Vagina Talks – Details, episodes & analysis

Beloved listeners, as we bring this season of Vagina Talks to a close, we begin to look forward to the next shape this show will take. The winds of change are blowing and it can often be very soothing to take refuge from those winds in our temples. Perhaps your temple is an elaborate garden, or perhaps it is a grand marble building on a hill, maybe it is a warm and rustic kitchen by the ocean. The temple is a place you can go to any time you want, and can be very grounding during times of change. So as we discover together what the next season of Vagina Talks will look like, we hope to see you in the temple!

Listen to "Take Me To The Temple" on Spotify or Apple Music

Here is a practice in which we Go To a Temple for healing and blessing

You can now order the I Love My Life Manual & Guide For Calling Medicine, join Sophia’s email list, and Book Your 1:1 Guidance Session.

All this and so much more can be found at SophiaWiseOne.com

“I am Sophia Wise One: Daughter of the Wind. I am calling you to Rise Up, Rise Up, Rise Up. Rise up and take your place.”

This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Beloved listeners, we have a very sweet episode for you this week. Sophia talks about the deceptively simple tool of listening to your body's signals and cues when they are quiet instead of waiting for the all hands on deck emergency alarms. Some easy examples are cooking food before you're the kind of hungry where you think you might faint, or getting ready for bed before you feel like melting down and crying like a toddler. This concept can spread out to so many more aspects of your life than just your basic bodily needs. Maybe you're getting subtle cues about a relationship dynamic, or your work. Maybe about how you travel or find moments of joy and gratitude. Sophia has some lovely thoughts that are here to help us all noodle out what to do next. Your body already knows.

You can now order the I Love My Life Manual & Guide For Calling Medicine, join Sophia’s email list, and Book Your 1:1 Guidance Session.

All this and so much more can be found at SophiaWiseOne.com

“I am Sophia Wise One: Daughter of the Wind. I am calling you to Rise Up, Rise Up, Rise Up. Rise up and take your place.”

This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Hello beloveds! Sophia is back to Vagina Talks and is joined this week by the brilliant body worker, teacher, and parenting coach Katie Sutherland. These two have a relaxing and effervescent conversation about wombs, teaching consent to children, relaxing into our bodies, and so much more. Sophia gives us a big lesson on helping someone of any age come back home into their bodies when crying has turned hysterical or big feelings have led to total shutdown. Katie starts the episode off by setting us all at great ease and the two share a lot of excellent tips and tricks for settling into the parasympathetic nervous system. This episode is absolutely bursting with tools so get ready to take the ones that sound good to you and leave behind the ones that don't. Maybe you already do all of these things, maybe your whole world is about to change, or perhaps you land somewhere in the middle. These two brilliant women each bring a unique perspective to some classic grounding tools that make this episode a worthwhile listen for everyone, no matter how resourced.

You can book in person treatments with Katie in Portland, OR at KatieSutherland.com and you can follow her on instagram @InnerWisdomMotherhood or go to her website InnerWisdomMotherhood.com for more parenting resources

For more resources for finding calm in these stressful times and to never miss another live recording you can follow Sophia on Facebook by searching Sophia Wise One or on Instagram @Sophia Wise One

As always you can go to SophiaWiseOne.com for more information about the show, Reports from the Spider Queen, to preorder the I Love My Life Card Game and Oracle Deck, to join Sophia’s email list, and so much more!

“I am Sophia Wise One: Daughter of the Wind. I am calling you to Rise Up, Rise Up, Rise Up. Rise up and take your place.”

This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Beloveds! We are joined this week again by the incredible Brittany Policastro. Brittany calls in the beauty and potent healing that can be found in ordinary moments. She and Sophia can often be found performing elaborate rituals and those will always have their vital role in healing this world, but there is just as much rich energy in washing dishes when that is the aligned move. These two talk about polyamory and the freedoms it provides as well as the mental reframing that many of us need to do when entering into such spacious agreements. This episode has the ease of two old friends catching up, because that's what it is. But when those two old friends are such incredible healing powerhouses, we all benefit from listening in.

