Playful Spirituality

Excited to finally share the beautiful stories of her miscarriages and the evental birth of her son, Cara divulges her very personal journey over the last seven years. This episode is truly an Intuitive’s story of meeting her baby. A very different take on miscarriage than the norm, it is Cara’s hope that it will uplift, and bring some understanding and soothing to a difficult topic. In this episo...

Join Cara Viana on this episode of the Playful Spirituality Podcast as she returns from a maternity leave hiatus to candidly share her experiences as a new mom. This episode is a raw and honest reflection on the unexpected challenges, joys, and surprises that come with giving birth and raising a newborn, including sudden vision loss, intense insecurity, social awkwardness, and finding unexpected p...

One of the biggest unspoken questions in manifestation is “When do I take action and when do I go for a walk in the garden?”  Well, that’s exactly what Cara's breaking down in this week’s podcast. “You can’t just sit around meditating and expect success to happen for you”   True. “You can’t just effort your way to success, you have to line up energy”   Also true. Manifestation gets...

In this episode Cara shares the personal story of an experiment she decided to do in her own life, an experiment to put tiny bits of effort and focus into seeing if she could find the feeling of joy. Tune in to hear the results of this life experiment and the lessons she learned, as well as the effects it had on her life. What started as a simple practice to try in little moments, realigned her wi...

The potent energy of the new year is an extremely powerful time to create within. There is a brewing, a budding, like a cauldron of change gently being stirred. This energy urges us to begin anew, to reevaluate, to desire, to grow, to change. However, … There is also a juxtaposition of a contradictory energy here in the northern hemisphere: Winter, slowness, the going within, hibernation. This als...

The holiday season is full of magic, love, and wonder, but sometimes it is also wrapped in loneliness, comparison, and replaying old patterns. Meditation is a powerful way to release those gloomy feelings from the season and embrace your playful and joyous self. So, If you feel you are triggered negatively this season. This episode is for you. Cara created a special meditation practice for this ho...

Are you stuck in a cycle of comparison? Wishing you could be someone else in a day or two. It's hard not to feel jealous, especially watching other people's dreams and desires come true. But you see, that jealousy you are feeling right now is an invitation telling you that you can receive what you manifest. If you ever feel like you can't have what you desire because you got caught up in jealousy...

Have you ever manifested something huge in your life without meaning to, or maybe you did it on purpose, and suddenly, your nervous system gets tense, and you start thinking: "Who am I to have this" "What if I lose it?" "Is this safe, or is the other shoe going to drop?" This is far more common than we recognize.   Often we don't even realize that we got our manifestations/desires becaus...

You have already desired so much for your future, far more than you consciously realize. Whether you know it or not, the universe is conspiring to bring all of this and more to you. Your job now is to get out of your own way and let in the good stuff. When it comes to manifesting our desires…most of us get in our own way without even realizing it. If you’ve ever had a feeling that you have certain...

If you have tried to manifest something and it hasn’t worked - listen to this. If you’ve worried you’re doing it wrong, or felt like you might accidentally create something you don’t want - listen to this. If you feel like the information on manifestation is sometimes confusing or contradictory (you’re not wrong) and definitely listen to this! In this episode, Cara tackles the most common manifest...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how the really good stuff in your life happens? Have you wondered what’s actually happening when everything is going wrong and crumbling around you? How does a person go from the dissolution of your dreams to stepping into the new and better ones? In this episode Cara shares the real and vulnerable story about how she got the romantic relationship that keeps exceedi...

What would you feel if you received a gift beautifully wrapped with a big red ribbon? Where do you need to peel each part to uncover what's inside? That is so fun and exciting, right? We are sitting in a world full of possibilities, and the universe is doing so much prep for us to uncover an exciting gift called life. Like what happens to Emily when she manifests to create a sustainable relationsh...

