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What becomes possible when you learn to recognize radiance in all things, including the people and parts of life you have been taught to judge or reject? Chameli sits in conversation with Shann Vander Leek about living in awe, discovering the beauty woven into existence, and how authenticity and inner congruence open the way for radiance to shine through us. Shann shares how four Goddesses emerged as guides on her journey into inner radiance: Kali, who guides us through beginnings and endings, discernment, and the honest encounter with shadow. Kuan Yin, who opens the heart through compassion and love. Isis, who calls us to remember who we are and what we are made of. Lakshmi, who awakens delight, beauty, and the capacity to see life with fresh eyes. Together, Chameli and Shann explore what it means to wash our eyes clean so we can recognize the essence and beauty of life. They also venture into the complexities of compassion, exploring how it can become entangled with codependency, enabling, and the impulse to rescue, and how the Goddesses guide us toward a love that includes clarity, discernment, and boundaries. A conversation about the courage to be authentic, the wisdom of the feminine, and the radiance that becomes available when we learn to see more deeply. Shann invites you to join her free virtual Goddess retreat, beginning September 23rd for 4 days at Noon Eastern. Recordings available. Register at https://transformationgoddess.com/returntoyourradiance/

Chameli sits down with psychologist and writer, Ailey Jolie to explore how the culture we live in shapes our nervous systems, and why simply regulating ourselves isn’t enough when systems themselves dysregulate us.  They discuss the relief and healing that can come when the systemic abuse of the female body is named, and how symptoms like anxiety and hypervigilance can be healthy signals signaling deeper truths.  The conversation unveils how women have sometimes betrayed one another in the pursuit of power within a patriarchal system, and why finding healing in circle—where bodies and stories can mend together—holds transformative power.   **Before you dive into this episode, we want to make you aware that we will speaking about sexual abuse and sexual violence. Please take care of yourself and listen if you feel resourced or feel into if you may want to skip this episode.**   Connect with Ailey Jolie: https://aileyjolie.substack.com/ For deepening studies with Chameli www.awakeningwomen.com Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Follow Awakening Women on Instagram The Living Goddess podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek PodcastBath.com

Chameli speaks with Dr. Gertrude Lyons about her book Rewrite the Mother Code and her passionate invitation to expand what it means to mother.  Dr. Lyons shares practices and insights from her own journey of motherhood, and from decades of coaching others, and together they explore what steps one can take to shift out of oppressive belief systems around mothering, and rewrite outdated mother codes to more creative and sustainable ones. To learn more about Rewriting the Mother Code book  >> https://www.drgertrudelyons.com/book-rewrite-the-mother-code Events with Chameli: Awakeningwomen.com/events Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Instagram: AwakeningWomen and ChameliGad This podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek. PodcastBath.com

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: Lookwithin.com Events with Chameli: Awakeningwomen.com/events Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Instagram: AwakeningWomen and ChameliGad This podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek. PodcastBath.com

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.   For deepening studies with Chameli www.awakeningwomen.com Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Follow Awakening Women on Instagram The Living Goddess podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek PodcastBath.com

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: www.ellendeedavidson.com   Events with Chameli: Awakeningwomen.com/events Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Follow Awakening Women on Instagram This podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek. PodcastBath.com

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   Events with Chameli: Awakeningwomen.com/events Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Follow Awakening Women on Instagram This podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek PodcastBath.com

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? Events with Chameli: Awakeningwomen.com/events Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Follow Awakening Women on Instagram This podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek. PodcastBath.com

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.   Events with Chameli: Awakeningwomen.com/events Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Follow Awakening Women on Instagram This podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek. PodcastBath.com

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. Events with Chameli: Awakeningwomen.com/events Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Follow Awakening Women on Instagram This podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek. PodcastBath.com

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. Events with Chameli: Awakeningwomen.com/events Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Follow Awakening Women on Instagram This podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek. PodcastBath.com

We have our very first guest on the Living Goddess podcast! Cynthia Jurs is the author of the book Summoned by the Earth. In this episode, she shares about the Earth Treasure Vase practice, her reckoning with the patriarchal aspects of Buddhism, and how a pilgrimage to Delphi revealed her seat in the lineage of Gaia's priestesses. For more about Cynthia's work: Gaiamandala.net Summonedbytheearth.org   Upcoming Events with Chameli: Awakeningwomen.com/events Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Follow Awakening Women on Instagram This podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek. PodcastBath.com

Chameli speaks about her experience meeting Parvathy Baul, a master practitioner on the path of devotional song. You will hear the story about the epic love affair between Radha and Krishna, and how surrender and devotion can be portals to divine union. Chameli also speaks on the hesitation and wounding we carry around spiritual devotion, how the purity of our longing and devotion have been taken advantage of and misused, and on the importance of reclaiming devotion as a portal to a sovereignty that we don't have to cling to, or make up, but that naturally arises once we surrender. 21-Day Eternal Mother Sadhana : awakeningwomen.com/eternal-mother-sadhana/ Corfu Goddess Summer Ashram: www.CorfuRetreat.com   About Parvathy Baul www.parvathybaul.com Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Follow Awakening Women on Instagram Living Goddess is produced by Shann Vander Leek. PodcastBath.com

Chameli speaks about her daily practice, and how to create a relationship of mutual support with our seat of practice. She shares about Adhara Shakti, the goddess in that is the frequency of support, taking so many forms in our lives. She also shares about the Three Mother Goddess practice that takes embodied spirituality from a nice sounding concept, into an actualized and lived way of life, a practice that has been one of the most life-changing Shakti Keys for her and the many women she has shared it with, on this wild and holy path of embodying Source.   21 Day Eternal Mother Sadhana : https://awakeningwomen.com/eternal-mother-sadhana/   Corfu Goddess Summer Ashram: www.CorfuRetreat.com   Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Follow Awakening Women on Instagram This podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek. PodcastBath.com

Chameli speaks about dharma, life purpose, how we can get confused in comparison and in looking outside ourselves for “how to be”, plus how the path of dharma invites us into the vulnerability and risk of being ourselves. She also shares about her dharma journey and commitment to live in intimacy with Goddess.   21 Day Eternal Mother Sadhana: https://awakeningwomen.com/eternal-mother-sadhana/   Corfu Goddess Summer Ashram: www.CorfuRetreat.com   Submit your questions and suggestions to [email protected] Follow Awakening Women on Instagram This podcast is produced by Shann Vander Leek. PodcastBath.com