This conversation is raw and ripe with personal sharing. Do you know that "breakup" "heartache" Sophia keeps making reference to without talking about? She finds space and support to share the dish on it in this episode.

Get cozy, or pumped, or anything in between, maybe you'll find the exquisite ordinary in your own life as you listen to this sweet episode!

We explore the various definitions of pleasure and how it can help people to release themselves from the conditioning, discomfort, and trauma holding them trapped in ineffective habits that are negatively affecting their relationships, orgasms, pleasure experience, and ability to succeed. We review various ways to heal and learn more about their body and their orgasmic ability.

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Here’s a little glimpse/ time stamp synopsis:

3:40 - Brittany Policastro was welcomed to the show and Sophia explained how and where they met over 10 years ago.

12:00 - Talked about being silent is a bigger breakthrough.

15:30 - Giving up the paradigm of hierarchy is being "Spiritual" and validity of different paths of healing.

19:30 - Sophia and Brittany discussed cleaning vs straightening in the material world and spiritual world.

25:52 - Exploring the concept of pleasure as a medicine.

29:47 - Understanding and expanding pleasure consciousness.

34:36 - How does trauma significantly impact our nervous system?

43:56 - Sophia opened up her personal story of "breakup" trauma

1:21:00 - Sophia thanked Brittany for joining the show and lets listeners know where they can reach out to her.

Learn more about Devi Ward:

• https://deviwardtantra.com/
• https://www.authentictantra.com/

About the guest:

Brittany has been promoting transformation for the past 17 years, demonstrating to others that living a life authentically will look a lot different from what society expects of us. In addition to being polyamorous, kink positive, bisexual, and child free by choice, she is a sexual liberation and relationship coach, a sexologist, a practitioner of authentic Tantra, a writer and a yoga teacher.

Brittany has led thousands of people over the past 16 years in relating differently, releasing the stories that suffocate them, healing the wounds and stigmas that label them, and living an orgasmic genuine life in every way possible. She does this first and foremost for herself, her chosen life partner, and everyone else with whom she walks, and she guides people through their transformation with bravery, confidence, and kindness.

You can find Brittany on instagram @Sexually_Liberated or on her website

Beloved listeners, the early days of summer are here in the northern hemisphere and while Sophia and her brilliant guest, Luna Dietrich, never explicitly talk about summer, you can feel the light bursting through every crack in this conversation. Summer brings us light and fresh food and warmth but in doing so, everything speeds up to a sometimes excruciating degree. Luna brings us a lot of helpful perspectives to consider when inside a huge seasonal shift like this one. They talk about shame, kink, polyamory, kind communication, and so much more!

Check out episode 16 of this podcast "016 My Initiation Into Womanhood" to hear Sophia's whole story about her initiation and naming.

You can follow Luna on instagram @Luna__Dietrich or go to her website LunaDietrich.com

Fire Woman Retreat is a unique four-day event designed to give us space to witness, explore and revel in our sexual natures, and to help women and non-binary folks break through the things that hold us back from being who we really are as sexual people.

The theme for this virtual event is Spiritual Transformation, Sexual Initiation & Power. The retreat is May 13-16 2021, so sign up now! SophiaWiseOne.com/FireWoman

Fire Woman Retreat is unlike any other event: it is a combination of rich teachings, transformational healing, powerful rituals and group witnessing that allows for big personal & collective breakthroughs.

For more resources for finding calm in these stressful times and to never miss another live recording you can follow Sophia on Facebook by searching Sophia Wise One or on Instagram @Sophia Wise One

As always you can go to SophiaWiseOne.com for more information about the show, Reports from the Spider Queen, to preorder the I Love My Life Card Game and Oracle Deck, to join Sophia’s email list, and so much more!

“I am Sophia Wise One: Daughter of the Wind. I am calling you to Rise Up, Rise Up, Rise Up. Rise up and take your place.”

