Daydreaming Wolves Podcast

Hey everyone, how are you doing and feeling? It's a lot, isn't it? This weekend is both Samhain and a blue moon in Taurus, so I wanted to send some love, some resources and some ideas your way. I am also sharing what rituals I'll do this weekend and I have an exciting announcement for low cost creativity sessions this winter.  Here are the podcasts I've mentioned: https://daphnecohn.com/podcasts/ https://forthewild.world/ Some books I am reading - Why we make things and why it matter by Peter Korn and If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie My book Rituals: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/book/ If you'd like to join the creativity sessions this winter you can become a Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/daydreamingwolves Wherever you are and whatever you do I hope you'll have some moments of rest and sweetness! Love, Yarrow ⋒ 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 sof

Hey friends, I am sharing this solo episode on both my podcasts - Daydreaming Wolves and the DIY Small Business podcast because it feels relevant to both projects. I came across the expression voluntary simplicity this week and it's been intensely on my ever since. While I never resonated with "voluntary poverty" there is so much freedom and pleasure in keeping things simple. So in this episode I am exploring how I am valuing simplicity in my life - in the home I bought, the ways in which I allow my business to stagnate, in how I try to get better at letting things be what they are and be led by my values rather than dominant narratives. I am asking what it can look life to be right sized in the space we take up, to find our own kind of success and am also giving a little update on smartphone free life, in case you're interested. Let me know what you think! ⋒ Hi, my name is Yarrow and I am your host. My podcast Daydreaming Wolves explores ritual, politicized healing and creative expression through interviews

Hey everyone, this is just a little seasonal check in - I am sharing what I am doing to prepare for winter, about my new home in Scotland, about my worries for the world and the things I am working on at the moment. I recorded this sitting in bed on a Sunday afternoon while the dogs are sleeping and I hope it arrives in your space like a little soft cloud full of pandemic reflections

Hey everyone, I am sorry for the unexpected podcasting pause! Much has happened in the world, I have moved to a new home and I just didn't have the headspace to edit & upload a new episode in a little while. But I am back and excited to share thoughts and conversations in this way. Today I am sending a wonderful interview with Allison Carr to you - she recently wrote a really touching zine called Sovereign and so around that we explored finding our own truth, questioning authority and teachers and connecting with our bodies. Allison shared what somatic practices mean to her, what kind of experiences she has made in healing trauma and she also gave us a really great intro to poly-vagal theory. I am really excited to share this as the first episode of autumn and I think as we go into the darker part of the year in the Northern hemisphere there is so much to explore and treasure here. Enjoy! Allison Carr is a queer witch, healer, writer, mother and licensed acupuncturist, currently living on the traditional

Hey everyone, I'm happy to be back with a beautiful interview episode - I talked to Katherine May (a fellow writer!) about her book Wintering, our experience of the pandemic, the creative process and many other interesting things. I dropped deep into her writing this summer and read her book in just three sittings, which is magic in pandemic attention span terms. I hope you'll receive some comfort and inspiration from hearing about her thoughts too! Here is some of what we explored:  - What it means to accept seasons if Wintering - Being a wild swimmer and how it is the best thing ever - Being with the truth of loss, disappointment and failure - Self-acceptance and finding your people after an autism diagnosis later in life - Writing anti-self-help books Katherine May is an author of fiction and memoir whose titles include Wintering, The Electricity of Every Living Thing, The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club, The 52 Seductions, Burning Out, and Ghosts & Their Uses. She is the editor of The Best, Most Aw

Hey everyone, I'm so happy to send this interview with Sheree Mack your way - it's been beautiful to talk to her and I got so much inspiration from the way she approaches creativity, nature and life in general. Here is some of what we talked about:  How Sheree experienced the pandemic  Wild swimming and reclaiming a place in nature as a black woman The magic of mixed media memoir Tending to grief through ritual and connection to nature Facilitating collaborative creative projects for women of colour My practice manifests through poetry, storytelling, image and the unfolding histories of black people. I engage audiences around black women’s voices and bodies, black feminism, ecology and memory. I facilitate national and international creative workshops and retreats in the landscape, encouraging and supporting women on their journey of remembrance back to their authentic selves. I'm currently writing a mixed-genre memoir around a black woman's body with/in Nature. As the Project Coordinator for a Heritage Lotte

Hey loved readers, I am feeling both shy and excited about this one, I am reading from my first book called Rituals - simple & radical practices for enchantment in times of crisis. I'm also sharing a few little life updates and a preview of my upcoming journaling program DREAM. If you like you can buy my book here: www.yarrowmagdalena.com/book/ and if you have a minute I would also totally appreciate a review

Hey everyone, happy Friday! I'm bringing you a really nourishing and inspiring conversation with Quai Nystrom - we recorded it in mid March and it kind of feels like my last "normal" recording, it reminds me of #lastnormalpicture on instagram. I really love Quai's work, their approach to gentle & active participation in our day to day healing and all the wisdom they have to share about plants. I hope you'll get as much out of listening as I did! Here is some of what we talked about:  -The beauty of being curious about our experiences-Embracing little bits of healing in day to day life -Plants as allies on our trauma recovery journey -Finding ways to actively participate in our healthcare Quai (they/she*) is an herbalist, psychotherapist and perpetual learner. Their work focuses on healing trauma, easing anxiety and discovering the connectedness of emotional experience and bodies. In other words, she believes that if you want to adequately address struggles then you can’t talk about emotional experience wi

Hey everyone, happy Friday! I'm coming your way with a short solo episode - a few announcements about my book and upcoming programs as well as some resources and thoughts about staying engaged in anti-racism work beyond the current wave of protest. It's great that so many more of us are joining in conversations and in action and I hope that we can work together to make sure this movement is never dying down again. I'm talking a bit about how I would like to do better for the podcast, what has helped me stay engaged and also I would like to share a bunch of resources with you:  Books I mentioned: Why I no longer talk about race with white people by Reni Eddo-Lodge, My grandmother's hands by Resmaa Menakem, The Colour Purple by Alice Walker as well as Pleasure Activism and Emergent Stategy by adrienne maree brown.  I also mentioned Black Minds Matter UK http://blackmindsmatter.co.uk/and the How to survive the end of the world podcast: https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/ Black owned bookshops & other business

Hey everyone, I hope you're safe and okay and that you are supporting the fight against police violence and anti-blackness wherever you are in any way you can. I'm sending a beautiful conversation about tending to grief in times of crisis with Shauna Janz your way. It was so good to listen back to it just now and I'm just really grateful to be able to share it with you. Here is some of what we talked about:  - Holding healing space for loss - Developing grief literacy and activism  - Slowing down and becoming still to examine dominant narratives - Holding the both/and of these times - What it might mean to become embodied  Shauna Janz (she/her) is dedicated to tending belonging in our world - within ourselves, with each other, and with our other-than-human relations. She creates space for reaching into the rough and beautiful places that are a catalyst for transformation and healing, personally and collectively, through grief work, embodiment, ritual and ancestral healing. Shauna has been serving individuals,

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 unc

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

Hey friends, I hope you are safe and doing as okay as you can

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 C

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: 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: 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

Hey friends, how are you holding up?  As promised I am publishing more episodes for your isolation enjoyment

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 bo

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 epis

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.c