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  • Burning Woman: How to reclaim your feminine fire & connect with the source of creativity.

    Burning Woman: How to reclaim your feminine fire & connect with the source of creativity.
    Oct 16 2024

    In this episode I am talking to Lucy H Pearce, the author of the amazingly powerful book Burning Woman. I still feel my soul shimmer thinking back to this meaningful conversation!


    Burning Woman is a breath-taking and controversial woman’s journey through history — personal and cultural — on a quest to find and free her own power. And so is this episode a wake-up call to the Burning Woman within you, a reminder. We live in burning times and they call for Burning Women. This is our time to come out of the shadows and burn brightly.


    The Soft Rebellion is my expression of Burning Woman and I hope that this conversation inspires and encourages you to bring your version of Burning Woman into your life too, uncover her voice and no longer let your fears take your power.



    Lucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix. Her newest books is Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods and The Kitchen Witch Companion, which she illustrated and co-authored with Sarah Robinson. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity. An award-winning graduate in History of Ideas with English Literature from Kingston University, and a PGCE from Cambridge University, Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, creating paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014. She is the host of the Creative Magic podcast, where she interviews contemporary creative women.

    The mother of three children, she lives in East Cork, Ireland.




    In this conversation we explored:



    - How to connect with the source of creativity. We explored how the writing process looks for both of us and what we need to let the writing pour out of us. Lucy shared how writing feels like a journey through spaces which are portals for voices coming through her.


    - Why we must connect with our sensual body if we want to reclaim our feminine fire and Burning Woman. Before Burning Woman safes the world, she has to save herself, which means to recognise her subconscious desires so that the fire within becomes the fire without and a guiding light for the world!


    - How fear invites us to work with our energy wisely. Rather than denying or resisting it, we can transmute fear, meaning to express it and give a voice to what is ruling us and to what has never been expressed.


    - How by transmuting the energy of fear, we free the power within it. Fear, Lucy shared, is trapped energy turned against us and fear asks for inquiry, otherwise we back off and keep serving patriarchy.






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    The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com.


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    Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali

    Guest: Lucy H Pearce @lucyhpearce and @womencraft_publishing



    Credits:

    - Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.

    - Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here
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    1 h y 10 m
  • The wild and poetic anatomy of your calling - and how to navigate feeling confused.

    The wild and poetic anatomy of your calling - and how to navigate feeling confused.
    Oct 9 2024

    In this episode, we delve into the journey of discovering and nurturing our true calling. Together, we explore what it means to feel called, how to reconnect with that inner voice, and find our way back home — even when the path seems clouded by confusion and overwhelm.

    Have you ever found yourself in that uncertain space, wondering, “How the heck will I ever know what I’m meant to do?” When your heart yearns for something that feels just out of reach, it can create a tumultuous internal struggle. I share my own experiences from the past few weeks—navigating feelings of confusion and being pulled in multiple directions by a whirlwind of options and emotions.

    Through my reflections, I discuss how important it is to stay connected to our true calling and to listen to our bodies, which serve as vessels for our deeper knowing. I’ll guide you on how to cultivate this relationship and summon the courage to take the next steps, even when the path ahead feels unclear.



    In this conversation I share with you:


    - The power of resting on your back!

    - How to set your inner compass and what to align it with - what would your Soft Rebellion follow?

    - What the embryo has to do with finding your calling.

    - How to balance being and doing when navigating your path whilst feeling confused.




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    The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email ⁠softrebellion@flurinathali.com⁠.


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    Social media:


    Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: ⁠@flurina.thali⁠



    Credits:

    * Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by ⁠Aspyrian⁠: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track ⁠here⁠.

    * Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click ⁠here⁠
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    37 m
  • The witch' s path: Unleashing your magic through fairytale, folklore & ancient myth - Sarah Robinson

    The witch' s path: Unleashing your magic through fairytale, folklore & ancient myth - Sarah Robinson
    Oct 2 2024

    What does magic and witchcraft mean to you? And how much of it do you allow there to be in your life? The witch, an ancient archetype, is there in all of us, waiting to be awakened and its powers to be used wisely. The witch is the one who gets things done, magically, meaning in flow whilst she is harvesting the ocean of possibilities. And so did my today’s guest Sarah Robinson get a lot done being the author of a whole world of magical books! Together we explored why it is so powerful to invite fairytale, stories and the old ancient myth into our lives - as they help us to remember our true power and call out of us voices, ideas, visions and dreams which otherwise stay hidden.


