#160 Thinking about how the pandemic has changed me

02/24/23 • 30 min

It's been about three years since shit hit the fan, can you believe it? I wanted to record this little reflection waffle to mark this milestone - tune in to hear me chat about how the pandemic has changed my relationship to home, work, creativity, landscape and people.

Here is the Finding Movement podcast I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/finding-movement-podcast/

Here is the Finding Movement podcast I mentioned: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/finding-movement-podcast/

Previous Episode

#159 Exploring queer spirituality with Joelle of Butch Yoga

This conversation was the first interview I did in a while and it was such a beautiful way to drop back into conversation! I spoke to the wonderful fellow Venus in Scorpio Joelle of Butch Yoga. Their practice and way of being in the world is so joyous, I really hope you'll love listening as much as I did. Here is some of what we talked about:

Sitting with big spiritual questions
Not finding a home in mainstream yoga spaces
Embodying butch identities beyond stereotypes
Integrating spiritual practices into our lives

Joelle is a non-binary butch lesbian who is really into queering spirituality. Joelle started practicing meditation and yoga in 2007. Then in 2009, they completed an Master of Arts in Cognitive Studies with a focus on Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, and Neuroscience. That means before Joelle was on a yoga mat, they were in lecture halls studying the mind, but their professors didn’t teach how to work with the mind to find happiness—and then Joelle found in most yoga classes they teach practices to work with the mind and body, but don’t usually go in depth with the concepts! And it’s been rare for Joelle to find queer yoga spaces, and even rarer to find other butches in those spaces—so Joelle created Butch Yoga as a space for butches and gender non-conforming friends to study and practice spirituality together.

More about Joelle: Joelle is a white Latinx Jewish person who has been living on Mayan land in Guatemala for 7 years with their 3 cats 😻😻😻 https://www.instagram.com/butchyoga/

Next Episode

#161 A new chapter for my Patreon

Hi sweet listeners,

I hope this finds you well and possibly still tucked into bed on a warm sunny morning.

I have some updates on my Patreon - it's been alive and supporting me for five years now and it felt like it needed some re-energizing. I'm eternally grateful for your support and the little chunk of reliable monthly income really makes all the difference in being able to keep my podcasts going and offering accessible spaces on Zoom to creative folks.

So, for this new chapter I have created a living archive of movement, ritual and creativity practices that you can access as a Patreon and I am also offering new moon creative space sessions again alongside intention setting sessions on every first Sunday of the month. Please consider joining us <3

https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/

Thank you!