The Vital Goddess

In this episode of the Vital Goddess Podcast, I invite you into a gentle return to your body…especially in this season of midlife, where many women begin to feel a  disconnection from sensation, desire, and their own inner rhythm.Inspired by a recent Creatrix / Great Mother salon inside the Vital Goddess Temple, this episode explores how the body opens through safety, nourishment, and relationship.You’ll also be guided through a simple, returnable practice I call The Navel Flower—a soft, embodied way to reconnect with your body through breath, touch, and awareness.✧ Inside this episode: Why midlife is not a decline—but a powerful invitation into deeper embodiment  The “spell” that disconnects women from desire, identity, and their bodies  How the body becomes something we manage… instead of something we live in  The navel as a bridge between sensuality (lower belly) and identity (solar plexus)  Why the way back is not through force—but through relationship  A short, gentle breathwork practice to begin reconnecting with your body ✧ The Navel Flower Practice A Gentle Breath Meditation for Returning to YourselfDownload the full practice here.You can return to this practice anytime… you’re craving a deeper relationship with your body.✧ Go deeperIf this work resonates, this is the kind of space we open inside the Vital Goddess Temple—where your relationship with your body is nurtured gently and consistently over time.✨ Book an Aligned Embodiment Call here.

If you’ve been feeling disconnected from your body… if desire feels distant, or even confusing… you’re not alone—and nothing is wrong with you.In this season of life, many women experience a shifting of desire… not because it’s gone, but because it’s asking to be met in a new way.In this Scorpio Full Moon ritual, we explore how desire gently reawakens— through safety… nourishment… and a deeper relationship with your body.This isn’t about pressure or performance. It’s about sustainable passion… and learning to listen to the subtle language of your sensual energy again.Under the Scorpio Full Moon—especially one that coincides with the Flower Moon and Beltane—we’re invited into a more intimate relationship with desire, pleasure, and the life force moving through our bodies.In this episode, we explore a different way of relating to passion…Not as something fleeting or intensity-driven, but as something that can be cultivated, nourished, and sustained.Because the truth is…The body doesn’t open through intensity. She opens through nourishment.🌕 In This Episode, We Explore: The deeper meaning of the Scorpio–Taurus axis → awakening desire vs. learning how to hold it  Why passion often feels like a cycle of peak + crash → and how to shift into sustainable, embodied pleasure  The missing piece in modern sexuality: → capacity to receive and hold pleasure A grounded, demystified approach to sex magic → beyond performance, ritual, or peak experiences  Why “sex magic” is not something you do… → but a way of being in relationship with life force The importance of daily cultivation → how small, consistent moments create lasting transformation  The connection between sensuality, sexuality, and the Earth → remembering the body as part of nature’s cycles  Why peak experiences (pilgrimages, lovers, rituals) don’t “stick” → and how to actually integrate and embody them🌸 A New Way of Relating to PassionInstead of chasing intensity…This episode invites you into: Slowness  Presence  Sensory awareness  Nervous system safety  A deepening relationship with your body 🌿 Key Reflections “Scorpio awakens desire… Taurus teaches us how to hold it.”  “The body was never designed to live in constant intensity.”  “Sex magic isn’t an event… it’s a way of being.”  “It’s not about accessing higher states… it’s about becoming a body that can hold them.”  “This isn’t something you have to learn… it’s something your body already knows.” 🌺 In Part 2…We’ll explore a simple, embodied yoni breathing ritual you can return to again and again…A practice that supports you in: cultivating pleasure as a lifestyle  building your capacity to receive  and deepening your relationship with your body Download your Yoni Breathing ritual here.🌹 InvitationIf this episode resonates…And if you feel called to go deeper… this is the kind of work we explore inside the Vital Goddess Mastery Temple— where you’re supported in building this relationship with your body, gently and consistently, over time.If you feel the pull… you’re warmly invi

There are moments in life when something begins to stir… A sense that… there’s more.More of you that wants to come out and play.More joy… waiting to be lived.This Aries New Moon, conjunct Chiron, opens a powerful doorway into that remembering.Not a call to fix yourself...or an invitation to endlessly revisit the past.But an awakening…a remembering...a calling back to the part of you that was never lost.In this episode, we explore the identity wound — not as something broken, but as a place where you may have left yourself in order to stay safe, loved, or connected.We name the “spell” many of us have lived under… and begin to dissolve it — not through force, but through awareness, breath, and embodiment.This is a path of remembrance and reclamation.🌍 A Collective MomentSince Chiron entered Aries in 2018, we’ve been in a powerful collective cycle of identity healing.You may have felt this as: old triggers resurfacing  deeper emotional awareness  a pull toward somatic work, breathwork, and embodiment  a desire to live more truthfully and fully This New Moon offers a sense of another opening…Not because we need to go back and dig… we’ve already done so much of that.We’ve seen it.We’ve felt it.🌬️ In This Episode, You’ll Experience: A reframe of the identity wound as a place of self-abandonment (and return)  The “spell” of conditioning around who it’s safe to be  Why your body — especially your breath — holds this pattern  The connection between the solar plexus, diaphragm, and vitality  The link between breath, sexual energy, and aliveness  Why midlife can amplify this healing (and why that’s a good thing)  A short, guided breath practice to reconnect to your body🔥 Breath, Pleasure & Life ForceYour solar plexus is also deeply connected to your sexual energy — your eros, your aliveness.Drawing from tantric teachings…we explore how holding in the solar plexus can restrict not just breath, but the natural flow of pleasure, expression, and vitality through the body.Reclaiming your identity…is also about freeing your breath and life force.🌹 Go Deeper: 15-Minute Breath & Sound RitualIf you’d like to dive deeper into this theme …I’ve created a 15-minute guided breath and sound journey to support you in softening the solar plexus, freeing the breath, and reconnecting to your life force.This is the exact practice I return to in my own life.Download your free guided breath journey here.And if you feel called to step into this work more deeply… you’re warmly invited to stay connected with me beyond the podcast. When you step into my world… you’ll be gently guided on a two-week journey back home to your body… a soft initiation into your own radiance, your sensuality, and your truth. It’s not just an email list… it’s an experience you can actually feel. I’d love to have you there. You can take that next step right here.

There is a way of opening…A way of softening… that begins not in the mind… but in the body.In this episode, we explore The Anointed Heart— a sensual, ancient pathway into presence through scent, breath, and felt experience.Because scent doesn’t ask you to think… it invites you to feel.And when paired with breath… something beautiful begins to happen.The nervous system softens. The body remembers how to receive. And the heart… opens naturally, from within.🌿 In this episode, we explore: Why scent is one of the most direct pathways into the body and emotional field  How aroma interacts with the limbic system to bypass the thinking mind  The difference between performance-based breathwork and sensual, receptive breathing How scent creates safety in the nervous system and deepens the breath  Five heart-opening essential oils The ancient use of aromatic oils in ritual, healing, and embodiment  Why pleasure is the portal—and how to return to the body through sensation 🌬️ Experience the PracticeThis episode includes a guided ritual— a simple, powerful practice to awaken pleasure, soften the body, and reconnect with your heart through breath and scent.Return to it often… even a few breaths can shift your state.🌹 Receive the Companion GuideI created a beautiful companion for you…The Anointed Heart — a sensual guide to working with scent, breath, and the body.Inside you’ll find: Five heart-opening essential oils  A simple ritual to deepen your practice  Guidance on choosing high-quality, ethically sourced oils ✨ You can receive it here🌊 A gentle noteI’ll be taking a little space next week… heading to one of my favorite little surf beach towns with my husband… to rest… to connect… to breathe with the ocean… and refill the well.I’ll be back on April 17th with a new episode for the Aries New Moon. 🌑 The heart does not open through force.It opens through safety. Through softness. Through presence.And sometimes… all it takes…is a breath… a scent… and a moment of truly being with yourself.🌹🎧 Listen, Share + SubscribeIf you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the podcast and share it with a woman who might need this reminder.Because when women come home to their bodies…everything changes. And if you feel called to step into this work more deeply… you’re warmly invited to stay connected with me beyond the podcast. When you step into my world… you’ll be gently guided on a two-week journey back home to your body… a soft initiation into your own radiance, your sensuality, and your truth. It’s not just an email list… it’s an experience you can actually feel. I’d love to have you there. You can take that next step right here.

