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 014 Life is inconsistent...embrace it!
Our spiritual practices help us find inner space for ourselves, return to the core of who we really are & reconnect to the beautiful world around us. And we've got a lot of ideas about what our pract…
Episode 013: Is it true? w/Belinda McLean
In this episode I talk with fellow yogi Belinda McLean about what she calls the great question we must ask of all our thoughts and assumption — Is it true? We also discuss what she has learned from w…
Episode 012 Are we grateful for ourselves?
"The cultivation of gratitude and joy is the way home." This quote from a conversation between Oprah and Brene Brown has had me thinking about gratitude. Research has shown it isn't joy that makes us…
Episode 011 The Mindfulness Mindset w/Aiko Smith
In this conversation with Aiko, we talk about what how to fit mindfulness into our day when our morning practice doesn't go as planned. We talk about our expectations for ourselves, what to do when l…
Episode 010 An experiment with joy
We think happiness is something we experience when we get what we want. When situations go the way we expected, or we get a reaction from another person that we were hoping for. But what if we were t…
Episode 009 Finding ourselves in the sea w/Anna Neubert-Wood
In this episode, I talk to Anna Neubert-Wood about how sea-swimming has become the purest way for her to reconnect to herself, how her 100 day personal challenge to create nature mandalas became a fo…
Episode 008 Can we embrace our emotions & still have a calm mind?
Whether it's our yoga mat, a daily walk or time enjoying the morning quiet with a cup of tea, our practice of reconnecting with ourselves should be a time we invite all parts of us to show up. All th…
Episode 007: Grounding through the soles of our feet w/ Emma
In this episode I talk with yoga teacher Emma Johnston about how barefoot walking is the best way for her to reconnect with the present. We also get real about parenting young children, how taking a …
Episode 006: Your life is your retreat
So often we fall into the mindset of waiting until things calm down so we can find space for ourselves. Next week is looking better, but this week is crazy! Or we think the only way we can find menta…
Episode 005 Becoming your own sanctuary
Micro-dosing silence. Being a lighthouse in the middle of life storms. These are some of the gorgeous and also very practical thoughts Clem shares in this week's conversation. Apart from being incred…
Episode 004 Simple like drops in an ocean
We think we're complicated. And our problems feel complicated too. So it's really hard to grasp how a simple practice could profoundly shift all of that. But life has a great way of teaching up what …
Episode 003: Walking through your inner landscape w/Caz Hitchcock
In this episode, Caz Hitchcock shares how walking the dog became her favourite meditation practice, how yoga helped her through a recent relapse of an old injury, and so much more...
Episode 2: Three reasons we don't take time for ourselves (and the one thing we can do about it!)
We want to take time for ourselves. We know it's important. And yet, despite our best intentions, it gets pushed to the background of our lives. In this episode, I talk about the three biggest reason…
Episode 1: You don't need to earn it!
In this first episode, I talk about the inspiration behind Messy Luminous Being, what you find when you let go of all the stuff you need to be for other people, and why you don't need to earn time fo…