In this episode, Emily sits down with the story doula, Dajé Alōh, for an expansive conversation about soul initiation, becoming a dream of the Earth, and navigating the thresholds of the creative process.

Emily & Dajé discuss:

• Practicing simple, grounded rituals to make contact with the Earth, elements, and our inner wilds
• Meeting the Mother and offering Her our whole being and heart
• Our unique soul calling as the Earth imagining herself back into wholeness
• The Creative Rites as a living framework of visionary archetypes to guide us through the initiations, seasons, and thresholds of the creative process
• Descending to soul, retrieving vision, awakening our power, and rising again

Learn more about Storywork Studio and connect with Dajé on Instagram @thestorydoula, Substack, and tune into the soft, earthen futures podcast.

If you’re struggling with burnout, Lunar Living: Rituals For Recovering From Burnout is a free guide to help you slow down and attune to the gentle cycle of the Moon.

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Thank you Bre Legan for our artwork and Paul Krasnoshchok for our music.

In this episode, Emily connects with politicized somatic practitioner and popular educator Eris Johnson for a profound conversation about eco-somatic practices, interspecies relations, and eco-social collective liberation.

Emily & Eris discuss:

• Listening deeply and coming back into collaborative, reciprocal relationship with land
• Expanding our movements for liberation to include the freedom and sovereignty of beyond human beings
• Widening our sense of self to include community, ecology, and cosmos
• Orienting to somatics as a practice of awakening aliveness for the sake of healing, transformation, pleasure, and freedom
• Popular education as a model that removes institutional barriers to knowledge while honoring our role as both student and teacher

Connect with Eris on Instagram and learn more about their politicized somatic offerings, including Somatic Enchantment.

If you’re struggling with burnout, Lunar Living: Rituals For Recovering From Burnout is a free guide to help you slow down and attune to the gentle cycle of the Moon.

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Thank you Bre Legan for our artwork and Paul Krasnoshchok for our music.

What if burnout is a portal to new ways of existing in the world?

In this episode, Emily wraps up the burnout mini-series with a heart-opening conversation with energy healer and podcast host Marlee NajamyWinnick.

Emily & Marlee discuss:

• Burnout recovery as a portal to reconnect with our bodies, intuition, and the Earth
• The messy process of disentangling our self-worth from our jobs, setting boundaries at work, and unlearning capitalist conditioning
• Cultivating a sense of safety within and trusting that the universe supports us
• Energy healing as a modality to disrupt patterns, connect with our inner children, and receive loving source energy

Connect with Marlee on Instagram, receive her free guide to healing burnout, listen to the Shifting with Marlee podcast, and learn more about her energy healing sessions.

If you’re struggling with burnout, Lunar Living: Rituals For Recovering From Burnout is a free guide to help you slow down and attune to the gentle cycle of the Moon.

Tune in, share this episode with someone you love, and subscribe to the Soil and Stars newsletter for free or become a patron for $5/month or $50/year.

Thank you Bre Legan for our artwork and Paul Krasnoshchok for our music.