Daydreaming Wolves Podcast

Hey folks, I am delighted to bring you another interview episode with the wonderful Jade of Milk and Honey Herbs! As you know I adore talking to plant people who are finding radical and nourishing ways to support themselves and their communities! Here is what Jade and I dreamed and giggled about:  - What a herbalist's workday can look like - Discovering plants as allies for our health and wellbeing - Connecting with different bioregions  - How we can give back to our environments  - Simple herbal selfcare strategies - Running a community clinic - Teaching and building community through Patreon Jade Alicandro Mace weaves a love of bioregionally abundant herbs and kitchen medicine into her work as a community and clinical herbalist. When she’s not teaching bioregional herbalism to students and apprentices, you can find her roaming the hedges with her harvest basket in-hand or at home in the kitchen brewing-up some potent food as medicine. She’s a mother to her 10 and 6 year-old daughters, partner, tender of chi

Hey folks, this is a little solo episode with some ideas and inspiration for your Beltane celebrations. I am sharing a tarot spread I will be doing, ways in which I am exploring pleasure of my own understanding in May, some ritual ideas and I am reading some beautiful words on flower essences by Dori Midnight as well as a few lines from adrienne maree brown's book Pleasure Activism for your delight!  Here are the questions for the tarot spread:  What does being in full bloom mean to me right now? What does my body need to be in full bloom? What does my mind need to be in full bloom? What does my spirit need to be in full bloom? Here is Dori Midnight's instagram love: https://www.instagram.com/dorimidnight/ This is where you can find adrienne maree brown's book: http://adriennemareebrown.net/ Here is the Healing Justice podcast episode about flower essences with Dori Midnight that I mentioned: https://healingjustice.podbean.com/e/28-practice-essences-for-everybody-making-your-own-medicine-with-dori-midnight/

Hey friends, I am sending another mini episode with some thoughts about magic for the full moon and the healing power of ceremony and ritual your way. I recently completed the first part of my celebrant training and am excited to explore and experience more rituals - especially self-marriages, friendship commitment ceremonies, re-namings and all kinds of transitions! If you feel you want to mark an important milestone in your life in some way and you need support for that, please hit me up!  In the episode I also talked about the things I love doing on the full moon, how you can create your own rituals and how important it is that we are making space for grieve to stay emotionally engaged with climate justice (and all kinds of other things we believe in!).  ⋒ 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

Hey friends, it feels so good to be back! This Friday I am sharing a beautiful conversation with my friend Manisha Tare who is an incredible mentor, guide and healing professional. I love her thoughts and approaches to emotional healing and the many many things she is putting out there to help us come home to our bodies and be present with what is unfolding in our lives. Tune in to hear more about:  - Injuries as an invitation to pause and explore our experiences  - Being in a body and making it a home - Living with chronic pain  - Transitioning into work that is sustainable and aligned with who we are  - Practices for grounding in times of transition  Manisha Tare serves an intuitive guide, healer & mentor for highly sensitive and empathic people who are on a journey back home to themselves. Through a combination of energetic, intuitive and somatic approaches, she guides her clients to connect to their inner knowing in order to heal & clear old emotional trauma at its core. Through their work togethe

Friends, I can't tell you how grateful I feel to bring you the 50th episode of Daydreaming Wolves just in time for the spring equinox and the full moon in Libra.  Damn, it's honestly been so beautiful to have all these conversations with like minded people, to explore and dream together and to build community with you all. I feel you, even if it's just through the screen.  In this anniversary episode I am talking about my rituals and dreams around the spring equinox (low energy spring cleaning, deeper tarot readings, flower essences, planting seeds and shaking winter off!), about practices for tough times and starting small and about finding faith and inner authority. I'm also reading from Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown, which is a book I think you might love too!  And finally - I have re-designed DaydreamingWolves.com and am offering more mentoring PLUS The Magic of Embodiment program is now ongoing with new practices and sharing circles every first Sunday of the month. You can pledge $3 or more o

Hey folks, thank you so much for your patience with this episode, I have really missed podcasting! This time I was really excited to speak to Sarah Eliza Kelly who is a beautiful artist of many disciplines and who facilitates the Artist's Way groups. I think this episode is for you if you are feeling a little creatively stuck and want to try something new. Here is what we talked about: - Loving many different creative expressions - Our experience of the book the Artist's Way by Julia Cameron - Movement, embodiment and unstimulated rest - Wanting a container and a commitment to feel free within - Morning pages and taking yourself on artist dates Sarah Elisa Kelly is a visual artist, papermaker, dancer and published poet who has been exploring her own relationship to creativity and facilitating creative workshops for over ten years. She is a Movement Medicine apprentice teacher and is currently completing a PhD at the Royal College of Art. She is passionate about embodiment, radical rest, slow time and intercon

