Living Goddess with Chameli Gad Ardagh

Twenty Years in the Women’s Temple, with Helena Montelius

Twenty years ago, Chameli and Helena Montelius came together for the first Women’s Temple, to remember the sacred within the body, to listen, to breathe, to pray in movement and stillness. 

In this special anniversary conversation, Chameli and Helena reflect on what has sustained their Temple group through all the changes of life, the births and endings, the ebbs and flows, the laughter and the tears. They speak about the nourishment of being in Temple together, about friendship, and about the power showing up again and again to remember what truly matters.

To learn more about Helena and her work:
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Best of Living Goddess - Create a New Year Rooted in Wisdom: The Norn Goddesses

Join us in celebrating the new year with a popular episode from our archives. The three giant goddesses, the Norns, from Norse mythology guide us in co-creating with Living Goddess. Through the practice of presence, we can root our visions and desires in the original instructions, so that the future can unfold from wisdom instead of being a carrot on a stick that keeps us leaning out of the intimacy with the goddess, and into an endless chase of never-yet-there.

 

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Listening to Messages from the Trees with Ellen Dee Davidson

Chameli sits down with Ellen Dee Davidson, author of Sacred Forest Bathing, to explore the ancient art of listening to the trees. With decades of practice in sitting, listening, and communing with the forest, Ellen shares her lived experience of how trees speak to us, through presence, sensation, and subtle messages.

Together, they explore how each of us can enter into a more intimate relationship with the natural world, learning to receive the guidance, healing, and companionship that trees so generously offer. This is your invitation to slow down, tune in, and discover how the forest can become a teacher, ally, and sanctuary.

 

To learn more about Ellen and her book Sacred Forest Bathing:
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What Becomes Important When You’re Told You’re Dying with Kim Rose Keller

In this intimate conversation, Chameli sits with her dear sister Kim Rose Keller, a Sex and Intimacy Coach whose life and work have been devoted to love and the beauty of human connection. Together they explore the landscapes of intimacy, grief, and the gift of community, and what begins to matter most when the illusion of “later” falls away.

Kim speaks with exquisite honesty about her journey of living with a terminal cancer diagnosis, and how this encounter with mortality has opened her even more fully to life, to pleasure, to humor, to friendship, and to the sacredness of every ordinary day. This is not only a conversation about dying, but about living with nothing held back, about the courage to stay open to the full range of feelings, to keep loving, and to find grace in the mystery that holds us all.

To learn more about Kim and her work: KimRoseKeller.com

 

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What The Soul Longs For

Chameli shares an update on where she is in her life and practice, about being in a season of ebbing, energy turning inward, about shedding and slowing down. She speaks about the courage it takes to become honest, to listen deeply, and to center the desire of the soul. What happens when we create space for simple beingness? Is it selfish to honor what the soul longs for, or is it, in truth, an act of service to our collective healing in its deepest sense?

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The Senses Below the Senses

Like a pre-programmed car radio automatically playing the same handful of familiar stations, we tend to run on repeat a few familiar, but not always beneficial, thought loops and habitual activities. Chameli shares how the animals she lives with help her in her practice of cultivating senses below the senses, which allows for a more fine-tuned ability to perceive the often subtle signals from the soul.

 

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What is Essential?

Chameli shares a different way of setting intentions for the new year, and every day, by asking ourselves the question: what is essential?

She tells the story of Shiva and the Dasha MahaVidyas (Ten Wisdom Goddesses), a story reminding us that trying to escape parts of ourselves, and clinging to others, will keep us stuck in the realm of appearances and disconnected from the union at the Source of all forms.

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She who Guards the Soul

In this meditative episode that is inspired by Dr. Estes’ lecture series The Dangerous Old Woman, Chameli shares about the shift of priorities that happens when our lives are guided by “She who guards the soul”. The Dangerous Old Woman is an aspect of our being that operates in much vaster timelines than our habitual hurry, and reminds us that we are more free and powerful than we usually take ourselves to be.

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