This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Sweet listeners, are any of you grieving? This week we are joined by the effervescent Joan Price, Author of Sex After Grief and several incredible senior sex guides. She brings such kindness and wisdom to us in this episode that spans from a near death experience at 35 to losing her beloved in 2008 and finding love and connection again after. Her teachings of gratitude, living each day like it could be your last, and staying up to date on your "i love you's" while simple and classic are incredibly potent and so well said. This conversation is incredibly rich and kind in the way it navigates grief, joy, and the ways they exist together.

See the drawing from episode: https://pin.it/4vokSg8

Find Joan's books, teachings, and resources at her website joanprice.com

You can register for the upcoming Fire Woman Retreat May 13-16! Spend 3 days cultivating safety, connection, and joy in your sexuality with A'Magine, Sophia and many other incredible teachers! Sign up at SophiaWiseOne.com/FireWoman

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For more resources for finding calm in these stressful times and to never miss another live recording you can follow Sophia on Facebook by searching Sophia Wise One or on Instagram @Sophia Wise One

As always you can go to SophiaWiseOne.com for more information about the show, Reports from the Spider Queen, to preorder the I Love My Life Card Game and Oracle Deck, to join Sophia’s email list, and so much more!

“I am Sophia Wise One: Daughter of the Wind. I am calling you to Rise Up, Rise Up, Rise Up. Rise up and take your place.”

This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

Sophia Wise One 00:01

Fire, woman retreat, spiritual transformation, sexual initiation and power. This is a retreat that I first went to as a participant of, and now I go as a participant and a collaborator, I am inviting you to come and join me. Deepen your education, deepen your experience. It's very experiential. I'm a very technical kind of experience based person. theory is great. And I love a good conversation, but really doing and tapping into it's incredibly important to me. And so as community, and this event has all of these things in beautiful proportions. Can you tell I'm a fan? I'm a huge fan, please check out the link below please consider giving yourself this gift of being charged up power recent heard and supported your sexuality is sacred and important and you are capable of being of alchemical transformational power center. And if you are already those things, come in hone it come and be in deep community. For me, one of the things that was so powerful to just be in such a sex positive space allowed some of the social stigma that I knew, in theory, it was like, I don't believe this. But it's so grounding and so nourishing to be sitting with other people who are committed to experiencing reality in a way that is honoring and holding and sacred and pleasurable. So please, check out the link check it out, would be so happy to have you there. And feel free to reach out to me or to reach...

Darling Dears!

Sophia comes out of the new baby haze to record this raw and informative show. Brittany expresses how she is actively doing her part to restore autonomy in the laboring process. She mentions the education and resources she provides to expecting families. She utilizes her knowledge of pelvic biomechanics and labor movement. In this episode, Brittany mentions, “And you know, one of the things I tell people all the time is that no matter what position it is, it's not going to be good. If you're in it for three hours, movement frequently is really, really important.”

Sophia and Brittany discuss the goal of decreasing unnecessary intervention, restoring autonomy to the person giving birth in medicated and unmedicated births, and also helping to provide comfort in labor and better oxygenate the baby as well. 

Full Transcript below

Here’s a little glimpse:

• The importance of self-governing in the labor process
• The benefits of opening the pelvis and movement
• The value of good communication with health care providers

Resources Mentioned in this episode:

• Email
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Book Release: Baby Got VBAC
• Blossoming Bellies
• Blossoming Bellies Resources
• Blossoming Bellies Birth Products

Fire Woman Retreat is a unique four-day event designed to give us space to witness, explore and revel in our sexual natures, and to help women and non-binary folks break through the things that hold us back from being who we really are as sexual people.

The theme for this virtual event is Spiritual Transformation, Sexual Initiation & Power. The retreat is May 13-16 2021, so sign up now! SophiaWiseOne.com/FireWoman

Fire Woman Retreat is unlike any other event: it is a combination of rich teachings, transformational healing, powerful rituals and group witnessing that allows for big personal & collective breakthroughs.

