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Belonging to the Wild
by Dr. Vanya Leilani
Conversations and reflections that help us remember and move into wildness~within and without. To be wild is to know what you are and to live from that knowing without shame. It is to remember that humans are nature too, that the wildness of nature is not only out there in pristine forests and secretive deserts, it is also right here in our unruly hearts, intricate minds, animal bodies, and in the vastness of the imagination. Here, we ask questions, tell stories, share knowledge, and wonder together about ways to belong ourselves back to the wild. www.drvanyaleilani.com
Episodes
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Ep. 32: Spiritual Sovereignty & the Ground of the Soul with Dr. Mackenzie Amara
I am thrilled to have Dr. Mackenzie Amara back on Belonging to the Wild! In this conversation, we talk about spiritual sovereignty, spiritual violence, and the embodied difference between knowing and certainty. We also talk about some of the experiences we might encounter as we step into more...
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Ep. 31: "The Whole World is Praying for Love" with Perdita Finn
“Life prays for life – and life grows from desire and love. The whole world is praying for love.” These are words from Perdita Finn’s beautiful new book, Mothers of Magic. In this episode, Perdita Finn shares with us her expansive views on the many mothers. She talks about mother “not as an...
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Ep. 30: Myth as a Living Practice with Maria Souza
What does it mean to experience myth as a living practice? In this episode, mythologist Maria Souza and I explore this question. Maria shares her profound wisdom and insight around the power of old stories to bring depth and meaning into our everyday lives. In our conversation we explore myth as:...
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Ep. 29: Practicing Archetypal Polytheism
What is archetypal polytheism and what does it mean in daily life? In this solo episode, I continue this series on cultivating a mythic sensibility and engaging the mythic imagination in everyday life. Topics I talk about in this episode include: What are archetypes?/archetypal theory Our…
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Ep. 28: Weaving the Worlds Together
In this solo episode, I elaborate and deepen into what it means to live with a mythic sensibility and to weave the worlds of the mundane and the mythic as we live our daily lives. I also talk about: The primacy of the wild imagination Exploring the invisible world from different perspectives...
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Ep. 27: Cultivating a Mythic Sensibility with Dr. Thomas Moore
What does it mean to live with a mythic sensibility? We are starting the new season of Belonging to the Wild with another wonderful conversation with Dr Thomas Moore. In this conversation, we explore what it means to live with a mythic sensibility. Our conversation includes themes like: · what it...
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Ep. 26: Cultivating a Secure Existential Attachment with Mackenzie Amara
In this episode, Mackenzie Amara and I explore the idea of cultivating a secure existential attachment. We talk about what that means and explore what it feels like to have a secure attachment to source, life, or existence itself. In this fascinating conversation, we also explore themes of love…
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Ep: 25: The Long Story of Our Souls & Calling on the Dead with Perdita Finn
In this conversation, Perdita Finn and I talk about the generosity of the long stories of our souls, explore what it means to have meaningful relationship with the dead, and circle around deep questions of belonging and connection. Acknowledging that our species often feels lonely, bereft, and...
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Ep. 24: Finding Inner Permission with Amy Wilding
In this episode, Amy Wilding joins me in this wonderful conversation about finding inner permission, cultivating body sovereignty, and decolonizing our inner landscapes as we walk into more fullness and freedom. Amy shares about how her body led her into a powerful awakening of her wise and wild...
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Ep. 23: Eros, Creative Transgression, & Imaginal Theology with Dr. Thomas Moore
In this conversation, Dr. Thomas Moore and I explore the experience of creative transgression and the relationship between Eros and transgression. Deeply grounded in the archetypal sensibility and perspective, we discuss the role of obedience and disobedience in the soulful life and the…
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Ep. 22: The Mythic Quest to Find Your Heart with Ben Katt
In this conversation, Ben tells us the story of realizing that at some point his heart had snuck out the back door. In that moment he heard these powerful words: “if you don’t have your heart you have nothing.” He tells us about how this experience launched him into a mythic quest to find his…
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Ep. 21: The Revolution of Lying Down with Molly Remer
In this conversation, I am joined by the wonderful Molly Remer, MSW, D.Min. We discuss the dance between effort and ease that our days bring. We explore what she calls, “the revolution of lying down” and the importance of recognizing when we are on the edge of too-muchness. We talk about honoring...
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Ep. 20: Following the Ways of Water with Erin Chalfant
In this conversation, Erin and I explore what it means to follow the ways of water. She shares the significance of her lifelong relationship with water, and we talk about how water remembers where we come from and where we belong. We also talk about desire as a key to our belonging and the power…
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Ep. 19: Bluebeard and the Power of Disobedience
In this episode, I tell the story of Bluebeard and explore this archetypal figure. Bluebeard exposes the nuances of a kind of archetypal experience where we may be charmed into believing that what keeps us too small is beautiful, and that what offers us favor is also keeping us safe when in fact,...
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Ep. 18: Creativity as Sacred, Spiritual, & Magical Act with Lucy H. Pearce
In this episode, Lucy H. Pearce shares her thoughts, experiences, and deep wisdom with us as we explore creativity and the creative life. We talk about the threshold where the urgent creative force meets daily life, and the treasures and tensions we might meet there. Our conversation includes...
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Ep. 17: The Kore Goddess with Dr. Safron Rossi
In this episode, I talk with Dr. Safron Rossi about the Kore Goddess, an archetypal pattern that is deeply linked with sovereignty, self-belonging, and psychological integrity. The Kore has to do with our ability to know where we stand, to be grounded in our deep essential nature, and to be in...