A Libra Full Moon transmission on beauty, safety, and tuning into the frequency of Radio Venus…What if beauty isn’t something you achieve… but something you feel?In this deeply nourishing Full Moon in Libra episode, I invite you into a new understanding of beauty—one that lives not in appearance or perfection, but in the body’s capacity to soften, receive, and feel safe.We explore how many women have been living under a subtle but powerful cultural conditioning—which I  call “the spell of the patriarchy”—that pulls us out of our bodies and into performance.And how the true pathway back to radiance… is not more effort… but nourishment, kindness, and embodied presence.With the influence of Cancer in a dynamic Jupiter square, this lunation illuminates where we may be overextending, undernourished, or disconnected from our own needs—and gently calls us home.✨ At the heart of this episode is a guided Radio Venus Meditation—a sensual, calming journey designed to help you “tune in” to the frequency of your natural beauty and inner radiance.This is more than a conversation… it’s a ritual of remembrance.🌕 In This Episode, We Explore:The deeper meaning of the Full Moon in Libra and beauty as a felt experienceHow “the spell of the patriarchy” disconnects us from our natural radianceWhy safety and nourishment (Cancer energy) are essential for feeling beautifulThe impact of Jupiter: where you may be overgiving or overextendingSensuality as the bridge back to presence, softness, and receptivityWhat it means to “tune into Radio Venus” and come back online in your bodyA guided 11-minute Venusian meditation to anchor these teachings📡 Quote from the Episode“You don’t need to become more beautiful… you need to feel safe enough to experience the beauty that’s already here.”🌹 Your Full Moon InvitationUnder this Libra Full Moon, consider:Where am I still performing… instead of receiving?Where might my body be asking for more nourishment, softness, or care?What would it feel like to let beauty be something I experience… rather than something I strive for?🎧 Listen, Share + SubscribeIf you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the podcast and share it with a woman who might need this reminder.Because when women come home to their bodies…everything changes. 🌹And if you feel called to step into this work more deeply… you’re warmly invited to stay connected with me beyond the podcast. When you step into my world… you’ll be gently guided on a two-week journey back home to your body… a soft initiation into your own radiance, your sensuality, and your truth. It’s not just an email list… it’s an experience you can actually feel. I’d love to have you there. You can take that next step right here.

Midlife is often the moment when a woman stops living the life she was taught to perform… and begins walking the path her soul came here to embody.If you’ve found yourself wondering:What is happening to me? Why doesn’t my life fit the way it used to? Why do I feel both empty… and like I’m just getting started?This one's  for you.In this episode, I introduce what I call the Venusian Revolution — a return to the body, where truth lives, pleasure flows, and love leads.And I share the Venus Rose Path, a five-gateway journey of feminine awakening that unfolds not through striving… but through embodiment.This is not about becoming someone new.It’s about remembering who you are.Our culture teaches the masculine path of ascension:Climb higher. Do more. Push through.But the feminine path moves differently.She doesn’t rise by escaping the body.She rises by rooting into it.The Map & The ToolsOver the years, I’ve come to see this work as having two parts:🌹 The Venus Rose Path — the map of feminine awakening🌹 Breath, movement, sound & pleasure — the tools that help us walk itThese are the languages of the body.And through them, the body begins to soften, open, and remember.The Five Gateways of the Venus RoseEach gateway represents a phase of awakening that unfolds petal by petal:🌹 Aphrodite — Awakening Pleasure as the body’s “yes” to life🌹 Sacred Masculine — Devotion From discipline to loving presence🌹 Dark Goddess — Truth Instinct, desire, and radical honesty🌹 Great Mother — Nourishment & Creativity Creating from source, not force🌹 Sacred Courtesan — Sovereignty Nothing to prove. Nothing to perform. Everything lived.As you listen, notice:Which gateway feels most alive in you right now?And which petal of the rose is asking to open next?Why Pleasure MattersPleasure is not indulgence.Pleasure is essential.It’s one of the ways the body communicates:→ what is nourishing → what feels true → what is safe enough to openPleasure awakens the body’s intelligence… and reconnects us with our life force.A Return to LoveAt the center of the rose… is love.Love for your body.Love for your truth.Love for the life that is uniquely yours.In this episode, I guide you through a Venus Rose meditation… so you can experience this love, fully embodied.The feminine path is not linear.It unfolds in cycles… in spirals… in breath…Petal by petal.Let's dive in.Dive deeper:If this episode stirred something within you, I invite you to explore this work on a deeper level.Vital Goddess Mastery may be the space you’ve been searching for.It’s where we gather to explore the Venusian Arts — to breathe, to move, and to reclaim the sacred intelligence of the body… and the power of our sensuality.If you feel the call, you’re warmly invited to book a conversation with me and explore whether this is your season to step inside the Temple.You can book your call here.* Music credit: DJ Taz Rashid

The dream of this moment isn’t just asking to be imagined.It’s asking to be embodied.We are living through extraordinary times.The tides are shifting. Old structures are loosening their grip. And many women are feeling a quiet but powerful call to reconnect with the wisdom of their bodies.In this episode, we explore the magic of the Pisces New Moon and the powerful cosmic moment unfolding as we move toward the Aries Equinox and the meeting of Neptune and Saturn — the dreamer and the builder.Pisces invites us into the oceanic realm of imagination, intuition, and possibility.But imagination alone is not enough.As astrologer Caroline W. Casey beautifully says:“Imagination lays the tracks for the reality train.”The question becomes…How do we bring those dreams into reality?In this episode we explore how the body becomes the bridge between vision and manifestation.We dive into the ancient concept of Kronos and Kairos, the difference between linear time and sacred timing, and why many of life’s deepest breakthroughs happen not through thinking harder — but through shifting into a new state of being.Because when we let the body lead…love leads the way.This episode also includes a gentle Ocean Breath embodiment ritual to help you soften into the wisdom of your body and listen for the dreams that may be ready to move through you.As we cross this Pisces portal and move toward the Equinox, you are invited to reflect on a powerful question:What dream is asking to live through your body now?In this episode we explore:• The spiritual wisdom of the Pisces New Moon • Imagination as the first step of creation • The meeting of Neptune and Saturn: dream meets devotion • Kronos vs Kairos — linear time vs sacred timing • Why the body opens new pathways of insight • The collective awakening of feminine embodiment • A guided Ocean Breath ritualIf this episode resonates with you, I invite you to explore more embodiment practices inside Vital Goddess Mastery, where we gather to breathe, move, and reclaim the sacred intelligence of the body.Because when women come home to their bodies… everything changes. 💗If you feel the call, you’re warmly invited to book a conversation with me to explore whether this might be your season to step inside the Temple.You can book your call here.* Music credit: DJ Taz RashidLearn more here

