Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Spirit Guide Coach and Founder of Spirit House Collective Aja Daashuur joins the Living Open podcast for an incredible conversation. We talk about her intense awakening journey, creating community, how she started to work with the different clairs and how you can too, her story of going through dark depression, what spirit guides are and her experiences with them, how to start connecting with your guides, boundaries and protection for psychic work, her experiences with the Akashic Records & more.

Enjoy this channeled visualization meditation to help you embody the Magician's powerful manifesting energy. Support me on Patreon for as little as $2 a month to access the monthly embodied tarot yoga class and the monthly community circle: www.patreon.com/erynjohnson

Clairvoyant tarot reader and visual artist Mary Grisey joins Living Open to talk about mediumship, tarot, and creating channeled art. We talk about her journey of stepping into her psychic abilities, communicating with her guides, marrying art with witchcraft & spirituality, being a student and teacher of the tarot, what working with the 4 different clairs looks like for her, connecting with and strengthening her psychic abilities, past life work, her process for creating art & her astrological signs.

In this episode, I share about something that recently happened to me and how I'm working to heal from it. If you're going through something, I hope this episode makes you feel less alone and maybe gives you some new ideas for ways to care for yourself, re-establish a sense of safety, and feel supported.

Reiki practitioner and family constellations facilitator Marine Selenee joins Living Open to share what family constellations is, how she has personally worked with it to heal the cycles of trauma in her own family, and how you can use it too to break free from unconscious family patterns. We talk about working with the inner child, living with the moon, using reiki energy healing, how family trauma manifests in specific areas of the body, and turning pain into purpose. 

The Hindu goddess Kali Ma is all about transformation, & she brings the death to ego and attachment that creates enlightenment and freedom. She can be seen as fierce warrior energy, a manifestation of Shakti. She can be scary because she brings change. She’s asking you to up level, to evolve. She reminds us that everything in life is a cycle: the old must be cleared out for the new to come in. Change brings your evolution. Learn some creative ways to connect with the energy of Kali in this episode.

Sarah Faith Gottesdiener, the creator of the Many Moons workbooks as well as a tarot reader and artist, is a magical human and I'm excited to welcome her to the show. In this episode, we talk about how she found the tarot & started working with the phases of the moon, how to work with moon magick holistically, the journey of the Major Arcana, her super interesting & unique interpretation of the Devil card, integrating shadow, really embodying the tarot, how she uses the tarot as a tool in her life & more. 

Happy Summer Solstice! Get 4 simple summer solstice rituals in this episode to help you celebrate the longest day of the year. 

City Witch Tess Giberson is an incredible folk tarot reader and magical human. They joined Living Open to talk about how they takes the gender binaries out of tarot, the work they're doing around setting boundaries, how they developed their own interpretations of the tarot, how they use tarot for mental health, their work with ancestral healing, tarot as a tool for the people, their ideas about magic as birthright, and more!

Teacher, Writer, and Sexual Empowerment Coach Luna Dietrich joins Living Open to talk about witchcraft and pleasure. We talk about her challenging journey with sex, having cosmic orgasms, creating more pleasure, difficulty with receiving, abundance + lack in the spiritual world, sex magick, plant medicine, letting yourself shift, and more! 

Founder of Yoga Foster Nicole Cardoza joins Living Open to talk about bringing yoga and mindfulness into schools and making yoga more diverse and accessible. Yoga Foster is a non-profit that works to make wellness elementary, and she talks about how she started it, how she has seen communities change from these practices, cultivating compassion and trauma consciousness in the Yoga Foster trainings and her own practice, and we have a much-needed conversation about diversity and accessibility in yoga.

Today I'm sharing a tarot spread, a ritual, and journaling prompts from my book, bring your woo-woo to the protest: a seeker's guide to spiritual activism to help you show up as both an activist and a healer in the world. These tools are centered around the principle of Ahimsa, nonviolence and compassion, from the yamas of yoga philosophy. Get your copy of the book at www.living-open.com!

Amazing Philly-based Crystal Resonance Therapists Christel Alberez and Nerissa Alberts share their journeys with crystals and spirituality. They talk about how crystals bring things up to work on with shadow work, how to start to intuitively connect and work and play with your stones, why crystals are powerful healing tools, how they work with crystals in ritual and their daily lives, and more.  Follow them on Instagram @gemstonestories. Follow Living Open on Instagram @erynj_.

I wrote a book! It's all about how the world needs you, as an activist, to show up as a spiritual being & as a spiritual being, to show up as an activist. In this episode, I talk about how my book will show you how to integrate your activist and spiritual sides by exploring the yamas and niyamas, core principles of yoga philosophy, for activists using a variety of healing tools, including meditation, mantra, tarot spreads, journaling, archetypes, breath work, and tapping. 

Artist, tarot reader, and creator of the Mystic Mondays tarot deck Grace Duong joins Living Open to talk about her incredible art, her healing and spiritual journey, the role of art and mysticism in the modern world, becoming comfortable with the uncomfortable, and more.