Creative Magic

My guest today is Amy Wilding, Board Certified Women’s Hormonal Health Coach, and menstrual rewilding expert, author of Period of Change and Wild & Wise.Amy is a queer and inclusive feminist with a passion for empowering women by helping them to reclaim their inherent sovereignty and wisdom, she has been leading sacred women’s circles, mother-daughter circles, and rite-of-passage ceremonies for well over a decade.She is the founder of Period of Change, a transformative menstrual education programme and rite-of-passage celebration that has supported thousands of girls and their mothers through puberty, menarche, and the reclamation of cycle literacy. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her wife, Aimee, and their four young-adult children. periodofchange.com and @periodofchange We talked about:Her new book Period of ChangePleasure – and teaching our girls about itPatriarchy’s impact on our bodies and mindsShifting the culture from withinMoving from force to flow - perimenopause and accepting our difference in energetic capacityThe power of women’s circlesWhy language mattersIn the Extended Episode available to paid Patreon members Generational shifts and sexual soveriegntyTrans-inclusive language in women’s workWatch the video episode - $9/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearceGrab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearceJoin me for my online class Writing with FireResourcesWild & WisePeriod of ChangeGather: a celebration of women’s circlesWeaving Our Way Beyond PatriarchyBurning Woman

Shiloh Sophia is a painter, poet, and educator who has guided tens of thousands of women worldwide to chosen liberation through Intentional Creativity®.As legacy-keeper of the 100-year Stardust Lineage, she carries forward teachings passed hand to hand, heart to heart. She's the author of 8 books, architect of 9 certification programs, and a university educator.Most days you can find her having tea with her muse at Stardust Ranch in Northern California Www.stardustlineage.comThis was recorded as part of the Burning Woman Conversations – watch the video episode - $9/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearceGrab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearceJoin me for my online class Writing with FireWe talked about:Intentional CreativitySymbology of the feminineSacred feminine ritual creative practiceHer literal baptisms of fireThe Good Girl and creative blocksNervous system privilegeIn the Extended Episode we dived deeper into Shiloh’s work and how to overcome creative blocks

Jade Chung is a Spiritual Mentor, Somatic Healer, Intuitive, and Art Therapist known for her powerful transformational work. She integrates evidence based bodywork with spiritual ceremony and radical emotional healing to guide individuals through deep inner restructuring and embodied awakening.She works with heart centred humans who are ready to evolve beyond inherited patterns and outdated paradigms, and step into lives rooted in coherence, love, and lived purpose. She believes the most powerful contribution to collective consciousness begins with a devoted path of individual evolution.Website: https://www.jadechunghealing.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsjadechung/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itsjadechungGrab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month and the video episode for $9/ month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearceWe talked about:The healing and integrative power of darkness and silence, and the fire of self-expression.Unmasking - as individuals and the collective unmasking of patriarchal culture.The Year of the Fire Horse and what it means.Our relationship with the Good Girl archetype.In the Extended Episode we dived deeper into Jade’s work and explore Van Gogh’s vision.

ALisa Starkweather, visionary and facilitator, devoted four decades + to the work of the Sacred Feminine and women’s transformative leadership. She founded in 1998 her women’s mystery school, Priestess Path, the Women’s Belly and Womb conferences, Daughters of the Earth Gatherings, the global grassroots Red Tent (Temple) Movement and co-founded Women in Power initiations, uplifting the fierce feminine to confront predator energy through Shadow Work. Much of her work was purposefully undocumented for women to meet mystery in her containers, yet her influence is in the roots of much that grew from her devotion and those in her communities who gave immense lifeforce for our palpable rise. alisastarkweather.comWe talked about:·      Her role in my Burning Woman journey – and dancing naked around the bonfire.·      Women in Power·      Shadow work·      Learning to trust your calling·      Stepping into writing her book. Grab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month and the video episode for $9/ month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce

Author Uma Dinsmore-Tuli PhD is an advocate for intuition and rematriation. She met yoga in 1969, at the age of four, and fell in love. She’s been practicing ever since, sharing cyclical, therapeutic yoga since 1994. Co-Founder of the Yoga Nidra Network, she also trains specialist teachers in Total Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti Yoga Therapy for menstrual and menopausal health, pregnancy, birth, and postnatal recovery.  Uma has written six books, including Nidra Shakti: the Power of Rest - An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Yoga Nidra and Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra.  Recovering intuitive embodied and cyclical wisdom is at the heart of her writing and her approach to yoga therapy.Uma’s passion as a writer and as a teacher is to transmit clarity of awareness, creativity and profound vitality. She identifies these teachings as radical acts of rematriation, rooted in intuitive arts and in yoga tantra, drawing on a variety of yogic traditions to share deeply nourishing and enlivening practices appropriate for contemporary life.Grab the Extended Episode of this conversation from $3/month and the video episode for $9/ month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearceWe talked about:Life force energy and the death cult of patriarchyUnlearning being a good girlThe impact of the witch burnings.The connection between the colonisation of land and our bodiesReclaiming our intuitionHow and why she developed yoga practices that centred female bodiesThe importance of understanding that the System isn’t personalThe transformative experience of home birthing her childrenHow she’s navigating current times creativelyIn the Extended Episode from $3/month www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce-           Her baptism of fire: revealing abuse in the yoga community and the repercussions of this.-           Kundalini and its relationship to the Burning Woman archeypeResourcesBurning WomanBad Guru podcastYoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom through Yoga and Tantra.  www.yoganidranetwork.org/www.patreon.com/umadinsmoretuli

Lucy H. Pearce and Christine Rose discuss contemporary dystopian fiction - The Circle - on the Creative Magic Book Club.Listen to the Extended Episode for $3/ month or more at www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce.comJoin us for our next sesion where it's a reader Q& A for Burning Woman - May 12 on Zoom. Join for $6/ month or more at www.patreon.com/lucyhpearce.comThe Circle is for lovers of 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaids Tale - a tech utopia/ dystopia published in 2013, set in the near future.A clever examination of where we are going with social media and the dominance of likes and follower numbers.It makes you more conscious of the way tech is shaping our world, our interactions, our creative choices and our very selves, as you read you see it everywhere and can't unsee it.Available in paperback, ebook, audiobook and film starring Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and John Boyega. Film available on Netflix and Prime.About the BookTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - a dark, thrilling and unputdownable novel about our obsession with the internet'The Circle is 'Brave New World' for our brave new world... Fast, witty and troubling' Washington PostWhen Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ...'An elegantly told, compulsively readable parable for the 21st Century' Vanity Fair'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' GuardianAbout the AuthorDave Eggers is the author of many acclaimed books, including The Circle; What is the What and Zeitoun.He is the founder of the publishing house and magazine McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world.His work has been translated into forty-two languages.