There is so much cultural conversation about pleasure.How to create more of it.How to perform it.How to optimize it.But very little about how to listen for it.In this episode, we explore a quieter, more powerful truth:Pleasure is not something you manufacture. It is something you allow. And something you gently cultivate through presence.Dianne guides you into a new understanding of pleasure as sacred biology — not indulgence, not performance — but information.We explore:The difference between a mental “yes” and a somatic “yes”Why safety — not intensity — is the true doorway to alivenessThe role of dopamine, oxytocin, opioid receptors, and the endocannabinoid system in sensual regulationHow pleasure becomes literacy inside the bodyWhy midlife is not decline… but initiationThis is an invitation to slow down.To track subtle expansion.To honor neutrality.To notice contraction without shame.Because pleasure is the body’s yes.And when a woman learns to trust that yes, everything reorganizes.Her boundaries strengthen. Her clarity sharpens. Her radiance steadies.Embodiment is reclamation. And embodiment is revolution.🌸 Inside Vital Goddess MasteryIn this episode, Dianne shares reflections from a recent Vital Goddess Mastery salon where women practiced tracking the body’s yes together — not chasing intensity, not performing awakening — simply listening.If something in you stirred as you listened…If you felt the whisper of initiation…There is a space inside Vital Goddess Mastery where we cultivate this kind of literacy together.You’re welcome to book a conversation with Dianne to explore whether this is your season.Not to be convinced. But to feel.You can book your call here.🌊 A 7-Minute Embodiment PracticeThis episode includes a guided somatic practice to help you:Shift from Kronos (doing time) to Kairos (sacred time)Track warmth, softening, expansionDifferentiate yes, neutral, and no in the bodyReconnect with subtle pleasure without pressureReturn to it often.Literacy grows through repetition.If this episode resonated, share it with a woman who is ready to reclaim her body as sacred.Midlife is not decline.It is initiation.

This Virgo Full Moon on March 3rd carries the potency of a lunar eclipse — a portal of refinement, revelation, and sacred release.Eclipses can feel like a bit of a wild card.But they don’t create change from nothing.They illuminate what has already been loosening.In this episode, we move beyond the surface story of Virgo as perfectionist and reconnect with her deeper archetype: the Priestess.The keeper of sacred order. The guardian of discernment. The one who tends the inner flame.This is not an invitation to fix yourself. It is an invitation to become more honest. More aligned. More devoted to what is essential.Here we explore:Virgo as Priestess rather than criticRefinement over self-improvementThe difference between scaling urgency and scaling safetyThe womb as an energetic truth anchorWater and fire in right relationshipThe alchemical cauldron withinIn the second half of the episode, you’ll be guided through a 10-minute womb-centered ritual to:🌊 Settle into the nourishment of your inner waters 🔥 Gently awaken the ember within 🌕 Tend your inner flame with calm devotionThis is mature feminine power. Contained heat. Discernment rooted in the body.The womb is not a concept. It is a compass.Let this eclipse refine what no longer belongs —And anchor in you what is true.* Music credit: DJ Taz Rashid

We’re often taught that when conflict arises, we have two choices:Collapse… or armor up.Fawn or fight. Be porous or pick up the sword.But what if there’s a third way?In this episode, I share a recent boundary moment that activated an old pattern in my nervous system — and how instead of over-explaining or hardening, I brought my intensity into the temple of my practice.We explore:Why drama that stays in the head becomes toxicThe difference between fawning and armoringWhy I’m not anti-drama — I’m pro-embodied passionKronos (linear time) vs. Kairos (sacred rhythmic time)Why the problem and the solution don’t live on the same frequencyHow nonlinear movement opens nonlinear pathwaysRadiance as protectionAnd the third way beyond collapse or controlYou’ll also be guided through a nonlinear sensual movement practice designed to help you metabolize intensity, shift frequency, and return to coherence.Bring your drama to the temple of your practice.Shift the state. Move the energy. Anchor the womb. Radiate the heart.Protection isn’t contraction. It’s alignment.Let's dive in!* Music credit: DJ Taz Rashid

Happy Valentine’s Day, love.February is often called the season of love — a time when so much attention is placed on romance, beauty, and desire.And while those themes are certainly right up my alley… I tend to celebrate this season a little differently than what’s streaming through my inbox.I see it as an invitation to turn that energy inward and remember a deeper truth:Love is a state of being.Not a story.Not a performance.Not something to earn.Not something that's owed.A shift from Hallmark… to holy.This season, for me, is about restoring our relationship to the body as sacred, intelligent, and worthy of pleasure.That rings truer. Softer. More liberating.Love is not something we need to seek.It’s who we are at the core.And that feels like the perfect doorway into today’s episode — and our upcoming New Moon in Aquarius.This New Moon in Aquarius on February 17 arrives as a powerful solar eclipse—an initiatory moment that invites realignment, release, and forward movement.Eclipses tend to accelerate truth. They reveal what’s no longer in resonance with who we’re becoming and gently (or not so gently) usher us toward what’s next.With electric Aquarius energy in the air, this lunation may feel intense, catalytic, or emotionally charged. You may notice sudden clarity, restlessness, or a deep knowing that something in your life—relationships, work, identity, or old patterns—is ready to shift.In this episode, I offer a grounding counterpoint to the mental intensity of Aquarius: embodiment.Rather than trying to think our way into the future, we explore how the body holds innate wisdom—and how listening somatically can help us meet change with clarity, safety, and self-trust.At the heart of this episode is a 10-minute shaking medicine practice—a simple, ancient, and powerful form of somatic release used across cultures and spiritual traditions to clear stagnant energy, regulate the nervous system, and restore embodied presence.Shaking is not about force or performance. It’s about permission. About letting the body finish a sentence the soul has already begun.✨ In This Episode, We Explore:The energetic themes of the New Moon in Aquarius + solar eclipseWhy embodiment is essential during times of changeShaking as ancient, shamanic, and deeply human medicineHow movement can create clarity where the mind cannotA guided 10-minute shaking practice you can return to anytimeYou may find this practice especially supportive during this lunar cycle. Feel free to return to it again and again—clarity deepens through repetition.May this New Moon help you release what no longer aligns and guide you gently, powerfully, forward.Let's dive in!Dive deeper... I created a Shaking playlist for you!👉 You can download the Spotify playlist hereThe Vital Goddess Mastery program, a living temple to reclaim the sacredness of your body and the power of your pleasure. Learn more  here.* Music credit: DJ Taz Rashid

Let Your Body LeadIn a world that moves at relentless speed, many of us find ourselves living almost entirely in our heads—rushing, pushing, managing time, and overriding the quiet wisdom of the body.In this episode, I invite you to slow down and explore sensual, non-linear movement as a gentle yet powerful pathway back into presence, healing, and inner rhythm.We explore the difference between Kronos time—clock time, productivity, and pressure—and Kairos time, or soul time: the spacious, cyclical rhythm where the body naturally heals, digests, and integrates life.Through reflection, teaching, and a guided embodied practice, you’ll be invited to release story and let sensation lead you home.This episode is especially supportive if you’ve been feeling:overwhelmed or overstimulateddisconnected from your bodyemotionally stuck or looping in your mindtense, numb, or out of synccurious about movement as medicine rather than exerciseIn this episode, we explore:Why the body heals in Kairos time, not Kronos timeHow digestion, repair, and emotional processing require safety and slownessWhat “sensation over story” really means—and why it mattersHow sensual, wave-like movement supports nervous system regulationWhy pleasure, breath, and rhythm are essential for modern womenA gentle 5-minute sensual movement practice to help you drop into soul timeThis is an invitation to let your body lead, to listen inwardly, and to reconnect with the wisdom that’s already alive within you.Let's dive in!