    This conversation is for you if you are ready for a deep dive into how you can dive into the world of magic and witchcraft and how you can bring it into your daily life - and yoga practice!


    Sarah Robinson is a yoga teacher and author based in Bath, UK (once named after a goddess: the ancient Roman town of Aquae Sulis). Her background is in science; she holds an MSc Psychology & Neuroscience and has studied at Bath, Exeter and Harvard University. She loves weaving her love of all things mythic, magic and Goddess - and is passionate about creating work that inspires and transforms. Through yoga, meditation and ritual she aims to help everyone connect with their own unique magic and inner power.




    In this conversation we talked about:



    - Sarah’s so inspiring story and how she dared to move on in moments when “it wasn’t feeling magic”! And yes, this conversation is a wonderful powertalk and invitation for all of us to do the same, reclaim your magic, sisters!


    - What magic means to Sarah and how we can bring more of it into our lives. We talked about how to meet those stuck moments along our creative journeys and how to move through them. Sarah shared some amazing practices and tools with us!


    - Fairytale, folklore, ancient myths and goddesses. Fairytales speak to us in a very deep way, awakening older parts of our brain and reflect hidden voices. You will hear how connecting with the story of the goddess means to connect to ourselves, how she is a metaphor for possibility and nurtures us deeply.


    - How to approach yoga to connect with our special powers and inner magic!





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    The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com.


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    Social media:


    Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali

    Guest: Sarah Robinson: @yogaforwitches




    Credits:


    - Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.

    - Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here
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    55 m
  • The wild and poetic anatomy of your heart.

    The wild and poetic anatomy of your heart.
    Sep 25 2024

    Welcome to The Soft Rebellion Podcast, I am so happy that you are here.


    By the time your were only four weeks old floating in your mother’s womb your heart was there circulating blood to every cell and organ to become, your heart is still there 24 hours, 7 days a week, your whole earthy live. It is always with us and yet we so rarely attend to it, only noticing it when we’re out of breath or feeling uncomfortably nervous. Your heart is so much more than an organ, so much more than a pump ensuring the flow of blood in your body. Your heart is a gateway to your creative power! And this is why I dedicate this whole episode to the wild and poetic anatomy of your heart.


    By recording this podcast episode I am grounding myself in my sacred medicine, weaving together a decade of experience in dance, anatomy and osteopathy and I explore how the story of the embryo, the story of how your body came to be brings alive its wild and poetic anatomy - she who guides us home to the creative power of our female body.



    In this conversation I share with you:


    • Softly rebellious facts and insights about the anatomy of your heart - we explore the wings of your lungs, the dome of your diaphragms, the outpouring of great vessels and the pliability of your lungs.


    • How your heart developed and created itself during your time in your mother’s womb and what this story might have to teach you about the expression of your creative power.


    • How our heart helps us to reclaim space, movement and flow and what practices and questions you can engage with to attend to the story of your heart and let its wisdom flood your life.


    Receive my free online workshop: A guided journey to explore and reclaim your soft rebellion - access it ⁠here⁠.

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    The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email ⁠softrebellion@flurinathali.com⁠.


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    Social media:


    Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: ⁠@flurina.thali⁠



    Credits:

    • Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by ⁠Aspyrian⁠: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track ⁠here⁠.
    • Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click ⁠here⁠
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    1 h y 1 m
  • How fear is calling you home to your true power - with Lisa Lister.

    How fear is calling you home to your true power - with Lisa Lister.
    Sep 18 2024

    Do you sometimes (or often) find yourself wondering how to tap into your own magic and how to bring it into physical creation? And do you ask yourself how the h* to tackle all the fears and self-doubts trying to throw you off along the way? I know all these questions so well and I feel so grateful to have had the opportunity to let the one and only Lisa Lister share her wisdom about it.


    In this conversation you will learn that in order to do more you have to BE more of who we are. All magic starts with your body. To source from yourself is an expression of pure self-love which is nothing else than a deep and delicious relationship to your own body.


    Today's guest Lisa Lister, spent a `hot minute` developing exactly that, coming home into her body, sensing and feeling through all its tastes, colour and rhythms of the experiences and events life offered her. And the result, well, start reading her books … this woman is pure awesomeness indeed!

