Messy, Luminous, Being Podcast

What does it feel like when you are LIT UP?! When you are being the truest expression of you? Your vision expands. You dream bigger. You see new possibilities. What if you created a vision for the new year from that place? Would you see new horizons...for how you could feel, for your career & creativity, for your relationships, for your experience of joy & enthusiasm for life? You better believe y...

How can we find our way back to ourselves? Beneath the layers. To the place where we are enough. Messy Luminous Being is celebrating it's 100th episode with some golden wisdom from some favourite guests. We're hear about: Keeping our practice simple so it can continue effortlessly...from Clem Cocquet (ep 005) The mentality of our homes as our monastery...from Mellissa Berry Appleton (ep 015) Simpl...

What would it be like to feel inspired by yourself. To feel that energy of Empowerment and Growth and truly connect with your own Potential. In this episode, I talk about that energy we're all looking to bring into our life — inspiration. And what it might mean to step towards our own beautiful inner state where we find inspiration on the deepest level. Your life is your own work of art. Choose yo...

Yoga is not about controlling the body. It's about finding freedom. In this episode I talk with the wonderful Suzanne Goddard of SheGlowYoga about mindset, mindfulness and yoga through all the stages of womanhood. Suzanne reminds us that there is incredible power that comes with the changes women experience throughout life. We also get real about the messiness of motherhood & menopause. This is yo...

Taking care of ourselves shouldn't feel like one more thing on our To Do list. But it can feel like that sometimes. In this episode I wanted to share how I have shifted my mindset around practices that 'fill up my tank', especially at super busy times where lots of output is required! Want to see how this can work in your life too? Why not try out a month of Messy Luminous Yoga? Come drink the Koo...

How can we understand joy as our natural state? How can we connect our individual meditation and yoga practice to the collective, so that we do less harm in the context of systemic injustice? How can emotional sensitivity become a superpower? These are some of the questions that arose in my conversation with Liz Getman. Liz is a yoga teacher, writer and podcaster who talks about our Big *S self an...

Feeling strong, energetic and able to move with ease are important ways we feel "luminous". That's why I believe Core Strength is a foundation of luminous being. In this episode I talk about why the core is even more important than we tend to think. I also share how we can shift habits in the body, habitual ways that we move, that may be causing us pain. And I made something FREE for you... a mess...

This episode is self-care on a whole other level. In this conversation I talk to Ashley Sondergaard, yoga teacher and astrology expert about the forces that move within us and how we might understand ourselves better. We talk about women's relationship to the moon, how she uses birth charts to create customised self-care routines and the everyday struggles of implementing these in a life of work,...

Usually we bring practices into our life for a purpose. We want to feel energetic, we want to get rid of back pain, we want to get rid of that stressed-out feeling inside. We have big asks of yoga & meditation. Sometimes we expect a lot from an individual practice session. So what do we do when practices doesn't go as planned? And how can we be open to the benefits of detours and the aim of 1% bet...

You know that saying, everywhere you go, there you are ? In this episode I talk to Sarah Lang, creator of Mindful Mamas, who has been living with her young family on a remote island north of Australia. She shares her own journey with mindfulness and two small children away from family and friends. We talk about following the breadcrumbs of what feels good, how small moments can be transformed into...

Sometimes the things that make me feel good don't involve a lot of comfort. And sometimes what's comfortable in the moment doesn't make me feel very good in my day. This episode is about the relationship between comfort, discomfort and what I think of as the 'big payoff'...which is that feeling of energy, vitality and being in the flow. It's about getting out of the habit of just "falling into our...

What a beautiful way to kick off season 3! Join me and the amazing Caz Hitchcock of The Gravity Technique as we discuss the 'process' of setting up a wellness routine, the biggest misconception we have about how our bodies work, and the myths we mistakenly believe about ageing. Connect with Caz on IG @gravitytechnique

Welcome to the Harness Your Inner Momentum Challenge. This is day 1. To join the challenge and get all 7 days of audio, head to: https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/harnessyourinnermomentum In this 7 day meditation challenge, you'll get sparks of inspiration, learn how to build a bridge from the hectic energy of your outer life and spend a few minutes connecting with your own inner awareness. The best p...