Under this luminous Full Moon in Leo on February 1st, we’re invited to return to a deeper, truer experience of self-love — not as something we earn or perform, but as something we emanate.This episode explores love as a living, embodied frequency rather than an act of self-sacrifice. With Venus traveling through Aquarius, a powerful reframe comes online:My love is liberation.Together, Leo and Aquarius remind us that joy is not the reward for giving — it is the source from which authentic love flows.In this episode, we explore:How so many women were conditioned to equate love with depletionWhy midlife often marks a sacred turning point where over-giving no longer worksThe heart and breasts as powerful, energetic centers of embodied loveWhy eros and pleasure are essential nutrients for a radiant, spacious heartHow ancient priestess wisdom honored sensuality as sacred powerA gentle, fully PG Tantric breast and heart meditation to reconnect you to your inner sourceWhen eros, heart, and pleasure are integrated, love becomes expansive rather than draining — a natural offering rather than a sacrifice.This Full Moon is not asking you to shine harder. It’s asking you to shine freer.🌹 Embodiment Practice IncludedThis episode features a short, gentle PG Tantric Breast & Heart Meditation designed to:Nourish the heartRestore a sense of safety and warmth in the bodyReconnect love with pleasure rather than obligationThis practice can be done fully clothed, seated or lying down, and is always invitational.🐍 Ancient Lineage RememberedWe also touch on ancient goddess cultures, including the wisdom embodied by priestess traditions, where exposed breasts symbolized life force, nourishment, and sacred power — not performance, but presence.This is not something new we are learning. It is ancient wisdom we are remembering through the body.So many of us were taught that love requires depletion. This lunation offers a different truth.Happy Full Moon, love.Let's dive in.Dive deeper:Join us in the Vital Goddess Mastery program, a living temple to reclaim the sacredness of your body and the power of your pleasure. Learn more  here.

What if breathwork wasn’t something you did but a journey you entered?In this episode, Dianne invites you into the ancient, feminine art of sensual breathwork — a gentle yet powerful way to shift states, soften the nervous system, and come home to the body.We explore conscious connected breathing (CCB), where the inhale flows seamlessly into the exhale like a wave, guiding you out of the thinking mind and into deeper, more intuitive states of awareness. Not through force or catharsis, but through presence, rhythm, and safety.You’ll learn why nasal breathing is so supportive for the nervous system, encouraging diaphragmatic breath, coherence, and the cultivation of nitric oxide, sometimes called the “miracle molecule” , which helps signal relaxation, circulation, vitality and ease in the body.We also explore sensuality as sacred technology, with a special focus on scent. Aromatherapy has been used for thousands of years in women’s spiritual practices, including in Goddess cultures like ancient Crete, where aromatic oils were ritual allies for devotion, embodiment, and altered states.Scent bypasses the thinking mind and speaks directly to pleasure, memory, and intuition. When paired with breath, it becomes a powerful portal into the sacred feminine.✨ In this episode, you’ll experience:Why conscious connected breath gently shifts states of awarenessThe power of nasal breathing for nervous system regulationHow scent activates sensuality, intuition, and pleasureA 5 minute guided Sensual Breath practice to help you soften, descend, and journey inwardAn invitation to explore what brings you into a swoon Altered states don’t require effort, force or even plant medicine. They require permission & presence.Choose a scent you love, press play and let your breath lead you home.Let's dive in!Dive deeper:Join us in the Vital Goddess Mastery program Spring 2026 hereExplore the Taste of the Temple offer here

What if legacy wasn’t about striving… but about how you love?In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, I’m sharing a New Moon reflection inspired by the upcoming New Moon in Capricorn — a lunation that invites us to root into what we’re building long-term, not just in our work or goals, but in our bodies, our relationships, and the way we move through life.You don’t need to follow astrology for this episode to land. I share how tuning into the rhythm of the New Moon and Full Moon became especially grounding for me during midlife and menopause, when our hormonal cycles shift and the body is longing for a new, steady pulse.Inside this episode, we explore:A feminine reframe of legacy as what lives on because of how you loveWorking with a yin word and a yang word for the year — and the alchemy created when they meetHow the New Moon’s connection with Pluto invites embodied power and deep truthHealing our relationship with action, effort, and over-doingSoftening an over-yanged mind and welcoming intuition, imagination, and feminine intelligenceA guided breathwork ritual to integrate yin and yang, left and right brain, structure and magicThis episode is an invitation to pause, breathe, and consciously choose what you’re building from the inside out. An invitation to let love be your architect.Let's dive in.Dive deeper...Learn more about the Vital Goddess Mastery program and join us here.Learn more about the Taste of the Temple offer here.

This week on the pod I dive into a topic I’m super passionate about: The Taoist Jade Egg practice.In this episode, I share the heart of my approach to working with the Jade Egg through breath, flow, subtle movement, deep listening & self love.Rather than training the body to perform, this work is about restoring relationship with your inner landscape so safety, trust, sensation and vitality can return naturally. I introduce Jade Rebirth, my embodied approach to teaching the Taoist Jade Egg practice. We explore why flow is foundational to healing, how fascia responds to gentle rhythm and time, and what it means to cultivate true strength without armoring.This episode is an invitation to soften, listen, and let the body lead.✨ We explore:Why flow matters How gentle movement supports circulation, sensation, and releaseThe role of fascia in softening and integrationHow the body releases without reliving storiesWhy true strength doesn’t require tensionCan’t wait to share this one with you!🌊 Explore Jade Rebirth More DeeplyIf you’d like to explore the foundations of Jade Rebirth, I’ve created a short Jade Rebirth Companion PDF you can download right here. Jade Rebirth is also woven into the container of the Vital Goddess Mastery program, where we explore this work slowly and experientially through guided practice and live Temple Sessions.Learn more about Vital Goddess Mastery and join us here.Learn more about Taste of the Temple and join us here.

Happy New Year! 🎉 And Happy Full Moon in Cancer! 🌕♋In this episode, we meet beneath the first Full Moon of the year (on January 3rd) , a luminous Super Full Moon in Cancer, to set a nourishing and sustainable tone for 2026.Cancer invites us home — into the body, into feeling, into emotional intelligence that soothes us back into our rhythm. With the Sun closely framed by Venus and Mars, this lunation offers rare support for weaving tenderness and strength, Yin and Yang, love and action into a more integrated way of living.In this episode, I share a guiding philosophy for the year ahead that I call Sacred Integration — the devotion to honoring both structure and sensation, discipline and pleasure, fitness and sensuality as essential wellness allies rather than opposites.I also offer a personal reflection on returning to a consistent fitness routine through the barre method while deepening my devotion to my Jade Egg practice, and how this balance has brought greater harmony to my body and nervous system in midlife.You’ll be guided through a 10-minute ish embodiment ritual, designed to help you feel this integration in your body — grounding strength without force, softness without collapse — and to begin the year rooted in rhythm rather than extremes.This episode is a reset. A place to soften, breathe, and come home to your core and design the year ahead in aligment.🌊 In This EpisodeWhy the Cancer Super Full Moon is a powerful moment for homecomingHow Venus and Mars working together support lasting wellness and intimacyWhy wellness practices can become unwell when taken to extremesSacred Integration as a new paradigm for midlife vitalityA gentle Lunar Love embodiment ritual to anchor strength and softnessIf this episode resonates and you’re longing for ongoing rhythm, embodiment, and support, the $99 Taste of the Temple offers a gentle initiation into the Vital Goddess Mastery — a space to explore Sacred Integration through breath, sensual self-care, and sisterhood. Learn more and join us hereWith deep gratitude, I honor my barre teachers Fred DeVito and Elisabeth Halfpapp, creators of Core Barre Fit. Their pioneering work and devotion to intelligent strength, integrity, and longevity in the body have profoundly shaped how I relate to fitness and embodied wellness in midlife.Learn more about their work here 

As we close out 2025 and stand at the threshold of the Winter Solstice, this episode offers a gentle, embodied way to meet the year ahead.If you’ve chosen a word or mantra for 2026 but it hasn’t quite landed in your body yet, this one's for you.In this final episode of the year, Dianne explores why pleasure is the missing link in manifestation and how intentions come alive when the body is included.Inspired by the idea that affirmations are most powerful when we’re “in the vortex,” this episode translates manifestation into the language of the nervous system, breath, presence, and sensual embodiment.Inside this episode:Why your body must believe your mantra before it can unfoldHow pleasure creates the internal safety needed for creationWhat it truly means to be “in the vortex” from a somatic perspectiveA gentle embodied practice to help your 2026 word come aliveThis is a threshold episode. A moment to slow down, soften, and allow your next season to emerge from within.✨ If you’re feeling the pull to be supported in this work, the Solstice portal into the Vital Goddess Mastery is open for a few more days. Join us in the VGM Temple at 50% off our normal tuition.You can learn more and join us here. 

