Pathways Home

In this episode Breanna is joined by Morgan Chapman, a teacher-librarian and self compassion advocate to delve into the concept and practices of self compassion.  Together they explore the way that developing compassion for ourselves through intentional practice creates more security, stability, joy and fulfillment in our lives. They discuss the way that generating greater compassion for ourselves...

In this episode Breanna is joined by Catherine (Cat) Reynolds, a Tea Ceremonialist and Nature Mystic. she is a wildling, an animist, and a daughter of the forest. Together they explore their roles as guides of practice and space holders, what those roles mean to them and how they have evolved into them. Among many other pathways this conversation covered, they also discuss tea ceremonies and how C...

In this episode Breanna is joined by Amber Matsumoto for an unscripted conversation exploring the depth of potential that astrology has for us as a pathway home to ourselves. Together they discuss the differences and relationship between tropical astrology and true sidereal (also known as true sky or live sky) astrology, astrology as a form of self study and self discovery that allows us to move d...

In this episode Breanna is joined by Keira Burgess of Soul InSight for an unscripted chat that explored what it means to come home to ourselves through exploring out familial ancestry, their experiences of growing up away from ancestral lands and how that has shaped their experiences of both culture and belonging, and how the call to return to visit and connect with ancestral land has shaped each...

Nicque Winstanley is a yoga & mobility teacher, yoga nidra guide and jiujitsu practitioner as well as a self-described 'ham sandwich with a heart of gold' (which for those who know her is perhaps the most accurate description of all). Nicque joins Breanna in this episode for an unscripted conversation that led us into discussing everything from the development of emotional intelligence...

Cathy French is a high school educator and grateful guide to the ancient deep rest practice of yoga nidra. Her Substack publication ‘ the creature ’ is a sanctuary of prayer and practice. Indigenous Irish Animism is woven with sensual ecopoetry to deepen your restful, relational enchantment with the land. In this episode Cathy joins Breanna for an unscripted conversation about community building o...

Welcome to Season Two of the Pathways Home Podcast. This season we are changing directions with the podcast and exploring unscripted musings and conversations, bringing on our first guests and diving deeper into our explorations of what it means to come home to ourselves. In this first episode of season two, Breanna offers up her own unscripted dive into what "home" means to her, why its...

In this practice episode we are getting curious about the way our life force or prana moves through our systems. Beginning with a brief introduction to the concept of energetic anatomy and a description of the practice, Breanna then offers a practice (9:22) that focuses on the central column of our energetic anatomy (sushumna nadi) and coming into a direct experience of the current of energy movin...

Welcome back to our latest practice episode of the podcast. This month's practice is exploring our embodied awareness through the rotation of consciousness (often referred to as a body scan). In this episode we dive straight into exploring why the language of 'rotation of consciousness' vs 'body scan' matters, how this portion of the yoga nidra practice connects us with a deepe...

In this episode Breanna discusses the ways we can end up meandering off our pathways home, how normal this experience is, the choice to be compassionate to ourselves when it inevitably happens and most importantly, how to begin coming home to ourselves once again.

In this second practice episode we dive into direct connection with our breath. We begin by exploring the breath as a constant undercurrent of our experience and how that offers us a steady anchor to lean into at any moment and then discuss the way in which the breath is the connector between our conscious and unconscious. Breanna offers up an explanation for why we are intentionally working outsi...

In this episode Breanna shares about the role that the permission to be imperfect plays in how we remain open, curious and teachable in our lives, how it enhances our relationships with self and other and how it is an essential part of opening ourselves up to receiving and honouring the creative flow. 

Join us for the first of our monthly practice episodes. The offering this month is a practice of connecting to our five physical senses, spending time with each one in turn, noticing what our experience of each one is like, then allowing time for freely oscillating through them, and finally, deliberately remaining connected to the sense that has the most stabilizing effect on us.  The episode...

Welcome to the Pathways Home Podcast, an exploration of practices of presence to come home to ourselves. In this first episode, join your host & guide, Breanna Morandi as she introduces herself, the inspiration behind the creation of this podcast and the unique format of the monthly episodes that will makeup the core offering of this podcast series.