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Ep. 16: Five Aspects of Belonging
As we begin the next season of the podcast, I explore five significant aspects of archetypal belonging: the complexity of belonging, false belonging, sacred un-belonging, self-belonging, and wild belonging. These are five faces of belonging that we will encounter as we dance with this archetypal...
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Ep. 15: Reflections on the Winter Solstice and the Holidays with Kaitlyn Wildare
In this episode, Kaitlyn Wildare returns to the podcast for a conversation about Winter Solstice and the Holidays. We explore the meaning of Winter Solstice, especially in the midst of all the holiday festivities. We ask the question: Does the Winter Solstice offer us another way to move through...
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"Is the Way We Are Living Making Us Sick?" with Dr Vaughan Wilkins
In this episode, I am joined by ecopsychologist Dr Vaughan Wilkins and we ask this very important question: Is the way we are living making us sick? We explore what Dr Wilkins calls “enculturated captivity” and the invisible bars that may be holding us captive to a way of living that causes...
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Sexuality, Spirituality, and Self-Belonging with Cherie Katt
In this episode, I am joined by Cherie Katt, a licensed mental health counselor and a certified sex therapist. We discuss the connection and kinship between our spiritual selves and our sexual selves. Exploring the personal and collective stories that serve to sever our sense of connection…
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Ep. 12: Finding Spiritual Home After Deconstruction with Dr. Lacy Clark Ellman
In this episode of Belonging to the Wild, Dr. Ellman and I explore the question of finding a new spiritual home after loss of spiritual home and identity, or what some refer to as deconstruction. Is it possible to find a home by another way? Her research focuses on this question. By exploring the...
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Ep. 11: Ritual Making with Heather Stringer
In this episode of Belonging to the Wild, I am joined by artist, therapist, and ritual maker Heather Stringer. We discuss what makes something a ritual, different kinds of rituals, the importance of the body and the senses in ritual making, and the gift of being witnessed by loving community. We...
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Ep. 10: Wild Belonging and the Ugly Duckling
What does it mean to belong to the wild? What does our exile and our sacred unbelonging have to do with our self-belonging? How to we face the loss that comes with moving out of false and old belonging into wild belonging? These are some of the questions I explore in this episode. Wandering…
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Ep. 9: The Myths Living Through Us; Patriarchal Consciousness Part Two with Kaitlyn Turner
In this episode, Kaitlyn Turner and I sit down to continue our conversation on patriarchal consciousness. We explore questions like: Are there other ways besides the patriarchal way? When and how did the shift to patriarchal consciousness happens, and what are some of the reasons? What was cast...
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Episode 8: Belonging to Ourselves First with Dr. Christy Bauman
In this conversation, Dr. Christy Bauman (she/her) and I continue the series on leaving the obedient life. Christy talks about different palettes of shoulds in her life, as well as the call she feels now to disobey the systems and narratives that constrict our freedom to exist fully. Christy...
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Episode 7: The Power of Naming Yourself with Jaye C Watts
In this episode, Jaye C. Watts joins me as we continue to explore experiences around leaving the obedient life. Jaye shares their experiences with the shoulds and how they were enforced, particularly around gender expectations and constrictive educational systems. In our conversation, Jaye...
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Episode 6: On Being Good, Returning to Our Bodies, and Finding Our "Inner Yes" with Jenny Wade
In this episode we continue our series on leaving the obedient life with therapist and yoga instructor Jenny Wade. In this conversation, Jenny shares with us that the greatest should in her life has been the mandate to be a “good girl.” She describes how being a “good girl” for her meant being as...
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Episode 5: My Experiences Moving Beyond the Bounds of Obedience, i.e., My Greatest Transgressions
We are beginning a short series on leaving the obedient life. For the next few episodes, my co-hosts and I will be exploring questions about what our shoulds have been, what it looked like for us to step across, or transgress, those well-worn paths into our own wildness, and what living from our...
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Episode 4: What Are We Even Talking About When We Talk About Patriarchy?
In this episode Vanya is joined by Kaitlyn Turner who helps guide the conversation with questions around the tired word, patriarchy. We discuss how patriarchal consciousness is embedded within the Western world and how this system of “power over” exists within our day to day lives. We ask the...
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Episode 3: Five Elements of a Life Lived from Your Own Knowing
In this episode, Vanya offers us 5 elements of the knowing life. She talks about learning how to live into our questions and be faithful to them rather than to the prescribed answers we’ve been given. She also discusses the powerful magic of curiosity, the work of transformation as the work of...
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Episode 2: Toward Wildness and Sovereignty
In this episode, author, poet, and activist Natalie Bryant joins Vanya for an in-depth conversation on leaving the obedient life and moving toward wildness and sovereignty. We discuss the unwritten contracts— the shoulds and external expectations —that we were devoted to when we met in our late...
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Episode 1: The Seeds Buried in Our Lives
This episode is about seeds. It is about what has been buried in our lives and what awakening right now. Seeds are a humble magic. Inside their tiny walls they hold the potentialities for a whole life. Seeds show us a burial that is for preservation and safe keeping until the time is right, until...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Conversations and reflections that help us remember and move into wildness~within and without. To be wild is to know what you are and to live from that knowing without shame. It is to remember that humans are nature too, that the wildness of nature is not only out there in pristine forests and secretive deserts, it is also right here in our unruly hearts, intricate minds, animal bodies, and in the vastness of the imagination. Here, we ask questions, tell stories, share knowledge, and wonder together about ways to belong ourselves back to the wild. www.drvanyaleilani.com
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Dr. Vanya Leilani
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Conversations and reflections that help us remember and move into wildness~within and without. To be wild is to know what you are and to live from that knowing without shame. It is to remember that humans are nature too, that the wildness of nature is not only out there in pristine forests and...
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