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 054 What is personal is often universal & the story of The Boatman
In this episode, I'm going to tell you a story. It starts off with a girl who lives on an island in a vast isolated sea, until one day a strange boatman arrives. The story is about Isla. But it is al…
Episode 053 Caring for Ourselves w/Nicole Windle
Remembering to care for ourselves in a life where we are often focused on taking care of others is a practice in itself. In this episode, yoga teacher Nicole Windle shares her thoughts about how we c…
Episode 052 Four Reflections that Changed Everything for me
There's no doubt that in addition to times of joy, excitement and deep satisfaction, life also holds a lot of uncertainty, change and loss. When these things come, our sadness, pain and heartache fee…
Episode 051 An opportunity to stay grounded w/Claire Bradley
We practice. And then suddenly life hits us with something big and unexpected. It's in these times when our practice becomes more than something we do for momentary enjoyment. We start practicing to …
Episode 050 Wisdom from women whose lives look like ours
This episode is my celebratory round-up of my favourite bits of wisdom from the many conversations I had over the past year of Messy Luminous Being. The women who came on the show over the course of …
Episode 049 Being Awkward and Awesome w/Vikki Rood
We may like think of "spiritual practice" as joyful and calming, but the reality is that it's a bumpy road. It takes work to stay connected to our inner selves in a world that is always pulling us ou…
Episode 048 Living with Rhythms instead of Routines
Routines have always been the way I carved out time for myself. Blocking in specific time-slots for activities was how I thought things got done. But between lockdown living (where we watched our car…
Episode 047 It starts with you...
It can often seem like the world's problems are so big that our individual efforts barely make a difference. Yet from a meditation perspective, inner work is the most revolutionary and transformative…
Episode 046 Spiritual Psychology w/Chausey Leebron Jameson
Things that we experience in childhood and the parts of our life we struggle with are our spiritual curriculum for this life. And if we apply love to the places that hurt, then real healing can happe…
Episode 045 My current journey with self-compassion
In this episode I talk about my take-aways from the conversation about self-compassion I had with my own meditation group last weekend. It's a personal episode and my attempt to pull back the curtain…
Episode 044 Creating your own Enlightenedhood w/Leena Lemos & Megan Horowitz
Combining spiritual practice with the journey of motherhood, this episode is a conversation with Leena Lemos & Megan Horowitz, the founders of Enlightenedhood. We talk about how Leena and Megan find …
Episode 043 Making calm & joy intentional habits
It feels easy to think about getting exercise & good nutrition as part of our weekly habits. And we also easily accept that these habits have a wider impact on our physical health, energy levels, moo…
Episode 042 Releasing the performance and calling forth your authentic self w/Martina Knight
In this episode I talk to Martina Knight, who in the midst of a successful professional dancing career found she needed a way to reconnect with her authentic self. This is how she discovered yoga and…
Episode 041 Where do we find meaning?
Have you ever worked for something and when you achieved it, you didn't feel like you thought you'd feel? There are times when we find ourselves in real dissonance between our expectations and our in…
Episode 040 Feeding your heart with yoga w/Lucy Holtom
What happens when you stand on your mat and wait for the present moment to find you? How do you find time to do this in busy life? And how might that simple practice transform your life? In this epis…
Episode 039 How to keep practicing during lockdown with kids (aka finding breathing space in the ultra-mess)
In this episode I take a deep dive into a big issue for many of us stuck in lockdown with kids — how do we find any time for our practice or any space for ourselves when we are homeschooling, working…
Episode 038 I'm Awake! Now what? w/Krista Xiomara
What are your big questions? What are the things in your heart that you really want to ask? And do you feel free to ask them? In this episode, podcaster & spiritual seeker Krista Xiomara talks about …
Episode 037 Moments of meditation
In this episode I share a session I ran for the Scapa Home Festival on moments of meditation. Sometimes we only have a few moments here and there, and taking advantage of these times to connect inwar…
Episode 036 Walking with yourself & with hope w/Natalie Wiltshire
Questioning and finding ways to make meditation and yoga practice work within our individual life is such a journey. In this episode I talk with yoga teacher and meditation friend Natalie Wiltshire a…
Episode 035 The beautiful boredom of practice
I remember the first time I tried to meditate when I was about 20 & had a really strange out-of-body experience. I was confused and knew I wasn't going to do that again without more guidance. So five…