Hey folks, thanks so much for your patience while I had a creative hibernation break! I really missed podcasting and am SO glad to be back. In this episode I am talking about: - What I've been up to and how I started a whole new community - What self-care practices I love in January - The rituals I create around my card for the year and which one I chose - Things that feel good and inspiring and exciting right now - How I try to avoid getting sucked into January self-improvement ⋒ 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 & seasona

Loved listeners, this is my last episode for 2018 and I am so so happy to end with such a beautiful, honest and inspiring conversation. Danette was my writing coach many moons ago and her love and wisdom is still with me all the time! She is incredibly funny and wise and has taught me so much about life, writing and loving myself.  Here is what we talked about:  - How Danette got married to herself on a beach 17 years ago - Creating new traditions that are authentic and real - Getting clear on what we really want to do with our lives  -Sustaining commitment to ourselves and our creativity in the long run - Why we love podcasting so much - Making awkward art Danette Relic has been married to herself for almost 18 years and it has been by far the hottest and most profound relationship in her life. She is a personal life coach, artist +  writer, based online at Radical Creative Sanctuary and at home in Toronto. Her mission is to help people transform their relationships with themselves. All of her work centers a

Hey wonderful listeners, I am a bit sleepy this week, so I will keep it soft and simple: I am sending a solo minisode on herbal oils and self-massage your way, because these are practices that are really supporting me right now. Cannot tell you how grateful I am to the plants all around me! Listen to hear about:  - How I infuse oils at home - What plans I love using  - How I am using oils straight or turn them into a balm - My thoughts about essential oils- My favorite self-massage practices - The magic of affirmation labels  ⋒ 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

Hey dream babes, thank you so much for your patience with this episode - I think it was totally worth it! I am sending you my conversation with Miel Rose, which was really wonderful and had both giggles and depth. Here is what we talked about:  - Yearning for intimacy with the landscape  - Eclectic magic - Lemonbalm and Mugwort as allies- Sharing between plant and human bodies- How magic supports folks who live with experiences of isolation, chronic illness and suicidal ideation - Receiving support in building authentic devotional practices - Staying embodied in this time and place - Miel's beautiful year long class Miel Rose is a rural, working class femme raised by hippies in the wilds of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.  She is a textile artist, medicine maker, magic skills teacher, and an intuitive guidance giver who believes in her effectiveness as a wounded healer.  She was raised with a strong anti-capitalist/anti-consumer ethic, which is to say that she believes in cultivating reciprocal relationships wit

Happy belated new moon in Scorpio, wonderful beings! I am bringing you a really beautiful, inspiring episode with my friend Elinor Predota. I think you will love this one if you are into story telling, the interconnectedness of spirituality and politics and alternative ways of building a business! Amongst many other things we spoke about the following: - Understanding interconnectedness - Ancestral story telling - Engaging with our (white folks) history of violence and colonialism - Transforming guilt and shame into something more actionable - Listening to the landscape - Building a business against and beyond capitalism to create spaces of justice Elinor supports people who long to make action for social justice an everyday part of their life and work, but who feel stuck, confused, or overwhelmed, to build their inner resources of resilience, awareness of self, society and environment, and confidence. Elinor offers one to one, group and DIY programmes which are grounded in a long and wide-ranging background

Hey friends, Fridays are now Daydreaming Wolves podcast days, hurray! Today I am sharing a movement + journaling audio workshop from the Magic of Embodiment program with you - people in the program really loved it and so I thought you might too. I will be sharing bits from the program on here occasionally because I love making things more accessible and want to offer you a peak behind the scenes.  You might want to listen to this at home rather than on public transport or in the car, but all you need is pen and paper. I am sharing some very gentle movement practices you can do sitting or lying down and then there will be some journaling prompts to dive into. Enjoy!  ⋒ 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 th

Hey beautiful beings, this question comes up a lot: How do we make space for self-care and ritual and magic if everything is falling apart and feels super hard? I don't have a perfect answer, but I gathered some ideas and questions for you in the hope that they feel comforting! Listen to me share about my morning and bed time routines as well as my love for self-massages and the wild art of infusing small things with big intentions.  In this episode I mentioned the free tarot for beginners workshop I am running on the 18th of November, you can sign up here: https://yarrowdigital.com/free-webinars/ Here is the new podcast I talked about: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/diy-business-magic/id1439315999?mt=2 ⋒ 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,

