YINtentions

There is an image of the practitioner: the one who has fully arrived in her own body. Who holds what she teaches not as theory but as lived truth, every day, without fail. The woman recording this episode forgets to stretch. Skips meals. Lays down, every once in a while and sobs at having been disengaged from herself. This episode is about that gap and what becomes available when you say it aloud....

The world looks at a woman in her forties and sees someone who has arrived. The woman herself is often somewhere else entirely. We have been handed the story of the peak: the good age, the clarity, the knowing who you are. But no one speaks to what lives underneath: the exhaustion that won't stop, the race with no visible finish line, the distance between what is seen and what is felt. This ep...

What does it mean to be the first person in your genetic line - in both directions - to do something? Anything at all? Cynthia Hansen carries her home in her body. A Korean woman adopted by white American parents, she has lived everywhere and belonged to no fixed geography and she has spent her career building systems that leave no human being at the edges. In this conversation, we move through th...

What happens when a woman refuses to dim her light even when she doesn't yet know who she's becoming? Robyn Davie wears color in a grayscale world. Not as aesthetics. As practice. After years of making herself smaller, of being told to be less, she chose more. We move through the women who came before her: a grandmother who had a hysterectomy at 32, complete hormone shutdown, devastating s...

What happens when a woman who has spent her career mapping the most complex systems in the world realizes she is now learning to read her own ? Anca Damerell opens a conversation about what gets lost when women move from the farm to the institution, from the freedom of climbing trees and reaching for fruit to a life organized around productivity, caregiving, and the quiet suppression of what the b...

We were handed one word = menopause = and asked to make sense of a decade or more with it. That word arrives wrapped in very limited stories. That we should be celebrating. That something has gone wrong. That we are no longer useful or seen. Most women I know are living somewhere between those scripts, without a name for where they actually are. This episode names the terrain. In this episode: the...

What happens when a thirteen-year-old girl receives a purity ring from her father and learns that her body belongs to everyone except herself? Jenny McGrath opens doors into the places where purity culture, sexual trauma, and religious shame live in women's bodies. In this conversation, we move through modesty checks and closets of shame. Through sexual assault and the confusion of pleasure an...

We travel the world fascinated by landscapes and terrains covered by sand, by forests, by history and stories that came before us. But there is a landscape we rarely discover. Not because it isn't remarkable, precious and filled with gifts. Quite the opposite. We don't discover it because we've been told to stay away from it. No one said - this territory exists, and it belongs to you,...

Stories women were told not to tell. Unresolved. Unpolished. True. We don't fix anything here. We simply are with. Hosted by Anna Teresa. New episodes biweekly from Spring Equinox 2026.