In this episode, we slow down together for a deeply nourishing end-of-year ritual designed for women in midlife. As the Solstice approaches and the year begins to close, your body often wants softness, warmth and replenishment more than pressure or resolutions. This episode honors that need with a sensual Taoist practice called Kidney Breathing. It is one of the most restorative feminine practices for rebuilding vitality, sensuality, and emotional resilience.We begin by acknowledging what this year has asked of you and inviting your nervous system into a state of rest. Then we move into a slow, guided breathwork ritual that helps you release exhaustion and refill your inner well. This practice supports your hormonal balance, your sensual energy, your mood, and your sense of inner rootedness as you prepare for the new year.Kidney Breathing is especially powerful for women in midlife. It nourishes your yin essence, awakens your second spring energy, and helps you enter the new year grounded and deeply centered instead of force and burnout.This episode is meant to feel like a warm bath for your entire system. By the end, you will feel fuller, softer, more centered, and more ready to step into the new year from a place of grounded feminine power.Inside this episode: • Why the end of the year can feel heavy for women in midlife • Why your kidneys are key to your vitality and sensuality • How to release the emotional residue of the year • A guided short, sweet and sensual Kidney Breathing ritual • How to prepare your body for a new year with softness and intentionIf you loved this episode, share it with a friend who needs a moment of deep nourishment. And if you want to go deeper, come join me inside my mystery school where we practice these arts all year long.The Solstice presale portal is open at 50% off our normal tuition.Learn more and join us here.

In this week’s episode, we explore one of the most powerful mysteries of the feminine body:Your true voice doesn’t begin in your throat. It rises from your yoni, your womb, and your heart. And only then becomes sound.If you’ve ever felt silenced, unsure, disconnected from your truth, or stuck in old patterns of people-pleasing… this episode will feel like a homecoming.Together, we’ll explore:🌹 The real origin of your voice: and why the throat is actually the final expression, not the starting point 🌹 The yoni voice: your instinctual, erotic intuition 🌹 The womb voice: your inner oracle, your deep feminine knowing 🌹 The heart voice: the bridge that softens truth into compassion 🌹 The sacred feminine core channel that connects all four centers 🌹 Why midlife is the exact moment this voice wants to come alive 🌹 A sensual breath ritual to reconnect your yoni, womb, heart and throat 🌹 How to speak from your body rather than your mind 🌹 The difference between performing your voice and living your voiceThis episode is an invitation to return to the version of you who doesn’t dilute her truth… doesn’t shrink her voice… and doesn’t silence her knowing to make others comfortable.Inside this transmission, you’ll feel your voice rise from somewhere deeper: from your sensual, wise, ancient feminine core.Take a breath… and let’s awaken the voice beneath your voice.Ready for a deeper dive?If this episode stirred your feminine soul and you’re craving a deeper journey into your sensual power, your inner oracle, and your embodied truth… the early presale portal for The Vital Goddess Mastermind is now open.You can explore more and join us right here.

In this episode, we explore one of the deepest truths of midlife awakening:Your body remembers.💗 In This Episode, You’ll Discover:Why midlife isn't a decline but a sensual reawakeningHow disconnection is a survival strategy, not a personal failureThe truth that your erotic nature is encoded in your bodyA soothing Sensual Breath ritual to open warmth, sensation, and rememberingHow to gently notice the first signs of your sensual awakeningWhy your body is leading you back to yourselfAnd why now🌊 Guided Ritual Inside:Sensual Breath:  A slow, wave-like breath sequence to help you:soften the nervous systemawaken sensationreconnect to your sensual innocencemelt old patterns of numbnessfeel your aliveness returningre-inhabit your feminine body with tenderness🔥 This Episode Is For You If…You’ve been feeling disconnected from your sensualityYou want to feel more alive, open, and receptiveYou sense there’s a deeper version of you waiting to emergeYou’re craving softness, embodiment, and pleasureYou know something is changing inside you and you’re ready to understand it and claim itLet yourself be held.Let yourself soften.Let yourself remember.Your second spring has already begun.And if you're ready to dive deeper...The doors for my sacred feminine mystery school are open and we have an incredible presale going on. For a limited time I'm offering 50% off the entire tuition. Learn more and join us here.

Take a slow breath and settle into your body… because today’s episode opens a doorway into one of the most potent feminine truths of midlife:You don’t have to push to be powerful.You don’t have to perform to be magnetic.You don’t have to harden to be respected. Here we’ll explore the awakening of Soft Power—the natural, sensual, sovereign magnetism that arises in midlife when you stop living for everyone else… and begin belonging to yourself again.Soft Power is your birthright.And in this episode, you’ll feel exactly how it awakens inside you.In This Episode, You’ll Learn: 1. Why hard power collapses in midlifeAnd why this collapse is not a failure — but your initiation into deeper feminine truth.2. How Soft Power actually feels in the bodyWarmth. Spaciousness. Presence. Sensuality. Sovereignty. 3. The Three Pillars of Soft Power:ReceptivityEmbodied BoundariesSensual PresenceAnd how each pillar is a portal into a new dimension of magnetic midlife wisdom. 4. How Soft Power transforms intimacyWhy you stop chasing, over giving, and performing. And how you begin attracting what truly meets your depth.5. Desire as your new compassYour midlife desire becomes clearer, deeper, and more honest. How to trust it — and how it amplifies your attractiveness.6. Sovereignty as the heart of Soft PowerWhat it means to belong to yourself… and how this changes everything.🌸 7. A simple Soft Power ritual you can practice anywhere🌊 A Moment to PauseThis episode is filled with spaciousness, breath, sensation, and a portal into your deep feminine wisdom. Let it wash through you. Let it land in your hips, your belly, your heart, your whole body.You may want to listen more than once.🌺 Dive Deeper:• Join my my Feminine Mystery School!Goddess School is open and our presale is happening! Learn more and sign up here.

