Mystics & Broomsticks Podcast

Tanya: The Origin Story

This episode is with Tanya. We dive into the origin of her spiritual adventure, and how it's evolved throughout the years. 

New Emotion, Who Dis?

In this episode, Tanya and Melanie contemplate if Intuition is a natural born gift or a skill that you acquire throughout life. Then we take a hard right and move into "is what I'm feeling mine or theirs". This is a question I (Melanie) hear so much. I've sat with it for a long time and come to the same conclusion EVERY SINGLE TIME. If you are an empath that frequently "picks up" other peoples emotions, you won't want to miss this one!

How Meditating Can Change Your Life

You're probably already meditating and have no clue that you're even doing it because we are so bogged down in rules and stigmas about what is meditation and what isn't meditation. 

In this episode, I (Melanie) talk about how I'm still able to meditate at waking and moving points throughout my day, and if that wasn't enough already, how I'm healing outdated programming that isn't working for me anymore. I've used this technique of awareness to heal my relationship with anger and rage, shame and guilt, causing me to be self destructive and harmful. And, I've also used it to create success in my business - woo hoo! 

Needless to say, I'm a fan, and think you should be, too!

Confronting Fear

This episode takes a turn into what healing can look like and how spontaneously we can release stored trauma as Melanie recounts a traumatic memory that has been surfacing for her as her and Tanya get ready to celebrate Samhein in a women's circle held by Blue Moon Wyld. There are a few longer pauses that are asking for space to be held. We share some of our go to methods of dealing with fear and we hope to hear back from you on how you work with fear - the emotion that is asking us to look in the darker, out of sight, places. 

Gotta Use Protection.

To protect or not to protect. That is the question. Or is it how much protection? Or when to protect. Join in while special guest, witch, reiki practitioner, candle maker Kira Gregory chats with Tanya Ryan about the ins and outs of protection practices. 

Blood Mysteries with Ang from the WildSky Sisters

In this episode, Ang and Mel share their own personal experiences with their moon cycles (bleed), and how knowledge of the blood mysteries has reclaimed their relationship with themselves. 

 

Women are awakening, once again, to the true and natural power that is contained in knowing and honouring their monthly cycle. Your cycle has a unique link to the phases of the moon, learn how to honor each phase as you do the moon. Even if your cycle has stopped, you will find this episode interesting! 

 

Everyday Witchery

Sometimes life and humaning are just kind of chaotic and it's hard to fit in time to do full rituals or spell work. Here are some ways that you can fit witchery into your everyday life in an entirely unremarkable but highly effective way. 

Welcome Back! Autumn Equinox Feels

After a gorgeous season off, Tanya and Melanie return to The Spiritual Boss podcast to bring you wherever their joint and individual evolutions take them. In this episode we catch up with each other and discuss the symbolism of what autumn equinox means as well as free styling a joint meditation at the end! Let us know if you want to hear more meditation in the future. Glad to be back!

The Power of Sisterhood

Some of the most healing experiences I have had in my life have been in a circle with women. Did I choose my first circle willingly? Nope! I honestly don't think I would have gone into that kind of work willingly. I had the belief that I had to do it all alone. Women throughout the course of history have gathered and supported each other in collaboration, connection and community. After the rise of the patriarchy, we were isolated, disconnected and alone. This created a sister wound or a woman's wound. Incredible healing can take place when we can sit with each other, see and be seen, hear and be heard, without anyone trying to alter or change the way that we feel. This is what sisterhood has meant for me. Join me, Melanie Dawn, as I welcome Terra Dawn Allison and Shelley Duret to share with us their experience in a Sisterhood.

Breath As Medicine

Often overlooked as something that is always present, breath doesn't require any direct attention to function in the background and keep your whole life vital. This is why many of us miss the incredible medicine that breath is. Mindfully breathing can directly influence the state of your physical, mental and emotional health as a direct tool of communication to your autonomic systems. 

Whitney joins Melanie Dawn to share how using breath as medicine has changed the course of her life, freeing her from binge eating and self destructive patterns to become a strong leader in the field of Breathwork Facilitation