The Soul Garden

2026. Here already. It didn’t seem like a moment ago when even the thought of the year 2026 seemed sooo far away, so off into the future that it didn’t even really bear thinking about. And yet, here it is. Back in the 12th Century, the German mystic and abbess, Hildegard of Bingen said that you create the world around you with your thoughts. She had this concept of ‘vices and virtues’, which work...

Navigating life in this chaotic world can be tricky, but I'm finding that the wisdom of a Renaissance physican and philosopher, and self-proclaimed 'Soul Doctor' is helping. Nature, cosmos, music, art and dance are all things that can help us live in a way that cares for the soul. Marsilio Ficino and his ideas became the focus for the Pecha Kucha talk I did as part of the 2025 Hawke's Bay Arts Fes...

This interview is an oldie but a goodie. A couple of years back, I managed to get some time in Dr. Samantha Newman's schedule to talk to her about hormonal changes that occur as we go through menopause. It was a good discussion and a valuable resource for women wondering if HRT might be right for them, so I’ve reissued it here on my new Midlife Living podcast. Sam Newman is not only a GP, she is a...

What I've got for you in this episode of The Soul Garden: conversations for Midlife Living, is a guided meditation that I have recorded and called Vessel of Peace. I wrote and recorded this meditation for a client, but after listening to it she suggested Ishare it with others. So like a stone dropped into water, my hope is its medicine will ripple out to others too. This is a meditation for those...

  “Forget about menopause,” my guest on this episode, Dr. Wendy Sweet, urges us to focus on ageing, and the issue of ‘inflammaging’”. I caught up with Dr. Wendy Sweet, founder of the hugely successful My Menopause Transformation, online lifestyle-change programs for Peri to Post-Menopause for symptom reduction, weight loss and fitness. We first connected about six years ago, over a pot of the horm...

In this episode of The Soul Garden we explore natural perfumery and working with ancient cosmological concepts in the approach to creating aromatic portraits of ancient mystics and modern day perfume lovers. Georgina Langdale discusses her approach to working with aromatics. She talks about using raw ingredients, astrology, amulets, and Renaissance mysticism. She studied aromatherapy and natural p...

In this episode of The Soul Garden, Georgina Langdale reflects on a book by Thomas Moore, The Eloquence of Silence - surprising wisdom in tales of emptiness. Thomas Moore offers a compelling case for an easier, lighter way of moving through life by experiencing the peace. calm and openness of emptiness. Georgina touches on how emptiness can be a powerful tool for navigating transitions such as men...

The Leo Full Moon is here and what better time to do a Love Meditation. Get comfy and let's get started. You can find my offerings at archeus.nz Instagram: @ArcheusNaturalLiving Facebook @ArcheusNaturalLiving Youtube @ArcheusGeorgina This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit georginalangdale.substack.com

When life changes and someone we love, or maybe its us, is given bad news, we need to dig deep to find ways through it all. In this episode I share with you how recent bad news within my own family prompted me to write a book to offers ways to help those I love navigate the times we find ourselves in.  There are three things that I think are at the heart of finding resilience, compassion and coura...

This week is all about the goddesses within and looking at goddess archetypes through the lens of a midlife woman. Getting to know these archetypes and working with them to help navigate life can be wonderfully empowering. In this episode we explore the archetypes of Hestia, Hera, Artemis, Demeter, Persephone and Aphrodite. The full NatFem Botanics Collection of products I have created to support...

This is the last episode of The Soul Garden for 2023! And in this episode Georgina Langdale reflects on the power of landscape as part of one's own sense of being. She shares the wood in which she laid her father's ashes to rest, and conjures the green path she walks on inspired by nature and mystics such as Hildegard of Bingen, ending with a Celtic call for peace. You can find my offerings at arc...

In this week's episode we look at plant essences, also known as flower remedies. These are a form of vibrational medicine that is said to tap into the 'life force' of a plant. Georgina Langdale, presenter of The Soul Garden and founder of the Archeus Apothecary, has been working with this form of plant medicine throughout her life. This episode looks at what plant essences are, some examples of pl...