Hey beautiful beings, you might have noticed that I am now able to be a bit more consistent with the podcast, which is amazing and mainly due to the increase in Patreon supporters - thank you so much!!! For this episode I have interviewed another instagram crush that I had a beautiful tarot reading with myself - Krystal of Power Femme Tarot! Here is what we talked about: - Finding a unique way of reading for ourselves and others - Tarot as an anti-gaslighting tool - Learning to trust ourselves again - Bringing a fierce queer, feminist and political lens to the tarot - Tarot magic for sacred sexuality Krystal also talked about her friend Nick of https://queerofcups.com/ who is queer_of_cups on instagram and made a note after the recording: "The only thing I’d say differently is omit the term “stalker card.” Since my convo with Yarrow, @pinewoodtarot shared an IG story about how this term glamorizes and trivializes assault. As someone who unabashedly brings a queer feminist anti-racist justice-centered lens to

Hey friends, this is a sweet and simple episode in which I share my favorite tips for tarot beginners. Mainly its a pep talk for when you feel shy about approaching your deck! ⋒ 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, happy almost new moon in libra! I have a really wonderful episode with my friend Fay for you today, which I think is perfect if you want to dream about the changing seasons and reconnect with plants. Here is what we talked about:  + The creative process of Fay's book + Intimacy with the changing seasons  + Understanding cycles and applying them to our own lives to take pressure off ourselves + Grounding practices out in nature + Working with found objects + What we can learn from plants Fay Johnstone is a Shamanic Herbalist, Reiki Master and a Plant Spirit Guide who is the author of Plants that Speak Souls that Sing: transform you life with the spirit of plants. Following a beautiful awakening to the spirit of plants while running a flower farm, Fay's work helps clients open their own intuition to the forces of nature, meet plant spirit guides and restore their sacred relationship with the Earth to feel confident and connected on their path. Applying Shamanic techniques, the alchemy of nature and

Hey dreambabes, since it's officially the witchy season some of you have asked about tarot decks I use and love. It's a great time to fall in love with a new magical tool, so I wanted to share some tips for those who are on the lookout.  This is a very short episode, a minisode if you will, and there will be more of these with practical advice coming your way soon!  Here are the decks and the shop I mentioned:  Little Red Tarot Shop - http://littleredtarot.com The Next World Tarot deck - https://cristyroad.bigcartel.com/category/next-world-tarot Fountain Tarot deck - http://www.fountaintarot.com/ The Divina deck - https://www.spirit-speak.com/ The Wild Unknown deck - https://www.thewildunknown.com/ The Anima Mundi deck - http://www.thecreepingmoon.com/tarot.html ⋒ 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 ceremon

Friends, this is such a wonderful and special episode - in fact, it's a grumpisode! I have long admired Sarah Chappell's wonderful sense of humour and her ability to embrace the whole range of human emotions, which is exactly what we did for this episode. We grumped away about stuff that bothers us, got a bit snarky and let it all out - in the hope that you might feel less alone. We felt a bit shy in the end and felt a gentle urge to say that we are also happy, grateful people sometimes, which was really interesting and, in my humble opinion, shows that we all need more permission to grump sometimes. So if you needed a permission slip, this is it!  Here is what we talked about: - Embracing the whole range of human emotions - Being grumpy about having no one as a sickness back up when you are working for yourself - Being grumpy about diet culture - Being grumpy about social media changing all the time and loosing "exposure"  - Being grumpy about all the hard work we have to put in before creative work becomes

Hey dreambabes, I am incredibly honoured to bring you an episode with the wonderful Desiree Cervantes today! We first met online a few years ago and started to have really good chats about magic, cultural appropriation and identity this summer. Desiree is incredibly kind yet fierce, grounded, curious and magical and I am super happy she said yes to recording one of our conversations. This is some of what we talked about:  - Magic as a way to self-soothe - Coming out later in life- Cultural appropriation in spiritual communities - Working with ancestral traditions  - Chaos magic and dealing with the unexpected  - Shedding the idea that our worth as a person is defined by how desirable we are to men Desiree Cervantes is a shaman, intuitive healer and witch.  An indigenous femme, modern medicine woman and mother of two.  She is passionate about wild spirituality, radical honesty and creativity as a tools for spiritual healing. Desiree helps wild-hearted souls connect with and reclaim their personal magic through

Happy new moon in Leo, witches!  Thanks so much for your patience, I feel it was worth it as today's episode is with Tess, the City Witch who is an absolute dream babe who makes incredible zines and offers beautiful tarot magic. I recently had an emergency reading with them, which was super helpful, and I read the zine I have from them often.  I hope our conversations gives you some joy and maybe a sense of not being alone in your weird and wonderful witchcraft, at least that's how I felt after talking to Tess. Here is what we dreamed about:  - Working with willow to process grief  - How Tess was introduced to magic - Being disillusioned by binary based approaches to magic - Witchcraft on tumblr and sharing radical ideas through social media - Hexing your local rapist  - Using your phone charger for magic - Working with the hermit card - Generosity and abundance in our communities  tess is a collective tarot reader, city witch, and zinester based in Ottawa, Canada.  they are a cancer sun and moon, aries risin