    The Cooler magazine crowned Lisa ‘the defender of female awesomeness’ , Lisa is a bestselling author, visionary artist + women’s wellness practitioner. She offers support, space, remembrance, spiritual guidance, astrological insight, cyclic maps and counsel to women who are exploring, navigating and wanting to heal their relationship with their body, power, sex, creativity, pleasure and passion.


    Lisa took the decision to dedicate her life to create art to help other women to reclaim their power. And in this conversation she shares with us her journey and what process she committed to be able to shine her unique magic into the world today. We also talked about the fear she met and you might meet along the way and how to reclaim the power within.



    In this conversation we explore:


    • How our bodies are the vessel to uncover our unique magic within and to share it with the world. Lisa shares practices and routines which emerged from her personal story and shares so many lush inputs and insights to lean into the wisdom of your body right now! Warning: This episode is very infectious!


    • How to meet fear and comparison and how those experiences really are calling us home to our true power and can be gateways to remember that we always have a choice - it is just not always comfortable - and to take decisions which are aligned with our calling.


    • That we are all creatrixes and being creative is our birth right, Lisa talks about the power of sharing our lived experience, pure, raw and humble, and how if we all do this we strengthen the collective voice of the sacred feminine in the world.



    Receive my free mini course: From body shame and disconnect to joy and into the fullness of your creative power, gain access here.

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    The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com.


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    Social media:


    • Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali
    • Guest: @sassylisalister



    Credits:

    • Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.
    • Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here
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    58 m
  • How to step into the responsibility of your own healing - with Amy Wilding.

    How to step into the responsibility of your own healing - with Amy Wilding.
    Sep 11 2024
    Do you know these moments in life when you struggle to meet your own needs, your whole being feels out of alignment as if there is a mismatch between body, mind and spirit and you are trying (maybe too hard) to weave those gaps back together? I feel honoured to have had Amy Wilding on the podcast and together we leaned into such an intimate, raw and pure conversation. We explored what healing means for both of us and Amy shared the steps she had to take on her own path stepping into the responsibility for healing her body - the recurrent realisation that she can't longer abandon herself. There is so much Soft Rebellion energy in Amy's story, who wild and wisely came to a point in her life where she stopped purely relying on other medial professionals and started to do her own research - a process which allowed pain to be a doorway to clearly feel what the next step is and emerge into the strength of her body. Yes now is the moment to develop love and care for our future self, she needs us and is awaiting for us. The Soft Rebellion is she who decides to no longer abandon herself and this decision marks the beginning of her journey to heal herself. I hope you will enjoy this conversation as much as I did and reclaim your own Soft Rebellion as you step into the responsibility for your own healing. Amy Wilding is a queer and inclusive feminist, author, educator, advocate, and international speaker. A National Board Certified Integrative Women's Health Coach, she has been leading sacred women’s circles, mother-daughter circles, and rite-of-passage ceremonies for well over a decade. With a deep passion for empowering women by helping them to reclaim their inherent sovereignty and wisdom, Amy has answered the call to service through circle and retreat leadership, workshops, one-on-one mentoring and coaching, conference presentations, guest facilitation, podcasts, interviews, and women's circle leadership training. Amy's first book, Wild & Wise: Sacred Feminine Meditations for Women's Circles & Personal Awakening, was published in 2017, and her next book is in the works. In this conversation we talked about: Why we are responsible for healing ourselves and have to take responsibility to become our own inner mother! We explored what healing means to Amy, namely the journey of accepting what is out of alignment and let your body guide you to your next steps.How to meet resistance towards our own bodies and how this resistance is where the gift lies. Amy shared about her history of autoimmune disease and what she did to facilitate change in the state of her health and life.The initiatory phases of motherhood and peri-menopause and how both require a new approach to address the reality of our bodies.Amy's journey to become an advocate for sacred feminine, why she set up the red ent in Louisville and why we are all yearning for sisterhood, meet in circles and share the information and knowledge patriarch holds away from us. Receive my free online workshop: A guided journey to explore and reclaim your soft rebellion - www.flurinathali.com/ --- The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com. --- Find out more about Amy's work by visiting Red Tent Louisville. Social media: Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali Guest: Amy Wilding @amywildingofficial or @redtentlouisville Credits: Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here. Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here
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  • Time for a big bleed! Why we need rest to tap into our creative power with host Flurina.

    Time for a big bleed! Why we need rest to tap into our creative power with host Flurina.
    Sep 4 2024

    Welcome to The Soft Rebellion Podcast, I am so happy that you are here.