About Brittany McCullom

Providing expecting families with information, resources, a listening ear, and love and support is at the core of Brittany's goals.  In helping parents to recognize their strength as humans, role models, and advocates for the needs and wishes of themselves and their children, Brittany assists families in creating birth and parenting experiences of which they feel positive, confident, and informed.  Her approach to birth and parenting focuses on building awareness of one's intuition and combining it with learned knowledge in a way that is respectful of the needs and abilities of each individual.

As always you can go to SophiaWiseOne.com for more information about the show, Reports from the Spider Queen, to

Eden Edge shares her of menarche journey and how it led her to establishing business to provide education and convenient resources for menstruating women. “And so for five years, I stopped my menstrual flow for five years, I suffocated myself, my reproductive system, my vagina, all of that. And so after those five years were up, I, which would put me in 2012 I have suffered my body, as far as trying to get my body back on track, it's really taken that long.” She mentions how she discovers disturbing information about sanitary napkins and the chemicals that were put in the napkins. “They're companies that are allowed to use a chemical that elongates the cycle. Over time, the more you use these products, it's going to make that cycle longer.” 

In this episode, Eden Edge informs the Vagina Talk listeners about her mission to support and educate others who have had similar experiences. She exchanges her view on how to create a place that provides healthier product options and information to women on how to care for their bodies.

Here’s a little glimpse:

• The long term benefits of utilizing natural feminine products 
• The awareness of harmful chemicals used in mainstream feminine products
• How to find hope during painful situations
• How to endure through experiences of loss

Resources Mentioned in this episode:

• Hygeniee.com
• Facebook.com/Hygeniee
• Instagram.com/Hygeniee
• The Vagina Museum

About Eden Edge

In 2012, Eden Edge was forced to terminate her baby due to an ectopic pregnancy. After consulting with her physician and doing a little research, she found out that her uterine wall and fallopian tubes had chemical scarring. Eden's physician stated that the type of birth control she was using along with certain feminine care products were filled with harmful chemicals such as chloroform, aluminum, and acetone. Her body had been absorbing these chemicals for over five years! Hearing this information was tough but it was then that Eden decided to adapt some healthier habits. 

Hygeniee provides feminine hygiene care products that are organic, all-natural, chemical & toxin free, and made by Women! Their mission is to deliver a unique collection of items to each customer’s home, every single month. They have a dedicated team of professionals who pick out quality items to include in each box.

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In this episode, Jen Amos and Sophia Wise One discuss the importance of being in tune with our inner child. Jen Amos shares stories from her childhood that inspire her life's work in community relations. She states, "You know, it's little moments that we minimize, that are really the biggest moments, you know, and I'm so glad to have that hypersensitive personality, you know, to be an empath, you know, for others, because I know what it's like to not have that.?" Jen mentions how she is sharing my story and connecting with people to help liberate people who feel that they aren't qualified or those who feel their story isn't worth sharing.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

• How to value and serve ourselves
• How to acknowledge you functioning and care levels
• How to listen to intuition and trust ourselves
• How to build cofidence with our intuitive guide

Resources Mentioned in this episode:

• JenericPodcast.com
• Jen Amos' Instagram

About the Guest:

Jen Amos is an award winning podcaster, online entrepreneur, and (currently) a contestant on the reality podcast competition: America’s Next Top Podcaster.

Jen actively seeks to find common ground through conversation and storytelling to foster community and collaboration. She is known for her active listening skills, candidness, and ability to uncover powerful stories and universal lessons while conversing with her guests. Her favorite topics to cover on her podcast shows involve military families, entrepreneurs, women, and mental health.

Prior to podcasting and moving to the east coast, Jen received her Bachelor’s in Journalism emphasis Public Relations at San Diego State University. For a decade since, Jen has established a career in sales and in entrepreneurship with experience in the legal industry, online marketing, and now financial services.