In this episode, I have a conversation with Vani Shiroor about a traditional form of Indian sand art she uses as a daily mindfulness practice. Vani reminds us that creating inner space and calm minds doesn't require a meditation cushion, but can be done creatively, in our homes as a daily ritual. She also talks about the importance of this art being done at the threshold of the home, what that sig...

There is a secret risk to cultivating a beautiful state of mind and living our most luminous life. We all probably feel it, but it can lie beneath the surface unacknowledged. In this episode I talk about the "risk" that comes with embodying our luminous life, why it's totally worth taking, and the story about coloured houses in Wales that was the best teacher.   P.s. Have you signed up for the Mes...

In this episode I talk to Lisa Valentine about her journey from self-taught yoga and meditation lover to a yoga teacher and studio owner immersed in yin and mindful flow yoga. Lisa shares a lot about the process of giving herself permission to make her yoga practice her own. She has some beautiful words of wisdom on how to explore the different ways of practice that feel right to you and how to al...

This episode is an on-the-ground, messy real life story of what I have learned about life, the mind and myself during our house move. I often find that personal situations give me the biggest lessons. Selling our house and moving 8 hours north to Scotland has given me a huge opportunity to work with stress, uncertainty and my own expectations. There are 4 big lessons I've learned about the mind in...

In this episode, three speakers from the Forward From Here online summit share their thoughts on reframing the past pandemic year. Melissa Berry Appleton, Zen chaplain and mother of three shares her thoughts on coming into better relationship with uncertainty and recognising how much choice we really have. Liza Kindred, founder of EffThisMeditation shares the power of looking closely at moments of...

This episode is my little download from the universe this week while I was out for a run. It's my reflections on how different running can be when I shift what's going on in my mind (i.e. the chat about how I hate running!) and ask myself — how can I let this feel easier? I have used this same approach and this very same question in my meditation practice for years. In fact, it's what has helped m...

In this episode, I talk to yoga teacher Monique Fryer about her favourite mantra — you're doing better than you think. We also talk about how time management and putting down our phones and social media can be part of our spiritual practice. She also shares ways to shift out of assumptions about our ageing bodies and what is considered inevitable (but shouldn't be)! This is a million-and-one mini...

There's been a moment when you've seen how incredible you can be. When you've felt how expansive joy is, or how a higher ground perspective brings you to a place of total peace even when life is still messy and complicated. You've felt it. You felt it strongly enough to believe it. That's why you are I are both here having this conversation. This episode is an invitation to turn our gaze to the ho...

In a world that is always pushing forward, always busy, and almost always overwhelming, what does it mean to take the backwards step? In this episode, I talk to Sarah Clark, yoga teacher and Buddhist practitioner about how she integrates practice into busy life. Sarah has some gorgeous advice about how to cut through habits of our mind-hearts, displacing the causes of suffering. And her greatest a...

I've wanted to get up early and take advantage of the dawn quiet for years. But with little kids who didn't sleep, and my own need for a good 7-8 hours, it always felt like such a struggle and something that really wore me down. After reading The 5am Club, I wanted to try again. In this episode, I talk through what didn't work before and how I'm trying to harness the mornings with a new gentler in...

Our bodies are ecosystems, webs of connection, with the qualities of rivers, forests, lakes and mountains. In this week's episode I talk with acupuncturist Hannah Swift about the very grounded nature of our connection to our inner self. She shares how our weakness can often also be our great strength, how worry and overthinking come not from the head but from the spleen, and the one health tip eve...

Practice. Sitting down and being still and watching our minds. This is the only way to get where we want to go. We can't read ourselves there. We can't watch Eckhart Tolle on YouTube until we 'finally get it'. At some point, we have to stop the tendency to sit on the sidelines listening to others and bravely step into practice. In this episode, I talk about how we get stuck in study, how we can re...