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Awakening Women Founder and Goddess Keeper, Chameli Gad Ardagh invites us to listen deeper, awaken senses below the senses; perceive the ordinary, and messy with mystic eyes so you can remember the knowing behind all knowing: that your life is sacred. Through Goddess mythology, wisdom teachings, and intimate sharings from her daily practice and contemplations, Chameli illuminates the Shakti Keys stitched into the fabric of our daily lives and inspires us to reclaim a pulsating intimacy with Source and revive our spiritual lineage rooted in the Living Goddess.
Episodes
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Retrieving my baby dolphin self: The journey - part 2
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Thursday Dec 07, 2023
Chameli continues the exploration of the journey home to our essential nature, by sharing a story from Norse mythology about the Goddess hidden behind the armor of forgetfulness and the journey to wake her and unite with her wisdom. We will explore the importance of cultivating and guarding intuition, the willingness to face the unwanted parts of ourselves, and to risk coming into an ‘isness’ with ourselves and the world so that we can retrieve our roots in wisdom and creative life force energy.
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Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Retrieving my baby dolphin self: Freedom from people pleasing - part 1
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Chameli shares about the journey from cosmic ocean into our separate selves, about the Buddhist concept of near enemy, and she also shares her personal practice of liberating herself from the coping strategy of people pleasing and conflict avoidance, back into the essential quality of generosity and compassion. She shares how easily we get stuck in rigid beliefs that create harmful division and delusion, and how we can practice curiosity and a flexible mind. She also shares about a dream when she found a buried baby dolphin.
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Thursday Nov 16, 2023
The medicine of the broken heart
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Chameli tells the story about the grieving Buddha and how two potent goddesses of love and protection came into form through his broken heart. In this myth, we find potent guidance on how to stay with our hearts open and take enlightened action when faced with the horrendous suffering in the world.
The poem at the end is by Gina Puorro.
Monday Oct 23, 2023
What are you here to guard?
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Chameli tells the story of the great Indian Goddess Durga and illuminates keys for how we can stay rooted in a place of peace and clarity while engaging in a world so full of suffering, war, and division. Durga mirrors to us a power within us that arises out of a fierce commitment to love, a power that unifies instead of divides us.
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
The light that never dies
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Chameli explores how Hestia from Greek mythology and Gunnveig from Norse mythology both guide us home to the light within that never dies; the hearth, our home, our source. She also shares about the challenges and gifts from her practice with the circle, and how the circle itself is a wisdom keeper we all can receive guidance and enlightenment from.
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Attachment sets you free
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Continuing the exploration of the Gaia/Uranus myth, Chameli speaks about how creating a secure attachment to body, earth and Goddess will liberate us, instead of entrapping us as we have been told for thousands of years. As most patriarchal religions and spiritual paths are Uranus-centered we may be looking at basic avoidance or insecure attachment styles playing themselves out.
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Healing the wound of separation
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
No matter how shiny and bright our spirituality feels, if it is dependent on us pushing parts of ourselves down into the basement, our experience of ourselves and Goddess will be partial, and we will cheat ourselves of the peace and belonging in her wholeness. In the myth about Gaia and Uranus, we learn about the root and pain of such fragmentation, and Chameli also shares a turning point in her path when she was forced to become brutally honest with herself about how these dynamics plaid out in her life, and what it would take to come into integrity with her deeper knowing.
Poem: The Soul Misses the Body by Andrea Gibson
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Receptivity and the Goddess path
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
In the premiere of the Living Goddess podcast, Chameli brings the oftentimes lofty ideas of Goddess, into a felt intimacy that is made possible when we stay close in, receptive, and explore the very first step that is before us. The story about VasaLisa and the doll in her pocket points us to a place many of us encounter in our inner journey where we can no longer “do it”, and that through the practice of receptivity, this place becomes a potent portal for grace and love to take the steering wheel.
Poem: Start close in by David Whyte