I’m sure you’ve played with manifestation.At least a bit.Or at the very least your've entertained the idea that there might be something to it.But I’m pretty sure you haven’t tasted the depth of what’s possible when you truly get real with your desires. Yet.This is the realm of your Dark Feminine.The Law of Attraction is real and it's the most powerful law in the Universe. I think Albert Einstein says it best:"Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy it’s physics.”What’s missing in most conversations about the Law of Attraction and manifestation is the raw power of feminine desire.Without it the whole thing can feel like pie in the sky bypass. But when we bring in feminine Eros & desire, it changes the game completely.And places the odds firmly in your favor.Let’s dive in!Join my free resource library hereLearn more about Goddess School here

Carla Shohet is on a mission to help cycle-breaking women heal from the past so they can truly thrive.As a trauma psychologist, educator, a mom and a survivor of childhood narcissistic abuse Carla brings a soulful, heart-centered and passionate approach to the realm of trauma healing.Carla is not your typical talk therapist. She's a holistic psychologist; a mind/body healing mentor with the warmth, and generosity of a woman who's truly got your back. She uses a variety of modalities to achieve root-cause resolution healing, not just short-term symptoms management.Being in Carla's presence is deeply healing and she shares so many gems in this episode.I know you're going to love this conversation as much as I did.Let's dive in!Dive deeper with Carla:Visit Carla's siteTune into Carla's podcast Time to UnlearnExplore Carla's Facebook Group Wild MotherConnect with Carla on Instagram

What is erotic innocence?And how do you reclaim it for yourself?It's quite clear that society has an Eros problem.I don't have to tell you that.The layers of dysfunction and abuse that abounds worldwide is beyond disturbing. It can easily leave us feeling overwhelmed and powerless.What's the antidote?Here's my take on it: One of the most radical, revolutionary and world changing things we can do as women is to consciously reclaim our erotic innocence.Our Eros is our creative life force/Chi and it's our birthright to fully embody it.It's time to boldly claim the erotic initiation we never got.Let's dive in!Dive Deeper:Join my free resource library The Goddess VaultBook your free Desire Clarity Call 

You are a powerful Creatrix my love.Part of you knows that.And I bet part of you has forgotten.One of the most beautiful things about awakening your feminine essence is that you begin to remember.You begin to shed much of the conditioning that's been scripting your life.And awaken an innate inner knowing of who you truly are and why you're really here.You come home to yourself.What you may not be aware of is how important pleasure is in the equation.You didn't come here to play wack a mole with the world and its never ending problems.You came to create your world in alignment with your desires.Activated and fueled by your pleasure.Ready to get your hands in the clay?Let's dive in.Dive deeper:Join my free resource library:  The Goddess VaultDownload the Awakening Aphrodite meditationLearn more about Goddess School 

The creative, love force power you hold within you as a woman is immense.It's the stuff that creates worlds.The stuff that can ignite your life and change your world.This essence within you is most likely for the most part, untapped.Through no fault of your own.That's the case for most women.But you can change that.This essence is your personal expression of Venus/Aphrodite; Goddess of Love.Very few woman have discovered how to awaken this power and embody it.If I had to break down the how on awakening it into one word, that word is pleasure.Pleasure is the portal.Embracing your sensuality awakens your inner Goddess of Love.Getting right with pleasure liberates your unique expression of what I call...The 5 Venus Codes: BeautyAbundanceDesireEcstasyLoveThere are tried and true practices to support you in accessing your personal Venus Codes.One of my favorites is sensual breathwork.In this episode I break all this down for you and offer you a short and sweet (and free) guided practice to start your Venus journey.Let's dive in.Dive Deeper:Download the Awakening Aphrodite guided meditation here.For more amazing resources join my free resource library The Goddess Vault here.

Getting right with desire is a master key in reclaiming your feminine power.One of the golden keys to your Queendom.And yet, for many valid reasons, most women have a very dysfunctional relationship with desire. Twenty years ago I did as well.To be clear on what you want and to feel good about what you want can feel scary  and daunting, I get it.We've had truckloads of conditioning on desire which can show up as massive resistance.What I've come to know is that desire is sacred. Desire is sacred life force calling you forward to your next adventure. Desire is the universe wanting to express through you.When we shut down our desire we shut down our life force.And that never feels good.What if there was a way to work with desire that actually feels good?That's what we're exploring in today's episode.Here I'll share:What is desire and why should we care?How pure desire is different from lust and yearningHealing Desire Shame/Why we shut down our desire and what we can do about itDesire, pleasure and the Law of AttractionA simple four step process to get clear on your deepest desires and create your life from the inside outLet's dive in!Join my free resource library The Goddess Vault hereCheck out the book Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks here

I know most folks yearn for deep intimacy and lasting love in relationships.And deep inside we have a hunch that's it's possible.But how do we make that happen?Modern love is a challenge to say the least.The current state of intimacy in most long-term relationships is not what most couples dreamed it would be.It's so easy to feel like you've lost the plot on love.It's so easy to feel like you're the problem.But what if that's simply not the case?What if there was a new model of approaching sex?One that could take the pressure off and support you in cultivating a vital intimate relationship lifelong?My guests today; Sarah Rose Bright and Graeme Waterfield have a lot to share on this topic.They're both seasoned practitioners and skilled teachers in the realm of Tantra and embodiment.Their warmth, authenticity and wisdom is rare and beautiful.I know they will inspire you as much as they continue to inspire me.Let's dive in!Dive deeper:Learn more about The Making Love Retreat for couplesVisit Sarah's siteVisit Graeme's site

Are you ready to move beyond the Kegel?I was.About 20 years ago I had some serious issues going on with my pelvis and pelvic floor. One of those issues was sciatica.I'd have these bouts of crippling pain that would land me on my back for days.At the time I was a Pilates teacher and Yoga teacher and the tools I was teaching gave me no relief. The Kegel wasn't working either.What did help and eventually open up a whole new way of being in my body was sensual movement. In this episode I share:How I stumbled upon the healing power of sensual movement via a Victoria's Secret catalogThree incredible benefits to starting a sensual movement practiceHow to beginLet's dive in!Download a Sacred Sensual Movement playlist on SpotifyAccess my robust free sensual resources in The Goddess Vault.Watch the trailer for Strip Down Rise Up the Netflix doc on Shelia Kelly’s work

Tantra is a journey of expansion. The universe expanding through you.Your cells want to dance with your every breath.And yet there are many very valid reasons why that dance isn't always happening.Stored trauma, tension, limiting beliefs & emotional content can keep our cells in lockdown, armored up, protective. Through intelligent use of breathwork we can gently & gracefully expand into being more fully alive and freely expressed.Breathwork is powerful medicine and it needs to be done in ways that honor the nervous system.I teach a form of Conscious Connected Breath (CCB) infused with feminine principle. One that invites the breather on a journey home to herself.Let's dive in.Access my robust free sensual breathwork resources in The Goddess Vault.Learn more about James Nestor's work on breath 

With all of the wellness options available to us today it's easy for a gal to get overwhelmed.And being in a state of overwhelm doesn't support your wellbeing.Here's a secret that most women are missing:Pleasure is the ultimate wellness hack.In this episode I go into why this is true and simple steps you can take today to dial up your pleasure and wellbeing.Let's dive in!Dive deeper...Join my free resource library The Goddess Vault

What is the Art of Pussification? Well, I think this quote from the woman who first introduced me to this brilliant practice says it beautifully:“Pussification is an act of making your outer circumstance good for your inner circumstance or good for your pussy. Make it so it feels good to your pussy and your life is gonna shine.”-Regena Thomashauer aka Mama GenaI like to think of Pussification as Goddess Feng Shui.The practice of creating harmony and beauty in my space so that it feels sensually soothing and pleasing to me.In those spaces I can exhale into my body, be more fully present, tap into my intuition and creativity and bring my best to the people in my world.The Art of Pussification is the art of designing your environment in alignment with your specific desires.So simple and yet so radical.When you claim your domain in this way, you tap into the true essence of your wild feminine heart. You reclaim your power as Creatrix of your world.Pussification is a way to honor and celebrate yourself and start living your life more from the inside out. Ready to give it a try?Let's dive in!Dive deeper:The doors for Fall 2025 semester of The Vital Goddess Mastermind are closing on August 24th at midnight. Last call to join us! Get the deets and join here!

