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 096 Your Big S Self w/Liz Getman
How can we understand joy as our natural state? How can we connect our individual meditation and yoga practice to the collective, so that we do less harm in the context of systemic injustice? How can…
Episode 095 The Core of You
Feeling strong, energetic and able to move with ease are important ways we feel "luminous". That's why I believe Core Strength is a foundation of luminous being. In this episode I talk about why the …
Episode 094 Cosmic Self-Care w/Ashley Sondergaard
This episode is self-care on a whole other level. In this conversation I talk to Ashley Sondergaard, yoga teacher and astrology expert about the forces that move within us and how we might understand…
Episode 093 When practice doesn't go as planned
Usually we bring practices into our life for a purpose. We want to feel energetic, we want to get rid of back pain, we want to get rid of that stressed-out feeling inside. We have big asks of yoga & …
Episode 092 The Gift of Time w/Sarah Lang
You know that saying, everywhere you go, there you are? In this episode I talk to Sarah Lang, creator of Mindful Mamas, who has been living with her young family on a remote island north of Australia…
Episode 091 Comfort, discomfort & the big payoff
Sometimes the things that make me feel good don't involve a lot of comfort. And sometimes what's comfortable in the moment doesn't make me feel very good in my day. This episode is about the relation…
Episode 090 The Myth of Ageing w/Caz Hitchcock
What a beautiful way to kick off season 3! Join me and the amazing Caz Hitchcock of The Gravity Technique as we discuss the 'process' of setting up a wellness routine, the biggest misconception we ha…
Episode 89 day 1 Harness Your Inner Momentum Challenge
Welcome to the Harness Your Inner Momentum Challenge.
This is day 1.
To join the challenge and get all 7 days of audio, head to: https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/harnessyourinnermomentum
In this 7 day m…
Episode 088 The Art of Letting Go w/ Vani Shiroor
In this episode, I have a conversation with Vani Shiroor about a traditional form of Indian sand art she uses as a daily mindfulness practice. Vani reminds us that creating inner space and calm minds…
Episode 087 Brightly coloured houses and embodying our luminous life
There is a secret risk to cultivating a beautiful state of mind and living our most luminous life. We all probably feel it, but it can lie beneath the surface unacknowledged. In this episode I talk a…
Episode 086 Follow your own inner teacher w/Lisa Valentine
In this episode I talk to Lisa Valentine about her journey from self-taught yoga and meditation lover to a yoga teacher and studio owner immersed in yin and mindful flow yoga. Lisa shares a lot about…
Episode 084 Mindset on the Move
This episode is an on-the-ground, messy real life story of what I have learned about life, the mind and myself during our house move. I often find that personal situations give me the biggest lessons…
Episode 083 A Better Future Starts at the Intimate Level
In this episode, three speakers from the Forward From Here online summit share their thoughts on reframing the past pandemic year. Melissa Berry Appleton, Zen chaplain and mother of three shares her …
Episode 082 How to create mental fitness
This episode is my little download from the universe this week while I was out for a run. It's my reflections on how different running can be when I shift what's going on in my mind (i.e. the chat ab…
Episode 081 You're doing better than you think w/ Monique Fryer
In this episode, I talk to yoga teacher Monique Fryer about her favourite mantra — you're doing better than you think. We also talk about how time management and putting down our phones and social me…
Episode 080 When you see how incredible you can choose to be
There's been a moment when you've seen how incredible you can be. When you've felt how expansive joy is, or how a higher ground perspective brings you to a place of total peace even when life is stil…
Episode 079 Don't Miss It! w/ Sarah Clark
In a world that is always pushing forward, always busy, and almost always overwhelming, what does it mean to take the backwards step? In this episode, I talk to Sarah Clark, yoga teacher and Buddhist…
Episode 078 5am Club
I've wanted to get up early and take advantage of the dawn quiet for years. But with little kids who didn't sleep, and my own need for a good 7-8 hours, it always felt like such a struggle and someth…
Episode 077 Your Inner Ecosystem w/Hannah Swift
Our bodies are ecosystems, webs of connection, with the qualities of rivers, forests, lakes and mountains. In this week's episode I talk with acupuncturist Hannah Swift about the very grounded nature…
Episode 076 Your ordinary everyday experience is the soil in which wisdom grows
Practice. Sitting down and being still and watching our minds. This is the only way to get where we want to go. We can't read ourselves there. We can't watch Eckhart Tolle on YouTube until we 'finall…