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Mystics in the Matrix

This is a podcast with humble roots in my experience with circle-based communities, committed to sharing our wisdom traditions, cultural richness, ancestral teachings, and hard-won personal insights in the service of co-making a beautiful world. The intention within my heart as host is to curate a welcoming and sensual space that brings ease to the nervous system, as well as the heart/brain activation that sparks creativity, openness, and receptivity. This podcast is an etheric meeting place for those free-lancing ‘mystics’ of our current cultural, technological, and mycelial matrix. The highly sensitive, the deeply insightful, those ‘taken up’ on the wings of imagination, attuned to the subtle music of the earth, open to brushing up against other bodies, beings, ideas, and lifeways with curiosity rather than fear. Those whose hearts live in stubborn refusal to harden, choosing to remain soft and permeable, and in service to the Sacred aspects of Life. Those who delight in the path of wisdom, embrace multiple ways of knowing, accept what is not known with humble uncertainty, and practice the subtle art of spell-breaking in a spellbound world. The conversations herein are walkabouts in the woods, lanterns in hand, in which we explore what interconnects us, what separates us, the structures in our world that harm and those that heal, and the beautiful, good things that make life bearable, incredible, magical. These conversations live outside of the halls of academia, they hold paradox rather than polarization, they espouse curiosity with one another and with life, and recognize the folly of metanarratives. May hearts, brains, and bodies ‘light up’ around this charitable fire. I invite you into spaciousness, fellowship, care-fullness. There is room at this table for you, the candles are lit, and a lending library is open.

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Mystics in the Matrix

Tending, Sending and Mending with Juliette Woods

January 19, 2020 • Amber Samaya • Season 1 • Episode 1

Today's podcast guest, Juliette Woods, is an incredible mix of mystic, mother, spiritual guide, creative, and earth spiritualist.

In our conversation we talk about...

The concept of a 'slow-cooked' life and regenerative self care
Tending to ourselves by tuning into our innate capacities, seeking emancipation from the paradigm of overdoing
The recognition that we are re-learning how to be in circle and the balance between patience, openness, compassion, boundaries, and...well, we'll figure it out eventually!
Considering what is means to 'hold space' or be 'sending' energy to someone #gettinspiritual #woohoo
Recognizing the places we need to perhaps reclaim ourselves
Cultural appropriation and a gentle invitation to be ever more vigilant with our language
Making conscious transformations in your business - even when it's a bit challenging
Being in service to LIFE through acts of connection and contemplation (and some good ole ironic humour) and Juliette's photo project and 'devotion of trash removal on the West Coast of Canada', Lost & Found. Please Claim.

We cover a lot of ground in this long-form conversation that feels like a lengthy stroll down the beach on a drizzly day...picking up wise little stones...giving the selkies a wave hello and wink or two...remembering the seal skin tucked away in our own closets.

You can connect with Juliette in the following ways:
Website www.3foldbalance.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/juliettewoods
Instagram:
@3foldbalance
@juliettefaewoods - for the Lost &Found. Please Claim photo series
YouTube: Spiritual Practices playlist channel (3 Fold Balance) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8qlZ09BZtA&list=PLIfbKrW_YgIq4XcN34-St64g7iOoc0rpN

Show notes:
Namaste (meaning): https://chopra.com/articles/learn-the-meaning-of-namaste

Transcendental Meditation healing violence - Study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244016637891

Shiloh Sophia - Poem - Let Me Gather Myself: https://www.shilohsophiastudios.com/let-me-gather-myself/

Lost & Found. Please claim - Juliette's beach cleanup garbage photo series: https://www.instagram.com/juliettefaewoods/

Joanna Macy - The Work that Reconnects: https://www.joannamacy.net/main

Music:

Opening music and music behind the poetry read was "Bittersweet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Music for Podcast intro is "Karma Cat" by Dyalla (Creative Commons License)

And you heard the song "Slow Decay" by Ingrid Witt (Creative Commons License) during our conversation from Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/7DgxuKxluN

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