As Archeus celebrates 10 Years since it launched, founder and Soul Garden presenter, Georgina Langdale discusses how Archeus evolved from an artisanal apothecary into a centre for compassionate care. Reflecting on her parents' deaths, the power of Nature as a teacher, and how compassion can help deepen connection at every stage of the life journey this is a tender episode, recorded, as it happens...

In this week’s episode of The Soul Garden podcast, I reflect on my own connection with nature and ways I have worked with it over the past ten years of Archeus. For me, stepping away from my previous career, to step fully into this realm of working with nature, with plants to create offerings to support health and wellbeing at a physical, emotional and spiritual level has been so rewarding, so lif...

What are the things we tell ourselves about ourselves? And how do those messages get in the way of our true potential? In this episode of The Soul Garden, Georgina Langdale takes a look at Self Talk and how we can work with it as a force for good. She draws her inspiration from the 12th Century mystic, healer and abbess Hildegard of Bingen who wrote about a form of psychotherapy and prayer she des...

This episode is slightly different to my normal approach to this podcast. It is part creative mash-up, part lament, part call to action. Earlier this year the area I live in was hit by tropical cyclone Gabrielle, and even in the few months since then it seems as if the whole world is burning or flooding. I started getting this riff going around in my head and so I made this song to try and capture...

Who's afraid of flying? Me! I used to love it, but now I am just seriously afraid. I have gone from intrepid explorer, to trembling coward. And I don't think I'm alone in this fear. So in this episode of the Soul Garden, I look that fear in the face and talk about how I have used the power of ceremony to overcome it, or at least bring down to something manageable! Given how many of us are afraid o...

In this episode of the Soul Garden, host Georgina  Langdale reflects on Earth Day. She also is prompted by its proximity to ANZAC Day to name some of the fallen, species that have gone extinct since WWI due to human impacts, in a from of prayer and meditation called Lectio divina. You can find my offerings at archeus.nz Instagram: @ArcheusNaturalLiving Facebook @ArcheusNaturalLiving Youtube @Arche...

How do we find balance and resilience in a changing world? How do life changes and transitions, both internal and external act as catalysts for a deeper way of being? It's been a few weeks now since the cyclone Gabrielle devastated the region I live in. This has been a life-changing experience and this episode of The Soul Garden explores how to navigate through events such as this and how we may h...

In this week's episode I'm sharing a healing meditation and visualisation I recorded today for a friend who is going through cancer treatment. I wanted to create something that she might find gives her comfort during her treatment, that may help her activate the healing her body wishes for at this time. After I sent it to her I thought of how it might give comfort to others too. It could be a plac...

In this powerful episode of The Soul Garden, Georgina Langdale explores the idea of perimenopause as a liminal space that invites us to draw in the potential of our post-menopausal  wisdom years. She offers up another view of perimenopause that reframes symptoms as markers of transformation. She sees perimenopause as a gestation and birthing of a new way of being, and mentions how she has worked w...

It's World Menopause Day and following an interview I had with the fabulous Tracy Minnoch-Nuku and her Sexy Ageing Podcast I felt a little nudge from some of the things we had talked about in her interview.  I had touched on sensitive topics. I was being candid, but not forthright and this troubled me. And so it came to pass that I found myself writing a blog entitled Beyond Menopause a different...

Why is it that we find out so much about those when love only when we are at their funeral? Sometimes inspiration for a podcast episode sneaks right up on you and compels you to sit down in front of the microphone and speak from the heart. This is one of those episodes. Short. Sweet and hopefully helpful. In it I explore things left unexplored and the beauty and sadness of the things we discover o...

Sometimes we just feel the need to take a deep breath and pray for peace. This meditation is one I have created to extend that peace to this planet, to our Mother Earth. It is an invitation to come together in a message of healing for this planet, for ourselves. I've been so troubled by the language that is increasingly being used to describe Nature. it is a language of battle, of fury, of revenge...

When we can explore consciousness we can find ways to see death as a natural part of the life cycle. Life experiences shape us, but they can also give us the ability to make more sense of the world around us. For me a Near Death Experience opened the door to insights into infinity and the paradox of connection. None of us want to lose the people and beings and places we love, yet we can find new w...