The Modern Magic Podcast

Today we explore the colors of your Modern Magic painting and the emotions they evoke. A bit longer of a guided mindfulness practice than usual but you'll be taken through a short breathwork practice to help you settle in and then moved through questions to explore as you look at your painting. Every mindfulness practice is created to help you slow down, tune in, and go deeper bother internall...

In this meditation, you don't need a painting as we'll be closing out eyes as I walk you through a visual meditation. This pairs with my archetype deck of cards and booklet but works well to if you need some grounding and a clear understanding of where you want to go from here.

Our culture is hell bent on logic and telling you how you're supposed to feel. But that's the gift of art, it allows for true emotion to emerge–positive or negative. In this mindfulness practice we'll explore your reactions to this painting before anyone else told you it was good or bad. The intention is for you to build trust with yourself and to recognize that your body knows so much...

There's less guidance in this practice and more space for you to explore the painting in front of you in your own way. We so often are bombarded with sound and encouraged to consume that simply sitting with a piece of art, in silence can feel like we aren't doing enough–there's that curse word again...enough! But art as medicine works on you slowly, it settles in, seeps into the skin,...

Lectio Divina is a contemplative practice of sacred reading. Not for information, but for transformation. You return to the same passage slowly, letting it open layer by layer until something in you opens too. In this episode, your painting is the passage. We'll move through stages: seeing the whole, choosing one detail, inhabiting that painting, and returning to the full painting to receive w...

Before and during the Black Lives Matter campaign that grew in 2020, I was completely unaware of what unconscious bias was and that I could possibly have any. I was unaware of what it was like to be a person of color in America and that our experiences could be so vastly different. All that to say, I’ve learned a lot from Dameda JoLynn over the last year. Not only because she so kindly share’s her...

Let's talk about sex. While this isn't my favorite conversation to be had–I'm highly uncomfortable by the conversation of sex based on my upbringing–I think it's an important one. And who better to talk to than Alyssa Manny who isn't afraid of any conversation. Alyssa is the owner of Ohana Yoga and Barre in Denver, Colorado. Her mission is to evolve and help others to evolve to...

Kemetic yoga is a newly rediscovered Egyptian practice with roots that outlive that of the yoga we practice now. Unlike Indian yoga that was made for the elite and men, Kemetic yoga was created for all the people. Men and women of every background, focused on soft movements that highlight the divine feminine and only features a limited number of postures to explore. It’s a style of yoga that’s mak...

What is happiness and how do we even pursue something that we can’t fully grasp? Maybe happiness isn’t the destination. Maybe it’s just a guide on the map to where we really want to go. To a place of wholeness.  Join me as we walk through this world of wholeness vs. happiness and which is the right fit for you…….. For the full show notes head here Shop this episode's cover art here

As defined by Joanne Sienko Ott, St. Catherine Universit y , " The literature describes the crone archetype as a pre-existent form in the collective unconscious that embodies instinctive ways of channeling wisdom, inner knowing, and intuition, guiding us through the transition of life, and going inward to bring forth the light for transformation. " Only with age can we receive the gifts...

We are all born creators. We know it when we're six, we doubt it when we're eight, and by the time we hit ten we've forgotten our love and need to create. This episode is all about bringing you back to your creative practice, solely for the sake of creating. It doesn't need to be perfect, it doesn't even need to be seen, but by allowing ourselves the gift of creating we welcome...

Nadia Bolz-Weber said it best in her book Shameless, "Origin stories, tell us how the world came about, where we came from, and other important things like white snakes, don’t have Lex. We may think we know our own origin story really well, but the garden of Eden account in genesis is notably devoid of several elements that Lora has inserted into it. For instance, there actually are no mentio...

The Homemaker was the title given to most women during the turn of the century. While their husbands worked for a paycheck they were the ones at home taking care of the chores, cooking the meals, and tending to the children. However, I look at the homemaker as something a little different. I see her as the ultimate host, a creator, a curator. The homemaker teaches us how to create spaces that are...

Cerridwen comes to us with a need for change that brings wisdom.  She offers us the chance to be reborn and as a representation of the Crone and with her cauldron of knowledge and inspiration she offers us new insights into our own lives and cycles. Hear what Beth Radefeld, Owner of Be Radiant Life coaching, has to offer on the most common mindset cycles we get stuck in, how to break unhealthy cyc...

Love, lust, beauty, pleasure, and passion all words associated with the goddess Aphrodite. But the one part that we’re missing from this perfect female archetype is warrior. Aphrodite is a warrior goddess. For whatever reason this became an unremarkable trait of hers and got dropped many years ago to make her only focused on love and beauty. But as women, this masculine attribute of warrior gives...

The wise woman is the archetype of our intuition. The ancient part of us that knows the direction we are meant to go, who guides us, and nurtures us. But through society, culture, and a change of the way we live, we've lost a connection to this sacred part of who we are. Join me on a 15-min gut-meditation to relearn how to speak to our gut and hear what she has to offer us.  To learn more abou...

How often do you think about the legacy you're building as you live through your life? Whether you're an artist, a business owner, a mother, all of these things, or something else, we all have something to offer this world when the time comes and we must leave it. Today on the show, Shirlee Fisher of Quiet Lines Design and The Tillage Podcast share's how she's building a legacy of...

The Nordic Goddess of rest gives us the invitation to rest. To let go of all we're holding and to sink into the darkness, calm, and healing powers of it. In a society that is so focused on more–doing more, having more, being more–I think it's time we talked about embracing less. The constant strive for more is burning us down from the inside out and in the end isn't serving anyone. As...