Do you ever struggle to find joy, love, and connection in your life? Then this episode is for you. I have welcomed to the show an exceptional guest and someone who has been part of my past programs, Woodrow Petrović, a physicist and shaman who clearly sees the connections between science and spirituality. After studying energy working for many years, Woodrow noticed that his beliefs and expectatio...

Have you ever experienced that feeling of misfire in a relationship, when your communication just seems to be on different planes? Or have had times in a relationship when one or both of you feel you aren’t getting what you need no matter how hard you try? Or maybe you feel like you're the one constantly putting in effort, but your partner isn’t? This is hugely common in relationships, and the pro...

Let's imagine that you are in your circle of friends, and you get together but discuss all the things that drive you nuts about your partner; that's what you do, right? It's not a societal norm to talk about all the great things your partner does; we tend to focus on what we resent more than appreciate. So, where did the appreciation go? In today's episode, Cara wants to discuss the biggest c-bloc...

Is your nervous system addicted to stress? Maybe it’s fear, or financial struggle or let down in relationships? In this episode Cara dives into exploration of your incredible nervous system, and how to rewire or heal it after periods of prolonged stress, or a life of being wired a certain way. In this episode, Cara discusses how our nervous systems become dysregulated, and eventually addicted or d...

Through personal stories and examples, Cara shares how our daily stresses result from our perceptions rather than actual danger or threats to our well-being. This is great news! We can learn to shift reactionary patterns of anxiety and alarm - bringing relief to our nervous systems and a sense of calm to our personal and professional environments. Listen to the end for Cara's journaling prompts to...

Do you ever feel mentally, emotionally, or physically overwhelmed by global events? In this episode, Cara shares how to transform your sensitivity into healing during times of collective upheaval. As sensitive beings, fearful and anxious energies threaten our ability to function. Learn to process your emotions without "taking on the world" and discover the key to cultivating truly positive, loving...

Do you find yourself stumbling along the path of manifestation? Maybe other people, situations, or stories present themselves as blocks and derail you from your clearest vision and intention. Or, maybe you're already having a wonderful experience but sense that there could be even greater expansion with deeper dives into your unconscious perspectives. In this episode, Cara reveals the #1 stumbling...

How dramatically would your life change if you suddenly lost the impulse to you criticize yourself? We all do it, rather consistently and often subconsciously. But what if instead of being hyper-focused on the so-called negative aspects of ourselves, we delighted in finding and adoring the aspects of our body and our lives that we enjoy and take pleasure in? In this episode, Cara shares a personal...

Have you ever tried to force passion? Imagine how it would feel to discover passion from a sense of restored peace, spaciousness, and alignment with your Higher Self. If that sounds pretty good - this meditation is for you! Passion can be brought to any aspect of your life, from daily activities to your most extraordinary creative and professional endeavors. Join Cara in this transformative guided...

If you have ever wondered “What’s my purpose?" perhaps with a surge of anxiety, inadequacy, or discouragement - this episode is for you. Cara is busting the purpose myth and sharing the answer to this question as she's received it from many peoples' Higher Selves during readings. Through Playful Spirituality, we gain insight about our role in the universe and feel inspired and empowered to serve o...

In this episode, Cara offers a potent and powerful healing to release old patterns, beliefs, and subconscious behaviors around money. Working in the realm of money, this healing will help increase your capacity to receive abundance, restore feelings of safety and support in your first chakra, and ease fearful responses to money in your nervous system. In receiving this healing, you invite miracles...

How do you relate to money? What are some common stories you tell? In this episode, Cara invites us to explore our relationship with money as it relates to feelings of safety, security, and happiness. Perhaps money has been a source of stress, perhaps we feel we will be judged for how much or how little money we have. As Cara reveals, money is a beautiful tool to help us play out energetic pattern...

Can you image feeling safe and secure regardless of the amount of money in your bank account? Join Cara and Body-Money-Passion participant, Kendra, for an intimate interview about what it means to finally have a healthy relationship with money. Through this honest and open dialogue, you are invited to shift from anxiety to trust by experiencing money as yet another source of love waiting to be rec...