It's that time of the year! Back to school.Goddess school that is. 🌹You may know that I run a sacred feminine mystery school called The Vital Goddess Mastermind and that we meet on a semester basis. It's a space to truly reclaim the sacredness of your body and the power of your pleasure. A space to embody the love that you are.With our Fall 2025 semester just around the corner  I wanted to take some time to run through the curriculum of what we actually do in this Venus Temple.It's designed to support you in making the small choices that make a huge difference.Because your personal Venusian Revolution happens one step at a time.And those steps need to feel good to you.If you've been curious about what we’re up to in there, this one's for you!Let's dive in!Learn more about The Vital Goddess Mastermind and join usHave some questions? Book a Desire Clarity call with Dianne

Welcome to the peak of the Lion's Gate portal! 🦁 💗 🔥I've been saving this episode for 8/8 with a lot of anticipation and intention. Today I'm in conversation with the bold, radiant, creative genius behind one of my favorite sensual wellness brands.Vanessa Cuccia is the founder and creator of the sensual wellness company Chakrubs, The Original Crystal Sex Toy Company, and author of the book Crystal Healing & Sacred Pleasure. She's a pioneer in the sex toy industry for introducing her methods of using crystals for sexual healing and empowerment.As a certified crystal healer and reiki practitioner, Vanessa continues to pursue knowledge of crystals and metaphysical modes of healing to help those who have experienced sexual trauma or simply wish to deepen pleasure and connection to self, spirit, and others.In this episode Vanessa shares:her personal journey of how she created her company Chakrubs (in her 20s!) to heal her own experiences of heartbreak and sexual traumahow crystals help us heal exploring erotic crystals as lovers igniting your intuition with Sensual Tarot the connect between eros and creativity and moreVanessa is truly a woman who follows her desire and lives her life boldly from the inside out. I know you'll be as inspired as I was by what she has to share.Let's dive in!Dive deeper with VanessaVisit the Chakrubs siteExplore Vanessa’s book; Crystal Healing and Sacred Pleasure/Awaken Your Sensual Energy Using Crystals and Healing Rituals, One Chakra at a TimeBook a Sensual Tarot Reading with VanessaExplore Vanessa’s music on SpotifyFollow Chakrubs on InstagramFollow Chakrubs on TikTokDive deeper with DianneLearn more about The Vital Goddess MastermindJoin my free resource library The Goddess Vault

As a Tantra teacher I'm often asked about the different types of female orgasm and how to experience them.It's one of my favorite topics to talk about.There's a lot to discuss.Most women feel frustrated with their orgasmic experiences or lack thereof.In view of the conventional take on all things sexual, that makes complete sense.The model we've been given is severely flawed.  It will never lead a woman to her full natural orgasmic expression.To truly experience what's possible we need to be willing to explore our sexual landscape with a broader vision.We need to get curious about what our sexual energy really is and how it's designed to move through us.We have to be willing to let go of performance driven, goal orientated mechanical techniques and embrace a more sacred, loving and fluid way of connecting with our bodies.We need to reunite sex and spirit.Technique without love falls flat.It's not what we do, it's how we do.And even more importantly, how we be.Let's dive in.Dive Deeper:Learn more about The Vital Goddess MastermindJoin my free resource library The Goddess Vault

This conversation is a healing balm for anyone navigating the ups and downs of life. And let's be honest, aren't we all?Today I'm in conversation with psychic consultant and Biodynamic Therapist Jahnna Edelman.Jahnna is gifted healer with a heart of gold and I'm so blessed to have her in my life as a friend, sister on the Goddess path and as a member of my support team.In this episode Jahnna shares her own journey from heartbreak to breaking open. (I cried).She also offers some beautiful tips on how to locate yourself when you're in a deep process of ascension and how to navigate even the toughest circumstances with self love and compassion.You're going to want to bookmark this one for those times when you can use some soul sister support on your journey.Jahnna's here to remind us all that we're still on the Yellow Brick Road, even during the most terrifying "flying monkey" moments.Let's dive in!Dive deeper with Jahnna:Expore Jahnna's work here.Explore the Living Essence Massage InstituteDive deeper with Dianne:Learn more about Goddess School The Vital Goddess MastermindJoin Dianne's free resource library The Goddess Vault

I'm so excited to share this episode with you!Dr. Elsbeth Meuth has assisted thousands of women to create lasting intimacy and fulfillment in their lives and relationships. She is featured on Showtime’s documentary series Sexual Healing and the Emmy Award-winning NBC show Starting Over and is the best-selling author of the book Sexual Enlightenment  which was endorsed by world-renowned Spiritual Pioneer Dr. Michael Beckwith. Elsbeth is the co-founder of the TantraNova Institute in Chicago which she runs with her husband and business partner; Freddy Zental Weaver.  As a seasoned Tantra teacher and a woman who truly practices what she teaches Elsbeth has so much wisdom to share. In this episode Elsbeth talks about her personal journey from harboring a deep mistrust in herself and in men due to a painful teenage experience, to fully healing herself and attracting her Tantric soul mate and life partner.Her warmth, humor, radiance and deeply embodied femininity are such a gift to this world.Join us for this rich conversation about Tantra and the power of awakening your feminine essence.Let's dive in!Dive Deeper with Elsbeth:Yoni Awakening - A  Free Video ClassPractices that activate your Yoni life-giving energy to experience greater health, aliveness and sensuous joy.https://tantranova.lpages.co/yoni-awakening/ Visit the TantraNova website to find out about TantraNova workshops and programs:https://www.tantranova.com/Sexual Enlightenment book in hard copy and audio format https://www.amazon.com/dp/1452585431 Follow Elsbeth and Freddy on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/tantranova_institute/Connect with Elsbeth and Freddy on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/TantraNova/Explore Elsbeth and Freddy's work on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TantraNova/featuredDive Deeper With Dianne:Learn more about my Goddess School The Vital Goddess MastermindJoin my free resource library The Goddess Vault

As Venus enters the sign of Gemini today it's a beautiful invitation to explore one of my favorite Gemini qualities: curiosity.Curiosity and sensuality go hand in hand.We all know the saying "Curiosity killed the cat."I want to offer a reframe on that: "Curiosity awakens the pussy."To be curious is to be open, present and in flow.It requires self trust and trust in life.To be curious is to be willing to explore what feels good and nourishing.And to pass on what doesn't.When our curiosity is shut down, our life force and pleasure are shut down.When we expand our curiosity we expand our pleasure and our love.Let's dive in.Dive Deeper:Learn more about my Goddess School The Vital Goddess MastermindJoin my free resource library The Goddess Vault

Ben Taylor is a trauma-informed coach, speaker, and creator of Raw Motivations, a global movement dedicated to helping survivors of narcissistic abuse break trauma bonds, rebuild their identity, and step into true healing.After years of living behind the mask of narcissism himself, Ben walked through the painful journey of deconstruction—facing his own toxicity, choosing accountability, and fighting for change. That experience gave him a unique ability to understand the dark patterns of manipulation, control, and emotional abuse from the inside out.Today, he works with thousands of women around the world who have escaped toxic relationships but still feel stuck, confused, or disconnected from themselves.Through high-impact workshops, coaching programs, daily content, and community support, Ben helps survivors stop blaming themselves for their pain—and start reclaiming their power.In his own words:"Survival is not the finish line. Healing is.And every woman deserves to live free from the story her abuser tried to write for her."Ben shares amazing insight and down on the ground tools in this episode.When  I heard about Ben's story and the results he's having in his work, I knew I had to have him on the show.Let's dive in!Dive deeper with Ben:Reclaim Workshop July 12th: www.rawmotivations.com/reclaim 9 Traits Free PDF: https://www.rawmotivations.com/9-traits-of-npd Website: https://www.rawmotivations.com Free Strategy Sesson: https://www.rawmotivations.com/breakthrough 

The word Tantra can evoke a lot of different images.It can seem exotic, esoteric, edgy, otherworldly.There are a lot of conflicting messages that make it seem pretty complicated.But my understanding of Tantra is quite simple.Tantra is the awakening and expansion of the love that you are.The art of embodying your love. It's not something you need to seek or strive for.It's in you.Tantra is the practice of remembering that you are love.The practice of locating that love in your body.And cultivating it like a garden.Are you in?Let's dive in!Happy Solstice! 🌞The Solstice Sale is Here! 🎉50% off of The Vital Goddess Mastermind!Hop in there! This special discount ends on June 22nd at midnight USESTLearn more & get yourself signed up here!

