we can stay in some kind of dialogue and connection as we are practicing self-isolation and social distancing. Please reach out and message me if you have any wishes for practices or ideas you'd like me to cover. A reminder also that becoming a Patreon gets you access to the Embodied Magic program, my live classes and zines as well as recordings from past workshops that you can explore in your own time from home. Small businesses will appreciate your support now more than ever! I've lifted the different tier levels so that it's more accessible, any pledge will give you access to all I offer. ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

I am celebrating five years in business today! ⁠ "I trust myself to make this work" is still my favorite business affirmation and I am excited for the next five years. ⁠ ⁠ Working for myself has given me a lot of freedom, room for creativity, community, rest, inspiration and joy. Obviously it's also given me a lot of headaches and challenges, but at the end of the day I have never regretted it. ⁠ ⁠ I've recorded an episode sharing my biggest lessons - ⁠I talked about unlearning competition, having good boundaries, rethinking success, making time to work ON your business and listening to your body as a wise mentor. Enjoy! ⁠ ⁠ Thanks for supporting my work, being here, listening and sharing and for making all this possible. ⁠ ⁠ Love you,⁠ ⁠ Yarrow

Happy new moon in pieces, wonderful listeners! This episode feels like a really wonderful treat to kick this moon cycle off with. It's been a deeply resonating, wonderful and insightful conversation with Brunem Warshaw of Well Deep Remedies. Here is some of what we talked about:  - Making friends with neighbourhood plants - Weaving disability justice and anti capitalist values into healing work - Prioritising plant connections in the way we spent our social energy - Navigating feminized labour with the support of plants  - Heartbreak and grief as a sacred practice Brunem mentioned the books Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici.  You can sign up for Brunem's newsletter here: https://www.subscribepage.com/f1n2m3 Learn more about their upcoming class on herbal support for emotional intelligence and relational work: https://www.welldeepremedies.com/herbal-support-for-emotional-intelligence-relational-work And find Brunem on instagram: instagram.com/welldeepremedies Brunem is a Clinical Herbalist and wellness educator who weaves scientific and intuitive approaches together to support people in healing themselves with the assistance of plant medicines. Brunem is also a queer nonbinary femme with invisible disabilities who is descended from Irish and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors. Their clinical practice Well Deep Remedies has a particular focus on trauma and addiction recovery, queer/trans support, ancestral magic, and disability justice. ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Hey everyone, happy Friday! I'm loving this episode so much and I hope you will too! Jess Grippo is so fun and wonderful to be around and she has really inspired me to finally f*cking dance again. In this giggly interview we talked about the following, amongst many other groovy things:  - The joy of dancing in your own way and why it's so liberating - Letting go of ideas about what a dance practice should look like - Overcoming body image issues - Creative processes that are joyful and easy Jess Grippo is a dancer, performer, writer, creativity coach, and the author of Dance With This Book. After leaving her ballet career and being distanced from the dance world for years, she started making dance videos alone in her room. These DIY expressions would become the catalyst for reviving her creative expression and later transitioning her career back into dance - but this time, in her own way. Since then, she's been invited to speak and perform at TEDxNYU, Lincoln Center's Dance On Camera Festival, the New York Comedy Club, and more. Her programs and videos have been helping people for years to reclaim dance, feel at home in their bodies, and revive their creative expression. You can dance again: https://www.jessgrippo.com/you-can-dance-again-2020 jessgrippo.com Instagram/Tiktok: @jessgrippo ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Loved folks, I could not help but record a mushy solo episode for valentine's day. Sorry, not sorry! It's a pep talk on luxurious embodiment practices, easy rituals, documenting life and remembering that healing is always political. Wether you hate this day, celebrate it or ignore it I hope you can make yourself feel like you're bathing in softness sometimes and that we can talk and dream about deconstructing the binary of self- and community care together.  ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Hey friends, this particularly beautiful Friday feels perfect to bring you an interview with Luna Dietrich, also known as the pussy witch <3 It's been wonderful and inspiring to talk to them about:  - Growing out of being a people pleaser - How Luna changed their name and married the Earth - What it means to Luna to be an ecosexual - Why pleasure matters so much and how we can reclaim it  I hope you will enjoy this conversation as much as I did <3  Luna Dietrich (she/they), aka Pussy Witch, is a pleasure centered sex educator, writer, healer and virgo-queer-femme-boss. Raised catholic and a born people pleaser, sex hasn’t always felt shame free for Luna. At 14 years old, Luna “lost her virginity” (virginity is a myth) and was slut shamed and outcast. In college, she fell into a long term, safe monogamous relationship, losing all sexual desire, believing she was broken. It wasn’t until she discovered queer sex that she learned how much pleasure could be felt in the body, rather than sex just being an exchange for male attention and closeness. With a focus on trauma-informed, comprehensive, pleasure-based sex ed, Luna has led over 1,000 students through her online courses. Her passion is helping recovering people pleasers and exhausted activists release shame and weave pleasure into their entire lives. https://www.lunadietrich.com/free-resources Instagram @pusssywitch  ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Hey appreciated listeners, this episode is really close to my heart - I love working with my guest Rebekah Erev and really appreciate all that they do. Rebekah's work is so rich with imagination and reverence for the earth and the human experience and yet also really tangible and accessible. Here is what we talked about:  - Making art and ritual accessible to more people - Caring for the earth and our ancestors  - The story of how Rebekah created their oracle deck - Embodying the role of a jewish priestess  - Celebrancy and holding space for life's milestones Rebekah about their work:  I am an ordained kohenet (Hebrew priestess), feminist, queer, artist, intuitive, healer, lover, creativity coach and teacher. I live on the Salish Sea in Olympia, WA., the original village of the Steh-chass people. In my work I collaborate with unseen and seen beings to make art and ritual with the intention to recover and liberate the earth. I offer intuitive readings and workshops to help people manifest their most true expressions, listening to the wisdom of their bodies. I also make objects and create public ritual as performance / ceremony. Here is the Your Most Treasured Commitment course I mentioned in the intro: http://rebekaherevstudio.com/your-most-treasured-commitment Here is Rebekah's website: http://rebekaherevstudio.com/ and this is their instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebekaherevstudio/ ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒

Hey everyone, happy new year, happy full moon eclipse! May you feel soft and blessed today I am sending a solo episode your way in which I am sharing my new year practices, some tarot ideas and inspiration as well as updates on what I am planning this year.  Here are the questions for the journaling practice I shared:  -What am I grateful for to 2019? -What were my major themes? -What do I want more of? -What do I want to clear away before I start a new chapter? And these are the questions for the tarot spread I shared:  -What do I need to know about my next steps? -What can ground and support me right now? -What dream wants to be dreamed in 2020? -Which archetype will be my guide? -Which quality can I develop in myself? ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews and solo episodes. I live a soft & slow life in Scotland and create rituals and ceremonies for the big and small milestones in life. I also write, make textile art, cuddle my dogs, swim in the sea all year and do a lot of queer dreaming. You can learn more about my work and become a patron to support the show and access my book, my zines, live workshops & seasonal programs at YarrowMagdalena.com. More info about my web design & business mentoring work is at YarrowDigital.com ⋒