Art isn't meant to just hang on a wall — it's meant to work on you. The Modern Magic Podcast offers short guided mindfulness practices designed for anyone who wants to use the visual world as a doorway to stillness. Each episode invites you to sit with your Modern Magic painting (or any painting) and let it do what art has always done: slow you down, soften the noise, and bring you back to yourself. In a world that profits from your distraction, this is the counterweight. A few minutes of…
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Today we explore the colors of your Modern Magic painting and the emotions they evoke. A bit longer of a guided mindfulness practice than usual but you'll be taken through a short breathwork practice to help you settle in and then moved through questions to explore as you look at your painting. Every mindfulness practice is created to help you slow down, tune in, and go deeper bother internally…
In this meditation, you don't need a painting as we'll be closing out eyes as I walk you through a visual meditation. This pairs with my archetype deck of cards and booklet but works well to if you need some grounding and a clear understanding of where you want to go from here.
Our culture is hell bent on logic and telling you how you're supposed to feel. But that's the gift of art, it allows for true emotion to emerge–positive or negative. In this mindfulness practice we'll explore your reactions to this painting before anyone else told you it was good or bad. The intention is for you to build trust with yourself and to recognize that your body knows so much more than…
There's less guidance in this practice and more space for you to explore the painting in front of you in your own way. We so often are bombarded with sound and encouraged to consume that simply sitting with a piece of art, in silence can feel like we aren't doing enough–there's that curse word again...enough! But art as medicine works on you slowly, it settles in, seeps into the skin, and creates…
Lectio Divina is a contemplative practice of sacred reading. Not for information, but for transformation. You return to the same passage slowly, letting it open layer by layer until something in you opens too. In this episode, your painting is the passage. We'll move through stages: seeing the whole, choosing one detail, inhabiting that painting, and returning to the full painting to receive what…
Before and during the Black Lives Matter campaign that grew in 2020, I was completely unaware of what unconscious bias was and that I could possibly have any. I was unaware of what it was like to be a person of color in America and that our experiences could be so vastly different. All that to say, I’ve learned a lot from Dameda JoLynn over the last year. Not only because she so kindly share’s her…
Let's talk about sex. While this isn't my favorite conversation to be had–I'm highly uncomfortable by the conversation of sex based on my upbringing–I think it's an important one. And who better to talk to than Alyssa Manny who isn't afraid of any conversation. Alyssa is the owner of Ohana Yoga and Barre in Denver, Colorado. Her mission is to evolve and help others to evolve too. To help others to…
Kemetic yoga is a newly rediscovered Egyptian practice with roots that outlive that of the yoga we practice now. Unlike Indian yoga that was made for the elite and men, Kemetic yoga was created for all the people. Men and women of every background, focused on soft movements that highlight the divine feminine and only features a limited number of postures to explore. It’s a style of yoga that’s…
What is happiness and how do we even pursue something that we can’t fully grasp? Maybe happiness isn’t the destination. Maybe it’s just a guide on the map to where we really want to go. To a place of wholeness. Join me as we walk through this world of wholeness vs. happiness and which is the right fit for you…….. For the full show notes head here Shop this episode's cover art here
As defined by Joanne Sienko Ott, St. Catherine Universit y , " The literature describes the crone archetype as a pre-existent form in the collective unconscious that embodies instinctive ways of channeling wisdom, inner knowing, and intuition, guiding us through the transition of life, and going inward to bring forth the light for transformation. " Only with age can we receive the gifts of the…