    This podcast is my expression of yearning to come home to the creative power of my female body and I am so excited to share my lived experience with you and invite you to join this movement. And in todays episode I share with you how, oh Sister, I have been on an adventure called "doing nothing and harvest it all" - yes, a big break, a big bleed was calling me home, it was so bloody hard and so fantastic!


    This solo episode is about the power of rest and darkness and how we need to be in our dark spaces to meet our true power!


    Our bodies are cyclical, each month we experience an expansive phase and a phase of retrieving back home, an inhale phase and an exhale phase. I dismissed the second half of my cycle for many years, neglecting all desires to rest, to take a break and harvest its gifts. I kept doing, running, always chasing - and joined our common tendency of being what I call an inhale society! I still was quite successful but not very fulfilled, and the more I wondered how can I be successful and fulfilled, the more rest and breaks were calling me home … and I feel to share with you today an experience which for me is the answer to this question. I did my first big bleed and I would love to share with you the gifts I harvest in that time. And also the challenges I met.




    In this conversation I share with you:


    • About my first BIG BLEED experience, the gifts I harvested and the challenges I met along the way.
    • Why it is crucial to emergence into our rest as we softly rebelliously reclaim the creative power of our female body and how monthly big bleeds can be the doorways to live a successful AND fulfilled life!
    • About the power of meeting the darkness of our womb and how the time of menstruation can the time where you are the closest to your body and your inner wisdom and intuition!



    Resources I mentioned:

    • Book: Wild Power by Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer
    • Podcast episode from The Menstruality podcast about big bleed, episode number



    Receive my free online workshop: A guided journey to explore and reclaim your soft rebellion - access it ⁠here⁠.

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    The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email ⁠softrebellion@flurinathali.com⁠.


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    Social media:


    Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: ⁠@flurina.thali⁠



    Credits:

    • Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by ⁠Aspyrian⁠: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track ⁠here⁠.
    • Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click ⁠here⁠
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    47 m
  • How your body can guide you to live your calling - with Sophie-Jane Hardy.

    How your body can guide you to live your calling - with Sophie-Jane Hardy.
    Aug 28 2024

    Are you still curiously wondering what this Soft Rebellion is all about? Well, there are as many definitions of the Soft Rebellion as there are women softly rebelling; the key to the Soft Rebellion is that it looks unique for each of us and the closer we are to our instinctual knowing the closer we are to our Soft Rebellion. The Soft Rebellion is she who gives herself permission to be her weird and unique self, it is the beginning of a magic journey and movement, for me, for you and for this podcast.


    I am excited to be joined today by the woman who also mid-wifed the birth of The Soft Rebellion podcast and together we started weaving a web of exploring what the Soft Rebellion means to us and how it often emerges through our so challenging and painful stories which really are an invitation to lean into our calling and dreams.


    Sophie-Jane Hardy is a nature and cycle-inspired business coach, writer and podcast host. Her happy place is walking along the Rivelin river in Sheffield, UK where she lives with her husband, son, and Frodo the dog. Her work has evolved over 15 years in the fields of not-for-profit communications, documentary filmmaking, women's leadership and environmental activism. She is the host of the Red School Menstruality Podcast and the creator of the Your Cyclical Business online programme helping purpose-led creatives and changemaker to channel the wisdom of their menstrual cycles to create thriving businesses.




    In this conversation we explore:


    • The magic birth of The Soft Rebellion Podcast, what the soft rebellion means for Sophie and Flurina and where this movement might take us and what it invites us to emerge into.
    • Sophie's journey and how her body has guided her to emergence into the feminine and to live her calling as a soft rebellion. For Sophie menstrual cycle awareness is the key practice to embody her expression of the soft rebellion on a daily base and she shares with us what that means and how that might look like.
    • Sophie's work as a cyclical business coach and consultant and how our menstrual cycles can be the incredible life coach and guide - our own tailor-made personal guide - and also be our best business coach, if it is purpose-led and a vehicle for our soul work!




    Receive my free online workshop: A guided journey to explore and reclaim your soft rebellion - HERE.

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    The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com.


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    Social media:


    Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali

    Sophie-Jane: @sophie.jane.hardy


    More information about Sophie`s work: www.sophiejanehardy.com


    Credits:

    • Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.
    • Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here
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    1 h y 4 m