If you're the kind of gal who likes to have some evidence-based info when it comes to your health and wellness decisions, this one's for you!Today I'm in conversation with hormone and sexual wellness expert Dr. Diane Mueller.Diane holds double doctorate degrees and has over 15 years of clinical experience.She blends cutting-edge medical knowledge with her insights as a sexologist and educator, specializing in sex, libido, relationships, and beyond.She's a naturopathic doctor, a doctor of Chinese Medicine, bestselling health author, international speaker, and host of The Libido Lounge podcast and creator of the Hot Monogamy Club community.Diane is on a mission to help you reclaim your vitality and enhance your well-being by claiming your pleasure.She teaches couples that passion can Increase with the length of your relationship.We dive deep into why pleasure and orgasm are so foundational to your physical and mental wellbeing.Diane drops sooo many gems that you don't want to miss!Let's dive in!Dive deeper with Dr. Diane Mueller:Explore your arousal with Diane's free Yes/No Maybe ChecklistTake Dr. Diane's free Libido QuizTake Dr. Diane's free Orgasm Perception QuizTune into Dr. Diane's Libido Lounge PodcastCheck out Dr. Diane's Hot Monogamy ClubFollow Dr. Diane on YouTubeFollow Dr. Diane on InstagramDive deeper with Dianne Shepherd:Join my free resource library; The Goddess VaultLearn more about my Goddess School; The Vital Goddess Mastermind

Have you heard of the Taoist concept of Second Spring?Omgdess, I think every woman needs to know about this!Here are the Cliff Notes:From the Taoist perspective midlife and menopause are called Second Spring; a spiritual & sexual rebirth.Yep, I said spiritual and sexual.Second Spring is a time of life when a woman comes home to the sacredness of her body, rejuvenates from the inside out and sets the stage for a vibrant third chapter.She does this by embracing her sensuality and sexual energy as a spiritual practice. Like yoga.Your sensuality is not frivolous, your pleasure is the portal into you living your best life.Your sensuality is not frivolous.Your sensual pleasure is the portal into you living your best life.Your sexual energy is not just about sex.It's pure gold.It’s your foundational fuel to living a vibrant, joyful, purposeful, passionate life at any age.Are you ready for your Second Spring?I thought so:)Let's dive in!Join my free resource library; The Goddess VaultLearn more about my Goddess School; The Vital Goddess Mastermind

No time for pleasure?This one's for you Bella!It's sooo easy to run ourselves ragged.And when we do we forget who we are. When we connect with our pleasure it lights the way home.No matter what's going on in your life right now, honoring your sensuality and taking time for mindful pleasure will deeply serve you.Pleasure is the portal.It gives us access to our most noble qualities, rejuvenates us and gets us clear on our desires.It literally allows us to shift our reality.Pleasure gets us out of overthinking and stressing and into our zone of genius.The zone of ease, calm and flow.Pleasure is the missing link for so many women.And so many women feel as though they can't find time for pleasure.It can feel like a double bind.Ever feel that way?You're not alone.And I've got the hack for you.Let's dive in!Dive deeper with me:Join my free resource library; The Goddess VaultLearn more about my Goddess School; The Vital Goddess Mastermind

Compassion is a beautiful human quality.It opens us into deeper experiences of love, intimacy and gratitude.Receiving compassion from others can be just the medicine we need when things get tough.Compassion feels good in the body and like a balm to the soul.To give it and to receive it elevates us into the realm of human spirit.When compassion enters the room it's like a deep exhale.And a candle in the dark.When someone offers us true compassion we feel seen.Like we matter.We feel connected.We feel cared for.Compassion soothes the loneliness of life.And brings a sense of camaraderie and belonging.We shift out of fear and survival mode and relax into safety, healing and recovery.Compassion is powerful medicine.It brings out some of our best qualities.Studies have shown that compassion is a natural human instinct.That it's vital for good health; the survival of our species even.And yet it can be so challenging to gift it to ourselves.Am I right?What if we could get better at it?Let's explore.Dive Deeper:Join my free resource library; The Goddess VaultLearn more about my Goddess School; The Vital Goddess Mastermind

We all know that feeling...Uncomfortably numb.We're so good at showing up and functioning in the most stressful and chaotic circumstances. Most women I know are masters at it.While this strategy of overriding our feelings and our bodies to do what needs to be done helps us adapt and survive, it's not a long term solution.When we go numb, we can't selectively numb.And there's a cost.A significant cost.To live our lives to the fullest, we need ways of breaking the cycle.We need pleasure.Let's dive in.Dive deeper:Join my free resource library; The Goddess VaultLearn more about my Goddess School; The Vital Goddess MastermindBook your free Desire Clarity Call here!

Happy Mother’s Day weekend!On the one hand, it’s a beautiful celebration of motherhood and on the other… well, it can bring up a lot.It’s layered.It’s complex. What I’ve found to be incredibly healing and empowering on my own journey as a woman, as a daughter and as a mother is to connect with the true power of mother.The CreatrixThe Great Mother within.The womb.The womb is not just about fertility.This goes far beyond the biomedical definition of Uterus.The womb is our chalice; our personal Holy Grail, our source of our creative life force and personal power.The womb by design can be a portal into boundless bliss and ecstasy.And our chief source of confidence in our intuition and oracular guidance.But it often doesn’t feel that way.The good news is that we can change that.When we clear the stored emotion, stress and trauma (of course it’s generational) we reclaim the true radiance of the womb; the Creatrix.I’ve got a simple practice to help you do exactly that.Let's dive in!Access the Creatrix Womb Ceremony here!

Drama.It's everywhere.It's expensive.It's exhausting.It's more addictive than caffeine. And the crash is worse too.Society runs on drama more than it runs on Dunkin.And it can run us into the ground.While drama is a part of life, it can be less so in yours.We can take the reins.Want my favorite way to pattern disrupt this madness?I've got you!Let's dive in!Dive deeper:Join my free resource library; The Goddess VaultLearn more about the Vital Goddess MastermindHere's a link to the Dr. Zach Bush episode I mentioned

Oy!The voice of the Inner Critic.We can so easily get duped into believing the bs, can't we?Nothing kills our joy and pleasure more quickly than unsolicited feedback from the Saboteur within.We tend to be our own worst enemy.And I'm yet to meet a woman who is immune.What we need here is a strategy.A simple, effective strategy to seduce that Inner Critic and get back to the business of living the life you came here to live.That's what this episode is all about.Here I'll share with you:Who is the Inner Critic?Why it's crucial to address thisMy own Inner Critic storyMy simple 4-step formula to handle this situation in a light-hearted and deeply feminine wayLet's dive in!Dive deeper:Join my free resource library; The Goddess VaultLearn more about the Vital Goddess Mastermind

Your intuition is gold.And it's so unique to you and you alone.Without a reliable connect to your inner wisdom you can easily lose the plot on your precious life.Why you're here.What you came here to express and create.What the next step is for you on this spiraling journey.We live in exciting timesAnd incredibly noisy times.It can be challenging to cut through the din and tune into the muse within.Even more challenging to trust that inner knowing when we need it most.Having a clear, reliable navigational system is key to you living the life you came here to live.And what I want you to know is that your sensuality is the ultimate hack for cultivating that.It can bring you in fast.I see it it all the time.Let's dive in.Dive deeper with me!Join my free resource library; The Goddess VaultLearn more about the Vital Goddess Mastermind