Messy, Luminous, Being Podcast
How can we incorporate meditation and spiritual wisdom into the messy realities of our lives? How can we think of spiritual practice as something that happens within life, rather than in retreat?
Hi I'm Sarah, and for years I trained in yoga and a form of Tibetan Buddhist meditation, but found it incredibly difficult with two young children to train in traditional ways which required me to step out of my life to sit on my own. What I have discovered over these many years is that many of us need an adapted form of spiritual practice that fits in with our lives. Especially for women whose approach to spiritual practice may be different.
This podcast is a continuing conversation about how spiritual wisdom can illuminate our messy real lives as women. Sometimes you'll get me with some stuff I've been thinking about. Sometimes you'll get me in conversation with another woman about the realities of their spiritual practice — what it's actually like, how it helps the in practical real-life situations and what inspires them most.
We are Messy. We are Luminous. And just Being.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 174
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Episode 116 Small moments mean everything
We can so easily dismiss small moments, short practices, small habits. In our search for bigger changes in our lives and in the world, we assume we need big solutions and radical 180 degree shifts. I…
Episode 115 Going Conscious w/ Nikki Trott
What does it mean to bring consciousness into our work? Can our working life be an essential part of our spiritual practice? In this episode, I talk to Nikki Trott, founder of the Conscious Accelerat…
Episode 114: A simple phrase to calm the mind
The mind is the place of our own unlimited nature. It is the place of our deepest level of health. This episode is about a simple practice that will inspire you to weave meditation moments into every…
Episode 113 Opening your heart with Cacao w/Deya
In this episode, I talk with Deya of CacaoAmor all about Cacao — hot drink, incredible plant medicine and opportunity for ceremony and deep inner connection. Deya shares her journey through South & C…
Episode 112 Freedom living beyond stress
Inner freedom is what we feel when stress is no longer draining our energy. When we learn to manage our stress response and train our minds into new, healthy pathways. In this episode I talk about th…
Episode 111: Where the yoga lives w/Erika Belanger
Our harsh judgement of ourselves stops our growth. And yet it's so hard to get out of the habit of bullying ourselves into make the changes we want to see in our lives. In this conversation I talk to…
Episode 110 The mindset of trusting the process
Frustration. Disappointment. Fear that it's not working. Whenever these feelings start to come up for me, it's because I'm having trouble trusting the process. My expectations are off...especially on…
Episode 109 Work as the path to mindfulness w/Kiara Harper Ufomba
What does practicing yoga or meditation off the mat really mean? Can work be another path to mindfulness? In this episode I talk to Kiara Harper Ufomba of Squirhill, a mindful working space. We discu…
Episode 108 Blah! What to do when you don't feel like feeling better
Episode 107 You did not come into this life to get it right
Episode 106 Emotional Intelligence in Messy Life
Meditation tradition has a different perspective and approach to Emotional Intelligence than modern psychology. In this episode, I talk about three aspects of Emotional Intelligence — the underlying …
Episode 105: Creating space with yoga w/ Becca Ryder
Creating space when things feel crowded and overwhelming...this is what yoga can do for us. In this episode I talk with yoga teacher Becca Ryder about peeling back the layers of the self, ways yoga h…
Episode 104 Motivation
There is a moment when our willpower fails us, when our efforts to push ourselves stops working, when we run out of steam. And when we're trying to make a positive change in our lives or start a new …
Episode 103 The magic square of our inner terrain w/ Mary Dana
So we can step out into the world Whole. That is the purpose behind all of our practices. In this episode, I talk to Katonah yoga teacher Mary Dana about the way Katonah yoga maps the inner terrain a…
Episode 102 If you're thinking of starting meditation
It's been on your radar. Maybe it's been an intention for a long time. You want to start (or re-start) a meditation practice. But you're not sure you can do it. You often struggle to sit still. Your …
Episode 101 Lit Up!
What does it feel like when you are LIT UP?! When you are being the truest expression of you? Your vision expands. You dream bigger. You see new possibilities.
What if you created a vision for the ne…
Episode 100!! The Luminous You that's Here Now
How can we find our way back to ourselves? Beneath the layers. To the place where we are enough. Messy Luminous Being is celebrating it's 100th episode with some golden wisdom from some favourite gue…
Episode 099 Inspired by Yourself
What would it be like to feel inspired by yourself. To feel that energy of Empowerment and Growth and truly connect with your own Potential. In this episode, I talk about that energy we're all lookin…
Episode 098 Wisdom in the Stages of Womanhood w/ Suzanne Goddard
Yoga is not about controlling the body. It's about finding freedom. In this episode I talk with the wonderful Suzanne Goddard of SheGlowYoga about mindset, mindfulness and yoga through all the stages…
Ep 097 The flow of output and input
Taking care of ourselves shouldn't feel like one more thing on our To Do list. But it can feel like that sometimes. In this episode I wanted to share how I have shifted my mindset around practices th…