Samantha Rise

I'm Samantha Rise, and welcome to vagina talks, where we speak about to from vaginas. This is a show of alchemy, where we turn poison into medicine, disconnection into wisdom and isolated wounds into communal peacemaking. Here's your host, Sophia Wise One.

Sophia Wise One

You already know everything they could teach you you already know everything they could say. We are here to remind you what you already already already know.

I just want to take a minute to acknowledge that Vagina Talks understands that gender is fluid and dynamic and goes way beyond the binary of either woman or man, she or him. And that, in fact, it's a living and evolving thing that's actually personal person to person. And that our bodies, even our understanding, or the ways that we experience them can vary.

It's important for me that that's something that has space here on vagina talks. And at the same time, I also am carrying this understanding that womanhood and the experience of the feminine and all of the female, in the splitting of that binary, has been injured has been hurt has been dismantled.

And so I'm looking to have a space where the feminine and the female and the female body is reclaimed and respected and lifted and inspected and known, as well as a space that goes beyond the binary. And that acknowledges that these are limited constructs, mostly put upon us, and that we're in the process of evolving into something more whole and more true.

Just wanted to say that some of my guests will use incredibly binary language for whatever reason from the places that they come from. And I just wanted to let you know that Vagina Talks has a much wider understanding, and it's a living one. So feel free to chime in as we go along....

Join Marion as she details her journey of finding love and sexual satisfaction through deep self-acceptance and self-discovery. A story of getting clear on who you are and what you want and then finding it and growing with it.

This show is for those who want to reclaim their confidence and power by discovering their own sensual practice. This is a journey of intense healing for those that are searching within themselves to connect with themselves and others. To feel within themselves wisdom and newfound bodily pleasurable experiences.  

In this episode, they discuss:

• Self-discovery and BDSM
• Reclaiming our power through trusting our feelings
• Calling in love and a partner through knowing your self
• Kink, sex, and emotional maturity

Resources

Instagram: @SophiaWiseOne

LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter: @SophiaWiseOne

Website: https://www.sophiawiseone.com/

Marion Chloe Theis 

Instagram: @MarionChloeTheis

Facebook page: @marionchloetheiscoaching

Website: https://www.marionchloetheis.com/

Quotes

33:32 

“A partner can bring you a lot of things. It can bring you your comfort, affection, sex, emotional fulfillment, but you have to be able, I believe, to bring these things to yourself, first and foremost.” - Marion Chloe Theis.

41:25

“When you reclaim your pleasure, your sexual pleasure, you reclaim your power!” - Marion Chloe Theis.

48:50                                                                                                  “I believe that we are co-creatively, rebirthing the planet, our culture and reality as we know it right now. And pleasure, sex, and power are huge components of that shifting landscape.” - Sophia Wise One.

35:45

“That very thing that we're wanting someone else to provide, is really useful information about the very thing that we are asking ourselves to provide, or to experience, or open up to, to make that possible in our own lives.” - Sophia Wise One

FULL Transcript VT 81 Marion Chloe Theis

Sat, 1/9 9:41AM • 56:01

SPEAKERS

Vagina Talks Theme Song by Sophia Wise One, Sophia Wise One, Intro, Marion Chloé Theis

Intro from Samantha Rise 00:01

I'm Samantha Rise, and welcome to Vagina Talks where we speak about to and from vaginas. This is a show of alchemy, where we turn poison into medicine, disconnection into wisdom and isolated wounds into communal peacemaking. here's your host, Sophia Wise One.

Vagina Talks Theme Song by Sophia Wise One 00:20

You already know everything I can teach you already know everything I can say we are here to remind you what you already know, you already know

Intro From Sophia Wise One 00:37

I just want to take a minute to acknowledge that vagina talks understands that gender is fluid and dynamic and goes way beyond the binary of either woman or man, she or him. And that, in fact, it's a living an evolving thing that's actually personal person to person. And that our bodies, even our understanding, or the ways that we...